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2023.06.08 10:54 Chrispy_Terman Disappointing
Maybe if Activision let blizzard do what they know this game would be better. It’s obvious that this is an incomplete game with tons of missed details. Reminds me of how COD MW2 felt when they released it. The dungeon bosses are ridiculously difficult (at least for my Druid) I dropped back from tier 2 to 1 and had to spend 30 minutes running around the tiny room just to beat the den mother. I’m now 3 hours into trying to beat the girls mom in the mine. I’ve played every Diablo game and expansions that ever came out and was in the D3 closed beta. D4 could be sooo much better than this. I guess they didn’t mind rushing to hit that 666 release date. Also if they put more time into checking the details instead of promoting to death a game that a ton of people already know, it may feel more complete.
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2023.06.08 10:49 Zagaroth [No Need For A Core?] - CH 091: Serpent Time
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The first serpentine dragon form he was going to work on was a variant of river drake. Preferring as always to grow and change existent creatures rather than make new ones from raw mana, Mordecai sent his mind searching among the small creatures that had become part of their ecology. Snakes were obvious choices, as well as most lizards, but less reptilian creatures could work as well.
True Dragons were not mammals, birds, reptiles, or any other common animal type. Yet all of those and more were capable of becoming draconoids, and the draconoid races often had some potential to evolve into True Dragons. So what made the difference? How did things that were not related species become related species like that?
As far as Mordecai could tell, it was a case of a faith-like interaction with a concept that every sentient race held. It reinforced itself as well, for True Dragons certainly would always claim that they could recognize another True Dragon compared to a mere draconoid, and for something like this they counted as being on the ‘mortal’ side of the equation. It probably didn’t hurt that the primary creator deity of this reality was a dragon, creating a very strong focal point of the concept of dragon.
It didn’t take him long to find a selection of animals that resonated positively with the concept he had in his mind, and he drew those creatures to the fifth floor. It didn’t matter that they were not all the same species, the transformations would fix that. Changing a creature was magnitudes easier than creating one, and reforging them into being the exact same species was only a little harder than starting with the same base.
The biggest issue with starting from scratch was not the physical structure, that was only a little bit harder than creating some of the items available as treasures. No, it was holding everything together at the same moment and filling it with synchronized animus and spirit while kick-starting every single chemical process at once in proper harmony. He had vague memories of having tried this before, just enough to have been left as a warning of ‘don’t do this’ by his more complete self.
Oh, if he wanted constructs or something relatively simple, creatures that had animus but not true life and spirit, those weren’t too hard. The bookwyrms and biting words were examples of that. Though creating constructs might become harder soon if his suspicions were right. Well, he’d have to wait and see on that.
These thoughts only took a portion of his concentration as he reworked his volunteers to match his vision. For these river drakes he used a classic sea serpent/leviathan model, a long sinuous body with various frilly fins running along its length, a narrow head and snout with sharp teeth at one end and a flat tail for speed and maneuverability at the other. But that wasn’t enough to make them a real threat to travelers, even if they were three feet long.
The first customization he made was some minor chameleon abilities. Nothing magical in this case, just the same ability to subtly shift the structure of their scales to reflect different colors of light that many normal creatures had, if slightly more efficiently designed. The effects were enhanced by the fact that the waterways were going to be filled with floating motes of light, making it hard to accurately measure depth and distance by vision alone.
And of course, any quality drake needed an important draconic feature, a Breath Weapon. In this case, he gave them a powerful, narrow jet of water that could pierce many materials as well as potentially knock foes back.
Now for mobility. They were already great swimmers of course, but he wanted more than that. He’d already made sure their scales and skin wouldn’t dry out easily, now he gave them a minor flight ability. It was closer to being a magically enhanced jump with a little bit of levitation for extra distance and a soft landing, and just a tiny bit of mid-air guidance. They could do this from water or land, and they had the sharp teeth and powerful snake-like musculature to act as constrictors, though they were too small to do so to a typical humanoid. Their land speed was pretty comparable to most snakes as well, though their side fins interfered somewhat.
There was a final important touch that wouldn’t affect anything in the immediate future but would come into play when they had more levels. These two to three-foot-long drakes were juveniles for the species he had designed, and he would be creating habitats for their later life stages as the dungeon gained more levels, and eventually some spawning grounds back in the hidden pools along with a way for them to get there in their adult forms.
Mordecai now turned his attention to the second serpentine form he wanted for this floor. Winged Serpents. Oh, not actual Couatl, these were not divine creatures after all, but he modeled them on the famous celestial serpents, giving their snake-like bodies both rainbow-colored feathers and scales as well as growing a pair of powerful, wide wings. They wouldn’t be able to soar the skies elegantly, but what they needed was maneuverability and the ability to leap upward in a quick burst.
Instead of free-roaming creatures like the river drakes, he made these pack hunters, and created a special mushroom for their nests: These were low, squat structures that grew from the ceiling, with a structure that was soft enough for tunnels to be chewed into it, but with enough tensile strength to continue to cling to the ceiling so long as the tunnels were not excessive.
From either these nests or from the tops of the mushroom trees they could keep watch for potential prey, and called out to each other with ultrasonic cries to communicate, the tones too high for most creatures to hear. They also used a separate set of clicks in that range for echolocation, allowing them to ‘see’ no matter how dark their environment was.
In order to capitalize on this, he gave them a pair of abilities. The first was a simple globe of darkness spell, about 40 feet in diameter that they could cast on an area about once an hour. This was readily countered with any sufficiently strong light-themed spell, but it could still cause problems for unprepared groups.
The second ability was related, but not so easily countered. Once a day, they could release a billowing cloud of dark ‘smoke’ from underneath their scales. This was a chemical reaction instead of a spell, and was a strong irritant to most species, creating effects not unlike that of pepper oil. The combination made it hard to see them and was extremely distracting, but also shorter-lived than the darkness spell. This was generally going to be used to enable the winged serpent to escape when injured.
Their primary combat ability was a poisoned bite. These were ambush predators, and typically would dive in on prey and deliver several bites before retreating, and would repeat the tactic as needed. And for a final touch, he gave them a razor-sharp tail tip, more than capable of flaying flesh and enabling them to eat prey in pieces, unlike a snake.
Now, he knew what he wanted to do for the two ‘warring’ factions already, but the ‘wildlife’ didn’t feel quite fleshed out yet, and he wanted to nail that down first. Well, he had water and air covered, and the warring factions would cover the surface of the land well enough, so why not something from underground?
While snakes could fulfill this role too, Mordecai felt that it would be overdoing it at this point. And definitely nothing plant-like, he’d done enough with the mushroom already. So a burrowing animal of some sort. Hmm. Let's see what his options were.
Well, no burrowing birds, he already had a flying challenge in a dense forest, he didn’t need more. Rabbits and polecats have been used in other levels already before even considering what his warring factions were going to be like. In the end he had two choices he liked, and decided that the mammal would probably work better with the warring factions, so he developed the other into a proper predator instead.
Not that it wasn’t already, but it was a little small for humans, and he could make some other improvements as well. Mordecai began channeling magic into a selection of trap door spiders to enlarge them to about the size of a horse and set to work ‘improving’ them. The first step was to make their poison more potent, namely into a mix of paralytic agents and digestive enzymes. Then he enhanced their silk weaving abilities, giving them different web types by adding ‘normal’ webs, thrown net-webs, and the ability to lay out sensory threads on the ground in addition to using webbing to reinforce their layers and create the trapdoors.
Of course, having them only use ground lairs would be boring. So Mordecai made sure they could dig into some of the larger mushroom trees to create lairs there too. Getting through this floor was going to require some proper paranoia. Now, while both the river drakes and the feathered serpents were going to be able to come in great numbers, the giant spiders were tougher foes, so he was going to limit them to hunting in pairs. This still wasn’t normal spider behavior, but that would help make things creepier and keep people on their toes.
He had a nice selection of fungal hazards and dangerous creatures, so now it was time to start working on the two war camps and their denizens.
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True Dragons were not mammals, birds, reptiles, or any other common animal type. Yet all of those and more were capable of becoming draconoids, and the draconoid races often had some potential to evolve into True Dragons. So what made the difference? How did things that were not related species become related species like that?
As far as Mordecai could tell, it was a case of a faith-like interaction with a concept that every sentient race held. It reinforced itself as well, for True Dragons certainly would always claim that they could recognize another True Dragon compared to a mere draconoid, and for something like this they counted as being on the ‘mortal’ side of the equation. It probably didn’t hurt that the primary creator deity of this reality was a dragon, creating a very strong focal point of the concept of dragon.
It didn’t take him long to find a selection of animals that resonated positively with the concept he had in his mind, and he drew those creatures to the fifth floor. It didn’t matter that they were not all the same species, the transformations would fix that. Changing a creature was magnitudes easier than creating one, and reforging them into being the exact same species was only a little harder than starting with the same base.
The biggest issue with starting from scratch was not the physical structure, that was only a little bit harder than creating some of the items available as treasures. No, it was holding everything together at the same moment and filling it with synchronized animus and spirit while kick-starting every single chemical process at once in proper harmony. He had vague memories of having tried this before, just enough to have been left as a warning of ‘don’t do this’ by his more complete self.
Oh, if he wanted constructs or something relatively simple, creatures that had animus but not true life and spirit, those weren’t too hard. The bookwyrms and biting words were examples of that. Though creating constructs might become harder soon if his suspicions were right. Well, he’d have to wait and see on that.
These thoughts only took a portion of his concentration as he reworked his volunteers to match his vision. For these river drakes he used a classic sea serpent/leviathan model, a long sinuous body with various frilly fins running along its length, a narrow head and snout with sharp teeth at one end and a flat tail for speed and maneuverability at the other. But that wasn’t enough to make them a real threat to travelers, even if they were three feet long.
The first customization he made was some minor chameleon abilities. Nothing magical in this case, just the same ability to subtly shift the structure of their scales to reflect different colors of light that many normal creatures had, if slightly more efficiently designed. The effects were enhanced by the fact that the waterways were going to be filled with floating motes of light, making it hard to accurately measure depth and distance by vision alone.
And of course, any quality drake needed an important draconic feature, a Breath Weapon. In this case, he gave them a powerful, narrow jet of water that could pierce many materials as well as potentially knock foes back.
Now for mobility. They were already great swimmers of course, but he wanted more than that. He’d already made sure their scales and skin wouldn’t dry out easily, now he gave them a minor flight ability. It was closer to being a magically enhanced jump with a little bit of levitation for extra distance and a soft landing, and just a tiny bit of mid-air guidance. They could do this from water or land, and they had the sharp teeth and powerful snake-like musculature to act as constrictors, though they were too small to do so to a typical humanoid. Their land speed was pretty comparable to most snakes as well, though their side fins interfered somewhat.
There was a final important touch that wouldn’t affect anything in the immediate future but would come into play when they had more levels. These two to three-foot-long drakes were juveniles for the species he had designed, and he would be creating habitats for their later life stages as the dungeon gained more levels, and eventually some spawning grounds back in the hidden pools along with a way for them to get there in their adult forms.
Mordecai now turned his attention to the second serpentine form he wanted for this floor. Winged Serpents. Oh, not actual Couatl, these were not divine creatures after all, but he modeled them on the famous celestial serpents, giving their snake-like bodies both rainbow-colored feathers and scales as well as growing a pair of powerful, wide wings. They wouldn’t be able to soar the skies elegantly, but what they needed was maneuverability and the ability to leap upward in a quick burst.
Instead of free-roaming creatures like the river drakes, he made these pack hunters, and created a special mushroom for their nests: These were low, squat structures that grew from the ceiling, with a structure that was soft enough for tunnels to be chewed into it, but with enough tensile strength to continue to cling to the ceiling so long as the tunnels were not excessive.
From either these nests or from the tops of the mushroom trees they could keep watch for potential prey, and called out to each other with ultrasonic cries to communicate, the tones too high for most creatures to hear. They also used a separate set of clicks in that range for echolocation, allowing them to ‘see’ no matter how dark their environment was.
In order to capitalize on this, he gave them a pair of abilities. The first was a simple globe of darkness spell, about 40 feet in diameter that they could cast on an area about once an hour. This was readily countered with any sufficiently strong light-themed spell, but it could still cause problems for unprepared groups.
The second ability was related, but not so easily countered. Once a day, they could release a billowing cloud of dark ‘smoke’ from underneath their scales. This was a chemical reaction instead of a spell, and was a strong irritant to most species, creating effects not unlike that of pepper oil. The combination made it hard to see them and was extremely distracting, but also shorter-lived than the darkness spell. This was generally going to be used to enable the winged serpent to escape when injured.
Their primary combat ability was a poisoned bite. These were ambush predators, and typically would dive in on prey and deliver several bites before retreating, and would repeat the tactic as needed. And for a final touch, he gave them a razor-sharp tail tip, more than capable of flaying flesh and enabling them to eat prey in pieces, unlike a snake.
Now, he knew what he wanted to do for the two ‘warring’ factions already, but the ‘wildlife’ didn’t feel quite fleshed out yet, and he wanted to nail that down first. Well, he had water and air covered, and the warring factions would cover the surface of the land well enough, so why not something from underground?
While snakes could fulfill this role too, Mordecai felt that it would be overdoing it at this point. And definitely nothing plant-like, he’d done enough with the mushroom already. So a burrowing animal of some sort. Hmm. Let's see what his options were.
Well, no burrowing birds, he already had a flying challenge in a dense forest, he didn’t need more. Rabbits and polecats have been used in other levels already before even considering what his warring factions were going to be like. In the end he had two choices he liked, and decided that the mammal would probably work better with the warring factions, so he developed the other into a proper predator instead.
Not that it wasn’t already, but it was a little small for humans, and he could make some other improvements as well. Mordecai began channeling magic into a selection of trap door spiders to enlarge them to about the size of a horse and set to work ‘improving’ them. The first step was to make their poison more potent, namely into a mix of paralytic agents and digestive enzymes. Then he enhanced their silk weaving abilities, giving them different web types by adding ‘normal’ webs, thrown net-webs, and the ability to lay out sensory threads on the ground in addition to using webbing to reinforce their layers and create the trapdoors.
Of course, having them only use ground lairs would be boring. So Mordecai made sure they could dig into some of the larger mushroom trees to create lairs there too. Getting through this floor was going to require some proper paranoia. Now, while both the river drakes and the feathered serpents were going to be able to come in great numbers, the giant spiders were tougher foes, so he was going to limit them to hunting in pairs. This still wasn’t normal spider behavior, but that would help make things creepier and keep people on their toes.
He had a nice selection of fungal hazards and dangerous creatures, so now it was time to start working on the two war camps and their denizens.
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$3 Patreon: Early chapters, lore excerpts $5 Patreon: Short Stories $10 Patreon: New stories not published anywhere else (Until after I finish this story at least)
2023.06.08 09:33 albertchessaofficial One Last Summer Game Fest 2023 season (all of June) Predictions and Hopes List! (Very Exhaustive) 190 Games
IO's 007 game
A Quiet Place Game
Alien: Isolation 2
Alter Echo
Ark II
Armored Core: Fires of Rubicon
ASOIAF: House of the Dragon
Avowed
Banjo 3
Banner Saga
Barsoom
Bend Studio
Beyond Good and Evil 2
Bioshock 4
Black Myth: Wukong
Blood Lines 2
Bloodborne 2
BluePoint's new game
BlueTwelve's new game
Bo Burnham game
Brutal Legend 2
Castlevania
Castlevania [Project Zirion]
Cats [RPG]
Conker 2
Cyberpunk 2 [Orion]
Dark Souls 4
DC: Batman RPG
DC: Superman RPG
DC: Wonder Woman RPG
Death Stranding 2
Destiny 3
Destiny 3rd person RPG
Devil May Cry 6
Diddy Kong Racing 2
Dino Crisis
Dinotopia
Dishonored 3
Doctor Who
Double Fine
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
Dragonball Z: Roshi
Dragon's Dogma 2
Dune: Awakening
Ecumene Aztec
Elden Ring 2
Ember Labs
Evangelion
Everwild
Fable 4
Fallout 5
Final Fantasy IX remake
From Software
Gargoyles
Gears of War 6
GenDesign new game
Ghibli: Howl's Moving Castle RPG
Ghibli: Princess Mononoke RPG
Ghibli: Spirited Away RPG
Ghost of a Tale 2
Ghost of Tsushima 2
Ghouls and Ghosts
God of War 5
Gorburger game
GTA 6
Half-Life 3
Halo 7
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Haven
Hellblade 2
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd
His Dark Materials RPG
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Horizon 3
Housemarque new game
Indigenous African RPG
Indigenous American RPG
Indigenous Australian RPG
Jade Empire 2
Jet Force Gemini 2
John Wick
John Wick RPG
Jurassic FPS
Jurassic RPG
Kingdom Hearts 4
Kromlech
Legacy of Kain
Logan's Run [FPS]
LOTR: MMO
LOTR: Weta's game
Mad Max RPG
Mario Odyssey sequel
Marvel: Hennig
Marvel: Nightcrawler
Marvel: Wolverine
Mass Effect 5
Mastodon
Mat Hoffman's BMX 3
MediEvil 3
Mega64 [FMV]
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 3: Delta
Metro 4
Metroid 4
Mighty Boosh RPG
Monster Hunter World 2
Monsterverse RPG
Monsterverse fighting game
Monty Python RPG
Mortal Kombat RPG
Naughty Dog
Ni No Kuni III
Oddworld
Oddworld 3
Pacific Rim RPG
Pandemonium Remake
Perfect Dark
Pern RPG
Pirates [RPG]
Planet of the Apes RPG
Playdead new game
Portal 3
Power Rangers
Prince of Persia
Project Midnight
Red Dead Redemption 3
Remedy
Resident Evil 9
Santa Monica
Sekiro 2
Seuss (RPG)
Silent Hill 9
Siphon Filter
Skate
Sleep: Dragonaut Rising (stoner band RPG)
Soul Calibur 7
Splinter Cell
Stalker 2
Star Wars: Eclipse
Star Wars: Explorer
Star Wars: FPS
Star Wars: Hennig
Star Wars: KOTOR Remake
Star Wars: Racer
Star Wars: RPG [Project Helix]
Star Wars: RTS
Staten's new game [Netflix]
Stoic Studio
Stranger Things [RPG]
Street Sharks
Striking Distance
Sword of the Sea (release date)
Tekken 8
Temeraire
Tenchu 5
The Borrowers
The Elder Scrolls 6
The Fifth Element
The Last of Us: Online
The Last of Us: Part III
The Legend of Ochi
The Matrix RPG
The Neverending Story
The Order [prequel]
The Order: 1887
The Sword: Warp Riders
The Time Machine
The Witcher [Polaris]
Tim Burton
Tim Burton Wednesday RPG
TMNT: The Last Ronin
Tomb Raider
Tony Hawk 3/4 Remake
Tony Hawk 6
Towers of Aghasba (release date)
Tsushima 2
Uncharted 5
Unholy Wars
Unseen
Vagrant Story 2
Vampire: The Masquerade 2
Vikings on Trampolines
Watch Dogs 4
Wayne's World game
Wes Borland RPG
Wild (back from the dead)
Wipeout remake
Wishlist:
Wizarding: Auror
Wolfenstein 3
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A Quiet Place Game
Alien: Isolation 2
Alter Echo
Ark II
Armored Core: Fires of Rubicon
ASOIAF: House of the Dragon
Avowed
Banjo 3
Banner Saga
Barsoom
Bend Studio
Beyond Good and Evil 2
Bioshock 4
Black Myth: Wukong
Blood Lines 2
Bloodborne 2
BluePoint's new game
BlueTwelve's new game
Bo Burnham game
Brutal Legend 2
Castlevania
Castlevania [Project Zirion]
Cats [RPG]
Conker 2
Cyberpunk 2 [Orion]
Dark Souls 4
DC: Batman RPG
DC: Superman RPG
DC: Wonder Woman RPG
Death Stranding 2
Destiny 3
Destiny 3rd person RPG
Devil May Cry 6
Diddy Kong Racing 2
Dino Crisis
Dinotopia
Dishonored 3
Doctor Who
Double Fine
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
Dragonball Z: Roshi
Dragon's Dogma 2
Dune: Awakening
Ecumene Aztec
Elden Ring 2
Ember Labs
Evangelion
Everwild
Fable 4
Fallout 5
Final Fantasy IX remake
From Software
Gargoyles
Gears of War 6
GenDesign new game
Ghibli: Howl's Moving Castle RPG
Ghibli: Princess Mononoke RPG
Ghibli: Spirited Away RPG
Ghost of a Tale 2
Ghost of Tsushima 2
Ghouls and Ghosts
God of War 5
Gorburger game
GTA 6
Half-Life 3
Halo 7
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Haven
Hellblade 2
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd
His Dark Materials RPG
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Horizon 3
Housemarque new game
Indigenous African RPG
Indigenous American RPG
Indigenous Australian RPG
Jade Empire 2
Jet Force Gemini 2
John Wick
John Wick RPG
Jurassic FPS
Jurassic RPG
Kingdom Hearts 4
Kromlech
Legacy of Kain
Logan's Run [FPS]
LOTR: MMO
LOTR: Weta's game
Mad Max RPG
Mario Odyssey sequel
Marvel: Hennig
Marvel: Nightcrawler
Marvel: Wolverine
Mass Effect 5
Mastodon
Mat Hoffman's BMX 3
MediEvil 3
Mega64 [FMV]
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 3: Delta
Metro 4
Metroid 4
Mighty Boosh RPG
Monster Hunter World 2
Monsterverse RPG
Monsterverse fighting game
Monty Python RPG
Mortal Kombat RPG
Naughty Dog
Ni No Kuni III
Oddworld
Oddworld 3
Pacific Rim RPG
Pandemonium Remake
Perfect Dark
Pern RPG
Pirates [RPG]
Planet of the Apes RPG
Playdead new game
Portal 3
Power Rangers
Prince of Persia
Project Midnight
Red Dead Redemption 3
Remedy
Resident Evil 9
Santa Monica
Sekiro 2
Seuss (RPG)
Silent Hill 9
Siphon Filter
Skate
Sleep: Dragonaut Rising (stoner band RPG)
Soul Calibur 7
Splinter Cell
Stalker 2
Star Wars: Eclipse
Star Wars: Explorer
Star Wars: FPS
Star Wars: Hennig
Star Wars: KOTOR Remake
Star Wars: Racer
Star Wars: RPG [Project Helix]
Star Wars: RTS
Staten's new game [Netflix]
Stoic Studio
Stranger Things [RPG]
Street Sharks
Striking Distance
Sword of the Sea (release date)
Tekken 8
Temeraire
Tenchu 5
The Borrowers
The Elder Scrolls 6
The Fifth Element
The Last of Us: Online
The Last of Us: Part III
The Legend of Ochi
The Matrix RPG
The Neverending Story
The Order [prequel]
The Order: 1887
The Sword: Warp Riders
The Time Machine
The Witcher [Polaris]
Tim Burton
Tim Burton Wednesday RPG
TMNT: The Last Ronin
Tomb Raider
Tony Hawk 3/4 Remake
Tony Hawk 6
Towers of Aghasba (release date)
Tsushima 2
Uncharted 5
Unholy Wars
Unseen
Vagrant Story 2
Vampire: The Masquerade 2
Vikings on Trampolines
Watch Dogs 4
Wayne's World game
Wes Borland RPG
Wild (back from the dead)
Wipeout remake
Wishlist:
Wizarding: Auror
Wolfenstein 3
2023.06.08 06:31 AbletonRinzler Rinzler and Willow: The Order of the Vault - Into the Renzone (Part 2)
"With a trial that Renzo the Destroyer has started, and the Unseen now on high alert, Willow and I must continue our part in helping Thunder rescue Evie and undermining the Unseen's Grand Scheme. This is now venturing into some disturbing levels of dark." The Order of the Vault walks down the Kevolution Materia-infested halls of The Renzone, searching for the next member of the Unseen to beat up and steal a key from. The groaning of Cube Monsters is heard throughout the halls of The Renzone, audibly getting louder as the group nears the source. Once they return to the main party area, the Cube Monsters in the area immediately grow angry at the sight of the Vault Guardians. Ableton shoots a few Fiends with his Shadow Tracker and takes them out, while Thunder mows down loads of them with his Havoc Suppressed Rifle. The room is cleared... for now. Thunder looks around and speaks. "We should find that thieving fox, Stray. I have a suspicion that he's nearby." With everything Thunder said, the Vault Guardians all follow him, as they continue looking through the halls. After what seemed like a while, the group uncovers a room, almost looking like the main hall in Kenjutsu Crossing. Thunder looks around and speaks. "The architecture looks similar to the main palace at Kenjutsu Crossing. The palace the River Guard resides in. Stray has to be nearby." As they wander the room for a bit, Ableton is then surprise attacked. Suddenly a whirlwind appears, bringing a duo of deceiving Unseen members. Who are these two? The Unseen's thieving tricksters, Stray and Highwire. Thunder looks at Stray and responds. "Masaki! I should've known. Your stunt at Steamy Springs could've potentially killed your sister, Mizuki. What dark intentions are you playing at?" Stray looks at Thunder and answers him. "Dark? Dahlia is having me do this for fun. She doesn't want any other syndicate getting in her way of taking over Mega City, and so do I. The Fox Clan was only slowing me down, and now I will help the Unseen rule over Mega City." Thunder pulls out his two knives and yells. "'I'll make you eat those words, you smug punk!" Ableton and Willow run into battle beside Thunder, as the three charge towards Stray. Highwire jumps in front of Stray and pulls out an Enhanced Havoc Shotgun, as she fires a shot into Thunder's chest. Thunder is knocked to the floor, as he looks at the shotgun in Highwire's hands. "That's Evie's Enhanced Havoc Shotgun! Where is Evie, you bunny-eared psycho?" Highwire points the Enhanced Havoc Shotgun at Thunder head and responds. "That's none of your concern. The Unseen should've gotten rid of your Peace Syndicate long ago." From behind, Ableton quickly Crescent Kicks Highwire and knocks her to the floor. Rinzler is then immediately shot by a blast of ice, as Stray channels some Zero Point energy into his Foxfire Edge and concentrates it into some form of an elemental attack. Ableton is frozen into an ice cube, as Willow rushes Stray with her katana, rigorously swinging at her enemy. Stray knocks Willow back, as he swings the Foxfire Edge and unleashes three ricocheting balls of Riftstorm energy. The balls ricochet around the arena, as Willow manages to dodge the attack. Amara runs into battle with Willow, as the two ladies now proceed to take down Stray and Highwire. Highwire pounces onto Amara and attempts to shred her apart with her Plasmacore Claws. Amara retaliates by whacking Highwire in the head with her Goldenbane Mace. Willow clashes with Stray, as he tries to skewer her with his Talisman. "Rip this ghost apart, Saigai Dagger Dance!" Stray summons his Talisman, as Willow evades the converging daggers and knocks Stray back. The battle is nearing its closure, with the Unseen's members on the losing end. Stray pulls out a smoke bomb and faces Willow. "You'll never win, Willow... I still have a trick or two up my sleeve..." Stray then throws the smoke bomb at his feet, as it malfunctions and releases the smoke too early. Stray begins to cough and react to the smoke bomb. "Dammit! That was not supposed to happen!" Amara immediately kicks Stray in the head and knocks him to the floor. A symbol appears above Stray, as the Kevolution Artifact begins to react. Two keys down, another two to go. Thunder faces the group and speaks. "Another key has been found. We must hunt for the others." As the Order of the Vault leaves the room with Thunder, Stray yells out. "You will not succeed! Styx will make sure of it!" Thunder then reenters the room and kicks Stray in the chest, as he then leaves the room again. Ableton looks around and comments. "Whoever Styx is, he appears to possess the next key we need. We need to move quickly. This area has a bad atmosphere." As the group wanders around the halls of The Renzone, they stumble by a room with the lights slightly dimmed. Some voices are heard inside the room. "Triarch Nox expects us to ensure that the Kevolution Artifact is back in our possession, and at full charge." Geometrik's voice is heard, as he responds. "Exactly, Bytes. Nothing that us three can't do." Bytes brushes his hair and speaks. "For we are Team Too Black, Too Strong..." Geometrik speaks after Bytes gets done. "Too black..." Zyg then immediately speaks after Geometrik. "Too strong..." Bytes then speaks after Zyg is done. "Two blacks? Two strongs?" Zyg turns to Bytes and responds. "Nox wants us in the Dark Room. It's a matter most exigent." A corrupted Rift opens in the room, as Bytes, Geometrik, Zyg, and Choppy all exit the room. Outside the room, Ableton turns to Willow and speaks. "Well... That was an interlude. We should find Styx and collect our third key." The group continues wandering the halls, until they begin hearing voices down the hall. "Hello... Is someone there?" Thunder listens out to the voice and responds. "Hold on... Evie?" Thunder slowly walks towards the origin of the voice, as Ableton responds to Thunder. "Thunder... I don't think..." As Thunder rounds a corner, he notices what appears to be Evie enclouded in some smoke. Thunder faces the anomaly and speaks. "Evie! We're here to rescue you!" Willow turns to Thunder and yells. "Thunder! That's not Evie!" The creature slowly loses Evie's shape and begins to unveil its true form, revealing it to be a Cube Monster. Splode shoves a grenade into the creature's mouth and blows it up. Thunder looks at the creature and comments. "A Mimic... Styx must be close..." The group searches the area, looking for Styx. This mysterious Unseen member must be hiding somewhere. Styx then fires a shot at Ableton and misses. Styx walks out and reveals himself to the group. He then speaks, as he lets out an unnerving grin. "Looking for Evie, Thunder? Dahlia wanted to make sure Evie is getting the dark treatment from the Unseen. You should've left our client alone." Ableton faces Styx and responds. "We're not here for your demented game, Styx. Give Evie back to us and we'll promise not to severely beat you to a pulp." Styx stares at the group and responds. "Over me and Dahlia's bodies will we even consider giving Evie to you. You Peace Syndicate scumbags always think there should be peace in Mega City. Always enforcing peace as if you call the shots around here. Let our chaos do its thing and fill Mega City with darkness." Some doors open beside Styx, as a few Cube Monsters flood into the hallway. The next battle begins. Thunder charges for Styx and attempts to tackle him, while Ableton and Willow assist in clearing out the Cube Monsters. Styx pulls out his Combat Shotgun and begins firing shots at Thunder, as he skillfully avoids the shotgun blasts. Thunder then kicks the Combat Shotgun out of Styx's hands and picks it up. Thunder fires a shot into Styx's chest and knocks him to the floor, alongside blasting his chest open. Inside Styx's chest is an orb of condensed Kevolution Materia. Ableton looks at Styx's blasted open chest and comments. "Yikes! That's some serious indigestion!" Styx gets off the ground and speaks. "Yehehehehes! Let's gohohoho!" The Kevolution Materia orb inside of Styx's chest begins to react, as he appears to be making the Cube Fiends near him stronger, turning them into Elite Cube Fiends. Thunder observes the chaos and responds. "Look out! Styx appears to be making those Cube Monsters stronger. We need to take him out before he makes those Cube Monsters too strong." With no time to waste, the Order of the Vault helps Thunder with taking down Styx. Ableton and Willow rush for Styx, as he knocks them both away with some quick shoves. Amara headshots an Elite Cube Fiend with The Dub, while CRZ-8 slices some Cube Fiends apart with his Lucky 8's. A Cubed Blightfather crawls out of the stomach of a Cube Fiend, as Styx uses the Kevolution Materia in his chest orb to turn it into an Elite Cubed Blightfather. Ableton groans in exhaustion at the sight of the Elite Cubed Blightfather. "Oh... You got to be kidding me..." Willow reacts alongside Rinzler. "Nice! Styx managed to amp up something that was already tough to kill." The Vault Guardians now have to focus on killing the Elite Cubed Blightfather before taking on Styx. Splode sticks a Clinger onto the Elite Cubed Blightfather's face, as he yells out. "Chew on that, ugly face! Yeah!" The Clinger explodes, dealing heavy damage to the Elite Cubed Blightfather and staggering it a bit. Willow then executes a quick slash of her katana at the Elite Cubed Blightfather's head, killing the bipedal terror. Thunder walls over to Styx and kicks him in the groin, knocking him to the floor. A symbol appears above Styx, as the Kevolution Artifact begins to react. One key remains, and the Order of the Vault can advance to the trials next puzzle. As the Kevolution Artifact absorbs the symbol, Styx gets up and screams, aggroing loads of Cube Monsters throughout The Renzone. A large horde of Cube Monsters run down the hall, ready to feast on the Vault Guardians and Thunder. Everyone makes a run for it, hoping to find safety from the horde. Within the horde, Stray, Highwire, and Renzo the Destroyer all chase down the Vault Guardians, alongside several Renzo units. Once they head out towards the elevator that leads into the Dark Room, Dahlia stands in front of the group and knocks everyone back with her Code Carver. The Order of the Vault are surrounded by Cube Monsters, Renzo units, and various Unseen members Ableton and Willow defeated earlier. Dahlia looks at Thunder and speaks. "Looking for Evie, Thunder? I've handed her over to a special ally of mine. He won't like it if the trial is finished before he can set anything up." Everyone is now at a standoff, as Thunder faces Dahlia. "If the Unseen chooses to be enemies to Mega City, then the Peace Syndicate will fight like we always have." Thunder pulls out his Kaiju Cutter and begins wildly attacking Dahlia. Dahlia pulls out her Lock-On Pistol and unloads half its mag into Thunder, only to miss. Thunder then roundhouse kicks Dahlia away from him, causing her to bump into Renzo. Dahlia yells out to the Cube Monsters in rage. "Don't just stand there! Kill that Peace Syndicate scum!" After Dahlia gets done yelling, Styx lets out a loud scream, as the Cube Monsters immediately run full sprint towards Thunder. Thunder pulls out his Havoc Suppressed Rifle and mows down the horde charging at him. As Thunder manages to kill the last Cube Fiend in the horde, Dahlia rushes him with her Code Cleaver, causing Thunder to retaliate with a swift kick to her face. Dahlia is knocked to the floor, as a symbol appears above her. The Kevolution Artifact reacts heavily to this, as the wall of Kevolution Materia blocking the elevator door dissipates. Thunder faces the Vault Guardians, as they all quickly get inside the elevator. Dahlia screams to the other Unseen members in anger as she watches the group enter the elevator. "Quick! Shoot them!" Stray, Highwire, Styx, Renzo the Destroyer, and the other Renzos all begin firing their guns into the elevator. Willow quickly tries to close the elevator door, as more gunfire riddles the interior. After a few more seconds of shooting, the elevator immediately breaks, causing the whole thing to begin falling at rapid speeds. Ableton looks at Thunder and yells. "Not good! The elevator took some extreme damage from that gun show!" Thunder faces Splode and screams. "Whitty! Activate the elevator's emergency brakes." Splode runs over to the buttons and begins mashing the emergency brakes button. This attempt works, as Splode successfully activates the emergency brakes and slows the elevator to its normal speed. After a few minutes, the elevator arrives at its stop. Everyone walks out of the elevator, as Ableton looks around. "Alright. I see a large tunnel with cave-live features... but where is this Dark Room?" The Kevolution Artifact reacts, as Ableton begins hearing more voices. Ableton speaks out, as the Kevolution Artifact provides the next step of the trial. "Light the Beacons..." Willow looks around after hearing what Rinzler said and comments. "Hmm... Nothing in here looks... beacon-ish, and I suspect that we fell into something worse." Everyone looks around the area, looking for anything that could help in understanding the current step in the trial. Splode uncovers a generator near some wood pallets and turns it on. Some lights on the ceiling turn on, brightening up the area a bit. Splode faces Rinzler and speaks. "I think these generators might be key to this step. We should probably find more of them and turn them on." Everyone continues walking down the tunnel, looking for more generators that Splode mentioned. Amara uncovers another generator near some large CUBE chunks, with Thunder finding another towards a pile of broken debris. More lights turn on in the area. As they near the end of the tunnel, Ableton turns the last generator on, as all the lights turn on, revealing a large steel door blocking the path. The Kevolution Artifact begins to react heavily, as the steel door opens. Once the door fully opens, the Vault Guardians enter inside. At the center of the room, there is a small, shallow body of... water? Splode walks towards the liquid and steps into it. "You know? This stuff seems pretty viscous for water, I'll tell y'all that." Willow turns to Splode and responds. "Whitty... That's not water. That's... blood..." As soon as Splode heard what Willow said, he looks below him and notices the slight redness the liquid has. Splode screams out in disgust and steps out of the liquid. Ableton looks around the area, until he hears Evie's voice yelling from above. "Guys! I'm up here!" Thunder looks up, and notices that Evie is strapped to a large machine, pumping Kevolution Materia throughout the Dark Room. Thunder yells out to Evie in response. "We're here, Evie! We're coming to get you!" Triarch Nox's voice is heard, yelling at Thunder in rage. "No, you're not!" One of Bytes' Chromatic tendrils grabs the Kevolution Artifact out of Rinzler's hands, as Bytes hands the Artifact over to Nox. Nox looks at the group and speaks. "No! Somehow those insects have passed my trial! No matter... The Kevolution Artifact has sufficient charge for what it needs to do." Triarch Nox walks up some stairs around the walls of the Dark Room, as he places the Kevolution Artifact into the device. Triarch Nox looks at the group below him and yells. "Awaken my soldiers! Slay these pawns of the Peace Syndicate!" Zyg jumps towards the blood pool at the center, as the liquid begins to transmogrify, projecting what appears to be the Mothership's interior within the liquid. Evie yells out with worry. "Watch out! It appears this Triarch Nox guy is intent on defending the device while it charges up. Don't get killed out there!" Zyg pulls out his Ray Gun and fires at the group, making sure to defend Nox's device. Ableton tries to Mantis Leap around the area to pick off Zyg, until Choppy throws down an Alien Nanite and stops Rinzler in his tracks. Thunder begins firing his Havoc Suppressed Rifle at Zyg, as he takes slight damage from Thunder's attack. Zyg then fires a laser from his eye and sweeps the floor with it, causing Thunder to jump and avoid the attack. Amara rushes into Zyg and blasts him with The Dub, launching Zyg and Choppy into the walls of the Dark Room. Zyg jumps up and out of the group's reach, as Bytes drops down. The liquid in the center transmogrifies again, as the liquid now turns Chrome. Bytes conjures the Nothing's Gift in its Siren's Spear form and begins to attack Ableton with it. Rinzler quickly dodges the attack and counterattacks by pistol-whipping Bytes in the face with his Shadow Tracker. Bytes then summons some Chromatic tendrils to attack the Vault Guardians, making sure to keep them away from him. CRZ-8 pulls out his Lucky 8 Blades and slices through the tendrils to attack Bytes. "Epicness approaches!" CRZ-8 kicks Bytes in the groin and uppercuts him onto the upper catwalk above the arena. Triarch Nox yells, as Geometrik drops down into the arena. "Intruders! Tell the Peace Syndicate I will not be stopped!" Once Geometrik drops into the arena, the liquid in the center transmogrifies again, as it begins to project the Sideways from within. Geometrik wildly swings his Sideways Scythe around, attempting to slice everyone apart. Willow grabs ahold of the Sideways Scythe and tries to wrestle it out of Geometrik's grasp. Willow succeeds, as she throws the Sideways Scythe away from Geometrik. After losing his weapon, the CUBE fragments around Geometrik begin to glow golden. Splode walks towards Geometrik with his Shrapnel Axe equipped. "This fight's in the bag. Time to beat him up and shut down the machine." Before Splode could land a hit, Geometrik fires a large laser out of his golden CUBE head and almost hits Splode. Splode immediately reacts to the attack. "What the hell? You have a new attack?!" Amara charges an attack with the Goldenbane Mace, as Serpicus the Goldenbane begins glowing on Amara's back. Geometrik charges for Amara, as she winds up with her Goldenbane Mace and whacks Geometrik in the face. The impact of the Goldenbane Mace was enough to send Geometrik crashing into the wall and losing the fight. Triarch Nox looks at the Vault Guardians and yells. "You will not deny Darkeon his return!" Triarch Nox jumps down to the arena, as Cube Monsters begin to manifest around the blood pool. Triarch Nox yells, as the Cube Monsters all turn to face the Order of the Vault. "Rise, warriors! Slay the unworthy!" The Cube Monsters charge for the Vault Guardians, as Rinzler shoots down some Cube Fiends within the horde. Willow teams up with Amara Luxe and Splode to take down a Cubed Blightfather, while Thunder slices a Corpse Eater apart with his knives. Once the Vault Guardians clear out the horde, Triarch Nox begins yelling. "No one will save you from Darkeon's wrath! I will not fail my plans!" As Nox gets done yelling, someone begins speaking from within the blood pool. "No, Nox. You did everything according to MY plan. You brought me back. And once your construct repairs my fractured body I shall thank you, by wiping this island from existence." It appears time has run out, and Darkeon has partially returned, in a slightly messed-up form. Both Stray and Highwire break into the Dark Room, as they confront the Vault Guardians. "Now you did it! You will not escape the Dark Room alive!" Darkeon sets his sights on Stray, as several clouds of Kevolution Materia fly out of the blood pool and into Stray. Stray succumbs to the Kevolution Materia, as his white coat turns black with CUBE runes all over, and his eyes start glowing purple. Darkeon begins speaking from Stray, as he yells. "Rest assured... I will destroy this world just as soon as I kill you here!" Dark Stray summons Saigai Dagger Dance, as he attempts to attack everyone with the converging daggers. Highwire runs towards the Vault Guardians in fear and speaks. "That weird... CUBE thing just took control of Stray! We gotta get him out of Stray!" Thunder faces Highwire and responds. "If we save Masaki for you, you better help us contain that Darkeon freak." Highwire nods, as the Vault Guardians get to work. Dark Stray pulls out his Kinetic Blade and dashes towards Ableton, leaving behind a burning trail of Kevolution Materia. Willow distracts Dark Stray with some yelling, causing Dark Stray to throw a plasma grenade at Willow. Willow gets away from the grenade, as the explosion leaves behind a small area of molten plasma. Dark Stray then swings his Foxfire Edge at Highwire, launching three orbs of Kevolution Materia towards her. Highwire dodges the attack and scratches Dark Stray in the chest with her Plasmacore Claws. Dark Stray kicks Highwire away, as he screams loudly. "The insanity of Darkeon is upon you!" Splode slaps Dark Stray in the face, planting a Remote Explosive beside his head. CRZ-8 throws his Billiard Grenade at Dark Stray, as the grenade splits into three explosive billiard balls. The explosion knocks Dark Stray into the air, as Splode presses the button on the Remote Explosive's detonator, blowing up the explosive on Dark Stray's face. Dark Stray is knocked out, as Darkeon seeps out of Stray and back into the blood pool. The blood pool begins to transmogrify again, as the liquid is now contaminated with Kevolution Materia. Two large arms rise out of the liquid, followed by a torso. A cracked CUBE manifests on the body, forming Darkeon's head. The entire area begins rumbling, as roots begin tearing through the walls of the Dark Room. Ableton looks around in fear and yells. "What's happening?!" Highwire faces Rinzler and responds. "He's drawing power from the Herald Tree! Nox mentioned the tree as being part of the plan, but not like this!" Loads of Cube Fiends begin manifesting around Darkeon. Amidst the rumbling, the ceiling begins to tremble. An IO Drill drops down from the ceiling and lands near the Vault Guardians. The top hatch of the IO Drill opens up, as Huntmaster Saber begins shooting at some Fiends with his Thermal Scoped Rifle. Amara faces Saber and reacts. "Saber?! How did you find us?" Saber faces Amara and responds. "No time to explain, Luxe!" Saber gets out and continues shooting the Cube Fiends around Darkeon, as Drift, Mizuki, Mystica, and Doctor Jekyll exit the Drill and help out in the fight. Darkeon begins yelling, as Mizuki begins slicing him with her Kinetic Blade. "You test my patience! I will take all your lives!" Drift then slices one of Darkeon's arms off with his Rift Edge, slowly breaking his body apart. Splode looks at the reinforcements and yells. "Hell yeah, folks! Show Darkeon how we fight!" Ableton faces Splode and reacts. "Wait... Did you call them all here, Whitty?" As Mystica attacks Darkeon with her Ashglow Blade, Splode responds. "Yes I did, Able!" Huntmaster Saber drops down to the group with Evie in his hands, after having freed her from the machine she was strapped to. Thunder faces Ableton, Willow, and Splode and speaks. "All the beacons have been lit. You've done the impossible. You've united this city. And reminded us that we need each other." Evie turns to Thunder and responds. "So, how do we feel about making Splode's friends here honorary members of the Peace Syndicate?" Thunder faces Evie and answers her. "Of course. And you're getting your own signature menu item at the Thunder Roll." The entire Dark Room begins to fall apart, as Jekyll yells. "The area is collapsing! Everyone to the Drill!" Everyone immediately piles into the IO Drill, as Highwire quickly grabs Stray's unconscious body and gets in. Triarch Nox tries to get into the IO Drill, as Jekyll reacts to him. "Stay here and die, you bracket-faced trickster!" Jekyll kicks Nox away and shuts the hatch, as Saber maneuvers the IO Drill into the wall and begins drilling everyone's way out. Darkeon's body begins to crumble, as the Dark Room collapses due to all the roots overgrowing in the area. Inside the IO Drill, Evie responds to Thunder's earlier answer to her. "How about the City Saver Supreme? You could make that roll a lunch special! Ooh! How about Hero Meat? Just a big piece of meat with the word 'HERO' cooked into it." Thunder turns to Evie and responds to her. "Hey, who's chef around here? You stick to playing with knives." Evie reacts to what Thunder has said. "Haha, deal! Don't need to tell me twice." Evie turns to Ableton, Willow, and Splode and speaks to them. "If you ever need any backup... We owe you one. Call us, and we'll be there!" Evie then throws up a peace sign at the Vault Guardians. "Keep the peace, heroes." Willow tightly hugs Rinzler, as they enjoy their ride within the IO Drill. Above ground, near the fault line adjacent to a gas station, Xander Necalli, Marigold, Grimey, and Gnash all observe the roots sprouting around the fault line. Xander faces Marigold and comments. "Ooh... These mysterious roots. Something is happening to Asteria, and I'm not sure what." Marigold turns to Xander and responds. "I'm not sure either. Grimey noticed these earlier, and had me come over to check." Gnash looks around and comments. "Well... This has been an eventful evening, Necalli. Can we go now? This place just doesn't feel right." As Xander and his mercenaries prepare to leave, Xander faces the roots and whispers. "Will you take me closer to el Punto Cero?" Evie has been rescued, the Unseen has been trampled, and Nox's plans on bringing back Darkeon have been foiled. This turned into quite a spectacular display of teamwork and mayhem for me and Willow. Although... This does leave a major question for us to figure out... What exactly did Darkeon do with those roots? Whatever he did, it will prove to be something... Wild... for me and Willow.
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2023.06.08 05:19 cloudsheep0 Guerilla Collective 2023 PC Announcements
| Title | Developer | Links | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terra Memoria | La Moutarde | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The HD-2D Turn Based RPG has been announced |
| Sengoku Dynasty | Superkami | Gameplay Trailer, Steam Page | The open world RPG is coming to Early Access Q2 2023 |
| Forgotlings | Throughline Games | Announcement Trailer, Steam Page | The side scrolling action-adventure game is coming in 2024 from the devs of Forgotton Anne |
| Evolutis: Duality | Poke Life Studio | Story Trailer,Steam Page | The 2D Story Driven Action game showed off new look gameplay |
| Europa | Helder Pinto | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The Adventure game is slated to come this year |
| Abyssus | DoubleMoose | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The fast paced FPS got a new look gameplay trailer |
| A Tiny Sticker Tale | Ogre Pixel | Gameplay Trailer, Steam Page | The cozy adventure game got a new look gameplay trailer (demo also available now) |
| Dwarf Delve | Gloom Box | Developer Commentary Trailer,Steam Page | A material extraction roguelite game which is slated to release in Early Access |
| Remnant 2 | Gunfire Games | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The sequel to the 2019 third person shooter is coming sometime this summer |
| Iron Meat | Retroware | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The 2D Action game got a new look trailer (Demo available now) |
| Hammerwatch II | Crackshell | Dev Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The sequel to the 2013 action game got a dev commentary gameplay trailer |
| Super Space Club | GrahamOfLegend | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The low-fi arcade space shooter launches on August 4th |
| Leximan | Knights of Borria | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The world based puzzle game is coming to PC in 2024 |
| ANTONBLAST | Summitsphere | Demo Trailer,Steam Page | The Retro Platformer's demo is available now |
| Serum | Game Island | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The survival game got a new look gameplay trailer |
| WORLD OF HORROR | panstasz | Release Date Trailer,Steam Page | The Junji Ito inspired horror game is leaving early access on October 19th |
| PNEUMATA | Deadbolt Interactive | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The psychological horror game got a new look trailer |
| Deadlink | Gruby Entertainment | Release Date Trailer,Steam Page | The first person shooter is leaving Early Access on July 27th |
| Blood West | Hyperstrange | Release Window Trailer,Steam Page | The Stealth FPS is leaving Early Access this December |
| Demonschool | Necrosoft Games | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The SMT inspired Turn Based RPG got a first look Gameplay Trailer |
| Quest Master | Skydevilpalm, Julian Creutz | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The Zelda inspired dungeon maker is coming to PC |
| SacriFire | Pixelated Milk | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The JRPG inspired game got a new look gameplay trailer |
| A Bonnie Odyssey | Astrodreamer Studio | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The open world sci-fi adventure game is coming to Steam |
| Dark Deity 2 | Sword & Axe | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The sequel to the tactical RPG has been announced |
| Grifford Academy | LandShark Games | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The turned based game has been announced for PC |
| Toads of the Bayou | La Grange Studios | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The turn based/roguelite card game is coming to PC in 2024 |
| Crashlands 2 | Butterscotch Shenanigans | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The sequel to the open world crafting game is coming in 2024 |
| Nova Lands | BEHEMUTT | Release Date Trailer,Steam Page | The island management game is coming to PC on June 22nd |
| Don Duality | Königsborgs | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The Card-Based Gangster Tycoon Game got a new look gameplay trailer |
| Kingdom Eighties | Fury Studios | Release Date Trailer,Steam Page | The micro strategy game is releasing on June 26th on PC |
| Lake - Season's Greetings DLC | Gamious | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The adventure game is getting a new DLC which is coming this November |
| Pizza Possum | Cosy Computer | Co-op Trailer,Steam Page | The stealth game is getting local co-op support |
| Noun Town | realiaXR | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The word based game got a new gameplay trailer and is coming this Summer |
| Olliefrog Toad Skater | Mr. Thee | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The skateboarding game is coming Q4 2023 and a demo is available now |
| Bye Sweet Carole | Little Sewing Machine, Meangrip Studios | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The Disney inspired horror game is coming to PC next year |
| A Void Hope | Elden Pixels | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The 2D puzzle platformers demo will be available on June 19th |
| Three Minutes To Eight | Chaosmonger Studio | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The mind bending adventure game is coming Q4 2023 to PC (Encodya devs new game) |
| HEART ABYSS | DEADMAP | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The 2D action game has been officially revealed |
| Promenade | Holy Cap | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The 2D puzzle platformer is coming to PC this year |
| Coreupt | Team Coreupt | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The fighting game got a first look trailer |
| Crypt Custodian | Kyle Thompson | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The metroidvania is coming to PC in 2024 (Islet and Sheepo devs new game) |
| Gori: Cuddly Carnage | Angry Demon Studio | Gameplay Trailer,Steam Page | The skate n slash game got a new gameplay trailer |
| GRIME: Tinge of Terror Update | Clover Bite | Launch Trailer,Steam Page | The new update is available now on PC which adds new game+ |
| Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga - Legends | Dancing Dragon Games | Announcement Trailer,Steam Page | The SRPG is receiving a new DLC which will introduce more classes, missions and more |
| 30XX | Batterystaple Games | Release Window Trailer,Steam Page | The Mega-man inspired game is leaving Early Access in Q3 2023 |
note I did skip some games because they're just repeat trailers from previous months
2023.06.08 04:14 Berta_Movie_Buff Summer 2023 Round Up! Part 1: May
Mind if I scare you all for just a moment? We’re already a quarter of the way through summer!
As we head into June, I put together a little wrap-up on what's been going on, and I plan to do more for each month as the summer progresses.
Although it started off with a lower-than-projected $118 Million OW, the MCU's second movie of the year managed to pick up steam as the month went on. Currently at $324 Million DOM and $783 Million WW, it's surpassed the original in international markets and its worldwide take but it's sill behind both predecessors at home.
Looking at the dailies, Vol. 3 has already made $325 Million DOM after 33 days, surpassing the $282 Million that Vol. 1 made after the same period. While it's still trailing behind the $358 Million that Vol. 2 made, it's all but guaranteed to hit the $350 Million milestone by the end of the summer.
Currently sitting at the number two spot for 2023, it seems to be closing in on the $800 Million WW mark and appears to have a good chance at maintaining a spot in the top ten throughout the remainder of the year.
Love Again can't create a spark
Hoping to counter program some of the superhero hype, this $9 Million rom-com opened at $2.3 Million. However, it seemed that audience didn't fall for this flick, considering its grand total of $6.2 Million WW and $11.8 Million WW after a full month in theaters.
While it at least managed to earn back its budget - something that can't be said for other movies released this month - it does serve as another reminder that romantic comedies don't have the theatrical pull that they once had.
Knights of the Zodiac flies too close to the sun
Based on the anime of the same name, it quietly opened in theaters on May 12 to an opening of $557 thousand. Not million, thousand. It then proceeded to make $1 Million DOM and $6.7 Million WW, against a budget $60 Million.
Needless to say, it's quickly secured itself as the second-biggest bomb of 2023. What's number one? Well....
Hypnotic puts its box office to sleep
An original movie from Robert Rodriguez - who directed, produced, co-shot, and edited the feature - and starring Ben Affleck, the movie opened to $2.4 Million and ended its run with $4.5 Million and $5.2 Million. The budget was $65 Million, putting its worldwide total at 8% of its budget and certifying it as the biggest bomb of the year.
Maybe another movie will come along and do worse, but it's unlikely that a movie of this budget size will sink to this kind of level before we flip the calendar to 2024.
Book Club: The Next Chapter turns over a new (and disappointing) page
Five years ago, Book Club opened to a decent $13 Million, legged out to $68 Million domestically and managed to pull a worldwide take of $104 Million against a budget of $14 Million. Naturally, a sequel was to be expected and so, half a decade later, one was delivered.
Unfortunately, moviegoing habits have changed a bit, and The Next Chapter only pulled in a $6.6 Million OW, $17 Million DOM, and $26 Million WW. Even though it made back its $20 Million budget, it's evident that there will be no closing chapter in the Book Club trilogy.
Fast X your seatbelts
The latest incarnation of Dom Toretto's family is doing okay numbers, sitting at $129 Million DOM and $660 Million WW. However, the movie carries a hefty budget of $340 Million, turning what would be a respectable box office tally into an underperformance.
It also doesn't help that these numbers are lower than that its predecessor and its legs are already dropping hard thanks to a brutal summer lineup. The latest entry seemed to be doomed from the start, as its opening weekend of $67 Million DOM and $318 Million WW was lower than the $70 Million/$405 Million opener of F9, and that movie had Covid to deal with.
All isn't lost though, as F9 was at $144 Million DOM/$542 Million WW after 18 days - $13 Million more/$118 Million less than where Fast X is now. If it keeps up that pace, Fast X could find itself with a comfortable $160 Million DOM and $844 Million WW. Maybe its release date was just a lack of foresight, or maybe audiences have had enough of family, but one thing's for certain, Universal is gonna have to keep an eye on their production costs for the next two entries.
The Machine shuts down
Bert Kreischer's adaptation of his true story stand-up routine takes some creative liberties, including Mark Hamill as Bert's father, but follows the fate of all comedies and tanks at the box office.
Opening with $5 Million, it sits at $9.1 Million DOM and $9.3 Million WW ($174,606 from New Zealand, the movies' only international market), it will not recoup the $20 Million budget before it leaves theaters. Perhaps it was better suited for streaming - or a better release date - but it's evidently not the worst flop of the month.
Kandahar fuses out
Gerald Butler reteams with director Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen, Greenland) to deliver another B-movie with an estimated budget of $65 Million. The movie opened with $2.3 Million, and sits at $4.4 Million DOM and $5.4 Million WW.
Considering how well Plane did back in January, perhaps this one would have served better for a similar time slot, maybe late August or even January 2024. Regardless, it seems that not all action B-movies are destined for profit, especially ones that open in an already packed summer season.
The Little Mermaid, will it sink or swim?
Disney's latest "reimagining" secured the fifth-highest grossing Memorial Day weekend with $95 Million 3-day and $118 Million 4-day. It's at $197 Million DOM and trailing almost exactly on par with Aladdin, which stood at $198 Million after the same amount of time. If it keeps its legs, it could make it well past $300 Million DOM and potentially reaching the $350 Million mark.
Despite its success at home, the remake has struggled overseas, with the international markets making up $141 Million (42.4%) of its global take, down from the $260 Million (58.5%) that Aladdin had made around the same time. While it seems to be doing on par with Aladdin in most countries, it has received very little support from the Asia Pacific and China markets, which are key factors in helping a movie reach the crucial $1 Billion mark unless it breaks out in North America.
This remake carries a budget of $250 Million - $10 million short of the budget for The Lion King (2019) - and a final tally of $550 Million WW is estimated to be the break even point. With the movie doing poorly across many markets, it's likely this could be Disney's first live-action remake to flop.
About My Father, another dinero for De Niro
Robert De Niro stars in this $29.1 Million comedy that opened to $4.3 Million and currently sits at $9.4 Million DOM with a worldwide gross of $10.7 Million (including $313,692 from Russia).
If this is your first time hearing about this movie, I don't blame you. It's just another one of the smaller scale movies that tried to go up against a tentpole movie and failed rather miserably. Here's to hoping Killers of the Flower Moon does well in October.
On May 1, the gross for The Super Mario Bros. Movie was $493 Million DOM and hit the $1 Billion WW mark. By May 31, it had shot up to $562 Million DOM and $1.3 Billion WW, becoming the second-highest grossing animated film of all time behind Incredibles 2 (DOM) and Frozen 2 (WW). Chris Pratt sits on the throne as king of the 2023 box office, and it seems that it will stay that way for the foreseeable future as second place belongs to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, both domestically and worldwide.
Whether any movie dethrone it is anyone's guess. However, the minimum that any movie will need to make is $1.4 Billion which doesn't seem likely. The rest of the summer - and the rest of the year - is packed with blockbusters, all gunning to make as much money as they can before the next one comes along.
John Wick Chapter 400 Million
The Keanu Reeves-led action franchise hits a first for the franchise and continues the tradition of every John Wick movie doing better than the last (overseas at least), as it hit $400 Million WW on May 4 and is sitting at is $428 Million. It was such a success that Lionsgate is already working on a fifth instalment.
Could Chapter 5 keep the trend going and make $500 Million WW and $200 Million DOM? It all comes down to if it comes down to a quiet month. For now though, the franchise delivered a finale worth being the highest earner of the series.
Dungeons & Dragons rolls the dice
Honor Among Thieves started off with a weak $37 Million OW in March, yet managed to leg out to a decent $97 Million DOM (2.51x) and hit $200 Million WW in the first week of May.
Its box office total places it well above Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise, and Shazam: Fury of the Gods. It also managed to score positive reviews from critics and praise from fans of the game and casual moviegoers alike. Due to its $150 Million budget, however, it failed to break even and will most likely not be getting a sequel.
That's all for this month, folks! See you in July when I recap June.
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As we head into June, I put together a little wrap-up on what's been going on, and I plan to do more for each month as the summer progresses.
May Releases
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 soars off on a high noteAlthough it started off with a lower-than-projected $118 Million OW, the MCU's second movie of the year managed to pick up steam as the month went on. Currently at $324 Million DOM and $783 Million WW, it's surpassed the original in international markets and its worldwide take but it's sill behind both predecessors at home.
Looking at the dailies, Vol. 3 has already made $325 Million DOM after 33 days, surpassing the $282 Million that Vol. 1 made after the same period. While it's still trailing behind the $358 Million that Vol. 2 made, it's all but guaranteed to hit the $350 Million milestone by the end of the summer.
Currently sitting at the number two spot for 2023, it seems to be closing in on the $800 Million WW mark and appears to have a good chance at maintaining a spot in the top ten throughout the remainder of the year.
Love Again can't create a spark
Hoping to counter program some of the superhero hype, this $9 Million rom-com opened at $2.3 Million. However, it seemed that audience didn't fall for this flick, considering its grand total of $6.2 Million WW and $11.8 Million WW after a full month in theaters.
While it at least managed to earn back its budget - something that can't be said for other movies released this month - it does serve as another reminder that romantic comedies don't have the theatrical pull that they once had.
Knights of the Zodiac flies too close to the sun
Based on the anime of the same name, it quietly opened in theaters on May 12 to an opening of $557 thousand. Not million, thousand. It then proceeded to make $1 Million DOM and $6.7 Million WW, against a budget $60 Million.
Needless to say, it's quickly secured itself as the second-biggest bomb of 2023. What's number one? Well....
Hypnotic puts its box office to sleep
An original movie from Robert Rodriguez - who directed, produced, co-shot, and edited the feature - and starring Ben Affleck, the movie opened to $2.4 Million and ended its run with $4.5 Million and $5.2 Million. The budget was $65 Million, putting its worldwide total at 8% of its budget and certifying it as the biggest bomb of the year.
Maybe another movie will come along and do worse, but it's unlikely that a movie of this budget size will sink to this kind of level before we flip the calendar to 2024.
Book Club: The Next Chapter turns over a new (and disappointing) page
Five years ago, Book Club opened to a decent $13 Million, legged out to $68 Million domestically and managed to pull a worldwide take of $104 Million against a budget of $14 Million. Naturally, a sequel was to be expected and so, half a decade later, one was delivered.
Unfortunately, moviegoing habits have changed a bit, and The Next Chapter only pulled in a $6.6 Million OW, $17 Million DOM, and $26 Million WW. Even though it made back its $20 Million budget, it's evident that there will be no closing chapter in the Book Club trilogy.
Fast X your seatbelts
The latest incarnation of Dom Toretto's family is doing okay numbers, sitting at $129 Million DOM and $660 Million WW. However, the movie carries a hefty budget of $340 Million, turning what would be a respectable box office tally into an underperformance.
It also doesn't help that these numbers are lower than that its predecessor and its legs are already dropping hard thanks to a brutal summer lineup. The latest entry seemed to be doomed from the start, as its opening weekend of $67 Million DOM and $318 Million WW was lower than the $70 Million/$405 Million opener of F9, and that movie had Covid to deal with.
All isn't lost though, as F9 was at $144 Million DOM/$542 Million WW after 18 days - $13 Million more/$118 Million less than where Fast X is now. If it keeps up that pace, Fast X could find itself with a comfortable $160 Million DOM and $844 Million WW. Maybe its release date was just a lack of foresight, or maybe audiences have had enough of family, but one thing's for certain, Universal is gonna have to keep an eye on their production costs for the next two entries.
The Machine shuts down
Bert Kreischer's adaptation of his true story stand-up routine takes some creative liberties, including Mark Hamill as Bert's father, but follows the fate of all comedies and tanks at the box office.
Opening with $5 Million, it sits at $9.1 Million DOM and $9.3 Million WW ($174,606 from New Zealand, the movies' only international market), it will not recoup the $20 Million budget before it leaves theaters. Perhaps it was better suited for streaming - or a better release date - but it's evidently not the worst flop of the month.
Kandahar fuses out
Gerald Butler reteams with director Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen, Greenland) to deliver another B-movie with an estimated budget of $65 Million. The movie opened with $2.3 Million, and sits at $4.4 Million DOM and $5.4 Million WW.
Considering how well Plane did back in January, perhaps this one would have served better for a similar time slot, maybe late August or even January 2024. Regardless, it seems that not all action B-movies are destined for profit, especially ones that open in an already packed summer season.
The Little Mermaid, will it sink or swim?
Disney's latest "reimagining" secured the fifth-highest grossing Memorial Day weekend with $95 Million 3-day and $118 Million 4-day. It's at $197 Million DOM and trailing almost exactly on par with Aladdin, which stood at $198 Million after the same amount of time. If it keeps its legs, it could make it well past $300 Million DOM and potentially reaching the $350 Million mark.
Despite its success at home, the remake has struggled overseas, with the international markets making up $141 Million (42.4%) of its global take, down from the $260 Million (58.5%) that Aladdin had made around the same time. While it seems to be doing on par with Aladdin in most countries, it has received very little support from the Asia Pacific and China markets, which are key factors in helping a movie reach the crucial $1 Billion mark unless it breaks out in North America.
This remake carries a budget of $250 Million - $10 million short of the budget for The Lion King (2019) - and a final tally of $550 Million WW is estimated to be the break even point. With the movie doing poorly across many markets, it's likely this could be Disney's first live-action remake to flop.
About My Father, another dinero for De Niro
Robert De Niro stars in this $29.1 Million comedy that opened to $4.3 Million and currently sits at $9.4 Million DOM with a worldwide gross of $10.7 Million (including $313,692 from Russia).
If this is your first time hearing about this movie, I don't blame you. It's just another one of the smaller scale movies that tried to go up against a tentpole movie and failed rather miserably. Here's to hoping Killers of the Flower Moon does well in October.
Movie Grosses in May
The Super Mario Bros. Movie levels up!On May 1, the gross for The Super Mario Bros. Movie was $493 Million DOM and hit the $1 Billion WW mark. By May 31, it had shot up to $562 Million DOM and $1.3 Billion WW, becoming the second-highest grossing animated film of all time behind Incredibles 2 (DOM) and Frozen 2 (WW). Chris Pratt sits on the throne as king of the 2023 box office, and it seems that it will stay that way for the foreseeable future as second place belongs to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, both domestically and worldwide.
Whether any movie dethrone it is anyone's guess. However, the minimum that any movie will need to make is $1.4 Billion which doesn't seem likely. The rest of the summer - and the rest of the year - is packed with blockbusters, all gunning to make as much money as they can before the next one comes along.
John Wick Chapter 400 Million
The Keanu Reeves-led action franchise hits a first for the franchise and continues the tradition of every John Wick movie doing better than the last (overseas at least), as it hit $400 Million WW on May 4 and is sitting at is $428 Million. It was such a success that Lionsgate is already working on a fifth instalment.
Could Chapter 5 keep the trend going and make $500 Million WW and $200 Million DOM? It all comes down to if it comes down to a quiet month. For now though, the franchise delivered a finale worth being the highest earner of the series.
Dungeons & Dragons rolls the dice
Honor Among Thieves started off with a weak $37 Million OW in March, yet managed to leg out to a decent $97 Million DOM (2.51x) and hit $200 Million WW in the first week of May.
Its box office total places it well above Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise, and Shazam: Fury of the Gods. It also managed to score positive reviews from critics and praise from fans of the game and casual moviegoers alike. Due to its $150 Million budget, however, it failed to break even and will most likely not be getting a sequel.
That's all for this month, folks! See you in July when I recap June.
2023.06.08 02:11 BarackTrudeau [H] American Truck Simulator, Batman: Arkham Origins, Darksiders III, Yooka-Laylee, Shenmue III, & a few hundred others [W] Growing Up
I am primary interested in getting Growing Up, available through the Pixel Pride bundle on Humble Bundle. And maybe also Super Lesbian Animal RPG while we're at it. I am however open to other offers.
Here is my IGSRep page
And a list of my available games:
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- 198X
- 60 Seconds!
- 911 Operator
- A Story about my Uncle
- A Story Beside
- Aaero
- Absolver
- Acceleration of SUGURI 2
- Aegis Defenders
- AER Memories of Old
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall Deluxe Edition
- Ageless
- AI War 2
- Almost There: The Platformer
- American Truck Simulator
- Ancestor's Legacy
- Aven Colony
- Aviary Attorney
- Backbone
- Backbone
- Basingstoke
- Batman™: Arkham Origins
- Battle Chasers: Nightwar
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season One
- Bear With Me: Collector's Edition
- Beat Hazard 2
- Beholder 2
- Beholder x3
- Bit Blaster XL
- Blade Assault
- Blade Assault
- BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
- Bleed 2
- Bombshell
- Book of Demons
- Boomerang Fu
- Boreal Blade
- Capitalism 2
- Carmageddon: Max Damage (F)
- Chasm
- Chess Ultra
- Children of Morta
- Colt Canyon
- Company of Heroes 2 - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Charity Pattern Pack DLC
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Crazy Machines 3
- CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
- Crusader Kings II
- Crying Suns
- Cryofall
- Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
- Cyber Hook
- Dandara
- Dark Future: Blood Red States
- Darksburg
- Darkside Detective
- Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition
- Darksiders Genesis
- Darksiders III
- Day of Infamy
- Dead In Vinland
- Dead Island Definitive Edition
- Death's Gambit
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Desert Child
- Desperados III
- Dirt Rally 2.0 + 3 DLCs - (included H2 RWD Double Pack, Opel Manta 400, The Porsche 911 RGT DLCs)
- Disciples: Liberation
- Distrust
- DLC Frostpunk: THE RIFTS
- Do Not Feed the Monkeys
- Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
- Driftland: The Magic Revival
- Dungeon Rushers
- EARTHLOCK
- ELEX
- Eliza
- Endless Legend - Tempest DLC
- Endless Legend 2x
- Endless Space - Collection
- Epic Battle Fantasy 4
- Epic Chef
- Eterium
- Etherborn
- Evan's Remains
- Fallout 1
- Fallout 76
- Family Man
- Felix the Reaper
- Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
- Figment
- Finding Paradise
- First Class Trouble
- First Class Trouble
- Five Dates
- Flat Heroes
- Fluffy Horde
- Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
- Forged Battalion
- Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
- Frostpunk
- Full Metal Furies
- Fury Unleashed
- Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition
- Galactic Civilizations III
- Gloom
- Golf Gang
- GoNNER - Press Jump To Die Edition
- Gray Matter
- GRID 2
- GRID: Ultimate Edition
- GRIP + 1 DLC - (included Artifex Car Pack DLC)
- Guild of Dungeoneering
- Gunmetal Arcadia Zero
- HackyZack
- Hand of Fate
- Hard Reset Redux
- Heave Ho
- Hellpoint
- Highway Blossoms
- HIVESWAP: Act 1
- Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!
- Horace
- Horizon Chase Turbo
- Hotshot Racing
- HunieCam Studio
- Husk
- I Am Not a Monster
- Ice Lakes
- Immortal Redneck
- Imperator Rome
- In Other Waters
- Interplanetary
- Iris and the Giant
- Jalopy
- Just Cause 3 XXL Edition
- Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim
- Kingdom Two Crowns
- Kingdom: New Lands Royal Edition
- Kona
- Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
- Lara Croft GO
- Laser League
- Last Day of June
- Later Daters - Premium
- Lawn Mowing Simulator
- Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
- Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense
- Levelhead
- LiEat
- Little Misfortune
- Little Nightmares
- Lost Castle
- Love is Dead
- Mafia III & DLC
- Mages of Mystralia
- Main Assembly
- Maize
- Medieval Kingdom Wars
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Warchest Edition
- METAL GEAR SOLID V: Ground Zeroes
- Metal Unit
- Metrico+
- Metro Exodus
- Minit
- MO:Astray
- Molek_Syntez
- Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
- Monstrum
- Moon Hunters
- Mordheim: City of the Damned (F)
- Morkredd
- Morphblade
- Moving Out
- Mr. Shifty
- NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
- NBA Playgrounds
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Necromunda: Hired Gun
- Neon Drive
- Neon Space
- NEOVERSE
- NeuroVoider
- Niche - a genetics survival game
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
- Niffelheim
- Night Call
- Okhlos
- One Step From Eden
- Opus Magnum
- Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You x2
- Othercide
- Overgrowth
- Overload
- Paratopic
- Path of Giants
- Pathologic Classic HD
- Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
- Pesterquest
- Police Stories
- Pool Panic
- Popup Dungeon
- Project Warlock
- Punch Club
- Purrfect Date
- Raiden V: Director's Cut 雷電 V Director's Cut 雷電V:導演剪輯版
- Railroad Corporation
- Railway Empire
- Rapture Rejects
- Ratz Instagib
- Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
- Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War DLC
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors
- Regular Human Basketball
- Relicta
- Remnants of Naezith
- Resident Evil Revelations
- Retimed
- Rise of Industry
- RIVE
- Road Redemption
- Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder
- Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break
- Rover Mechanic Simulator
- Running With Rifles
- Sakura Spirit
- Samorost 2
- Satellite Reign
- Savage Lands
- Scanner Sombre
- Screencheat
- Scribblenauts Unlimited
- Seasons After Fall
- Sega Bass Fishing and Eastside Hockey Manager
- Serial Cleaner
- Seven: The Days Long Gone
- Shady Part of Me
- She Remembered Caterpillars
- Shenmue III
- Shenzhen I/O
- Shiness: The_Lightning_Kingdom
- Shining Resonance Refrain
- Shoppe Keep 2
- Shoppe Keep
- SIMULACRA 2
- SIMULACRA
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
- Size Matters
- Skully
- Sky Break
- Slash It 2
- Slime-san
- Smile for me
- Snake Pass
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
- Spin Rush
- Splasher
- STARWHAL
- Steel Rats
- Still There
- Stories Untold
- STRAFE: Millennium Edition
- Struggling
- Subterrain
- Sudden Strike 4
- Super Blood Hockey
- Super Cloudbuilt
- Super Magbot
- Super Magbot
- Super Rude Bear Resurrection
- Supraland
- Survive in Space
- Sword Legacy Omen
- Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
- Tabletop Playground
- Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
- The Adventure Pals
- The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
- The Beast Inside
- The Division + Survival DLC
- The Dwarves
- The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
- The Hex
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- The Invisible Hours
- The Journey Down: Chapter Three
- The King's Bird
- The Messenger
- The Norwood Suite
- The Sexy Brutale
- The Stillness of the Wind
- The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse
- The Turing Test
- The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
- The Wild Eight
- Them's Fightin' Herds
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
- Tiny Echo
- TOEM
- TOEM
- Tokyo 42
- Tomb Raider
- Tower 57
- Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt
- TrailMakers
- Train Station Renovation
- Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
- Tropico 5
- Truberbrook / Trüberbrook
- TSIOQUE
- Tumblestone
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Turok
- Underhero
- Upside Down
- Valfaris
- ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
- Vane
- Verlet Swing
- Void Bastards
- Wandersong
- Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
- WARSAW
- Warstone TD
- We Were Here Together
- When The Past Was Around on Steam
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- Wildfire
- Witcher 1
- Wurm Unlimited x2
- WWE 2K Battlegrounds
- X-Morph: Defense
- XCOM 2
- Yoku's Island Express
- Yooka-Laylee
- Youropa
- Yuppie Psycho
- Zwei: The Arges Adventure
- Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
2023.06.08 01:29 SVNihilism Diablo Immortal Unironically Has a Better Base Game Than D4
This is going to be super hot take because DI is P2W garbage and a lot of more casual players are still in the honeymoon phase of D4, but if you play DI as a F2P, it has a ton of qualities that are outright better than D4. And I'm not defending DI here, I fundamentally think that the "game" exists just to farm money from people and it's an unethical abomination, but I still think it's fundamentally a better experience at release between the two games for these reasons:
I) Itemization
It has more, legendaries aren't just numbers go up, but they fundamentally change the skills to do different things. They also have way more builds for each class that are viable in all content.
II) Group Online Play
It's incredibly easy to play with other people in DI and meet people, the clan system is way more central to the game, and is a MUCH more social experience than D4 is. One of the criticisms of DI is that it's too group oriented, but D4 is essentially structured the same way in which the game seems to be designed around group play, it just doesn't have the features built in to make it accessible.
III) Dungeons
DI has very distinct dungeons, but there are far fewer. I would much rather run a DI dungeon 200 times than 200 D4 dungeons once. It's Quality over quantity.
IV) End Game
DI has way more to do in end game than D4 does, and that content is way more fun than things like helltides or bounties, even equal systems like raid bosses vs world bosses, DI does better. They have both the world boss aspect, but also premade group raid bosses that have scoreboards.
V) Combat
You're limited in skills just like D4, but combat is way more fluid and fun. Resource management is not janky and you're not playing around with generators/spenders as much. You can play any class and enjoy the leveling experience at all levels.
Honestly the only thing I can think of that D4 really does better (besides not being P2W trash) at current state is graphics and cinematics, but i don't play games for those reasons.
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I) Itemization
It has more, legendaries aren't just numbers go up, but they fundamentally change the skills to do different things. They also have way more builds for each class that are viable in all content.
II) Group Online Play
It's incredibly easy to play with other people in DI and meet people, the clan system is way more central to the game, and is a MUCH more social experience than D4 is. One of the criticisms of DI is that it's too group oriented, but D4 is essentially structured the same way in which the game seems to be designed around group play, it just doesn't have the features built in to make it accessible.
III) Dungeons
DI has very distinct dungeons, but there are far fewer. I would much rather run a DI dungeon 200 times than 200 D4 dungeons once. It's Quality over quantity.
IV) End Game
DI has way more to do in end game than D4 does, and that content is way more fun than things like helltides or bounties, even equal systems like raid bosses vs world bosses, DI does better. They have both the world boss aspect, but also premade group raid bosses that have scoreboards.
V) Combat
You're limited in skills just like D4, but combat is way more fluid and fun. Resource management is not janky and you're not playing around with generators/spenders as much. You can play any class and enjoy the leveling experience at all levels.
Honestly the only thing I can think of that D4 really does better (besides not being P2W trash) at current state is graphics and cinematics, but i don't play games for those reasons.
2023.06.08 00:39 Whoisraeen Heart of Ender [Roleplay] [semi-vanilla] [SMP] {1.19.4} {Plugins} {Java} {Bedrock} {Community} {Whitelist}
![Heart of Ender [Roleplay] [semi-vanilla] [SMP] {1.19.4} {Plugins} {Java} {Bedrock} {Community} {Whitelist}](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/-_4cZJYrYz6gmPBt2_YWZ5IcclF4UYoM08oWtlIlZDs.jpg "Heart of Ender [Roleplay] [semi-vanilla] [SMP] {1.19.4} {Plugins} {Java} {Bedrock} {Community} {Whitelist}") | https://preview.redd.it/y4f8tpdnbo4b1.png?width=3264&format=png&auto=webp&s=4afc6b116cd2a811ef683e968723899e08888520 submitted by Whoisraeen to MinecraftServerShare [link] [comments] We are currently working on building the largest Cross Platform (Java and Bedrock) MMORPG experience in Minecraft to date called Heart Of Ender. Our goal is to create a truly immersive and captivating gaming experience that transcends platforms and brings players together from different Minecraft versions. The development of this MMORPG server is in full swing, and we are looking for passionate volunteers to join our dedicated teams. We believe that collaboration and a shared vision are key to achieving our goals. As a member of one of our development teams, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a vast and rich Minecraft world filled with unique features such as:
Currently looking for members for each of the following teams:
Fill out our application form at https://forms.gle/jt2ByT7yHkkjQmmZ6 and provide accurate and detailed information about your experience, skills, and qualifications. Reach out to me on Discord (whoisraeen#3744) after completing the application to let me know you've submitted it. Our team will review all applications and reach out to qualified candidates for further discussions and potential interviews. We are eager to welcome talented developers like you to our team and embark on this exciting journey together. Join us as we shape our Minecraft MMORPG server into a world of endless possibilities and unforgettable adventures! Also Join the Discord https://discord.gg/c7SQb6pVVF if you wanna stay up to date or just play the game upon release! |
2023.06.08 00:37 Whoisraeen Heart of Ender [Roleplay] [semi-vanilla] [SMP] {1.19.4} {Plugins} {Java} {Bedrock} {Community} {Whitelist}
We are currently working on building the largest Cross Platform (Java and Bedrock) MMORPG experience in Minecraft to date called Heart Of Ender. Our goal is to create a truly immersive and captivating gaming experience that transcends platforms and brings players together from different Minecraft versions.
The development of this MMORPG server is in full swing, and we are looking for passionate volunteers to join our dedicated teams. We believe that collaboration and a shared vision are key to achieving our goals. As a member of one of our development teams, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a vast and rich Minecraft world filled with unique features such as:
Custom Mobs & Bosses
Custom Environments
Unique Landscapes: Floating Islands, Underwater Cities, Lava Caverns, Mineral Mountains
Custom Mobs: Lore-Aligned, Difficulty, Abilities, Drops
Custom Items: Weapons, Armor, Accessories, Consumables
Skill System: Acquire, Customize, Skill Trees
Navigation Aid: Mini-map, Waypoints, Terrain Features
Engaging Questline
Instanced Dungeons
Factions/Guilds
In-Game Economy
Social Spaces: Interaction, Chat, Parties
Cosmetic Customization
Progression System
Events and Bosses
Community Engagement
Small Group Dungeons
Robust Crafting
PvP/PvE Zones
Character Progression
PvP/PvE Gear Balance
Customization Plugins
Varied World Generation: Unique Environments
Flight Mechanics
PvP/PvE Encounters
Territory Claiming: Guilds
Tameable Pets/Mounts
Expanded Crafting/Economy
Rebirth System
Spiritual Cultivation
And more exciting features are yet to come!
Currently looking for members for each of the following teams:
The Quest Team is responsible for designing and implementing an engaging storyline with quests that progressively unveil the lore and narrative of the MMORPG. They create main quests and side quests for additional content and rewards.
The Dungeon Team is in charge of designing and developing instanced dungeons and instances. They create unique boss encounters, puzzles, traps, and valuable loot to encourage cooperative gameplay and team dynamics.
The Mob Team is responsible for designing custom mobs that align with the lore and themes of the MMORPG. They create mobs with varying difficulty levels, unique abilities, and drops that incentivize combat and exploration.
The World Building Team is tasked with crafting diverse and visually appealing environments using custom biomes and terrain generation plugins. They create unique landscapes that emulate distinct regions such as floating islands, underwater cities, lava-filled caverns, or mineral-rich mountains.
Dev Team 1 - Existing Plugins Game Mechanics handles the integration and customization of existing plugins to enhance the gameplay mechanics and features of the server. They ensure the smooth functioning of existing plugins and their compatibility with the server.
Dev Team 2 - Custom Plugin Game Mechanics is responsible for developing custom plugins to introduce unique gameplay mechanics and features to the server. They create plugins that align with the MMORPG concept and enhance the overall gaming experience.
The Items Designer Team is in charge of developing a wide range of custom items and gear that reflect the progression system and diverse playstyles of the MMORPG. They design weapons, armor, accessories, and consumables to provide players with a variety of options.
Additionally, the server is also looking for volunteers for the following teams:
The Economy Team is responsible for establishing and maintaining the in-game economy. They manage trading systems, auction houses, or player-owned shops to facilitate player-to-player transactions. They monitor and balance the economy to ensure a fair and rewarding experience for players.
The Community Team is focused on fostering an active and engaged player community. They manage forums, Discord servers, or in-game chat channels to encourage player interaction, gather feedback, organize community events, and address player concerns or suggestions.
The Cosmetics Team is tasked with creating and managing cosmetic customization options for players. They design character appearance customization, skins, and cosmetic items that allow players to personalize their characters and stand out in the world.
The Progression Team is responsible for designing and balancing the progression system of the MMORPG. They create a system where players earn experience points, level up, and unlock new content, skills, and abilities. They ensure a satisfying sense of character growth and achievement.
The Events Team organizes and coordinates regular events and world boss encounters. They create unique challenges, exclusive rewards, and global announcements to bring the community together for cooperative or competitive gameplay.
The PvP Team focuses on implementing and balancing player versus player (PvP) elements of the server. They design PvP zones, PvP-based quests, faction-based mechanics, and rewards for PvP victories. They ensure a balanced and engaging PvP experience.
The Technical Support Team provides technical assistance and troubleshooting for server-related issues. They handle server maintenance, performance optimization, and address any technical problems that arise.
The Lore Team is responsible for developing the lore and background story of the MMORPG. They work closely with the quest team to ensure a consistent and immersive narrative experience throughout the game
If you are passionate about Minecraft, love to collaborate, and have skills in development, game design, lore creation, or any other relevant areas, we would be thrilled to have you on board. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your talents, learn from a dedicated team, and be part of a groundbreaking Minecraft project.If you're interested in joining our development team, please follow these steps:
Fill out our application form at https://forms.gle/jt2ByT7yHkkjQmmZ6 and provide accurate and detailed information about your experience, skills, and qualifications.
Reach out to me on Discord (whoisraeen#3744) after completing the application to let me know you've submitted it.
Our team will review all applications and reach out to qualified candidates for further discussions and potential interviews.
We are eager to welcome talented developers like you to our team and embark on this exciting journey together. Join us as we shape our Minecraft MMORPG server into a world of endless possibilities and unforgettable adventures!
Also Join the Discord https://discord.gg/c7SQb6pVVF if you wanna stay up to date or just play the game upon release!
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The development of this MMORPG server is in full swing, and we are looking for passionate volunteers to join our dedicated teams. We believe that collaboration and a shared vision are key to achieving our goals. As a member of one of our development teams, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a vast and rich Minecraft world filled with unique features such as:
Custom Mobs & Bosses
Custom Environments
Unique Landscapes: Floating Islands, Underwater Cities, Lava Caverns, Mineral Mountains
Custom Mobs: Lore-Aligned, Difficulty, Abilities, Drops
Custom Items: Weapons, Armor, Accessories, Consumables
Skill System: Acquire, Customize, Skill Trees
Navigation Aid: Mini-map, Waypoints, Terrain Features
Engaging Questline
Instanced Dungeons
Factions/Guilds
In-Game Economy
Social Spaces: Interaction, Chat, Parties
Cosmetic Customization
Progression System
Events and Bosses
Community Engagement
Small Group Dungeons
Robust Crafting
PvP/PvE Zones
Character Progression
PvP/PvE Gear Balance
Customization Plugins
Varied World Generation: Unique Environments
Flight Mechanics
PvP/PvE Encounters
Territory Claiming: Guilds
Tameable Pets/Mounts
Expanded Crafting/Economy
Rebirth System
Spiritual Cultivation
And more exciting features are yet to come!
Currently looking for members for each of the following teams:
The Quest Team is responsible for designing and implementing an engaging storyline with quests that progressively unveil the lore and narrative of the MMORPG. They create main quests and side quests for additional content and rewards.
The Dungeon Team is in charge of designing and developing instanced dungeons and instances. They create unique boss encounters, puzzles, traps, and valuable loot to encourage cooperative gameplay and team dynamics.
The Mob Team is responsible for designing custom mobs that align with the lore and themes of the MMORPG. They create mobs with varying difficulty levels, unique abilities, and drops that incentivize combat and exploration.
The World Building Team is tasked with crafting diverse and visually appealing environments using custom biomes and terrain generation plugins. They create unique landscapes that emulate distinct regions such as floating islands, underwater cities, lava-filled caverns, or mineral-rich mountains.
Dev Team 1 - Existing Plugins Game Mechanics handles the integration and customization of existing plugins to enhance the gameplay mechanics and features of the server. They ensure the smooth functioning of existing plugins and their compatibility with the server.
Dev Team 2 - Custom Plugin Game Mechanics is responsible for developing custom plugins to introduce unique gameplay mechanics and features to the server. They create plugins that align with the MMORPG concept and enhance the overall gaming experience.
The Items Designer Team is in charge of developing a wide range of custom items and gear that reflect the progression system and diverse playstyles of the MMORPG. They design weapons, armor, accessories, and consumables to provide players with a variety of options.
Additionally, the server is also looking for volunteers for the following teams:
The Economy Team is responsible for establishing and maintaining the in-game economy. They manage trading systems, auction houses, or player-owned shops to facilitate player-to-player transactions. They monitor and balance the economy to ensure a fair and rewarding experience for players.
The Community Team is focused on fostering an active and engaged player community. They manage forums, Discord servers, or in-game chat channels to encourage player interaction, gather feedback, organize community events, and address player concerns or suggestions.
The Cosmetics Team is tasked with creating and managing cosmetic customization options for players. They design character appearance customization, skins, and cosmetic items that allow players to personalize their characters and stand out in the world.
The Progression Team is responsible for designing and balancing the progression system of the MMORPG. They create a system where players earn experience points, level up, and unlock new content, skills, and abilities. They ensure a satisfying sense of character growth and achievement.
The Events Team organizes and coordinates regular events and world boss encounters. They create unique challenges, exclusive rewards, and global announcements to bring the community together for cooperative or competitive gameplay.
The PvP Team focuses on implementing and balancing player versus player (PvP) elements of the server. They design PvP zones, PvP-based quests, faction-based mechanics, and rewards for PvP victories. They ensure a balanced and engaging PvP experience.
The Technical Support Team provides technical assistance and troubleshooting for server-related issues. They handle server maintenance, performance optimization, and address any technical problems that arise.
The Lore Team is responsible for developing the lore and background story of the MMORPG. They work closely with the quest team to ensure a consistent and immersive narrative experience throughout the game
If you are passionate about Minecraft, love to collaborate, and have skills in development, game design, lore creation, or any other relevant areas, we would be thrilled to have you on board. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your talents, learn from a dedicated team, and be part of a groundbreaking Minecraft project.If you're interested in joining our development team, please follow these steps:
Fill out our application form at https://forms.gle/jt2ByT7yHkkjQmmZ6 and provide accurate and detailed information about your experience, skills, and qualifications.
Reach out to me on Discord (whoisraeen#3744) after completing the application to let me know you've submitted it.
Our team will review all applications and reach out to qualified candidates for further discussions and potential interviews.
We are eager to welcome talented developers like you to our team and embark on this exciting journey together. Join us as we shape our Minecraft MMORPG server into a world of endless possibilities and unforgettable adventures!
Also Join the Discord https://discord.gg/c7SQb6pVVF if you wanna stay up to date or just play the game upon release!
2023.06.08 00:31 Whoisraeen Heart of Ender [Semi-vanilla][Modded][Roleplay][SMP] {Custom Plugins}{MMORPG}{Whitelist}{18+}
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We are currently working on building the largest Cross Platform (Java and Bedrock) MMORPG experience in Minecraft to date called Heart Of Ender. Our goal is to create a truly immersive and captivating gaming experience that transcends platforms and brings players together from different Minecraft versions.
The development of this MMORPG server is in full swing, and we are looking for passionate volunteers to join our dedicated teams. We believe that collaboration and a shared vision are key to achieving our goals. As a member of one of our development teams, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a vast and rich Minecraft world filled with unique features such as:
Currently looking for members for each of the following teams:
Fill out our application form at https://forms.gle/jt2ByT7yHkkjQmmZ6 and provide accurate and detailed information about your experience, skills, and qualifications.
Reach out to me on Discord (whoisraeen#3744) after completing the application to let me know you've submitted it.
Our team will review all applications and reach out to qualified candidates for further discussions and potential interviews.
We are eager to welcome talented developers like you to our team and embark on this exciting journey together. Join us as we shape our Minecraft MMORPG server into a world of endless possibilities and unforgettable adventures!
Also Join the Discord https://discord.gg/c7SQb6pVVF if you wanna stay up to date or just play the game upon release!
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We are currently working on building the largest Cross Platform (Java and Bedrock) MMORPG experience in Minecraft to date called Heart Of Ender. Our goal is to create a truly immersive and captivating gaming experience that transcends platforms and brings players together from different Minecraft versions.
The development of this MMORPG server is in full swing, and we are looking for passionate volunteers to join our dedicated teams. We believe that collaboration and a shared vision are key to achieving our goals. As a member of one of our development teams, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a vast and rich Minecraft world filled with unique features such as:
- Custom Mobs & Bosses
- Custom Environments
- Unique Landscapes: Floating Islands, Underwater Cities, Lava Caverns, Mineral Mountains
- Custom Mobs: Lore-Aligned, Difficulty, Abilities, Drops
- Custom Items: Weapons, Armor, Accessories, Consumables
- Skill System: Acquire, Customize, Skill Trees
- Navigation Aid: Mini-map, Waypoints, Terrain Features
- Engaging Questline
- Instanced Dungeons
- Factions/Guilds
- In-Game Economy
- Social Spaces: Interaction, Chat, Parties
- Cosmetic Customization
- Progression System
- Events and Bosses
- Community Engagement
- Small Group Dungeons
- Robust Crafting
- PvP/PvE Zones
- Character Progression
- PvP/PvE Gear Balance
- Customization Plugins
- Varied World Generation: Unique Environments
- Flight Mechanics
- PvP/PvE Encounters
- Territory Claiming: Guilds
- Tameable Pets/Mounts
- Expanded Crafting/Economy
- Rebirth System
- Spiritual Cultivation
Currently looking for members for each of the following teams:
- The Quest Team is responsible for designing and implementing an engaging storyline with quests that progressively unveil the lore and narrative of the MMORPG. They create main quests and side quests for additional content and rewards.
- The Dungeon Team is in charge of designing and developing instanced dungeons and instances. They create unique boss encounters, puzzles, traps, and valuable loot to encourage cooperative gameplay and team dynamics.
- The Mob Team is responsible for designing custom mobs that align with the lore and themes of the MMORPG. They create mobs with varying difficulty levels, unique abilities, and drops that incentivize combat and exploration.
- The World Building Team is tasked with crafting diverse and visually appealing environments using custom biomes and terrain generation plugins. They create unique landscapes that emulate distinct regions such as floating islands, underwater cities, lava-filled caverns, or mineral-rich mountains.
- Dev Team 1 - Existing Plugins Game Mechanics handles the integration and customization of existing plugins to enhance the gameplay mechanics and features of the server. They ensure the smooth functioning of existing plugins and their compatibility with the server.
- Dev Team 2 - Custom Plugin Game Mechanics is responsible for developing custom plugins to introduce unique gameplay mechanics and features to the server. They create plugins that align with the MMORPG concept and enhance the overall gaming experience.
- The Items Designer Team is in charge of developing a wide range of custom items and gear that reflect the progression system and diverse playstyles of the MMORPG. They design weapons, armor, accessories, and consumables to provide players with a variety of options.
- The Economy Team is responsible for establishing and maintaining the in-game economy. They manage trading systems, auction houses, or player-owned shops to facilitate player-to-player transactions. They monitor and balance the economy to ensure a fair and rewarding experience for players.
- The Community Team is focused on fostering an active and engaged player community. They manage forums, Discord servers, or in-game chat channels to encourage player interaction, gather feedback, organize community events, and address player concerns or suggestions.
- The Cosmetics Team is tasked with creating and managing cosmetic customization options for players. They design character appearance customization, skins, and cosmetic items that allow players to personalize their characters and stand out in the world.
- The Progression Team is responsible for designing and balancing the progression system of the MMORPG. They create a system where players earn experience points, level up, and unlock new content, skills, and abilities. They ensure a satisfying sense of character growth and achievement.
- The Events Team organizes and coordinates regular events and world boss encounters. They create unique challenges, exclusive rewards, and global announcements to bring the community together for cooperative or competitive gameplay.
- The PvP Team focuses on implementing and balancing player versus player (PvP) elements of the server. They design PvP zones, PvP-based quests, faction-based mechanics, and rewards for PvP victories. They ensure a balanced and engaging PvP experience.
- The Technical Support Team provides technical assistance and troubleshooting for server-related issues. They handle server maintenance, performance optimization, and address any technical problems that arise.
- The Lore Team is responsible for developing the lore and background story of the MMORPG. They work closely with the quest team to ensure a consistent and immersive narrative experience throughout the game
Fill out our application form at https://forms.gle/jt2ByT7yHkkjQmmZ6 and provide accurate and detailed information about your experience, skills, and qualifications.
Reach out to me on Discord (whoisraeen#3744) after completing the application to let me know you've submitted it.
Our team will review all applications and reach out to qualified candidates for further discussions and potential interviews.
We are eager to welcome talented developers like you to our team and embark on this exciting journey together. Join us as we shape our Minecraft MMORPG server into a world of endless possibilities and unforgettable adventures!
Also Join the Discord https://discord.gg/c7SQb6pVVF if you wanna stay up to date or just play the game upon release!
2023.06.08 00:30 JeliPuff Felix Vail: The Pedophile Serial Killer Caught After 54 Years (PART 1)
Yesterday I had multiple people ask me to post this, and their comment has 552 likes at the time of me writing this, so I have spent the last day and a half editing, and adding information so it's up to standard. Overall, it has taken me close to a week to make. It probably isn't perfect, but I will edit it if I notice any mistakes. I hope you enjoy ❤
I would like to start this off by saying that this is an incredibly long write-up. This case spans 54 years, and this write-up is over 8650 words long, and is in fact so long that it exceeded the character limit, forcing me to make 2 parts. u/that1guywiththehat has already covered this case, and their write-up is much shorter. I will link it here, and you can check it out if you'd like. They did a fantastic job. 😊
https://www.reddit.com/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/g3wqcc/after_18yearold_annette_craver_vail_vanishes/
Secondly, this write-up borrows EXTENSIVELY from "Gone," a 35,500 word book about the life and crimes of Felix Vail. It contains information that you simply cannot find anywhere else, and I'd estimate that around 80% of this write-up uses it's information. While it's extremely long, being over 4 times the length of this write-up, it is well worth the read. I will also link it here so you can check it out if you'd like.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/felixvailgone/2016/12/29/felix-vail-gone-one-wife-dead-two-other-missing-jerry-mitchell/95895894/
Now with that out of the way...
Born on the 16th of February 1940 to Floyd and Lillie Horton, Mary was popular, beautiful, and well liked. She became homecoming queen at Eunice High School and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduating she began attending McNeese State University where she was so popular that all 5 sororities invited her to join. She eventually chose Chi Omega.
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(Mary Horton from 1957, as Eunice High School homecoming queen.)
A FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
In 1960 she began dating William Felix Vail Sr, who goes by Felix. He was 6’, slender and in the words of another sorority girl “looked like he’d been touched by heaven.” In her diaries and messages to friends, Mary spoke of being happy and excited. However, not everything was sunshine and rainbows for the young couple.
On June 20th, 1960, Mary confided in a friend “I really do love Felix, but I don’t think that I like him anymore. He really is sweet, but we don’t see eye to eye on things.” She requested that a friend set her up on a date with another man in the hopes that Felix would leave her.
In response to this date, he came to Mary saying he suffered from a disease. She asked what disease he had. He meant Mary.
The 2 had a conversation that Mary described as ‘Felix doing all the talking, and her just listening.’ He told her that he had changed, and she said that she had too.
The 2 began dating again, but Mary continued to see other people. She attended a house party with Kelley McFarland, who afterwards heard that Vail was so angry he ‘wanted to kill him.’ McFarland tracked him down, eventually meeting him in dark woods. The 2 exchanged no blows, and they went their separate ways.
After this incident, Mary described herself as “miserable” and Felix as “jealous”, although she reiterated her love for him. There was reportedly an incident at a pool party where Felix “walked up to Mary and just slapped the heck out of her,” according to Mary’s high school boyfriend Leonard Matt.
Despite everything, Mary continued to defend him, calling him a “wonderful person.”
THE MARRIAGE
On July 1, 1961, in Eunice, Louisiana, Mary Horton and Felix Vail got married.
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(Mary Horton in her wedding dress, July 1st, 1961.)
In the fall of that year, Mary began her job as a second-grade teacher at Moss Bluff Elementary School. That December, she found out she was pregnant. Another teacher, Myrtis Quinilty said Felix didn’t want a child.
Her sister-in-law, Sue Jordan, told Mary the only reason Vail believed she wanted to get married was to have a baby, and not because of him. Mary blamed herself, saying “I can see, looking back, from many things I said how they could have been misunderstood.” Mary insisted that the couple were happy but did comment on how unattractive she felt while pregnant, a sentiment that Felix shared.
On their anniversary, Mary gave birth to William Felix Vail Jr, who they called Bill.
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(Mary holding Bill in 1962)
Within a month, Mary suspected that she may be pregnant again. At this time, strange things began to happen in the couple’s apartment. One morning, the couple awoke to find their front door had been removed from its hinges. Another time, they found the front door of their apartment wide open. Nothing was stolen.
Mary began receiving threatening calls. The couple concluded that whoever was calling must be watching them because the caller only ever did it when Felix wasn’t home.
Mary spoke with her mother about divorcing Felix. Her mother, a devout Catholic, urged her daughter to stay and work things out. It would be a fatal mistake.
MARY'S DEATH
On October 28th, 1962, at 7:30pm, Felix Vail drove up to Shell Beach saying that his wife had fallen in the water of the Calcasieu River while they were running trot lines. It took 2 days to find her body, close to where Vail had said she disappeared.
Her funeral was held on October 31st. Vail never paid a cent for it.
On November 4th deputies arrested Vail at work, hauling him to jail and questioning him. He refused to take a lie detector test. The coroner ruled Mary’s death an “accidental drowning,” a sentiment not shared by the officers who found her body, or the community at large. Days later, Vail was released without charge, as the D.A declined to prosecute.
Months later, he picked up his son, Bill, from the Louisiana home of his late wife’s aunt and headed for Mississippi. According to Bill years later, Vail told him that he and Mary were out fishing, that a boat had come by and caused a big wave and knocked her out of the boat. Mary didn’t know how to swim, had no life jacket (despite being afraid of water) and so immediately sank and drowned. He said he had almost died trying to rescue her.
I will go further in depth into Mary’s death further down this write-up when I go through the investigation that followed, decades later. There are more details that I will cover there.
ROBIN SINCLAIR:
In this section I will cover his relationship with a girlfriend between the murders of Mary Horton and Sharon Hensley. Vail was a full-time scumbag and I want to illustrate that, as well as show some of the other lives he’s impacted, and other people he’s hurt. I will be covering multiple instances like this one. If you only want to read about the 3 murder victims, feel free to scroll down, I have them clearly marked for convenience.
AN 11 YEAR AGE GAP AND A DEAD-BEAT DAD
In 1967, Vail met a 17-year-old Robin Sinclair at a bus stop in San Diego. (Vail would have been 28 at this time. Large age gaps will be a theme in this write up.) She was spending the summer there with her sister, and the 2 began dating. When summer break ended, she left without him, returning home to San Francisco.
In October of 1968 while attending an Iron Butterflies concert, Vail appeared again. Sinclair took it as a sign that the 2 belonged together. He had his young son Bill, and the 3 bounced from place to place together. Sinclair would later describe how Bill was poorly looked after, neglected and that Vail would even give the young boy drugs. Bill would later recount his father giving him LSD as a child.
While watching over another couple’s home during the Christmas holidays, she learned she was pregnant and shared the news with Vail. He said, “Well, I don’t think you’re emotionally stable enough to handle the pregnancy.” The next morning, Vail and his young son had vanished. A friend told Sinclair that he went back to Mississippi, that it was time for his son to go to school and that he didn’t want to be with her.
Heartbroken, Sinclair would move in with her parents. In August of 1969 she gave birth to her daughter, who she named Simone. She wrote Vail an angry letter, and 2 months later he showed up on her doorstep. She told him to leave, and that she never wanted to see him again. She never did.
Sharon Hensley was born on December 20th, 1948. Growing up in the state capital of Bismarck, North Dakota, she dated football players and belonged to the high school’s 'Demonettes', an award-winning dance team founded by a former Rockette.
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(A photo of Sharon Hensley.)
She graduated in 1966, and attended Bismarck Junior College, where she took classes in dance and acting, performing in a play with her older brother, Frank.
In 1967, aged 19, Sharon discovered she was pregnant. Wanting to escape her hometown, she followed her brother Frank and other classmates to San Francisco. After arriving, she stayed in a home for single mothers, where she gave birth to a girl she named “Cherry” after the popular Neil Diamond song. She told friends she wanted to keep the child but was unable to. Two years after leaving for California, Sharon was in jail and her mother, Peggy, headed there with a $5,000 cashier’s check to bail her out. When she returned, Sharon wasn’t with her.
“She said she had lost her daughter,” her younger brother Brian would later say. “She cried almost every night. She was never the same after that.”
MEETING VAIL
While house-sitting in a high-rise apartment, Vail would meet his future girlfriend, Sharon. She was 20, and attractive, having even modeled in her teens. They became friends, and then started a relationship despite the 10-year age gap.
While hitchhiking across California, Vail would confess to Hensley that he had killed Mary, something his son Bill overheard. Because of this, Bill would later go to the police to report his own father for murder. The police at first didn’t believe Bill, but after camping out on the front steps, one detective listened. He told the detective that he was hungry, tired of using the drugs his father gave him, that he wanted to go back to school, live like other kids, and that he had overheard his father admit to killing his mother.
At a beach along the Merced River, police found his father and Hensley, carrying a bag of LSD capsules. Police charged the couple with LSD possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Vail received a six-month jail sentence, plus three years’ probation, after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of LSD possession.
California police shared their information with Louisiana authorities. Once again, the district attorney in Lake Charles once again passed on prosecuting Vail for murder. Another fatal mistake.
Bill returned to Mississippi to live with his grandparents, who then gained full custody. On January 23rd, 1971, Vail and Sharon showed up in the driveway. Bill thought Vail was there to kill him, and his grandmother had to reassure him that he was safe.
The father and son eventually sat down and had a talk. Vail told Bill that he didn’t blame him for the time he spent in prison, but instead blamed Sharon, which the young boy found strange because “she had nothing to do with it.”
The family wondered how the couple could even legally be in Mississippi if they were supposed to be on probation in California. They couldn’t. After a visit from the Sheriff, the 2 were smuggled out of town and given enough money to get back to the West Coast.
In the Summer of 1972, the couple appeared unannounced at Sharon’s childhood home in Bismarck. The more the family saw of the couple, the more horrified they became. Sharon wore a mini skirt with no panties and had armpit hair and leg hair "like a man." She had been losing weight and losing clumps of hair.
Her younger brother Brian said it felt like his sister had been brainwashed. If someone asked her a question, “either Felix would answer the question for her, or she would look at Felix while she was giving the answer.”
The couple left then North Dakota and traveled to Mississippi, where they stayed with Vail’s family. On the dairy farm the family owned, they helped paint the home. The couple also sunbathed in the nude, drawing the ire of neighbors.
Peggy Hensley received a telephone call from Sharon, who said she and Vail were heading to New Orleans and then to Miami to make pornographic films. She believed it was a cry for help as “what daughter tells her mother she’s going to do a porno?” Sharon’s parents wanted to travel down to get their daughter back but couldn’t. (The 2 did end up shooting pornographic scenes together, but I won’t get into any of that.)
In early 1973, Sharon called and talked of traveling to South America with Vail, where they would eat natural foods and write a book. It was the last conversation the family would ever have with her. Soon after, she would send her final letter. It contained a photo of her holding a pen, captioned “making travel notes.” It was the last picture ever taken of Sharon Hensley.
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(The last photo ever taken of Sharon.)
THE DISAPPEARANCE
In March of 1974, Peggy received a letter from Vail, claiming he was in West Florida. He wrote that he last saw Sharon about a year before in Key West, with an Australian couple that was traveling around the world. All he recalled was the first names of the couple (John and Vanessa), who were talking with Sharon about “island hopping around South America, the West Indies, --- Hawaii for a while, maybe a couple of years in the Philippines, then India, Egypt and the Mediterranean islands and coasts. I don’t know which of these (if any) they decided on or in what order.” Peggy didn't believe a word of it.
In the fall of 1975, Vail’s mother wrote to the Hensley family, saying that her son was surprised the family hadn’t heard from Sharon during that time. Interestingly, Vail told his mother the names of the couple that Sharon left with were Frank and Sally, different names than he had given a year earlier. Vail explained to his mother that before Sharon left, she had burned all her identification cards, got new IDs, and declared that she would become a completely different person.
Bill recalled his father mentioning Sharon. “He said she would never bother anyone ever again.” The words upset Bill, who believed his father had just confessed to another murder. “There was not a soul I could tell about it because I had had my experience in court when I was 8, no one would believe me. It would be my word against his, and no one would believe a 13-year-old.”
SHARON CAMPBELL:
I want to talk about this relationship because of the egregious age difference. For reference, Campbell is only 4 years older than Vail’s son.
While riding a bus to north Mississippi in 1975, Vail sat next to 17-year-old Sharon Campbell. Despite being literally twice her age, he commented on how fit she looked, saying "he needed someone like her to keep him fit." In spite of this, she felt flattered and shared her telephone number with him. Not long after she got home, Vail appeared in a yellow Volkswagen bug.
Vail said he wanted Campbell to travel with him, and she told him the only way her parents would allow it was if they got married.
On July 24, 1975, they did, honeymooning in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
In court years later, she would tell prosecutors that they never consummated the marriage because “he was unable to obtain an erection.” (This isn’t relevant, I just wanted to include it out of spite because fuck this guy.)
Several weeks later, she went with Vail to visit his relatives in Louisiana. There, she said a niece told her, “You probably need to know that he killed his first wife --- they arrested him. We all believed that he did it, he drowned her out of a boat.”
Campbell didn't believe them, telling herself that he would be in prison if he was a murderer. But as the months passed by, she concluded that he “had no value in the female gender,” and that “he hated women.”
She later traveled with Vail to his parents’ home in Montpelier. While there, he was outdoors working on the Volkswagen and Campbell walked closer without him noticing. He opened a compartment, and she said she saw “sinister, surgical looking saws of all shapes and sizes in a neat formation.” To her, the sight screamed evil. “It scared me. I said, ‘I’m not going anywhere with you.’” She left, annulled the marriage, and never looked back. It was likely the best decision she ever made.
After the divorce he would marry a woman named Carolyn in 1977. The relationship would end after he cheated on her with a woman named Alexandra Christianson during a double date. When Carolyn called Vail’s mother and asked her if the behavior surprised her, she simply replied “no.”
After being served the divorce papers, Vail smashed his car into her MGB Sports Car. A month later he would call her saying “I love you.” She did not reciprocate. She would later describe Vail as “mentally deranged.”
ALEXANDRA CHRISTIANSON:
Alexandra is the woman Vail cheated on Carolyn with. She eventually got married to him in Mexico after he officially divorced Carolyn. Not long after their marriage, she heard that Vail was cheating on her.
After a motorcycle accident, he came to rest up at her condo in Costa Mesa, where she confronted him about the cheating. He reportedly got agitated and said, “you know my first wife died.” When she replied saying he’d told her she drowned, Vail shot back “I could have saved her, but I chose not to.”
After telling him to leave, she went to have a shower. While in the shower, Vail attacked her, wrapping his hands around her neck. Hearing her screams, Alexandra’s young brother came in, grabbing Vail and forcing him to the ground. Vail then left.
Soon after this, she found out she was pregnant. The child was still-born, and Alexandra was heart-broken. She would later lead important investigators to witnesses that were used in Vail's eventual trial.
In part 2, I will cover Vail's final victim Annette Craver, and the lengths her mother went to to finally secure justice.
Here is Part 2:
https://www.reddit.com/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/143riqi/felix_vail_the_pedophile_serial_killer_caught/
MY SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/8284?nav
https://charleyproject.org/case/annette-michelle-craver-vail
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/felixvailgone/2016/12/29/felix-vail-gone-one-wife-dead-two-other-missing-jerry-mitchell/95895894/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5796622/mary-elizabeth-vail
https://charleyproject.org/case/sharon-hensley
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/20525?nav
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I would like to start this off by saying that this is an incredibly long write-up. This case spans 54 years, and this write-up is over 8650 words long, and is in fact so long that it exceeded the character limit, forcing me to make 2 parts. u/that1guywiththehat has already covered this case, and their write-up is much shorter. I will link it here, and you can check it out if you'd like. They did a fantastic job. 😊
https://www.reddit.com/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/g3wqcc/after_18yearold_annette_craver_vail_vanishes/
Secondly, this write-up borrows EXTENSIVELY from "Gone," a 35,500 word book about the life and crimes of Felix Vail. It contains information that you simply cannot find anywhere else, and I'd estimate that around 80% of this write-up uses it's information. While it's extremely long, being over 4 times the length of this write-up, it is well worth the read. I will also link it here so you can check it out if you'd like.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/felixvailgone/2016/12/29/felix-vail-gone-one-wife-dead-two-other-missing-jerry-mitchell/95895894/
Now with that out of the way...
PART 1:
MARY HORTON:
Born on the 16th of February 1940 to Floyd and Lillie Horton, Mary was popular, beautiful, and well liked. She became homecoming queen at Eunice High School and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduating she began attending McNeese State University where she was so popular that all 5 sororities invited her to join. She eventually chose Chi Omega.
https://www.clarionledger.com/gcdn/-mm-/d313713be82928fb5c54a52348e9f0b6fbe9ca88/c=0-232-3288-4617/local/-/media/2016/12/27/JacksonMS/JacksonMS/636184665129485321-mary-horton-0001.jpg?width=300&height=401&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
(Mary Horton from 1957, as Eunice High School homecoming queen.)
A FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
In 1960 she began dating William Felix Vail Sr, who goes by Felix. He was 6’, slender and in the words of another sorority girl “looked like he’d been touched by heaven.” In her diaries and messages to friends, Mary spoke of being happy and excited. However, not everything was sunshine and rainbows for the young couple.
On June 20th, 1960, Mary confided in a friend “I really do love Felix, but I don’t think that I like him anymore. He really is sweet, but we don’t see eye to eye on things.” She requested that a friend set her up on a date with another man in the hopes that Felix would leave her.
In response to this date, he came to Mary saying he suffered from a disease. She asked what disease he had. He meant Mary.
The 2 had a conversation that Mary described as ‘Felix doing all the talking, and her just listening.’ He told her that he had changed, and she said that she had too.
The 2 began dating again, but Mary continued to see other people. She attended a house party with Kelley McFarland, who afterwards heard that Vail was so angry he ‘wanted to kill him.’ McFarland tracked him down, eventually meeting him in dark woods. The 2 exchanged no blows, and they went their separate ways.
After this incident, Mary described herself as “miserable” and Felix as “jealous”, although she reiterated her love for him. There was reportedly an incident at a pool party where Felix “walked up to Mary and just slapped the heck out of her,” according to Mary’s high school boyfriend Leonard Matt.
Despite everything, Mary continued to defend him, calling him a “wonderful person.”
THE MARRIAGE
On July 1, 1961, in Eunice, Louisiana, Mary Horton and Felix Vail got married.
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(Mary Horton in her wedding dress, July 1st, 1961.)
In the fall of that year, Mary began her job as a second-grade teacher at Moss Bluff Elementary School. That December, she found out she was pregnant. Another teacher, Myrtis Quinilty said Felix didn’t want a child.
Her sister-in-law, Sue Jordan, told Mary the only reason Vail believed she wanted to get married was to have a baby, and not because of him. Mary blamed herself, saying “I can see, looking back, from many things I said how they could have been misunderstood.” Mary insisted that the couple were happy but did comment on how unattractive she felt while pregnant, a sentiment that Felix shared.
On their anniversary, Mary gave birth to William Felix Vail Jr, who they called Bill.
https://www.clarionledger.com/gcdn/-mm-/c701d4cdc0e5ff127e79b575a1c137adfa57d585/c=0-0-180-240/local/-/media/2016/12/28/JacksonMS/JacksonMS/636185195986996911-TCLBrd-08-11-2016-ClarionLedger-1-A001-2016-08-10-IMG-636047953682196834-M-1-1-G0FAJ00I-L860703094-IMG-636047953682196834-M-1-1-G0FAJ00I.jpg?width=180&height=240&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
(Mary holding Bill in 1962)
Within a month, Mary suspected that she may be pregnant again. At this time, strange things began to happen in the couple’s apartment. One morning, the couple awoke to find their front door had been removed from its hinges. Another time, they found the front door of their apartment wide open. Nothing was stolen.
Mary began receiving threatening calls. The couple concluded that whoever was calling must be watching them because the caller only ever did it when Felix wasn’t home.
Mary spoke with her mother about divorcing Felix. Her mother, a devout Catholic, urged her daughter to stay and work things out. It would be a fatal mistake.
MARY'S DEATH
On October 28th, 1962, at 7:30pm, Felix Vail drove up to Shell Beach saying that his wife had fallen in the water of the Calcasieu River while they were running trot lines. It took 2 days to find her body, close to where Vail had said she disappeared.
Her funeral was held on October 31st. Vail never paid a cent for it.
On November 4th deputies arrested Vail at work, hauling him to jail and questioning him. He refused to take a lie detector test. The coroner ruled Mary’s death an “accidental drowning,” a sentiment not shared by the officers who found her body, or the community at large. Days later, Vail was released without charge, as the D.A declined to prosecute.
Months later, he picked up his son, Bill, from the Louisiana home of his late wife’s aunt and headed for Mississippi. According to Bill years later, Vail told him that he and Mary were out fishing, that a boat had come by and caused a big wave and knocked her out of the boat. Mary didn’t know how to swim, had no life jacket (despite being afraid of water) and so immediately sank and drowned. He said he had almost died trying to rescue her.
I will go further in depth into Mary’s death further down this write-up when I go through the investigation that followed, decades later. There are more details that I will cover there.
ROBIN SINCLAIR:
In this section I will cover his relationship with a girlfriend between the murders of Mary Horton and Sharon Hensley. Vail was a full-time scumbag and I want to illustrate that, as well as show some of the other lives he’s impacted, and other people he’s hurt. I will be covering multiple instances like this one. If you only want to read about the 3 murder victims, feel free to scroll down, I have them clearly marked for convenience.
AN 11 YEAR AGE GAP AND A DEAD-BEAT DAD
In 1967, Vail met a 17-year-old Robin Sinclair at a bus stop in San Diego. (Vail would have been 28 at this time. Large age gaps will be a theme in this write up.) She was spending the summer there with her sister, and the 2 began dating. When summer break ended, she left without him, returning home to San Francisco.
In October of 1968 while attending an Iron Butterflies concert, Vail appeared again. Sinclair took it as a sign that the 2 belonged together. He had his young son Bill, and the 3 bounced from place to place together. Sinclair would later describe how Bill was poorly looked after, neglected and that Vail would even give the young boy drugs. Bill would later recount his father giving him LSD as a child.
While watching over another couple’s home during the Christmas holidays, she learned she was pregnant and shared the news with Vail. He said, “Well, I don’t think you’re emotionally stable enough to handle the pregnancy.” The next morning, Vail and his young son had vanished. A friend told Sinclair that he went back to Mississippi, that it was time for his son to go to school and that he didn’t want to be with her.
Heartbroken, Sinclair would move in with her parents. In August of 1969 she gave birth to her daughter, who she named Simone. She wrote Vail an angry letter, and 2 months later he showed up on her doorstep. She told him to leave, and that she never wanted to see him again. She never did.
SHARON HENSLEY:
Sharon Hensley was born on December 20th, 1948. Growing up in the state capital of Bismarck, North Dakota, she dated football players and belonged to the high school’s 'Demonettes', an award-winning dance team founded by a former Rockette.
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(A photo of Sharon Hensley.)
She graduated in 1966, and attended Bismarck Junior College, where she took classes in dance and acting, performing in a play with her older brother, Frank.
In 1967, aged 19, Sharon discovered she was pregnant. Wanting to escape her hometown, she followed her brother Frank and other classmates to San Francisco. After arriving, she stayed in a home for single mothers, where she gave birth to a girl she named “Cherry” after the popular Neil Diamond song. She told friends she wanted to keep the child but was unable to. Two years after leaving for California, Sharon was in jail and her mother, Peggy, headed there with a $5,000 cashier’s check to bail her out. When she returned, Sharon wasn’t with her.
“She said she had lost her daughter,” her younger brother Brian would later say. “She cried almost every night. She was never the same after that.”
MEETING VAIL
While house-sitting in a high-rise apartment, Vail would meet his future girlfriend, Sharon. She was 20, and attractive, having even modeled in her teens. They became friends, and then started a relationship despite the 10-year age gap.
While hitchhiking across California, Vail would confess to Hensley that he had killed Mary, something his son Bill overheard. Because of this, Bill would later go to the police to report his own father for murder. The police at first didn’t believe Bill, but after camping out on the front steps, one detective listened. He told the detective that he was hungry, tired of using the drugs his father gave him, that he wanted to go back to school, live like other kids, and that he had overheard his father admit to killing his mother.
At a beach along the Merced River, police found his father and Hensley, carrying a bag of LSD capsules. Police charged the couple with LSD possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Vail received a six-month jail sentence, plus three years’ probation, after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of LSD possession.
California police shared their information with Louisiana authorities. Once again, the district attorney in Lake Charles once again passed on prosecuting Vail for murder. Another fatal mistake.
Bill returned to Mississippi to live with his grandparents, who then gained full custody. On January 23rd, 1971, Vail and Sharon showed up in the driveway. Bill thought Vail was there to kill him, and his grandmother had to reassure him that he was safe.
The father and son eventually sat down and had a talk. Vail told Bill that he didn’t blame him for the time he spent in prison, but instead blamed Sharon, which the young boy found strange because “she had nothing to do with it.”
The family wondered how the couple could even legally be in Mississippi if they were supposed to be on probation in California. They couldn’t. After a visit from the Sheriff, the 2 were smuggled out of town and given enough money to get back to the West Coast.
In the Summer of 1972, the couple appeared unannounced at Sharon’s childhood home in Bismarck. The more the family saw of the couple, the more horrified they became. Sharon wore a mini skirt with no panties and had armpit hair and leg hair "like a man." She had been losing weight and losing clumps of hair.
Her younger brother Brian said it felt like his sister had been brainwashed. If someone asked her a question, “either Felix would answer the question for her, or she would look at Felix while she was giving the answer.”
The couple left then North Dakota and traveled to Mississippi, where they stayed with Vail’s family. On the dairy farm the family owned, they helped paint the home. The couple also sunbathed in the nude, drawing the ire of neighbors.
Peggy Hensley received a telephone call from Sharon, who said she and Vail were heading to New Orleans and then to Miami to make pornographic films. She believed it was a cry for help as “what daughter tells her mother she’s going to do a porno?” Sharon’s parents wanted to travel down to get their daughter back but couldn’t. (The 2 did end up shooting pornographic scenes together, but I won’t get into any of that.)
In early 1973, Sharon called and talked of traveling to South America with Vail, where they would eat natural foods and write a book. It was the last conversation the family would ever have with her. Soon after, she would send her final letter. It contained a photo of her holding a pen, captioned “making travel notes.” It was the last picture ever taken of Sharon Hensley.
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(The last photo ever taken of Sharon.)
THE DISAPPEARANCE
In March of 1974, Peggy received a letter from Vail, claiming he was in West Florida. He wrote that he last saw Sharon about a year before in Key West, with an Australian couple that was traveling around the world. All he recalled was the first names of the couple (John and Vanessa), who were talking with Sharon about “island hopping around South America, the West Indies, --- Hawaii for a while, maybe a couple of years in the Philippines, then India, Egypt and the Mediterranean islands and coasts. I don’t know which of these (if any) they decided on or in what order.” Peggy didn't believe a word of it.
In the fall of 1975, Vail’s mother wrote to the Hensley family, saying that her son was surprised the family hadn’t heard from Sharon during that time. Interestingly, Vail told his mother the names of the couple that Sharon left with were Frank and Sally, different names than he had given a year earlier. Vail explained to his mother that before Sharon left, she had burned all her identification cards, got new IDs, and declared that she would become a completely different person.
Bill recalled his father mentioning Sharon. “He said she would never bother anyone ever again.” The words upset Bill, who believed his father had just confessed to another murder. “There was not a soul I could tell about it because I had had my experience in court when I was 8, no one would believe me. It would be my word against his, and no one would believe a 13-year-old.”
SHARON CAMPBELL:
I want to talk about this relationship because of the egregious age difference. For reference, Campbell is only 4 years older than Vail’s son.
While riding a bus to north Mississippi in 1975, Vail sat next to 17-year-old Sharon Campbell. Despite being literally twice her age, he commented on how fit she looked, saying "he needed someone like her to keep him fit." In spite of this, she felt flattered and shared her telephone number with him. Not long after she got home, Vail appeared in a yellow Volkswagen bug.
Vail said he wanted Campbell to travel with him, and she told him the only way her parents would allow it was if they got married.
On July 24, 1975, they did, honeymooning in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
In court years later, she would tell prosecutors that they never consummated the marriage because “he was unable to obtain an erection.” (This isn’t relevant, I just wanted to include it out of spite because fuck this guy.)
Several weeks later, she went with Vail to visit his relatives in Louisiana. There, she said a niece told her, “You probably need to know that he killed his first wife --- they arrested him. We all believed that he did it, he drowned her out of a boat.”
Campbell didn't believe them, telling herself that he would be in prison if he was a murderer. But as the months passed by, she concluded that he “had no value in the female gender,” and that “he hated women.”
She later traveled with Vail to his parents’ home in Montpelier. While there, he was outdoors working on the Volkswagen and Campbell walked closer without him noticing. He opened a compartment, and she said she saw “sinister, surgical looking saws of all shapes and sizes in a neat formation.” To her, the sight screamed evil. “It scared me. I said, ‘I’m not going anywhere with you.’” She left, annulled the marriage, and never looked back. It was likely the best decision she ever made.
After the divorce he would marry a woman named Carolyn in 1977. The relationship would end after he cheated on her with a woman named Alexandra Christianson during a double date. When Carolyn called Vail’s mother and asked her if the behavior surprised her, she simply replied “no.”
After being served the divorce papers, Vail smashed his car into her MGB Sports Car. A month later he would call her saying “I love you.” She did not reciprocate. She would later describe Vail as “mentally deranged.”
ALEXANDRA CHRISTIANSON:
Alexandra is the woman Vail cheated on Carolyn with. She eventually got married to him in Mexico after he officially divorced Carolyn. Not long after their marriage, she heard that Vail was cheating on her.
After a motorcycle accident, he came to rest up at her condo in Costa Mesa, where she confronted him about the cheating. He reportedly got agitated and said, “you know my first wife died.” When she replied saying he’d told her she drowned, Vail shot back “I could have saved her, but I chose not to.”
After telling him to leave, she went to have a shower. While in the shower, Vail attacked her, wrapping his hands around her neck. Hearing her screams, Alexandra’s young brother came in, grabbing Vail and forcing him to the ground. Vail then left.
Soon after this, she found out she was pregnant. The child was still-born, and Alexandra was heart-broken. She would later lead important investigators to witnesses that were used in Vail's eventual trial.
In part 2, I will cover Vail's final victim Annette Craver, and the lengths her mother went to to finally secure justice.
Here is Part 2:
https://www.reddit.com/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/143riqi/felix_vail_the_pedophile_serial_killer_caught/
MY SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/8284?nav
https://charleyproject.org/case/annette-michelle-craver-vail
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/felixvailgone/2016/12/29/felix-vail-gone-one-wife-dead-two-other-missing-jerry-mitchell/95895894/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5796622/mary-elizabeth-vail
https://charleyproject.org/case/sharon-hensley
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/20525?nav
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2023.06.07 22:31 gkbbb Zimzalabim and its glorious redemption arc and victory tour
If there's one song in RV's discography that has had the last laugh its Zimzalabim.
Anyone who was an active kpop fan on June 19th 2019 definitely remembers the rollercoaster (no pun intended) the release of Zimzalabim was. RV fans are no stranger to RV songs having perhaps not the best first impressions - but ZZB really was in a class of its own.
The endless discourse it would generate the following months was insane. Anyone who actually liked the songs early and defended it, honestly deserves an award. And it even almost reached adjective status as every new disjointed release was held in comparison to ZZB. 3rd gens IGAB.
Needless to say, casual fans, non fans and dedicated fans alike were pretty stunned at its release. And even Red Velvet members like Joy at the time said she couldn't believe it was to be their title track, and her first impression was it was "100% not her style".
BUT just as Joy eventually came round to the greatness that is Zimzalabim (she would later tell the fans the song is rv's baby and demanded the fans to also call it their baby too) - their recent tour R to V has clearly shown us just how much the song is loved and appreciated.
I wont go so far to say its anyone's favourite song to listen to in their free time lol - but literally no one can deny its easily been the biggest highlight from their concert setlist. An incredibly stacked setlist that is which has had Psycho, Red Flavor, Bad Boy eng ver, Peekaboo and others. Yet far and away, the song that has consistently got the most people screaming, chanting and jumping out of their seats has been none other than Zimzalabim.
And it wasn't even on the original setlist! They didn't actually perform it at the concerts debut in Seoul Day 1. It was during Day 2 in Seoul when Irene ask the audience what they should sing for the encore that they got the overwhelming cries for ZZB. They were so unprepared for it that Wendy spoke about being worried to do the high note and Irene even said the concert director in her ear told her to ignore the chants for ZZB. But since they acknowledged the crowd wanted it the bts staff had to rush to prepare the music. And well, it has yet to miss a slot in any of the following dates on this tour.
Since they've conclude the Asia and Europe leg, I wanted to compile a quick series of cams of fans going wild for Zimzalabim at each stop in honour of Red Velvet's Baby - a song that beat all the odds stacked against it lol
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Anyone who was an active kpop fan on June 19th 2019 definitely remembers the rollercoaster (no pun intended) the release of Zimzalabim was. RV fans are no stranger to RV songs having perhaps not the best first impressions - but ZZB really was in a class of its own.
The endless discourse it would generate the following months was insane. Anyone who actually liked the songs early and defended it, honestly deserves an award. And it even almost reached adjective status as every new disjointed release was held in comparison to ZZB. 3rd gens IGAB.
Needless to say, casual fans, non fans and dedicated fans alike were pretty stunned at its release. And even Red Velvet members like Joy at the time said she couldn't believe it was to be their title track, and her first impression was it was "100% not her style".
BUT just as Joy eventually came round to the greatness that is Zimzalabim (she would later tell the fans the song is rv's baby and demanded the fans to also call it their baby too) - their recent tour R to V has clearly shown us just how much the song is loved and appreciated.
I wont go so far to say its anyone's favourite song to listen to in their free time lol - but literally no one can deny its easily been the biggest highlight from their concert setlist. An incredibly stacked setlist that is which has had Psycho, Red Flavor, Bad Boy eng ver, Peekaboo and others. Yet far and away, the song that has consistently got the most people screaming, chanting and jumping out of their seats has been none other than Zimzalabim.
And it wasn't even on the original setlist! They didn't actually perform it at the concerts debut in Seoul Day 1. It was during Day 2 in Seoul when Irene ask the audience what they should sing for the encore that they got the overwhelming cries for ZZB. They were so unprepared for it that Wendy spoke about being worried to do the high note and Irene even said the concert director in her ear told her to ignore the chants for ZZB. But since they acknowledged the crowd wanted it the bts staff had to rush to prepare the music. And well, it has yet to miss a slot in any of the following dates on this tour.
Since they've conclude the Asia and Europe leg, I wanted to compile a quick series of cams of fans going wild for Zimzalabim at each stop in honour of Red Velvet's Baby - a song that beat all the odds stacked against it lol
- Seoul Day 1
- Singapore
- Yokohoma
- Manila *probs the best crowd - they even chanted for zimzalabim before its time lol
- Jakarta
- Paris
- Berlin
- Amsterdam
- London
2023.06.07 21:08 WithinSnow The Void Realm- lore summarized
In the new awakened hero storyline, we've been told there's a disaster involving falling meteors and Hypogean infestations. In the Bards' Tale quote from Oden, it's confirmed that this is somehow related to the Void Realm. But what is the Void Realm?
Before we begin: I'm mostly referencing the chinese lore, as much have been lost in the english translation regarding the Void Realm. I'll put a * to indicate where the lore will deviate from the english one due to mistranslation.
What is the Void Realm?
When the universe was born, so were two wills. These two wills would eventually substantiate and become the primordial gods Honas: god of life and order, and Lutos: god of chaos and extinction. Over an inconceivable amount of time Honas was crafting multiple worlds using the chaos and fog of the cosmos, one of them becoming Esperia. In the meantime, Lutos was looking into the fundamental truth of the universe and deepening his understanding of its laws and limitations. He came to discover a principle called "Entropy Increase", a state of inevitable movement towards chaos and extinction, a state natural to all existence. Believing that his embodiment of chaos was the essence of the universe, Lutos sought to accelerate this process towards the ultimate void. In order to stop this, Honas crafted a divine artifact called the Astral Key, an object capable of condensing and transmuting the holder's powers into a separate dimension. At the cost of significantly draining his power, Honas used this Astral Key and imprisoned Lutos within this dimension.
Despite being locked into another dimension, Lutos was able to influence the material world to some degree. While Esperia was a place of order under the oversight of the gods, and its Hypogeans were for the most part weak and scattered, the same could not be said about other worlds. In a world where the balance of order was disrupted, it would eventually be wrecked by chaos and a Hypogean infestation. It would then experience a sort of “death” and become pure, dark matter. Taking advantage of the dying worlds, Lutos would absorb these into his own dimension to bolster his power. From this, the dimension would become known as the “Void Realm”, or the “Star Cemetery”.
The Reclaimers
After sealing Lutos away, Honas had expended most of his energy. Having entrusted the safekeeping of the Astral Key to Dura, Honas then entered a deep sleep. Aware of the existence of the Astral Key, but with no knowledge of its whereabouts, Lutos condensed his powers and manifested a powerful and sophisticated intelligence into the world: the Reclaimers. Tasked with finding and retrieving the Astral Key, Lutos dispatched Reclaimers to all nebulas.
The Reclaimers are ineffable beings above the comprehension of mortals, and one such Reclaimer called Uemiss descended upon Esperia. Here he settled in Altor, commencing his plan to build his strength on faith and usurp the pantheon. To do so, he began imparting forbidden knowledge onto its indigenous population. Most listening to his whispers were driven mad, though there were some who survived with a fragment of knowledge. Using this knowledge, the inhabitants of Altor built an utopian civilization, effectively eradicating disease and hunger. This civilization became known as the Helme civilization.
When the gods realized Uemiss’ intentions, they waged war to defend their divine authority. While they won the war, it was not without heavy losses, and Uemiss was too powerful to be outright defeated. Being forced to retreat into the ocean, Uemiss lashed out in one final, devastating blow, dragging down half the land with him into a watery grave.
The remaining people of the Helme civilization were banished to the wilderness by the gods, and the remnants of the Helme civilization destroyed in a cultural genocide. Despite this, some few retained their faith through oral tradition, hoping that one day the true god would once again return in glory.
The Zohra Nebula is swallowed by the Void Realm
At the brink of being destroyed, the Zohra Nebula’s will to survive gave birth to two sisters: Morael and Audrae. Despite their best efforts, the sisters were unable to stop the Nebula’s inevitable path towards destruction, and it was consumed by the Void Realm. This celestial mutation caused a violent chain reaction, eclipsing the stars and darkening the sky, even affecting Esperia through global natural disasters. Being closely connected to nature, the Wilders realized that a powerful extraterrestrial force was interfering with the order of the universe. In order to monitor it, they established “The Star Gazers”.
After the death of the Nebula, the sister parted ways, unable to see eye to eye. While fulfilling her duties as a god, Morael came across a familiar scene: the death of the Mirrah Nebula. Trying to fight the strange, sentient beings (likely Reclaimers) residing there, both sides sustained heavy damage. Morael was left floating through the universe until Dura found her and healed her. After which she became an esperian god.
Meanwhile during her travels, Audrae was able to touch upon a tiny corner of the fundamental truth of the universe. A shadowy abyss where the balance had been thrown off, a planetary graveyard reigned by evil. When she reunited with Morael, she recounted all she’d learned about the Void Realm at that time.
After the first Hypogean War, Morael started her investigation into the Void Realm. Proposing that neither pure order or chaos was the guiding principle of the universe, Audrae suggested they work together, to which Morael agreed.
The First Hypogean War and the creation of the Barred Gate
In the face of a potential Hypogean-caused destruction of Esperia, and knowing that with the fear and evil present in the hearts of mortals would forever nourish them, Dura decided to use the Astral Key to imprison the Hypogeans in a dimensional rift. Despite knowing that this would alert Uemiss to its location. Working together with the mortal factions of Esperia, Dura was able to imprison the Hypogeans in a dimensional rift at the foot of the Oromouth mountains, later becoming known as “The Barred Gate”. Doing so, she was finally able to bring the First Hypogean War to an end. Having expended all her powers, Dura feared Uemiss’ inevitable return and the loss of the Astral Key. In a desperate attempt to prevent this, she worked together with the gods’ smith Ansiel, and sundered the key into seven divine artifacts. These artifacts were scattered among the mortals, their creation and whereabouts kept a secret from all but Ansiel and Dura herself. After divulging her mysterious prophecy, Dura left the mountain and found a place for her eternal rest.
The remaining gods swore an oath to Dura, and would watch over the Barred Gate to ensure nothing escaped.
Oden discovers the “Margin”.
The Order of the Sun, an organization of mages dedicated to researching the lost knowledge of the Era of Man Gods, had one outstanding mage amongst their ranks: the imperial archmage Oden. Through his obsessive research on dimensional magic, Oden one day stumbled upon the Void Realm. Losing himself in some ineffable search for the truth, Oden submitted and swore fealty to the great being within. While the Void Realm is completely separate from this dimension, Oden found a liminal space between he called the “Margin”, a realm formed by the lingering dark matter of destroyed worlds. He discovered that he could siphon energy from this realm to use for his own means. However this did not go unnoticed by the Lightbearers, and Oden was tracked down and executed by the Blademaster Nuns. As a result, The Order of the Sun created a secret sister organization called The Secret Society of the Crow. Receiving covert funding from the imperial family, the Society continued its research into Dark Magic.
* Urged by ambition to seize this forbidden power, scholars of the School of the Dead fervently researched all existing records on the subject, eventually coming upon Oden. Digging up his corpse and weapon, the researchers combined necromancy and black magic, using Oden’s weapon as a core to recall his soul and resurrect him. As the three eyes of the god opened, the researchers did not see the omen for what it was, and disaster followed. His humanity eroded from death and the exposure of the Void Realm, as well as his newfound powers as a Graveborn, marked Oden as a different sort of existence. Upon awakening, he immediately opened a portal to the Margin. A tremendous lightningstrike descended from above, dragging the hapless researchers into the realm beyond to never return. Alarmed by this event, the Eldricht Council dispatched their best to seal Oden away in the dungeons below the School of the Dead, where he still wanders to this day.
Uemiss’ plan and the breach of the Barred Gate
*Khazard, the elemental guardian of water and Seirus’ predecessor, was originally under the impression that he was a Chosen One with a sacred mission. However, while traveling the oceans he kept hearing whispers speaking a different “truth”. This “truth” told him that he was nothing but an insignificant ant, that all beings lived a false lie, and that the gods above the mountains were nothing but self-righteous false gods. No longer able to look upon the world in the same way, Khazards heart began to change, and he followed the guidance of the voice to the depths of the ocean. There, amongst submerged ruins, Khazard found Uemiss. Transforming one of his tentacles into an ice serpent, the serpent coiled around Khazard, changing him into his new form. Khazard then abandoned his duties and joined forces with the Hypogeans. He sought to free the great god he feared, and to get a glimpse of the truth within the Void Realm. The serpent followed him as a companion, in addition to being Uemiss’ eyes and ears on the surface world. A plan hatched, and Khazard was posted at the Barred Gate in wait for its reopening. As a result of the spiritual loss of the Elemental Guardian of water, Seirus was born.
After the war between the Lightbearers and the Maulers, Esperia was inundated with a miasma of negative emotions. The Hypogeans behind the gate, who had been persistent in their efforts to break the seal, were strengthened by the influx of fear, hatred and despair. Since Dura’s powers were not on par with Honas’, the Gate was ultimately not as stable as the Void Realm. Seizing the opportunity, Khazard sent word to Uemiss that the time was right, and Uemiss proceeded to send a horde of his underlings to the surface. While Seirus and Gorvo were able to withstand the initial waves, they were eventually outnumbered, and had no choice but to call on assistance. The gods, now turning their attention to Altor, neglected their vigilance upon the Gate, and with Khazard’s help the Hypogeans broke through. Having failed to uphold their divine vow to Dura, the gods were demoted to demi-gods, or “celestials”.
Present day, not set on the timeline
In a small town at the outskirts of the Lightbearer Empire, a dark force had been slowly eroding the very land. Disciples of this dark force intended to use a nefarious pentagram to break the fabric of reality and usher in a malevolence from the Void Realm. In order to stop this, Lucius and Belinda teamed up with Morael, who had been suppressing the darkness up until that point, though unable to completely destroy it on her own. Although the group was able to prevent disaster, Morael pointed out that underlings of the Void Realm were still numerous in this world.
Gouldos is the minion of Uemiss. While having the same origin, Uemiss is of higher rank and power than Gouldos. Roughly two years ago, Gouldos emerged in Altor, spreading his powers and influence. A maddening, abyssal mist slowly spread across the waters, and malevolent murmurs were carried by the wind.
The hazy noise of imminent disaster reached Lorsan’s ears, though he was unable to make sense of it. It was Arden who was able to see a fragmentary silhouette amongst the wails of fear and torment among all living things. He immediately set about to call upon all beings in Esperia, in an effort to work together to dispel and purify the Chasmic Altar. After finally defeating Gouldos, the Chasmic Altar became the Cleansed Realm. (In terms of the timeline, this event is rather awkward to place.)
Heroes possibly related to this storyline.
Some heroes in-game have a relationship to the Void Realm, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them make an appearance in the new story.
The Void Realm is an alternative dimension where the primordial god of chaos and extinction; Lutos, is imprisoned. Using what limited influence he has on the material world, Lutos is absorbing dying worlds into his dimension to bolster his powers, and dispatching beings of great power and intelligence called Reclaimers, to all nebulas in search for the Astral Key that can free him. One such Reclaimer is Uemiss, who descended upon Esperia. Recovering his strength after the gods banished him to the depth of the ocean, Uemiss has been lying in wait in order to open the Barred Gate and seize the key, which Dura separated into seven divine artifacts right before her death.
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Before we begin: I'm mostly referencing the chinese lore, as much have been lost in the english translation regarding the Void Realm. I'll put a * to indicate where the lore will deviate from the english one due to mistranslation.
What is the Void Realm?
When the universe was born, so were two wills. These two wills would eventually substantiate and become the primordial gods Honas: god of life and order, and Lutos: god of chaos and extinction. Over an inconceivable amount of time Honas was crafting multiple worlds using the chaos and fog of the cosmos, one of them becoming Esperia. In the meantime, Lutos was looking into the fundamental truth of the universe and deepening his understanding of its laws and limitations. He came to discover a principle called "Entropy Increase", a state of inevitable movement towards chaos and extinction, a state natural to all existence. Believing that his embodiment of chaos was the essence of the universe, Lutos sought to accelerate this process towards the ultimate void. In order to stop this, Honas crafted a divine artifact called the Astral Key, an object capable of condensing and transmuting the holder's powers into a separate dimension. At the cost of significantly draining his power, Honas used this Astral Key and imprisoned Lutos within this dimension.
Despite being locked into another dimension, Lutos was able to influence the material world to some degree. While Esperia was a place of order under the oversight of the gods, and its Hypogeans were for the most part weak and scattered, the same could not be said about other worlds. In a world where the balance of order was disrupted, it would eventually be wrecked by chaos and a Hypogean infestation. It would then experience a sort of “death” and become pure, dark matter. Taking advantage of the dying worlds, Lutos would absorb these into his own dimension to bolster his power. From this, the dimension would become known as the “Void Realm”, or the “Star Cemetery”.
The Reclaimers
After sealing Lutos away, Honas had expended most of his energy. Having entrusted the safekeeping of the Astral Key to Dura, Honas then entered a deep sleep. Aware of the existence of the Astral Key, but with no knowledge of its whereabouts, Lutos condensed his powers and manifested a powerful and sophisticated intelligence into the world: the Reclaimers. Tasked with finding and retrieving the Astral Key, Lutos dispatched Reclaimers to all nebulas.
The Reclaimers are ineffable beings above the comprehension of mortals, and one such Reclaimer called Uemiss descended upon Esperia. Here he settled in Altor, commencing his plan to build his strength on faith and usurp the pantheon. To do so, he began imparting forbidden knowledge onto its indigenous population. Most listening to his whispers were driven mad, though there were some who survived with a fragment of knowledge. Using this knowledge, the inhabitants of Altor built an utopian civilization, effectively eradicating disease and hunger. This civilization became known as the Helme civilization.
When the gods realized Uemiss’ intentions, they waged war to defend their divine authority. While they won the war, it was not without heavy losses, and Uemiss was too powerful to be outright defeated. Being forced to retreat into the ocean, Uemiss lashed out in one final, devastating blow, dragging down half the land with him into a watery grave.
The remaining people of the Helme civilization were banished to the wilderness by the gods, and the remnants of the Helme civilization destroyed in a cultural genocide. Despite this, some few retained their faith through oral tradition, hoping that one day the true god would once again return in glory.
The Zohra Nebula is swallowed by the Void Realm
At the brink of being destroyed, the Zohra Nebula’s will to survive gave birth to two sisters: Morael and Audrae. Despite their best efforts, the sisters were unable to stop the Nebula’s inevitable path towards destruction, and it was consumed by the Void Realm. This celestial mutation caused a violent chain reaction, eclipsing the stars and darkening the sky, even affecting Esperia through global natural disasters. Being closely connected to nature, the Wilders realized that a powerful extraterrestrial force was interfering with the order of the universe. In order to monitor it, they established “The Star Gazers”.
After the death of the Nebula, the sister parted ways, unable to see eye to eye. While fulfilling her duties as a god, Morael came across a familiar scene: the death of the Mirrah Nebula. Trying to fight the strange, sentient beings (likely Reclaimers) residing there, both sides sustained heavy damage. Morael was left floating through the universe until Dura found her and healed her. After which she became an esperian god.
Meanwhile during her travels, Audrae was able to touch upon a tiny corner of the fundamental truth of the universe. A shadowy abyss where the balance had been thrown off, a planetary graveyard reigned by evil. When she reunited with Morael, she recounted all she’d learned about the Void Realm at that time.
After the first Hypogean War, Morael started her investigation into the Void Realm. Proposing that neither pure order or chaos was the guiding principle of the universe, Audrae suggested they work together, to which Morael agreed.
The First Hypogean War and the creation of the Barred Gate
In the face of a potential Hypogean-caused destruction of Esperia, and knowing that with the fear and evil present in the hearts of mortals would forever nourish them, Dura decided to use the Astral Key to imprison the Hypogeans in a dimensional rift. Despite knowing that this would alert Uemiss to its location. Working together with the mortal factions of Esperia, Dura was able to imprison the Hypogeans in a dimensional rift at the foot of the Oromouth mountains, later becoming known as “The Barred Gate”. Doing so, she was finally able to bring the First Hypogean War to an end. Having expended all her powers, Dura feared Uemiss’ inevitable return and the loss of the Astral Key. In a desperate attempt to prevent this, she worked together with the gods’ smith Ansiel, and sundered the key into seven divine artifacts. These artifacts were scattered among the mortals, their creation and whereabouts kept a secret from all but Ansiel and Dura herself. After divulging her mysterious prophecy, Dura left the mountain and found a place for her eternal rest.
The remaining gods swore an oath to Dura, and would watch over the Barred Gate to ensure nothing escaped.
Oden discovers the “Margin”.
The Order of the Sun, an organization of mages dedicated to researching the lost knowledge of the Era of Man Gods, had one outstanding mage amongst their ranks: the imperial archmage Oden. Through his obsessive research on dimensional magic, Oden one day stumbled upon the Void Realm. Losing himself in some ineffable search for the truth, Oden submitted and swore fealty to the great being within. While the Void Realm is completely separate from this dimension, Oden found a liminal space between he called the “Margin”, a realm formed by the lingering dark matter of destroyed worlds. He discovered that he could siphon energy from this realm to use for his own means. However this did not go unnoticed by the Lightbearers, and Oden was tracked down and executed by the Blademaster Nuns. As a result, The Order of the Sun created a secret sister organization called The Secret Society of the Crow. Receiving covert funding from the imperial family, the Society continued its research into Dark Magic.
* Urged by ambition to seize this forbidden power, scholars of the School of the Dead fervently researched all existing records on the subject, eventually coming upon Oden. Digging up his corpse and weapon, the researchers combined necromancy and black magic, using Oden’s weapon as a core to recall his soul and resurrect him. As the three eyes of the god opened, the researchers did not see the omen for what it was, and disaster followed. His humanity eroded from death and the exposure of the Void Realm, as well as his newfound powers as a Graveborn, marked Oden as a different sort of existence. Upon awakening, he immediately opened a portal to the Margin. A tremendous lightningstrike descended from above, dragging the hapless researchers into the realm beyond to never return. Alarmed by this event, the Eldricht Council dispatched their best to seal Oden away in the dungeons below the School of the Dead, where he still wanders to this day.
Uemiss’ plan and the breach of the Barred Gate
*Khazard, the elemental guardian of water and Seirus’ predecessor, was originally under the impression that he was a Chosen One with a sacred mission. However, while traveling the oceans he kept hearing whispers speaking a different “truth”. This “truth” told him that he was nothing but an insignificant ant, that all beings lived a false lie, and that the gods above the mountains were nothing but self-righteous false gods. No longer able to look upon the world in the same way, Khazards heart began to change, and he followed the guidance of the voice to the depths of the ocean. There, amongst submerged ruins, Khazard found Uemiss. Transforming one of his tentacles into an ice serpent, the serpent coiled around Khazard, changing him into his new form. Khazard then abandoned his duties and joined forces with the Hypogeans. He sought to free the great god he feared, and to get a glimpse of the truth within the Void Realm. The serpent followed him as a companion, in addition to being Uemiss’ eyes and ears on the surface world. A plan hatched, and Khazard was posted at the Barred Gate in wait for its reopening. As a result of the spiritual loss of the Elemental Guardian of water, Seirus was born.
After the war between the Lightbearers and the Maulers, Esperia was inundated with a miasma of negative emotions. The Hypogeans behind the gate, who had been persistent in their efforts to break the seal, were strengthened by the influx of fear, hatred and despair. Since Dura’s powers were not on par with Honas’, the Gate was ultimately not as stable as the Void Realm. Seizing the opportunity, Khazard sent word to Uemiss that the time was right, and Uemiss proceeded to send a horde of his underlings to the surface. While Seirus and Gorvo were able to withstand the initial waves, they were eventually outnumbered, and had no choice but to call on assistance. The gods, now turning their attention to Altor, neglected their vigilance upon the Gate, and with Khazard’s help the Hypogeans broke through. Having failed to uphold their divine vow to Dura, the gods were demoted to demi-gods, or “celestials”.
Present day, not set on the timeline
In a small town at the outskirts of the Lightbearer Empire, a dark force had been slowly eroding the very land. Disciples of this dark force intended to use a nefarious pentagram to break the fabric of reality and usher in a malevolence from the Void Realm. In order to stop this, Lucius and Belinda teamed up with Morael, who had been suppressing the darkness up until that point, though unable to completely destroy it on her own. Although the group was able to prevent disaster, Morael pointed out that underlings of the Void Realm were still numerous in this world.
Gouldos is the minion of Uemiss. While having the same origin, Uemiss is of higher rank and power than Gouldos. Roughly two years ago, Gouldos emerged in Altor, spreading his powers and influence. A maddening, abyssal mist slowly spread across the waters, and malevolent murmurs were carried by the wind.
The hazy noise of imminent disaster reached Lorsan’s ears, though he was unable to make sense of it. It was Arden who was able to see a fragmentary silhouette amongst the wails of fear and torment among all living things. He immediately set about to call upon all beings in Esperia, in an effort to work together to dispel and purify the Chasmic Altar. After finally defeating Gouldos, the Chasmic Altar became the Cleansed Realm. (In terms of the timeline, this event is rather awkward to place.)
Heroes possibly related to this storyline.
Some heroes in-game have a relationship to the Void Realm, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them make an appearance in the new story.
- Morael and Audrae: the Zohra Nebula in which the two sisters were born from was swallowed by the Void Realm. They've been looking into the Void Realm and its impact on this dimension. Interestingly enough, these two sisters are the characters that closest resemble Honas and Lutos themselves. One the cosmic embodiment of order, the other the cosmic embodiment of chaos.
- *Oden: the reason why the heresy inquisition executed Oden was due to his research regarding the Void Realm and its powers. When resurrected, Oden is a being not entirely Graveborn, as his soul is tied directly to the Void Realm and he serves the "dark master" within.
- *Safiya: Safiya, similar to Oden, draws her powers from the Margin. It was this power she used to enlist followers and usurp the throne.
- Framton: now this is the funniest of the bunch. Framton was created by none other than Lutos himself, which makes him a "brother" to the eldricht, world devouring being that is Uemiss.
- Khazard: Khazard was turned into a hypogean by Uemiss, and currently serves as his underling.
- Seirus and Gorvo: they've been guarding the seal that imprisons Uemiss, and were the first to respond to the onslaught of Uemiss’ minions.
- Salaki: while the Obsidian Obelisk and its curse isn't explicitly stated to be of Void Realm origins, the nature of the curse very closely resemble the powers of Uemiss and Gouldos, and the eldricht tentacle imagery as well.
- Mezoth: regarding his story and its resemblance to the madness and mist of Gouldos' powers, Mezoth is implied to be related to him in some way, which also ties him to the Void Realm.
The Void Realm is an alternative dimension where the primordial god of chaos and extinction; Lutos, is imprisoned. Using what limited influence he has on the material world, Lutos is absorbing dying worlds into his dimension to bolster his powers, and dispatching beings of great power and intelligence called Reclaimers, to all nebulas in search for the Astral Key that can free him. One such Reclaimer is Uemiss, who descended upon Esperia. Recovering his strength after the gods banished him to the depth of the ocean, Uemiss has been lying in wait in order to open the Barred Gate and seize the key, which Dura separated into seven divine artifacts right before her death.
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· Entries may not contain material that (a) is obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or violate any law; (b) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, contractual rights, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or any other rights of third parties; (c) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (d) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (e) is grossly harmful, racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging, blasphemous, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, vulgar or offensive; (f) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (g) is violent, bullying, or threatening or promotes violence, money laundering or gambling, terrorism, or actions that are threatening or disrespectful to any person or entity; (h) harms minors in any way; or (i) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances.
· Entries must follow the community guidelines and terms of service of the social media platform used for entry (where applicable).
Alternate Mail-In Entry: Legibly print your full name, postal address, valid email address, phone number, and date of birth on a piece of paper or a 3” x 5” index card, along with a print-out of a screenshot from your PUBG MOBILE gameplay, and mail it in to Proxima Beta Pte. Ltd., Attention: PUBG MOBILE ROYAL PASS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE, 12777 W Jefferson Blvd., Unit E, Los Angeles, CA 90066. To be eligible for the Contest, mail-in entries must be postmarked by June11, 2023 and received by Sponsor no later than May 12, 2023.
· Creativity: Creativity and most eye-catching scenes/actions.
· Originality: The uniqueness of the entry.
In order to verify potential winner(s), Sponsor may require each potential winner to provide a valid ID. Sponsor will attempt to notify potential winner(s) by their PUBG MOBILE account, and/or by other means consistent with the Contest. Sponsor may contact winners in a language prominent in the country of entry of each such winner, or English. Winners must respond to Sponsor within 96 hours after notification from Sponsor.
Sponsor will notify winners on promptly following the close of the Promotion Period via their social media account and/or by other means consistent with the Contest as soon as reasonably practicable following the applicable drawing, but at least within seven (7) days of the final drawing. Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification, including inactive account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or winner’s failure to adequately monitor any account. Participants are solely responsible for monitoring their Game account or social media account for potential prizes and must respond to Sponsor within forty-eight (48) hours or such other time frame as may be specified on the Contest webpage. In order to verify winner, Sponsor may require winner to provide a valid photo ID. Sponsor may contact winner in a language prominent in the country of entry of each such winner, or English. Winner may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release. Should winner fail to respond to Sponsor or cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, the prize may be forfeited and Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify that winner and select a new winner in a second-chance random drawing from remaining valid, eligible entries timely submitted.
· One (1) “Ultramarine Velociraptor” skin in-Game vehicle skin (approximate retail value: US$20)
Except to the extent prohibited by law, entrants waive the benefit of any “moral rights” or “droit moral” or similar rights in any country to any content that they upload, submit or otherwise provide to Sponsor associated with the Contest (“Entrant Content”). In addition, entrant grants Sponsor a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free, unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, license, with the right to sublicense, to such entrant’s name, likeness, and voice, including in connection with commercial or sponsored content. This means, among other things, that such entrant will not be entitled to any compensation from Sponsor, its affiliates, or its business partners if such entrant’s name, likeness, or voice is conveyed through the game or any related services, or on one of Sponsor’s business partner’s platforms.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate, modify or suspend the Contest in whole or in part, if in Sponsor’s opinion: (a) the Contest is not capable of running as planned by reason of the occurrence of any event beyond its control including, but not limited to, fire, flood, epidemic, pandemic, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, act of God or public enemy, communications, equipment failure, utility or service interruptions, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared), interference with the Contest by any party, or any federal, state, local or provincial government law, order, or regulation, order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsor’s control, or (b) any other factors beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, in all instances without liability to the participants. Sponsor also reserves the right to disqualify any participant or winner, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion.
(b) Exceptions. As limited exceptions to Section 11(a) above: (i) we both may seek to resolve a Dispute in small claims court if it qualifies; and (ii) we each retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief from a court to prevent (or enjoin) the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights.
(c) Conducting Arbitration and Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified by these Official Rules. The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. A party who wishes to start arbitration must submit a written Demand for Arbitration to AAA and give notice to the other party as specified in the AAA Rules. The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org. Any arbitration hearings will take place in the county (or parish) where you live, unless we both agree to a different location. The parties agree that the arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to decide all issues relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability and scope of this arbitration agreement.
(d) Arbitration Costs. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA Rules, and we won’t seek to recover the administration and arbitrator fees we are responsible for paying, unless the arbitrator finds your Dispute frivolous. If we prevail in arbitration we’ll pay all of our attorneys’ fees and costs and won’t seek to recover them from you. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided under applicable law.
(e) Injunctive and Declaratory Relief. Except as provided in 11(b) above, the arbitrator shall determine all issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted by either party and may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party’s individual claim. To the extent that you or we prevail on a claim and seek public injunctive relief (that is, injunctive relief that has the primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the public), the entitlement to and extent of such relief must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration. The parties agree that litigation of any issues of public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of the merits of any individual claims in arbitration.
(f) Class Action Waiver. YOU AND SPONSOR AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, if the parties’ Dispute is resolved through arbitration, the arbitrator may not consolidate another person’s claims with your claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this specific provision is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section shall be null and void.
(g) Severability. With the exception of any of the provisions in Section 11(f) (“Class Action Waiver”), if an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction decides that any part of these Official Rules is invalid or unenforceable, the other parts of these Official Rules will still apply.
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ROYAL PASS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Contest Official Rules
- No Purchase Necessary; Entry Instructions.
The ROYAL PASS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE (the “Contest”) is governed by these official rules (“Official Rules”), and the PUBG MOBILE’s EULA available at http://pubgmobile.proximabeta.com/terms.html (“EULA”). Additional terms specific to the Contest, including deadline(s), entry method(s) and particular prize(s) may be set forth on the page which linked to these Official Rules (the “Contest Page”). By registering for or participating in the Contest, you are accepting the terms and conditions of participation on the Contest Page, these Official Rules, the EULA, and the Rulebook.
The sponsor of this Contest is Proxima Beta Pte. Ltd., a Singapore corporation with offices at 10 Anson Rd., #21-07, International Plaza, Singapore (“Sponsor”).
- Eligibility. All entrants must, as of the date of entry: (a) be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in their residence (whichever is higher), and (b) have a PUBG MOBILE game account in good standing. Employees of Sponsor, Krafton, and their respective parent and affiliate companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The entrant must be a registered member with their own account. In the event of a dispute as to any entrant, the authorized holder of the associated account, email address, or username will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized holder” is the natural person assigned an account, email address, or username by an Internet access provider, online service provider, social media channel or other organization responsible for assigning accounts, email addresses, or usernames. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized holder.
2. Entry Methods
To participate in the Contest and be eligible for a potential prize, participants must share their in-Game Specter Slayer Set screenshots or their special trick video with Specter Slayer Set below in response to the applicable post from the applicable PUBG MOBILE social media post or post on their own account on the applicable platforms with the hashtag #PUBGMOBILE #PUBGMRPA #PUBGMOBILEC4S12 #RPAOUTFITCHALLENGE #GIVEAWAY.· Entries must be original and not violate any third-party rights, and the entrant must have all rights necessary to submit the entry.
· Entries may not contain material that (a) is obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or violate any law; (b) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, contractual rights, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or any other rights of third parties; (c) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (d) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (e) is grossly harmful, racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging, blasphemous, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, vulgar or offensive; (f) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (g) is violent, bullying, or threatening or promotes violence, money laundering or gambling, terrorism, or actions that are threatening or disrespectful to any person or entity; (h) harms minors in any way; or (i) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances.
· Entries must follow the community guidelines and terms of service of the social media platform used for entry (where applicable).
Alternate Mail-In Entry: Legibly print your full name, postal address, valid email address, phone number, and date of birth on a piece of paper or a 3” x 5” index card, along with a print-out of a screenshot from your PUBG MOBILE gameplay, and mail it in to Proxima Beta Pte. Ltd., Attention: PUBG MOBILE ROYAL PASS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE, 12777 W Jefferson Blvd., Unit E, Los Angeles, CA 90066. To be eligible for the Contest, mail-in entries must be postmarked by June11, 2023 and received by Sponsor no later than May 12, 2023.
- Contest Period. This Contest will begin on June 7, 2023 at 6am (UTC+0) and runs through June 14, 2023 at 6:59am (UTC+0) (the “Promotion Period”). Sponsor’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Contest.
- Winner(s). This Contest will have ten (10) winners. All entries meeting the requirements of these Official Rules will be entered into the Contest. The number of Contest winners is specified below in this section. The Judges’ determination of the Contest winners is final and binding, subject to the below.
· Creativity: Creativity and most eye-catching scenes/actions.
· Originality: The uniqueness of the entry.
In order to verify potential winner(s), Sponsor may require each potential winner to provide a valid ID. Sponsor will attempt to notify potential winner(s) by their PUBG MOBILE account, and/or by other means consistent with the Contest. Sponsor may contact winners in a language prominent in the country of entry of each such winner, or English. Winners must respond to Sponsor within 96 hours after notification from Sponsor.
Sponsor will notify winners on promptly following the close of the Promotion Period via their social media account and/or by other means consistent with the Contest as soon as reasonably practicable following the applicable drawing, but at least within seven (7) days of the final drawing. Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification, including inactive account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or winner’s failure to adequately monitor any account. Participants are solely responsible for monitoring their Game account or social media account for potential prizes and must respond to Sponsor within forty-eight (48) hours or such other time frame as may be specified on the Contest webpage. In order to verify winner, Sponsor may require winner to provide a valid photo ID. Sponsor may contact winner in a language prominent in the country of entry of each such winner, or English. Winner may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release. Should winner fail to respond to Sponsor or cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, the prize may be forfeited and Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify that winner and select a new winner in a second-chance random drawing from remaining valid, eligible entries timely submitted.
- Prizes. The prizes are as indicated below. The prize(s) will be subject to the terms of the issuer. Winner may be disqualified if winner is unable, for any reason (including, without limitation, due to age or residence), to receive the prize from Sponsor. No substitution, assignment or transfer of the prize(s) is permitted. TAXES AND ANY OTHER COSTS, IF ANY, RELATED TO THE PRIZE ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER.
· One (1) “Ultramarine Velociraptor” skin in-Game vehicle skin (approximate retail value: US$20)
- List of Winner(s). Following the event, Sponsor may announce the winners on the PUBG MOBILE social media accounts. Individuals may request the name of the winner(s) by submitting a self-addressed stamped envelope prior to 3 months from the Contest end date to Proxima Beta Pte. Ltd., Attn: PUBG MOBILE ROYAL PASS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE, 12777 W. Jefferson Blvd – Building E, Los Angeles, CA 90066.
- Conditions of Participation. By participating in this Contest, you agree to abide by these Official Rules and any decision Sponsor makes regarding this Contest, which Sponsor or its designees shall make in their sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify and prosecute to the fullest extent permitted by law any participant or winner who, in Sponsor’s reasonable suspicion, tampers with Sponsor’s site, the entry process, intentionally submits more than the allowed entries, violates the Contest Page terms, these Official Rules, the EULA, the Rulebook, or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner.
- Intellectual Property. Ownership of the pre-existing underlying intellectual property of the entrant remains the property of the entrant subject to Sponsor’s rights to reprint, display, reproduce, perform, use, and exhibit the entry for the purpose of administering and promoting the Contest and for Sponsor’s marketing and advertising purposes. By participating in the Contest, each entrant grants to Sponsor a non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable license, with the right to sublicense, to reprint, display, reproduce, perform, use, modify, remake, and exhibit (including the right to make derivative works of) the entry and materials and information submitted on and in connection with the Contest or use or receipt of the prize for any and all purposes in any medium. Each participating entrant hereby warrants that any entry and other materials and information provided by entrant are original with entrant and do not violate or infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity, moral rights or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, and do not violate any rules or regulations. If the entry or information or materials provided by entrant contain any material or elements that are not owned by entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, entrant represents he or she has obtained, prior to submission of the entry and information or materials, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit use and exploitation of the entry and information and materials by Sponsor in the manner set forth in the Official Rules without additional compensation.
Except to the extent prohibited by law, entrants waive the benefit of any “moral rights” or “droit moral” or similar rights in any country to any content that they upload, submit or otherwise provide to Sponsor associated with the Contest (“Entrant Content”). In addition, entrant grants Sponsor a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free, unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, license, with the right to sublicense, to such entrant’s name, likeness, and voice, including in connection with commercial or sponsored content. This means, among other things, that such entrant will not be entitled to any compensation from Sponsor, its affiliates, or its business partners if such entrant’s name, likeness, or voice is conveyed through the game or any related services, or on one of Sponsor’s business partner’s platforms.
- Disclaimer, Release and Limit of Liability. SPONSOR MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING ANY PRIZE OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST. BY ENTERING THE CONTEST OR RECEIPT OF ANY PRIZE, EACH ENTRANT AGREES TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS SPONSOR, KRAFTON, PEPS, ROCKSTAR, POLARIS, ANY THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS UTILIZED FOR THE CONTEST, AND EACH OF THEIR SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, DISTRIBUTORS, ADVERTISING/CONTEST AGENCIES, AND PRIZE SUPPLIERS, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARENT COMPANIES AND EACH SUCH COMPANY’S OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, OR DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF PROPERTY, ARISING OUT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST OR RECEIPT OR USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE. THE RELEASED PARTIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR: (1) ANY INCORRECT OR INACCURATE INFORMATION, WHETHER CAUSED BY ENTRANTS, PRINTING ERRORS OR BY ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT OR PROGRAMMING ASSOCIATED WITH OR UTILIZED IN THE CONTEST; (2) TECHNICAL FAILURES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO MALFUNCTIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, OR DISCONNECTIONS IN PHONE LINES OR NETWORK HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE; (3) UNAUTHORIZED HUMAN INTERVENTION IN ANY PART OF THE ENTRY PROCESS OR THE CONTEST; (4) TECHNICAL OR HUMAN ERROR WHICH MAY OCCUR IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTEST OR THE PROCESSING OF ENTRIES; OR (5) ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY WHICH MAY BE CAUSED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST OR RECEIPT OR USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate, modify or suspend the Contest in whole or in part, if in Sponsor’s opinion: (a) the Contest is not capable of running as planned by reason of the occurrence of any event beyond its control including, but not limited to, fire, flood, epidemic, pandemic, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, act of God or public enemy, communications, equipment failure, utility or service interruptions, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared), interference with the Contest by any party, or any federal, state, local or provincial government law, order, or regulation, order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsor’s control, or (b) any other factors beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, in all instances without liability to the participants. Sponsor also reserves the right to disqualify any participant or winner, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion.
- Hold Harmless. You agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold Sponsor and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, sponsors and agents, including advertising and promotion agencies, and assigns, and any other organizations related to the Contest, harmless, from any and all claims, injuries, damages, expenses or losses to person or property and/or liabilities of any nature that in any way arise from participation in the Contest or acceptance or use of a prize or parts thereof, including, without limitation, (a) any condition caused by events beyond Sponsor’s control that may cause the Contest to be disrupted or corrupted; (b) the prize, or acceptance, possession, or use of the prize, or from participation in the Contest; and (c) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest.
- Governing Law. These Official Rules and the Contest, and any action related thereto, will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, federal arbitration law and the laws of the State of California without regard to conflict of laws provisions. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in Section 11 “Dispute Resolution and Arbitration” the exclusive jurisdiction for all Disputes (defined below) that you and Sponsor are not required to arbitrate will be the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California and you and Sponsor each waive any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
12. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
(a) Mandatory Arbitration of Disputes. We each agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Contest and these Official Rules or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or participation in the Contest (collectively, “Disputes”) will be resolved solely by binding, individual arbitration and not in a class, representative or consolidated action or proceeding. You and Sponsor agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of these Official Rules, and that you and Sponsor are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action. This arbitration provision shall survive termination of these Official Rules.(b) Exceptions. As limited exceptions to Section 11(a) above: (i) we both may seek to resolve a Dispute in small claims court if it qualifies; and (ii) we each retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief from a court to prevent (or enjoin) the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights.
(c) Conducting Arbitration and Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified by these Official Rules. The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. A party who wishes to start arbitration must submit a written Demand for Arbitration to AAA and give notice to the other party as specified in the AAA Rules. The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org. Any arbitration hearings will take place in the county (or parish) where you live, unless we both agree to a different location. The parties agree that the arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to decide all issues relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability and scope of this arbitration agreement.
(d) Arbitration Costs. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA Rules, and we won’t seek to recover the administration and arbitrator fees we are responsible for paying, unless the arbitrator finds your Dispute frivolous. If we prevail in arbitration we’ll pay all of our attorneys’ fees and costs and won’t seek to recover them from you. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided under applicable law.
(e) Injunctive and Declaratory Relief. Except as provided in 11(b) above, the arbitrator shall determine all issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted by either party and may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party’s individual claim. To the extent that you or we prevail on a claim and seek public injunctive relief (that is, injunctive relief that has the primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the public), the entitlement to and extent of such relief must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration. The parties agree that litigation of any issues of public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of the merits of any individual claims in arbitration.
(f) Class Action Waiver. YOU AND SPONSOR AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, if the parties’ Dispute is resolved through arbitration, the arbitrator may not consolidate another person’s claims with your claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this specific provision is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section shall be null and void.
(g) Severability. With the exception of any of the provisions in Section 11(f) (“Class Action Waiver”), if an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction decides that any part of these Official Rules is invalid or unenforceable, the other parts of these Official Rules will still apply.
- Entrant's Personal Information. Information collected from entrants is subject to the PUBG MOBILE Privacy Policy, which is available at https://www.pubgmobile.com/privacy.html.
- Languages. These Official Rules may be made in multiple language versions. In the event of a dispute as to the terms of different language versions, the English version shall prevail.
- No Affiliation with Social Media Channels. This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, any of the social media channels used in connection with this Contest. You understand that you are providing your information to Sponsor and not to the social media channels. The information you provide will only be used as described in these Official Rules and the PUBG MOBILE privacy policy.
2023.06.07 19:31 ChrisKirigaya Has the game been review bombed? 7.4 feels like a bit low
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2023.06.07 19:21 SiliconeraOfficial My Time at Sandrock Switch, PS5, PC, and Xbox Release Date Set
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2023.06.07 18:50 Justwonderinif Post Conviction II
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Friday, May 28, 2010
July 27, 2010
Thursday, June 9, 2011
January, 2012
June 4, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Sunday, December 29, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
[Post Conviction III>>]()
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Friday, May 28, 2010
- Adnan could have filed for post conviction relief at any time during these past seven years, and did not have to wait ten years. Rabia lied about that.
- According to Rabia, Justin Brown has decided not to subpoena Asia, given her reaction when approached by the PI.
- Attoney Justin Brown files for Post Conviction Relief citing "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" aka "IAC." This filing contains the first appearance of Asia's letters in the record.
- Syed asks for new trial, claiming trial counsel (Gutierrez), and appellate counsel (Warren Brown) were ineffective:
- 1) Gutierrez failed to establish a timeline disproving State's case
- 2) Gutierrez failed to investigate alibi witness (Asia)
- 3) Gutierrez failed to move for new trial based on Asia's statements
- 4) Gutierrez failed to cross-examine Debbie
- 5) Gutierrez failed to pursue a plea offer
- 6) Gutierrez failed to request a change of venue
- 7) Gutierrez failed to investigate Jay
- 8) In Adnan's appeal brief, Warren Brown failed to include the fact that Waranowitz strayed from his area of expertise, at trial.
- 9) Cumulative Ineffective Assistance of counsel.
- [Four years later, on October 18, and November 18, 2014, Rabia lied to the readers of her blog, writing that Adnan was forced to wait ten years to file for post conviction relief. The truth is the defendant has ten years from the date of conviction to file, but cannot file AFTER 10 years. In her book, Rabia wrote that she and Adnan knew all along that Adnan could file for post conviction relief the day after his appeal was denied in 2003]
- [Rabia also lies about how a 2013 google search led her to Sarah Koenig's coverage of Gutierrez' disbarment. Adnan's May 2010 filing for post conviction relief discusses Sarah Koenig's reporting. This is how Rabia would have become aware of Koenig.]
- Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for one year.
- Justin Brown files a Supplement to Adnan's May 28, 2010 Petition for Post Conviction Relief. Cites a 10th point for PCR.
- 10) Sentencing counsel, Charles Dorsey, failed to request that the motion for sentence modification be held in abeyance.
After Syed fired Gutierrez, he was represented by a public defender, Charles Dorsey. Mr. Dorsey filed a Motion for Modification of Sentence. Mr. Syed had just received a sentence of life plus 30 years. Rather than ask the Court to hold that motion in advance and raise it after, up to ten years, which is the common practice when a defendant receives a very long sentence, Mr. Dorsey didn't do that. The court ended up ruling on the Motion for Modification a couple of days after it was filed. And, of course, the motion was denied. So that's our third, ineffective assistance of counsel claim. That he should have handled that differently. - The supplement also included further points Justin Brown wanted to make about Gutierrez's failure to ask for a pleas deal.
July 27, 2010
- State of Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services announces that Fewer Cell Phones Finding Their Way into State Prisons
- According to transcripts, Justin Brown attempts to subpoena Asia. (This could be the reason for one of the postponements.)
- Hae Min Lee 30th birthday
- Motions Hearing. The State Requests the defense file. Transcript Excerpt.
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. First postponement.
- Adnan has been in jail/prison for twelve years.
- Adnan's 30th Birthday
Thursday, June 9, 2011
- Adnan receives Certificate of Achievement at North Branch Correctional.
- Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for two years.
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Second postponement.
- Adnan moves to disqualify Kathleen Murphy as counsel for the state.
- Hae Min Lee 31st birthday
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Third postponement.
January, 2012
- Rabia founds the "Safe Nation Collaborative." Unfortunately, law enforcement has never heard of it.
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Fourth postponement.
- Adnan's motion to disqualify Kathleen Murphy is denied.
- Murphy says she first spoke to Urick about testifying at the PCR in February 2012
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Fifth postponement.
- Adnan has been in jail/prison for thirteen years.
- Supreme Court Decisions [Lafler & Frye] re; Defense Attorney's obligation to seek plea deal
- Adnan's 31st Birthday
- Michael Sye named coordinator of athletics for the Baltimore County Public Schools, the top job in running one of the nation's biggest scholastic sports programs. He oversees competitive athletics for 24 high schools.
- Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for three years.
- Adnan writes Justin Brown, asking for postponement of October court dates, due to a foot injury. No mention of July and August court dates.
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Sixth postponement.
- PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Seventh postponement.
- Transcripts: for Evidentiary Hearing in Post-Conviction Appeal.
- (Shamim's and Rabia's testimony filed and paid for by stop_saying_right after Rabia refused to upload anything but Urick's testimony.)
- Justin Brown opens. He will focus on (3) issues.
- Gutierrez's failure to investigate Asia.
- Gutierrez's failure to pursue a plea offer.
- Dorsey's failure to request that the motion for sentence modification be held in abeyance.
- Kevin Urick testifies:
- Gutierrez never approached him seeking a plea bargain. If he had been approached, there would have been a possibility of a negotiated disposition.
- Asia called him because she was afraid of being forced to testify. She had already made up her mind not to testify when she called Urick. And only called him looking for a way to get out of it.
- Shamim Rahman testifies: Posted and discussed on reddit thanks to SSR.
- Rabia Chaudry testifies: Posted and discussed on reddit thanks to SSR.
- Hae Min Lee 32nd birthday
- Transcripts: for Evidentiary Hearing in Post-Conviction Appeal.
- (Adnan and Meady's testimony filed and paid for by stop_saying_right after Rabia refused to upload anything but Urick's testimony.)
- Adnan Syed testifies. Posted and discussed on reddit thanks for SSR.
- Adnan testifies that he told Dorsey about Asia, but there is no mention of Asia's letters, or giving Dorsey Asia's letters.
- Margaret Meady testifies
- Justin Brown fails to call Andrew Davis, the Private Investigator hired by Flohr and Colbert to investigate the library/track alibi.
- Adnan has been in jail/prison for fourteen years.
- Adnan's 32nd Birthday
- Adnan's Cumberland Evaluation
- Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for four years.
- It has been ten months since the October 2012 Hearing for Post Conviction Relief.
- Rabia says she watched the documentary "West of Memphis," looked up reporters who covered Gutierrez's disbarment, and found Sarah Koenig. Rabia hoped that media attention could influence Welch's pending decision, ten months after the hearing.
- Rabia is lying when she talks about this 2013 google search that led her to Sarah Koenig's coverage of Gutierrez' disbarment for the Baltimore Sun. The truth is that Adnan's May 2010 filing for post conviction relief discusses Sarah Koenig and the coverage in the Baltimore Sun. This is how Rabia would have become aware of Koneig. Not via an August 2013 random google search, after watching West of Memphis.
- Rabia sends a letter to Sarah Koenig, asking her to take a look at the case. Rabia claims the police and prosecutors knew Adnan was innocent, and Gutierrez threw the case for money. Note here that leading up to Serial, Rabia was convinced that Jay did it, and would have pitched the story, with the carrot of exposing Jay.
- Rabia hastily sets up an LLC in Maryland, even though she is not licensed to practice law there.
- In anticipation of meeting with Sarah Koenig, Rabia sets up an office at Security Plaza, across the street from Woodlawn High School.
- Rabia wants Sarah to think this has always been her office, and that this is where she works. The truth is Rabia lives and works in DC.
- Approximate: In her "office" across the street from WHS, Rabia meets with Sarah Koenig, leading Koenig to believe Rabia has had this office for a while. Note here that Jay being the killer would have been part of this conversation.
- Undated: Rabia tells Sarah Koenig that Gutierrez threw the case on purpose, to get more money for the appeal - Despite Gutierrez having suggested that another attorney handle the appeal.
- Adnan receives a letter from Justin Brown saying that a reporter named Sarah Koenig wanted to do an interview. Justin wrote that he didn't think Sarah would waste time on a story if she didn't believe Adnan was innocent. Adnan receives the first letter from Sarah Koenig, a few days later.
- By now, Adnan has received an introductory letter from Sarah Koenig. She sent him a pad and pencil and stamps. Adnan writes Sarah Koenig a letter about his story and case. Discussion.
- Adnan says he wasn't much bigger than Hae.
- Adnan says that students weren't allowed to use the top parking lot. (several WHSers and Krista have said that students used the top parking lot.)
- Adnan describes the route to the Best Buy but neglects to mention the back way.
- Adnan implies that the October 31 break up was the final break up.
- Adnan says that he and Hae would joke about two women calling him on his cell phone at the same time. (Only we know that Adnan's first, ever cell phone was activated the evening of January 12, and there are no calls on the call log that support this story.)
- Hae Min Lee 33rd birthday
- Sarah Koenig meets with Chris Flohr to try to get some sense of Adnan's innocence. She tells Flohr that she won't do the story unless Adnan is innocent. Jay as the killer is context for Koenig's work on Serial.
- Justin Brown talks about the importance of the defense investigator, despite having failed to call the defense investigator at Adnan's PCR hearing.
- Adnan receives a reply letter from Sarah Koenig and puts her on his visitor list. Sarah has decided to report on the story.
- Adnan writes Sarah Koenig to thank her for her letter and let her know she is on his visitor list.
- Adnan tells Koenig that no one but him (and the person who did it) will ever know if he did it or not. Adnan forgetting that Jay also knows the truth.
- Adnan writes: Looking back, I always knew that Jay was jealous of my relationship with Stephanie. Stephanie had told me she was going to break up with Jay when she went off to college. Jay asked me if I knew about it. I told him that I did, and he wasn't too happy about that.
- But on January 5, 2000, Adnan had said: Stepanie was so devoted to Jay that she talked about not going to college and possibly staying with Jay and renting an apartment.
- Breakdown of lies in this letter that Koenig could have questioned, and/or featured in Serial.
- Post Conviction Decision written by Justice Martin P. Welch.
- Andrew Davis in a single car accident, that proves fatal.
- Post Conviction relief denied by Justice Martin P. Welch.
- Koenig says that her first conversation with Adnan took place right after he received Welch's decision. Link to excerpt from first recorded interview
- Asia returns Sarah Koenig's call. Asia tells Sarah that when she was approached by the Defense PI, she "freaked out" and called Urick, who told her Adnan was guilty, so she dodged the attempt to produce her at the PCR.
- Bilal is notified of disciplinary action regarding his dental license, citing un-necessary treatments and overcharging on multiple occasions in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
- Defense files ALA (Applicaton for Leave to Appeal). Adnan's attorneys have to ask for permission to appeal Welch's decision, as there is no guaranteed right to appeal. Defense requests review of two issues:
- 1) Whether Gutierrez was ineffective because she didn't contact/interview Asia
- 2) Whether Gutierrez was ineffective for failing to pursue a plea deal, and telling Adnan she had.
- Adnan Defense Team PI Andrew Davis passes away. He was never asked about Asia or anything about the defense's pre-trial investigation. Drew Davis Photo Album
- Sarah has met with Deirdre Enright who has agreed to work on Adnan's case.
- Two UVA law school clinics begin work on Adnan's case.
- Rabia says that Sarah reached out to Dierdre on her own. But it's clear that Adnan told Sarah about the Justin Wolfe case and subsequently, Deirdre Enright.
- DNA issue important to law student, Mario
- Adnan has been in jail/prison for fifteen years.
- Justin George of the Baltimore Sun begins helping Sarah Koenig, at Rabia's urging. Rabia wanted a local reporter on the story, too.
- Approximate: Sarah emails Young Lee
- Approximate: Sarah interviews one of the prosecuting attorneys, Kathleen Murphy, for two hours
- Sarah and Dana Chivas visit Woodlawn, and surrounding areas:
- Krista shows them her scrapbook, lets them read Adnan's letters, and see her photos of Hae.
- Sarah and Dana Chivas do the drive test that Adnan asked Sarah to do. Rabia asks to go along. Sarah says no.
- Sarah shows Rabia the Enehey Report from the MPIA file. Rabia had never seen it. Sarah has redacted the name of the author of the report. She has promised the author she wouldn't reveal her name. Later, Rabia would post the report on her blog, and tell the world the name of the woman who wrote the report.
- Rabia says in her book that this report explained why the detectives focused in on Adnan. She leaves out that the report was not written until Adnan had been in jail for six months.
- Rabia dates the report as August 24, 1999, without mentioning that by then, Adnan had been arrested, indicted, and awaiting trial for months. (Later, Rabia would say that Justin Brown had a copy of the report in the police file, but never showed it to her.
- Adnan sends Sarah Koenig two "Price of Tea" charts, and asks her to hold them until the next time they speak. In October, of 2014, Koenig wrote about the subsequent conversation here.
- Adnan's 33rd Birthday
- Bilal sexually assaults patients.
June 4, 2014
- Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for five years: Prison Evaluation
Thursday, August 7, 2014
- Sarah and Julie fly to California, two weeks after the original air date for the podcast. Jay wouldn't talk to them on the phone, so they delayed the podcast, and flew to California to blind-side Jay.
- Sarah and Julie arrive at Jay's house. No one is home. They go away, then come back, for the second time, to walk across his lawn, unannounced.
- Jay said this upset his children.
- During the conversation, Jay refers to himself as a "scoundrel with scruples." Jay wisely doesn't see any upside to letting them record an interview.
- Sarah Koenig emails Jay, apologizes for blind-siding him and causing upheaval, suggests they have a drink or coffee, and refers to the project she's working on as a documentary, not a podcast. Sarah tells Jay that the upside to doing a taped interview is that he can tell his version. Her message: "I'm going to do a story and talk about you, whether you like it or not."
- Adnan completes Home Study Programs > 8/22: Substance Abuse 8/22: Anger Management 8/25: Offender Corrections 8/29: Contentious Relationships
- Maryland Court of Special Appeals orders the State of Maryland to file a response to the defense's January 27, 2014 "ALA" (Application for Leave to Appeal). Court asks for State's response to the defense's assertion that Adnan asked for a plea, and Gutierrez failed to seek one. Court sets deadline of November 14, 2014 for State's response
- Adnan completes Home Study Programs > 9/8: Parenting 9/8: Cognitive Awareness 9/12: Theft & Shoplifting 9/12: Domestic Violence 9/12: DUI 9/12: Employment 9/22: Offender Responsibility
- Sarah writes to Rabia that the story will be presented in podcast form, over 12 episodes.
- Serial Episode 1 and 2:
- "The Alibi" Transcript
- "The Breakup" Transcript
- /serialpodcast is created - [will update link soon]
- Rabia's first blog post on Serial; undermining Koenig. Jakeprops says its must-read
- Rabia lies to her readers, writing that Adnan had no choice but to wait for ten years to file for Post Conviction Relief.
- The truth is that the defendant can file any time during those ten years, but not after ten years has lapsed.
- The truth is that in a 2004 letter to Rabia, Adnan articulated his strategy to wait out the years, until the deadline was upon them, and then file for PCR.
- Rabia begins to advertise her version of the story on reddit - [will update link soon]
- Baltimore Sun: Relatives of Convicted Killer Suffer in Silence
- Serial Episode 3: "Leakin Park" Transcript
- Rabia promoted her blog on reddit.
- Hae Min Lee 34th birthday
- Serial Episode 4: "Inconsistencies" Transcript
- Rabia tweets Jay's last name, and it is picked up on reddit. Pictures of Jay's house are posted on reddit as a result.
- Rabia texts Sarah and says that Redditers "figured out" Jay's last name and posted his Facebook.
- Rabia's blog post #2 on Serial. Response to "Inconsistencies"... Rabia reshapes Koenig's narrative. Posted on reddit.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
- Serial Episode 5: "Route Talk" Transcript
- Hae's classmate "Summer" listens, and reaches out to Sarah Koenig. In a later episode, "Summer" sounds an awful lot like "K." Summer has never been heard from again.
- Adnan is a Psychopath thread posted
- Yusuf's response to the Psychopath thread. Yusuf thinks the author is Bilal.
- Rabia's blog post #3 on Serial. Addresses "Route Talk." Reshaping the narrative for her own ends.
- Rabia writes that after her first few blog posts, she received an uncomfortable call from Koenig who rightly felt that Rabia was interfering with the storytelling. Rabia writes that she wasn't going to let this moment pass, but she agreed not to trump Sarah's show.
Monday, October 27, 2014
- Rabia's blog post #4. She is offended at having been called "loosey-goosey"
- Rabia appears on a "google chat" with Pete Rorabaugh.
- Rabia's blog post #5 on Serial. Rabia announces that she will be appearing in a "google chat" every Monday with Pete Rorabaugh. and directs her readers to view the "chats."
- Serial Episode 6: "The Case Against Adnan Syed" Transcript
- Rabia's sixth blog post on Serial. Addresses Serial's latest episode as "The worst of it."
- Google Chat #2 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Bilal signs Department of Health order suspending his license to practice dentistry.
- Serial Episode 7: "The Opposite of the Prosecution" Transcript
- Rabia's seventh Serial blog post promoted on reddit.. Reframes "The Opposite of the Prosecution."
- Asia's classmate sends her a message about Serial via Facebook messenger
- Google Chat #3 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Serial Episode 8: "The Deal with Jay" Transcript
- Rabia's 8th blog post about Serial. She writes about the West Memphis Three, and promotes her blog on reddit
- State misses deadline to respond to defense's January 27, 2014 "ALA."
- Pictures of Jay's house are posted on reddit
- Google Chat #4 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Bilal begins defrauding Medicaid. He will eventually accrue 1.2 million from November 2014 to February 2016
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
- Rabia blogs about her first Facebook post on Adnan's case.
- Serial Episode 9: "To Be Suspected" Transcript
- Rabia blogs about "To Be Suspected," and promotes her blog on reddit.
- Susan Simpson begins writing about Adnan, and posting her blog on reddit. - will update link soon.
- Baltimore Sun: City's Crime Image Based on Truth
- Google Chat #5 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Rabia blogs re; Thanksgiving and letters of support she's received.
- Rabia uploads Jay's first interview and Jen's interview. They are terrible copies she found in the defense file. Rabia still doesn't have the police investigation MPIA file, that Sarah Koenig has.
- Google Chat #6 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Serial Episode 10: "The Best Defense is a Good Defense" Transcript
- Judge Heard posts on Facebook that Adnan is guilty
- Rabia blogs about how Gutierrez swindled them; posts a video of Shamim.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
- Jon Ronson's piece in the Guardian written from an "innocent" perspective, appears to have been placed by a PR firm. Ronson includes Adnan's childhood drawings as originals. A redditor later found that these drawings were copied from a children's book. Not a big deal other than that they were presented as originals, for sympathy.
- Rabia blogs about Serial Episode 10; how Muslim kids in the USA hide things like dating from their parents.
- Google Chat #7 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Rabia posts interviews with Chris Flohr and Justin Brown
- City Paper: Where the Bodies Aren't Buried
- Serial Episode 11: "Rumors" Transcript
- Rabia blogs about how the "Rumors" episode is "Much Ado About Nothing." She has organized a video chat of Adnan's friends to rebut every single one of the rumors.
- Krista creates a FreeAdnan Facebook page.
- Deirdre and Justin Brown have been giving Adnan conflicting advice about how best to proceed, what to push for and when. On Saturday Adnan finally gave Deirdre the go ahead to file the motion to test DNA. It was an emotional decision for him.
- Adnan Syed: It’s just anything about my case, I want to know it. I don’t want anyone to be able to say “well he didn’t want to know so boom, we went and found out.” No, I want to know. So I called Miss Deirdre and said “Look Miss Deirdre, I wanted you to test things. I’m the one that asked for this. You guys had it sitting for sixteen years and you never tested it. It’s impossible for it to be sitting there for sixteen years and you guys never tested it. So that’s fine, I want it tested... I want to see what it says. There’s nothing about my case that I’m afraid of.
- Asia contacts Adnan's defense team, after listening to the podcast
- Baltimore Sun: Serial Brings Healing to Syed Family
- Final Serial Episode (12): "What We Know" Transcript
- Baltimore Sun: Rabia Chaudry Fights for Muslims - and Syed; Firebrand for Muslim Women inspired Serial
- Rabia launches the Adnan Syed Legal Trust on Launchgood.com: Dennis Robinson named Trustee - [Will update link soon]
- Rabia's responds to the final episode of Serial, in her blog and points to Don.
- Deirdre promotes the UVA IP via Time Magazine
- Asia:
- At the 2016 Hearing for Post Conviction Relief, Asia testified that she binge listened to all the episodes at one time.
- At the 2016 Hearing for Post Conviction Relief, Asia testified that she reached out to Justin Brown in "Mid-December 2014."
- At the 2016 Hearing for Post Conviction Relief, Asia testified that Sarah Koenig recommended the attorney that Asia hired, Gary Proctor.
- Rabia asks Sarah Koenig when she can have back all her hard copies and tapes.
- In the same email, Rabia asks if she can have the full police file from Sarah's MPIA request.
- Sarah doesn't realize that Rabia will sell/use documents from Sarah's MPIA request and research to raise money for Adnan's defense fund, and start her own podcast.
- Google Chat #8 with Pete Rorabaugh
- Rabia tweets that she will be selling transcripts. For every $10,000 raised for Adnan, she will release more documents.
- Tanveer characterizes Rabia's activities as a "campaign."
- Jay says that he is looking for an interview in which he can control the conditions. He is looking to expose Sarah Koenig for "who she really is."
- Rabia posts transcripts in keeping with her "transcripts for donations" advertisement.
Sunday, December 29, 2014
- Susan Simpson posts the "previously unpublished" 2003 COSA Denial of Adnan's appeal, and says she filed to obtain this document, but it got water-stained in her mail box while she was out of town. However, this looks "obtained" from Rabia's water damaged documents.
- The Intercept publishes Part I of an Interview with Jay.
- Reddit thread re; this interview: Addressing the Conspiracy Theory - will update link soon
- After receiving more money for Adnan, Rabia posts more transcripts, per her commitment to sell them for donations.
- Thiru Vignarajah named Deputy Attorney General
- The Intercept publishes Part II of an Interview with Jay.
- Sarah Koenig emails Rabia back about returning the documents and tapes. Sarah doesn't respond to Rabia asking for the MPIA documents. Sarah says they never identified Hae's pager.
Monday, January 6, 2015
- Rabia writes in her blog about Jay's lies.
- Rabia posts Sarah's January 3 email in her blog, saying Sarah tried to trick Adnan into thinking she had Hae's pager number when, she didn't.
- Either this day or the next, Sarah calls Rabia, and is super angry: Sarah said she was mistaken, and that they did have Hae's number.
- Sarah said Rabia's posting a private email made Serial look incompetent.
- According to Rabia's book, Sarah and Rabia engage in a a full on shouting match re: "The Best Defense is a Good Defense."
- Rabia is angry that Sarah only aired the part about Adnan being happy with Gutierrez, when he clearly isn't happy, and has a pending IAC claim against her.
- Rabia told Sarah that what she used in Serial could affect Adnan's case. Sarah replied that the IAC wasn't her problem, and [Serial] used what parts of the interviews they wanted due to "editorial discretion."
- [Note: According to Krista, Hae did have a pager.
- After receiving another $10,000 for Adnan's legal fund, Rabia posts two days of trial testimony.
- Jemima Khan asks her twitter followers to support Adnan's legal fund
Saturday, January 10, 2015
- Susan Simpson begins posting snippets of police files obtained via Sarah Koenig's MPIA request. She got them from Rabia who got them from Sarah.
- Baltimore Sun: 'Serial' Prosecutor Speaks Out
- Rabia speaks at Stanford Law School
- At the 2016 PCR Hearing, Asia testified that she wrote her 2015 affidavit, but asked Gary Proctor and his office to look it over for grammar.
- 16th anniversary of Hae Min Lee's death
- Asia signs 2nd affidavit, but it is not yet released to the public.
[Post Conviction III>>]()
2023.06.07 18:45 Davotron425 Spanish interview for AC6
Credit to YouTube channel “absurd” who brought up this interview.
Interview link: https://www.3djuegos.com/preview/-NTVJVOtnoEqpy6c1Ge_
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcLCmGUN1w This is the YouTube video that brought the interview up, it doesn’t show the whole interview, but mentions the main points of it.
A lot of the stuff is reiterating what we already know, however the “a story of hard science fiction” header paragraph has some new things
Here’s the English translation of the interview(note that there may be a few translation issues as it’s done using google translate):
This week, Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have shared the first gameplay trailer for Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, the new episode of a franchise that had been in a lethargy for almost 10 years. Along with the video, details about the game have also been provided, including the release date or special editions. I have also had the opportunity to interview the developers exclusively for 3DJuegos, so you will find general information about this installment below. Thus, the Japanese confirm that the game will be available in stores from August 25 on PC through Steam, as well as on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series XS. We are talking about a kind of reboot, 100% faithful to the Armored Core franchise, although it will bring with it many of the lessons learned in the most recent FromSoftware titles in those of accessibility - without compromising an iota of its devilish difficulty - and the feeling of modernization. You can see it in motion in the video below.
A story of hard science fiction:
AC6 takes us to Rubicon, a relatively small planet surrounded by a mechanical armor. Decades before the events of the game's main campaign, he starred in a cosmic-scale disaster: a burning system that serves as a prologue. The reason why we moved to this hostile place, of course, is that it houses a very valuable substance called Coral. It can be used as fuel and has other equally important uses, so several corporations fight each other for their control. That's where we come in. Playing an improved human working as a mercenary for a mysterious boss who responds to the name of Walter and negotiates contracts for us, we enter the eye of the hurricane along with many others in a situation as precarious as ours; although as the story progresses we end up taking a much more central role in the plot and, according to FromSoftware's indications, we discover things about the nature of the coral, Rubicon, and through our decisions, we alter the course of humanity’s destiny.
It will not be necessary to scrutinize the descriptions of the objects to understand the main story
Talking to 3DJuegos through the assistance of a translator, producer Yasunori Ogura and director Masaru Yamamura explain that the story will be a little easier to understand than in past installments: "as you advance in the story, they give you details about your goal, why you fight and things like that; you don't have to hunt for descriptions of objects to understand That doesn't mean, however, that he's going to give us everything just as chewed. "Throughout the missions, you find things like data files that will give you a little more context about the world and the things that happened in it before your arrival," Yamamura explains. "There are also texts describing the NPCs you fight against in the arena, which give you a little more background about the character in question and his place in the story." But as with all Armored Core - and in any FromSoftware title - the real protagonism is the action, and that's where the classic Arena mode comes into play, which is back with AC6.
Here are other things we have learned: The arena is unlocked at some point in the main campaign The story begins with the fire in Rubicon's star system Although you are still a Raven, some factions give you other nicknames. There is a campaign and PvP, but not cooperative. The character whose wick wears a "mask" in the CGI trailer is important
Fight, lose, go back to the garage:
That FromSoftware games have a reputation for being hard to peel is no secret, and Armored Core specifically carries that as a mantra. I do not exaggerate to tell you that half of any delivery takes place in the garage, cautiously examining the mission report and preparing your fuse to meet the objectives; or making adjustments and performance tests after suffering a game over to have more chances of success in AC6 does not intend to be easier than its predecessors, but it does be more accessible. The feeling that leaves me, from what I have seen and learned from those responsible, is that it will be an intense, fast and visceral Armored Core that puts you in constant tension; although it will speed up visits to the garage to some extent and will make its control scheme slightly more familiar to the users of the Souls. "We have made some changes from the knowledge we have acquired with other recent games," says Yamamura, "the controls are more modern and intuitive." Farewell to the legendary Japanese AC grip (*).
"It is difficult to determine exactly, but in terms of speed and tempo, it is more or less between AC5 and AC3" - for those less familiar with the franchise, that means that it will be quite fast, but not at absurd levels - "and the pace of the combat is much more intense this time, something closer to AC4." That one stood out for having short missions in which you had to unleash an enormous potential, which in turn forced you to put everything on the grill." Part of that has to do with the mechanics of stagger, of dazment.
Boss fights are capital in Armored Core 6: we will fail many missions while learning each one's unique attack patterns It has always been present in the series, but as it was revealed months ago to IGN colleagues, Armored Core 6 will run it in a relatively similar way to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This means that if you attack an enemy aggressively, you end up exhausting him and exposing him to an execution; which is just what happens in the trailer when he sees the pilot grabbing an opponent hand-to-hand. And as we also knew then, boss fights will have a clear role, forcing us to learn their attack patterns.
Other details that I have been able to capture in the interview: PvP modes and PC technical details will be detailed later We will have large, open and unusually vertical maps The parts not only give passive attributes, but also new mechanics There is a lot of interest in doing AC6 gunpla (**), but there is nothing programmed
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Interview link: https://www.3djuegos.com/preview/-NTVJVOtnoEqpy6c1Ge_
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcLCmGUN1w This is the YouTube video that brought the interview up, it doesn’t show the whole interview, but mentions the main points of it.
A lot of the stuff is reiterating what we already know, however the “a story of hard science fiction” header paragraph has some new things
Here’s the English translation of the interview(note that there may be a few translation issues as it’s done using google translate):
This week, Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have shared the first gameplay trailer for Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, the new episode of a franchise that had been in a lethargy for almost 10 years. Along with the video, details about the game have also been provided, including the release date or special editions. I have also had the opportunity to interview the developers exclusively for 3DJuegos, so you will find general information about this installment below. Thus, the Japanese confirm that the game will be available in stores from August 25 on PC through Steam, as well as on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series XS. We are talking about a kind of reboot, 100% faithful to the Armored Core franchise, although it will bring with it many of the lessons learned in the most recent FromSoftware titles in those of accessibility - without compromising an iota of its devilish difficulty - and the feeling of modernization. You can see it in motion in the video below.
A story of hard science fiction:
AC6 takes us to Rubicon, a relatively small planet surrounded by a mechanical armor. Decades before the events of the game's main campaign, he starred in a cosmic-scale disaster: a burning system that serves as a prologue. The reason why we moved to this hostile place, of course, is that it houses a very valuable substance called Coral. It can be used as fuel and has other equally important uses, so several corporations fight each other for their control. That's where we come in. Playing an improved human working as a mercenary for a mysterious boss who responds to the name of Walter and negotiates contracts for us, we enter the eye of the hurricane along with many others in a situation as precarious as ours; although as the story progresses we end up taking a much more central role in the plot and, according to FromSoftware's indications, we discover things about the nature of the coral, Rubicon, and through our decisions, we alter the course of humanity’s destiny.
It will not be necessary to scrutinize the descriptions of the objects to understand the main story
Talking to 3DJuegos through the assistance of a translator, producer Yasunori Ogura and director Masaru Yamamura explain that the story will be a little easier to understand than in past installments: "as you advance in the story, they give you details about your goal, why you fight and things like that; you don't have to hunt for descriptions of objects to understand That doesn't mean, however, that he's going to give us everything just as chewed. "Throughout the missions, you find things like data files that will give you a little more context about the world and the things that happened in it before your arrival," Yamamura explains. "There are also texts describing the NPCs you fight against in the arena, which give you a little more background about the character in question and his place in the story." But as with all Armored Core - and in any FromSoftware title - the real protagonism is the action, and that's where the classic Arena mode comes into play, which is back with AC6.
Here are other things we have learned: The arena is unlocked at some point in the main campaign The story begins with the fire in Rubicon's star system Although you are still a Raven, some factions give you other nicknames. There is a campaign and PvP, but not cooperative. The character whose wick wears a "mask" in the CGI trailer is important
Fight, lose, go back to the garage:
That FromSoftware games have a reputation for being hard to peel is no secret, and Armored Core specifically carries that as a mantra. I do not exaggerate to tell you that half of any delivery takes place in the garage, cautiously examining the mission report and preparing your fuse to meet the objectives; or making adjustments and performance tests after suffering a game over to have more chances of success in AC6 does not intend to be easier than its predecessors, but it does be more accessible. The feeling that leaves me, from what I have seen and learned from those responsible, is that it will be an intense, fast and visceral Armored Core that puts you in constant tension; although it will speed up visits to the garage to some extent and will make its control scheme slightly more familiar to the users of the Souls. "We have made some changes from the knowledge we have acquired with other recent games," says Yamamura, "the controls are more modern and intuitive." Farewell to the legendary Japanese AC grip (*).
"It is difficult to determine exactly, but in terms of speed and tempo, it is more or less between AC5 and AC3" - for those less familiar with the franchise, that means that it will be quite fast, but not at absurd levels - "and the pace of the combat is much more intense this time, something closer to AC4." That one stood out for having short missions in which you had to unleash an enormous potential, which in turn forced you to put everything on the grill." Part of that has to do with the mechanics of stagger, of dazment.
Boss fights are capital in Armored Core 6: we will fail many missions while learning each one's unique attack patterns It has always been present in the series, but as it was revealed months ago to IGN colleagues, Armored Core 6 will run it in a relatively similar way to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This means that if you attack an enemy aggressively, you end up exhausting him and exposing him to an execution; which is just what happens in the trailer when he sees the pilot grabbing an opponent hand-to-hand. And as we also knew then, boss fights will have a clear role, forcing us to learn their attack patterns.
Other details that I have been able to capture in the interview: PvP modes and PC technical details will be detailed later We will have large, open and unusually vertical maps The parts not only give passive attributes, but also new mechanics There is a lot of interest in doing AC6 gunpla (**), but there is nothing programmed
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2023.06.07 18:10 1stforall I’m Kevin, the First Amendment Specialist at the Freedom Forum, and I’m Leigh (they/them), Coordinator of School Outreach Services at the Brooklyn Public Library. We love books and we love the First Amendment and we want to make sure everyone knows, values, and defends both! Ask Us Anything!
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In our 2022 “Where America Stands” survey (https://survey.freedomforum.org/ 2022-update/), the Freedom Forum asked what, if any, would be an appropriate reason to ban books from being taught in classes or available in the library at middle and high school levels. Of the more than 800 Americans we polled, 57% said “none.”
Yet, that same year, American Library Association reported a record 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources (http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022), double the number from 2021 and the highest in the ALA’s 20 years of compiling this data. And almost every week, there is news of another book being removed from a public school classroom under parental challenge.
Books are protected by the First Amendment (http://www.freedomforum.org/books-bans-first-amendment/) to the United States Constitution. The First Amendment also protects parents’ right to petition the government when they feel their needs – and the needs of their children – are not being met. What happens when the First Amendment is being pulled in two different directions? The Freedom Forum is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all. Its First Amendment Specialist Kevin Goldberg (Twitter: @kevinmgoldberg) (https://twitter.com/kevinmgoldberg), an attorney with more than 30 years of experience navigating First Amendment issues, is ready to talk about book bans, parents’ rights and the First Amendment.
Website: www.freedomforum.org Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ FirstAmendmentForAll), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/1stForAll).
Kevin will offer the legal perspective and we’re excited that he’ll be joined by Leigh Hurwitz, Coordinator of School Outreach Services at the Brooklyn Public Library – and not just because we think so highly of BPL that we’re honoring it with one of our annual Free Expression Awards on June 8! Leigh will provide valuable real world perspective on how book bans and challenges are affecting teens throughout the country, what happens when a book is challenged, and how librarians navigate these disputes. Although, it’s really not about the books, but about the people the books represent.
In April 2022, BPL launched Books Unbanned (https:// www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned), an intellectual freedom initiative formed in response to the alarming rise in book bans and challenges, driven by organized political groups across the country. Over the last year, book challenges, which primarily target YA titles, have continued to rise, with the American Library Association reporting (https://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2023) the highest number since they began compiling data two decades ago and nearly double the year before. Moreover, the ALA reports the majority of challenged titles were by or about people of color or members of the LGBTQIA＋ community.
In addition to advocacy, the initiative also supports young adults who are facing censorship in their local schools and public libraries by making our collection available via the National Teen ecard. The ecard provides any young adult (ages 13-21) in the country with free access to BPL’s 500K＋ collection of eBooks and audio https://www.bklynlibrary.org/). Since the start, we have issued over 6,500 ecards to young adults in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, with over 100,000 books having been checked out to date.
All new cardholders are invited to join BPL’s Intellectual Freedom Teen Council (IFTC) which holds monthly virtual meetings that give teens an opportunity to learn about censorship efforts their peers are facing in other parts of the country. In February 2023, BPL teamed up with PEN America to co-host the first-ever Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute https://www.slj.com/story/PEN-America-Brooklyn-Public-Library-To-), a four-part virtual educational and training program for high school students nationwide that prepares and certifies the next generation of free expression advocates to combat book banning and fight for the freedom to read in their schools, libraries, and communities.
Books Unbanned has garnered extensive national and local press coverage and contributed an important counter narrative against the often loud and provocative voices demanding that books be pulled from classrooms and library shelves and demonstrating that libraries have an opportunity to steer the narratives towards the principle of intellectual freedom and the critical role it plays in libraries and a democratic society. The six-member project team was honored as Library Journal’s 2023 Librarians of the Year (https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/) and also received Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Award (https:// www.fastcompany.com/90871466/brooklyn-public-library-booksunbanned) and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s 2023 Defender Award https://www.dramatistsguild.com/news/dramatists-legaldefense-). Brooklyn Public Library is among the borough’s most democratic civic institutions, serving patrons in every neighborhood and from every walk of life. Established in 1896, BPL is one of the nation’s largest public library systems and currently has more than 850,000 active cardholders. With a branch library within a half-mile of the majority of Brooklyn’s 2.7 million residents, BPL is a recognized leader in cultural offerings, literacy, out-of-school-time services, workforce development programs, and digital literacy.
Visit our website. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter(https:// twitter.com/bklynlibrary ), and Facebook (https:// twitter.com/bklynlibrary).
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In our 2022 “Where America Stands” survey (https://survey.freedomforum.org/ 2022-update/), the Freedom Forum asked what, if any, would be an appropriate reason to ban books from being taught in classes or available in the library at middle and high school levels. Of the more than 800 Americans we polled, 57% said “none.”
Yet, that same year, American Library Association reported a record 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources (http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022), double the number from 2021 and the highest in the ALA’s 20 years of compiling this data. And almost every week, there is news of another book being removed from a public school classroom under parental challenge.
Books are protected by the First Amendment (http://www.freedomforum.org/books-bans-first-amendment/) to the United States Constitution. The First Amendment also protects parents’ right to petition the government when they feel their needs – and the needs of their children – are not being met. What happens when the First Amendment is being pulled in two different directions? The Freedom Forum is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all. Its First Amendment Specialist Kevin Goldberg (Twitter: @kevinmgoldberg) (https://twitter.com/kevinmgoldberg), an attorney with more than 30 years of experience navigating First Amendment issues, is ready to talk about book bans, parents’ rights and the First Amendment.
Website: www.freedomforum.org Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ FirstAmendmentForAll), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/1stForAll).
Kevin will offer the legal perspective and we’re excited that he’ll be joined by Leigh Hurwitz, Coordinator of School Outreach Services at the Brooklyn Public Library – and not just because we think so highly of BPL that we’re honoring it with one of our annual Free Expression Awards on June 8! Leigh will provide valuable real world perspective on how book bans and challenges are affecting teens throughout the country, what happens when a book is challenged, and how librarians navigate these disputes. Although, it’s really not about the books, but about the people the books represent.
In April 2022, BPL launched Books Unbanned (https:// www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned), an intellectual freedom initiative formed in response to the alarming rise in book bans and challenges, driven by organized political groups across the country. Over the last year, book challenges, which primarily target YA titles, have continued to rise, with the American Library Association reporting (https://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2023) the highest number since they began compiling data two decades ago and nearly double the year before. Moreover, the ALA reports the majority of challenged titles were by or about people of color or members of the LGBTQIA＋ community.
In addition to advocacy, the initiative also supports young adults who are facing censorship in their local schools and public libraries by making our collection available via the National Teen ecard. The ecard provides any young adult (ages 13-21) in the country with free access to BPL’s 500K＋ collection of eBooks and audio https://www.bklynlibrary.org/). Since the start, we have issued over 6,500 ecards to young adults in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, with over 100,000 books having been checked out to date.
All new cardholders are invited to join BPL’s Intellectual Freedom Teen Council (IFTC) which holds monthly virtual meetings that give teens an opportunity to learn about censorship efforts their peers are facing in other parts of the country. In February 2023, BPL teamed up with PEN America to co-host the first-ever Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute https://www.slj.com/story/PEN-America-Brooklyn-Public-Library-To-), a four-part virtual educational and training program for high school students nationwide that prepares and certifies the next generation of free expression advocates to combat book banning and fight for the freedom to read in their schools, libraries, and communities.
Books Unbanned has garnered extensive national and local press coverage and contributed an important counter narrative against the often loud and provocative voices demanding that books be pulled from classrooms and library shelves and demonstrating that libraries have an opportunity to steer the narratives towards the principle of intellectual freedom and the critical role it plays in libraries and a democratic society. The six-member project team was honored as Library Journal’s 2023 Librarians of the Year (https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/) and also received Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Award (https:// www.fastcompany.com/90871466/brooklyn-public-library-booksunbanned) and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s 2023 Defender Award https://www.dramatistsguild.com/news/dramatists-legaldefense-). Brooklyn Public Library is among the borough’s most democratic civic institutions, serving patrons in every neighborhood and from every walk of life. Established in 1896, BPL is one of the nation’s largest public library systems and currently has more than 850,000 active cardholders. With a branch library within a half-mile of the majority of Brooklyn’s 2.7 million residents, BPL is a recognized leader in cultural offerings, literacy, out-of-school-time services, workforce development programs, and digital literacy.
Visit our website. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter(https:// twitter.com/bklynlibrary ), and Facebook (https:// twitter.com/bklynlibrary).
2023.06.07 18:07 quick_slow Today should be the day to find out if Lil Jay gets a pre trial release as he fights his federal gun case. And no he has not been home. He got picked up from prison and taken to the Kankakee county jail.
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