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Simulation Theory

2024.06.04 16:24 adulting4kids Simulation Theory

Simulation theory is a philosophical concept that suggests reality as we perceive it might be a simulated or artificial construct rather than an objective, independent existence. Proponents argue that advanced civilizations could create realistic simulations, and if such simulations are numerous, the odds are that we are living in one. It's a thought experiment rather than a scientifically proven theory.
Simulation theory posits that our reality may be akin to a computer-generated simulation rather than an independently existing, fundamental reality. This idea stems from the possibility that technologically advanced civilizations could create highly realistic simulations populated with conscious entities. If such simulations outnumber actual realities, the likelihood of being in a simulated existence increases. However, it's crucial to note that this is speculative and lacks empirical evidence. It's more of a philosophical concept than a scientific theory at this point.
The concept of a simulated reality has roots in philosophical and scientific discussions over time, but the modern articulation of simulation theory is often credited to philosopher Nick Bostrom. In 2003, Bostrom presented a paper titled "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" where he formulated the simulation argument, outlining the idea that advanced civilizations could create ancestor simulations, and the likelihood of us living in one of these simulations. While Bostrom popularized the contemporary discussion on simulation theory, it's essential to acknowledge that similar ideas have appeared in various forms throughout history.
Philip K. Dick, a science fiction writer, explored themes related to reality, identity, and the nature of existence in many of his works. While he didn't explicitly propose simulation theory, some of his writings, such as "Ubik" and "A Maze of Death," delved into the blurring boundaries between reality and illusion. Dick's stories often questioned the nature of perception and the subjective experience of reality, influencing discussions on topics that align with aspects of simulation theory. While not a proponent of the formal simulation theory, Dick's ideas have contributed to the broader exploration of reality in science fiction literature.
Philip K. Dick's works frequently explore the concept of alternate realities, simulated environments, and the fragility of perceived truths. In novels like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the film "Blade Runner"), he delves into the nature of consciousness and the artificial creation of beings that question the boundaries of humanity.
Dick's narratives often involve characters experiencing a shifting, uncertain reality, prompting readers to question the nature of their own existence. While not explicitly framing his stories within a simulation theory context, Dick's exploration of these themes has influenced the broader cultural conversation about reality, perception, and the potential for simulated experiences.
Several other writers have explored themes related to simulated realities, alternate dimensions, and the nature of existence. Some notable examples include:
  1. Arthur C. Clarke: In his "Odyssey" series, particularly "2001: A Space Odyssey," Clarke touches on themes of extraterrestrial influence and the evolution of human consciousness, hinting at the possibility of a higher intelligence shaping human experiences.
  2. William Gibson: As a pioneer in cyberpunk literature, Gibson's works like "Neuromancer" and "Virtual Light" delve into virtual realities, cyberspace, and the blending of human consciousness with technology.
  3. Stanisław Lem: The Polish science fiction writer explored philosophical and existential questions in works like "Solaris," where the nature of reality is profoundly questioned in the context of an alien planet.
  4. Isaac Asimov: While best known for his contributions to robotics and artificial intelligence, Asimov's stories often touch on the impact of advanced technology on human perception and reality.
  5. Greg Egan: A contemporary science fiction writer, Egan's works such as "Permutation City" and "Diaspora" explicitly engage with ideas related to simulated realities, consciousness, and the nature of existence.
These authors, among others, have contributed to the rich exploration of these themes in science fiction literature. Each brings a unique perspective to the question of what it means to exist and the potential complexities of reality.
  1. Neal Stephenson: In "Snow Crash," Stephenson blends cyberpunk elements with a virtual reality metaverse, exploring the implications of a digital realm on society and identity.
  2. H.P. Lovecraft: While primarily known for cosmic horror, Lovecraft's stories often involve encounters with incomprehensible entities and dimensions that challenge the sanity of those who perceive them, hinting at the fragility of human understanding.
  3. Douglas Adams: In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, Adams uses humor and absurdity to comment on the arbitrary and chaotic nature of the universe, prompting readers to question the reliability of their perceptions.
  4. Greg Bear: In "Queen of Angels," Bear explores the intersection of neuroscience and virtual reality, raising questions about the malleability of consciousness and the potential for constructed realities.
  5. Rudy Rucker: A mathematician and science fiction author, Rucker's "Ware Tetralogy" delves into the world of artificial intelligence, uploaded consciousness, and the blurring of boundaries between the physical and digital realms.
These writers have made significant contributions to the exploration of reality, consciousness, and simulated experiences within the realm of speculative fiction. Their diverse perspectives and imaginative storytelling continue to influence discussions about the nature of existence and the possibilities of alternate realities.
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2024.06.04 14:03 Shieldscollin 32nd Birthday 32 Deck Challenge (Pt. 1)!

Hey folks, I recently theorycrafted 32 pretty unique decks and I'd love if you took a look at them and shared some thoughts! I have 8 years of experience playing Commander (started playing in Shards of Alara) and my experience runs from random sweaty anti-social LGS pods to house-rule home-brew home-boy tabletop pods.
I have the decks numbered from 1 to 5. 1 being the least "powerful" and 5 being cEDH or cEDH adjacent. What that means is that there's some strategies and cards at those higher numbers I won't use for the lower numbers. Not trying to force that on other people, that's just what I do.
TIERS
Tier 1 is Jank tier, it's just mostly old cards, budget builds, and bad tribal or theme decks. Really defined more by what it isn't than what it is. Tier 2 are more well-supported archetypes built around more mechanics than a theme. Kind of built at the same level as where pre-Wilds of Eldraine precons were. Tier 3 are your average post-Wilds precon "casual" decks. Tier 4 these are your average "power level 7 decks" where "degenerate" strategies are available like MLD, infect, infinite combos, free sacrifice outlets, storm etc. Tier 5 is cEDH or cEDH adjacent. For me that means everything above with the addition of tutors, fast mana, and hard lock stax pieces (winter orb, tangle wire, etc).
TIER 1 DECKS
White Zombies 1 - Hipster Zombie Tribal // Commander / EDH (God-Eternal Oketra) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This list hearkens back to the days when mono-W had no card draw and we had to walk uphill both ways. Outside of good old Mentor of the Meek, you had to have a mana sink to stay in the game. So the idea here is to use Oketra's cast trigger and a Whitemane Lion (or two of the lesser ones together) to use as a mana sink to pump out an army of beefy, vigilant zombies. Has to use some interesting "overrun" effects to steal a win sometimes like Akroma's Blessing.
Non-W Radiation 1 - Atomic Ascension // Commander / EDH (Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder (and [[Bloodchief Ascension]]): I love Fallout almost as much as I hate the options for 4-color commanders. Luckily, Yidris looks just like a supermutant! And they released a 3-color deck in his colors based around mutants? Perfect. This deck just mashes all the radiation cards together and the twist with Yidris is that the only 1-drop in the deck is Bloodchief Ascension which works really, really well with Radiation both in that it turns it on really easy and it magnifies the damage radiation deals.
Dimir Beaters 1 - Blackwater // Commander / EDH (Jon Irenicus, Shattered One) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This is hands down my favorite deck. Most people run Jon as a give-away bad gifts commander but I find that actually makes Jon way way more of a target than he deserves and when he's down your hand is full of dead draws. So what I did instead was make this a midrangey aggro deck with Jon acting essentially as Halana and Alena, Partners. He just gives pseudo-haste and a buff to a beater AND he makes 1/3 of your opponents not care about removing it. They might even protect it! And sometimes if y'all feeling crazy or you just need to remove a player you can pass Jon along to willing teammates for a voluntary Slicer effect.
5-Color Pillowfort 1 - Can't Touch This // Commander / EDH (Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: The goal of this deck is to play STAX. And by that I mean prevent the opponents from doing what their deck tries to do, if that thing is killing you. Ok this is just pillowfort. The only gimmick is that you can use the commander to give a Veteran Bodyguard or an infini-blocker indestructible.
Gruul Dragons & Burn 1 - Reign of Fire // Commander / EDH (Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This is just dragon tribal. Its gimmick is that it uses Earthquake effects as asymmetrical boardwipes. This is built like a burn deck so I tried to think of each dragon by how much damage it would get in before it got removed. It also has some fun tech in here like Overabundance/Descent into Avernus to help out your aggro/burn plan.
Red Budget Voltron 1 - The Chosen Undead ($50 Budget) // Commander / EDH (Squee, Goblin Nabob) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This is a budget deck so I'm gonna need some slack here! Basically the gameplan is murder hobo your way through the game by just killing everything until all that's left is your unkillable commander and his bottomless inventory of weapons. There's some discard shenanigans in here which is why I picked Nabob over the Immortal (and I didn't want to get into combo territory). Isamaru is kinda powercrept out but he proves that sometimes Voltron decks just need the commander to bt e there.
TIER 2
Bant Angels 2 - Chicks that are Birds // Commander / EDH (Susan Foreman and The Eighth Doctor) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: Angel Tribal. I use Susan Foreman and a high land count to reliably cast explosive vegetation. This allows me to play really nothing under 4cmc in this deck. and NO mana rocks People used to do this with Radha but I'd be lying if I said Salubrious Snail didn't remind me of this. The eighth doctor is in here for late-game card advantage and to enable things like Trinisphere (since my curve is so high).
Orzhov Hatebears 2 - 3rd Party Consent // Commander / EDH (Athreos, God of Passage) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This deck is a pretty theoretical politics/hatebears build that focuses on hating out very common "meta" strategies. The thing is that opponents aren't running the same strategies. So, god forbid, if one of your hatebears dies, you can just ask the other opponent if he wants to enable the guy it actually affects. A weird prisoner's dilemma and a fun challenge. What I intentionally didn't add were aristocrats effects because the SECOND you gain some advantage from the opponent agreeing to let you have something they'll deny it to you instead. Idk just win with Rise of the Dark Realms or something. Still figuring that out...
Abzan Deathtouch 2 - Crawling Men // Commander / EDH (Tymna the Weaver and Kamahl, Heart of Krosa) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: If you're familiar with flying men this is just that, but on the ground. Use early game deathtouchers and Tymna to get a draw engine going and then just annoy the hell out of people until you get enough mana to cast Garruk and unlock trample/deathtouch shenanigans. There's probably too many 1-drops in this but it's worked fine so far. This might indicate this could go to a higher power level if I tuned it more.
Jeskai Non-Combo Mill 2 - Deckmate // Commander / EDH (Pramikon, Sky Rampart) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: The problem with non-combo mill in EDH is that you have to mill 300 cards away from people who are all irrationally trying to kill you. With Pramikon you can narrow that number down to 1! Ideally, Pramikon allows you to access cards that would normally only work well in a traditional 1v1 game of commander (usually Planeswalkers, I have a few). For us that means monarch payoffs and single-target removal. Might even get to successfully use a Circle of Protection depending on who's next to you!
Boros Forced Combat 2 - Hard Kor // Commander / EDH (Tajic, Blade of the Legion) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: This deck is all about Stuffy Dolls. Everybody knows you can Blasphemous act a stuffy doll for a cool 13 damage. But did you know, when you have a Kor out, you can make that 26? When those things aren't available you can use forced combat to have opponents hit each other. It's also very easy to have a whole team forced to block your Stuffy Doll. That's always fun. Your commander is honestly just there for defense.
Colorless Howling Mine Tribal 2 - Let me be your Liberator // Commander / EDH (Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter) deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder: Honestly, most colorless decks just feel like mono-Green decks. Just ramp as fast as you can to Kozilek or whatever card-draw engine commander you have up there to make sure you don't just ramp into nothing or eat a boardwipe. Then I saw Liberator...and yeah it's still kinda bad. We have the same problem of just not having any draw powemana sink ability. So I just decided to make card draw as irrelevant as possible by playing Howling Mine tribal. Almost everything that draws everybody cards is in here. A word of caution: In my experience these kind of card draw group hug games only go 2 ways: 1. Everyone draws all their answers, the board is constantly wiped, the game takes forever, 2. Combo/Storm players just draw faster into a winning state before they can get aggro'd out. So what do you do? Just make the grindiest possible deck that can survive boardwipes and stax out combos and outlast until you can hit Kozilek and lock everyone out...or something. Needs work I'll be honest. I put this in T2 only because I'll likely be playing other Eldrazi titans if I get them and it didn't feel right to put them in T1.
CLIFFHANGER
Well that took a lot longer to write up than I thought. Most of y'all are probably asleep by now xD If there's enough interest I'll post the rest on here later.
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2024.06.04 12:36 Catvispresley The Tenebrous Codex: Rites of the Unseen Blade - the Book of the Assassin

The Tenebrous Codex: Rites of the Unseen Blade

Those who walk the path of the unseen blade are chosen by the infernal forces that govern the realms of shadow and sovereignty. Theirs is a sacred duty to uphold the balance, culling threats to individual will with silent lethality.
Study the habits of your quarry as a hunter studies their prey. Gather intelligence on their strengths and frailties, for knowledge is the assassin's most potent weapon. Consecrate your tools with the sigils of the damned, imbuing them with infernal might.
Cloak yourself in the veil of the abyss, bending shadows to your will. Move unseen, a specter in the night, until you are within striking distance of your adversary. Let no celestial ward or occult trap bar your path.
When the time is nigh, invoke the rites of unbinding to sever your target's tether to this realm. Wield the Infernal Fang (A Consecrated Athame), forged in the fires of perdition, to exsanguinate their essence. Show no mercy, for yours is the work of preservation.
Once the deed is done, make your escape with haste. Employ astral projection to elude pursuit, or seek sanctuary in the hallowed places where even angels fear to tread. Shed no tears for the fallen - their fate was sealed the moment they defied sovereignty.
Meditate on the lessons of each assignment. Adapt your methods, refine your craft. For the path of the assassin is one of constant evolution, matching wits against the celestial forces that would see all individuality extinguished.
In the name of Khemu and the infernal patrons, uphold the sacred tenets. Your blade is the last bastion against the tyranny of spirits. Never falter in your conviction, for you are the unseen guardians of mortal sovereignty.
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2024.06.04 06:33 Imagen-Breaker Debunking Beyond The Right Arm Asspull

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I really don't think Touma's Dragons or whatever are ever used as an asspull in the narrative except in Railgun which wasn't even directly written by Kamachi. I'll address all the major instances IT comes out and debunk asspull claims.

OT2: Unfortunately the Toaru fandom is as blind towards Stiyl as modern Kamachi is so I'll just paste this here:

“No, no. Listen to you—seems you didn’t notice my help.” Stiyl’s grin was cocky, like he was purely making fun of him. “You stood still and dodged Aureolus’s bullets twice after your arm got cut off. How on earth do you think that happened?”
“...Huh?”
“It’s true that your act fooled Aureolus completely. But there was no way your bluff would sink in right away, right? Twice, after your arm was cut off and you started your comedy routine. Wasn’t it because you effortlessly avoided his attacks that he started to believe in you?”
“...Umm.”
Kamijou stared blankly at Stiyl like a fool.
“You still don’t understand? Let me spell it out for you. Aureolus’s first two attacks didn’t fail because your bluff was working. I simply used magic to screw with Aureolus’s sense of distance.”
“What...!?”
Kamijou was startled.
“Is it that surprising? My specialty is fire. It’s really not difficult to make a heat mirage, change where the light gets refracted, and blur his vision,” he explained like it was a trifling matter.
“No, not that! I’m not surprised about that! You were a flesh planetarium at the time, floating in the air! You were still able to use magic like that!?”
“Flesh planetarium, eh? Quite a merry way of putting it...But there’s no real problem, is there? I was still alive at the time, so there’s no reason I couldn’t temper my life force to refine it into magic power. Fortunately for me, the rune cards I had hidden scattered everywhere when my body exploded, too.”
Kamijou stared at him, flabbergasted.
The incidents had involved vampires and Deep Blood...This guy here wasn’t the—couldn’t have been the biggest monster of them all, could he?
The reason why Touma's crazy act on Izzard even worked and why he missed him with his blade bullets was because Stiyl messed with Aureolus' sense of distance using heat to distort his vision, if he didn't then Touma would've been killed before the Dragon came out.
The only thing Dragon King did here was scare the shit out of Aureolus by invading his domain and erase his memories. Dragon King merely finished the job, without Stiyl Kamijou would've been Kami/jou.

OT22: Fiamma of The Right was defeated by the efforts of the World, not the Invisible Thing.

A different power appeared above that great power that had gathered around Kamijou’s shoulder. That other power seemed to open up a large mouth and swallow up the first power. As if this giant mouth was chewing, the air around the shoulder shook looked like sugar water.
That great power was smashed in an instant.
“...You,” muttered Kamijou as his lips moved. “I don’t know who you are.”
His words were not especially loud.
And yet they still stabbed into the depths of Fiamma’s ears. His heart uncontrollably went on such high guard that he felt like overlooking a single twitch of a finger or blink of an eye could have a major effect on the outcome of the battle.
“And I don’t know what you’re trying to do.”
Kamijou was not looking at Fiamma of the Right, the possessor of the greatest power even among God’s Right Seat.
Fiamma did not know what he was speaking to. “But…”
That may have been something only Kamijou Touma could understand.
At any rate, he continued to speak.
“…You stay silent. I’ll take care of this.”
Fiamma heard a damp noise and the next thing he knew, a right arm had already extended from Kamijou Touma’s shoulder. He had eaten away such a massive power and then grown a new part of his body.
(He…threw it away…?)
Fiamma tried to mutter those words, but he realized afterwards that he had not said them out loud.
His throat dried and a feeling like something was clinging there remained.
(He gave up all that power to get Imagine Breaker back…?)
Kamijou gave up the power of the second power and the invisible thing because he wanted to fight Fiamma with his right fist which then made the power in IB that Fiamma had acquired slowly fade from his body.
Even then, Fiamma had the Imagine Breaker arm inside his body after having disassembled it. However, he could tell the shining power was gradually fading from the flesh and blood he had acquired. It was such a unique power that two of it could not exist within the same world. The scene made Fiamma think that such a rule must exist. And that rule might also have been that the true power could only reside within the right arm if it was attached to the boy known as Kamijou Touma.
This eliminated his Superiore a Dio status. Returning him to just Holy Right.
A tremendous shock shook the Star of Bethlehem.
The golden light had exploded.
“What…?”
But a great disaster did not assault the earth as Fiamma of the Right had expected. Nor was the earth dyed gold like the heavens. The great amount of Telesma that was fired down from the Star of Bethlehem was obstructed by something.
“That should have reached the necessary output!! That should have created the amount of destruction on the earth needed to complete the conditions for my strategy effectively supporting my victory!! What happened…!?”
The tragedy he wished for had not occurred.
Instead of recognizing the increase in malice, the tragedy had been held in check which had wiped the dark parts from the people’s hearts.
It may have been nothing more than a temporary excited feverishness similar to the global unity felt only during a sports festival.
But even if it was only for a moment, the people of the earth felt that they were all the world needed.
They felt that anyone offering salvation while looking down on them should just fuck off.
“Is that enough for you?”
Kamijou Touma stepped forward with his fist still clenched.
He took one, two, three steps.
“It’s time for you to give it a rest with this illusion of yours.”
Holy Right is a power that feeds off the malice of the world. In that moment when the Churches came together to fight off the golden hands everyone realized that they no longer needed a great savior to come and save them which nullified Holy Right's power source.
Kamijou’s power had not been increased. Imagine Breaker was nothing more than Imagine Breaker.
Fiamma’s third arm that responded to malice had been weakened to the point that it could be destroyed by even Imagine Breaker. Small pieces of virtue had spread like ripples until they had filled the entire surface of the earth effectively breaking the core that supported Fiamma’s power.
The power that made Fiamma of the Right special no longer existed.
It was doubtful whether he could use his direct attacks with his third arm or his evasion using instantaneous horizontal movement over kilometers.
Given that, he had no way of stopping Kamijou Touma’s advance.
Fiamma had been weakened to the point that Imagine Breaker alone was enough to defeat him, he was just a normal human now and that had nothing to do with the power beyond the right hand but the world coming together in WW3.

NT14: Kamisato Kakeru

Kamijou and Kamisato weren't really enemies at this point, Kamisato was just curious as to what would happen if his right hand clashed with Kamijou's. The experiment did show that Kamijou was top dog but the narrative did not provide Kamijou with a save here since it was just a game.
“My World Rejecter and your Imagine Breaker are the ultimate weapon and the ultimate shield. If the world’s two most extreme irregulars clash, which one will win?”
“It might not be that big a deal.”
“Really? I’m actually a little worried that it might cause something like an antimatter reaction.”
Great strength filled both fists.
“No tricks this time.”
“Right.”
The unreliable illumination from the streetlights suddenly vanished.
Complete darkness fell.
And in that darkness, something happened.
A deafening noise rang out.
Nah lmao Kamachi knows what he's doing, wrote the obligatory IB and WR clash as a game between the two so that it wouldn't be used as asspull writing by fans. I give Kamachi a lot of shit but he's very smart at battle mechanics.
They previously already fought but there wasn't a moment where the two would just punch each other's fists at once since that's not very practical to happen naturally in a fight and Imagine Breaker and World Rejecter worked differently with IB being purely contact based while WR being contact based but effecting things touched by its shadow upon a key phrase being uttered so their fists clashing naturally in a serious fight wouldn't make sense so it happening out of curiosity as a game is perfect.

NT22: Coronzon

Now I do admit that this one might seem like an asspull but seeing as how Coronzon was already kicked out of her vessel by Accelerator and if she screwed up the Magic Gods could kill her she was no longer as much of a threat as she originally was so the moment is forgivable based on the fact that Coronzon was on her last legs now and just wanted the AAA as a last attempt to get some kind of other vessel before getting back her organic vessel later. She could be killed by Imagine Breaker now or sealed by the Church in her current state.
“The Secret and Unrecorded Call: Thy name is ******. *********************************************************.”
The voice from the hair spoke words no human could pronounce.
Researchers could not agree on whether only angels could see that text, if it pointed to all thirty Aethyrs, and what effect it had.
And Coronzon’s gaze and outstretched hand were not directed at her immediate attacker.
This magic was targeted elsewhere.
“Kh! Lock it down! Close all ports!!”
The baby shouted via the trumpet toy, but they must not have known what she meant.
Yes.
Aleister and Coronzon used the same sort of magic.
And whose spells was the A.A.A. on Misaka Mikoto’s back meant to support?
So what if it had been released from the silver girl’s control, leaving it free for other use?
“Ah.”
By the time the weapon arm moved on its own, it was too late.
A rainbow-colored beam of light erupted out as a merciless surprise attack from behind Kamijou Touma.
There was nothing he could do.
A sizzling sound followed.
Kamijou Touma’s right arm was forcibly severed at the shoulder and flew through the air. Even if it functioned as a reference point for the world, it could not be converted into a destructive power once it was removed from his body. It could not punch Coronzon in the face anymore.
“!!”
Not only that but another element of the asspull in story tropes is the fact that it has zero consequences which wasn't the case here as we saw with NTR22 KnT came out thanks to Coronzon and caused a problem that lasted an entire novel. If we take the fact that Coronzon was beaten with something that did cost the characters real problems later then its no longer an asspull because consequences were present.

GT7: The Gryphon

This was will take the least work to debunk because the Gryphon was just a monster that Alice summoned and Touma took care of as a reference to the Jabberwocky (a dragon) killing the Gryphon in Alice in Wonderland. It wasn't a major threat in the plot but a small inconvenience which is even more forgivable than Coronzon I mentioned earlier since it was never a massive threat to begin with.
Defeating the giant Gryphon wasn’t the end of it. it probably didn’t even qualify as one of the main cards in Alice Anotherbible’s deck. Kamijou was already battered before even arriving in front of her. If he couldn’t defeat her at his best, what hope did he have in his current state?
Another similarity to Coronzon is the fact that this save also comes with consequence.
He heard an unpleasant tearing sound.
He felt searing heat.
But.
His arm exploded.
Something burst from within his torn-off right arm and rapidly expanded within the bird of prey’s mouth.
The Gryphon’s silhouette burst like a balloon.
“Ah, ahh, ahhh, ahhhh, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
(This isn’t over.)
I strongly think that last line is KnT still inside IB promising to come out again because the arm was ripped off.
That's everything. This was a response to a Reddit post that called the power beyond the right hand an asspull and I felt like debunking it. I still agree it's an asspull in Daihasei Festival but that's because it wasn't directly written by Kamachi cause it's Railgun.
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2024.06.04 05:09 healthmedicinet Health Daily News June 3 2024

DAY: June 3 2024
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NEW MACHINE LEARNING METHOD CAN BETTER PREDICT SPINE SURGERY OUTCOMES

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PEDIATRICIAN SUGGESTS FIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE A PLAYDATE

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UNDERSTANDING HOW THE BRAIN CONTROLS SOCIAL GAZE

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WHY YOU MAY NOT BE GETTING THE BENEFITS YOU EXPECTED FROM MINDFULNESS

You’ve probably seen the word mindfulness everywhere these days, from the news, to magazines, to social media. Mindfulness is sometimes packaged as a mental health cure-all, and studies do suggest that mindfulness-based therapies support mental health. Your friends or family may even have told you that mindfulness has changed their lives. But if you have tried mindfulness and feel like it isn’t working for you, our developmental psychology research might explain why. In our recent study, we have found that being highly mindful may not be beneficial for all. Instead,
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MOST SLEEP TIPS SHARED ON TIKTOK ARE SUPPORTED BY SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

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2024.06.04 04:22 Slab_ofBeef I just finished a relisten of Balance, and I was reminded that I thought up some movesets for the Tres Horny Bois in Smash Bros, despite the fact that I know they will NEVER make it in. It's just a fun thing I thought of. Also warning, it's a bit long.

For all 3 of the bois, I have included a list of the magic items they will use in their movesets, and all 3 will use their Grand Relic in their Final Smash.
Another commonality between all 3 are some of the alternate costumes. The default is how they look by the end of the finale. One alt is their IPRE attire. One is the battle wagon masks (for Magnus in particular, it also includes his outfit from the Battlefest live show). One is the Null Suits. I could easily see Maguns having a mannequin alt and Lup being one of Taako’s.Magnus Burnsides, Human Fighter(Battlemaster)/Rouge
Weapons & Magic Items:
The hitboxes of his weapons have some unique properties. Railsplitter has uniform damage across the handle and axe blade, but the blade has significantly more knockback and shield damage. The rapier has a tipper like Marth. The Chance Lance has the most reach as it’s a spear, but all it’s damage is the same across the weapon. When a Phantom Fist punch connects, it deals relatively mediocre damage, but ridiculous knockback.
Jab: a 3 hit jab that uses Railsplitter Ftilt: a 2 part attack like Hero or Snake with the rapier
Uptilt: a quick overhead arc with the rapier
Dtilt: a poke with the rapier
Fsmash: a powerful horizontal cleave with Railsplitter Upsmash: a quick uppercut with the Phantom Fist Dsmash: Magnus dual-wields Railsplitter and the rapier, one swing with each weapon on each side of him Dash attack: a short charge forward using the Shield of Heroic Memories to bash people Nair: a twirl of the Chance Lance similar to Palutena. If he doesn’t have the Chance Lance, he does a quick chop in front and behind him with Railsplitter Fair: horizontal slice with the rapier Bair: a backhand with Phantom Fist Upair: imagine Greninjas up smash, but in the air and Magnus uses Railsplitter and the rapier Dair: a downward punch with Phantom Fist. This spike is as strong as Ganon’s stomp Grab: Magnus uses his left hand with the Fletcher’s Mitt. It has the unique property of being able to grab any physical projectile and throw it back. If Magnus grabs another characters arrow (Links or Byleth), then he will use it in his Shortbow Forward Throw: the target just gets absolutely yote by Magnus Up Throw: the opponent gets tossed up then the Chance Lance thrown into them. If the Chance Lance is unavailable, then they just get tossed Back Throw: a quick punch to the gut with Phantom Fist Down Throw: Magnus elbow drops whoever he’s grabbed Neutral Special: Magnus throws the Chance Lance. It can be charged, and like Link’s bow, charging it longer makes it: go further, do more damage, and fly with less of an arc. After it impacts a wall, character, or floor, it stops. Magnus no longer has the Chance Lance until you use the move again to recall the Chance Lance. It then flies back to where Magnus is, damaging anyone it hits. Side Special: a quick shot of his shortbow, the arrow flies like Byleth’s arrow, with a bit more range, but it looks like a regular arrow. Up Special: Magnus uses his grappling hook. On the ground, if it hits a character it will pull them to Magnus. In the air, if it hits a character, then Magnus and the target are pulled toward each other and meet in the middle. Down Special: this move functions differently if you press or hold the button. If simply pressed, Magnus uses the Battlemaster maneuvers Parry and Riposte. Parry reduces incoming damage, and Riposte is a counter attack. So Magnus still takes damage in his counter, but less than the attack he countered would deal. Final Smash: Magnus uses his Grand Relic, the Temporal Chalice, to freeze time for an area in front him, stopping any enemies in the area. He then equips the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom, and goes absolutely ham on them. He then unfreezes his target(s) and they go flying.
Taako, elven Wizard(Transmutation)
Weapons & Magic Items:
Dash Attack: Taako envelops himself in a Fire Shield as he burns his opponents
Grab: Evard’s Black Tentacles come out of the Umbra Staff to grab the target. 
Forward Throw: Gust of Wind launches the other player forward some, then Magic Missile gets fired into them Up Throw: Taako uses Thunderwave to launch his opponent extremely high up Back Throw: Taako just uses Evard’s Black Tentacles to toss them behind him Down Throw: Cone of Cold is fired directly into their face like Ness or Charizard down throw Nair: Shatter is cast on Taako to create a quick hitbox around him Fair: a criss-cross slash with a kitchen knife in each hand Upair: Taako tosses a knife up over him, which will keep its hitbox as it falls to the ground Bair: a wide swing of a large frying pan, it’s Taako’s strongest melee move Dair: Taako swings a meat cleaver underneath him for a spike of moderate strength Neutral Special: a Fireball starts charging on the tip of the Umbra staff. This will function more like how it’s intended in D&D, which is like a grenade. Taako fires out a small orb that when it impacts anything (wall, floor, other player), it creates a giant, well, ball of fire. The longer it was charged, the bigger the explosion and more damage. Side Special: Taako uses Phantom Steed and summons Garyl, the bi-nicorn . It would summon similarly to Wario’s bike, but not function like it. Garyl does one charge forward that can go for longer if you hold down the button Up Special: Taako uses Polymorph and transforms into a beautiful dove and flies up into the air. While he is a dove, he takes extra knockback because he’s so light. You don’t have much horizontal control as a dove, and there is no hitbox on his body. This puts Taako into special fall. Down Special: Taako teleports using Blink, then if he’s in the air, he opens the Umbra Staff and uses Feather Fall to a similar effect to Peach’s Up Special. Final Smash: Taako uses his Grand Relic, the Philosopher’s Stone to turn a large circle of the ground into sapphire, which opens a portal to the Astral Plane. Out comes Taako’s boyfriend, the grim reaper Kravitz, who dashes forward attacking anyone with his scythe, which launches them into a cutscene where they get blitzed by Taako, Kravitz, Lup, and Barry (Lup and Barry have a 50/50 chance each to be in their lich or physical forms)
[If Lup did was an alt, then when she created the portal Barry in his lich form would come out instead of Kravitz]
Merle Highchurch, dwarf Cleric of Pan(god of nature)
Weapons & Magic Items:
Side Special: Blade Barrier creates a wall of magic blades in front of Merle that blocks projectiles and deals up to 3 hits. It travels forward slightly when it’s summoned, and about the size of Palutena’s Reflect rectangle.
Up Special: Merle mounts his Broom of Flying and shouts its activation phrase “Hang 10!”, then launches up a distance that is balanced for having a small, weak hitbox, and it controls like Lucario’s Up Special at about half aura
Down Special: Merle summons the Guardian of Faith. This creates an angelic warrior that hangs around the spot she was summoned and deals an extremely powerful blow to anyone who gets too close. She stays until she deals 3 hits
Final Smash: Merle dons his Grand Relic, the Gaia Sash, and summons a tornado which launches targets to a field where Team Sweet Flips absolutely mess them up alongside Merle going absolutely ham with the powers of nature. It ends by using another tornado to launch the other characters back to the game
All 3 of them would have the same brand logo on their character portraits, which is the logo for the Bureau of Balance.
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2024.06.04 03:46 Plotarmor69 Rose post heresy part 2

The Deal
The crew member's face was a grim mask of fear and worry as he hoisted Rose to his feet, draping Rose's arm over his shoulder. They stumbled along the darkened hallways of the ship, the floors slick with the blood dripping from the butcher’s nails Rose had plunged into his head, shoulders, and arms. It was a miracle Rose was still conscious, let alone moving and speaking, the crew member thought.
“Please Sir you need help, I beg you please. The med bay it’s just down . .” Rose’s free arm flailed around causing the duo to stumble a bit before catching themselves on the cold metal wall, clanging echoing in the still air.
“No no no no no! “The helm, to the helm now. The eye contains the answers, the cure. My angel needs me.” Gile the crew member shuddered, a thrill of fear worming through his skull. Atlanta’s Rose had gone insane. Gile complied, but knew Rose would need to be detained, for his safety, and their own. Horror-filled eyes looked at the duo, darting over Rose’s form, taking in each cable, each nail that had pierced through Rose's battered and torn flesh. It didn’t help that Rose twitched with a pained grin at random intervals causing the very air around him to seemingly bleed with insanity. Officials and other crew members gave space to the pair entering the command barge. All heads turned towards the poor crew member, Rose dangling corpselike from his shoulders.
“Commander I. .” Gile attempted to give voice before cut off as Commander Elara Voss ordered aloud “What are doing with Rose? Take him to the med bay and stand by for questioning.”
Gile stuttered, tripping over his tongue in his haste to explain himself before the arm of Rose's bloodstained arm rose, rattling cables flinging drops of blood on the steel floor as Rose spoke. “I did it to myself, commander.” Rose gritted his teeth, fighting the nails as they bit deep, pain ripping across his nerves. “Now take this ship to the eye.” Elara choked, for to travel to the eye was to sign one's own death warrant. To even consider such an abhorrent request was unthinkable to even the most skilled of navigators.
“Lock him up in the lab until he calms down.” The command was issued with clipped and quiet force. It took several men to drag Rose to the laboratory as he kicked and flailed. Locking him that once was an esteemed place of research and discovery now looked no more than a scene of butchery. Gile the crew member that helped him into the command barge sighed in regret. Rose's expression of betrayal and rage burned itself into his mind, the doors hissing closed and locking Rose away However, the crew member would walk away to go back to his duties. The vessel's mighty hull trembled as it breached the Immaterium.
“I'll be there soon My lady, just wait a little longer. My angel of the red sands.” Rose lay in a puddle of his own sweat and blood, cradling the stolen STC fragments like precious children. His muttered prayers to Atalanta grew fainter under the thumping agony of the butcher's nails. His nullification powers could only do so much; the pain crept into his mind relentlessly.

The ship shuddered violently, throwing everyone off balance. Rose heard the panicked screams of crew members, echoing cries rang out along the halls. "The Gellar field is down! By the Throne, Emperor protect us!"
The ensuing chaos was a cacophony of lasgun fire and slaughter as the Neverborn infiltrated the ship. It took less than a Terran hour for the wails to fall silent. They let themselves in, tearing the creaking doors apart in a shower of sparks, floors behind them slick with gore. They tore at his flesh, reveling in his small soul’s pain, drinking deep into his agonies, his secrets. They cored through his marrow, swam through his blood, and danced along the sparks between his neurons. They whispered their offers of blessing in his ears, dark gifts to ease his pain even as they caused it. Rose nearly broke, sanity wavering, but his love for Atlanta held him together, the demons unable to break him. For it was their masters their gods that now use his love for a game they both wanted no part of. Suddenly the pain and voices stopped as the neverborne left only for another to take their place. It was tall, rivaling a primarch, thin and lanky, with ancient machinery fused into its flesh and seeping streams of corruption flowing freely from its creaking joints. Held in its hand was a hammer too tall and heavy to lift, let alone even wield. A malevolent light glowed across its long handle, a testament to the numerous dark rituals it had taken part in service of the arkifane. A face sporting two horns looming down the sides as crescent moons. Wings of cold steel rattled on its hunched back, each feather a serrated blade, a mockery of angel wings. Its eyes and mouth glowed, hellish furnaces in miniature. With but a thought the ship ripped itself open for the daemon to gain better passage into the lab. Rose prepared for what dreadful trickery and pain this warp spawn had in store. He closed his eyes, praying that death would reunite him with his beloved, that he would wake up in her arms, just like before the heresy, before everything.
Imagining Atalanta's chiseled scared arms holding him close, her heart beat strong, both drifting off into sweet tomorrow. Yet when his eyes he only saw a clawed hand reaching out with its long steel talons.
“I see you are a seeker of knowledge and met its high demands.”It spoke out of its vox caster, static threading every word. It was flat and emotionless, filling Rose’s ears with the chilling whisper of cold logic. It was an honest voice… at least. Rose turned to better face the daemon, huddled on the floor gripping the STCs tightly “Who are you?” a twitch of pain overtook his body after replying.
“I am Vashtorr the Arkifane, master of the soulforge and you have something I want.” Clenching his clawed hand with pollutant smog slowly making the air grow heavy. Rose coughed weakly from the thick toxic air, fanning his free hand in a futile attempt to sweep some of the choking smog out of his face, desperate for a gasp of fresh air.
“My soul I assume daemon?” “No.”It raised a clawed hand, servos whirring as it pointed to the glimmering STC’s Rose cradled. “Those glimmering fragments of ancient knowledge are the objects of my desire, your soul is weak, a guttering candle flickering in the cold wind. It has no use for me.”
Rose looked at the glimmering datashards he cradled, knowing that if he did not comply, Vashtoor would crush his frail body to paste in seconds, and take the shards from his shattered remains. His mind scrambled, searching desperately, before striking upon the faintest glimmer of a solution. Thus, Rose came up with a workaround. “How about this I give you the STC’s and we work out a contract?”
Vashtorr paused, the clicking of servos and the hissing buzz of pneumatic tubes the only things punctuating the silence in the room. His eyes fixed on Rose, lenses adjusting silently as he pondered the offer, weighing his options.
“Done.” It leaned down holding its clawed hand out for the STC’s. Rose reached out with trembling hands, dried blood cracking as he moved, depositing the shards into Vashtorrs hand with the same gentle care he would for a newborn infant. Doubt niggled at his mind as Vashtorr closed his hand, doubt worming its way through his mind, whispering of dark times ahead. What would this demon do to him? What had he just agreed to?
Rose breathed in attempting to gain what composure and focus he could muster.
“What do you want Vashtorr?”
The demon straightened, taking a step back as it gestured broadly with its free hand, taking on a faintly bemused air. “I seek a seat upon the pantheon, I grow tired of serving the other four powers. What of your desire?” Vashtorr leaned in on Rose. Smog and heat assaulted his weakened body.
“I seek Atalanta, soul and all. She is now claimed by one of the four powers you seek to take seat with.”
“Ah Khorne’s champion is who you seek, you wish to free her from the service of the brutish blood god.” Vashtorr chuckled “Maybe young mortal we can help each other but what could you give me that would benefit us both.” He looked over Roses body discerningly, the butchers nails gruesome landmarks on the map of his scarred, battered, and pockmarked flesh. Rose stood on trembling legs, stumbling as they buckled under his weight, but refusing to fall. He locked burning eyes on the daemon.
“A champion of your own. Make me a champion under your name so I may further both our goals. All with utmost loyalty I add.” Vashtorr was intrigued by how his mortal so butchered with a soul more akin thrown tin can could yield such a burning furnace of will. The Arkifane laughed aloud before slamming the tipped bottom of his hammer on the metal floor of the ship.
“Then I welcome our mutual partnership together. Tell me what's your name?” Before Rose could respond a light dizziness took his balance. His body thudded to the cold floor with a hollow thud, strength fading from his limbs as he limply flopped to the plates. His vision blurred and darkened as the velvety sleep of unconsciousness pulled at him.
He felt something wrapped around him, lifting him up. It was faint and dim, more of an impression than a feeling. He felt himself begin to sway, as whatever was holding him began to move. Visions came in fits and bursts, revealing a cradle of wires and steel wrapping around him, holding him securely as any infant. Every blink brought with it a new nightmare, screaming souls being fed into a dark iron crucible. Howling demons bathed in the smoke and lurid red light of a thousand furnaces. Twisted machines that scratched and tore at the fragile strips of his sanity, unbound by the laws of physics or decency. Gut-wrenching screams floated on the cinder-filled air, moans and whimpers drifting up as the tortured would work the machinery until they were fed to it. Feeling around with what little strength could be brought forth, it seemed like a cradle of steel and wires. Vision blinking, each new image came with new sights and sounds. Corrupted metal shaped within a dreadful forge, the toil of corrupt minds and dreadful anguish fueling its dark machinations. Steam and smog clouded the air along with screams from beyond this realm. Dark cloaked figures, sockets glowing red with cold precision. They carried him, Rose though weary from the blood loss could only hear two words from the new cloaked figures. “Experiment” and “Subject”.
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2024.06.04 03:03 slapchop1515 Warhammer 40k, The Baleful Eye Warband

A true hunter did not avoid being seen by his prey, Such stalking wa the act of cowards and cartion-eaters, revealing themselves only when prey was slain. Where was the skill in that? Where was the thrill? A Night Lord was raised to hunt by other, truer principles. Fal Rushok, Feared Conqueror of the Gothic Basilic ghosted through the shadows, judging the strength of the scour suits' audio-receptors. Just how much could they hear...? He followed them down a corridor, his gauntleted knuckles scraping along the metal walls. The Blood Angels turned instantly, stabbing his face with their beam lighting. That almost worked, the hunter had to give it to them. These lesser hunters knew their prey - they knew they hunted Night Lords. For half a heartbeat, sunfire would have blazed across his vision, blinding him. Fal Rushok ignored the beams completely. He tracked by preysight. Their tactics were meaningless. He was already gone when they opened fire, melting into the shadows of a side corridor.
He caught them again nine minutes later. This time, he lay in wait after baiting a beautiful trap. The sword they came for was right in their path. It was called Aurum. Words barely did its craftsmanship justice. Forged when the Emperor's Great Crusade took its first steps into the stars, the blade was forged for one of the Blood Angel Legion's first heroes. It had come into Krostovoks possession centuries later, when he'd murdered Aurum's heir.
The Scouts saw their Chapter relic now, so long denied their grasp. The golden blade was embedded into the dark metal decking, its angel-winged crosspiece turned to ivory under the harsh glare of their stabbing lights. An invitation to simply advance into the chamber and take it, but it was so obviously a trap. Yet... how could they resist? They did not resist. The initiates were alert, bolters high and panning fast, senses keen. The hunter saw their mouths moving as they voxed continuous updates to each other. Fal Rushok let go of the ceiling. He thudded to the deck behind one of the initiates, gauntlets snapping forward to clutch the Scout. The other Angel turned and fired. Fal Rushok laughed at the zeal in his eyes, at the tightness of his clenched teeth, as the initiate fired three bolts into the body of his brother. The Night Lord gripped the convulsing human shield against him, seeing the temperature gauge on his retinal display flicker as the dying initiate's blood hit sections of his war plate. In his grip, the shuddering Angel was little more than a burst sack of freezing meat. The bolt shells had detonated, coming close to killing him and opening the suit to the void.
'Good shooting, Angel,’ he spoke through his helm's crackling vox-speakers. He threw his bleeding shield aside and leapt for the other initiate, fingers splayed like talons. The fight was mercilessly brief. The Night Lord's full gene-enhancements, coupled with the heightened strength of his armour's engineered muscle fibre-cables, meant there was only one possible outcome. Krostovok backhanded the bolter from the Angel's grip and clawed at the initiate. As the weaker warrior writhed,Fal stroked his gauntleted fingertips across the clear face-visor of the initiate's atmosphere suit.This looks fragile, he thought. The Scout shouted something unheard. Hate burned in his eyes. He wasted several seconds just enjoying that expression. That passion. He crashed his fist against the visor, smashing it to shards. As one corpse froze and another swelled and ruptured on its way to asphyxiation, the Night Lord retrieved his blade, the sword he claimed by right of conquest, and moved on moving deeper into the dark of the ship.
The Aeternum Dread was a blade of cobalt darkness, bronze-edged and scarred by centuries of battle. It drifted through the void, sailing close to its prey like a shark gliding through black waters. The Encarmine Soul was a Gladius-class frigate with a long and proud history of victories in the name of the Blood Angels Chapter - and before it, the IX Legion. It opened fire on the Aeternum Dread with an admirable array of weapons batteries. Briefly, beautifully, the void shields around the Night Lords strike cruiser shimmered in a display reminiscent of oil on water. The Aeternum Dread returned fire. Within a minute, the blade-like ship was sailing through void debris, its lances cooling from their momentary fury. The Encarmine Soul, what little chunks were left of it, clanked and sparked off the larger cruiser's void shields as it passed through the expanding cloud of wreckage. Aeternum Dread just as the astartes it had deployed deep into the space hulk retreated back in the shadows of the void graveyard.
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2024.06.04 02:39 IntentionallyBlank-0 Yet Another Hirk Resurrection Post (Warning: Genocide, Slaughter, Dark rituals, Slavery and Poor Life Choices)

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Hello everyone, this lore-post is a direct continuation of Hirk's death post: https://www.reddit.com/wizardposting/s/1RBT2TObxb it was an honour for me to be able to contribute to Hirk and the paragons' lore and I wish to thank u/harpokiller and u/pandamaxxie for their invaluable contribution to this post: thanks to their excellent writing skills and our characters' combined toxicity, we actually made this post even darker than originally planned.
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Immaculate ashes fell gently on the pile of bodies. They could not be called corpses because life had never dwelled inside them. They all bore the same features, the same build and the same face. That of a man that a lone girl standing in front of them used to call 'Friend'. The same man whose soul was still burning inside her. The countless husks were not enough. Not suited to be a vessel capable of containing his flames. She wasn’t suited either. It had been a desperate gamble, she had managed to snatch the soul from his charred corpse but his flames had proven too strong. The stolen souls she relied on for sustenance were all gone, incinerated. Only his soul remained. She hadn't fed in days and time was running out.
Livia finally stopped staring at the husks, their lifeless gaze suddenly became too much to bear. With a swift motion fire erupted from her hand reaching for the amassed bodies. They all burnt like a funeral pyre, but it was not yet time to mourn. As she turned back toward her home, in her heart she already knew what she had to do. From the first day that idea had tormented her, and now she couldn't afford to reject it again.
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Max is in his workshop, working on a new leather potion belt. He kept complaining that “20 vials just isn’t enough.” so he decided to just make one with double the capacity. On his desk is a box with 27 failed silver whiskey flasks. The one at the top looks to have gotten to the very finish, but failed at the last moment. A botched engraving that reads “For my dear friend and best man, HiK”. The walls are lined with anything from ornate metal puzzles, to wooden toys designed for kids, to wondrous mechanical devices of which the functions are impossible to guess.
The dim lights flicker for an instant as a cloaked figure silently emerges from an unassuming shadow. She removes her hood, her skin is paler than usual, her cheerful façade has faded completely. Livia takes a few steps and reaches for the 27th flask, studying it for a moment.
“Dear friend and best man… it sounds so silly now, doesn't it?”
Her husky voice carries no hatred, just sadness.
“Heh… that it does, Livia. That it does. Now, what brings you to my workshop today?”
He’s surprisingly chipper, but there’s a hint of bitterness behind his dandy act.
“I can bring him back… but I require your help. His soul rests inside me. It is slowly scorching everything else. I have a plan but in this state I am unable to execute it on my own.”
Hesitation seeps through her carefully chosen words. She is not lying but her words are trying to hide a more sinister truth.
“Bringing Hirk back, huh? You sure the Duke can’t help us again? I still got two favours from that old devil remaining…”
She stands silent for a moment, once again she chooses her words very carefully.
“This time it won’t be possible, unfortunately. Once Hirk’s soul leaves my body I will be untethered, There will be nothing else to anchor me to this reality and the universe will reject my existence. We can’t do this in Greed. We would be putting too many people in danger, people you most likely care about.”
“It’s not like the Duke can’t go to a spot without people around. He isn’t locked to the Spider’s Eyes or anything. Plenty of open space in Greed… But I guess ya have a plan already.”
He pauses for a moment, staring Livia straight in the eyes.
“Speaking of… Might I ask… What’s this plan of yours? Your poker face is awful, real easy to figure out that there’s more that you’re not telling me. I ain’t some child that ya gotta shield from the truth, nor am I one to agree to plans without knowing the details.”
A sigh escapes from her lips, and her voice becomes more feeble.
“The Duke too would be in danger, no matter where we go. My memory becomes hazy every time it happens. Usually nothing remains once I come back to my senses.”
She stops, contemplating her own treacherous words in silence for an instant before continuing.
“But yes, I do have a plan. I have found a ritual that could restore his body, not a copy or a clone, it would be perfectly identical and certainly capable of housing his soul. But it is written in a language long forgotten, I began to decipher it years ago and I still can’t grasp its true essence completely… My time is running out, I won’t be able to contain Hirk’s soul for much longer. I have a solution for this problem, but it will require a trip to Avernus and in my current situation I will not be able to protect Hirk’s soul, nor myself. That’s why I need your help.”
She pauses, carefully considering her next sentence.
“This ritual has a price. It requires sacrifices…Many sacrifices. Of the gruesome kind. Would you still be willing to help?”
“Gruesome sacrifices… I’m no stranger to blood debts, but who will pay that price, might I ask?”
Livia feels a wave of relief, he will cooperate. She continues, more confident.
“I’d rather not take innocent lives if possible, but I have no preferences other than this one. Besides, I know you have a ‘hobby’ involving slavers…”
“Not taking innocent lives is a preference for you and me both. It’s against my morals, and has further consequences for me personally as well…” He thinks for a moment. Now please do explain, how do my… ARMADA authorised slaver hunts come into your plan… it seems to click in his mind. I get what you’re trying to say. Only one request on my end there… You let me handle it, my way, until the price has to be paid. Those cages need to be empty first.”
“I have no qualms about that, and I already have a place in mind: The Flesh Market in Alushinyrra, capital of the Midnight Isles, one of the infinite layers of the Abyss. The ritual ground has to be properly warded with a magic circle and all the lives must be taken inside it. I can make a hidden circle big enough to encompass the whole slave market, but it’s imperative that we do not alert the slavers. We can’t let them escape. We should save the slaves once the boundary around the circle is already in place. And that of course will not guarantee their complete safety.”
“So, infiltrate, buy the slaves, keep anyone leaving from doing so, kill the slavers and attendees, done. Fairly standard affair. Was supposed to do a raid like that next week as well. Should be easy enough. Will need at least Sarah, Aoi and Cerne joining me on an operation like that, though.”
“Then I shall trust in your expertise. They are welcome to join us, but I doubt they will be happy to help after all that happened between you and Hirk.”
“Oh they won’t like it, but they’ll help. They believe in the cause of taking down slavers, and I know they’d help out with anything I try to do, even if it’s reviving Hirk. I did convince them that it was an act of trauma, not quite a conscious act, so they’re a lot less… Angry about it. Rachnia is still incredibly angry, though.”
“I see. I can’t say I blame them, Rachnia especially. Still there will be repercussions for your actions against that one slaver. Torture was needless and dangerous, he might have escaped... But this is not the time to discuss these matters. Yet I doubt the paragons will survive this incident.”
“That vermin got what he deserved. I would even consider my own acts to have been… merciful. But yes, not the right time, and the Crimson Paragons have been… anything but stable ever since. Mostly worried about Jean, she blames herself the most. Whatever choice she makes regarding her membership, I shall follow.”
“I will officially resign after the ritual is done. One last thing. As I said before… I have no idea what might happen once Hirk’s soul leaves my body. Reality will most likely erase me almost immediately, but I have… Contingencies in place. What worries me is that I might lose control in the meantime. Be careful. Please. I need you to bring Hirk somewhere safe afterwards.”
She pauses, a bitter smile forms on her lips.
“He will not forgive us.”
“Everything has a price, everything has its consequences. I just want to set right what went wrong.”
“I should have expected that kind of answer from an alchemist. I’ve made peace with that too. Please contact your friends. We must be swift. I will prepare a teleportation circle for our first destination in Avernus. And Max… Thank you…”
“I’ll go get them right now. They should all be home, still… and don’t thank me for correcting a mistake, that’s just what should be done.”

In the twilight between the first and the second circle, where Avernus fades into Dis, a pillar stands impossibly tall. It is a pulsating amalgamation of rotting heads, a countless multitude eternally screaming, cursing, wailing and bickering. And yet, this is not merely a grotesque monument of damnation, but a repository of knowledge. The greatest among all the planes. Each of the cursed skulls was once a wise sage, revered and held in high esteem, but their deceitful words carried poison, leading many to their demise. Now they are condemned to answer truthfully for the rest of eternity. Unfortunately their punishment has only made them more callous and cruel. Even if truthful, their words are still treacherous, and their knowledge always comes at great cost.
As they approach the vile monument, the raging cacophony of voices grows even stronger, howling in unison.
A̴͉̓H̴̦̏ͅ ̴͇̩̄̇Ý̸̲̓E̸͈̪̒̍S̶̠̠̉,̵̧̙̑́ ̶̙̦̓̾T̶͔͆H̸̹̀Ë̵̯̊ ̴̰̣̓̍S̴̭̖̓͒Ô̶̡̨̍Ṷ̶̯̍͛L̵̮̤̊͗L̶͖̕͠E̴̱̿S̷̨̫̅S̶͓̑ ̶̭̭́̕H̷̰͊Ü̷̜̝Ṣ̵̀̉K̷͈̒ ̸̗͛H̴̦̱̉̓A̶͛͜S̸̞͋ ̵̚͝ͅͅR̷̺̕E̶͓̞̍T̴̞̍U̶̯͑̄R̷̈́̌͜͜N̸̤͝Ĕ̸͕̉D̶̫͇͌̆ ̴̛̗Y̴̧̹͝Ę̵̈́̈́T̵̨͚̾͘ ̵͈̻̎A̷̬͙̓G̴̪̜̒A̸̮̋̕Ȋ̵̜͕N̷͇͂,̶̞̖̒ ̷͎̮͗A̶̳̾Ṋ̸̬̕D̸̹͇͆ ̸̨̲̎̌S̶͕͊̚H̷̗͉͘E̸̘͙̋ ̵͚̆B̷̡̧͂̓R̷̢̠̀͛Ḯ̸̮N̵̟̓G̷̻͙̒S̶͔̒̋ ̸̥͔̕M̷̬͍̕Ő̶̬̾͜R̴̳̀́Ȅ̶̮͘ ̷̿͜͜G̴̳͊̑I̶̮̕Ḟ̵͔̉T̵͉̻̅̅S̸͇͍͐ ̷͍̕
Livia does not reply, unable to even face the writhing mass of damned souls, but she keeps moving closer.
S̴̨̱͆P̸̙̗͊Ę̶̌̆A̵͎͔͑̓K̴̺̘̅,̵̤̦͘ ̴͓̎Ã̷̱̺C̵̘̓Ç̸͘Ù̷̲̭̾R̵̰̒̎ͅS̵̫͒͋E̴̻̍͂D̷̨̤̉ ̵̭̌̿Ő̴͎͜͠N̵̖͍͆̿E̴͚̼͐,̴̠͓̂ ̴̝͇̋̒W̵̤̌ͅH̸̪̎A̷̻̾T̵͍̪͌ ̸͔̌͗D̷̢̼͝Ŏ̷̫ ̷̿͝ͅY̵͇͝O̵̰̭̓͛U̵͕͆͝ ̵͎̲̊Ŝ̴̠̓E̷̹̊Ȅ̶̡̏K̷̨̹̀ ̴̖͓̓̏Ţ̸̝̑͘Ḧ̴͖́̏Ḯ̶͍͍̊S̶̯͑ ̷̊̓ͅT̷̩͐I̵̢̬̾̏Ṃ̸̖͊Ë̵͖̯́?̸̛͙
She stops right in front of the pillar and breathes deeply. Only then she raises her head, the damned are waiting in ravenous silence. A whisper finally escapes her lips, shame and fear taint her voice.
“I seek the forgotten language of the Uyo, I seek to understand it as they did at the height of their might, when their empire was young, when even the vacuum of the cosmos and the stars burning in it were afraid of them.”
Laughters, crass and violent, shake the pillar, echoing all around them. Then, the heads convulse until an alien skull with birdlike features emerges right in front of Livia. The others hush as the skull begins to sing in a language that had remained unspoken for millennia.
W̵͈̭̅̊Ë̷̢͍́̕ ̴̤̭͝P̴̹̻̃͐O̵͎͐S̶̝̠̃̈S̷̈́̚ͅE̸͈̚S̷̮̭̔͝S̶̰͍͝ ̴͍̈́̑T̴̖̟͆H̵̳̪̃̕E̶̻̒̚ ̴̢͗Ḱ̷͍̺N̶̹̲̚Ö̵͎́Ẇ̸̥̚ͅĹ̴̨̓Ë̷̩̖D̶̩̉͠G̷̨̝͑È̴̜ ̶͙̈́͝Ỷ̴̈́͜Ȍ̸͎̝̚Ū̸͔̲ ̵̢̃͘S̸̬̀E̴̲̠̊̈E̸̘͝Ḱ̵͕͊,̶̡̾ ̷͕̃B̴̬̆̋R̸̥͕̒̽O̸͖̓Ḱ̵̨̎E̴͇͒N̶͖͔͋ ̴̫̽Ǫ̸̊͒Ṇ̵̀͜Ę̶́̽.̵͇͌̾
The singing voice is slowly submerged once again by the chorus of the multitude.
Ȳ̸̭͌O̶̤̤͛͛Ŭ̷̮ ̵̡̞̓͝H̴̲͔̄͛A̸̱̗̎͠V̵̰͐ͅE̵̞̙͌̿ ̵̿͜B̸̠̟͆͛R̵̢͍̃O̵̞̕ͅU̴̩̒ͅG̶̐̃ͅH̵̻̟̊T̶̹̼͌ ̵̪̄Ṳ̸̪̒S̵̡̓̆ ̸͓̊͆F̸͐͜͜İ̴͚N̸̨̟̉͑Ê̴͕͒ ̵̲̈́Š̶̡A̵̖͐̀C̷͓̓Ṙ̴̻Ḭ̸͘F̷̳̈́I̴̜̋̈́ͅC̵̭̹̄͘E̵̦͈͂̅S̵͉̆̏ ̵̲̰͆̄Ṱ̸̭̓̒O̷̦̺̊D̶̖͐̐Ǎ̸̜Ÿ̷̮͔́͋.̴͕̓̈́
̵̣̍W̶̢̱͒E̶̠͚̽ ̶͕̼͆A̷̼̩̓͗C̷̮̀C̸͉͎̿̒E̴̲̅̏P̴͍͕͠T̵̳̖͛͋ ̵̫͖̈̋T̷͇̳͊̃H̵̰̹̓Ẽ̶̖̰̾ ̷̖̝̇͘S̴̮̀C̶̫͠I̴͉̬̎Ó̷̗N̸͇̮͆ ̸̼̰̒́Ŏ̷̟̑F̴͖̄͜ ̴̲̔Ḟ̶̙́O̴͔̾̽R̵̭̉T̶͍̅Ű̵͔͍̊N̷̼̊A̶̞̮͒́ ̶̜̥͒͋Ạ̴͇̽Ṉ̵̀D̷̪̋̽ ̷̗̊͜H̸̗̓͋Ĭ̵̬S̶̟̗̎̆ ̸͙́͠C̵̤͌Ở̷̮̻M̷̭̉P̸̥̫̾̿Ǎ̸̝̓Ñ̵̢́Î̷̻̻͛Ȍ̸̘͇̚N̷̝̐͝Š̸̳̐.̸̼̒̌
̷̤̺̃W̵͚̐͝ͅÉ̸̳͝ ̶̮̎S̸̨̼̾H̸͈̺͒Ã̷̧̀L̸̢̲̓͠L̷̻̀ ̶̰́F̴̬̾͂E̴̬͉̎Ă̵̰͜Ŝ̶̳̗T̶͎̘̔ ̶͈̈́͒Ơ̶̝͓̆Ņ̴͈̈͑ ̴͇͙͗T̶̮͚͂H̸͇̋̒Ẻ̶͓M̷̛̪̚ ̸͉̽ͅA̷̱̮͊͘N̵͓̼̉̍D̸̖͙̅ ̷̮̻̀T̶̹̹̉́H̵̢̗͆E̵̝̐̏Ņ̷̒ ̸̫͝Ŷ̸̭̖Ō̷̩͛Ủ̶̮ ̶͕̑W̴̨̢͂Ī̸͔͠Ĺ̵̹̿L̵̗̎ͅ ̸͖͉̓͆Ḫ̷̄̅͜À̸͈͝V̵̩́Ế̶ͅ ̴̮̋͗W̵̻̝̏H̴̠̙̒͝A̷̰͋T̶͉͌͐ ̶͚̘̊̕Y̸̹̼̽̕Ò̸̜͜Ụ̵̄́ ̴͎̬̓S̴̮̯̓É̵̳̟͊Ẻ̵̩K̵̯̗̉.̶̞̲̄̈́
“Feast on my companions and I? I thought these skulls were of wisdom, not of foolishness. I’d expect scholars of this level to have better jokes. Now, how about we stop with the tomfoolery, before I turn you into a pile of calcium for my next tests.”
There’s obvious hostility in Max’s words, he throws a glance towards Livia, almost as if to say:“I hope you know what you’re doing.” And yet Livia does not react, maybe this was her plan all along. She finally turns toward Max and his crew, with a pained expression, her gaze lingers on them for an instant, then she faces the pillar again. She hesitates before answering with a faint voice.
“No. This time I won’t pay with someone else’s life.”
A choir of malicious laughs echoes all around shaking the very ground.
Ȁ̴̟̅Ṇ̷̰̽͌Ď̶̤̼̅ ̶̼̙͛͗W̷̘̒̌H̶̻̝́A̴̧̲͘Ţ̵̑̐ͅ ̵̱͚̈C̷̪͚̈̐Ǫ̴̂Ư̴͉̠L̶͎̚D̵̪̥̊ ̶͍͙̅̉Ẉ̶̏͝ͅĖ̸͖̦ ̴̲͒̂P̶̪̓̆O̸̱̫̔̓S̶͍̆̈S̸͈̞̈́Î̸͔̹̀B̴̝̒͘L̵̙̞͑Ẏ̷̬̼̒ ̷̟̯̓W̵̬̞̆̀Â̶̢͕͘Ǹ̸͖T̷͎̆̚ ̷̛̮̑F̸̟̚R̵̡̒̈́ͅO̶͖̊M̸͉̉̒ ̷͍̍͘À̷̲N̸͇̻̋ ̸̥̎È̴̝͕͝M̵̹͐͘P̴͓̭̀Ţ̶̳͒͒Ȳ̸͍͋͜ ̸̲̭̀͘H̵̪̿U̶̝͐̉Ś̷͖Ḳ̵̃ͅ?̷̜͆
Silence falls once again as they ponder their own question, but it’s just a brief respite from that violent cacophony.
A̶̼͋H̸̬̊͋ ̵̨̐ͅY̸͖̋E̴͙͚̐̚S̶͎͑,̸̡̈́͠ͅ ̸̘̓T̶̫̈̐H̶̭͂E̵͔̕R̶̰̅E̴̼͕̽ ̸͓̂͋İ̷̤S̶̛͓̈͜ ̸͚͓̓S̴̙͒͠Ṯ̶̫̄̿I̵̢͎͑L̷̢̹̍Ḻ̵͂ ̸̣͋S̶͖͋O̸͙̓̀M̷̞̬̄̈́E̶̙̮͛̓T̵̨̔Ḥ̶̭̐̑Î̸͕̣̏N̴̰͙̍G̶̫͌ ̶̺̯͘W̴͖̲͊E̴̬̐̀ ̴͍̰̀C̶̯͐̕A̷̛͚̓N̶̻̊͝ ̶͉͔͑T̸̜͆͠Á̴̤͓K̷̫̥̏E̶̲̒̓ ̷̹̤͌F̵̨͉̿̊R̷̡͇͌O̸͔̺̅M̶͇̲̕ ̶̤̃Y̶̹̔̒O̶̦̫͛͋Ǔ̴̜.̵̧̔.̴͉̕.̵͍̆͘ ̷̪̉͜G̸̨̗̈́I̸̖͊V̴̘͖̔Ẻ̷͈͎͋ ̴̿͜Ư̷̧̺̓Ṣ̶̢͑͗ ̸̱̤̿̉Y̸͔͒̊O̴̧̰̅Ư̷̦͝R̶̟͕͐̚ ̷̲̌ͅM̴̙͈͌́Ẹ̸͑͗M̶̛͚̀O̴͈̟̊R̷̮͂͜͝Í̴͎̕E̸̢̟̾S̶̟̯̋̈,̸̹͙͂ ̶̙̓͛Ţ̴͓͋H̵̼̗̓͠Ē̵̫ ̴̥̾O̴̝̅N̵̡̼̓̓È̴̫S̵̞͇̾ ̸̪͛ͅŸ̸̧͍́̕O̶̹̅͜U̸̹̬̔̄ ̵̤̍̾ͅC̷̮̫̕Ḩ̷͈̇͝E̷̳̊̐R̶̡̫̓I̷̺̾̓Ŝ̷̯̯H̸̠̽ ̵̟͎̌Ţ̶̳̒̚H̸̘̱͒̓E̸̝͇̊̈́ ̶͎͛ͅM̷̦̗̆̽Ǒ̴̗͂S̸̮̮͊T̵̹̹̀.̷͉̱͐ ̵̼͙͐T̵͈̀H̷̙͋Ȩ̵̦̕ ̵̘͛͊Ọ̵̿̀N̸̟̔E̴̟͊S̸͚͋̉ ̴̩̐͠Ý̴̻͔͒Ó̸̡̈́Ư̸͇͊ͅ ̵̱͂Ĕ̴̬S̵͖̈C̶͙̰̍̇A̷̤̓P̵̪̐̓E̷̟̽̾ ̵͍́T̵̯͝O̵̥̅ ̷̥̓̈́Ẅ̵̮́͝H̴̥̼̚E̷̺͆Ǹ̷̺̙̈́ ̷̣͑A̶̝̭͒L̴̫̀͠L̷͔̒̅ ̷̱̌͐W̸̯̹̆̈́A̸̪͛̈́Ṛ̷́M̸̼̀T̷̖̓ͅȞ̶̦̟̎ ̸̼͙̈F̷͔̐ͅÄ̸̦D̸̥̀̒E̸̡͓̾̅S̴̡̋.̷͕̓͝ͅ
Her body tenses trying to repress a shiver crawling through her spine. As she steps closer, her hand brushes against the pillar before grasping the accursed singing skulls. Somewhere deep inside her, where her soul should reside, a molten pebble stands defiant against an all consuming void and yet it inevitably drifts closer with every passing moment.
“I... I accept your terms.”
Her voice is emotionless but tears begin to form in her eyes. Suddenly her mind is flooded by an alien consciousness, it intertwines with her own, whispering in an unknown language, eerie and harmonious, words are sung, not spoken and one by one they are burnt forever in Livia’s memory, their meaning becoming clearer with each passing second. The melody grows sombre, as the song reaches its conclusion, the last words echo with perfect clarity in her mind:
B̶l̷e̷s̸s̷e̵d̸.̸.̴.̴ ̴O̵b̶l̷i̷v̸i̸o̵n̷.̶.̵.̵ ̶S̸a̷v̵e̴.̴.̴.̴ ̴M̶e̵.̸.̷.̶
The connection fades as the multitude of heads violently pushes the singing skull back into the depths of the pillar. The voices of the bickering skulls are laughing again. Her heart grows emptier.
-
Alushinyrra has always been something of an oddity by abyssal standards, the evershifting city is open to outsiders and thrives thanks to interplanar commerce. Under the vigilant gaze of the Lady in Shadows, it flourished, becoming one of the most important trading hubs of the outer planes. Even after her ascension to higher planes, the city has remained mostly the same, it stretches in all directions encompassing the whole island of Alinythia.
But Alushinyrra is still a demonic city, its streets have no laws other than strength and cunning; in its market everything can be bought and sold, especially goods too reviled or too precious to be sold in any other civilised realm. The Flesh Market is especially famous among the lower planes for the sheer variety of slaves that may be found in its wretched cages.
Livia stands on a rooftop overlooking the main square of the market, with Maximillian and his crew not far behind. She is holding a red piece of fabric in her hands, it was once a sleeve and it belonged to Hirk’s sweater. Surprisingly she still remembers it, she recalls the exact moment when he had ripped it off and placed it around her neck as a scarf, she even remembers the hug and the tears that had followed. And yet, these memories feel distant, foreign, as if they belonged to someone else entirely. They are meaningless movements performed by random puppets.
A demon suddenly appears beside her, bringing Livia back to the present. The fiend approaches, and kneels while shaking violently.
“I… did… what… you… asked…”
They are still trying to fight the enslaving spell, but it won't be enough. The incantation is crude but powerful. Erasing the victim’s soul directly normally is a more elegant and practical solution, but the signs would have been too evident to hide, making infiltration impossible.
“Very well, now go back, hide in the crowd with the others and wait for my signal.”
Sarah looks at Livia talking to the demon, she looks disgusted by what she sees.
“Mind control spells… and this is who we’re working with?”
Maximillian sighs.
“For grave causes, sometimes you need grave methods. Today’s not exactly how I like to do things, but it’s how we’ll get things done.”
Livia steps closer to Maximillian and his crew, speaking with confidence, hoping to mask her fears.
“The last ward is in place. They are well hidden but we must act swiftly to ensure the slavers won’t have time to realise what we are planning. All we need to do now is to get inside and begin the ritual. Once the arcane barrier is deployed, all but the most sophisticated teleportation spells will be ineffective. Nothing gets in and nothing gets out. If you find more slaves, keep them in their cages until the ritual is complete, it will be safer for them. Do you have anything to add?”
“Keep your mind steady like your blade. Fear in this situation makes for grave mistakes, which will lead to the death of innocents. Remember why we’re here, Livia. Failure is not an option. Steady yourself. We will join the fray on your mark.”
“You will recognise the signal as soon as you hear it, I can assure you. Now we should spread out and please be careful, these demons are not to be underestimated.”
“This isn’t our first rodeo, Livia. It’ll be a walk in the park. Alright everyone, you know the drill. High bids, but don’t overbid too high. Move along the crowd, don’t stay in one place.”
“You will have around a standard hour to purchase the slaves and bring them to safety, afterwards I’ll begin the ritual, and please stay away from the central area of the market.”
“Got it. Should be enough to get a few out of the area. Will try to stay outta the centre, but, ya never know how things end up during a case like this.”
“Oh, and feel free to take everything from the slavers' metaphorical pockets once we are done, the only thing I ask is that you bring Hirk with you if I get erased first. Here, these crystals are imbued with a spell that will banish you back to the material plane, use it only after the ritual is complete, they won’t work until the boundary is lifted. If you are close enough to each other, a single crystal will teleport you all to safety.”
“I guess these kinds of slavers would have pretty interesting loot on them… Alright. Thanks for the hint.” He pulls out a small pendant with a bright green gemstone from his pockets. “Already have a way to return. Don’t worry about us. Told ya, ain’t our first rodeo.”
“Good, I’m glad you actually know what you are getting into. We should not linger further, go and make your purchases, I’ll finish my own preparations and begin the ritual.”
“Sounds good to me. Alright, Cerne, Sarah, Aoi, spread out. Whatever coin we use will end up back in our pockets anyway, so spend. Let’s make this a day to remember.”
Maximillian and his crew disperse into the crowd to start making bids. Sometimes even against each other, to avoid raising suspicions.
Soon after, Livia moves toward the central area of the market, slowly making her way through the crowd; she stops in front of an especially imposing collection of cages, full to the brim with slaves and she is greeted by a bloated mass of eyes and demonic flesh. He bares thousands of sharp teeth forming what appears to be a genuine smile.
“My lady, it’s good to see you again! What are you looking for today? I’ve just received a fresh shipment of Aasimars directly from the upper planes.”
Livia doesn’t answer but tries her best to smile back, she moves toward the exact center of the square, placing the red scarf on the ground.
“Dear customer, I don’t underst-”
The fiend is too surprised to scream, he stares at the bloodied blade in Livia’s grasp while his blood floods the ground, tainting the scarf. At the same time in the corners of the square five demons begin to shake uncontrollably, pointlessly trying to stop the daggers in their hands from reaching their throats. As they take their own lives in perfect unity, a magic circle takes shape, encompassing the whole market, it gleams faintly as an incorporeal barrier seals the area.
While panic slowly seeps into the minds of the bystanders, Livia averts her gaze from the dead slaver and closes her eyes concentrating on a spell.
Call.
Winged creatures shrouded in eerie lights burst into existence on the sacrificial ground. Their celestial beauty is unmistakable but it’s tarnished by their empty eye sockets constantly weeping pale mist. The angels move like broken marionettes, singing otherworldly hymns as they methodically cut down patrons and slavers. Their distorted voices reverberate all around merging with the screams of the fleeing crowd uselessly thrashing against the arcane barrier.
“Well I couldn’t really have asked for a more clear signal.” Maximillian dashes between the market’s patrons, one after another they find their lungs and throats penetrated by an envenomed blade, drowning in their own fluids. He mumbles to himself. “You get the suffering you deserve…”
“Subtlety is out the window, huh?” Sarah is dealing with some of the guards, slamming them into the floor as they try to approach. Pure physical overpowering might, nothing else. Some try to sneak around, but none can avoid the Cyclops’ eye. She jumps them, making sure they can’t disrupt the others.
“Ah live a little, ain’t often we get to end a high profile group like this one. At least enjoy that fact a little.” Aoi is using her club to deal with some of the more powerful patrons, high profile targets that just need to be crushed, with pure, unrelenting Oni strength.
“Work is work, but I am glad we get to take care of vermin like this today. Even if it’s… in part for a strange ritual.” Cerne’s just launching cuts and strikes into the crowd, many patrons fall, having their extremities lost to the Centaur executioner’s blade.
As the slaughter rages, blood slowly begins to converge to the centre of the magic circle, it’s subtle at first but its movement becomes more and more visible with every death. The scarf drowns in it. The foul ichor engulfs the fabric completely forming an ever growing cocoon around it. Livia stands in front of the crimson chrysalis, like a child in awe, her gaze lingers before turning again toward the carnage. Once again magic concentrates all around her and is released with a single word.
Rise.
The mangled corpses suddenly begin to crawl. Animated with a single purpose they make their way toward the few resisting groups of survivors. The screams slowly fade as the remaining blood flows toward the coagulating husk. Livia shivers witnessing the horrifying hellscape she has created. She steels herself, knowing that he will never forgive her. A whisper escapes her lips. It’s an old promise from a distant past, a promise she could never break.
“No sin is too foul, no sacrifice is too great.”
A lone girl stands bloodied and broken in a field of corpses. She weeps as her heart grows colder. His fiery soul, defiant and unbroken, no longer faces the endless void inside her, but it now scorches her hands. Pain fades as the soul meets its new crimson host.
Livia’s hand lingers on the bloody chrysalis caressing it one last time as the world screams. It rages against what should not be. The all encompassing totality shrieks in horror witnessessing something foreign to itself. Maximilian, Sarah, Aoi, Cerne, the slaves and even the animated corpses turn toward her. Their souls and every cell in their body howls in unison against the vile mistake that taints reality. The ground itself contorts trying to ensnare and bury her body but it’s too late, the girl is gone. Only the World Ender remains.
It turns to meet their gaze with a gentle and uncaring smile. The corpses swarm its position but their lifeless bodies turn to ashes as the World Ender glances upon them. It unsheathes its blade, bloodied and broken, ready to protect the writhing cocoon. The arcane barrier flickers, another crowd is now thrashing against it. From the outside. They too yearn to erase the anomaly that desecrates their universe.
Maximillian stares at what used to be Livia, calling over and calming his companions. His wariness swiftly turns to a readiness to act.“I have a feeling… we’re no longer dealing with Livia here. Aoi, Cerne… retreat with the slaves… Now! Sarah, I’ll need you to bring Hirk to safety… when the time is right.” He sheaths his dagger, and grasps his golden longsword firmly, the jets on his gauntlets switch on. Primal fear runs through him, his instincts telling him to attack, but instead of listening to that voice in the back of his mind, he approaches with curiosity.
“I am here to bring back Hirk, and to save these people who were taken against their wills. Are you here to stop that, or are you merely a consequence of us trying to do so?”
After a seemingly endless instant of silence, It stops observing the multitude amassing around the fading barrier, turning toward Maximillian with impossible and uncaring grace. Its smile grows slightly warmer.
“I am merely a witness. This is my purpose.”
Its voice is soothing yet distant, as if trying to reassure a scared child.
“A witness, you say? What is it that you are here to witness?”
His mind is screaming at him to act, but he remains calm. To strike is to provoke. He’s a researcher, not a fool.
“The End. But I should not be here. Not yet.”
A veil of pale mist slowly begins to devour the World Ender. Reality is pushing back. It remains unfazed, Its gaze shifts back to the crumbling barrier. With impossible elegance it enters a guarding stance as the horde approaches.
“Witness. How long until the ritual finishes? I presume you’d know as much.”
He readies a bottle in his hand. A volatile corrosive agent, its contents bubbling violently as he holds it.
The World Ender glances back at the pulsating chrysalis, it is now dwarfing them both.
“I do not know. I will defend the ascending one. That’s why she brought me here. I think.”
“Ascending? Livia you…” His grip tightens firmly in anger, the bottle slightly cracking, the wraps on his blade squeaking.
“She can’t bear to be alone in her own darkness.”
It keeps smiling as it enters a more offensive stance, ready to face Maximillian.
“So be it. To interrupt it now would kill him. I shall stand beside you, and protect him.”
Its attention goes back to the demons, walking toward them with serene indifference.
“You are a kind one. Please, forgive us.”
“I’m not really one to forgive nor forget, but I also can’t blame either of you. I’ve suggested it to him many times myself… Sarah, keep an eye on… well, where Hirk should be soon. We’ll take care of these pests.”
Maximillian gets ready for combat, as Sarah nods to him and stands by the chrysalis.
The world Ender stands still as the creatures swarm its body, it cuts them down one by one with ruthless and graceful efficiency. In the rare instants of respite It glances longingly at the Chrysalis. Inexorably the mist continues to devour its body.
Maximillian tosses the bottle into the sky above a large group of demons, before firing a round from his trusty revolver, drawing it from his hip swiftly. The resulting corrosive splash seems to leave nothing of the assailants behind. He dashes forward, weaving strikes of his blade and fists with gunfire. He cannot cast, but this does not make him any less dangerous. The demons swing and miss, some even miss strikes they should have obviously hit, as if they simply got unlucky.
The surface of the crimson cocoon suddenly cracks, weak streams of blood seep out, tainting again the cursed ground. “Hey uhh, Max! It’s cracking!” Sarah stumbles backwards a little, trying to avoid the seeping blood.
The remaining demons turn to ashes and the World Ender calmly turns back, stepping closer to the red husk, its body is now completely engulfed in a cloak of white mist, more akin to a ghost than to a living being. It stops before the cracking shell and slashes it open with its sword, blood gushes out tainting its pure shroud. The World Ender basks in its warmth, its hand grazes the still unconscious body trapped inside the crumbling shell. Hirk’s heart beats faintly yet steadily. His new body breathes for the first time. The World Ender smiles brightly as it fades, erased by the mist and the universe finally stops screaming.
Hirk awakens, his body is his own, but it’s not him. Brought by dark rituals that should have been left just that, in the dark.
There is a deep pain in his soul, the fire rages. Untold thousands of souls be they slavers but still undeserving of being kindling scream, only to be burned from existence to strengthen him. It defies every single thing Hirk stands for. But he cannot reject it, expelling that much death given fire onto those that surround him is too cruel even for him.
Hirk cannot contain it, not as he is. He takes his crown heavy, not of its gold, iron and bronze but of sins still sung in the songs of the wind and the fae. He is the king of what is kindling as he is still one of them, his crown first of flame and then of metal forms around his head, the Kindling King only deserves fire after all. His souls brought closer even if not together cause him to grow to a staggering 9,8ft. The fire is contained for now.
“…”
Not a word is allowed to escape Hirk’s lips, any one could mean the death of others. He has what he always feared. Power. He simply stands there, crying a million screams, tears and pains. Never to be heard. The fire is deafening.
More demons approach, still haunted by the howling instinct that led the others to their End. With every step their rage fades. Pure dread ignites their hearts and yet they step closer like moths swarming to a flame. One by one they fall to their knees silently submitting to the mercy of Kindling King reborn from slaughter.
Maximillian watches as Hirk stands there, weeping. He slowly approaches, his companions are beside him as he holds up the pendant with its verdant gem… All 5 of them are encased in a green goo, before vanishing from the area.
A pointless epilogue:
The multitude still bickers and quarrels even as Craterus’ roar shakes Avernus. They cannot escape their malevolent nature. They do not fear the beast nor the invading hordes of Demogorgon. After all, their punishment is eternal. Their voices join in a single chorus to greet and mock the End that gracefully walks toward them.
L̴̯̪͂Ō̴̜O̷̢̔ͅK̴̖͂͒.̶̢̹̇.̴̗͚̅.̵̢̓ ̸̐̏ͅT̸͖͉̈́͆H̷̻͂̔E̵̜̰͗ ̶͍̕B̷͖̅Ŕ̶̲O̵̭̚̕K̷̡̭̂Ē̴̱N̶͒ͅ ̴̛̜Ó̷͎N̷̗͙͠Ȇ̶̗ ̷̪̆͂I̶͈͇͘S̵̩̳̍̋ ̸̥̋H̸̢̀Ë̸́̓͜R̸̖̝̉E̷̛͉ ̷̢̝̀Ỳ̴̢̬̆E̷̼̍͊T̴̬͗ ̵̣̘́̀A̸̹̗͆G̷̗̽͘A̷̠̤͠Ǐ̶̢͚̀N̷̘̲̈́.̴͓̒̐.̸̙̅.̵̲̓͘ ̴̼̜̐Ĕ̶͉V̸̲̈́͐E̶͇͂͆N̷̐ͅ ̴̛͖͌S̴̙̈̽O̴͔̓Ǒ̶̥͉N̵͉̪̎E̵̲̾R̸̲̦̃̇ ̵̘͠T̶̨̛̰̿H̶̞̰̓͘A̸̲͂̂N̸̥͍̋ ̶̭̎͊Ě̷̦X̸͚͘P̸̩̏Ė̸̘C̷̥̲̆T̴͓̳̒Ȇ̸͜D̸͓̃̈.̷̜͒͆.̵̭͖̍.̵̹̊͛ ̴͚̩̍̍
Their malicious laughter reverberate once again around the accursed monument, but It does not care. Its distant smile does not waver. As It draws closer, candid ashes gently meet the infernal ground. The laughing choir breaks into an incomprehensible cacophony of screams. Yet the world does not howl in terror.
Ṉ̸̦͉̫͔̥̖̣̹̘̩̉̐̌͆̌̋̉͜Ơ̴͚̳̻͇̜̩̪̐̋̇̂͐̑̾͛͊͂̎͝.̴̨̗̠̭̮̯̼̣̦̌͋̄̈́̈́̅͗̒̍̿̒͒͋̎̐̈́̕.̷̧̲̟̟̺͕̲͚̞̯̄̿̃̀̋̄̃̐̋́̑͘̕͘͘ͅ.̵̧̢͔̱̮͎̪̱̳̥̻̹̖̺̘̘̄̃̇́̀͐̿̀̈͒̈́͗͌͒̚͝ ̵̛̬̈́̅̀̎̓Ņ̶̨̺̦̣͕͖̯́͋̓́̇̇̎̂̀̋͜͝O̸̟̺͉̼̥̘̘̩͉̒͐̓̎́̎͌̒͋̅͋̈́́͜͠.̶̻͈̆͐͛́̊̃̓̚̚̕͝.̶̡̧̤̮̭̝̜̼̲̻̹́̈̑̌̌̐͑͑̉̑̉͐̎̈́̌ͅ.̴̳̙͍̻̹̕ ̷̱͕̺͇̫̳̘̦͎̾Y̴̨̧̧̙̰͖͖͓̺͖̐̐̈͐̀̃͌̉̓͜O̵̠͌͆̉Ū̴̢̜͎̪̹͓̆̔̈͑͋̈̉͘͠͝͝ ̴̧̛̻̇̀̀̒̍̋̂́͝C̴̞̒̃̍̋̅̂̈́A̶̧̲̥̖͈̫̜̝͓͙̥͍͛͆́͐̉̽̈́͒̓̂N̵̨̡̛̛̮̝̱͕̲͓̟̺͙̾̎̿̒͒̔̀̓͊͊̓̓͂̚ͅN̵̬͐̈́̅̈́̀͌̋͗͆͐̄̆͘͘̚͝͝O̷͖̤̰̞̻̽̀́̐̅͘͠͝T̶̨͚̹̗͔̩̥̞̭̘͍̱̣͙͊̌̉̋̔̏ ̸̨̯͉̹̦̗̜͊̏̈́͐̏͂̍̆͋̄́͒̾̒̀͝B̷̛͓̙̞͔͕͕̫̦͈͔̞̜̝̫̬͙̂̑̄̑̐́͌̊̒̈́̄̽̌̈́̕̕Ȩ̶̻̜̦̹̠͈̺̗̈́̂͝ ̴͚͖̺̮̻̹̜͓̠̲̿͝H̴͚̤͈̱̗͚͐̇̊̓̊̀̕Ḙ̸̅̈́̀̾͛̚͘͘ͅṚ̸̪̪̻̬̻̺͆͆͐̀̑̾̚Ȩ̸̛̼̹͚͇͙̝̟̞̺̱̜͈̲̻̰̮̂̉̉̓̇̍̊̊͒̔!̶̨̧̢̙̬͎͔̹̙͙̬̝̼̺̔͆͌̈́͌̔͋͋͘ ̴̢̧̨̛̻̗̬̲̭͙͇̣̲̞̮̓̋͗̀̄̀͂̿͘͘ͅF̴̱̠̬͇̦͍̩̰͙̿̐̽͋́̉̈́͊̔̄̕̚͘͝A̴̭̰̠̣̰̅̓̃̔̆͜D̶̟̮̟̲̦͚̝͇̻̻̤̰̟̮̘̃͗͜͜Ę̴̫̬͔̫̗̦̦͎̰͙̉̓̄̊̐͜͝ ̴̡͌͂̇̒̆̑̀͘̚̚͠A̶̪͊̄̈́͌̍͘͠W̴̠͔͉̆̆̔͋̃͌̇̔̓̓̂ͅA̶̛̱̟̝̪̰̙̓͛̄̐̅̓͐̀͛̒̄̎̋̀̕͝Y̷̯̟͖̩̹͓̠̤͖̜̫͈̭͊̀͆̌͘͜͜,̷̹̖̰̝̰̼̠̬̥̻͐͂̆͊ͅ ̶̨̯͉͙̙̻͙̼̤͔̳̜̪͔͉̌̋̊́̅̏̓̌V̶̢̖͙̠͊̓̉Ì̸̝͎́̍͌͠͝L̴̨̡̟̺͉̱̯͖̫̺̙̼͚͉͐͋E̷̞̻̓̀͛͌͛̿́̉͌̀̑̚͘͝ ̴̞̎̄̍̓͗͗̊A̷̢̧̪͎̙̣͍̥̘͉̣̝̣̜̰͠N̶̪͙̯͓̳̖͈̠̂̄̈́̀̋̓̊̓͐̄A̵̢̨̺̯̩̟͎͍͍͑̃̑̂̿̏̓͐̔́̋̿̚͝͝͝T̴̨̻̘̟̘͈̣̥̳̹͛̾̀̏̈́̀̎̎̌̍̉͒́̐̕͝H̵̢̬̱̥͕͍̲̟̯͕̣̖̃́͗́͜͜͝Ȩ̸̝̮͈̀̾̓͌̀̊̋̂͠Ṁ̵̡̥̼͉̭̫̭̯́͊Ǎ̸̜̯̘͕̯̭̞̣̞͈̇́͒͒̈́͋̕̕̕͜!̴̪͖̭͇͓͔̤̒̃͋͌̄͑̈͘͜͝
“I am exactly where I need to be.”
The World Ender now stands before the Pillar of Skulls, its eyes wander gracefully, looking for someone. Its hand delves into the pillar. The screams grow even stronger as the World Ender grasps its prey. Its arm retracts violently and fragments of broken skulls erupt from the shrieking pillar.
In its hands rests an old skull with birdlike features. The Skull doesn’t scream unlike its brethren. It sings a melody lost and forgotten to everyone but them. This time it is not tainted by sadness and regrets. The World Ender gently holds the skull, bringing it closer until their foreheads brush against each other. They are not alone anymore. The melody grows fainter as it approaches its End. As the Skull fades into immaculate ashes, finally free from its punishment, its last words echo with perfect clarity, hushing all the screams.
T̸h̶a̶n̸k̷.̵.̸.̴ ̶Y̴o̶u̴.̵.̷.̸ ̷B̵l̸e̵s̵s̵e̶d̴.̷.̴.̷ ̶O̶b̵l̷i̶v̶i̸o̵n̷.̸.̸.̴
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2024.06.04 02:08 Federal-Emphasis-934 What is the over/under of me winning a game at my next RTT

This list is just meme. But, I’m a Grey Knights player so I think I can make this work…
Oops all terminators (2000 Points)
Space Marines Dark Angels 1st Company Task Force Strike Force (2000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Azrael (105 Points) • Warlord • 1x Lion’s Wrath 1x The Lion Helm 1x The Sword of Secrets
Belial (85 Points) • 1x Master-crafted storm bolter 1x The Sword of Silence
Captain in Terminator Armour (110 Points) • 1x Relic weapon 1x Storm bolter • Enhancements: Iron Resolve
Chaplain in Terminator Armour (85 Points) • 1x Crozius arcanum 1x Storm bolter • Enhancements: Rites of War
Librarian in Terminator Armour (75 Points) • 1x Force weapon 1x Smite
Lieutenant (65 Points) • 1x Master-crafted power weapon 1x Neo-volkite pistol 1x Storm Shield
OTHER DATASHEETS
Bladeguard Veteran Squad (180 Points) • 1x Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant • 1x Heavy bolt pistol 1x Master-crafted power weapon • 5x Bladeguard Veteran • 5x Heavy bolt pistol 5x Master-crafted power weapon
Deathwing Knights (215 Points) • 1x Knight Master • 1x Great weapon of the Unforgiven • 4x Deathwing Knight • 4x Mace of absolution
Deathwing Terminator Squad (360 Points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 9x Deathwing Terminator • 2x Assault cannon 9x Power fist 7x Storm bolter
Deathwing Terminator Squad (360 Points) • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 9x Deathwing Terminator • 9x Chainfist 2x Cyclone missile launcher 9x Storm bolter
Deathwing Terminator Squad (180 Points) • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 4x Deathwing Terminator • 1x Plasma cannon 4x Power fist 3x Storm bolter
Sternguard Veteran Squad (180 Points) • 1x Sternguard Veteran Sergeant • 1x Close combat weapon 1x Power fist 1x Sternguard bolt pistol 1x Sternguard bolt rifle • 9x Sternguard Veteran • 9x Close combat weapon 9x Sternguard bolt pistol 7x Sternguard bolt rifle 2x Sternguard heavy bolter
Captain with knights on center. Blade with LT on home Az and Stern securing a flank Obj. Three Termie squads wrecking havoc. Probably do fixed (engage + behind)
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2024.06.04 00:44 abcismasta Choosing fixed secondaries

I've been running a terminator heavy army, and I've had decent success with fixed objectives (usually deploy teleport homeengage on all fronts). I'm looking for some advice from anybody with decent experience in using: 1. Deploy teleport homer 2. Engage on all fronts 3. Cleanse 4. Behind enemy lines
I would consider using assassinate if there were enough squishy enemy characters, but that's rare.
DWK aren't as good at being a hammer without the 3D maces, but they're survivable, so I was thinking they might work well for cleanse? They aren't likely to be charged, and they don't have guns anyway.
Also, I've been thinking about running terminator characters solo as goofy one off action units (deep strike a single terminator, score deploy and behind enemy lines, 6 points for one model right off the bat)
Current list below, Captain and ancient in one DWK squad, Belial and ancient in the other.
EdgeWing (2000 points)
Space Marines Dark Angels Strike Force (2000 points) Unforgiven Task Force
CHARACTERS
Ancient in Terminator Armour (75 points) • 1x Twin lightning claws
Ancient in Terminator Armour (75 points) • 1x Twin lightning claws
Azrael (105 points) • Warlord • 1x Lion’s Wrath 1x The Lion Helm 1x The Sword of Secrets
Belial (85 points) • 1x Master-crafted storm bolter 1x The Sword of Silence
Captain in Terminator Armour (95 points) • 1x Relic fist 1x Storm bolter
BATTLELINE
Intercessor Squad (80 points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant • 1x Bolt pistol 1x Bolt rifle 1x Thunder hammer • 4x Intercessor • 1x Astartes grenade launcher 4x Bolt pistol 4x Bolt rifle 4x Close combat weapon
Intercessor Squad (80 points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant • 1x Bolt pistol 1x Bolt rifle 1x Power weapon • 4x Intercessor • 1x Astartes grenade launcher 4x Bolt pistol 4x Bolt rifle 4x Close combat weapon
OTHER DATASHEETS
Deathwing Knights (215 points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Knight Master • 1x Great weapon of the Unforgiven • 4x Deathwing Knight • 4x Power weapon
Deathwing Knights (215 points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Knight Master • 1x Great weapon of the Unforgiven • 4x Deathwing Knight • 4x Power weapon
Deathwing Terminator Squad (180 points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 4x Deathwing Terminator • 1x Cyclone missile launcher 4x Power fist 3x Storm bolter 1x Storm bolter
Deathwing Terminator Squad (180 points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 4x Deathwing Terminator • 1x Cyclone missile launcher 4x Power fist 3x Storm bolter 1x Storm bolter
Deathwing Terminator Squad (180 points) • 1x Watcher in the Dark • 1x Deathwing Sergeant • 1x Power weapon 1x Storm bolter • 4x Deathwing Terminator • 1x Cyclone missile launcher 4x Power fist 3x Storm bolter 1x Storm bolter
Incursor Squad (80 points) • 1x Incursor Sergeant • 1x Bolt pistol 1x Occulus bolt carbine 1x Paired combat blades • 4x Incursor • 4x Bolt pistol 1x Haywire Mine 4x Occulus bolt carbine 4x Paired combat blades
Sternguard Veteran Squad (180 points) • 1x Sternguard Veteran Sergeant • 1x Close combat weapon 1x Power fist 1x Sternguard bolt pistol 1x Sternguard bolt rifle • 9x Sternguard Veteran • 9x Close combat weapon 9x Sternguard bolt pistol 7x Sternguard bolt rifle 2x Sternguard heavy bolter
Vindicator (175 points) • 1x Armoured tracks 1x Demolisher cannon 1x Hunter-killer missile 1x Storm bolter
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2024.06.04 00:19 Emeraldpanda168 Round One Matches Ranked Least Favorite to Favorite (spoilers for Volumes 1-6)

This is a very long post. Proceed with patience and a good attention span if you care to read all of it.
Ishura is one of my favorite book series out there, despite me being typically neutral on the fantasy genre. Two of the best aspects of Ishura, in my opinion, goes to the politics and world building on this fantasy world, but another intriguing aspect is the theme of different types of strength and redefining what it means to be strong, especially in the case of the shura.
I’m usually not as crazy about action in stories as much as others. It works for some series and doesn’t for others, and sometimes it’s necessary for the story.
In the visual medium, spectacle is not the most important aspect of the fight, but rather the anatomy of one; what are the stakes? Does it adhere to the pre established rules of the story? Can those even be defined? Does it make sense for the characters? Is there an actual purpose or are they just fighting for the sake of it? Is the choreography engaging? Does it represent the characters well? What developments come from it, plot or character wise?
Don’t get me wrong; visuals are still important and I love a visual spectacle as much as the next guy; but to me, they are just bonus points.
Now, Ishura is a novel series and this is a post about the tournament, which the anime isn’t even to yet, so why am I talking about fight scenes in a visual medium?
Well, it’s because the anatomy of a fight scene is universal, regardless of medium. However, in the visual form, it is a lot easier to get right so long as the writers aren’t blinded by spectacle.
In novel form though…it’s very hard to get fight scenes right. Whereas fight scenes in the visual medium have the bonus points of spectacle to fall back on, novels do not. Instead, it relies on the author’s ability to convey the flow and choreography of the fight in an engaging and easy to follow way.
This rings true for Ishura.
I’ll be honest, when I saw that Ishura’s source material was a light novel and not a manga, I was shocked, but also very interested. When first getting into the Ishura light novel, I was at about episode five of the anime where Kuze and Nastique were introduced.
I had never read a novel in the action genre before and was both curious and cautious on how Keiso would approach writing fight scenes.
If we look some of the first big fights of the series, Shalk Vs. Soujiro and Alus Vs. Regnejee come to mind.
In the novel, Shalk Vs. Soujiro is kind of rough. The idea comes across pretty easily and the main goal is to forward the story while also giving Shalk proper time to shine; After all, Shalk is supposedly a powerful mercenary, yet he didn’t even have an introductory chapter, so how strong can he really be? This fight seeks to resolve that since his introductory chapter doesn’t come ‘til volume three.
That being said, the fight between Shalk and Soujiro isn’t really easy to follow and feels extremely cluttered. The pacing feels really off as well. You could argue that’s intentional since it represents how not even Soujiro can track Shalk’s movements and has to rely on instinct and predictions since Shalk is too fast. However, I counter that by saying that there is a way to convey that without the fight feeling too fast paced and cluttered.
However, even by the end of volume one, you can tell that Keiso at least has a good idea of how he wants to write his fight scenes.
Later we get Alus Vs. Regnejee and already this fight is a lot better paced and spread out, making it a lot easier to follow. It also does a great job at getting into the minds of these two characters, something that Keiso only gets better at.
Fast forward to the tournament and Ishura’s fight scenes are very good. But in my opinion that is not really to do with Keiso’s ability to write fight scenes, although he definitely improved greatly and has gotten really good at it.
What makes the fight scenes in the Sixways Exhibition so great goes back to the anatomy of a fight scene and how Keiso completely understands it and uses it to his advantage, while also making the matches in the tournament very engaging.
So, long ass preamble aside, let’s just get to it and rank them from my personal least favorite to favorite.
Obviously, massive spoilers for volumes 3-5, but also 1, 2, and 6 as well. Also, this is only for Round 1; I have not read past the officially translated novels and would hate for myself or anyone else to get spoiled for Round 2, so please keep that in mind and spoilers to a minimum.
Side note: None of these are bad and I really enjoyed all of them, but despite that, one of them has to be on last place. And unfortunately that one is…

8. Match 8: Uhak the Silent Vs. Zigita Zogi the Thousandth

The oracle Vs. the tactician.
The ogre Vs. the goblin.
Uhak is…fascinating. He’s a character that has absolutely no dialogue whatsoever and is only shown to us by how others perceive him. He’s a very interesting, yet mysteriously ominous character that is very hard to actually read.
One minute he’s a gentle giant, such as when Cunodey mentions that Uhak purposely waited until after hours to pray just so he didn’t scare anyone away. Next minute he’s just standing there… menacingly …watching with a blank expression as a priest gets nearly beaten to death outside a church.
He’s also shown to have a very caring side, such as when he’s shown saving a wolf and mourning its death. But then the next minute he’s eating the corpse of the True Demon King.
Oh yeah, Uhak, or rather Setera, is the True Hero…WHAT?
Yeah. The biggest mystery of the series is solved during Match 8, and yet its immediately replaced by the pure enigma that is Uhak the Silent. Ultimately, that is what Match 8 is about.
Zigita Zogi played his role in the story. His loss was inevitable, despite being so well prepared for his fight. Dare I say that his scientific strategy actually gave him a good chance at victory so long as Uhak continued to hold off on using his disenchantment ability and just deleting his existence.
Alas, he was a threat to Obsidian Eyes. And not even someone as intelligent as Zigita Zogi the Thousandth could foresee something as inconceivable as an airborne strain of vampirism.
Zigita Zogi would be the first champion to actually die in the tournament. This tournament is not a fight to the death; a genius writing decision Keiso used was to have most fights conclude without death, which meant that plot relevance had no bearing on who won the match; after all, their character arc and importance to the story could be continued or concluded even if the character lost.
This also means that when a death does happen, it has greater impact. Zigita Zogi’s death has impact.
The illustrations in Ishura are really good. Sometimes the choice of which scene to draw a visual of is questionable, but without a doubt the art work is really good.
The illustration at the end of Match 8 where Hiroto is alone in the colosseum mourning his friends death from afar, however, is without a doubt my favorite illustration from the series and a very powerful visual that illustrates one of my favorite aspects of Hiroto’s character.
Hiroto was already my favorite character, but I for one am very excited and interesting to see how Zigita Zogi’s death will affect his character and where he will go from here.
Again, I’m only caught up to the officially translated novels (volume six as of writing this), so keep that in mind.
The only thing that really makes Match 8 at the bottom of the list is the fact that there isn’t even a fight. And not in the same way Match 5 approached it. The match begins and immediately ends. The real meat of this match, or rather chapter, is the hidden chapter within it that depicts the Final Party and how Setera and Ozonezma defeated Shiki. As a side note, rest in piece Olukt the Drifting Compass Needle; if anyone deserves to be called a hero, it’s him.
At any rate, that’s the real focus of the Match, and the only connection is Uhak, but even so, Uhak being the Hero doesn’t directly affect the match. It’s two semi-connected stories going on at once. Overall writing wise, it’s very good, but I do have to at least set some kind of standard seeing as I’m rating the matches themselves and not the volume as a whole.

7. Match 6: Zeljirga the Abyss Web Vs. Mestelexil the Box of Desperate Knowledge.

The clown Vs. the architect.
The zmeu Vs. the golem.
The main focus of volume 5 is the scheming of Obsidian Eyes, so naturally the match involving a member of Obsidian Eyes is arguably the most important of the three matches included in volume 5. In terms of the outcome, this is absolutely the case.
However, there is one issue with this match because of its focus on Obsidian Eyes.
Obsidian Eyes is a Spy Guild that supposedly disbanded after the death of Rehart the Obsidian, meaning no one really knows anything about his daughter, Linaris, and due to her incredible power she needs to be protected and kept hidden. She is the most important member, after all, and therefore gets the most development.
Therein lies the double edged sword; The story is centered around the Sixways Exhibition, yet Linaris can’t participate and needs to delegate participation to the most appropriate available member, in this case being Zeljirga.
However, due to Linaris being the character from the Obsidian Eyes faction having the most focus in a story that already has to juggle with twenty plus characters, a lot of the other members of Obsidian Eyes feel very underdeveloped.
This is an issue that can’t really be avoided, and I have to commend Keiso for at least trying. Zeljirga did get a dedicated chapter that did a good job at characterizing her and, despite my criticisms, I do really like her character.
That being said, her impact and presence in the match is a little underwhelming, especially for a plot point as important as this.
The setup before the match, with the Officials Enu and Kaete pulling their scheming, and Zeljirga “coincidentally” meeting Kiyazuna and Mestelexil during one of her street performances was great.
The conclusion of the match and how Linaris was able to overcome Mestelexil’s immortality and how she assisted Zeljirga was great.
All of this makes the match feel very satisfying when’s all said and done; it genuinely feels like the type of manipulation and scheming we would expect from Linaris, and her gaining control of Mestelexil is a massive plot point that will come into play later.
My issue, then, aside from Zeljirga’s lack of development is the fact that the match itself felt kind of clunky. The flow of the match felt off and it’s pacing was questionable. This is strange to me because this is the only match in round one that feels like this.
I don’t know if this was just a blip in the system or something or other, but it definitely took me out of it a little.
Otherwise, this was a great match, which should really say a lot about how good the matches in Ishura are. Anime fans were complaining about not getting the tournament in season one (I guarantee they will do the same in season two) and, while I do think that literally everything else is just as important and engaging, when I think back on the tournament, I really can’t blame them even if they don’t know just how good the “tournament arc” is.
Alas, some of these matches had to be towards the bottom, and this one was simply the easiest to pick out. Aside from number one (I immediately knew which one that would be), my rankings got harder and harder to decide on as I went down the list.

6. Match 3: Ozonezma the Capricious Vs. Soujiro the Willow-Sword

The medic Vs. the blade
The chimera Vs. the visitor.
It’s interesting; Ishura has no main protagonist, not even Soujiro who, by all accounts, would be the main character of any other show. Yet he isn’t.
Soujiro has all the traits of an isekai protagonist, which makes his lack of focus and internal monologue relative to other characters an interesting decision.
On the flip side we have Ozonezma, who is a very atypical character you don’t really see anywhere else. And yet, he’s probably one of the most down to earth and relatable characters in the series.
I haven’t really touched upon it much, but I think that the combination and matchup of combatants in the tournament is absolutely genius.
I will say, I think it was kind of obvious who would be winning this particular match just because of how the character was set up, but it was still a very tense match due to one particular factor that made this fight very good, and that is the incorporation of Ozonezma’s trump card.
His trump card was teased pretty heavily in the chapters leading up to his match, and I was almost worried it would be disappointing and Ozonezma would be taken out pretty easily. Boy was I wrong.
Not only does it offer pretty good characterization and development for Ozonezma, but it also actually gives Soujiro a decent challenge that he has to overcome. It feels like Soujiro as a character isn’t just unstoppable and gives him room to grow rather than just confining him to his pre-established character role, something we see come into play in volume six.
The only thing that brings this match down is the fact that it is probably the most self contained match in the series. Whereas every other match has lasting impact throughout the other novels up to volume six, aside from Soujiro loosing his leg and Ozonezma’s development (of which he gets more of later anyway, which doesn’t undermine his development here, but still is worth noting), there’s not much in terms of lasting impact.
This is almost an issue with match one, but the way it’s done there leaves more room for future conflict (i.e Psianop’s weakness) and actually offers the very best of the development given to Toroa, with his final moments in volume six being the cherry on top to wrap it all up.
Match three doesn’t have something similar to offer that make it more memorable, or at least to the same degree that saves match one from having this issue.
With that said, I don’t particularly blame match three for it, so while it saves it from being any lower, it also doesn’t give it any bonus points. Not to mention that the match at least does a good job with setting up Setera and the Final Party. In fact, I think I kind of down played how good Ozonezma’s character development here was, because it was really the highlight of his character as of volume six. However, I still stand by my earlier point that match three has a lack of lasting impact, which even the matches I ranked below match three do have. At least Ozonezma Vs. Soujiro was very entertaining and had really good pacing and flow.
Side note, I actually think it was the wrong decision writing wise to give Soujiro a new sword. Not only does it downplay Soujiro’s abilities slightly, but I feel like his worn and torn practice sword could have been used as a really good Chekhov’s gun, kind of similar to how it comes into play during Soujiro’s fight against Dakai. This has nothing to do with the actual match (you could completely take the scene of Hardy giving Soujiro the enchanted sword out and it would change nothing), but it is something I wanted to mention.

5. Match 5: Tu the Magic Vs. Kuze the Passing Disaster.

The juggernaut Vs. the paladin.
The unknown Vs. the angel of death.
Now this one is very different from the others as there just isn’t a match. Tu just doesn’t show up and refuses to fight. Now, if I was an action junkie with no media literacy, I would just put this one in dead last and call it a day.
No. The very reason why this outcome is so good comes down to the two participants and their ways of thinking.
Instead of a battle of might, it’s a battle of ideologies, which is the very reason why an indestructible force such as Tu lost; Kuze simply has more resolve and a bigger reason for participating. Tu already felt out of place in the tournament and this is the very reason why, and it is absolutely brilliant.
Tu believes every conflict can be resolved just by talking it out and listening to both sides.
Kuze believes that killing is the only way to resolve conflict.
And yet, both are forced to believe this way. Tu was created to be the embodiment of good and to view all life as equally precious, whereas Kuze was cursed with Nastique, which forces him to resolve everything through killing, whether he wants to or not.
What makes this match interesting is that it is merely used as a stepping stone in both of their character arcs as Tu goes on to grow as a person and become more resolved in her ideals and truly shape her own identity (something that starts to pay off in volume six), while Kuze keeps heading down a darker path with the Angel of death quite literally looking down on him the entire way.
It is a very big moment for both of their characters and it is one of the highlights of volume four.
Two other big things that happen that I believe are worth mentioning are Krafnir the Hatchet of Truth’s return and Rique the Misfortune’s death.
Although it is the least important factor pertaining to match five, it was very nice to see Krafnir still having a role to play. He gets a lot of character development in volume six, but here is where it starts and we see him go into his mentoguardian role with Tu, and I really appreciate how he was used.
The other thing is Rique’s death, which I feel was handled really well. Rique played his role in the story and there wasn’t much else for his character to do after the plot with Jivlart played out. He was already a mentoguardian figure to Tu, but since his mini-arc was complete and Krafnir still had a greater role to play, it was a good idea to kill him off here to both make room for Krafnir in later appearances and help push forward Tu’s character development.
All in all, there was no match, but in a way, there still was. This right here is the kind of story I expect from Ishura and I feel like it was handled very well.
The only thing that stops this from being any higher is that I simply enjoyed the other matches more.

4. Match 2: Alus the Star Runner Vs. Lucnoca the Winter

The rogue Vs. the silencer.
The wyvern Vs. the dragon.
To me, this match had everything that made Alus Vs. Regnejee so good, and expands upon it to give us exactly the type of match I would expect between these two legends.
The best part about this match was how playful and innocently joyful Lucnoca was to finally have at least somewhat of a challenge. Like, she was literally upset when she won and throughout the fight kept getting worried she killed him like breaking a new toy, but not in a villainous way or anything; it was like she felt young again playing with a friend. Definitely a character that’s in my top ten.
In the other hand, you have Alus who is just driven by his pride and singular mindset to chase treasures and glory.
It is a very interesting dichotomy where one is at the apex of power and knows the loneliness of being so strong, while one is driven to attain more and more.
There were a lot more parallels to Alus and Regnejee than Alus and Lucnoca, but that’s not to say that Alus Vs. Lucnoca doesn’t have some of the same merits.
Furthermore, this match gives us a deeper look into the relationship between Harghent and Alus, something that becomes the main focus of volume six. It shows that, yes, Harghent does really care about Alus and offers interesting insight into the both of them.
As for the fight itself, it’s really engaging and Keiso does a really good job of not only conveying the eerie stillness of Lucnoca’s ice arts, but also making us feel the coldness as you read.
The match does a really good job of conveying exactly what makes these two players two of the most powerful in the entire Sixways Exhibition and was a fight I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish.

3. Match 1: Toroa the Awful Vs. Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation.

The grim reaper Vs. the grappler.
The dwarf Vs. the ooze.
The first match of round one of the Sixways Exhibition; exactly what everything prior was building towards. Thus, there was a lot of hype to live up to. It is the main event of the series, after all.
And boy did it deliver.
Let’s get one thing straight; this is Yakon’s fight. Not Psianop’s, nor Toroa’s. Even so, there are still a lot of parallels between the two.
One is pretending to be the world’s most notorious horror story, trying to keep his father’s legend alive. The other is trying to form his own legend, to prove that he is more than just a slime. The unknown son of a god of death and the forgotten member of the First Party; the ones in the shadows of popular legends. Both have devoted their entire lives to living up to the respective legends they are associated with.
The difference is, Psianop has already formed his own identity, while Yakon has yet to truly consider who he himself wants to be. This is the true purpose of match one of the first round of the Sixways Exhibition; it is a major part of Yakon’s character arc and his journey of self discovery.
It’s a story that has taken everything from Yakon’s character and has culminated it into the story of a character who doesn’t know who he really wants to be. He keeps trying to live up to his father’s reputation, always feeling inferior, like he’s betraying the real Toroa the Awful, without realizing he’s already far surpassed everything that he admired his father for, while also avoiding everything Toroa did not want his son to become. Toroa the Awful was a monster; a horror story in every sense of the word; a boogeyman. He was not a good person, and Toroa himself realized that. He also realized that Yakon was the best thing to happen to his life, a sanctuary from the bloodstained life he had built for himself. And when he thought that Yakon might one day walk the same path…never. Yakon should never corrupt himself, he shouldn’t put him on a pedestal, and he should live his own life.
Unfortunately, that was the one lesson Toroa never got to teach Yakon before his death.
The grim reaper, Toroa the Awful, spent his life collecting enchanted swords and killing anyone who dared to wield one, as well as those that witnessed his atrocities. Alus stole one of those swords, the most powerful of them, and Yakon mistakenly thought that getting that sword back was his father’s dying wish.
Toroa the Awful Vs. Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation, or rather, Yakon the Sanctuary Vs. Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation, is Yakon learning what his father’s true dying wish was.
Although he tried to be his father, the fight culminates with Yakon fighting as himself, a kind soul, rather than as Toroa, an evil spirit.
As much as I love Hiroto the Paradox, my favorite character in Ishura, without a doubt Toroa the Awful, or rather Yakon the Sanctuary is, in my opinion, the most well written character in the series, and this match is one of the main reasons why.
But what about the rest of the fight? Well, it’s very good. The choreography is really well done, Psianop is handled really well and portrayed in in a way that makes him a standout, even among the brilliant character writing from Yakon’s character. The pacing is really well done as well.
If I had to make one criticism, it would be that there are so many enchanted swords with their own fantasy-esque names that it is at times a little difficult to follow and memorize all their names and abilities, but that is at most a minor nitpick.
The only reason this match is at number three and not higher is because I simply like the other two more.

2. Match 7: Mele the Horizon’s Roar Vs. Shalk the Sound Slicer.

The archer Vs. the spearhead.
The giant Vs. the skeleton.
Man I love this match. Flipping the script, let’s first look at the setup for this match by the sponsors. Every match has some pre-game plotting from the sponsors, but none were quite as engaging as this.
Hyakka is probably up there with Mizial and Yuca as the nicest and most likable of the Officials, but even so, Kayon had the upper hand from the beginning. To be fair, Hyakka’s plan wasn’t necessarily a bad one, he just needed to be more aware of what the gossip was actually about. It was a clever little twist that helped expand more upon Hyakka’s character, but what the main takeaway is, in my opinion, is how even Shalk was disappointed in Hyakka, not for falling for what was admittedly an obvious trap, but for dishonoring the battle.
This goes in to what I really love about this match and that is simply the two champions fighting in it. They are very different characters, but the main thing that made it all interesting is their respective reasons for even fighting in the tournament.
Shalk has no idea who he used to be before dying, and doesn’t know why he’s so strong. It scares him. There’s a part of him that thinks he might have been the True Hero, but what scares him even more is the fact that there was even the slightest possibility that he was the True Demon King.
On the flip side, we have Mele who knows exactly who he is and what he wants….except that’s not entirely true. He’s protected the Sine Riverstead for so long that he’s been forced to go against the usual nomadic lifestyle of giants and can’t really put his full power on display. In that case, what’s the point of him being so powerful? He could have done so much more. Years ago, a kid from the village named Misna criticized him for this exact reason. As much as he claims to not care about the minia of the Sine Riverstead, it’s obvious that Misna’s words really stuck with him.
Both Shalk and Mele are very strong, but they have no reason to be. At least, to them. However, despite mostly being from Shalk’s perspective, this is Mele’s fight. Shalk’s character arc continues in round two, while Mele’s is concluded here. Mele has finally gotten his wish; a strong opponent he can go all out on. He’s wanted a challenge for so long and he finally has it. And yet, all it does is reinforce the reason why he stays at the Sine Riverstead; even if he’ll never admit, everyone there is his family and he loves each of them dearly. That’s why he still mourns their deaths even though their lifespan is but a moment to him; that’s why he has never forgotten any of their names, despite how small they are. He doesn’t look at them the same way Atrazek the Particle Storm looked down on the minia of the Yamaga Barens. He looks at them as if they were his family.
So then, why is he here? Someone like Misna would tell him that if he wins he could ensure the prosperity of the Sine Riverstead. But to him, he doesn’t want to abandon it even for a second. Shalk is very strong and was a very good match up against Mele, but let’s be honest; Mele could have gotten back up. Kayon, or rather, Misna, points this out. It wasn’t guaranteed that he would have won, after all Shalk did nearly kill him, but that’s not the point. This is what Mele has wanted for centuries, but he just gives up. The Sine Riverstead is simply more important to him. Kayon never forgot his conversation with Mele all those years ago either, but it’s only now that he finally understands.
As for Shalk…the dude is just so fucking cool. I don’t use that word often, if really ever, but there’s just no other way to describe Shalk.
The entire fight was really enjoyable from beginning to end and the pacing was just excellent. It’s one of the more unique fights in round one and that’s part of what makes it so entertaining. Not to mention both Shalk and Mele are two of my favorite characters in the series and both sides were really interesting during the match. On one side you have Mele who’s just having the time of his life, and on the other hand you have Shalk who is constantly making very quick decisions and strategizing on how to overcome Mele’s destructive power.
In fact, this fight overall does an excellent job of conveying the explosive impact of Mele’s arrows and Shalk’s supernatural speed.
While I do like Toroa more as a character than Shalk or Mele, and while I do think the character writing is better in match one, I put match seven above it just because I really enjoyed both champions and uniqueness of this fight more. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Psianop, but he was admittedly one of the more underdeveloped of the shura as of this fight. Plus, I understand the reason why and agree with it, but we don’t get Psianop’s perspective in match one, while here we get both perspectives, which I just appreciated more.

1. Match 4: Rosclay the Absolute Vs. Kia the World Word.

The knight Vs. the Wizard.
The minia Vs. the elf.
Ishura has many strengths. From incredible world building, to fascinating politics, and even to fight scenes expertly penned in a way most authors fail to accomplish in the medium, Ishura is a series like no other.
However, the biggest strength of Ishura and what Keiso truly excels at is exploring his characters and giving us an in depth look into what makes them special and unique. We don’t just read about these characters, we get to know and understand them in ways that only good writers can pull off.
Regnejee has a rotten mouth only rivaled by his ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice anyone or anything to ensure his superiority and prosperity of him and his swarm, even his own brethren. But behind it all, there is someone else he cares about who he would put everything on the line for. His whole swarm was brutally slaughtered by each other right in front of his eyes and by the end he only had Curte, who he dearly treasured.
Yakon was the adopted son of a bloodstained horror story even though he had no reason to stay with him. He knew how despicable his father was, but he still saw what no one else could and vowed to avenge his death by taking on his burden and keeping the legend alive…but is that what he himself wants? What would his father think about it?
Izick was pure evil. He created life just as much as he destroyed it. He cared not for any living being and held the world in utter contempt. He reveled in the misery and suffering of others, and the one time he did a good deed and joined the First Party to kill the True Demon King, it was only to regain his title as the wickedest demon king of all. He created Tu, the complete opposite of himself. If his plan to kill the True Demon King was going to work, he couldn’t kill or harm Tu, and he couldn’t stop her sense of justice and kindness. And in the end, even Izick’s black heart could be touched.
This is what Keiso really hit the mark on with his storytelling. These stories are just some of the examples of what actually thinking about and carefully crafting characters can do to make your story three dimensional and contain a lot of depth.
And this is exactly why my favorite chapter in the entire series is volume four’s chapter twelve; The Fourth Match.
Kia was always one of my favorite characters, but this match easily elevated her to my top five. In my opinion, this is the peak of Ishura’s character writing and a show of what makes not only Kia’s, but Rosclay’s and Elea’s character writing so great.
I’ll admit it, out of all eight matches in round one, I only correctly guessed the winner on four of them, but even then I was spoiled on one of them, so it’s really only three.
But I would like to think that most people would never have guessed the outcome of this fight. I mean…it’s Kia. Uhak and Nastique were really the only two shura in the tournament to rival her power, at least on a surface level glance. Hell, even Shalk was stated to be able to move faster than Kia could speak, so bump that number up to three.
Rosclay though? I get that the tournament is rigged so that he could win, but did anyone actually think Rosclay would win before the match started? It’s not like this twist is out of nowhere though. I mean, Kia is just a child, while Rosclay has a ton of experience and is, well, absolute. I remember the exact moment where I was reading the fight and thought to myself, “Oh shit; Kia’s going to loose.”
What I especially love is that Keiso obviously didn’t want this outcome just for shock value. No, Keiso seriously sat down and thought about it. In retrospect, Kia had to loose. But how? So many writers fall into the hole of crafting insanely overpowered and strong characters, but then not really knowing how to handle them and eventually write themselves into a corner.
But here, I think it’s executed brilliantly, on both Kia’s and Rosclay’s side. Rosclay isn’t known as the Absolute for no reason, and Kia is still a child. Overwhelming strength or overwhelming experience and resolve (plus cheating); which is more valuable?
As arrogant as Kia is and as much as she claims not to care, she truly does care about others and empathizes with others easily. She can kill others very easily, but she lacks the resolve to, which makes what should be a very quick and simple fight so much more.
It’s this subversion that makes this match really stand out, but what really makes it shine as the best, in my opinion, is the introspection of Kia’s character. On top of that, it presents Rosclay to us in a way that characterizes him a lot more and makes him more interesting.
In his introduction chapter, he’s presented as a faker; just some guy who puts in the face of a hero, an idol to the people, but beneath that he’s just a guy. In this match, however, we can see just what makes him standout and what makes him interesting. The truth is, he’s not just some guy. Even without the smoke and mirrors, Rosclay is impressive, just for different reasons. In truth, he’s the only one who could play the role he’s resolved himself to playing. Yes, he’s politically powerful and is able to feign strength with the help of his nation. Couple that with his magical assistance and he is a powerful knight. However, that’s not what makes him a shura. What makes him a shura can be found in his title; Rosclay the Absolute. He’s unwavering, he’s steadfast, he’s resolute, he’s enduring, he’s determined…he’s absolute.
Elea’s character arc may be a lot more subtle and sidelined than most others in the series, but this match is where her character truly shines.
I’m trying not to make this any longer than it already is, but there you have; there is so much to discuss and analyze with these matches, which is why it’s all so brilliant. Even for something as simple as Elea’s character arc.
Match four is the perfect example of just how layered Ishura’s writing can be. The story of Kia and Elea should be simple, and it is, but that doesn’t make any more or less impactful.
Elea was just using Kia to further her own goals. The power of the World Word would giver her the power that would make others acknowledge her. And yet, Kia is family to her. She kept trying to deny it all series long. But when she sees just how much stress Kia is under, she can’t take it and rushes to Kia’s side. The two then escape and say their goodbyes in one of the most emotional moments of the series. Ishura has yet to make me cry, and I honestly doubt it will, but to be fair that isn’t a negative seeing as it’s the same for ninety percent of media I engage with. Despite that, I can absolutely give props to Ishura for how it handled Elea’s death as the most well written character death of the series.
However, even with the great character writing of Rosclay and Elea, nothing comes close to the brilliance of Kia’s character writing. It all goes back to how the fight itself is written and how Kia tries, but fails to overcome Rosclay.
Kia could have done anything to win, but she couldn’t because she’s a child. This fight is too much for her, and she lacks the resolve to kill anyone. She tries to, and when she finally resolved to kill Rosclay, he mutters Iska’s name. At that moment, she can’t because she realizes that Rosclay has someone he cares about and someone who cares about him. How could she kill someone like that, someone she can relate to?
On top of that, Kia’s word arts are omnipotent. Unfathomable and unable to be measured. Not even she knows the true limits of her power. She can defy every fundamental rule of the very laws governing her world. We can alter the world, alter reality, and alter life itself. Kia doesn’t abuse her power, but she also doesn’t keep her power in check, mostly because she doesn’t even know it’s limits. And that scares her, terrifies her even.
She can stop an explosion mid blast and immediately disperse the energy. She can immediately extinguish a city wide fire. She stop a falling building mid air and move it somewhere else. She make herself immune to any danger. She can force an opponents attack to immediately avert away from her. She can track anyone. She can force someone to speak. She can stop a person’s bodily functions. She can tell someone to die, and they’ll die. And most dangerously, she can alter a living being’s mind. Irreversibly.
All this power at her disposal and she doesn’t even know how to fully control or manage it and that scares her. What if she hurts someone? What if she does something she can never take back?
And now that she is in a situation that forced her to use her power in ways she doesn’t have the resolve to, against someone who has figured out her weakness with no weakness of his own and has the absolute resolve to do anything…she breaks. She can’t do it. It’s too much.
In the end, she looses. The strong feigning weakness against the weak feigning strength, and the latter wins.
But thinking about it, the outcome was decided from the very beginning.
Among not only the eight matches of the Sixways Exhibition, but the entire series (that has been officially translated as of writing this, so up to volume six), Rosclay Vs. Kia is what I consider the very best fight in the entire series.
Damn. This whole ranking thing was something I just decided to write on a whim. I certainly didn’t expect myself to have this much to say, but here we are. After three days of writing this, I think I’m done and confident with my list. Of course, it is just my opinion and I’d love to hear what anyone else has to say.
Remember though, this is just for Round one and I have only read up to volume six. So, please confine yourself to talking only up to that point if you have read the unofficially translated novels.
Personally, I’m going to wait for the novels to be officially translated before reading them.
Who knows, maybe my list will change entirely by the end of the series and I’ll have new opinions.
And of course, maybe round two will have more great fights that exhibit what I love about Ishura’s writing.
And you know what? Just for fun I’ll leave my round two predictions here. For those who know the outcomes, maybe my predictions will impress you, or more realistic will make you laugh.
Match one: Psianop Vs. Lucnoca- Lucnoca will win.
Match 2: Rosclay Vs. Soujiro- Soujiro will win.
Match 3: Zeljirga Vs. Kuze- Zeljirga will back out of the tournament and Kuze wins automatically, not able to fight or assassinate Sephite.
Match 4: Uhak Vs. Shalk- Uhak will win.
And you know what? Round three.
Match 1: Lucnoca Vs. Soujiro (assuming my round two prediction was correct)- Soujiro will win.
Match 2: Uhak Vs. Kuze- Uhak will win, and obviously Nastique won’t appear because Uhak is there.
Final round, I honestly don’t know who the overall winner will be. However, I am pretty confident that the final match will be between Uhak and Soujiro.
Again, I’m only up to volume six, so keep that in mind.
Anyway, if anyone actually made it this far, thank you. And have a wonderful wonderful night.
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2024.06.03 23:44 CrazyBalrog Flight of Icarus wins 3 minutes - Best songs of each length Day 3: 4 minutes

Flight of Icarus wins 3 minutes - Best songs of each length Day 3: 4 minutes
Transylvania (Iron Maiden) - 4:05
Charlotte the Harlot (Iron Maiden) - 4:13
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Killers) - 4:19
Drifter (Killers) - 4:49
Children of the Damned (NOTB) - 4:35
Number of the Beast (NOTB) - 4:51
The Trooper (POM) - 4:13
Still Life (POM) - 4:57
Aces High (Powerslave) - 4:32
Losfer Words (Powerslave) - 4:15
Flash of the Blade (Powerslave) - 4:06
Deja Vu (SIT) - 4:59
The Evil That Men Do (SSOTSS) - 4:34
The Clairvoyant (SSOTSS) - 4:27
Only the Good Die Young (SSOTSS) - 4:43
The Tailgunner (NPFTD) - 4:14
No Prayer for the Dying (NPFTD) - 4:23
Public Enema Number One (NPFTD) - 4:14
Fates Warning (NPFTD) - 4:11
The Assassin (NPFTD) - 4:18
Run Silent Run Deep (NPFTD) - 4:35
Hooks in You (NPFTD) - 4:07
Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter (NPFTD) - 4:44
Childhood’s End (FOTD) - 4:41
The Fugitive (FOTD) - 4:54
Man on the Edge (X Factor) - 4:14
Lighting Strikes Twice (V11) - 4:50
The Wicker Man (BNW) - 4:35
The Mercenary (BNW) - 4:43
The Fallen Angel (BNW) - 4:01
Different World (AMOLAD) - 4:18
The Alchemist (TFF) - 4:29
Tears of a Clown (TBOS) - 4:59
Stratego (Senjutsu) - 4:59
Days of Future Past (Senjustu) - 4:03
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2024.06.03 23:31 AutoMughal The collectors who cut up a masterpiece - The sordid practice of disassembling Islamic manuscripts has flourished for over a century. As rare folios go on the market, the art world needs to get ethical

The collectors who cut up a masterpiece - The sordid practice of disassembling Islamic manuscripts has flourished for over a century. As rare folios go on the market, the art world needs to get ethical
Autumn sees leaves turn gold and tumble to the ground. This October, though, we are also witnessing the fall of other leaves—folios of rare Islamic manuscripts on to the art market.
At London’s Frieze Masters in early October, the dealer Francesca Galloway displayed a folio with three paintings—two on one side and another on the back. The pictures, dating from the 15th century, depict the famous Islamic story of the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad into the heavens. Two more folios, extracted from the same Timurid-era manuscript, will be offered for sale at Christie’s on 24th October. One folio depicts the Prophet Muhammad approaching angels; the other vividly depicts the tortures of hell.
These are incredibly beautiful works of art—and incredibly valuable. Each folio is estimated to sell for about £1m. Their sale, though, raises a number of important ethical issues over how collectors and art galleries treat Islamic art. For the individual folios were once a complete illustrated manuscript bound between covers: they have been cut out either by the current (anonymous) owner or a previous one. The motivation for the dismemberment—given the acquisitive society we live in—appears obvious. Had the illustrated manuscript stayed complete, it would likely have sold for a just few million pounds; the sale of its separated folios increases its collective value tenfold—to over £50m. Wittingly or unwittingly, by its gutting and dispersal, this manuscript will prove to be a cash cow for all those involved in the sale.
I am following events closely because as an Islamic art historian, I have been on the trail of this manuscript for over 20 years now. It was probably made in Herat, in present-day Afghanistan, in the 1460s. Written in the Khwarazmian Turkish language and transcribed in the Uyghur script, the manuscript is a rare testament to Islamic religious literature produced in Turkic Central Asia. It would thus be of immense value to literary historians—who will not, now that it is split up, be able to properly study the work.
This cannibalised manuscript, which has over 60 lavish images, is one of only two of its kind in the world. The other manuscript, most likely made in Herat 30 years earlier in 1436, found its way to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Undivided, and properly preserved under the care of a public institution, the 1436 work almost certainly served as the model for the manuscript whose extracted folios are currently on the market.
While one may mourn the loss of the pictorial cycle in its splendid totality, perhaps some public institution with pockets as deep as the wealthiest private art collectors will acquire the folios. That’s what happened in 2012, when the David Collection in Copenhagen bought six folios from this dispersed manuscript. (The paintings in its possession represent Muhammad approaching a rooster angel, a multiheaded angel, the gates of paradise, and hell’s fiery gateway.) The museum has conserved these paintings, displays them regularly, and supports their scholarly study. We can only hope that the future custodians of the auctioned folios tend to them with as much care. But there is no guarantee.
The sordid practice of disassembling Islamic manuscripts has flourished for over a century. By the 1920s, the Belgian-born dealer Georges Demotte had taken apart a large section of a 14th-century Persian illustrated manuscript, a copy of Iran’s national epic the Shahnama (Book of Kings) written in the 10th/11th century, selling its precious paintings to passionate collectors. Demotte even split in half the folios bearing paintings on both sides of the page. Some of these cloven folios now display blank versos, while others were “completed” with newly written text pasted on their backs. This unscrupulous slash-and-fill process allowed the dealer to double his revenue.
Similarly, illustrations extracted from other Islamic manuscripts have been sold as autonomous paintings, divorced from their parent manuscripts. The celebrated rendering of the Shahnama of the 16th-century Persian ruler Shah Tahmasp, made in Tabriz (Iran) around 1525 CE, is a case in point. Its monumental gold-flecked folios are now displayed in museums as if they were “stand-alone” masterpieces, and not as integral parts of a larger whole.
Manuscript paintings on a less grand scale, including those from a so-called “small” Shahnama, dating from the early 14th century, were also sold one by one. Some were even augmented with “frames” of gold-painted and marbled papers. One such painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, underwent this decorative process during the early decades of the 20th century, under the direction of the dealer Nasli Heeramaneck. The added frames were intended to increase the painting’s value, both aesthetically and financially. More tactically, they also served to hide any damage caused by the process of disjoining the original manuscript.
Such suspect practices have pervaded the field of Islamic art. As a cautionary parallel, one need only look at Islamic ceramics, where there has been the cobbling together of unrelated fragments, the wholesale fabrication and filling in of missing pieces, and the liberal overpainting of missing areas of decoration. All for the demands of a largely European and American clientele.
Manuscripts likewise are not immune to a range of subterfuges. The early 20th-century Armenian dealer Kirkor Minassian was in the habit of “improving” his Islamic single-page paintings through the addition of calligraphy, illuminated panels and marbled, stencilled, and gold-flecked papers sourced from elsewhere. This miscellany of elements, drawn from works of art made in different times and places, make a precise attribution nearly impossible. This type of mishmash creates an ahistorical product that strips Islamic traditions of their temporal and geographic specificities. The resulting product is thus no longer a masterpiece, but rather a master-pastiche.
Such precious objects spur the production of outright forgeries. Indeed, a plethora of fake “premodern” Islamic paintings circulate on the market. In Istanbul, tourists can easily buy forged scientific illustrations in stores in the Grand Bazaar. These fakes use older (handwritten and printed) papers as support for contemporary depictions of dissected bodies, eyeballs, and extreme toothache.
This past summer, I came upon another suspect item in an Istanbul art gallery: an ascension painting that closely imitates the illustrations in the famous 15th-century Mi‘rajnamas. Priced at $5,000, this folio depicts Muhammad’s face covered by a white veil, a practice that did not become widespread until after 1500 CE. Here, the painter has altered an artistic tradition in order to align it with the flawed premise that Islamic cultures frown upon (or even ban) naturalistic representations of the Prophet. The end result: the painting parrots—yet also censures—an original composition, while the Quranic text bears no relationship to the image. And yet this concocted fantasy surely will sell, the buyer none the wiser.
So what now? Regrettably, legal action cannot be taken. Those who own manuscripts are permitted to sell them folio by folio as they please. But all who have a stake in preserving ethics in the art world should strive to make it anathema in the court of public opinion. I ask my colleagues and the public at large to entreat owners and dealers of Islamic art to resist the urge to capitalise on what has resulted from such destructive acts; interested buyers, too, should boycott such items. All parties should join forces to keep these artworks integral, intact and housed in public institutions.
Works of art should not be treated like cadavers suitable for dissection. It is high time for owners and dealers to grow a stronger moral backbone and remove their blades from the spines of manuscripts.
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2024.06.03 21:27 ITStallion330 Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) Concept/Ideas

Y'all want a Ghost Rider concept? I got me one of them to show off! Keep in mind, I wasn't lucky enough to play the game yet (curse you sub-par PC!) so I kinda had to structure this while looking at the ability lists for Dr. Strange and Groot. I am also not a professional game designer so this stuff MAY be broken but the concept is still there.
I have selected Danny Ketch because my man has been getting absolutely SHAFTED since the late 2000s (plus he's my favorite GR) and has never been playable in a Marvel game and I think this might finally be the time for the 90s Rider to shine.
Basic Info
Class - Vanguard Hero (Tank)
Ghost Rider is only concerned about punishing the guilty and protecting the innocent. Ghost Rider is efficient at dealing damage from both mid and close range and can deny areas with his Hellfire while pulling his teammates out of danger. His motorcycle is capable of getting ahead of his teammates to protect them from all harm or can transport them to the front lines to begin dealing damage.
As the younger brother of Johnny Blaze, he is sometimes mistaken for him. Due to this, Danny has adopted the use of his Blight Blade during his tenure as the Spirit of Corruption as well as his trench coat look from when he and Johnny took Heaven back from the control of the rogue angel Zadkiel.
Mystical Chain
Normal Attack (Left Click): Hellfire Chain Lash - Ghost Rider swings his chain forward.
Chain Pull (Right Click) - Ghost Rider winds up and swings his chain straight ahead. If he hits an enemy, Ghost Rider will pull the enemy to him. If he hits a teammate, the teammate will be pulled towards and behind Ghost Rider and out of harm's way.
Weapon Swap (R) - Ghost Rider stores his chain across his jacket and pulls the Blight Blade from his back.
Blight Blade
Normal Attack (Left Click): Sword Swing- Ghost Rider swings his sword in front of him in a 3 attack combo.
Cleave (Right Click) - Ghost Rider delivers a hard swing forward, pushing enemies back. If he jumps before hand, Ghost Rider will slam the sword into the ground also causing a slight push.
Weapon Swap (R) - Ghost Riders stores his sword on his back and pulls out his chain.
Hellcycle (LShift) - Ghost Rider whistles and in an instant, his motorcycle appears at his side. The bike has the ability to go up certain walls (or through them) and he can attack while riding plus it leaves a small trail of fire which can damage enemies. Jumping off the bike will cause the bike to continue forward for a few seconds before disappearing in a flash of fire. If his Sin Meter is full, Ghost Rider can use his bike as a weapon, either as a battering ram or he will throw it at someone. (Yes, teammates can hop on the bike with him. Max of two)
Hellfire Blast (E) - Ghost Rider spews Hellfire from his mouth. The fire remains on the ground for several seconds and will damage enemies standing it in. Ghost Rider’s allies will not.
The Penance Stare (Q) - Ghost Rider’s eyes begin to glow bright and anyone caught in his gaze will be stunned (think Medusa's ult from Smite. Very similar to that). If the Sin meter is full, Ghost Rider can instead target one enemy player and that enemy will be a OHKO if Ghost Rider gets too close (He will grab them and stare into their eyes)
Sin Meter (Passive) - Ghost Rider builds up his sin meter by taking damage, protecting his teammates or damaging enemies. Depending on how high the Sin meter is, Ghost Rider’s attacks will do additional damage (does not stack. It does the additional effect ONCE and you have to build it up again). The meter will drain when out of combat.
Spirit Healing (Passive) - When out of combat, Ghost Rider’s powers will allow him to heal himself up to half of his maximum health (If he is above half, this will not happen). It will drain his Sin Meter while doing so.
Here's Some Potential Team-Up Abilities
Team-Up Abilities: Spirit Spider - Ghost Rider infuses his Hellfire into Spider-Man’s webbing causing Damage Over Time effects on Spider-Man’s abilities.
Team-Up Abilities: Hellfire Grenade Launcher - Ghost Rider infuses one of Punisher’s weapons with Hellfire causing it to shoot Hellfire Grenades.
Team-Up Abilities: Bolt of Vengeance - Ghost Rider infuses some of his powers into Storm’s lightning strikes leaving small fires in their wake.
Skin/Cosmetics
Default Skin (Danny's on the right)
Old School
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2024.06.03 20:44 bleriii [US][SELLING] Manga! with now reduced prices (Jojo, Naruto, Komi, Nagatoro, Tokyo Ghoul, Death Note, Junji Ito, Promised Neverland and much more!)

https://imgur.com/a/iKNktR9
A lot of manga are in like new condition
Please comment if interested in anything, some prices are negotiable, feel free to offer!
I would consider shipping internationally (packages under 4lb preferred)
Most volumes are in great condition, will specify if not
Some volumes shown in photos have been sold in previous listings
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COMPLETE SETS
Jojo's P1 1-3, P2 1-4, P3 1-9, P4 1-9, Jojo's P5 1-3 (29 vols): $400 (willing to sell individual parts)
Naruto Shadow Box Set: $400
Rurouni Kenshin 1-28 (missing 20): $160
Promised Neverland 1-20 COMPLETE: $85
Tokyo Ghoul 1-14 COMPLETE: $85
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LARGE SETS
10 book Junji Ito lot: $175
My Hero Academia 1-31: $150
Komi Can't Communicate 1-25: $150
Vinland Saga 1-9: $130
Naruto Lot (volumes 1-23, 6 stories, Scarlet Spring, Chibi Sasuke 1-3, Hidden Leaf Headbands, Bookmarks, Poster): $130
Beastars 1-16: $120
Angel Sanctuary 1-18: $120
Don't Toy With Me Nagatoro 1-14: $100
Fullmetal Alchemist Omni 1-8 (vol 1-24): $80
My Hero Academia 1-20: $80
My Dress Up Darling 1-8: $80
Seven Deadly Sins 1-18: $80
One Punch Man 1-14: $80
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 4-13 + 1-4 Japanese: $80
Attack On Titan 1-17: $80
Toilet Bound Hanako Kun 0-11: $80
Promised Neverland 1-20 (missing 4): $80
My Hero Academia 1-20: $80
Made in Abyss 1-9: $80
Rent a Girlfriend 1-10: $70
Hitorijime My Hero 1-10: $70
Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 1-5: $70
Way of the House Husband 1-9: $70
Berserk Deluxe 1-2: $70
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SMALL/CHEAP SETS (these are priced cheaper and can only be purchased in an order totaling atleast $75)
Death Note Black 1-6 COMPLETE: $50
Chainsaw Man 1-11: $50
Mob Psycho 1-6 + Reigen 1: $40
Black Bird 1-9: $40
Perfect World 1-9: $40
Rent a GF 1-7: $40
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan 1-2: $30
Bakemonogatari 2-3, Nisemonogatari 1-2, Kizumonogatari (Wound Tale, some water damage): $30
Welcome Back, Alice 1-4: $25
Cactus's Secret 1-4 COMPLETE: $25
Demon Slayer 1-5: $20
Vinland Saga 1-2: $20
OPM 1-4: $15 (yellowed)
Call of the Night 1-3: $15
My Hero Academia 1-4: $15
No Longer Heroine 1-2: $10
Shy 1-2: $10
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SINGLES (These are priced cheaper and can only be purchased in an order totaling atleast $75)
Apollo's Song (Osamu Tezuka): $20
Dog Ningen Uncensored 1: $10
Soul Eater PE 1: $10
Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition 1: $10
Orange 1: $10
Blade of the Immortal 1: $10
Ibitsu: $10
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FREE (One can be added to purchases of atleast $200 total)
https://imgur.com/a/QfxkEZ4
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I have a ton of OP Gold Foils and misc Jojo's volumes if interested. I also have a Soul Eater Liz Funko, a Naruto Figure and a big Deku Figure, if anyone is interested
I also have some Studio Ghibli Steelbooks
I also have a complete set of One Piece Gold Foils that are in the best condition I've seen. Volumes 1-23 for $750 shipped. G5, Mint Condition, all sleeved. I know it is a lot but that is my price as I don't think it is easy to come across sets in this condition.
I also have a complete set of Inuyasha 1-56 in great condition I'd consider selling as well.
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If you are interested in anything, feel free to ask for more photos or details.
I will prioritize making larger sales.
I will only add the smaller sets/singles to a larger purchase.
Please comment and PM any interest
THANK YOU!
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2024.06.03 20:12 Sp00kyd00d4ever INFINITY BLOOD HUNT FOR THE DIVINE BOOK ONE CHAPTER TWO

The next chapter in my horro adventure series.
Chapter 02
1707 C.E
"We've been anticipating your arrival. Please come in, Sir Lucis," the frail priest greeted the shrouded figure, carrying a large object strapped to its back and draped in a wool tarp. The figure obliged and entered the chapel.
The church was almost as desolate as the scarcely lit streets, save for a few townsfolk scattered about in the darkness.
A petite young woman nearby, kneeling at a pew, lost in silent meditation, caught his attention momentarily.
"My apologies, Father, for not coming sooner. I had business to attend to in Esterlyn," he said, removing his wide-brimmed hat, revealing the face of a man hardened by a lifetime of dutiful purpose.
"Yes, I have heard of the travesties Esterlyn has had to endure lately, the poor souls, in a town much smaller than our own. Lord, be with them," he clasped his hands in front of his chest, reciting a small prayer under his breath.
"Please, Father, what has transpired here?" The old man stood there, utterly speechless. A sudden look of shock took his pale, hollow face as his body began to tremble. After a moment, the priest regained his composure. "Truly horrid things have transpired here in our town of Brookwur."
"Yes, it is true. I have seen them with my own eyes," the petite young woman from before said as she walked forward, her eyes fixed on the ground as she made her way to the priest's side, her voice gentle.
"This is Aduj, one of our Sunday school teachers; she was one of the first to witness the atrocities that have befallen Brookwur. Aduj, this is Sir Auros Lucis."
She interrupted with what seemed to be nervous enthusiasm. "You are the slayer, are you not? The one they summoned?" She lifted her head at last and stared at him, her eyes filled with frail hope.
"I am. Now tell me, what has happened?" he asked promptly and politely, for he had not ventured all this way for mere pleasantries.
Her face suddenly became flushed with color, and she bowed her head once more. She spoke so quietly that it was barely audible, her voice a hushed whisper.
"They are dead."
"They are all dead."
"Who is dead, madam?" Auros prompted, still retaining his tranquil tone.
"The children!" the priest interjected, choking back tears. "They were eaten by those wicked things, those demons, the hellspawn that plagues this begotten town!" The old man bellowed, shaking his clenched fists in the air. He made his way to one of the pews and sat down.
"For quite some time now, perhaps a month or so, six Sunday school children have vanished. We did everything we could; we searched everywhere," he paused suddenly, his voice on the verge of breaking.
"But it was only two days ago that their remains were found...by an old mill on the outskirts of town; they were...ripped to pieces, yet the remains that were still intact had been completely drained of blood," he said, biting his bottom lip, struggling to hold himself.
Auros turned his attention to the young woman, her back to him; she was sobbing into her hands. He walked over to her, meaning to console her. But he was suddenly overcome by a familiar feeling, one he had grown all too accustomed to. He threw open his coat, unsheathed his gleaming blade from its scabbard, reached for her shoulder, spun her around, and stepped forward with an upward slash of his sword. She screamed in bloody terror, crumpling to a heap on the floor.
"Are you mad?!?" The priest shouted in angry disbelief, running to her aid. Auros blocked the priest's path.
"Father, stand back at once! That is no woman. We are in the presence of something dastardly. Get to your feet, foul demon. You've bid yourself enough time with this charade," Auros said, his demeanor unshaken. He slipped out of the leather strap slung over his shoulder, and the large, mysterious object fell to the floor behind him with a loud thud that echoed through the room. A horrible screech filled the chapel, causing even the pillars to tremble. The small woman began to rise to her feet, snickering malevolently.
"You have to forgive me. You see, I have not had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of a slayer before. Human emotions are far from our forte, you see. Falsehoods and deception are much of our nature, but emotions are entirely a subject of scrutiny all their own. We've never felt anything but unbridled lust for carnage." The gash left by the blade had cut through her cloth dress and deeper still, but there was no trace of blood. She stood there unfazed, grinning mockingly.
"You demon, what have you done to sweet Aduj!!?" the priest demanded furiously.
"Do not address it, Father. It is not of this world. Nothing it says will bring anything but further misery," Auros cautioned, repositioning himself, his long steel sword held out in front of him in a defensive stance.
"Your protective shell has been compromised, maligus! You cannot stay housed within these holy walls any longer," he declared.
"You're quite right, Pharus Spei," its once soft voice now hoarse and inhuman. "A change of scenery, perhaps?" What was once a sweet, freckled face with deep blue eyes of an innocent, was now pale, chalky skin accompanied by two black voids where her eyes had been.
Without further delay, the slayer lunged forward with his mighty blade. The demon responded with a swift maneuver, evading this attack, and was now on the far side of the church, barely grazing the ground with its feet. It was levitating.
"Impudent mortal, this will end in nothing but further bloodshed," it cackled triumphantly, grabbing hold of a large bench in each hand.
With its immense strength, it began flinging one and then another. The few townsfolk housed inside the church were now crying in terror, scrambling for cover.
Auros narrowly managed to evade one of the benches with a quick side roll as it came crashing to the floor. Harnessing enough momentum with a kick, he sent it hurtling away from the innocent bystanders, smashing violently against one of the church walls. No harm is to come to any of the innocent within the church; a change of scenery is imperative. The second bench was met by his blade, splitting it right down the center cleanly with a precise strike.
Auros rushed to the front of the church, where a fountain full of holy water stood. He pulled out four small crucifix-like throwing blades and quickly submerged them in the holy water. He then spun around to look at the malevolent creature and let them fly in a horizontal line. The projectiles tore through the air in a whirling motion, each piercing through a designated limb of the demon, one lodging itself right under its collarbone. It shrieked in agony.
Smoke seeped from each point of entry as the beast began to writhe in pain, tearing away portions of the host shell it inhabited in an attempt to alleviate its suffering. In turn, this further exposed the ligaments in their true form, which lay hidden underneath. A grotesque, lanky body almost resembling a human but covered in scales, it was nearly skeletal in appearance, with finger-like talons. It was now fully exposed.
Without its human host, it could no longer stay within the walls of the holy sanctum. It began to become engulfed in flames. Bat-like wings sprouted from its back; struggling to take flight, it barely managed to crash through the large glass ceiling at the front of the church.
"It's heading toward the graveyard!" the priest shouted from behind the safety of a pillar.
"That will be its final resting place," Auros declared, slinging the large, cloaked object onto his back once more. He sheathed his sword in its scabbard and followed.
The rain had begun to fall with even more ferocity, the drops heavily pelting every headstone within the graveyard like an orchestra playing in the dark. Auros treads through the deep mud.
He could see the foul demon circling above like a vulture over prey, the rain quelling the flames that had engulfed it. It landed atop an abandoned mausoleum, perched like a raven on a large stone sculpture of Archangel Michelangelo.
It stared down at the slayer from above the statue with crimson eyes, peering at him with a mixture of rage and amusement.
It grimaced, revealing rows of long, jagged teeth. "I will take great pleasure in tearing you limb from limb, slayer," it hissed.
"Your end has come, maligus. I will be sending you to a place far worse than the pits of Hell. Oblivion awaits you," Auros replied without hesitation.
He removed the object from his back and positioned it toward the winged beast, extending its wooden legs and digging them into the ground. He removed the cloth draped over it, revealing a large wooden mechanism resembling a crossbow.
He reached into his coat and pulled out three silver bolts, loading them into the device. The unrelenting downpour continued, and the howling wind brought an old willow tree crashing down onto the mausoleum where the demon was perched. Seizing the moment of disheveledness, Auros launched a bolt that grazed one of its shoulders.
"You are quite the opportunist slayer. Mortals resort to such meaningless tactics when looking death in the face. Such pitiful attempts will only prolong the inevitable. I will not be taken so easily. You are in the presence of a God," the demon proclaimed.
"You are no God." Auros let fly with two more projectiles, each impaling the large stone statue on which the demon stood.
The demon cackled in amusement.
"A slayer with the aim of a blind man is as useless as a Jesuit preaching to a mosque of deaf followers. Easy prey!" And with that, the demon took off, soaring at inhuman speed down toward the slayer, claws extended, jaw unhinged, rabid with hunger, and the urge to feast on this interloper who dared stand in defiance.
The response was quick and precise. The slayer mounted the contraption, pulled a lever, and leaped, soaring into the air. He unleashed his blade and, with a pivotal twisting motion in the air, evaded his pursuer's downward clawing strike. He followed back around with an upward thrust, severing both of the creature's wings in mid-air. It howled in pain and collapsed to the swamp-like ground beneath, followed by an unknown figure obscured by the heavy rain and darkness. Soon, the creature recognized the figure as what appeared to be the Archangel Michelangelo himself, descending towards it.
The maligus could not move, pinned beneath the great stone angel. It squirmed violently, attempting to break free, but it was futile; the entirety of its body was now a prisoner. It gasped for air.
"Even a demonic entity such as yourself needs air to breathe when on this plane," the slayer remarked, walking around the statue, tracing his fingers along two ropes that ran from the statue back to the large mechanism. He glanced back at the demon. The beast glared back, its once malevolent crimson eyes now large and almost pleading. For the first time, it experienced a very vulnerable, very human emotion—fear.
"That which you are experiencing, foul creature, is fear. You fear me. You fear what is about to happen next." The breeze had now become a gale, howling and violently whipping the rain around. He held onto his hat at the brim and stared down at the demon.
"How?! How could this be?!" the creature cried hysterically, gasping for air.
"Hubris. A trait as much as I hate to admit, it seems humans and demons share." He looked on as he witnessed the life in its eyes slowly diminish until, at last, it flickered away completely.
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2024.06.03 18:11 nahimavegan (Selling) Huge List Of 1100+ Movies! Lots Of New And Rare Titles!

**Prices firm, but I take off $1.00 for every $10 spent (multiple items)*\*
**I accept PayPal, Venmo, & Cashapp*\*
**Codes are always split/dual portion where applicable, & have no DMI*\*
**Only redeem the portion you pay for!*\*
Birds of Prey HD/MA $3.5
Scoob! HD/MA $3.5
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines HD/MA $3.5
New additions
2000s 10-Film Bundle (The Departed 4K, I Am Legend 4K, Pan's Labyrinth 4K, The Hangover 4K, A History of Violence HD, Best in Show HD, A.I. Artificial Intelligence HD, Mystic River HD, Ocean's Eleven HD, Letters from Iwo Jima HD) HD/MA $30
48 Hrs HD/VU $6
65 HD/MA $4.5 or SD/MA $2.5
80 for Brady HD/VU $5
976-Evil HD/MA $5.5
A League of Their Own 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
A Monster Calls HD/MA $3
A Most Violent Year HD/VU $4.5
A Quiet Place Pt 2 4K/VU $5.5
A Simple Favor HD/VU $4
About Time HD/MA or IT $3.5
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter HD/MA $3.5
Addams Family '19 4K/IT $4.5
Afflicted HD/MA $4
Aliens 4K/MA $6.5
Almost Famous 4K/VU $5
American Psycho 4K/VU $5.5
American Sniper 4K/MA $5.5
Angels & Demons 4K/MA $6
Ant-Man & the Wasp Quantumania HD/MA $5.5
Anyone But You HD/MA $7
Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom HD/MA $6.5
Armageddon Time HD/MA $4.5
Arrow Complete Series HD/VU $45
As Good as it Gets 4K/MA $6
Asteroid City 4K/MA $6.5
Atlantis Milo's Return HD/MA $5 or HD/GP $4.5
Avatar The Way of Water HD/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $4
Back to the Future Trilogy HD/MA $10
Bad Boys 4K/MA $5.5
Bad Boys for Life 4K/MA $5.5
Bad Guys HD/MA $4.5
Bad Santa (Unr & Dir) HD/VU $4.5
Bambi HD/MA $4
Banshees of Inisherin HD/GP $3.5
Barbie HD/MA $6
Battle for Terra HD/VU $4.5
Beast HD/MA $4.5
Beguiled HD/IT $3
Beyond Re-Animator HD/VU $4
Big Chill 4K/MA $5.5
Big Eyes HD/VU $4
Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk HD/MA $4
Black Adam 4K/MA $5.5
Black Phone HD/MA $4
Blockers HD/MA $3.5
Blood Father HD/VU $3
Bloodshot HD/MA $4
Blue Bayou HD/MA $4.5
Bob Marley One Love HD/MA $9
Body Double 4K/MA $5.5
Boogeyman HD/MA $5
Book Club Next Chapter HD/MA $5
Book of Life HD/MA $3.5
Broken City HD/MA $3.5
Broken Hearts Gallery HD/VU $4.5
Bros HD/MA $4.5
Bullet Train 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Burrowers HD/VU $4
Call Jane HD/VU $4.5
Cannibal Cabin 4K/VU $5
Charlie's Angels '00 4K/MA $5.5
Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke HD/VU $3.5
Christmas Classics 4-Film Set (Miracle on 34th Street '94, A Christmas Carol '84, Home Alone, Jingle all the Way) HD/MA $12
Cinderella '15 HD/MA $3.5
Cinderella '50 HD/MA $4.5
Cobweb 4K/VU $7
Cocaine Bear HD/MA $5
Colossal HD/VU or IT $4
Contagion 4K/MA $6.5
Creature from the Black Lagoon '54 HD/MA $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Creed 3 4K/MA $6.5
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 4K/MA $6
The Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun, Fuzz, World's) 4K/MA $15
Counselor HD/MA $4
Da Vinci Code 4K/MA $6
Dagon HD/VU $4
Dark Skies HD/VU $3.5
DCU All Star Superman 4K/MA $6.5
Dear David 4K/VU $6
Dear White People HD/VU $3.5
Den of Thieves HD/IT $3
Devil's Workshop 4K/VU $5.5
Devil's Workshop HD/VU $4.5
Devotion 4K/VU $6 or HD/VU $4.5
Diary of the Dead HD/VU $4
Dig 4K/VU $5.5
District 9 / Elysium Bundle HD/MA $7.5
Dora & the Lost City of Gold HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Dragon Blade HD/VU $3.5
Dr. Strangelove 4K/MA $5
Dragonheart 5-Film Set HD/MA $13
Dreamland HD/VU $4.5
Dream Scenario HD/VU $6.5
Drive HD/MA $4
Dumb Money HD/MA $6
Dune Part 2 HD/MA $8.5
Easy Rider 4K/MA $6
Elemental HD/MA $6
Emperor HD/VU $3.5
Equalizer 3 4K/MA $7 or HD/MA $5.5
Equalizer Trilogy 4K/MA $15
Escape Plan HD/VU $2.5
Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K/VU $5
Evil Dead '13 4K/MA $5.5
Evil Dead Rise 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
Evil Under The Sun HD/VU $4
Exorcist '73 (2-cuts) 4K/MA $6.5
Exorcist Believer 4K/MA $7 or HD/MA $5.5
Expendables 1-3 Set 4K/MA $10 or HD/VU $7
Expendables 1-4 Set 4K/VU $15 or HD/VU $11
Fall 4K/VU $6 or HD/VU $4.5
Fast & the Furious 10-film Set 4K/MA $30 or HD/MA $22
Fast X HD/MA $5
Feast (Unr) HD/VU $4
Fifth Element 4K/MA $5.5
Fifty Shades 6-Cut Set (Thea & Unr) HD/MA $12
First Purge HD/MA $3.5
Five Nights at Freddy's HD/MA $6
Fool's Paradise HD/VU $5.5
Force of Nature '20 HD/VU $3.5
Forger HD/VU $3
Forrest Gump HD/VU $4
Freeheld HD/VU $4
Friendsgiving HD/VU $4
Fright Night '85 4K/MA $5
Front Runner HD/MA $4
Frozen '10 HD/VU $4
Funny Girl 4K/MA $5.5
Gandhi 4K/MA $5.5
Gateway 4K/VU $5.5
Gattaca 4K/MA $6
Ghostbusters Afterlife HD/MA $4
Ghoulies Go To College HD/VU $3.5
Gladiator 4K/VU $5.5
Glory 4K/MA $6
Godfather 3 Coda HD/VU $4
Godzilla '98 HD/MA $4
Good Boys HD/MA $3.5
Good House 4K/VU $5.5
Goodnight Mommy HD/VU $4
Goosebumps 2 HD/MA $3
Gran Turismo 4K/MA $7 or HD/MA $5.5
Grand Budapest Hotel HD/MA $4
Grease Trilogy HD/VU or IT $9
Green Knight 4K/VU $5
Green Room HD/VU $4
Groundhog Day 4K/MA $5.5
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 4K/MA $6
Hail, Caesar! HD/VU or IT $2.5
Hammett HD/VU $4
Halloween Ends HD/MA $4.5
Halloween Kills (Ext) HD/MA $4.5
Harriet 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
Haunted Mansion '23 HD/MA $5
Hex 4K/VU $5.5
High Tension HD/VU $4.5
Hellbenders HD/VU $4
Hellraiser: Judgment HD/VU $4
Home Alone 1 & 2 Set HD/MA $6.5
Hook 4K/MA $6
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Hotel Transylvania 2 HD/MA $3.5
How to Train Your Dragon HD/MA $4
How to Train Your Dragon Hidden World HD/MA $3.5
Hunger Games 4-Film Set 4K/VU $15
Hustlers 4K/IT $4.5
Ice Age Continental Drift HD/MA $3
I, Frankenstein HD/VU or IT $3
I Saw the Light HD/MA $4
Ice Age HD/MA $3.5
Identity Thief HD/IT $3.5
If Beale Street Could Talk HD/MA $4
Imaginary HD/VU $8.5
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade HD/VU $4 or 4K/IT $4.5
Inhabitant HD/VU $4.5
Insidious 4K/MA $5.5
Insidious The Last Key HD/MA $3.5
Insidious Red Door HD/MA $5
Iron Claw HD/VU $6
Jerry Maguire 4K/MA $6
Jesus Revolution HD/VU $4.5
John Wick 4 4K/VU $6.5
John Wick 4-Film Collection HD/VU $13
Journey to Bethlehem HD/MA $5.5
Jumanji '95 4K/MA $6
Jungle Book '67 HD/MA $4
Jurassic World 6-film Set HD/MA $18
Jurassic World Dominion (Thea & Ext) HD/MA $5
Kandahar HD/MA $5.5
Kiss the Girls 4K/VU $6
Knights of the Zodiac HD/MA $5
Kramer vs Kramer 4K/MA $6
Kung Fu Panda 4 HD/MA $9.5
Last Action Hero 4K/MA $5.5
Last Christmas HD/MA $4.5
Last Night in Soho 4K/MA $5.5
Lawless HD/VU $4
Leprechaun 8-Film Set HD/VU $15
Liar Liar HD/MA or IT $4
Licorice Pizza 4K/IT $5
Little Mermaid '23 HD/MA $5
Long Shot HD/VU $4
Lost Boys 4K/MA $6
Love Again SD/MA $2.5
Lucky Number Slevin HD/VU $4.5
M3GAN (Thea & Unr) HD/MA $5
Ma '19 HD/MA $4
Madame Web HD/MA $7.5
Mamma Mia Here We Go Again HD/MA $3
Manchester by the Sea HD/VU $4
Manodrome HD/VU $5
Marsh King's Daughter 4K/VU $5.5
Martyrs HD/VU $4.5
May HD/VU $4
Maze Runner Scorch Trials HD/MA $3.5
Mean Girls '24 HD/VU $8.5
Memories of Murder 4K/MA $6.5
Menu HD/GP $3.5
Meryl Streep 8-Film Set HD/MA $22
MIB International HD/MA $4
Mickey's Christmas Carol HD/MA $4
Midnight Meat Train (Unr) HD/VU $4
Migration HD/MA $6
Miller's Girl 4K/VU $8
Miracle on 34th Street HD/MA $4
Missing HD/MA $5
Mist 4K/VU $6.5
Mitchells vs the Machines HD/MA $4.5
Monster High Electrified HD/MA or IT $2.5
Moonfall 4K/VU $4.5
Moonrise Kingdom HD/MA $4
Mortal Kombat Legends Cage Match HD/MA $5.5
Mr. Holmes HD/VU $3.5
Mulan '98 HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 HD/MA $3
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 HD/MA $5.5
My Girl 4K/MA $6
National Champions 4K/IT $5
New Mutants HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Night at the Museum Secret of the Tomb HD/MA $3
Night Swim HD/MA $7
Night Train to Lisbon HD/VU $4
No Good Deed HD/MA $3
No Hard Feelings HD/MA $5.5
Nope HD/MA $4.5
Notting Hill HD/MA $4
Nun 2 HD/MA $5.5
Ocean's Trilogy 4K/MA $16
Old 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
Office Space HD/MA $4.5
Official Secrets HD/VU $4
Oppenheimer HD/MA $6
Other Side of the Door HD/MA $4
Out Of The Blue HD/VU $4
Overlord 4K/VU or IT $4.5
ParaNorman HD/IT $4
Parental Guidance HD/MA $2.5
Parents HD/VU $4
Parasite HD/MA $4
Paw Patrol Mighty Movie HD/VU $5.5
Pet Sematary Bloodlines HD/VU $5.5
Peter Pan Return to Neverland HD/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $4
Philadelphia 4K/MA $5.5
Pick 1 (Black Christmas '18 4K, Dog's Purpose 4K, Sparks Brothers 4K, Raw, Agnes Bourne, Antz, Being Frank, Loving, Don't Let Go, Kicks, Final Account) HD/MA $4
Pinocchio '40 HD/MA $4
Pitch Perfect 3 4K/MA $5
Pixels HD/MA $3
Plane 4K/VU $5.5
Poor Things HD/MA $7
Pope's Exorcist HD/MA $5
Prey for the Devil 4K/VU $5.5
Priscilla HD/VU $6
Punch-Drunk Love 4K/MA $6.5
Purge 4-Film Set HD/MA $12
Queen & Slim HD/MA $4
Quick & the Dead '95 4K/MA $6
Rambo First Blood HD/VU $4
Rambo First Blood Pt 2 HD/VU $4
Rango HD/VU $3
Real Genius 4K/MA $5.5
Red Rocket HD/VU $4
Red Sparrow HD/MA $3.5
Renfield HD/MA $5.5
Requin HD/VU $4.5
Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City HD/MA $4
Robin Hood '73 HD/MA $4
Rosemary's Baby 4K/VU $6.5
Rhythm Section HD/VU $3.5
Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken HD/MA $5.5
Rudy (Dir Cut) 4K/MA $6.5
Rudy 4K/MA $6
Run Lola Run 4K/MA $6.5
Saint Maud HD/VU $4
Samurai Jack Complete Series HD/VU $40
Saw 8-film Set (Unr except Jigsaw) HD/VU $20
Secret Life of Walter Mitty HD/MA $3.5
Shaun of the Dead 4K/IT $4.5
Shaun the Sheep HD/VU $3.5
Shrek 6-Film Set (1-4, Musical, Puss in Boots) HD/MA $19
Skiptrace HD/VU $3.5
Scorpion King 4-Film Set (1, 3, 4, Book of Souls) HD/MA $12
Scream 3 4K/VU $5.5
Scream 5 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Scream 6 4K/VU $7 or HD/VU $5.5
Sharktopus HD/VU $3.5
Shazam 2-film Set HD/MA $8
Shazam Fury of the Gods 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
She Said HD/MA $4.5
She's the Man HD/VU $3.5
Sin City HD/VU $4
Silent Night '23 HD/VU $5.5
Silver Linings Playbook HD/VU $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Sixteen Candles HD/MA $3.5 or HD/IT $3.5
Sleepless in Seattle 4K/MA $6
Smile HD/VU $4.5
Social Network 4K/MA $6
Sometimes They Come Back...Again HD/VU $4
Sometimes They Come Back...For More HD/VU $3.5
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 4K/VU $5.5
Spartacus 4K/IT $4
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 4K/MA $7 or HD/MA $5.5
Split HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Spoiler Alert HD/MA $5
Spy (Unr) HD/MA $3
Star Wars A New Hope HD/MA $4
Starship Troopers 4K/MA $6
Step Brothers 4K/MA $6.5
Stillwater HD/MA $4
Studio 666 HD/MA $5
Sum of All Fears 4K/VU $5
Supercell HD/VU $4.5
Super Mario Bros Movie 4K/MA $6.5 or HD/MA $5
Superfly HD/MA $4
Suspiria (2018) HD/VU $4
T2 Trainspotting 4K/MA $6
Talk to Me 4K/VU $6
Talladega Nights 4K/MA $6.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Thanksgiving 4K/MA $7
The Bay HD/VU $4
The Color Purple '23 4K/MA $7.5 or HD/MA $6
The Creator HD/MA $6
The Descent (Unr) HD/VU $4.5
The Last Dragon 4K/MA $5.5
The Marvels HD/MA $6.5
The Natural 4K/MA $6
The Other Guys 4K/MA $6
The Professional (Ext) 4K/MA $6
The Space Between Us HD/MA $4
The Sting HD/MA $3.5
The Super '17 HD/VU $4
Ticket to Paradise HD/MA $4.5
Titanic 4K/VU or IT $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Top Gun Maverick HD/VU $4
Toy Story 3 HD/MA $4
Trading Places 4K/VU $6
Transformers Rise of the Beasts 4K/MA $7 or HD/VU $5.5
Trolls 3-Film Collection HD/MA $12
Trolls Band Together HD/MA $6.5
Umma HD/MA $4.5
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 4K/VU $5
Underwater HD/MA $4.5
Unfriended HD/MA $4
Universal Monsters 4-Film Set 4K/MA $17
Up '09 HD/MA $4.5
V for Vendetta 4K/MA $6.5
Vanilla Sky HD/VU $5.5
Varsity Blues 4K/VU $6
Velvet Goldmine HD/VU $4.5
Venture Bros Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart HD/MA $5.5
Violent Night HD/MA $5
Walking Dead Season 9 HD/VU $7
Watchmen Ultimate Cut 4K/MA $7.5
Waxwork 2 HD/VU $3.5
Welcome to Marwen HD/MA $4.5
Welcome to Monster High HD/MA or IT $3
Whiplash 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
White House Down HD/MA $3.5
Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance w/ Somebody HD/MA $4
Wicker Man 4K/VU $5.5
Wish HD/MA $7
Witch HD/VU $3.5
Woman King 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $4
Woman Walks Ahead HD/VU $4
Wonka HD/MA $7
You're Next HD/VU $3.5
X-Men 1-4 Set SD/MA $7.5
X-Men Trilogy (X-Men, X2, Last Stand) HD/MA $11.5
Zombieland 4K/MA $5.5
Zombieland Double Tap HD/MA $4
All other movies (A-Z)
10 Cloverfield Lane HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
101 Dalmatians '61 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
13 Hours HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
14 Blades HD/VU $3.5
1917 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
2 Guns 4K/MA $4 or HD/MA or IT $2.5
21 Jump Street HD/MA $3
22 Jump Street HD/MA $3.5
3 Extremes HD/VU $4
3 From Hell (Unr) 4K/VU $4 or HD/VU $2.5
3:10 to Yuma 4K/VU $5
31 HD/VU $2.5
47 Meters Down HD/IT $3.5
47 Meters Down Uncaged 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
47 Ronin HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
600 Miles HD/VU $3.5
71 HD/VU $3.5
A Christmas Story 4K/MA $6
A Dog's Purpose HD/IT $3
A Good Day to Die Hard (Ext) HD/VU $2.5
A Journal For Jordan HD/MA $4
A Quiet Place HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
A Walk Among the Tombstones HD/IT $3.5
A Wrinkle in Time HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
A.C.O.D. HD/IT $3.5
Abominable 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
About Last Night HD/MA $3
Ad Astra HD/MA $4
Adaptation 4K/MA $6
Adverse 4K/VU $5
After Earth HD/MA $3
Aftermath HD/VU $3
Air Force One 4K/MA $6
Aladdin ‘19 HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Aladdin ‘92 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Alien HD/MA $4
Alien Covenant HD/MA $2.5
Alfred Hitchcock 4-Film Set Vol 1 4K/MA $18
Alfred Hitchcock 5-Film Set Vol 2 4K/MA $21
Alien 6-film Set HD/MA $16
Alita Battle Angel 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
All Eyez on Me HD/VU or IT $3
All is Lost HD/VU $3.5
All the Money in the World HD/MA $3.5
Allied HD/VU or IT $3.5
Amazing Spider-Man 2 HD/MA $3.5 or SD/MA $1.5
Amazing Spider-Man HD/MA $3.5 or SD/MA $1.5
American Assassin 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
American Hustle HD/MA $3.5
American Ultra HD/VU or IT $4
American Underdog 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Anatomy of a Murder 4K/MA $5
Anchorman 2 HD/VU or IT $2.5
Angel Has Fallen 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Angel Heart 4K/VU $5.5
Angel of Mine 4K/VU $5.5
Angry Birds Movie HD/MA $3.5
Anna Karenina HD/IT $3.5
Annie ‘14 HD/MA $3.5
Annihilation HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Antebellum 4K/VU $5
Antlers HD/GP $3
Ant-Man & the Wasp HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Ant-Man HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Apache Junction HD/VU $3.5
Apollo 13 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Arctic HD/MA $4
Arrival HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Art of Self-Defense HD/MA $4
Assassination Nation HD/MA $3.5
Assassin's Creed HD/MA $3
Assignment HD/VU $4
Atomic Blonde 4K/IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
August Osage County HD/VU $3
Avengers Age of Ultron HD/GP $3
Avengers Endgame HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Avengers Infinity War 4K/MA $4 or HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Baby Driver HD/MA $4
Backdraft 4K/MA or IT $5.5
Bad Grandpa HD/VU or IT $2.5
Bad Words HD/MA or IT $3
Bandslam HD/VU $4
Bank Job HD/VU $3.5
Barb & Star go to Vista Del Mar HD/VU $4
Barbie & Her Sisters in the Great Puppy Adventure HD/IT $3.5
Bart Got a Room HD/VU $4
Battle Royale HD/VU $4.5
Battleship 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
Beauty & the Beast ‘17 HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Beauty & the Beast ‘91 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Bedknobs & Broomsticks HD/GP $3.5
Before I Fall HD/VU or IT $3.5
Begin Again HD/VU $3.5
Beiruit HD/MA $3.5
Belly 4K/VU $5.5
Ben-Hur ‘16 HD/VU $3.5
Between Worlds HD/VU $3.5
Big Hero 6 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Big Lebowski 4K/MA or IT $5.5
Big Short HD/VU $3.5
Big Wedding HD/VU or IT $3
Billy Elliot HD/MA or IT $4
Birdman HD/MA $4
Black & Blue HD/MA $4
Black Christmas '19 HD/MA $4.5
Black Panther 4K/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $2.5
Black Panther Wakanda Forever 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
BlackKklansman HD/MA $4.5
Blacklight HD/MA $4
Black Widow HD/GP $3
Blackhat HD/IT $3.5
Blair Witch Project ‘99 HD/VU $4
Bleeding Steel HD/VU $3.5
Blindspotting 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Blood Money ‘17 HD/VU $3.5
Blood Ties HD/VU $3.5
Blue Jasmine HD/MA $3.5
Blue Ruin HD/VU $4
Blues Brothers HD/MA $4 or 4K/IT $4.5
Bob's Burgers Movie HD/GP $3
Body Cam HD/VU $4
Bohemian Rhapsody 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Bombshell 4K/VU $5
Book of Life HD/MA $3.5
Boss Baby HD/MA $2.5
Bourne Identity 4K/IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Bourne Legacy HD/VU $2 or 4K/IT $2.5
Bourne Supremacy HD/MA $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Bourne Ultimatum 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Boy ‘16 HD/IT $3.5
Boy & the World HD/IT $3.5
Braven HD/VU $4
Breakfast Club HD/MA or IT $4
Breakthrough HD/MA $3
Brian Banks HD/MA $3
Bridge of Spies HD/GP $3.5
Brothers Bloom HD/VU $4.5
Bumblebee 4K/VU or IT $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Butler HD/VU $3
Cabin in the Woods HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Cake HD/MA $4
Call of Wild 4K/MA $4.5 or HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Calvary HD/MA $4
Candyman '20 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $4.5
Candyman 3 HD/VU $4
Captain America Civil War HD/GP $2.5
Captain America First Avenger HD/GP $3.5
Captain America Winter Soldier HD/GP $3.5
Captain Marvel 4K/MA $4 or HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Captain Phillips HD/MA $3.5
Captain Underpants First Epic Movie HD/MA $2.5
Carol HD/VU $4
Cars 3 HD/GP $2.5
Casablanca 4K/MA $5.5
Case for Christ HD/MA or IT $2.5
Casper HD/IT $4
Celebrating Mickey HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Chaos Walking 4K/VU $5
Chappaquiddick HD/VU $4
Chasing Mavericks HD/MA $3.5
Chicago HD/VU $4
Child 44 HD/VU $4
Children ‘08 HD/VU $4
Christopher Robin HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Clerks 3 4K/VU $4.5
Clifford the Big Red Dog HD/VU $4
Cloverfield 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Coco HD/GP $2.5
Cold Pursuit 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Collection HD/VU $3.5
Collide ‘17 HD/VU or IT $2.5
Colma The Musical HD/VU $4
Colombiana (Unr) HD/MA $4
Colony 4K/VU $5
Come & Find Me HD/VU $4
Commuter 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Company of Heroes HD/MA $4
Conspirator HD/VU $4
Contraband HD/IT $3
Contractor HD/VU $4.5
Cooler HD/VU $4
Cool Hand Luke 4K/MA $5.5
Cooties HD/VU $4
Cotton Club Encore 4K/VU $5.5
Countdown ‘16 HD/VU $3.5
Courier 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Craft Legacy HD/MA $4.5
Criminal HD/VU or IT $3
Croods HD/VU $3.5
Cruella HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Crypto 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Daddy's Home HD/IT $2.5
Daddy's Home 2 HD/VU or IT $3
Damsel HD/VU $4.5
Dangerous 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Danny Collins HD/IT $3.5
Dark Crimes HD/VU $4
Darkest Minds HD/MA $4
Dark Places HD/VU $4
Dark Tower HD/MA $3.5
Darkest Hour ‘17 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes HD/MA $3.5
Deadpool 2 (w/Super Duper Cut) HD/MA $4
Deadpool HD/MA $2.5
Death of Me HD/VU $4
Death on the Nile HD/GP $3
Death Wish '18 HD/VU $3
Deepwater Horizon HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Deliver Us From Evil HD/MA $3.5
Dentist 2-Film Set HD/VU $7
Despicable Me 2 HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Despicable Me 3 4K/MA or IT $4.5
Despicable Me 4K/MA or IT $4.5
Detroit HD/MA $3.5
Devil Inside HD/VU $3.5
Devil's Due HD/MA $3.5
Die Hard HD/MA $3.5
Die Hard 5-film Set HD/MA $18
Die in a Gunfight 4K/VU $5
Dirty Dancing 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Disney Animated Short Films Set HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Disneynature Monkey Kingdom HD/MA $3
Django Unchained HD/VU $3
Doctor Strange HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Dolittle HD/MA $3.5
Dom Hemingway HD/MA $3.5
Don Verdean HD/VU $4.5
Doorman HD/VU $3.5
Doors 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Downsizing HD/VU $2 or 4K/IT $2.5
Downton Abbey A New Era HD/MA $4
Downton Abbey The Movie HD/MA $3.5
Draft Day HD/IT $3.5
Dragged Across Concrete HD/VU $3.5
Dragonslayer 4K/VU $5.5
Dream a Little Dream HD/VU $4
Dreamkatcher HD/VU $4
Dreamworks 10-Film HD/MA $25
Dredd 4K/VU $4 or HD/VU $2.5
Dying of the Light HD/VU $2.5
E.T. Extra Terrestrial 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Early Man 4K/VU $5.5
Earth Girls are Easy HD/VU $4
Eddie the Eagle HD/MA $4
Edge of Seventeen HD/IT $3
Edward Scissorhands HD/MA $3.5
El Chicano HD/MA $4
Elysium HD/MA $3.5
Emoji Movie HD/MA $3
Empire of Light HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Empire State HD/VU $3
Encanto 4K/GP $3.5
Enough Said HD/MA $3.5
Enter the Dragon 4K/MA $6
Epic HD/MA $3
Equalizer HD/MA $3.5
Equalizer 2 HD/MA $3.5
Escape From Planet Earth HD/VU $3
Eternals HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Everest HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Everything Must Go HD/VU $4
Evil Dead 2 HD/VU $3.5
Ex Machina HD/VU $3
Exodus Gods & Kings HD/MA $3.5
Expired 4K/VU $4.5
Fair Game (Dir) HD/VU $4
Fantastic Four ‘15 HD/MA $4
Fast & Furious 4 4K/MA $5
Fast & the Furious 8-film Set HD/MA $17
Fast & the Furious 9-film Set HD/MA $19
Fast Color 4K/VU $5.5
Fatale ‘20 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Fatherhood HD/MA $4
Fault in Our Stars HD/MA $3.5
Fear of Rain 4K/VU $5.5
Fences HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Ferdinand HD/MA $3.5
Field of Dreams 4K/MA or IT $5.5
Fifty Shades Darker (Unr) HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Fifty Shades Freed HD/MA $4
Fifty Shades of Grey (Unr) 4K/MA or IT $4
Finding Dory HD/GP $2
Finding Nemo HD/GP $3.5
Finest Hours HD/GP $3
Firm 4K/VU $6
First Man HD/MA $4
Flashback ‘20 HD/VU $4
Flight HD/VU or IT $3
Florence Foster Jenkins HD/VU or IT $3
Footloose ‘11 HD/IT $3
Forbidden Kingdom HD/VU $4.5
Ford v Ferrari HD/MA $4
Forest HD/IT $3.5
Forever My Girl HD/IT $3
Fortress HD/VU $3.5
Fortress Sniper's Eye HD/VU $3.5
Fox & the Hound 2 HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Foxcatcher HD/MA $4
Frank & Lola HD/VU or IT $3
Free Guy HD/GP $3
French Dispatch HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Friday the 13th 4K/VU $5.5
From Here to Eternity 4K/MA $5.5
Frozen (Sing-Along) HD/MA $2 or HD/GP $1.5
Frozen HD/GP $2
Frozen 2 HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Frozen Ground ‘13 HD/VU $3.5
Fury HD/MA $3.5
Future World HD/VU $3.5
G.I. Joe Retaliation HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Gambit ‘12 HD/MA $4
Gambler HD/VU or IT $3
Gamer 4K/VU $5.5
Gemini Man 4K/VU or IT $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Get Out 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Ghost in the Shell ‘17 HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Ghost in the Shell ‘95 4K/VU $5
Ghost Team One HD/VU or IT $3.5
Ghostbusters ‘84 HD/MA $3.5
Ghostbusters (Thea & Ext) ‘16 HD/MA $3
Ghostbusters 2 HD/MA $3.5
Gifted HD/MA $3
Girl on Train HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Girl w/ All Gifts HD/VU $4
Giver HD/VU $3.5
Glass Castle 4K/VU $5.5
Glass HD/MA $4
God Bless The Broken Road HD/VU $3.5
God's Not Dead 2 HD/MA or IT $2.5
God's Not Dead 3 HD/MA $3
Gods of Egypt HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Gold ‘16 HD/VU $2.5
Good Dinosaur HD/GP $2.5
Good Kill HD/VU or IT $3.5
Grease 2 HD/VU $3.5
Great Wall 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
Greatest Showman HD/MA $3.5
Green Book HD/MA $4
Grey HD/VU or IT $3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 HD/GP $2
Guilt Trip HD/VU or IT $3
Gunman HD/MA or IT $3
Guns of Navarone 4K/MA $5.5
Hacksaw Ridge 4K/VU or IT $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Halloween ‘18 HD/MA $3
Hammer of the Gods HD/VU $2
Hannibal S.1 HD/VU $5
Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters (Unr) HD/VU or IT $3
Hard Luck Love Song 4K/VU $5.5
Hard Target 2 HD/IT $1.5
Hardcore Henry HD/VU or IT $3.5
Hate U Give HD/MA $4
Hateful Eight HD/VU $3.5
Heat (Director's Cut) ‘95 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Heaven is for Real HD/MA $3.5
Hercules ‘14 HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Here Comes the Boom HD/MA $3.5
Hereditary HD/VU $3.5
Hidden Figures HD/MA $3
High Note HD/MA $4
Highlander 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Hitchcock '12 HD/MA $4
Hitman Agent 47 HD/MA $3
Hitman's Bodyguard HD/VU $3.5
Hocus Pocus HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Home HD/MA $3
Home Again HD/MA $3
Home Alone 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Homefront HD/MA or IT $3
Homesman HD/VU $3
Honey 2 HD/VU $3
Hostiles 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Hotel Transylvania 3 HD/MA $3.5
Hot Fuzz HD/VU $4
Hotel Mumbai HD/MA $4
Hours ‘13 HD/VU $4
House of 1000 Corpses HD/VU $4
House of Gucci 4K/IT $5.5
House w/ a Clock in Its Walls sHD/MA $4
How to Train Your Dragon 2 HD/MA $2.5
Hugo HD/VU $3
Hunt for Red October 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Huntsman Winter's War (Ext) HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
I Can Only Imagine HD/VU $3.5
I Feel Pretty HD/IT $2
Ides of March HD/MA $4
I Know What You Did Last Summer 4K/MA $5.5
Imitation Game HD/VU $3
In Secret ‘14 HD/VU $4.5
In the Blood HD/VU $4
Incredibles 2 HD/GP $3
Independence Day ‘96 HD/MA $4
Independence Day Resurgence HD/MA $2.5
Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K/VU or IT $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom 4K/VU or IT $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Indignation HD/VU $4
Indivisible HD/MA $3.5
Inferno HD/MA $3
Initiation 4K/VU $5
Initiation HD/VU $3.5
Internship HD/MA $3
Interstellar 4K/VU or IT $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Interview HD/MA $3.5
Into the Woods HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Invisible Man '20 HD/MA $3.5
Invisible Man ‘33 HD/MA $3.5
Iron Man 3 HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Iron Man & Hulk Heroes United HD/GP $3.5
Iron Mask ‘19 HD/VU $4.5
It Follows HD/VU $3.5
It's a Wonderful Life HD/VU $3
Jack & Jill HD/MA $3.5
Jack Reacher 4K/IT $4.5
Jack Reacher Never Go Back HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit 4K/IT $4 or HD/VU $2.5
Jacob's Ladder HD/VU $4
Jane Got a Gun HD/VU $4
Jason Bourne HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Jesus Music HD/VU $3.5
Jexi HD/VU $3.5
Jobs HD/MA or IT $3.5
Joe HD/VU $3.5
Joe Kidd HD/IT $4
John Wick 1 & 2 Bundle HD/VU $4
John Wick 3 Parabellum 4K/VU $4.5
John Wick Chapter 2 HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
John Wick HD/VU $2 or 4K/IT $2.5
John Wick Trilogy 4K/VU $13 or HD/VU (#3 4K) $9 or all HD/VU $8
Journey to the West Conquering the Demons HD/VU $3.5
Joy HD/MA $3
Judy 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Juliet, Naked 4K/VU $5.5
Jumanji Welcome To The Jungle HD/MA $2.5
Jungle Book ‘16 4K/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $2.5
Jungle Cruise HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Jurassic Park 3 HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Jurassic Park 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Jurassic World 5-film Set HD/MA $14
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 4K/MA $4.5 or HD/MA $3
Kama Sutra HD/VU $4
Kick-Ass 2 HD/MA $3.5
Kid ‘19 HD/VU $3.5
Kid Who Would Be King 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Kill Zone ‘05 HD/VU $4.5
Killer Elite HD/IT $3
Killing Gunther HD/VU $4
Kin ‘18 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
King Kong ‘05 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
King of Staten Island HD/MA $4
King's Man HD/GP $3.5
Kingsman The Golden Circle HD/MA $3
Kingsman The Secret Service HD/MA $3.5
Knives Out HD/VU $3.5 s Knowing 4K/VU $5.5
La La Land HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Labor Day HD/VU or IT $3
Lady Macbeth HD/VU $4.5
Lady of the Manor 4K/VU $5
Lair of White Worm HD/VU $4.5
Lake Mungo HD/VU $4
Lara Croft Tomb Raider 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Last Dragon HD/MA $4.5
Last Duel HD/GP $3.5
Last Exorcism HD/VU $4
Last Knights HD/VU $3.5
Last Man ‘19 HD/VU $4
Last Vegas HD/VU $3
Last Witch Hunter 4K/IT $3.5
Lawrence of Arabia 4K/MA $5.5
Legends of Oz Dorothy's Return HD/MA $3.5
Leprechaun 7-film Set HD/VU $12
Let's be Cops HD/MA $3.5
Let Him Go HD/MA $4
Life ‘17 HD/MA $3.5
Life of Crime HD/VU $3.5
Life of Pi 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA or IT $3.5
Light of My Life HD/IT $3.5
Lightyear HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Like a Boss HD/VU $3.5
Lilo & Stitch 2 HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Lion HD/VU $4
Lion King ‘19 4K/MA $4 or HD/GP $2
Lion King ‘94 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Little HD/MA $3.5
Little Mermaid ‘89 HD/MA $4
Live Free or Die Hard HD/MA $4
Locked Down 4K/MA $5.5
Logan HD/MA $3
Logan Lucky HD/MA $3.5 or /IT $4
Lone Ranger HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Lone Survivor HD/VU $2.5
Longest Week HD/VU $3.5
Looper HD/MA $3.5
Lorax HD/MA or IT $3
Lord of War 4K/VU $5.5
Lords of Salem HD/VU $4
Lost World Jurassic Park HD/MA $3.5
Love & Mercy HD/VU $3.5
Love the Coopers HD/VU or IT $4
Love, Simon HD/MA $3.5
Loving HD/VU or IT $3.5
Luca HD/GP $3
Lucy 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile HD/MA $4.5
Madagascar 3 HD/MA $3
Magic Mike's Last Dance HD/MA $4.5
Magnificent Seven ‘16 HD/VU $3
Maleficent HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Maleficent Mistress of Evil HD/GP $2.5
Man Who Fell To Earth ‘76 4K/VU $5
Man Who Shot Liberty Vance 4K/VU $5.5
Marauders HD/VU $3.5
Marksman HD/MA $4
Martian HD/MA $3.5
Mary Poppins ‘64 HD/MA $3.5 or ‘64 HD/GP $3
Mary Poppins Returns 4K/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $2.5
Mask of Zorro 4K/MA $6
Mauritanian 4K/IT $5
Max Steel HD/IT $3
Maze Runner HD/MA $3.5
McKenna Shoots for the Stars HD/IT $2
Meatballs HD/VU $4
Memory HD/MA $3.5
Men HD/VU $4
Men in Black 3 HD/MA $3
Men in Black 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
MI-5 Spooks '15 HD/VU $4
Mickey & Minnie 10 Classic Shorts HD/GP $4.5
Mid-Century 4K/VU $5
Midnight in the Switchgrass 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Midway 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Mile 22 HD/IT $3
Million Dollar Arm HD/GP $2.5
MindGamers HD/MA or IT $3.5
Minions 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Miracles from Heaven HD/MA $3.5
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children HD/MA $3
Mission Impossible 3 4K/VU $5
Mission Impossible 6-film Set HD/VU $17
Mommy HD/VU $4
Moneyball HD/MA $3
Monster High Electrified HD/IT $2.5
Monster Hunter HD/MA $3.5
Money Monster HD/MA $3.5
Monster Trucks HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Monsters University HD/GP $3
Monuments Men HD/MA $3.5
Moon 4K/MA $5.5
Morbius HD/MA $4
Morgan HD/MA $4
Mortal Engines 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Mortal HD/VU $4
Mortal Instruments City of Bones HD/MA $3
Mortdecai HD/VU $3.5
Mountain Between Us HD/MA $2.5
Mr. Peabody & Sherman HD/MA $3
Mulan ‘20 4K/MA $4.5 or ‘20 HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Mummy ‘17 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
Mummy ‘99 HD/MA $3.5
Mummy 4-Film Set (Mummy 1-3, Scorpion King) HD/MA $12
Mummy Trilogy 4K/MA or IT $14 or HD/MA $9 4K/IT
Muppets Most Wanted HD/GP $3
Murder on the Orient Express HD/MA $3.5
My All American HD/MA or IT $3.5
My Best Friend is a Vampire HD/VU $4
National Lampoon's Vacation 4K/MA $5.5
Nebraska HD/VU $3
Need for Speed HD/GP $3.5
Needle in a Timestack 4K/VU $5.5
Nerve HD/VU $3.5
News of the World HD/MA $4
Night at the Museum Trilogy HD/MA $11
Night House HD/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $4
Nightmare Alley HD/GP $3.5
Nightmare Before Christmas 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
No Time to Die 4K/IT $4.5
Noah HD/VU or IT $2.5
Non-Stop HD/VU or IT $3
Norm of the North HD/VU $2.5
Nostalgia ‘18 HD/MA $3.5
Now You See Me 2 4K/IT $4
Now You See Me HD/VU $2.5 or SD/VU $1
Nutcracker & Four Realms HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Oblivion 4K/MA or IT $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Occupation ‘18 HD/VU $3.5
Occupation Rainfall HD/VU $4
Office Christmas Party 4K/IT $3.5
Olaf's Frozen Adventure HD/GP $3
Oliver! 4K/MA $5
On Chesil Beach HD/MA $4.5
One Ranger HD/VU $4.5
Onward HD/GP $2.5
Open Water 2 Adrift HD/VU $4
Open Water HD/VU $4
Operation Avalanche HD/VU $4
Ouija HD/MA or IT $3.5
Our Kind of Traitor HD/MA $4
Outlander S.1 Vol 1 HD/VU $5
Overboard ‘18 HD/VU $3.5
Oz the Great & Powerful HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Pacific Rim Uprising HD/MA $4
Paddington HD/VU $3.5
Pain & Gain HD/VU or IT $3.5
Paper Towns HD/MA $3
Paradise Highway 4K/VU $5
Paranormal Activity 3 (Ext) HD/VU or IT $3
Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension (Unr) HD/VU or IT $3.5
Paranormal Activity HD/VU $4
Paranormal Activity The Marked Ones HD/VU or IT $3.5
Passengers HD/MA $3.5
Patriot Games 4K/VU $5
Patriot's Day HD/VU $3
Paul Apostle of Christ HD/MA $3
Peanuts Movie HD/MA $3
Penelope HD/VU $4.5
Peppermint HD/IT $3.5
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters HD/MA $3
Perks of Being a Wallflower HD/VU or IT $3 or SD/VU or IT $1
Pet Sematary ‘19 HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Pet Sematary ‘89 HD/VU $3.5 or 4K/IT $4
Peter Rabbit HD/MA $3.5
Pete's Dragon ‘16 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Phantom Thread HD/MA $4
Philomena HD/VU $2.5
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Pitch Perfect 2 4K/MA $4 or HD/MA $2.5
Pitch Perfect HD/MA $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Pixar Short Films Set Vol. 3 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Planes Fire & Rescue HD/GP $3
Planes HD/MA $2.5 or HD/GP $2
Planes, Trains & Automobiles 4K/VU $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Playing w/ Fire HD/VU or IT $2.5
Poltergeist ‘82 4K/MA $5.5
Poltergeist (Ext) ‘15 HD/MA $4
Pompeii HD/MA $3.5
Power Rangers ‘17 HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Predator ‘18 HD/MA $3
Predator ‘87 HD/MA $4
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies HD/MA $3.5
Primal HD/VU $3.5
Promise HD/MA or IT $3.5
Proud Mary HD/MA $3.5
Psycho 4K/MA $5
Pulp Fiction HD/VU $4
Punisher War Zone 4K/VU $5.5
Purge Anarchy HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Purge Election Year HD/MA $3.5
Purge 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3 or
Push 4K/VU $6
Quarry 4K/VU $5
Quartet HD/VU $4
Queen of Katwe HD/GP $2.5
Quiet Ones HD/VU $3.5
Rambo ‘08 HD/VU $4
Rambo 5-film Set HD/VU $18
Rambo Last Blood 4K/VU $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Ran ‘85 4K/VU $5.5
Raya & the Last Dragon HD/MA $3.5
Rear Window 4K/IT $3.5
Rebel Without a Cause 4K/MA $5.5
Reclaim HD/VU $3.5
Redline ‘10 HD/VU $4.5
Reign of Assassins HD/VU $4.5
Replicant ‘01 HD/VU $3.5
Replicas HD/VU $3.5
Rescuers Down Under HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Rescuers HD/MA $4.5 or HD/GP $4
Reservoir Dogs HD/VU $4
Resident Evil Retribution 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Retaliation ‘17 HD/VU $4
Revenant 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Ricki & the Flash HD/MA $3
Riddick (Unr) HD/VU or IT $3
Ride Like a Girl HD/VU $4
Right At Your Door HD/VU $4
Right One 4K/VU $5.5
Rio 2 (Sing-Along) HD/MA $3
Riot HD/VU or IT $3
RIPD HD/IT $2.5
Risen HD/MA $3
Rob Zombie Trilogy (3 From Hell, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects) HD/VU $8
Robin Hood ‘18 HD/VU $3
Robocop ‘14 HD/VU $2.5
Rocketman ‘19 HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Roman J. Israel Esq HD/MA $3
Ron's Gone Wrong HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Room '15 HD/VU $3.5
Rough Night 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Run The Race HD/MA $3
Runner Runner HD/MA $3.5
Rush HD/IT $3
Safe HD/VU or IT $2.5
Same Kind of Different As Me HD/VU or IT $3
Samson HD/MA $3.5
Santa Clause HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Santa Clause 2 HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Santa Clause 3 HD/GP $2.5
Sapphires HD/VU $4
Sausage Party HD/MA $3.5
Saving Mr. Banks HD/GP $3
Saw (Unr) 4K/VU $4.5
Saw 7-film Set (Unr) HD/VU $16
Saw HD/VU $3
Scarface HD/MA $4 or 4K/IT $4.5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4K/VU $4.5
Schindler's List 4K/MA or IT $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Scream '96 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Scream Trilogy HD/VU $11
Secret Garden ‘20 4K/VU or IT $5.5
Secret in Their Eyes HD/VU or IT $3
Secret Life of Pets 4K/MA or IT $4.5 or HD/MA $3
See No Evil 2 HD/VU $3.5
Serenity ‘05 4K/MA $5.5 or HD/MA $4
Seriously Red HD/VU $4
Sex Tape HD/MA $3.5
Shallows HD/MA $3.5
Shang-Chi Legend of the Ten Rings HD/GP $3
Shape of Water HD/MA $3.5
Sherlock Gnomes HD/IT $2.5
Shivers HD/VU $4
Show Dogs HD/MA $3.5
Sicario HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Sicario Day of the Soldado HD/MA $4
Sicario, Wind River, Hell or High Water HD/VU $7.5
Side Effects HD/IT $3.5
Silencing HD/VU $4
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3-Film Set (3-5) HD/VU $7.5
Silk Road 4K/VU $5
Sing ‘16 HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Sing Street HD/VU $4
Sinister HD/VU $3
Skeleton Twins HD/VU $4
Skyfall HD/VU $2.5
Skyscraper 4K/MA $5 or HD/MA $3.5
Sleeping Beauty ‘59 HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Sleepy Hollow 4K/VU $6.5
Smokey & the Bandit HD/MA $3.5
Smokin' Aces 4K/MA $5.5
Smurfs The Lost Village HD/MA or IT $3
Snitch 4K/IT $3 or HD/VU $2.5 or SD/VU or IT $1
Snow White & the Huntsman (Ext) 4K/VU or IT $4.5 or HD/VU $3
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs ‘37 4K/MA $6 or HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Snowden HD/MA or IT $3.5
Snowpiercer HD/VU $4.5
Solo A Star Wars Story HD/GP $3
Son of God HD/MA $3
Sonic the Hedgehog 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Soul HD/MA $3 or HD/GP $2.5
Source Code 4K/VU $5.5
Southpaw HD/VU $3
Spectre HD/VU $3.5
Spider-Man 2 (Thea & Ext) HD/MA $4.5
Spider-Man 3 HD/MA $3.5
Spider-Man 4-Cut Set (Spider-Man 2 w/ Thea & Ext) HD/MA $11.5
Spider-Man Far From Home HD/MA $3
Spider-Man Homecoming HD/MA $2.5
Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse HD/MA $4.5
Spider-Man No Way Home HD/MA $4 or SD/MA $2
Spies in Disguise HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
Spinning Man HD/VU $4
Spiral 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Spontaneous HD/VU $4.5
Spy Who Dumped Me 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
St. Vincent HD/VU $3
Stand Up Guys HD/VU $3.5
Star Trek '09 4K/VU or IT $5.5 or HD/VU $4
Star Trek 1-6 4K/VU $25
Star Trek 3 Search for Spock 4K/VU $5
Star Trek Beyond HD/VU $3
Star Trek Into Darkness HD/VU $2.5 or 4K/IT $3
Star Trek The Motion Picture ‘79 4K/VU $5
Steel Dawn HD/VU $3.5
Still Alice HD/MA $4
Straight Outta Compton (Unr) HD/MA $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Strange World HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Suburbicon HD/VU $3 or /IT $3.5
Super 8 4K/VU or IT $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Sword in the Stone HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Taken 2 HD/MA $3.5
Taken 3 (Unr) HD/MA $3.5
Tangled HD/GP $3.5
Ted (Unr) HD/MA or IT $2.5
Teen Spirit ‘19 HD/MA $4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ‘14 4K/VU or IT $4.5 or HD/VU $2.5
Terminator 2 Judgment Day (Special) HD/VU $4.5
Terminator 2 Judgment Day 4K/VU $5 or HD/VU $3.5
Terminator Genisys HD/VU $3 or 4K/IT $3.5
Texas Chainsaw ‘13 HD/VU $3.5
Thanks for Sharing HD/VU $4
The Heat HD/MA $3
The Impossible HD/VU $3.5
Think Like a Dog 4K/VU $5
This is the End HD/MA $3.5
Thor Dark World HD/MA $4 or HD/GP $3.5
Thor Love & Thunder HD/MA $3.5 or HD/GP $3
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2024.06.03 12:42 perryjg Viego Build Discussion - Challenger's Opinion

Hey guys, I'm Perry. I've maintained rank 1 and 4 Viego last season. The debate between Kraken VS Blade still continues, but I would love to share this new knowledge that I have.
After comparing high elo vs low elo build stats on lolalytics, here is my build path conclusion:
If you are below Masters, build Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. If you are above Masters, there are opportunities to build Blade + Sundered Sky, but you don't have to and can stick to Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. Generic Full Build - Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force + Steraks + Witts + Deaths Dance + Defensive Boots Other Item Options - Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, Randiuns, Kaenic, Guardian's Angel
In lower elo's, many players will greed their HP and have poor positioning, allowing this Viego build to capitalize on it's higher DPS and quicker executes. It is also very consistent and your damage won't fluctuate based on the enemies % current HP. There is no overthinking your build or items.
In higher elo's, most players maintain high conditions so getting a quick one-shot is less likely, which allows for Blade's unique passive "Mist's Edge" to get the most value from it's % current health damage. Higher elo players also understand how to maximize the usage of Sundered Sky.
There are definitely good opportunities in both in any elo, but the best advice I have for builds in general is to stick to one build path. The game is already extremely overwhelming with all the macro and micro decisions that you have to make. To make your life easier, commit to a build path. Sometimes you can change an item if you need to build armor or magic resist depending on the enemy composition.
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2024.06.03 12:41 perryjg Viego Build Discussion - Challenger's Opinion

Hey guys, I'm Perry. I've maintained rank 1 and 4 Viego last season. The debate between Kraken VS Blade still continues, but I would love to share this new knowledge that I have.
After comparing high elo vs low elo build stats on lolalytics, here is my build path conclusion:
If you are below Masters, build Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. If you are above Masters, there are opportunities to build Blade + Sundered Sky, but you don't have to and can stick to Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. Generic Full Build - Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force + Steraks + Witts + Deaths Dance + Defensive Boots Other Item Options - Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, Randiuns, Kaenic, Guardian's Angel
In lower elo's, many players will greed their HP and have poor positioning, allowing this Viego build to capitalize on it's higher DPS and quicker executes. It is also very consistent and your damage won't fluctuate based on the enemies % current HP. There is no overthinking your build or items.
In higher elo's, most players maintain high conditions so getting a quick one-shot is less likely, which allows for Blade's unique passive "Mist's Edge" to get the most value from it's % current health damage. Higher elo players also understand how to maximize the usage of Sundered Sky.
There are definitely good opportunities in both in any elo, but the best advice I have for builds in general is to stick to one build path. The game is already extremely overwhelming with all the macro and micro decisions that you have to make. To make your life easier, commit to a build path. Sometimes you can change an item if you need to build armor or magic resist depending on the enemy composition.
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2024.06.03 12:41 perryjg Viego Build Discussion - Challenger's Opinion

Hey guys, I'm Perry. I've maintained rank 1 and 4 Viego last season. The debate between Kraken VS Blade still continues, but I would love to share this new knowledge that I have.
After comparing high elo vs low elo build stats on lolalytics, here is my build path conclusion:
If you are below Masters, build Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. If you are above Masters, there are opportunities to build Blade + Sundered Sky, but you don't have to and can stick to Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. Generic Full Build - Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force + Steraks + Witts + Deaths Dance + Defensive Boots Other Item Options - Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, Randiuns, Kaenic, Guardian's Angel
In lower elo's, many players will greed their HP and have poor positioning, allowing this Viego build to capitalize on it's higher DPS and quicker executes. It is also very consistent and your damage won't fluctuate based on the enemies % current HP. There is no overthinking your build or items.
In higher elo's, most players maintain high conditions so getting a quick one-shot is less likely, which allows for Blade's unique passive "Mist's Edge" to get the most value from it's % current health damage. Higher elo players also understand how to maximize the usage of Sundered Sky.
There are definitely good opportunities in both in any elo, but the best advice I have for builds in general is to stick to one build path. The game is already extremely overwhelming with all the macro and micro decisions that you have to make. To make your life easier, commit to a build path. Sometimes you can change an item if you need to build armor or magic resist depending on the enemy composition.
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2024.06.03 12:40 perryjg Viego Build Discussion Continued - Challenger's Opinion

Hey guys, I'm Perry. I've maintained rank 1 and 4 Viego last season. A few months back I was here talking about Blade VS Kraken. The debate still continues, but I would love to share this new knowledge that I have.
After comparing high elo vs low elo build stats on lolalytics, here is my build path conclusion:
If you are below Masters, build Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. If you are above Masters, there are opportunities to build Blade + Sundered Sky, but you don't have to and can stick to Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force. Generic Full Build - Kraken Slayer + Trinity Force + Steraks + Witts + Deaths Dance + Defensive Boots Other Item Options - Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, Randiuns, Kaenic, Guardian's Angel
In lower elo's, many players will greed their HP and have poor positioning, allowing this Viego build to capitalize on it's higher DPS and quicker executes. It is also very consistent and your damage won't fluctuate based on the enemies % current HP. There is no overthinking your build or items.
In higher elo's, most players maintain high conditions so getting a quick one-shot is less likely, which allows for Blade's unique passive "Mist's Edge" to get the most value from it's % current health damage. Higher elo players also understand how to maximize the usage of Sundered Sky.
There are definitely good opportunities in both in any elo, but the best advice I have for builds in general is to stick to one build path. The game is already extremely overwhelming with all the macro and micro decisions that you have to make. To make your life easier, commit to a build path. Sometimes you can change an item if you need to build armor or magic resist depending on the enemy composition.
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