Warm light from the fireplace pervaded the one room cabin, turning from orange to red as it creeped into the open loft where Chi lay restless under her covers.
"Mom," said Chi. Mom didn't answer yet was in the bed right below the loft. Maybe a little louder. "Mom. Mom. Mooom."
"Yes, sweety," said Mom.
"I can't sleep."
A rustling noise as Mom untangled from layers of bedding. She climbed the ladder and was soon at Chi's bedside. "Did you have a bad dream?"
"No."
"Do you need a snack?"
"No."
Mom put one hand on Chi's forehead, another on the girl's neck and a third on her wrist. "You're not running a temperature, again, thank God. What's wrong?"
"I miss Dad."
"I miss Dad too, but he's off doing very important work."
"Doctor work."
"Yes, doctor work. He's trying to heal grandma and grandpa."
"They got sick too?"
Tears welled in Mom's big black eye. "Yes, but it's a different kind of sick."
"Not numb nonya?"
"No, not pneumonia."
"We should go see them. I can cheer them up. We can play furry face."
"They can't play furry face."
"What about horsy?"
"They can't play horsy either."
"What about—"
"THEY CAN'T—they can't—they can't shape shift anymore." Mom regained control and let out a long sigh. She then kissed Chi on the forehead. "I'm so sorry for yelling, sweety. It's just that, grandma and grandpa are my mom and dad, and I don't like seeing them ill."
"What's wrong with them?"
"Their bodies have rebelled against them."
"Why?"
"Age. Chance mutation. Dad knows far more than I, ask him when he gets home."
"Okay."
"Okay? You gonna go to sleep now?"
"Can I have a story first?"
"Sure. Which story would you like to hear?"
"The one about how you and Dad met."
Mom smiled as she straightened Chi's covers. "You really like that one."
"Mhmm."
"Alright, here goes. Dad and I met, oh, eight years ago now. He was fresh out of medical school and on vacation. I had just moved back here after living as a human in Denver, Colorado."
"Why'd you move back?"
"Why does anyone move back home? I missed my family. I missed the local humans in the nearby town. I missed nature. I missed the privacy of nature, of being able to change whenever I wanted."
"Humans don't like us changing, do they?"
"No they don't. And they like our natural form a lot less."
"They think we're scary."
"Yes."
"Scary," Chi repeated as she unhinged her jaw, pulled her lips back to reveal two sets of human teeth and unrolled her tongue until it stretched to the foot of the bed.
Mom rolled Chi's tongue back up, closed her mouth with two fingers and gave her another kiss. "But that's what was so beautiful about your father. He caught me in the act and he didn't run away."
"Ooh, I know this part! You were behind some bushes, changing from a human into a deer when Dad poked his head in and you said 'Do you mind?'"
"Yes, and he just stood there with his blue eyes bugged out." Mom generated two bugging blue human eyes on the gray skin between her own black eye and mouth.
"'Do you mind?,'" Chi repeated and laughed hysterically.
"Okay, it wasn't that funny."
"'Do you mind?,' that's the funniest th—"
"Chi Maria!"
"Sorry Momma."
"Thank you." Mom tucked her tail under her legs in self disappointment; she never liked scolding her daughter. "Anyway, Dad caught me in the middle of changing and—"
"Tell how goofy you looked."
"Oh, you wanna hear how goofy I looked as a half-human and half-deer?"
"Yeah!"
"Well I'll tell you. I had just thrown off my stone-washed jeans and tye-dye tank top, deer ears had just popped out of my long blonde hair and I was standing on two hooves and two hands."
"And what did Dad do next?"
"He turned bright red and said, 'Sorry, Ma'am,' in a squeaky little boy voice."
"That sounds just like Dad! Then he ran away, right?"
"Like a scared puppy. I held in my laughter until he was out of sight but I know he heard me. I thought that'd be the last time I saw him. But I was wrong. The next day he showed up with flowers.
"I was lying by a stream, relaxing as a deer, and your father wades across the waist-deep water to with a full bouquet in hand. I asked him how he found me. He said he'd recognize me anywhere. I said 'wanna bet?' and pranced away."
"And then he found you again, and again, and again, and—"
"Maria."
"Sorry—again."
"But, yes, he found me four more times. I tried hiding as a sheep. He climbed the mountain and found me. I tried hiding as a wolf. He chased me on a BMX bike. My last attempt saw me hiding as a black bear. He came with a lunch of fire roasted potatoes and insects . . . for two.
"I finally asked him how he did it. He said that it was the way I carried myself, that I was unmistakably me no matter what form I took."
"Awww."
"That's what I thought. So I told him to wait right there, that I'd be back in an hour."
"You came back as a human."
"I came back as the most gorgeous woman I could imagine. We started to kiss, but he stopped short. Then he said these words: 'I don't know you, but I can tell that this isn't your true form. If we're to continue, you must shed all disguises.'"
"And you did."
"I did, sweet Chi Maria. And he loved me. Though we only did so that summer, we were content to spend the rest of our lives in that flower decaled van of his."
"Why didn't you?"
Mom pinched Chi's snout. "Because of you, silly. Three's too many for such a small space. I became pregnant in July and your father toiled from then until December to build this log cabin for us. We were all snuggled in by the time I had you on Christmas Day."
"I'm sorry I ruined your fun."
"Nonsense! You coming along made us even happier. Now get some sleep."
Mom pulled the covers up to Chi's two beady black eyes, twirled the little girl's silver curls and kissed her one last time on the forehead. Mom then descended the ladder and returned to her and Dad's bed.
Only a few minutes passed before the cabin door opened and Dad stomped in in his hiking boots. "I'm home!," he said. "Where are my girls?"
"Keep your voice down," said Mom. "I just got her to go to sleep."
That wasn't true; Chi was just being quiet so she could eavesdrop.
Dad undressed in his usual noisy manner, unzipping, rezipping and unzipping his coat, tossing his boots with a KATHUD.
"Joseph!," Mom said in a shouting whisper.
"Sorry, Carmen," said Dad.
Chi heard him crawl into bed. Mom and Dad started to whisper in earnest now so the little girl enlarged her ears to pick up more sound.
"It's not good," said Dad.
"Worse than last time?," said Mom.
"Your mother is about the same, but your father has lost more weight."
"It's only been a month since you last went up there. How much did he lose?"
"Ten kilograms."
"No, Joseph, no."
"He can't hold any shape shift. I made them both form a patch of fur on their backs. His degenerated in just two minutes."
"Can you save them?"
"Carmen, I'm honestly out of my league here. My medical degree is practically useless. The whole of medical science tells me that their inability to mutate—that is, to shape shift—is a sign of healing. Yet my eyes and experience know that that is the opposite of the truth. I'm pulling information from studies of hydra, octopi and insects. I'm having to pioneer a new branch of biology every time I check up on your parents."
"But can you save them?"
"I'm going to try."
"And that's why I love you."
"Awww," Chi squealed.
"Go to sleep, Chi Maria," said Mom and Dad in unison.
(END)

My name is Drina. I am 18 years old. If you play a game Called Vrchat. You can play it on Quest or PC. If you are withered to start VR dating. Don’t. It’s not the best you can do.
His real name is Sebastian Crouse. He used to live in Ohio but he is like somewhere in Colorado.
I have an ex boyfriend named “Dirty Heretic.” And he considers himself as “The VR Jesus.” He basically goes on VRCHAT almost like everyday and troll people who are Christian. He is an atheist but Mocking an entire religion just for some amusement isn’t funny. I’ve known him since I was 17. And I’ve dated him till December to February. Heretic groomed me. I was 18, he is 31. Huge age gap? Right? He said to be known to “own a VR church.” Like he is god or some. That wasn’t the only bad thing he did.
Heretic Had past relationships of young ladies who were either 18-19 years old.
He threaten to Dox a 14 yr old Minor,
He talked shit about his own friends.
The weird thing is that he had his own mom be next to him while playing VRC.
He is currently with some new girl and idk her name. He also says he is “VR famous.” I doubt that. In reality he is just a dirty 31 year old man who works at some company and me and my friends are trying stop him from doing more problematic actions. Not only that he is kinda racist towards Hispanics. Especially Mexicans.
He thinks, whenever they speak their native language, he brings up the Taco Bell joke and thinks it funny..
If you see dirty heretic. Please report him on vrc.

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Season 5 “Exotic Pets”
Episode 2 “Night’s Touch”
He stares at her as Keya’s voice starts to slowly grow louder “I know you have people who can deal with this. This is supposed to be a priority line, as well!” her tone was still flatter than it should be, it was loud but lacked inflection giving it a false impression of cold anger.
“We have arranged previous protocols for similar situations”
“You can’t possibly be so unwise as to not be ready for nonstandard behavior”
“Please find someone with authority or at least knowledge of the situation”
“Yes I am the-”
“I am very much aware of the limitations of our deal, I am asking about a similar but new situation”
“The chief of an exterminator precinct is calling you because an endangered exotic animal requires some form of acceptable solution. I am calling you despite a clear lack of protocols in this specific situation. I am calling you because I have no real solutions and if there’s one species, one government left in this brahking galaxy that CARES it’s you so please, please give me something, ANYTHING” it was disturbing, incredibly so, to watch her inflection just waver and shift like that.
“Very well, I will put you on speakers” finally a reprieve from hearing a one-sided conversation, Keya sets down her holopad in the table at the center of the couches. Santos comes closer, still with one of the hensa snugly stuck inside his shirt while Orran slowly walks over to look, but he doesn’t sit, still holding the female protectively.
In the screen is another human, she is dressed in a very plain black suit with a necktie that’s been loosened and her short hair is disheveled. Clearly, Keya’s conversation had managed to stress her out. The dark-skinned woman scans her light blue eyes through the three visible people across from the call, her direct sight quickly stopping on the small beast in Orran’s grasp “They’re like tiny panthers” she says, softly
After a few more moments she continues “Alright, call me Janice. As I’ve told your boss” she says, presumably trying to aim her gaze at Santos, which isn’t quite possible through a video call “We might have a good solution. But that’s a maybe on the good solution, depends on if I can call on people here. And we have an okay solution, but that depends on what you’re willing to do, Mister…”
At that, the yotul recognizes it’s his turn to speak “Orran, my name is Orran”
“Mister Orran. So, here are the two possible solutions. The worst of them is to simply arrange a transfer for them to Leirn, but that is not an optimal solution. Not only would it take time, as we don’t currently have the logistic means to expedite transport in official vessels and we do not have the funds to find a quick and safe civilian willing to make the trip, we currently have no ongoing deals with the planetary government regarding fauna returns”
“I’m sure I could find a good transport to get there, ma’am.” Orran interrupts “I got them here, I can get them back if I need to”
“That might be true” the woman on the video continues, waving dismissively as she visibly slumps down on the seat “But we still have no official deals with their government regarding wildlife rescues. We have ongoing negotiations but nothing concrete, so in order to get your little fuzzballs over there we’d need to divert personnel we do not have available at the moment to secure a proper location, hopefully a wildlife shelter or similar”
“I could-” Orran tries but he’s interrupted
“Yes, you could go and uproot the entirety of your life again for the sake of those. Which is what we’d ask of you in this case, the best we could do for this worst-case scenario is some bureaucratic facilitation for your travel.” then she moves closer to the camera and puts her elbows on, presumably, the desk and rests her chin on her hands “But we might have a better solution”
“You better not be about to rope this man into some weird quasi-legal scheme” Santos interrupts “Your track record has been real spotty when dealing with anything at this scale”
Janice sighs, rubbing her eyes as she pulls a holopad off from the side “Yes, yes I know. You would fucking know wouldn’t you, Mr. Exterminator. But no, no, the plan is to take advantage of an ongoing research project to find far safer shelter right here on Venlil Prime.” she returns to her slacked pose as she brings her pad up with her, sharing her attention between the two “There’s a variety of projects researching the possible introduction of new species to this planet to increase the resilience of the biomes near the core of the habitable zone, an offshoot of the Cradle restoration research, as well as a bit of a hare-brained little project researching the feasibility of shipboard pets to increase soldier morale” she offers a hand to the camera “We can have your hensa housed in the facilities of any of such projects. This way we don’t need to redirect any voidborne assets, which as you know are all completely committed to the ongoing war, and you don’t need to give up your life here, Mr. Orran”
Santos turns to watch the yotul, who now has a contemplative look. It was always weird when he realized he could read alien expressions that well, a closed eye with the head slightly tilted the same direction and both ears flat towards the same direction read the exact same way as a human looking upwards in thought, apparently he’d grown accustomed to them very much. “And what would being housed here require, and how would they be treated”
Janice takes a deep breath, and can be seen pulling a second holopad from somewhere offscreen “IF I can make this work, and this is an if because it depends on finding a receptive project lead, for now they’d just be housed in the animal shelters those projects have for their studies. Currently the studies are only observational in how they relate to local species, with periodic medical checkups, being held in a few biome-isolation facilities. Should they prove suitable for the goals, and hell that depends on the projects being feasible to begin with, then they’ll be added to acclimated breeding programs.”
Orran looks down at the heavy female on his arms, then looks back at the screen “And should they not be?”
Janice grins “That’s the trick. At that point the UN will have taken over responsibility for them, and now they have an endangered species on hand and a million and one laws on how to treat them. So they’ll be forced to keep them in a wildlife shelter until they can be safely relocated to their natural environment. Which is something that will likely only happen after the end of the war given how bureaucracy works” then she looks down at the holopads and types something down in one of them “And if the war takes longer than that to end, I don’t think any of us will be around to worry anymore, so”
“Isn’t that a bit pessimistic” Santos adds with a raised eyebrow
“You would be, sitting here in this chair” she retorts
He looks at Orran, ultimately the choice is his, given it’s both his little creatures and his life in the line. The yotul spends a few moments thinking “Then please see what you can do. How long until we have an answer?”
“Hah!” Janice exclaims triumphantly, startling all three “I wouldn’t be in this job if I couldn’t multitask this well. I already have an answer, seems like the local fauna reintroduction project has shown interest. Can’t have only one pestkiller species in the same niche, it seems they want to have some competition to keep populations controlled or something” she still has a wide smile when she directly addresses Orran “If that project pans out, your kitties’ descendants will wind up in a competitive space with ours. But that’s for multiple generations from now, it seems. Currently, those two would wind up in an observation shelter to see how they interact with a population of voidpins as well as how they interact with terran cats. Is that acceptable or should I try to find another project?”
At that Orran laughs lightly “Ooh, nightside? That’d be perfect, most hensa are twilight creatures but nightweavers are nocturnal, that’d be the best for them” he gently caresses the feline in his arms “Hear that Lodestar? You get to have some darkness again”
Janice nods on the screen “Alright, then… Let’s see… Oh, oooh that’s convenient” she is tapping at the holopad “How much time do you need to prepare them for a trip? Would you like to come along for the handoff? CnT Freight -that’s an unfortunate name- seems to have a pickup of carbon in the next town over for us, we can have someone take advantage of the trip and come pick your kitties up”
Santos tilts his head to the side “Carbon? That might be over in Long Cliff if I remember the surrounding towns correctly. That’s almost a two hour trip”
Janice nods “Yep. I’ve sent a message to that project’s lead, they’ll get someone in our already-scheduled resource pickup trip and they’ll meet up with you. But we’re working with already existing schedules so… They should be over there in, let’s see… Fifteen hours or so” she takes a deep breath “So if that’ll be all? I got more calls in the queue”
“This will be enough” Keya’s voice is still weird
And with that the other human unceremoniously ends the call “That’ll be around three claws, Orran” Santos offers “I hope you don’t mind if we wait over here?”
The yotul is surprised, taking a step back “W-wait here? Why?”
Santos sighs “Three things. You already panicked once, and fled an entire planet over it” he gives Orran a side glance, which now that he thinks about it wouldn’t read the same for an alien would it? “Don’t want to risk you panicking again and messing yourself up”
Orran looks sheepish for a moment “Second, I want to have a look outside for some things. This place was the location of something very suspicious a few paws ago and this is the only chance I have to properly look for evidence around here” he gives the yotul a shrug “None of it is your fault, to clarify. I just want to figure out where that nixa came from”
And finally, he stands up and grabs Keya by the shoulders “And third, this woman did not sleep and is five seconds away from a mental breakdown” he lifts her off the ground with great effort, takes a couple of steps to the side and forcibly shoves her into the largest couch “And I want her to try to get a full rest before we need to deal with the delivery, because we will invariably be involved”
Despite the annoyed position of her ears and thrashing tail, Keya doesn’t move from the position she’s been put into “Santos, I’m fine”
“No you’re not, you started screaming an hour into your sleep cycle and never went back to bed. Try to get some sleep, I’ll be here” he turns over to Orran “Yes, I’m taking a bit of advantage of your situation, I’m sorry.”
If the yotul had eyebrows, he’d be raising one of them right now “I take it this isn’t a normal situation. If that’s why you need to stay around it’s fine.” he takes a deep breath “Turns out I owe her, apparently, so consider yourselves guests”
And so they waited. It did not take long for Keya to fall asleep, meanwhile Santos sat down on the couch and started fiddling with his holopad. It wasn't a random distraction, however, as he was reviewing the calls on Orran’s little project. Maybe it was just human pareidolia speaking, but something about the calls had been nagging him. It did eat at him doing this to Orran, however. The man was already stressed out enough as it was, and here he was taking complete advantage of what is essentially a hostage situation so his boss could sneak some sleep during a work shift.
As the hours passed he'd periodically get pulled out of his work as he watched Orran come and go, doing whatever his job was. Turns out an agriculturalist’s job also involves a lot of paperwork, it seems, for the man at some point had three holopads out doing who knows what, presumably data comparison. Himself, he eventually found what his instinct had been nagging him about. All of the calls on those little beasts, aside from the very first, were not made from within Blackriver. If his understanding of comms-codes in this planet was right, and if he wasn’t just seeing patterns where they did not exist, those anonymous calls were all from a number in a nearby town. But before he could start making more connections he heard something he was hoping not to hear. He hears Keya’s breath quickening.
He quickly sets down his pad and, after a bit of effort, manages to dislodge the two alien felines that had decided his lap was the correct place for a nap. Then he heads over to Keya and kneels down beside her, causing Orran to focus on him. “Don’t do anything, Orran” he instructs
“What? What’s going on?” he sounds worried, as he should be
“I was hoping she’d wake up to a normal nightmare but it seems like it’s a bad one again” he stares at his boss, whose breathing is getting faster and faster. She opens her mouth and starts making a noise.
Orran steps closer “Shouldn’t you wake her up?”
It’s now that Keya starts screaming, familiar screams of fear “No, not yet. Wake her up too early and she’s going to be in a state of panic for multiple claws.” Keya’s screams start getting worse as she grabs at the couch and digs her claws in, her legs and tail thrashing wildly as if she were running. And suddenly her creaming stops with a choked noise as she brings her hands up to her chest.
Orran takes a step back as the next stage of Keya’s nightmare makes itself manifest in her noises, a choked scream that brought a chill down his spine, a scream that was eerily reminiscent of the sounds he’d heard in an ‘instructional’ video about the greys a long time ago. “Wake her up too late and she’s not going to have any of her emotions left” the human comments, as the venlil frantically claws at her own chest.
She screams for just a little while longer, until Santos forcibly puts his hand over her chest “Boss, I’m here” he says with an authoritative voice “The only predator in this room is me, listen to my voice” he puts pressure in her chest “You’re alive, listen to me” he lowers his body closer to her “Wake up and listen”
The distressed hensa had been staring up at the venlil from the ground, emitting a low, bassy growl all this time in a sign of worry. But when Keya sits up suddenly they both run back behind Orran “I… Am awake” she says mechanically.
Santos sighs, stares at her for a while, then stands up and offers his hand. Keya ignores him and stands up, looking around the house “Cold bastard woke up this time, eh?”
Santos and Orran watch as Keya ignores the question as she looks around, eyes seemingly staring off into the distance. She finally stops “Yes” and then turns her entire body towards a small desk near the front door, and turns her head to face it.
Santos raises an eyebrow at her motion, and he notices Orran’s tail started lightly thumping on the floor and his body was shaking slightly. He’d seen people getting unnerved at the cold bastard, but he had the feeling that if he were a human right now he’d be sweating bullets. He follows the direction Keya is facing, that was such a blatantly human motion she had performed it was obvious what she intended, and sees something.
“Haven’t seen a proper paper letter in a long, long time” he comments a technical lie, a few seconds after Orran had moved to pick up said letter from the desk and shove it into a drawer. But he had already seen what Keya wanted him to.
“Y-yeah I’m… Still fond of some traditional things” the man says, still looking nervous.
He takes a deep breath. He’d already seen it, in the letter, the mark of three crossed leaves. “Alright… Me and Keya are going to go outside to check something. And when we come back, you’re going to tell me the truth, right?” he stares directly at Orran
“What do you-”
“AFTER we’re back” he interrupts “Because this is either nothing worth worrying about, or you were saved from death by the power of ignorance” but he doesn’t let Orran answer as he and Keya step out into the yard.
He looks around at the yard, already predicting this would be a difficult mission. A physical letter with a familiar symbol, Orran mentioned he had a way to bring his felines to this planet and could use it as a way out, those were carnivores as far as he knew so he had to get food somewhere, and the man had those kept in here since before humanity’s first contact so it wasn’t some cloned meat he was using.
Keya grabs his shoulder and turns him towards the shed, every house in this place has the same general structure, including the shed in the backyard. The two of them start heading over there and study it. Those are wooden windows, closed, barring any sight from the inside and the front door had a lock in it, but it was slightly ajar. He looks at Keya, who seems to not notice his stare, and then gently opens the door.
The light from the outside streams in, and the sight is somewhat heart wrenching. This was, at some point, pretty much a cat house. There were shelves along the walls with nothing in them for them animals to walk about, wooden towers and other acrobatic toys, there were plastic toys scattered around and most tellingly some bowls on the ground. He kneels beside the bowls, there’s a tiny scattering of kibble indicating which ones were likely kibble and which ones were likely water, but they were marked with the same signs as the rest of the toys and furniture, deep marks of a nixa’s claws.
“Here” Keya’s toneless voice calls him out, and as he arrives he finds the proof of what he expected. There’s a rather crude metal box sitting there, full of scratch marks and bloodstains, inspecting it closer he finds tufts of dark fur and… Fabric.
Before he can inspect closer Keya hands him something- A plastic bag “Always prepared aren’t you?” he kneels closer to look at it, it’s definitely fabric, torn fabric in fact, with a fragment of the nixa’s claw attached to it. Gingerly he puts it in the plastic bag, looking at it.
“It is not good for my mental health, but it is useful in situations like those” Keya offers, before turning to the door to leave.
Santos stands up and takes a deep breath. Those calls all came from outside, and everything’s starting to make sense. He speeds up to move ahead of Keya as they enter Orran’s house, to find the yotul sitting on a couch, seemingly staring at something but in truth his eyes were distant in thought. “Alright, Orran. The first question, where did you get food for your hensa?”
Orran nearly jumps out of his skin, before turning an eye to Santos “I… I have an offworld contact. They, uhm… They can get some stuff shipped from Leirn for me”
Santos nods, and sits beside the man. Keya, on the other hand, walks behind him and simply looms over, causing the agriculturalist to shrink “Next question. Who brought you here?”
“It… It was the same people”
He crosses his arms “I’m going to take a wild guess and say that your hensa have suddenly decided that they don’t want to leave the house anymore since a few days, I mean, paws ago, right?”
At that Orran gasps “How did you know?”
He leans back on the couch “Your little ones saved your life, just so you know. Whoever it is you’ve got your trip, and the food from… You still owe them, right? And they’re the kind that comes collect” he’s looking at the ceiling right now
“C-collect? What do you mean?” he can see Orran trembling in his periphery
“Fifty seven of the calls on your hensa were from outside town” he turns his head slightly to give Orran a side-eyed stare “And we figured out where whoever it was dropped a very angry and very hungry nightside predator a few paws ago. You know, at the same point in time where I can only imagine your little friends stopped going to their playground out back”
“Wait” Orran seems frozen “That… That was because…”
Santos shrugs “I don’t know who they are. I doubt they’d like it if you talked, so i’m not asking. I’m just going to ask, how much do you owe them?”
The yotul looks down “Five hundred and twelve thousand credits… But I’ve been paying, I swear-” he grabs at Santos’ arm
“Chill out” he takes a deep breath “None of us are related to them in any way, before you get the wrong impression”
“It should be doable” Keya has brought up her datapad, causing the other two to look up at her “It is possible that I can organize a donation drive able to reach the nearby towns. Coupled with a secondary source I have available it is plausible acquire the amount of credits to clear his debt”
Orran stands up quickly in surprise “Y-you’d do that for-”
“Those people have shown themselves capable of causing serious collateral in their attempts at punishment and have shown to be a threat to the safety of the town.” she continues with a toneless voice “You, also, are part of this town. A group capable of smuggling contraband across planets is not a group we are capable of protecting the town from, therefore, the only measure left is appeasement.” she explains like it was a lecture, causing Orran’s ears to droop.
“The condition of this aid is as follows. You will hand over that letter, as I recognize it is their method of contacting you. You will, also, follow the humans to wherever the delivery will take place and you will only return to this town once I have contacted you to do so and you have paid your debts.” she turns her head sideways to direct one of her eyes at the yotul, he takes a step back cowering from the icy stare in a way Santos could never cause “If they make any further attempts at you, they will not endanger this town”
Santos sighs “Yeah, that looks like a wise choice” he pats Orran gently on the shoulder “I know the cold bastard is a lot but that’s a good plan. We’ll help you out, get your kitties a safe new home and nobody gets hurt”
To say the mood in the residence was soured by the experience was an understatement. And yet they were forced to wait even further in the collective company, Santos gently trying to coax some unrelated small talk out of Orran for the sake of the man’s sanity while he could not keep himself from continually building up more and more stress as he watched Keya silently stare down at her datapad nearly motionless.
Ultimately, Santos breaks the stress spiral by convincing the yotul to prepare for the trip. The lack of clothing articles, he noticed, made packing very much easier than it would be for a human. But a few cleaning articles, the remaining kibble for the hensa, a carrier cage that was uncleverly hidden under the bed and a few more moments spent preparing some travel snacks and there’s a knock on the front door.
Who’s behind the door is a distressingly short little Nevok, sent as the person to pick up the hensa. It took a bit of convincing, but under the cold gaze of Keya the woman eventually relents to allow Orran to accompany his animals, just to facilitate the handoff and to ensure the team’s knowledge of them is correct.
Santos and Keya see the two off, but as they return to the car that had been waiting for them for hours, she stops him. She opens the driver’s seat and points him there, takes the back seat herself and immediately brings out her datapad. Santos looks at the strange car, bites down his lower lip in thought and sighs. There’s no use discussing with the cold bastard.
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[Excerpt from the social site Bleat]
#BadParents - A thread for bad parents with unruly pups
[email protected] - Hey guys, I need some help. The guests’ kids brought some weird candy home, what do I do
[email protected] - What kinna candy, is it tasty?
[email protected] - Does it smell funny?
[email protected] - Try it, it’s real good. I think I know what it is. Your kids are gunna get real loud about it.
[email protected] - hay guys, one of the neighbors broke some of the other guys’ toys and now he has to pay it back. But i’m kinda broke, you know how dad is, so I can’t help out. Can we get a pot rolling here?
[email protected] - Oh dear, think I can just give one of my toys up to make up for it? It wouldn’t be a bother.
[email protected] - I can help out, i’d ask my pups to help out too but they haven’t been listening to me for a while.
[email protected] - Same deal but at least I can get something going, I think the guests here would be up to help.
[email protected] - Oh, oh, I think I can get my pups to help, i’ll help out too. They’ve been trying to do good!
[email protected] - Me and the pups can help out too, they’ve been behaving a lot since last time.
[email protected] - Sorry guys, gotta sit out of this one. You know why.
[email protected] - It’s fine, it’s fine. Only help if you can. And no need, [email protected], just help out with the pot.
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What? Did you thinking smuggling a pair of little predators off a planet currently ongoing purge across the stars and keeping carnivores fed in a planet where the mere mention of that kind of food could get you killed was possible without the aid of people you don't want to cross?
Sometimes you do what you have to do.
This is the end (mostly) of the "Exotic Pets" season! Thankfully our little hensa get a proper home, and maybe their descendants might help save a planet. This isn't the last adventure involving a pet, however, but the next season "Fighting Fire" might not end quite as peacefully.
Also I know I got zero schedule, never pretended i'd ever have I know myself. But don't expect anything next week, life sure is hard.

I keep only finding the shirt/top for outfit sets. I'm trying to speed through the Lucky Clover quests just so I can complete a new set. Has anyone else run into this? Is the placement of set pieces related, or totally random?

I was flying next to Hogwarts and saw that there are two side quests icons in Hogwarts. However, when I land, go in and cast revelio they don’t show up and I can’t find them :(. What can I do?

My laptop broke now I have no choice but to watch anime on my phone, before i was using a random website to watch anime since i was watching it on my laptop that i didnt use for anything other than this purpose so i didnt really care abt getting viruses or hacked or wtv on that laptop but since im forced to have to use my phone now does anyone know any free yet SAFE anime streaming websites/apps that I can use to watch anime on my phone without having to be worried abt it getting hacked or a virus or anything like that?

I have a CR-10 that I picked up a long time ago and never got to work, just recently picking it up again. It does not have auto leveling and it's the 300x300x400 size. I can provide a link to the amazon page if that helps anyone. The problem I have is it prints the 3 sample prints that came with the SD card absolutely fine. But if I try to print anything else the bed adhesion just doesn't exist. It does a perfect stream of filament on the left hand side of the bed and then if it deposits any filament at all it doesn't stick to the bed and it just slides around. I can then stop it and immediately extrude a bunch of filament to clear it out (I typically do 100-200mm and it comes out fine) and then print one of the demo files, that file will print fine.
The obvious thing to check is bed leveling but I've checked that 5 times already, and to make matters worse it won't even print the bed leveling program, even though it prints the sample programs in the exact same starting position perfectly. I've tried the glue stick, the paper, playing with the speed and heater settings. I've tried cleaning and re-applying fresh glue multiple times to no avail. And trust me I'm using a heck of a lot of glue stick.
I think it's a slicer setting that's doing this but I've spent several hours on multiple attempts trying to figure it out to no avail.
Wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

This is my first SF and I immediately fell in love with Guile. Not that I like defensive playstyles, but I enjoy how you can be pretty well-rounded, conditioning to jump with booms and flashkick to punish. Can also go in to mix things up.
I was watching Nuckledu's stream yesterday and since early impressions are that Guile may be top tier I saw things in the chat like "Guile is not supposed to be top tier he needs a nerf", if that's the premise already established with the character, I may have to start learning another character.
I'm not a meta/tier whore, but having a character predisposed to nerfs because of community stigma makes me not want to main him off the bat. They said it's because "he's not fun to fight against", which is weird because I thought the criteria were for characters deemed "too easy" should not be top tier.
For example, in Guilty Gear Strive, no one likes playing against Happy Chaos, yet he's top 2 in the game. Either way, I think it's a pretty dumb to have these predetermined ideas of what should and shouldn't be top tier. Are we just going to expect the usual suspects for top tier? Juri and Cammy on top and Blanka, Deejay, Guile midtier?
I know its early, but I didn't know I was maining a cucked character who could never be competitively strong because he has to "stay in his lane" because he's not fun to fight.

I have been working on a plane for MtG, based around a great passion of mine, the bard from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare.
Thespia, the Realm of Sonnets
Thespia is a plane known for its dramatic landscapes, where lush forests, misty moors, and towering castles blend seamlessly with aethereal energies. The plane is perpetually enveloped in an ethereal twilight, casting a mysterious and romantic aura upon its inhabitants. The plane is dotted with bustling theaters, where performances of plays, tragedies, and comedies are staged with magical realism. Each theater is a realm of its own, transporting audiences to ethereal realms and alternate realities through the combined power of acting and magic. The greatest of which is the Globe stage.
The Great Houses
Thespia is divided into five great houses, each inspired by a Shakespearean play:

1. House Veronai - Inspired by "Romeo and Juliet" and "As You Like It," House Veronai embodies love and passion. The members of this house are known for their fiery hearts and quicksilver tongues. They excel in spells of seduction, disguising illusions, and enchantment.
2. House Maclett - Representing the tragic tales of "Macbeth" and "Hamlet," House Maclett is driven by ambition and power. Its members are schemers and plotters alongside skilled necromancers and sorcerers, specializing in curses, dark magic, and the manipulation of fate.
3. House Prosperus - Drawing inspiration from "The Tempest" and "Henry V," House Prosperus is a house of elemental mastery and enchantment. Its members use their noble authority to command the forces of wind, water, fire, and earth, harnessing their power to shape the world around them.
4. House Ubarrun - Paying homage to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Ubarrun is formed of mischievous fey and mystical creatures. Members of this house possess the ability to control nature and transfiguring illusionary magic.
5. House Falstan - Inspired by the comedic genius of "Henry IV" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor," the people of Falstan embrace merriment and revelry. Its members are skilled illusionists, tricksters, and performers, known for their unpredictable spells and wit.

These great houses assist in running all of the theatres in Thespia. Aspiring writers work to see their stories performed in their great theatres, possibly even creating a character they consider worthy to be sent onto the Globe on their behalf.
The Rivalries and Alliances
The world of Thespia is not devoid of conflict. The great houses engage in political intrigue, romantic entanglements, and fierce magical battles. Betrayals and alliances shift with the turning of each act, as the members of the houses vie for power, love, and the preservation of their legacies.
The Great Stage of Thespia
At the heart of Thespia lies the Globe, an otherworldly amphitheater where performances and magical duels take place. This enchanted arena is the largest theatre in the multiverse and can morph and transform into any scene necessary. Though to enter it from the wings, is entering an different world altogtether. Should you enter from the wings, you enter through a bright light and find yourself in a random place in the globes world, becoming a part of it's story. It is believed that the world is stuck in an endless twilight due to the neverending play happening on the globe, should it end the night will finally come to a close. Each of the houses has a different idea on how the great story should end. Veronai - They believe the great story should end with a great romance, ending with the union of two lovers. Macleth - Believe that the play should be a tragedy, wanting the play to end with the death of all characters. Prosperus - Believe that the play should end in a great battle, with a true king of all crowned as the finale. Ubarrun - They want the play to end, to bring up the moon and start the course of nature again. The great story is but that, a story. Should the play end, then people will be free to express themselves in the real world than the fictional. They wish for the play to conclude in a great dance. Falstan - The Falstans actually like the world the way it is, with merriment and entertainment. They so do not seek to end the play, instead using their characters to outsmart and guide others to carrying on the great story.
The Quest for the Bardical Codex
Rumors abound in Thespia of a legendary artifact known as the Bardical Codex. There is a tale that this world was written into existence, by a powerful being known only as "The Bard." When this being made, it wrote every detail into a great book. It is said to contain the true essence of the Bard's genius and possesses the power to alter reality. All stories believe that this book is hidden within the world within the Globe. Members of the great houses embark on perilous quests to find this elusive artifact, hoping to harness its power for their own purposes.
Conclusion
Thespia, a world born from the union of Shakespearean literature and the Magic: The Gathering universe, offering a unique blend of poetic language, theatricality, and epic magical battles. Here, planeswalkers and house members are both actors and heroes, playing their parts in the grandest of dramas, all while drawing inspiration from the timeless works of the immortal bard himself.

When you reach act 5, you have 2 quest lines you can follow. Stick to the quest line you chose, or the other will MAJORLY spoil what happens in the other.
Spoiler alert :

If you go to Donan after talking to the Tree of Whispers, he will talk about Lorath amputating Neyrelle's hand... Thanks for the spoiler, beloved game

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