#MC's strange premonition 3

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thank you so much for sending this in! let me introduce to my hot mess express mc for fernweh saga by @lacunafiction (seriously everyone needs to check this if out it is top tier <3)

meet isabella vaughn:

basically fernweh’s plot is that the mc’s parents died in a house fire & since then their grandpa was taking care of the mc. the mc & their grandpa used to be super cute but over the years he started to get more & more distant. he started having these weird premonitions, and started descending into a state of paranoia. he sent the mc away, and the mc hasn’t visited the small town of fernweh since. until now, almost 6 years later- for their grandpa’s funeral. but fernweh is a strange, strange town— and nothing is as it seems.

anyways, enter isabella! resident party girl, resident takes nothing and no-one seriously girl. her parents death & the subsequent death of her relationship with her grandpa really fucked her up, left her with abandonment issues that she can’t seem to shake off. she’s sarcastic, she’s flirty, she’s aloof- she takes absolutely nothing seriously. except when it comes to james. james was her childhood best friend, the one she left behind, the one that could have been. she was in love with him & he was in love with her, but neither knew of this fact. & then she left fernweh, never looked back, never contacted him. it was all too much, and she just wanted to run away from her past and her pain. but now she’s back, and she’s faced with the one she’s still somehow inexplicably in love with. the one she never forgot. he’s been there all these years, now a detective for this small town. and their relationship is awkward & stilted, all those letters he sent her over the years left unanswered. and her normally flirty façade dissipates in his presence, suddenly morphing into something shy, something solemn. she thinks he hates her, and why shouldn’t he? and she mourns for the love that could have been.

[my-love-jake-love]

(Untitled 🙃) (MC's strange premonition 3)

* FBI Teddy approaches the FBI Chief *

FBI Teddy: I ​​don't want to get involved in your case, but do you really want her to die?

FBI chief: what are you!? Of course not. When she'll get worse, she herself will tell us everything

FBI Teddy: But I don’t think so, I don’t want to be clever, but wouldn’t it be better to accept her terms, at least we could find Hannah. If she dies, then we can't find Hannah or Jake.

Chief FBI: She won't die. That hacker is definitely come for her, you saw how much she wants us not to hunt Jake. so they are somehow close.

FBI Teddy: I think it'll be too late before he gets here.

Chief FBI: WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I DO THEN? WE RECEIVED AN ORDER TO FIND THE HACKER. THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN HANNAH'S DISAPPEARANCE!

FBI Teddy: JUST TALK TO HER IN A CALMER TONE.

FBI Chief: YEAH, I ALREADY TRIED IT. SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK TO ME.

FBI Teddy: Then leave it to me, maybe I can do it

FBI Chief: Do what you want! I'm already tired of this story!

FBI Teddy: I won't let you down! Bring the MC to the interview room.

FBI Teddy: Hi, my name is Teddy. Now I’m to investigate your case.

MC: ...

Teddy: There's nothing you want to say to me?

MC: What should I say to you?

Teddy: Well ... for example, that it was nice to meet you ...

MC: I'm VERY HAPPY!!!

Teddy: Hmm… Do you want to eat or drink anything?

MC: no…

Teddy: But you don't look like it…

MC: I said NO!

Teddy: Okay, let's continue… We need to find Hannah as soon as possible. Before she gets hurt…

We really need your help… You know a lot about the man without a face, please help us.            

MC: I told you, I'll help you if you stop following Jake.

Teddy:  understand us, he made a very big mistake that cannot just be forgiven, we received an order to catch him, it's all out of our hands…

MC: I promise you, he won't do it again, he won't tell anyone what he saw there, I don't even know what he looks like. Please ... you can do something * MC is crying * or tell them he committed suicide and something like that ...            Teddy: If you don't even know what he looks like, why are you so worried about him? Is he your brother? a relative?

MC: ... he's... my friend. Best friend!

TEDDY: ... okay, I agree. We'll stop chasing Jake. And you will answer all my questions about the loss of Hannah, and follow my orders, ok?

MC: really!? I agree! * MC smiles*

Teddy: * smiles back * my first order: you have to eat something, then rest, otherwise you have no strength at all, you owe us healthy.

MC: can I call Jessy first? I just want to warn her that I'm all right, she's probably very worried…

Teddy: I have to ask first ... although you know, I'd rather take you to her. Only on the condition that you promise to be ready by 8 in the morning tomorrow, I will pick you up from there, we need to make a plan for our future actions…

MC: Are you kidding?!

TEDDY: No. Just so no one knows about our plan, okay?

MC:  Of course!

FBI Chief: Teddy come here

Teddy: I'm coming ... and I'll be right back

FBI Chief: ARE YOU CRAZY?! YOU JUST WANT TO LET HER GO? SHE'LL RUN AWAY!

TEDDY: No, he won't. I believe her. I saw the truth in her eyes.

FBI Chief: IF SHE ESCAPES OR IF YOU FAIL TO FIND HANNAH, YOU WILL BE PUNISHED, CRUELLY PUNISHED!

Teddy: I know, just let me do what I think is right.

Chief FBI: you have a week to find Hannah, if you do not succeed, then you will be fired

Teddy: OK

Teddy: Come on, I'll take you to Jessy's

MC: Is everything all right? What did they tell you?

Teddy: Nothing interesting, let's go ...

MC: okay

 Teddy:  this is Jessy's house

MC: Thank you so much Teddy, I owe you one  

Teddy: Just don't forget, you have to be ready by 8am tomorrow. If they ask you why I'm picking you up, tell them you need to sign some documents.              

MC: OK, thank you Teddy * gets down from the car*

Teddy: Wait, MC!

MС: what happened?                                                                                  

Teddy: * gets down from the car and opens the trunk* Here, take this, it's your suitcase.

MC: thank you…

TEDDY: I have to go, see you tomorrow.

MC: See you tomorrow Theo *MC smiles*

Teddy smiles back and walks away*

 * knock-knock* *Jessy opens the door*

JESSY: MC?! THE GUYS ARE MS!!! * hugs her*

All: WHAT?!

MC: Jessy ...   I've missed you so much

JESSY: Come in... sit down here...  

Richy: MC... are you all right?

Phil: I missed you…

Dan: Welcome back.

Cleo: MC ...  I'm so glad to see you.                                                                

Thomas: what did they tell you?

Lilly: You were found not guilty?

MC: Guys take turns... I'll tell you all everything… I'm all right…

Yes, they found me not guilt ... only I have to go there for several days in order to sign several documents ...                                                                             Richy: What other documents?

MC: Well ... about what I don't know who Jake is…

Jessy: By the way, Jake, do you think it's worth telling MC about Jake?

МС: Did something happen to him?  What are you hiding from me?

Jessy: Nothing, Jake called us and said he was worried about you.                

MC: Is he all right? But I thought your cell phones were taken away

Lilly: Yes, it was, but this phone just appeared in my bag by itself

MC: Where is this phone now? I need to talk to him!

Dan: Well, no… I won't let you call him... you've already suffered for him…

MC: Jessy ... where is this phone? Give it to me please…

JESSY: Of course ... but he called from an unknown number. We'll have to wait for his call. During this time, we will order dinner and have dinner together!

Dan: great idea

Jessy: and MC will answer all our questions, do you agree MC?

MC: of course!

*at the table, everyone was laughing and asking MС different questions, and MС was most waiting for Jake to call*

* phone rings*

MC: IT'S JAKE!  WHERE'S THE PHONE?

Jessy: MC calm down, here it is…

Dan: Hm... I have to teach him a lesson. MC give me the phone ...  

MC: What do you want to do?

Dan: You'll see... *picks up the phone*  

Jake: Any news on MC?

DAN: YES! SHE'S DEAD NOW ARE YOU HAPPY?

JAKE: What the hell are you talking about?

Dan: YOU COULDN'T SAVE HER!

JAKE: IT COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED!

Dan:  BUT IT DID!                                          

Jake: I don't believe you!

Dan: If you don't believe me, come to MC's funeral tomorrow. You'll see for yourself

Jake: WHAT?! BUT...*he's crying* What have I done?!

Dan: YOUR TEARS WON'T HELP YOU, THEY WON'T BRING MС BACK TO LIFE!

MC: Give me the phone. It's not funny anymore…

Jake: MС?!

Dan: Even that's not enough for him!

JAKE: MC! YOU... YOU'RE ALIVE! I - I was so scared…

MС: with me everything is in order… Don't mind Dan, he's just kidding.

Jake: I don't know what would happen if it was true... * crying* I'd go crazy

MС: Everyone calm down... you have no idea how happy I am... to know that you are safe

Jake: They didn't hurt you?

MС: Don't worry, I'm fine.

Jake: You'd better get out of Duskwood. It's safer that way.

MС: I'll leave when I find Hannah

Jake: You better leave now

MС: But Hannah needs my help                                                                      

Jake: I can't put you in danger because of her quest. I'll think of something. I'll find her myself.

If that maniac finds out you're here, he might hurt you, too. And I won't let you suffer again. I'm going to book you a plane ticket and you'll be on the first flight back to your city!

MС: But Jake…

Jake: And without any, BUT!

MС: Sorry Jake, I'm not leaving until I find Hannah. Bye. * hangs up the phone*

JESSY: Yeah, he's right. You go to your city.

MC: Do you really want me to leave? *phone ringing, the MC rejects the call*

MC: Nothing will happen to me ... trust me. * Jake made it so that he could listen to their conversation*                                                                                     Jessy: You misunderstood me, you have no idea how much I want you to stay, I don't want to lose you too MC, understand…

MC: I can't leave now Jessy... I have to sign some documents don't you remember?  

Jake: What other MC documents? * there is a sound from the phone *

MC: how did you do it?!

Jake: I ask what other documents, MC?!  

Dan: Hey you, stop yelling at the MC!

MC: I just need to sign documents saying I don't know you

Jake: MC, you think I don't know how the FBI works?! They don't do that! Why are you lying to me?! (if in real life need to sign documents, just imagine that in this universe they don't do that, I just couldn't find any information about it 😁)

Thomas: Are you lying?! MC, did you lie to us?

Dan: MC?

MC: No! I'm telling you the truth!

Jake: MC, please tell me the truth, I'll help you. Why did they let you go?

MC: I'm telling you the truth! Believe me! * MC is crying*

JESSY: That's enough! Leave her alone! If she said she was telling the truth, then that's the whole truth! Everyone, it's time for you all to go home. Jake that's enough. Just call back tomorrow.

Jake: I'll get to the truth! *the phone is disconnected*

Richy: Okay, guys, let's go... that's enough for today

Phil: MC, if you want, I'll take you to my place.

JESSY: PHIL!

Phil: I just suggested it

JESSY: JUST GO! Come on, MC, I'll show you to your room

*Everyone's gone *

Jessy: Do you want to talk to me about anything?

MC: I want to be alone

JESSY: Then good night, MC

MC: Jessy ... thank you for everything ...

Jessy: We're friends, and friends don't leave each other in the lurch * Jessy leaves *

MC: This is all for your own salvation Jake.

 END OF THE THIRD PART

[cheri-translates]

Season 1 Plot Review

This fan-made summary was written by 冰苏打桃 and 恋与剧情侦查站 on Weibo, and I have translated and reposted it with permission!

🍒 Warning: As of 22 June 2021, Volumes 9 and 10 have not been released in EN. If you wish to avoid spoilers, please stop reading at that point! 🍒

[ VOLUME 1: Ch 1 - 10 ]

MC’s company is facing imminent closure. After obtaining an investment from LFG, the company is rescued from bankruptcy

MC meets the four male leads

Time Folding Incident (Planned by Black Swan. Gavin saves MC)

Bullet Incident at the orphanage (Planned by BS. Gavin deflects the bullet while MC is with Lucien)

Kidnapping Incident in Loveland High (Planned by BS. Gavin saves MC, then continues investigating in STF)

Hacker Consortium Incident (Planned by Lucien to awake QUEEN and obtain the Solomon Key. MC escapes with Kiro)

Lucien’s Dream Experiment (MC sees Lucien’s childhood experiences)

HBS Escape Room Incident (Planned by BS. MC escapes with Victor)

BS plans to stimulate the QUEEN Evol in MC in order to gain access to Black Cabin

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[ VOLUME 2: Ch 11 - 14 ]

MC is attacked while in the hospital (Victor stops this)

MC enters Grandpa Chuck’s special dimension for the first time

Greenwood Hotel Incident (Planned by BS. Gavin and MC escape from the strange dimension)

Gavin loses control of his Evol

MC and Lucien investigate the out-of-control Evol incidents, and discover that the source of the disturbance comes from Loveland TV Tower

Lucien discloses his true goal to MC. In order to obtain the trust of BS, he injures his right eye

MC and Kiro head to the TV Tower to switch the controller off

Kiro is taken away by BS. MC successfully switches the controller off. MC and Gavin fall from the TV Tower

-

[ VOLUME 3: Ch 15 - 18 ]

Victor loses control of his Evol and is sent to a Loveland City ten years in the future

A flu infection spreads in Loveland City (Hades’ “Reset Plan” commences)

Gavin follows his convictions. He leaves STF and accepts the NW Modification Project

Hades traps MC and Lucien in a dream world. They escape, but MC forgets everything that happened in the dream. On the other hand, Lucien is able to retain his memories because of a pill

Kiro returns to BS in the capacity of Helios

Shaw and MC meet for the first time

MC meets Helios while investigating the hospital, and he rescues her from people clothed in black

John uses MC to force Helios to hand over the “key”, and reveals that the car accident MC’s father was involved in wasn’t an accident. Helios deals with him

Black Queen appears and repeatedly attempts to induce MC into following her

MC realises that she’s unable to change the future. A woman she had once rescued ends up dying in an even more cruel way

As a member of NW, Gavin arrives at the site of the celebration to control the chaos

MC manages to see through the fake “Victor”. The real Victor returns from ten years in the future

The Quarantine Incident. In order to stop Black Queen, Victor “kills” MC, sending her away through a time rift

-

[ VOLUME 4: Ch 19 - 21 ]

MC enters a dream world created by Cyril. Cyril continuously tells MC about the beauty of this world, encouraging her to remain in it

MC summons her courage to face reality. She decides to leave the dream world

However, MC does not return to her original world, but a parallel world - the world of Eternal Winter

In this world, MC never existed. As such, nobody recognises her, including the four male leads

Gavin has joined the NW Organisation, and Kiro has become Helios

MC meets Shaw, and finds that he actually remembers her

MC has a premonition about an explosion at the bridge

The existence of Evolvers has been revealed, and they are termed “EVIL” by the people. Even the bridge explosion is blamed on Evolvers

A mysterious person behind the EVIL Incident kidnaps MC, but she is rescued by Helios

-

[ VOLUME 5: Ch 22 - 24 ]

MC uses the alias that Shaw gave her, “Mary Sue”, and enters STF as a cover while Shaw steals intel

Shaw and MC’s operation is discovered, but they manage to escape

Cyril gives MC two tickets to his piano concert

On the North Mountain, MC and Gavin discover that the person behind the Eternal Winter Incident intends to use satellite signal coverage to radiate the entire world with the eternal winter affecting Loveland City

Gavin loses control of his Evol and is brought back by NW

With less than 24 hours till the satellite is used, MC decides to get Shaw’s help to infiltrate STF and investigate further

In STF, MC meets Helios, who is there to steal a black box i.e. the key to Black Cabin. After getting injured by anti-Evol gear, MC helps Helios flee from STF, but they get into a car accident

Lucien saves MC and Helios, and takes MC to the BS Headquarters

With Lucien’s help and guidance, MC enters Black Cabin and sees another version of herself - Black Queen, who had lived and died in another world

Lucien disguises MC and brings her into a meeting with the Twelve from Black Swan. From the meeting, MC learns that the person behind the Winter World Incident has the alias Hypnos, and he is a rebel with the name Cyril

MC also discovers that the satellite is out at sea. The address on the tickets Cyril gave her is the HMS Victoria

Hades offers a partnership with Victor but is rejected. While planning to get rid of Victor, Victor kills him, which alerts members of BS

Victor uses MC as a hostage, and the two leave the BS Headquarters

MC boards the HMS Victoria and tries to stop the satellite. However, she loses consciousness after hearing the sound of Cyril’s piano. Fortunately, Helios wakes her up in time

Just as Cyril is about to pass the controller of the satellite to MC to decide the fate of the world, MC successfully enters Black Cabin, consolidating the other world lines and leaving MC’s original world as the final world line. She manages to stop Cyril’s plan

-

[ VOLUME 6: Ch 25 - 28 ]

With Kiro’s help, MC returns to the original world, waking up at Twin Leaves Orphanage

The four love interests retain fragments of their memories from the Winter World. Shaw retains all of his memories

In the half year that MC wasn’t around, a name list of the Evolvers in the original world was disclosed by the STF

The STF takes away all the Evolver children from Twin Leaves Orphanage, claiming that they have to manage Evolvers who are minors

MC tries to use her Evol, but realises that she has lost it

Cyril appears in this world. He has also lost his Evol and is now an ordinary person

STF’s Commander Leto publicly announces the existence of BS, and calls for the arrest of Hades, who had created the flu. At the same time, he expresses that STF already knows the identities of the core members in BS

Lucien manages to produce a vaccine for the flu, resolving the Flu Incident

Lucien sets up the Ultima Bioresearch Centre

Over the past half year, Lucien has been experiencing hallucinations of MC because of how much he missed her. He even decorated his house to look like MC’s

Following the address given to her by Shaw, MC heads to an abandoned warehouse to investigate. She meets Litton and learns that Gavin is currently in a facility meant for evolution, and is part of the first batch of subjects to undergo experiments

To rescue Gavin, MC takes on a fake identity with the assistance of Litton, pretending to be a male and successfully entering the facility

MC and Gavin discover that nobody has survived the pre-experiments, suggesting that Evolvers are unable to withstand the final evolution

Gavin and Litton coordinate, causing an explosion and a power cut in the facility. Gavin and MC seize this opportunity to escape and head to the evolution accelerator. When they reach the base, they realise the accelerator has already been taken away

MC finds a design for an intricate machine part which resembles the black box

Black Queen and Leto are working together

In the Observation Centre, MC hears about a mysterious organisation called “No Man’s Island” which helps Evolvers with nowhere else to turn to

Through a flyer, MC finds the location of “No Man’s Island”. She boards a cargo ship, and discovers that the Boss behind the organisation is Victor

Leto has grown suspicious of Victor’s cargo ship, and often conducts surprise investigations. Fortunately, the Evolvers on the cargo ship leave in time and evade the STF

MC receives Kiro’s text and heads to the amusement park as arranged

On the outside, it appears that the amusement park was blown up by BS. In reality, Leto hid explosives underground

The STF publicly declares that Hades has been dealt with, and Eli volunteers to enter the evolution accelerator

Through intercepting a live broadcast, Helios announces that he will be formally challenging the STF

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[ VOLUME 7: Ch 29 - 32 ]

“Kiro” suddenly announces that he will be returning from retirement with a concert

MC rushes to BS to look for Kiro. Since Helios is there, it is revealed that “Kiro” is simply Anole disguising himself using Evol. The concert was also organised by Anole

MC learns from Helios that the evolution accelerator had already existed 17 years ago. However, it’s unable to operate without the QUEEN gene. Because MC’s Evol has been obtained, the accelerator is able to function

Anole flees in defeat, and Kiro performs on stage

A kidnapper from Trio-Stars pretends to be a writer from “Entertainment Weekly”, drawing MC away from the concert venue. MC is knocked unconscious and brought away by the kidnappers

From the conversation between the kidnappers, MC discovers that she was mistaken to be a chemist of devo serum (i.e. Black Queen)

Shaw appears and saves MC

As a condition to participate in this matter, MC has to assist Shaw in completing a mysterious transaction in Agio Street. The buyer is willing to pay handsomely for the devo serum and the chemist who formulated it, and the seller is a local gang that had been established in Agio Street for many years - Trio-Stars

Shaw disguises himself as an informant from the Trio-Stars, and MC disguises herself as a drug manufacturer

In a bar in Agio Street, MC bumps into members from the Trio-Stars who are looking for MC. Shaw joins in the scuffle, and the two of them flee

MC ends up at a fortune teller’s, and finds the medium very familiar

The medium is actually Black Queen, and Cyril is there too

To continue the investigation, MC pretends to be an informant for the Trio-Stars and heads to the location for the mysterious transaction. She meets the “buyer” - Victor

The boss of Trio-Stars exposes MC’s disguise. Fortunately, MC and Victor work together and manage to escape

MC learns from Victor that the devo serum might be related to her loss of Evol

In the Ultima Bioresearch Centre, Lucien’s research on the devo serum shows that it is unrelated to MC’s genes. While her genes have a stabilising effect, it doesn’t have the ability to cause Evol devolution

Kidnapping Incident at Twin Leaves Orphanage (Dr Song). Lucien and MC rush to the scene

The head of the orphanage steps out to explain that the missing kids were actually playing hide-and-seek, and they weren’t kidnapped. Dr Song, who has lost her Evol, is taken away by the STF

From the kids, MC learns that “MC” (i.e. Black Queen) had invited the kids to a game of hide-and-seek

MC and Lucien meet Artemis at the bridge, and she forces MC to hand over what Dr Song gave to her. Lucien uses space folding to send MC away

Along the way home, MC bumps into Gavin, who is investigating a murder in Agio Street. The victim is an Evolver, but the autopsy report showed that the victim no longer had Evol

MC and Gavin discover that the victim used to be an equipment caretaker in Loveland High, and they head over to investigate

In Loveland High, there’s a sudden earthquake. MC is responsible for evacuating people who are still in in the building, and meets Eli who is leading the Special Operations Team in a mission to apprehend an Evol criminal. In fact, Eli’s true motive is to find Gavin (and to retrieve the experiment report for the accelerator)

Gavin and Eli engage in a fight. In the end, Eli leaves a weakened Gavin trapped in a classroom. The building collapses, and Gavin manages to push MC outside the building

While searching for Gavin, a second collapse occurs. MC enters a time subway created by Cyril

Gavin manages to escape from the building

Based on MC’s consciousness, Cyril created his final work - the time subway

MC boards the time subway and sees the experiences she shared with the four male leads as the subway travels forward. She also “meets” the four male leads during their younger days

MC starts running in the opposite direction of the subway in order to break free from this cycle. The time subway becomes a gift from MC to Cyril - he has always craved for a perfect world

After leaving the time subway, MC awakes in the hospital and is told that she had fainted along the street. Cyril bids her farewell

At the convenience store, MC meets a youngster who escaped from the Observation Centre. The other escapees are attempting to search for a place which can give them the devo serum. MC claims to be an Evolver who escaped from the Observation Centre, causing the escapees to accept her into the group. She boards a truck with them

MC gets a premonition of the youngster’s future, and realises that her Evol has returned

While on the bridge, the truck meets with an accident. In order to stop another sedan from tumbling into the ocean, a middle-aged man in the truck uses his Evol, revealing his identity as an Evolver

Because of the Evol energy waves, STF captures the escapees, resulting in a brawl between the two sides

One of the Evolvers loses control of his Evol, and accidentally sends a bullet and car flying towards MC

Victor appears and stops time, rescuing MC. However, he collapses because he interfered with the laws of nature

MC reveals the truth of how Evolvers in the Observation Centre were being used as experimental subjects for the evolution accelerator

Gavin leads the NW squad to investigate, and announces that he will take responsibility for everything that happened in the Observation Centre

After locating the evolution accelerator, he sends the coordinates to Helios, who heads over to destroy it

The four male leads meet

-

[ VOLUME 8: Ch 33 - 34 ]

Miracle Finder discloses the truth about STF

Leto invites Evolvers to a party, including MC and the four male leads

MC attends the party with the four leads (split routes), and discovers that the invitees are all influential people in society

At the party, Leto uses a sound wave manipulator to influence the brain waves of Evolvers using music. By controlling these influential people, there will be less objections to Leto’s plans

MC and the four male leads successfully resolve this incident in their split routes. Unfortunately, Leto escapes

Leto’s misdeeds are exposed

Gavin becomes the new Commander of STF

MC receives a text from Shaw, who tells her to bring her father’s notebook to Twin Leaves Orphanage

MC learns from Lucien that the replication Evol he lost was stolen by Leto

Through Shaw, MC learns that Leto used the replication Evol to kidnap the kids in Twin Leaves Orphanage, and also installed explosives in order to threaten the STF. Leto requests to see QUEEN, and MC heads there with Gavin

Under Leto’s request, MC enters the orphanage by herself, but meets Shaw in the dilapidated building, who tells her to look for the kidnapped children first

MC meets Leto in one of the rooms, and he has a black box which can be used to steal Evol. He has copied the Evol from the four male leads, and plans to steal MC’s Evol too

MC tries her best to fight against Leto, but ends up unconscious

Upon waking up, Black Queen and Anole have also appeared in the dilapidated building. They have not only taken away the notebook, but have also ended Leto’s life. The black box is also broken

The kids from the orphanage are rescued by Shaw

Victor and Zero return to the Space and Time Administration to fix his Evol

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[ VOLUME 9: Ch 35 - 36 ]

With a recent spate of unnatural disasters occurring in Loveland City, a Relief Centre is built to house Evolvers who are discriminated by society and have nowhere else to go

MC chances on Shaw in an alley, who is severely wounded due to an overuse of Evol. She sends him to the hospital

Before he loses consciousness, Shaw returns her the notebook (belonging to her father) that Black Queen took away from her

In the hospital corridor, a youth hands a black card to MC and tells her to head to the address written on it in order to get rid of her Evol

MC learns from Shaw that these black cards were specially made by Black Queen, and they contain Evol which can influence their consciousness. Whoever touches the cards will think that Evolvers are the prime reason for the unnatural disasters, and that only by getting rid of Evol can the disasters be stopped. Shaw’s Evol has also been damaged by Black Queen

MC also learns that Black Queen’s Evol is the ability to cause a deterioration of Evol. The more she deteriorates Evol, the more powerful she becomes

When MC asks Shaw about which side he’s on, Shaw expresses that he is someone who walks among history, and hence does not belong to any side. He simply wants to find the truth, and push for the truth to be discovered

MC and Minor pretend to be siblings and head to the address stated on the card. They bump into Gavin, who is there to investigate

Under the guise of wanting to get rid of their Evol, MC and Gavin search for Black Queen. In the process, they are pulled into a strange dimension behind the North District Waterfall. MC realises that her pretence of being siblings with Minor was discovered early on

Gavin uses his Evol to destroy this strange dimension, and they leave it together

Gavin tells MC that there are many spots in Loveland City where Evol can be removed. Through the strange dimension of the North District Waterfall, Black Queen has been able to create even more of such spots

Lucien takes MC to a space where MC can see where Black Queen is, but not the other way round

MC witnesses Black Queen failing to use her devolution ability. Lucien tells MC that as long as MC’s strength grows, Black Queen’s strength will weaken, and she may even become powerless

The reason why Black Queen still exists is because MC left out one world line while consolidating them. Black Queen is urgently harnessing power to destroy MC in order to bring these two world lines together

There’s a sudden uproar at the Relief Centre, and Lucien uses his new Evol to calm everyone down

Shaw tells MC that Black Queen intends to become the world’s true QUEEN the next day

Victor returns to Loveland City from the Space and Time Administration

During Black Queen’s coronation ceremony, Kiro uses his Evol to command Black Queen to return the strength she stole

Black Queen seizes an opportunity to escape. MC looks for Black Queen and they engage in a final battle

MC falls into Black Queen’s trap, and the latter absorbs a large amount of Evol

Victor suddenly appears. Through turning back time, MC regains the Evol she had lost

With Victor’s help, MC defeats Black Queen

The people who were influenced by the black cards begin to return to normal

Through Black Queen’s memories, MC sees how Black Queen had experienced the deaths of the male leads in other worlds (but these images may have been falsely created by Black Queen to make MC feel fearful about the ending awaiting her)

In Black Cabin, Black Queen closes the world line that belongs to her, and starts to disappear

The STF, Ultima Bioresearch Centre, LFG, the hacker KEY and BS’ leader Helios work together, initiating a “New World Plan” in order to deal with the unnatural disasters and conduct rescue efforts

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[ VOLUME 10: Ch Ch 7 ]

The X1917 comet cluster will reach earth after a month, and the world will be destroyed

MC discovers that one new page has appeared in her father’s notebook. The ambiguous words tell MC what she can do in the face of the incoming comets as QUEEN

With Shaw’s guidance, MC uses her Evol to look through his Dragonfly Eye, enabling her to read the words hidden in the notebook

At the very last moment, MC will be called to “the other place”

MC spends her final moments with the male leads. She bids them a proper farewell and make a promise to reunite with them in the future (split route)

MC is brought to “the other place”. In the world behind the door, she meets a mysterious person

MC sits on the throne belonging to QUEEN, and wears the QUEEN’s crown. The world begins to shift backwards to 17 years in the past

When MC opens her eyes and pushes the door before her, she enters a narrow corridor. The scent of disinfectant is in the air, and she sees a signboard saying: Research Room.

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This is for @treasureplcnet​ bc I deleted your super sweet message LIKE AN IDIOT 😭 For context, I was asked about my idea for It Lives 3 and HOOOO DUDE this is going to be WAY MORE INFO than you ever asked for but YES. I WOULD LOVE TO. I even named it because I have nothing better to do with my time.

I call it, It Lives Among Dreams.

PREMISE:

After witnessing an unsettling encounter that ends in tragedy, you find yourself having strange dreams that seem all too real. When the horrible events in the waking future mimic those in your dreams, will you have the courage and the allies to face to the evil that only manifests at your most vulnerable?

I really want to explore that idea from in the first scene of ILITW with dream golem Dan trying to strangle mc. Can The Power™ be so powerful that it can affect people in their dreams and how?

(It’s pretty much A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors meets Final Destination meets It Lives.)

See under the Read More for specifics on setting, characters, etc. :D

SETTING:

        The setting would be a small city near the towns from ILITW and ILB, with the mc’s home being on the edge of the woods that some corporate tycoon is trying to industrialize.

        For some reason that I’m not bothering to figure out because this isn’t a legitimate story I’m making, The Power™ has given mc the ability to see the future in their dreams. Probably in some attempt to protect itself and use mc as its advocate.

CHARACTERS:

        The MC’s default name is Lane.

        The gang in ILAD would be new, but the whole book would be around 22 chapters long so there’s time near the end to get to see some cameos from ILITW and ILB, along with nods to the first two throughout.

        The four allies in ILAD are Tanith Shirazi, Neil Hong, Paisley Ruiz, and Eldie Morcos. Disclaimer: they’re some of my ocs that I stuck in as placeholders. Here’s some rough sketches of how three of them would look in those character portraits in-app. (Guys, I’m way too deep into this, but I need to channel this energy into something.)

GATHERING THE NEW SQUAD:

        Throughout the beginning chapters of the book, the mc starts dreaming about the deaths of four persons. During these dream segments, the player plays as the new character introduced to get a feel for their personality and discover how they die. Then the chapter continues with mc waking up, trying to find out who the victim was from the information they got from the dream, and save them.

         The new characters will live no matter how your mc reacts when in the real life-or-death situation because the mc intervened, but how the allies are saved determines their starting nerve score

        Each ally is romanceable and independently bisexual, not playersexual

       Throughout the story there will be situations you can approach in different ways (Stealthy, Aggressively, Flirtatiously, etc. a la Endless Summer). The ally whose plan mc chooses receives an extra nerve boost. Each plan has different flavor text.

NERVE CHECK FAILURE:

        Similar to ILB, there will be certain spots when everything’s GOING DOWN where your allies’ nerve will be tested. If their nerve isn’t high enough, they will end up dying in the same way they died in the mc’s dream premonition, though in a different situation.

         For example, one of the characters — Tanith Shirazi — dies in mc’s premonition dream by being shot while protecting someone during a convenience store robbery. If her nerve isn’t high enough for her check, she’ll get shot trying to protect the mc during a fight and die.

EXTRA:

        There might be an inception-like plan to fight evil in their dreams. Idk how but it sounds cool.

        There would be purchasable items unique to each character like in ILB, which would help certain situations but aren’t necessarily weapons.

         For example, buying Paisley Ruiz a new bass guitar after hers breaks would result in a nerve boost, a way to get into an exclusive club, a special potentially romantic scene, etc. because I don’t like one-and-done purchases.

And that’s it for now! I’ve honestly gone deeper into this more than any sane person should, but it’s here now so we might as well enjoy it. Who knows, maybe I’ll develop it enough outside of IL that I’ll just make the game myself 🤷‍♀️ Thanks for the question though dude!! It was SO MUCH FUN to write all of this out! 

And if YOU have any ideas for IL3 ... 👀👀👀👀👀👀

[tranxendance]

Must-watch Super Best Friends LPs: A curated list

So, I tried to get a friend of mine into bestfriends when he was in active service and didn’t have much time to sit and watch youtube. While I think you should probably watch all of the bestfriends content, aint nobody got time for that, and there are certain LPs that are just better ones. Here’s a list of what I consider to be the best SBFP lets plays. There won’t be any ‘Matt’s toybox’ or one-offs, only full LPs.

Predator: Concrete Jungle - Originator of Jerry the Predator, the very first bestfriends OC. Also I really like the Predator so this trash game getting ripped to shreds by the anti-hype machine makes me feel good. https://youtu.be/0wF6r-JRTvQ

Eternal Darkness - The climax of the very first Shitstorm of Scariness. Genesis of the Insanity Shotgun, marking out about recognizing Metal Gear Solid voice actors, INSANITY EFFECTS and freaking out about the bathtub scare despite knowing it was coming. https://youtu.be/lYRVeFkTvCM

Silent Hill: Homecoming - First half of the Downcoming series. ‘MY HOUSE!’ ‘Why is the knife the best weapon? Just do knife combos to them, thats survival horror’ https://youtu.be/GLgN5WSiiX4

Silent Hill: Downpour - Second half of the Downcoming series. The first time I saw the guys play a game that was brand new at the time. Pat & Matt getting upset about the downturn of one of my and their favorite series. The famous Axe Throw that launched a career is in this one too I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ofoIeb8wI&list=PLAD720396A1870C8E

Resident Evil 2 - Earliest recorded footage of Pat’s stand CRAZY TALK where he claims to know a thing or be an expert and is proven unequivocably wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cgbuv3cB1Q&list=PLB8826287748EFE7C

Final Fight: Streetwise - What happens when you take a classic beat em up and try to make it cool and modern with lots of Slipknot music? It ages fucking poorly that’s what. ‘I got a receipt for my Tatsu’ ‘I’d like to return this shoryureppa’, Live footage of the bestfriends souls leaving their body in The Stiff boss fight, Some actually decent writing and lines such as ‘Feeling good about potentially feeling good’ which Matt will quote for years to come. https://youtu.be/HnRNyfzKLL8

Man vs Wild - Not so much a must-watch as it’s just the boys in their element, playing shovelware, deliberately failing QTEs to laugh at how pitiful it looks when you do, making fun of people’s accents, and much more. Indicative of the bestfriends style of sort of mst3king videogames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NGPAOrE80&list=PL57hJfweW_2s2jyxas78kIib9M3jGduU8

Heavy Rain - The very first game played in the Sadness trilogy. ‘Oh no, I made ze bad game’, more fucking up of QTEs when it’d be funny, Detective Shelby’s PI Gumball technique after shooting thirty rounds out of a handgun without reloading, FUTURE GLASSES, and other classics. Woolie will play this himself on a livestream, many years later, which is also a good watch. https://youtu.be/Qe-SpjInztQ

Indigo Prophecy - The first game of the Sadness trilogy, though it was played later than Heavy Rain. Space kung-fu, zombie sex with a lady you barely know, your choices don’t matter!, Slagging off of David Cage intensifies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacYbUC_FmQ&list=PL57hJfweW_2sOt01sX9TtQRkzv5RS231f

Charles Barkley’s Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden - Seems to be originally selected as a ‘ha ha, we’re playing a bad and stupid game to laugh at it’ but then discovering it’s legitimately awesome despite being frankly ridiculous. If you can’t play the game yourself, this is a very good substitute. https://youtu.be/xNc9R1zfwM0

Beyond: Two Souls - The third game of the Sadness trilogy. David Cage creeping on Ellen Paige in real life and making her be naked in his game, E MO SHUNS, having feelings but not knowing where to put them, ‘I’ll be your Stand! ORARARARARARA’, Underwater chinese ghost base. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_VUoePgrc&list=PL57hJfweW_2ulXc25A-LxxHXMPqLOwrsf

Deadly Premonition - Swery65′s magnum opus, if only he could’ve put bicycles in the game. He totally didn’t watch Twin Peaks you guys. ‘QUIIIIIIINT!’, ‘Stinky agent’, radio fast travel stock tire screech sfx, monkey noise squirrels and a weird amount of attention paid to food. Matt named his pet cat Zach due to this game, so it’s an extra important part of the bestfriends lore. https://youtu.be/dsbfmIqP-H8

Disaster: Day of Crisis - Metal Gear Solid except the giant robots are natural disasters. Gotta get revenge on the volcano for killing my buddy. Eating watermelons while on fire. Don’t forget to take your stami-nas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sx8gqSjkMY&list=PL57hJfweW_2t-vHWWeqjY2SKH4vaqotZ6

Yakuza 4 - My first exposure to the Yakuza game series and actually a good starting point for people that don’t know anything about it. The hype, badassery, and hilarity in all its glory. Who’s ready for a shirtless fight on top of Millennium Tower? https://youtu.be/xOKx_79BEhY

Prison Break - More shovelware where they fail stealth sequences a million times, fail QTEs because it’s hilarious, and can’t show too much violence because it’s a T-rated game. https://youtu.be/TsjGGGSZabA

Resident Evil 4 HD - Get hype for suplexing priests, El Gigante, Doctor Salvatore, Isn’t that Mexican spanish not Spanish Spanish? Commando shit and the RE movie, Oops Ashley is dead again, Pat is bad at puzzles and crazy talk activates. https://youtu.be/qsazQp4VlI0

Silent Hill 2 - Everything is illness, or else its condoms! The nurses are TOO STRONG!, the boys actually just enjoying a game and (mostly) being good at it for once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYYIjaNPP8&list=PL57hJfweW_2vMmw0MLZp8I16DA-Qev8ec

Resident evil Revelations 2 - Re vuh lay uh tons!, Wait how’d a non mainline resi game get this good?, MOIRA MC TAGGART MC MURPHY, another co-op LP where Matt’s actual role in the game mechanics is to point out ammo and health items that Pat missed. https://youtu.be/THfgNlcNa98

Resident Evil 3 - Jill Valentine’s not actually last escape, Crazy Talk activates several times, Shitting on Hunter-D’s, being a huge coward constantly like the hero of RE brad vickers. https://youtu.be/G5pXyRhs7FM

Ride to Hell - Legendarily bad game played by canadian losers that make fun of it constantly. Source of just SO MANY bestfriends gifs including casual priest drownings, getting shot during cutscenes, and Qui-gon chi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEw04pKaVs4&list=PL57hJfweW_2srGztN1iedcFd-BV5X1Ram

Parasite Eve - It’s time for Aya Breakowski to GET HOT. It’s a squaresoft game all right, dogs with sniper rifles, finishing downloading arcana heart, and the heroest of hero cops willingly lighting on fire to give you a gun. https://youtu.be/dHY5ZBSHzyw

Danganronpa - Ultra Despair Girls - First recorded instance of being incredibly hype and getting into the cool pop art aesthetic, komaeda memes, and then all hype leaving our body, and out of context shouting KILL THOSE SHIT KIDS! https://youtu.be/qYtYp4oWBhU

Life is Strange - Liam’s rivalry with another wimpy boy, Hotdogman: Who is he?, You sacrificed everyone for your Ship? Are you Griffith?, and rewinding time to fuck with people for kicks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZ7-wFLnfI&list=PL57hJfweW_2u1mKS5UFNgx-voVAvTlkT9

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - Built-up hype from over one thousand years of waiting is collectively released. Psycho Mantis is OP, let the legend come back to life, GREATEST SOLDIER IN THE WORLD BIG BOSS, D-dog is the cutest and bestest of boys, and famously awkward jeep ride. https://youtu.be/505vXWYkxcw

Afro Samurai - Perhaps the shovelest of ware ever played on the channel. It’s very short, only 3 parts, about 90 minutes of gameplay, something that everyone should be super hype about but ends up being the most shitted on game since perhaps one of the Sadness games. https://youtu.be/wIXqEulMTIo

Resident Evil Zero HD - Get hyped for Oven Man mk2, math puzzles, getting pissed off at Eliminators, Rebecca! God dammit Rebecca! I love youuuuu rebeccaaaaaa, Leech Man, and playing dress-up. https://youtu.be/Mhnthhluh70

Metal Wolf Chaos - Giant robots and engrish, more than your body can handle! AMERICA!!!! Richard Hawke! OK, Lets PARTEEEEEEEY! Tons of references they’ll be using until the end of time https://youtu.be/Mhnthhluh70

Naruto: The Broken Bond - ‘Wait, this game is actually good?’ and then three parts later oops no its not. Second instance of being super hyped at first and then all joy slowly being sucked out of the boys’ body. Do your rasengan, even when you’re not playing as Naruto! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo92m-rfeHA&list=PL57hJfweW_2uIIqa3HTcbsvM5LO1ObM_5

The Punisher - Rice cookers, My family-family-family!, guessing Frank’s one-liners, violent safety PSAs, and interrogating the boat https://youtu.be/wznGw9fJNCc

Disaster Report - ‘Is this Disaster day of crisis’ sequel?’, The honeycomb-caisonne method, press triangle to HEY!, be mean to your waifu, and abandon your friends like a hero would do. https://youtu.be/UYiwWU8EZcU

Final Fantasy X - Matt talks about Lulu’s boobs a lot, BLEETSBOLL, Wakka the racist, kimahri push, Finding all the memes possible, Hype Cactaur!, ‘I’ll pay you to fuck off, okay?’, and punting a boss over the horizon. A long watch and the boys are kinda bad at the game but good for the patient. https://youtu.be/qpZeMkthdZ8

Omikron: The Nomad Soul - The secret first entry of the Sadness Trilogy, ‘Get in the slider!’, Blackface Boyz, The real final boss is david cage!, getting trapped in bug purgatory, yes this is how you should honor the memory David Bowie by playing this game, Using the power of all three bestfriends to beat the game, and having no consequences for failure right up until THE MOST CONSEQUENCES. https://youtu.be/691RrF9pnaU

Silent Hill 3 -  No talking during the cut scenes, beef jerky, a detective does a Jerry Seinfeld on Silent Hill by accident, and ‘It’s a metaphor for dicks/childbirth!‘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wERZf6bns&list=PL57hJfweW_2v34HsPK-4Hfqmkb22zjBWC

Tony Hawk’s Underground - Woolie lives the skateboarder life he never could for real. ‘Won’t they notice that it’s not Eric Sparrow on the video when they see a clearly black man doing that jump?’, Eric Sparrow is basically up there with Griffith for villains the bestfriends hate the most, and ‘I can do a grind all day’ https://youtu.be/3HLPS_nwHG8

Parasite Eve 2 - More of Breakowski and getting HOT, ‘This is basically a survival horror game’, The dog from Independance Day must survive or else you’re on the bad ending! https://youtu.be/JedQqaXdWLc

LA Noire - The big one, the one I always suggest for new bestfriends watchers as being emblematic of their style and sense of humor and weaknesses as players. Woolie can’t navigate this map, ‘Sometimes you’ve gotta shake the tree and see what falls out’, Shotgun man wrecks your shit!, making noises to go along with the faces that the characters are making, ‘Pedophilia? That’s a free pass in my town sir’, Stealing the worst possible cars because they thought it’d be cool, forgetting the controls for every single fistfight sequence, Cole Phelps super cop!, and LP Funsies. https://youtu.be/-bPqjD_zg5g

Policenauts - Kojima’s game from when he was allowed to work on things besides Metal Gear. It’s definitely white blood and not anything sexual, SHOOTINGU SEQUENCE, Holy crap our main character is a bigoted piece of shit!, Figure out the bomb puzzle!, We’re definitely not Riggs and Murtagh to the point where Woolie says ‘I’m gettin too old for this shit’ about 70 times, and the uncomfortable truth of cloning. https://youtu.be/kWcecAHiOys

Dead Space 2- Notable mostly for me as Dead Space 2 was the first bestfriends video I ever saw back when they were on Machinima, so I was quoting Space Rave and asking Matt if he needed a blankey to fight the monsters. https://youtu.be/1QzY-TjFGFI

Resident Evil 7 - We hate the molded as an enemy type, OOOH GOD DAMMIT JACK, He fucking exploded into goo!, What was your plan?, I can’t shoot the granny, We definitely used a pump action shotgun in world war 2 (Actually yes we did, Matt), Shadow puzzles, that part of a lady is where all the wasps shoot out, and What that guy doesn’t look like Chris Redfield who is this impostor?! https://youtu.be/SyAZ2-nijDE

Def Jam: Fight for NY - The introduction of Woolie’s OC: Rage beats up rappers, steals their girlfriends, and doesn’t understand intimacy, The full might of Matt’s hatred for Bless is brought out, and they talk about the Aki engine’s contributions to humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lry0SYYkvas&list=PL57hJfweW_2tWHTvp2ESXbzp1-jh6YJMQ

[illuminatifrance-blog]

Rap Music - The New Frontier?

Through the early to mid '70s, visionaries like Kool DJ Herc introduced new tips for the way music was played. Like some other music-loving 'bredren and sistren' together with myself, Kool DJ Herc was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Following the footsteps of Jamaicans that came before him, he relocated towards the Bronx, NYC and took root. Using a sound program like no other, there was constantly a celebration when Herc spun records. Folks from all city boroughs showed up, and brought their pals. The majority of them had never ever experienced anything like Herc's thunder inside the clubs or at 'block parties,' where he was a hometown favorite. There'll be extra on these distinctive, social gatherings a little later. Kool DJ Herc was one of these cats that was considering outside the box for a long time, and inspired other DJs to adhere to suit. Everywhere Herc touched down, he left a distinctive mark imprinted inside the minds, bodies, and souls of music lovers in and about the vicinity. Afrika Bambaataa was homegrown within the Bronx. He is best-known for taking the radical, independent factions in the Hip-Hop life-style and organizing it all into an urban music society...and for being the very first rapper, ever. In 1984, he worked on the song "Unity" together with the not too long ago departed Godfather of Soul, James Brown. (We're gonna miss ya, 'Soul Brother #1.') By mixing block parties with DJs and break-dancers, he synergized all of the varying entities of Hip-Hop by way of his Zulu Nation. The Zulus educated inner-city youth about their history and empowered them to become productive citizens. His ears were open to all kinds of music as he became a catalyst for blending rhythmic designs from Africa with Funk, Go-Go, Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Salsa and Soca for the very first time in music history. Bambaataa's affiliations included the Rock Steady Crew and Double Dutch Girls. There was also a spray-painting graffiti artist who parlayed his love for 'visual art' into becoming the host of a common show that engaged the minds of America's Black and White youth. It ended up changing Rap music history around the globe. Now using a 'retired' can of spray paint, Yo MTV Raps' Fab five Freddy was also a important player within the classic film, "New Jack City." There'll be far more on that captured moment in time just a little later, just after we finish up with Afrika Bambaataa (& pals), and dig further into the chapter: there's some real meat in thar! That's what's up. Afrika Bambaataa became a major music producer in his own right. He spent a lot of time logged in at Tommy Boy Records between 1982 and 2005. While there, he produced a huge hit for the New York club and radio scene, 1982's "Funky Sensation." To me, that song defined a new era of music for both myself and the City of New York. "Funky Sensation" helped to establish a path that many dance music producers followed, well into the new millennium. Another historical Rap label that Bambaataa put some time in with was Profile Records. Profile was the home of a trio that made music history: Run-DMC and the late Jam Master Jay. Their chronicles defined the next wave of Hip-Hop and fashion by way of brimmed Fedoras, leather pants, blues jeans, and unlaced, Adidas sneakers. Throughout the winter, they sported snorkels with fur around the hood. In New York winters from the 70s, we sported hats like Kangols (still preferred) and 'Robin Hoods'(with side feathers) on the dome. Some folks liked toboggins and ski caps for their 'masking' feature. Brooklyn later picked up a pseudonym--Crooklyn. Our 70s fashion also consisted of colorful silk shirts (Versace predecessors), polyester pants with stitched pleats running down the sides called Swedish Knits, and bell-bottom blue jeans with zippers at the foot. Squares (L-7's) wore no name 'rejects,' but our well-known footwear incorporated Converse All-Stars, red, black and green Pro Keds, Pumas (my favored were rust-colored), PONY's, and shell-toe Adidas. We had interesting acronyms for the latter two brands. "I could tell you, but..." you know the story. Looking back now, I notice that Adidas kept the same body style longer than the Ford Explorer did! My New York winter-wear included snorkels, sheepskins, leathers, 'Maxie' and 'Cortefiel' coats with soft fur around the collar; they have been the rage. People got stuck up (ganked) for them, too. I once witnessed someone grab a friend's hat right off his head - as the train doors closed (this guy was quick!) Some of my 'classic' garments are still intact: a black Robin Hood hat using a now-wilted side feather, a colorful, winged (big collar) polyester shirt with a Disco theme around the front, my sky-blue high school graduation three-piece suit, 'Mack' full-length Maxie coat (it looked good; mom made it), and black Cortefiel coat are all stashed somewhere about Area 51. Don't ask me what I'm going to do with them, but my coats still have fur about the collar. Does "E.T.W." (Extra Terrestrial Wear) sound catchy to you? Let's check in with 'Rush' (Phat Farms), 'P-D' (Sean John), 'J towards the Z' and 'Double D' (RocaWear), 'Fiddy' (G-Unit), and WTC (Wu Wear) for the final answer. I'm getting told to nix the trip down memory lane and stick for the script, so it's back for the original 'bad boys' of 80s Rap. Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay opened up Pandora's box with their classic hit "Rock Box." I got a premonition of what was about the corner for Rock and Rap early on: sampled 'guitar crunches' fused with 'dem phat Hip-Hop beats, boyee!' Then the crystal ball revealed something else to me - up jumped Def Jam Recordings, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys, all using overdriven guitar sounds riding in conjunction with the big, deep 808 beat that caused car trunks (and the inside of your body) to vibrate. Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay un-laced their Adidas and went on to re-make Rock group Aerosmith's classic "Walk This Way," then invited the original rockers to get in on it. Along the way, Run-DMC sold a 'few million' records. Inside the background was one Russell Simmons, pushing buttons on his remote control. Then he got a cellphone. But just before groups like Run-DMC made it to the game, there was one of the first major league rappers--Afrika Bambaataa. Oh yeah; together with his group The Soulsonic Force, Bambaataa fired off a ground-breaking shot remembered as being 'most strategically launched' from the annals of New York's urban jungle. When the classic "Planet Rock" hit Billboard's charts (it hit the year 1982 in a BIG way too), the song considerably changed music history. It used a similar robotic, vocoder-like sound as the a single found in Kraftwerk's smash "Trans-Europe Express." "Planet Rock" was a smorgasbord of cool electronic sounds and Hip-Hop beats. Meshed together with samples from other records, it captured the attention of music lovers caught dancing to the non-stop, funky sensation of this incredible new beat. Afrika Bambaataa's Electro-Funk style went on to influence the sound of music types like Dance, Electronic, House, and Techno. If a sound system exists anywhere in the galaxy, I predict that "Planet Rock" will rock it. Inside the meantime, you can listen out for this classic hit on Internet radio, satellite radio, broadcast radio, clubs and dance parties everywhere. 'Nuff said--next! Creative minds of legendary pioneers such as Russell "Rush" Simmons, Eddie Cheeba, Spoonie G, Lovebug Starski, The Juice Crew, Marley Marl, MC Shan and D.J. Hollywood are also among these credited as becoming essential leaders within the surge that brought Rap music and Hip-Hop culture to mainstream society. Many people may think the Sugar Hill Gang was among a few initiating forces in Rap, but there have been actually many other hot acts out there grinding to earn their dues --like these affiliated with Rush Productions. Rush was building a name for itself as a music promotion company to be noticed. I'll expound upon the meteoric rise with the dynamic institution which followed this event shortly thereafter. With affiliations everywhere and credits that include the timely debut of Hip-Hop players like Kurtis Blow, Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Scott La Rock, DJ Red Alert, and countless other faces hidden in the trenches, Rush was on a mission to conquer the planet. The first-generation of Rap and Hip-Hop spawned a godfather, Russell Simmons, in addition to all these other creative talents. Collectively and in unison, they helped to centralize the cultural origins and sound of this music for an evolving planet. The second-generation leaders of this new movement would include Russell's little brother Joseph, who together with Darryl McDaniels and the late Jason Mizell, made up Run-DMC: the initial artists of their kind to go platinum by selling a million Rap records on Profile Records. This was just the beginning; Def Jam Recordings was on the way. Now let's connect the dots with Sugar Hill: Back in 1957, a group called Mickey & Sylvia recorded a Bo Diddley song, "Love Is Strange." Guitarist Mickey Baker and a vocalist named Sylvia Vanderpool established themselves inside the music market as a potential hit-making duo. In 1964, Sylvia married a man named Joe Robinson. Their union led towards the formation of a legacy that wouldn't play itself fully out until the Rap craze hit. In 1973, Sylvia rolled the dice and released a huge hit, "Pillow Talk." This song established a format that would be followed straight into the Disco heydays. Originally written for Al Green, his pass became Sylvia's score when it tallied up a #1 R&B and #3 Pop hit. "Pillow Talk" was a sexy song that featured lots of heavy breathing, whispers, sighs and moans. It's reminiscent of Donna Summer's classic hit, "Love to Really like You Baby." Sylvia Robinson synergized her abilities as a singer, musician, producer, and record executive to take her whole game to another level. As a important player at All Platinum Records, she had a hand in Shirley & Company's 1975 hit "Shame Shame Shame." This became a top dance song, and hit #12 around the Pop charts. By 1979, Englewood, New Jersey's Sugar Hill Gang busted a big move by releasing a classic, "Rapper's Delight." Within the background had been Sylvia, Joe, and their Sugar Hill Record label. Passing their genes on to son Joey, Sugar Hill's West Street Mob went on to release hits like "Ooh Baby" and "Sing A Simple Song/Another Muther For Ya." Other aces in the deck incorporated groups called The Sequence and The Funky 4+1. They scored a few hits with "Funk You Up," "Simon Says," and "That's the Joint," which used a nice sample from my girl Cheryl Lynn's song "Got To become Real." We'll be taking her song apart and putting it back together again in another chapter of this book series, "What Is A Song." Using finance money from Roulette Records chief Morris Levy (you can find out a lot more about this guy inside the book "Hit Men"--a highly-recommended favorite of mine. "I could tell you additional, but..." You know the drill. As Sugar Hill grew, so did its artist roster, with the addition of Grandmaster Flash and his collective unit, The Furious Five. Although the Sugar Hill owners paid up a big balance and purchased the remaining interest in their company by the early 80's, things began to sour for them: a deal with MCA Records died and a fire toasted their legendary studio. The label eventually shut it doors by 1986. Almost 10 years later, retail-friendly Rhino Records picked up the Sugar Hill catalog and resuscitated the masters within the same way that they've done with many other lost or obscure masters. Via creative re-packaging, Rhino went on to revitalize the music (and some careers) of artists that have been probably still waiting on royalties from the previous owners of their master recordings. The Sugar Hill Gang, West Street Mob and Sequence all have been released on various Sugar Hill compilations. An interesting occurrence following the Sugar Hill assault was the massive availability on the sequencer, drum machine, synthesizer, sampler and MIDI about the early 80s. 'Creatives' and 'infamists' among the likes of Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, The Bomb Squad and producer Marley Marl locked themselves up in 'Big Apple laboratories' coming up with the next lethal mix of sound. When released, Def Jam and the 'Sound of Marl' quickly put music listeners into a 'yoke' as concoctions they whipped up became highly potent chemicals on the proverbial 'periodic music table of elements' upon hitting the airwaves; by means of radio station, mobile and club DJs. I cannot over-emphasize it enough: 'BIG UPS' to these guys! Just after the creative synergy of vocalists, musicians and producers, DJs are credited as becoming one of the most direct pipelines to exciting new music. You should take note that "DJ" makes up the initials of Def Jam. Now let's keep the record playing; teacher's not via with today's lesson yet... Independent labels like Profile, Sugar Hill, Priority, 4th. & Broadway and Tommy Boy scooped up young, talented Hip-Hop artists. Major labels like Columbia, Epic, MCA, Mercury and Warner Brothers got an early jump on the game as they formed alliances with Rap labels and artists. Moves like these were executed through street-savvy labels like Def Jam. It grew into the premier, multi-faceted music conglomerate in the century. Started in a college dorm room, Def Jam is now managed from a corporate boardroom, and worth hundreds of millions. Founder Russell Simmons parted from his share in the company in 1999, immediately after the Universal Music Group made him a $100 million offer that he couldn't refuse. We're not talking pesos here, people! Let's breeze by way of a few landmark events regarding Def Jam Recordings: In 1983, the company was founded by Russell, who was called "Rush" when he was business partners with one particular Rick Rubin. Prior to this form of osmosis occurred, Simmons 'did the business' behind pioneers like Kurtis Blow, the initial Rap artist having a major record deal. He signed on with Mercury Records; it was a part of the PolyGram distribution machine. The label went on to forge a long-lasting relationship with Kurtis Blow, Russell 'Rush' Simmons, and his growing company. In spring of 1984, I began a two season internship with Def Jam's distributor. By fall quarter, I was a college rep. Throughout Def Jam's first decade, I marketed and promoted every record released via the pipeline. This integrated music by the distributor's affiliated Epic label. Epic was born to CBS Records (a division of CBS, Inc.) throughout the early 50s. It was a cute small Classical/Jazz label and grew to become a strong, healthy major label with many active body parts (Rock, R&B, Country). Epic picked up other siblings. Among them was T-Neck Records. An influential Soul/R&B/Funk collective of your 50s, 60's, 70's, 80's and beyond the new millennium terrain, The Isley Brothers ran a music empire tucked inside this fully-functional sibling unit's clothes. And bank account--let's contact it a budget. Another sibling was Portrait Records. By the 80's, Portrait had sold millions of records by major stars like Cyndi Lauper, Sade and Stanley Clarke. Since Epic was the oldest kid, it acquired a firm place in history as the foundation that supported the throne of none other than the King of Pop music, Michael Jackson. As a matter of fact, the former lead singer of Motown's Jackson Five actively participated (in conjunction with wildly colorful CBS Records group president Walter Yetnikoff) in the disbursement of CBS' unwanted offspring (CBS Records, Inc.) towards the Sony Corporation in 1988. By 2004, Sony Music Entertainment had consolidated its monster Columbia and Epic labels, then merged with another major record label: BMG. On the Internet, iTunes was selling millions of digital downloads. But that's a story for later. Stay tuned. Def Jam product began flowing via shortly after I jumped inside the big game to see if I could swim. I witnessed the music of many groundbreaking artists 'rushed' through the technique. Notable executives like Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles entered the fold, as promoters like Wes Johnson and Johnnie Walker locked down efforts to turn the airwaves into 'Def Jam radio.' Def Jam became certainly one of the hottest commodities in distribution by the other major label within a major label. This record company made its mark by using a red trademark around the product it manufactured. Columbia Records was the big brother of Def Jam: the hottest Rap label within the Hip-Hop market. Def Jam had million-selling acts like LL Cool J, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, and later arrivals like DMX, then Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records. Columbia, also known as "Big Red," was owned by music giant CBS Records. By 1991, CBS Records was purchased by the Sony Corporation for some $2 billion that I'll say came out with the 'petty cash fund' (they had OLD money, and plenty of it). CBS Records later became Sony Music Entertainment. If you haven't guessed already (where've you been?), here's a prediction: you'll read about more adventures with 'the firm' as we move along. Between all of this 'promoting' (as a college rep), I managed getting an introduction to Russell Simmons at a Jack The Rapper convention in Atlanta by Columbia's national director of Black music promotion, Miss Mike Bernardo, who is such a sweet lady. At this time, she was next in line for the vice-president of Columbia's national promotion department: Vernon Slaughter and Mike Bernardo had been responsible for the overall performance of Columbia's Black radio and club promotion department. Vernon later became among Atlanta's top power brokers. He was LaFace Record's very first general manager, personally signing artists like Toni Braxton to the label. He later became a key player at a law firm headed up by powerhouse entertainment lawyer Joel Katz, and was the legal muscle behind many artist deals, movie soundtracks and no telling what else! As vice-president and national director respectively, Vernon and Mike implemented the national strategies set forth by Columbia. The staff consisted of dozens of regional promotion people strategically placed in important American cities. Throughout my career at the label Vernon, Mike, and the promotion people I knew showed me plenty of like, and have been first-class players inside the game, too. Not extended soon after Def Jam's arrival, I became an account service rep, then a Black music marketing rep for Sony's southeast regional branch in Atlanta. I doubt if there was any connection. Anyway, Def Jam left Sony for PolyGram in 1994 (also the year that I parted company with Sony and launched a recording studio); that same year, PolyGram purchased 50% of Sony's holdings in Def Jam. By 1996, PolyGram bought another 10%, and in 1998 the Universal Music Group (UMG) acquired PolyGram Group Distribution (PGD) to become the world's biggest record label. Following a series of major operational changes, longtime staffers Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles severed ties with Def Jam, which by now had grown to include other hot labels like Atlanta-based Def Jam South (headed up by The Geto Boys' Mr. Scarface), Disturbing Tha Peace (Ludacris), Def Soul, Jay-Z, Damon Dash and Roc-A-Fella. Though DMX's product was released via Def Jam, his Ruff Ryders crew got a label deal with Interscope. Within the post Cohen/Liles era, former LaFace/Arista big-wig L.A. Reid re-appeared at the helm in the big ship. Then, multi-platinum rapper Jay-Z became the new chief of Def Jam (now part of Island Def Jam Music Group), proving that he too, could do what Rap music guru Russell Simmons' legendary rapper Kurtis Blow said he wanted to do: 'Rule The World.' The future of Def Jam integrated plans for more affiliations with labels like Atlanta's Slip-N-Slide Records (Ying Yang Twins). Atlanta was now a city on the move, and Simmons made it a frequent stop on his international itinerary. From Rush Productions and Kurtis Blow to Def Jam, OBR and Rush Associated Labels, to Rush Communications and Phat Farms, the Visa 'Rush Card,' a beautiful model-wife and kids, to astronomic amounts of future cash flow, Russell Simmons demonstrated his ability to serve as the Rap game's foremost guiding hand...and 'head of the household,' too. He was the proverbial captain of a ship, navigating by way of those often-bumpy waters on the constantly shifting Rap/Hip-Hop industry. Def Jam Recordings became an extraordinary multimedia company because of a determined visionary's ability to reach out and touch people-- by way of the power of Rap music and the Hip-Hop culture. Simply put, none of these entities could be spoken of without mention from the great and powerful, "Mr. Rush." A valedictorian and contributing author to Bernard Percy's books for the duration of elementary school, L.A. finished high school in Brooklyn, then went to L.A.City College. He graduated in 1987 from Georgia State University in Atlanta. An internship led to 10 years with CBS Records/Sony Music, exactly where L.A. worked with almost every act, implemented sales/marketing campaigns, received numerous gold/platinum albums, awards, and traveled throughout the U.S., Canada and Jamaica to events. As a recording studio owner, AV technician and manager for a global audiovisual company (TAVS), L.A. owns MKM Multimedia Works. In 2001 he executive-produced the Million Mom March?s Atlanta Artists Against Gun Violence compilation CD, featuring top Atlanta acts. In 2002, L.A. secured a commercial using the GAP for Arrested Development?s Baba Oje. L.A. now initiates his ?6 books in five years? plan.

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MC Sports closing for good after Sunday's 'Going out of Business' sale

MC Sports activities will ultimately close all stores for precise after these days. The enterprise filed for Chapter eleven financial ruin safety in February of this 12 months and days later, one of the companies coping with enterprise’s liquidation sale announced the closure of all 66 MC Sports activities store throughout the Midwest region, inclusive of 24 places in Michigan.

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Gander Mountain closing? Not so speedy says new proprietor Marcus Lemonis MC Sports documents for bankruptcy will liquidate assets MC Sports activities owe approximately $three.8 million to Nike and $2.4 million to Underneath Armour, with totals in loads of heaps to others together with Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, and Wilson. MC Sports is said to have been a “material of the network” at one factor. The corporation opened in Grand Rapids in 1946, firstly selling Global War II surplus, along with fishing, hunting and outdoor wearing goods.

Click right here to locate places close to you to purchase gadgets in their “Going out of enterprise” sale. A worker of the Plainfield location in Grand Rapids says there isn’t much stock left.

Why Business Owners Need A Web Design Agency

    Going online is one of the best options business owners make to gain better opportunities for their business. But, in order to ensure that online strategies can be effective, it is imperative that you work with trusted web design agencies. Below are some of the reasons why business owners hire such experts.

To improve user experience

One of the main reasons why business owners need a web design agency is to allow to properly improve the user experience. In order to make target audience into clients, it is essential that you can effectively communicate with them using your website. And, the best way to communicate using your website is by helping them to navigate easily on your website. Because of this, viewers can gain better insights about your products and services online.

To create compelling and unique sites

Business owners also need to work with web development and design agencies to help them create compelling and unique sites. Surely, copying other web designs can be the easiest option to gain effective solutions for your business. However, being unique will allow owners to increase their opportunities. This is possible since agencies can provide professional designs that can complement your brand.

To help them boost site speed

Working with web development and design agencies is important to help company owners to help them boost their site speed. One of the main issues viewers can experience when visiting sites is speed. Due to slow loading pages, individuals tend to immediately leave. As a result, owners can lose potential clients. With the help of web design specialists, they can make the site faster by eliminating unnecessary plugins, themes, and codes.

To reduce web development expenses

Hiring agencies can also help business owners reduce their web development expenses. Surely, most business owners wish to create their own web development, team. However, owners need to invest in substantial finances in the team for training seminars, research, and projects. Plus, business owners may also experience risks that can affect their site. Luckily, all of these overhead expenses can be avoided by hiring web design agencies.

To gain better site opportunities

Finally, working with web design experts can help owners gain better site opportunities. Apart from web designs, agencies can also help business owners in creating content. Plus, reliable agencies can also provide other online marketing strategies that can benefit your business effectively.

These are only some of the benefits company owners can obtain with the help of reliable web design agencies

8 Signs of Typical Sunday Night Syndrome

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The weekend gives you the respite from the week-long issues of work. Along with this, you also meet a host of problems at the domestic front as well. The beginning of weekend always brings pleasant thoughts in the minds of people who get drained out after a week of hard work. However, the Sunday night would bring back the tensions at the workplace in the minds of people, resulting in the lack of sleep and other tell-tale symptoms like anxiety and stress. The symptoms include nauseating feeling, lack of sleep and the fear of upcoming professional weekdays.

Tell-tale Symptoms

The Sunday night would give you a sinking feeling. Along with this, you also get a rundown feeling through the body due to the fear of facing the higher-ups from next da y  Business onwards on one pretext or the other Sports . It normally takes a heavy toll on the health of the people undergoing the feeling. It could be the emotional, physical and mental toll. People who undergo this feeling on every Sunday night tell you what it would be like. They get a sense of premonition of the coming week and the issues associated with it. The immediate feeling would be to run away from them by taking a day or two off to get extended holidays. You even tend to get frustrated and vent your anger on your family members by scolding them on little things that happen around you. In this article, we would be looking at different signs that tell about your Sunday Night Syndrome.

1. You tend to stay restless and find it difficult to concentrate on things at hand in the home.

2. You feel a melancholic feeling as if you are alone in this world.

3. When you lie down to take rest, you become restless and the sleep starts eluding you.

4. The anxiety generally begins by an evening of Sundays. For certain people, it might even start by Saturday or Friday.

5. Due to lack of overnight sleep, you feel sleepy at your workplace in the morning of Mondays.

6. You will be in the hangover of the weekend activities you had undertaken. As a result, your productivity for Mondays remains on the lower side.

7. Though you are physically at work, your mind would still be at home, savoring the sweet times you had with your friends and family members during the weekend.

8. You tend to feel irritated and become too rigid in your work outlook, forcing your colleagues to interact with you cautiously

Sunday Night Syndrome bug could hit anybody after a happy weekend. It is often characterized by the presence of irritability, anxiety, anguish and high blood pressure. Because of these symptoms, the people cannot sleep peacefully on a Sunday Night. This article talks about this strange syndrome for the benefit of readers. They can

Sports Law in Cyprus

  The sports industry is becoming more and more commercialized and globalized. As a result, athletes, coaches and other stakeholders engaged in the sports industry are seeking a professional legal guidance so that to safeguard their rights and maximize their profits. Sports law is an emerging area of law that is directly interconnected and overlaps with a variety of legal disciplines, such as contract law, employment law, tort law and defamation, corporate law, immigration law and privacy rights.

The assistance of a professional lawyer who has a thorough knowledge of the aforementioned areas of law is essential both for professionals in the sports industry (i.e. athletes, coaches, physiotherapists, etc.) and other stakeholders, such as the governing boards of sports clubs, investors, etc.

Investors: Sports are not limited only to the regulations of the playing field as they are intertwined with society and economy, especially with entertainment and advertising industries. As a result, sports can be a profitable area of investment, through sponsorship and advertisement. On the one point of view, sports launched opportunities for investment in areas such as broadcasting rights, which is related to the area of Intellectual Property Law. On the other point of view, sports established a new area of marketing that develops opportunities for investment in areas such as sports clubs’ shares as the majority of sports clubs have become companies.

Athletes, Sports Professionals, and Clubs: The continuous mobility of athletes and other sports professionals between teams together with the complexity of the contracts includes a variety of legal concerns. As a result, a legal representation of athletes, sports professionals, and clubs is vital. Lawyers are able to assist you on matters related to contract law, breach of contracts, transfers, etc.

Before signing a contract, athletes and other sports professionals should be sure that they are aware of the various clauses and provisions. Note that a contract between a sports professional and a club might be subject to breach. For example, in case a sports club in Cyprus does not honor its engagement regarding its obligations toward the athlete/sports professional, then the athlete/sport professional may submit a claim for remedies and/or damages to Cyprus Courts or FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber. Consequently, the assistance of a professional lawyer is necessary.

Competent Authority in Cyprus:

The competent authority in Cyprus is the Cyprus Sports Organisation (CSO), a semi-governmental organization. According to the Law, CSO can act as the Supreme Sporting Authority in Cyprus.

Why is legal support necessary?

Sports are considered as one of the most profitable industries with prominent investment opportunities and huge revenues. Therefore, the appropriate legal support may assist athletes, sports professionals, and other stakeholders to maximize their benefits and protect their rights. As it has been explained, athletes, sports professionals, and other stakeholders, before appointing a legal representative in the Republic of Cyprus, should ensure that their lawyer has a deep knowledge and expertise in a variety areas of law.