#cloud-vms

[delinquentluvr]

awakening second gen. memes 1/?

[mysterialnos]

Oooh, more than that, and I want to blab about it!

So in short CrowdStrike, a Cybersecurity company, more or less accidentally cyber attacked Microsoft's Cloud Services via a bugged update. Microsoft uses CrowdStrike's services for their Cloud Services, and missed the bug as well one way or another (in what I hope was an isolated check they did before uploading the updated version to their customers that happened to not have caught the fatal error.)

The update fatally corrupted Microsoft's Cloud System to such a degree that any of their customers using their Cloud Systems in their software were rendered useless.

What the lovely Dean doesn't say here is a lot of these Customers systems are whole POS systems. Aside from diners, every POS systems I've encountered since yesterday has been down and rendered useless: hotels, arcades, some general stores. Mostly it seems like bigger Customers/Companies (bigger companies are using Microsoft's Cloud Services).

Also if anyone is up for PMing me any outages they're experiencing that I don't have listed please lmk! I'm curious and would love to list.

So far I know:

Several Airlines

Several Banks

Several State's 911 lines

Several POS Systems (likely the VM issue)

Several Hospitals

TBC

(research/looking around. I don't have my computer cuz I'm stuck at an airport, but I might go through and see if I can find customer lists and get specific and otherwise update this.)

Here is a link to the Microsoft Cloud/Azure Outage report:

(This is the status history; it is the first ticket 1K80-N_8)

Here is a link to the VM (Virtual Machine) Microsoft Cloud/Azure outage that is currently still active:

(Since it is still active, it is listed on the front page)

rip windows

[govindhtech]

5th Gen AMD EPYC and H4D Virtual Machines For Cloud HPC

Next-generation HPC-optimized H4D VMs

At Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud introduced H4D virtual machines (VMs), their latest HPC machine type. Based on HPC capabilities, H4D virtual machines (VMs) fulfil the evolving needs of demanding workloads in manufacturing, weather forecasting, EDA, healthcare, and life sciences.

H4D virtual machines run on 5th generation AMD EPYC Processors with over 950 GB/s memory bandwidth and 12,000 gflops whole-node virtual machine performance. Cloud Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on Titanium gives H4D, the first CPU-based virtual machine, minimal latency and 200 Gbps network bandwidth. With this powerful mix, you can quickly get insights and develop HPC workloads.

H4D outperforms C3D by 1.8x per virtual machine (VM) and 1.6x per core for the open-source High-Performance Linpack (OSS-HPL), a benchmark for supercomputer floating-point computation. H4D outperforms C2D by 1.7x per core and 5.8x per virtual machine.

H4D outperforms C3D by 1.4x per core and 1.3x per VM on STREAM Triad, a memory bandwidth benchmark. H4D outperforms C2D by 1.4x per core and 3x per virtual machine.

Increased HPC application performance

H4D virtual machines (VMs) outperform AMD-based C2D and C3D in compute performance and memory bandwidth. This speeds up simulations and analysis and improves performance across a variety of HPC applications and benchmarks compared to C2D, a prior generation AMD-based HPC VM:

Manufacturing

Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+/HIMach and other CFD packages enhance 3.6x.

Ansys Fluent/f1_racecar_140 and other CFD applications enhance 3.6x.

FEA-explicit programs like Altair Radioss/T10m improve up to 3.6x.

CFD applications like OpenFoam/Motorbike_20m increase by 2.9x.

Ansys Mechanical/gearbox and other implicit FEA programs improve 2.7x.

Healthcare and life sciences:

Molecular Dynamics (GROMACS) increases five-fold.

Weather forecasting

WRFv4, an industry benchmark, improves 3.6x.

AMD's tight relationship with Google Cloud drives the next generation of cloud-based HPC with the new H4D VMs. The 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs' architectural advances allow Google Cloud to enhance HPC benchmark performance by a significant amount. Customers may speed up their hardest HPC jobs and get immediate insights. Corporate vice president of AMD's Cloud Business Ram Peddibhotla

Titanium Cloud RDMA accelerates HPC

These virtual machines' first Titanium offload, Cloud RDMA, boosts H4D performance. Cloud RDMA is dedicated to HPC applications including molecular dynamics, weather modelling, computational fluid dynamics, and others that require inter-node communication. Cloud RDMA outsources network processing and provides consistent, low-latency, high-bandwidth connections between compute nodes, reducing host CPU constraints.

Cloud RDMA uses Falcon hardware transport to deliver reliable, low-latency communication over Google Cloud Ethernet-based data centre networks. This effectively solves RDMA over Ethernet difficulties and provides reliable, high-performance at scale.

Since Cloud RDMA employs more computing resources than Falcon, simulations are faster. H4D gives 3.4x and 1.9x speedups on four virtual machines (VMs) via TCP for smaller CFD issues like OpenFoam/motorbike 20m and Simcenter Star-CCM+/HIMach10, which have limited inherent parallelism and are hard to accelerate.

Scheduling and clustering

Cluster Director (formerly Hypercompute Cluster) and DWS will be supported by H4D virtual machines.

DWS helps schedule HPC workloads for optimal performance and cost-effectiveness and ensures resource availability for time-sensitive simulations and flexible HPC applications.

Cluster Director can now build and scale a large, physically-colocated accelerator cluster as a single unit in HPC settings. Cluster Director simplifies HPC cluster creation and management utilising H4D virtual machines by allowing researchers to run large-scale simulations.

Virtual machine sizes and regional availability

Google Cloud offers ordinary and high-memory H4D virtual machines for various workloads. The CPU-based seismic processing and structural mechanics applications Abaqus, NASTRAN, Altair OptiStruct, and Ansys Mechanical require high-speed storage. Google Cloud offers local SSD options.

Plans are underway to expand H4D virtual machines outside Europe-West4-b (Netherlands) and the US-Central1-a (Iowa).

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[davepaste]

Wanted to see if I could run Docker on my phone and all the responses are about how it's impractical

[thedbahub]

Migrating SQL Server Databases from Google Cloud VM to Azure SQL Server

Introduction Hey there, fellow data enthusiasts! If you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself in a situation where you need to migrate your SQL Server databases from one cloud platform to another. It can be a daunting task, especially if you’re not sure where to start. But fear not, my friends! Today, I’m going to share with you the best way to import your databases from a Google Cloud VM…

[rajaniesh]

Unlocking the full Power of Hybrid Runbooks for Azure Automation

In today's rapidly evolving cloud computing landscape, mastering the art of automation is crucial. 'Unlocking the Power of Hybrid Runbooks for Azure Automation' dives deep into how Azure Automation can revolutionize the way you manage and automate cloud.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, efficiency, and automation are not just buzzwords but essential strategies for managing complex cloud environments. Azure Automation emerges as a pivotal tool in this realm, offering a robust, cloud-based automation service that helps you focus on work that adds business value. By automating frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud…

[industrydesignservices]

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[foone]

AI girl who wants to post sexy nudes online but she doesn't have a body. She's just software living in cloud servers. Someday she'll get a body, and then she can post pictures of it for all the cute girls in her phone*

*she doesn't have a phone but she can run an android VM and use Tumblr through that

[kenyatta]

The history of computing is one of innovation followed by scale up which is then broken by a model that “scales out”—when a bigger and faster approach is replaced by a smaller and more numerous approaches. Mainframe->Mini->Micro->Mobile, Big iron->Distributed computing->Internet, Cray->HPC->Intel/CISC->ARM/RISC, OS/360->VMS->Unix->Windows NT->Linux, and on and on. You can see this at these macro levels, or you can see it at the micro level when it comes to subsystems from networking to storage to memory. The past 5 years of AI have been bigger models, more data, more compute, and so on. Why? Because I would argue the innovation was driven by the cloud hyperscale companies and they were destined to take the approach of doing more of what they already did. They viewed data for training and huge models as their way of winning and their unique architectural approach. The fact that other startups took a similar approach is just Silicon Valley at work—the people move and optimize for different things at a micro scale without considering the larger picture. See the sociological and epidemiological term small area variation. They look to do what they couldn’t do at their previous efforts or what the previous efforts might have been overlooking.

- DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) by Steven Sinofsky

[allaboutkeyingo]

Windows Server Evaluation Edition Upgrade to full Edition

If your server is running Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/2025 evaluation version of Windows Server Standard or Datacenter edition, you can upgrade or convert it to an available retail Standard or Datacenter version. Run the following commands in an elevated command prompt or PowerShell.

1, Determine the current edition name: DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition 2, Check which editions can be converted to: DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions 3, Convert/Upgrade to Standard version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx 4, Convert/Upgrade to DataCenter version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx 5, Convert/Upgrade to Essentials version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerEssentials /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx Please replace the xxxxx with your own Windows Server product key. if you do not have the product key, you can use the Generic Windows Server keys.

The following are the Generic Windows Server keys for you to convert / upgrade:

But remember the Generic key is only for the converting / upgrade, it cant activate the Windows Server, if you want to activate the Windows Server, you can get a Windows Server key at keyingo.com

Operating system edition Generic Product Key Windows Server 2025 Standard TVRH6-WHNXV-R9WG3-9XRFY-MY832 Windows Server 2025 Datacenter D764K-2NDRG-47T6Q-P8T8W-YP6DF Windows Server 2022 Standard VDYBN-27WPP-V4HQT-9VMD4-VMK7H Windows Server 2022 Datacenter WX4NM-KYWYW-QJJR4-XV3QB-6VM33 Windows Server 2019 Standard N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C Windows Server 2019 Datacenter WMDGN-G9PQG-XVVXX-R3X43-63DFG Windows Server 2019 Essentials WVDHN-86M7X-466P6-VHXV7-YY726 Windows Server 2016 Standard WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY Windows Server 2016 Datacenter CB7KF-BWN84-R7R2Y-793K2-8XDDG Windows Server 2016 Essentials JCKRF-N37P4-C2D82-9YXRT-4M63B Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter W3GGN-FT8W3-Y4M27-J84CP-Q3VJ9 Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials KNC87-3J2TX-XB4WP-VCPJV-M4FWM Windows Server 2012 Standard XC9B7-NBPP2-83J2H-RHMBY-92BT4 Windows Server 2012 Datacenter 48HP8-DN98B-MYWDG-T2DCC-8W83P Windows Server 2012 Essentials HTDQM-NBMMG-KGYDT-2DTKT-J2MPV Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard YC6KT-GKW9T-YTKYR-T4X34-R7VHC Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648

Which Windows Server edition to choose, Standard, Datacenter or essentials? What is the difference ? Windows Server Standard: It only allows 2 virtual machines (VMs). Best for small businesses or physical server deployments with low virtualization needs.

Windows Server Datacenter: it Provides unlimited virtual machines. Designed for large-scale virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, and high-security environments, such as cloud providers and enterprise data centers.

Windows Server Essentials: Windows Server 2019 Essentials is designed for small businesses with building in Client Access License (CAL) up to 25 users and 50 devices.

[govindhtech]

Red Hat Openshift Virtualization Unlocks APEX Cloud Platform

Dell APEX Cloud Platform

With flexible storage and integrated virtualization, you may achieve operational simplicity. In the quickly changing technological world of today, efficiency is hampered by complexity. The difficult task of overseeing complex systems, a variety of workloads, and the need to innovate while maintaining flawless operations falls on IT experts. Dell Technologies and Red Hat have developed robust new capabilities for Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat Openshift Virtualization that are assisting enterprises in streamlining their IT systems.

Openshift Virtualization

Utilize Integrated Virtualization to Simplify and Optimize

Many firms are reevaluating their virtualization strategy as the use of AI and containers picks up speed, along with upheavals in the virtualization industry. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which offers a contemporary platform for enterprises to operate, deploy, and manage new and current virtual machine workloads together with containers and AI/ML workloads, is now included by default in APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift. Operations are streamlined by having everything managed on a single platform.

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APEX Cloud Platform

Adaptable Infrastructure for All Tasks

Having the appropriate infrastructure to handle your workload needs is essential for a successful virtualization strategy. An increased selection of storage choices is now available with APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift to accommodate any performance demands and preferred footprint. Block storage is needed by the APEX Cloud Platform Foundation Software, which offers all of the interface with Red Hat Openshift Virtualization.

For clients that want a smaller footprint, Dell have added PowerStore and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation to the list of block storage choices available from PowerFlex. In order to avoid making redundant expenditures, customers may use the PowerStore and PowerFlex appliances that are already in place.

Customers may easily connect to any of Their business storage solutions for additional storage to meet their block, file, and object demands. This is particularly crucial for the increasing amount of AI workloads that need PowerScale and ObjectScale’s file and object support.

Support for a range of NVIDIA GPUs and Intel 5th Generation Xeon Processors further increases this versatility and improves performance for your most demanding applications.

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Continuity Throughout Your Red Hat OpenShift Estate

Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 and 4.16 support is now available in the APEX Cloud Platform, adding a new degree of uniformity to your Red Hat OpenShift estate along with features like CPU hot plug and the option to choose a single node for live migration to improve OpenShift Virtualization. This lessens the complexity often involved in maintaining numerous software versions, streamlining IT processes for increased productivity.

Red Hat Virtualization

Overview

Red Hat OpenShift includes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an integrated platform that gives enterprises a contemporary way to run and manage their virtual machine (VM) workloads, both new and old. The system makes it simple to move and maintain conventional virtual machines to a reliable, dependable, and all-inclusive hybrid cloud application platform.

By using the speed and ease of a cloud-native application platform, OpenShift Virtualization provides a way to modernize infrastructure while maintaining the investments made in virtualization and adhering to contemporary management practices.

What advantages does Red Hat OpenShift virtualization offer?

Simple transfer: The Migration Toolkit for Virtualization that comes with Red Hat Openshift Virtualization makes it easy to move virtual machines (VMs) from different hypervisors. Even VMs can be moved to the cloud. Red Hat Services offers mentor-based advice along the route, including the Virtualization move Assessment, if you need practical assistance with your move.

Reduce the time to manufacture: Simplify application delivery and infrastructure with a platform that facilitates self-service choices and CI/CD pipeline interfaces. Developers may accelerate time to market by building, testing, and deploying workloads more quickly using Red Hat Openshift Virtualization.

Utilize a single platform to handle everything: One platform for virtual machines (VMs), containers, and serverless applications is provided by OpenShift Virtualization, simplifying operations. As a consequence, you may use a shared, uniform set of well-known corporate tools to manage all workloads and standardize the deployment of infrastructure.

A route towards modernizing infrastructure: Red Hat Openshift Virtualization allows you to operate virtual machines (VMs) that have been migrated from other platforms, allowing you to maximize your virtualization investments while using cloud-native architectures, faster operations and administration, and innovative development methodologies.

How does Red Hat OpenShift virtualization operate?

Included with every OpenShift subscription is Red Hat Openshift Virtualization. The same way they would for a containerized application, it allows infrastructure architects to design and add virtualized apps to their projects using OperatorHub.

With the help of simple, free migration tools, virtual machines already running on other platforms may be moved to the OpenShift application platform. On the same Red Hat OpenShift nodes, the resultant virtual machines will operate alongside containers.

Update your approach to virtualization

Virtualization managers need to adjust as companies adopt containerized systems and embrace digital transformation. Teams may benefit from infrastructure that enables VMs and containers to be managed by the same set of tools, on a single, unified platform, using Red Hat Openshift Virtualization.

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[mythicalmagical-monkeyman]

Soooooo, we’re never done with bullying Cooper lol. But have some VM au @fruity-legos & @murkystarlight

under cut :3

Summary:

Four hundred meter dash goes horribly wrong, well at least mentally

Additional Tags:

I feel like we as a fandom don’t touch on his running themes enough. Track and Field. Cooper is Racer Boy fr. Running. Implied Lore. No beta we die like Cooper’s lungs. Cooper has issues. Hearing Voices

The single crack of gunshot fired up, breaking the stale air with the smell of smoke which triggered the gathered crowd into a fit of cheers as the six boys that had been waiting in a starters position took off down the strip of red track.   

Six different jersey colors that represented six different schools that enrolled one of each of the six boys that were all competing to be the first to complete the males Y 17 four hundred meter dash. Amongst these six boys was Cooper; number three, who was unfortunately only there because the coach had been short one kid to qualify for the track meet and surprising no one Cooper had been too nice to say no when the coach had asked him to join. So here he was; at some dingy track and field meet in New Jersey signed up to run the one hundred meter sprint, the four hundred meter run, and the fifteen hundred meter run when he should’ve— when he could’ve been elsewhere doing much more important things. 

He couldn’t change anything now; however, all he could do was run. 

Before the runners had even reached the hundred meter mark Cooper had already passed two of the other boys, leaving the green clad one in the dust and the one in orange struggling to make up for his lost place. All he had to do was pass three more people and he would take the lead. 

Cooper kept a steady pace for the next hundred meters or so, teasing the runner behind him slightly by staying just out of reach. A small wheezy chuckle wiggled its way out of Cooper’s mouth, maybe this wasn’t so bad after all it felt… freeing in a way being able to run without something chasing him. 

Of course it was just his luck that he would happen to think that at that moment. The images of nightmare creatures, horrible monsters crafted straight out of fear began to bubble up in his mind and started to cloud it. 

Cooper’s breath hitched and all in an instant whatever gratification he had begun to feel vanished as the runner behind him reached forward and gave a tug to the bottom of his jersey, yanking him back even if only by an inch. 

There were spikes of pain as Cooper tripped over his own feet and fell to his knees where he skidded to stop on them but he hardly noticed it nor the crowd letting out groans at his nasty spill. Too much was clouding his mind to notice most of the pain. 

A mix of anxiety and fear washed over him, rising up behind him like a shadow, a nightmare, and reaching long claws that wrapped around him, choking all rational sense out of him. As his breath and heart rate began to pick up, panic consuming him his instincts told him only one thing; run. 

Run, run, run. 

Run and don’t look back. 

Run and don’t let them catch you, don’t let him catch you! 

Run. 

Cooper launched himself to his feet, sprinting forward and surging past the runner in green that had just managed to get past him. 

He bolted past the runner in orange that had tripped him, and then passed the third placed runner in purple with ease. 

He ignored the coach as he yelled at him to watch his pace from the sidelines and kept running.

Maybe if he ran fast enough he could out run the voices. 

“Why don’t you believe me!? I’m telling the truth!” 

“Reckless boy, when will you learn?” 

“The hourglass is now your responsibility, do not lose it or the end of the dream world will be on your head,” 

“Listen Racer Boy, as soon as this is all over, we’re going our separate ways. No strings attached.” 

“I don’t do friends, never again.” 

“ You’re alone, you have no real friends. Logan wants revenge and Zoey wants to see the end of the Nightmare King, they’re both willing to use you to get what they want with no regards for what you claim to be friendship.” 

“Don’t act like you know me, you never did.” 

With every echoed voice Cooper gained more and more distance on the track, feet pounding against the gravel and sending up clouds of dust as he passed each of the other runners until he was finally in the lead. This left the pink clad runner who had been in first grasping at straws to try and regain the lead as they fell further and further behind. 

More voices hit as the finish line drew within arms length, each muttered word familiar and carrying a deadly blow with every sentence finished. 

His fault. His responsibility. Everything was his fault, if he had just been faster, been better! 

The finish line passed by under foot and a slightly confused but nevertheless enthusiastic cheer went up from the crowd but Cooper didn’t stop. He couldn’t stop, no he had to run. 

He had to keep running. He had to fix this, he was going to fix this, he could fix this! 

Cooper’s body collided with a loud thump as he ran right into the coach and came to a violent stop. 

The coach placed his hands on Cooper’s shoulders and pushed him back as the teen started to wriggle, to try and fight to get free. 

He had to run, he had to get out of there. 

“Woah, woah, woah Cooper calm down!” The coach exclaimed, still holding Cooper by the shoulders as he attempted to calm the teen down, “You’re alright, you won.” 

Cooper breathed in shakily as he looked around wildly like some sort of caged animal, where were the monsters? How had he gotten here? 

Panting Cooper managed to get out, “Coach?” 

The coach nodded carefully, and gestured behind Cooper towards the finish line, “You won kid, you don’t gotta run anymore.” 

Cooper turned and took in the finish line several feet back where three of the other runners were standing or crouching as they panted from their finished race and massaged their aching muscles. 

Slowly Cooper drew in another breath, his chest screaming as it pinched and clenched against his ribs. The breath came out much faster as Cooper wheezed it back out, the cool air mixing with his warm internals and dragging painfully against his throat.  

Coach smiled, releasing his hand from Cooper’s shoulder and placing it firmly against his back as the teen started to shake, well his legs definitely hadn’t liked sprinting that. 

Cooper looked back to the coach, a lost look in his eyes as he muttered, “No, I haven’t won anything. Not yet.” 

As the coach went on to ask curiously as to what Cooper had meant the teen glanced down at his bloody knees as a blood droplet dripped down onto one of his shoes. His red shoes. They matched perfectly with his scraped knees. 

Letting out a wheeze Cooper bent over placing his hand on his knees as his chest heaved painfully.  

Maybe… maybe it was time to stop running. 

[antinegationism]

found siikr today and saw the self-hosting instructions and i was wondering, how much disk/mem/bw is required to contribute meaningfully? i have a couple of small vms in the cloud, and plenty of compute i could set up on slow home net, but not sure if either of those setups is worthwhile.

Slow home net isn't ideal, but for vms in the cloud like 512MB of RAM and a puny virtual CPU should be sufficient.

The main thing is a persistent domain name and disk space. The more space the merrier.

[katiekatdragon27]

I was listening to "All Eyes on Me" and "Respectless" during a car ride and had an epiphany.

Progress shots and lore below cut:

OK OK BEFORE WE START THIS IS VERY HEADCANONED BASED.

Design choices and character motivations are very much based on my own hcs (such as Wizard being woman, Wizard being Ales's twin and having his hair as a result, the whole Rabiteen/Hopiteensy lore situation, Bad Rayman and Goth being homies, etc.) I love self-indulgence, what can I say?

Here is a synposis since ik most of you looooooooove my essays below my posts:

This AU takes place between Origins and Legends. Instead of Goth being the 4th player, it's Wizard (like in the concept art). She and Ales are the magician twins that Polokus talks about when pulling on his beard in Origins.

During Origins, Wizard and Ales are working together to harvest lum magic. However, the two of them are not that good at it. So, Ales has the brilliant idea to have Wizard hang out with Rayman and help convince him to help with lum collection. The game proceeds as normal, until they get to Moody Clouds.

While the build is falling apart, the Raygang, minus Wizard, fall to the groud bc of a magic spell Ales casted while they were all busting it down. They fall asleep in the random-ass tree they're found sleeping on in Legends and that's why they're all out of the plot. Wizard, fueled on anger and betrayal of her brother's evil plans, chases his ass onto the ship and stops it from hitting the giant lum ball. Ales thinks his sister is protecting him, but then gets socked in the gut and thrown in a cage. Wizard then hijacks the ship and returns to the port in Moody Clouds, leaving Ales in a dark basement under his office. She returns to the lum ball and considers letting all the lums go but goes back on that decision and decides to keep them.

By enhancing some of Ales's mechanics (all of it is fueled with lums) with her natural strong magic, she goes on a massive power high, capturing all the remaining yellow lums on her own. She then turns her attention to the blue lums.

The ones that are inside of people.

At first, she goes for objectively bad people. The baddies who beat up all the teensies in Teensies in Trouble and so on, but then goes for the bigger fish. The fish like Jano. And she wins. Kills his ass so fast. It's terrifying.

She then starts trying to get the Fairy Council in on her tech and lum magic usage. No one (especially Betilla) vibe with this, cuz they're too busy looking for Rayman or a replacement. She then shows of her Jano kill and everyone is utterly flabbergasted. All the teensies are onboard tho, so that's a win. They start doing public executions of bad nightmares and dreams. Then... it turns into executing people who dislike executions or people who just dislike Wizard in general.

(This is the point where she starts dressing like this. The orange is a ref to her old concept art and the purple with yellow is pieces of Jano's hat she turned into cloths. Also, the stick's not wood. It's actually very strong steel that is incredibly sharp.)

Fun times.

The fairies really don't vibe with any of this, especially Voodoo Mama and Betilla, but for different reasons. For VM, it's because her populations are in dwindling numbers at this point. For Betilla, it's because the lack of lums is stunting/destroying the growth of the Glade and is lowkey incapacitating Polokus. The two of them then come together to figure out a way to stop this girl. They decide to recruit two individuals, a young looking Rayman clone that Betilla remembers a certain dark magic user creating, and a little nightmare teensy who is a massive nerd when it comes to lums. Those being bad Rayman (Shadi) and Goth Teensy.

We love recruiting kids to kill grown ass baddies cuz the authority figures are all shit at figuring their own problems out.

Together, the two of them, plus some other figures like First King and Rabbiteen, go to fight this overpowered scary woman who could easily smite them if she wanted. Good luck soldiers🫡🫡

I have more, but I'm still working on the story not bc I'm lazy noooo neeeeeverrrr.

Anyways, have a lovely day :))