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I drew some wedding-themed profile pictures to match with my friend @ganen-cheese recently! We drew one set in traditional red and one set in modern white of WX blowing kisses at each other! Please see Cheese's half here where they've drawn a super cute WWX in red and a super handsome LWJ in white to match my set!!😘❤️ (The poses for these are based off of the /dote emote in FF14 for male Viera and male Lalafel respectively!)

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Ortho Info Compilation part 14: Idia(pt5) and Fairy Gala IF

Vil and Crewel invite Ortho to participate in Fairy Gala IF, and when they appear in Ignihyge Idia responds, “Danger, Ortho, danger! Run!”

Ortho explains that Idia was against his participation, but eventually conceded after being pleaded with enough.

When Ortho is met with the crisis of coming up with an original idea for the fashion show Ace recommends that he discuss the problem with Idia, but Ortho insists he wants to challenge himself: “I don’t want my brother to tell me what I should think.”

Ace responds, “Yeah, I had a feeling you’d say that.”

After coming up with his idea Ortho then refuses to confide in Idia, though Idia insists, “If the choice is between missing out on spring and putting Ortho in danger, I’d skip spring ever time. We can still call this off, you know.”

Idia panics during the show as well and when he insists that he has faith in Ortho (despite how he sounds), Crewel responds, “Then let’s hear some encouragement.” Idia follows with a quiet, “Your big bro knows you can do it.”

Interestingly, this “big bro” title (“Nii-chan” on JP) is the same word that original-Ortho would use to refer to Idia (while Idia programmed robot-Ortho to call him “Idia” on EN, “Nii-san” on JP). Both before and after Book 6, robot-Ortho uses “Nii-san,” so it is interesting that Idia himself introduces the “Nii-chan” tile into their dynamic.

Ortho is the driving force behind Fairy Gala, coming up with the idea of doing an illusion during the event that utilizes his projection mapping abilities and using the Fairy Queen as their volunteer (“Every living creature has lapses in judgement when they’re excited. It’s the perfect time to do something sneaky").

Silver, Jack and Ace all agree with Ortho’s plan, but Vil is unimpressed by Ortho’s runway walk, which he devises by replicating the motions of models in videos of past fashion shows.

Vil instructs Ortho to come up with something original and, when Ortho asks how, Vil refuses to answer. (“I want to hear YOUR thoughts on the matter. Don’t just parrot something you found online.”)

The problem becomes something of a crisis for Ortho, but Vil is unconcerned as a “rather thoughtful classmate” goes to his aid: Ace.

Ace gathers the rest of the first years (and Sebek invites himself), and their conversations inspire Ortho.

He struggles with understanding that humans require food and rest, but his interpretation of the gala theme of “evolution” is a great success with the fairies.

Jack accidentally compromises the illusion that enabled them to steal back the school’s magestone by sneezing and Ortho comes close to during off his technomatic beam in order for them to escape, but after Silver apologizes on the group’s behalf the fairy queen, too, apologizes for the theft of the stone, thanking Ortho specifically for his “stirring performance.”

She invites him to put on another show in the future and Ortho immediately agrees.

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Credit Suisse shares hit as investor fears reignite

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By Nick Edser

Business reporter

Credit Suisse’s share price has fallen by more than 10% and stocks markets have edged lower despite attempts to calm fears about a crisis in the banking sector.

The troubled Swiss lender had secured a £45bn lifeline from the country’s central bank.

However, after a brief rise, its shares are now tumbling while markets across the UK and Europe have turned negative.

Major US indexes fell, amid fears of more trouble.

On Thursday, a group of Wall Street giants injected $30bn (£24.8bn) into First Republic, a smaller domestic bank seen as at risk of failure following the collapse of two other mid-sized US banks in recent days.

The rescue by the group of 11 banks including JP Morgan and Citigroup had appeared to calm stock markets. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei share index closed 1.2% higher.

But shares in First Republic fell more than 15% on Friday after the bank said its was suspending its dividend – its payment to shareholders – “during this period of uncertainty”.

Stock markets in the UK, France and Germany all opened higher but have since fallen.

In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index fell by nearly 1%. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 indexes were also trading lower.

Meanwhile, a sell-off in Credit Suisse shares has gathered pace.

Shares in Credit Suisse sank earlier in the week on concerns over its future, before the Swiss National Bank said stepped in with emergency funds.

Credit Suisse has been troubled for a long time and continues to be loss-making.

Earlier this week, it rattled investors when it admitted that it had found “material weakness” in its financial reporting.

The issues at Credit Suisse coincided with the failure of two lenders in the US – Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank – raising fears over the health of the banking system.

US regulators stepped in at the weekend to ensure that customers at SVB and Signature Bank had full access to their money.

Days later, concerns emerged that San Francisco-based First Republic would be the next bank at risk of a rush of customers withdrawing their deposits.

It shares had sunk by nearly 70% over the last week.

The 11 US banks who announced the support said the action reflected their “confidence in the country’s banking system”.

US financial officials said the move was “most welcome, and demonstrates the resilience of the banking system”.

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Swetha Ramachandran, investment director at GAM Investments, said that recent events were “very different to 2008” during the financial crisis.

She said authorities were moving “proactively” to stem problems at banks.

“What they’re trying to do is really ringfence the specific issues around individual isolated banks to stop them from becoming systemic,” she told the BBC’s Today programme.

Central banks around the world have sharply raised borrowing costs over the past year to try to curb the pace of overall price rises, or inflation.

The moves have hurt the values of the large portfolios of bonds bought by banks when rates were lower, a change that contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and has raised questions about whether other firms are facing similar situation.

Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at US asset manager Payden and Regal, said other banks could be caught up in the problem.

“There could be other vulnerabilities… if central banks are intent on continuing to raise interest rates,” he told the BBC’s Today programme.

“Historically when that happens we do see fragility, we do see problems in the financial system.”

Before the turbulence in the banking sector erupted, both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England had been expected to raise interest rates further at meetings next week. However, due to recent events, some have speculated these rate rises might be scaled back or even scrapped.

On Thursday, the ECB announced a further increase to interest rates from 2.5% to 3%.

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Conquest: Epilogue - 1

Writer: Akira

Season: Spring

Proofreading: royalquintet (JP & ENG)

Translation: hyenahunt & haranami 

Nagisa: …I have still yet to become God, so all I’m able to do is sing and dance atop this stage and hope I bring even the smallest amount of happiness to everyone’s lives.

[Location: Conquest Stage]

Ibara: (At long last, the big day is finally upon us.)

(After the incident, Eve went on what can only be described as a rampage…)

(And, as per His Excellency’s orders, Adam carried out a vast array of jobs and a countless number of performances to keep up with them.)

(Consequently, His Excellency — who’s now gotten a taste for this “God Mode” or such — declared on TV that he would “expel” Jun and I as well if we didn’t obey him…)

(Amongst other inflammatory statements.)

(I was planning on following his every command, anyways; there was no need for him to resort to threats.)

(Although, I have devised a plan that would allow me to break away if worse came to worst…)

(But that will be much more difficult to execute now that he’s made such a grand, public declaration.)

(Aghhh, he’s so infuriating. What on earth is he planning? Why has he chosen to behave in such an unhinged manner—)

Nagisa: …Fufu. This is fun, Ibara.

…I was always jealous. To me, it seemed like you were the only one who got to do what you wanted.

Ibara: Saying that I was “the only one” doesn’t quite reflect reality.

Those ES idols have been following their every whim lately — Trickstar especially, although this can even apply to His Eminence Eichi now.

Nagisa: …Yes. What was it that they did… “Tempest Fest”? That looked like lots of fun as well.

…It seemed like a very important event to Eichi-kun, or perhaps the entirety of fine . So naturally, I wasn’t able to join at the last minute.

…Not even those who found the event pointless would enjoy watching someone ruin it with a smile on their face, after all.

Ibara: Yes, it’s exactly as you say.

In fact, I’m sure that the reason His Highness Hiyori was so enraged after hearing this plan was because he felt that his bond with you was being severed for the sake of mere entertainment.

It’s aaaall about feelings… Every last one of you just acts based on your feelings and nothing else! I, for one, am trying to actually work here.

Nagisa: …Yes. However, “work” and “torture” need not be synonymous; if we can enjoy the work we do, that is naturally preferable.

Ibara: If everyone started affirming and agreeing with that, this world would become one wherein no one would work if they didn’t feel like it, and the economy would collapse.

Modern society is but a castle of sand. It is only able to remain standing because we all devote our labor and money to it, distributing burdens amongst ourselves.

Nagisa: …That’s right. If only there were a God who’d be able to shoulder everything.

…I have still yet to become God, so all I’m able to do is sing and dance atop this stage and hope I bring even the smallest amount of happiness to everyone’s lives.

Nagisa: …I do not find that painful at all. On the contrary, it is a joy, and I am extremely fortunate to consider it so.

…Ever since I was a young child, completely ignorant of the ways of the world, that has always been how I’d understand and communicate with him.

Ibara: “Him”?

Oh, good ― you’re finally here.

Hiyori: ......

Jun: Heya. Sorry we wound up cutting it so close...

Ohii-san's been taking on a stupid amount of work, so he'd put off everything else and let it all pile up to the point it was getting crazy outta hand.

Hiyori: Hmph, I'll hold onto anything and everything as much as I please and whenever I please, thank you very much.

And if I can't, then it's your duty to carry it, Jun-kun, so basically the fact that we're starting late is on you.

Jun: Goddamn. Honestly, sometimes... it feels like you reached out to me all for the sake of getting me to lug your bags around.

Hiyori: Even if that were the case, the fact that you even caught my attention should be a reason to rejoice, no?

Hiyori: Be it a simple bag-carrier or anything else, I aspire to pick out only that which is beautiful and lovable.

Jun: (Mm~... As I thought, Ohii-san still seems to be in a bad mood.)

(He may be talking normally with me and all, but he won't even look in Adam's direction.)

(This is supposed to be the final performance of Conquest and he's still acting like this — it's really not looking good.)

(The plan was for Adam and Eve to stand side-by-side despite their apparent fallout, and sing all together as Eden—)

(As a grand finale where we reconcile with the power of song, or love, or something...? That's how the outline for this goes, anyway.)

(The only songs we've got prepared are four-person numbers, too.)

(So if he doesn't at least patch things back up before the start of the show, we're gonna have a real problem on our hands...)

Ibara: (—That’s likely what Jun is thinking at the moment.)

(After all, our fans online have decided to take baseless rumors as official information for some reason; they’re all rather riled up at the moment.)

(Adam and Eve will both strive to earn as much L$ as possible for the duration of this performance…)

(And the subunit who earns the most will gain the right to henceforth lead Eden.)

(Of course, we’d never make such a change in reality. We’re simply adjusting to how the general public is viewing this event.)

(Well, we could have simply declared the rumors false and ignored them completely.)

(But that would diminish the fans’ excitement; it would be a poor business strategy, and as such I’d prefer to avoid doing so.)

(There will be nothing to worry about if Adam ― if His Excellency ― wins. There would be no need to relinquish leadership.)

(But Eve got something of a head start, so it appears that they’ve got the edge over us, if only by a bit.)

(As such, there was another last-minute announcement.)

(We’ll have all the fans gathered here vote for either Adam or Eve, whoever they think gave a better performance.)

(The administration will be the ones to calculate the number of votes, so I can simply have them make up some figures arbitrarily in order to ensure Adam wins.)

(Adam and Eve are supposed to have a true confrontation here in order to reconcile, so this isn’t the smartest way to do things…)

(If the fact that we forged the numbers was found out, the public would lose all trust in us. There’s simply no other way, though ― I can’t think of any other feasible tactics.)

(This is but a necessary evil. That’s all it is.)

Hiyori: ......

Nagisa: ......

Ibara: (It appears that there’s still a rather frigid atmosphere between His Excellency and His Highness. I’m sure the audience will be able to believe this more than a forced reconciliation―)

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Meeting Emitsun!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ah. okay. It’s been awhile since the event so I have had some time to gather my thoughts, but honestly I’m still not over it.

First off, I’d like to say that I’m so glad I didn’t go through this alone and that I had a friend with me ^.^ Definitely made it a lot more fun (Thanks Lucy!)

On February 21, 2021 at 4am Eastern Standard Time I met Emitsun through a zoom call.

So here’s the set up:

Emitsun and her team at EmiRing◎ planned to have their annual bus tour around Nagano around this time, but because of the current circumstances, they wouldn’t be able to do it in person, so they thought of a way that they could still have fun and spend some time with everyone. Thus, we had a virtual bus tour. There were two types of tickets for the bus tour, just the regular viewing, and premium tickets. The premium tickets allowed for a one minute zoom call with Emitsun, and additional goods. There were only 90 of these premium tickets, and they would be given out through lottery.

At first, I wasn’t going to attend, but when I saw how affordable it was, I immediately tried to apply for the premium tickets.

This was the first event I ever applied for, and I remember freaking out with Lucy about whether or not we’d get chosen.

As luck would have it (or though Gushi san’s intervention) Lucy and I won premium tickets to get to speak with Emitsun!!!! Everyone who got a ticket was freaking out because…what are you going to say to her??? There’s so much and you only have one minute. Plus. Neither Lucy nor I were native Japanese speakers so we also had the double panic of not being able to converse properly from our lack of knowledge.

As the date drew closer our excitement and tension rose; We speculated what the event would be like, and what our experience meeting Emitsun would be. Spoiler alert: it was nothing like our expectations.

A week before the event, we got an email which dictated our position for the Zoom meeting. As fate (or Gushi san) would have it, Me and Lucy, the only two English speaking, western foreigners, would be the two last people that Emitsun would speak to in the Zoom call. I was 89, and Lucy was 90.

I was freaking out because two things, we’d be last so that means we’d be able to make an impression on Emitsun, also being last meant that I would have to stay up until 4am my time, and Lucy would be up all night until 9am her time.

Here’s the structure of the event:

the Bus Tour would start at 2pm JP time

the tour would last for around 2 hours, after that Emitsun would starting meeting with the premium ticket holders in the zoom link that was provided for us

Me and Lucy planned to sleep off as much as we can during the day so we’d be able to stay up all night. We also practiced speaking Japanese on zoom with a twitter mutual.

At first it was around 7pm my time and some of our online friends were playing Cards Against Humanity and it was a lot of fun ^.^ Afterwards, some said their goodbyes because they were normal human beings that knew the definition of sleep. Our friend Luka was kind enough to hang out with us while we waited for the event to start though, so we got to watch μ's First Live, cried over that, and just enjoyed hanging out together.

After this, the main bus tour event started, and we were all really hyped. Everyone on twitter was saying that it was time to board and ‘I’m on board!’ etc. It was a really fun atmosphere. Emitsun took us around her hometown and showed us a lot of really cool sights that I hope I’ll be able to visit in person some day. She then played a little katakana game with us, and as non-native Japanese speakers Lucy and I were so lost lol. I did manage to sort of get one question though! I was ridiculously proud of that.

After the bus tour ended, the long wait began.

The tension was palpable, and our hearts started racing as one by one, people started entering the zoom link. There was this sort of silence as we waited for the first few people to finish, and eagerly waited their stories so we would have some idea of what to expect as well.

After the first few people finished, it was like a floodgate had opened; emotions were overflowing and it became hard to discern what was happening. Twitter was a whirlwind of emotions; wanting to cry, shaking from anxiety, excitement for the awaited moment.

Everyone who came out of the zoom link were overwhelmed with Emitsun’s kindness and how cute she was speaking with each and every one of them. There was a bell that signalled the end of the one minute, but Emitsun would take the time to finish speaking with them properly, and it made every one of them feel special.

Cue me and Lucy freaking out because at the this point, we still had 2 hours to go.

We started hyping ourselves up, as well as trying to control our nerves. We both got dressed and started getting ready for our turn.

We both had things that we wanted to say to Emitsun written down, things we’ve thought of for the past few years, and finally we’d have the chance for these thoughts to reach her.

As the time drew nearer, Lucy and I fell into this silence as we waited. We provided a good balance, I think; I was fairly calm and Lucy was very energetic. I’m really grateful I had someone to bounce off of while we waited, I don’t think it would have been nearly as reassuring as if I had done it on my own.

When our time came, we entered the zoom link together, and patiently waited for the host to let us in. My turn was first, and when my screen changed to the meeting room, I could hear Lucy scream in the other call, and I could swear my heart stopped beating.

Being able to talk to Emitsun was a surreal experience. She was really kind and really patient while listening to me speak. She wrote down the names of every person she spoke with on a name tag to help simulate the bus tour which I thought was a really cute touch. I told her that I was participating from Canada and that it was 4am and she was really surprised. She said that she was grateful to have this opportunity to meet, even in this situation. She had a really friendly and calm aura to her, and in a different situation I knew that she’d be a person I could get along with and listen to for ages. 

My minute was quickly over. I took a deep breath and wished Lucy best of luck in my head.

After Lucy’s turn, the two of us could barely breathe, and although we hadn’t slept in almost 18 hours it was the most energy we’ve ever felt. 

From the very beginning: freaking out over getting tickets, planning out what to do, having fun while we waited and that special moment meeting Emitsun; All of those things together was such an awesome experience that I wouldn’t trade for the world. I can’t wait for the day that I will hopefully be able to participate in an event live and get to tell Emitsun in person how much I appreciate her and her music. 

OMAKE:

March 2, 2021

Apparently Lucy and I made an impact on Emitsun as well!!! On the 79th episode of Tsunraji, her main radio show, she mentioned the two of us!!! Not by name of course, but she said that a Canadian and a British person were able to participate and that she was amazed by it. Cue Ash and Lucy being uncontrollable messes....again

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24th September Block 1 20:00 – Opening 21:00 – Xbox Tokyo Game Show Showcase 2020 (YouTube) – The Xbox Tokyo Game Show Showcase is a place where everyone can have fun. 22:00 – Square Enix (YouTube) 23:00 – Lightning Games (YouTube) – Three brand new indie titles presented by Lightning Games: Hardcore Mecha, HAAK, and ANNO: Mutationem. Don’t miss out on the freshest game development story and latest gameplay demonstration!

25th September Block 1 11:00 – Organizer’s Program 12:00 – Gamera Game Now! Tokyo Game Show Special (YouTube) – Debuting to the world from China! Delivering interesting and innovative indie games. Check out the latest releases from Gamera Game. 13:00 – Huawei Technologies Japan App Gallery (YouTube) 14:00 – Renaissance High School Group (YouTube) – Renaissance High School Group eSports course introduces our activities in eSports as a high school such as the significance of learning eSports for high school students, and the daily lives of eSports courses’ students. In this program, our students will have a talk with “Tanukana” and play an exhibition match with “Dogura,” both are professional eSports players at CYCLOPS athlete gaming. In addition, we will announce new initiatives of promoting eSports in the junior and senior high school age groups. 15:00 – SoftBank (YouTube) 16:00 – Lilith Games: AFK Arena x Rise of Kingdoms TGS Special Official Live Stream (YouTube) – Lillith Games will introduce AFK Arena, Rise of Kingdoms, and the latest game information! 17:00 – BenQ Japan: New Brand Presentation (YouTube) – BenQ, the leading global display brand, will debut a new gaming product series at the show! 18:00 – DMM Games New Title Presentation (YouTube) – We will be announcing a lot of game title information which will release from DMM Games, as well as a lot of brand new announcements coming during Tokyo Game Show Online! 19:00 – Keynote 20:00 – Sega / Atlus TV (YouTube) – Check out Sega / Atlus’ lineup featuring existing and upcoming titles releasing this fall. Don’t miss the special Sega 60th anniversary event and other live stream broadcasts featuring various guest personalities as we bring you the latest information, including an overview of our Tokyo Game Show exhibit! 21:00 – GungHo Online Entertainment Tokyo Game Show Official Live Stream (YouTube) 22:00 – Capcom Special Program (YouTube) – Watch out for the Capcom Special Program, to be live streamed as part of TGS 2020 Online! Reveals and latest game updates are planned for titles such as Resident Evil Village and more! 23:00 – Mouse Computer (YouTube) 24:00 – Efun New Title Information Live Stream (YouTube) – The latest information on Illusion Connect, Stella Chronicle, and two games expected to be launched next year by Efun. 25:00 – Fujitsu Connected Technologies (YouTube) – An eSports variety program delievered using arrows 5G mobile technology.

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IAS Coaching in Bhopal

The post Top IAS Coaching in Bhopal was prepared by my Research team in response to the increasing number of students seeking Professional Training in order to pass the UPSC test with the greatest possible score. Any student can gain an advantage over their classmates by enrolling in the Best IAS Coaching in Bhopal, and enrolling in the IAS Coaching in Bhopal is also beneficial.

List of Top IAS Coaching Centers in Bhopal #1 UPSC Online Coaching - The Prayas India Rank – 1 Unique IAS Study Circle Rank – 2 The Administrator Academy Rank – 3 Excellence IAS Rank – 4 Student’s Point Rank – 5 KSG India Rank – 6 Civil Services Club Rank – 7 Dhyeya IAS Rank – 8 JP Institute Rank – 9 Ambitions Institute Rank – 10 Kautilya Academy

What is the best way for an IAS officer to prepare for the Civil Services exam? Where the actual answer to 'how to become an IAS officer in India' begins is in the preparation process! It normally takes 8-12 months to prepare for the Civil Services exam. To prepare for the entire curriculum in a holistic manner, you should begin around a year in advance. Some basic steps to take in order to prepare for the Civil Services exam are listed below.

Step 1: Become well-versed in all aspects of the exam It is crucial that you be familiar with both the UPSC examination style and the exam curriculum. Keep a copy of the syllabus on your desk at all times so you can evaluate the importance of any topic from the standpoint of an exam. As a result, you must have the curriculum planned out in your mind in order to be effective in your preparation. After that, look at a few papers from previous years to get a feel for how the questions are framed.

Step 2: Begin by constructing a firm foundation You must begin with a firm foundation if you want to offer your preparation a robust structure. As a result, start with the basics. NCERTs are an important and basic source of information that will introduce you to the subjects you will need to study in depth for UPSC preparation. As a result, take advantage of the NCERTs to get a good start in your UPSC preparation!

Step 3: Read a variety of books "What are the standard books for UPSC preparation?" may be the first query that comes to mind. As a result, standard books are works that must be studied in their entirety for a certain subject. The standard texts for UPSC are listed in this linked article. Go through it and locate all of the key books before starting to read them. A list of NCERT books that may be downloaded for free from the NCERT website is also included in the post.

Step 4: Get a Glimpse of What's Going On Right Now Every year, the Prelims exam includes direct questions based on current events. As a result, reading current affairs from the previous 12 to 18 months is crucial for UPSC. You can either enroll in a current affairs course, which will surely help you swiftly gather important information, or you can read newspapers and publications to keep up with it. See this article on the importance of current events in the UPSC exam for more information.

Step 5: Practice with mock tests and writing answers Mock tests and answer writing are the two most important aspects of UPSC preparation. You won't be able to conclude your UPSC preparation without them! While a mock test can help you evaluate your preparation and highlight areas where you need to improve, answer-writing practice can help you enhance your writing abilities and refine your approach to answering questions. As a result, make sure to plan for both of them.

Step 6: Revision Revision is also a crucial part of UPSC preparation. For concept retention, it is necessary to revise what you've learnt several times. We have a propensity to forget dates and events in General Studies, thus it is necessary to study it numerous times to solidify those concepts in your mind.

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Wei Ying...

[jptechnologies]

Build Effective Relationships for Successful Networking for Business

Build Effective Relationships for Successful Networking for Business

It's not difficult to apply on the web, yet your odds of achievement are shockingly low when you open a new window. The normal corporate occupation gets 250 resume applications, and just presenting your resume on a task load up for bosses to see expands that opposition by in excess of multiple times. While applying to online occupation promotions may in any case be an important piece of a pursuit of employment, more individuals are depending on a systems administration intend to improve their chances. 

As per a 2016 overview opened in the new window, 85 percent of all positions are found through systems administration. Building up a systems administration plan is a demonstrated, powerful approach to get a new line of work, however to improve your odds of getting a new line of work that is a solid match for you. Furthermore, a decent systems administration plan includes constructing and sustaining connections that can keep going for quite a long time and advantage the two players. Systems administration likewise improves your social abilities and lifts certainty, making you a superior all-around applicant.

Before you begin searching for individuals to coordinate with, you need to decide your objectives. Attempting to get another line of work is a decent beginning stage, however it shouldn't be the lone objective. A decent systems administration plan can assist you with building up your specialized abilities, improve your capacity to impart, make associations with possible clients or customers, assemble your standing inside your field, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. By knowing the ideal results for your systems administration plan, you'll have the option to guide discussions successfully and set up gatherings with the ideal individuals. 

Systems administration isn't just about you. Truth be told, quite possibly the most amazing assets in an organizer's weapons store is liberality. In the event that you treat everybody as significant and do what you can to help them, you'll begin to construct genuine associations and connections that can take care of later. 

All things considered, it's critical to realize where to put your core interest. Figure out who in your industry is well on the way to be in a situation to help you arrive at your objectives — at that point focus on, build up, and sustain those connections. 

Notwithstanding having an in general systems administration plan, it's critical to do some arranging before each systems administration meeting. In case you will have espresso with a significant contact the following day, invest energy contemplating discussion subjects, questions you need to ask, or ways you can help the other individual. Exploration whether the individual knows anybody you need to interface with and get ready to request a presentation. Comprehend the worth you bring to the table and discussion about it. All things considered, successful systems administration is tied in with aiding others so they'll help you later; make a convincing explanation behind them to keep in contact with you.

There are various systems administration occasions in each field, and they arrive in a wide range of organizations. You should seriously think about discovering meetings or shows that are famous among individuals in your field, going to talks, or finding easygoing get-togethers, for example, upbeat hours or test evenings where you'll run into individuals you need to meet. Web-based media is a decent asset here, and there are various online apparatuses for finding organizing occasions, for example, Meetup and Eventbrite. 

Likewise with your systems administration plan, getting ready and defining objectives in advance can be important. On the off chance that you understand what you desire to achieve at a systems administration occasion, you'll be better prepared to accomplish it. It's regularly better if your objective isn't to "get a new line of work." Networking occasions are incredible spots to acquire new abilities and make new associations, and a few occasions can be acceptable approaches to mess around with expected contacts in a setting that is less formal than a prospective employee meeting. 

You can get a ton of mileage out of facilitating your own systems administration occasion. In addition to the fact that you decide who to welcome, yet being the host likewise positions you as a pioneer inside your expert local area and an individual who coordinates occasions to help peers. On the off chance that the occasion goes well overall, it very well may be a gigantic lift to your standing inside the business. 

On the off chance that you decide to have a systems administration occasion, make it advantageous to join in. Pick a setting that is not difficult to access, and make enrollment effortless. Giving a valiant effort to meet every one of your visitors and guaranteeing they get an incentive out of the occasion can go far toward making it (and you) a triumph.

Association can be valuable when you're ordering your systems administration plan. Isolating contacts into a two-level framework can assist you with focusing on gatherings and taking advantage of them. These levels don't mean the estimation of the contacts, but instead an understanding into how great your possibilities are at this moment. Level one contacts are acceptable possibilities you know genuinely well, individuals on whom you can depend for references and proposals. Level two contacts, then again, are as yet being developed; they might be similarly as significant in the long haul, however will require greater speculation to arrive at where you're happy with asking them for help. 

When meeting or connecting with contacts, recall that liberality is amazing. Start by attempting to sort out how you can help them. At the point when it comes time to ask a contact for some help, ensure it isn't troublesome. It should be an undertaking the individual can finish moderately effectively, without an excessive amount of bother and without being placed in an abnormal position. At first, outlining gatherings concerning exhortation or certainty finding can be an extraordinary method to build up compatibility. 

At last, consistently plan a development or something to that effect. Ensure you both leave understanding what the following stage is and when you'll meet once more. One of the keys to building up a solid systems administration plan is understanding that systems administration won't ever stop.

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[themclisseconnection]

CHRISTMASaya with McLisse!

Who’s gonna have a super duper happy Christmas? Us!!!!!

C- ontinuation...

Boys & Gals, remember when Kuya effortlessly dragged us back home to his house again early this year? Ohnoes. Our dark circles came back and trip to ubusan ng load started all over again but come on, no one would dare say that their comeback was pointless. LET's GO DREAM TEAM, LET's GO! Nostalgic, isn't it? We thought we're already done with reality TV stuff but when McCoy and Elisse returned inside Kuya's house, kirehan officially resumed and they got everyone singing O Pag-ibig again.

Everything felt familiar as if they never left.  Kuya aka Manager must've missed them big time like how most viewers did. 2017 welcomed us with a lot of pivotal points, major revelations and memorable moments. M-C-E-J-D, Cheerdance task, McCoy's birthday, Titig ng Pag-ibig, Kim x Alec, Disneyland adventure, workshops, breakdowns and of course, THE LONG & TIGHT HUG. Yes, McLisse, you know we won't be able to forget these moments until we're 85, right? The months have passed by so quickly, can you believe we're almost done with 2017? Elisse's birthday is just around the corner but here we are still squealing about the blindfolded big PINK bear!

H - anep! KINAYA.

So, we got the Tuloy Pa Rin TVC Part 2. We also got the FULL version of the hit jingle, Tuloy Pa Rin. Waaaaaaah! Crazy, right? The McSpicy TVC last year was just an ice breaker. A bonggang appetizer. McDo gave us the sequel we've imagined and it came straight to us without any warning.

Kaya niya, Kaya mo. The slogan was too powerful to be overlooked. #Relate Kinaya nila, kinaya natin!

R - ecording artists!

HOT & FRESH. The McLisse Album is still a hot topic these days. Have you ever find yourself staring at the ceiling, thinking deeply about how lucky Mc & Lisse are for recording an album they can fully call their own? As in... MCLISSE Album. Loveteams don't usually appear in album covers unless it's for a soundtrack album but there goes McLisse, making waves through an album that is headlined by the two of them.

Thank you Star Music. Thank you isn't enough, really. McLisse album is really one of the FIRSTs that we will never ever forget. Christmas is here, you better wrap an album for a friend and save a lonely heart this season!

I - SANG TAON NG PAGMAMAHALAN.

IT. HAPPENED. THIS. YEAR. Will we ever get over our first year anniversary? No, never. The color Red triggers a lot of priceless memories and one of them is the McLisse Royal Gathering that still gives chills to us whenever we see photos and videos from the said event. Everything that happened during that one magical night definitely found a special place in our hearts.

The event became a “part” of us that haters can't take away. It will always be a favorite song that we will never ever get tired of repeating. It's the part of the movie that we will always appreciate, pause and rewind. It will always be that part of the book that will remind us of our favorite persons in the world, not McCoy and Elisse but... Marc Carlos and Maria Chriselle.

S - weet Somethings!

The Lord continues to make us all humble and here we are, not realizing that humility have already become our second nature. He is guiding us to the right path. Hard work can bring success but what truly makes you a successful person is your undying faith in Him if the going gets hard. 

McLisse got the Most Promising Loveteam Award this year, PEP also awarded them as Breakout Stars and they also got other special awards that were enough to get us all clapping instead of bragging. McCoy and Elisse also starred on their first ever MMK. McCoy landed a lead role on the hit indie film Instalado. McLisse also got a Mangaserye: Vloggergirl Problems which is a certified best-seller. Both of them also got new endorsement deals this year.

Blue Roses took the spotlight away from the usual and cliché, Red roses. Sunflowers found the loveliest sunshine of all as McLisse found them. The fanmily will not forget how McCoy & Team McLisse showered the whole activity area with Red Balloons. It was another OMG moment, proving to be one of the most unkabogable ball proposals of 2017. Of course, McCoy and Elisse attended the annual Star Magic Ball together with genuine smiles not only in their faces, but also in their hearts.

Squeaaaaaaaaaaal! Star Cinema Awards also awarded MCLISSE as Ultimate Loveteam of the Year.

Wow! What a year! This is the fruit of all our hard work, fam! We stayed faithful. Everyone remained focused on the goal which was to win the award we've all been dying to have. Remember those trying times? Those gloomy days had to come for us to be more motivated and divert our attention in voting instead of weeping. Hands down to Team Puyat and online committee for leading the SCA voting party up to the last minute. This is just the beginning, fam. The “ultimate” adventure is just about to start for a better & stronger McLisse fandom!

T - he Good Son

Obet and Sabina. The Good Son is getting more exciting just like BetIna's storyline! We genuinely...... like it!

Guys, Kapit lang. We won't deny that we tune in to get more kilig scenes. We already ate a lot of hopias several times but we're still holding on to our faith that one day, moreee kilig scenes will come for us! Obet and Sabina are getting closer now. We can feel that the attraction is there, the connection is there and we know that a good storytelling is the only thing that can keep this OTP alive. So, cheer up! Eventually, the murder case will be solved and all the OTPs will get the endings they deserve, that for sure.

M - aking MEGA in Turkey!!!

TurKeyLig. Now, that's one for the the books. Can you believe it? McLisse's unforgettable trip to Turkey also happened this year! Oh wow, this fact still shakes us every now and then. Our hearts still jump everytime we stare at their lovely photos in the pages of MEGA magazine. We still get our cheeks flushed everytime we watch their romantic documentary.

McLisse fanmily have worked hard to turn this dream into reality. McCoy and Elisse have worked hard to make reality seem like a beautiful dream-- making every moment count, making everything magical and surreal to the point that we find ourselves wanting to slap our faces to convince us that reality is here and it is what you made it and for continuously living the most realistic dream of all--- achieving great things with the fandom.

A - ng Panday

Haneeeep! From JP x Lorraine to Caloy x Rowena! Thank you Ninong Coco! This is another milestone for McLisse. Ang Panday is their very film together as a pair and it made the cut! It is one of the MMFF entries that will grace our cinemas this Christmas season! Are we ready to see the Kiligan (Tatak McLisse) on the BIG screen? BIG, literally. Just the thought of seeing them together acting with Primetime King, Coco Martin makes us all hyped up!

Fam! The MMFF entries this year are all promising. Let's support our movie industry and spread nice words through our social media accounts. Ang Panday takes on a modern twist that millenials should appreciate and learn from. Of course, Ang Panday is the first film on our list!!! Good luck to all MFFF films!

S - olo MOVIE......... SOON!

How soon is SOON? Uhmm..... 2018!

OMAAAYGAAAAAAAAD. IS THIS FOR REAL? MCLISSE WILL FINALLY HAVE A SOLO MOVIE TOGETHER? THEY WILL TAKE ON LEAD ROLES, THEY WILL SHOOT FOR IT SOON AND WE'LL GET CRAY CRAY AGAIN.

Last December 7, (yeppp, don't you just love it when McLisse blessings drop on the 7th of the month, because yeah..... monthsary!) Film director, JP Habac posted something on his twitter account and the next thing we knew, we were thanking all the gods and heavens for a new blessing.

A NEW MOVIE. #McLisse sa 2018.

Have you watched JP Habac's “I'm Drunk, I Love You”? Well, if you haven't, then you better do! AS IN, PLEASE GIVE IT A TRY. McCoy and Elisse, or should we say Pol and Laya will take on a new love story and this is going to be a major breakthrough for them. Yep, claiming it because we believe in them. We know  that they'll work harder to make movie goers fall for their new characters , for the story and fall for their natural chemistry.

Are we ready? No? We must be ready but how can you be ready for something that will surely get your knees weak because you know deep inside that kilig is coming? Okay, let's save our energy for next year. Let's celebrate, fam! We are so grateful for this new opportunity. Thank you to all the producers, production team and big bosses who chose to take a chance on them! TT _ TT

2018, Here comes McLisse. U READY?

MERRY CHRISTMAS, McLisse fanmily! Let's celebrate this special season with our family, friends and all the other people who are dear to us. Let's all give thanks to Him for showering us with blessings may it be in our personal lives or for our fandom. Thank you McCoy & Elisse for holding on so tight! LabLab FTW! Loves, ang saraaaaap sa feeling!!!! Kinaya natin. We always got your back, no matter what! 2017 has been amazing to us. We've learned from all the ups and downs and pulled ourselves together so that we could all get back on track and now, we're better than ever. See the smiles in our faces? :) We will surely welcome new year with a bang!!! Happy days ahead!!!

(Pics not mine. ctto:)

[magicaleggplant]

Hello eggplant! If you could give one skating-related thing to Shoma that Yuzuru has and one skating-related thing that Shoma posseses to Yuzuru, that would be...?

lol, i’d give yuzuru’s jump technique to shoma, that much is obvious. as for the other way around...shoma’s posture to yuzuru, maybe. (this is assuming that they still get to keep those qualities as well)

do you use/like goldenskate?

i go to GS and FSU for info sometimes but i don’t post. they’re pretty good for news. and well, any gathering of fans has its pros and cons.

could you explain how skater affiliation in japan works? i understand most skaters are a part of a team from a university but how is it that others (like yuzuru and now shoma) represent corporate sponsors instead? sorry if you answered this question before but i can't seem to find any details about this online n english.

i don’t know too many details about it myself, but it’s basically what you said - japanese skaters can represent either their school, skating club, or sponsor at domestic events like nationals. until recently, shoma represented his skating club or school, and now he represents toyota. it’s something that skaters who have sponsors have to work out with their sponsors, i guess. most of them don’t have sponsors, so they just represent their school or club. mao had a ton of sponsors, but she chose to represent chukyo university instead, to avoid conflict. in the USA, skaters all represent their skating club at nationals, and in russia and canada, they represent their city or region.

jp nats is going to be a bloodbath i'm starting to like marin but i love satton and mai ;v;

i’m just...not gonna think about nats until it arrives...it’s gonna suck. there are too many skaters i like :(

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Precious Hearts Romances held its media and authors gathering in its headquarters in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 30, 2019. Hosted by JP Bertiz, the event introduced authors Sofia, Rose Tan, Luna King, Princess Cordova, Jian, XavierJohnFord, MsButterfly,C.D. de Guzman and Lush Ericson to invited publications including Conan Daily.

After the press conference, more authors including Sonia Francesca, Dawn Igloria, Maricar Dizon, Spring Mendez, Cady Lorenzana, Cranberry Laurel, Jessa Audrey participated in the Grand Fans Day ceremony with the theme “Dito ka masaya!” (This is where you are happy!) During the event, 32 new pocketbooks were released PHR, which include two books by C.D. de Guzman:

  Title: “TOG 5: Smart Tactless Fangirl”

Author: C.D. de Guzman

Plot:

Nagpunta si Pamela sa Cebu para bawiin ang lupang minana ng ina. Pero nalaman niyang naibenta na pala iyon ng mga kamag-anak nila—kay River Avilla, ang sikat na car racer na hinahangaan ni Pamela. Pero may mga kondisyones si River bago ibalik ang lupa—kailangan daw niyang mamasukan munang maid dito. Pumayag si Pamela.

Pero mahirap palang makasama sa iisang bubong ang taong hinahangaan nang sobra-sobra. Masyadong malapit sa tukso. At natukso si Pamela. Pero napaso rin agad siya nang matuklasang kaya nagpapakaermitanyo si River sa tagong bayan ng Cebu ay dahil hindi pa pala ito nakaka-move on sa dating pag-ibig na kasal na sa ibang lalaki.

Title: “The Friendly Wedding”

Author: C.D. de Guzman

Plot:

Sapphire, a certified “man-hater” is on a quest for a groom na puwede niyang maging asawa sa loob ng isang taon. Iyon lang ang paraan para makuha ang parte ng kanyang mana mula sa yumaong lola. Si Johann Anderson ang susi sa lahat—anak-mayaman, pogi, may takot sa Diyos, at punong-puno ng sense of humor. Pero walang abs! Brokenhearted din ito. Okay, she was safe. Hindi siya mai-in love kay Johann. Pero bakit nang kasal na sila at nakatira sa iisang bahay, feeling ni Sapphire lagi siya nitong inaakit? Akala ba niya, brokenhearted?

Nagpapaka-friendly lang daw, depensa ni Johann. Saan banda ang friendly doon, kung lagi itong palakad-lakad sa bahay nang naka-topless?

  If you believe that you can be part of something bigger, or aspire to be the next best-selling Filipino romance author in the country, you can send your manuscript through email at ed2rialstaff@gmail.com. From here on, PHR guarantees that readers can only look forward to more good stories from their homegrown writers and online writers.

Meanwhile, here is a clip featuring de Guzman:

  Precious Hearts Romances pocketbooks: CD De Guzman’s ‘TOG 5: Smart Tactless Fangirl,’ ‘The Friendly Wedding’ Precious Hearts Romances held its media and authors gathering in its headquarters in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 30, 2019.

[bralef]

A lot happened this year at PortConMaine - mostly in the form of tabletop RPGs - so I decided to write all about them. This is basically just going to be a huge wall of text of me gushing about the fun I had doing tabletop RPGs for half a week.

Thursday was kind of a weak start. My uncle surprised me by taking me to the new Transformers movie. I appreciate the gesture, but it was not only terrible, but it made me late to PortCon. I’d have rather watched Wonder Woman again. As a result, I missed the DnD 5e session I was planning on attending, so I went with some Star Wars session instead. I played a Wookie Technician. Nothing particularly amazing or awesome happened, but it was fun and funny enough, I suppose. Then I played some weird Spy/Word-guessing game that takes way too long to understand. Me and the guy I teamed up with won both rounds. Finally, I played a few rounds of Lupinball, some (free?) game on Steam. One of those deceptively simple lightning-fast multiplayer games. It's pretty fun.

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Friday was great, exactly what I'd expect out of a good day at Portcon. I participated in three sessions, and will cover them in order from least exciting to most.

In between two better sessions was a Pathfinder campaign where we explored some haunted house. It only took a couple hours (I think that DM preferred multiple quick adventures rather than one big one) and ultimately was pretty boring. I played a half-orc Inquisitor. Nothing really noteworthy happened.

The last session I did was a DnD 5e session called the Sunless Citadel. I was a Dwarven Barbarian who I named Beerbeard McBeardbeer after a character in a long-term campaign I'm in (though I didn't roleplay him very similarly). What we were supposed to do was help these Kobolds rescue their baby god or something.

What ended up happening was, we convinced them to let us use their key to open some big important door. Someone touched a magic orb that forced everyone to make a Wisdom save or be feared, forcing them to run right into a pit (where they would take 1d6 fall damage, or half on a successful save). Beerbeard and one other party member passed immediately. The others, including the Kobold holding the key, all ran into the pit and took damage (keeping in mind this is Level 1 where the median health of everyone is like 9). One of them re-entered the room and passed his save that time. The other two kept running back into the room, failing the save, and chucking themselves into the pit again (Beerbeard watched). One of them, at one point, decided to kill the kobold (who had been knocked unconscious by the fall) and steal the key...for some reason. Finally we all made it past the Orb of Confusion and into the next room.

The next room was simply a riddle where the answer was “stars.” Nothing exciting there. The next two rooms were separated by a spiky pit. Our monk made it across and promptly got fucking manhandled by an imp. So, one of our other dudes jumps across. Beerbeard tried to join them, failed the check, and took 9 piercing damage (out of his 16 health). Another party member failed too, only she was way squisher so she immediately went down.

Beerbeard managed to carry the downed party member out of the pit...Right as the imp went invisible. Fuuuuuck. The next several turns consisted of us swinging at nothing and attempting to find the imp, who eventually went across the pit to fight our remaining party member who hadn't jumped across. He eventually managed to slay it, and we were left with a coffin that we were all pretty certain contained a boss. We were beaten to shit, our healer was out of spell slots, and two of us were at 1 HP, but we had already expended all of our (read: one) hit dice. There was nothing to do but try fighting the troll.

It killed us all.

The second session I played was a contender for the best one I played all week. I believe it was Shadowrun, or at least took place in the same universe/system, but was some kind of sequel or successor to it. One thing I really dug about the system is how on-the-fly and improvised everything is, even among tabletops. For example, once per session every player gets to declare a contact. It can be as specific and on-the-nose as you want. For example, if the party's mission is to infiltrate some facility, you can go, say, “Oh, a buddy of mine worked as a security guard there once, he might be able to hook us up with some floor plans or something.” Stuff like that. In addition to whatever explicit equipment you have, certain events or actions will give you “Intel” or “Gear,” which basically works in a similar manner. With gear, if you're in a tight spot, you can say “Oh, that gear I picked up earlier? That was a grappling hook. I'm going to use it to scale the building and get away.”

Anyway, I played an Adept, which is sort of like a cyberpunk monk. A cybermonk, if you will. (I didn't steal that from you JP, I thought it up too but let you say it since I was on a phone and figured you'd pick up on it without my input). Taking inspiration from the recommended suggestions for my character, I made him a wrestler named Red Rooster. “He sounds like a luchador.” ...Well, I did make him hispanic, so yeah, that works! One of my party members was a huge fan of Red Rooster, and another party member, who was a hacker, used Red Rooster’s mask as his online hacking avatar.

We were also told to create fictional facilities in the universe that would be relevant to the session. I came up with Koala Tea, a restaurant chain. I decided that Red Rooster is basically their mascot, and thus all of his moves are named after items from their menu.

We were tasked with stopping a facility from releasing a mind-control potion onto the market. We decided to do this by blowing up their manufacturing facility. Along with Red Rooster (real name Carlito Diez), we had Tuck, a human hacker; Dominic, a shaman who was capable of communing with the spirit world and its inhabitants; and Devontus Grimlore, a troll-kin hired killer who preferred brute force. In our backstory, Devontus once broke into a Koala Tea establishment and, very publically and conspicuously, removed an official's mechanical endoskeleton from his body. Forcefully. This resulted in a huge brawl between him and Red Rooster, that evidently resulted in them becoming friends.

Dominic declared his contact: Siri, spirit of smart phones and information. She gave him a general map of the building and allowed him to open a window of opportunity for us to infiltrate. Unfortunately this also garnered the attention of Clippy, an obnoxious spirit who constantly annoys Dominic and suggests inappropriate solutions to problems.

We entered the facility using automated trucks that Tuck had hacked into. When we got in, we opened the doors, and Red Rooster blasted into the room on his flashy motorcycle while Devontus pulled out a piece of gear he had gathered earlier: A minigun.

Devontus is gunning down machines and personnel alike, while Red Rooster holds off the guards by driving his motorcycle into them and leaping off with a Koala Slider™ Tackle. Shrapnel from a stray gunshot cost Red Rooster one of his eyes, and Devontus gets his arm caught in some industrial machinery (he's a troll, he'll be fine). I realized that he was the only one who hadn't used his contact yet, so I decided a particular guard looked very familiar, even without his signature mask on...Red Rooster's rival, former mascot of Kangaroo Coffee...Blue Bull.

“What are you doing here, Blue Bull?! Dressed in that uniform and using a gun, guarding such a dishonorable facility! What happened to you?”

“YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHAT'S DISHONORABLE FOR ME RED ROOSTER RAAAAAAA” cue the fight, which I planned on winning to show Blue Bull the error of his ways, making him help us in destroying the facility.

I rolled the minimum roll possible, so Red Rooster got his ass kicked. He went in for a Koala BBQ Rib™crusher, but Blue Bull countered with an Atomic Coffee™ Suplex. So he didn't help us...But we still destroyed it, and got away thanks to Dominic timing the mission beforehand so that we simply needed to board one of the automated trucks that was leaving.

We completed the mission, and all we needed to do was get paid. We rolled to see whether there were any complications with the payment. Turns out we were set up, by what was heavily implied to be an elder god. Multiple incarnations of Clippy suddenly appeared and we tried to fight them off. Dominic cast an anti-clippy talisman he had explicitly gained earlier, which vaporized them and caused a dark void to appear, no doubt leading to the one who had set us up. We had to decide whether to stay and fight and probably die, or run. Devontus was up for a fight. As for the rest of us:

Me: I have “Code of Honor” and “Pride” as two of my character traits. Red Rooster literally can't turn away from this fight.

Dominic: [turns to Tuck] Remember us! Tell our story!

Tuck's player: You're assuming I'm still there.

Tuck: [already long gone]

The session ended with the three of us remaining turning to the void and leaping into whatever mysterious adventure it held in store for us. End Credits.

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Saturday was a weird coincidence. I played three sessions, and my character in all three of them was associated with dragons.

The 5e session I planned on attending was full, so I went with a 3.5e session instead, where I played a Half-Elf Dragon Shaman. The DM seemed pretty new at the whole thing, as there was very little actual roleplaying and it was basically just filler to get us from fight to fight. Early on I was really bored and tired to the point where I considered making an excuse to leave. I stuck with it, though, and by the end we had had a few fun moments, more from just joking around than the actual session. At one point our dwarf clobbered a sleeping red dragon with his axe...and it failed to notice or wake up.

The DM from the Sunless Citadel session was running the same campaign again, so I decided to join in again and see if we'd be more successful this time. He gave us all potions to help in that regard. This time I was playing a Dragonborn Fighter named Lamarr, and this time we actually went ahead with the plot instead of taking a detour to an optional boss. We agreed to help the kobolds find their dragon baby god. One complication was the fact that we had a goblin rogue on our team – the goblins stole the baby god, so the kobolds hated them. We managed to assure them he was on our (and thus, their) side, so the baby god's caretaker (Meebo) escorted us into Goblin territory. After fighting a big mama rat and her children (made a lot easier by our bard Tom casting a Sleep spell) we stepped into a hallway filled with caltrops. Our half-elf tried pushing them out of the way but somehow impaled herself and fell unconscious. We then got shot at by some Goblins at the other end of the hall, but our own goblin was all “Hey! What are you doing?” and managed to convince them he was working for some big goblin boss. He was mentioning that he'd want to work out a trade for the baby god, when Meebo saw this and went “TRAAAITOOOOR!” He ran back to the other kobolds, who turned their weapons on Tom, assuming we were secretly working for the goblins. He managed to convince them that Meebo was simply being paranoid and that we were being slick by tricking the goblins. We basically had a pass with both factions, and that’s where the session ended.

Finally, was a session where we were all dragons. Actual, literal dragons. Young ones, who had been kept in a cryptid circus and used for entertainment by evil witch bitch Magna. My character was Bar, a clawed dragon who was capable of digging. I don't think I ever actually used digging to our advantage. Highlights include:

The one diplomat dragon we had convincing five axe-juggling dwarf brothers to stop fighting us and actually help us escape.

Phantasmapotomas, a dancing hippo who existed as an excuse for the DM to sing songs relevant to whatever situation was at hand.

“I want to take him out nonlethally. [crit fail]” DM: Whoops, his head popped off!

Blue Dragon tackling the “caretaker” that abused us for years. He survived, but it was heavily implied his spine was severed and that he was paralyzed.

A riddle door who required three questions: What is your name, what is your mission, and [insert randomly-generated difficult trivia question]?

Diplomat dragon's response: 1. [Name]. 2. “To escape this hellhole.” 3. “Wait, WHICH capital? There's four of th- *launched into the sky*”

Arrogant Dragon's response: 1. [Name] 2. “To escape this place.” 3. “A number.” *launched into the sky*”

The Dwarven brothers' response: 1. [hacks door into pieces with axe] 2. [eats piece of door] Huh, gingerbread! (“It's a durable, reliable building material!”) 3. Now THAT'S how you get past a riddle door! [steals Magda's paybox]

The DM talking/responding out of character in Magda's voice/in character, implying she had metagame knowledge.

Magda attempting to turn four of us into newts in turn, and all four of us crit failing the save while Diplomat Dragon was being attacked by clown ghouls.

Us freeing all of the cryptids except the mermaids, because letting them out would kill them and dumping them into the local rivers would wreak havoc on the ecosytem. As one player described them, they were basically Dire Piranhas.

Ultimately we succeeded, and in fact we got straight to the point quicker than the DM planned. This is the same DM who hosted Werewolf Wrestling Federation vs the Vampire Women (one of the most fun sessions I’ve ever played), and when I mentioned that to him he said that, just because I asked, he'd make another session of that happen next year. Woo!

~~

On Sunday I killed some time by playing a few quick scenarios with the same Pathfinder DM, where I played a Cavalier named Alain (horse named Dalahan I think). First we stormed a haunted estate and killed some bugs and a weird ghoul thing. He wielded a severed leg as a weapon, and there was a corpse with only one leg in the corner. Here's a few quotes from the session:

“Can I take the leg?” “You can take the leg.” “I take the leg.”

“I give him his leg back.”

“No wait, I changed my mind, I need it.”

There was a well in the middle of the room with like a million more ghoul things, one of which was climbing up. I jabbed down into the well with my lance, and got a nat 20.

“You see Alain plunging into the well with his lance, blood and gore spewing out.”

“It's like a satanic toilet.”

It was a very short session, but that's good because it ended right when the conclusion of the Sunless Citadel started.

We only had three returning party members (including me), and three new ones. Our goblin rogue was taken over by the DM for diplomatic purposes, as were Tom and one other character. Tom managed to gain audience with the goblin boss (actually a Hobgoblin), and several slaves (read: the players new to this session) were brought out to be used as footstools. Aurelia, our Paladin, tried sneaking food to one of them, but was noticed. A flying mug and a shout of “NO FEEDING THE PRISONERS” let us know how the goblins felt about that. Our Cleric distracted them with dancing long enough for Tom to pick the locks on their manacles. One of them (a Tiefling Wizard whose first name was Freedom) cast a cantrip to make one of the doors fly open to try and cause a distraction, but was noticed, causing the goblins to realize we had set them free. Commence fight.

We were holding our own, but eventually a small goblin woman who had been kneeling in the corner stood up on the throne and declared she was the ruler of the goblins now. This caused the hobgoblins and goblins to fight amongst themselves. Eventually we helped her take down the king and his lackeys. As thanks, she freed the slaves: Freedom; a Dragonborn Monk named Roger; and a Warlock who I think was a halfling. They joined us, and we went upstairs to try and find the baby god: According to them, they lost at least one goblin per day to the thing, so were more than happy to let us take him off their hands.

Tipped off by a goblin’s screaming and severed arm launched from a doorway, we found the baby god. He then unleashed frost breath and knocked down Lamarr and the Cleric, before finishing off Roger with a claw. Aurelia managed to drag Lamarr out, and eventually we got everyone out alive and healed up, after sealing the door shut. Concluding that this dragon was far beyond our capacity at the moment, we instead opted to go after our second goal: finding the source of some magical fruit that can cure any ailment.

We went down a well in the goblin throne room, and were attacked by some twig things (who were easily dispatched) and shovel-wielding skeletons. The skeletons were tougher, but Lamarr knocked one’s head off with a nat 20. We then fought a Bugbear and his pet rats (one of which was named Fang).

Eventually we tied up a second Bugbear (I think her name was Helga) and had her lead us to Bellack, the magician behind the mystical fruit tree. He revealed he was basically mind controlling two previous adventurers as slaves.

Bellack: You have two options: Leave this place, or become my slaves. It is too late to save these two.

Lamarr: But not too late to avenge them.

Aurelia: We won’t be your slaves!

Lamarr: And we’re not leaving, either.

Cue the final boss fight...Which I immediately had to leave because I had a bus to catch. What an anticlimactic end to a great campaign, right?

Fortunately, at my request, the person playing Aurelia actually Emailed me the results of the fight and how the campaign ended:

“So the good news is that we didn't die. You and Roger used your fire breath to burn up the evil tree and we took down Bellack- however after burning the tree freed Sir Bradford and Sharlin from the spell, Bellack's death caused them to either and die. We did try to heal them, but the magic was beyond us. The big tree was in a grove of saplings and we decided to torch the whole grove as the trees were just too powerful. We took the bodies of Sharlin and Sir Bradford back to Oakhurst for proper burial- Sharlin to her family and Sir Bradford to the temple of Pelor. And that's where we ended it. Our entire party did make it out in the end- though (as I'm sure you can imagine) not without more struggling to keep the cleric in check.”

Thanks, Abby. You’re a lifesaver. A perfect way to end the campaign, as well as Portconmaine 2017. This was a great year, and I hope to have an even better one next year!

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Some rabbit field red wedding-themed pseudo-pixel art I drew to match headers with my friend @ganen-cheese! You can see Cheese's side here, where they've drawn a superrr adorable modern day WX in white! (I love the big ribbon in WWX's hair!!) (The poses we drew are based off of G Gundam poses! This one is a slightly altered version of the pose Domon and Master Asia do when they're yelling the phrase "akakumoeteiru", which is where my user handle comes from.)

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