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[tianjinwellmadescaffold]

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[allmarcindia]

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[ppljordan]

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[deathmetalunicorn1]

During the Marineford war arc in One Piece, how would everyone react Blue Diamond reader using her powers which is similar to haki due to bringing down everyone on their knees and crying. She probably used her powers to save Ace from getting killed or she saw Ace killed which brought back horrible memories of seeing her sister(Pink Diamond) die right in front of her eye, any scenario is possible.

-Like a high speeding bullet you were speeding across the water, using your abilities to propel you at a rapid pace.

-Ever since Kuma separated the Straw Hats, you were trying to figure out where they were, looking for your new crew- your family.

-The only lead you got was where Luffy would be, after you heard that Ace had been captured and was going to be executed.

-You had never met Ace, but you knew that he was Luffy’s brother, and he always spoke highly of Ace- so you knew he would try to rescue him- so that’s where you were going to go- to help save Ace, so Luffy wouldn’t cry again.

-Your blood boiled as you thought about Luffy crying- he should never cry unless it was in happiness, and you were prepared to raze those who opposed you, who make him cry.

-You arrived at the Marineford, seeing so many fallen on both sides already and you quickly sought out Luffy before you saw him and another young man running from the scaffolds, the pirates celebrating.

-Your eyes narrowed, seeing the marines charging for them, weapons raised, and you saw the admirals and you quickly shot forward, looking so elegant, “Get away from Luffy!!”

-A blue energy shot from you, one that Luffy knew well, that hit all in front of you, making many fall to their knees in despair, crying heavily. Many were stunned by your power as you spoke, easily intimidating many around you, “If you’re a pirate- run to safety now!” You gave the pirates the opening to escape.

-Luffy beamed brightly at you, seeing you, “Y/N!” and you smiled, giving him a small nod as they ran by you, followed by others, running to safety, trying not to trip due to their tears.

-You then heard a voice, “Look out!!” you turned and Aikinu slammed his fist through your stomach, lava surrounding his hand, burning you.

-You were stunned, and you heard Luffy scream out your name in worry. You looked down at Aikinu before you stunned him by smirking, “And what did you hope to accomplish, boy?” You kicked him away before you turned, a hand over the hole as you ran for the ship.

-Once on Whitebeard’s ship, you used your ability over water to push the ships away from shore, pushing them out to sea before giving them a head start in escaping.

-Luffy ran over to you, seeing you injured, but you weren’t bleeding, “Y/N!” many others saw you, knowing that you were a Gem, and you smiled softly, now sweating softly, as you didn’t want him to worry as you bushed his tears away, “I will be fine Luffy. Just watch over me.”

-He was confused, “Watch over you?” you instantly went POOF and your gem, a large blue diamond, fell into his hand, stunning him before everyone started yelling, panicking.

-Whitebeard was amused, as he knew about Gems, grabbing Luffy who was running around, “Calm down you brat- Y/N will be fine!”

-All eyes turned to him as he grinned, getting his own wounds tended to, “Gems will reform if their bodies are injured, think of it as them taking a nap. Now if the gem had been damaged or shattered- then it would be bad. Since Y/N is a diamond- it will probably be a few days before they wake up.”

-This did calm Luffy, a bit, but he kept you close, holding you either under his hat or in his pocket, as he headed towards Amazon Lily, as he agreed to train with Rayleigh, to become stronger.

-When you reformed, a bright light surrounding your gem, many were stunned as you looked completely fine and you smiled warmly as Luffy cried loudly, leaping into your arms, which made you smile softly, feeling your own happy tears welling in your eyes.

-Luffy told you that everyone was going to train for two years, before meeting back up at the archipelago and you agreed to do the same, but you were going to remain with the Whitebeard Crew, as they had strong warriors, ones that you could train your own skills with.

-You were a little sad, but you knew it wasn’t going to be forever, not like your little sister, as you told Luffy to take care of himself and you would see him soon, which he grinned brightly at, agreeing with you.

[koboldfactory]

Had a weird dream about being on a colony ship after the earth blew up and something was very wrong inside the ship and all throughout it were strange dimensional gateways (they were like perfect rectangular cutouts of walls and space and stuff) that led to pocket reality liminal space things. One was like a weird cassette futurism hotel room with no doors or windows. Another was a giant empty space filled only by massive chandeliers and scaffolds over a dark blue-grey void. And another one was a tiny room with a shrine to a spirit with offerings placed at its base inside of a cheap clear plastic container. Outside of the room was an endless blue sky. The colony ship itself had a strange secret which seemed to be that either the earth didn’t explode and the ship was just a building on the earth as some kind of experiment, or it was opening portals to an alternate version of earth to go to. There was a robot maintenance staff that actively prevented anyone from seeing these strange anomalies. Using force if needed. I remember seeing a room that had a pier over an ocean with a rocky shore in the distance. The room was quickly sealed off by robots.

[mild-crusader]

Somewhere in the North Atlantic...

Once upon a windy early morning on the cavernous clifftop of some abandoned island a heretic crew of slavers has unearthed 5 stone idols inscribed in the glyphs of some lost alphabet of Europe's heathen antiquity, two anointed emissaries from hell oversee malnourished wretched slaves erecting the engraved stones in arrangement with forgotten constellations, while a heretic priest burns sage over a padlocked coffin stained with blood slowly sinking into the center of an old muddy battlefield...

Satisfied with their preparation the congregation of hell marches back to shore. They hope to be a safe at sea by midnight when the stars would hang in alignment above the odious carvings and Crom Cruach awakens. Reborn, full of hate and hunger...

how unhappy must they be to see that a cruiser typical of the Eire Rangers, Faithful soldiers of the Church, have laid anchor. And worse yet! Boot tracks headed straight to the site of their ritual!!!

Will the devoted Rangers cleanse the Island of idolatry before it's too late??? Can the servants of Evil thwart the pesky interpose of the pious??? Stay tuned dear reader, you're about to FIND OUT!

BATTLE REPORT

This was a game played at 700 ducats and 0 glory using the 1.5 playtest rules for Trench Crusade. Using the Scenario "Sabotage" on a 4 foot by 4 foot board. The Attackers were the Eire Rangers sub faction of New Antioch and the Defenders were the Heretic Legion without any sub faction. Lists are posted below.

EIRE RANGERS:

Trench Cleric with Standard Armour, Grenades and Pistol

Berserker Lieutenant with Trench Shield, Sword, Grenades and Shotgun

Shocktrooper Bard Fianna with Carnyx, Sword and Standard Armour

Shocktrooper Fianna with Submachine Gun, Two Swords and Standard Armour

Shocktrooper Fianna with Submachine Gun, Two Swords and Standard Armour

Shocktrooper Fianna with Semi Automatic Rifle, Two Swords and Standard Armour

Shocktrooper Fianna with Semi Automatic Rifle, Two Swords and Standard Armour

[ EXPLORATION MODIFIERS ] Reroll

HERETIC LEGION:

Heretic Priest with Silenced Pistol

Heretic Death Commando with Tartarus Claws

Anointed Heavy Infantry with Great Sword

Anointed Heavy Infantry with Great Sword and musical instrument

Heretic Legionnaire with Gas Mask Shovel Semi-Automatic Rifle and Unholy Trinket

Heretic Trooper with Gas Mask Shovel Semi-Automatic Rifle

Heretic Trooper with Gas Mask Shovel Semi-Automatic Rifle

Wretched with Sword

Wretched with knife

Wretched with knife

Turn 0 setting up the board,

After the Trench and ruins were on the table we took turns placing the point scoring relics the attackers are meant to destroy, represented by 5 upright Stones scattered around the board and a coffin in the middle. Now time to deploy the troops.

All but one of the Ranger team were skirmishers, while my Heretic's only skirmisher was Death Commando so I placed all my wretched, my Legionnaire, and my Musical Anointed Heavy Infantry on the front edge of their Deployment Zone, clear of any obstacles ready to climb the trench and rush into no-man's land,

Death Commando would sulk inside a ruined building near the middle edge of the board. According to the rules for this mission I had to leave 4 guys in reserve so Heretic Priest, Troopers, and the un-musical Anointed Heavy Infantry, sit on the bench for the time being.

The Rangers set up more spread out, one fireteam of 2 Shocktrooper Fiannas hiding in a separate room of the metal ruined building ready to charge the commando, one Shock Trooper at the top of the cliff One at the Base of the Cliff behind some scaffolding, and the rest behind their own trench.

Now, time to let the blood flow!

Turn 1 Crusading this Trench!

First unit to activate was the humble Wretched with knife dashing up into no man's land hoping to shank the Shocktrooper at the base of the cliff.

However, he was not able to reach the Enemy before the end of his turn so it's on to the Rangers.

The Ranger fireteam get to act as one unit so it's both of their turns and it's Open Season on Death Commando,

After the first hit left him with a blood token the second killed him completely, and that marks the first casualty of our trench crusade careers! The second member of the fire team ends the turn by moving out of the ruined building into no mans land eager to get a head start on idol smashing in the next turn.

Now Wretched with Sword is dispatched against the Fireteam to get revenge! Because of his proximity to the Music of the Anointed Heavy Infantry his movement gets a boost

he scrambles up into no man's land and lunges his sword at the Fianna.

Complete miss.

Back to the Rangers it's the Trench Cleric and he moves right up the support beam of the trench and shouts something about snakes

resulting in my wretched feeling a sudden compulsion to lie down in the dirt, snake-like.

Then he turns to face a nearby stone idol and lifts his holy crozier off the ground...

Before drawing his pistol and shooting it to bits and pieces!

+1 point to the Rangers

Heretic Legionaire activates and climbs on top of a pile of cargo to get a line of sight on the Rangers

He fires one shot and misses, Then hides under the trench convincing himself to charge over into closer range next turn.

Continuing our story, the Ranger under the scaffolding at the base of the cliff counter charges the humble wretched with knife

Sliding right up behind him and in front of another stone idol, he bloodies the wretched...

and transforms the heretical stone into a patch of gravel.

the last reluctant wretched prepares his journey over the trench walls

Luckily for him, I've reached the image limit on this site so he'll have until Part 2 to steady his nerves.

End of Part 1...

[bucket-of-amethyst]

My opinions on the mob vote! ✨

- All the uses the new mobs seem to have looks very niche and quite tame actually, so I don't feel like there's a clear winner just by looking like how it was with the allay and sniffer

- Tho it does look like the crab claw is the most useful item, I feel it will become the next spyglass: u'll make one bc it's a fun concept, but soon it will become clutter in ur hotbar and ull leave it be. I feel most builders would prefer scaffolding a couple blocks than have one slot taken

- If the way the penguin makes the boat faster is similar to how dolphin gives it's grace, then idk... But if it somehow provides a way to upgrade ur boat then yEA I feel like that's a good start to boat upgrades!

- eoughhhh doggy armor... safe ouppyyyyyy... Dillo so friend shaped omggg eoughh <333333333333 I lvoe them eouhdjdkkrkfkdjdkf

- I feel Mangrove Swamps already have a lot of characteristic mobs (tropical fish, bees, slimes) and they already have frogs as their iconic animal. Meanwhile Stony Shores are a quite barren place, and everything u get in a Savannah u can basically get in a plains biome. They both would benefit so much with the addition of a new form of life!

[allmarcindia]

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[natequarter]

With the sides and ceiling of the rapidly descending shaft shored up with timber scaffolding of every size and description, the miners referred to it and others like it as ‘the Sanctaphrax Forest’ — for reasons lost in the mists of time.

i looove this note. so genius in its portrayal of the passage of time

[osakanone]

close to us stand soldiers, each wearing facemasks and respirators. a common sight of war. a jeep tactical vehicle. chainlink fences. worn down telecom towers. tents beyond.

in the distance, a six-legged giant turtle of steel. a fortress taller than any city walking the earth. its legs move like those of an ant, connected to a superstructure like that of metal scaffolding oil-refinaries and drilling platforms off-shore beaten by the wind.

as it walks the dried out world ocean floor of desertified dust, arms like petals of a flower extend. each, the fighter-jet carrier-launch systems, of airport runways and catapaults.

cannons larger than cars sit above and below here among the distribution of these petal platforms. higher still, towers, a kilometer above. gazing back down upon the men.

seeing them as the ants.

[tarnishedinquirer]

Stormveil, pt 1: Outer walls

Stormveil bore the scars of some massive battle. It looked like great slashes had been torn in its walls, as if with some impossibly large claw. Some efforts had been made to rebuild the damage, with scaffolding filling the gaps, but it looks like those efforts had been abandoned.

I spent a few minutes studying this from my vantage point. On the left side of the gate, I noticed one corner of the octagonal tower was lacking in the gaudy golden accenting. Below it, was a column that looked like it belonged there, and below that, on the ground, was a piece of the crenelation that had fallen off, arrayed on top of splintered wood.

Hmm.

I made a mental note to pay attention to the walls as I stormed the castle.

In the gate house to the left of the entrance, I ran into one of the long-neck commoners, who introduced himself as Gostoc. I couldn't help but notice he was missing an arm, and wondered if Godrick had something to do with that.

He advised me to pass through a hole in the wall which the guards didn't know about, but I found that prospect dubious. Of course they knew about it. I thanked him for the advice but asked him to open the gate anyway.

Didn't get very far before someone starting shooting ballista bolts at me. I dodged backwards and decided that perhaps I'd take Gostoc's advice after all.

I moved around the outside of the castle along narrow ledges until I got to a massive hole in the wall. Looking at this up close, it was more than passing strange. What I mistook for the damage of some massive siege engine looked more like an open wound up close. The stone was melted and oddly discolored, puckered around the edges. The wood, presumably from some attempt to shore it up for repairs, was sinking into the stone itself. It felt solid enough, but these things might happen on a much longer scale.

Past that, I entered in a small overgrown area on a cliff. Broken walls hinted that there might once have been more here, but it fell into the sea long ago.

I narrowly avoided an attack by a large bird. It made a metallic sound as it landed and I realized its legs had been replaced by swords. How cruel must one be to mutilate animals like that? is this another form of Godrick's grafting?

Continuing along the cliffside, I saw more holes in the wall, but these were filled with thick thorny fines. They only seemed to be growing from the holes, and the bricks were clearly being pushed outward. This was no natural damage. It wasn't the result of some war. This was a supernatural curse of some kind.

Ascending the scaffolding, this was as far as I could get without drawing the guards' attention. One of them blew a horn, and they came flooding out to deal with me. I recognized these soldiers, though it was the first time seeing them in the flesh. They wore the same armor and red shawls as the spirits in the Fringefolk Hero's Grave.

It was immediately telling though that they were not Godrick's own soldiers. Does Godrick not trust them? Seems like a reasonable choice, considering how many were pursuing their own agenda. These soldiers might be sellswords, or, perhaps, they're sworn to the castle and care little for who is its master.

One of them dropped their leather shield

Leather shield of Stormveil soldiers. Much like the castle, it is marred by mottling and thorns. Some say it is the curse of grafting which causes such affliction, while others talk of its root being something altogether more sinister hidden deep within the castle.

The voice isn't typically so cagey, but that last bit was intriguing. I'll keep that in mind as exploring this castle's secrets. This also confirms that all the mottled weapons I've found elsewhere came from this castle.

Moving inside, I was attacked by long-necked commoners. This tower seemed like a storage area, with crates and boxes, statues and paintings, all stacked up with no rhyme or reason.

Tucked away in one corner, next to a corpse, I found a claw weapon. The voice didn't have anything interesting to say about it, and as far as these things go, it was fairly crude and standard, but it was still an unusual weapon and worth note.

To progress, I needed to open a door, but I couldn't find the key. The only place I hadn't looked is a smaller, closed room.

As I walked in, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I heard a wheezing laugh behind me, and the door locked. I was locked in a small room with a Banished Knight. I didn't have much room to maneuver, and was at a disadvantage in the dim light. I dodged and ran, but he kept pace with his wind techniques.

Eventually I won, using the good old standby trick of setting up glintblades and then getting the knight to face me.

I took the key from a body in the corner, and from a chest, I recovered a Curved Sword Talisman

A talisman depicting a curved sword and a swordsman. It is said that a blind swordsman was the originator of this technique -- the art of allowing one's opponent to strike so as to leave them vulnerable to a well-timed reply.

Another reference to the blind swordsman, enemy of the Rot God. I wonder what connection this place could possibly have.

Is there any connection to the Blind Swordsman here?

Who locked me in the room with the knight? Gostoc, almost certainly.

What is causing the thorns and poxes on the castle and the equipment of those who live in it?

Why were the attempted repairs abandoned?

[violet-moonstone]

The Wings of War Chapter 12: A Day for Songs and Contests Part I

Summary: The Gathering has its first Dragon Racing tournament.

Word Count: 2.5k

Preview:

It was going to be the biggest dragon racing tournament Berk had ever seen. There were scaffolds set up for seating, obstacles, and launchers all around the southern shore. The race track would snake its way along the beach and then around the docs and the village, cutting through the countryside and then back to the beach. There was no angle from which a viewer could see everything, but every person in the village would see some part of the action.

People gathered in seating and standing areas on the southern beach, on boats near the docks, on the front steps of their houses, from the tops of roofs, on wagons and carts, and the backs of their dragons. They were all eager and waiting for the race to begin.

And the dragons! The village was teeming with dragons.

Nuffink absolutely hated it

Read the rest on AO3

[unhonestlymirror]

Classic 1982 sculpture by Zuzana Pranaitytė on the shores of the Baltic, flattered by perhaps the best photo ever taken of it, by Laimis Urbonas. (The first photo.)

In 1982, an impressive 4-meter-high sculptural composition “Fisherman’s Daughters” was built in the dunes, at the gates of Šventoji port – they are three long-haired girls looking out to sea, waiting for their father to return from fishing. The author is Zuzana Pranaitytė. In 2016, an article published in the “Let’s get together” section of the daily newspaper “Lietuvos rytas”, which reveals that the work of art that emerged in the dunes in 1982 has another face.

The niece of the author of the sculpture, Zuzana Pranaitytė, Lina Wahl, who lives abroad, told the editorial office that her aunt revealed to her that the sculpture “Fisherman’s Daughters” is not the fisherman’s daughters at all, but three Baltic states, pointed out that Lithuania is in the middle.

States look to the West for help from the Soviet occupation.

The sculpture standing in Šventoji Dunes is a work that demanded the most strength from the author. According to her niece, her aunt even had to sketch him nine times.

“I remember my aunt doing sketches for The Fisherman’s Daughters. There were many of them in my aunt’s workshop near Vilnelė. I loved being there. As a teenager, I posed for my aunt as she sculpted these sculptures. I was standing on the scaffolding, and my aunt was moulding the legs and fingers of the “daughters”. They gave me some clay to keep me from getting bored. Then they were taken to what was then Leningrad, where they were cast from metal,” said the woman.

[locustonabench]

ok just checked the mob vote options

armadillo >>>>>>>>>

first of all penguins are just dolphins. sure they won't be hell to keep. (dolphins love death cuz they need both water and air. they can only survive in bubble columns. makes dolphin aquariums only a dream.) when, though, was the last time anyone has found a snowy shore???

second of all crabs have the dumbest use. "crab claws let you place farther" move. you loser. get scaffolding. dumbest idea i've ever heard for a new item in my entire fucking life.

now this armadillo. wolf armor sounds sick. one of my hobbies in every survival minecraft server i join is to start a wolf army. amass. then go hunting. imagine a mass of hundreds of thousands of dogs hurling at a zombie. now imagine them all wearing armor. that zombie would be praying harder. sick as hell.

this is an armadillo support post, brought to you by me, a locust on a bench. get armadilloed. don't insert an extra d before the last letter in the word armadillo or else.

[piotrtymcio]

Bosmanat

Panasonic DC-TZ90

ƒ/4.9, 16.1 mm, 1/80s, ISO 100

3/04/2023

[EN] Here is the boathouse in the port of Węgorzewo. The boats on the shore are not yet launched because it's April and still cold. There are some planks on the side and scaffolding, indicating ongoing repairs. It would be interesting to see how it looks today.

[PL] Oto bosmanat w porcie w Węgorzewie. Łódki na brzegu jeszcze niezwodowane bo kwiecień i zimno. Jakieś deski z boku i rusztowanie. Widocznie trwał jakiś remont. Ciekawe jak wygląda dziś.

[o-lanterns]

looking through some old notebooks and found a poem I wrote a few years ago and I really like it.

Once a river ran away Where now a canyon stands Skeletons and scaffolding For cities in the sands

Breathing, Bleeding, Far from barren, Warping at the wind's command

Cracks across my surface carve a space for life to nest Asphalt garden beds in which new blossoms can invest Veins and roots all intertwined and thrumming in my chest

Ponds and lakes may dry to dust Yet still the oceans flow Waves break on a hidden shore My eyes will never know