An exerpt from Fuuka's original fiction "The Black Star III: Axion Cascade":

Kai Blackstar wiped the sweat off his grizzled chin, grinning past his techno-saber at Wylie. "You're better than I was expecting, kid." He told the boy, trying not to let his voice shake from the pain of his lost arm.

Wylie's tear-filled eyes flared with anger. "I was always more than you expected! You never believed in me! I was always going to be a Coalaon to you! Just some kid!" The young man's techno-saber lashed out again, the laser beam cutting a humming woosh through the air. "I'm done with you! I don't need you any more, Master Blackstar!"

Kai parried the blow with more ease than he felt, fighting the urge to draw his sword-hand back and wipe at his chin again. Why did the Bith base have to be on a lava moon? "I guess you don't. But if you don't need me, why do you need the Chancellor?"

"He believes in me! He says I'll be the most powerful Shadelord in galactic history!"

"Does he?" This time, Kai lashed out, cutting a hole in his Coalaon's face, from the bottom of his right eye socket to the tip of his chin. The scar would be incredible, but more importantly for now, it kept Wylie blinded and not attacking. Kai took the opportunity to feel at his severed stump with the Vibe.

Unfortunately, Wylie had learned some tricks from the Shadowed Part, and wasn't blinded as long as Kai thought. Before Kai could react, his other arm had come off, and his legs. Severed into naught but a torso, Kai collapsed roughly to the ground, though he did not cry out.

"This could've been different!" Wylie was screaming, even as a surge of lava lit Kai's clothing on fire. "We could've been masters of the Vibe!"

"Maybe." Kai said through gritted teeth. "You always were... My chosen one."

No, Mitsuru has the spanking kink, not Yukari.

Yukari wrote vampire breeding fanfic, obviously. Keep it in-character.

It should be pointed out that Google AI is also on record suggesting pregnant women smoke, that bathing with your toaster is an entertaining and relaxing activity, and that sleep is best preformed with the thermostat set to 400 degrees farenheit.

As much as I appreciate it's short summaries, they should always be viewed with plenty of skepticism.

Give the players an opportunity to take on one of the old mechanics as a buff. We see far too much of just adding another plus number or an extra die, giving a point of strength, it'd be so cool to have someone who can just upend the system!

Well, not for the DM. That's hell for them. But who cares about the DM anyway, they're just a slave monkey. /j

The vtuber twitter circle. To distinguish it from regular twitter, which is just racism.

Depends on the streamer, usually it's pretty slow, but sometimes it's nutty. Most often they're good relaxed streams.

Then sometimes you get Nimi's CK3 streams, where it's essentially a constant bevy of "Faendal's fucking his DAUGHTER?!" and "King Faendal just executed this frenchman via bear!"

Being an animated corpse to achieve an extended lifespan is NOT a choice.

It's an ~\aesthetic*~*

I do love the idea of a Lich that uses THAC0... And thus all these new armor rending spells actually make him harder to hit.

His lair should also be full of Dungeon Dad remakes, or just monsters straight lifted out of the 1e and 2e manuals, no modifications done.

5e Lich fights like a Necromancer that just lost his skinsuit

5.5e Lich fights like a Necromancer that's had hundreds of years of study to figure out the best way to wreck your shit

If there were Germans coming in through Belgium? Probably.

I may not be French but I feel like it's pretty basic to prioritize fighting off an active hostile invasion over civil projects. Those are really good and nice, but so is not getting executed in the street with your family.

Would reckon the Russians are RESPONSIBLE for a lot of the shitty roads. Wasn't Ukraine already starting to clean up before the invasion started after that revolution?

Nobody else here in America remembers but I do.

Anyways, while potholes are annoying, missile holes are probably even more annoying, so I can't see Ukrainians really blaming the government for not paying to keep the roads good when it means letting another missile touch down.

What was the original quote?

They were using not trans but that takes more letters and humans are inherently lazy, which is the same reason we say NASA and not National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Basically, Cisgender is easier than Not transgender. They mean the same thing though.

Not trans.

Literally, that's it. It just means someone who is not trans.

Leon thinks it's a slur because it's only ever used at him as a perjorative, and he's a dumbass who can't or won't look up what words mean. Dictionaries are for poor people.

But it really just means someone who isn't trans. It's about as much a slur as saying someone is black is a slur. Hell, African American even, since there isn't really a more polite way to refer to... Well, cisgender people.

She said "Cisgender" on the "Free Speech" platform.

They believe in White Flower Power

I doubt it's native-sourced, as it's quite universal among European cultures but there are similar musical "taunt phrases" used in far eastern cultures that are nevertheless very different.

By all appearances, it seems to be mostly universal, but the European version caught on. Nana'b'oozoo looks like a coincidence to me.

Erm... Yeah. 'Cuz I don't need those kids gathering coal for more than the first couple days anyway, and that's optional even in itself. Why send the kids to the mines and take the stab hit when I could send them to the shelters, get a useful, if small, percentage bonus to tech AND a bonus to my hope that remains useful the entire game AND a benefit that doesn't run it's course the minute I grab two groups of survivors?

I very rarely run into worker shortages after the scouts are out and about, and I make that priority number one because of how useful they are, so why bother sending the kids to the mines? Or worse, half-assing it? They're more useful boosting hope and research (or as I said, medicine, since a couple percentage points of efficiency in medicine is always welcome regardless).

NOT ME
NOT HERMIONE
YOU
FOR PROM

A wholly sensible declaration

And a good troll too, for he didn't simply make the king mad and then point and laugh like the jesters of today's courts.

I think it's more the confusion. It's very hard to be extremely mad or sad about something when you're busy wondering what the actual fuck just happened.

And while they could just start up again, babies hold onto memories the way a pasta strainer holds water, so they're more likely to grab the cheese, realize they're holding cheese, and try to stuff their fists full of cheese into their mouth like a robot faking being a human.

I imagine Pocket Sand would disrupt the escalated feelings... And then put them right back because the baby is like "MY EYES HURT THIS IS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE"

I think engineering kids from shelters is better. Not just morally, but practically - tech is so important in Frostpunk 1 and engineering kids helps you reach that critical threshhold earlier.

Medical kids is the best overall, I think, though, since they never stop giving buffs while you very quickly run out of research projects. I do wish Frostpunk 1 allowed you to revoke laws.

I rarely cross the line - I think it's more fun to contemplate a New London where the captain heard about a storm almost cold enough to rain nitrogen coming and people suggested he revert to despotism and he was like "Nah, we're good" and fuckin' balls-to-the-wall siezed nature by the throat. No deaths.

It's hard, but very satisfying to come out the other side with your worst law being guard towers or shrines in the workplace, and nobody died to the frost. Proof that losing your humanity is always a choice, not a necessity.

I also build like 20 automatons, or however many is actually possible once there's 1-2 hospitals, 3 advanced coal mines, and a basic wall drill. I'll even disassemble the more advanced drills if I build one because there really isn't a point in the very late game, you usually have shitloads of wood anyway.

Anyway, as a result, everyone has no job, a warm home, a proper meal every day, and the city is flush with resources. It's not a great life, but it'd be a pretty comfortable one considering the situation the Frostpunk world is in.

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