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Got all the achievements for Jedi Fallen Order. ^^

Reinaan's jumps had taken him to the highest pillar of them all, the central platform. It was from here Geoff had made his attempt at fighting the bird in the air to mixed results. The hunter had kept his eyes on the situation, watching Ryia attempt to fight it from the ground as it crashed into a pillar. Then Keres attempted to save the buffalo chosen but the Roc had set its sights on her. She launched a few more attacks with her water but was clearly running low on magical power. She had already done some pretty impressive feats as it was. The bird still wasn't close enough for the draken to make his move. But then it began a dive at the Water Chosen, an attack that could prove fatal. But at the same time, it would bring the animal in range. The action seemed to slow down and the boy attempted to time his jump. No weapon, no armor, no clothes, and attempting to jump a winged beast from higher ground while it was still in the air. For a moment Reinaan could hear no less than a dozen specific scoldings with known faces to each. A trusted hunting partner, a concerned parent, an enraged elder. Even if something like this ended up working at home he would have been yelled at for no less than a year. His whole body seemed to loom over the edge of the platform in hesitation. "Yeah, well... you're all boring anyway!" he thought in defiance of all of his training. A smirk took over his face as he ran and leaped from the platform into the air above the Roc. He faced the ground he was falling toward, each limb stretched out. There was no greater exhilaration to be had. The flame claws granted to him by Ziiyol's power extended from off his right hand as he sailed downward through the sky. All at once the weight of a still growing Draken crashed into the roc's back, flame claws digging straight down into the flesh and searing the insides in the process. The roc screeched in pain and its whole body dropped in the air some. It didn't hit the ground but its dive had been interrupted and it turned itself around in the air, trying to get its senses about it again. Reinaan meanwhile had dug every set of claws to his name into the flesh of the winged beast to keep from falling off. He needed to get to the head to end this and so he withdrew the flame claws from within the back of the beast and stabbed forward into the back again. He would claw and climb his way up the back until he could reach a vital. Each injury enraged the Roc who started thrashing about in the air to try and throw the draken off. While being shaken about Reinaan doubled down on his grip during the more furious movements and kept his own movements to the gaps between the thrashings. But this wasn't something that could be timed, this was a living animal after all. During an attempt to move Reinan was thrown up partially into the air, only his flame clawed hand keeping its grip on the beast. When his body crashed back down into the feathers he twisted the flames within the injury they were burning as an act of petty vengeance and continued his climb between movements. With several more close calls as the bird flew erratically, Reinaan had gotten himself onto the back of the roc's neck. But by this point the bird had decided on a more extreme nuisance removal procedure. It was fast approaching the right row of pillars, aiming to ram its back into the structures to knock Reinaan off. The Draken swore under his breath as he exerted himself to shuffle over to the side of the bird's neck. This had gone on long enough and soon the boy began repeatedly stabbing the flame claws into the neck of the bird, doing his best to hit as many places as possible to try and catch a major blood vessel. The bird screeched again and slammed into the pillar. Between the maneuver and the injuries it began tumbling through the air to the north on crash course for the ground. Reinaan attempted as best he could to hold onto the creature on the ride down but the actual crash launched the boy from the creature's neck some several dozen feet back toward the rest of the group. His own body spun and contorted as he bounced a few times on the ground, eventually landing on his back where he remained still, a handful of feathers still gripped tightly in his right hand. The roc found itself grounded. With all the injuries it had sustained it seemed it would be unable to fly for the next few minutes at least. It was still in the process of orienting itself from the crash. Reinaan meanwhile coughed and sputtered out some dirt and bits of feather on the ground. His head was still spinning and he felt bruised all over his body. As he attempted to move, nothing seemed immediately broken but he still needed a minute to really get his bearings before standing up. "Scold me all you want but you can't argue the results." he muttered to himself and the doubts he'd felt at even attempting the strategy. Still dazed he couldn't help but daydream of the time he debuted the move back home.

A Level 10 Fusion Monster that uses Link Monsters, is able to blow up the whole field, gain massive amounts of DEF, which you can than switch to it's ATK, also protects itself from battle/effects by banishing Link Monsters from your GY.

gonna start doing these one at a time unless I can draw something particularly fast/am feeling especially inspired by it this was going to be less stupid at first, but I really don't want to do hands

To start my retrospective of last year, I’ll go further back about another month because I feel like that’s when it truly started. On December 1st of 2018 I moved into a new apartment that was closer to my current job at the time. For context, I was fired from my job before in February that year and managed to find work somewhere down further south about a month later, giving me about a 45 minute commute. When my lease expired for my last place in November, the one I ended up moving into was about a 5 minute drive away, which was nice. Anyway, the start of 2019 up through about the middle of the year wasn’t very memorable. I only seem to remember working and living a day-to-day life as I have been doing. However, around the end of June, the company I worked for had to downsize due to net losses in revenue and they laid me off. From then on until later, I was living off unemployment benefits while paying rent. That time was a learning experience for me on how unemployment benefits worked and how much of a pain in the ass it is to work with. That being said, I spent the next 5 months looking for work as I did before in February the year before, this time keeping a record of my search for the Department of Unemployment Security to audit in order to keep getting paid. Granted, while 5 months felt like an eternity compared to the one month it took me last time, it still wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been and I was still actually pretty lucky, but relative to my past experiences, it was pretty excruciating. Either way, things managed to work out in the end when I decided to move back in with my parents. I was able to land a job in town within the week I moved all my stuff in and my life felt normal again. So you’d think that everything was great now, right? Well… almost. There’s still one issue: My apartment, despite my plans to sever the lease early, is still under contract. As if clearing the unit and putting all my furniture into storage wasn’t enough of a task in itself, the plan was to drop off the keys while we were there, have the move-out inspection done the next day, and then pay the termination fee and get it out of the way. Turns out the office was closed that day despite the fact that they should’ve been open during those hours. So assuming there’s no other option, we decide to mail the keys after we got home… without realizing that we could’ve just put the keys through the drop box by the door. Had we thought of that at the time, I wouldn’t be in this mess. We’re in the endgame now: My keys were being delivered via the slowest method of shipping in the world with no way of tracking it, so all we could do at that point was check in often and hope for an update. The issue? Not a single answer to my phone calls, no call-backs from my voicemail messages, and not even an email response for the past couple months. Despite it being the postal service, we were sure that the keys would have arrived within the month. Hell, even if they haven’t and if they were lost in the mail, the least I could ask for is a response or an update every so often. This leads me to believe that they do, in fact, have my keys but are holding me on contract to keep me paying rent while ignoring me completely in order to avoid having to communicate the situation with me if I asked. With all that aside, 2020 is looking up for me. I got a new set of golf clubs for Christmas, so this year I plan on going out and playing more often. The same goes for pool, as it seems to be a regular outing for my family to just go to a bar, drink some beers, and play pool. I’m also very close to having all credit card debt paid off completely that I’ve accumulated throughout the past several years. As of today, I only have one account left to pay off, which is a little over $2000, but compared to the approximate $12K total that I had a few years ago (from simple credit card spending, mind you. Not student loans), I call that one hell of a step forward. Once that’s done, I can finally… put myself in more debt with a new car! After that? Possibly a house? Who knows? At least it’s not a crummy apartment run by crummy management. It’ll be worth the investment once I save enough for a downpayment. Tl:dr - the second half of 2019 was in a valley that I ended up climbing out of towards the end (with some gremlins still trying to claw at my feet as I pull myself up from the edge)

A bit of ambience for y'all... 2019, lemme just say this was quite the roller coaster of a year for me. I'll just skip the first three months of 2019, just for the sake of getting to what I really want to talk about (plus nothing happened within those months aside from me turning 26 in Feb, as well as buying my own PS4 and TV). It really all just went down a different direction for me April 1st, well...back tracking slightly. Most of you know that in Nov./Dec., I was blessed with a job thanks to my dad getting a new one and me taking his old job. It was hard work and I'll admit there was quite a bit of times I actually broke down (first major job here), but it was good, and dad was able to help me out through it. Late March, however, I was presented an individual that according to him, was to be my helper. I asked my supervisor about it and he confirmed this and asked me to train the guy in what we did over there at Husqvarna's IT. ...April 1st, I leave work that Monday and get a phone call that says my contract has been terminated. I find out, that the guy I was training...was my replacement, but the kicker is...he didn't even know he was my replacement as he was just told he was going to assist me with projects since Husqvarna got money for more than one IT person. At first, I hoped it was a April Fools joke, but it wasn't. So April 1st was the first hurdle this year had on me...but April wouldn't be 100% done with me. April 22nd: my dad passed due to a massive heart attack. This, I know, a good portion of people remember me mentioning on the old site. He was 47, married about 27 years...and one of my best friends...and just like that, he was gone. A year prior (namely Aug. 2018), he flipped his truck and went to the hospital. I figured he'd be perfectly fine...many people have heart attacks and still live...but my dad was a bit overweight and had high blood pressure, so I guess that played a different factor. I'm still trying to come to grips on the fact that he's not here and that he won't just walk into the door like he always does. A good portion of the year, I honestly wanted to just give up on everything and just crater. Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, a good handful of you from YCM and NCM didn't let me. Between you guys and my friends and family IRL, you all kept me going, even when I didn't want to at this time. So I'm actually grateful to all of you who helped me out. With that, the next couple of months I did my best to try and push forward. My family and I really had our moments, namely my brother and his temper. I can't count the nights that there was an argument because him and his girlfriend were arguing and mom would say something and he'd get pissed and then THEY'D get into an argument, with me attempting to play the mediator. Still, we got through all of it. We hung out, we joked, we watched practically the end of Phase 3 of the MCU...though it killed us not to see him with us. Through all this, Sai and Yui helped me out a lot...hell, even got me to play Fate/Grand Order on a few emulators, just so I can enjoy the hell that is gacha (and jeeeeeez it is indeed a hell). What really killed me though, was in Aug. Down here where I'm from, we have an annual festival/fair that's known as the Watermelon Festival. My church does the clean up of it all three days (Thurs - Sat) and one massive go through on Sunday. For the past few years, my dad was the one that spearheaded this little operation. This year, my pastor called me specifically and asked if I'd like to take up his position and spearhead it. I broke, but I only told him I'd do it happily. That was a difficult time, but I did what I could and the results were pretty good. Quite a number of the church members came up to me after and told me I did a great job and that dad would've been proud...again, I broke when I heard this so yeah, bit of a pattern here. Oh, in October, I finally decided to go back into running an RP in the RP Section, after being meme'd for the longest time by a good number of individuals (coughsai,yui,andrepcough). No longer is the meme of "WHERE'S GRIMM NIGHTS, SONIC?!" a thing, as now I've revamped the old idea of mine with thanks to Sai and Yui and it's developed into something even better. And with a much brighter and more interesting cast than the last time, so I'm hoping for a great ride with Grimm Nights and hope it thrives greatly within this year. Now we come to Christmas and the end. It was bittersweet, he wasn't here...but mom, bless her heart, did everything she could to make sure me and my brother had a good Christmas. From a Switch Lite to just getting bits and pieces here and there just to make sure we were happy. It really upset me that she would spend that much when she herself lost her job not even a month after my dad passed...but as mothers do, she only told me to shut up and not worry about it, even though I did and still do. Where does this leave me in the wake of 2019? I'm still unemployed Hurting still because of my dad's passing Still pushing forward...still reaching for what I can in order to make something of myself 2020 is a new year and a new decade. I'm doing my best in order to keep going. True to my typecast nature (of either being shounen or seinen), I'm not giving up and I'm pushing through. My dad would've told me to keep going, so I'm doing just that. Be it IRL or here on NCM, I intend to be better. Don't know how that or anything is going to look like, but it's happening.

It's 4:20 in the morning (haha blaze it me funny) and I should be sleepin, but fuck it here's a recap of my 2019 as I remember it. A lot of 2019 wasn't anything special to me one way or the other, but things picked up real hard in the home stretch. Due to space constraints and me simply owning the least amount of shit out of everyone, I started the year living in half a laundry room and basically being a dog-sitter for my mother's dog that I didn't like enough to commit 10-15 minutes of my day every day to walking. However bad you're imagining living in half a laundry room may be, it was probably about that bad. Cramped, no privacy, people kept coming and going to get their clothes, and no door meant you could hear everything going on in the house. Not good when living with five other people, a dozen birds all in the relatively nearby living room, four dogs, and none of those other people have the same sleep schedule as you. Two events of note happened in 2019 that changed lots of things for me, all for the better. The lesser of these hit in early July, when Sai pointed me to a mobile emulator I could use on my PC. For the two people on this forum who don't know this yet, I don't own a phone. This was the one and only factor stopping me from diving headfirst into the gacha hell called Fate/Grand Order, but with an emulator, I was free to suffer at my leisure. I won't go so far as to say this game changed my life, but it sure has had an impact. It was also an excellent gateway drug to get me to finally get into the Fate franchise as a whole like I'd wanted to for quite some time prior to this. Thanks, emulators! The important one - much to my surprise when I looked at dates - was less than two months ago. In mid-November, two of my siblings moved out to go be adults, and I took over my brother's room. This was an event I'd been anticipating for months, since them being gone meant I wouldn't be living this Harry Potter-ass laundry room life anymore. And indeed, I'm now in a cozy-ass bedroom, with a desk instead of a shitty end table for my PC (I kept the end table too though; my desk is a bit on the small side), space to actually put all my crap and move around, and a closet so I can actually put my shirts somewhere and still have room for all the rest of my clothes too. Speaking from experience, it's easy to take little things like that for granted. And then 2019 wrapped up with Christmas, as years tend to, setting me on the path of the artist with the gift of a drawpad, which was a path I've wanted to start walking down for quite some time. I need to draw things more often though. I won't get better if I don't keep practicing. But that's an update for a 2020 retrospective thread. EDIT: Oh, right, and the siblings that moved out. Three out of our four dogs belonged to one of them, and those three had basically taken over the back yard. With them gone, mom's dog didn't have to go on dedicated walks anymore; just let out back for a bit. So I don't have to deal with the dog anymore unless mom's out of town (like she is right now, unless she came home earlier tonight and simply didn't say hi), and even when I do, it's way faster.

I'm no Morphtronic expert and the last thing I saw them do was some spam with Cellfon and Smarfon so IDK how good this actually is for the archetype. It looks good for sure, but at which degree? IDK. I can comment on the text though, which needs some work. For starters, excavating is part of an effect so you have to re-word it as a proper effect. Then, you separated 2 effects with periods when at first glance it looks like you could use connector like "and if you do" and "and if you do that".