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Ari enjoyed the rest of his time on the ship talking with his new brothers, Mac, and his mother. This was...a lot of fun! The most fun he'd had in a while, actually. Which made it all the worse when they actually reached the island. The sky was filled with scary purple gijinka with scary red eyes. The ship captain person took out a rod thing and blasted them all with lightning, but one got through, and its eyes...didn't look right. Thankfully, Ari wasn't close enough to get affected, though his mother still ended up running in front of him. Everything was a blur after that. He was about to get off the ship, but his mother had instructed him to stay behind. "I would have you stay on the ship and hide, but I know you would never do that," she shook her head. "Just please...stay safe, all right? I'd say you should stick by me, but..." she clenched her fists. "I'm going to be fighting in the front lines." "Don't worry about me, Mom! I got super strong over the past three years, so I'll show them not to mess with a real lion!" The Pyroar smiled. "All right, then you'll have to show me what you can do. Later." "Aww, but mom!" "No buts, you're staying behind. Got it?" She glared down at him. "Ugh, fine." "Good. Now I'm going ahead. You be patient and stay here, all right?" the queen didn't wait for a response before running ahead. "This sucks," Ari scowled. His scowl increased further when that Captain guy told them all to stay there and wait for the "adults" to handle everything. "Ugh, I can't wait to grow up more," he grumbled. "I'm already really growed up, but nobody seems to think so!" Mac was also upset. "Can't believe it. Even at the end of the world they still don't think we have what it takes. Well you know what I say? Screw that! I don't know about you but I've fought more than hard enough to earn some respect. And sure, maybe we're not as big as em, or as experienced, but what does that matter?" She stepped onto the edge of the ship and looked onto the battlefield. "Look at this. If we lose here that's it. Nothing more. World ends." She looked back at the others. "So what's the point staying behind? Even if we can only do a little we have to try, right?" "Yeah you're right...for once," Ari nodded. To the side, a young Eevee gijinka nodded as well, looking determined. "Yeah! My journey to becoming super strong and awesome has only just begun!" She pumped a fist. A Fletchling girl standing next to her looked nervous, but her eyes shone with spirit. "For Veronica," she mumbled. "I have to save her. Big sis would've never wanted this..." Things happened quickly after that. Mac took out a sun-shaped stone, glowing white and transforming. Not only had she grown taller, but her frills shrunk into tiny nubs on her head, while her tail grew longer as well. Ari was impressed. So that's what evolution looked like? Well, he'd seen it before a couple of times in Pride Rock, but only with the lions. One day...he'd grow big and strong like that too. But now Mac was ahead of him there! "No fair! You trying to get a headstart on me?" he harrumphed. "Just you wait, I'll evolve too and I'll be even stronger and cooler-looking!" He didn't want to admit that she looked cool, but she really did. "Wow, is that what you looked like when you evolved, Marie?" the Eevee asked a girl with blue hair nearby. The Fletchling just stared up at Mac with wide eyes. "Alright, who's with me? We're gonna go show these thugs why they can't mess with our world! Time to kick some butt!" With that, Mac jumped over the edge of the boat. Followed closely behind by a Wooper, who had a serious look on her young face, and both started to run as soon as they landed. "I am! And I'll prove I'm cooler than you too, even if you evolved!" Ari shouted, jumping off as well, followed by the Fletchling from earlier. "Come on Marie! Let's gooo Eevee time! And let's go Popplio--I mean, Brionne time!" the Eevee girl hopped in place, so excited she was she'd still say the same even if Marie had already gotten off the ship. Soon she jumped off the boat herself. Ari didn't pay any more attention to them, though. He was busy worrying about other stuff. Like moving forward and fighting. A Genesect had already started for him, but he struck it with his newly-learned Fire Fang before running forward, charging into another one and bouncing off of that one. He wasn't as confident as Mac was in his fighting skills, but he was slowly gaining confidence the more he fought. "They ain't so tough! Come on, let's keep going!" "Yeah, you're right again...for once!" Ari teased, before running forward into the next enemy. Things continued in that vein for a while until the Litleo found himself facing not only a Genesect on the ground but also one coming at him from the sky. Just barely managing to avoid a divebomb, he gulped when it flew back up into the sky and looked to be heading back for another round. "This isn't good..." he muttered to himself. "Maybe I was being too confident." It was at that point that he noticed a shadow stretching out toward the shadow cast by the flying Genesect like they did when the sun moved across the sky. Except it was moving a lot faster than that and soon afterward the Genesect found itself attacked by that same shadow. Which then shrunk back to normal size. It was then that Ari could see the owner of the shadow was a familiar Duskull girl. "Now look at what you did, making a girl of my talent fight like this, you should be ashamed of yourself." She said, yet she had a cheeky smile on her face. "Well, I'm more thankful than ashamed," the Litleo said, taking that moment to catch his breath. "Thanks, Kaitlyn! I guess you're not so bad after all!" He lunged at the other Genesect that had turned to face her with a Fire Fang. "Ha, I guess it can't be helped if you're giving the proper respect now." With that, the fight continued, and with the other's help, both Genesect were easily dispatched. As soon as the fight was over, Kaitlyn left him with a few parting words, bowing dramatically before disappearing into thin air. Shaking his head in some amusement, Ari continued moving forward, energy renewed. Even though the enemies were tougher than he thought, he couldn't forget that he wasn't the only one here. There were several gijinka out here, fighting for Adarid's sake. "Is this how it feels like to attack as a pride?" he wondered. "No...this might be even better!" Grinning, he used Return on one of the Genesect, dealing quite a bit of damage in the process. "I just hope that the others are doing fine too." -- Easter had had fun. Meeting new gijinka with Dora was an entirely new experience from meeting new gijinka alone. Normally, there would be a tension in the air, especially with males--they wanted something from him, he wanted something from them. Simple as that. It never usually led to what they wanted though, but to what he wanted. Which was to beat them up, especially if they were dark or dragon types. He had gained a bit of a reputation that way, something he could see reflected in the eyes of those he had met before. They were wary of what they saw as a beast in frilly pink clothing standing in front of them. But with Dora, he felt more relaxed, more like...dare he say it? A normal gijinka. Somebody who wasn't always thinking about the next fight, and how to instigate it. Now, when he said hello and smiled at others, he really meant it. It was odd, but not unpleasantly so. However, no matter how lovable the little Wooper was, eventually, Easter had to return her to Brooke and sit by himself for a bit. She hadn't wanted to leave him alone, but he had been insistent on it. Going down to a spot below-deck, he had just sat crouched in a corner behind a barrel, doing nothing but thinking. He might have given in and shed a couple of tears, but, shameful as it was, he knew he needed it too. At one point, he heard movement and saw Apanie looking at him, but she seemed to realize he wasn't in the mood for company and left. Not that she was the talkative sort, anyway. He was just about to doze off when his senses kicked into high alert. There was danger above deck. Immediately popping out from his corner--and almost giving the Rotom girl Jane a heart attack--he raced up the stairs leading to the deck, searching for Brooke, Dora, and Denku. At seeing all three, he let out a sigh of relief that quickly turned into a startled curse when Jane rushed past him. "Alright crew, get to your stations, its time to bust out our secret weapon." Captain called out. "Aye-aye Cap--" Easter cut himself off. Oh yeah, I'm not part of the crew anymore. Feeling a strange mixture of disappointment and nostalgia, he watched the Rotom head toward the arena where he had battled Apanie. However, it seemed to be multipurpose, as it split open to reveal a large rod, which the Rotom started to channel electricity into. After that, the rod released a massive charge of lightning toward various flying figures approaching the ship. It hit most of them, but not all of them. One had, in fact, landed several feet away from the fairy type and began to aim an attack from the weapon on its shoulder toward him. This is bad, the Sylveon thought. He had been taken off guard and hadn't had time to charge an attack. It's a good thing I've been working on my shield, he thought, clenching his fists. Before he needed to do anything, though, the creature, which he recognized as a Genesect, was struck suddenly by a flurry of attacks. Turning around, the fairy type saw a familiar assortment of Eeveelutions standing in a line. A mixture of emotions swelled up in his gut then. "You guys..." he murmured. We're not part of the S.S. Showdown anymore, but...the bond we all share is still there. We'll always be crewmates...is that it? He didn't have much more time to reminisce, though, as the Genesect began to glow bright white, soon after Self-Destructing. Diving toward the slower Eeveelutions and putting up his shield, Easter gritted his teeth. "You all right?" he asked. "Yeah. Thanks, Easter," they replied. One of them was John, who smiled at him. Easter managed a smile of his own. Good. This was progress. Rei, the Jolteon, shouted out, "Hey Cappin, much as I love being on this boat again I don't think it can take much more." "You're probably right there." Captain said, as more of those things got nearer and began to fire off their lasers at the hull of the ship. "Alright everyone!" He called out. "This is it. Brace yourself, gonna be a crash landing! As soon as we hit the dirt we'll be in the thick of it! Don't stop until you reach the goal and make sure to cover each other!" "Aye aye!" Easter replied. He moved through the crowd toward Brooke and Dora. Denku was with other gijinka at the moment, including some he hadn't seen earlier--a small Litleo, a Pyroar that looked like its mother, and a Helioptile. He didn't pay more mind to the group aside from waving at Denku so the other knew where they were. He could join them later if he wanted. The Sylveon also saw Vita, who looked a lot calmer now that she was on land. He stifled a chuckle at that. If she knew he was laughing at her expense like that, she would smack him into the ground. Easter sobered up as he scanned the battlefield ahead, where the legendaries had already started to fight. In his opinion, legendaries were more bark than bite, but it was somewhat thrilling to see ones he had only heard about before. Still, he didn't spend too much time on that, quickly turning back to Dora and asking her to remain on the boat before jumping off the deck, hitting the ground, and running forward. He attempted to stay near Brooke but ended up losing his focus when a Genesect landed in front of him. "I don't have time to deal with you!" the Sylveon shouted, releasing a Psyshock at the creature. He was at a bit of a disadvantage here, what with them being steel type and most of his moves being fairy type, but he would manage. Annoyed when the attack didn't automatically take down the enemy, he fired up another Psyshock but had to let it die to jump out of the way of a Techno Blast. From the color, it looked to be an ice-type move. "Gods," he cursed, "You're a real annoyance, you know that? But space aliens usually are." Running forward, he drove a roundhouse kick into the other's abdomen, following up with a punch to the face. The other looked surprised by his sudden attack but quickly reacted by glowing bright white. Cursing again, Easter jumped back and pulled up his Cosmic Shield, managing to avoid taking damage that way. "You look like you need help," a familiar Flareon stepped into view, the Manectric he mentioned before beside him. The electric type was currently using Fire Fang on one of the robotic gijinka and doing serious damage. He's strong...but I'm stronger, the Sylveon thought with a mixture of pride and annoyance. What does John see in him anyway--no. I'm not going to worry about that. "Maybe," he replied. "I'm not really suited for steel types." "Is that a pun?" John smiled. "Not this time," Easter smirked. "Well, stick around us. We can help." "Thanks, but no thanks," Easter shook his head. "You two should worry about yourselves." He fired off another Psyshock at a Genesect who had been sneaking upon them. While they finished it off, he gave a jaunty wave and ran forward, leaving them behind. "I'll see you both on the other side. Don't dawdle now," he grinned when he heard John bursting into laughter behind them. There was a hint of smugness mixed in. I can still make him laugh. Despite his disadvantage against steel types, Easter wasn't doing too bad on the field. Every so often he'd see people he recognized, though there were many more he didn't. Most of them looked to be holding their own, but sometimes he'd see one in need of help or outnumbered, and he'd come in to even the score a bit. One of them was that Krookodile he'd bumped into before. Blasting the Genesect holding him down with a Psyshock, he followed that up with a headbutt to the stomach. "You all right?" he asked, using Wish on the other when he noticed the ground type was covered in wounds. "Oh? Ahh, umm, yes," the other stuttered, a strange contrast to his intimidating appearance. "I'm good, I mean, I...thanks, miss." "No worries," Easter smiled at the other. "Just keep on moving forward," he left the other then, hearing shouts of "Whoa, I'm healed?" and "Was that an angel?!" Chuckling slightly, the Sylveon charged up another Psyshock at a Genesect who had gotten in his way, kicking them in the neck afterward. When they dropped to the ground, he ran past it, pausing only when he found himself surrounded on all sides. "One, two, three, four, five of you," he shook his head. "You really don't know when to quit, do you? Stupid alien freaks." This would be a perfect time for his Swift attack, but there was no way it'd have any effect on them. Gritting his teeth and preparing for a hard fight, he released a Psyshock at one of them, rolling out of the way of a Magnet Bomb...and straight into another one. Yet another one was screeching, while one was floating in the air, and the last one was aiming a blast from the weapon on its shoulder at him. Running straight into the one aiming the blast, he managed to avoid the attack by bowling the other over. However, he did not manage to avoid the multitude of attacks aimed right for him...though oddly enough, they also hit their ally, knocking out the gijinka in the process. "Guess you don't care about friendly fire, huh. You really are aliens, aren't you?" Easter commented, sending a Psyshock at a Genesect. "I might have to use that to my advantage." Running forward, he charged into another one quickly running behind it and using it as a shield from the others' attacks. However, when it began to glow white, he had to summon his shield again. And then, all the rest began to glow white as well, drawing the attention of several more space aliens. So, as the fairy type rolled back from the force of multiple Self-Destructs, he found himself faced with half a dozen additional Genesect. "This isn't good," the Sylveon muttered. He had already used up his shield for the next five minutes. It's unlikely I'll get through this next fight without serious injury, he thought. Before he could do much more than blink, an Emboar came charging through the middle of the pack, body wreathed in fire. That one attack was enough to knock most of the gijinka flat on their back, much of their armor blackened and melting at the edges. "Brooke!" Easter shouted in delight. "Boy, am I glad you're here." The rest of the fight went much more smoothly after that. Brooke had a natural advantage over the Genesect, and her attacks hit hard. While she mainly stuck to punching, sometimes she'd switch it up with headbutts or other physical moves. She fought like a brawler, a style Easter recognized. He was also a brawler, though one wouldn't know it to look at him, especially considering his move set. But his experience in the arena of Adarid had made him unafraid to go up close and physical with people. Though...I suppose it all started in Trailsau, he thought with some fondness. Not that he had stayed there after that initial experience, but it had taught him a very important lesson about no-holds-barred brawling. Fighting wasn't like any of the skills he had known previously, even dancing. No, it was a dirty, messy thing, and you risked your life further every time you held back unless you were sparring or in the arena. But this wasn't a spar. This was the real deal. Both he and Brooke had fought alongside each other enough times that they were able to avoid hitting the other in their attacks, something the Genesect did not seem to care about themselves, which Easter took great advantage of. When the fight had finished, the Sylveon casting Wish on both of them, he smiled at the Emboar. "Thanks for that, Brooke. You really came through for me." His smile turned into more of a grin as a thought occurred to him. "Hey, what say this? Why don't we have ourselves a little competition?" his grin broadened. "By the end of this, whoever kills the most Genesect...wins." Winking at Brooke, he leaped forward, aiming for an approaching Genesect and stomping down on its ribs. Throwing a Psyshock at it afterward, he smiled when it fell to the ground with a thud. "That's one down. Just several hundred more to go." -- Things had been going really slowly...and then bam! Everything seemed to happen at once. But that was how things usually went. The Raichu sighed, scratching his head as they were all told to get off the ship. What a drag. But he'd already made the decision to fight. He had to, for his ohana. Randy turned to him, Marie, and Nani. "Well...guess this is where the rubber meets the road, huh?" he chuckled. "I'm going to do my damnedest to get you three through this...just trust me. We're going to try and back each other up. After all, this little group is pretty much ohana now, am I wrong?" he turned his head, giving a huge smile now. "No...you're not, you big cheeseball, you," Keanu chuckled. That was one thing about Randy. He wasn't afraid to say cheesy or embarrassing things. Which was good, as it meant Keanu didn't have to say them himself. "Nani! Keanu! Heh...see if you can make sure Marie stays in one place. Don't need her acting more and more like me, am I wrong?" "One of you is already plenty. Give 'em hell," Nani said. "Yeah, go get 'em, tiger," Keanu chuckled before turning to the Brionne. "Marie, stay here. You too, Morgan," he said, noticing the familiar Eevee they had met in Northshore had approached the group to stand near the Brionne. She gave him a cheeky smile before putting on an innocent face. I don't trust that smile or that face, he thought. Nor do I trust that Marie will stay in one place either. He groaned, suddenly feeling much less confident in his ability to keep Marie in check. Why did Randy shift the responsibility onto him and Nani? Yeah, not like we'll be very successful at stopping Marie from whatever she wants to do. We were never able to stop her before, and I doubt that'll suddenly change now. By then, Randy had made his way to the edge of the boat, muttering to himself before throwing back his head and letting loose a roar. Shortly afterward, he leaped off the edge, landing in the midst of the battlefield. "Well, I did my job," Keanu shrugged, already giving up on actually succeeding in it. He turned to Nani. "What say we go and make sure Mr. Hobbes doesn't get himself in over his head?" With that, he jumped off the ship as well. "Fine by me. Muscleheads like him could use the support to clear a path for him," Nani followed shortly behind. "Don't get into too much trouble, Marie, you hear?" he shouted back before running forward. He would try to keep an eye on the Brionne later, but he also had faith that she could handle herself pretty well. She had shown him that much. With his speed, dodging his way past multiple Genesect to try to catch up with Randy was almost literally a breeze. Except instead of running away, he was actually trying to fight, so with clever use of the moves at his disposal, he was able to take down many at a time. Surf was especially useful when there were a bunch of enemies around him, but no allies. "Like right now," he said, crashing into one of the purple-armored enemies while riding the wave, though the wave itself had hit all seven of the Genesect surrounding him. Jumping backward out of reach, he released an Electro Ball at one of them...and then another...and then another. These guys are fast...but I'm faster. He proved that again when he got surrounded again and stopped them all in their tracks with a Thunder Wave. "Yeah, I'll buss you all up real easy," he boasted. Only to stop speaking entirely when several of the Genesect began to glow bright white. "Ka!" he swore, having to use Substitute to avoid the blast. Stopping to catch his breath, he looked up at hearing a familiar voice. "This sure is a first," Nani exclaimed, jumping down to where Keanu had been just before the blasts, before immediately darting forward into one of the enemies. Except for the part where her back bent further and further back before the girl had practically folded herself in half, sliding right under the enemy and springing up onto one behind it instead, delivering a knee full of sneaky spectral spookiness. "And here I thought something like this was only allowed in storybooks." "Nani! Thanks!" It was good to see her...and even better that she wasn't saying anything about his mess-up. "And I know what ya mean...this is almost like one of those campfire stories I've heard. Wild, huh?" he shot an Electro Ball at another Genesect. "But at least these things are somewhat manageable." He winced when he remembered what had happened not a minute ago. "Somewhat," the Mimikyu agreed. Using the Genesect in front of her as a springboard, Nani kicked off away from the thing, bounding over to a new target a bit closer to Keanu. "Though I'd like them a lot more without THESE!" To punctuate her statement, Nani slammed a ball of electricity - very much similar to Keanu's - into the cannon of her new target. "'Ey, good shot!" Keanu shouted. That was one thing Nani did--she fought smarter, not harder. Tossing another Electro Ball at the now cannon-less gijinka, he followed that up with a Psychic on another, lifting the robot-like person into the air and throwing them against another one like a bowling ball. "Guess my...training...paid off," he panted. He still wasn't quite used to that move, but he was getting better. But I'm able to be more experimental in my attacks because of Nani. She covered for him when he faltered, and vice versa. "It really does help to have a scrap sistah," he laughed. He wasn't used to fighting alone anyway. At least this way, their chances had gone up by a lot. Now...they just had to find Randy...and Marie. Because he was pretty sure the Brionne was out here now too.

Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy - EP 1 - Humble Beginnings Hello... anyone? Well, I suppose I can just put something out to cut my teeth for the first time in a while with this whole blog thing. If anyone here remembers my little 3D solid modeling blog from a while ago, that was indeed one of many things I did that may or may not have been successful, depending on how you look at it. But without further ado, let's do this thing, shall we? Welcome to the first installment of TharPG! My name is Thar and I will be your subpar entertainer for the moment. To start things off, I'll be playing Crash Bandicoot, specifically the remake - AKA the N. Sane Trilogy. Hopefully this doesn't destroy people's computers. If I'm gonna do the whole fancy GIF thing, it might be a doozy for some people, but hopefully it's not too bad. Anyway, here we are at the title screen. To start off, let me expound you all with some background leading to this: The original Crash Bandicoot game came out in 1996 for the PS1. From what I remember, that version was the first video game I have ever played. I've watched other people play other games before that, though the problem is while I remember clearly what they were playing, I have no idea in what order, so the first game I've ever SEEN is still a mystery to me. Nonetheless, Crash Bandicoot was one of the games available to us during free period at the daycare I went to before I was old enough to go to school and my parents were gone for work. Every day we'd get an hour to do a variety of activities set up around the area. Me? Shockingly enough, I was immediately in the room with the single 15" CRT TV on a rolling stand with a PS1 and 3 games: Crash Bandicoot, Motocross X, and another one I can't remember, but the important thing is Crash Bandicoot was the one I have the clearest memory of. In fact, it was around that time that my memories started to become more clear to begin with, as everything else beforehand was rather cloudy and uncertain. So with that, we have the game select screen: we'll be starting with the first game and work chronologically. I can probably expound more on the other 2 games cause I actually owned those, meaning I know a lot more about them by gameplay and nostalgia alone, but Crash 1 is something I've always wanted to play more considering I didn't really grow up with it as much. So away we go! ...this would be the part where the intro cutscene plays, but because my audio settings for the game are really low so I can watch other videos on another screen (and because my screen recorder wasn't recording audio anyway) I just decided to skip it, so if you wanna watch it, I guess just Youtube it or something. So we'll start right off the bat with the first level: Even for the remade version, this really brings me back. First time I saw this, I wasn't actually playing, but I remember this being the first thing I saw when I first entered that room and saw someone else playing it at the time. Of course, the only thing missing is the classic menu screen with Crash running up to the screen, screaming, and nearly getting hit by the title. It works, though, and does it justice, if not moreso. So now the first thing you must always do when you want to impress your friends that have never played this game before: Spin the crab and launch it into the first Aku-Aku box to break it. I have my priorities, and one of them is to always get that satisfying spin in whenever I can. One difference between this and the classic version, though, is that when you break an Aku-Aku box from a distance, it just sits there until you pick it up. Here it just comes to you, which is nice, but the instinct to just run up and grab it is nullified and kinda makes it feel... underwhelmed? I dunno, I suppose it's fine. Hell, it IS fine, and I'm just rambling. Moving on... So this level shows you pretty much everything you need to know to get through the game. Move around to advance? Check. Spin to get past the grab (you can jump too, but we'll get to that)... check. Jump to get over the pits? Check. Spin or jump on boxes to break them? Check. So now that we've learned all that, we also get to see what Aku-Akus are for. They're basically like magic mushrooms from Mario, but more Polynesian. You can get up to 3 at once. The first two are just free hits. The third one grants you invincibility for a short period. Excluded from the GIFs is me getting this third mask and plowing through the level up until I reach a fork in the road, but only one path actually matters here. However, I apologize in advance for the embarrassing moment you're about to witness... So after several successful attempts on getting this bit down but an equal amount of failures in capturing it, naturally I choked when it actually mattered. Thing is, actually, I thought I undershot the jump here and expected to fall in the pit behind me, but upon realizing I landed, that was my downfall (literally.) What's even more salt in the wound is watching the boxes appear one by one as I proceeded to not break them as I intended to. The trick here is to grab the invincibility, activate the block that turns the outlined boxes into real boxes, and just cross the bridge with the mask still on. Because there's a slight delay time between touching boxes and breaking them while you're on top of them, you just cross the bridge of boxes and they all break by the time you reach the other side... but obviously that didn't work out, and now all my masks are gone and I gotta do it the other, less fun way. Just jump on them one by one in sequence, each time tapping forward. This way is much more stressful and tedious, but it's pretty much the only alternative (in fact, it's probably how it was designed) to do it besides doing it with the mask. Either way, this is easily the easiest level to get the gem on (you get the gem when you break all the boxes in a level before completing it, though in Crash 1, some levels have colored gems where you have to do so without dying to get it. These gems unlock secret paths that make the regular gem impossible to get without.) So now that that's out of the way, time to go down the other path in reverse. In most cases, this is a very stressful thing to have to do, but here it's not bad at all: ...and there you go, first level complete! So there you have it! That'll be my first little section for this thing. Let me know what you think, and don't forget to WRECK THAT LIKE BUTTON, DEVOUR THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON, AND JUST DECIMATE THAT BELL! ...oh right, this isn't Youtube. My bad.

Jun followed after Melissa, pulling out her phone as the girl seemed to want to gather more people to go along with her plan. There weren't many people that Jun thought would actually go along with this thing, so she instead only opted to message a group of people who she knew would love what was happening. To: Duel Team Group Chat Hey there everyone! If you want to come and Duel some Monsters, then stop by Taylor Hall in 30 minutes. We got something cooking for these hat thieves! Find us by the army of skeletons. "And send." With that, Jun waited to see the return messages, before stopping by the entrance to the dorms. As Melissa seemed to get ready to go, telling them to think good thoughts for her, Jun just smiled and waved. "Good luck with your plan 'Lissa!" Looking to the other girls, she said, "well, it looks like it's just us, a bunch of skull servants and Koko's bat." As silence permeated the air for a moment, Jun looked to Gabriela and then to the skull servants jokingly asking, "think they know how to play cards?" Jun's ability to "think good thoughts," though, was momentarily disrupted as someone else came to greet them. Her facial expression becoming visibly annoyed as the fedora'd man made his joke, Jun simply said, "oh it's you." The girl seemed pretty dismissive of Souji before actually responding saying, "well, it's always nice to be able to skip class. But, classes don't matter right now! What does, is that we're going to save the day, and I guess since you're here you can help." She pointed to Souji's duel disk, "we're gonna need that though."

"You can sure as hell try, kid." He said, grinning as he turned back towards his teammates. He felt a drip of sweat fall from his brow, as the adrenaline from the battle left him to face the heat once more. He let out a sigh, resigning himself as he took off his jacket. His shirt was drenched in sweat, as expected from traveling so long with a leather jacket. He slung his jacket over his shoulder. It was a weird feeling, turning to someone cheering him on. Despite a few hiccups here and there, his adventure had so far been super successful, especially compared to how he did back at home. He smirked, turning towards the next town. He knew he had it in him, despite what they said. There was no time to gloat in his success, though - they had an adventure to go on. Plus, the sooner they got out of this hellish heat, the better. "We should rest up - dunno about the rest of you, but I'm itchin' to get outta here asap." He said, pulling on his collar. "Suddenly that kelp juice or whatever it was sound's pretty good..." He groaned as he started marching onward.

Thanks, man. Wasn't sure myself how I'd do this, but GIFs seemed like a fun idea. Kinda makes a seamless experience pretty difficult to simulate, but key moments seem to be doing the trick. Glad you like it so far!

Where's the bell? WHERE'S THE BELL? But yeah anyway, that was quite fun. That moment with the box bridge was incredible. I like how you decided to do this. Was wondering how a text LP of a platformer would work.

Role call for anyone who wants to specify how to portray them in my Marvel-esque fanfic set in NCM. The project is still on the backburners, but this will help me get a good idea for how to start/develop it if I ever get around to it.

Comrade Duck (Dad) put it in a way that I couldn't have said better myself: Depression makes small things in life seem big. That's basically how it's been with me for as long as I can remember. My life's not exactly the most interesting (despite how modest I typically am), but I often look back on some moments in the past and, seeing myself where I am today, it's pretty difficult to imagine ending up in the same place if it weren't for those moments. Some of those more major moments are as follows: - 1. Fallout with my high school friends I've mentioned and ranted about this several times here as well as other forums, but after some self-evaluation, I can pretty confidently say that this was the ultimate turning point to my depression. Granted, I was mostly at fault and I could've handled it much better, but I often contemplate that it could've been handled better on either end. Regardless, this was undoubtedly the most regretful and shattering moment of my life. I could go on a several paragraph rant about it, but it's pretty self-explanatory: I had an awesome group of friends in my later years of high school that I hung out with on a regular basis, then towards the end of senior year I ended up getting into a disagreement with one of them (we'll call her Em) that got ugly. Considering that most if not all of the other people involved were much closer to her than I ever was, which was a much stronger bond than their relationship ever was with me, they sided with her and I was literally alone with my opinion on the matter. Next thing I know I lost all of my friends and ended up moving to a different state after graduating. At this point I was truly alone, despite living with my family at the time. For the next few years I tried to reach out to Em to apologize, but she would block me on every platform I could find her on until she threatened to involve the police. Needless to say, this was the moment where everything before that felt tame in terms of the shock I felt. On top of turning friends into enemies in the course of a couple months, I had basically devolved into a stalker without realizing it. So in conclusion, not only did this put me in a dark mental valley, but it also made me even more introverted and indifferent to having friends outside of online stuff. Even when I make friends in real life and hang out, it just doesn't feel right and being with them is exhausting even for casual hangouts. 2. This site It should come as no surprise that this place has had a massive impact on my life, considering it's where I find myself socializing the most over the past several years. That being said, I've been a part of this community since 2007, not long after it first started. Granted I wasn't anyone special back then (and not really even now), but comparing back then to now is a pretty massive development. I started becoming the most significantly active in late 2011 after that whole shitstorm mentioned earlier when I remembered it was a thing after a couple years being away, making me log back in out of curiosity. It was around then when most of my activity was in C&O (rip), more specifically the YCMaker Ultra Hotel, where I met guys like Jake the Sage, Desu, Daemon, Striker, and other people I fail to remember at the time. Nonetheless, spamming that section pretty much sums up my experience up until I started writing parody shipping fanfics involving certain members, to which I had made somewhat of a name for myself. After that, I've basically only been known for that as well as a few other miscellaneous things, but as its significance began to fade away with time, I've just been here chilling with some of the people I've met during that time ever since, including chatting with some other guys that aren't even active anymore. Even though there may have been better ways to cope with my introversion, being here with you guys has certainly helped a lot with how I've been feeling during that time of my life, to which I am very thankful for. 3. Quitting alcohol Okay, so maybe I haven't quit entirely, but I've most certainly gotten more in control of the urge to get shitface drunk every night, which for those of you who don't know me that well was regretfully a phase I went through a few years ago (I've said and done many things that I am not proud of here at the time.) There was about a 6-7 month period where I had attempted to quit many times before relapsing, but it wasn't until the first of the year 2018 when I officially stopped drinking alone entirely for the next couple years. I think of all moments of my life, that was the most profound, considering just how different I felt not having to feel like shit every morning as well as not feel like my life is ending if I don't have at least a half-dozen drinks in me after work every night. I felt way more energetic and motivated to do a lot of things, including put myself out there for jobs that I never thought I'd see myself doing, even with a degree. - Anyway, thanks for tuning into my TED Talk.

I guess that's enough waiting. Because then you could capitalize on the types of clothing you love. Also because it comes with riches. My favorite RPG is UNDERTALE... but that's mostly because of emotional resonance and the writing. So I'll skip that and go on to second favorite. That spot is easily both of the Bravely games. I feel like they do a good job of shaking up a JRPG, while being both tongue-in-cheek and a normal plot. The voice acting is often criticized, but I actually enjoy the slightly hammy reads for the game, and stuff like MRGRGR is funny as hell. And I usually hate hammy. Least favorite... Unsure? I think games with no tangible progression system, like the Megaman Battle Network series, tend to age poorly, but they're not exactly things I hate, nor are they what I'd apply here... I hate YIIK as well, but that's because it kinda spits on everything good that games like UNDERTALE, Bravely, or even Octopath have to offer, all while telling the player/viewer that THEY are the one who is wrong. I don't really pay attention to current artists anymore. If I had to pick a name, it'd likely be a youtube remix or cover artist. No shame in what they do, but not sure it's what you were really looking for. I'd like to give special mention to those like RichaadEB, Lollia, or Man on the Internet, though. Yep! I'm Blake, and Blake is me!

I don't have enough solid information and knowledge on various types of government to comfortably answer. Adding onto that my opinion and experience is diluted by living in a country that for so long deemed communism the bad guys and the ultimate in evil for so long. That being said I think on small scales it could work. But people are greedy, and panicky, so the more you get the harder it would be to implement. Though I do think people need to stop using it as the "boogeyman" along with socialism whenever talking politics. 48