#Luna's Emergency Alert System

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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVI. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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ERWIN: 3) This has something to do with the warlocks and the Ordo Secundi Mortis – necromancer secret society, before you ask what that is. Remember in Core Magical History 101 and 102, the discussion around the topic of black magic being outlawed and made punishable by death after the whole giant magical war that caused the Porphyral Vale to split happened? That was the first iteration of The Ordo Secundi Mortis that started that shit, they spawned the vampires when they tried to wage a war on the Sages in an attempt to overthrow them. Their leader, some pompous piece of rich douchebag named Vladislav Straud, was fucking around in warlock stuff on top of necromancy, trying to make himself and his whole entourage immortal and rumor has it that some of them succeeded, but not the way they hoped. Anyway, when he was in his prime of practicing black magic, according to this book I found, Straud had a certain type of victim, sacrifice, whatever, that he preferred. Young, dark haired, dark eyed Casters that hadn’t been fully trained into a discipline yet: he picked out those particular physical attributes since– this is really fucked up– he liked the way they looked when their bodies were transformed into an undead state, and he chose the age group because their magic was more raw, potent, and unpredictable which he would absorb during the death ritual with a spell called “Vitae Sorbere” to make his magic more powerful. Plus, you know, the souls were still relatively fresh for his patron to devour at her leisure – not that he really gave a shit about the souls as much as he did the corpses, ‘cause that’s what he got out of the deal. He turned ‘em into, for lack of a better term, zombies: made them serve in his undead army, bound them to follow his every command, shit that necromancers moonlighting as warlocks do. Where the rest of the warlocks come in is that after the second iteration of The Order had to go deeper underground because The Sages and their army were winning the fight the Ordo picked and started threatening to roast their chestnuts over an open fire and made good on that threat with like 90 percent of The First Order, the other guys who were also doing sketchy shit that could end up with them being sentenced to a weenie-roasting joined up to boost the numbers of their ranks and keep them all from being put up on the Stake.

#TS4 Edit #The Sims 4 #Sims 4 Spellcasters #TS4 Story #Story Simblr #Sims 4 Story #(Semi) Charmed Kind of Life #SCKoL #Eliza Pries #Dylan Sigworth #Erwin Pries #Count Vladislav Straud #Ordo Secundi Mortis #Luna's Emergency Alert System #Love a good info dump lol #Exposition tiiiiiime~ #This took a long time to set up cause I had to make cultists but I like the way this came out! #and this is only half of his spiel so far lol the other half is still in script #This episode is gonna be a long one because of Erwin and his need to research

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Deception of Luna

Fandoms: Destiny, Destiny 2 Tropes: F/M, trauma recovery, heavy angst, light fluff, creepy whumper, cosmic horror elements, whumpee/caretaker intimacy TWs: flashback, explicit noncon, implied death of loved ones, implied misogyny

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        Lich-5 considers herself to be quite lucky. At least with her assignments on Luna; not so much with her loot. She speeds across the lunar surface on her Sparrow towards Archer’s Line, having just received a bounty to clear out the Fallen there. There are three of the usual crimson phantoms en route this time; each one cowers and screams in terror as her Sparrow plows by. To her, these nightmares are just nameless red silhouettes that occasionally make creepy noises; none of them are the slightest bit recognizable. The larger ones, the ones that appear as long-dead enemies rather than Guardians, have names she can recognize from her historical studies, but nothing more than that. Despite her own experience, Lich knows that most of her fellows don’t see them that way.

        The Pyramid of Luna is a nasty piece of work, to say the least. She would call it sadistic, but it would be improper of her to anthropomorphize such an alien being. The nightmares it spawns are drawn directly from the Guardians’ most painful losses; vanquished nemeses, outlived mentors, lost loves, and a myriad of others now walk again on Luna. In every case, their passing had left wounds on the people they left behind, and now the Pyramid has made those wounds fresh again.

        The worst part, Lich thinks, is that doing so offers it no tactical advantage. The Pyramid doesn’t need to crush Guardians’ morale; it could crush them all very literally if it so chose. This thing’s kind had caused the Great Collapse of humanity’s golden age; surely the Last City of today would be no trouble for it to exterminate. The only thing keeping them all alive is this Pyramid’s continued desire to bide its time. And in that time, it’s chosen to reopen their old wounds because it’s fun.

        The reason Lich-5 considers herself lucky is because she doesn’t have many wounds that can be reopened. She'd been resurrected just after the Red War, into a world struggling to recuperate, to make some amount of sense out of the tremendous loss. Her roommate Windy isn’t a particularly old Guardian by any means, only a few years her senior, but that still puts his resurrection date solidly before the War. She doesn’t pry him about it, but she’s aware that the majority of people he knew had been permanently Returned To Light by the forces of Dominus Ghaul. Windy avoids assignments on Luna like the plague, as do many of her elder acquaintances. She’s met Guardians who were resurrected in the Dark Age, now hundreds of years old, who have pushed on through every defeat humanity has ever faced since the Collapse. Lich herself recently turned three.

        Will she live to be hundreds of years old? If she does, how much will she lose in that time?

        She’s coming up on Archer’s Line now. There’s already some Guardian activity here; in the distance, she can pick out the dull gray bulk of a male Titan’s armor against the background of lunar dust. Ignoring his presence, she drives into the old K1 Logistics facility and gets to work.

        Clearing the facility takes under ten minutes. She emerges from the front entrance with her armored Warlock’s robe dotted with scuffs and splattered with Fallen Ether. Her bounty objectives aren’t quite complete yet; there are still a few Fallen skittering around the Lunar surface that’ll have to be dealt with. She’d think that life-or-death combat would be too stressful to become boring, but when that death isn’t much more than a temporary (if painful) setback, the repetitiveness of it can get a bit dull.

        Just gotta get it done, then I can relax. The rewards from these last few bounties should be just enough to afford that fancy new armor set she’s been working towards, and then she won’t have much to do until the next big crisis inevitably hits the Sol system. She’s already thinking of a few new science projects she could start work on during her extended down time; monotonous work like this does little to satiate her burning curiosity.

        The Titan she saw earlier seems to be approaching the K1 facility now. He’s welcome to loot the place if he wants; she only went in to get her bounties done. It’s nice to see another Guardian out here; the presence of an ally makes her feel slightly less alone in this gray hellscape, even if they don’t interact.

        The boxy silhouette of his armor strikes her as oddly familiar. It’s possible that she’s seen him somewhere else before; there aren’t an unlimited number of Guardians in Sol, and Lich has met quite a lot of them.

        Wait a minute—

        Recognition shoots through her neural network like arc lightning. Instantly, her every piston is tense, all sensors on high alert. It’s him. Why does he have to be here?

        She takes it back. Having another Guardian here isn’t nice at all, not when it’s him in particular . Lich quickly ducks back into the empty facility, taking cover from the imminent danger behind one of the large storage containers strewn about. She needs to be in a place where he isn’t in her line of sight.

        Maybe she isn’t so lucky. Of course the phantoms wouldn’t reopen old wounds, only for another Guardian to do it instead. Taking stock of her emotional state, she abruptly realizes how much she’s shaking. She forcibly steels herself, struggling to regain her composure while cursing her own weakness. Simply seeing a Titan, even if it’s him, should not frighten her to the point where she’s struggling to even function.

        Lich is ashamed to admit to herself how much sway he still holds over her mental state. His existence is a disgusting muck polluting the back of her mind; just being reminded of him feels like wading through a stagnant pit of human sewage, from which she can never truly escape because it’s in her head. Thinking about it more only makes it worse, causes her to sink deeper. She can forget him, at least temporarily, but then eventually something random always jogs her memory and she'll be back, trapped again in that pit of sewage.

        She considers abandoning her objectives and transmatting back to her jumpship, still safely parked at the landing zone. But it’s this part of Luna that needs to be cleared of Fallen, and that fancy new armor set won’t be on sale forever, and she really shouldn’t be so pathetically weak to let this get to her. No, she’ll stay, to earn her extended down time if nothing else. She just needs to calm down and wait here until he—

        “Oh hey, Lich. Long time no see.”

        If Lich had a heart, it would have stopped beating at that exact second. His voice, just his fucking voice, almost throws her back there all by itself. He’s so insufferably casual with his greeting, like she’s just any other acquaintance to him.

        “Hey. You mind leaving me alone?”

        “Woah, relax. I’m just finishing up these bounties.” Condescension drips off of his words like spoiled milk.

        “Yeah, well, please stay away from me while you do that.”

        His tone sours, sounding almost disappointed. “Well you’re being awfully frigid.”

        “Of course I fucking am!” Lich fumes, rage momentarily cutting through her fear. “What did you expect, that I’d be nice to you!?”

        The Titan pauses. “Well… yeah, kinda. I at least didn’t expect to be jilted like this.”

        For a brief moment, Lich sees red. Her trembling has elevated to a truly intolerable level, and she’s currently about five seconds away from drawing her Dawnblade on this man. She knows that getting violent with him would almost certainly end poorly for her, though. With great effort, she puts together a facade of something resembling calmness.

        “Look… I think I’ve got a pretty good reason for not wanting to see you. Please leave, and never try to interact with me again. I know I’m never gonna get justice, so I just want to move past this and get back as close to normal as possible. You’re making it rather difficult to do that right now.”

        “Justice?"  He cocks his helmet to the side in what looks like disbelief. As if he has any right to act surprised by any of this. She can practically feel him rolling his eyes at her underneath his blank faceplate, and it makes her synthetic stomach turn. “Fine, fine. If you wanna be like that, it’s not my problem.”

        He proceeds deeper into the K1 halls, finally giving Lich a reprieve from his vile presence. She turns to leave in the opposite direction, but stops short when she catches the Titan muttering a final insult under his breath.

        “Fuckin’ melodramatic bitch.”

        She whirls on him. “Fuck you, asshole!” she spits over her shoulder, still heading for the facility’s exit. “If I ever see you again, it’ll be too soon!”

        The Titan is mercifully quiet. Lich is almost at the door; just a few more Fallen slain, and she’ll be able to go home and do her best to forget that she ever saw him again.

        “No, fuck you.”

        Lich barely registers the Titan’s words in her audio receptors, and she doesn’t notice the suppressor grenade roll between her legs until it’s too late.

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        Windy’s day has been restful, to say the least. He lays sprawled out on the couch of his and Lich’s shared apartment, his usual combat armor doffed in favor of boxers and a tank top, lackadaisically swiping through the datapad in his hand. On one tab is the sidearm section of Omolon’s digital storefront; on another is a gallery of images displaying a nude Awoken. He lifts his can of alcoholic liquid from the coffee table and pours the last of it down his throat, sighing in satisfaction. It’s kinda nice to stay home for once while Lich goes out to grind away at bounties.

        Fuck, he needed a day like this. He’s been seeing less than his fair share of action recently, but continuously dodging Vanguard assignments on Luna has been anxiety-inducing enough on its own. After his first visit, he vowed to make every effort he possibly could to never return. The Vanguard had assigned him a strike against the Hive on Luna today, and so he had to call in one of his favors for a friend to take his place in the fireteam, hence his current position at home while Lich is out and about.

        An Incoming Communication notification buzzes at the top of his screen, and he quickly closes the pornography tab before answering. It’s from Phylactery. That’s odd; Lich’s Ghost hardly ever lets themself be seen, and speaks even less. If Lich had a message for him, she’d give it herself.

        “Hey, how’s it going?”

        The Ghost doesn’t waste any time on pleasantries. “Lich needs immediate evac from K1 Logistics on Luna.”

        Windy instantly bolts up from his slouched position. “Wait, what’s going on? Can she transmat out?”

        Phylactery is doing their best to keep their tone clipped and curt as usual, but Windy still picks up on the desperate way they hurry over their words. “No, she’s currently catatonic. We’re stuck here until someone can provide an evac.”

        “Catatonic?"  Windy balks. “What the hell happened down there?”

        The Ghost’s distress is evident. “I’m not quite sure. Lich saw something; I think we were attacked, but she still isn’t cognizant enough to give me the details. I felt something suppress our Light. I was knocked unconscious, and Lich… she’s not recovering. We need you here as soon as possible.”

        Fear grips Windy’s gut. Suppressed Light means that an RTL is on the table. He’s got enough dead friends walking around on Luna without Lich joining that long list.

        “It’ll take me awhile to get there; can you call any nearby Guardians for backup?”

        Windy can detect a wince in Phylactery’s tone. “No, this… isn’t the kind of thing that a random stranger would be able to help with. Might make matters worse, even.” the Ghost quietly speculates to themself. “What she really needs right now is someone she trusts.”

        Well that’s cryptic. He knows he’s not getting the full picture of events, and stumbling blindly into danger has always been more of Lich’s thing than his. He doesn’t exactly have time to press the Ghost further, though.

        “Already on my way. Just gimme like twenty minutes to get there.”

        “Right, thank you.” Phylactery seems relieved to no longer be discussing it.

        Windy is already in motion as he hangs up the call. He drops the datapad on the cushion beside him, then vaults over the back of the couch in his usual manner. He doesn’t bother taking the time to change out of his boxers and tank top before exiting the apartment; he’ll don his armor in his jumpship. The residents of this housing block have seen far weirder things than his underwear, anyways.

        Fuck. On Luna. Guess I won’t be able to avoid it after all. Dread constricts around his gut like a snake as he approaches the Tower’s hangar, a sensation that he knows won’t dissipate until he and Lich are safely back on Earth. For now, he tries to shove it down as best he can. His current priority is making sure that his roommate doesn’t get RTL’d; once she’s safe, he can go drown his worries at the nearest bar and put this all behind him. He distracts himself by planning out the route he’ll take there, what drinks he’ll order, who he might meet up with...

        As he’s exiting the Earth’s atmosphere, Windy briefly speculates that maybe finding a therapist would be a better use of his time than just getting drunk again, before he blasts off at near-light speed for Luna.

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        Lich-5 awakens to the sensation of an immense weight on top of her, as if she’s trapped underneath a boulder. She’s laying stomach-down on the couch where she fell asleep, being pressed down into the cushions by the heavy object above her. She’s in an apartment typical of one of the Last City’s massive housing blocks, although not the one she shares with Windy. Night has long since fallen outside, casting the living room in darkness. What little illumination remains bathes everything in an odd vermillion.

        The Titan’s apartment is small, but his couch provided an adequate place to crash for the night after a particularly wild bar crawl. Lich can’t get drunk, but flying her jumpship home while exhausted would be just as dangerous. When she proposed the idea of crashing at a nearby friend’s place, one particular Titan was eager to offer. He’s new to her group of drinking buddies, and so it struck Lich as unusual that he would so readily invite her over. Once at his apartment, she figured out his reason pretty quickly.

        Tucked away in her backpack at the foot of the couch, Phylactery sleeps soundly, enjoying a well-earned rest after a long day’s grind. Lich is currently not being afforded that same rest. The weight on top of her shifts around erratically, fiddling with something, trying to get it open. She’s nearly driven to panic, but her fear keeps her frozen in place. Just pretend you’re still asleep, her mind unhelpfully provides. Play dead, and soon the predator will go away.

        The predator does not go away. She feels a sudden spike of pain, and the irregular shifting of the weight quickly becomes paced and rhythmic.

        Lich can’t pinpoint when or how her view shifts, but at some point she finds that she’s above herself—literally. She’s watching the scene unfold from a third-person perspective, her disembodied consciousness hanging a meter in the air over her incapacitated frame. She can’t compel herself to move a single piston or servo, her physical form refusing to comply with her immobilized will.

        Long ago, in a time before she could remember, Lich had had nightmares in which she was pursued by an extreme danger, only to find her limbs paralyzed and unresponsive to her attempts to flee. This is a lot like that, only it’s not a nightmare; this is real life and the danger is directly on top of her. There is no chance to flee; she’s already been caught.

        The Titan’s head, now free of its helmet, rests on the couch next to hers. Despite the warmth of his breath, a chill runs through Lich’s system. She can feel his wet lips graze against her artificial skull as he begins to speak.

        “The Light does not hold its wielders to any standard of morality.” he whispers into the side of her head, where the ear would be if she were human. There’s a horrible wrongness in his tone, like multiple beings trying to speak through one mouth. “In the Dark Age, the Warlords inflicted terrible violence upon the innocent, just as he inflicted violence upon you.”

        The motion gradually escalates in speed and magnitude, pressing Lich further down into the couch cushions with an oscillating rhythm. Her pain briefly increases as the pace picks up, but it quickly turns dull, and a sensation of warmth grows in its place as her own body turns against her. He’s speaking again, those wet lips and warm breath directly on her audio receptor. He doesn’t pause for air as he produces the words, regardless of his physical exertion.

        “In Light, there is only pain.”

        There’s a groan from above her, and the weight slumps, ceasing its rhythm. Lich silently breathes a sigh of relief, although she’s still far too overwhelmed with disgust to really be relieved by any of this. She knows on some level that it’s only been minutes, but her dilated sense of time has stretched the ordeal into what felt like hours.

        The floorboards creak next to her, and the Titan exits the small living room, although Lich still remains effectively paralyzed. A heavy exhaustion has seeped into her chassis, now even worse than the one she was trying to cure by crashing here. Still unable to will herself to move, it isn’t long before unconsciousness claims her again.

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        Windy summons his Sparrow within the second he touches down on Luna. His stomach churns as he exits his jumpship, doing his best to keep his eyes on the ground and away from the lifeless red Guardians hanging motionless over the landing zone. The Pyramid must know this is a center of Guardian activity, and so the nightmares swarm here like some kind of macabre flock.

        He passes three more of the crimson phantoms on his way to the dot Phylactery marked on his heads-up display. He gives each of them as wide of a berth as he reasonably can, trying to keep them in his periphery while still steering the vehicle on course. If he looks at one too closely, there's a decent chance he’ll recognize it. He fails to give the third one enough room, and winces under his helmet as it wails at him for help in a voice he’s pretty sure he can put a name to.

        Phylactery’s coordinates lead him to the K1 facility at the far end of Archer’s Line. A short distance in, he finds his roommate’s distinctive hive-bone helmet lying discarded to one side. It’s not until he proceeds down a hallway and searches behind a storage container that he finds the Warlock it belongs to. She doesn’t appear to be in any immediate physical danger, although he wouldn’t think it purely by her posture; she’s curled up in a fetal position on the floor, trembling violently, the shutters over her optics squeezed as tight as they’ll go.

        One of the red phantoms looms over her cowering form. This one is clearly a Titan, and Windy can’t restrain his relieved exhale when he fails to recognize it. It does not turn to acknowledge him as he enters, keeping its blank gaze fixed on the ball of a Warlock curled behind the box.

        It takes Windy a moment to realize that Lich is crying. Her digital optics don’t feature tear ducts, but the anguish in her soft vocalizations is unmistakable. It’s a sound that he doesn’t hear often, but still far more than he’d like.

        Windy steps straight through the phantom towards his friend, passing through it as if it’s not even there. The spectral Titan’s body offers no resistance and induces no sensation. The thing recoils in a mimicry of pain, then disperses into maroon wisps as if it were mist. The instant it vanishes completely, her optics fly open.

        The first thing that Lich sees is Windy leaned over her, right where he had stood, offering her a hand.

        "W-windy?" She accepts the hand graciously, allowing him to pull her to her feet. “What are you doing here?”

        “Phylactery told me you needed an evac.” The somber concern in his tone catches her by surprise, and she briefly feels a pang of guilt for causing him to worry this much.

        Lich emits a single humorless laugh, barely holding in a sob behind it. “Yeah. You could say that.” She’ll have to thank her Ghost for their forethought later. She takes a moment to collect herself, brushing the lunar dust off her robes and trying in vain to suppress her shivering.

        “You didn’t have to come for me.” she tells him frankly, refusing to meet his sympathetic gaze. “I know how much you hate this place.”

        “Lich, it’s fine. There is nothing in all of Sol that could make me leave you behind.”

        For a moment, Lich looks like she’s about to cry again, before she closes the distance between their bodies and embraces Windy in a tight hug. He tentatively returns the gesture, protectively wrapping his arms around her back, and her hold on his torso quickly turns into a death grip. She’s no longer crying, but he takes careful note of the way she still shivers and shakes in his embrace.

        Lich buries her face in the crook of his neck, hiding away from the world in the rough fabric of his Hunter cloak. Her chemical receptors flood with the particles that cling to the garment; it smells like his shampoo and sweat and the dust of a hundred worlds, all composing into a unique odor that is very distinctly Windy. His smell is grounding, bringing her attention back to the here and now.

        “So, did the nightmares get to you?” he asks, tracing his fingers over the top of her fiberglass cranium in the way he knows she likes. He immediately withdraws his hand when she unexpectedly flinches away from the gentle contact. “I thought you hadn’t lost anyone.”

        Lich shakes her head gently against his cloak. “I, uh… I saw him again.”

        Windy’s blood freezes. Then the phantom Titan was—

        “Oh shit, Lich, I’m so sorry.” He suddenly feels very conscious of the way he’s holding her.

        Windy can’t forget the morning that Lich had nearly collapsed into their apartment, utterly disheveled after a long night out, and he had to delicately explain to her that sex is not a required payment for a male friend lending you his couch to crash on. Working through that day had been a painful experience for them both, although Windy has no illusions about which of them had it worse. Despite his seniority as a Guardian, dealing with this particular type of violence was entirely outside of his expertise. To his knowledge, aside from him and Phylactery, she’s never told another soul of what happened that night.

        “This fucking Pyramid.” he spits out venomously, staring out at the lunar expanse beyond the facility. That fucking Titan. Hate festers within his ribcage like rot. At the time, he’d had half a mind to bust down the Titan’s front door with his Golden Gun in hand, ready to vaporize both him and his Ghost. But Lich needed him more than that Titan needed a bullet, and so the obligation to support her had stayed his hand.

        With the Pyramid, though, it’s so much worse. Even though he couldn’t act on his impulse against the Titan, at least there had been some degree of hope there. With how utterly infinitesimal he is compared to the Pyramid’s world-ending might, he doesn’t even get the luxury of a revenge fantasy.

        "It was like—" Lich begins to speak, but stops short as her chassis is taken by a violent shiver. Windy can almost feel the intensity of the chill that runs through her. "Like being there all over again."

        His attention snaps back to her, and all the hate goes cold. His rage is not what Lich needs right now. Staying angry is impossible when she’s still so visibly distressed. He mentally reminds himself that this is her pain, not his; she’s the one who gets to have the revenge fantasy, if she so chooses.

        “Yeah. I... get what that’s like. It sucks, but the suck is ultimately temporary. You’ll get through this.”

        The pair are silent for a moment as Lich’s mind swims. She really wishes she could take his words to heart, but the memory of him freshly burned into her mind is all she can focus on. She tries to clear her thoughts by concentrating on the steady rise and fall of Windy’s chest, while her own remains eternally still. She reminds herself of what’s real: he’s here, holding her in his arms, and soon they’ll be home safe. The danger has long since passed, and was never even here in the first place.

        “I feel disgusting.” Lich voices the thought aloud, her gaze remaining firmly downcast. “I’ve felt disgusting since that night. I don’t know if it’s ever gonna go away.”

        Windy winces, sucking in a quiet breath through his teeth. "That… I lack experience with. But, from the experience I do have, I can tell you that it’s not true." Now he’s the one to strengthen the embrace. Through the heavy weave of her robes, he soothingly runs a hand up and down her mechanical spine, and is relieved when she relaxes into the touch rather than flinching away. "You’re smart, and beautiful, and brave, and you can be really really annoying when you want to be, but I still care about you. You’re the furthest thing from disgusting that I can imagine. What he did doesn’t make you any lesser as a person; you’re still the same Lich I’ve always known.”

        Lich tries to form a response, but words fail her, immediately getting caught in the knot that’s formed behind her speakers. She settles for simply holding Windy close, savoring the feeling of their arms wrapped around each other. Some part of her is still trapped in that sewage pit, but it’s further away now, distanced from her by the closeness to him. For the briefest moment, she believes with absolute certainty that everything he said is true, and almost manages to clamber her way out.

        “Y’know, if Guardians really are amoral, you’re a pretty good counterexample.”

        “Hm?” He turns his head towards hers with a raised brow.

        “Ah, nevermind. Symmetrist ramblings.” Windy can’t help but notice another chill run through her.

        It’s a long while before Lich feels stable enough on her own to leave his arms. When she finally begins to move away, he retracts his protective embrace, allowing her to separate from him without resistance.

        "You ready to head home now? I'll ride with you to the landing zone and fly us back to Earth. We can pick up your jumpship later."

        Lich releases an extended sigh, exhaling her residual tension into the thin lunar atmosphere. “Sure. Thanks for all this, by the way. I… needed to hear that.”

        He gives her a warm, relieved smile. “Don’t mention it.”

        Lich finally escapes from K1 Logistics with her hand firmly in Windy’s. While the Sparrow is intended to be a single-occupancy vehicle, that’s never stopped particularly affectionate Guardians from riding them two at a time. Lich and Windy share the single seat, with her clinging to his back, holding on with her arms wrapped around his midsection.

        The ride back to the landing zone is short, but both Guardians savor it. The red phantoms don’t cause either of them much distress on their return trip. Holding each other close, the nightmares seem just a little bit fainter.

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Fall Detection System Market Emerging Factors, Future Demands, and Key Players

Fall Detection System Market: Overview

Fall detection system alerts emergency services in case it detects accidental fall. It is primarily designed for geriatric people. The system comprises two major components: a wearable device and a cell phone. Once the wearable device detects a fall, it sends an alert to the cell phone; then the cell phone alerts to the emergency contacts selected by the user.

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Fall Detection System Market: Notable Developments

Some of the recent developments that may favor the fall detection system market are:

· Bayalarm medical, a key manufacturer of fall detection system developed a device called On-The-Go Protection. It connects with our 24X7 monitoring station without needing to push a button. This will help save life of users in case of a major fall.

· Similarly, Medical Guardian introduced Family Guardian, a fall detection system, that will enables family, friends, and caregivers to stay updated on health and activity levels of the user throughout the day.

All these product launched by the manufacturers are adding value to fall detection systems.

Apart from above, some of the prominent players operating in the global fall detection system market are Baxter International Inc., Johnson and Johnson, CryoLife, Luna Innovations Incorporated, C. R. Bard, Inc., B. Braun Melsungen AG, Integra Life Sciences Corporation, Cohera Medical, Inc., Tissuemed Ltd., and Chemence Medical, Inc

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The fall detection system market is anticipated to progress substantially in the forecast period. This is mainly because of the factors such as increasing geriatric population and growing adoption of wearable technology by consumers. Apart from this, rising penetration of smartphones is another factor expected to drive the fall detection system market. Further, growing inclination of consumer towards personal healthcare systems may propel the global fall detection system market.

Accelerometers and gyroscopes are the most widely used components in the fall detection system. They help in detecting fall and send signal to call emergency contact decided by the user. The increasing use of accelerometers & gyroscopes is wearable technology and smartphones is driving the fall detection system market.

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Artificial Intelligent is the next big thing in the fall detection system market. It utilizes sensors to understand fall intensity and address accidents more accurately. However, high cost of devices due to use of robust technologies is preventing people from emerging economies from adopting fall detection systems.

Apart from this, low practicality and acceptability of the technology among elders and limitation of device detect fall other than simulated conditions in the developing region is expected to hamper the growth of the fall detection system market. Along with this, unavailability of emergency service is also a major restraint for the market growth. Nevertheless, increased device capability and increasing number of artificial intelligence companies in the market is expected to offer lucrative avenues for the growth of the fall detection system market.

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#PHnews: DOH-CAR braces for novel coronavirus

BAGUIO CITY-- The Department of Health-Cordillera Administrative Region (DOH-CAR) has assured that major hospitals in the region are ready to accept patients suspected of contracting the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), an official said on Wednesday.

In a press conference, Dr. Jennifer-Joyce Pira, DOH-CAR’s Infectious Disease Cluster head, said the SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame de Chartres Hospitals, Pines City Doctors Hospital, and the biggest government run-hospital, Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), are equipped with facilities to extract samples from suspected nCoV carriers.

The Far North Luzon General Hospital and Training Center in Luna, Apayao and the Conner District hospital in Conner town are also ready for such patients, Pira said.

She said these hospitals have put up isolation rooms either at the emergency rooms or adjacent it. There are also transport ambulances, supplies including personal preventive equipment (PPE).

“We have requested additional supplies like N95 masks as ours is only good for two weeks, assuming we have three cases a day,” Pira said.

Pira said they will be distributing copies of the checklist and monitoring sheet of facilities, equipment, supplies, personnel, mobility to all the hospitals in the region.

Dr. Janice Bugtong, a DOH-CAR director, said all health facilities in the region have been ordered to activate their Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (EREID) fast lanes, ensure availability of isolation rooms, re-activation of their referral system and surveillance for influenza-like-illness.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rowena Galpo, Baguio City Health Services Office chief, said they are ready to handle health alert situations, having handled the meningococcemia in 2005.

“We have a system already on how to handle it... the World Health Organization helped us and we continue to update it,” Galpo said.

She said through the years, health workers have been provided with training on the protocols, case management, communication plan and even on obtaining samples.

Galpo also advised the public to stay home if they are sick in light of the expected influx of tourists starting Feb. 1 for the opening of the Panagbenga or Baguio Flower Festival. The festivities will last until the first week of March.

From Feb. 13 to 16, The Philippine Military Academy Alumni homecoming will be held while the Cordillera Administrative Region Athletic Association will be staged from Feb. 16 to 21 followed by the grand street dancing parade and float parade on Feb. 29 and March 1, respectively.

Protecting one’s self

Health officials said the n-CoV and other respiratory infections are avoidable by observing health and sanitation measures.

Using the acronym W.U.H.A.N, Bugtong said: “Wash hands often, Use mask properly and when necessary. Have your temperature checked every day, Avoid large crowds and Never touch your face with unclean hands.”

Dr. Thea Cajulao, BGHMC infectious disease specialist, said the wearing of face masks can help not only to avoid contracting the 2019 n-CoV but even ordinary cough and colds.

The health officials said keeping the immune system high by having enough sleep, taking in balanced and healthy and having physical exercise are good preventive measures.

The DOH-CAR has sent blood samples of a Chinese national who arrived in the region who has a cough to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine for testing.

The Chinese national, who has not traveled to Wuha, China where the n-CoV reportedly originated, is under house quarantine for 14 days, along with his two roommates, pending the result of the test, the DOH-CAR said.

The DOH-CAR assured that the region still remains free of the 2019-nCoV. (With reports from Corwin Lucas Golonan and Jephryll Jallen Epler, OJT/ PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "DOH-CAR braces for novel coronavirus." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1092346 (accessed January 30, 2020 at 03:01AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "DOH-CAR braces for novel coronavirus." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1092346 (archived).

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Illustrations and CSS wizardry by Dominik Johann.

 The Message was created with Love, Twine and this excellent guide by Anna Anthropy in a couple of days for Fuck This Jam.

 Partially inspired by this Tweet from paniq.

 We recommend listening to some space music while playing this game.

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We interrupt our programming. This is a national emergency. This is not a test. Important details will follow. The Emergency Alert System has been activated. The following message is being transmitted at the request of the United States government: ON 10 AM EASTERN TIME THERE WERE A SERIES OF SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT IN ORBIT AROUND THE PLANET. THESE HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED BY OUR NATIONAL OBSERVATORIES. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, YOU ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER, LOCK ANY DOORS AND TURN OFF ANY TELECOMMUNICATION OR INTERNET DEVICES. I REPEAT: THIS IS NOT A TEST

   Our probe officially reached the Pluto-Charon system on July 14, 2015, 11:47 UTC. Then, only 4 hours later, just before we would've received the next data burst, a fleet of unidentified spacecraft entered a low Earth orbit.

 It all happened so quickly.

happened so quickly

Ecco arrivati alla mia prima scelta, sono molto contento di come l’autore abbia saputo trasmettere fin da subito un patos veramente importante e incisivo,  mi sono sentito subito chiamato in causa e il mio cervello mi spinge ad andare avanti per capire cosa succederà. Per quanto riguarda la parte prettamente narrativa, la scelta sembra non banale, crea quell’istinto di pigiarci subito, anche per le scelte delle parole che fanno capire al giocatore che qualcosa è andato storto molto velocemente lasciando l’umanità impreparata.

 The space stations went first. Size and location in orbit did not matter.

 The ISS, Tiangong, Genesis I and II, military and spy satellites, communications, weather, navigation, everything. Even the thousands of pieces of decommissioned satellites and junk and space debris left by 50 years of spaceflight. Everything.

 Then every radio telescope on the planet just vanished. Then every rocket capable of escape velocity, and all nuclear warheads. And before anyone knew Earth was under attack, it was over. Technologically, mankind was suddenly back to square one of the space age. And on top of that, communications were gone. GPS was gone. SDI was gone. Even all that crap the Apollo missions left on the Moon, as we later found out - was gone.

 And then the fleet was gone, too. But they left something behind.

the fleet

La mia seconda scelta è andata sulla flotta perché durante la spiegazione dopo la prima scelta, si capisce subito che la tecnologia spaziale umana è stata compromessa. La domanda nasce spontanea: chi sarà mai stato? Alieni? Beh sicuramente si, c’è però un indizio prezioso, ovvero durante la spiegazione viene precisata una cosa ovvero che questi presunti colpevoli abbiano lasciato qualcosa per gli umani. Dal punto di vista narrativo, la scelta ha una funzione di azione perché appunto qualcuno ha compiuto qualcosa rivelando un dettaglio particolare.

A mind-boggingly vast fleet of unidentified craft, in dense enough formation to - for a moment - block out the sun, the moon, the stars.

 It almost looked like one of those very high and thick clouds overshadowing the sky, though very quick and only for a moment.

 The irony that, of all our crap out there only one then-secret spy satellite which would from that point on be known as IF-5O managed to capture a single blurry image, looking down on earth shrouded by billions of UFOs, is almost depressing. Remember those "I want to believe" crackpots? Who would've thought they were actually right?

Who would've thought they were actually right?

La terza scelta invece è molto riflessiva secondo me in quanto verso le ultime battute si fa riferimento al futuro, in cui alcune persone dicono che il gesto compiuto dagli UFO in realtà si è rivelato realtà, come se avessero avuto il potere di prevedere ciò che sarebbe accaduto dopo.

"I want to believe."

 "Elvis isn't dead, he just went home!"

 "I was abducted and anally probed by green men from mars!"

 "Global warming is a hoax!"

 "The earth is only 10,000 years old!"

 "Your vaccine gave my son autism!"

 They had a field day.

They had a field day.

La quarta scelta invece è descrittiva ovvero parla di ciò che gli alieni abbiano potuto scrivere oppure mandare come messaggio agli umani. Può essere un grande allaccio con quello che ci riserverà dopo il game.

A message. The Message. A message to every living thing on our Pale Blue Dot to see in the sky, forever. Although it was, strangely enough, written in English, nobody really knew what to make of it. Some thought it was a warning, others said it was a declaration of war. Of course, the internet almost instantly went crazy over it, generating endless discussions about hidden meanings, trying to decrypt whatever could be hidden in those simple words.

 There were probably more theories about its meaning than there were Moon Conspiracy crackpots back in the 20th century. Religions were formed around The Message. T-Shirts were printed. Bumper stickers too. People love this stuff.

People love this stuff.

Questa scelta è una delle più importanti perché ci fa capire che qualcosa sia stato inciso per sempre sulla luna, un messaggio, il messaggio che per qualche motivo l’umanità non ha capito e che addirittura alla gente piace. Questa scelta trasmette delle azioni, quelle della gente.

People started tattooing The Message onto their bodies, naming their children, pets, a public holiday and even whole cities after it. Soon The Message was used as a universal greeting phrase. Or, depending on context and culture, to declare love, or hate to one another.

 It turned out that people didn't care about what it meant, they just invented their own meanings, used it in bedtime stories, wrote fiction and made movies and video games about it. In fact, we still don't know for sure. There are still archaeologists debating about its purpose.

 And why they chose the Moon for it.

a public holiday

Questa scelta invece fa capire che di questo messaggio ne è stato fatto un qualcosa di divino, la gente si è spinta a creare contenuti multimediali ma soprattutto ha un ruolo come saluto universale.

The 14th of July became known as Message Day, a global holiday to remember all the lives lost by crashed cars and airplanes and ships lost at sea. People stuck in elevators. All effectively lost man-hours in human spaceflight. All our little robots we sent out there, never to return. Frightened military leaders with access to Big Red Buttons, who snapped at the sight of The Message, killing hundreds. The money lost at the completely crashed markets. Lost jobs. Lives ended by suicide.

 They thought the world was going to end. It didn't. But overnight everyone knew: We are not alone. At last, a common enemy. Something to work together for. On that day, mankind lost every reason to fight each other. Message Day is a day of unity.

 Though, in the end, it saved everyone, nothing could have prepared humanity for The Message.

The Message

L’ultima scelta invece mostra esattamente il messaggio, ma con la consapevolezza che quel messaggio sia che abbia fatto bene o male, comunque da conforto, ovvere afferma il fatto che gli umani non sono soli nell’universo e che appunto hanno un qualcosa in comune da scoprire e da combattere.

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Fall Detection System Market: Overview

Fall detection system alerts emergency services in case it detects accidental fall. It is primarily designed for geriatric people. The system comprises two major components: a wearable device and a cell phone. Once the wearable device detects a fall, it sends an alert to the cell phone; then the cell phone alerts to the emergency contacts selected by the user.

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Fall Detection System Market: Notable Developments

Some of the recent developments that may favor the fall detection system market are:

Bayalarm medical, a key manufacturer of fall detection system developed a device called On-The-Go Protection. It connects with our 24X7 monitoring station without needing to push a button. This will help save life of users in case of a major fall.

Similarly, Medical Guardian introduced Family Guardian, a fall detection system, that will enables family, friends, and caregivers to stay updated on health and activity levels of the user throughout the day.

All these product launched by the manufacturers are adding value to fall detection systems.

Apart from above, some of the prominent players operating in the global fall detection system market are Baxter International Inc., Johnson and Johnson, CryoLife, Luna Innovations Incorporated, C. R. Bard, Inc., B. Braun Melsungen AG, Integra Life Sciences Corporation, Cohera Medical, Inc., Tissuemed Ltd., and Chemence Medical, Inc

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Fall Detection System Market: Key Growth Dynamics

The fall detection system market is anticipated to progress substantially in the forecast period. This is mainly because of the factors such as increasing geriatric population and growing adoption of wearable technology by consumers. Apart from this, rising penetration of smartphones is another factor expected to drive the fall detection system market.  Further, growing inclination of consumer towards personal healthcare systems may propel the global fall detection system market.

Accelerometers and gyroscopes are the most widely used components in the fall detection system. They help in detecting fall and send signal to call emergency contact decided by the user. The increasing use of accelerometers & gyroscopes is wearable technology and smartphones is  driving the fall detection system market.

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Artificial Intelligent is the next big thing in the fall detection system market.  It utilizes sensors to understand fall intensity and address accidents more accurately.  However, high cost of devices due to use of robust technologies is preventing people from emerging economies from adopting fall detection systems.

Apart from this, low practicality and acceptability of the technology among elders and limitation of device detect fall other than simulated conditions in the developing region is expected to hamper the growth of the fall detection system market. Along with this,  unavailability of emergency service is also a major restraint for the market growth.  Nevertheless, increased device capability and increasing number of artificial intelligence companies in the market is expected to offer lucrative avenues for the growth of the fall detection system market.

Fall Detection System Market: Regional Outlook

Geographically, North America is expected to hold major share in the global fall detection system market. This is mainly because of the growing adoption of fall detection devices by the people in the region. Apart from this, growing adoption of the machine learning and rising inclination of people towards self-care devices is expected to bolster growth of the global fall detection system market.

[charmfamily]

(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 2, PART XVII. “THE HARDEST PART IS SAYING SORRY (WITH YOUR DIGNITY INTACT)”

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INFORMANT: [slightly garbled.] I don’t know how much I can say right now… hopefully… maybe you can find a way to get the most important bits out there while covering my ass… These corpses we’re finding in the tunnels, mangled, dismembered… they’re something undead, but they’re not vampires, we know that much– and that there’s no way to tell what killed them, initially or for good,  just by looking; we won’t know until we can get a complete and thorough autopsy analysis. Just from a cursory glance, there’s no distinct markings like you’d expect for a vampire or a wolf attack, no residual casting energy in the area either if a spell was used, it just looks like a mess, body parts scattered every fucking where. Do not leak this next bit to the public, I’m serious, this is just to help your investigation and it’s off the record. If you run your mouth, they’ll start mole-hunting because the intel would have had to come from one of us and I’ll be forced to cut you off, but…fuck. [There’s a heavy sigh on the audio, the garbled voice hidden by distortion also now muffled; the sound of them rubbing their face stressfully can be heard.] They… These are… every one of them we could ID on-scene  were active missing persons’ cases already being investigated and they all match a similar profile. Caster born, black hair, brown eyes, teenagers, all between the ages of 16 to 18. Males and females, there doesn’t seem to be a distinction in the preference for victims in that regard, but despite the fact that they’re from all over the place… Windenburg, Willow Creek, a few outta Copperdale… they all look like they could be related… at least… they did. I gotta go. I can’t say anymore. ERWIN: [whispers] Shit…

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[kansascityhappenings]

Pentagon chief: Broader approach to border security needed

EL PASO, Texas — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Saturday after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border that the government needs a broader, more effective approach to border control. He suggested the Pentagon might contribute with its expertise in surveillance and monitoring.

“How do we get out of treating the symptoms and get at the root of the issue,” Shanahan said in an interview while flying back to Washington.

Considering how the military could reinforce efforts to block drug smuggling and other illegal activity comes as the Pentagon weighs diverting billions of dollars for President Donald Trump’s border wall.

Shanahan said he was not volunteering the Pentagon to take over any part of border control, which is the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security. But he said his visit led him to question whether there should be a “wholesale redesign” of the way border control is done by the federal government.

Shanahan said the Pentagon is willing to continue supporting the DHS but wants to see a longer-term solution.

“I don’t want to just add resources and not fix the problem,” he said.

The Pentagon, for example, has agreed to temporarily provide active-duty troops to operate Border Patrol vehicles whose cameras can surveil wide areas along the border. Shanahan said this will free up the Border Patrol to do other important aspects of their mission. He said this is a function that could be developed more fully with the benefit of decades of U.S. military experience with ground and aerial reconnaissance and surveillance around the world.

In addition to speaking with Border Patrol agents and other leaders during his visit, Shanahan flew in a V-22 Osprey aircraft along dozens of miles of border west of El Paso, including two areas where DHS is proposing to replace vehicle barriers with 18-foot and 30-foot border walls.

Shanahan and the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Joseph Dunford, visited a border site called Monument Site 3 where a stretch of 18-foot border wall stands atop a huge landfill. They also got an up-close look at Border Patrol vehicles used for surveillance. Vehicle-mounted surveillance cameras can see as far as eight miles away.

During the visit Shanahan tried his hand at firing a couple of Border Patrol weapons, including one that fires plastic bullets.

The two border control sites farther west are on a list of high-priority projects DHS submitted to Shanahan on Friday to support its request for money to pay for construction of roads, replacement of vehicle barriers and dilapidated pedestrian fencing, and installation of lighting. The pedestrian fencing would include detection systems that could alert border patrol agents when someone is attempting to damage or break through the fencing. The money would come from the Pentagon’s drug interdiction programs.

One such project proposed by DHS, dubbed “El Paso Project 1,” includes segments of border west of El Paso, in Luna and Dona Ana counties, New Mexico. This is among areas DHS cites as known drug smuggling corridors used by Mexican cartels.

These projects are separate from, but related to, those which Shanahan is expected to pay for by diverting money that Congress appropriated for military construction projects. This could total as much as $3.6 billion, although Shanahan has not yet determined that the diversion is justified. His visit Saturday was meant to help him decide whether to approve such spending.

DHS has yet to provide the details that Shanahan says he needs before making his decision on the repurposing of military construction funds. He has said he is likely to provide the full $3.6 billion the White House is expecting, plus $2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program. Trump authorized the use of these military funds when he declared a national emergency to build a wall.

Wall construction would be done under contracts managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, whose commander, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, accompanied Shanahan on Saturday. The Corps has built 126 miles (203 kilometers) of border wall in the last two years — mostly replacement barriers, Semonite told reporters.

Democrats in Congress, meanwhile, are seeking to block Trump’s emergency declaration to stop the diversion of Pentagon funds for his border wall. The House is to vote Tuesday on a resolution to block Trump.

There are about 2,900 active-duty troops and about 2,100 National Guard troops on the border in support of Customs and Border Protection. That combined total of 5,000 is expected to grow to 6,000 by March 1 as the Pentagon provides additional support.

The border mission for active-duty forces began on Oct. 30, 2018, as Trump asserted that caravans of Central American migrants posed an urgent national security threat. Critics dismissed his use of the military on the border as a political gimmick on the eve of midterm congressional elections. The active-duty mission has since been extended to Sept. 30.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/02/23/pentagon-chief-broader-approach-to-border-security-needed/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/pentagon-chief-broader-approach-to-border-security-needed/

[orbitalkrp]

could you please explain the data roles?

no problem at all ! 

COMMUNICATIONS: the backbone of contact between central resistance bases & the squadron. they are adept at relaying messages, are hyperaware of emergency protocol, & keep a tight relationship with all the units. the info they relay ranges anywhere between holo-messages, files, or emergency evacuation alerts for ground units when the mission goes awry. you could say they’re the voice of the lunae division, & are always alert. in fact, aboard the lunae, communications members’ sleeping quarters are in close proximity to the central communications hub - a small, capsule like room with a holo screen & large interface desk.

RECON:  they carry immense knowledge regarding security factors & current technology used across planets. thanks to their sly intelligence, recon members are adept at fishing out information, predicting enemy behavior, & successfully entering enemy grounds without being detected. they are crucial to pre-mission strategies, as they are capable of retrieving info that will assist ground units in successfully infiltrating bases with minimal ruckus. the recon unit is usually responsible for planning out general missions upon receiving transmissions from the resistance’s main base, & are extremely calculating & logical, crucial to meticulous plans.

SEEKERS: seekers could be mistaken for recon - however, there’s a crucial difference. while recon are extremely sly, meticulous, & focus on retention of crucial information, seekers are disruptive, & don’t work towards retrieving information. their work runs with the destruction of info, with a relationship that runs deep with the infiltrators. this will be clarified later on - but infiltrators each wear a small wrist cuff programmed with codes, & holds up to three microchips or system jammers. the seekers, easily referred to as hackers, are responsible for programming in hack codes & programs that can easily be ‘injected’ into a first order’s ship system.

#orb:answered #admin:ade

[charmfamily]

(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVII. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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ERWIN: What I think is really weird is that, according to this newly acquired outside research, apparently this exact thing happens every twenty years like clockwork and has happened since the 1920s. Ten victims fitting the same profile every single time end up dead and dismembered, equal numbers of boys and girls, and then it quits for a while until twenty years pass and it starts up all over again. I don’t know what you make of that, but it leads our anonymous author and me to believe that this is some kind of ritual The Second Order is performing as an homage or whatever to the First Iteration and no one can remember it happening because of Sage-induced memory wipe fuckery being afoot, you know, so no one gets the idea that black magic is still very much a thing – or The Second Order is doing the memory wipe to keep themselves hidden, but either way, memory wiping has to be involved somehow. I know, “A dusty weird book left to rot in a non-descript moldy old box” isn’t concrete evidence, but if we’re taking anonymous author’s word for this, and at this point we have no reason not to, the bodies from these ritual sacrifices are always found in the Tunnels – which means while we’re down here, we could be stumbling across two fresh corpses if they're keeping to a strict schedule. That’s not what we’re looking for, by the way, what we’re looking for is any tiny piece of physical evidence that might have been overlooked by the Task Forces investigating this thing– any clue we can scrape up that’ll help me either prove or disprove that “working theory” or possibly, fingers crossed, crack the case wide open. We’re getting close, I can feel it.

#Sims 4 Story #Story Simblr #TS4 Edit #TS4 Story #Sims 4 Spellcasters #(Semi) Charmed Kind of Life #SCKoL #Luna's Emergency Alert System #Eliza Pries #Erwin Pries #Dylan Sigworth #Tomax Collette #Emilia Ernest #Morgyn Ember #Cliona Caligari #Emilia: Tomax can protect us! #Tomax: Boarding the struggle bus and Morgyn's not even using both hands #Morgyn doesn't even need Cliona's help she just likes to be involved in shenanigans

[charmfamily]

(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXV. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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[Rejoining the investigation already taking place in Moonwood Mill, we find Tomax playing lookout with Emilia while Eliza, Dylan, and Erwin sneak their way down toward the tunnels.] 

ELIZA: A working theory on who would do something like this and exactly what we’re looking for would be really helpful right about now– 

DYLAN: Well – [he has to pause for a bit, glancing around to make sure he isn’t being watched as they descend into the ditch.] From re-reading the dossier with the informant’s testimony, the victims were already in a state of being undead when they were dismembered – but the parts they found don’t show any distinguishing marks of a vampire or a werewolf attack, which a werewolf attack wouldn’t make any sense anyway, as far as the undead thing and what killed them all initially goes. The theories that make the most sense are 1) The werewolves that live here – or more likely that insane asshole Greggorius Lunvik acting alone – are killing newborn vampires that are trying to hunt outside their territory and are in the tunnels looking for victims no one would really miss, thus any vampire wounds would be already healed from the First Death and the werewolf or wolves responsible for the massacre of the baby vamps are just tearing the ever living shit out of them on sight instead of coordinating a planned effort. The scenario makes logical sense, but it doesn’t account for why the victims all fit a certain profile and the dossier did specifically say that the undead couldn’t be identified as vampires. 2) The vampires are killing young Casters elsewhere and leaving pieces of them in the tunnels to frame the wolves for whatever the fuck they’re doing – which also doesn’t explain why the victims fit only a certain demographic and it also doesn’t explain why they’re undead but not vampiric when they get ripped apart, so there’s holes no matter which one you try to run with.

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[charmfamily]

(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XIII. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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[Cut to the dungeon cell built into a recessed alcove in the basement beneath REDACTED Manor, Time Unknown, where a boy sits on the floor, his face tear stained and dirty, furiously attempting to use his failing magic to get any kind of service on his mostly-broken phone.] 

????: [Come on… come on, work. Work you piece of shit… Please, Fates– help me. Re- Repario… Rep– … Repario… Damn it, why is nothing happening?!] Rep– [whispers] Re– Repar– Repario… come on… Repario… 

[His shaking hands drop his phone to the stone floor beneath him, not just making noise and alerting anyone who might be listening, but it breaks the rest of the way, ruining any and all chance he had of contacting the outside world.] 

????: NononoNoNo– FUCK.

 [Now he’s openly sobbing, trying his best not to make any more noise than he already has, clamping his hand over his mouth and nose.]

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[charmfamily]

(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART IX. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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ELIZA: So you were just going to wait until we were here and it was already kind of too late to back out?!

ERWIN: Pretty much. [He grins.] If it makes you feel any better, you’re totally free to go out into the woods and look for Frogman if you want to, or just treat this like a vacation and do whatever you’re gonna do with Emilia that’s not crime scene related. Besides Dylan, I don’t need any help and didn’t expect any.

ELIZA: I’m not just going to let my brother wander into a murder tunnel – 

ERWIN: Per my informant, it’s not actually a murder tunnel because the tunnels aren’t the preliminary scene, it’s the body dump tunnel – 

ELIZA: You’re not going into murder tunnels, body dump tunnels, or Mongolian Death Worm tunnels without me, okay, the type of tunnel is not the point here! [sighing heavily, she shakes her head, reaching up with both hands to grip her temples – a feeble attempt to thwart an oncoming headache.] 

ERWIN: We’re not anywhere near the Gobi Desert, I don’t think we have to worry about the Mongolian Death Worm specifically. 

ELIZA: No, just whatever is dumping bodies in the aforementioned body dump tunnel… I know you have a dossier, email the link to me now and at least let me get caught up so I’m not the only one standing around not knowing what’s going on.

#TS4 Story #The Sims 4 #Story Simblr #TS4 Edit #Sims 4 Story #TS4 #Moonwood Mill #Erwin Pries #Eliza Pries #(Semi) Charmed Kind of Life #SCKoL #Luna's Emergency Alert System