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stories-and-chaos · 2 months

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Shrike: Drinks with Mimzy

[Hazbin Hotel reader insert as Alastor’s “darling life and death partner” Ace x ace relationship, both parties are moderately sex favorable.]

[One shot, word count 1587. Cw: aphobia, alcoholism, cursing]

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The day after Lucifer’s visit, you went hunting. Not for souls or deals. Or…well one soul and in particular. And you didn’t intend to make a deal with this one. It took some time, checking various bars and clubs. You didn’t know which ones she was likely to frequent nowadays; being an Overlord didn’t give you much chance to go bar hopping with girlfriends.

So it wasn’t until early evening that you found her. Sitting at the bar, clearly tipsy, nursing another glass of whiskey, and bitching to the clearly annoyed bartender was Mimzy. You watched her finish her latest glass. “Gimme another one a these sugar.”

“Make that two, cher.” You came up next to Mimzy and slid a bill to the bartender. He looked even more annoyed at the idea of there being two whiny bitches at his bar but he got your drinks. “Thanks cher,” you said with a smile.

Mimzy glared at you. “Ugh, the fuck do you want?” It didn’t stop her from grabbing the drink you paid for.

“What, I can’t buy my friend a drink or five?” You expected hostility but damn. This seemed excessive. Fortunately you knew the way into her good graces: free drinks.

“Friends?!” she growled. “You come here saying we’re ‘friends’ after what your husband just pulled on me?!”

You sipped your whiskey, doing your best to let her fury wash over you. “From what I saw, Alastor pulled you out of yet another situation, and told you to take off because your problem trashed the place.”

“Like those sharks made much of a difference to that tacky joint. If anything I did you bastards a favor, free demolition.” She laughed nastily and finished her drink. You caught the bartender’s attention and nodded to Mimzy. You slid him another bill as he supplied her with another glass; it was high enough denomination to cover whatever she’d had already.

“Maybe you have a point, cher.” Not really, but you didn’t want her to close you out yet. You needed her less hostile, at least for now. “Here, let me treat you today Mimzy. Make it up to you.”

“Oh you know just how to butter me up doll.” The curvaceous blonde gladly accepted. If she owed 50 grand to loan sharks, doubtless she had tabs at every place in the city that sold alcohol. Which made up the majority of businesses in Hell.

You drank sparingly, just enough so she felt you were having a grand time together. You had the bartender keep supplying her refills; he seemed in a better mood now that someone else was dealing with the sloshed demon.

You let her bitch about everything in her afterlife and responded with soothing noises. In the end, you wanted to know how much shit she was in. This was the first time Alastor had sent her packing; you weren’t sure how she would react. You hadn’t missed the pink mark on her back on her shoulder blade. It hadn’t been there the last time you’d seen your old colleague.

Once she paused in her rambling, you asked about the mark. “I never expected you to get a tattoo, cher. What convinced you?”

The drinks and your apparent sympathy were enough to keep her talking, especially if it was something else to bitch about. “Ugh, that. Had to get it for work. One of the club owners works for someone that works for someone that works for one a’ the Sins. Greed’s head honcho.” She sipped her drink, starting to slow down as she got drunker. “The Sin bastard likes to mark any Sinners working for him, like some horny creep.” She downed the rest of her current whiskey.

“‘Course if you and your beau were properly grateful. I wouldn’t be dealing with this shit.” She pointed at you, empty glass in hand, her eyes looking unfocused and angry. The bartender moved to give her another drink but you made a cutting motion. This was the first time you heard anything of this.

“Grateful for what?” You asked, unable to help yourself. You honestly couldn’t remember what she could be talking about.

She looked at you, black and pink eyes wavering. “Fucking, of course!” You could only tilt your head. “Jesus Christ, it’s been a century and you’re still clueless? It ain’t cute anymore dollface.” Mimzy set her glass down harshly. “Sex, Y/N. S. E. X. If me and the gals hadn’t said anything, you and Alastor woulda never figured it out. You’d probably still be frigid little virgins in Hell.”

Your jaw dropped as you felt a cold spike in your core. You actually had to look down to make sure you hadn’t been stabbed. No, it was just words from someone you’d still thought of fondly. The alcohol didn’t excuse Mimzy; if anything it made her more honest.

Has she always felt like that? No… you remembered her saying she thought you and Alastor were good together. That she wanted you both to be happy. Somewhere in all those decades between then and now, things changed.

She was smirking as you processed all this, glad that she managed to hit you where it hurt evidently. In the way only people who are hurting can do, she kept pushing. But she didn’t realize what exactly hurt you. “You’re probably both terrible in bed too. Lemme guess, you just lay there while he tries to remember where to stick it?” Mimzy kept going as you stayed silent.

As her insults grew, the betrayal of a friend gave way to comedic disbelief. You started chuckling, then you were outright laughing, pounding your taloned fist on the counter. It was a good thing you had finished your drink because all the glasses around you jumped.

“What the fuck is so funny?” Your laughter finally got her stream of rudeness to stop. The indignant look on Mimzy's face just made you laugh harder, your feet kicking in glee.

“Oh, damn, I’m gonna pee myself. Fucking Hell Mimzy! Oh fuck, I needed that laugh.” You wheezed and took deep breaths until you could look at her reddened face without laughing. “Cher, you got one thing right; I still don’t understand all this nonsense about sex. Alastor still doesn’t either.

But that’s never mattered. I’ll never understand why you people think that’s so important to us. Maybe we wouldn’t have ever done it. I doubt that but we also would never have cared. You and so many others are so obsessed with sex that you can’t even imagine a relationship without it! It would be sad if it wasn’t so hilarious.”

Mimzy blinked at you, confusion, anger, and drunkenness warring in her expression. “Even now, you don’t get it! Cher, you insulting us about sex didn’t hurt. You’re a friend and my friend thinking I was stupid hurt.”

You ran your hand down your face. “Mimzy, cher, I’m just going to back up my darling here. If you want to redeem yourself, you’re welcome at the hotel. But don’t come calling otherwise. Especially if what’s his name, Mammon? The Greed Sin, comes after you. We’ll gift wrap you for him before we tussle with a Deadly Sin.”

Pulling the bartender aside, you paid for her outstanding tab, along with tonight’s drinks and a generous tip. “I paid your tab here, so you can call that payment for that talk years ago. Find me when you decide to not be a bitch.” You tucked one of your feathers into her headband. “Au revoir cher.”

Mimzy snatched the feather out and crushed it in her hands. “I don’t need you or him. I don’t need your hotel! I hope those angels kill all of you next Extermination Day, bitch!”

Back at the hotel, Alastor was in the parlor, listening to Charlie’s plans for her visit to Heaven. “Soooooo, how did it go?” he asked in a sing-song tone once he spotted you. You’d told him your plan to find Mimzy before leaving.

“As well as could be expected. I don’t think she’ll bother us anymore. I told her we’d gift wrap her for whoever came looking if she tried something like yesterday again.”

“Hmm, but that would be such a waste of good gift wrap.”

Later that night, in your suite, you went into more detail about your conversation. You were on Alastor’s lap, venting your hurt and tears. “I know she’s gotten worse in Hell, that she’s been using you, but I thought she was still our friend.” He let you get it all out, handkerchief at the ready when you were.

“I thought so as well, cher,” he said quietly. “I hate to admit it but Husk pointed it out to me. We can’t have her interfering though.”

“No,” you said simply, drying your eyes.

Alastor looked down at you, that sharp edged smile just a bit softer than usual. “I think I know what can help you for now, my dear.” With that he stood you both up and started humming, a question in his eyes. Your voice felt a bit hoarse from crying but you hummed along, practice making you harmonize. Then he swept you into a dance.

After a few numbers, you felt up to singing. The two of you danced until you were tired (Alastor probably could have kept going but he didn’t have an emotionally stressful day). That night you fell asleep in his arms, glad you’d married someone that understood you like he did.

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A/N: this is more than a little self indulgent on my part. My frustrations with aphobes knows no bounds. Kinda prompted after discussion with a therapist concerning aphobia and the nonsense acespec people deal with. Never forget how valid you are. 💜🤍🩶🖤 💚🤍🩶🖤 Cheers darlings!

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yurimother · 7 months

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Dark Fantasy Yuri Manga 'ROLL OVER AND DIE' Volume 4 Release in English

On Tuesday, Seven Seas Entertainment released the fourth volume of Sunao Minakata's manga adaptation of Kiki's dark fantasy Yuri series ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Gachizei ni Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai) The manga is available in English digitally and in paperback.

Based on the light novel of the same name, Roll Over and Die follows Flum Apricot, a hero born with the unique affinity "Reversal" that leaves her with zero stats across the board. When she is prophesized to join the hero's party and defeat the Demon Lord, Flum thinks she will only be a burden, and, unfortunately, some members of the party agree, leaving her betrayed and sold into slavery. However, in her darkest moment, Flum meets the timid Milkit, and, desperate to protect her and save her own life, she discovers the true nature of her power.

The publisher describes the fourth manga volume:

Flum has triumphed over Dein and thwarted his hostile takeover. With Milkit safe once again and her scars healed, Flum can finally remove Milkit's bandages and reveal the face of her beloved partner. Things take an abrupt turn, however, when a child without a face of their own arrives on Flum's doorstep, and the ghost of a defeated foe is revived by the Church of Origin. Just what sinister schemes are lurking behind their pious facade?

Author Kiki began posting Roll Over and Die as a webnovel on Shousetuska ni Narou in 2018. Micro Magazine acquired the series and began releasing it as light novels under the GC Novels imprint in July 2018. The light novels include illustrations by Kinta. The fourth and most recent volume was published in Japanese in 2020 and English in 2021. While Kiki said in 2021 that a fifth volume is coming, it was never released, and the series is considered stalled.

In December 2018, Micro Magazine began serializing a manga adaptation of the series on Comic Ride. The manga is illustrated by Sunao Minakata, best known as the artist for Akuma no Riddle: Riddle Story of Devil. The fifth collected volume was released in Japan in August. Seven Seas will release it in English on April 30, 2024.

Roll Over and Die is notable for its mix of Yuri and fantasy elements. It is one of several fantasy Yuri works, including I'm in Love with the Villainess and Sexiled, that began as a web novel in the late 2010s before being acquired as a light novel and later adapted into a manga. It has received praise for its storytelling and prose but garnered some criticism for its use of the video game stats trope, violence, and gore.

Christine Dashiell translates the manga into English, with lettering by Bambi Eloriaga-Amago & Roland Amago.

You can check out the fourth manga volume of Roll Over and Die today in English digitally and in paperback: https://amzn.to/3EIM47u

Reading official releases helps support creators and publishers. YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.

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djsherriff-responses · 3 months

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Manga spoilers, or “How Dolph’s perspective of his own memories conflict within itself”

As well as other thoughts (please please discuss this with me) Note I only read the preview pages from Google books , which while has shown the most from the manga it’s only previews and thus I am missing huge chunks of context . Also apparently there was a print issue and they’re reprinting the manga to be on shelves for Match, talk about a doomed yaoi am I right fellas?

While it’s more likely the stuff that contradicts with the show (and itself) is due to the two projects being made in different paces , as well as just general struggles writing a manga spin off of a new property, it is fun to see possible narrative purposes that can be strung from it especially for fanfic angst purposes

Particularly the fact the manga is Dolph revisiting his memories

One of the story beats of the manga that immediately stood out to me was the differences between how Dolph met Alex

In the manga it’s either day light or the very early evening seeing as how Dolph walked past groups of people and families while wondering the beach city. After Dolph fails getting pizza, he makes his way to a bar called “Spark” and finds Alex, notably surrounded by people partying and being rather jolly himself

But in the show? Drastically different flashback, different tone even

This is clearly the dead of night, and the bar called “Prism” is quiet , or at least doesn’t seem to have as much as an active rave compared to Spark. Alex is a lot more attractive relaxed here, having a smoke rather than getting frisky with some other people who notably aren’t in this flashback. While Dolph was a wreck in both anime and manga, he seemed far more on edge in the anime version.

How Alex responds is also interesting in each version. In the manga, Alex gave him a smile which made Dolph blush before passing out. But that’s not what happened in the anime. Alex just looks at him confused and a little concerned before Dolph passes over. Dolph didn’t blush, instead he remained hostile until Alex caught him and asked for his name.

So what does this mean, besides that the manga has writing issues and it probably shouldn’t be seen as “true” canon?

Even after everything Dolph has suffered and experienced, he is still looking back on his relationship with Alex through rose tinted glasses, even though they’ve cracked they’re still rose coloured.

It’s also possible Dolph may have been given some kind of false memories ,either literally through his cyborg brain or just from Alex twisting things to get into Dolph’s head to control him further (Eden may have also messed with his head but just put a pin on that)

While it is entirely possible the anime flashback is the “false” memory , if we consider how Alex planned on using Dolph until he decided to betray him , the manga version of events seems far more palatable to get Dolph to stay loyal to Alex

Think about it, an old man picking up a barely legal teenager from a club surrendered by people in daylight is a far less creepy scenario than an old man picking up a barely legal teenager at an empty club in the dead of night

So it’s probably easier to view this manga as Dolph’s “false” and true memories conflicting with one another than the true story of what happened between Dolph and Alex

A barely conscious Dolph over hearing this conversation is likely one of the few “true” memories that exists in his head. It’s worth noting as well that people who suffer from abuse can develop issues with their memory, and Dolph was a victim of Eden abusing him from early child hood , meaning he was already mentally vulnerable when he met Alex

Speaking of Dolph’s childhood trauma, he was basically (unknowingly) sold to Eden

We actually get a very brief glance of what Dolph does remember of his mother , who is obviously not a blonde sex worker who Ramon probably visited at some point but a struggling woman who was given a difficult choice due to desperation also gotta love Eden having casual eugenics in its system

Do you think Dolph’s mother is still alive? Do you think she mourns him every time she sees his face on TV? Do you think she ever tried finding him?

NOTICE THE GLITCH ON HER FACE!? “They took everything” , he probably isn’t aware of this but I’m damn sure Eden tried erasing the very memories he has of his mother

Dolph is definitely not the first the person in Eden to undergo cybernetics enhancements. I seriously doubt Sarah became a full bodied cyborg Templar after Dolph became Captain Laserhawk, but this was likely a much more specific trail the scientists were doing.

While it could’ve been for some mysterious purpose we do not know off yet, based on limited knowledge I have atm it’s likely Dolph was one the first child soldiers Eden produced. Do make note that the scientist refers to Dolph as a test subject to be used and tamed rather than a human child and that Dolph refers to himself as property , Eden was testing ways to make children into tools to be owned

How much of these memories are “true” though is unclear, considering Dolph himself gives some confusing information

At the beginning of the manga Dolph states he was 4 when he began his training, but later on says he wouldn’t leave the facility for the next 8 years.

Meaning he would’ve been 12 when he entered the outside world

That hmmm, that seems a bit weird? Right? Like, even by Eden standards I’m sure that’s a bit young to let a armed child fight terrorists, or maybe Eden really is that messed up

…..maybe Dolph really did become a traumatised Cyborg before Sarah, damn

Still I’m going to count that as weird because I highly doubt even Eden could get people to ignore a middle schooler in their police force. Also possible Dolph just sucks at maths

Another note worthy thing is Lucy

Lucy is essentially Dolph’s childhood friend who is the daughter of one of the scientists experimenting on him. Lucy was the one who kept Dolph’s spirits up and gave him hope when he had none, and pushed him to keep going in hopes of becoming a “superhero”

A pretty damn manipulative relationship when you actually think about the fact Lucy is going to become Dolph’s boss when they’re older and Dolph has no say in the matter

The thing is, I actually don’t think Lucy was ever a real person, or at least I think much of what Dolph is remembering of her is fabricated , even more so than how he is remembering Alex

Obviously once I am able to read the full manga that point is going to be harder to believe in

But Dolph having a child hood friend who is always cheering him on no matter what? She just happens to be the scientist’s daughter and thus can visit him whenever? Lucy being such a kind and caring soul that Dolph doesn’t want to leave the facility and thus her behind? The notable lack of Dolph interacting with other children being experimented on? Dolph not knowing any kids showing symptoms of being traumatised and him and those children having conflicts because of that?

Lucy seems too good to be true

Until the part Lucy tells Dolph to shoot a kid, but Google books won’t let me read past this page so no clue what happens after

Based off of what I found on Assassins Creed wiki, Lucy was basically a double agent for the assassin to infiltrate the templars , only to decided to join the Templars for real and turn her back on the Brotherhood. Kinda interesting how Dolph’s “friend” back then had strong ties to the Assassin Creed games

Anyways before I finish this post I want to go back to Alex

Two things we learn here

Alex was the first person Dolph ever slept with

Alex set things up (a fight) to it make it easier to get Dolph to get into bed with him

So obviously Dolph was not some kinky bad boy before meeting Alex (side note but I feel a bit awkward about some jokes I’ve made about Dolph’s sexuality knowing the context of the manga now) and it was even mentioned in other pages Eden didn’t even let Dolph “have” a sexuality to speak off, basically raised to take orders. confirms my theory that “Captain Laserhawk” was for branding purposes not because Dolph actually lead a team

But also something far more important to address, Alex manipulated both Dolph and the situations that they were in order to get sexual with Dolph, a barely legal teenager with little life experience and who never had any prior experiences with that sort of relationship

Even though Dolph did consent, he had no clue what Alex was doing and was being manipulated by him

While I do think this memory is true , it does make me wonder if all of Dolph’s sexual encounters with Alex was this sweet and gentle , or if Alex pushed Dolph further into activities he may not have been comfortable with?

It’s really interesting to see that Dolph did comfort Alex sometimes rather than him being the one needing calming and that Dolph wanted a fresh slate in life. The poor guy was down bad from day one and probably would’ve shoved a wedding dress on if Alex popped out a ring

Really hilarious to see Alex get angry about Eden “fucking experimenting on kids” as if he didn’t just bang a teenage virgin young enough to be his son

There’s also an irony in seeing Alex be the revenge seeking one, though idk if that’s genuine or part of an act

Conclusion: Dolph doesn’t remember how events actually happened because people literally tempered with his brain and because he has a ton of repressed memories , Marcus Holloway probably should go back to college before continuing his therapist career and Alex is a groomer

#captain laserhawk spoilers #captain laserhawk #dolph laserhawk #Tw grooming #Tw child abuse #tw child neglect #tw abuse #tw child death #Rambles #not safe for kids #It’s almost 2 am I should sleep #Damn you hyper fixations #I wanna get the manga so bad but I want a physical copy and that’s just being awkward #Anyone who has read the full manga let me know any worthwhile information

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kotamagic · 5 months

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Lore Olympus is an unmitigated disaster this week, so let's get to it....

Oh, how we wish it was....

As we learned last time, there has been a hostile takeover of Olympus by Apollo with Ouranos's help, and Persephone seems to have gone from Goddess of Spring to Goddess of Winter. She tries to fix what she damaged, only to wear herself out in the process.

Ok, now I feel really bad. All of Persephone's friends planned a party for her, but when she and Hades come in, it's not the welcome they were expecting.

On the other hand, it IS kinda nice to see that Persephone's friends and allies are willing and eager to throw her a surprise party!

I appreciate that they are on the same thought process as to how this happened. I am open to the chance that it wasn't the deal with Erebos, but I honestly don't see it as likely.

Hecate isn't entirely sold that it was the Erebos deal that turned Persephone into Di*ney's Elsa, but she is willing to help Persephone ask Erebos herself on the matter.

....And then this asshole has the fucking audacity to call...

Even though this [expletives not fit for sailors] has taken over, I don't think he has everything he needs to keep it. He very well might still need a fertility goddess's powers to actively STAY in power.

Just because Zeus is down, it doesn't mean he is out. Even with Ouranos backing him, Apollo doesn't have the pull or authority that he thinks he does so long as Zeus lives. Hades sure as shit isn't bringing his wife to her r*pist, nor is Persephone going to go willingly. I suspect blackmail and hostages will be involved, and it will NOT be pretty.

Or, I speculate, Persephone may be forced by other means. Is Ouranos capable of pulling her from the Underworld? In the shots of furious!Hades on the phone with [purple asshole], Persephone seems to be fading in and out where she stands beside Hades. Is it just Hades' robes due to being so pissed off? Or is Persephone being teleported slowly?

As for this fucking meeting, I can only assume he plans to merc any dissenting deities at the table. He's already got 2 in his mother's dungeon, so what's a few more?

And Persephone's wrathfully red eyes have materialized once again!

Part of me is like "Yeah, girl! Mess this motherfucker up!"....

....

.....but,

...on the other hand, that might be a bad idea. It might even be what Apollo needs and is counting on to try getting a hold of her powers.

There are so many variables right now that we're not entirely sure how this is going to play out. Let's also not forget that with Achilles in existence now, the Trojan War is pretty much right around the corner. How will THAT play into all of this as well?

Anyway, thanks for coming to my LO post!

#lore olympus #lo persephone #lo hades #lo Dionysos #lo hecate #lo apollo

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dailyadventureprompts · 2 years

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Dungeon: Menagerie of Lament

Don’t let the howling of our collection bother you, as the canticle of our soverign makes a nest within your skull you will find it becomes a soothing resonance with the screaming of your own thoughts.

One of the many domains of the crawling king, this horrifying demiplane takes the form of a shattered moon and asteroid field hanging somewhere in the astral sea. Though lifeless and barren on the surface, the deep fissures and innumerable crags of these floating rocks have been hollowed out to serve as massive prison for horrors from across the cosmos, ranging from run of the mill aberrations to living nightmares to kingdom destroying kaiju.

While the Menagerie began as a sacred vault to keep the worst of the multiverse’s horrors sealed away, over centuries the order that protected it became corrupted, falling under the sway of the god of torment and madness and straying from their sanctified path. Now the Monks of Lament (Or Menagerics as they are sometimes called) deal in the monsters they were supposed to contain, selling them off to despots as curiosities or warbeasts, then turning around and using their riches to breed more horrors, or reward hunters across the planes for bringing them more.

Adventure Hooks:

After successfully clearing a monster contract or two, the party are approached by a group of professional hunters known as the Savage-Rationals who recognize their talent and give them an in on better contracts. Ornim, grizzled leader of the Rationals is a valuable mentor to have, as his hard won lessons will likely keep the party alive through the most difficult challenges they face. All is not how it seems however, on some jobs, Ornim receives orders from a pallid and offputting courier, and though those missions pay the best, the Rationals must take extra risks to ensure their quarry (no matter how horrible) is captured alive and delivered somewhere particular. Should the party get nosey, they’ll discover that Ornim has dealings with the Menagerics, and many of the creatures the party have helped track for him are still alive and waiting to be sold off, rather than being harvested for alchemical components as he’d always said.

While venturing through the cavernous highways of the underdark The party stumble into a caravan of monks guiding a reinforced cage, out on its way to be delivered to some tyrant of the deep. Both groups appear to be travelling in the same direction, laving the party in an awkward position: the monks aren't openly hostile and travelling along with them may provide additional safety through the world below HOWEVER, there’s no doubt that great harm could be done should Menagerics reach their destination, to say nothing of what might happen should their beastly cargo break free during transit.

Though shifting underdark tunnel and teleportation circle account for most of the Monks’ transportation needs, the largest and most dangerous of their inventory requires a special means of conveyance: locked into its own meteor cage and hurled at the client’s world through the astral sea. This delivery method is only so accurate which gives the party a chance to fall back and escape after their current villain delivers a one-two punch of buying a kaiju off the monks and then slamming it into the countryside outside their hometown. The Tarrasque does not qualify for free shipping but boy howdy does it arrive in style.

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williamkergroach55 · 2 months

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How Washington sold out Ukraine to take on Moscow…

Ten years ago, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych signed an agreement with the opposition Euromaidan to resolve Ukraine's political crisis. The very next day, the opposition tore up the agreement and seized power by force. Behind Ukraine, the American Empire wanted to take over Russia. The story of a determined war.

After months of rioting, sparked by the Euromaidan movement, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to reform the constitution, form a "government of national unity" and hold early elections in December 2014. The Ukrainian president agreed to pardon rioters and launch investigations into abuses by law enforcement agencies. The February 21 agreements aimed at ending the political crisis in Ukraine were signed by Yanukovych and opposition leaders Vitaly Klitschko (Udar Party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Batkivshchina) and Oleh Tiagnybok (Svoboda Nationalist Party) in the presence of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and Eric Fournier, Director of the Continental Europe Department at the French Foreign Ministry. The day after the agreement, on February 22, 2014, the buildings of the presidential administration, the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers were stormed by violent demonstrators. Maidan leaders appointed Oleksandr Turchynov as head of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, in violation of the country's constitution. Yanukovych was ousted. Speaking on television from Kharkiv, Yanukovych refused to resign: "I am a legally elected president. What is happening is blatant vandalism, banditry and a coup d'état", he declared. Nevertheless, EU leaders immediately declared that they would work with Ukraine's "new government", sweeping aside the agreements they had just secured the day before. February 2014. Yanukovych left Ukraine and fled to Russia.

Washington was behind the coup

Officially, the opposition was supported by the Europeans, but as Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in 2015, "We knew perfectly well that the real puppeteers were our American partners and friends."

In early February 2014, an intercepted conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on her father's side, and US Ambassador to Ukraine, now US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources since 2022, Geoffrey Pyatt, spoke of bringing opposition leader Arseniy Yatseniouk to power, and putting Tiagnybok and Klitschko "on the sidelines". Nuland dropped: "Fuck the EU…" On February 27, 2014, Yatseniouk was appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine. Klitschko became mayor of Kiev on June 5, 2014. Tiagnybok was kept out of government.

Russia was the target.

After the coup, Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government brutally repressed its political opponents, promoting an openly Russophobic agenda, and sent the army against civilians in the Donbass, opposed to the coup against legitimate President Yanukovych. Larry Johnson, a former CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, believes that the West had simply decided to take control of Russia and its formidable natural wealth. "They were looking for a long-term strategy to isolate Russia. And the key to that was to get Ukraine into NATO, into the EU, and thus isolate Russia." At least, American strategists thought they could isolate Russia.

Broken agreements

Russia had hoped to put an end to the bloodshed in the Donbass thanks to the Minsk agreements. The Minska Protocol was signed on September 5, 2014 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with the aim of ending the war in Donbass. The agreements called for a cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, the release of prisoners of war and constitutional reform in Ukraine to grant autonomy to the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President François Hollande have since acknowledged that the Minsk agreements were maneuvers to buy time to arm and train the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, himself, admitted in an interview with Spiegel in February 2023 that he had never intended to observe the Minsk agreements; nor had the Euromaidan putchists intended to respect the agreements signed on February 21, 2014 with President Viktor Yanukovych.

Washington wants war.

The United States could have refused to integrate Ukraine into NATO, refrained from conducting military exercises with Ukraine, reopened discussions with Moscow on reviving the ABM Treaty and the INF Treaty on intermediate nuclear forces. The ABM Treaty (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) was signed in 1972 between the United States and the Soviet Union. The aim of this treaty was to limit the deployment of missile defense systems in order to discourage an arms race in this field. Both parties undertook to deploy only a limited number of missile defense systems, thus limiting the possibility of defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), signed in 1987 between the USA and the Soviet Union, prohibited the production, stockpiling and deployment of ballistic and land-based cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. This was a key element in reducing tensions during the Cold War, as it prohibited the deployment of an entire class of short- and medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe. These two treaties were seen as pillars of strategic stability between the USA and the Soviet Union, then Russia after the dissolution of the USSR. However, in 2002, under the George W. Bush administration, the United States announced its unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty. The development of missile defense systems resumed. Similarly, in 2019, under Donald Trump's first term in office, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the INF Treaty. Russia announced its own withdrawal from the INF Treaty, and arms control no longer existed. President Biden repeatedly voiced his opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, claiming that it would increase Europe's energy dependence on Russia and weaken Europe's "energy security". The United States has threatened sanctions against companies and entities involved in the pipeline's construction, as well as against countries supporting the project. On February 6, 2022, at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US President Joe Biden warned: "If Russia invaded Ukraine, there would be no Nordstream 2. We will stop it. Asked how he would go about it, he replied, "I promise you we'll be able to do it." The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines actually took place on September 26, 2022 in the Baltic Sea, resulting in major gas leaks. The first, on Nord Stream 2, was discovered southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. Several hours later, two further leaks were discovered on Nord Stream 1 to the north-east of the island. This was a deliberate act, as traces of explosives had been found. In an article published on his blog on February 8, 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh asserts that the USA and Norway are behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, citing a single anonymous source with direct knowledge of operational planning.

The Russian Bear is patient.

Russia has always been open to negotiations. Moscow has maintained a dialogue with the Poroshenko and Zelensky governments to implement the Minsk agreements in order to respect the rights of Ukraine's Russian speakers while preserving the nation's territorial integrity. Petro Poroshenko's government was in office in Ukraine from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019. Poroshenko was elected President of Ukraine in May 2014, succeeding Viktor Yanukovych who had fled to Russia. As for Volodymyr Zelensky's government, it has been in office since May 20, 2019. Zelensky won the Ukrainian presidential election in April 2019, succeeding Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine. His government was formed shortly after his presidential inauguration and remains in office to this day. The Western press is silent on the fact that, before launching the military operation in Ukraine, Moscow sought to conclude agreements with the USA and NATO to ensure common European security. Draft agreements providing for NATO guarantees against eastward expansion and for Ukraine's neutral status were deliberately ignored by Washington, Brussels and, of course, the NATO leadership.

A month after the start of the special military operation, Russian and Ukrainian representatives signed preliminary peace agreements in Istanbul in March 2022. Davyd Arakhamia, who headed the Ukrainian delegation at the March 2022 Istanbul talks with Russia, told Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 in November 2023 that Moscow was ready to end the conflict if Ukraine committed to neutrality and refused to join NATO. However, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson forced President Volodymyr Zelensky to fight to the bitter end. Ex-Prime Minister Johnson was backed by European Commission Vice-President Josep Borrell Fontelles, in April 2022, who promised hundreds of millions of euros for Kiev: "This war will be won on the battlefield", he tweeted… US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared that Washington wanted to see "Russia weakened." The U.S. has spent over $100 billion, the European Union has given around €85 billion, to support Ukraine's military effort. The result is inconclusive.

[email protected] Source : Ekaterina Blinova https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/euromaidan-was-part-of-wests-proxy-war-against-russia--cia-

#ukraine #russo ukrainian war #biden administration #george bush #victoria nuland #euromaidan

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saltminerising · 8 months

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fr users reading challenge: impossible

it takes 5 seconds to click on lair/hibden at the top of the dragon page to check the tab description. it also doesn’t take long to check someone’s profile on sales info for dragons not deliberately posted for sale on ah/forums/discord. you can pm someone right on their profile anyway. yet for some reason i STILL get ppl pming over not-for-sale dragons. one pm even had a junk item attached to it, forcing me to take it out and essentially let the other person know i’ve read their pm before i can delete it. these aren’t the panicked user trying to get back a dragon they accidentally sold either.

i’m gonna be very honest here, no matter how polite these pms are, it still comes off as incredibly rude since the other party apparently decided that their want for the dragon is more important than my needs or whatever i’ve tried communicating through my profile and went ahead anyway. the baffling thing is that it’s apparently common enough that folks just get straight up hostile over this on their profiles (very valid tbh). i think they might be on to something here if my attempts at politely communicating boundaries is clearly not getting to these people… it’s also not just one pm but several from various users over a period of time.

*sigh* this would be less of an issue if we could block or restrict pms/any 1-to-1 player communications so pms from random strangers asking for my nfs dragons won’t even go through and THEY KNOW IT. i know i can just block them if they get persistent but it’s not quite the same feature i want for this. i do not want to see or receive those pms in the first place. i also don’t want the other user to get mad at me over ‘ghosting’ bc they can’t be bothered to read my profile and so i can’t be bothered to read their pm.

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haggishlyhagging · 10 months

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“This individual woman is a fiction—as is her will—since individuality is precisely what women are denied when they are defined and used as a sex class. As long as issues of female sexual and reproductive destiny are posed as if they are resolved by individuals as individuals, there is no way to confront the actual conditions that perpetuate the sexual exploitation of women. Women by definition are condemned to a predetermined status, role, and function. In terms of prostitution, Josephine Butler, a nineteenth-century crusader against prostitution, explained the obvious implications of its sex-based nature:

My principle has always been to let individuals alone, not to pursue them with any outward punishment, nor drive them out of any place so long as they behave decently, but to attack organized prostitution, that is when a third party, activated by the desire of making money, sets up a house in which women are sold to men.

This is the opposite of what the state does when prostitution is illegal: the state harasses and persecutes individual prostitutes and leaves the institutions and the powerful who profit from them alone. It does this because it is accepted that prostitution expresses the will of the prostitute, and that therefore punishing her is the proper expression of hostility toward prostitution. It is precisely this notion of individual responsibility (when in fact there is only a class-determined behavior) that perpetuates prostitution and protects the profits and power of those who sell women to men. Feminists, unlike the state, go after the institutions and the powerful, not the individual women, because feminists recognize above all that the prostitute is created by material conditions outside herself. In the new prostitution of reproduction, which is just beginning to unfold, the third party that will develop the female population for sale will be the scientist or doctor. He is a new kind of pimp, but he is not a new enemy of women. The formidable institutions of scientific research institutes and medical hospitals will be the new houses out of which women are sold to men: the use of their wombs for money.”

-Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

#andrea dworkin #anti prostitution #Josephine butler #female oppression #anti surrogacy

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medusacomplex · 9 months

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very generic space au notes (or brainstorming really, this is super open to changing and i might decide on a totally different route if i think one up bc i don't think i'm sold on this entirely lol):

nancy was fascinated by the stars from a young age, but terrified – when it came to her interests, though she held this loose awe-struck desire to investigate the unknown, she found it often too large and too abstract to feel at ease with. she opted instead for the natural world, predators of any sort, sharks and bears and humans alike. a great many things she could touch and see and feel. for that outside of her world, she harbored a reverence, disguised at times as a disinterest.

i think on the opposite side of things, mike was probably more of the space-inclined type between the two of them – verse dependent regarding whether space travel is new or well-established within society, but i think whenever it's developed the party is ecstatic and talk about it nonstop. nancy sort of plays the cool older sister rolling her eyes at the whole thing role.

typical e.t. fashion, jane is an alien i think in this situation – not from this neck o' the woods. she lands, makes a whole fuss, if space travel is normal then perhaps it's because she's from a planet which is hostile towards earth or vice versa and therefore, whatever the reason, the us govt is trying to track them down.

in terms of barb ... i think getting caught up in a govt vs. aliens sort of deal ... nancy thinks it's likely she's still alive, because will was abducted, and they all seem to believe they can get to him and get him back, but eventually nancy finds barb wasn't that lucky, really. she was killed by govt agents searching for jane, a casualty in the process. in the aftermath, they cover up the death, and only nancy advocates for the truth – govt agents are determined to keep the cover that barb was a victim of alien abduction, a way of antagonizing their enemy and shrugging off the blame.

while teamed up with jonathan prior to the resolution of everything, i think she and him find some kind of ship or something. it's probably mechanically fucked and needs salvaging, so they start working on it (calling a little on the ingenuity they started to promise us in s1 with jancy because i loved so much the idea of them building those traps, and i think in theory it kind of works that they might be building something more than that). jon thinks it's a little silly maybe, but at the time nancy is dedicated to getting it working because it would mean she's a step closer to finding barb. when all is said and done i think she continues working on it because she is so horrified and alone by the fact that barb is gone, that everyone's pretending it was something it wasn't, that no one seems to care.

once the ship is done, once she's graduated from school, once she's generally able to leave hawkins – she ventures out! and i think ends up in space, with an interest in chronicling her time out there and seeking a sense of closure for barb that she wasn't able to get. she focuses on govt corruption and is a strong advocate in exposing the less-than-savory ways in which earth handles intergalactic politics.

#▌ ⁑╰ au. generic space. ∎ ჻ ʇuǝƃɹǝʌᴉp .#i dont think the motivations make sense here #and the logistics are iffy #eh. trying to give bare bones

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crazysodomite · 6 months

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Thief deadly shadows long post

Its a good game. worth playing but sadly dragged down by its limitations. i think it stands alongside the first 2 games. The graphics. They're okay and I'm not picky. The cutscenes generally look fine except the parts where we see in-game models talking. Showing Garretts face with a pretty ugly model and lipsync was a bad decision in my opinion. The drawn/painted ones are very good. The REAL fun starts with the lighting. The thief formula greatly benefits from more robust lighting mechanics and my only complaint is that they didn't take it a step further because of console-related and time constraints. New enemies who carry light sources, lightning exposing you to enemies, seeing enemies by their shadow only, and so on and so forth. It tickled my mind to imagine all the different stuff you could do on a thief mission with light and shadow and it's sad we don't get another game that truly squeezes as much as possible out of this. They did a good job and I was greatly satisfied. The third person perspective is probably the worst decision they made for this game. I firmly believe thief needs to be played from 1st person and so many mechanics Depend on it !!! The rope arrow, leaning, blackjacking and so on. The worst part is that you can't ignore the 3rd person view because it actively hinders 1st person gameplay. Your model doesn't rotate when you turn your view so when you move there's this annoying delay. The rope arrow had to be scrapped for the gloves and your model gets stuck and starts floating without a way to get unstuck (without reloading or shooting an arrow). It's not completely game ruining but it IS annoying. The city map. The pseudo open world of this game. Oh lord. Where do I even start. We all loved life of the party and the city missions in t2. But the reality is that it gets very tedious to sneak past guards in the same locations over and over. By the end of the game I was sick of the fucking city maps and going back and forth and back and forth and through the portals and trying to find where I needed to be. Side quests and locations, doing stuff for factions around the city, robbing shops and listening in on conversations around the city, pickpocketing people on the street, the fact you can do a prison escape if the guards catch you, that’s all fun, but. I didn't want to stick around in the city maps any longer than I had to because they were just so annoying. I love the city missions when they're one and done and I don't need to do them over and over again with respawning enemies.

I just don't think 'open world' or a hub map with HOSTILES is the right fit for thief. I didn't do pretty much any of the side quests because of how much the city maps annoyed me. Even though I WAS kind of intrigued. Running from the city watch wasn't fun, it was tedious. Maybe if there was more roof action to get from place to place safely or something. The loot and the shopkeepers. I think this is really the last nail in the coffin for the 'open world' idea. In the first thief games you had an incentive to collect loot aside from it being fun. Your money reset each mission and filled up based on how much stuff you collected. If you collected very little, you could buy very little equipment. Sure, the loot requirements were also there, but I would consider them to be the worst part of the OG games.

It's annoying when you have to run around the map for those last bits of loot on expert, especially if that loot is little things hidden in corners. I WANTED to collect stuff so I could stack up for the next mission, in addition to stealing just being fun. By maybe the third mission I collected more money in TDS than I knew what to do with. And the thing is? The merchants never fucking sold anything I wanted. They would maybe sell 2-5 water arrows if I was LUCKY. By the end I had so much money Garrett could retire. And I still had Nothing to buy :/. I had no reason to loot anymore except to meet the mission requirements. The fact your equipment carries over from mission to mission is a bad decision. Stop making the women hit on Garrett it's really annoying... WHY IS NO ONE FUCKING SELLING WATER ARROWS? Not that I needed them... I didn't really use any of my equipment for the majority of the game. It's not Necessarily bad I could complete the missions without using my equipment or knocking anyone out. So judge on your own opinion. Sound is extremely important in thief games. What kind of floor you're walking on is one of the foundational mechanics and it's lost in this game... If I crouch I'm pretty much completely silent even on tile floors. I Never had to use a moss arrow aside from doing the stuff for the factions or as part of puzzles. It takes away from the experience. It renders one of the most important pieces of equipment pretty much useless which is sad! Generally this game is more of a visual than an audio experience, but I think thief should get the best of both worlds! Loot. Valuable loot has a glistening animation. There's no 'drop quietly' button for junk items. If you accidentally pick up junk and not loot and you drop it on the floor, sometimes even if you drop it on carpet, it alerts Everybody. See the problem? When I played t1 for the first time I was also sometimes confused what can be picked up. But after playing a few missions you understand what can be looted at a glance, plus there's a 'drop quietly' button (at least in t2 for sure). In TDS the exact same items are sometimes junk, and sometimes loot. The exact same cups, candlesticks, plates and so on. You HAVE to wait for a glistening animation or you risk alert. Annoying !!!

ALSO. The sound for picking up loot was much much better in t1-2. The first time I opened a chest and could see and pick up whats inside instead of it being automatic it was interesting. But as I played longer it became annoying. There were times where looting a chest was needlessly hard without detection. The fucking 'coin bag' item gave me so much grief while playing because unlike other items you have to basically stand 1 centimeter away from it to pick it up. Which meant you had to mantle on top of the chest and get real close to it. As it relates to loot I played on hard and not expert because I Knew the 90% of the loot requirement would be annoying. The 'special loot' thing is a hit or miss depending on the mission, usually I completed it by just searching pretty well, but I rarely got 3 special loot. Here's what I think about lockpicking. A 'minigame' of lockpicking actually detracts from the thief formula. Thief actively avoids taking away control from you for any reason. In t1-2 lockpicking is extremely simple. But it never makes you enter a separate screen. You can continue moving and looking around at any time when you're lockpicking. You can even stand at an advantageous hidden position and lockpick from there. In TDS you enter a minigame you have to manually quit if you hear someone coming. Not a big deal here but we see this in thief 2014 for sure.

Thief rarely if ever takes away your control and that's important! Also to be entirely honest after a certain point picking locks was exhausting.

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buzzdixonwriter · 4 months

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The War Came To Me

(I wrote this four years ago to someone I know. I’m posting it here and now because the situation grew even more dire in those intervening years. As a courtesy to the original recipient, I’m removing their name and any identifying information, but the message still stands and so do I.)

Why should I believe anything any Republican has to say? The GOP spits on vets and tells 'em it's mana from heaven. They betray the best interests of their constituents, they do not believe in rule of law except when they can use it as a cudgel against those they dislike, they sold out every value they've ever claimed to possess to prop up this toad as long as it keeps them in power one election, one year, one month, one day, one hour, one second longer.

I remember having a conversation with a Republican several years ago when Trump was peddling his schtick about Obama's birth certificate. This Republican sounded almost gleeful over Trump doing this, making Obama respond to an outrageous racist demand, a demand never made on any other president of the United States.

Boy, do I remember that conversation...

And the poison that Trump spewed into the American political system then, the GOP supported it. Oh, the party used all the mealy-mouthed legalisms -- "Well, I don't know, could be interesting to find out" -- but that was a God damned* racist dog whistle and the GOP knew it and the GOP let Trump blow it as hard as he could.

The GOP let Trump climb on the stage in 2008 as a faux candidate so he could promote The Apprentice; okay, fine, maybe they thought he’d at least going to make a real attempt at securing the nomination.

Nope, just hype.

But then the GOP let him on the stage again knowing he was bogus, because he would stir up the white evangelical base the GOP.

I know these white evangelicals, I grew up among them, I understand their thinking, and while all of them may not be hateful bigots, I'm hard pressed to think of one that isn't a white supremacist.

The Nixon and the GOP made their deal with the devil by catering to that crowd, a complete rejection of everything the Republican party used to stand for.

Then the GOP let Trump on the stage a third time, and this time with alt-right money and white evangelical churches openly supporting him and the Russians dropping their turds, he squeaked by a narrow electoral college win, losing the popular vote by the biggest margin of any candidate who won the presidency.

All this might have been endurable if the GOP put a leash on him and kept him from filling the cabinet with corrupt cronies who systematically looted the country.

But they didn't.

Behavior that would see any Democrat impeached or indicted, they turned a blind eye to. We can literally count the number of Republicans who stood by their principles on the fingers of one hand.

I have skin and bone and blood in the game. Soon-ok never used to get hassled by racists...until Trumo. I have Latino and African-American family members who face an increase in white hostility, gay and transgender friends and acquaintances more anxious about their personal safety than three years ago.

My mother-in-law died from covid early in the pandemic. For that, I don't blame Trump directly, because even the best efforts to keep a disease out will eventually fail, and once a disease gets inside a community, some people will catch it and among them some die.

But not 63,000 in under 4 weeks, which is when Soon-ok’s mother died isolated in a hospital. She might have caught covid anyway even under the best testing and isolating conditions ala South Korea, but there wouldn’t been another 63,000 deaths in a month’s time (400,000 for the duration of Trump’s presidency).

That's a screw up of several orders of magnitude.

She died alone and frightened and gasping for air.

I'm not forgetting that.

Ever.

So kindly stop telling me to back away from it. That's not going to happen. The war came to my doorstep; I didn't want it but here it is.

* God damned here used in its strictest theological context.

#politics #Trump #January 6 #insurrection #sedition #covid

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IZZY'S DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CHARACTERS

YASSARRA / Yuan-ti Warlock. Patron: the Great Old One, Dendar the Night Serpent / Featured in a completed Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign and post-campaign one shots / reached level 20 via epilogue one shots

Raised in the jungles of Chult to a Yuan-ti temple and given the mission of gaining power in Port Nyanzaru (after all yuan-ti were home to chult first, and others should remember that). Yassarra was a prime candidate for making her name known among the streets of Port Nyanzaru as an agent for her people. She had all the markings of a proper kin; ambitious, silver tongued, and human looking enough.

For years, she was a courtier for the Merchant Prince, Wakanga O'tamu; the Chultan human had taken interest and made alliance with her, due to being well-versed in arcane and occult matters given her warlock pact with Dendar. At first, she was very goal orientated in gaining favor with the Merchant Prince of Magic and Lore, and making her name known among the other Princes as well. Slowly accumulate her own wealth and look for the chance to grow in power, possibly even a viable candidate to take over one of the seven merchant prince's places if something were to happen.

All this would change when a large street war between the Zhentarim and Harpers had broken out; and the chaos only ensued with the Flaming Fist got involved (for true Chultans, the Flaming Fist are a blemish in the Port, a foreign power trying to make claim to their home). It was when Yassarra had been cornered by a few Flaming Fists mercenaries and left rather battered and bruised, when a glorious half elf woman and a few of her friends from the Ytepka Society saved her. The woman, a bard, Audrey had been someone that Yassarra had seen around before, at parties and in the ears of a few of the Merchant Princes, especially a guest at Wakanga's palace.

under the cut for the rest, warning it is long (i will make this a word document later too for bigger font/headings)

This would be when Yassarra would have met her future wife; she and Audrey now in the proper acquaintance of each other, would continue to be in each other's orbit and Yassarra found herself quite smitten. Audrey had even more of a silver tongue that Yassarra had, and she's the one who Yassarra would claim taught her how to love. Audrey is the one who took Yassarra's self-centered and hostile ambitions and twisted around; sold her on noble ideals and is why Yassarra would become one of the Ytepka Society, as well as would join Audrey (this would be years later, after they have become girlfriends) in making a formal alliance between the Ytepka and the Harpers (as they had similar goals).

For years, they would be happy together and found themselves considerable comfortable. Wakanga would become a good friend, whom Yassarra changed from taking his place to ensuring that the one Merchant Prince sympathetic to the Harpers kept his power in Port Nyanzaur and all of Chult. Yassarra and Audrey would marry, and even raise a son together, Calin, four years into their marriage.

When Calin was about the age of twenty two, tragedy would strike when Yassarra would be returning from Samargol in Samarach; and she came home to her wife and son slain in their home. First, Yassarra felt fury and burnt many bridges, many friendships, until she had answers and revenge; of which she had gotten. Her family's killer paid their price tenfold; and then after that she sought out true resurrection, bringing her family back without being undead. (to which she would achieve much later).

[ spoilers for the pre-made campaign, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden ]

Yassarra didn't care how long it took and at what cost; even that took her far from Chult, far from her home in Port Nyanzaru. Not all her bridges had been burned; Wakanga and one of Audrey's friends were kind enough to take care of her home and the assets she had left behind; that she would have a home to return to, for her, Audrey, and their son. It was Wakanga that would send her as far as the Icewind Dale.

It was in the Ten Towns, in the town of Easthaven, where Yassarra would meet a group of adventurers who were looking for the same Bard as she had been; this party would be Rory the wildhunt cat Shifter, a beastslayer ranger; Wulfric the goliath, beastial barbarian, Belladonna the firbolg, druid of the stars; Lynn the high moon elf, the eldritch knight; and Aelin the water genasi, a four elements monk.

She would join them for their adventures, as the cold of the Icewind Dale had left her weakened (how we agreed as to why yassarra w/ her backstory is now a level 3 warlock). She would join them in preventing Xardorok Sunblight in unleashing terror and unearthing the mystery of the Chardalyn Dragon.

They would beat Xardorok and his cult, with help from inside the fortress (Yassarra had to use spare the dying like three times in this boss fight), and the party barely had time to rest when news of the Chardalyn Dragon unleashing havoc upon the Ten Towns, namely at Dougan's Hole (Rory's home) had reached them.

( there were a lot of sessions from Yassarra joining the party, some side quests, events happening in Easthaven, Caer Dineval and Caer-Konig [where we would be faced with Sunblight loyalists], as well a Bryn Shander before we got to Xardorok's fortress but i am skipping the deeper details / as they had started level 3 and were level 6th by the time they faced Xardorok )

The party would rush to Dougan's Hole where the party had to balance between rescuing villagers and trying to down the Chardalyn Dragon. Help would come in the form of Vellynne Harpell. The fight with the dragon was mighty, and it came at great costs. Wulfric would sacrifice his life in taking down the dragon. Much of Dougan's Hole was in need of repairs (Rory's family was saved!).

The party took some time to aid in the rebuilding of Dougan's Hole as well as grieve the loss of Wulfric. It was at this time that the party had started to see a softer, more open side of Yassarra and her parts of her past revealed. She was instrumental in organizing the town in it's rebuilding, as it was left without a speaker, and would aid in the election of a new speaker. The party saw that she was someone who could lead and organize, versed in diplomacy, as well as she seemed to care about the town (it was because of Rory that she did). She would be the first and was the first, who swiftly dismantled an angered elder of Dougan's Hole who cast the dragon attack as all at the blame of Rory [she scared the hell out of this man :)) using telepathy and nightmare shit]

The party would found themselves with two new members, Floki (Wulfric's player) who was a Shadowdancer rogue who was Wulfric's nephew, and Don Feo (Belladonna's player) a friend of Belladonna who had decided he wanted to remain and continue helping Dougan's Hole heal more. Don Feo was a fairy, who was wild magic sorcerer; who would join them in helping Vellynne of Arcane Brotherhood's quest in finding the Codicil of White and finding their way into Ythryn, a fragment of the Empire of Netheril. This would particularly interest Yassarra, as the Bard that Yassarra had been looking for was part of the Arcane Brotherhood; as well as it was it's Netheril magic; there would surely be a way to return her wife and son to life there.

The party were helping because they sought a bring an end to Auril's never-ending harsh winter; while Yassarra's intent was more personal related. This would be revealed to Rory, as well as the rest of the party as their first clue to finding the Codicil was in Revel's End. On their trek toward Revel's End, a Remorhraz attacked and left the party needing to long rest after a few close calls in the fight.

[ this next bit will be describing on of the best roleplay scenes i ever had played/had with another player ; we had the party and dm in tears ;3 ]

While on this long rest, Yassarra would take note of Rory isolating herself and went to settle down besides the young girl. Yassarra asked Rory how she was feeling, they hadn't really talked about the dragon attack, her family being in danger, wulfric's death, or the tense conversation Rory had with her mother when Rory was setting out with the party again. The two of them had a heart to heart, with Yassarra providing Rory with comfort and guidance, talked about Wulfric and the whole of their adventure, how they feel about people they've met and they had a lengthy chat about Rory and her family, about how Rory feels being cursed as "werecat" and choosing to leave, stay away from Dougan's Hole, and how her mother can be, and how her mother hadn't wanted her to leave.

Yassarra talked about how she was worried, because she loves Rory, that she doesn't distest a thing about her daughter, and that it probably scares her that she can't help her daughter more, or wipe away the pain and fears Rory has, the otherness she feels being a wereshifter. At this point, Rory had been leaning against Yassarra's side, who had wrapped an arm around Rory. It was then that Rory said "you are really good at this, Yassarra" and then Yassarra nodded her head, whispered softly "Because I know what a mother feels" and it got really quiet for a moment, and silence hung in the air before Rory said "i am really sorry you lost someone, Yassarra" and it was quiet again and then Yassarra had turned her head to kiss Rory's forehead. A few more moments, and then Yassarra began to tell Rory about her wife Audrey and their son, Calin and admittedly; Rory reminded her of Calin (they were alike; both young rangers who had big dreams).

[ we had paused a few times to make sure the rest of the party and dm were cool w/ us taking a big chunk of this session for this; and everyone was so down and emotional. we got two inspiration each for that roleplay scene ]

From there we would make it to Revel's End, where we broke into the prison and broke out of the prison, to get information from a mad wizard in jail (yassarra lied her way with him and he believed her that she would break him out) and got information about the Codicil of White as well as about Vellynne; to which the party was already getting suspicious of. This is where Yassarra, who had been seemingly the biggest ally of Vellynne (they would talk arcana a lot), reassured that if she much as turned against them, Yassarra would end that so fast; as well as she had no intention of trusting or letting Vellynne ever touch the Codicil.

From there we had full known of how to find the Codicil of White, as well as what it can really do, and subsequently "betray" Vellynne at this point, and left her behind and knew we needed to make for Island of Solstice and Grimskalle. How we were going to getting there was riding Angajuk the Sperm Whale.

While were riding with Angajuk, we came across the shipwreck of the Dark Duchess, and took a detour there to check it out. Which resulting in us finding some troubles and the party starting to bicker with each other about the events that occurred in Revel's End and Vellynne. It was while they were bickering that they were startled by Arveiaturace the White Wyrm; whom Rory, Floki, and Lynn had immediately wanted to take down (as natives of the Ten Towns) while Aelin, Don Feo, and Yassarra were on the fence. Aelin and Don Feo eventually joined in fighting the dragon; but it was during this fight that Yassarra who had insight checked on the dragon noticed the frozen corpse on her back.

This is when Yassarra hardcore refused to take a single attack against the dragon; because as she watched how the dragon talked and fought; she realized something. SHE'S GRIEVING. Yassarra actually got downed twice to the stress of the party; and had started taking each other her turns to yell at the dragon that she understands her; understand her sharp denial that the one she loved was gone, and she did that too! Asked for Dendar to give her nightmares, so that she could just see her family's face again, even if it twists in pain; would allow Dendar to visit her friend's dreams, give them nightmares, so that she could dream about dates with her wife, memories of outings with her son. That she understands burning every bridge down because the hurt is too much, and she would hunt like hell, hurt otheres like hell until she got her love back. This emotional plea was successful, in that the part stopped attacking Arviaturace and apologized, and this did result in the White Dragon letting the party go. [ Yassarra was on like 2 hp lol after being downed a second time ]

The party returned to Anhajuk and continued to the island, where while they were making the trek to Grimskalle they came across the frozen corpse of Nass Lantomir, whom has stolen Vellynne's professor orb, and Yassarra in falling check to try to get the orb; had Nass possess her [ yassarra got a natural 1 on a charsima saving throw ]. Yassarra mangeed to wrestle control of herself back from Nass, but instead of getting rid of Nass. SHE KEPT HER and for the rest of the adventure [ and to this day ], Yassarra has a ghost in her, who speaks in her mind and doesn't have control unless she lets Nass have control. [ truly one of yassarra's most unhinged decisions / the dm and i had fun having nass and yassarra bicker ]

So after Yassarra acquires a permanent passenger in the head [ once again tadpoled characters from bg3 or anyone w/ telepathy or detect thoughts have a fun time with nass screaming at you for the intrusion and like /that's not yassarra/ ] the party continues exploring the island and making the climb for Grimskalle.

The party reach the Fortress, upon which they enter the fortress whil Auril the Frostmaiden is away weaving her nightly spell. We make our way through the first several levels of the fortress without too much trouble and make all the way to the Tests of the Frostmaiden.

No one could know what exactly the tests unless passed an insanely high insight check ( which guess who had a passive insight of above 20 as well as expertised insight? ) Yassarra was the only one who passed it so she knew what each test was. She lied about what the first test was and said she would take it ( test of cruelty and most of the party were extremely kind/good people or strong moral codes/compasses? no way is she letting any of them in there) She did tell them the other three tests were called Endurance, Isolation, and Preservation.

The first test, the Test of Cruelty, is handled easily by Yassarra alone. It came utterly nature for Yassarra, and she choice to bare this test alone. As to pass this test, a character much perform a cruel act. She is placed in a scenario with starving elders and a cruel king, given the option to leave or kill the elders; Yassarra went for much more brutal than that. She killed the king, and when the elders thought she had saved them (which would have been a way to fail) Yassarra then killed the elders. For that was the ultimate act of cruelty, to trick the elders into thinking they were saved and then snuffing them out herself. Or as she explained "the truest form of cruelty is watching hope die in the other eyes as they realize their savior is worse than their captor. Cruelty is hope dying." This was how Yassarra returned with a symbol of Auril and the first test passed.

She was not proud of how easily such cruelty was still instilled her; but better her bare this weight than the rest of the party.

Cruelty. “Compassion makes you vulnerable. Let cruelty be the knife that keeps your enemies at bay.”

The next test is the Test of Endurance, which Aelin and Lynn decide to take the test together. Aelin and Lynn help the nomads in the test take down their tent, and join them for the journey, both of them managed to complete the harrowing journey with fewer than four levels of exhaustion.

Endurance. “Exist as long as you can, by whatever means you can. Only by enduring can you outlast your enemies.”

The third test was the Test of Isolation, which Rory had chosen to take on alone [ me and yassarra were no adopted daughter no! ] In Rory's test, she is left to watch over the Tiger Tribe's camp while the whole camp goes on raid. It is only suppose to last two days, but instead last six days and nights. Rory manages to survive alone while having to succeed in 12 indefinite madness checks [ the stress of this my guys the stress if anything happened to rory, yassarra would be devastated ]

Isolation. “In solitude you can understand and harness your full potential. Depending on others makes you weak.”

The final test was the Test of Preservation which Don Feo and Floki take on together, as the only two without Symbols of Auril received. In this test, they come across a tribal camp left to slaughter and the sole survivor a nine year old boy. Floki and Don Feo together defend the boy from vultures, and then Don Feo takes to soothing and comforting the boy when the boy's tribe's murderer comes back to kill the boy. Floki takes on the murderer alone while Don Feo defends and soothes the boy. The murderer is slain and the boy is safe, and together Floki and Don Feo pass the test.

Preservation. “Every flake of snow is unique, and that which is unique must be preserved.”

[ so a lot of this is different than what the book of Icewind Dale has as it fit our narrative better / hence why the dm divided the tests, so not everyone had to do each one; it was more meaningful to us so if you've played RotFM and remember this part / we have already gone pretty divergent from book as written ]

With the test complete, the party makes it to the vault door and the Hall of Four Winds and further more we reach the chamber of the Codicil. It was here that we had finally found the Codicil of White and retrieved it.

As we had no encountered Auril in full, and she was very much alive; the whole of the part had gotten the offer from the Frostmaiden herself telepathically contacting each of us asking "Will you court death to receive my blessing?" Three of our six party members had said yes.

[ the stress we felt when we found out that it was con save of 21 was so much; cause yassarra has a +0 modifier, which like meant OH thank got she got an item that gave her proficiency in con saves, so at least she could add the +3 proficiency bonus ]

Rory [girl stop stressing snake mama out], Floki, and Yassarra had all said yes and we all thankfully made our saves [or burnt our inspiration to reroll] As we had all agreed to receive the blessing, our eyes became cold, we all gained immunity to cold an could cast cone of cold once per long rest. Auril's Blessing could be rescinded any time while she was alive.

Don Feo, Aelin, and Lynn had refused. BUT WE DID IT ! We got the Codicil and were now going to go to the Reghead Glaicer, get into Ythyrn and end the save the Icewind Dale.

While on our travels back, and on our race to the Glacier. This would be while we are still on Angajuk, Lynn had been the chosen to hold onto the Codicil which has remained unopened. Everyone had agreed we were not going to touch it until a greater decision as made; however Yassarra wasn't satisfied with this. She's greedy about magic items, and she's ever closer to finding ways to return to her family to her.

[ this was another amazing roleplay scene we had and everyone consented to some PC vs PC conflict ]

Yassarra and Lynn had a late night discussion about the Codicil, as the eldest of the group, and as the two who kept their secrets closely guarded. Both had reasons for wanting the Codicil. Yassarra had two, her own personal need for higher magic, an answer to returning her family back to life, and Nass in her brain chanting "take it take it take it" and fighting for control from Yassarra to take the Codicil.

This is where Yassarra casts SUGGESTION on Lynn, telling her that "she should hand the Codicil over to her and say nothing about it to anyone" and Yassarra's spell dc is 17 and Lynn has a -1 saving throw. Lynn failed the saving throw; and did as suggested. She handed it over, and couldn't say everything. Lynn knew Yassarra did something to her, but she couldn't save.

Rory would notice this, and Lynn couldn't say anything and Yassarra dodged the questions. The rest of the party started to gather as Rory was trying to work out the tension between Lynn and Yassarra. Rory couldn't trust that Yassarra wouldn't lie or that she'd be able to catch Yassarra in her lies; so Rory casted Zone of Truth. Here's where it goes interesting, no matter what Rory will know something is up. Most of the party willing accepts the cast, foregoing the saving throw and thus choosing to speak the truth.

Now Yassarra had a dilemma, she could submit but she doesn't want to tell; or she can resist, and she knows Rory will know she resists. Yassarra resists, and succeeds against telling the truth. Rory knows this, and instead drops the zone and drops the subject. Telling the party it was nothing, but she looks at Yassarra disappointed.

The rest of the party is clueless (we were good players about no metagaming) and react normally to Yassarra now having the book, and just assume that Lynn gave it willingly and even after suggestion wears off; Lynn kept what Yassarra did to herself.

Things are a little tense between Yassarra, Lynn, and Rorry [ don't worry pals ] for while, and then Yassarra reads the Codicil of White.

With reading the Codicil, she uses the spell Frost Fingers [but wait she's not a wizard! she's a warlock! hold on friends] which she is able to learn because of Nass, a wizard, still being a passenger in her brain [ yassarra basically got like one per short rest use of frost fingers is how the dm did this mechanically ] as well as she got to read the poem called "Rime of the Frostmaiden" which is an incantation which can split a glacier (the glacier we were rushing to get to) and now Yassarra has knowledge about Ythryn, the glacier, ending winter, and a lot more that'll help the party.

A few days of travel, and some encounters; Yassarra does ask for Lynn and Rory to speak with her during camp one night. She apologizes to Lynn and Rory, adding she knew what she was doing, knew she chose to hurt them this way; and admits why she did this and that she isn't a better person. She doesn't use Nass as an excuse which Lynn asks and tries to support Yassarra because Nass does fight for control and has succeeded a few times while they were making it to the glacier and into the Caves of Hunger.

Yassarra says while yes Nass was nagging nat, even without her telling her to do this; she would have done this and she needed to know. Yassarra even admits that she would do it again; even if it burnt her bridges with them, hurt them and hurt her. However, Rory calls bullshit and she's somewhat right. After the three of them make amends; Yassarra says she'll tell the rest of the party and leave it up to them.

Ultimately, things are okay because they know how fiercely Yassarra cares for them; and that sometimes you hurt the ones you love and that she can make it up. Rory brings up Audrey, which Yassarra has told Rory bits and pieces (we had little rp channels between characters for "down time chats" / wee played via voice call on discord) over their journey since Yassarra's family reveal after the Remorhraz fight.

Yassarra apologizes, and will think twice, and she does want to be better person that she was, back when her wife was around, and even realizes she should just be that without her or her son alive.

OKAY. SO MOST OF THE CAVE OF HUNGERS I can skip besides the fact that Yassarra got downed and rolled death saves again (she goes down a lot) and a few times Nass takes control, but actually manages to saves Yassarra's life as a result.

Now finally, we reach Ythryn, frament of Netheril, that rests inside of the silent depths of the Reghed Glacier. Ythryn is now a corpse city. As they enter the fallen city, the party manages to deceive and succeed on a DC 13 Charisma/Deception Group check against Iriolarthas the Demilich, of whom now believes belong to Ythryn, and are a rescue team and thus pass into Ythryn unharmed (for now).

The party explores Ythryn, and Nass is going wild in Yassarra, fighting for control an wanting her to steal all of Ythryn's magical secrets. Yassarra succeeds in keeping Nass at bay, and does have self control when it comes to magical secrets. She has a goal, two goals in fact, add the rest of the party in finding a way to end Auril's Endless Winter in Icewind Dale (the goal of Floki, Rory, and Lynn; as ten town natives, and Don Feo who is there in place of Belladonna who also wanted this) and her own of finding a way to truly bring back her wife and son without them being undead.

Through the Necropolis they go, through all eight towers of the foundational magic (abjuration, necromancy, you get the point). We do at some point piss of Iriolarthas and our deception fails; so now we encounter a lot of fighting and so many puzzles. The finer details we will leave out. Just know when we reached the study, that Aelin accidentally deactives the force field around the spire and Ythryn Mythallar; cause she accidentally learned the command word and used it [ we gained a level for this during our mid session break / yassarra's other adoptive daughter bless her soul ]

I haven't described the involvement of the Arcane Brotherhood as a whole; but we run into Vellynne again who has been turned into a Nothic. We meet another of the brotherhood, Avarice who Nass starts screaming in Yassarra's head and fighting for control as Avarice was the reason for Nass's demise. So that was a fun headache for Yassarra to deal with.

Avarice helped us with some lore about Ythryn and getting around; but the party as a whole don't trust her or anyone from the Arcane Brotherhood (considering some of the Vellynne stuff and Nass). So Floki and Don Feo kind of fuck Avarice over; which Yassarra comedically just says "Thanks, you've shut up the nat" referring to Nass in her head (since yeah Yassarra is still like /nah i'll keep her/ and Nass has been useful)

Once we have explored all the city, and because we have not confronted Auril yet; Yassarra, Floki, and Rory who have been immune to cold and had Auril's blessing feel it suddenly go away; which alerts us to the Frostmaiden arriving in Ythryn herself. We dispatch most of Auril's minions whom were sent to patrol looking for us.

Eventually, Auril has to go hunt for us herself and we managed to get a long rest in; and stumble upon Auril herself. AND THUS. We fight Auril, three times, in all three of her forms. It's a pretty intense fight, and I won't go into too much detail here. However, all of the party survives and we defeat Auril; thus releasing the Ten Twos and Icewind Dale from endless winter until Auril returns again as the gods never die permamently (for any god with mortal followers alive can be resurrected); but it does give the Ten Towns and Icewind Dale a reprieve from harsh winters.

[ The players and DM have a little OH MY GOD what a moment to complete a campaign together; for all the players this as their first campaign that had a definitive ending, start to finish, did not get cancelled or postponed indefintiely and had like upwards of 52 sesssions (i can't find the exact count) from 2020 to Jan 2022. ]

We agree as some after action; the party makes it out of Ythryn, but not without the entire party telling Yassarra they would help find her a magical item/secret in Ythryn that will bring back her son and wife ( they succeed ). We return to outside world, and for the native player characters who lived in Ten Towns, they see sunlight for the first time and already feel the Icewind Dale warming up. We have some cute final scenes and wrap up.

[ We would then do eeither a one shot to three shot; at increased levels for a mini plot for each of the Party / we ended up at level 12 and have 6 epilogues, that our dm would write for the characters / i am only going to describe parts of Yassarra's but all the other ones were fun as well and everyone's epilogue was fun as well, Floki, Lynn, and Rory we got to see all the other seasons in Icewind Dale and other things (Lynn's redemption with her Knight order / Rory being comfortable with herself and helping her with exploring the new Icewind Dale / Floki and Raven tribal drama, as well as a memorial for Wulfric).... Aelin, we got to go see her return to her monastery and have a whole /graduation/.... Yassarra has the party visit Chult and they help her become the Merchant Prince of Magic, with her wife and son there too, cause Wakanga got assassinated) and the final two shot as Belladonna and Don Feo face the Courts of the Feywild at level 19/20 (whack to play).... We tried to start a Strixhaven campaign; but schedules changed and fridays that worked for two years didn't work anymore. ]

[ end of spoilers for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden ]

Okay, so level 17 one shot that finished Yassarra's story goes as follows.

The party reunites once again to visit Yassarra, whose been home with her wife Audrey and son Calin, and finally gotten the chance to return to Chult. She is rebuilding their life, their home safe and she is making amends for all the burnt bridges. We have some great scenes of this, Yassarra so proud to show off her wife, show off her home, and introduce her son to everyone (especially since Rory and Aelin and Belladonna and Floki were like her adoptive children; all around Calin's age and reminded her of her on). IT IS WHOLESOME. Except you know..... I wanted politicial drama and action and chaos.

There's been rising tensions between the factions in Port Nyanzaru, and the Merchant Princes as well as the Chultans and Ytepka Society, fear that the Flaming Fist and Lords' Alliance has gained too much power over their city; as well as rising tensions of the Zhentarim and Harpers. The Harpers are in alliance with the Ytepka, or if push comes to shove, will support the native Chultans if they decide to try to push out the Flaming Fist and Lords' Alliance.

Many of the Merchant Princes have been on high alert, due to treasury robberies, their customers being attacked, and death threats along with assassination attempts. Although, there is in fight among the Seven Princes as well, give some have alliances with the Harpers and others have alliance with the Zhent. The Ytepka Society is what keeps the Princes together and bands them together to keep foreign powers (Flaming Fist and Lords' Alliance, which fun fact; involves Ulder Ravengard) from dismantling Chult society.

So tensions high, and chaos breaks lose when the Merchant Prince of Magic and Lore (Yassarra's long time friend, business partner, and boss) Wakanga O'tamu turns up dead in the streets with no proper successor and fingers pointing in several directions of who was responsible.

To cut this a little shorter, after a lot of back an form of policitical debate and mystery; Yassarra trying to band the Princes together and warn them they could be next, and cut contact with their foreign alliances or even several their alliance ties until it is found out who killed Wakanga (except to the ones who are secretly with the Ytepka Society, so only Zhanthi, as the Ytepka is a Chultan secret society against foreign rulers).

It was a mess of trying to get the remaining princes to get along especially since Kwayothe hates Zhanthi, and other conflicts like everyone pointing their fingers at Jessamine, who deals in plants poisons and assassinations. It was neither of them, but instead on of Ifan Talro'a 's Zhent contacts (who was actually spying on Ifan for the Lords' Alliance which like include Baldur's Gate's Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard [it was not him], and other BG official as well other officials from Waterdeep and Neverwinter [it was a Neverwinter official]) who had carried out the hit, with the help of some Flaming Fists to kill Wakanga and sow chaos and dismantle Chult's natural governemnt (the Merchant Princes) so that Port Nyanzaru and thus all of Chult can become a resource/subsidiary of Neverwinter.

Long story short, after this Yassarra and the party convince the Six Princes that without Wakanga and a swift successor chosen as replacement, all of their own power and wealth along with Port Nyanzaru and the Chultan pride would lost to foreign powers; and considering how close Yassarra was to Wakanga as well as her extensive arcane knowledge (btw Yassarraa still has Nass; who occasionally lives in the Professor Orb from RotFM w/ Professor Skant and one the occasion gets to ride along/parital possession Yassarra) as a Warlock (and the wizard in her brain who occasionally is just secondary wizard in an orb) who is a proud and true Chultan, because Yuan Ti were Chult's first people and Empire; and her own wealth and so on; that she should inherit Wakanga's wealth and possession (to which she promised a magical boon from Wakanga's vault to each prince).

And this how Yassarra became the Merchant Prince of Magic in Port Nyanzaru, Chult. She kept true to her promise of a boon or gift; and is continuing to secure the power dynamic of Chult as well as improve things with the assistances of the Harpers, who now have a formal secret alliance with the Ytepka Society to bring peace, order, and well-being to all of Chultans; including the poorer of the city's outer territories.

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