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The 10 Most Anticipated Games Of 2024

It’s protected to say that 2023 was a blended yr for players. In any case, for each Baldurs Gate 3, there was a Strolling Useless: Destinies. As we enter a brand new yr, nonetheless, it's time to stay up for the video games to return. As such listed below are 10 of essentially the most anticipated video games of 2024.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth – January twenty sixth

Picture Credit score: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and Sega through Twinfinite Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the most recent title in Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios’ long-running Like A Dragon (previously Yakuza) collection. Infinite Wealth is the primary recreation set outdoors of Japan, happening in each the town of Yokohama and the island of Hawaii. The sport continues the franchise’s transition right into a turn-based fight system first seen in 2020’s Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Infinite Wealth marks the return of that title’s protagonist Ichiban Kasuga, alongside franchise mainstay Kazuma Kiryu. Nonetheless, with the favored anti-hero affected by most cancers, this might be the top of the highway for the Dragon of Dojima. Count on Like A Dragon’s standard mix of weird facet missions, twist-filled conspiracies, and wild minigames as Ichiban and Kiryu seek for Ichiban’s mom. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is revealed by SEGA and releases on PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC on January twenty sixth.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League – February 2nd

Picture Credit score: Rocksteady Studios Isn’t it loopy that we're getting a Triple-A Suicide Squad recreation earlier than a big-budget Justice League title? Moreover Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League sees the group of villains tasked with taking down the Justice League! This recreation is a third-person shooter set in the identical universe because the Batman: Arkham collection, developed by Rocksteady Studios and revealed by Warner Bros. Video games. Kill The Justice League is a multiplayer looter shooter with reside service parts, not in contrast to Sq. Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers. Starring DC Comics villains Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark; Kill The Justice League has the quartet going through off in opposition to a corrupted Justice League. Brainiac has taken management of Superman, the Flash, Inexperienced Lantern, and Batman (voiced by the late Kevin Conroy in his ultimate position), and solely Surprise Girl and the Suicide Squad can cease Brainiac’s invasion. After some delays and a lukewarm reception to advertising, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League continues to be a hotly anticipated title that releases for PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and Steam on February 2nd, after which fifth March on the Epic Video games Retailer.

Cranium & Bones – February sixteenth

Picture Credit score: Ubisoft At this level Ubisoft’s Cranium & Bones is unquestionably within the Growth Hell Corridor of Fame alongside the likes of Duke Nukem Eternally and Useless Island 2. Beginning life as an Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag enlargement again in 2013, Cranium & Bones is a swashbuckling journey throughout the Indian Ocean. Centered on bombastic ship fight, Cranium & Bones will see gamers rise to infamy as they construct an empire and grow to be the pirate kingpin. Because the scourge of the ocean, gamers will sail and discover from the Coast of Africa to the East Indies with a spread of distinctive ships; battling pirate hunters and the lethal climate to make it to the highest. If Cranium & Bones can recapture the enjoyable and sense of journey in Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag then the wait ought to be price it. Cranium & Bones releases on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and the Epic Video games Retailer on February sixteenth.

Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth – February twenty ninth

Picture Credit score: Sq. Enix Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth is the second entry in Sq. Enix’s daring retelling of the seminal RPG Last Fantasy VII. Rebirth continues the story of 2020’s Last Fantasy VII: Remake as mercenary Cloud Strife and the surviving members of eco-terrorist group Avalanche depart the mega-city of Midgard and journey throughout the planet Gaia. Navigating new terrain each actually and narratively, Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth will discover the sport’s altered timeline whereas delving into Cloud and collection antagonist Sephiroth’s shared previous. New celebration members embody Crimson XIII, Yuffie Kisaragi, and Cait Sith; but additionally Zack Aptitude. Zack’s presence in Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth is likely one of the remake trilogy’s largest narrative departures; as he initially died within the prequel recreation Disaster Core – Last Fantasy VII (launched in 2007). Along with his return, long-time followers can be keen to find how he suits into the brand new story. Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth releases on PlayStation 5 on February twenty ninth.

Alone within the Darkish – March twentieth

Picture Credit score: THQ Nordic The grandfather of survival horror, the Alone within the Darkish franchise was a pioneer of the style alongside Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Nonetheless, whereas these two franchises have flourished lately, Alone within the Darkish has struggled to keep up the identical mainstream recognition. That’s why it's good to witness the collection return with a reimagining of the 1992 authentic. Developed by Items Interactive and revealed by THQ Nordic, Alone within the Darkish stars David Harbour (Stranger Issues) as personal investigator Edward Carnby, and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as his employer Emily Hartwood. On this recreation, the pair journey to Louisiana psychiatric hospital Derceto Manor to seek out Emily’s lacking uncle. The survival horror style has been on a great run not too long ago, and right here’s hoping Alone within the Darkish lives as much as its contemporaries. Alone within the Darkish releases on PC, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PlayStation 5 on March twenty ninth.

Princess Peach: Showtime! – March twenty second

Picture Supply: Nintendo Princess Peach: Showtime! provides the titular ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom an opportunity to take heart stage. Attending a theatre manufacturing in disaster, Peach assumes a number of roles to assist defeat the depraved Grape and the Bitter Bunch. Princess Peach: Showtime! contains a vary of gameplay mechanics that see the princess collaborating within the Sparkle Theatre’s sold-out reveals. Peach is provided with a magic ribbon and the flexibility to remodel into a spread of future Tremendous Smash Bros. skins. Transformations resembling Swordfighter Peach and Kung Fu Peach implement fight into the sport, whereas Detective Peach will assist her uncover clues to Grape’s plan, and Patisserie Peach which can assist the princess… bake her approach to victory. Princess Peach: Showtime! releases on Nintendo Swap on March twenty second.

S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chernobyl – Q1 2024

Picture Credit score: GSC Recreation World S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chernobyl has had a tough growth because the warfare in Ukraine compelled developer/writer GSC Recreation World to pause growth and delay the sport a number of occasions. S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. stands for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, and Robbers; and is the time period used to explain the women and men exploring the radioactive stays of Chernobyl. This primary-person immersive sim shooter is a giant cult favourite on PC and the sequel would be the franchise’s console debut when it debuts on Xbox. Constructed on Unreal Engine 5, The Coronary heart of Chernobyl tells a non-linear story playable solo or in co-op and has official mod help. S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chernobyl is about for a Quarter 1 launch on PC and Xbox Sequence X|S.

ARK 2 – Late 2024

Picture Credit score: Studio Wildcard ARK 2 follows Quick & Livid actor Vin Diesel as Santiago, a primitive hunter on an alien world trying to find his daughter Meeka (voiced by Moana‘s Auli’l Cravalho). Like the primary recreation, ARK: Survival Developed, ARK 2 is a survival motion journey through which gamers craft weapons and shelters to outlive in a harsh and lethal surroundings. From killer vegetation to ferocious dinosaurs, and the native tribe the Aralal, there are numerous threats for Santiago and the participant to beat. To assist, Studio Wildcard and Grove Road Video games have created superior traversal mechanics, a brand new improve tree, and an emphasis on Souls-like fight. The alien world in ARK 2 is stuffed with new threats and hyper-intelligent dinosaurs to battle and tame. ARK 2 is being constructed on Unreal Engine 5 concentrating on a late 2024 launch date, on Xbox Sequence X|S and PC.

Little Nightmares III – TBC

Pictures Credit score: Bandai Namco Little Nightmares III is the following instalment in Bandai Namco’s atmospheric horror puzzle platformer collection. Supermassive Video games have taken over growth from Tarsier Studios (after engaged on Little Nightmares II Enhanced Version), for a standalone sequel. There's a heightened deal with co-op gameplay in Little Nightmares III as gamers group up with a buddy or an AI companion. Taking part in as Low (the boy in a raven masks) and Alone (the lady with pigtails), gamers should work collectively to flee the Spiral, a disturbing, trippy world of ominous shadows and disgusting villains. Whereas this can be a standalone recreation, it is going to be fascinating to see if Little Nightmares III has any hyperlinks to earlier installments; together with the destiny of Six and her iconic yellow raincoat. Little Nightmares III has no launch date but past 2024 however is about to launch on all platforms: PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Swap, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X|S.

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The Heart of Admiration - Part 3

Charles Vane x Reader - slow burn

Part One -- Part Two

The activity never ceases on a ship, but it does get a bit quieter at night; there are less crewmen out and about, and their voices are softer on a calm night like this one. You’ve got the highest deck to yourself, and the heavens are clear and brilliant with stars. The measurements will be easy tonight, the ocean rolling in only gentle swells beneath the ship. You take a breath and feel your tension melt away under the crystal light of the Milky Way, and the sliver of the crescent moon.

With one hand to steady yourself against the railing, you let your head fall back, looking straight up at the expanse of the sky. You’ll start your measurements in a moment, but there is no rush. You’ve always loved looking at the stars; it’s the reason you wanted to learn them, the passion that carried you through all the charts and figures and drier things that come with navigation. Somehow your profession cements your relationship with the awesomeness of the heavens. The calculations connect your place on earth to the celestial bodies, and make any place that you might find yourself in feel like home.

You hear boots on the stairs, and some sizzling spark inside you has already made a guess who it is. You allow your eyes to flit in his direction without altering your posture, refusing to appear flustered by him. Captain Vane ascends the steps. He has washed the blood from his face, his hair smoothed and half pulled back in its proper place again. He’s got a clean shirt on, and so there’s no reason at all for you to be thinking about the bloody horror he made on the deck not too many hours ago.

His momentum hesitates when you do not react to his approach. He strides across the deck to lean his back against the railing by your side. “Evening.” The one word is said pleasantly enough, though the particular character of Vane’s voice makes even an empty pleasantry sound significant.

“Good evening to you, Captain.” You speak formally, and wait for him to say more.

He doesn’t. His nearness makes you vibrate with an unfamiliar tension, his silence making you notice the sensation all the more. It’s not fear, not exactly, and it is not even entirely unpleasant, but it makes you feel restless and your hands seek your instruments. Time to get to work, your captain is watching.

And he does; he watches. You busy yourself lining up sights and marking down measurements, and in the colorless light of the moon and stars you try to read his face in the briefest of glances.

He looks about as calm as the seas that surround you on all sides, but there are hints that something is simmering underneath. He opens his mouth like he’s about to say something, then draws a thick cigar from his pocket instead. He steps over to the hooded lantern you’d brought up to write your notes by, stealing a bit of the flame to get it lit. You hope he didn’t think you watched him too long as he brought his face close to the flames, furrowing his brows in concentration. Then he steps back to lean against the railing, the very picture of a man enjoying the night air. The captain puffs away contentedly as you track the movement of the stars.

“We on course?” he finally breaks the silence to ask.

“Appear to be,” you answer, running figures in your head. “Though we might want to adjust the heading a little more westerly.”

Smoke erupts from his mouth as he speaks. “You don’t need to consult the charts first? Some books full of tables, check your figures twice?”

Your hands come to rest on your hips. “That’s always better,” you agree, “but you are the one that asked what I thought at present.” You shrug. “I’ve basically got the tables memorized. I know what the numbers mean as I’m reading them.”

“Impressive.” Something about the way he says it makes you feel like a braggart, and you turn away from him awkwardly.

“I like the feeling of knowing exactly where I am,” you say, feeling some odd pressure to explain yourself now. You feel more than hear him coming closer behind you. The breeze shifts, carrying his warm tobacco smell over your shoulder. “Measuring the heavens… grounds me.”

“I can understand that.” He says it low, almost wistfully. You are struck all of a sudden by how very little you know about him. His reputation, yes, but the man himself… he seems to have layers deeper than what was spoken about in the streets and taverns of Nassau.

“It’s probably what brought me all the way to the West Indies,” you continue, “to see new stars, to see the same stars in different ways… what brought you here?” It’s a clumsy transition, but you’re curious. You turn to face your enigmatic leader.

He stiffens, a brief scowl darkening his features. “I have never not been here,” he says, frustratingly terse as ever, and takes another puff from his cigar. “How’s your head?” He reaches up while he says it, fingertips brushing just above the nape of your neck, to check the lump left by the attackers. You should say something sharp about him taking the liberty to touch you so boldly, but in this moment, alone under the stars, you’re too tantalized by the feel of his fingers in your hair. It doesn’t even hurt when he finds the knot that has risen at the back of your head. “It doesn’t seem too bad.”

“It’s not bothering me.”

His fingers trail away from your injury, his final touch along your scalp not feeling strictly diagnostic. Why is your heart suddenly racing? His hand falls back to his side, but he does not step away. There is a surprising uncertainty in his eyes, even as he continues to speak with confidence. “So now you find yourself under the West Indies stars. Have you found your place? Or do you miss your home?”

Is Vane curious about you too? You cross your arms as you contemplate your answer. “My home? My home is on the waves, now.” you look up at the glittering sky above, “my home is under these stars.” Vane smiles. “My home is… apparently, with your crew.” You say it slowly, trying on how it tastes on your tongue.

Vane’s smile drops. “You still feel that I forced you.”

“You feel that you didn’t?”

He actually looks pained, the fearsome Charles Vane who has never hesitated to reach out and take exactly what he wants. The one who has earned, through his easy comfort with violence, the right to do exactly that around the port of Nassau and anywhere else where lawlessness and reputation were the only rules. He looks away from you, across the open water. “I never want anyone to feel caged.”

“A bargain… is different from a cage.” You’re not going to deny your own responsibility, the mess of Captain Fisher’s plan that led to your service on this vessel. It could have ended so much worse. “I am not ungrateful for your mercy,” you say, finding it difficult to meet Vane’s eyes as they smolder down at you now, “it was a price that I am glad to pay.”

“Sailing with us is a price?” He’s choking on that, somehow, though you fail to understand why. He was the one who set the terms. “Pirates have killed for the privilege of joining my crew. I liberated you, from a mediocre life.”

“You have a fine ship, Captain Vane. And a decent crew, with a fearsome reputation. But you took me from my family.”

His scarred brow arches skeptically. “Your brother-in-law? A captain with no vision, always going after the lowest-hanging fruit, the most convenient prizes. I understand that you have to make your start with the connections that you have, but”—he leans in, putting his face fully in the way of your gaze—“you can’t look me in the eye and say that you were satisfied by that.”

Vane might have a bit of a point, but he’s missing yours. You meet his eyes levelly, leaning in even closer toward him. Then you all but bite off each word. “You didn’t give me a choice.”

The wound reappears behind his eyes. He rocks back, blinks once. His cigar has stopped burning, forgotten between his fingers, and he contemplates it for a long moment before answering. “The prize you led us to today is rich,” he says, slower, softer. “Consider the bargain fulfilled.” He’s thinking about every word, as if he’s deciding each one only as he utters it. “If, when we get back in port at Nassau, you’d like to take your share and seek out other employment, I will not hold you.” He tucks the remainder of the cigar into his pocket, stepping past you toward the stairway. Before leaving the deck, he looks up at you though, eyes ferocious even while he’s backing down. “But you won’t find any crew better than mine.”

~*~

The prize was rich indeed. Eleanor Guthrie was furious that the Ranger was the crew turning it in, of course; apparently she had already assigned the lead on this particular ship to another captain, one more squarely under her thumb, but she paid out all the same. And then everyone stayed to drink their first round in her tavern, just on account of the look on her face.

You don’t know this crew well enough to celebrate with them. They seemed amicable enough during the hunt, but with the reputation Vane’s men have for carousing, drunkenness, and petty violence once their purses are full, you’ve deemed it wise to keep a little distance, and just observe what plays out on this evening.

You don’t know if you’re relieved or disappointed when the first man to take a seat on the bench beside you isn’t Charles Vane, who appears to have taken up his own brooding, isolated little position at the other end of the hall. Instead it’s Jack Rakham, your new quartermaster, who settles in with a flourish of his coattails beside you. “Cheers.”

You clink your rim against his proffered mug and you both drink deep.

“Without your skill, we likely would not be celebrating this victory,” he adds. “You have my thanks.”

“We were only lucky that the storm pushed our prize off its course in the same direction as it did our own.”

“And without your competence, we would not have been able to compensate so well even for that.” Jack shakes his head with a conspiratorial smile. “What use is humility in a place such as this. Claim all the credit you are owed, I say. And then however much more you can get away with beyond that, too.”

You give a thin smile to the cheerful bravado of his advice, a smile that sours when you see the look that Miss Guthrie is shooting you as she crosses the room.

“Speaking of owed,” Jacks says, distracting you from wondering why she’d be singling you out for her ire so specifically, “the Captain asked me to write this out for you right away.” He produces a slip of paper and presses it into your hand.

There’s not much written on it, aside from an impressive sum of money and Rackham’s flourishing signature. “Is this—”

“Charles was quite insistent that I calculate your share without delay.”

You risk another look at the man in question, across the crowded room. Captain Vane is quite decidedly not looking at you, though his body is angled such that he could glance in your direction as often as he pleased. Right now, he seems pleased only by the barmaid, who is clearly attempting to make her excuses and move away from his table. Poor thing probably won’t have a job for long if Eleanor Guthrie thinks she’s flirting with her ex-lover. You look back down at the figure Jack had passed you. “It’s generous.”

Rakham shifts, making sure he’s caught your eye before speaking. “There will be more prizes, rich as this one, should you choose to stay on with us.”

You contemplate the man’s earnest face. So he knows why Vane asked him to rush your share, or at least he has surmised it.

“Don’t let Charles’ rough edges turn you off to this crew before you get to know us. I don’t know what he said to set you off, but I promise you, with time you will find his tendency to put his foot in his mouth quite endearing, really.” His wide smile beckons an answering warmth in your own face.

Perhaps the matter is settled now, between you and Captain Vane. But that’s not the only trouble you’re having with your current position. “It’s the crew I’m worried about, more than him,” you admit. Jack just seems so easy to talk to; you can see why he’s a good fit for Quartermaster. “It’s hard for a woman to get respect.”

Jack takes a long pull on his ale. “I know the reputation we’ve acquired. I can’t even say we don’t deserve it. But they’ve adjusted to Anne’s presence on the crew just fine. it won’t be as hard as you are thinking. All you need to do is find your niche. Which brings me back to my point about laying claim to all the credit that you can. Come.” He tugs on the sleeve of your jacket, standing up from the bench and looking toward the main throng of the Ranger’s crew, gathered around a group playing dice at one of the long tables. “It’s high time I made a toast.”

~*~

“That lead was not given to you.”

Charles stares across the desk at Eleanor, her eyes flashing bright with indignation, her cheeks coloring already although she had only just got started in on him. “And yet,” he squares his shoulders out of habit, “I took it first.”

He watches her fume, just as prettily as ever, in exactly the way that he knew his flat tone would incite her. “Yes, and how exactly did you do that, Charles?”

He sits down in the chair in front of her desk, not because he wants this conversation to take a long time (he still has plenty of celebrating left to do) but because he knows so well the show that he is about to have to sit through. He figures he might as well be sitting down. “I outmaneuvered you.”

Eleanor’s head tilts sharply, her knuckles going white as she thinks of a suitable retort to his simple statement of fact. He used to think she looked so glorious when he got her this riled up. But today, she just looks… petty. “You went behind my back. And here I thought we were finally getting comfortable with the new arrangement.”

“What, the one where you fuck my crew on leads and I don’t even get to fuck you back?” He feels just a simmer of the old rage, the one where she used to make his blood boil until he could think about nothing else, but it sputters and dies about as soon as the retort has left his lips. His fingers find the stump of a cigar in his pocket, the one he forgot he was smoking last night because he was so distracted by you.

Eleanor’s lips turn down into a scowl that’s truly ugly. “Or maybe, when I’m no longer playing favorites, coddling you, it’s just clear that you and your crew are an inferior operation.”

“Seems to me, the only thing that’s clear is that my crew got the prize.” He puts the cigar between his lips. Somehow, it’s easier tonight than it has ever been, to ignore her attempts at riling him. All she’s making him feel is…caged.

“Don’t smoke in here,” Eleanor snaps.

He lifts his brows, then sighs heavily and starts fiddling with it between his fingers instead.

“I don’t believe you can credit yourself or your crew for this one, anyway,” Eleanor says, sitting down primly with a smugness behind her eyes. “I know that you stole the Starling's navigator. Who you absolutely needed, in order to pull this one off. How long have you been planning to undercut my wishes? And who do you think you are, anyway, disbanding crews, stealing ships, banishing people like you’re some sort of king?” Her composure hadn’t lasted long. Her eyes wide, she’s leaning over the desk at him again.

And yet Vane still finds he feels only annoyance. “The strong eat the weak.”

She barely acknowledges he spoke, and only with a roll of her eyes, before she barrels on to her next point. “And you think the other captains will stand for you poaching their talent at the end of a sword?”

He flits his hand through the air. “It isn’t like that. She made a deal.”

“Yes, a deal during which her sister’s husband was about to have his head parted from his shoulders. I interviewed Captain Fisher before he complied with your…request…that he leave Nassau.”

That irks him. Who does she think she is, “interviewing” people. Why did she have to talk like that, like she’s a goddamn queen. And painting him like a monster in your life, to boot. “He betrayed our partnership,” he growls. “No one on this island would say that he deserved any better than what he got, when I caught him red-handed sneaking onto my ship.”

“Fisher said you were holding out on splitting up that cargo fairly between you, and he was only intending to secure his fair share.” That smug look is returning to her scheming eyes. “If you had only turned it over to my warehouse as soon as you got in, as is the usual way business is done around here, I would have made sure that you were both paid fairly.”

“Because you have been nothing but fair to me and my men, of late.”

“Charles.” Her eyelids lower, just a fraction, just enough to not make him think she’s doing it intentionally, giving him an echo of her bedroom eyes. She draws herself up with a fluid grace in her movements that wasn’t there before. He can barely believe that this actually used to work on him. “I know it’s hard to accept that things are changing between us.” And if you’re a good boy, the roll of her hips says as she steps around the desk, they might even change back for a night. “But you are still one of my top earners.” She sits on the edge of the desk on his side now, close enough for him to reach out and grab, deliberately calling to mind those times that he pushed her right over that desk, just in that spot, and—“Do not give me any more reasons to cut you out of Nassau’s business completely.”

And although perhaps her threat even has teeth, Charles finds that he barely cares to even pay proper attention to what she has been saying. Ever since the first mention of you in this conversation, he’s been distracted by that damnable nagging doubt that perhaps he has not treated you fairly from the start. Even Eleanor seems to think so, and he finds that bothers him more than anything else the woman has said. And watching her try to work her seduction on him… he’s much more interested in pondering how you might go about trying to ensnare a man that you desired. Would you act like you could barely hide a wicked grin too, or would you be softer, more artless but nevertheless endearing…

Eleanor is still glaring at him, waiting for a response.

“We done here?”

Her frown deepens, with a cast of what might even be confusion at his lack of reaction. “Excuse me?”

He climbs to his feet. “Have you said everything you wanted to say.”

“I’d like a promise.” She stands too, a little closer to him than she would have stepped to anyone else. She’d excluded him from her bed, but Charles can see now, clear as day, that she intends to keep controlling him by dangling the possibility he might one day get back in. “That you won’t go against me again. This doesn’t have to get ugly, Charles.”

“Go ahead and keep tightening your fist around this island, Eleanor,” he says, stepping decisively toward the door. He hopes you haven’t left the tavern yet. “See what bends, and what breaks. There’s only so much free men will tolerate.”

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Beautiful Stranger (Chris Evans x OFC) -- part five

Nice long chapter here for you guys. You’re welcome :)

Warnings: the amount of fluff here should be illegal but Chris is so sweet that we’ll let it slide. And some general panicked thoughts

Thirty minutes.

It has taken me thirty damn minutes to pick an outfit, and I still haven’t even settled on one. Camile is ignoring my texts because she is essentially forcing me to go talk to Chris, which I think is cruel, but maybe it’s for my own good.

And maybe I shouldn’t dress too nice. What if he’s married or something? What if I knock on his door and his girlfriend answers?

My eyes widen at that thought. God, I hope that doesn’t happen. He can have a girlfriend, but I hope she doesn’t answer the door. I’d rather hear about her instead of meeting her face to face like that.

In the end, I go for one of my go-to outfits when I need to venture out for some errands. I figure if this does go south, I can keep myself busy with buying groceries or something, or wandering around a bookstore.

There, that’s good. I’m not going to talk to my soulmate. I’m going to talk to my soulmate on my way out to run some errands. Perfect.

That’s all I need to finish my makeup and pull back my hair -- I really should’ve washed it last night, but Camile just had to drag me out to dinner. I grab my purse from the couch and make sure my wallet is tucked inside before I head out.

603.

The elevator feels different going up to the sixth floor because I’ve never gone up here.

Okay, I’m being dramatic. The elevator is the same as it’s always been. I’m just dramatic. And nervous. Holy hell, I am nervous.

The doors open with a ding and I’m suddenly on the sixth floor. I’m doing this.

I find 603 with ease, but it takes me a few moments to actually work up the courage to knock. Once I do, though, barely a second passes before the door opens, revealing Chris in what looks like workout clothes, with his phone in his left hand.

“He-- Oh, hey.”

I blink. “Hi.”

Silence.

Right, I’m the one at his door this time. “Sorry, are you going out? Is this a bad time?”

“Oh, just downstairs to the gym,” he chuckles.

There’s that sound again. I wonder if he sees the way my eyes almost fog over when he does it.

“Is everything okay?”

“Yes, yes, sorry. You knocked on my door this morning, and I was half-asleep, so I realized I didn’t really say much, and I wanted to come say thank you.”

“Oh!” It dawns on him then. “I knew you looked familiar, I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I knocked on your door, that was so weird of me to do.”

“No, I,” I breathe, “I appreciate it. You didn’t have to do that.”

About that time is when I feel a little nose sniffing my leg, causing me to look down and see a little puppy doing just that.

“Awww,” I let out a little laugh without thinking. And I’m too enthralled with the dog, too busy kneeling down to scratch him behind his ears, too busy asking, “What’s their name?” Too busy to see Chris has gone silent and stiff.

I look up after a moment of hearing no answer, seeing Chris’s gaze then. It’s unreadable. Not angry, not happy, just nothing.

Shocked, maybe?

A sinking feeling settles in my stomach then. He’s probably got a girlfriend or a wife or something. And then he hears me laugh...and I’ve probably just ruined whatever sweet life he thought he had.

I straighten back up, giving the dog a small smile as I do, but I need to not get attached to him. “Um,” I clear my throat. “I’m sorry. I probably should’ve told you last night, I guess, because that’s when I heard you laugh and I figured it out, but I got scared. But anyway--”

“It’s you.”

“Huh?” I ask slowly, tentatively. He doesn’t sound angry. Now that I really look at his face, too, he doesn’t look angry either.

“It’s you,” and then his face is breaking out into a grin. “Goddamn, it’s you, can I hug you?”

“I guess--”

The rest of my response is cut off by the absolutely bone-crushing hug Chris wraps me in a second later. I feel myself wrapping my arms around him and his dog dancing around our legs. He holds me there for so long that it makes me wonder if he’ll let me go, and my eyes widen when I have the thought that I don’t want him to.

“Sorry,” he apologizes again when he steps back. “Was that too much?”

“Unexpected,” I smile, speaking truthfully. “But not too much.”

“Okay,” he breathes, still smiling. God, his smile is blinding. “Okay, um, do you want to come inside maybe?”

I don’t mean to protest, and yet I still do. “I thought you were going to work out?”

“That can wait,” he shrugs, and then I see him looking me up and down. “Unless you’re on your way somewhere, then we can talk later.”

Talk? He wants to talk?

“Oh, no I’m not in any rush,” I say. “We can talk now.”

He steps back and holds his front door open for me, gesturing inside. His dog goes in first, running straight to the living area and grabbing one of his toys. Chris shuts the door behind me and drops his keys on the little table by the door.

I’ve barely taken two steps into his apartment and I can already tell it’s a lot nicer than mine. I guess the higher the floor, the higher the price.

“Oh, his name is Dodger, by the way,” Chris says, moving to stand next to me. “That was a delayed reaction.”

“It’s okay,” I smile, turning to look at him. He’s not much closer, but closer than he was before, so I still get a better look at him.

Those eyes are blue.

“Do you wanna come sit and we can talk?” He offers, looking into the living room with a shake of his head. “And play with Dodger.”

I see now that Dodger is wrestling with a toy, growling playfully and clearly feeling triumphant.

“Sure,” I finally say, following Chris over to Dodger.

I timidly drop my purse onto the couch before crouching down beside Chris to play with Dodger. Having a dog here does make the air in the room feel lighter, but it doesn’t take away the fact that a few minutes ago, Chris thought I was a total stranger.

Scratch that. I am a total stranger. Soulmate, yes, sure, but I’m still a stranger to him and he’s still a stranger to me.

And yet I’m sitting in his living room floor, playing with his adorable dog.

This is not how I thought I’d be spending this afternoon.

“So, uh...I know this is weird, but--” Chris stops himself and shakes his head. “Sorry, I don’t really know how to go about this…”

Dodger settles down slowly, and eventually is in my lap, looking up at me with his bright eyes. It makes me smile brightly to see his face when I scratch behind his ears while I wait for Chris to find his words.

“You know, I’ve thought of so many things to say to you before I knew you and now that you’re sitting here, I can’t remember any of them.”

I can’t tell if that’s supposed to be romantic or not. I think my brain is too fried from the elevator and him knocking on my door this morning to even process what’s happened after I knocked on his door.

“You’re a stranger,” I blurt, not meaning it to sound as off-putting as it did. “I just mean, we’re soulmates, but I don’t even know you. Isn’t that weird to you?”

Of course, when everyone talks about soulmates, they never mention the fact that despite your soulmate being, well, your soulmate, they’re still essentially a stranger. Everyone talks about everything falling right into place, but right now my chest couldn’t feel tighter.

“Christopher Robert Evans,” he says then, turning his head to look at me, a small smile teasing at his lips. “Usually just Chris, though.”

I smile softly at that, almost chuckling. “Eva Blue Bird,” I say, returning the favor. “Usually just Eva -- though my best friend calls me Bluebird.”

He grins, that blinding smile. “What’s your best friend’s name?”

“Camile,” I reply, looking down when I feel Dodger curling up in my lap. “We met back in college and weren’t roommates at first, but we both had terrible roommates so we kind of bonded over that. And then suddenly we were moving here together and we lived together for a while, until she met Jack. That’s her soulmate’s name.” I pause, realizing how much I’ve just told him. “That was a lot.”

“It’s okay, hey, I want to get to know you,” he assures me. “Where’d you go to college?”

“Chicago,” I nod. “I had friends going, and it seemed exciting to live somewhere other than the south.” I furrow my eyebrows, realizing now that he doesn’t really have a southern accent. “Where are you from?”

“Massachusetts,” he replies, looking like I’ve caught him in a lie. “And I’m actually only living here temporarily.”

Oh. “Really?”

“Yeah,” he breathes, focusing his eyes on Dodger. “I’m an actor. We’re filming a movie right now for the next few months, so that’s why I’m here.”

“Oh.” I try not to sound so scared of the next question. “Where’s home for you then?”

“Honestly?” He laughs, and I realize how weird it is to hear that in person. “We’ve been filming so much here, and I’m sure we will again, that this has become a bit of a home. But uh, I’ve got a house back in Boston close to my parents. I’m really close to them and my siblings -- I’ve got two sisters and a brother, and we’re all really close.”

“That’s cool, though,” I smile. “What movies have you done?” I feel a little stupid for not recognizing his face, but maybe he does Indie movies instead of huge Blockbuster films.

“Uh,” he pauses, looking reluctant. “I don’t even want to say it because it always sounds like I’m so conceited, but-- Marvel. I’m-- I play Steve Rogers, Captain America.”

Oh.

Oh God.

I know of the Marvel universe. I know of it only because Camile’s soulmate is...well, obsessed makes it sound like he’s crazed, and he isn’t crazed by any means. He’s just...obsessed. Needless to say, Camile has told me about a Captain America because Jack wanted to binge the movies with her one weekend, but I never cared enough to look up the character she was telling me about.

I distinctly remember her saying he was my type -- if I had a type. Whatever that means.

“Okay,” I breathe. “Are you going to hate me if I say I’ve never seen any of those films?”

“Not at all,” he shakes his head. “I’m a little relieved, actually. I’ve had more than a few girls try to convince me they were my soulmate just because they-- Well, I think they liked Captain America more than they liked Chris Evans, let’s put it that way.”

“I’m sorry,” I frown. “That sucks.” But in the back of my head I realize I’ve gotten an answer to my question wondering if he was taken. Apparently the answer is no.

I hate that I feel relieved.

“Yeah, it’s why I’ve kind of hidden myself away for about a year now,” he pauses to laugh again. “If I knew I needed to hide away to find you, though, I would’ve done it sooner.”

“I wouldn’t say that,” I murmur. “I’ve kind of been hiding from you my entire life.”

Chris’s face is suddenly serious. That obviously wasn’t the reply he was expecting from me. His voice is much quieter when he asks, “Can I ask why?”

I don’t know if I should tell him, but I’ve come this far. Might as well. Maybe it’ll scare him away and I’ll never see him again.

“My parents were soulmates,” I begin, looking as if I’m talking to Dodger more than I am talking to Chris. “But they weren’t happy. They hated each other. So I didn’t exactly have a good example of happy, healthy soulmates growing up. It kinda made me terrified of it all.” I pause, wondering if he can even hear a word I’m saying with how quiet my voice is. “I haven’t been actively looking -- but I’ve kind of been hiding myself away. I thought I was safer that way,” I let out a small chuckle, finally deciding to look up at him. “I guess the universe was laughing at me from the day you moved in here though, huh?”

He finds a small amount of humor in that comment from the way the corners of his lips tug upwards, but he still doesn’t look overjoyed.

I’ve overshared. This is the beginning of him hating me, isn’t it? My mom used to say she knew dad hated her from the first time she met him. And he would probably say the same. But they just wanted it to work so bad that neither of them brought it up. I bet Chris is too kind to bring it up, too. This will probably crash and burn the same way my parents did.

“Well,” I breathe, figuring I should make my exit before my thoughts spiral any more. “I do have a few errands to run, so I should probably get going.”

I carefully slide Dodger off my lap and only the soft carpet, placing his toy right under his chin. I smile softly. I’m gonna miss him.

I stand and Chris does too, still not saying a single word. I turn around and grab my purse from the couch, thinking about what I’m going to tell Camile when I get her on the phone. Or maybe I should just drive to her house, errands be damned. But maybe if I tell her in public, I’ll be less inclined to cry over the failed meeting with my soulmate.

“It was nice meeting you--” I’m barely halfway through my sentence before Chris is speaking hurriedly, looking like I’m going to run out the door before he can finish.

“Do you want to come back? For dinner maybe?”

I blink. “What?”

Chris pauses, collecting himself before he asks again. “Would you like to have dinner with me?”

“You…” My eyes narrow, mostly out of sheer confusion. I swore that was hatred on his face earlier. I swore. “You’re serious?”

He nods. “If you want to, no pressure.”

No pressure. Could he be anything other than kind for five seconds? I don’t think he could if he tried.

“Okay,” I find myself saying, even though I’m going to no doubt be kicking myself later. “Here?”

“Yeah,” he replies, and then backtracks. “Unless-- I mean, we can go out, if you’d like that better, but I’m on a sort of...house arrest situation from my publicist.”

“Oh.” I should probably call Camile just to get ahold of Jack and see just how famous Chris Evans is. I know Marvel has a big following, but just how big for him to be on fucking house arrest? “Here is good, then.”

“Is seven okay?”

“It’s perfect,” I shrug, my tongue feeling foreign in my mouth. “I’ll just come knock?”

“I’ll leave the door open,” he says instead. “You can just come in. You can come earlier, if you want. Keep Dodger company while I cook.”

“Okay.”

Chris lets out another small laugh. “I’m gonna stop rambling so you can go.” He shakes his head at himself as he walks with me to the door. He pulls it open for me, then lightly touches my arm to stop me halfway. “Do you have any food allergies?”

I raise my eyebrows. “Just peanuts. And pears.”

“Okay,” he drops his hand back to his side. “Just wanted to be sure.”

“Are you going to cook?”

“Maybe,” he smiles. “Any preferences?”

“No,” I shake my head, wondering why now, as I’m walking out the door, is when I seem most comfortable with him. “Surprise me.”

“You got it,” he chuckles. “See you later?”

I nod. “See you.”

I leave his apartment with a smile that can only be described as the weird kind of grin I get on my face when I’m feeling a mix of giddiness and sheer terror.

#Chris Evans #chris evans x original female character #chris evans x ofc #chris evans soulmate #soulmates #soulmate au #soulmate story #so much fluff #he's so sweet #such a kind human #some mild panic #she'll always be panicked #they've finally had a conversation THANK GOD #only took them four chapters smh

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the way home | Ch. 2 | Edward x MC

Pairing: Edward Mortemer x MC

Word count: 1,977

Summary: In which traveling to the past is only half the battle; or: Elena finds her way back.

Warnings: language, some violence

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Tag list: @writinghereandthere

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Throngs of people breeze through the streets of the port town, unfazed by the stacks of boards and pallets of bricks that block sections of the main route.

The hurricane’s damage is much more obvious this close: swatches of roofs torn away, replaced with makeshift sheets of tin, the steeple of a nearby church gone, with only splinters remaining. Elena recalls the story about how she saved her home from a hurricane and hopes that she hasn’t arrived too late. Having wasted time doubling back to her buried bag and stowing away the clothes she arrived in, she hurries through the packed streets as best she can. The new boots pinch at her feet with every step. It would be nice, she bemuses, if she could keep her clothes with her when she travels back in time.

“Would’ve saved me a fortune,” she mutters, navigating around two men haggling on the price of a goat.

Complaints aside, she loves the feel of the silk vest against her skin, of the fresh leather across her hip where her new sword gleams in its holster. She even bought a cavalier hat, excusing its purchase with the protection from the sun it offered.

It’s nice to be back, to resume her role as Elena McTavish, infamous pirate. The years of holing up in her sister’s apartment or Robert’s hotel rooms, scouring documents and scrolling through endless message boards for time-traveling artifacts was no life to call her own. The occasional trip to Calgary or Edinburgh or New Orleans to hunt down a lead was the closest she ever came to a real adventure back home.

Up ahead, she spots the tavern and winds her way through the crowd to reach it. The inside is as dimly lit as any other pub she’s been to, no matter the century. Ignoring the jeer of a drunken man near the door, she makes her way to the table Robert has commandeered near the back. His new attire fits him well, colored dark as to blend in with the shadows -- just as he likes. He slides a mug to her before launching into his update.

“I found us a ship. Decent crew. They need four extra hands.”

Elena sips at the ale and raises her brow. “Did you tell them that the two of us are just as good as four men?”

“Aye, that I did.” A smirk flashes behind his mug. “They agreed to take us aboard. I told ‘em that we’re interested in finding an associate who’s likely to be farther north. As it so happens, that’s where they’re headed for a trade route.”

“Did they know anything about--”

“You know as well as I do that Edward has made enemies -- none as big as the Admiral, but enemies nonetheless. I thought it wise to keep mum about who exactly we’re looking for, especially when they’re our ride out of here.”

Elena frowns, though she dips her head in acknowledgement to his point. “I asked the ladies in the shop, but they didn’t recognize his name. This port gets its fair share of traffic.”

“Aye, we’ll have better luck with the smaller islands.” After a subtle glance at the other patrons, Robert leans over the table and drops his voice to a mumble. “I managed to find a few of my old contacts. Both of them said the same thing: that he’s offering a bounty of sorts for information on you.”

She takes a slow sip of her drink and attempts to act nonplussed. “When did they hear about this bounty? Recently, or…?”

“Within the last three months. So, that tells us that he’s in the area.”

“Yeah,” she sighs, unable to hide the daunting weight to her words, “the area of one million square miles.”

“Oi.” He nudges her arm, bringing her sour gaze up from her mug and back to him. “The hardest part is over. We made it back -- and this time, hopefully, for good. Don’t beat yerself up. I told you that I’d stick with you until we find him, and I will.”

Elena settles in her chair, holding back the relieved sigh that’s building in her chest. She doesn’t want to give him the satisfaction of knowing how much that means to her.

On their first return, he’d all but left her in the dust when the wormhole they used spit them out in a church in Salvador, down on Brazil’s coast. When their time ran out and they were both sucked back to the future a few weeks later, the leopard had changed its spots, so to speak, and Robert admitted his own faults with trying to go at it alone.

“How do you manage to slip back into the accent so well?” she asks, unsubtly changing the topic at hand.

“Helps if you learned to do so in the first place. When you first showed up, you hardly attempted to assimilate. Didn’t help you any when you waved yer mobile about.”

“Says the man who stuffed gunpowder into little tubes and tried to pass it off as an original idea? And it’s not my fault that I ended up being put on trial! Edward was the one who broke the Code by letting me come aboard.”

Robert shrugs off her point, hiding his grin behind the glass.

“We would’ve shot you first, if that’s any consolation.”

“Honestly, as someone who swam half a mile in a dress, it is.”

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Adjusting the sails alongside Rhodes, the ship’s boatswain, Elena looks out across the deck of the Little Death and to the green spot on the horizon.

The ragtag crew welcomed them with somewhat open arms, more desperate than anything else to have help running their sloop. It didn’t hurt, of course, that Elena and Robert knew their way around boarding and pillaging merchant ships. On their journey from Santo Domingo’s port, they manage to pin down two ships along Hispaniola's southern shore, and then another as they pass by Tortuga, long abandoned by the buccaneers that ran it during the mid-seventeenth century. After stopping briefly in the West Indies to gather more crew, they head north into Great Britain’s territory. The islands here are smaller, clustered together within twenty to sixty nautical miles of each other.

“Sail ho!” someone cries from up in the crow’s nest. “Got a brig comin’ ‘round to starboard!”

Along with everyone else, Elena eagerly searches the expanse of water. The Red Duster flag fades into view soon enough. She frowns at the British merchant vessel, turning the ugly flare of disappointment into fierce determination when she boards it twenty minutes later.

The merchant crew is really no match, she finds, after tying several of the men together with their own twine. Captain Delaney, a chiseled man without a single ounce of humor in his entire body, gets right to business with giving his crew orders on what to plunder.

“Montgomery and Lear, supplies!” he shouts.

Snapping into action, Elena and Robert disappear down the ladder and into the ship’s hull. It had been his idea, of course, to use fake surnames. There was no need for their temporary crew to know their real names, especially with the rumor of a reward for--

“McTavish!” a voice blurts from the darkened corridor.

Her step falters; she knocks her shoulder against the wall before righting herself.

“Keep moving,” Robert hisses in her ear, brushing past to hide her from immediate line of sight.

“Shut up!” Rhodes demands over the sickening slap of skin on skin.

“What if it’s--”

“It’s not,” Robert cuts her off, bending down and shoving a crate of supplies into her lax hold. “If it were, they’d call you by yer given name.” He moves about the room as he speaks, pitching his voice below whoever is outside calling for her. “Don’t look at them. Make them think they’re just confused.”

Shifting the crate in her grip, Elena nods her head. “Got it.”

“C’mon.” He dumps a smaller box on top of hers in an effort to hide her face. “If the captain wants more’n this, he can send down another--”

“Elena McTavish!” the voice cries again when they exit the room. “I know it’s you -- it’s me, Doyle! Officer Doyle! Please, you can’t let them kill me!”

Behind her mountain of supplies, Elena rolls her eyes at his begging. Robert’s nudge at her back urges her to ignore the man. Their path is blocked by other members of the crew waiting their turn to return to the deck, leaving her at the mercy of Doyle’s pitiful wails. “I -- I have a family, now, a wife and a little boy. Please, you have to tell them to let me go!”

“Oi!” Rhodes knocks him back against the wall with a kick to his ribs. “What did I say?”

“I’m sorry, please, I’ll -- I just -- Elena, please, I helped you when--”

“For god’s sake, shut up!” she snarls. She turns on her heel to face him, but Robert blocks her with his own bulky crate. “We aren’t going to kill you, you idiot. And my name isn’t McTavish. I’ve never met you before in my life.”

“I don’t understand. Please, Elena, you’re my only hope! You can vouch for--”

“Rhodes?” she calls down the corridor.

The sharp thunk of skull meeting wood echoes through the small space. Her lungs seize, unable to see the damage for herself as guilt races through her.

“You’ve a soft heart, Rhodes,” another of their crew says with a smirk. “I woulda done more’n knock him out.”

Elena clenches her jaw against the grating noise of laughter. Robert joins in, adding his own insult that gets them going once more. Adjusting his load, he reaches down and pats her arm, nodding at the question in her eyes. She welcomes the breath of relief that fills her lungs.

After they leave the merchant ship behind, Rhodes approaches her out on the deck. He drapes his arm around her shoulder in a casual gesture. Elena decides to ignore the gaze he seemingly has trained on her breasts.

“I thought your name was Elena Montgomery?”

“It is,” she scoffs. “Moron mistook me for some poor lass, I guess.”

“Hmm. Poor lass indeed,” he agrees.

Glancing up, his face tightens around a grimace before his smirk springs back. His hand squeezes her shoulder for a beat before he moves off with a wink.

“God, could he be any more obvious?” she asks without bothering to look up from her task.

Robert grunts in agreement, chuckling under his breath.

“Aye, he’s probably considering what he could buy himself with that many pieces of eight.”

“How many, exactly?” Elena questions, curious.

“Six-hundred, according to my contacts.”

Her jaw drops a fraction before she snaps her mouth closed. “The same payout as losing an arm, depending on a ship’s Code. Which is, I imagine, what Edward’ll do if Rhodes here threatens you to get that coin.”

“That’s…” she trails off, still trying to move past the sum.

“Not his best play, I’ll give you that.” He tips his head to the side in consideration. “But it keeps mouths moving, keeps people looking.”

Finishing off her last knot, Elena shifts to lean against the railing. She could corner Rhodes when night comes and threaten to slice his balls off if he tells anyone else -- but then that would be all the convincing he would need. Keeping her head down is probably the best way to go about it, but that runs the risk of him feeling brave enough to pull a stunt on her down the line.

“Dead men tell no tales,” she recites in a sing-songy tone.

Robert steps up to join her at the railing and crosses his arms, glaring out over the deck at the man in question.

“Leave him to me.”

#edward x mc #edward mortemer #distant shores #distant shores fic #Kaila writes things #f: the way home #I think tumblr is finally letting me tag people so if you'd like to be tagged just let me know!#I know some people in the past requested to be tagged but it's been a long while and i don't want to bother #choices

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New comic series I am looking forward to.

DC: Electric Warriors (Love Orlando), Captain Marvel (the real Captain Marvel), Batman and the Outsiders (For Cass, plus Hill is a good writer), Safe Sex (Cool premise), Second Coming (Love Mark Russell) and the some ones shots. ngl I am mostly replacing the books that ended/ending (Snagglepuss, Mister Miracle) or did dumb things with (TEC).

Marvel: Ironheart and the Vision are things I will check out. Some of the what if’s I might get (def getting the Magik one) and the Emma Frost one shot. Uncanny X-men I might get in trade but no way am I buying a full price weekly, especially with all the books I am already getting. ngl Most of the Marvel book s I was looking forward to like Captain America and West Coast Avengers have already come out.

Independent/licensed: Bitter Root (Cool premise), Transformers vs Star Trek (Because YES), MLP Nightmare Knights (I buy all MLP comics, plus this one seems cool). Ngl I want recs for good indies.

#marvel #dc #darkhorse #idw #writing mode #not lying I do want recs for upcoming indie books #comic rec

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pissoffghost-korg · 6 years

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11 Question Tag Game

post the rules Answer the questions given to you by the tagger Write 11 questions of your own Tag 11 people (I was tagged by @five-foot-two-joanne ) 1) Favorite Album? probably Vices and Virtues and Too Weird To Live, To Rare To Die! 2) What is your favorite price of art? like below $10, but you probably meant ‘piece of art’ so Ima say @five-foot-two-joanne cause she is art 3) Have you had any pets? yes, I’ve had geese, a snake, fish, lizards, cats, a dog, a mara, turtles, tortoises, but I have none at the moment 4) Any siblings? Yeah, 2, a 11 month old sister, and a 16 year old sister 5) What is your astronomical sign? I’m a Pisces :/ 6) When do you start playing Christmas music? all thru out the year when I’m in a certain mood, but not that much, I don’t really like Christmas music 7) What is your favorite memory with your parents/grandparents? I don’t think it’s one specific memory, but I remember a lot of stuff about my dad (who I don’t live with). We used to go out and he would get a large rare steak, and I would get a well done kid steak, but I would always end up eating his. (Which is kinda weird because I don’t eat steak/a lot of meat anymore) 8) Have you ever traveled out of the country where you live? If yes, where? No, sadly, if I were to tho I would probably go to Japan, or England 9) Does pineapple belong on pizza? Sometimes, depends on the mood I’m in 10) What is your otp? idk?? I have a bunch?? Sterek, Destiel, Mike x Eleven 11) Do you watch sports? What is your favorite team? Nah, sports aren’t my thing 12) What are you going to name your kids? I don’t really know, I don’t even know if I want to have kids, but I’ve always like the names Alex, Max, Charlie (for girls) My Questions: 1) Favorite mythical creature/monster 2) Favorite time of year/season 3)What age do you think you’ll die 4) Do you want kids, if so how many 5)Favorite hair color, natural or dyed 6) Country or Indie 7) Hard Rock or Alternative 8) Indigo or Violet 9) Earbuds or Headphones 10) team Iron Man or Team Captain America 11) One of your fav shows and your fav character from that show I Tag: @not-so-straight-not-so-great @tylerrrrrdun @beautiful-tragic-fallout @castielthesmolbean @tbholland @writing-winchester and whoever else reads this cause I only know like 3 people on this place

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The Birth of John Paul Jones

On his second voyage upon the John, John Paul got into a fight with the carpenter’s mate, Mungo Maxwell. Maxwell belonged to a prominent family in Kirkcudbright, the John’s home port. Maxwell put Paul’s short temper to the test when he mouthed off, did his work sloppily if he did it at all, and cockily refused to be subservient to the son of a gardener. John Paul, fed up with Maxwell’s insubordination, ordered that he be flogged with the cat-o’-nine-tails [image], as was frequently done on board a ship, with the traditional twelve lashes and then they took Maxwell off to treat his wounds. When the John arrived in port at Tobago, Maxwell sued John Paul in the summer of 1770, claiming unjust abuse from his captain. The Admiralty Court that was sitting in Tobago quickly cleared Paul of any crimes after examining the wounds on Maxwell’s back and declaring that they were neither “mortal nor dangerous.” They determined that Maxwell had deserved it and Captain Paul was justified. Maxwell angrily quit and boarded a ship headed for Scotland, but that wouldn’t be the end of it. When John Paul sailed his ship back into port in Scotland that November, he was greeted by the Sherif, arrested, and thrown in jail. Maxwell had died on his way back to Scotland and the rumors flew that he had never recovered from a flogging ordered unjustly upon him by Captain Paul. Maxwell’s family was enraged and threw around their influence in order to get Paul arrested, saying that Maxwell had been “most unmercifully, by the said John Paul, with a great cudgel or batton, bled, bruised, and wounded upon his back and other parts of his body, and which wounds and bruises he soon afterwards died.” Given the opportunity to post bail and then leave to collect proof that he was innocent of his crime, John Paul returned to the Caribbean. The Captain of the ship that had taken Maxwell home said that Maxwell had seemed “in perfect health” but had caught a fever from the West Indies and died on their way back to Scotland. John Paul also obtained the proof that he had already been cleared by the Admiralty judge in Tobago and presented both testimonies to the court back in Scotland. He was cleared of his crime and allowed to go free, but the fact that it had even happened at all upset Paul immensely. His parent’s master, William Craik, had taken the side of the Maxwells and John Paul stewed and fretted about it for months, angry that he had been forced to collect proof of his innocence and good character in order to satisfy the court and how Craik had exercised prejudiced against him because of his lower class. Come spring of 1771, he was looking for employment at sea once more because, while he was in the West Indies collecting proof for his innocence, the John had been sold. The owners of the ship praised Paul and recommended him as being highly qualified as a captain, which won him the command of a larger ship called the Betsy, which sailed out of London, and he was also allowed a portion of all the profits made. Now twenty-five years old, he set out in the fall of 1772 to claim his new ship. He was well on his way to success when everything began to crumble about him. That summer of 1773, he discovered that the futtocks, the frame’s ribbing [image], of the Betsy were badly cracked and broken and he ordered them to be fixed before they left Ireland, he then caught fever and was bed-ridden for sixteen days, the shipment of butter he was meant to haul spoiled, and the winter storm season was approaching by the time that he set sail in the fall. He arrived at Tobago before Christmas of 1773 and brought on some new crewmembers. They would be the cause of what Jones considered to be “the great misfortune of my life.” One of the crewmates he brought on that winter turned out to be a drunkard who disobeyed orders and sowed seeds of discontent among the crew of the Betsy. John Paul, in later years, would only call the man “the Ringleader” and his real name is unknown. When they landed in Tobago, Paul was strapped for cash thanks to the repairs for the ship and the ruin of his cargo and, rather than paying his crew in advance so that they could buy new clothing or dump it all into whoring and drinking, he decided to reinvest in new cargo to bring back to London and pay them then. By the time Paul returned from his business, his whole crew had been stirred up by the “Ringleader,” who “rushed up from the Steerage and stopped [Paul] with the grosest Abuse that Vulgarism could dictate.” The man accused Paul of not having paid them in an exaggerated fourteen months. Paul, remembering that he and others had wanted new clothes, offered him a new frock and trousers and told him to be better informed because his claim wasn’t true. He then proceeded to give clothing to other crewmembers he knew were in want. This did not satisfy “the Ringleader,” who began to swear and say that he was going to quit and take the ship. Paul said that if he could find someone to replace him, he was free to go but he couldn’t have the ship. The man then insisted that he was going to take the ship by force and started across the gangway. John Paul, patience spent, headed for his cabin, commanding the man to never show his face on the deck of his ship ever again or he would pay the price. In the cabin, Paul intended to find a stick with which to threaten the man, but only found his sword, which was sitting on the table. He took the sword with, what he later claimed was, the intent to “intimidate the Man into Submission.” The man then armed himself with a Bludgeon and attacked Paul, to Paul’s great surprise. Paul had thought that the guy’s words had been the result of natural disappointment that would subside with time, but the guy was trying to kill him. Paul began to retreat towards his cabin, shuffling backward while the man approached him, but the open hatchway lay between himself and the cabin door. His heel struck the edge of the hatch and he came to an abrupt stop, unable to take another step without falling below. His attacker chose that instant to lunge forward and strike at Paul’s head with his weapon and Paul raised his sword to defend himself. Paul claims that the man, in his rush forward, had impaled himself on his sword in his attack. Regardless of whether or not the man ran onto Paul’s sword or Paul had stabbed him in self-defense, a man was now lying mortally wounded at his feet. [x] Paul had been determined to turn himself in to the authorities at first, but the Justice convinced him that there was no need to turn himself in before the trial. So he waited. After the Maxwell affair, he was confident that the courts would vindicate him thanks to the understanding that a captain sometimes had to go to extremes in order to quell a mutiny and Paul had been acting out of self-defense. The only problem was, the Admiralty Court of Tobago was not sitting during the Christmas season of 1773. Paul would have had to face a normal trial by jury at the local court where he had the potential of being convicted of murdering a local man, one of only three hundred white men on the island. Paul felt that the odds were against him and he did not feel like he could even trust his own crew to defend him because they had obviously supported the Ringleader’s mutiny and were probably eager to be rid of him. John Paul, in the face of what he felt would be his impending doom, took flight. John Paul insisted that he was taking the advice of “friends” like Archibald Stuart, a Scottish business partner of his on the island, when he ran and that he’d intended to return when the Admiralty Court returned in order to stand trial. The plan was to lay low for a while in America while Stuart supported John Paul by sending him money until it was the right time for him to return. Setting out, John Paul took on a new name, Jones, and began traveling incognito to Fredericksburg, Virginia where he knew his older brother lived. The only problem was that when he arrived in Virginia that winter, the money never came, his older brother was dead, there was no one on his side, and all he had to survive for what would be the next twenty months of his life were the £50 in his pockets. He’d been back-stabbed by the people who’d called themselves his friends and was convinced to flee from a murder trial by people who had no intention of ever letting him return. John Paul, now John Paul Jones, still intended to go back to the West Indies to face trial, but before he could gather the funds or receive word that the Admiralty Court had returned to the island, the American Revolution had begun and all ports on the continent had been closed.

[Source: John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas]

#John Paul Jones #Continental Navy #Prepare to be frustrated as fuck #Because people mutinying - back-stabbing - double-crossing - and disrespecting #JP Jones is about to be the norm

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List of NES Games

10 Yard Fight 1942 1943 3-D Worldrunner 720 degrees 8 Eyes A Nightmare on Elm Street Abadox The Addams Family The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt Advanced Dungeon's and Dragon's: Dragonstrike Advanced Dungeon's and Dragon's: Heroes of the Lance Advanced Dungeon's and Dragon's: Hillsfar Advanced Dungeon's and Dragon's: Pool of Radiance Adventure Island Adventure Island II Adventure Island III Adventures in the Magic Kingdom The Adventures of Bayou Billy The Adventures of Dino Riki The Adventures of Gilligan's Island The Adventures of Lolo The Adventures of Lolo II The Adventures of Lolo III The Adventures of Rad Gravity The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Air Fortress Airwolf Al Unser Jr.s Turbo Racing Alfred Chicken Alien 3 Alien Syndrome All Pro Basketball Alpha Mission Amagon American Gladiators Anticipation Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl! Archon Arkanoid Arkistas Ring Astyanax Athena Athletic World Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Baby Boomers Back to the Future Back to the Future II & III Bad Dudes Bad News Baseball Bad Street Brawler Ballon Fight Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach Bandit King's of Ancient China Barbie Bard's Tale Barker Bill's Trick Shooting Base Wars - Cyber Stadium Series Baseball Baseball Simulator 1.000 Baseball Stars Baseball Stars II Bases Loaded Bases Loaded II: Second Season Bases Loaded III Bases Loaded IV Batman Batman Returns Batman: Return of the Joker Battle Chess The Battle of Olympus Battle Tank Battleship Battletoads Battletoads and Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team Beetlejuice Best of the Best: Championship Karate Bigfoot Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure Bill Elliot's NASCAR Challenge Bionic Commando Black Bass Blades of Steel Blaster Master Blue Marlin The Blue's Brothers Bo Jackson Baseball Bomberman Bomberman II Bonk's Adventure Boulder Dash A Boy and His Blob Bram Stoker's Dracula Break Time: The National Pool Tour Breakthru Bubble Bobble Bubble Bobble: Part 2 Bucky Ohare The Bug's Bunny Birthday Blowout The Bug's Bunny Crazy Castle Bump N Jump Burai Fighter Burgertime Cabal Caesars Palace California Games Captain America and the Avengers Captain Planet Captain Skyhawk Casino Kid Casino Kid 2 Castelian Castle of Dragon Castlequest Castlevania Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Caveman Games Championship Bowling Championship Pool The Chessmaster Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 Chubby Cherub Circus Caper City Connection Clash at Demonhead Classic Concentration Cliffhanger Clu Clu Land Cobra Command Cobra Triangle Code Name: Viper Color a Dinosaur Commando Conan: The Mysteries of Time Conflict Conquest of The Crystal Palace Contra Contra Force Cool World Cowboy Kid Crash N the Boy's: Street Challenge Crystalis Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine Dance Aerobics Danny SulIvans Indy Heat Darkman Darkwing Duck Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum Day Dreamin Davey Day's of Thunder Deadly Tower's Defender II Defender of the Crown Defenders of Dynatron City Deja Vu Demon Sword Desert Commander Destination Earth Star Destiny of an Emperor Dick Tracy Die Hard Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 3 Donkey Kong Classics Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong Jr. Math Double Dare Double Dragon Double Dragon II: The Revenge Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stone Double Dribble Dr. Chaos Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Mario Dragon Fighter Dragon Power Dragon Spirit: The New Legend Dragon Warrior Dragon Warrior II Dragon Warrior III Dragon Warrior IV Dragon's Lair Duck Hunt Duck Tales Duck Tales II Dungeon Magic Dusty Diamonds All-Star Softball Dynowarz: The Destruction of Spondylus Elevator Action Eliminator Boat Duel The Empire Strikes Back Evert and Lendl Top Player's Tennis Excitebike F-117A Stealth Fighter F-15 Strike Eagle Family Feud Faria: A World of Mystery and Danger Faxanadu Felix the Cat Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge Fester's Quest Final Fantasy Fire N Ice Fisher Price: Firehouse Rescue Fisher Price: I Can Remember Fisher Price: Perfect Fit Fist of the North Star Flight of the Intruder The Flintstones The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll Flying Warrior's Formula 1: Built to Win Frankenstein: The Monster Returns Freedom Force Friday the 13th Fun House G.I. Joe G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor Galaga Galaxy 5000 Gargoyles Quest II Gauntlet Gauntlet II Guardian Legend Gemfire Genghis Khan George Foreman's KO Boxing Ghostbusters Ghostbusters II Ghost's N Goblins Ghoul School Goal! Goal! Two Gold Medal Challenge 92 Golf Golf Grand Slam Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode The Goonies II Gotcha! Gradius The Great Waldo Search Greg Norman's Golf Power Gremlins 2: The New Batch The Guardian Legend Guerilla War Gumshoe Gun Nac Gunsmoke Gyromite Gyross Harlem Globetrotters Hatris Heavy Barrel Heavy Shreddin High Speed Hogan's Alley Hollywood Squares Home Alone Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Hook Hoop's Hudson Hawk The Hunt for Red October Hydlide Ice Climber Ice Hockey Ikari Warriors Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue Image Fight The Immortal The Incredible Crash Dummies Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Infiltrator Iron Tak Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II Isolated Warrior "Ivan ""Iron Man"" Stewarts Super Off-Road" Jack Nicklaus Major Championship Golf Jackal Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu James Bond Jr. Jaws Jeopardy! Jeopardy! 25th Silver Anniversary Edition Jeopardy! Jr. Edition The Jetsons: Cogswells Caper Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour Joe and Mac John Elways Quarterback Jordan VS. Bird: One-On-One Journey to Silius Joust The Jungle Book Jurassic Park Kabuki: Quantum Fighter Karate Champ Karate Kid Karnov Kick Master Kickle Cubicle Kid Icarus Kid Klown in Night Mayor World Kid Kool Kid Niki King's Knight King's of the Beach King's Quest V Kirby's Adventure Kiwi Kraze Klashball Knight Rider The Krion Conquest Krusty's Funhouse Kong Fu Kung Fu Heroes Laser Invasion Last Action Hero Last Ninja The Last Starfighter Lee Trevinos Fighting Golf The Legacy of the Wizard Legend of Ghost Lion The Legend of Kage The Legend of Zelda Legendary Wing's Legend's of the Diamond Lemmings Lempereur Lethal Weapon Life Force Little League Baseball: Championship Series The Little Mermaid Litle Nemo: The Dream Master Litle Ninja Brothers Little Samson Lode Runner The Lone Ranger Loopz Low G-Man Lunar Pool M.C. Kids M.U.L.E. M.U.S.C.L.E. Mach Rider Mad Max The Mafat Conspiracy: Golgo 13 II Magic Dart's Magic Johnson's Fast Break Magic of Scheherazade Magician Magmax Major League Baseball Maniac Mansion Mappyland Marble Madness Mario Bros.. Mario is Missing Mario's Time Machine Marvels X-Men Mechanized Attack Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Mega Man 4 Mega Man 5 Mega Man 6 Mendel Palace Metal Gear Metal Mech Metal Storm Metroid Michael Andrettis World Grand Prix Mickey Mousecapades Mickey's Adventures in Numberland Mickey's Safari in Letterland Might and Magic: Secret of the Innner Sanctum Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Final Fight Millipede Milon's Secret Castle Mission Cobra Mission: Impossible Monopoly Monster in My Pocket Monster Party Monster Truck Rally Motor City Patrol Ms. Pac Man Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival The Mutant Virus Mystery Quest Narc NES Open Tournament Golf NES Play Action Football NFL Football Nigel Mansells World Championship Racing Nightshade Ninja Crusader Ninja Gaiden Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom Ninja Kid Nintendo World Cup Soccer Nobunagas Ambition Nobunagas Ambition II North and South Operation Wolf Orb-3D Othelo Overlord P.O.W.: Prisoners of War Pac Man Pac-Mania Palamedes Panic Restaurant Paper Boy Paper Boy 2 Peter Pan and the Pirates Phantom Fighter Pictionary Pinball Pinball Quest Pinbot Pipe Dream Pirates! Platoon Popeye Power Blade Power Blade 2 Power Punch II Predator Prince of Persia Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Pro Sport Hockey Pro Wrestling (Mike Tyson's) Punch-Out The Punisher Puss N Boot's: Peros Great Adventure Pzznic Q*Bert Qix R.C. Pro-Am Racing R.C. Pro-Am II Racket Attack Rad Racer Rad Racer II Raid on Bungeling Bay Rainbow Islands Rally Bike Rambo Rampage Rampart Remote Control The Ren and Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$ Renegade Rescue: The Embassy Mission Ring King River City Ransom Roadblasters Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Robocop Robocop 2 Robocop 3 Robo Warriors Rock N Bal Rocket Ranger The Rocketeer Rockin Kats Roger Clemens MVP Baseball Rollerball Rollerblade Racer Rollergames Romance of the Three Kingdon's Romance of the Three Kingdon's II Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge Rush N Attack Rygar S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Aattack Tea Secret Scout Secret Storm Section Z Seicross Sesame Street: 123 Sesame Street: ABC Sesame Street: ABC/123 Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide and Speak Sesame Street: Countdown Shadow of the Ninja Shadowgate Shatterhand Shingen the Ruler Shooting Range Short Order/Eggsplode Side Pocket Silent Service Silkworm Silver Surfer The Simpsons: Bart VS. The Space Mutants The Simpsons: Bart VS. The World Simpsons: Bartman Meet's Radioactive Man Skate or Die Skate or Die 2 Ski or Die Skulls and Crossbones Sky Kid Sky Shark Slalom Smash T.V. Snake Rattle N Roll Snakes Revenge: Metal Gear II Snoopy's Silly Sport's Spectacular Snow Brother's Soccer Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship Solomon's Key Solstice Space Shuttle Project Spelunker Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six Spot Spy Hunter Spy VS. Spy Sqoon Stack Up Stadium Events Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingston Star Force Star Soldier Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Voyager Star Wars Starship Hector Star Tropics Stealth ATF Stinger Street Cop Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight Strider Super C Super Cars Super Dodge Ball Super Glove Ball Super Jeopardy! Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Off-Road Super Pitfal Super Spike VBall Super Spike VBall/World Cup Soccer Super Spy Hunter Super Team Games Superman Swamp Thing Sword Master Sword's and Serpents Taboo: The Sixth Sense Tag Team Wrestling Tale Spin Target: Renegade Tecmo Baseball T&C Surf Design Tecmo Bowl Tecmo NBA Basketball Tecmo Super Bowl Tecmo World Cup Soccer Tecmo World Wrestling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters Tennis Terminator 2: Judgment Day The Terminator Terra Cresta Tetris Tetris 2 The Three Stooges Thunder and Lightning Thunderbirds Thundercade Tiger-Heli Time Lord Time's of Lore Tiny Toon Adventure's Tiny Toon Adventure's 2: Trouble in Wackyland Tiny Toon Adventure's Cartoon Workshop To the Earth Toki Tom and Jerry Tomb's and Treasure Toobin Top Gun Top Gun: The Second Mission Total Recall Totally Rad Touchdown Fever Town and Ccountry II: Thrillas Surfari Town and Country Surf Design's Toxic Crusaders Track and Field Track and Field II Treasure Master Trog Trojan Twin Cobra Twin Eeagle Ultima: Exodus Ultima: Quest of the Avatar Ultima: Warrior's of Destiny Ultimate Air Combat Ultimate Basketball Uncharted Water's Uninvited The Untouchables Urban Champion Vegas Dream Vice: Project Doom Videomation Volleyball Wacky Races Wall Street Kid Wario's Wood's Wayne Gretsky Hockey Wayne's World Werewolf: The Last Warrior Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White Wheel of Fortune: Jr. Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? Where's Waldo? Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Whomp Em Widget Wild Gunman Willow Win Lose or Draw Winter Games Wizardry II: Kight of Diamonds Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Wizards and Warrior's Wizards and Warrior's III Wolverine World Champ World Championship Wrestling World Class Track Meet World Game's Wrath of the Black Manta Wrecking Crew Wrestlemania Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth WWF King of the Ring WWF Wrestlemania Challenge WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge Xenophobe Xevious Xexyz X-Men Yo! Noid Yoshi Yoshi's Cookie The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Zanac Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Zen: Intergalactic Ninja Zodas Revenge: Star Tropics II Zombie Nation

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Microsoft Held You Softly At E3 2017

Microsoft’s Press Conference was arguably a lot more eagerly awaited than EA’s, which kicked off proceedings of E3 yesterday with their rather lack luster show, and it turned out to be a fairly strong showing from Microsoft. Phil Spencer proudly announced that they’d be showing 42 games at their show while constantly maintaining the smug grin that I now think might just be his normal face. However, the games weren’t exactly the big actor on the stage in this show.

Project Scorpio was finally going to be revealed with all the juicy details one might expect. Big numbers like 1172MHz and even bigger words like teraflops. All in all, Microsoft could have made up the numbers and figures as 90% of people will end up turning to the nearest person who actually knows what any of it means and look for a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Apparently with Project Scorpio it’s a thumbs up. But wait, do I mean Project Scorpio or do I mean Xbox One X, I think the X is for Xtreme. I hope the X is for Xtreme. I’m already calling an issue that only I will have to deal with, Xbox One X sounds a lot like Xbox One S, as someone who works in game retail this will confuse about 90% of mums and dads. Pray for me.

It’s odd to think that the big “reveal” of the Xbox One X can be glossed over so easily, but we’ve known all the information about it already, outside of the X, which is definitely for Xtreme. It’s just that everyone outside of the name and what it looked like was mostly known already. It looks like a grey Xbox One S. Now the question on everyone’s teraflopped lips was how does it make games look? What better way to show how a game can look good than with a car game, things which traditionally always look unnaturally good.

It also wouldn’t be a car game reveal without an actual car. Hidden away in the weird space church that was the Microsoft Stage was an actual car. Someone somewhere looked on with more than a spooky building from an actual car being in the room. Phwoar. Kiss your dad for me, there’s an actual car in the room. Outside of that Forza Motorsport 7 is a game that exists with fake actual cars now with more weather effects than ever before, still, it’s not exactly Mario Kart.

In a more impressive display of the Xbox One X’s graphics we saw what could possibly be gameplay for Metro Exodus. It looked really quite nice, in a million shades of brown kind of way, although the lack of UI of any form begins to raise questions about whether or not it’s representative or not. I’ve never played a Metro game but the big mutant bear looked cool, so that’s always a plus.

This was when Phil Spencer strutted out to proudly announce they were taking the wind out of Ubisoft as the big space god voice made one of its many announcements. Assassin’s Creed Origins flew onto our screens and its set in Egypt! This was a massive reveal because no one knew it was set in Egypt, and haven’t known about it for literally months. By the way it’s been known for literally months. Gameplay to be shown, and sadly revealing that it still looks a lot like every other Assassin’s Creed game, except that it’s gone back to Black Flag, which is at least a step in the right direction. Where would we also be with a Ubisoft game without it including every game mechanic from every game they’ve ever released, now with eagle/drone. Also the gameplay showed a lot of aspects that really began to turn me off. The combat still looks clunky and awkward and now there’s an equipment loot system and RPG leveling elements, because damage numbers were always a big part of Assassin’s Creed games.

One of the biggest announcements, while possibly reactionary, was that Player Unknown: Battleground will be coming to Xbox One, although let’s be honest, that bubble will have burst by the time it hits Xbox One in September or November, whichever one it was. Microsoft began to pick the pace up a little bit as they started showing a plethora of games. The quickest turn off to a game was with Black Desert, a game that looked interesting and cool at first, and hints of a Japanese/Korean Dragon’s Dogma, only to have it ruined by turning out to be an MMORPG. There were some really interesting indie games like The Last Night which had one of the best art directions of the entire show (EDIT: but is also made by GamerGate supporting developers who continue to say awful and outlandish things, I’ll give it a miss). There was CodeVein as well which looked like a Dark Souls-esque JRPG that could be silly fun as well as many MANY others that had my interest piqued, the main issue with a lot of them is that they will all be released on PC or even released on PS4 as well.

Cut to Sea of Thieves. Still looking oddly interesting but we’re still not entirely sure how the multiplayer actually works. Would I need to get the same 10 friends together each time I wanted to go to the seas like some complex D&D group or will it end up being more of an MMO experience in which who decides who is captain, are we all the captain. I’m the captain now?

Following on from pirates with their raping and pillaging, except not that, was an odd insert with Super Lucky Tales. It’s a cute platformer taken straight from the 90s, which parents won’t buy their kids because they look at the design and think “Well, my child can play 18 rated games really well, so this is probably too easy”, you think it outrageous, it’s an actual statement I’ve had said to me by a parent about Shovel Knight while I was at work. Either way, a pleasant surprise in the sea of 18 rated murder sprees. However this did then lead straight into Terry Crews shouting at you and confirming that Crackdown 3 does still exist, hooray. Also Cuphead finally has a release date, after several years of existing only in the ether.

The barrage of fun looking indie games continued as Microsoft burst into a full sprint to reveal their 42 games in a montage that gave enough time to each game that you might have read the title or even comprehended what was going on. Some notable games in the barrage of titles included Ooblets, which looks incredibly adorable and is some weird Harvest Moon Pokemon game, from what I can tell, as well as Tacoma which just looks kinda cool.

If it seems like I’m rushing through things here, blame Microsoft, they had 42 games in their show and sped through them with little time to spare. Phil Spencer finally revealed the secrets behind his trip to Japan, other than to get all the figurines he ever wanted, Dragonball FighterZ, because Zs are cool. It’s a fighting game by Arc System Works, so it looks astonishingly good and visually impressive, but you know, Dragonball was all Spencer could walk away with? Maybe he really likes Bulma, understandable really.

In an odd tripling for a paragraph, we also saw some more information about Shadow of War, or Shadow of Wardor as it should be called, which revealed that it is in fact a sequel to the last game, so expect more of that. Not something I’m really into, except the accents were 10/10 and there was a decent level of humour to be had with some characters, although this is countered by a man calling himself “The Machine” and shouting about revenge. Life is Strange, not just a follow up to my prior line, has a sequel coming out. Again, something that I’m fairly sure everyone knew about already, but you know, cool! Also Ori and the Blind Forest is going to have a sequel with Ori and the Will of the Wisp which looks set to continue having really depressing images of dead animals and parental figures that tragically die in front of your eyes like it’s Bambi.

Some of the final things in the show included a price for the Xbox One X, which will set you back $499 or £449, as well as backwards compatibility for Original Xbox games which is great, if your mum probably hasn’t sold them all in a car boot sale. Why release new games when people can just replay the ones they already own and feel like they’re getting a service. Xbox One X, it’s still a dumb name, I just hope the X is for Xtreme.

The show essentially wrapped up with more information on Bioware’s Anthem. This time they revealed more of the setting, the graphics and vague gameplay with a definitely scripted segment of gameplay that somehow made me less interested in the game, EA taking a page out of Ubisoft’s book. Giant creatures that look like they were ripped straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn, the setting of Anthem is still not entirely clear other than you jump down from the city and fly threw tubes and tunnels like you’re The Thunderbirds. It also turns out that it is probably just Destiny by Bioware, bit of a disappointment really on that one. Shotgunning aliens in the face can be fun and all, but a shotgun is also a little unimaginative.

Showing off a rather stunning design, however, the game did look visually impressive, filled with little bits and pieces with the suits of armour the play uses to kill the local wild life, such as multiple rockets launching from one’s shoulder. It’s a game to keep an eye on, for sure, but even with a “gameplay” trailer, I still feel like I know very little about the game or even how online it is, just like the pirate game I’ve already forgotten the name of. The awfully scripted conversations that didn’t at least once involve one friend saying to another “alright fuck face” suggests drop in and out multiplayer, but is it more like everyone’s just running around fucking pigs and sometimes you’ll meet up to do a quest? Who knows?

Overall the Microsoft press conference was alright, I am forgetting more and more of it as time passes though, which doesn’t exactly speak for any of the big announcements that were in the conference. In terms of games there was nothing ground breaking and new in announcement when it comes to AAA releases, a lot of it has already been leaked or spoken of before leaving the show feeling more like the show of follow ups than the show of industry breaking announcements. For the most part the 30 or more indie games that Microsoft blitzed through held my interest a lot more than most of the other titles shown and that’s because I’d not seen a lot, or anything, on most of them.

Microsoft may have put a lot of its eggs in one basket, that basket having a giant X on it for Xtreme, which appeals to a VERY small percentage of the market. There wasn’t a lot driving anyone to go out and buy an Xbox One X in November, or an Xbox One for that matter, it was a lot of assurances for those who already own one, but little attempts to win anyone over with new IPs or long missed titles, like Fable, making a return. Also, what the fuck is Mixer and why was it mentioned so often?

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