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polizwrites · 1 year

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PoliZ’s StarkBucks Round 3 Bingo Masterpost

I didn’t manage a blackout on my @starkbucksbingo card (Card 314), but I did score five bingos by filling nineteen squares with eighteen fanworks. All but one were fanfics, with a total of 12,193 words written towards this bingo. I have two WIPs as a result of this bingo, with at least one more I marked as a one shot, but hope to expand on at some point.

Per the bingo rules, all fics paired up Bucky and Tony in some form, and as it allows for poly ships, I did write three Stuckony fics and one ChillyPepperony (Bucky/Tony/Pepper).

Somewhat surprisingly for me, 😁 I didn’t write any Explicit fics for this bingo, and only one Mature fic. Four were Teen rated with the remaining fourteen being Gen-rated.

See below the cut for the links to my fills (including pairing, rating & word count) and my card. If there’s any squares you’d like to see me take a whack at - please let me know. And as always, kudos and/or comments on my fanworks are greatly appreciated!

B3 - AU: Canon Divergence: Clearing the Air [platonic , general,792 words]

B4 - AU: Dealer's Choice: Flawed Hypothesis - Chapter 4 [platonic/pining (Stuckony), Teen,540 words]

B5 - Wave: Make My Heart Come All Undone [Steve & Bucky, Bucky/Tony, General,678 words]

I3 - "Oh dear.": Leading Questions (Remix) [established, General,256 words]

I4 - Canon: Avengers Academy: PoliZ’s Stuffed Marvels - AvAc Tony and Winter Soldier [Tony & Winter, General,n/a words]

I5 - Matchmaker Bots: On Reflection [Stuckony, General,528 words]

N1 - Winter: Thorns and Storms [first meeting, General,386 words]

N2 - Blanket: Borrowing Trouble - Chapter 2 [friends to lovers, General,1204 words]

N3 - FREE: An Act of Kindness [meet cute, General,539 words]

N4 - Crossroads: The Old Dark AirBnB [established, General,429 words]

N5 - "Wanna make a bet?": Marked Up Soulmarks [soulmates + Steve, General,448 words]

G1 - Flower crown: Flowers for a Dragon [Tony & Bucky (Tony/Bucky if you squint), General,578 words]

G2 - Mutual pining: Never More to Go Astray - Chapter 7 [Stuckony, Teen,1037 words]

G3 - "This might as well happen.": In Hindsight [Bucky/Steve --> Tony/Bucky/Steve, Mature,1635 words]

G4 - Pepper Potts: Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Truth Come Out) - Chapter 2 [Bucky/Tony/Pepper, Teen,469 words]

G5 - "I'll catch you.": Salvaging Icarus [platonic , General,200 words]

O3 - "Shh... I'm sleeping.": Borrowing Trouble - Chapter 1 [friends to lovers, General,875 words]

O4 - Time: Leading Questions [established, General,382 words]

O5 - AU: Biker: No Ordinary Boy is Gonna Do [pining!Bucky/Tony, Teen,1217 words]

#writing stuff #bingo masterpost #mcu/marvel #starkbucks bingo #sbb2022 #WinterIron #Tony x Bucky #Shameless Self Promo

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seafoan · 10 months

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everyone got together for the engagement party

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#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #v reboot #jeong legacy g1 #s: candy #s: venessa #s: victor #s: octavia #s: thorne #tw alcohol

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wrestlingisfake · 1 year

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Wrestle Kingdom 17 preview

Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada - White is the fifth IWGP world champion, making his third defense since winning the title from Okada on June 12. Okada won the G1 Climax tournament to earn this rematch.

Okada recruited White into his CHAOS faction in 2018, but within a few months White betrayed him and took over Bullet Club. Since then, White has been a thorn in Okada's side that he can't quite remove. For all his accolades and accomplishments, Okada is 1-4 against White in one-on-one matches, and White is the kind of pecker that will remind you at every opportunity.

I'm not counting on seeing the best match either of these guys can deliver. White's performances at Wrestle Kingdom in 2020 and 2021 were effective for getting heel heat but nearly put me to sleep with all the stalling and shenanigans. I though the June 12 match was better, but the bottom line is I've seen this match five times already and I don't feel like there's anything new to cover.

It's basic Booking 101 to have the top babyface beat the top heel to regain the world title to close the biggest show of the year. Of course, that simple logic has burned me before when it comes to Jay White--that 4-1 record against Okada says it all. It's almost unthinkable that a non-Japanese wrestler (especially a heel) could win in the main event at Wrestle Kingdom. But White's career is full of moments where I didn't think they'd go there but they did anyway. If nothing else, they've got me believing he doesn't have to lose, which is good enough. I always bet on Okada, but I wouldn't bet the farm this time.

Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega - This is Ospreay's fifth defense of the IWGP United States title. Omega is making his first appearance in New Japan since leaving the promotion in January 2019 to become an executive vice-president in AEW. Since then Ospreay has been staking his claim to being Omega's replacement as the top gaijin in the promotion. Needless to say, a lot has changed since their previous singles encounter, at a PWG show in 2015.

Both men started planting seeds for this back in the summer, with passive-aggressive comments and T-shirts and what-not. They finally squared off in October, in an AEW trios match; after Omega's team won, Ospreay's team laid them out in a vicious beatdown.

In theory the hype for this match is supposed to be two of this generation's best in-ring workers tearing it up on the big stage. In practice, all the buzz is just about Omega returning to New Japan, and the Kota Ibushi shirt he was wearing last week in AEW. I get where people want another chapter in the Golden Lovers saga, but Omega has been constantly throwing out teases for that for years, so no one hint can give us a timetable for when it'll go down.

In most promotions I think a returning megastar has to win his first match back, 99 times out of a hundred. In New Japan, I'm not as confident. They're comfortable telling stories where a guy loses his return match, to illustrate that he's not quite warmed up yet, or that he hasn't acclimated to facing the best in the world again. On the other hand, Ospreay's US title reign feels like it's run its course, and we're probably due for a new champion. Moving the belt to Omega would be a clear sign that he'll stick around for more NJPW dates, and I can see where the promotion wants to send that message loud and clear.

Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu Takahashi vs. El Desperado vs. Master Wato - This is a four-way for Ishimori's IWGP junior heavyweight title, so the first man to score a fall on any opponent will be the champion. Ishimori won the title from Desperado on May 11, and successfully defended it against Hiromu on June 12. KUSHIDA returned for a title chase, but that got derailed due to illness. Master Wato subbed for Kushida and pinned Ishimori in a non-title match on October 10. You'd expect this to set up a one-on-one rematch for the belt, but no one actually cares about Wato, so Despy and Hiromu interjected themselves, making it a four-way.

I assume the long-term direction is to get Kushida back in the title picture, but I don't know if it matters which guy is champion when that happens. The safe bet in a four-way title match is to pick the defending champion or the heel to retain. Ishimori is both, so it's looking good for him.

Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shota Umino vs. Tetsuya Naito & SANADA & BUSHI - Mutoh, who just turned 60, will be retiring on a NOAH show in February, so this is his final match in NJPW. Note that this is just his standard regular guy gimmick, as opposed to his Great Muta character, that made his final NJPW appearance a couple of months ago.

There isn't much of a story here for the other five guys in the match. Tanahashi, Naito, and Sanada ought to have something more important going on at Wrestle Kingdom, but they don't, so here they are. It's a great spot for Umino, however, as he's surrounded by bigger names and under a bigger spotlight for it. Bushi is lucky this match needed a sixth guy, or he'd be in the prelim battle royale.

Unless Mutoh is going to do the job on his way out, I would expect Tanahashi to pin Bushi to end this one.

Karl Anderson vs. Tama Tonga - Anderson won the NEVER openweight title from Tama on June 12, so this is the rematch, even though Anderson signed with WWE months ago. Anderson's WWE deal caused him to pull out of a title defense against Tonga's brother Hikuleo, which got rescheduled to December 14. Anderson beat Hikuleo and then got into it with Tonga, so here we are.

I have to think this is Anderson's last night in New Japan, and dropping the belt to Tama is merely a formality at this point. I sort of expected the same thing with the December 14 bout, but it makes sense for Anderson to want a Wrestle Kingdom payday if he can get it. So I'm picking Tonga to win, but if that doesn't happen I'll be real intrigued with whatever they have planned next.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ren Narita - This is a tournament final to determine the first NJPW World television champion. (The name is a little confusing; the winner will not be the world TV champion of NJPW, but rather the TV champion of NJPW's streaming service, which is named NJPW World.) Per the rules of the new title, this match has a 15 minute time limit; it's not clear what happens to the belt if there's a time limit draw.

Narita is fresh off returning from his US excursion, and he's already scored a huge win against Tomohiro Ishii in this tournament. Beating Sabre in the Tokyo Dome for a new championship would establish him as a fast-rising superstar. But it's more plausible that New Japan will try to get him over with a tough loss so he can valiantly overcome the heartbreak.

Another wrinkle here is that this is Sabre's first match since his faction, Suzuki-gun, peacefully disbanded a couple of weeks ago. It's not clear yet what's next for the former members, but winning this TV title would be a big statement about Sabre's future. Something tells me that's the direction we're heading in here, and Sabre will win.

Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI - FTR (Dax and Cash) are the defending IWGP heavyweight tag team champions. Bishamon won the World Tag League tournament, which put them in line for this title shot. FTR have been on top of the world for most of the past year, but they're currently in a 0-4 slump that cost them the ROH and AAA tag team titles. The IWGP belts are the only gold they have left.

A title change seems inevitable. I'm sure New Japan liked having their tag title in a major US promotion for a few months, and FTR are thrilled to work the Tokyo Dome, but it's high time the belts come home. If FTR retains there's no telling when they'll be available for another title defense, and Goto and Yoshi are the strongest challengers available (at least until Tanga Loa returns to resume his team with Tama Tonga). I'm picking Bishamon to win, and the FTR losing streak to continue.

KAIRI vs. Tam Nakano - Kairi became the first IWGP women's champion on November 20; this is her first title defense. Western fans will know her best as Kairi Sane in WWE, where she held the NXT women's title. Nakano spent most of 2022 as the Wonder of Stardom champion (basically STARDOM's #2 singles belt), until she was defeated for it on December 29.

I don't have much info on Nakano except that New Japan's website says she has a kawaii aesthetic and an "intense predilection for violence," and she's promised "a special kind of hell" for Kairi here. Looking forward to that!

Obviously this match has been overshadowed by reports that Sasha Banks has exited WWE and will be at this show. If she's going to appear, the logical place to do it is after this match to challenge the winner. So it's a tough spot for these ladies, as most of the attention on this match will be people waiting just to find out if Banks will even be there. My guess is that Kairi will retain, and Kairi vs. Banks will be a big match down the line. But ideally, the layout of the match will keep us focused on the present, not the future.

Francesco Akira & TJP vs. Lio Rush & YOH - This is the first match on the main card, scheduled for 5pm JST (3am EST). Lio and Yoh won the Super Jr. Tag League tournament, putting them next in line for Catch 2/2's IWGP junior tag team championship. Yoh has been in this high pressure situation before with his ex-partner SHO, but he's only been teaming with Rush for a couple of months. Catch 2/2, on the other hand, have been teaming since Akira joined NJPW in June.

I could see this one going either way, but I'm leaning a bit towards doing a title change. There's a lot of storyline potential in having Yoh emerge from the Roppongi 3K breakup with a successful new team, while Sho has little to show for his betrayal.

Tatsumi Fujinami & Minoru Suzuki & Tiger Mask vs. Yuji Nagata & Satoshi Kojima & Togi Makabe - This is the Antonio Inoki memorial match, to honor the founder of New Japan, who passed away in October. It'll air before the main show at 4:20pm JST (2:20am EST).

Fujinami (68) was a teenager when he joined his trainer Inoki in leaving the JWA to start a new promotion. Suzuki (54) trained in New Japan's dojo in the 1980s, and wrestled Inoki as a young boy in 1989. Another key Inoki protege was Satoru Sayama (65), who became the original Tiger Mask in 1981; Yoshihiro Yamazaki (52), the fourth Tiger, appears here in his honor. Nagata (54), Kojima (52), and Makabe (50) were all around in the 1990s as Inoki's in-ring career drew to a close.

Aside from seeing the old-timers fight to commemorate Inoki, the most interesting thing going on here is long-time scoundrel Suzuki teaming with good guys like Fujinami and Tiger Mask. After the Suzuki-gun breakup, I'm curious if he'll settle into tag matches with the older guys in the undercard, or if he'll still be a giant dick and pick fights with everybody. I doubt we'll get a clear sense of that here, since the main idea will be to pay respects to Inoki. For similar reasons, I don't think it'll make much difference who wins the match.

New Japan Ranbo - This is a gauntlet battle royale billed as a "KOPW 2023 qualifier." Two men will start the match, and the remaining participants will enter one-by-one in timed intervals. Elimination can occur at any time via pinfall, submission, or exiting the ring over the top rope to the floor. The match ends once all but four participants have been eliminated; these finalists advance to a match on January 5 for the KOPW title belt.

No participants have been announced for the match, but I think we can assume any NJPW regular that isn't already booked could be in this. The biggest names to look for would be Shingo Takagi, EVIL, Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Jeff Cobb, Toru Yano, Juice Robinson, David Finlay, Kushida, Sho, and Kenta. Obviously there are many more wrestlers available, depending on whether they're in town that day, but you get the idea.

I assume someone halfway important will win the KOPW belt, but the other three finalists can be literally anyone, so this match is hard to predict. It's also hard to watch; New Japan's ranbos never seem as well planned or produced as WWE's Royal Rumble.

Ryohei Oiwa vs. Boltin Oleg - This is a three-minute exhibition match, scheduled for 3:20pm JST (1:20am EST), so I'm not even sure it will be broadcast on the live stream. Oiwa is currently a Young Lion who jobs in prelim matches during his training. Oleg is a standout amateur wrestler from Kazakhstan that New Japan made a big deal about recruiting a few months ago. So I guess this is meant as a showcase for Oleg, but the format makes it seem like they aren't sure he's ready for a full-fledged pro wrestling match. It's possible this will just go to the time limit, but I assume the point is for Oleg to win.

#njpw #wrestle kingdom #wrestle kingdom 17 #jay white #kazuchika okada #will ospreay #kenny omega

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bugsims · 2 years

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when in doubt, make yourself the victim, right?

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SIMLEBRITY GOSSIP: REPORTS: Does Tab Tonic’s statement give us an insight into Thorne Bailey’s mental health? READ MORE: simlebritygoss.xyb/helpforthorne

TAB TONIC: I am devastated that I could not really share how proud I am of my Starlight Accolade, and I am grateful to the academy for this honor. It’s a shame that a man (who seems to be desperate for another run at fame,) could ruin such an important moment for me, my fans, and my family.

Although it’s known to those who know and love me, I want to make one thing clear. I did not have an affair with Thorne Bailey, despite the bizarre implications from him and the media. To speculate on my children’s “real fathers” is insane!

I will not let tonight ruin the memory of this Accolade. Kisses, TAB

#shaken soda legacy #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 story #ts4 legacy #legacy #ssl g1 #tab tonic #thorne bailey #elsa

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zl0mudry · 1 year

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Matthew Maule. A gentleman, scholar, a man of science and logic...

Well, that's who he is today or maybe he's Verden Fell, Mr. Thorn or Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac? Or Dr. Emil Corday? Hell, he might even be Dr. Alexander Sweet or Crispian Grimes! As long as he isn't D. D. Denham all should be fine.

Who he is exactly is a matter of no small amount of conjecture, but a few things are certain; he is never seen without one of his faithful feline companions, someone who claims to be him's current location is in Leavenworth, Washington, and his sense of fashion, though sharp, is a bit out of date.

Please don't use OOC information as IC information. Half the fun is the other characters not knowing. He'll tell you what he tells you.

FULL NAME: Wladislaus III Dragwlya of Wallachia

NICKNAME: The Impaler, Kaziklu Bey, Vlad Tepes

GENDER: ?

HEIGHT: 5'4

AGE: 590

ZODIAC: Capricorn

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Romanian, German (With a spot of Bavarian), French, Italian, Latin, Hungarian, Arabic, Turkish, English.

HAIR COLOR: Iron Black

EYE COLOR: Black, no pupil

BODY TYPE: Think powerlifter

ACCENT: Transatlantic accent when speaking to strangers or acquaintances. Heavy Romanian accent when speaking to close friends or family.

VOICE: Extremely deep, hitting G1

DOMINANT HAND: Left

POSTURE: Straight, head held high, chin up, shoulders back. Noble and balanced

TATTOOS: (Unsure yet)

BIRTHMARKS: None

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S): Signature facial hair, curled mustache. Facial scars, X on his forehead and round bullet wound from a small caliber handgun under his left eye. Hairy. Claws. Unusual teeth. THICK eyebrows.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sighișoara, Mureș County, Romania

HOMETOWN: ?

BIRTH WEIGHT: 4 pounds

BIRTH HEIGHT. 9 inches

FIRST WORDS: Scared

SIBLINGS: Mircea II of Wallachia, Radu III the Fair, Vlad IV the Monk, Alexandria of Wallachia

PARENTS: Vlad II Dracul, Doamna Eupraxia of Moldavia

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT: Unfortunate

OCCUPATION: International Man of One Person Activities

CURRENT RESIDENCE: His remote cabin in the mountains of Washington

CLOSE FRIENDS: Bach, Dori, Wing

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: I don't think he knows even

FINANCIAL STATUS: More than $1

DRIVER’S LICENSE: Afraid of cars

CRIMINAL RECORD: War Criminal

VICES: He is a broody chicken of a man and will adopt anything packbondable, smoking clove cigarettes, good liquor/spirits, luxury food, collecting new hobbies.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Biromantic

PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE: Switch, Dom leaning

PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE: Switch, Dom leaning

LIBIDO: Insatiable once close

TURN ONS: Sense of humor, being wanted, submissiveness, trying to turn him on

TURN OFFS: Lying, disloyalty, cheating, abuse

LOVE LANGUAGE: All of them? Mostly acts of service

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES: Screaming goat of a man, but a doting one

Mr. Bad Guy - Freddie Mercury

I love you, Honey Bear - Father John Misty

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME: Master of The One Person Activity

MENTAL ILLNESSES: I think they are apparent and I'm not comfortable listing them all flat out. I'll name Misophonia, PTSD, and Depression

PHYSICAL ILLNESSES: Extreme far-sightedness, prone to dizziness and fainting, severe anemia, wheezing and coughing fits

LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED: A little of both

FEARS: Cars, umbrellas, sudden loud noises, mirrors, being stared at, elevators, escalators

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don't. (It comes and goes, situation dependent)

VULNERABILITIES: His temper, unable to let go, doesn't know himself, bright lights, loud noises, paranoid, can't use cars, too polite

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energonnaccinos · 2 months

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Summary:

"You found WHAT in Ramjet's room?!?" -- Or, that one time RJ made some minis of his coworkers, and then didn't tell anybody about it for long enough that they gained sentience. Made entirely new, self-aware people without the assistance of any allsparks, hotspots, or matrices of any kind. Y'know. For personal reasons.

--------- I finally started posting my silly little fic about the mini-constructicons in a g1 cartoon setting, and ramjet being a thorn in starscream's side. Stay tuned for conehead trio feuding, Constructicon confusion, and little guys causing havoc in a spaceship under the sea. Let me know what you think so far if ya want 👍

#ramjet #mini-constructicons #transformers fic #tf fanfic

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rpsuperhighway · 11 months

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Welcome to The Roleplay Superhighway

This is the hub blog for all of blaze-art's rp blogs. This blog is the one that sends asks, comments, replies, follows, and messages from.

@mad-hatter-memes: RP Resource Blog

Blogs

@vxridis-quo Multifandom and OC Multimuse blog

Status: W.I.P

@infernal-thorns: FNF Dual-muse

Status: Available. Has verses for Pokemon and Monster High

@worldofedd: Eddsworld multimuse [WIP]

Status: Available Has verses for Pokemon, Monster High, and Splatoon

@dropdeadgxrgeous: G1 Monster High OC multimuse

Status: Under renovation

@goaskalxce: Alice in Wonderland magical girl OC single muse

Status: Inactive until further motivation

@strawberryflxwer: Pikmin Multimuse

Status: Inactive until further motivation

@twinsofthestars: Little Twin Stars (Sanrio) Dual-Muse

Status: Available

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bad-decisions-club · 11 months

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War in the North Campaign Arc Recap

(The night of the Full Moon)

The last 6 are Full moon night

( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wOqvAZAsjk0-1dkHDtV7ZasgA6NX-G1 )

PCs: Calder, Echo, Kreetha (+stinky), Nalmani the Ghost, Hyacinth, Pyre, Charlotte (+swoops), Lor, Clarion

PCs Rugged Tumble Werewolves: Bathew Bouldershoulder, Kevin Bonewolf

NPCs: Barnabas, Sven, Durgedin, Arnan, Galvin, Prasert, Anton, Pikle and Ivan, Dream, Chomper, Tar-something, Nightscale, Belak, Thunder, Mogenthall

Monsters: Were-Orcs, Wargs, Blight Ents, Blighted plants, Corpse Flowers, zombies

Notable Items: Knife-Durgedin, Shadow Staff, Whistle

Synopsis:

Ghost Explains that he has been hired as a mercenary to guard things here. Echo shares that he knows the Xanathar is dead. Ghost tells them that Gallack and Thorn escaped the fighting pits when he did, during a riot about a month ago.

The three of them set up to defend the forge, with Victoire and Kreetha still manning the forge itself. Ghost is in the hallway to the forge with the dwarven guards, and Echo and Calder are out on a ledge in the Glitterheim. They all settle in to wait for an assault.

Meanwhile, Bathew Bouldershoulder and Keving Bonewolf (Now bloodhunter werewolves in Vic’s small pack) go out from the encampment to scout as the evening begins. They run across a few Were-orcs and fight them. They manage to subdue one of them, and notice a strange brand of Malar on the orc. They manage to gleam that this Orc might not have become a werewolf willingly. They offer to remove the mark, but when they try, the mark incinerates the Orc.

The next person they come across is a cloaked orcish figure with a staff, but when Kevin and Bathew try to ambush her, they both lose their minds to their wolves for a bit and scatter. When they come back to themselves, they are in their full wolf forms, in a glade with a round pond in the middle, without anyone else around. The full moon shines down on the pond and an image of Selune appears in the moon light and boops them each on their noses.

They leave the glade to find they are now deep behind the orc army lines, and they don’t know how long they’ve been out. They decide to scout further and actually manage to find the base camp of the army, along with setting eyes on a mysterious mage. They note where it is, and make their way back to the dwarven encampment.

Back in the Stone Tooth, hours pass without any Orcs advancing on the Forge. Howls erupt from inside the forge rooms, and Bevin, Bathew, and Kevin come rushing out of the circle to ask the PCs to go to the King’s aid. The encampment has been attacked and some forces have broken through to go after the king himself. They were sent by Sven to retrieve the party to help.

Calder, Echo, and Ghost go through the circle to the camp.

They enter into a skirmish already happening, where several were-orcs have already managed to kill several Adbar warriors, wound Pikle, and down Ivan. The PCs join the fray and manage to dispatch the were-orcs while also saving Ivan.

After the were-orcs, several Corpse flowers advance towards their group, spitting out zombies as they go. The party defeats them, but while they are battling, Calder notices that the Whistle vanishes from his possession.

The battle in general at the front lines is not going great. Anton was supposed to be leading the recruits from Mirabar, but he decided to take his team and try to go and kill Mogenthall instead.

Meanwhile, at Hyacinth’s estate, everyone has been preparing for the full moon. They have the place covered with different enchantments and have installed some barricades and additional weapons. Hyacinth, Lor, Clarion, Charlotte, Meepo, Clacryx, a hired mercenary Pyre, and several guards take up positions as the night falls.

They fight off a wave of Blighted Ents and animated trees, followed by a wave of Were-orcs riding wargs with one more ent. But just as they have captured a few last were-orcs, a storm kicks up and a mysterious mage descends from the clouds on the back of a blight-vine infected adult blue dragon, Thunder.

The party fights the mage and dragon. Eventually, Charlotte takes the dragon out of the fight by blinding it with a darkness spell causing it to fly off in a random direction with her on its back. The rest of the party can’t quite manage to kill the mage, but Clarion recognizes him as Belak before he vanishes. The whistle also appears on Clarion’s person during the fight.

Charlotte and Thunder crash in the woods some distance off. Thunder has regained some control, enough to speak, and asks Charlotte to kill him. Charlotte reluctantly agrees and does so. She stays with his body and starts identifying the vines that had controlled him.

Belak appears near her and strikes up a conversation with Charlotte. He tries to convince her of his goals and tells her to consider joining his cause. Charlotte grapples him and casts lightning bolt through him before he tree-walks away.

Meepo and Calcryx eventually find Charlotte and bring her back to the estate.

Meanwhile, back at the Stone tooth, Kreetha is bid to go through the circle and join the rest at the encampment. She does, reluctantly.

At the encampment, everyone regroups and decides to try a shore up the front lines. Calder casts Seeming on them all to disguise several of them. While he casts that, he is pulled into a mindscape and a demon offers him power in exchange for a favor and a meeting with his Boss, who he reveals is Calder’s mother, Glysa. Calder agrees and receives the Shadow Staff. The party splits up to reinforce the front, with Barnabs handing Echo a pouch before they head out. Ghost, Sven, and Echo disguised as Barnabas, head to the gate. Barnabas, Calder, and Kreetha disguised as Sven head to the Mirabar forces. Ivan and Pikle stay at the command tent, disguised as Sven and Barnabas.

Calder further disguises himself as Anton to rally the troops. He and Barnabas and Kreetha lead the charge and manage to meet the oncoming wave of Orcs. Calder, Barnabas, and Kreetha specifically take out a group of Were-Orcs.

Ghost, Sven, and Echo repel the hill giants that were attempting to breach the gate. Echo and Sven then have a conversation about the possibility of Barnabas courting Echo. As the others meet up again at the gate, they all spot Nightscale flying over the orcs, when he gets hit with a massive net and downed behind the orc lines.

Echo, Kreetha, Calder, and Ghost set out on brooms and a flying Stinky to rescue Nightscale. They manage to save him from a group of druids who were attempting to infect him with the blight vines. Then on the way back to the front, everyone does their part to break the Orc lines. Dawn breaks behind them and the Orcs retreat.

Meanwhile, Anton’s group finds Mogenthall in the shadow of a giant weird tree (a new Gulthias tree), but when they go to attack, Anton, Chomper, and Tarl are all held in place by magic. Mogenthall orders everyone but Anton killed, and then starts to lead him away. Belak comes through the giant Gulthias tree, looking beat up.

The party sleeps through the morning, and wakes during the day to regroup with everyone. Calder gets a Sending from Charlotte telling him about the attack on the Estate and Belak’s return. Dream comes to the group and tells a version of Anton’s capture that paints him as having betrayed them. Dream does tell them about the giant Gulthias tree and Mogenthall and the weird Mage the tree-walked in.

Everyone begins strategizing.

Later, while Echo is tending to dead bodies, he is summoned to speak to Barnabas. Barnabas asks him to court, and after some discussion, Echo says yes. Barnabas takes Echo, along with Kreetha, Calder and Ghost, back to the Forge. Barnabas and Echo (with help from Kreetha and Durgedin) cut an emerald into an Ioun Stone of mastery, that Echo attunes to.

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