Hey guys! Im going in my first journey and was thinking on how to injest? I was thinking on making some tea with hot water and drinking the thing (shroomies included) does that sound like a plan? And also, can someone help me identify?

Hi guys.
Long story short, I am renting out my condo at the moment. It turns out that my condo's floor was water damaged by pipe failure. After back and forth dispute with condo board, they blamed the dishwasher damage (which ironically happened at the same time as the pipe failure) as a cause of the water damage. Now, I do have a lease agreement in place. Tenant does not have tenant insurance and fixing the floor will be $6000.
Several things to consider:
The lease agreement shows $800 per month (me and my tenant shared the condo space when he first moved in) but now I am no longer there and it is $1700 per month. The increase in price does not show up on the lease agreement, can my tenant technically fight against this and say lease agreement is not valid?
Tenant also had another person living him but this person's name is not under lease agreement. He verbally told me she would living for 3 weeks which I allowed but she has been living with him for 3 months. Not sure if will work for or against me.
Any sound advice would be appreciated.

1.) The D&D Dragon Jump mentioned something about a Custom Dragon Race supplement. Does anyone know where that is?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qKVwz0DXug4elFWmAtj0ZiCtTSalZ1kK/view

A New Race (-100): There are as many dragons as there are authors to dream them up. If you wish to create your own custom dragon race, you may pay 100 DP to access the Custom Dragon Race supplement.

2.) If you have something that stops you from growing, can the Strength of Ages perk still make you grow larger?

The Strength of Ages (-600): For some dragons, the stage of Great Wyrm does not stop growth. Even “colossal” may not be able to describe the size you may yet reach. You will not gain any new abilities, but your existing draconic abilities will continue to refine and increase in power ever more. Your scales will become stronger, your physical and intellectual prowess shall continue to grow, your natural weapons will grow sharper and deadlier, your breath weapons will grow ever more powerful and affect larger areas, and you shall grow ever more resistant to hostile magic as your own spells shall grow more potent. This may manifest as either of the following advantages:
 Ritual: You know a ritual that can be performed at any time, on any dragon (including yourself) that will boost you a bit in size and power every time it is performed. The major disadvantage is that the ritual likely includes more difficult to find reagants, but you will be able to find equivalents in other worlds. It won’t be easy, but if you try you will find ways to continue your rituals to continue to boost your own size and natural abilities.
 Endless Advancement: A (fortunately rare) few dragons do not cease growing in stature and power even after they’ve achieved Great Wyrm status. Perhaps through divine ancestry, random mutation, active attempts to grow even greater in power, or possibly from more esoteric causes, these dragons will continue to grow increasingly slowly right up until they enter the Twilight. You are one of these dragons now. You will continue to grow larger, and your natural draconic abilities will continue to improve for as long as you live, even if you otherwise should have stopped growing completely (such as embracing undeath). Should you somehow defy the Twilight and cease to be vulnerable to death from natural causes you will simply continue to grow. Dwarfing mountains and growing even further beyond that is not impossible for you.
3.) Can you take The Dragon of all Colors and None multiple times? If not by the base rules, would it be broken to allow it anyway?

An example of something stopping aging:

Vampiric Dragon (-400): You’re a dragon vampire, converted into an undeathly state. Their advantages are many; they heal unnaturally fast, can assume a gaseous form to evade injury, can charm with words and dominate the minds with eye contact, drain the life from those they touch and drain blood with their fangs, convert those whose blood they drained or energy they totally drained into vampiric spawn slaved to their wills. Unlike a normal vampire, vampiric dragons are tied to their hoard rather than a coffin, nor are they barred from crossing running water or repelled by garlic or mirrors. They still cast no shadow nor reflection. For all this, they come with the weaknesses that exposure to sunlight disorients and eventually destroys them, they no longer naturally grow with age, and driving a stake through their heart will kill them. That said, a vampire the size of a dragon will require a stake the size of a very large spear. Finally, they are still barred from entering homes uninvited (though not barred from simply razing it to the ground).

4.) When something gives you CP to spend on something, does that mean you can't spend your other CP on that category, or you still can? In this case, the layer section. It still uses DP (Dragon Points) like the initial Stipend.
5.) For the Dragon Ascendant scenario, does abiding by it give you immortality, or do you also need to achieve immortality to accomplish it?

gaining the spark of divinity to become an ascendant dragon, and going the full way to godhood. To begin the first part, you must devour all your possessions, utterly destroying them (though note that you will not suffer ill effects from eating even the most toxic of items). Next, there are three important things you must do to complete this scenario. Failure permanently squanders your chance at deitydom during this jump, though you lose nothing beyond this. First, you must choose a single alignment and be a paragon of its precepts until you ascend. Any major violation of this alignment will cause you to forfeit this scenario and all of its rewards. As a general rule, if it would make a cleric of a god dedicated to that alignment lose his powers, it counts as a major violation. Choosing Neutrality does not allow you to escape this restriction. You must stay loyal to your alignment until the point you achieve true immortality and become a quasi-deity. You will no longer need to eat, sleep, or breathe, and be immune to anything that affects your mind, transmutations or energy drain.

6.) For Io's Heir, do you think it would be too much to say that, if the jumper can somehow get them to make amends, they can take both? Don't want to get too greedy here, but sort of trapped between a rock and a hard place (want to take Tiamat a bit more, but the jumper I have planned isn't evil or a selfish jerk so would probably go Bahamet).

Since their very birth, Tiamat and Bahamut have warred for the position of rightful ruler of all dragons. Bahamut is the benevolent dragon god of Metallic and good dragons in general, while Tiamat is the five-headed Queen of Evil Dragonkind and evil dragons in general. It is your duty, by accepting this scenario, to ensure that one or the other is destroyed. Dead in battle, starved of worship, it matters not. You must destroy either Tiamat or Bahamut and allow the surviving sibling to claim dominion over dragonkind. By utterly destroying one or the other, the grateful other child will agree to come with you on your chain and undiminished despite being cut off from their worship in the D&D multiverse.

7.) I'm guessing killing multiple gets you more element options?

In the World Tree cosmology, the creation of the world was not a gentle affair. From the beginning, godlike entities of chaos and destruction known as Primordials made war upon the world. Io was cut in two by the Primordial King Erek-Hus, the King of Terror. Worse, many dragons were deceived or captured by the Primordials before being twisted and tortured into slaves and near-mindless entities of devastation. Dragons have many grudges to settle against the Primordials. Though the gods ultimately won the Dawn War, many Primordials survived and fled without facing justice. And that is where you come it, for your task is to destroy one of the surviving Primordials and partially avenge the ancient grudge your race bears against them. Should you achieve this near-impossible task, your reward will be to command the power over nature the Primordials could wield and the ability to imbue other creatures with a potent fragment of elemental energy, transforming them into deadlier (but possibly crazier) elemental versions of themselves.

P.s. 8.) Are you able to buy Dragon Of All Colors And None/Monochromatic multiple times? If not, would it break things (even giving up the extra action part) to do so anyway? Sort of considering something like collect all of a category or something. Or having the main 5 metallic and chromatic ones.

The Dragon Of All Colours And None (-600): You have four more heads. Each head is of a different dragon of the same type as yours. For instance, you may have five different colours of Chromatic dragon heads, five different colours of Metallic dragon heads, and so on, though if your dragon type has fewer than five different kinds of dragon within it you will receive four Chromatic heads. Each head is completely controlled by you, and you are as adept in using each head to multitask; potentially five times the actions you could take with only one head. You may use them to, for instance, breathe five layers of breath weapon over someone at once ensuring that without immunity to all common elements they, cast five spells simultaneously, have one head focus on casting spells while the other attack, and similar creative applications of your heads. Note this also renders you immune to death from decapitation unless all five heads are removed.
 Monochromatic (-0): You don’t get four different coloured heads. You just have four extra heads of the same colour.

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Hello, first time posting to this sub. In KY for context. Sorry if it’s long, just a lot to unpack.
My grandma and grandpa told me last year that my family (myself, husband, and 1.5 year old and now 4 week old) could live in the house that myself and my siblings grew up in (on grandparents property, their house is literally 5 feet away from my porch) for as long as I wanted and nobody should bother us.
The house is on top of a garage, which we were given permission to use for whatever we wanted, so we use it for storage of personal belongings and also where we keep our dog at night. My husband and I have spent the last 6 months fixing up the house to make it livable, it was uninhabited for about 8 years after my dad and stepmom moved out. The ceiling was falling in, it needed a new water tap to the city waterlines put in, all new waterlines needed ran from said water tap, the plumbing needed to be completely redone, the flooring in the master bedroom needed redone, there was mold in quite a few spots, water damage, the roof was leaking in 10-15 spots, among many other things. So we put A LOT of money and work into this house because we were told we could live here for as long as we wanted. Well, my papaws health started going downhill very fast at the end of March this year following a surgery. He passed away last Monday, Memorial Day, and we buried him that Friday.
After his passing, my grandma and her sister started picking at my husband. They had an issue with him saying the “f” word, and had an issue with him not just complying and saying “okay”. Since then, she has called the cops twice, the first to try to evict us using the state police, and when that didn’t work, she called again a few hours later to say that my husband was drunk and beating me and our kids.
She locked us out of the garage, so we have no access to our belongings unless we ask her, and she’s in the mood to walk out to the garage and unlock the door (which she hasn’t been in the mood twice now). I’ve been let in twice to grab a few tools in the last week or so.
I believe she’s on a power trip because my papaw was always the primary say on the property.
She does have survivorship of the property since my papaws passing, and we have no lease and don’t pay rent. What are my options?? My husband starts his new work from home job at the end of this month, and he can’t miss a day for the 90 day probation period. If we have to move, he has to send his equipment back to the company to ensure it doesn’t get damaged during our move, then once we’re moved in they will send it to the new place. Which means he would more than likely miss a day of work, resulting in him losing his job. We CANT afford him losing his job. All the money we had, we put into this house. The eviction notice she gave us says 30 days, so she wants us out by July 5th, 2023.

So today is one week from buying my bud and I’m all set to rust treat and prep my bare bottom for subfloor and I’ve found small exterior rust spots lined up with some interior rusting and I know it’s got to be pretty rusted at the bottom of the lower side panel, anything I can do about it? Pour ospho down in there?
So I planned on covering up my holes but I follow a YouTuber chuck cassidy that has been building busses for awhile and says if you use rigid foam board for flooring insulation patching the screw holes is unnecessary since the foam board is mold and water resistant and non corrosive, y’all’s opinions?
I’d really like to drive thru a place that has an undercarriage wash do they make automated car washes that can fit skoolie needs? Lol

Hi guys. New last minute yoimiya main. More or les. Thank god. Maybe a stupid question but does r3 Amos bring anything to the table compared to r5 rust or there is no competition even if in the future I happen to r5 Amos.

Ideas for general gameplay:

• make more gun customization, both changing color and attachments. ex muzzle brakes, flash hider and so on to change velocity and recoil (grips could also help with recoil). you could also add angled rails for DMRs and snipers.
• More realism regarding items and durability. Why does oil, knives and suppressors decrease in durability, but toiletpaper and lights don't go down. i propose all items should go down in either battery and durability. Meaning you need to find/buy batteries to charge your lights and holosights. ( they could add a new flashlight you can charge with cranking it)
• Make all items findable. Armor and gasmasks should also be findable but super rare Make a Nato crate, which can hold all from a g17 to a scar. (why can we find an mp5 but not an aug or m4?)
• Make all findable/ loot items usable. Once you find 1 toilet paper and 2 toothbrushes, you never need to loot new once (since they don't have durability) Finding lightsouces could have semi used batteries that you can take. so you don't run mindlessly past all items except artifacts and weather monitors etc.

Major changes:

• armor penetration should be fundamentally changed IMO, i think it sucks that all my shots can potentially bounce of a target except for AP/P+, it makes all other types basically worthless unless you're poor. I would hope they change it to what rust has. in other words, the bullet always goes through, but the damage is nerfed by what the penetration % is, so a ak74 fmj with 50% will do 25 per bullet instead of having a 50% chance to do nothing.
• as a player with 290 hours i hope they add more maps with the next release. I Know the zones as good as i know my own neighborhood IRL.
• To build upon the previous point i hope they randomize the enemies and enemy spawn points. It could be tied to security level or something.
• I hope they add more enemies. A more passive enemy that dont directly engage you but if you get too close or look at them for too long they will gain semi-invisibility and and sneak around you to get you from where you don't expect. but you can use the night eye to see their heat so you know where they are. Another enemy could be false artifact, simply put the enemy is invisible, and makes the detector go off, if you flash the false artifact it will reveal a faster and weaker seeker enemy. This enemy would never be near any other artifact clusters.
• My final point are missions that revamp the earlier sites/compounds. Make a mission where for example the train station from pervomay or the bolotki construction site. the mission area is filled with high tier enemies. (around 7-15 depending on where the mission is) You have to either sneak in or charge in and eliminate a purple fragment that drops a superrare artifact that goes for 2K. a sidemission could also be to wipe the remaining guys to get 1K extra. Other missions could be more chill like taking ground samples and such.

on another note i hope they add more gasfields inside buildings, it would simply just be cool to seach an apartment complex with a gasmask on and the green smoke
And of course i hope they add a 2-3 player co-op NOT MULTIPLAYER, and please don't comment with “iT wOuLdNt mAkE sEnSe LOrE wiSE” because it would be fun as hell to play and coordinate with friends, and if you don't like it just play it alone damnit. Please let me know if you find these ideas interesting or just a waste of braincells.

Hi everyone, we desperately need help in any form, but there are some difficulties, the main one being we're in South Africa, so I can't use GoFundMe, I have tried. Allow me to explain more:
Context: my parents both live with me in a house I've been renting for 2 years. I am 32M and they are 58M and 59F respectively. My mom has RA and is receiving healthcare from a state hospital. She has good days and bad days, but is mostly okay. My dad has a heart condition and has survived 2 heart attacks in the last 3 years and is on chronic medication. Because of this neither of them can work, although my dad still does small carpentry projects, but that doesn't bring in a lot of money.
3 months ago I quit my dayjob as solar installation technician and started my own business in the building and maintenance industry. (the employer is a dishonest asshat that was swindling his customers and he tried dragging me into it) My dad and I had a similar business in a different city 8 years ago and it's something I love doing so it was a no brainer. Now my business isn't doing too well yet since I'm still working on getting clients, but we've been scraping by. (unfortunately we've had to use our savings to pay rent and survive) I have even started looking for job opportunities, but the salaries in this area are ridiculously low and will not be able to support 3 adults. Also, renting around here is incredibly expensive.
(more info; my previous salary was R12k/m and our rent for this 3 bedroom house was R9k/m. 2 bedroom houses in this area are now being rented for well over R10k/m which is ridiculous in my opinion, but it is what it is)
A month after starting my business, the home owner dropped a bomb on us. She and her husband are getting divorced and she sold the house. The new owner wants to move in at the end of this month, so we've been running around trying to find a place to live, but because I am not bringing in a stable income anymore, no property agents are even willing to consider my application for renting.
Last week we got in contact with a friend of a friend who is moving to a different province for a 3 year contract. They don't want to lose the house they're renting here because they want to come back to it when their contract is over, so they're keeping the rental agreement in their name (rent is only R2k/m) and we'll be moving in to look after the house while they're away. It's an old farmhouse on a property that is being used by PetroSA and it was abandoned for 12 years before they moved in 4 years ago. They've fixed it up over time, but when they leave they're taking most of the fixtures with them since they'll be needing it in the place they're going to. The house has no power and no running water, and they have to take their solar system as well as their water tanks and pumps with them.
We are moving into the farmhouse within the next 2 weeks since we literally have no other options, but we need things to make it livable. We have reached out to friends and family for assistance and those who could help did. (I think some of them are going to help us move, and some will help with food, but not much else)
We need a lot of help and we don't have anyone else to ask. We need solar equipment or a generator, a water tank and pump, and a gas water heater.
I don't know where to ask for help, so I came here to find out if anyone has any ideas for where I can go to ask. Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank you for reading my story and please feel free to ask me if you have any suggestions or questions or if you need any more info and I'll answer as soon as I can.

I had a boyfriend tell me that my butt was pointy when I was bent over. I dropped something, I was on my hands and knees looking for it, knowing my butt was in the air and thinking how he was probably enjoying the view.. definitely arching my back a bit.. then bam, he said that and I just thought “oh I guess he really didn’t like the view because he called me pointy”
Im a pretty thin person, small butt, it’s not a bad shape or a bad looking butt by any means but I don’t have cake ok and I guess when I bend over it goes away and my bones stick out instead. He was totally right though because I checked. I don’t know why my body does this. I must have a weird narrow hips and shape because I’ve literally never seen anyone with a pointy ass bones like mine. I’ve seen a lot of porn, nope. Not even seeing it there. Does anyone else’s ass bones stick out when you bend over? I don’t do doggy style sex because of it, I’m to self conscious. That same ex also told me I looked like a guy when my hair was wet and totally ruined the good time I was having swimming in the ocean. I had popped out of the water with a big smile to give him a kiss and he said that. He anyways said stuff like that at the worst moments. I don’t even look like a guy at all idk why he would even say that. To ruin my day on purpose? Ugh.

If I’d had any idea that the same six ladies who had been cooking and serving me meals and beverages were secretly a coven, I… well, I probably would have kept going there anyways. We’d arranged to meet after hours together with my savior human and Elijah Carter to go down to the grotto. The witches were already waiting for us outside the unlit neon sign. They were wearing the same matching dresses that constituted their mildly out-of-date yet undoubtedly elegant diner uniforms. With them, swaying and light on his feet like a tiny golden bird, was Frankie Preston.
I skipped up to him to give him a hug. He rolled his eyes, then wrapped his arms around me rather tightly. “Hey Sunshine. Oh. He-ey,” he added to Nettie when she came up behind us. “We’re good, right?”
“I said so, didn’t I,” she replied evenly. “I gotta stick to my word now, for better or for worse.”
“You know, I like you just fine. I was being an asshole for no reason. It’s not gonna happen again.”
“It better not,” she said, shrugging sweetly while not bothering to hide the threatening undertone in her response.
“Right,” Rhonda chimed in, looking slightly uncomfortable. “I understand you got a nixie or mermaid needs rescuing…”
“Precisely. You’re sure this is manageable for your coven?” I ventured.
“I’m not sure about anything. But I told you we’d see what we can do.” She gave me a generous smile. “You’re getting the friends-and-family-discount.” She reached over to ruffle Fran’s hair. He groaned, then moved over to me to make room for Nettie as she sidled up to the ladies.
I slid my hand into his. He grinned. “Demanding, you.”
I withdrew. “Sorry.”
“Oh, brother,” he grumbled, snatching back my hand. “Sure stand out from this crowd tonight, don’t I?” he asked jokingly, nodding at the gathering.
“You stand out most of the time.” I perked up when Mae-Lynn pointed out another, decidedly taller figure approaching. Eli was wearing a longer coat, shielding himself from the nightly chill carried to us upon the breeze. His hands were buried in his pockets and his shoulders hunched, but a smile crossed his face nevertheless when he spotted us. "Good to see you. How've you been?"
I traded uncertain glances with Nettie, then Fran. "Busy," I concluded, answering for the three of us.
"I'm glad you came," my savior human supplied.
"I don't know if I can be of much use," he muttered, allowing her to wrap her arms around him for a moment.
Rhonda waved him off. "Sure you can. Let's get going, now that we're all here."
Our group began to head down to the beach. Dim moonlight illuminated our path through the streets and across the sandy expanse, guiding us along with the sound of tossing waves drawing nearer. The smell of salt hung heavily above us, the wind tugged on our clothes and tousled our hair. We were a strange procession as we climbed over the rocks and down to the mouth of the cave. Had anybody seen us, I wouldn't know what they'd have made of it. I glanced over at Nettie to find her shivering. Whether it was due to the crisp spring night temperature or the excitement of the moment I couldn't tell. Instead, I reached for her hand. "Are you alright?"
She gave me a wavering nod. Flicking on her lime green flashlight, she allowed the bright beam to cut through the darkness. Her thumb rubbed over the stickers adorning the shaft of the small torch—a piece of memorabilia from our early years. "I put those there," I reminded her, pointing them out.
"Oh, I know," she deadpanned. "That was the same week I gave you all those handicraft supplies. Never again. You know how long it took to pry off the dozens of googly eyes you glued to the toilet seat?"
"It was artful. I thought you'd like them."
She snorted, lightly batting my shoulder. "Of course you did." Her chest heaved as she took a deep, cleansing breath. "Okay. Let's go."
Elijah and I led the way ahead, the former carrying his own heavy flashlight which he kept trained on the ground at our feet. We tried to stay as close together as possible, wary of the slippery surface we were walking on. The further we proceeded, the more anxious we became. Eli hid it masterfully, the only thing that gave away his apprehension being the vein that bulged on his forehead. I could feel his tension, though. It was in his shoulders, the stiff way he held his neck, in the force of his grip on the torch. It almost looked like he was trying to crush it.
The witches appeared to be nowhere near as impressed. They moved forward with a relaxed sort of confidence, casually stepping over puddles in their paths as though they were merely skirting around tables at the diner. Their attitude was mirrored by Frankie. I couldn’t help but glance back at him over my shoulder every couple seconds, his wheat-blond locks bouncing around his head with each of his spirited steps. Nettie Peterson, hanging from my arm, followed my gaze and let out a low grunt. “That boy is entirely too cheerful right now,” she muttered, only to squeak when she nearly tripped over a small rock. “Lord, I hope you know where we’re going.”
“Sure we do,” Elijah replied from up front.
“Approximately,” I added.
We weaved our way through the tunnels, trying to recall the way to the corpse cave. Rhonda had told us she wanted to see Kit Sutton’s mother. In a strange way, I was looking forward to seeing the sleeping giantess again. Despite the horror she was surrounded with, her sight had left a deep impression on me. The coven was chatting to each other in the back, their hushed voices the only sound to break the otherwise clammy, uneasy silence. Until we heard it.
A voice carried through the darkness, sweet and bell-bright with a heated, gravelly undertone. Her song filled the washed out corridors, echoing off the rounded stone walls and riding the ripples of the lake we were currently passing by. The words were in a foreign tongue, but I would have recognized my roommate’s singing anywhere.
Nettie tensed up, her arm around mine turning to stone. I could hear the hitch in her breath, taking note of the way her eyes grew wide in the lamplight. Our whole group had come to a halt in the middle of the large cave room, glancing about in awe as we tried to locate the source of the voice. It sounded like it was coming from everywhere at once, an omnipresent melancholy with just the hint of a fury in it. Like a calm, slow river with a strong, rapid undercurrent. I listened in rapture, my gaze fixed on my savior human’s elegant profile. Her lower lip trembled ever so slightly, its gloss capturing the warm sheen.
"Kit!" she suddenly called out.
The song broke off, leaving only eerie silence.
"Are you there?" my best friend shouted again, her voice nearly breaking.
Everything was still for another beat. Then we heard stones shift and clatter, followed by naked feet slapping the wet ground. We turned around, and there, standing beneath the arch of one of the side tunnels, was Kit Sutton. Nettie let out a sharp cry, broke free from my hold and ran towards her, wrapping her arms around the taller woman's neck. Kit stared down at her in shock before throwing her arms around her, burying one hand in her long, dark coils of hair and pressing the other to the small of her back. Anabel, who works the kitchen at the diner, let out a soft coo. We stayed back for the two of them to have their moment before my savior human eventually disentangled herself.
"You're very wet," she told Kit, inspecting her now damp sweater.
My roommate's lips curled. "I mean, you hugged me pretty close, so…"
Nettie smacked her upper arm. "Idiot," she whispered, her tone warm and gentle.
The smile faded from Kit's face as her eyes roamed the small crowd, settling on me. "What are you doing here? I told you not to come back, and now you've actually brought more people?"
"Kit, this is the coven from the diner. Coven, this is the water spirit I told you about." I turned to Rhonda, who nodded and took a step forward.
"We came to see if we can't do something about your situation," she told her.
Kit scrunched her brows. "You guys are a coven?"
"They are," I supplied. "And they managed to hold off my stalker with their magic so they're pretty serious about it. That reminds me; I have a stalker now. Anyways, they want to see your mom."
My roommate looked beyond skeptical. "You know this is dangerous, right?"
Hailey groaned. "Girl, we've been in this for a long-ass time. Either you let us see what we can do or you don't, but don't think for a moment that we're ignorant."
Kit threw up her arms. "Fine. Come along then. I warned you."
She started marching ahead, her impossibly long hair trailing behind her like a veil. Nettie had to be careful not to step on it as she walked alongside her, the two having linked hands. When we reached the corpse room, my savior human looked like she was about to faint. The sight once again sent a cold chill down my spine and I instinctively looked over at Eli Carter. His face was scrunched up, his brows knitted as he attempted to keep his eyes trained on the ground. Frankie on the other hand appeared to be rather interested, his gaze roaming the hall. The coven didn’t seem to care whatsoever, instead following Kit to the water hole where the enormous statuesque creature was resting.
“Woah,” Nettie said eloquently as she leaned over to look into the depths of the pond. “That’s your mom?”
Kit Sutton gave a brief, unspirited nod. “She is, actually. Quite a bit bigger than me but yeah. Well, I don’t see how this is—” She fell silent when the six ladies started to round the pit, exchanging knowing glances as they reached for each others’ hands. “What? What now, what are we doing?” she stammered, taking a step back and slightly raising her barnacle-covered arms.
Hailey turned to her with an encouraging smile. “We could wake her up. I really think we could.”
For a moment, she didn’t respond. “You think that’d help?” she then asked.
“Would it help to have a giant sea goddess up against your father?” Rhonda deadpanned. “Of course it would. He clearly had a problem with her, else he wouldn’t have done that. He felt threatened, most likely. You might not be able to fight back against him yourself, but she ought to tip the scales.”
“Great idea,” Frankie said, earning a proud nod from the older waitress. “It’s a good rule of thumb. If you’re too weak, you just find someone strong and scary to hide behind.” He beamed at me. “You’re so pretty, Eva.”
Kit snorted, looking a little more at ease but still uncertain. “You guys know I’ve actually never spoken with her, right? What if she’s, like, feral? Maybe she won’t want to help me; she could just make things worse.”
“Worse?” Nettie Peterson blurted out. “Girl, you’re grounded for a hundred years! It doesn’t get much worse than that.”
“Good point.”
“Glad we agree,” Mae-Lynn crisply chimed in. “Okay now, everyone join hands, go on.” She reached out for us and we gathered around the pool. Nettie entwined her fingers with mine on my left while Aliyah, the oldest of the witches from the looks of it, took her place on my right. She told Frankie to stay out of the circle, giving him an apologetic smile as she sent him off to wait on the side. “Sorry, sweetie,” she told him over her shoulder. “But having an inorganic link might disturb the chain.”
“So what now?” Elijah asked.
“All of you just close your eyes and clear your minds. Don’t think of anything, like you’re meditating. You’ve got to stay calm. I’m gonna borrow what I energy I can from your minds and use it for the big girl,” Rhonda told us, pointing her chin at the motionless giantess in the water down below. “Now, what Blue here says is true, so if this works, we’ll just all bolt, okay? We wake up the water queen and then we leg it.” She nodded to Kit. “You have the best chances at dealing with her on your own. I’m optimistic overall but she’s been locked inside her own body for God knows how long. She’s likely to be confused and we don’t want to make her feel ganged up on.”
“That actually makes sense,” my roommate conceded, brightening up a bit.
“Everybody ready?” Rhonda asked, receiving scattered nods and mumbles of affirmation. Bracing herself, she rolled her shoulders and proceeded to raise her voice, beginning to murmur something I could not understand. It sounded like a human language, but not any one that I knew. My heart was beginning to beat a little faster, her rhythmic cadence reminding me of the beating of a drum. I couldn't help it. I took a peek at Rhonda, my stomach sinking when I saw her face.
Her eyes were wide open and had rolled back into her head, leaving only the white to fill the eerie, void spaces. Her body was trembling as if there were invisible hands shaking her by the shoulders. The veins and arteries on her face and neck were standing out, weirdly discolored. The longer I looked at them, the darker they became until eventually turning black entirely. They were pulsating, the blood pumping through them at a powerful, forcible pace.
I pressed my eyes shut once more, trying to clear my mind despite the image sticking with me. Focus on nothing, focus on nothing…
It turned out to be quite difficult. I've never tried to actively empty my head before, not like this. Something always kept popping in, disturbing the peace up there. Unwanted thoughts of Jewel's tears, the Devourer Of Worlds, my intestines quelling from my stomach pushed their way into the void I was trying desperately to create. When it wasn't that, it was the image of Frankie's beautifully coordinated movements. I briefly allowed my eyes to flutter open once again to turn and sneak a glance at the waiter. He was sitting cross-legged on the rocky ground, busy tossing pebbles at the slimed-up corpses to see if they stuck. Forcing myself to concentrate, I tried to picture what "nothing" would even look like.
Probably all black. Light had to be absent after all. Endless; no ceiling, no floor, nothing to stand on and nothing overhead. Nothing to hear, see, smell or feel. Nothing at all; nowhere.
Around me, I felt the air in the room beginning to heat. The grating of stone upon stone penetrated my ears in the most uncomfortable way, but this time, I was determined not to muck it up. My facial muscles straining as I clenched my lids and mouth shut, I tried to ignore the sound of water beginning to bubble nearby. The pond was hissing as if it were a pot of boiling soup, splashes and dripping noises overtaking the silence. Rhonda's voice rose higher and higher, bouncing off the hollowed cavern walls and coming back with three times the volume. Goosebumps threatened to break out on my arms, the hairs on the back of my neck already standing up. I had lost my sense of space—I had no idea who was standing beside me anymore, I could barely feel their hands in mine; their touch was a foreign sensation I was only distantly aware of.
There truly was nothing there. Nothing but Rhonda's chanting. It filled every nook and cranny of my mind, coming from everywhere around me. My pulse was fluttering as if dancing to its rhythm. My heart was pounding like a drum to the best of its cadence. A faint sense of panic was whispering to me at the edge of my conscience, but it was unable to perturb the nothing. There was a veil before my inner eye that could not be lifted anymore.
And then, all of a sudden, one of the hands I was holding was wrenched from my grasp as a scream interrupted the incantative chorus. "Run!" Rhonda cried out.
My eyes flew open, instantly coming to rest on the pond. The water's surface was bulging, looking like a stretched out balloon about to burst. It formed a strained, blue dome, as from beneath it, two enormous hands rose to break its ceiling.
"She's coming!" Kit yelled out, her face a contorted grimace of hope and horror. "Get out of here! Hurry!" Shoving Nettie and Eli towards the exit, she rallied our group.
Frankie had jumped up and snatched my hand, already dragging me into the direction of the corridor. I craned my neck to look behind me, only for him to pull harder. "This room is gonna be flooded in, like, a moment! You wanna drown?" my waiter shouted, largely into my ear. I was still a bit dazed, the mental fog from the ritual not yet having let up. I really didn't have the time to come to, though. The ground was shaken by a sudden, massive earthquake. The walls began to shudder, drops of water raining down on us from all sides along with tiny pebbles coming loose from up above.
"Get out of here!" Kit bellowed, her voice so loud it came close to cracking.
Rhonda and the rest of her coven were already crowding the mouth of the cave room, racing out into the tunnel single file. I, Frankie and Elijah followed on their heels, the latter ducking his head as he slipped through the opening. Nettie kept looking back over her shoulder. I yelled her name at the same time as Kit shouted at her to leave. Eli Carter was already fumbling with his flashlight and grabbed her wrist with his other hand to drag her into the corridor with us. "You need to—"
"I know," she interrupted him, tearing herself loose and breaking into a sprint.
And thus, we ran. Somehow, it was a lot easier to find the way back than I'd expected. Before I even had the time to process the twists and turns in our path, we were already standing outside the cave again. The stale air from inside was replaced with the fresh smell of salt and the roaring of restless waves. My heart was pounding like a sledgehammer, my blood singing in my veins.
"We can't stay here," Eli hollered as he emerged behind us. "When that thing stands up, the whole cave is gonna break in! Move!"
Nettie Peterson let out a high-pitched whine but readily hurried along as the ten of us scrambled up the sand and boulders, away from the grotto and the shore. We finally came to a halt a safe distance away on one of the cliffs, overlooking the scene. For a moment, the only sound disrupting the nightly symphony was our joint heavy breathing.
Then the sound of massive rocks shifting and cracking reached our ears. From the grotto, a vibration spread through the ground all the way over to where we were standing. The mouth of the cave began to crumble, bits of stone falling down and sealing the opening. Then the whole cave began to split. My savior human grabbed onto my arm, her fingernails digging into my skin. "She'll be okay, right?"
"For sure," I said, ignoring my pulse thrumming in my ears.
Time to call Mary Markov again.
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1
2: deadbeat roommate
3: creepy crush
4: relocation
5: beach concert
6: First date
7: Temp work
8: roommate talk
9: a dismal worldview
10: warehouse
11: staircase
12: explanation
13: hurt
14: hospital
15: ocean
16: diner
17: government work
18: something in the caves
19: shopping cart
20: olms and Jewels
21: long hair
22: recruitment
23: waitresses
24: dollhouse
25: burning plastic
26: fog dimension

Taking csgo skins mainly (knives, gloves, aks, m4s, awps and so on). Anything as long as offer is good
I don't update this list everyday, so I have many items which aren't listed here. Check if something interests you! Also, some of the items are on trade hold, for release date you can add me or check by yourself.
TRADE LINK: https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffenew/?partner=35769104&token=J30wyEpy
Add me to talk here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996034832
Keys from these buy outs aren't TF2 keys. I don't take Hydra keys either.
Buy outs are in keys for the sake of having a buy out, I trade for skins mainly.
Gloves/wraps:
Gloves Slingshot FT 0.36 float - B/O 200 keys
Gloves Amphibious WW 0.42 float - B/O 170 keys
Gloves Omega FT 0.33 float - B/O 160 keys
Gloves Snow Leopard FT 0.36 float - B/O 150 keys
Gloves Snow Leopard FT 0.37 float - B/O 150 keys
Gloves Tiger Strike FT 0.32 float - B/O 140 keys
Gloves Smoke Out MW 0.14 float - B/O 120 keys
Gloves King Snake FT 0.36 float - B/o 120 keys
Gloves Tiger Strike WW 0.44 float - B/O 100 keys
Gloves Field Agent FT 0.36 float - B/O 85 keys
Gloves Bronze Morph MW 0.14 float - B/O 75 keys
Gloves Cool Mint FT 0.36 float - B/O 75 keys
Gloves Arid BS 0.64 float - B/O 72 keys
Gloves Emerald Web BS 0.56 float - B/O 71 keys
Gloves Diamondback MW 0.13 float - B/O 68 keys
Gloves POW WW 0.38 float - B/O 66 keys
Wraps Caution FT 0.31 float - B/O 59 keys
Gloves Overtake MW 0.14 float - B/O 59 keys
Gloves King Snake BS 0.59 float - B/O 58 keys
Wraps Caution WW 0.38 float - B/O 50 keys
Wraps Overprint WW 0.43 float - B/O 50 keys
Gloves Big Game BS 0.69 float - B/O 47 keys
Gloves Polygon FT 0.18 float - B/O 50 keys
Gloves Blood Pressure FT 0.32 float - B/O 43 keys
Gloves Blood Pressure FT 0.35 float - B/O 43 keys
Gloves Blood Pressure FT 0.36 float - B/O 43 keys
Gloves Finish Line FT 0.22 float - B/O 50 keys
Gloves Finish Line FT 0.32 float - B/O 42 keys
Gloves Nocts BS 0.62 float - B/O 42 keys
Gloves Boom FT 0.37 float - B/O 38 keys
Gloves Lunar Weave FT 0.36 float - B/O 36 keys
Gloves Finish Line WW 0.41 float - B/O 36 keys
Gloves Diamondback FT 0.37 float - B/O 35 keys
Gloves Field Agent BS 0.77 float - B/O 34 keys
Wraps Overprint BS 0.75 float - B/O 34 keys
Gloves Marble Fade BS 0.57 float - B/O 33 keys
Gloves Case Hardened MW 0.12 float - B/O 33 keys
Gloves Mogul BS 0.60 float - B/O 33 keys
Gloves Cool Mint BS 0.63 float - B/O 31 keys
Gloves Bronze Morph BS 0.61 float - B/O 30 keys
Gloves Jade FT 0.23 float - B/O 35 keys
Gloves Forest Ddpat FT 0.35 float - B/O 26 keys
Wraps Duct Tape MW 0.12 float - B/O 25 keys
Gloves Charred FT 0.21 float - B/O 30 keys
Gloves Overtake FT 0.16 float - B/O 30 keys
Gloves Jaguar Queen FT 0.37 float - B/O 22 keys
Gloves Rezan FT 0.16 float - B/O 30 keys
Gloves Rezan FT 0.28 float - B/O 21 keys
Gloves Yellow-banded FT 0.30 float - B/O 21 keys
Gloves Diamondback BS 0.58 float - B/O 20 keys
Wraps Arboreal FT 0.31 float - B/O 20 keys
Gloves Snakebite FT 0.16 float - B/O 25 keys
Gloves Blood Pressure BS 0.74 float - B/O 19 keys
Gloves Forest Ddpat BS 0.46 float - B/o 19 keys
Gloves Convoy WW 0.44 float - B/o 19 keys
Gloves Case Hardened FT 0.15 float - B/O 23 keys
Gloves 3rd Company FT 0.36 float - B/O 17 keys
Goves Buckshot FT 0.15 float - B/O 20 keys
Gloves Unhinged FT 0.24 float - B/O 17 keys
Gloves Overtake BS 0.45 float - B/O 17 keys
Gloves 3rd Company FT 0.38 float - B/O 16 keys
Wraps Constrictor FT 0.31 float - B/O 16 keys
Gloves Buckshot WW 0.40 float - B/O 16 keys
Wraps Desert Shamagh FT 0.35 float - B/o 16 keys
Wraps Constrictor WW 0.38 float - B/O 16 keys
Gloves Transport BS 0.60 float - B/O 15 keys
Gloves Rezan BS 0.74 float - B/O 15 keys
Gloves Yellow-banded BS 0.63 float - B/o 15 keys
Gloves Guerrilla BS 0.53 float - B/o 15 keys
Gloves Buckshot BS 0.53 float - B/O 15 keys
Wraps Desert Shamagh WW 0.41 float - B/O 15 keys
Gloves Case Hardened BS 0.53 float - B/O 15 keys
Gloves Emerald FT 0.36 float - B/O 15 keys
Wraps Constrictor BS 0.74 float - B/O 15 keys
Gloves Needle Point FT 0.36 float - B/O 14 keys
Gloves Rattler FT 0.35 float - B/O 13 keys
Gloves Mangrove FT 0.25 float - B/O 12 keys
Gloves Racing Green FT 0.30 float - B/O 11 keys
Knives and high tier items:
Talon Black Pearl MW 0.07 float - B/O 600 keys
Karambit Autotronic MW 0.13 float - B/O 350 keys
Nomad Fade MW ST 99% 0.07 float - B/O 400 keys
M9 Tiger Tooth FN 0.003 float - B/O 300 keys
M9 Tiger Tooth FN 0.01 float - B/O 270 keys
Daggers Sapphire FN ST 0.004 float - B/O 230 keys
Karambit Black Laminate FT 0.29 float - B/O 210 keys
M9 Black Laminate MW 0.11 float - B/O 200 keys
Talon Slaughter FN 0.03 float - B/O 200 keys
DEAGLE Blaze FN 0.01 float - B/O 170 keys
Flip Lore FN 0.05 float - B/O 170 keys
Butterfly Night FT 0.19 float - B/O 190 keys
Bayonet Tiger Tooth FN 0.02 float - B/O 160 keys
Flip Gamma Doppler FN P4 0.02 float - B/O 160 keys
Butterfly Stained BS 0.90 float - B/O 150 keys
M9 Freehand MW 0.11 float - B/O 150 keys
Flip Marble Fade FN 0.004 float - B/O 140 keys
Butterfly Forest Ddpat FT 0.16 float - B/o 140 keys
Flip Gamma Doppler FN P1 0.01 float - B/O 140 keys
Butterfly Safari Mesh FT 0.19 float - B/O 140 keys
Flip Doppler FN P2 0.03 float - B/O 140 keys
Karambit Ultraviolet BS 0.51 float - B/o 140 keys
Bayonet Lore FT 0.25 float - B/O 140 keys
Ursus Doppler FN P4 0.06 float - B/O 140 keys
Nomad Vanilla - B/O 130 keys
M9 Damascus Steel FT 0.20 float - B/O 130 keys
AK Head Shot FN ST 0.05 float - B/o 130 keys
M9 Blue Steel BS 0.99 float - B/O 150 keys
Stiletto Tiger Tooth FN 0.006 float - B/O 130 keys
Huntsman Fade FN 0.03 float - B/O 130 keys
Flip Tiger Tooth FN 0.03 float - B/O 120 keys
Skeleton Stained FT 0.23 float - B/O 120 keys
Ursus Crimson Web MW 0.12 float - B/O 120 keys
Ursus Doppler FN P1 0.03 float - B/o 120 keys
Flip Vanilla - B/O 120 keys
Stiletto Vanilla - B/O 120 keys
Huntsman Gamma Doppler FN ST 0.02 float - B/O 120 keys
M9 Stained Ft 0.28 float - B/O 110 keys
Karambit Forest Ddpat FT 0.36 float - B/O 110 keys
Flip Doppler FN 0.01 float - B/O 110 keys
M9 Rust Coat BS 0.66 float - B/O 110 keys
M9 Night BS 0.49 float - B/O 110 keys
Ursus Tiger Tooth FN 0.008 float - B/O 110 keys
Bayonet Lore BS 0.62 float - B/O 100 keys
Flip Autotronic MW 0.14 float - B/O 100 keys
Skeleton Night FT ST 0.27 float - B/O 100 keys
M9 Urban Masked FT 0.28 float - B/O 100 keys
Bayonet Black Laminate MW 0.12 float - B/O 100 keys
Paracord Slaughter FN ST 0.03 float - B/O 90 keys
Flip Slaughter FT 0.23 float - B/O 90 keys
Huntsman Marble Fade FN 0.009 float - B/O 90 keys
Skeleton Stained BS 0.65 float - B/O 90 keys
Ursus Vanilla - B/O 85 keys
Gut Autotronic FN 0.05 float - B/O 84 keys
Bayonet Crimson Web FT 0.34 float - B/O 84 keys
Paracord Slaughter MW 0.10 float - B/O 83 keys
Bowie Marble Fade FN 0.01 float - B/O 82 keys
Bowie Marble Fade MW 0.07 float - B/O 82 keys
Bayonet Damascus Steel FT 0.22 float - B/O 82 keys
Bowie Doppler Fn P3 0.03 float - B/O 81 keys
Flip Autotronic FT 0.23 float - B/O 80 keys
Huntsman Tiger Tooth FN 0.02 float - B/O 75 keys
Talon Boreal MW 0.08 float - B/O 73 keys
Survival Vanilla - B/O 72 keys
Flip Ultraviolet MW 0.14 float - B/O 72 keys
Daggers Gamma Doppler FN P4 0.02 float - B/O 71 keys
Stiletto Damascus Steel FT 0.31 float - B/O 71 keys
Flip Bright Water FN 0.04 float - B/O 71 keys
Skeleton Safari Mesh FT 0.15 float - B/O 68 keys
Talon Safari Mesh MW 0.13 float - B/O 68 keys
Ursus Ultraviolet MW 0.13 float - B/O 67 keys
Bowie Tiger Tooth FN 0.02 float - B/O 67 keys
Paracord Crimson Web FT 0.15 float - B/O 80 keys
Classic Case Hardened MW 0.09 float - B/O 65 keys
Nomad Blue Steel BS 0.87 float - B/O 64 keys
Falchion Lore MW 0.09 float - B/O 61 keys
Gut Lore MW 0.12 float - B/O 60 keys
Paracord Forest Ddpat FN 0.06 float - B/O 57 keys
Bowie Case Hardened FT 0.18 float - B/O 57 keys
Gut Tiger Tooth MW 0.07 float - B/O 56 keys
Falchion Vanilla ST - B/O 55 keys
Ursus Damascus Steel FN 0.05 float - B/O 54 keys
Daggers Marble Fade FN 0.05 float - B/O 53 keys
Navaja Marble Fade FN ST 0.01 float - B/O 51 keys
Flip Night FT 0.23 float - B/O 51 keys
Gut Marble Fade FN 0.01 float - B/O 50 keys
Huntsman Black Laminate BS 0.80 float - B/O 50 keys
Falchion Lore Ft 0.24 float - B/O 50 keys
Gut Doppler FN P2 0.008 float - B/O 50 keys
Huntsman Freehand FN 0.06 float - B/O 49 keys
Huntsman Night MW 0.14 float - B/O 49 keys
Daggers Tiger Tooth FN 0.01 float - B/O 49 keys
Classic Blue Steel MW 0.12 float - B/O 48 keys
Ursus Ultraviolet FT 0.28 float - B/O 48 keys
Huntsman Crimson Web FT 0.31 float - B/O 48 keys
Huntsman Case Hardened WW 0.42 float - B/O 48 keys
Gut Doppler FN P4 0.02 float - B/O 48 keys
Ursus Damascus Steel MW 0.10 float - B/O 47 keys
Bowie Vanilla - B/O 47 keys
Daggers Lore MW 0.14 float - B/O 46 keys
Gut Tiger Tooth FN 0.03 float - B/O 46 keys
Daggers Vanilla - B/O 46 keys
Nomad Night FT 0.25 float - B/O 46 keys
Flip Rust Coat BS 0.63 float - B/O 46 keys
Navaja Doppler FN P2 0.02 float - B/O 46 keys
Navaja Marble Fade FN 0.03 float - B/O 46 keys
Ursus Night MW 0.14 float - B/o 45 keys
Gut Doppler FN P1 0.03 float - B/O 43 keys
Navaja Slaughter FN 0.05 float - B/O 43 keys
Stiletto Safari Mesh FT 0.20 float - B/O 43 keys
Classic Night BS 0.73 float - B/O 43 keys
Nomad Boreal FT 0.37 float - B/O 43 keys
Huntsman Freehand MW 0.11 float - B/O 43 keys
Daggers Slaughter MW 0.11 float - B/O 42 keys
Huntsman Damascus Steel MW 0.13 float - B/o 42 keys
Falchion Crimson Web FT 0.18 float - B/O 45 keys
Gut Vanilla - B/O 41 keys
Flip Urban Masked FT 0.28 float - B/O 41 keys
Paracord Blue Steel FT 0.36 float - B/O 40 keys
Nomad Safari Mesh MW 0.12 float - B/o 40 keys
Navaja Tiger Tooth FN 0.01 float - B/O 40 keys
Ursus Blue Steel BS 0.95 float - B/O 39 keys
Falchion Bright Water FN 0.05 float - B/O 39 keys
Daggers Lore FT 0.32 float - B/O 39 keys
Bowie Bright Water FN 0.06 float - B/O 39 keys
Gut Lore BS 0.59 float - B/O 38 keys
Flip Forest Ddpat FT 0.36 float - B/o 38 keys
Flip Scorched FT 0.34 float - B/O 37 keys
Flip Safari Mesh FT 0.36 float - B/O 37 keys
Nomad Scorched FT 0.35 float - B/o 36 keys
Nomad Safari Mesh WW 0.44 float - B/O 36 keys
Daggers Lore WW 0.42 float - B/O 35 keys
Daggers Crimson Web FT 0.37 float - B/O 35 keys
Classic Scorched FT 0.16 float - B/O 35 keys
Classic Boreal MW 0.08 float - B/O 34 keys
Falchion Bright Water MW 0.14 float - B/O 34 keys
Ursus Urban Masked FT 0.33 float - B/o 34 keys
Navaja Blue Steel FN 0.01 float - B/O 34 keys
Daggers Freehand FN 0.06 float - B/O 34 keys
Classic Urban Masked FT 0.35 float - B/O 34 keys
Classic Forest Ddpat FT 0.18 float - B/O 33 keys
Ursus Scorched MW 0.13 float - B/O 33 keys
Classic Safari Mesh MW 0.12 float - B/O 33 keys
Ursus Safari Mesh MW 0.12 float - B/O 32 keys
Ursus Scorched FT ST 0.35 float - B/O 32 keys
Navaja Vanilla - B/O 32 keys
Gut Ultraviolet MW 0.13 float - B/O 32 keys
Huntsman Bright Water FT 0.35 float - B/O 32 keys
Bowie Bright Water FT 0.17 float - B/O 31 keys
Bowie Ultraviolet WW 0.38 float - B/o 30 keys
Ursus Boreal FT 0.15 float - B/O 30 keys
Ursus Safari Mesh FT 0.20 float - B/O 30 keys
Falchion Black Laminate WW 0.39 float - B/O 29 keys
Survival Night BS 0.66 float - B/O 28 keys
Paracord Urban Masked FT 0.22 float - B/O 28 keys
Navaja Case Hardened WW 0.44 float - B/O 28 keys
Huntsman Boreal FT 0.27 float - B/O 28 keys
Huntsman Scorched FT 0.20 float - B/O 28 keys
Gut Bright Water FT ST 0.21 float - B/O 27 keys
Daggers Ultraviolet FT 0.30 float - B/O 27 keys
Gut Damascus Steel FT 0.35 float - B/O 27 keys
Gut Rust Coat BS ST 0.52 float - B/O 27 keys
Gut Bright Water FT 0.26 float - B/O 27 keys
Bowie Rust Coat BS 0.48 float - B/O 27 keys
Paracord Forest Ddpat FT 0.26 float - B/O 27 keys
Gut Night FT ST 0.18 float - B/O 26 keys
Gut Blue Steel FT 0.32 float - B/O 26 keys
Paracord Forest Ddpat WW 0.38 float - B/O 26 keys
Gut Freehand FT 0.30 float - B/O 26 keys
Paracord Safari Mesh FT 0.17 float - B/O 26 keys
Navaja Damascus Steel Fn 0.05 float - B/O 26 keys
Falchion Rust Coat BS 0.52 float - B/O 26 keys
Bowie Scorched FT 0.19 float - B/O 25 keys
Gut Freehand WW 0.40 float - B/o 25 keys
Falchion Forest Ddpat FT 0.15 float - B/O 25 keys
Daggers Ultraviolet WW 0.38 float - B/O 25 keys
Gut Rust Coat BS 0.55 float - B/O 24 keys
Gut Safari Mesh WW 0.38 float - B/O 23 keys
Daggers Bright Water FT 0.21 float - B/O 23 keys
Daggers Ultraviolet BS 0.52 float - B/O 23 keys
Navaja Blue Steel MW 0.12 float - B/O 23 keys
Gut Urban Masked FT 0.19 float - B/O 23 keys
Gut Boreal FT 0.23 float - B/O 23 keys
Gut Safari Mesh FT 0.28 float - B/O 22 keys
Daggers Black Laminate FT 0.37 float - B/O 22 keys
Gut Scorched FT 0.15 float - B/O 22 keys
Navaja Ultraviolet FT 0.36 float - B/O 22 keys
Daggers Night FT 0.25 float - B/O 22 keys
Navaja Boreal BS 0.67 float - B/O 21 keys
Navaja Night MW 0.12 float - B/O 21 keys
Navaja Stained FT 0.30 float - B/O 21 keys
Navaja Blue Steel WW 0.40 float - B/O 21 keys
Navaja Night BS 0.57 float - B/O 20 keys
Daggers Rust Coat BS 0.66 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Boreal FT 0.15 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Boreal Ft 0.15 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Urban Masked FT 0.28 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Night FT 0.20 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Safari Mesh BS 0.65 float - B/O 20 keys
Navaja Forest Ddpat FT 0.29 float - B/O 20 keys

I live very close to Lancaster Limeworks and have been debating on just getting some mortar from them and touching up this wall, but I haven't been confident that it's a good idea. I have removed all the loose bits and shop vac'ed it, no stones are loose and we don't get any water but it does drip sand a bit. Thoughts? Bring in a pro mason or touch it up myself.
Edit: I am a professional woodworker, who spent the last 8 years building custom kitchens from scratch and have transitioned to hardwood furniture in the last 2 year... so I'm not completely useless with a tool in my hand

hi! long time listener, first time caller, and excited to share my positive endo excision experience.
this was my first ever lap, and it took place on may 22. i was really nervous beforehand for a few reasons:

1. i had never been under anesthesia before, so i wasn’t sure how i’d react
2. i have emetophobia, so i was nervous about post-operative nausea and vomiting
3. i was afraid i wouldn’t be able to handle post-surgical pain but didn’t want to take narcotic painkillers
4. i was afraid that despite MRI imaging showing two endometriomas on my right ovary that they wouldn’t find endo

the good news: all these fears were unfounded! my surgery day experience was very low stress. my pre-op nurse helped me to stay calm, my anesthesiologist talked me through our plan to avoid PONV (iv zofran and a scopolamine patch), and my team was respectful of my wishes re: narcotic painkillers post surgery - they gave me fentanyl during surgery but assured me that it would be essentially out of my system by the time i woke up in the PACU and agreed we could make the next pain management decision once i woke up and had determined how i felt.
i got a saline drip IV, and then from there, i was wheeled into the OR. once i’d gotten myself cozy on the operating table, my anesthesiologist pushed an anti-anxiety med and i don’t remember anything after that. i didn’t have the experience of counting down for anesthesia - i was just out before i knew it!
my surgery ended up taking about three hours. when i woke up in the PACU, it felt like waking up after sleep. it didn’t feel as disorienting as i was scared it would. once i’d opened my eyes, i realized i was shivering pretty violently. apparently this is a common anesthesia reaction, and my nurses quickly got me warm blankets and heating pads and it resolved quickly. they also checked in on how i was doing pain wise and i felt surprisingly good - maybe a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale. they decided to give me toradol and within moments i was totally comfortable. i also mentioned that i wasn’t sure if i was nauseous or anxious and they gave me another iv anti-emetic. after this, my surgeon came to chat with me. she immediately told me i wasn’t crazy - they found endo on both of my ovaries, my pelvic floor, my broad ligaments and in my rectovaginal area. i also had several fibroids excised and had a salpingectomy to reduce my elevated ovarian cancer risk. she mentioned she had already spoken with my husband and that he had my surgical photos with him. after this, i was very quickly ready to be moved to recovery.
in recovery, i got cranberry juice and water, and was reunited with the recovery snack i brought (gluten free crackers!) and my husband joined me. once i was able to eat my snack, they gave me my first dose of extra strength tylenol and i was ready to pee and get changed for home.
my car ride home was comfortable - i brought a pillow for between the seatbelt which definitely helped. i was able to get into the house and up the stairs easily. the evening of my surgery, i felt up for taking a short walk around the block. afterwards, i was fatigued, and got to rest for the rest of the night.
i never experienced significant gas pains, and my incision pain/internal healing pain was completely manageable with extra strength tylenol and ibuprofen. i had a few days of bleeding after surgery, and used the frida mom cooling pads and frida mom post partum undies to manage it (and loved both!) i also used perfect remedy brand ice packs on my incisions and loved them!
two things that were surprisingly bothersome after surgery were extreme appetite loss (it took a full two weeks for food to stop seeming completely disgusting to me) and going to the bathroom. i wish i had started taking the stool softener pre-surgery, because my first BM on day three after surgery was genuinely traumatic and triggered the worst hemorrhoid flare up of my life.
i also (silly enough) didn’t realize how long post surgery fatigue would last. because i’ve been in chronic pain daily for the past 15 years, i NEVER expected to be one of those people who is immediately helped by excision. but the pain relief HAS been immediate, and since i feel so much better than expected, it’s easy to feel frustrated that i’m more tired than i’d like to be. this week it does finally feel like my energy is coming back, though! i’m hopeful to start light exercise again in a week or so.
let me know if you have any questions, and if your surgery is coming up, here’s hoping your experience is as good as mine!!

Hello, I currently live in a coastal tourist town in Maine. My social life here is almost nonexistent- everyone does activities as couples and the dating scene for someone my age is deplorable. I am a well educated, active, (and some say attractive) woman who wants to find her home. I have no real family and my friends are scattered about in the US. Would Asheville be a place where I would be able to thrive? I am also looking at Tucson (have friends there) but their water supply situation has me concerned. Thank you for any guidance!

Bought a peony bush last fall, overwintered it successfuly in my basement, was bringing it in and out of basement in early spring to get sunlight. One day when it was outside, wind came up and when I went to get it, it had cracked completely off. The bottom of the stem had started drying out. It broke off right at the root nodule so there was no way to stick it back on and tape it in place. I cut off the dry end, put it in a large glass of water, threw in a tiny bit of dirt, and it's been going strong that way for almost 2 weeks. But it IS starting to droop a little now.
Is there any way to save it? The root nodule does have another sapling coming out so it's not a complete loss, but I'd love to be able to save the larger piece if possible.
Thanks

We bought a 2012 Nissan Sentra in February for about $2,700 taxes in. We decided it was a good buy because it didn't have a ton of rust like other vehicles its age, and all we need is a cheap commute beater. I see there are Perma-Guard stickers, and there's this thick tar-like stuff applied everywhere (underneath, under the hood, etc).
My question is, can I have something like Corrosion Free applied overtop the Perma-Guard? I know for a fact that Perma-Guard doesn't last forever (I think it's only warrantied for 10 years anyway), because our 2005 Sienna had the stuff, we bought it in 2015, and by 2018, we were having to start patching the rockers. By last July (2022), we had to sell it and buy another van because there wasn't much left to weld to and the guy who does the body work was (rightly) worried about side impact with my kids (that it would just crumple).
But I am unsure about mixing undercoat types and figured I'd ask here. I would like to bring it to Shine Factory in Burnside since they did a good job on our 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan last fall. I know Canadian Tire does it too, but they are hit and miss with quality.

I’m new to fly fishing and was out recently on a stream looking for some fishies to catch. I noticed around some down trees/cover in the river that there were tons of little minnows sitting in the water around the trees looking for food. My question is, what does this indicate about the presence of larger fish around that same cover? If the minnows are just happily hanging around does that mean I won’t find any fish worth catching there? Because they would be eating those minnows right? Or is it still worth trying to bait a bigger fish to come out of the cover by running a fly past it a few times?

Friends, it blew my mind yesterday - surprise of my life.
I've had dozen+ trips on shrooms up to 5g of PE, 1x mescaline trip, 1x MDMA, 1x sub-breakthrough DMT (vape), and 1x 5-meo (high dose)... plus a fair bit of high dose cannabis edible experiences... so I did NOT expect to be taken on a ride.
LSD at 155ug was probably the most profound trip I've had. Intellectually I know it's not a high dose, but it was somehow deeper than the 5g mushroom trip. (Also 5-meo was obviously more powerful but The Void is just so different, it's almost not psychedelic).
LSD had elements of all the other psyches combined - the heart and emotion of mesci on the come-up, the profoundness/connection of shrooms at the peak, and while I wouldn't say it felt exactly like the whisper of the DMT space I felt on my last experience, during the peak I sensed I was floating around in a place that seemed like it could become kind of similar to that cartoonish / hindu 'place' I felt. Then there was the introspection (and amphetamine vibe, more on that later) from MDMA.
LSD is a classic for a reason, and possibly "my favourite" now but with a few caveats (length and the amphetamine-esque edginess).
Here's there blow-by-blow:
10:30am: Prep - I made 2 nests in the house, one main floor one bedroom in case (blankets, water, etc at both). I walked the house before taking the tab, shaking a tambourine and blessing the rooms. This was my first time doing this and I really liked it. Got my nervous energy out. Highly recommend.
10:45: Dropping - tab under the tongue with the goal of holding for 15 minutes. No bitterness or bad flavour. I tuned my acoustic guitar and started playing, which is the first time I've done that on a come-up and it's HIGHLY recommended vs. meditating or something that puts the focus on your body vs. distracting you. It was also AMAZING not to have the shroom nausea that I realize now has coloured a lot of my other experiences - I kind of dread it and spend time waiting for it and fighting it etc.
11:00 - 12:00pm: Come-up - swallowed the tab, starting to feel something as I played guitar. I just noodle around with my own creations in different tunings. I noticed I wanted to sing, so I started singing and was getting more and more emotional, thinking bout my childhood, my wife, etc. Before I knew it, I was weeping and really connecting with my inner child (who had been neglected in many ways). I also started writing messages to myself at this time, which are really heavy and profound, glad I did that. I realized the fear that my parents had and how they passed that fear down to me. This part was SUPER similar to the come-up on mescaline for me, minus the mesci nausea which is intense for me, but I felt my heart just opening. Eventually had to lie down to go deeper.
12:00 - 1:30 (?): Peak - I sensed that I was being called to move deeper than the emotional state of dealing with trauma, and really connected with Motherhood - my mom, and my wife with our kids - and was in awe of cosmic love as shown through a mother's love, and marvelling at the depth of my love for our kids. This began also to feel too specific to me as a being and that I was called into deeper *something*, so I began to let go and focus more on the spiritual. I was awash in colours and landscapes, not that I saw them but I felt them or imagined them. I did lose contact with my body at times. I also let go of the concept of self. I felt "the spirit" that was kind of guiding me saying "See, this is the way -- not forcing the understanding but letting go into the space behind understanding" so I kept trying that, and succeeded here and there. But came back to myself a fair bit too. I think a higher dose would let me detach completely.
I also explored what I am. I tried to 'get behind' what I am, what's the root? I flirted with the idea that I am God but that didn't quite seem right (sorry - I know that's a popular vibe here). I also explored Christian ideas since that's my faith background and my default experience of the numinous. It felt OK in that space - things like union with God through Christ, that we are beings in God's image, and that me, as a created Being that is destined for union with God (or a return to union with God). I am beyond precious and unique and worthy of love and power etc. I also had this sense that Christianity really does NOT give God any kind of true kudos for being The Ageless Eternal One. It's just so mired in the temporal stuff like sin, death, etc. And yet here, in this space, it felt like I was communing with The Ageless One who was both Ancient in a terrifying way but also The Young One since all moments are the Eternal Now. That part reminded my of mescaline too. It was really interesting. I also felt a presence throughout this period of a feminine kind of vibe - a bit more lighthearted and loving - which is often my experience via shrooms.
This Peak was I think the deepest I've been, and the most psychedelic space I've been to. It was wonderful. It felt like a miracle -- and made ME feel like a miracle -- I was in contact with love and Being and one-ness and God. Losing contact with myself in this space of love and light and imagination and God was just amazing.
So that was the first 1/3rd of the trip, and frankly, I kind of wish it had ended there. I think at this point it's like 2pm. I start coming out the peak because, I realized, I wasn't feeling right in my intestines. I hadn't eaten much that day so I went to eat some grapes and crackers, but that didn't really help.
Now begins the hard part. The feeling of discomfort grew in my lower GI tract, and I felt the tight-jaw amphetamine style chemical energy in my body. I was also exhausted already - so many tears, so much learning, so much experience... but I wasn't done. If I could have flipped a switch to end the trip, I 100% would have but I realized I'd have to fight through.
I tried a few different things, nothing really worked until I went for a walk outside. There's a nice path near the house. It was going great - I felt so alive and powerful - until I passed 2 dudes walking their dog and I SWEAR the one guy was walking like a demented clown. Then I had a terrifying thought "What if I look at their faces and they are demon clowns?" lol. As I passed them I think they could tell I was in a weird headspace cause the one guy was like "you OK man?" and that made me feel better, I said Ya and something pleasant and kept going. I got to a little beach and dipped my feet in the water which was really cool. Then I walked back (along the highway, which in retrospect wasn't the safest idea).
When I got back from my walk I felt a bit better but still battling the energy + exhaustion combo. I didn't know what to do. I tried colouring, playing music, writing etc but couldn't get into anything. I wished someone else was there to hang out and preoccupy me.
Eventually things kept getting easier and not so bad and the final third of the trip was good (not great). It wasn't nearly as nice as the shroom afterglow which IMO is unrivalled as afterglow effects go.
I spent the last two hours of the trip outside in the beautiful evening just chilling and playing a bit on my phone, listening to music. Occasionally tears would come back, but it was good. I kept reminding myself that the first few hours of the trip were "the main point" and this uncomfortable 2/3rds was just kind of part of the deal and I should just accept it and be at peace with however I was feeling. It was a mini lesson too.
Slept pretty well despite the ampethimine like shit, and here I am "tomorrow".
This is waaaay too long but in conclusion: LSD is legit. The Pro's (smooth come-up, more time in the psych space, emotional and spiritual together) outweigh the cons (way too long of a trip, amphetamine edginess). It's my new #1.
I can't get over how this happened on 155ug, a pretty middle dose from what I understand. I might try 200ug next time just to see, but how on earth are people doing like 500ug at concerts and shit??? Wild.
Thanks for reading!

Daughter is 18 months. During the day she either uses a Tommee Tippee Superstar Sippee cup or a Munchkin 360 trainer cup for her fluid intake. We are dropping her before bed milk bottle and milk bottle we would offer if she woke up in the middle of the night. We are still going to offer water for her, but I know the bottle is more of a comfort thing.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a cup that your child liked for end of day/middle of the night drinks? Thankfully we have not had a meltdown (yet haha) but she's had a lot of mucous when she sleeps from the spring allergies and the air quality from the wildfires lately.
Thanks!!