Story Forum Community Lounge (Part 1)

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I haven’t been active much ingame or on the forums recently, I don’t find WoW to be as exciting as it used to be despite how good the game is. I’ve been trying to get my life in order and have been job hunting so it might be good that the game isn’t taking too much time from other activities. I have been playing other games somewhat, such as the Resident Evil 4 remake which I have a few chapters still to do. I might get Tears Of The Kingdom next. I didn’t enjoy Breath Of The Wild as much as a lot of other people but the game mechanics in TOTK sound interesting so I might enjoy that game more.

I’ve still been getting caught up on the MCU, and recently finished Inhumans. The best way to describe that show might be, what if someone made a super hero show where most of the super hero characters lose their powers after the first episode with the show itself having the same quality as The Room? Medusa, a character whose power is prehensile hair, gets her haired shaved off while Karnak, a man who can see the fault in everything, hits his head and has to recover for awhile so his ability can fully return. The main characters are part of the Royal Family, a group of super powered people who rule a hidden kingdom on the moon, but get sent to Hawaii when the king’s brother (who has no super powers at all) enacts a coup in order to get rid of its caste system, which forces people who don’t obtain super powers to work in mining caves in order to mine up moon rocks. The main character Blackbolt gets put in jail, Karnak discovers a weed farm and is employed there for a time, and Gorgon Petragon (a man whose super power is that he has hooves for feet) befriends a group of surfer soldiers who immediately decide to help and put their lives on the line for him because “Hawaii also had a king”.

It’s a show that can be binged in 4-5 hours and is fun to laugh at, due to the bizarre happenings in the story and the awful soundtrack. It’s ultimately a cheap version of Thor, where at the end the kingdom gets destroyed and the characters are forced to live on Earth. It’s also not important to the MCU at all so far other than that Blackbolt is in Doctor Strange 2. Fun fact, his real name is actually Blackagar Boltagon. This is one of the scenes that made me laugh.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/141722u/all_knowledge_is_contained_in_the_warp_could_it/

Interesting to note how the Posters seem to think the lack of Daemons appearing in the Warp is due to quite time when in fact it seems as if the Space Marines were all visiting the Realm of the Sorcerer which is unguarded by Daemons.

It’s no wonder the Realm of the Sorcerer was so vast at the time since the Emperor was creating a Galaxy of Enlightenment. Tzeentch represents both Knowledge and Change. He also does what he promises though you have to make sure he promises exactly what you want. In otherwords you should ask “Create and give me a Mountain of Chocolate” not “Make me a Mountain of Chocolate”.

In any case it’s Lorgar’s fault that Khorne, Nurgle and Slaanesh got their paws on everything. Tzeentch was well in control of the Great Game with how the Emperor was running everything in an Atheistic Manner but Lorgar had to ruin it.

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Every time I see that word it makes me think of Dr. Seuss words. Like thneeds or truffula tree or sneetches.

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I personally thought it sounded Asian when I first heard it spoken in a Total War Warhammer 3 Video involving the China-themed Grand Cathay Army…presumably because the Grand Cathay Army that Tzeentch was fighting was infact Asian-themed.

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I had a dream last night that there was a second Cataclysm expansion in which Dun Morough got turned into a swamp. The zone was difficult to navigate and the quests were bad.

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Hopefully everyone’s doing well!!!

I’ve been busy and when I’ve had time to play I’ve been trying to get my pvp set from solo shuffle skskkdsk

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This is the first Prince of Persia Game where the titular Prince of Persia is not the Playable Protagonist but the Damsel in Distress! Hilarious!

The Japanese version of the Trailer makes it quite clear that Sephiroth is talking about Tifa so that means that Tifa might actually be the Calamity From the Skies.

The Calamity is quite dangerous if she arranged for Cloud to kill Sephiroth and an Infected Host. No wonder the Ultimania stated Sephiroth was in control over Jenova. Jenova was just an empty shell puppeted by the Calamity From the Skies until Sephiroth got his hands on it.

Tifa wasn’t asking Cloud questions about her situation because she doubted Cloud’s Story but was making sure he didn’t realize she was an imposter. The Calamity is very good at the game she plays and in the traditional Final Fantasy VII Universe she has her consort who is oblivious to what is going on.

The fact that Sephiroth’s Speech Patterns return to their Pre-Nibelheim form after consuming the Arbiters of Fate it seems likely they freed him from the Calamity’s control making him realize that Tifa should be dead.

In the Re: Final Fantasy VII Universe she is getting exposed and her control over Sephiroth during Nibelheim revealed leading into the End Game of Rebirth even if Sephiroth winds up on the wrong end of his own sword. Considering how her genes gave Sephiroth and Jenova White Hair one should expect a White Haired Tifa with Wings wielding the Masamune as Rebirth’s Final Boss.

I’d also expect Sephiroth’s dying body to be brought to his true mother Lucretia Crescent during the ending while setting up the Final Battle against the Calamity who by now should be getting frustrated that her plans have been failing.

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Atleast it isn’t reality because that would suck if it did.

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Been bopping in and out.

Working on that Gilneas Silverpine thingamajigger but honestly I can sum it up with

"Blizzard made the best war story in World of Warcraft effectively non-canon, so;

https://youtu.be/17KmNrG9pE4"

Beyond that I’ve been thinking of writing my own story set during BFA. Complaint with canon and featuring nothing but my own PCs and a few minor NPCs I doubt Blizz is going to suddenly contradict me on.

Figure I make it a play on “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”.

An Undead (but not Forsaken aligned) Bounty Hunter and Wildhammer Barbarian are hired by the Venture and Ashvane companies respectively but separately to rob a Forsaken zeppelin carrying Azerite.

They both try to hit it simultaneously causing the zeppelin to crash. This doesn’t cause a catastrophic explosion because they already buried the Azerite they were supposed to be carrying in a secret location.

That only a Half-Orc Hedge-Wizard knows the location of. Having recently gone AWOL from The Reliquary she ventures to the crash site for the promise of loot but can’t help but tend to the dying Forsaken strewn around the wreckage. As she’s the only one present who can understand Gutterspeak, she alone knows where the treasure is buried.

And so starts an odyssey across the Eastern Kingdoms that’ll take us from the Western styled Badlands all the way to the cursed no-man’s-land of Deadwind Pass.

Everyone from the Steamwheedle Cartel to the Blackrock Orcs, Defias, Cult of the Damned and Dark Riders of Karazhan will also become involved in the chase.

But in the end only one of our heroes will claim fortune and glory.

We’ll see if this ever gets past the screenplay stage. But I really loved the “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” aspect of the Expeditions where every villain group from WoW’s history appeared to scramble for Azerite. So building off that.

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How do your ribs feel?

My favorite thing at this point is the narcan “no breathing, no palpable pulse” when they wake up and they’re like, “My chest hurts” and it’s like, “Bruh, you were dead. Someone beat the heck out of your ribcage to oxygenate what was left of your brain”.

But seriously, glad you’re not dead. Sorry about all the terrible, obviously.

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Oh I was fine. Really gotta cut this out. I’m not in my early 20s anymore.

Had nearly 7 years without a trauma induced mental breakdown though so that’s pretty good. Also I’m finally properly medicated for the first time in my life.

Turns out I was suffering from panic attacks and had just kinda been making do by shoving that fear back down my throat with a combination of willpower, rage and alcohol/nicotine abuse.

Thats a relief really here I thought that fantastic fear of everything Id periodically get for no discernable reason was just me being a coward.

Glad I got this figured out at 30. Turns out my dad has an anxiety problem too. Didnt realize this until he was 76. Once I saw it in myself I could recognize it clear as day in him and had my therapist friend come and explain it to him.

Explains why he was obsessive about heart-health. This whole time he thought he was having heart attacks of some sort.

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Obviously the jogger needs to take another class! If you’re fine, then they weren’t aggressive enough.

(That is a joke).

My brain sometimes does this fun thing where if I haven’t had a real crisis in a while, it will convince me that something utterly harmless is in fact, an impending crisis so I can “fix” it and get that little adrenaline hit. I’m trying to work on that. Sometimes weight lifting helps when I know I’m about to go into PROBLEM SOLVING MODE for no reason, but sometimes it just means I’m exercise jangly and regular jangly, too.

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They clearly had 0 idea what they were doing. Was on the phone with 911. I woke up screaming pretty much instantaneously. Were I in my right mind Id have thanked them and gone about my merry way but I was still semi occupying a fuge state so. Just kinda sat there staring at trees trying to parse out how the devil I found myself in this situation.

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If done right, CPR hurts like a (several words that are not fit for all ages consumption). It’s not for live humans.

Which, I guess, is a good way to wake someone up if they’re not actually dead at the time.

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The EMTs were cool at least.

I’ve a hypothesis that 30-50% nurses, paramedics and crisis counselors used to be absolutely off-the-chain punk party mfers who cooled off somewhere in their mid to late 20s.

Suffice to say I always look for the chicks with the Anarchy tattoos when I’m getting my blood drawn. They’re extremely good at finding veins.

Can’t imagine why.

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A reason it’s important for people to become CPR certified if they can is because of the damage it can do to the ribs. Most people know about CPR but not more than that it can get people breathing again. It’s very possible for someone’s ribcage to be broken during the process. I think it’s something like 9% of people get a broken sternum during CPR.

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It was just some soccer mom walking her dog through a forest preserve trail. I’m not sure what she expected to happen. I’m fairly certain she thought I was some homeless lost boy.

And no I’m actually a 30 year old small buisness owner. An insane one but I’ve yet to meet anyone self employed who isn’t, to use the politically correct term, c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶z̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶c̶o̶n̶u̶t̶ neurodivergent.

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With older patients, it’s unfortunately expected to some extent.

But if a patient is dead, that’s the primary concern. Of course, young, formerly healthy adults are most likely to come out of a “no pulse no breathing” situation. CPR doesn’t save lives, but it does minimize brain damage by continuing oxygenation of the cells until a shock is delivered, the body is able to compensate, or the narcan kicks in. But if CPR is being done (and was properly started as opposed to out of panic) things are very much not good.

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Ya know I’m happy for the Scalies but is it just me or has every new class, baring the arguable exception of Monk, just really had a needlessly strict class fantasy?

I’m playing with my Irene Mageroyal character. Those of you playing the home game may remember she’s my Gilnean Police Inspector turned Forsaken Deathstalker / Dr. Frankenstein & His Monster character.

And while Rogue and Sin Rogue in particular works reasonably well for this fantasy, boy does it burn my biscuits that we’ve gotten Sad Boys Anonymous, Edgy Twinks and Deviantart Account #3 instead of a proper Artificer class.

Figure they could have two DPS and a healer spec focusing on more advanced forms of Engineering, Inscription and Alchemy respectively.

One melee DPS spec all about chainsaw swords, stun batons and maybe mech suits. A ranged DPS class all about hurling crafted magical items like cursed playing cards or sentient inscribed carpets that attempt to sufficate anyone who treads on them.

Then I figure the Apothecary inspired Healer class could be WoW’s first pet class healer who uses concoctions for HoTs and DoTs while spawning in various homonculi that heal, stun or ensnare as need be.

Some might argue this would diminish the fun of professions like Alchemy and Engineering.

But c’mon does Mage ruin Enchanting? Does Hunter ruin Skinning? Does Enhancement Spec ruin Archeology seeing as they both seem to be perpetually forgotten features from yesteryear?

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Over the past years in media I have completely and utter watched alot of great amazing shows. Shows that I didn’t even watch at first and got into it looking back on them with memories of the characters journey. As much as I liked Game of Thrones i think vikings had a impact on me.