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The Speciman - As long as attached mercenary is alive, when an enemy merc dies, all debuffs on merc are transferred to the nearest enemy merc.

this probably doesn't fit with the flavor, but i'd dig it if this were debuffs transfer on any merc death. To open the door for self debuff/kill ally strats.

works especially well if you have some weakling 1/week who infinite respawns! (something like murky from hots?)
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ok i'll make sure to call you laurel if i see you on the street to maintain your cover, yanny
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ok, thats everything I had

back to you, MWC
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Gula says he can't trust anyone but himself (dumb thing to say) and Aced points out they can't beat the darkness on their own (didn't stop Riku and Sora... ameteurs, lol) and Gula once again is like, fuck off, don't care.

At this point in time you're probably not shocked, but Aced threatens that he'll destroy Invi for this. (Man, this is one great group of leaders...)

Case of Aced:

And now to see how the big dumb bear became what we see. Aced enters the MoM's chambers. MoM comes traipsing in and is all "you been here long? My bad". I love him. And he asks what he wanted, Aced is like did you forget you called me here, and MoM also tells him he was just fucking with him too. He then tells him his role. "You're gonna be Ira's right hand man". Aced's like "what"? Ira's right hand man, what do you mean?

"Well, Ira's gonna be the new leader after I'm gone see, just stand by him, don't disappoint (he's says the last part flippantly) Aced wants to know what he means by Ira being the new leader (yeah, that was pretty subtle, I could get how that could get lost in translation). And MoM goes full asshole now. "What? Is that disappointment I hear?" Did YOU want to be leader" Aced goes into full denial like, "no, if you had asked me sure, but I wasn't trying to".

"You REALLY wanna be leader, huh"? Aced finally admits, and then MoM needles him by being like duh, I'm not an idiot, I know you want it, but that just isn't enough. Any chump can say "You!, here's a huge promotion. Good job!" (And he gives a thumbs up) Then he tells him enthusiasm alone doesn't make you a great leader, and Ira needs someone like you to push him in the right direction.

"I agree, Ira is definitely the most worthy among us" he says with his words paused, a crack in his voice and anger in his eyes, clearly he doesn't have confidence on this one. And he agrees he'd make a fine leader.

"Then its settled" (god he's great)

Aced points out yeah Ira is worthy, but why do they even need a new leader (he makes a fine point, though maybe it in the way he meant), and if that means he'll no longer be teaching them. MoM again points out he may disappear one day. Aced doesn't react, MoM is surprised and says it again, this time flailing his arms and putting huge emphasis on the word "disappear" this time it clicks with Aced who's like, how, why, where? MoM has one of his best reactions ever. He laments

"Speak up sooner if you're listening. That was embarrassing for me!" He doesn't know if he's gonna disappear or not, it's anyone's guess right now. Either way, he needs to support Ira though, and he points directly at Aced. He is afterall quite serious, always thinking behind his Unicorn mask. So he needs Aced to spur the thinker into action. He says you might not be happy with your role, but just to know it's the most important one. (This is a lie. Ava's is) and then we get to the crux.

"Making Ira the leader is all good in theory, but sometime later you might think 'he's terrible at this' in which case it'll be your job to step up." (I can't even begin to explain why this was a horrible thing. Should Ben obvious) He then explains his leadership might be just what everyone needs. And THAT is your true role. Needless to say Aced is now just waiting to commit Regicide.... Anyway, we close with the guiding key shit again, and him being wished best of luck.

Cut to a few months later (after Gula and Aced split) and we see Aced saying it's been over a year since the Master left, time to fulfill his true role. And that starts with killing Invi. We see Aced attack her on top of a building with his Keyblade. She has no choice but to quit running away, summon her Keyblade and fight back. She does, they both do really powerful cool shit (like cut a dimension) and Aced wins.
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She even says she's beginning to question. She says Ephirim wanted to find answers, solve the mysteries of this world. She agrees and says that's how things should be, they need to questions things and think for themselves. (Horrible idea for her). Anyway, Ephirim says she's not herself today, and even Foretellers (that's what the 5 are called) have offdays, he then tries to get her to tell him about the Book
Of Prophcies by tricking her (worth a shot) but she figures it out and says he was trying to pull a fast one on her (nothing gets by Ava). He says no, honest, and she just believes him... (god damn it Ava!)

She says it wouod he great if all the Unions could work together and be friends. Speaking of, Ephirim made a friend in another Union today, (wonder who it could be) they are meeting up again tomorrow, and Ava says that sounds like fun. Ephirim leaves and Ava laments if the worst happens she'll be glad to leave the future to kids who see the world like he does.

She then begs the wind to carry her Dandelions far far away. That's important to note.

Invi returns to Ira who asks her if she's learned anything, and she immediately tells Ira that Aced and Gula's Unions allied (again, this is NOT true). Ira reacts to this calm and... fuck it, I'm not even joking about these idiots anymore....

Ira instantly goes full dumb ass and menacingly declares Aced the traitor after all... ok. First off, no, second off, why couldn't Gula be the traitor, why is it auto Aced?

Invi says she doesn't believe he is (THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ACCUSE HIM OF IT IN THE MEETING!???) and they to Aced Unification is just a way to get stronger to oppose the darkness. And that his heart still belongs to light.

Ira gets up and slams the book and starts yelling that "Forming alliances was strictly forbidden by the Master"

Invi says "yes, and his teachings are absolute." (Getting some real Waco vibes here....) She says she will try to persuade Gula to dissolve the Alliance. Ira says he will do it, and Invi begs him let her do the talking. (She knows he's an idiot), as himself intervention won't do anything except make Aced even angrier. Ira leaves it to her. She continues on.

"Aced has begun to question the two of us" (he knows Ira's hitting it, making it unfair for everyone else) and as a precaution her "reports" will be less frequent. She doesn't want him to get the wrong idea, and she begs Ira to understand. Ira questioning where else he can find some high school chick into mask play that he can nail on the side when Invi is not coming around as much sits down and contemplates life reading his version of the Book of Prophecies.

And we come to our first major time skip.

Forward 3 months and Aced and Gula walk into a building, and Gula just casually says he thinks he's done. Aced is confused by this (as are we) and asks him done with what. To which Gula replies the alliance. Aced asks why. Gula says because he only did it because he thought they were gonna fight some impending darkness, but it hasn't come.
(That's right kids, if the Apocalypse is ever on the way and doesn't arrive in 3 months, it's never happening apparently.), to his credit though, the rest does make sense. He says there haven't been any suspicious incidents recently and Gula hasn't ralied anyone else to his cause. Gula says the Alliance is meaningless, even Invi agrees... (god damn it) he nearly catches himself but it's too late. Aced yells Invi? The Gula says "uhoh, you weren't supposed to find out" (making it seem like he did it on purpose) and Aced wants to know if Invi was the one who told him to break the Alliance. He says maybe, but it wasn't his decision and he gave him the reasons. Aced grabs him and lifts him up and says they don't know who the traitor is yet, and Gula says that's exactly why he's breaking it off.

Things are getting good.
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Kingdom Hearts X: Backcover.

Alright. Here we go.

First off since I obviously know how it all ends we'll have spoilers earlier than maybe they should have come up.

Case of Luxu, we start by seeing 2 figures clad in the black coats. Great start.

One of them howver is fucking Noctis (Ray Chase). Before I get into characters and other shit like that, I can't say enough how much Ray hit a grand slam here. They told him this guy was a questionable bad guy, and he just fucking went with it.... Master of Masters by Ray is a delicious smarmy smart ass ass hole the entire time.... and I love it.

We are told the smaller black cloak guy is #7. AND he's indisposable (which technically they should all be, but then you remember MoM is an asshole who is either trying to bring about the Apocalypse directly, or just gives no fucks to stop it and will let it happen.

Luxu is confused by being #7.... to which MoM Replies it simple (flat out calling him a moron) that 6 plus 1 equals 7. Then he sarcastically says "wait, don't tell me I don't count". He's just the best.

Then he walks toward him and summons a Keyblade.....

Actually that's not fair.... he summons THE Keyblade. This is to this point the first canonical instance of "No Name" (the first Keyblade) appearing, (remember, Backcover, X, and UX all happen the same time frames, so this is before the X games), and for such an important moment it sure is anti climatic.... MoM just gives the damn thing to Luxu. No, seriously, he summons it, walks to him and says "here, take it".

This is the second most powerful thing in the world, and it is just handed off with little to no fanfare.... sad. He also gives him a task and a box. That task is pretty much the connecting force for all of KH. The box.... eh.

So, the MoM has an eye that sees the future. Handy. He gives 5 of his 6 dumbasses a Book of Prophecies which told of events to come... including.... spoiler alert, the upcoming apocalypse that their dumbassery was going to cause....

Case of Ira:

Speaking of, we meet the first dumbass, and the soon to be leader of the dumbasses... ira.

MoM asks if he looked through the book. Ira says he has but is still analyzing it.

MoM makes fun of him that he didn't just quick skim it (a quick skim through a book detailing the future of the world). And we quickly see one of Ira's faults arise. His response to this obvious joke is to defend himself and say he just likes to be thorough. (In his defense, he did just read about the apocalypse, I'm willing to cut him some slack this scene)

Ira asks if the last passage of the book is true?
MoM responds that's a bummer, huh? (I love this guy)

To further make Ira worry, the MoMs calmly says if he were to someday disappear he's counting on Ira to keep the others calm (at least it wasn't Ava). Ira rightly is shocked by this even being brought up, and asks him what he means by disappear. Because MoM is an amazing asshole he completely ignores what Ira so clearly meant and instead gives him the definitions of vanish, dim, and fade, and then says he doesn't know how to explain it.

We then learn a bit about the Age of Fairytales (the time we see them in). The first talk of KH. The world is giant and made up of many smaller worlds, all of them connected and having lights, but all share one big light, Kingdom Hearts. The MoM points out everyone thinks that KH would be there forever, but if it were to disappear, the world would go to darkness.. and Ira of course is like "yeah, that's why you gave us all these Keyblades" makes sense... right?

NOPE. MoM just bluntly says no, they are not for protecting Kingdom Hearts. And reiterates the final passage.

"On that fated land a Great War shall transpire.
Darkness will prevail, and the light expire" Bummer..
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here's what i found on gmuns site (which you can't link to so I'll just repost it for ease) (lots of posts incoming)

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"Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it. They wanted to keep it for themselves. And darkness was born in their hearts. The darkness spread, swallowing the light and many people's hearts. It covered everything, and the world disappeared. But small fragments of light survived, in the hearts of children. With these fragments of light, children rebuilt the lost world. It's the world we live in now. But the true light sleeps, deep within the darkness. That's why the worlds are still scattered, divided from each other. But someday, a door to the innermost darkness will open and the true light will return. So, listen, child. Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light to guide you. Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you. Your heart will shine with its power and push the darkness away."

Kairi's grandmothers origin story.

This is the earliest anything we know in KH.

What immediately follows is the Keyblade war... (technically that tells about the keyblade war. Just much less than I now will.

In the early world everything was great. But there was one amazing arrogant ass hole. This asshole had no name (ok, realistically his name is Super/Superbia, but the game never told us it officially yet) by the time we meet him though, he is simply called Master of Masters. Why is he called the Master of Masters? Well, because he has 6 Apprentices, themselves made by him Keyblade Masters. He has the original Keyblade and gave them each one to protect the world, their names are...

Ira
Aced
Invi
Gulag
Ava (Ava is a fucking moron, I'm really getting tired of people defending her dumb decisions...)
Luxu

The asshole also wrote the book of Prophecies... which will cause the fucking moron to do stupid stuff.

Now then, even though one is a fucking moron... it would not remotely be fair to her to not blame yeh others too.... the Appocalypse was a joint effort by the group of idiots, one of the six was just extra dumb. But all of the Masters and their exceedingly low iqs were played by the Master of Masters.

And that's where we'll leave off for now. I'll either do more tomorrow after work or my off day. The next part is a lot... it's a soap opera to be frank.

Also, you may notice that we haven't even had the words Xehanort or Sora yet when talking about people. You should probably enjoy that while it lasts... The series will make up for it.
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he doesn't want to admit it, that means it would
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yeah I had no real doubt you'd meet the experience (you seem to always be working on new play productions!)
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I briefly looked into this in the past, the process seemed pretty simple: Apply, check 'yes I meet the requirements of x hours managing projects' (of which you may be randomly audited to prove), then pass a test.

People have said the test is basically nothing like the real world, so you'll need to study for it even if you've run giant projects for years. I can't vouch if its difficult or not beyond that though.

I'm not really sure what getting a PMP opens for you, if you want to stay in the theater world probably not much. if you're willing to move your dayjob elsewhere... maybe? From what I can gather, the value it holds really depends on the person you talk to. I don't think it can be a negative, though.

It had too many unknowns for no real benefit in my field, so I passed on bothering with it. Good luck if you go for it!
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@Lopen would a hat in time be better at distracting you
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oh man i see that lady maria passive causing so many cockblocks and rulings, i love it
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Snrkiko posted...

what's killing me is that some of these people look like they're around for very specific times.

don't forget new quests that unlock once you finish other quests, also only available at certain times of the day

you must have constant vigilance
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Tom Bombadil posted...

Don't get too cocky or they'll team with russo

look just give him time you'll come around
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what about relaxing naps on the bench
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can i get an eevee in hey you pikachu 2
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probably ffxv
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i voted for lebron
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this is literally a battle of can lebron get 20 points before dante learns the rules and stops getting fouls
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every time i click this topic i'm amazed by this project

i don't even fully understand what it is anymore, but i love it just the same
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The Mana Sword posted...

Yanny vs. Laurel is old news, it's all about Brainstorm vs Green Needle now

this ones great because i can get it to say green storm or brain needle and it always sounds decently legitimate
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man i forgot i entered that winners ranking
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oops
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i guess the board devolves into chaos when i don't make topics
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look changing socks only worked since you changed to the right socks, you can't just change them again so soon

you'll ruin what you have
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no its a bad thing
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in before yahoo
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nice this topic is the third google result for confirmed backstage management rat
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a necessary evil
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don't forget elias, that was a pretty good segment
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roman brings record business to local food stands, amazing for local economy
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i almost feel like this PPV was meant to be watched in reverse match order
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i knew picking all As in the prediction challenge was a winning move
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i'm from tennessee and i don't know what a sports championship is
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i was only like 10% watching, how many low blows were there
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i hope he's ok
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i miss lopen
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Kenri posted...

It's burnout.

Just turn in some crap, get your degree, and be done.

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WWE Championship No Disqualification Match:
A. AJ Styles

IC Title Match: Seth Rollins (c)
A. Seth Rollins

US Title Match:
A. Jeff Hardy

WWE Raw Women's Championship Match:
A. Nia Jax

WWE Smackdown Women's Championship Match:
A. Carmella

Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe
A. Roman Reigns

Daniel Bryan vs. Big Cass
A. Daniel bryan

Tag Match:
A. Strowman and Lashley

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----BONUS QUESTIONS----
Each worth one point

1. What match will kick off the show?
US Title

2. What will be the longest match of the night?
Roman/Joe

3. What will be longer- the IC title match or the US title match?
IC

4. Who takes the pin in the tag match?
Zayn

5. What will be the combined amount of lowblows performed in AJ vs. Shinsuke?
2
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it wasn't me
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foolm0r0n posted...

Also the ultimate question is if animals also count. Like did he just kill 100 trillion ants?

how about plants and trees

they're alive, man
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well, I didn't want preds/jets to go to OT, but not like this :(
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man, knoxville had a super nailbiter mayoral race when I lived there too.
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i just blinked and suddenly the jets tied it up
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hi @Lopen
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you can beat dark bahamut (almost) as you are now if you're willing to do a long, slow, boring cheese strategy! or pray to the yojimbo gods.

I feel you though, I try to warn people to grab that sigil in your literal one opportunity before he shows up for this exact reason.
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Tom Bombadil posted...

-hey does anybody care about dangan ronpa v3 because otherwise you're getting Akamatsu based entirely on chapter 1 and that's it (actually I think the DR2 anime probably merits an update as well but TOO BAD)

you better not cut my maki
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boy will we feel silly if theres a surprise womens match, as the saudis really only wanted this event in the first place to announce they're becoming progressive
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theres probably a chase on a couple episodes, watch and see if you can spot him
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