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Heyo! Trying this again for what feels like the upteenth time (damn why does friend making online have to be so hard??) and hoping it'll go better this time! Things seem to finally be looking up for me in terms of what I do for work. I'm an online seller and have finally been making sales so I'm very happy that things are picking back up again. Since I mostly just focus on my shop, hang out with my bf, and do my own things I'd really like to be able to meet some people who want to have more deep and meaningful connections and conversations. I've grown tired of the stale, mundane messages/conversations that I constantly exchange with others on here. It gets really old constantly being asked how I am and what I'm up to in the day. I'd rather be talking about our interests, things that make us happy, things that have happened to us, etc. I am pretty selective with who I choose to chat with so if you do not receive a message from me move onto the next redditor.
I'm not one for small talk at all and if you engage in it with me do not expect me to stick around for long. I'm more of a deep/meaningful conversationalist who also loves random chats and even listening to someone vent and giving them advice. But do not take this as a chance to come into my DMs and dump loads of emotional turmoil on me as we do not know each other yet and need to build a strong foundation before getting personal with one another. I also heavily believe that it's important to be clear about our boundaries and respect one another. If either of us offends one another we need to communicate about how we feel. This also leads into me mentioning that I am an HSP and Infj personality type! I'm also a cancer in astrology if that matters to anyone. I lovs tarot, crystals, aliens, collecting too many plushies and many other things! I'd love to find a friend who wants to do more than just constantly chat. I want to be able to voice chat (obviously once we are comfortable with one another. I'm not going to instantly voice chat with anyone so don't ask me to do that), listen to Spotify together so we can both find new music, and play this lesser known battle royal game I have, and I'm also open to watching YouTube, a TV show, or movie together as well!
All in all I'm looking for some people to build friendships that aren't easily broken. Where we both feel good vibes and look forward to each other's messages, are able to be ourselves and allow the conversations to just flow naturally instead of forcing them, and to support/ be positive with one another. I'm the type of person to give back what I receive so if you aren't giving me much to work with then I'll probably be making myself pretty scarce as I do not care to stay in things that aren't adding substance to my life. I'm pretty big on sending and receiving long messages (since I'm a very detailed oriented person) so if you're also like that then that's awesome sauce! I'm also available to chat basically all throughout the day and night and really only want to befriend people who are available that often and able to make that kind of time for me and I'll do the same! I don't find it hard to answer someone and am pretty quick to respond. If you choose to message please understand that I am looking for people who actually want to put effort/quality into their messages. Anyways, if you liked this and were wondering what my other interests were feel free to check the various other posts on my page! I hope to see ya in my DMs!

It’s dark, the house is silent and the fat bastard still hasn’t stopped crying, his crying reduced to small gasps of air through his tear stained fluff and sore eyes.
You wake up in the middle of the night after having nightmares of your late wife, you go downstairs to get a drink, while going downstairs you see pictures of you and your beloved wife, but you see something encrusted on it, through your temporary night vision, it resembles something like shit.
You get upset but become sorrowful once you remember this is your wife.
The same person you raised and cared for fluffies with.
You go downstairs into your basement and push the food-bowl a little forward to the bastard.
You leave before he could notice you.
You go into the kitchen and open your fridge, you see cans of Arizona, a jug of nearly full milk and orange juice, 3 bottles of beer in the back and a carton of eggs, fucking hell your fridge is empty.
You grab a can of Arizona and head back to your room.
You open your can and start sipping before full on glugging it.
You put the nearly empty can on your nightstand before laying your head back on your pillow, staring at the ceiling.
You lay there.
And you lay there.
And you cusp your hands over your eyes, and start crying softly to yourself.
It wasn’t your fault, it was the damn fluffies, he just had to shit all over the windshield.
You couldn’t stop blaming yourself though, but the car reeked, and your wife was scared.
Your car was screeching and rolling before it crashed, the airbag pushing the fluffy in my wife’s lap directly into her face, killing her.
The fluffy survived but before I passed out I rose a fist at it, and it ran off into the forest through the broken window, oh how I wish I could’ve hurt it, but I didn’t take the chance.
You wake once more to the beeping of your alarm and rays of sunshine.
The nightmares become to surreal, but you’re stuck that way, having to relive the worst moment of your life, on repeat, caused by those fluffy bastards, but you can’t focus on anything else but your wife every time you go through the same nightmare.
You get up and go to the bathroom, you take your morning piss, wash your hands and brush your teeth. You head back into your basement to refill the water dishes and food-bowls before you’d head back off to your lousy job, where you pushed pens and made graphs.

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Hello Flagstaff! It's been a while since we've done one of these, so I figured I'd touch base with you all and open the floor to see where we want to go.
First, I have to say thank you for being an excellent community group. While we're not small, we're still medium-ish in size, but the fact that a lot of you are groovy people allows a small mod team to keep the cesspool down to a manageable level.
Still, some of the crap that has come our way as mods for this place has been rough. We're people too, and the amount of negative commentary can really affect us. I admit it has jaded me a bit, so you might have seen some more things like locked comments, snarky responses or just straight removals and bans. When you try to do the right thing as a mod, it usually just backfires or makes it worse, so it's easier to nip it straight out and move on. However, it's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even want to engage with my community when all I get is grief from all sides for trying to keep this place nice. I don't like to do it, I'm sure you don't like it happening, so now we all have an opportunity to put our thoughts here and see where it goes.
When I took over Flagstaff, I wanted to bring it more in line with the rest of the community subs in Arizona. I put the rules in that I thought applied to a community our size, tried to be liberal with automod, and let folks post about the things that mattered to them, even if I personally disagreed. I've tried to be consistent with how the rules are applied, investigate instigators, notice the patterns, and take actions on the factors I thought were the most disruptive. I didn't want to just remove and ban everything like other community subs. I didn't want a labyrinth of rules.
However, this place isn't mine, and it isn't about me. It's about you. So I'm putting it out there for all of you to tell me. What do you want out of Flagstaff? Please think on it and reply, either here or in modmail if you want to say it privately. Open forum, shoot your shot.
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I hope you gave it a think and wrote something. I'll tell you a few things that we've thought of that we hope will improve things. We will or won't do them based on your responses.

Housekeeping Items

1. Mandatory Post Flair: This will make a series of tags mandatory on all posts. Those posts will be automod reviewed and removed if they don't meet posted standards.
2. Automatic User Flair: This will automatically tag anyone that isn't subbed, doesn't have a lot of community engagement, or generated karma from here with certain tags. We hope this will encourage Flagstaff locals engagement as well as call out visitors.
3. Automatic Removal of Non-User Self Posts: This automod rule would detect text self posts from users not subbed and remove them. This removes a lot of the drive by questions from people who can't or won't use Google.
4. Loosening Business Submission Rules: I'd like to try a system where local businesses can participate here. I was initially against the idea, but seeing how the community rallied around our businesses during the pandemic changed my mind. I'd like to try and offer our business owners the ability to submit profiles, promote sales/events, and reach out to the community. This would be a trial at first but would hopefully increase the value of coming here and give them the opportunity to engage with us directly.
5. Local Classifieds: I thought it might be nice to have another sub for Northern AZ classifieds. We could tie in Sedona and other communities to direct all the Want to Buy, Want to Sell, Renting, Looking to Rent, etc etc posts there. It kind of sucks that all this activity, as well as business activity, is on Facebook.

My hope is that a lot of these things, especially the business rules, will help us build a solid wiki with our local friends that we can direct our visitors to.
One last note. I'm getting burnt out of a lot of this, so I'm opening up moderator applications. If you want this thankless job, God knows why, shoot a modmail and tell us why. We'll see who applies and after a trial period, see if we can empower some other folks who love Flagstaff to keep this place nice and safe for everyone. If it works out, I'll likely be stepping down.
I'm looking forward to hearing your responses.
- derekhans & FuzzyManPeach
P.S. I started doing this because I love this town and wanted this sub to reflect the place that I know is special. I tried to be fair. I wanted to take it seriously. I wanted it to grow and we've succeeded.
But that's no fun. In the spirit of keeping Flag weird, I'm going to be loosening up with how I engage with you all. So, if you're being an asshole, breaking the rules, or just being an idiot, you'll be told so. Hopefully in the most humorous way I can think of at the time. And just be thankful it's me calling you out and not Fuzzy. She's got a wicked wit and will totes fuck you up.

From what i'm hearing we're to expect Greystone & Kwang after phase in season 2.
But why them?
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A poll was made by someone some weeks ago asking the community which heroes they wanted to see next. The poll had 600+ votes in which Serath won. Greystone and Kwang both finished 7th & 8th. So just to clarify there was 6 other heroes the community wanted ahead of what we are apparently about to get.
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Let's look back on all the hero releases since Pred dropped. Countess, Rev, Shinbi, Kira. 2 offlaners and 2 carries. Yes, they can play multiple roles (Countess mid, Shinbi jungle & even Rev mid) but they're not their ideal preferred positions.
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Now let's look at the future hero releases. Phase, Greystone & Kwang. Since they're not out yet i'm gonna judge their roles based on Paragon. A support and 2 offlaners. Again, I understand most heroes can play multiple roles (Kwang jungle) but i'm going by their most common roles. So in total after 7 months of the game being out we will have 2 carries, a support & 4 offlaners. Are we clearly not missing certain heroes that would be much better placed coming in now?
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Some will say "offlane is a lane that a lot of heroes can play anyway so it doesn't matter what heroes come" so why bring out more offlaners? Wouldn't we benefit more from junglers, mages and melee carries coming in since they can still occasionally still play in the offlane too? I believe Serath, Grim, Morigesh, Wraith, Yin and even Iggy would have all fit in much better in the current game than Kwang & Greystone.
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Clearly, i'm not the biggest fan of this decision but I wanted to understand why the devs came to this conclusion. You could argue they're beginner friendly heroes which is needed for beginners. That I can understand, but i'm genuinely struggling to think of more reasons. It's not as if we've just gone F2P so we're going to get a bunch of new players.
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I'll go back to the title of this post 'Should the community play a part in future hero releases?'
I believe we should.

I guess pulling up next to me and screaming out your window that bicycles “need to f’ing move all the way to the right f’ing side of the road” while I was with my child making LEGAL use of the full lane made you feel big and self-righteous.
First, let me reiterate what I said earlier: F you!!!
YOU were the one violating the law. Here’s a handy article about that for you here:
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/new-california-law-requires-drivers-to-change-lanes-for-bicyclists-creates/
Coming within 3 feet of me was illegal. You have a legal obligation to fully change lanes to pass me. With cars parked along the side of the road on a two-way residential street w/ low speed limit, two bicycles are within their rights to fully use the lane, a motorist should treat them as a slow moving vehicle and pass only when safe to do so: by moving completely into the other lane and leaving more than 3 feet between the vehicle and the bicycle.
On a slow-moving EMPTY residential two-way street lined with parked cars, I intentionally use the full lane while I have my child with me and it’s within my legal right to do so. This is done so that motorists only pass when they have safe, full use of the opposite lane- and don’t try to pass us when there is not sufficient space in a single lane for the vehicle to pass the bicycle with more than 3 feet of space.
“Bicyclists are required to ride as far to the right as practicable, when traveling at a speed less than traffic. Full lane use is allowed when traveling at the normal speed of traffic or there is no traffic, preparing for a turn, overtaking and passing, avoiding hazards or unsafe conditions, traveling in a lane too narrow to share, and avoiding a mandatory turn lane or right hook.”
https://www.bikelaw.com/laws/california/
At 4:30pm on a Saturday, I intentionally chose a route that was quiet. You were the only vehicle we encountered during a 10 block stretch of O Street. There was never a time that you weren’t able to safely use the opposite lane to pass us, with minimal inconvenience to you. You simply just wanted to scare and threaten me.
You are a small, insecure douche driving an Infiniti, so I can see how being a bully might make you feel like more of a man. But all you did was put your fragile masculinity on display.
Pathetic.

recently I have been reading a lot about nparenting having an effect on kids, I read out so many articles and every single thing fit so perfectly. I knew I could thank my parents for a lot of fucked up traits, but today I realised my whole personality has been absolutely stripped down and built back up to please them. I got diagnosed as bipolar, guess what, trauma. I thought I was just a boring person with no hobbies or interests.. I got called boring so many times I couldn’t even count it. Guess what? Trauma! Everyone thought I was a brat and had problems with anger as a result of ‘being spoiled’. Guess what? Trauma! I could keep going for hours like this. Thank you mom for moulding my entire life and thank you dad for enabling this shit and never standing up for me. Thanks grandma for being angry at me and making me feel bad for feeling so helpess and desperate, making me go apologise to my fucking mother every time she made me feel like shit and bringing me down. This shit is genuinely so fucked up. I’m in my early 20’s out of my parents house and this shit feels like it will never heal. Fuck. And I still miss them and tell them I love them.

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So I bought MHW from steam sale like 2 years ago. I went in raw, and experienced the start-and-quit starter pack.
I thought it was gona be a normal hack'n'slash. Picked the charging blade as my first weapon. Got beaten by the bowlcut dinos in the second mission, when every hit started bouncing off and finally drowned in the Japanese dream of having menus in submenus about menus (Just like they love wrapping every thing in 7 layers of plastic).
After taking a break to grab some water, for few years, I still couldn't drop off the feeling that I was missing on something if I didn't finish the game. So this time I builded some information before hand and even spent a mont forcing the game down the throats of my three friends.
Lo and behold, we are loving it.

But I have few more questions now after playing a while. - In terms of equipment, should we spend time getting everything? Like I love collecting and grinding, but my friends not that much. Where is the balance?

• Does this game have "transmog" system where you can change the appearance of your stuff?
  
• What are the equipment we should avoid, in terms of trying to keep it fair? Someone told me there was like catch up gear for the dlc. We missed buying the dlc from last sale, so we prolly do it after world. Also I noticed that there is this event going on, with some 🌺 and 🐝 action ❤️🤔, where you can get this event gear with the tokens. It seemed much stronger than the others.
  
• And finally how bad is it, if we don't buy the DLC straight away?
  

Before I start, you should know that English isn't my first language, so I apologize for any grammatical errors you may find.
I (17M) had a solid and profound relationship with a female friend (17F) in high school. However, things started going downhill as late when I found out that she was sharing private info that I trusted her with and lied about it when confronted while secretly trying to hook up with my friends. When others asked me why she shared your DMs, I felt ashamed—ashamed for trusting her with private matters, especially since this was the third time that something like this had happened between us.
During my winter break, when I moved schools, things only got worse from there. She had spread miss information about me and had even attempted to get my friends to turn on me, all this while trying to get with my friends in secret for no reason.
It's become quite clear to me that she's a pathological liar and a manipulator who doesn't feel remorse for others, even while toying with them. While I wouldn't like to hold grudges, I had given her many chances with no success. To make matters worse, I recently learned about her past behaviour, which included lying about her mental health which should not be taken lightly. This would later lead to getting the cops called on a few of her previous friends as a joke.
Despite all this, she mentioned that I was welcome to come over to her house. So should I still end this friendship and cut off ties with her?

What Is the 25% Rule?

There are two common usages of the term "25% rule":

1. The 25% rule is the concept that a local government's long-term debt should not exceed 25% of its annual budget. Any debt beyond this threshold is considered excessive and poses a potential risk, as the municipality may have trouble servicing the debt.
2. The 25% rule also refers to a technique for determining royalties, which stipulates that a party selling a product or service based on another party's intellectual property must pay that party a royalty of 25% of the gross profitmade from the sale, before taxes. The 25% rule also commonly applies to trademarks, copyrights, patents, and other forms of intellectual property.

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• The 25% rule is a heuristic that can refer to either public finance or intellectual property law.
• In public finance, the 25% rule prescribes that a public entity’s total debt should not exceed one-quarter of its annual budget.
• In intellectual property, the 25% rule suggests the reasonable royalty that a license should pay an intellectual property holder on profits.

Understanding the 25% Rule

In both uses of the term, the 25% rule is more a matter of customary practice or heuristic (i.e., a rule of thumb), rather than an absolute or optimal threshold, or a strict legal requirement.
In the public finance setting, the 25% rule is a rough guideline for fiscal planning based on the confidence of bondholders and credit rating agencies. In the intellectual property arena, the 25% rule evolved from the customary rates negotiated between intellectual property holders and licensees.

25% Rule for Municipal Debt

Local or state governments looking to fund projects through municipal bondissues have to make assumptions about the revenues they expect to bring in, often through taxation or projects like toll roads, which in turn will allow them to support bond payments. If revenue falls short of expectations, those municipalities may not be able to make bond payments, which can cause them to default on their obligations and hurt their credit rating.
Municipal bondholders want to make sure that the issuing authority has the capacity to pay, which can be jeopardized by getting too deep in debt. Bondholders are thus cautious about purchasing bonds from local or state governments that are in violation of the 25% rule.
Tax-exempt private activity bonds—bonds issued by municipalities on behalf of private or non-profit organizations—also have a 25% rule applied to the proceeds from the bonds. This rule states that no more than 25% of bond proceeds may be used for land acquisition.1

25% Rule for Intellectual Property

Patent or trademark owners use the 25% rule as a yardstick for defining a reasonable amount of royalty payments. The rule assumes that a licenseeshould retain at most 75% of the profits of a patented product given that s/he took on the bulk of the risks of developing the product and bringing the intellectual property to the market. The patent owner takes the remainder as a license royalty.
Setting the value of intellectual property is a complex matter. Although royalties are typically assessed against revenues, the 25% rule applies to profits. Furthermore, the 25% rule does not closely define what "gross profit" includes, which creates ambiguity in the valuation calculation. Because it's a simple rule, it does not take into account the costs associated with marketing the product. For example, the holder of a copyright will receive a 25% royalty, though the party doing the selling usually incurs the cost of attracting demand in the market through advertising.
In the 2011 court case of Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp, the court of appealsfor the Federal Circuit ruled that the 25 percent rule may not be used as a starting point for a patent damage analysis bound for the courtroom. The appeals court concluded that the rule does not rise to an admissible level of evidence and may not be relied upon in a patent lawsuit in federal court. While the 25% rule may still be used by other parties in estimating a proposed patent royalty, it should not be considered a legal mandate.2
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Hey. I'm a Zoomer (Born after 2001) and I grew up in a upper-middle-class suburb in Ontario. I remember growing up, before I was like ten ,whenever I wanted to do anything with my friends, especially on the weekend, my Mother would make a big deal about organizing a "Playdate" basically I had to ask my friend if he could ask his Mom, if I could come over on Saturday to play. Then his Mom would have to call my Mom, and they'd organize the details from there. Then I'd get dropped off, and we'd do whatever 2010s kids did (For us we actually spent a good amount of time in the backyard, fucking around with Nerf guns(Which were 100% banned from my household) and like Supersoakers. We'd also play Video Games, which I guess like pretty much any kid born post 1975 would have.
Now as I got older, My Mom started to shift her Opinion on this. I think it was when I was 10, that I started just hanging out at my Friends place after school everyday uninvited. Like we'd usually hangout around his block mostly, but we'd go into his house to get like snacks or pop. and his brother would be there too , and we'd be playing baseball(With empty Gatorade bottles) and other fun shit. and There'd always be this Korean kid who was his neighbor who'd always shoehorn himself into everything(Everyone knew a kid that like that)
But...I still had a few friends my age whom kept this "Playdate" system for a little too long. One of them was a only child with wealthy parents, and the other was the a kid who's parents divorced when he was young, and was raised by a single Mother. I don't think I visited his house casually without any-kind of planned meeting, till like Grade 7 or Grade 8. His Mom would do these photo-shoots with him and his brother every year. The photos were EVERYWHERE, like in every room of the house.
Anyways, I guess my question is for all the Millennials or even Gen Xers who might be on here. Is this "Playdate" stuff a recent Zoomer thing? Was meeting up with friends less regimented 20-30 years ago?

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As fun they are to mess around with, they hold no practical function in society in likely never will. All progress in society consists of specializing production. Not spreading it out. Then there is the waste of materiel used to make the printers. A massive waste to have a printer in every house on the planet that only runs once a month. Also what tiny plastic objects do people really need these days? You can get anything shipped the same day, have it by your house tommorow. What piece of plastic are you so desperate to produce in your own house instead of buying a professionnally made product online. One thing I could see as usefull is for kids to mess around and get to know how to use a computer.

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Pan looked between Joseph and Tel as the grey-furred female maintained her hold on him, The Human stilling his lungs with expectations for the worst in mind, Tel’s taste still lingering. The baited breath by most of the two couches stagnated the air as even Violet paused her scratching to pay attention.
“Our promise?” She asked him with a tip of her ear, though her tone remained inquisitive rather than scornful.
“Fulfilled.” Tel answered in his stead, her voice carrying a taunting cadence as she glanced between the two. “Or i would assume, based on the scent on both of you.”
Joseph’s cheeks flushed in time with Pan’s, him forgetting again just how sharp their noses were. “No hiding that one, huh?”
Tel released him a smug look on her face as she seemingly enjoyed the wide eyes watching the exchange. “From some? Perhaps. Me?” She leaned forward to nip as his ear, her claw lightly falling down from his chest. “I know the scent of my male to its finest.”
He swallowed back his unwanted reaction, his reason retained due to the company and Pan’s paw resting in his hand. Harrow raised her own, speaking when Joseph cautiously raised a brow in her direction.
“So... Did you bed Tel or Pan first?”
He blinked, inhaling to respond but finding words impossible to form due to the brazen and unexpected question. Jax chuckled as he smirked at his mate. “As i have said, I have won our bet.”
Harrow kicked back at him, though her shorter legs meant that she almost fell off the couch to achieve the retaliation. “You haven’t won until we know for sure.”
“There is little doubt.”
“You don’t know yet!”
Joseph shut is eyes forcefully, the interaction sapping his resolve for the moment. “What was the bet?”
“Jax bet that you would bed Tel first. I said that you would wait for Pan.”
He pinched the bridge of his nose, happy for the distraction, though wishing it departed more from the subject. “And you’re betting on my sex life... why?”
The two looked at each other before shrugging in sync. “We’ve been betting on most of what you do. Seems weird to stop at who warms your bed when.”
Joseph went to rest his head in his hands, the attempt stopped by Pan holding one and Tel supporting her weight on his free shoulder. He looked at the two and took a breath before addressing his mate.
“I..”
Pan smiled at him with a squeeze of his hand, stopping him from speaking further as the reassuring action took the wind out of his sails. The guilt wrenched at him regardless, worry about what she might have to say digging deep. Saying that he was going to just turn around on his affection for Tel would be a lie, but he couldn’t help but expect some sort of fallout from this. Instead of chastising him or the like, Pan looked to Tel with a calm expression. “Do you care for him truly?”
Tel flashed annoyance until Sahari answered, the female having grown annoyed with the display. “She is a Blade. A Sheath is one chosen with their life on the line. She would face an army alone to assure his safety and likely leave only a graveyard in her wake should he request it.”
Jax snapped his head to look at her. “She is an assassin?”
“I am amazed at how long you remained ignorant to her nature, yet recognize the moniker.” Sahari replied with a sigh.
“Wait, how do you know that?” Harrow asked, excitement building in her voice.
Sahari waved it off. “I spent much of my time as a mercenary. One should not be surprised by those whom they end up working with. I knew she was of such line, though the specifics were new to me as well when i was exposed.”
“Tel!” The orange-furred ball of energy yelled suddenly. “Teach me assassin things!”
Joseph succeeded in resting his head in a palm as Tel stood up to raise a brow at her. “You wish to travel the path?”
“Don’t.” The Grand Hunter interjected tiredly. It was first thing in the morning and this had already made him more than willing to go back to bed. “Trill’s girls being here is enough ‘cloak and dagger’ for one settlement.”
“There are multiple assassins?” Jax asked in disbelief.
“You get used to it.” The Human commented dryly.
“Why?”
He cycled a breath. “Well, let’s just say that the trip was... a lot.” Jax grimaced at his answer, but his funk was broken when his mate narrowly missed his leg with her foot, prompting him to refocus on their little game.
Sahari, finding humour in the first event of note, decided to provide the initial context. “Joseph was discovered by a vassal pack of Grand Hunter Trill while bathing in a river.”
“Like i needed more people to see me in the buff.”
“I guess Tel had fun with that.” Harrow added with a wink, raising her brows when Tel gave her a dismissive frown. “Oh, no? Just the other pack?”
Sahari cleared her throat, an understanding gaze was given by the inquisitive Lilhun when she noticed the ex-Grand Huntress avert her eyes for a moment. “After we affirmed that they were not hostile and cleared any suspected misintentions, we were escorted to High Hunter Loptr’s settlement for the moon.”
“Where our dear Human scared at least one male to wetting his fur.” Tel added with a trilling lilt, her regard of him gaining a seductive edge. Joseph scowled, though if it was over the events of that night or the ones after, he wasn’t sure. His bond gave his fingers a squeeze in support regardless, easing the density of his brooding.
“What did he do?” Harrow asked, her rapt attention obvious.
Sahari smirked. “He held his crossbow to the male for not accepting Tel’s rebuff. He was quite enraged.”
Pan’s thumb pad rubbed over his hand as she listened to the story, her expression attentive with a slight smile now that he had passed the initial annoyance of remembering that night. Joseph eased and returned the affectionate gesture.
The black-furred female’s face fell to one of scorn, a glare directed at Tel. “It seems as if she forced her mark upon him without explanation after the events.”
The mention of a forced mark caused Nalah to instantly bare her fangs at the offending Lilhun, venom in spades coating her words. “You forced a mark?”
Tel took a seat on Joseph’s lap, surprising him as he adjusted Pan’s paw in his hand out of the way to accommodate it without thinking. “Were it not for the mark, he would be a corpse rather than mine.”
“Explain yourself. Now.”
Tel sighed, leaning back on her improvised seat and forcing Joseph to shift to allow it, his free arm absently resting around her side to her stomach to support her weight. He was too busy cautiously watching the interaction for if, or rather when, he would need to step in. “Trill does not much care for that which is not documented and signed. A new creature that claims power may be a novel discovery, but it is a disruption to that which he has constructed.” Tel rested an arm around his shoulders, a somewhat protective note to the action. “Disruptions are dealt with those like myself. He would have been cold before the moon, if not simply when he held a dagger to Trill’s throat.”
Even Pan seemed surprised by the announcement that he had threatened not only a touchy male, but also a Grand Hunter. She looked at him with worry until the brewing irritation in his expression, and likely through the bond as well, informed her of his absolute lack of regret regarding the matter.
Either way, Nalah seemed stunned by the assertion, glancing at him and Sahari to confirm, though Sahari seemed as irritated by the situation as he did. “You tested the life of a Grand Hunter?”
Joseph scoffed. “I made my point to a piece-of-shit father.”
Harrow was the one confused this time. “Who’s den-father?”
The Human, noticing only now that he was effectively cuddling the bored-looking assassin, used the opportunity to gesture to her with the hand on her stomach. “Hers. Direct parentage. ‘Blood-father’, if i remember correctly.”
The answer befuddled Harrow, her looking around the room for confirmation and only receiving a nod from Sahari to agree. Perplexed, and accepting that no one is going to address the matter of Trill being Tel’s dad not being brought up before now, she turned her attention back to Tel. “You’re okay with that?”
Tel rested her cheek on his head, either testing to see how much contact she could get away with before he complained or trying to see where Pan would take issue. Whichever one it was, neither of the two put up any objections, Pan instead leaning into him as well once he noticed how comfortable he found it to be. “Were it not for his involvement, i would not have returned, instead held to be bred for more in my image while being rested upon a pedestal in a gilded cage.”
Nalah eased back into her seat, Sahari putting an arm around her and patting her shoulder in comfort. Joseph raised a brow at how intensely she reacted to the subject, but he wasn’t really sure where ‘marking’ sat in their morals. He figured it was pretty important, but it was temporary and was closer to just making someone wear a wedding band more than anything, as far as he understood. He held two fingers up while not releasing Tel to interject.
“What’s the deal with ‘forcing’ a mark anyway? I’m getting that it’s bad, but i don’t have context.”
Nalah bared her teeth, the building tirade silenced by Sahari pulling her in and rubbing her shoulder soothingly. Satisfied that her blond-furred pack-member was pacified for now, Sahari answered.
“To force a mark is to say that it was imparted upon the unwilling.”
His eyes widened as he made the connection. “OH. Oh. Okay, I’m following now. Jesus Christ.” His face scrunched in disgust. “Holy shit. Okay.”
He noticed the slightly worried expression on Tel’s face, himself quickly adding to his response. “To be clear, it wasn’t ‘forced’ forced.” He averted his eyes away from Pan as embarrassment and more than a touch of shame crossed his face. “It was... It was a bit of a night.”
Pan gave him a sympathetic look, some concern present. Tel felt the need to address it. “He refused to part with your promise, worry not. Even in the height of his heat, his thoughts focused on you.”
Joseph couldn’t help but notice the mix of longing and annoyance in her voice. He allowed himself to gently squeeze her, the action instantly improving her mood, if her tail was anything to go by. Pan shook her head. “I am merely glad that his world is one where such does not exist.”
He pursed his lips, unsure how to counter that without ruining everything. Unfortunately for him, Pan caught the hesitation through their bond.
“Oh, Joseph...” Pan wrapped her other arm around his, encapsulating it carefully. “I suppose there are those of lesser qualities in every people.”
He wanted to disagree, but he quickly failed to think of an example. “Anyway. What does the mark do? Besides say that you’re involved with someone, because I’m getting the vibe that there is more to it.”
Tel subtly twitched as Jax offered the answer. “It discourages others from courting you.”
“Like a wedding ring or something, yeah. Harrow told me that a while ago.”
The mentioned female raised a claw. “Yes and no. I said it was close enough for the purposes of understanding. It detracts from others ability to perceive you as a possible mate.” She gestured loosely to Pan. “It’s why defectives have such a hard time finding one. It’s hard to want to bed someone who your body instinctively doesn’t find attractive.”
Pan tightened her hold on him, though the satisfied expression suggested that she was quite pleased with having him be hers rather than using him to distract from her previous struggles. Harrow smiled at the affectionate display.
“For example: Jax would be much less likely to cause interest because of my mark, and me because of his.”
“So how do you end up with multiple ‘den-parents’”
“Not all attraction is physical, Joseph.” Sahari chastised him playfully, amused with his lack of knowledge. “The effect is negated once they are marked by yourself as well.”
He opened his mouth to counter that, but it failed after the briefest of consideration. “Okay, fair.”
“It is also why bonds are a boon in such arrangements.” Jax added casually, him and Harrow having resumed their attempts to kick at each other.
Pan tilted her head at an indirect mention, Joseph blinking away his confusion. “And that would be because?”
The two bickering mates paused, sharing a look before both giving him a flat expression. “They are influenced by their bonded one.”
“So? What does that...” The Human stalled, glancing at his own bond with a raised brow. Pan noticed his expression and smiled in return, her grip on his hand gently increasing.
“I know the depths of your affections.”
Deciding that the half-answer was the best he was going to get, he shook his head to dispel his curiosity, disrupting Tel from enjoying her perch in the process and drawing a displeased glance before she reclaimed it.
“That... Well that brings up something I’ve been meaning to address.” He tried not to look at her as he attempted to figure out how he was going to broach the question. Tel seemingly got impatient with his tip-toeing and spoke for him.
“I wish him mine, if that wasn’t obvious. This one seems to be reticent in regards to his reciprocated desire.” She punctuated the announcement by patting his shoulder, though the touch was slightly more forceful than he would attribute to ‘affectionate’.
Pan blinked, a tilted head accentuated by a further displaced ear. “Yes, i am aware.”
Joseph faltered, expecting... Well, he wasn’t sure what, but something more than that. He tentatively pressed further, anxiety rearing as unease settled. “No comment?”
She paused to consider, eventually meeting his eyes with a fairly blank expression. “I have known you wished for her for quite some time, though i can tell this is beyond mere infatuations. I have no qualms with such as long as all feel the same.”
He felt Tel physically relax, as if some tension had been held since her vow with him in the forest. There likely was. She had been much closer after the fact, but it was always subdued, as if she was worried she would be rejected and he would discard her at Pan’s wishes. He didn’t want to actively think about the scenario. He would much rather not have to make choices like that.
“I’m surprised you would expect her to say anything else.” Harrow commented passively. “It’s not exactly weird.”
“Especially involving a bond.” Jax added, successfully landing a light tap with his foot to his mate, the latter protesting as she tried to remain seated while stretching out to return it.
“The issue is with her.” Sahari waved a loose paw to Tel as she remained oblivious to her continued cuddling with Nalah. That, or she didn’t want to mention it aloud. Nalah certainly seemed content with the arrangement.
Pan followed the pointed appendage, giving Tel a questioning look as she fixed her grip on his arm. “Am i insufficient?”
Tel looked at her, the expression somewhere between a scowl and regret before she closed her eyes to sigh, her tail joining Pan’s in an effort to constrict his torso. “There is but a single Blade to a Sheath. Were he in possession of a mark besides my own, i would not pursue him, assuming i did not remove the other first. You being unable to do such is...” She paused to think of how to explain her reasoning, a wayward glance was given to Sahari as she finished her thought much more quietly. “I am willing to overlook the discrepancy for him.”
Pan’s eyes gained a touch of fulfillment to mirror his own when he internalized how big of a concession it seemed to be for her to accommodate his desires. He absently played with the fur on Tel’s stomach, the attention earning him a slight squeeze from her tail.
“Then i am content.” Pan declared softly, snuggling back into his shoulder, the matter settled in her mind.
He furrowed his brow, unsure of whatever the hell just transpired between the two, but took a breath to depart from the topic. Well, until Harrow prodded his side.
“So, who first?” She reasserted, fending Jax off as she continued poking his side.
“I’m not answering that.”
She ignored him, addressing the two females who had turned him into a cushion at one point or another. “Come on, i have a lot riding on this.”
Tel smirked, the amusement from annoying the pack outweighing the slightly displeased expression she had on since she arrived back at the settlement. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
Harrow threw her arms high in victory, Jax bemusedly exhaling as he surrendered their physical confrontation. “I win!”
“What makes you say that?”
An orange claw was pointed at the disappointed cook. “If it was you, you would have spent forever teasing details.”
Joseph couldn’t help but tip his head in concession. That sounded like what she would do.
Tel huffed, annoyance returning in her expression as Pan seemed somewhat sympathetic. “And what has our ‘serial-catastrophic-failure-causing’ Technology Head earned?”
Harrow paused, a slight blush overcoming her enthusiasm. “You knew about that, huh?” She tapped her claws until she was ready to announce her winnings. “Jax owes me ten moons of back rubs.”
Pan and the Human burst slightly, the laughter proving to be infectious as the rest joined in, much to Harrow’s embarrassment. Tel chuckled, but she looked to be enjoying the mild chaos she had caused for the moment rather than the actual subject. The orange-furred female waited until they calmed down enough to continue.
“So, what about the other things? We have carts full of stuff and new people.”
“Ah.” Joseph vocally got himself back on topic. “Right. The carts are metals, clay for the forge, and alcohol. The new members are two servants that Loptr was fine with us having and four of Trill’s girls that are here to observe Tel.” He glanced at the Lilhun in question making use of him as a seat. “I think. It’s a weird arrangement right now.”
Tel gave him a bored roll of her eyes, her lack of desire to input conveyed concisely. He accepted it for what it was, not overly concerned since the girls seemed to listen to both of them anyway.
“Past that...” Joseph hummed in thought. “We have craftsmen moving in with the first trade caravan, though when they arrive is pretty fluid due to them needing to arrange things from various settlements. Servants and animals will be included, so we should start on a barn of sorts sooner rather than later.”
“Animals?” Pan questioned from her snuggling, though she seemed more than happy to just stay there instead of turning to address him.
“We’ll see what they send specifically, but even if it’s not overly promising, we could just treat it as a fresh meat delivery and make do.”
Sahari mused for a moment before entering her opinion on the matter. “I suppose Ferra would be of use.”
Joseph nodded. “Atrox’s mate, or one of, anyway. Yeah. That’s who i was thinking, too.”
Nalah sighed, making no attempt to separate from the arm around her shoulder. “So we shall build the Hall, a barn, and perhaps additional barracks.”
He squinted an eye a bit as he considered. “Yeah, give or take. Will that be too much?”
She waved him off lazily, tossing a piece of meat into her mouth. “I shouldn’t be, though it will delay the desire for a bath house.”
His eyebrows shot up. “Bath house?”
“They lack a bathing facility like we have.”
He lifted his hand off of Tel’s stomach to point at the planner, a slight embarrassment occurring as he noticed how comfortable it was to rest his fingers amongst her fur. “Do it. The barn can wait. Make it a decent size.”
“What else?” Harrow asked, likely requesting more gossip or interesting tales as Nalah stared off into the distance passively, probably thinking about where they should put a public bath.
“Nothing much to mention.” He admitted, deciding to omit the whole thing with Tel and his talks with Sahari.
“My turn?”
Joseph raised a brow.
“Come on!” She hopped from her seat, pausing when she noticed that removing him from his chair would involve detaching two females. He patted Tel on her stomach to request freedom, a momentary thought within her broken as she defaulted to teasing him with her claws before acquiescing to his wishes. Pan put up much less fight, instead assertively pulling him in for a kiss and a quick nuzzle, the combo leaving him dazed for a second before Harrow used the opportunity to drag him to his feet.
“I have something to get your advice on and something to show you. Which do you want to start with?”
The Grand Hunter shook off the surprise at his mate’s uncharacteristic forwardness, thinking about his answer before shrugging. “Whichever is cooler?”
Harrow patted his chest with the back of her paw before marching off towards the facilities wing. “Good choice!”
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Sahari remained behind with Tel as all else filtered out of the hub to start their respective duties, the Blade idly laying on the couch while chewing some of the cooked food she had brought out for Joseph that had been left behind once the male was carried off by the excitable Head of Technology.
The ex-Grand Huntress approached, blocking the sunlight from on high that fell on Tel’s closed eyes, eliciting one to open lazily in inspection the person interfering with her lounging, a long exhale preceding her disingenuous query.
“Need something, Sahari?”
She maintained the repressed smug expression, feigning ignorance to the obvious. “Feeling at ease now?”
Tel closed her eye again to disregard the notion. “Why would i be uneasy? I am back at our den, bathed, and i may rest from my tasks for a while.”
A light chuckle escaped Sahari. “You were accepted by his bond. I would think that had been on your mind these past moons. That much is quite plain to see, given that you made no attempts to join his rest.”
The female paused in the process of depositing the last portion of meat into her mouth, giving Sahari a frown before continuing. “They required the moon alone, and i care not for the opinions of others than my Sheath.”
“And he would have been forced to choose her over you should she dissent in regards to your addition.”
Tel fell silent for a moment, eyes wandering the ceiling before she sat herself up. “Then i suppose we are most fortuitous that such shall not come to pass, no?”
Sahari ignored the dismissive tone. “What are your plans for her?”
“What might you mean?”
She crossed her arms. “You have complaints, surely. What do you intend to do about them?”
The Blade stared at her. “Complaints? Such as how easy it is to catch her unawares? Her lack of weaponry maintained on her person? How little effort it took to engage with her mate, despite her proximity?”
Sahari nodded, suspecting that Tel’s mind would go there. “Do you plan to address them?”
The cook sighed. “Time will tell, but it is clear she carries his carelessness.”
“She carries much of him within her by now.”
Tel got to her feet, a look of resignation on her face. “Yes, that much is obvious.”
“Perhaps you should be thankful.”
Sahari received a raised brow. She returned a knowing nod.
“She would not be as willing if not for his influence. She has gained that which she would never. Were it not for his temperament, one could not blame her for wishing to monopolize. Instead, she seeks his happiness as her own. If it includes yourself, so be it.”
“Telling me to ignore her faults?”
Sahari shook her head. “I am merely advising you to embrace her as an extension of your influence rather than an obstacle to account for. She wishes for his safety as much as you, though she only holds the tools to repel that which is obvious.”
Tel tilted an ear, a slight smirk playing at the corner of her mouth. “You suggest i make a Blade of a defect?”
The black-furred female grinned, turning on her pads to head outside, a paw waved over her shoulder. “You are expected to raise the next, no? This may be a chance to test your proficiency, even if it may be the only you attempt.”
“It is a bloodied path, Sahari. I highly doubt my male would approve.”
“Then craft a clean edge. Form one from nothing. You are the heiress, no? Prove yourself worthy of your presumed station and allow your Sheath to perform without worries.” Sahari called out through the exit, allowing it to close behind her when Tel’s expression became contemplative.
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“You doing okay?” Harrow asked once they were in the gym. She dug through the various prototypes she had been working on to find the things she wanted Joseph’s input on.
The Human rubbed his neck. “Yeah, why?”
She paused her search to glance at him with a deadpanned expression. “You looked like you would have evaporated if you could.”
He pursed his lips. “Yeah, kind of. I don’t know. The whole ‘polyamory’ thing seems like a minefield to me.”
A nasal sigh was given as she returned, taking out the first piece and laying it to the side as she resumed her search. “Yet you come back and have no problems with Tel fawning all over you while you’re next to your bond.”
“That...” The male faltered, a defeated tone taking place. “I didn’t really think about it in the moment, it just felt like the natural thing to happen.”
“Isn’t that your answer?” She offered idly, placing another piece to the side.
“To what?”
“How she fits in to your relationship.”
“How so?” Joseph replied, confusion evident.
Harrow laid the second-to-last piece down and sorted through the box from the beginning. “Pan feels about... well, everything the way you do. If Tel feels natural to have around, then Pan won’t feel anything is wrong.”
The Grand Hunter groaned, the hollow tone suggesting he had cupped his face into his paws. “It just feels like jealousy and shit should be an issue.”
Harrow fetched the last piece, laying it with the rest and plopping herself onto the ground to observe the frustrated male. “I can’t speak for Tel, but i think she was more worried about it than you were.”
“She’s a ball of confidence. I can’t really picture her being worried about anything other than being told to not to fuck around.”
She waved him off. “You’ve had all this time to make sure everyone knew how much you care for Pan. It’s stressful to think that you would be compared to that if it came down to one or the other, especially a bond.”
Joseph raised a brow as Harrow put on the first piece of experimental armour on her arm. “I wouldn’t compare them like that. They’re different people.”
She fixed her gaze on him as she moved on to the second piece. “Pan knows you to your core by now. She has claimed a position of a den-mother of your adopted kit. Now, she has affirmed her placement as your mate.” The orange-furred female shook her head at his momentary flush. “Mix that with your societal standards, and she wouldn’t be able to worry but think that she might be seen as lesser and thrown aside if Pan took issue.”
Annoyance filtered into his voice. “Both are irreplaceable. Period. I’m not excited about it, but I’d rather do my best to make sure they’re happy. Even if it meant trying to convince her as best i can. I’m not ignoring what Tel has done for me and what she has ended up meaning to me.”
“Is my male proclaiming his affections out loud again?” Tel prodded playfully after having silently entered behind the male and wrapping her arms around his waist, her chin resting on his shoulder. Joseph jumped slightly at the unexpected presence, his face stricken by embarrassment after being caught in the act of vehemently defending his new-found relationship with the female.
Harrow smirked as she moved on to the last piece. “He seems to be rather taken with you Tel. Makes me wonder what happened that moon he defended your honour.”
The Grand Hunter furrowed his brow as he glanced back and forth between them with a warning eye. “Not talking about it.”
Tel ignored him, her tail lazily swaying behind her. “I fear not for his bond. It seems that she cares more for this one’s feelings than her own.”
“Not like there’s much of a difference.” Harrow commented, standing now that all four pieces were on. She adjusted the fitment as Tel hummed in agreement.
“I have no idea what’s going on.” Joseph lamented openly, the cook leaning on him more in response.
“You,” The Head started, pleased with the preliminary checks of her equipment. “are going to help me solve a few issues with these, and she,” A claw was waved at the mildly interested female. “is going to be happy with me.”
Tel adjusted her grip under his arms, wrapping one paw over the wrist of the other as she applied more weight and idly observed as Harrow started explaining whatever it was she had on her arms. Joseph cycled a breath as his plight remained ignored.
The orange-furred female wore two large bracers, their outward arm coverage a fair bit wider than what would be typical. The second section of each was a large piece that slotted over the more form-fitting attachment to her arm.
Curiosity seemed to have prevailed over his premature exhaustion. “Are those supposed to be a shield when you put them together?”
Harrow winked, a mischievous smirk suggesting that he was only half right. “They also do this!”
The female engaged a pair of spring-loaded protrusions placed on the inside of the outcroppings, two broad daggers extending forth in an instant with a visible recoil.
Both the Human and the female raised their brows, Harrow proudly explaining her invention. “I took inspiration from those Katars you told me about and the spring system you used for Tel’s roped daggers. Add in the need for a shield that wouldn’t hinder our claw-to-claw training...”
“And you end up with hidden blades inside of a wearable shield.” Joseph mused, an impressed tone clear. Tel viewed the items with interest from his shoulder.
“Why might these make me happy?”
Harrow pointed the worn knife, its edge blunted until the details were sorted. “Because you can add this to your armament as a backup, and because i figured that your little declaration back there meant you would rather Joe stay armed and protected.”
The assassin hummed in understanding, though didn’t comment further as she continued analyzing them.
“So what do you need my help with? It seems like you got all the important parts down for a prototype.” Joseph furrowed his brow in confusion, looking over her work from a distance to find an issue.
Harrow took a breath, wincing at the need for overview. “Well, this is it.”
“What’s it.”
She held the extended blades outward. “This. They don’t go back without taking them apart.”
The Grand Hunter’s expression fell neutrally. “Ah. Yeah, that would be an issue. I’d need to see it disassembled to weigh in.”
Harrow’s ears fell as she heard that he wouldn’t be able to know what to do about the problem at a moment’s notice, but quickly regained her enthusiasm as she removed the prototypes. “We can do that whenever. Next, i found out something neat about the den while i was doing the wiring!”
“Oh?”
She nodded, her tail threatening to fly off with how active it was being. “Whatever species occupied this place before us must have been a massive mix of high and sub-harmonic vocalizations.” She paused when the male gave her a blank look. “They spoke in an an extremely wide frequency range. Or at least utilized such.”
Joseph blinked, a light tilt of his head showing that he was a little confused at the apparent non-sequitur. “And that has to do with wiring because...”
“Because,” Harrow tossed the braces back into the box. “I discovered a defunct circuit used to power a building-wide public address system!” She threw her arms wide as her main discovery was finally being announced to someone who would appreciate it. “I rigged it to the terminal! We can play music to the whole den and outside, if we want! I checked and there are tiny acoustic projectors everywhere, though they look to be far more capable than the size suggests.”
Tel perked up at the mention of widely accessible entertainment while Joseph looked to the side in thought, his face carrying a contemplative shade. “That’s cool and all, but do we want to inundate everyone with music all the time? I have a lot of variety there, I’m pretty sure someone would be drove nuts by the end of the week.”
“I need your help there, too.” The Head added in counter, approaching the pair with a bounce to her step. “I can’t read your language, but there should be a setting to split the zones and allow playlists by room.”
“Why would there be a setting like that?”
Harrow shrugged. “We’ll see what we can do, if not. Worst comes to worst, we can just open it up during celebrations.”
The Human paused, conceding the point after a moment. “That doesn’t sound like a terrible idea. I’m down.”
She separated the two, shoving Joseph out the door in her rush to get started on the idea. Tel allowed it to happen, a mild interest passing her eyes all the while until she tapped Harrow on the shoulder.
“Could i have a set of that prototype created for Pan once it is complete?”
Harrow waved Joseph to continue once he noticed he was the only one still going to the terminal, raising a brow at the female. “Odd for you to ask.”
The prospective mate shook her head. “It would benefit him to have more at his disposal. None have taken to his philosophy of using one’s fists like she has. This would merely allow her to expand her repertoire while still adhering.”
Harrow hummed, a skeptical eye scanning the female’s face for a hint at her true motive, a sigh escaping once she decided that Tel wasn’t going to clarify further. “I’ll get Mama to measure her once Joe straightens out the retraction mechanism.” A second glance was afforded. “You sure you’re okay with Joe threatening your blood-father and having a preexisting mate?”
Tel maintained a placid expression, boredom hinted by her quick break of eye contact. “I have stated my opinion on such. Why do you ask?”
“Because he’s my friend and part of my den.”
Tel returned her gaze. “Would it worry you so if i took issue?”
Harrow failed to answer immediately, a breath being required before she quietly responded. “I just don’t want anything to ruin it.”
The Blade chuckled. “I may find myself desiring to hold him to my own, but i must accept that she is as much a part of him as he is her. As for his threats to Trill?” Tel’s voice grew wanting as she slipped a teasing smirk towards the curious Human waiting at the end of the hall. “That is far from a problem for me.”
Joseph leaned against the wall, his arms crossed as he patiently waited for the two to finish their sidebar, Harrow noticing his idle expression now that Tel had been accepted was a stark contrast to before. She smiled with closed eyes, happy that the dynamics of the pack didn’t seem to be shifting in a bad direction.
“Okay.” She breathed out, changing gears mentally. “As long as everyone’s okay.”
She turned to face Tel, noticing that she had gone on ahead without waiting for a response to harass the Grand Hunter, the latter struggling not to laugh as the female poked at him.
At least it seemed that she could keep this den.
She hurried to catch up, wondering what music Joseph would be using to test her ideas.
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My mother is chronically ill, she wanted a second dog to cuddle with and keep our other dog, Angel, company. We got Sasha from the shelter 6 months ago. She seemed very calm at first and we were told that was her general temperament, we were not told how recently she’d been spayed and how that would affect her short term behavior (we’ve always adopted adult dogs and never so shortly after a surgery). The following days she started to change as she recovered, getting more and more active and energetic to the point we’d say she was in crackhead mode. She had kennel cough, we get it cleared up, and she ramped up even further. I didn’t even know it was possible for a 10lb Lhasa Apso to be so high-energy.
I’ve never managed to really tire her out, even on a day when I took her for 7 miles of walks, you wouldn’t have known she’d been walked at all from her behavior. She’s calmed down a little, now she can be calm for a couple hours at a time without constantly bringing toys to play fetch and tug or licking and nudging until you pet her (she’ll only cuddle as long as you keep petting). Chew toys can keep her occupied, but she has such strong jaws, she’ll finish a bully stick in less than an hour, I was probably spending over $60 a month just on chews at first (she gets bored of the non-edible ones). I spend hours a day exercising her, a couple of walks but mainly fetch and tug because those seem to have more of an effect. She’ll entertain herself in the yard, but we have to constantly watch to make sure she doesn’t start going after the potted plants because she saw a lizard or eating bark or digging at the flowers.
It’s really stressing my mother out, which makes her health conditions worse. Sitting in the yard was one of her favorite things to do, but she says needing to constantly monitor Sasha has ruined it. She’s still very good to Sasha, spending time with her outside, throwing her toy, giving her lots of affection, but still complains to me a lot and guilts me when I spend too much time away from the house and leaving her to take care of Sasha. Angel was fine the first few days we had Sasha, but as she got more energetic, the more she bothered Angel. That’s improved, Angel doesn’t snap at her when she annoys her too much, but I think she’s still depressed and hates us for bringing Sasha, she’s become more aloof, spending most of her time an a different room from us, probably avoiding Sasha. My mother and I both think it would make all the difference if she had another dog to play with, she still keeps trying to play with Angel even though Angel has never reciprocated.
It’s just that Sasha is also the sweetest dog, so affectionate and goofy, she looks like a living teddy bear. I’ve never had a dog who will be on my lap and then crane her head back to stare at me like she does. If you stand and pan your legs, she’ll run up, jump on your legs, and lay her head between your knees so you can pet her. Sometimes she’ll just come up and plop on top of my feet for a belly rub. I keep crying at the thought of losing her, I don’t know anyone to take her and I’m worried she’s end up in a home where they’d mistreat her because they got frustrated by her energy and how distressed she’d probably be from losing us.
TL;DR: we need to rehome our dog because she’s stressing out my chronically ill mother and older dog, and we think she’d be a lot better if she had another dog to play with, but the thought of losing her and how sad she’d be to lose us is still making me cry.

The PS5 sold out for years. Now it’s in stock and, shockingly, currently on sale for the first time since the latest-gen hardware was released. But the discount only goes until April 6, and who knows how long these cheaper bundles will last.Read more... Link to article

Nextech3d.ai Lands Major Enterprise 3D Model Deal With S&P 500 Company Top 10 Retailer
3D Modeling for $5.5 Trillion Global E-commerce Industry Taking Off as Generative AI is Driving Exponential Growth in Nextech’s Web3.0 Portfolio of Technologies
After a significant improvement in corporate AI and an agreement between Arway and saudi german health
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-achieves-major-generative-ai-breakthrough-in-3d-model-texture-creation
About Arway:
https://www.arway.ai/news-2/arway%E2%80%99s-sdk-gaining-traction-signing-multiple-new-deals-as-%2444-billion-indoor-navigation-industry-accelerates-shift-to-augmented-reality-navigation-
https://www.arway.ai/news-2/arway-corp.-announces-museum-ar-wayfinding-pilot-%26-partnership-with-ernact%2C-or-european-regions-network-for-the-application-of-communications-technology-
https://www.arway.ai/news-2/arway-signs-ar-wayfinding-deal-with-saudi-german-health
(above the press releases cited)
latest press release-> https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-lands-major-enterprise-3d-model-deal-with-sp-500-company-top-10-retailer
More details -> https://themarketherald.ca/nextech-ar-csentar-secures-key-enterprise-3d-model-deal-with-sp-500-retailer-2023-02-09/
Key Press releases:
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-solutions-reports-preliminary-2022-revenue-for-3d-modeling-surges-266
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-achieves-major-generative-ai-breakthrough-in-3d-model-texture-creation
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ars-ai-powered-3d-design-studio-toggle3d-launches-major-tech-upgrade
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-announces-details-of-generative-ai-ipo-spin-out-toggle3d
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextechs-breakthrough-generative-ai-plus-record-3d-model-demand-puts-company-on-track-for-record-q1-record-fy-2023-growth
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech3d.ai-continues-to-experience-exponential-sales-growth-in-multi-billion-dollar-3d-modeling-market
Nextech3d.ai(OTCQX: NEXCF) (CSE: NTAR) (FSE: EP2) is a diversified augmented reality, AI technology company that leverages proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) to create 3D experiences for the metaverse. Its main businesses are creating 3D WebAR photorealistic models for the Prime Ecommerce Marketplace as well as many other online retailers. The Company develops or acquires what it believes are disruptive technologies and once commercialized, spins them out as stand-alone public Companies issuing a stock dividend to shareholders while retaining a significant ownership stake in the public spin-out.
https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech3d.ai-announces-its-ai-powered-saas-platform-toggle3d-experiences-a-963-jump-in-users-in-60-days-crossing-over-1000-users
In the second or third quarter there will be a second spin off: toggle 3d, whose company details are reported in one of the press releases listed above
On October 26, 2022 Nextech AR spun out its spatial computing platform, “ARway” as a stand alone public Company. Nextech AR retained a control ownership in ARway Corp. with 13 million shares, or a 50% stake, and distributed 4 million shares to Nextech AR Shareholders. ARway is currently listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE:ARWY), in USA on the (OTC: ARWYF) and Internationally on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE: E65). ARway Corp. is disrupting the augmented reality wayfinding market with a no-code, no beacon spatial computing platform enabled by visual marker tracking and much more.

She’s not answering we had a bad fight and said she had an urge to do it and then when I say please don’t over and kver it’s like she’s possessed and saying it’s her body. Please pray for her I’m scared for her safety. She’s 16. She used to a lot but was clean for 2 years. I don’t know what to do. I’m contemplating driving to her house but I don’t even know the address just the general area so I’d have to search I know what her house looks like. I’m so scared for her. I got on my knees and pleaded and shouted to god.

I recently got the F-14 module with Super Carrier during the Spring Sale and just tried it out for a few hours today and I started with the training missions for the F-14.
Any mission that doesn't involve being on the deck of an aircraft carrier seems fine (45fps), however the game tanks when I load the carrier deck training missions (10-12fps, extremely jerky, generally unplayable).
Is there something i missed, or is this normal for the F-14 module with the carrier? I haven't even had a chance to try the Super Carrier module yet because I got a little sick trying to push through the F-14 training missions.
I am using an Oculus Quest 2, updated to v50, and using OpenXR. I noticed that with ASW on there are some glitchy artifacts whenever I move my head, basically a double image with some pixel glitches and it is really not possible to view for long before getting disorientated.
I tried the landing training mission for the Mig-21 and it was much smoother (80-90fps with ASW off), so I know my PC is capable of 'smooth' VR, except when I'm on a carrier.
Can anyone give me some hints as to how can VR performance be improved for the F-14? Thanks!