To open a shaped aluminum mold, you will typically follow these steps:

1. Inspection: Examine the mold for any visible damage or signs of wear. Ensure that it is safe to handle and there are no obstructions that could impede the opening process.
2. Lubrication: Apply a suitable lubricant to the mold's moving parts, such as hinges or slides, to facilitate smooth movement during the opening process.
3. Clamping or securing: If the mold is attached to a clamping mechanism or secured in place, release or remove the clamps to free the mold from its fixed position.
4. Alignment: Check the alignment of the mold components to ensure they are properly aligned for opening. Make any necessary adjustments to ensure proper alignment.
5. Opening mechanism: Determine the specific opening mechanism used for your mold. Common methods include manual operation or the use of hydraulic or mechanical systems.
6. Manual operation: If the mold is designed for manual opening, locate any handles, levers, or other mechanisms provided for this purpose. Follow the instructions provided by the mold manufacturer to open it safely. Apply steady and controlled force as needed to separate the mold halves.
7. Hydraulic or mechanical systems: If your mold incorporates hydraulic or mechanical systems for opening, locate the control panel or mechanism responsible for activating the opening process. Follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer or consult with an expert familiar with the specific system to operate it correctly.
8. Opening process: Engage the opening mechanism according to the chosen method. This may involve operating handles, activating buttons or switches, or triggering hydraulic or mechanical systems. Apply force gradually and monitor the mold's movement carefully to ensure a smooth and controlled opening.
9. Safety precautions: Always prioritize safety when opening molds. Be aware of potential hazards, such as sharp edges or protruding components, and take necessary precautions, such as wearing protective gloves or using tools designed for the task.
10. Remember to refer to the manufacturer's instructions and guidelines specific to your mold to ensure proper handling and safety protocols. If you are uncertain or unfamiliar with the opening process, consult with an expert or a mold technician for assistance.

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Hi all!
 
Apologies in advance for how long this post is going to be as well as how bad the formatting and linking is - first real post.
I've had this idea to catalog my history with SFFPCs for a while now.
I also have a few questions hidden further in regarding a possible future build that i'm looking at maybe attempting in the next few months.
 
  Lets begin the trip down memory lane: Build #1 - mid 2014 No Pictures for the build on this one sorry - not much worth documenting either, very simple build!
 
PC Part Picker Link: (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9Px99W)
 
This PC was the first computer I had ever built with basically my first pay check. Realistically I was building it just to prove to myself that I could and that I wasn't going to break any parts. The long term goal for this PC was to become a youtube / facebook machine for my brother and it worked perfectly. lately i've been using it as a slave pc to run minecraft servers for the lads and it still trucks along with no issues!
 
Summary: This pc was easy to build and still works today very well with basically no maintenance over the course of its life. It was never meant to be a high power machine and works well as an exertainment machine / server for minecraft. Yes I know I should probably repaste it.  
 
Following this up was my first "gaming" PC: Build #2 - mid 2016 No photos for this build either sorry. But again, the build was pretty simple with nothing particularly worth documenting. The Corsair case was a dream to build in and had heaps of space for parts and mounting. This PC was built when I was going to a lot of LANs hence the 'portable' case choice!
 
PC Part Picker Link: (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KMd9fv)
 
This PC was and still is a beast. Disregarding the issues with gtx 970's not actually having 4GB of VRAM and instead having 3.5GB + 0.5 GB this PC proved to be an amazing 1080p gaming machine. Specifically this was mostly because of two factors:  

• The i5 6600k was a monster! I heard lots about how only having 4 cores and no hyperthreading meant this little CPU was a weak competitor when compared to the more capable 7700k. But for what I had lined up? This CPU was perfect and never let me down. This CPU was incredibly easy to overclock, ran cool compared to many higher spec'd parts at the time and was a single core performing beast. This CPU was overclocked (easily) to basically 4.9Ghz for its entire life which allowed for it to be competitive with much newer CPU's all the way up to and past a stock i9 9900k (gotta love the 14 nm villain arc intel went on). Yes you read that right, with a hefty overclock my little of i5 6600k was out performing brand new (stock) i9 9900k cpus! (but only in single, duo and quad core workloads, anything more and it would fall over. I also had to seriously adjust memory timings to get up to the 9900k which had them running at unsafe voltages for long term use as well)

 

• Super fast SSD for quick load & boot times! I know a 250GB SSD is tiny by todays standards especially as the only drive in the PC but back in 2016? This was manageable and provided a massive performance increase in a market full of PCs still using HHD as boot drives.

 
In addition to the above there were serval things about this PC that I absolutely loved:

• The Corsair 380T case was AMAZING. The side panels have a metal cover over the main plastic bulk of the panel, the metal part could be removed by bending the clips holding it on and allowing a thin filter material to be added in. For anyone looking to build in the 380T I 100% recommend doing this! Basically the only maintenance was to run a vacuum over the side panels and no dust ended up inside the case at all.
• Having the i5 6600k under the 240 AIO allowed the i5 6600k to pull full TDP (plus the rest from the overclock) and stay at about a maximum of 65 degrees C (149 F) well within a safe operational range.

 
Now days this PC is living out its retirement at a friends place who couldn't afford a PC and still running strong clocked at a solid 4.7GHz. Which is more than enough for the games they are playing. Not suitable for much more than 1080p 60fps in most modern games (medium settings if that), this PC still stands out as the best PC i've built so far. I also did push the CPU as much as physically possible - Upping the voltage, clock and bus clock (a little trick from the generation to squeeze out a few more points in benchmarking) to make the CPU hit about 5.1GHz max. While stable this also bumped up temps to about 95 degrees C (203 F) which was not sustainable long term.
 
Summary: This PC was a beast for the price and delivered amazing performance - the only regret I had at the time was not getting a 7700k or equivalent for hyperthreading but in hindsight this was not an issue and this PC was still able to deliver years of fun!
 
 
This brings us to current day: Build #3 - early 2021
 
PC Part Picker Link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bLDxgb
 
This is where the fun begins. This PC was built with the goal of "No compromises" and I like to think I delivered! With a fully custom water cooling loop for both a 5950x and 3090 this PC is able to play basically any modern game at 1440p 240hz while maintaining reasonable temperatures. Originally this PC was built as an air-cooled PC with the goal to be water-cooled later. Most of my comments will focus on the water-cooling process.
 
But before we move on here are my air-cooled comments:
 

• The Asus TUF GAMING OC GeForce RTX 3090 only just fits in the case. This required the front IO panel to be removed and for the case to basically come apart to allow for the 3090 to slide in sideways before wriggling into the PCIE slot. Doable but a tight fit.

 

• Everything was so much simpler when everything was air-cooled! This goes without saying but i'd 100% recommend that anyone attempting this seriously consider just leaving everything air-cooled. What follows this is not for the faint of heart.

 
Now we get serious, and by serious I mean everything gets janky - you have been warned. Firstly, the GPU block didn't fit the case and this caused a lot of headaches. For more clarification please check the photos. Secondly, space was tight inside the case. Again, check the photos to see how little space there was inside the case. This meant that tubes between water cooling components were just jammed wherever I could fit them.
 
I watched a lot and I mean a lot of videos and tutorials about what would fit and what parts to buy etc. The number 1 source of my information was Optimum Tech on youtube. He has many videos showing in beautiful detail how he builds powerful ITX systems. 100% reccommend. And he's another Aussie lad!
 
The entire build process is basically documented in the photos that i'm currently trying to upload to imgur. Once I get the upload sorted i'll link to it here so you can follow along my adventures.
Photos Part 1 Photos Part 2
 
There is a bit of extra information in the photos so please give it a read if you're interested but i'm happy to answer questions if you have them so post away!
 
Summary: While a pain the ass to build, this no compromises PC destroys every single game I throw at it. It stays at reasonable temps with a mild undervolt on the 3090 and PBO applied to the 5950x.
 
 
This brings me to the section where I actually get to ask questions about a possible new build. If you've stuck with me this long, thank you and I hope you've enjoyed my history with ITX PCs.
 
Possible Future Build: Build #4 - mid 2023?
 
PC Part Picker Link: (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Jp3H6r)
 
Please see my below reasoning on why i'm currently looking at these parts: Note: i'm looking to build in a Louqe Ghost S1 case.

Part	Reasoning
AMD Ryzen 5 7600	Low power and super efficient CPU to provide amazing CPU performance in a TDP that can be easily cooled by a low profile cooler. Not a fan of how AM5 x series sits at 95 degrees C and no real low power intel option to compete (sub 70W)
Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1	Best low profile cooler that can fit in the Louqe Ghost S1 case
Asus ROG STRIX X670E-I GAMING WIFI	I was looking at cheaper motherboards but read several reviews that the ones available here in Australia had poor VRM design and cooling implementation. This motherboard also is confirmed to fit with the chosen cooler Noctua Website
G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL32	Good compromise between performance, lowish profile and price
Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB	Simple, easy, powerful, reliable and not a bad price here in Aus but might swap if something else comes along
Inno3D Twin X2 GeForce RTX 4070	Based on the case compatibility list on the Louqe subreddit and the 4070 review performed by Value king the Inno3D Twin X2 seems to be one of the best options that both fits the Louqe case and has good build quality
Corsair SF750 750 W 80+ Platinum	Pretty standard choice for ITX builds as far as I can tell. I've used it before and love the quality

 
Now that you've got the background we can get into the meat of my questions for this hypothetical build:
To get the most out of my 7600 should I lap the CPU or delid and direct die cool? I want the CPU to easily sit within its thermal limits while having some headroom to play around with settings and squeeze the most I can out of. A return to the era of the 6600k again, low power with lots of room to tinker and wring out all the performance I can while staying cool. Even going so far as to play with memory timings again.
 
My thoughts at this stage are as follows:

Direct Die	Lapping
Allows for liquid metal to be applied directly to the CPU die for best possible thermal transfer	Allows for the IHS to soak the heat from the tiny core on the 7600 into a larger surface before absorbing heat into the cooler.
Liquid metal has shown in the past to provide massive temperature reductions in similar applications	Is much less likely to damage the CPU itself and still offer significant improvement to temperature.
The 7600 cores are so small and so off center that i'm concerned only 1 or 2 of the copper heat pipes in the cooler would actually make contact. This combined with the difficulty of balancing a cooler on the CCD & IO Die as they're both small not both centered could lead to insignificant gains.	Lapping could be combined with liquid metal if really required to try and get even more performance gains from the 7600.

 
I've also not seen any videos or posts from people using either the lapping or direct die methods on a 7600 - as the part is so low power this makes sense but I was trying to consider all options before committing to one or the other. I did see one video of someone trying to use the direct die frame and liquid metal with a 7600x unsuccessfully which has also not helped with my trepidation: Actually Hardcore Overclocking
It is also worth noting that Thermal Grizzly and Roman "der8auer" also sell products for both lapping and direct die modifications so both are fairly easily accessible to me.
To be clear, the goal here is to fit super efficient parts into the stock Louqe Ghost S1 without needing a top hat for extra cooling or crazy internal fan placement to get extra airflow. I'd love for both the 4070 and 7600 to both have enough airflow to perform optimally without having to modify the case and add extra fans.
 
Questions? Comments? Drop them below and i'll try to answer anything I can!

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Optic/Optic Accessories:
-Eotech G33 MagnifieUnity Omni FTC Mount. Black/Black. Mounted and removed. Can pass as new. $610 shipped for both.
Light/Light Accessories:
-Surefire Pro Picatinny Mount. Black. Brand new. $30 shipped.
Helmet/Helmet Accessories:
-First Spear Helmet Hut. Black. Brand new. $160 shipped.
-Ops Core Modular Bungee Shroud. Black. Used a handful of times, in like new condition. $105 shipped.
Magazine/Magazine Accessories:
-8492NylonWorks Magazine Wedges Adapter Kit for Spiritus Micro Fight Chassis (will work with other chest rigs). Comes with three Esstac Kywi 5.56 Mid Length Wedges. Installed then removed, I prefer the retention of the Spiritus Triple Magazine Insert. Brand new. Paid $75 for everything, selling for $65 shipped.
AR Accessories:
Railscales G10 in MLOK. Black FR4/MiniDot/3Slot. Like new. $25 shipped
Railscales G10 in MLOK. Black FR4/MiniDot/4Slot. Like new. $35 shipped
Railscales G10 in MLOK. Black FR4/MiniDot/4Slot. Like new. $35 shipped
-JP Enterprises .308 Compensator. Comes with $13 Jam Nut from JP. Matte Black. Used at the most for 100 rounds, like new. $85 shipped.
-Custom Upper that my friend assembled with new parts he had laying around. Just went through and made sure everything was torqued to spec. Smith & Wesson Upper, Midwest Industries G4 One Piece Free Float Handguard (15”/Keymod), Stainless Steel Carbine Length Gas Tube (unknown brand), Nitride Gas Block (unknown brand), 16” Carbine Length Barrel Stamped “5.56 NATO 1/9” (unknown brand), A2 Birdcage. Used for less than 1000 rounds and in great condition. $220 shipped.
Glock Accessories:
-Ameriglo Hackathorn Sight Set GL-436 for 42, 43, 43X, 48. Installed then removed, can pass as new. $45 shipped.
-NBS Glock 19 Gen 3 Slide with RMR Cut. Lightly used in great condition. $155 shipped.
-G-Code Syncron IWB for Glock 43X. Black Kydex/No Rail/Right Hand. Like new. $45 shipped.
-G-Code Phenom Speed for Glock 43X. Black Kydex/No Rail/Right Hand/Black Anodized Super MoClaw. Like new. $45 shipped.
Soft goods:
-AWS Woodland LAB Belt. Small (28”-31”)/D-Ring with Cord/2” Black Inner Belt. Comes with eight strips of Velcro One-Wrap used to mount accessories to the belt. Used for one range day, can pass as new. $70 shipped.
-Triple Aught Design Recon ST Short. Size 28. Color Tarmac. Realized they were one size too small for my liking after purchase and wearing them once, like new. $65 shipped.
-Camelbak M.U.L.E. 100oz Mil-Spec Crux. Black. Used once then sat in my closet collecting dust. Bladder has been disinfected and dried out ready for next owner. Sells for $165 directly from Camelbak. Selling for $85 shipped.
Free stuff:
-3M Repel Cord for Tactical Earplugs. Pack of 5. Brand new. Free, just pay $5 for shipping.
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I moved out of my family home in February 2023, so I’ve been out of the house for almost 4 months now. It was messy, it was abrupt, and even now it’s tense because even though I gave my parents the reasoning of my moving out, they cannot accept it and therefore cannot move on and now every conversation (not many since I left) is just a fight for them to be right, and not come to a productive solution regarding anything. I was not paying rent or in any sort of legally-binding “contract” with regards to living there.
After not hearing from them in a few weeks, my father sends me a text out of the blue saying that my parents will be sending me a bill in the mail for “the paint and spackle to repair the walls in your old room” claiming that I got hair dye on the wall and the shelves that were stuck onto the wall were ripped off and damaged the sheet rock.
The issue I am having with this is: 1. That stain on the wall is not hair dye. My family had moved into that home in November of 2021, and it was newly built, we are the first residents. The paint had left residue on my fingers for the first few months we were there. And I noticed this dark stain appearing on the wall where I’d put my head back onto sometimes. The first actual photo I have of it was taken in January of 2022, months before I even touched hair dye. I sent that but it was ignored because it disproved his point about it being hair dye.

1. Regarding the sheet rock from those shelves, when I moved out, a lot of belongings were still in my room, I left abruptly but was in heavy communication with my parents at the time. I would be at work for my 9 hours a day and I’d get texts that sporadically change from me getting more of my stuff after work to now, all of my belongings were going to be put in garbage bags and placed on the porch, I was from then on NOT Allowed to enter the house, or step on the property without their supervision. Okay, that’s fine. Except they left up all the command strip hooks and shelves that I had stuck to the wall. I was not given the opportunity to get those off the wall myself. When we moved to the house in late 2021, we were all told to not put nails in the wall, if we wanted to hang stuff up, to stick things onto the wall, and was told we had command strips in a drawer if anyone needed it. The shelves (there was 5 total) came with the option to nail or stick to the wall with provided double sided peel & stick tabs, It was something random off Amazon I got as a secret Santa gift. I figured okay, I’ll stick them since I was told to not use nails. They were not Command strips and did not have the tab that hangs down that you can pull during removal. So I am now being told that I didn’t install them properly, I say there was no tab that came with it, and then I get told that we were ALL (me and my 4 siblings) told to use ONLY Command strips and NOTHING else. Which is very not true at all, I would have had NO problem buying solely command strips for the little shelves if that was the case, I actively try to do whatever I can to avoid a problem and have been extremely compliant with many of the wishes my parents had. But now I’m being told that we actually WERE in fact told only Command strips and they have “witnesses” (my 4 siblings that they’ll manipulate into complying and just going along with what they want so they can “win”).

So I told them, if they didn’t just spontaneously decide to leave all of my belongings out on the porch and ban me from entering the house, and just let me gather my belongings on my own, I could’ve removed the tabs properly, and would’ve done research to see how I can remove them WITHOUT damaging the wall. Instead, my dad decides to remove them months later, just rips them off the wall and is now blaming me and sending me this bill because “It actually is your fault because in the eyes of the law, BUT FOR, you installing those shelves that you were not suppose to, said damage would not have happened.”
I am unsure of how to proceed. I obviously do not want to and don’t think I should pay this bill they’re gonna send. If I am being ignorant I’d also like to know because I really don’t have a lot of knowledge with this kind of stuff. My parents would not have done this if I moved out of their terms, and have just been fighting with me and being petty since I moved out. Is it possible for there to be legal repercussions/actions against me if I don’t pay ? Thank you.

I was pouring drink number three when my phone rang… I'm 20 years old, a little drunk and in about an hour, I will have almost shot my colleague in the chest in front of three police officers and two frozen dead bodies. Weird. I can't say that I'm mentally ready for what I'm about to see this evening, who’s ever really ready to walk into a garage with a Chevy Cavalier riddled with bullets and two frozen gang bangers inside. My name is Grant and These are My Funeral Home Stories.
Chapter Two: three drinks, Two dead & One Candy Bar
It's about six o'clock on the 3rd Tuesday in February and factoring in the windchill, it's negative 14 degrees outside. I've been off of work for about an hour and I'm not on call tonight…So naturally, I'm just finishing up my second drink and considering whether to order pizza or Chinese tonight. I use my finger to stop by drink from bubbling over and the phone rings. It’s Andy, one of the directors from the funeral home that’s on call when Ned and I are off AND apparently the person he's on call with this evening is unreachable…If it's your job to be on call, you don't want this to happen. It's almost the equivalent of a no call no show at any other job. If you're on call, the only thing you have to do is wait for the phone to ring and when it does ring, you answer it. It’s really not that hard.
Andy is calling me to ask if I would fill in and go on a police call with him. There was a shooting and apparently there are two frozen dead bodies in a car… inside the police station. OK. Why are they at the police station? Great question. Apparently it was too cold outside to investigate and process the crime scene so they moved the crime scene into a heated garage inside a police station. This all sounds incredibly interesting to me but there's only one problem… I'm drunk. Well, on my way to drunk and I'm not old enough to drink. I'm not going anywhere near a police station. I explained to Andy that I'm in no condition to drive to the funeral home and he'd have to find someone else. He interrupted me and said, “ but you're not old enough to drink. Stay put. I'm picking you up. See you in 10.” He hung up the phone before I had time to argue.
Welp. Looks like I'm going to the police station against all better judgment. I finish my third drink as I put on my black 3 button double breasted black suit by Chaps that I picked up at Kohls. (Side note: all my other suits were at the dry cleaners. I hate this suit. It makes me look like a walking rectangle.) It's our funeral home’s policy that we dress cleanly and professionally while in public. This means you ruin a lot of good dress clothes but at least you look sharp… and you can write off your dry cleaning as a job related expense.
I run a razor over my face sans shaving cream because I’m in a hurry and our funeral home also has a strict no facial hair policy. No mustaches, no goatees and definitely no beards. I'm not sure why this is a rule, It just is. I take an extra long look at myself in the mirror to make sure I have myself in order. The last thing I want to do tonight is walk into a police station looking like a sloppy, drunk unshaven underage mess. Could I get fired for getting an underage drinking ticket while on a death call? I sure hope not. I hear a horn honking in the driveway. I peak out the front window, Andy’s out front in our 2004 black Pontiac minivan. It’s a pretty slick…Instead of back seats, our van has a polished oak floor with rollers spaced evenly down the length of the van. These rollers aid in sliding caskets in and out without scratching the van or caskets.
I’m almost ready. I decided to wear a heavy wool four button top coat, scarf and rubberized dress boots by Ecco, all black of course. (Side note: Always spend extra money on ‘nicer’ boots. You don't want your socks wet on death calls.) Although I hate the suit I have on, I am wearing my favorite necktie. It's white, black and navy blue diagonally striped made from handwoven silk by Ralph Lauren. Very sharp. Remember this tie… my favorite tie, it’ll come up again later. On my way out the door I stuffed a handful of garlic flavored chips in my mouth and pulled a Nestle Butterfinger candy bar out of the pantry. The garlic will help cover up the three Jack and Cokes I just had and put a little food in my stomach. The Butterfinger…well, that's my reward. I'll eat it on the way home. I fucking love Butterfingers and why not reward myself for what I'm about to do? I'm not even on call tonight. I deserve it.
From my house to the police station, it’s about 10 minutes… a straight shot with no traffic. Andy starts nervously giggling almost immediately when my door closes and buckle my seatbelt. Funeral Directors are generally interesting people but our pal, Andy, he's a real card. I'm going to tell you a few things about Andy and hopefully won't sound too judgmental in the process. Andy had a gastric bypass surgery three years ago and as has lost about 150 pounds andI don't think he's gone clothes shopping since his weight loss. All of his suits look like they're about five sizes too big. His skin is loose around his jawline giving him a permanent droopy dog expression. It's weird seeing someone whose clothes and skin don't fit their body. He's a nervous guy and he's always afraid of getting in trouble…but somehow he's blindly confident. That's it for the positives.
Andy talks the most deliberate and malicious shit about everyone in the office. It's pathological at this point, I'm not sure he's even aware of it. You really have to watch what you say around this guy… I mean, if you don't want it repeated or used against you, don't say it around Andy. Andy's jumped from funeral home to funeral home around the country settling in towns just long enough to fuck things up and make a quick exit. He’s was a total creep and we found out a few years later that he was stealing from one of our funeral homes. He had his moments but for the most part, I didn't want anything to do with this guy…Especially after drinking almost half of my $36 bottle of Gentleman Jack. Actually, I'm probably just drunk enough to enjoy his company.
We turn on to Roosevelt, the police station is on our right. Andy has managed to keep the van under control even with the several inches of black ice and snow covering the roads. Andy tells me that we're to call a number when we're outside the police station parking garage and an officer will open the giant chain gate to let us in. The car with the dead bodies is in a separate heated garage inside the building to thaw out for processing.
It just dawned on me, I'm kind of hammered and last time I checked I'm still not old enough to drink… I feel my anxiety levels rising…I’m not super eager to walk into a police station in my current condition. My plan is to keep my head down and stay as far out of the officers’ breath smelling distance as possible. I'm so happy I decided to eat those chips before I left. I can still taste the garlic. Garlic breath is better than booze breath. I'm fairly certain they won't lock me up for having bad breath.
Andy calls the number, the gate opens and we drive down a pretty drastic slope and enter the garage filled with a fleet of police cars. There must be 40 decked out Chevy Impalas polished up and ready for dispatch. We pull forward and an officer signals us to stop next to a plain gray door in the center of a the cinder block wall on our right. Andy loaded two stretchers in the van this evening. One standard, one oversized, we get out of the van and unload both without incident. The officer walks to the back of the van and tells us to follow him.
We walk through the gray door and quickly move through three different beige hallways, no windows, just ugly plain cinderblock. I realized that I've completely lost my bearings. When we come to the end of the hallway with another gray door. I feel a combination of claustrophobia and vertigo hit me all at once or maybe that was drink number three kickin’ in. The officer opens the door and Andy and I wheel our stretchers into a 20 by 20 garage lit by the brightest fluorescent lights I've ever experienced. The temperature of the light in this room is unnerving among other things.
'Welcome to the crime lab garage' I think to myself. Immediately upon entering the room, I'm almost knocked to the floor by a smell that burns my nasal cavities. It wasn't the smell of rotting flesh or piss and shit, I’ve smelled all those things before. This was new. It’s so unique but the more Im exposed to it the more I realize I’ve smelled this before at the funeral home but I can’t place it….Then it hits me almost as intensely as the smell itself. Ammonia, that's it! It smells like someone took two or three large bottles of ammonia and just poured them all over the room. I look at Andy as we park the stretchers. We make eye contact and I pointed my nose while simultaneously making a confused face. “What the fuck is that?” I whisper.
Andy pulls two pair of blue heavy duty surgical gloves out of the front pocket of his stretcher, hands me a pair and then proceeds to blow my mind. He quietly tells me that the strong ammonia odor is coming from the blood. Apparently when someone dies suddenly all the blood cells in the body make one last screaming effort to stay alive and dump a ton of waste into the bloodstream. The waste is what gives the blood a strong scent of ammonia. You know when someone says they can smell blood in a movie or TV show? I think If this is what they're talking about.
Now that I have my gloves on and have adjusted to the smell, I take off my overcoat and suit jacket and tuck my tie between two buttons on my white dress shirt. This is simply precautionary. There is nothing worse than dipping your tie into something gross. It's almost always UNcleanable.
In this moment, I'm able to take in my surroundings. Perhaps it's the alcohol but something feels off. Under rows and rows of fluorescent lights there’s a maroon Chevy Cavalier riddled with bullet holes with all four of its doors and trunk wide open. Upon initial inspection, my eyes are drawn to two dead men in the backseat and rusted hood with a smattering of bullet holes. It seems that most of the shots were through the windshield, windows and door panels.The windshield is barely able to hold itself up.
Andy and I walk around the car to figure out our plan of attack. He flips open a black vinyl body bag, unzips it and places it on the ground next to the car and he tells me his plan. “If they’re frozen in a seated position, we won't be able to move em that easily… So we'll wiggle them out, lay them on the body bags and zip up the disaster pouch around them.” This sounds good to me. We move in.
We decided to start with the body in the driver's side backseat. The door’s already open and the hinges appear to be hyper extended. The crime scene techs probably bent the hinges while they were scrubbing the scene. Now up close, I’m finally able to take in the two dead men sitting in the backseat in front of me. These guys must have been a couple years older than me, both wearing Timberlands, black jeans and black jackets… like big puffy down jackets. One man has a New Era baseball cap on backwards while the other has a black stocking cap atop his head. I didn't see any logos but the brain matter, bullet holes and blood may have made it hard to notice. The ammonia smell inside the car is completely overwhelming. Blood is literally covering everything in the backseat. Chunks of thawing brain and meat are all over the headrest. I pick up a piece near the seat belt and squeeze it with my middle finger and thumb. It's still a little frozen so it crunches a bit before turning into mush between my fingers. I wiped my hand on a clean part of the interior.
Bullet holes are weird…For something that can end your life so quickly, they don't leave much of a mark on their way in…BUT the way out is a totally different story. I have no idea how many times these men were shot but they’re covered and destroyed by bullet holes. Chin, hands, thighs under the eyeballs and everywhere else. There wasn’t a part of either of these men’s bodies that didn’t have at least one bullet hole… I didn't see their feet though…if I’m being completely transparent.
This is gore. This is a complete horror show. Someone wanted these men dead… like seriously dead. Was it the driver or could it have been the front seat passenger? There must have been someone sitting in the front seat, right? Why else would two grown men sit in the backseat together if there was an open front seat? By the number of holes, I come to the conclusion that at least two people had to have shot up this car….Far too many holes for one shooter and it was definitely people they thought they were close to…
With half my body in the car, the smell of ammonia is blending with the smell of shit…which is undoubtedly oozing from one or all of the many holes in these men's stomachs. Thankfully, the taste of the garlic chips and whiskey I had earlier keeping me from gagging. Both men looked like they were sleeping like someone's dad or brother in the backseat on a road trip but riddled with holes and covered and smelly blood and falling human chunks.
There's only enough room for one of us in the car’s backseat door opening so Andy gets in the driver's seat backwards and reaches back around the front seat to help shimmy the body out. I press the button and unbuckle the seatbelt, it whips back into its home position startling Andy and I. Everything in this car is covered with blood or some sort of human matter. My gloves are literally covered in blood from just unbuckling the seatbelt and now the taste of the ammonia smell is dripping its way into my mouth through my throat. The officers are having some sort of quiet discussion standing by the door we came in earlier. It's not uncommon for police officers to be completely apathetic about crime scenes when the funeral home arrives. The investigation is basically over tonight these officers couldn't care less about their scene. They just wanted to get these bodies moved out of the garage so they could get home to their families. I get that… but their lack of supervision is troubling, especially with what happens next.
I am now completely hunched over the body in the back passenger seat while Andy is supervising from the front turned around in the driver's seat with his gloved hands on the headrest. I tell Andy that I think I'm strong enough to grab this man’s right forearm and slide his body out on my own. When I grabbed the man's forearm, I immediately feel something isn't right. I've grabbed lots of dead people's forearms before. None felt like this though. It was so hard and rigid….don’t get me wrong I understand this man is frozen BUT whatever I'm grabbing on to isn't human. It's something else. It's hard and feels like metal one of those cheap metal canes you'd buy at a drugstore. The three drinks circulating through my bloodstream make me curious but pensive. I tell Andy that I'm not touching a man's arm and that there's something else in this man’s jacket.
I interrupted the police officers conversation. “Hey, something isn't right here.” An officer and I switch places as he pulls out a tactical knife and starts cutting away the sleeve to the blood soaked down jacket. “It’s a FUCKING GUN.” I look over his shoulder and see the open sleeve of a jacket revealing a sawed off shotgun. The inside of the coat was some sort of bright orange material so the short barrel of the shotgun stand out…and so did the trigger but not because of its color. It stood out because of frozen dead man’s finger hooked over and frozen around it. Did I mention the gun was cocked. This means that the slightest movement would have caused a sudden discharge… The gun would have fired directly into the driver's seat, the seat where Andy was supervising from AND apparently Andy and I noticed this at the same time.
The next sound we hear was an officer saying, “Gun! Loaded gun!”
Andy and I step back while the officers deal with the gun… he's freaked out…I can tell by the blotchy greenish yellow color he skin has turned in the last 30 seconds. Andy says, “I don't like guns. I don't like guns.”
“It's cool, man. Nobody got shot.” I say not being too sympathetic. I'm definitely drunk now and the idea of a frozen dead man shooting my partner in the chest is kind of hilarious, even if it would have been my fault. I giggle internally. Andy quickly moves towards the door and says, “I need to get some fresh air” and scurries out like an asshole letting the door slam behind him. Almost at the same moment the door closed. The three officers approached me from behind, “We got it out….It was loaded. Your buddy's lucky you didn’t shoot him in the chest.” I just snicker and tell the officers my partner needed some air and that I'll make the removals myself. How hard could it be? I'll just grab and pull.
Frozen bodies move in one piece while regular room temperature bodies are just floppy deadweight. These fellas are frozen solid…they felt like moving a heavy chair or peculiar shaped table out of your friend's car. Square peg in round holes, it was actually considerably easier than I anticipated.
The sound of the two bodies hitting a cold cement after pulling them out was very satisfying…a simple loud hollow frozen thud. I'm surrounded by awfulness and all I can think about is how proud I am that I just handled this crime scene on my own. I can't wait to eat that Butterfinger waiting for me in the car. It's a fitting reward but also something to get rid of this ammonia and garlic taste overpowering my senses at the moment.
Andy still hasn't come back and we're about to zip up the last body bag. An officer had put on a pair of gloves to help me maneuver the second man's rigid bent knees into the body bag. This man's body was like a complicated Tetris piece. Once in, we each grab a zipper on either side of the black vinyl bag and zip our respective ends until they meet in the middle. I nod my head at the officer and say, “That's how it's done!”
The officer looks at me sternly and says, “Did you just come from a party?” I look at him confused and respond, ”What?”
The officer tells me that he just got a waft of alcohol. “It reeks like booze over here.” I closed my mouth quickly and my heart begins to beat out of my chest. I must smell like a distillery… so much for those garlic chips. Laughing, I say, “On a Tuesday? Come on, man!” The officer stands up and says, “Let's run a tox screen on these guys to find out how fucked up they were before getting blasted.”
Looks like a dodged a bullet. How did he smell my whiskey breath over the ammonia smell? Does my breath just smell like straight rubbing alcohol? I feel bad that these dead guys got blamed for MY alcohol breath but, at least, I won't be walking out of here with an underage drinking ticket.
Calming down and feeling relieved. I looked down on my shirt and see that my necktie, my very favorite Ralph Lauren necktie, had fallen out of my shirt at some point and had been dipped into some smelly smelly blood. Fuck! Of course I ruined my favorite necktie on a night I'm not even supposed to be working. I undo the knot and throw the tie into a biohazard bag. The rest of the removal was kind of a blur because I was laser focused thinking about that Butterfinger I left in the car. The alcohol plus all the blood smell I kind of made my stomach sour. My mouth starts to water thinking about that candy bar.
One of the officers helps me wheel the stretchers out to the van in the main area of the police station parking garage. I can see exhaust coming out of our van. It's on? Did we leave the van running? I open the back of the van to find Andy laying down in the center of the wooden roller board taking up the entire back of the van. The sound startles him and he quickly jumps up to a seated position and says, “I'm sorry man, guns really freak me out. I almost got shot…. I thought I was gonna pass out.”
I notice a yellow rapper sitting next to his right leg. He noticed that I noticed. “Oh yeah, I owe you a candy bar.” He says in a nonchalant manner.
All at once, my dislike for Andy hit me like a tidal wave. I ruined my favorite tie and this asshole ate my candy bar? Andy, sensing my disappointment and anger, didn't say another word and I imagine what it would have been like if that shot gun would have gone off.
My name is Grant and these are My Funeral Home Stories.
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I was pouring drink number three when my phone rang… I'm 20 years old, a little drunk and in about an hour, I will have almost shot my colleague in the chest in front of three police officers and two frozen dead bodies. Weird. I can't say that I'm mentally ready for what I'm about to see this evening, who’s ever really ready to walk into a garage with a Chevy Cavalier riddled with bullets and two frozen gang bangers inside. My name is Grant and These are My Funeral Home Stories.
Chapter Two: three drinks, Two dead & One Candy Bar
It's about six o'clock on the 3rd Tuesday in February and factoring in the windchill, it's negative 14 degrees outside. I've been off of work for about an hour and I'm not on call tonight…So naturally, I'm just finishing up my second drink and considering whether to order pizza or Chinese tonight. I use my finger to stop by drink from bubbling over and the phone rings. It’s Andy, one of the directors from the funeral home that’s on call when Ned and I are off AND apparently the person he's on call with this evening is unreachable…If it's your job to be on call, you don't want this to happen. It's almost the equivalent of a no call no show at any other job. If you're on call, the only thing you have to do is wait for the phone to ring and when it does ring, you answer it. It’s really not that hard.
Andy is calling me to ask if I would fill in and go on a police call with him. There was a shooting and apparently there are two frozen dead bodies in a car… inside the police station. OK. Why are they at the police station? Great question. Apparently it was too cold outside to investigate and process the crime scene so they moved the crime scene into a heated garage inside a police station. This all sounds incredibly interesting to me but there's only one problem… I'm drunk. Well, on my way to drunk and I'm not old enough to drink. I'm not going anywhere near a police station. I explained to Andy that I'm in no condition to drive to the funeral home and he'd have to find someone else. He interrupted me and said, “ but you're not old enough to drink. Stay put. I'm picking you up. See you in 10.” He hung up the phone before I had time to argue.
Welp. Looks like I'm going to the police station against all better judgment. I finish my third drink as I put on my black 3 button double breasted black suit by Chaps that I picked up at Kohls. (Side note: all my other suits were at the dry cleaners. I hate this suit. It makes me look like a walking rectangle.) It's our funeral home’s policy that we dress cleanly and professionally while in public. This means you ruin a lot of good dress clothes but at least you look sharp… and you can write off your dry cleaning as a job related expense.
I run a razor over my face sans shaving cream because I’m in a hurry and our funeral home also has a strict no facial hair policy. No mustaches, no goatees and definitely no beards. I'm not sure why this is a rule, It just is. I take an extra long look at myself in the mirror to make sure I have myself in order. The last thing I want to do tonight is walk into a police station looking like a sloppy, drunk unshaven underage mess. Could I get fired for getting an underage drinking ticket while on a death call? I sure hope not. I hear a horn honking in the driveway. I peak out the front window, Andy’s out front in our 2004 black Pontiac minivan. It’s a pretty slick…Instead of back seats, our van has a polished oak floor with rollers spaced evenly down the length of the van. These rollers aid in sliding caskets in and out without scratching the van or caskets.
I’m almost ready. I decided to wear a heavy wool four button top coat, scarf and rubberized dress boots by Ecco, all black of course. (Side note: Always spend extra money on ‘nicer’ boots. You don't want your socks wet on death calls.) Although I hate the suit I have on, I am wearing my favorite necktie. It's white, black and navy blue diagonally striped made from handwoven silk by Ralph Lauren. Very sharp. Remember this tie… my favorite tie, it’ll come up again later. On my way out the door I stuffed a handful of garlic flavored chips in my mouth and pulled a Nestle Butterfinger candy bar out of the pantry. The garlic will help cover up the three Jack and Cokes I just had and put a little food in my stomach. The Butterfinger…well, that's my reward. I'll eat it on the way home. I fucking love Butterfingers and why not reward myself for what I'm about to do? I'm not even on call tonight. I deserve it.
From my house to the police station, it’s about 10 minutes… a straight shot with no traffic. Andy starts nervously giggling almost immediately when my door closes and buckle my seatbelt. Funeral Directors are generally interesting people but our pal, Andy, he's a real card. I'm going to tell you a few things about Andy and hopefully won't sound too judgmental in the process. Andy had a gastric bypass surgery three years ago and as has lost about 150 pounds andI don't think he's gone clothes shopping since his weight loss. All of his suits look like they're about five sizes too big. His skin is loose around his jawline giving him a permanent droopy dog expression. It's weird seeing someone whose clothes and skin don't fit their body. He's a nervous guy and he's always afraid of getting in trouble…but somehow he's blindly confident. That's it for the positives.
Andy talks the most deliberate and malicious shit about everyone in the office. It's pathological at this point, I'm not sure he's even aware of it. You really have to watch what you say around this guy… I mean, if you don't want it repeated or used against you, don't say it around Andy. Andy's jumped from funeral home to funeral home around the country settling in towns just long enough to fuck things up and make a quick exit. He’s was a total creep and we found out a few years later that he was stealing from one of our funeral homes. He had his moments but for the most part, I didn't want anything to do with this guy…Especially after drinking almost half of my $36 bottle of Gentleman Jack. Actually, I'm probably just drunk enough to enjoy his company.
We turn on to Roosevelt, the police station is on our right. Andy has managed to keep the van under control even with the several inches of black ice and snow covering the roads. Andy tells me that we're to call a number when we're outside the police station parking garage and an officer will open the giant chain gate to let us in. The car with the dead bodies is in a separate heated garage inside the building to thaw out for processing.
It just dawned on me, I'm kind of hammered and last time I checked I'm still not old enough to drink… I feel my anxiety levels rising…I’m not super eager to walk into a police station in my current condition. My plan is to keep my head down and stay as far out of the officers’ breath smelling distance as possible. I'm so happy I decided to eat those chips before I left. I can still taste the garlic. Garlic breath is better than booze breath. I'm fairly certain they won't lock me up for having bad breath.
Andy calls the number, the gate opens and we drive down a pretty drastic slope and enter the garage filled with a fleet of police cars. There must be 40 decked out Chevy Impalas polished up and ready for dispatch. We pull forward and an officer signals us to stop next to a plain gray door in the center of a the cinder block wall on our right. Andy loaded two stretchers in the van this evening. One standard, one oversized, we get out of the van and unload both without incident. The officer walks to the back of the van and tells us to follow him.
We walk through the gray door and quickly move through three different beige hallways, no windows, just ugly plain cinderblock. I realized that I've completely lost my bearings. When we come to the end of the hallway with another gray door. I feel a combination of claustrophobia and vertigo hit me all at once or maybe that was drink number three kickin’ in. The officer opens the door and Andy and I wheel our stretchers into a 20 by 20 garage lit by the brightest fluorescent lights I've ever experienced. The temperature of the light in this room is unnerving among other things.
'Welcome to the crime lab garage' I think to myself. Immediately upon entering the room, I'm almost knocked to the floor by a smell that burns my nasal cavities. It wasn't the smell of rotting flesh or piss and shit, I’ve smelled all those things before. This was new. It’s so unique but the more Im exposed to it the more I realize I’ve smelled this before at the funeral home but I can’t place it….Then it hits me almost as intensely as the smell itself. Ammonia, that's it! It smells like someone took two or three large bottles of ammonia and just poured them all over the room. I look at Andy as we park the stretchers. We make eye contact and I pointed my nose while simultaneously making a confused face. “What the fuck is that?” I whisper.
Andy pulls two pair of blue heavy duty surgical gloves out of the front pocket of his stretcher, hands me a pair and then proceeds to blow my mind. He quietly tells me that the strong ammonia odor is coming from the blood. Apparently when someone dies suddenly all the blood cells in the body make one last screaming effort to stay alive and dump a ton of waste into the bloodstream. The waste is what gives the blood a strong scent of ammonia. You know when someone says they can smell blood in a movie or TV show? I think If this is what they're talking about.
Now that I have my gloves on and have adjusted to the smell, I take off my overcoat and suit jacket and tuck my tie between two buttons on my white dress shirt. This is simply precautionary. There is nothing worse than dipping your tie into something gross. It's almost always UNcleanable.
In this moment, I'm able to take in my surroundings. Perhaps it's the alcohol but something feels off. Under rows and rows of fluorescent lights there’s a maroon Chevy Cavalier riddled with bullet holes with all four of its doors and trunk wide open. Upon initial inspection, my eyes are drawn to two dead men in the backseat and rusted hood with a smattering of bullet holes. It seems that most of the shots were through the windshield, windows and door panels.The windshield is barely able to hold itself up.
Andy and I walk around the car to figure out our plan of attack. He flips open a black vinyl body bag, unzips it and places it on the ground next to the car and he tells me his plan. “If they’re frozen in a seated position, we won't be able to move em that easily… So we'll wiggle them out, lay them on the body bags and zip up the disaster pouch around them.” This sounds good to me. We move in.
We decided to start with the body in the driver's side backseat. The door’s already open and the hinges appear to be hyper extended. The crime scene techs probably bent the hinges while they were scrubbing the scene. Now up close, I’m finally able to take in the two dead men sitting in the backseat in front of me. These guys must have been a couple years older than me, both wearing Timberlands, black jeans and black jackets… like big puffy down jackets. One man has a New Era baseball cap on backwards while the other has a black stocking cap atop his head. I didn't see any logos but the brain matter, bullet holes and blood may have made it hard to notice. The ammonia smell inside the car is completely overwhelming. Blood is literally covering everything in the backseat. Chunks of thawing brain and meat are all over the headrest. I pick up a piece near the seat belt and squeeze it with my middle finger and thumb. It's still a little frozen so it crunches a bit before turning into mush between my fingers. I wiped my hand on a clean part of the interior.
Bullet holes are weird…For something that can end your life so quickly, they don't leave much of a mark on their way in…BUT the way out is a totally different story. I have no idea how many times these men were shot but they’re covered and destroyed by bullet holes. Chin, hands, thighs under the eyeballs and everywhere else. There wasn’t a part of either of these men’s bodies that didn’t have at least one bullet hole… I didn't see their feet though…if I’m being completely transparent.
This is gore. This is a complete horror show. Someone wanted these men dead… like seriously dead. Was it the driver or could it have been the front seat passenger? There must have been someone sitting in the front seat, right? Why else would two grown men sit in the backseat together if there was an open front seat? By the number of holes, I come to the conclusion that at least two people had to have shot up this car….Far too many holes for one shooter and it was definitely people they thought they were close to…
With half my body in the car, the smell of ammonia is blending with the smell of shit…which is undoubtedly oozing from one or all of the many holes in these men's stomachs. Thankfully, the taste of the garlic chips and whiskey I had earlier keeping me from gagging. Both men looked like they were sleeping like someone's dad or brother in the backseat on a road trip but riddled with holes and covered and smelly blood and falling human chunks.
There's only enough room for one of us in the car’s backseat door opening so Andy gets in the driver's seat backwards and reaches back around the front seat to help shimmy the body out. I press the button and unbuckle the seatbelt, it whips back into its home position startling Andy and I. Everything in this car is covered with blood or some sort of human matter. My gloves are literally covered in blood from just unbuckling the seatbelt and now the taste of the ammonia smell is dripping its way into my mouth through my throat. The officers are having some sort of quiet discussion standing by the door we came in earlier. It's not uncommon for police officers to be completely apathetic about crime scenes when the funeral home arrives. The investigation is basically over tonight these officers couldn't care less about their scene. They just wanted to get these bodies moved out of the garage so they could get home to their families. I get that… but their lack of supervision is troubling, especially with what happens next.
I am now completely hunched over the body in the back passenger seat while Andy is supervising from the front turned around in the driver's seat with his gloved hands on the headrest. I tell Andy that I think I'm strong enough to grab this man’s right forearm and slide his body out on my own. When I grabbed the man's forearm, I immediately feel something isn't right. I've grabbed lots of dead people's forearms before. None felt like this though. It was so hard and rigid….don’t get me wrong I understand this man is frozen BUT whatever I'm grabbing on to isn't human. It's something else. It's hard and feels like metal one of those cheap metal canes you'd buy at a drugstore. The three drinks circulating through my bloodstream make me curious but pensive. I tell Andy that I'm not touching a man's arm and that there's something else in this man’s jacket.
I interrupted the police officers conversation. “Hey, something isn't right here.” An officer and I switch places as he pulls out a tactical knife and starts cutting away the sleeve to the blood soaked down jacket. “It’s a FUCKING GUN.” I look over his shoulder and see the open sleeve of a jacket revealing a sawed off shotgun. The inside of the coat was some sort of bright orange material so the short barrel of the shotgun stand out…and so did the trigger but not because of its color. It stood out because of frozen dead man’s finger hooked over and frozen around it. Did I mention the gun was cocked. This means that the slightest movement would have caused a sudden discharge… The gun would have fired directly into the driver's seat, the seat where Andy was supervising from AND apparently Andy and I noticed this at the same time.
The next sound we hear was an officer saying, “Gun! Loaded gun!”
Andy and I step back while the officers deal with the gun… he's freaked out…I can tell by the blotchy greenish yellow color he skin has turned in the last 30 seconds. Andy says, “I don't like guns. I don't like guns.”
“It's cool, man. Nobody got shot.” I say not being too sympathetic. I'm definitely drunk now and the idea of a frozen dead man shooting my partner in the chest is kind of hilarious, even if it would have been my fault. I giggle internally. Andy quickly moves towards the door and says, “I need to get some fresh air” and scurries out like an asshole letting the door slam behind him. Almost at the same moment the door closed. The three officers approached me from behind, “We got it out….It was loaded. Your buddy's lucky you didn’t shoot him in the chest.” I just snicker and tell the officers my partner needed some air and that I'll make the removals myself. How hard could it be? I'll just grab and pull.
Frozen bodies move in one piece while regular room temperature bodies are just floppy deadweight. These fellas are frozen solid…they felt like moving a heavy chair or peculiar shaped table out of your friend's car. Square peg in round holes, it was actually considerably easier than I anticipated.
The sound of the two bodies hitting a cold cement after pulling them out was very satisfying…a simple loud hollow frozen thud. I'm surrounded by awfulness and all I can think about is how proud I am that I just handled this crime scene on my own. I can't wait to eat that Butterfinger waiting for me in the car. It's a fitting reward but also something to get rid of this ammonia and garlic taste overpowering my senses at the moment.
Andy still hasn't come back and we're about to zip up the last body bag. An officer had put on a pair of gloves to help me maneuver the second man's rigid bent knees into the body bag. This man's body was like a complicated Tetris piece. Once in, we each grab a zipper on either side of the black vinyl bag and zip our respective ends until they meet in the middle. I nod my head at the officer and say, “That's how it's done!”
The officer looks at me sternly and says, “Did you just come from a party?” I look at him confused and respond, ”What?”
The officer tells me that he just got a waft of alcohol. “It reeks like booze over here.” I closed my mouth quickly and my heart begins to beat out of my chest. I must smell like a distillery… so much for those garlic chips. Laughing, I say, “On a Tuesday? Come on, man!” The officer stands up and says, “Let's run a tox screen on these guys to find out how fucked up they were before getting blasted.”
Looks like a dodged a bullet. How did he smell my whiskey breath over the ammonia smell? Does my breath just smell like straight rubbing alcohol? I feel bad that these dead guys got blamed for MY alcohol breath but, at least, I won't be walking out of here with an underage drinking ticket.
Calming down and feeling relieved. I looked down on my shirt and see that my necktie, my very favorite Ralph Lauren necktie, had fallen out of my shirt at some point and had been dipped into some smelly smelly blood. Fuck! Of course I ruined my favorite necktie on a night I'm not even supposed to be working. I undo the knot and throw the tie into a biohazard bag. The rest of the removal was kind of a blur because I was laser focused thinking about that Butterfinger I left in the car. The alcohol plus all the blood smell I kind of made my stomach sour. My mouth starts to water thinking about that candy bar.
One of the officers helps me wheel the stretchers out to the van in the main area of the police station parking garage. I can see exhaust coming out of our van. It's on? Did we leave the van running? I open the back of the van to find Andy laying down in the center of the wooden roller board taking up the entire back of the van. The sound startles him and he quickly jumps up to a seated position and says, “I'm sorry man, guns really freak me out. I almost got shot…. I thought I was gonna pass out.”
I notice a yellow rapper sitting next to his right leg. He noticed that I noticed. “Oh yeah, I owe you a candy bar.” He says in a nonchalant manner.
All at once, my dislike for Andy hit me like a tidal wave. I ruined my favorite tie and this asshole ate my candy bar? Andy, sensing my disappointment and anger, didn't say another word and I imagine what it would have been like if that shot gun would have gone off.
My name is Grant and these are My Funeral Home Stories.
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Hey /Music,
A few years ago I posted my playlists to this subreddit, and I still get some comments on that post, so I decided to post them so more people can see them, and hopefully be prepared whenever someone asks them to play some music!
Some of these playlists might have a couple of familiar songs, but I'm entirely confident that everyone will find some new music in every single playlist here. I won't give you any more filler than is necessary, just a quick explanation of the intended mood of each playlist - and its flagship songs.

Playlist	Listening Context	Flagship Songs	Links
Sanctuary Sessions	This is music for when you need to put yourself in a good mood and remind yourself that the world is an alright place.	Sam the Samba Man, Sense, Para Ouvir No Rádio	Spotify / Apple Music
Sapphire Sessions	This is the melancholic playlist of the bunch. Play this when you're down in the dumps.	I Need Some Sleep, Shadow's Song, Good News	Spotify / Apple Music
Scarecrow Sessions	This is a playlist for autumn. A good mix of hearty songs for when the leaves change colour.	Old Friends, Grumpus, Never Meant	Spotify / Apple Music
Seaweed Sessions	Songs that make you feel like you're in the Krusty Krab. A feel-good mix.	Fisherman, Quiero, Waikiki Wiggle	Spotify / Apple Music
Snowboard Sessions	Songs to shred to. I'll use it as a pump up playlist at different points as well. Lots of punk and rap.	Tondo, Popeye, Six Wave Hold-Down	Spotify / Apple Music
Snowfall Sessions	One of two winter playlists. This playlist has cozy acoustic music to warm you up when you need it.	Little Garçon, Pale Blue Eyes, Fantasy Theme	Spotify / Apple Music
Soirée Sessions	Having guests over for a fancy dinner? This smooth playlist will help them feel at home. Great for board game night too.	Moondance, Autumn Leaves, I'm So Happy Now	Spotify / Apple Music
Sprouting Sessions	A very happy playlist. Meant for spring when the snow is starting to melt and you are feeling optimistic again.	Lisztomania, Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken, Paint Me Silver	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 1	The first of the Stairwell Sessions - all of which are meant to be accompanied with psychoactive substances. This one is great for relaxing conversations with friends.	O Trem Azul, Dreams Tonite, Crazy	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 2	This one has a pretty simple mandate: hip-hop to get high to.	Snakes, Rapp Snitch Knishes, Where I'm From	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 3	This playlist has a lot of synthpop for when you're feeling energetic. Also meant to get high to.	Realiti, Crimewave, Écoute Chérie	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 4	This is the closest thing to a personal playlist out of these all. Listening to this playlist can be a very intense experience while high. Some songs are not as accessible.	Serious Shit, Navy & Cream, Romanticist	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 5	This is a playlist with all the "epic" songs. I think the average track length is over 10 minutes; don't let that distract you from how great some of these songs are.	Long Season, Maggot Brain, Impossible Soul	Spotify / Apple Music
Stairwell Sessions Vol. 6	This one is almost like a sister playlist of Vol. 4. It has a lot of ethereal music for when you want to disassociate.	That's Us/Wild Combination, Sept, Clube Da Esquina No. 2	Spotify / Apple Music
Starlight Sessions	A playlist for stargazing. Lots of pensive tracks to help you realize our scale in this universe.	Man of Oil, Space Song, Sleeping on the Roof	Spotify / Apple Music
Steppin' Sessions	This is the party playlist. Not enough people are giving Disco love these days, but it's still great music to get sent.	Histoire d'1 soir, Stayin' Alive, And the Beat Goes On	Spotify / Apple Music
Stormcloud Sessions	For really murky days where you can't see much but gray. This playlist gives you room to sulk but also energy to still get things done.	Guns of Brixton, Dreams, Riot!	Spotify / Apple Music
Strawberry Sessions	This is one of the most accessible playlists. Play this one in a casual setting if you don't know people's music taste yet. Great for balmy summer nights.	Buttercup, BLEACH, It Was A Good Day	Spotify / Apple Music
Streetlight Sessions	Play this when you are driving somewhere late at night, with only the moon and streetlights guiding you. It is a high enough tempo playlist to keep you up, and fits the surroundings quite well.	Roads, Girl, Nightcall	Spotify / Apple Music
Study Sessions	An ambient playlist. I understand not everyone studies to ambient music, but this is great for those who do. It is also a lovely mix to put on as you fall asleep.	Quiet Friend, Banteay Srey 1991, A Walking Embrace	Spotify / Apple Music
Subaru Sessions	A mix for road trips. The only word relating to road trips that I could find that also began with an 'S' is Subaru, so I had to go with it.	Corona, Ain't No Rest For The Wicked, Better Days	Spotify / Apple Music
Subzero Sessions	One of two winter playlists. Compared to Snowfall Sessions, this one is for when you give in to the cold. Chilling songs are in this mix.	Iron Galaxy, Lorelei, Keep The Streets Empty For Me	Spotify / Apple Music
Sunflower Sessions	One of three summer playlists. This playlist has casual acoustic music that puts you into a good headspace. Have a beer with the lads.	Golden Days, Patio Song, Listen to the Music	Spotify / Apple Music
Sunscreen Sessions Vol. 1	One of three summer playlists. This playlist is full of summer jams for when you are soaking in the sun. It also works as a party playlist.	Dapper, Slide, Hoes at Trader Joe's	Spotify / Apple Music
Sunscreen Sessions Vol. 2	One of three summer playlists. This playlist is the spiritual successor to Vol. 1. There's some overlap, but it's mostly a fresh batch of great summer tunes.	Don't Need You, Walking in the Rain, Shine Blockas Remix	Spotify / Apple Music
Sweaty Sessions	For when you get sweaty with that special someone.	Thinkin About You, West Coast Love, Brown	Spotify / Apple Music
System Sessions	A playlist of very low-key house music. Lots of deep/outsider house is great for when you're doing repetitive tasks.	Right Here! Right Now!, Innerbloom, Fish	Spotify / Apple Music

I have spent years curating these playlists, taking out songs almost as fast as I add them to keep quality high. Somewhere along the way, I decided to collect all the songs that either didn't make the cut or didn't fit into any specific playlist. Thus, Spare Sessions was born. This is an incredibly eclectic mix of music, recommended for only the very adventurous listener.
As happy as I am with all of these playlists, none of them are (or ever will be) fully complete. I'll continue to add and remove songs from them in the future. So, if you have any song recommendations for any of these playlists I would love to hear them. Last note, I use Spotify so I will rarely update the Apple Music playlists, but I felt like sharing them since not everyone is on Spotify.
Enjoy :)

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In Part One, Kazuchika Okada waged war on the wrestling world as part of his quest to purify NJPW, killing BULLET CLUB and giving CHAOS a much-needed facelift in the process. Hirooki Goto and company have since taken refuge under Katsuyori Shibata’s new “Takeover” stable, which has recruited Ren Narita’s services. Sabre-Gun’s been on the up too, expanding to include the likes of Blake Christian and Clark Connors with the recent Best of the Super Juniors, continuing to be at odds with Just6Guys. There’s one group that’s yet to be addressed though, and that’s… United Empire.
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After finally vanquishing Kenny Omega at Forbidden Door, Will Ospreay sets his sights on the next logical step – the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. With another of his white whales clutching onto it tightly, he wants closure to this legendary saga too, and so, he calls out the Rainmaker. Big Brother Kazu isn’t fazed one bit by the challenge, telling Ospreay he’s been waiting for him, though not to expect a result any different to their many past matches. After all, from Okada’s point-of-view, Will isn’t NJPW’s next destined leader. There’s a different prodigal son waiting.
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Under CHAOS’s new vision, not only has Okada been building a ruthless band of companions willing to follow his regime change, but also focusing on its future, no longer being a top-heavy unit destined to collapse the moment Kazuchika stops supporting its roof. With Hiroshi Tanahashi already bringing in his younger counterpart, Shota Umino, Okada recruits the man prophesised to take over his mantle of Ace one day, Yuya Uemura. His Forbidden Door victory over Wheeler YUTA marking the end of his American excursion, Uemura accompanies his leader’s victory against Blackpool Combat Club in major fashion by accompanying him on the Kizuna Road loop.
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Kizuna Road - Night Four (July 3, 2023)
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CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Yuya Uemura) vs United Empire (Will Ospreay & Jeff Cobb)
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Impressing thus far, Yuya’s biggest test comes when he teams with Okada 2-on-2 for the very first time to confront UE’s Ospreay and Cobb, and he quickly silences their criticisms. A one-sided manhandling from Cobb soon turns into Uemura employing strategies passed down to him from Okada on how to beat the Hawaiian Hulk, giving him quite the culture shock, before Okada helps bang the big man’s drum. The flow shifts when Ospreay steps in though, severely outclassing Yuya to both his and Okada’s surprise. This is a different Will to the one Okada faced a year ago in the G1 Climax Finals.
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And yet, the Rainmaker has an ego problem. Tagging in, he tries to shut Will down, only to find for once, Ospreay seems to have his number. When the Commonwealth Kingpin has him beat though, going for the Hidden Blade, Yuya throws himself in harm’s way to buy Okada a moment, allowing Kazuchika to Dropkick Will out the equation, before drilling Cobb with a Rainmaker to win! As Ospreay grits his teeth, he understands it’ll take more than that to outsmart Okada.
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CHAOS def. United Empire (13:45)
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Wrestle Dynasty (July 8, 2023)
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Also on the show:
Sabre-Gun (El Phantasmo, Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste) (c) vs Ren Narita & Bishamon - NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
Aussie Open (c) vs CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino) - IWGP Tag Team Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs Jeff Cobb - IWGP United States Championship
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Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Will Ospreay IX - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
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Across 8 matches, Ospreay has never once beaten Okada cleanly, his only triumph coming from the night of his betrayal in the G1 3 years ago. But now, with a win over the man Okada failed to beat at Dominion, he’s in the best shape he’s ever been to end the reign of tyranny. The question is though, will he? Returning to Madison Square Garden for this historic show, the last time they were here Ospreay was losing to Cobb in a Winner Takes All opener, whilst Okada was winning back the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the main event. This time, they’re equals.
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Ospreay enters on a throne carried to the ring by UE, hamming up his Commonwealth Kingpin moniker and signalling the days of the Aerial Assassin to be long dead. Okada, on the other hand, is the same old Rainmaker, descending from the heavens on a platform, God mode in full effect. With pre-match introductions out the way, the bell rings, and the match gets underway! And in classic Okada/Ospreay fashion, Kazuchika expects to Big Brother Will with the Tanahashi/Okada-style headlock start… BUT OSPREAY RUSHES HIM WITH THE HIDDEN BLADE!!!
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Caught off guard, Okada only barely evades him, but Ospreay moves like a lightning bolt, instantly transitioning to springboarding off the ropes for an OSCUTTER! Okada catches it and grabs the wrist, ripcording him into a RAINMAKER! Will ducks though, blasting him with a MARUFUJI HOOK KICK! Okada rocked, nails a SILENT WHISPER to the back of the head, before hooking the arms for the STORM BREAKER!!! But yet again, the Rainmaker barely gets out of dodge, shoving Will away and sliding outside for a breather!
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Okada looks like he doesn’t know what’s just hit him, while Ospreay grins and mocks the Rainmaker pose. Snarling, Kazuchika slides back in and gets to trading blows with his challenger. Stiff elbows bounce off their heads in the centre of the ring, an Enzuigiri from Okada whiffing and a Handspring Enzuigiri from Will equally missing the mark! Kazu teases a Dropkick, causing Ospreay to leap, only to meet a stiff Uppercut once gravity gets hold of him.
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Tossed into the ropes for a proper Dropkick attempt, Will instead slides to the apron and thunders in with a PIP PIP CHEERIO! A Running Shooting Star Press misses, Ospreay rolling through and racing back at Okada, though he’s launched onto the top turnbuckle. Again, a frustrated Okada wants the Dropkick, but Ospreay catches the leg and spins him around, nailing an INVERTED TORNADO DDT! Crunch. Here come the neck issues.
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Okada dazed, nursing the injury in agony, Ospreay stomps the hell out of the neck, before connecting with a ROBINSON SPECIAL! He teases a follow-up OsCutter, Okada anticipating it, only to be faked into a SPIKE DDT! ONE! TWO! THR-KICK OUT! Okada DDT’d the life out of Will last time, so Ospreay’s making sure to return the favour here. He goes for broke one too many times though, a Hangman’s DDT attempt ending in Okada spearing Ospreay across the ring and through the ropes, both smacking off the apron to the floor!
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Turning feral ringside, Okada kicks Ospreay senseless like he’s Kaito, before forcefully connecting a DDT of his own! He whips Will at the guardrail for his patented Crossbody spot but Ospreay leaps over, a Silent Whisper staggering Okada, before an OSCUTTER SOARS IN… NOT THIS TIME – OKADA COUNTERS INTO A TOMBSTONE ON THE CONCRETE!!! Getting him back for the G1 Finals, Kazu smugly takes in the boos as Will twitches lifelessly at his feet.
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Tossing him in, a MISSILE DROPKICK guns into his neck, before another BEAUTIFUL DROPKICK smacks into his chest, Okada finally in control! A Flapjack plants Will face-first and an AIR RAID CRASH NECKBREAKER again targets the famously-troubled neck of Ospreay! ONE! TWO! THR-NO DICE! Cinching in the MONEY CLIP, he continues working it over, Will sputtering and gasping for breaths as he reaches out at the ropes. Right as he finds himself inches from them though, a GERMAN SUPLEX dumps him on his neck!
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Okada hits the pose, before dialling up the RAINMAKER… Ospreay snapmares him over, learning from last time to not back him up. and throws the HIDDEN BLADE!!! ONE! TWO! THR-NOOOOOOOO!!! Racing up top, Will prepares a Shooting Star Press, though Okada sluggishly rolls to the apron as he grabs at his head. Deciding to change trajectories… OSPREAY NAILS A SUPER OSCUTTER TO THE FLOOR!!! Body aching yet determined, Will rolls back in, only to soar back out with a SASUKE SPECIAL!!!
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Dragging Okada behind him, he drapes him over the top rope, heading back up to finally hit the BURNING STAR PRESS!!! ONE! TWO! THR-OKADA GETS A FOOT ON THE ROPE!!! Keeping his composure, Ospreay murders Okada’s face with Kawada Kicks, before a CHELSEA GRIN knocks him loopy… OSCUTTER INCOMING – OKADA COLLAPSES UNDER!!! Will smacks off the mat, not anticipating it, and lets out a pained grunt as both lay flat on their backs, New York roaring in approval!
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Ospreay finds his feet first and tries to pick Okada from his knees, though it results in him being tripped into the ropes throat-first! DROPKICK MEETS OSPREAY AS HE TURNS AROUND! Okada’s noticeably slower than usual, though he doesn’t let it hinder him, picking Will up to nail a SHORT-ARM RAINMAKER! Ospreay stays upright, returning a forearm smash, but another SHORT-ARM RAINMAKER takes him down! Okada teases the finishing blow, though Will resists, prompting Kazu to spike him with a LANDSLIDE instead! ONE! TWO! THR-OSPREAY SURVIVES!
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Hauling him right back up, Okada shoots again… WILL COUNTERS WITH AN OSCUTT- DROPKICKED OUT THE SKIES! Okada sets up the SPINNING RAINMAKER, but Ospreay nails the DISCUS ELBOW first! HOOK KICK drops him, before the HIDDEN BLADE closes in… OKADA DUCKS AND FIRES A JOHN WOO DROPKICK, SENDING OSPREAY INTO THE OPPOSITE CORNER! AND A HESITATION DROPKICK – SHADES OF SHIBATA! Will in the drop zone, Okada gets an idea, heading up top… HIGH FLY FLOW!!! ONE! TWO! THR-NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Okada scowls, picking Will up for the TOMBSTONE… OSPREAY REVERSES INTO A HITODENASHI DRIVER!!! ONE! TWO! THR-OKADA KICKS OUT!!! And now Ospreay hits the Rainmaker pose again! Securing wrist-control, he nails a RAINHAM MAKER!!! ONE! TWO! THR-STILL NO LUCK!!! Ospreay’s running out of options, though refuses to let his confidence waver, sticking to his gameplan. Mauling Okada’s arms, neck, and back with stomps, he picks him for only his second attempt at the ultimate final blow! OSPREAY WANTS STORM BREAKER!!!
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Getting Okada up… KAZU DROPS OUT AND NAILS THE RAINMAKER!!! BUT HE CAN’T COVER, HAVING TO NURSE THE ARM! Both men returning to their feet at the same time, they knock each other dead with strikes, Okada scoring the ENZUIGIRI this time, Ospreay returning the POP-UP FOREARM SMASH! Tearing off the elbow pad, OSPREAY FIRES UP THE HIDDEN BLADE… OKADA COUNTERS INTO THE SPINNING EMERALD FLOWSION!!! NOT AGAIN – THIS COMBO ENDED WILL LAST TIME! Okada spells the end… RAINMAKERRRRRRRRRRRR!!! ONE! THIS IS IT! TWO! MSG IS ON THEIR FEET! THRE… OSPREAY KICKS OUT!!! HE’S STILL IN IT!!!
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Okada looks like he’s seen a ghost, a barely twitching Ospreay laying at his feet with one shoulder raised! Refusing to accept it, the Rainmaker lifts him back up, BEFORE NAILING ANOTHER ON A DEFENCELESS WILL! Ospreay on his knees, head bowed, Kazu lifts him up by the hair to lock gazes with Will’s glazed-over eyes, before throwing a THIRD AND FINAL- OSPREAY HITS THE RAINMAKER!!! Okada drops like he’s been shot!
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And now Will realises this could be it. Struggling back up whilst maintaining wrist-control, he lets out a roar, before nailing a RIPCORD HIDDEN BLADE!!! Okada at his knees now, Will lifts his head up by the hair this time as Kazu dares him to finish him off, too weak to fight back… AND OSPREAY OBLIGES, FISHING HIM INTO A STORM BREAKERRRRRRRRRR!!! ONE! TWO! THREE!!! OSPREAY’S FINALLY DONE IT!!! WE HAVE A NEW CHAMPION!!!
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Will Ospreay def. Kazuchika Okada (c) to win the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (38:09)
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MSG loses its mind as both men lay exhausted, UE rushing out to celebrate with their leader, helping him to his feet and handing him his prize. Golden tickertape hails from the rafters like Okada Dollars, Ospreay seated on a makeshift arm throne by Cobb and O-Khan, raising his title high, whilst Aussie Open and Catch 22 stand on either side, brandishing their respective titles too! And as Okada recovers, rolling out the ring and returning up the ramp, he locks eyes with Ospreay, giving him a look which reads “I’ll be back.” Will doesn’t let it phase him though. This is his night. He’s earned this moment.
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G1 Climax 33
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Not having to wait long for his first test, he enters his fourth G1 for the first time as reigning champion, redeeming the chance that a neck injury robbed him of in 2021. Heading A Block, he battles CHAOS’s Hiroshi Tanahashi on Night One, who tries to avenge Okada’s loss, though meets the same fate. Will dominates his block, dropping his first match after an undefeated 6 nights, losing to Katsuyori Shibata after their teased program last year at Forbidden Door! Still first though, having victimised SANADA, Shota Umino, EVIL, PAC, and KENTA along the way, he murders El Phantasmo on his 8th night, before meeting Tetsuya Naito in the Block Finals after a 5* duology last year! Finally, El Ingobernable avenges his past losses to punch his ticket to the Finals! As for B Block, a Shingo Takagi victory over Sabre puts him through, setting up a rematch from 2019’s G1 between Naito and Takagi for the Finals, adding fuel to the fire of LIJ’s already turbulent year with SANADA’s betrayal!
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(Other key underlying stories are Naito’s loss to SANADA, KENTA beating Shibata in their first match as part of the TakeoveCHAOS feud, PAC finally returning to the ring as AEW’s representative to throw a spanner into LIJ’s works, Kaito taking Okada to a draw, Goto getting his win back over Okada, Sabre equalising his series with Taichi, and Yuya beating Yota in the first chapter of their Ace vs Dark Ace rivalry that’ll propel NJPW once Okada and Naito pass on the respective mantles.)
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G1 Climax 33 Finals (August 13, 2023)
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Also on this show:
Tetsuya Naito vs Shingo Takagi II - G1 Climax Finals
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United Empire (Will Ospreay & Catch 22) vs Los Ingobernables de Japon (Yota Tsuji, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI)
With Naito returning last year’s favour of having the Finals robbed from him by Ospreay, Will instead faces his potential Wrestle Kingdom main event opponent’s factionmates, bringing longest-reigning IWGP Junior Tag Team Champions Catch 22 along for the ride. Whilst using the opportunity to run back his critically acclaimed rivalry with Hiromu Takahashi, he also makes an example out of NEVER Openweight Champion Yota Tsuji, cracking down on the New Generation star to remind Naito and Shingo what he plans to do to them, before pinning BUSHI for the win!
United Empire def. Los Ingobernables de Japon (14:10)
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As UE celebrate their win… BANG! DOUBLE SUPERKICK TO OSPREAY! STEEL CHAIR TO TJP AND FRANCESCO AKIRA! THE ELITE IS HERE!!! No rest for the wicked, Omega plants his boot on Will’s head as he holds the IWGP World Title up, making his intentions crystal clear. His match with Okada ended without a clear victor, and so, he not only wants another crack at the belt, but to crush Ospreay to avenge Forbidden Door. And what better place to do that than Wembley Stadium!
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RevPro 11 Year Anniversary Show (August 26, 2023)
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Will Ospreay vs Ren Narita
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Whilst Ospreay/Omega III is announced for the following night, Will takes care of business in Copper Box Arena the night prior against one Ren Narita, continuing to test out the youth of NJPW, having already faced Yuya, Yota, and Shota in the past month. With Shibata holding a win over Ospreay’s head, promising to be back for the victor of ALL IN’s main event, Will batters his student in the meantime to remind him who the best wrestler in the world is right now, a Hidden Blade slaying Ren!
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Will Ospreay def. Ren Narita (16:07)
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ALL IN: London (August 27, 2023)
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Also on the show:
Zack Sabre Jr. (c)(c) vs Bryan Danielson – NJPW World Television/ROH Pure Championships
FTR (c) vs Aussie Open - AEW World Tag Team Championship
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Will Ospreay (c) vs Kenny Omega III - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
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They’ve fought in Japan’s Tokyo Dome, Canada’s Scotiabank Arena, and now, they finally settle the score in England’s Wembley Stadium. 90,000 strong in attendance, there’s a clear crowd favourite here, football chants raining down for Ospreay. Omega decides to lean into it, tapping fully into his Cleaner look and tendencies with Devil’s Sky, absorbing the hatred. Will, on the other hand, receives a standing ovation in an emotional homecoming, prepared to prove his superiority over Omega once and for all and silence those accusing him of lucky past couple months.
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The big first test for Will as champion starts with Kenny trying to get under Ospreay’s skin, stalling him out each time the Commonwealth Kingpin guns for him. Forcing him to work for his golden snitch, Kenny slides out and does jumping jacks until Will takes the bait, Omega quickly repossessing the ring, shutting Ospreay out. Will yells at the referee to back Kenny up, who obliges… ONLY TO EXPLODE FOR A V-TRIGGER THE MOMENT WILL RE-ENTERS!
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Ospreay leapfrogs him and comes off the ropes with a hurricanrana, Omega cartwheeling through and throwing one back, Will handstanding out, though not fast enough, eating a DROPKICK TO THE FACE! Ospreay stunned, Kenny launches him into the corner and dogs on him with vicious kicks and stomps until the referee intervenes, Omega throwing one last chest-slicing chop! Incensed, Ospreay rushes out with forearms for Kenny, lighting him up, the Kawada Kicks finding their mark, before a CHELSEA GRIN’S BLOCKED BY A V-TRIGGER!
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Ospreay shaking off his arm, Kenny capitalises with another V-TRIGGER, but Will ducks, nailing a Hook Kick, an OSCUTTER due to follow… OMEGA SUPERKICKS OSPREAY OVER THE ROPES! Will floored, a RISE OF THE TERMINATOR wipes him out! Gloating as England boos him, an even better idea crosses Kenny’s mind, sliding back in to nail a SASUKE SPECIAL! Nuclear heat. Battering Ospreay about the ring, he teases smashing his head through a table like WK17, though frantic back elbows force him off!
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Kenny seeing stars, Ospreay attempts an OSCUTTER OFF THE GUARDRAIL- V-TRIGGER TO THE BASE OF THE SKULL SNIPES HIM!!! A sickening thud reverberating through the arena as Ospreay’s head snaps forward, a sadistic Kenny lays the section of railing on Will’s body… BEFORE CONNECTING A DIVING DOUBLE FOOT STOMP OFF THE APRON!!! Champion crushed, Omega cackles and dusts off his hands, before kissing Will’s title, eager to bring it home.
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As Kenny taunts the crowd, Ospreay’s managed to feebly crawl out the rubble after the referee checking on him, though as Omega senses this, he’s immediately on his tail. Watching Will try to pull himself up using the steel post, KENNY CHARGES FOR ANOTHER V-TRIGGER… CRACK! OSPREAY MOVES OUT THE WAY, OMEGA’S KNEE HITTING THE STEEL INSTEAD!!! The Cleaner yowls in sheer agony as what was starting to look like another dominant showing takes a drastic left turn!
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Realising this, Will quickly capitalises, grabbing Omega’s wrists from the opposite side of the post, pulling him up to his feet… Kenny hysterically tries to fight Ospreay off, begging him to spare him, realising what’s coming, WILL YANKING OMEGA HEAD-FIRST INTO THE POST!!! Bouncing it off it over and over again, now it’s Kenny that’s busted open! Omega collapsing back to his knees, Ospreay next grabs the leg and SMASHES KENNY’S KNEE INTO THE POST!!! THEN THE GUARDRAIL!!! AND BACK!!! There’s no mercy from Ospreay tonight.
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Rolling Kenny in, he nails Omega’s YOU CAN’T ESCAPE! ONE! TWO! THR-KICK OUT! Forcing Omega to use the bad leg to free himself, Will goes right back to targeting it, kicking the inside of the knee and slamming it against the mat! SHOOTING STAR PRESS TO THE LEG! Omega can’t even be whipped across the ring, collapsing half-way, a ROBINSON SPECIAL crushing him instead! AND A SLINGSHOT CUTTER! ONE! TWO! THR-NO LUCK!
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Hooking the arms, Ospreay wants STORM BREAKER, but Omega counters into a hurricanrana pin for 2! A Running Knee Strike from Will comes up empty, Kenny flattening him with a SNAP DRAGON SUPLEX! AND A SECOND! KOTARO KRUSHER FOLLOWS! Smacking the leg to keep up, an AOI SHOUDOU plants Ospreay! ONE! TWO! THR-WILL STAYS IN IT! A Doctor Bomb attempt is subdued, Ospreay hammering the knee to escape, before a ROUNDHOUSE cleans Kenny’s clock, a POISONED FRANKENSTEINER standing him up, and an ESSEX DESTROY- POP-UP V-TRIGGER!!!
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Kenny desperately tries getting a limp Will on his shoulders for the ONE WINGED ANGEL, using the ropes for help, but Ospreay leans forwards, tumbling onto the apron to escape! SILENT WHISPER blasts Kenny… OMEGA THROWS A V-TRIGGER BACK, KNOCKING WILL OUT! Leg searing yet title more important, Kenny gingerly lifts Ospreay up the ropes with him, before going for OH GOD A MIDDLE ROPE CROYT’S WRATH!!! OSPREAY FLIPS TO HIS FEET!!!
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The sneer on Omega’s face slowly fades as realisation strikes him, shades of Ibushi/Ospreay, Will not even giving him a chance to respond, HOOK KICK CONNECTING! OSCUTTERRRRRRRRR!!! ONE! TWO! THR-NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Frustrated, Ospreay hammers on the cut on Kenny’s forehead, painting his own chest with Omega’s blood, BEFORE REMOVING THE TURNBUCKLE PAD! He wants to return the favour from WK! Taking Kenny to the top rope, Ospreay teases a DDT onto the exposed steel… Omega slips between his legs to the mat and CROTCHES WILL ON THE METAL!!!
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Kenny cackles as Ospreay howls, before packaging his head and nailing a CHEEKY NANDOS KICK! Blasting Will repeatedly, a V-TRIGGER FOLLOWS, SMASHING WILL’S HEAD INTO THE STEEL!!! AND HE SPINS HIM AROUND – AVALANCHE PHOENIX-PLEX!!! ONE! TWO! THR-NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Kenny beats on Will’s fresh cut, leaving both men bloody messes, before readying a V-TRIGGER… Ospreay grabs Omega’s foot! Pissed, Kenny shakes him off, nailing a STANDING V-TRIGGER straight to the cut, BEFORE SPIKING HIM WITH AN IBUSHI-STYLE BASTARD DRIVER!!! ONE! TWO! THR-OSPREAY SURVIVES AGAIN!!!
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Ospreay’s body limply leaning on the ropes, Kenny cocks and fires a V-TRIGGER, Will simply bouncing back head-first onto the Canadian! Setting him back, Omega takes another run-up, NAILING HIM WITH A SECOND IN SUCCESSION!!! The champion still out on his knees, twisted thoughts run through Kenny’s mind, prepping his elbow… HE WANTS TO CONCUSS WILL LIKE OSPREAY DID IBUSHI AT WK13!!! OMEGA THROWS THE HIDDEN BLADE… V-TRIGGER FROM OSPREAY!!! Sparking to life, he grabs the wrists and ripcords for a RAINHAM MAKER!!! ONE! TWO! THR-KENNY’S STILL IN IT!!!
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Omega on dream street, Ospreay locks and loads THE HIDDEN BLADE, CONNECTING FLUSH ON KENNY’S JAW!!! But as Will goes to cover, Omega collapses out the ring! Ospreay’s lets out a frustrated wail, but he makes the chase all the same, kicking the lifeless Kenny about ringside. A weak chop from Omega meets a sickening forearm, and a wild punch completely misses, Kenny’s legs giving out. TIGER SUPLEX DUMPS HIM ON THE FLOOR!!! Kenny now fully collapsed, Ospreay gets an idea… PULLING OUT A LADDER FROM UNDER THE RING!!!
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Clearing the commentary table, he hoists The Cleaner onto it, before propping the ladder next-door and climbing! Sending a silent prayer to the skies, OSPREAY LAUNCHES OFF WITH A PHOENIX SPLASH, CONNECTING ALL OF IT!!! The crowd goes ballistic with the two men dead in the rubble, both unmoving for several seconds until Will finally faintly grins to himself for returning a taste of WK17’s table. Dragging himself inside, he flops into his corner, lying in wait for the challenger, who has the look of a soulless corpse once he finds his feet and locks eyes with Ospreay, barely rolling inside at 9 but immediately collapsing again.
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Ready to end it, Will crawls over and lifts Kenny to his knees by the wrists, SCORING A KAMIGOYE-STYLE HIDDEN BLADE!!! Omega rocked, Ospreay backs up to his corner for seconds, BUT KENNY PULLS THE REFEREE INTO THE WAY! Will catches himself in time, pausing in his tracks, though is left exposed to a LOW BLOW!!! Wembley goes mental with boos as Kenny weakly chuckles, feebly clawing up to his feet up a confused referee to nail a V-TRIGGER!!! Lifting him by the wrists, a RAIN TRIGGER FOLLOWS!!! AND HE GETS THE ELECTRIC CHAIR AGAINST ALL ODDS… BUT HE COLLAPSES!!!
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Omega shakes his head in denial, tearing up, his golden ticket in the palm of his hands! Heaving himself back up, he tries again, but Will anchors his body to the ground! Incredulous, he grabs Ospreay by the hair, who grins mockingly, AND SLAMS AN UGLY REAR KAMIGOYE INTO THE BACK OF HIS HEAD!!! COVER!!! ONE! T-KICK OUT!!! OSPREAY KICKS OUT AT ONE!!! Though still completely out of it, the act of sheer defiance certainly sees Kenny’s confidence shatter in real time, who like an unhinged animal beats on Ospreay’s forehead gash until Omega too collapses next to him!
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In a last-ditch effort, he staggers to his feet and puts Will’s head between his legs, wanting a CLASSIC PILEDRIVER!!! OSPREAY HANDSTANDS OUT!!! Omega’s horrified- HIDDEN BLADE!!! ONE TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD!!! Kenny kneeled, Ospreay stands next to him, prepping the OsCutter, but Omega grabs him by the tights! No force in him though, he tells Will to look him in the eyes… AND HE FLIPS HIM OFF!!! SILENT WHISPER TO KENNY!!! AND AN OSCUTTER!!! Rolling through, he deadlifts him up, CONNECTING THE STORM BREAKERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! ONE! TWO! THREE!!!
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Will Ospreay (c) def. Kenny Omega to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (43:29)
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At long last, it’s over. In front of his own people, the Commonwealth Kingpin has proven he’s Japan’s top gaijin and the most valuable wrestler today. Handed his gold, he watches as a prideful Omega refuses help, mustering up the strength to drag himself up using the ropes, before meeting Will’s gaze. At the end of the first match, he gloated. At the end of the second, he was crushed. But now? He gives Will a subtle nod of respect, officially passing the torch as he takes his bow, leaving Ospreay to take over the world.
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Whilst he may have knocked down his two biggest obstacles in Okada and Omega, a dark horse third awaits him back in Japan by the name of Katsuyori Shibata! The only other individual to beat Will in the G1 other than the winner himself, he calls him out for a shot, still waiting on a reign of his own. A determined Ospreay doesn’t back down, though when he goes for a rare show of respect in a press conference heading in, extending a hand as the bigger man, Shibata outright refuses to shake! Seeing through Will’s superficialness, he declares that he owes Ospreay no respect, refusing to accept him as the company’s face that they’ve so desperately tried to mould him into. He was held back for choosing to carve his own path away from the Musketeers, and now he’s going to stick it to the company by exposing their golden boy like Sakura Genesis 2017! Will grits his teeth but says nothing, knowing he’ll just need to prove himself again.
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Wrestle Grand Slam in Belluna Dome (September 10, 2023)
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Also on the show:
Yota Tsuji (c) vs Yuya Uemura - NEVER Openweight Championship
Catch 22 (c) vs CHAOS (SHO & Taiji Ishimori) - IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Aussie Open (c) vs FTR - IWGP Tag Team Championship
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Will Ospreay (c) vs Katsuyori Shibata III - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
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In only the third IWGP World Title match of his career, 6 years since the infamous incident, The Wrestler receives a chance to redeem all the troubles he was put through and avenge his pupil Narita in the process. As for Ospreay, having lost to Shibata in both their matches in 2017 and 2023 respectively, he must carve out his spot definitively by knocking down another of his white whales. Taking place interestingly in KENTA’s hometown, Katsuyori’s even more driven to stick it to the man he despises most and lost to in the G1 by winning here, a pair of rather simple, stoic entrances setting the tone for the main event.
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Initially, just like the G1, Shibata starts by beating the hell out of the much younger star to humble him, though Ospreay’s much quicker to put up his fists this time, learning. Youthful arrogance sees him get a couple teeth knocked down his throat though, his patented elbows instantly receiving a much stiffer receipt from Shibata, dropping him dead! Unable to outstrike the most dangerous man in New Japan, Will instead leans on his weight advantage, brutally slamming him down with London Has Fallen and scoring a vicious Liger Bomb to boot. Growing comfortable, he attempts the OsCutter, BUT IS CAUGHT WITH A SLEEPER!
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Choked to a plum colour, the finishing PK narrowly misses, Ospreay dropping him with an ESSEX DESTROYER instead! Cruelling focusing on the skull, Will regains advantage, getting nasty with Kawada Kicks and a CHELSEA GRIN that rocks Shibata! An aerial attempt is again blocked, Shibata evading a Shooting Star Press and simply slapping the hell out of Will! A B*TCHMAKER almost ends him, Katsuyori mocking him as a lesser Okada, but Will takes it personally, rocking him with a brutal Running Knee Strike and nailing a SPIKE PILEDRIVER! Shibata on his knees, inviting Will to give him his best, a (protected) HIDDEN BLADE cracks him upside the head, Ospreay knocking the striker out cold for 3 to retain!
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Will Ospreay (c) def. Katsuyori Shibata to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (31:46)
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Doubt him, and you’ll be made to regret it. Though earlier in the night, Catch 22’s legendary reign came to an end, United Empire is stronger than ever with Ospreay taking down a murderer’s row of competition. Selling out MSG, Wembley, and a Dome, he only continues to elevate to higher heights. Whilst Shibata is left to be mugged by KENTA to close the show, Will can walk away proud of himself, on the run of a lifetime.
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With the Burning Spirit tour up next leading into a second homecoming in one reign for Ospreay at Royal Quest III, there’s one man in particular that’s been barking up his tree as of late, and that’s the NJPW World Television and ROH Pure Champion Zack Sabre Jr.! Someone who’s been a thorn in Will’s side every step of the way and vice versa, he’s not content holding just two titles, wanting to reclaim his status as Zacky Three Belts, and what better way to do that than with the World Championship! Citing his far superior record and win in their last meeting in 2022’s New Japan Cup, Ospreay grants him a chance to show how deserving he truly is.
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Burning Spirit - Night Six (September 23, 2023)
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Birds of Prey (Will Ospreay & Robbie Eagles) vs Sabre-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr. & Gabriel Kidd)
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Will picking his close friend Robbie Eagles to join him (who defected to United Empire during CHAOS’s rebranding after dissension with Lio Rush over Sakura Genesis’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship shot), Sabre chooses an interesting ally of his own in Sabre-Gun’s rising star Gabriel Kidd! Zack’s empire slowly growing across 2023 with the additions of El Phantasmo, El Desperado, TMDK, Blake Christian, Clark Connors, and Kosei Fujita, Kidd’s been another that’s greatly impressed since his return from excursion, joining Zack in a tag on the G1 Finals Night to officially become part of the stable, playing off their history of fighting until respect was reached. Originally set to challenge Ospreay for his RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship last year until a mental health break cancelled those plans, unfinished business stands between the two, Kidd still looking to get Will back for chipping his elbow in a Ladder match back in WCPW 6 years ago.
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The animosity between the two very much shows here, as even with Ospreay ascending to untouchable heights in the past year, he’s still the same Will to Kidd, who incessantly targets him throughout the match, wanting his pound of flesh. Will, of course, outclasses him, using his incredible chemistry with Eagles to keep Gabriel at bay, though their shifted focus does open the doors for ZSJ to employ his cunning, bending Ospreay’s arm over the guardrail with an Article 50 before massacring Robbie, an Orienteering With Napalm Death decisively tapping him out! Holding up all three belts as a hurt Will composes himself, Zack sends a definitive statement of things to come.
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Sabre-Gun def. Birds of Prey (14:25)
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Royal Quest III - Night Two (October 8, 2023)
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Also on the tour:
Aussie Open (c) vs Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi) - IWGP Tag Team Championship
Jon Moxley (c) vs Katsuyori Shibata - IWGP United States Championship
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Will Ospreay (c) vs Zack Sabre Jr. XVI - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
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And so, for the 16th time ever, Ospreay and Sabre are set to go head-to-head! The record 9-6 in Zack’s favour, the Windy Man is nothing short of wholly confident in his own abilities, whilst Will once more enters with a chip on his shoulder, needing to show himself he’s outgrown Sabre for good. For once, London is split directly down the middle between these two, both men having grown up an hour either side from the venue, each in a completely different position since their last meeting, Ospreay on top as the World Champion and Okada-beater, and Sabre now heading a stable of his own like Will, with NJPW singles gold of his own like Will.
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Duelling chants of United Empire and Sabre-Gun, both men are perhaps at their most ruthless they’ve been all year here, which is saying something for Ospreay considering his clashes with Omega, the hatred he shows Sabre unlike anything he’s felt for anyone else, wanting to wipe the sneer off his face. He had Okada figured, he had Omega figured, he even eventually had Shibata figured, but ZSJ is one puzzle which feels like running into a brick wall for Captain Dyslexia, the Technical Wizard tying the champion up into knots that are unheard of!
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Taunting, bullying, torturing, Sabre picks Ospreay apart with such drive and intensity that it becomes crystal clear just how starved he’s been of NJPW’s top title. Conversely, Will’s just forced to do his best, picking his spots to remind the world he’s still very much in there, not letting the challenger shake him down to his core. A Selected Technical Works Vol 2. does get Ospreay in a bind, though he shows progression from all his matches with Sabre, managing to hang with him technically just enough to survive, forcing Zack to keep switching up his submissions. A European Clutch gets the closest call though, ZSJ very nearly flash-pinning Will for the strap!
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That unlocks a whole other beast inside Ospreay, exploding with an uninterrupted 5-minute stretch of offence that has Sabre utterly overwhelmed, Will standing his ground! A HIDDEN BLADE nearly captures another victim, though the impact’s cushioned by Ospreay’s damaged arm dating back to their tag, keeping Zack alive! Still, Will keeps pushing, solely working a striking game despite the searing pain in his limbs, all in the name of strategy, managing to convince an overconfident Sabre to strike with him, though as has been a recurring theme in 2023, Zack gets mauled! And with his guard let ever so slightly down, the hyperfocus on an Article 50 gives way to a STORM BREAKER after being broken on the mat! ONE! TWO! THREE!!!
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Will Ospreay (c) def. Zack Sabre Jr. to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (33:50)
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Yet again, it’s Ospreay that rules the kingdom with world-class wrestling acumen! As Will collects his title, Sabre cursing under his breath and vowing to be back someday as he leaves with his own two… OUT COMES SHINGO!!! Losing with Naito against Aussie Open for the Tag Titles earlier in the night, the two growing more distant with each other ever since SANADA’s LIJ betrayal put the faction on shaky grounds, Naito’s G1 Finals victory over Shingo only causing further dissension, which they failed to smooth over against the Aussies, the Dragon’s reaching his last wits. And as he eyes Ospreay’s title, it’s clear what he’s here for.
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Not receiving a rematch ever since losing the title at Wrestle Kingdom 16, he’s been kept on an empty stomach long enough, his patience wearing thin. Extending a challenge to Will, he wants to be the one walking into WK defending the strap against Naito! Ospreay, uber-confident in his ability to slay his rival once more, accepts!
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Battle Autumn - Night Eight (October 23, 2023)
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United Empire (Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, Aussie Open) vs Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito, Yota Tsuji, Hiromu Takahashi)
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The Battle Autumn tour pits UE and LIJ against each other in various tags, with Ospreay and co. winning every single one thus far, the issues between Takagi and Naito even spilling into here whilst the rest of LIJ tries to play the role of mediator. With UE dominating and Shingo’s shot mere days away though, they agree something needs to change. And so, for the sake of the greater LIJ family, they do their best to stay out of each other’s ways, finally stringing together some respectable momentum.
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As Aussie Open goes for the Coriolis on Naito, Shingo bursts in off tagging Tetsuya’s back, nailing a PUMPING BOMBER on Davis to knock Tetsuya off his shoulders, before a Pumping BombeDestino combo on Kyle and a LAST OF THE DRAGON breaks the LIJ curse, though going right back to sharing tense stares, Naito ultimately nodding to Shingo, wishing him luck. Ospreay, however, stands unfazed, knowing Takagi’s the one with the chip on his shoulder this time.
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Los Ingobernables de Japon def. United Empire (18:38)

Respect The Dai Li

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

The Dai Li are the cultural authority of Ba Sing Se, a secretive police force responsible for protecting the heritage of the Earth Kingdom's capital city. Their members are recruited at an early age and trained to become an elite and covert earthbending task force specializing in securing, imprisoning, and conditioning political dissidents.
Avatar Kyoshi first formed the Dai Li to preserve Earth Kingdom traditions on behalf of the Earth King. However, over time they became corrupted away from the Earth King's influence, eventually coming under the command of Grand Secretariat Long Feng. Under Long Feng, the Dai Li insulated the Earth King from political influence as they imposed a paranoid police-state over the city. When Princess Azula outmaneuvered Long Feng for leadership of the Dai Li, the force became the city's undoing as she seized control of the capital for the Fire Nation. After serving as Azula's personal guard, the Dai Li returned to obedience under the Earth Kingdom's monarchy when Azula dismissed them during a fit of paranoid mania.
Most recently, the Dai Li faithfully served the Earth Queen in the Era of Korra where they were tasked with collecting and training newly-fledged Airbenders into a military force. Korra and her friends ultimately saved the new Airbenders, and the Dai Li have not been seen since their defeat at the hands of the Red Lotus who subsequently assassinated the Earth Queen to plunge Ba Sing Se into anarchy.

Source Key Avatar: The Last Airbender Season & Episode = AS#E# The Legend of Korra Season & Episode = LS#E# Archived Nickelodeon Website = ANW Escape from the Spirit World = ESW Avatar: The Last Airbender: Art of the Animated Series = AoAS 

Scaling: 1) Aang 2) Toph 3) Katara 3) Zuko 4) Sokka 5) Appa 6) Jet and the Freedom Fighters 7) Iroh 8) Korra 9) Tenzin 10) Mako 11) Bolin 12)New Airbenders 13) Red Lotus

Combat

Durability/Evasion

• Knocked away by Toph's columns of earth ^AS2E17
• Jet knocks a Dai Li out by slamming him into the ground, and Aang blasts others away with air ^AS2E17
• Knocked away by Toph's earthbending ^AS2E17
• Blasted away and knocked unconscious by Aang's airbending ^AS2E17
• Several Dai Li are scattered when Appa charges through their stone wall, and Toph and Aang launch more into the lake nearby with earthbending ^AS2E17
• While surrounding Zuko and Iroh, manage to avoid being burned by Iroh's fire breath and give chase ^AS2E20
• Knocked out of a fight by a column of stone from Aang ^AS3E11
• Hit by a jutting of earth from Toph and them imprisoned in metal ^AS3E11
• Dodges a point blank air blast from Kai and brings the ground up around him to bind his limbs ^LS3E4
• Evades attacks, but are ultimately knocked out by attacks from Mako, Bolin and Kai ^LS3E4
• Blasted away by Tenzin and Korra's airbending ^LS3E4
• Quickly taken down by the Red Lotus, who block and evade their attacks ^LS3E10

Projectiles - Gloves

• Discreetly projects earth gloves that grab Katara and Toph and pulls them in ^AS2E14
• Two Dai Li fire their rock gloves against Toph, who intercepts the gloves and knocks the Dai Li away with columns of earth ^AS2E17
• Two Dai Li grab Sokka and Katara with earth gloves from a distance away to reel them in, but are interrupted by an earth wall from Toph ^AS2E17
• One Dai Li manages to grab Toph with an earth glove from behind, but he is interrupted and several Dai Li attacks are intercepted by the Freedom Fighters soon after ^AS2E17
• A projected rock glove pierces through a straw dummy's chest and removes its head ^AS2E17
• Dai Li launch their earth gloves at Team Avatar, binding their wrists behind their backs, though Aang easily escapes the bindings with earthbending ^AS2E18
• Launch pieces of stone from their gloves that tear apart the wall they hit ^AS2E20
• Follow their own shield by launching earth gloves at Zuko that bind his hands and feet to the ground ^AS2E20
• Use earth gloves to grab the fleeing Kai, turn him around and restrain him ^LS3E3
• Fires stones from a surrounding hallway and their gloves at Mako and Bolin, with one managing to grab and retrieve Jinora from a distance ^LS3E4

Projectiles - Misc.

• Dai Li send out columns of earth as attacks ^AS2E17
• Launch several clay discs that explode against Airbenders, injuring them in a training session and then launches more discs more rapidly to overwhelm Kai ^LS3E4
• Fires stones from a surrounding hallway and their gloves at Mako and Bolin, with one managing to grab and retrieve Jinora from a distance ^LS3E4
• Launch earth projectiles that zip past a fleeing sky bison, and fire rocks rapidly that eat into the ground behind a fleeing Mako and Bolin ^LS3E4
• Launches cubes of stone pulled from the ground at Aang, and latch onto the walls when Toph tosses them away to return stony columns at her in response ^AS3E11
• Launch stones at Iroh that explode against his body ^AS2E20

Bindings

• Raises crystals from the ground to bind Iroh in place, though he later escapes ^AS2E20
• Raise crystals from the ground to imprison Iroh after he gives up his fight ^AS2E20
• Catches Jet's hook sword in their earth-gloved grasp and then use the gloves as handcuffs to secure Jet ^AS2E14
• Use surveyors chains to bind Long Feng's wrists in place ^AS2E18
• Restrains the Council of Five with surveyors chains while ambushing them ^AS2E20

Barriers

• Several Dai Li raise massive walls of earth to trap Team Avatar ^AS2E17
• Two Dai Li intercept Zuko's flame attack, raising a piece of the ground as a shield for Azula ^AS2E20
• Two Dai Li close walls of stone together to block off Aang's attack at Azula ^AS3E11
• Raises a large stone wall when Team Avatar breaks apart their first one ^AS3E11
• Races along a wall, outpacing Aang, and raises a wall to impede him, though knocked out of the fight when Aang juts a column into the Dai Li that launches him away ^AS3E11

Mobility

• Dig their earth-gloved fingers into walls to climb up them ^ESW
• Several Dai Li drop from the ceiling and suspend themselves upside down with their rock boots secured against a cavern to ambush Team Avatar ^AS2E17
• Dai Li run on walls and ascend on columns of earth, but are hit away by Toph's earthbending ^AS2E17
• Several Dai Li cling to sheer rock walls to surround Team Avatar ^AS2E17
• Dai Li skate across the ground to quickly maneuver behind Team Avatar ^AS2E18
• Races along a wall, outpacing Aang, and raises a wall to impede him, though knocked out of the fight when Aang juts a column into the Dai Li that launches him away ^AS3E11
• Keeps ahead of Aang and Toph while also using columns to boost Azula's jumps, though hit by a sudden attack from Toph, disarmed, and imprisoned in metal shortly after ^AS3E11
• Slides down a wall of Ba Sing Se to land safely at its base ^AS3E1
• Dai Li leap a vast distance and quickly surround Korra, Tenzin, and the other Airbenders ^LS3E4
• Dig into the ground to hold their place against several Airbenders combining their powers into a continuous gust of wind ^LS3E4
• Use columns to amplify jumps even while in a narrow hallway ^LS3E4
• Use columns of stone to amplify jumps ^LS3E4

Misc.

• Trained from an early age to become master earthbenders ^ANW
• Forms their earth gloves around their hands to contour like a plaster mold ^AoAS
• Explode apart the swell of earth Aang rides atop, tossing him a distance away ^AS2E20
• Explodes apart Toph's earthen binding around Azula and then drops from the ceiling ^AS3E11
• Slides down a wall of Ba Sing Se to land safely at its base, combining their strength to bring the wall down after they land to allow in Fire Nation forces ^AS3E1
• Opens the floor beneath the restrained Mako and Bolin to drop them into a prison, then seals the hole back up ^LS3E10

Intelligence/Tactics

Espionage

• Originally trained by Avatar Kyoshi as an elite force of earthbenders who would be silent, precise, and feared by all ^ESW
• A Dai Li agent poses as a citizen who lies to Team Avatar about Appa's location successfully ^AS2E17
  • His name is Old Sweepy, and he was deliberately lying rather than brainwashed ^ANW
• Two Dai Li agents spy on Team Avatar discreetly from a rooftop nearby without detection ^AS2E17
• Lurks on rooftops, detecting Appa soon after he enters Ba Sing Se ^AS2E16
• Two Dai Li agents spy on Team Avatar discreetly from a rooftop nearby without detection ^AS2E17
• A Dai Li patrolman pursues Zuko, unwittingly falling into a trap ^AS2E17
• Dai Li cling to the columns of a building to spy on Mai and Ty Lee ^AS2E19
• Iroh secured one Dai Li as a prisoner for interrogation ^AS2E20
• Azula states that the Dai Li are the key to controlling Ba Sing Se ^AS2E19
• The Dai Li organize a coordinated ambush that secures the Council of Five and seize control of Ba Sing Se ^AS2E20

Brainwashing

• Brainwashes Jet in secret ^AS2E14
• Jet's brainwashing is so complete that Toph cannot tell he is lying, and he seems to wholeheartedly believe the brainwashing ^AS2E17
• Joo Di's brainwashing is triggered with a phrase that instantly calms her down and brings her to heel ^AS2E17
• Long Feng triggers Jet's brainwashing with a secret phrase, forcing Jet to turn on his allies ^AS2E17
• A whole room of Joo Dees are brainwashed at once, speaking in unison ^AS2E17
• Joo Di's brainwashing is triggered with a phrase that instantly calms her down and brings her to heel ^AS2E17

Respect Long Feng

Physical

• Appa bites Long Feng's leg and tosses him into the lake, skipping him across the surface, and he appears soon after unharmed save for a bite mark on his ankle ^AS2E17-18

Earthbending

• Overturns the ground beneath Appa and himself suddenly^AS2E16
• Strikes Jet with a column of stone killing Jet a short while later ^AS2E17

Intelligence

• Manipulates Katara and Toph in a social setting without arousing suspicion ^AS2E14
• Uses a bison whistle to lure Appa into a trap ^AS2E16
• Remained in control for the Dai Li even after his arrest for a time, though Azula successfully seized control of the Dai Li from Long Feng ^AS2E20

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“Now Paige, you’re sure there isn’t anything for me to sign?”, my mother asked.
“No mom. It’s ‘Bring your sibling to work day’. Caroline is 10 and old enough for the summer training, even though she can’t officially serve as an Imperial Page for two more years.”, I reply.
At 14 myself, I’ve been an Imperial Page for 2 years now. “I did the summer training.”, a month each, for two summers starting at 10, “I wanted to see if she might be interested serving as well.”
“I just don’t want her getting in someone important’s way.”, mother continues.
“She’ll be fine. The shuttle flights in/out off-world will be the most exciting part. ‘Court’ is currently in session on Tau Ceti 9a, with the Emperor himself at one of the orbital Space Stations. He’s overseeing rescue, recovery, and restoration operations dealing with the aftermath of the two recent super-typhoons on the planet. We’ll mostly be delivering snacks & meals and hand delivering documents and supplies all day. Routine stuff.”
“I just don’t want her to do something to upset the Emperor.”, mother said.
I reply, “He’s trying to help people in distress mom. People left with next to nothing. He’s just a man.”
Mother shakes her head and mumbles, “I worry about that too.”
I snort, “He wouldn’t do anything to us and the Sezrakeen (the Imperial Guard) wouldn’t allow it anyway.”
I remember something they told us in training . . . “Even if you see the Emperor in a room, seemingly by himself, two of the Sezrakeen are always there. Though they can be invisible, and you may not see them. One to protect him from evil in the world and one to protect the world from any evil in him.” No one in the Imperial Court has treated me badly.
Mother finally relents, cleans up after breakfast, and sees us off. We catch the community transit to the city-center, then on to Lacross Spaceport. One shuttle to the regional military base, then a shuttle combining many groups to go to / from wherever Court is in session at the current time.
With 7,645 inhabited worlds in the known multiverse, “Imperial Court” moves around every few months trying to spread the attention around. Currently there are 74 regional centers large enough to house the staff of the traveling court. 17 of which could be classified as “Palaces”. (Including “The Winter Palace” the Emperor build by himself, by hand on Beatrice Nine. It’s beautiful and one of my favorites to visit and serve in, though knowing he was abandoned alone on the planet for almost 40,000 years, time enough to build the central structures by himself . . . sort of brings a melancholy air to the place.)
Caroline and I arrive at R44 (the closest Regional Center), and I take her to Security while we wait for the morning shuttle. I scan my left forearm under the ID scanner. You can wear a ring, bracelet, pendent, or carry a card or pen-sized wand for ID . . . But I opted for the radial (bone) implant. It’s much harder to forget and leave your left arm at home. And since it registers body heat and blood flow, it can’t practically be taken from you and used by someone else. (I did “neglect” to tell my parents I opted for the implant 18 months ago.)
Caroline gets her biometrics recorded. (Photographs, walking gait, finger-hand prints. Reads a sample text for voice capture and a pinprick for DNA.) She opts for a subtle ring ID and asks me, “Why does it look like I’m the only sister or brother here?”
I respond, “It’s only you today. I just wanted you to see what a day was like in the Imperial Court.”
“What do you mean ‘only you’? Is it really ‘Bring your sibling to work day?’”
“As far as I know there is no such thing. I just wanted you to come and see the Emperor and the Court.”
“You’re just bringing someone to see the Emperor of the Known Multiverse and the Imperial Court? Who approved it?”
“I did.”
“You can do that?”
“An Imperial Page can do what they need to.”, I say as we finish her setup. Most of the biographical info (date of birth, relatives, placed lived) I entered to her personnel record weeks ago. I scan my ID and vouch for her to match the biometrics to the central data personnel record.
“Let’s go, the Shuttle will be ready for boarding about the time we get there.”, I put my left arm around Caroline’s shoulders and nudge her in the right direction.
Feeling the tenseness in her shoulders I ask, “Are you worried?”
“A little bit.”, she says with a bit shaky voice.
“Don’t. Just keep your ears open. Follow me and help me whatever I’m doing. Unless someone there directly addresses you, try not to interfere. You’ll hear things meant to be kept private. Try and let it flow in one ear and out the other without thinking about it or remembering it. Normally its boring procedural matters running the Empire. But for the past few weeks at this odd location there has been a lot of ‘sad news’ from the deaths, injuries, from the storms. It’s been turning around a bit. Back to more rebuilding hospitals, schools, city halls, and some factories. You can whisper me questions but try not to bother the others there. You’ll do fine.”
The morning shuttle we are on (of 6 per day cycling in/out wherever court is) arrives and docks with the station. The contents depart and scan past security checkpoints. Caroline her ring and me my forearm. Which leaves Caroline with a perplexed look. (I didn’t explain yet that the implant was an option, and she sees no ring on my hand.)
I lead Caroline past stationed guards, secretaries and administrators, dignitaries, and court personnel to one of the inner facility rooms. One of the court cooks sees me, points to a cart loaded with coffee and tea Thermos’s, water pitchers, cups, and an assortment of donuts, sweets, ‘breakfast things’, and says “Conference L2 Room 6a.”
I begin pushing the cart to the Lift for Level 2, room 6a. Caroline stays almost glued to my left hip. She’s being inordinately quiet. But then I remember what it was like for myself, only a few years ago.
More guards at the conference room recognize me and one holds the door as I push the cart in. One points at Caroline. I simply say, “Sister.” The guard nods.
Caroline and I spend the next 10 minutes distributing drinks and retrieving used cups/plates, and occasionally pulling my sister gently along by her arm. With over 7,000 inhabited planets and an average population of 2 billion, a good 80% of the 14 trillion in the known multiverse have seen images/video of the Emperor. But it’s quite another thing to pass by him close enough to touch for the first time. Not to mention Admirals, Generals, and dignitaries of all sorts around the conference table and outer ring chairs many with a dizzying array of medals, epaulets, and such.
She hands me things as I place them on the table. (So, if she spills anything, it’ll only get me, not a General) and I place them on the table.
I half listen as Admiral Burns shows video on the large screen at the end of the room and describes the current situation on the planet below.
“. . . Rescue operations have officially completed everywhere. Recovery (of human/animal remains) and final demolition of dangerous structures continue in the Rangor and Balok districts.
Next, I’ll go over how we plan to deploy Military-Imperial construction teams to begin assisting with infrastructure repair and restoration . . .”, as the Admiral’s aide works on a laptop on the conference table to bring up the next presentation.
An imperial aide I recognized pops their head in the end door and says, “Sire, message on F23.” The emperor says, “One second Admiral.”, and taps some keys on a tablet at his right hand.
The presentation clears on the end video screen and a woman dressed in what I’ll say is a doctor's white cloak appears on screen. Momentarily fazed upon seeing the Emperor himself, she stutters, “I uhh,”
The Emperor said, “Its fine Doctor. How can we help you?”
The woman tries to continue, “I, uhh. I’m sorry, I . . .”, closing her eyes for a second and opening, “I’m Doctor Akins on Brandenburg 2, Jellico City Memorial Hospital. I have a patient, Angela Graham. I’m afraid she’s had a heart attack and at her age of 97, I fear she won’t last more than a day or two, despite our best efforts. Her son a . . .”, looking down at a tablet she was holding, “. . . Captain Angus Graham was listed as family-emergency contact with instructions to call the Regional Base and explain any issues. I vid-called and two people later and I’ve somehow ended up with you.”, she adds hesitantly, “Sire”, not quite sure the proper form of address for the Emperor.
The Emperor responded, “He’s on station here with his Star Carrier the Perecles so they bounced you through to us. I’ll find him and let him know to go home. Thank you, Doctor Akins.”
The Doctor nods and the screen returns to the aide’s presentation slide.
Caroline and I had been clearing coffee cups and snack dishes from afternoon tea away from the conference table and were pushing the tray to the door to leave when the Emperor held up a hand towards us.
The Emperor asked aloud “Donna? (The computers name) Locate Captain Angus Graham”.
Donna: “Captain Angus Graham has just entered the Officers Lounge on Deck 23, at Bulkhead 41.”
The Emperor hand wrote a note on a sheet of paper, folded it in half, looked my way and said “Paige”.
Paige was an inconvenient name to have in my position, I was never quite sure if he knew my name and was saying Paige or just Page.
“You heard the location?”, the Emperor asked
Paige, “Yes sire.”
“Directly to Gus.”, the Emperor said, handing me the folded note.
I nodded.
Pushing the tray on through the door, I saw another page standing nearby and said, “Please.”, pointing to the tray and nodding to the closest kitchen. Thomas nodded and began pushing the tray in that direction.
We, Caroline and I, headed for the nearest Lift. (The multi-axis elevators that span the height and breadth of the station.) And I spoke tilting my head up a bit, “Deck 23, closest Bulkhead 41.”
“Deck 23, Bulkhead 42.”, the Lift responded.
The station bulkheads are about 50ft apart, so not that far to walk.
I opened the folded note and read it silently.
Caroline, still at my side and mostly silent since a flurry of questions when we stopped to have lunch, finally spoke inside the Lift, “Can you read the note?”
I responded, “An Imperial Page can do what they need to.”
We reached the Lift destination. I spoke to a nearby common terminal and said “Officers Lounge Deck 23, Bulkhead 41.”.
The terminal responded back, “The Mango Room. Light Blue”, simultaneously a Light Blue courtesy light appeared on the wall-track and began moving at a walking pace to the right.
Caroline and I followed the dot as it matched pace to lead us.
We reached The Mango Room double doors.
I tried the door handle but while it turned, the door didn’t unlatch. I tapped the “knock” button on the rightmost door.
A few seconds later a man about 40, with slicked back black hair and a pencil thin mustache appeared on the screen above the knock button. Seeing me, he only said, “Beat it kid. This is the Officers Lounge.”, and the screen went blank again.
I pressed the button again.
This time when he appeared, I spoke before the man could, “I am an Imperial Page with a message to be hand delivered to Captain Graham. I believe him to be inside.”
“I don’t give a fuck who you are ‘Little Girl’. Children aren’t allowed in here to bother the patrons. Get lost.”, the man sneers and clicks off again.
I turn and retrace steps to the Lift, Caroline following.
I tell the Lift, “Armory”.
Scanning arm ID at the doorway, we enter and I approach the wire cage behind which stands a man I have never seen before. I fill out a “request form” on the tablet nearby, tap it to and scan my ID to the nearby sensor.
The man looks at the list popping up on the screen on his side of the cage, “A bit young, aren’t you? Why don’t you try back in a couple years.”, snickering and turning back to his desk behind him.
Back out the Armory door, to the Lift and back to the conference room with the Emperor.
I enter, holding one palm back, indicating for Caroline to stay in the doorway of the room.
Saying nothing to anyone, I walked around to the left of the Emperor and pulled the Imperial Signet off the little finger of the Emperor’s left hand and placing it onto my right index finger, while he continued to ask questions about Engineering Group deployments on the planet below.
Outside the conference room, I pointed my index/middle finger in the direction of two Imperial Marine Guards on the distant side of the room, in self-contained fully body armor then motioned with a cupping hand a ‘follow me’ hand signal.
Four of us in the Lift this time.
Back at the armory. I held my right hand up in a fist, index finger with signet facing the clerk, then swept the signet over the ID reader and entered the Emperor’s personal 18 character passcode.
The display lit up on the clerk’s side of the cage . . .
Things moved much faster this time.
The Armory attendants fitted us both with PDS’s (Personal Defense Shields), I pointed at Caroline and said “Openers”.
One Armory tech clipped two breaching charges on Caroline's belt, as I reached for the thermal viewers and mid-sized carbine the other tech held.
Facing the two Marines that had accompanied us, I waved my left hand in their direction and said, “Released.” They turned and left.
The tech previously holding the carbine asked, “You know . . .”
I turned the side of the weapon towards him and said, “Kill/Stun”, clicking that lever to Stun pointed at a 2nd switch “Rate of Fire, Single, 3 shot burst, Full Auto”, and pointing to the last, “Power Setting”.
I turned to leave with Caroline in perpetual tow.
Caroline asked, “A gun?”
I responded, “The Power settings for Stun go from level 1 to 5. One would sting. Two feels like a dozen angry bees stung you with the pain fading over the next hour. Three might knock out a child. Four would definitely knock out ANY ordinary man/woman, unconscious for an hour or so. Five would stop a charging elephant and bring it to the ground for three or four hours.”
I click the carbine settings to Level Two . . . Full Auto.
Back at “The Mango Room” doors, I swatted Caroline with the back of my hand to see our PDS fields light up and confirm it on like mine, flipped down the thermal viewer over my eyes and look to see if anyone is standing directly behind the doors.
“Take one of the breaching pucks off your belt.”, holding my hand up as if I was carrying one on my fingertips, “Set the dial on the side to 2.”
I look down the hallways to the left and right. No one on the left. I hold up one flat palm and stop a group to the right in their tracks about 20 yards away.
Speaking to Caroline again, mimicking the motion I say, “Fling it towards the center-line between the two doors.”
She flings the puck, it self-orients to flat-on face the two doors.
A half inch from the doors it discharges. The central 90% of the doors vaporize and blow back past Caroline and me in a plume of smoke and wood-metal shards. Harmlessly skittering off and around our PDS’s.
Mustache man steps out from beside the doors and seeing me begins to approach. I aim the carbine at him and hold the trigger down moving the impact point around his body.
They shoot you once during page training at settings two and three. A single shot at level two hurt worse than anything I’d felt to that point in my life for the next hour. A week later when they did Three . . . I was out for an hour.
I can’t imagine 2 seconds of Full Auto felt pleasant as mustache man crumpled to the floor.
Officers and Civilian Dignitaries around the room stood up from their tables upon seeing/hearing the door breach.
I took the opportunity to step up from one of their chairs to a nearby table, trying to dodge drink glasses.
Addressing the room with a firm voice, “I am an Imperial Page. With a message from the Emperor for Captain Angus Graham. Captain Graham present yourself.”
The crowd somewhat parted as a man in his late 60’s answered, “Here Miss.”
Stepping down from the table/chair, slinging the rifle, and approaching Captain Graham, I didn’t remove the note, but chose simply to speak directly to the Captain.
“Gus”, (the Captain understood it was the Emperor speaking), “Word just came through and it seemed better to deliver it in person. Your mother has suffered a heart attack and we fear her time is near. If your responsibilities allow it, take my shuttle and go home while you still can. Spend what time you need with her. I’m very sorry old friend.”
The Captain responded softly to me, “Thank you John.”
I stepped back and to the side, using my right hand to wave Caroline back out of the way.
Captain Graham passed through the crowd, presumably to gather personal items and head home.
I, with Caroline following, turned to follow Captain Graham out.
The “very angry” bouncer was just getting up on one hip, trying to push himself up on one hand and yelled through clenched teeth, “Why you little Bit. . . ”
He didn’t finish the sentence. I clicked the gun up to level 4, single shot, pushing him back 3 feet, and pinning him to the wall. Unconscious for at least a couple hours this time.
Caroline and I returned to the armory, dropping off the Carbine, Thermals, PDSs, and one un-expended breaching puck. Signing them back in. Logging one puck as “expended”, and 0.2% down on the carbine charge.
Back in the Lift to return to the conference room, I notice out the corner of my eye, a still silent Caroline, looks over and up at me with a thousand questions on her face.
I continued looking forward at the Lift doors and said, “An Imperial Page can do what they need to.”
I reentered the conference room, Caroline still in tow. Walked around the Emperor to his left, lifting his left hand and placing the signet back on his little finger and whispered, “Thank you John.”
As a video of reconstruction projections continued on the vid-screen at the end of the room, the Emperor nodded to me, understanding the message was from Gus and after I had crossed around behind him, looked to his right and said, “Thank you Paige.”, nodding to my sister, “Caroline.”
Caroline, her eyes as big as dinner plates, half bowed, half curtsied, and we left the conference room.
I looked over at Caroline, “It’s been a long day for you. We can just catch the next shuttle back to R44 and home if we leave now.”
Off the local transport, our parents were just stepping out of their personal car. Dad had two grocery bags in each hand, mother had two in one hand and was reaching for the last one in the open trunk-hatch.
“You survived!”, she said teasingly, looking our direction.
“Yes mother.”, I said.
“Did anything interesting happen?”, she asked.
“No mother. It was just another ordinary day. Passing out coffee, meals, and delivering notes.”, I replied
Caroline picked up the last of the grocery bags from the car while mother closed the hatch.
“How about you nibblet?”, Father asked, stopping to look at Caroline, “Were you bored to tears? Do you think you might like to be a Page in two more years when you’re old enough? You’d have to go through the training classes for the next two summers like your sister did.”
“Yes father. I think I’d like that.”, and lead the way into the house.
Caroline sets the grocery bag on the kitchen table and moves into the living room to sit down on the sofa. She faced the vid-screen and clicks it on. One of the weekly shows is on about one or another of the nation’s larger zoo’s. But she’s got that “glazed over” thousand yard stare . . . That I probably had after my first day after seeing the Imperial Court.
I wonder to myself if she’ll follow in my footsteps. Someone, from somewhere will need to replace me in about two years. In theory you can stay an entire career as a page. Some do.
But in two years I’ll be sixteen. And with four years’ experience as an Imperial Page, I can begin training for a range of other jobs in the Imperial administration.
“Combat Courier” sounds interesting.

Respect Toph

"If you knew me, the real me, you wouldn't be wondering if we're gonna live or die. Because you'd know I can keep this up as long as I need to. I'm Toph Beifong, the greatest earthbender of all time."

History: Born a blind girl sheltered by her wealthy parents, Toph learned earthbending in secret from the badgermoles of Gaoling. Secretly becoming the Earth Rumble champion known as the Blind Bandit, Toph's true destiny arrived when she joined the Avatar as his earthbending master. In travelling the world with Avatar Aang, Toph became by many accounts the greatest earthbender of her time.
After saving the world, and inventing metalbending along the way, Toph became an influential figure. She started the Toph Beifong Metalbending Academy to spread knowledge of the art, became chief of the Republic City police, and aided in the industrialization that helped modernize the world. Though she retired in her old age as a recluse, Toph still periodically answered the call to duty whenever the Avatar needed her.
Powers: Toph controls earth with a unique bending style, built primarily around her "seismic sense" that allows her compensate for her blindness by detecting and predicting movement through the vibrations around her. She later developed the art of metalbending she integrated into her combat style.

Source Key: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season & Episode = S#E# Katara and the Pirate's Silver = KPS Lost Adventures = LA Team Avatar Tales = TAT he Promise = TP The Rift = TR North and South = N&S Imbalance = IM Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy = MBA Free Comic Book Day = FCBD Legend of Korra Season 4 Episode = LoK E# Ruins of the Empire = RotE Avatar: The Last Airbender; Legacy = AtLAL Avatar Legends = AL The Art of the Animated Series = AAS Director's Commentary = DC 

Physicals

Strength

• Holds Sokka off with one arm ^S2E9
• Kicks open a door, spilling over nearby furniture ^IM

Durability

• Takes an airblast that redirected her boulder, and recovers after falling out an arena ^S2E6
• Wrestles with Katara, bouncing back to getting slapped to the ground with mud ^S3E7
• Zuko burns her feet, throwing off her aim as she crawls away
• Blasted backwards by Yaling matching her force, but up a few moments later ^IM
• Yaling slams her into the ground and she gets up to counterattack ^IM

Speed
Reactions - Earthbenders

• Predicts the Boulder's movements and defeats him quickly ^S2E6
• Dodges an earthbending attack and juts out earth that sends Fire Nation Man flying into a wall and producing rubble ^S2E6
  • Toph predicts Fire Nation's aim from his foot position ^DC
• Catches the Gecko's rocks, shatters them, and juts earth to juggle him out the arena ^S2E6
• Raises a shield as projectiles fly toward her, then dodges a boulder and counterattacks before Xin Fu can respond ^S2E6
• Intercepts Dai Li agents attacking Sokka & Katara and quickly disposes of 4 agents attacking simultaneously, though caught off guard by a 5th ^S2E17
• Uppercuts an earthbender with a rock before he can attack ^IM

Reactions - Others

• Pushes Sokka out of the way of Azula's fireblast ^S3E11
• Dodges Sokka's boomerang when she hears it coming ^LA
• Catches a falling man and bounces him back onto a mountain pass ^S2E12
• Blocks Mai's daggers with a wall she raises & launches, then juts out the ground beneath Mai ^S2E20
• Dodges a swung sickle and counterattacks ^TR
• Raises a shield of metal that protects her from an explosion that destroys a factory ^IM

Earthbending

Projectiles
Small

• Catches the Gopher's stone and returns it, tearing him through the arena ^S2E6
• Hits airborne targets with stones when directed and does so again ^S2E11
• Catches a stone from Aang, then throws it back where it knocks over Katara ^S3E7
• Throws a stone hard enough to damage a guard tower ^S3E10
• Raises a shield from Zuko's attack, and throws stones at him before hurting his ribs with a column ^S3E12
• Blocks Aang's air attack with an earth wall, then fires several chunks out of it where one manages to tag him ^TR
• Uppercuts an earthbender with a rock before he can attack ^IM

Medium

• Raises a shield and flings a piece of it off as a counterattack ^S2E6
• Throws a boulder and it sends out a dust cloud on impact ^S2E8
• Pushes a large boulder down a ramp ^S2E9
• Fires a boulder that destroys a trebuchet, and then another that intercepts a trebuchet's shot ^S3E1
• Launches a boulder at Combustion Man amidst fleeing combat ^S3E7
• Old Toph slaps Korra down with mud when she tries a sneak attack ^{Lok S4E3}

Large

• Juts out a column from beneath a buzzard wasp when it lands, and throws a large boulder at another ^S2E11
• Fires a massive attack at Combustion Man that includes a huge swell of earth ^S3E5
• Replicates a small army for a training session, hurling flaming boulders and coordinating several statues ^S3E18

Shifting Terrain
Small

• Redirects the Boulder's step ^S2E6
• Pulls the ground beneath Aang's chair forward suddenly so his face plants in his bowl ^S2E6
• Knocks Iroh over with a boulder she raises ^S2E8
• Shifts the ground below Azula's feet to knock her down ^S2E8
• Disrupts Aang's footing ^S2E9
• Raises Sokka out of earth binding him in place ^S2E9
• Removes the stones beneath girls on a bridge so they fall through the gap ^S2E15
• Kicks out a stone that stops a carriage wheel suddenly ^S3E7

Large

• Rotates the ground beneath opponents so an attacker swinging at her swings into them instead, then flings all of them out the arena ^S2E6
• Turns a stairway into a slide beneath several guards' feet ^S2E18
• Pushes out a wave of stone, then raises and launches barriers ^S2E18
• Sweeps away a firebender with a wave of earth ^TAT
• Disrupts the ground beneath a kimodo rhino to throw its rider off ^LA
• Spills over people into the air with the tile floor ^TP
• Old Toph knocks over a small army of mechs with an earthquake while protecting her allies from the attack ^{LoK S4E10}

Columns
Small

• Creates a whack-a-mole of pillars to train Aang ^S2E9
• Juts out earth at Aang in their training ^S3E7
• Juts out earth to nail a Dai Li and slaps away his earth gloves ^S3E11
• Nails the Boulder in the face with a column of earth just as he announces their duel began ^TAT

Large

• Juts columns into an opponent, cracking the wall they hit ^S2E6
• Juts out earth that sends Fire Nation Man flying into a wall, producing rubble ^S2E6
• Catches the Gecko's rocks, shatters them, and juts earth to juggle him out the arena ^S2E6
• Juts columns from beneath two Dai Li to send them away ^S2E17
• Raises several columns at once beneath multiple guards to slam them against a ceiling ^S2E18
• Bursts through stone, launches Dai Li away, and raises barriers against their attacks ^S3E11
• Juts out stone toward Azula she leaps off of ^S3E11
• Raises a column from the bottom of a sea to break apart an iron boat ^LA
• Raises Sokka on a tall column that traps him atop it ^LA
• Old Toph smashes two mecha tanks together with columns ^RotE

Launching People
Individuals

• Brings up the ground beneath Aang repeatedly and fires a boulder at him ^S2E6
• Launches Aang into a tree with the ground beneath him ^S2E6
• Bounces Katara over onto Sokka ^S2E8
• Launches Sokka high up into the air ^S2E9
• Catches a falling man and bounces him back onto a mountain pass ^S2E12
• Knocks a spa worker away where they crumble through the stone frame of a doorway ^S2E15
• Launches Ty Lee up into the air ^S2E20
• Kicks mud onto Katara, then launches her away by raising a column beneath her ^S3E7
• Spills over a soldier with a column ^KPS
• Launches a man a distance away, confident he would've landed in a bush nearby ^TR

Groups

• Bounces Team Avatar into the air from the ground below ^S2E6
• Pins two earthbenders between walls and launches them into a cell ^S2E19
• Tosses her students around ^TP

Barriers
Small

• Raises a shield that blocks Xin Fu's boulders, then uses a piece of it to counterattack ^S2E6
• Raises a shield and flings a piece of it off as a counterattack ^S2E6
• Creates an overhang that guards from a small landslide ^S2E12
• Raises and drops quick successive barriers to defend her team's advance ^S2E18
• Raises a wall that blocks Mai's daggers, then launches part of it to counterattack ^S2E20
• Blocks Aang's air attack with an earth wall, then fires several chunks before one tags him ^TR
• Raises and lowers a wall used to hide from a mob ^MBA

Medium

• Creates a wall to disrupt the Dai Li from reeling in her allies ^S2E17
• Creates several large dominos between advancing guards that tip over to incapacitate them^S2E18
• Raises a shield from Zuko's sudden firebending attack, though hurts herself stumbling from it ^S3E12
• Uses a rock wall to defend from a water attack ^LA
• Raises a rock Katara smashes her own face into ^LA
• Blocks a fireblast with a barrier ^IM

Large

• Juts out large barriers in the distance ^S2E8
• Raises a massive wall to impede pursuers ^S2E8
• Raises walls, draws a line in the ground, armors herself in earth, and charges Aang down ^S2E9
• Raises and pushes a stone wall to knock away attackers ^S2E18
• Bursts through stone, launches Dai Li away, and raises barriers against their attacks ^S3E11
• Raises a large wall that blocks massive fireballs Avatar State Aang intended to destroy a factory with ^TR
• Raises a large barrier to separate two groups, then knocks a man away with another ^IM

Structures

• Creates a hut around her ^S2E8
• Builds a tent ^S2E8
• Creates a large tent around a few occupants ^S2E12
• Raises platforms to prepare for a party ^S3E2
• Grabs Aang with an earth hand ^LA
• Raises a slide beneath several men ^TR
• Traps a group of people by quickly raising walls around them ^IM

Busting

• Smashes a boulder ^S2E9
• Rattles the ground before exploding out of her earthen dwelling ^S2E9
• Blasts away a section of a building
• Intercepts thrown earth gloves by exploding them ^S2E17
• Bursts through stone, launches Dai Li away, and raises barriers against their attacks ^S3E11
• Smashes several stones ^TR
• Busts through a factory wall ^TR

Binding

• Traps Ty Lee's limbs and raises a boulder from the ground ^S2E20
• Pins Azula's arm to a cavern wall with a projectile ^S3E11
• Encases Azula in stone ^S3E11
• Binds a soldier with the ground beneath him ^KPS
• Pulls earth around someone to bind them ^N&S

Strength

• Begins slowing the descent of Wan Shi Tong's Library, needing to first solidify the sand beneath her, keeping it in place as attackers approach but needing to drop it periodically to fire attacks at them, yet manages to hold it long enough for her friends to escape ^S2E10
• Opposes the advance of a massive drill with columns of earth to slow its approach ^S2E13
• Repeatedly thumps a boulder against the ground to create an eerie sound ^S3E3
• Assists the others in pushing a chunk of meteorite ^S3E4
• Bounces a hammer from behind her so it swings into a strength test, shattering the top of it ^S3E7
• Forms giant rock gloves that send men flying back when she punches them ^N&S
• Keeps together the anchor for a rope bridge that crumbles apart ^N&S
• Keeps a collapsing building together as long as she can before Aang whisks her away ^IM
• Rides atop the earth and blasts open a barricaded door ^IM
• Secures a collapsing cave ^IM

Precision

• Kicks Aang discreetly from across a table ^S2E6
• Morphs a mud mask into a startling shape ^S2E15
• Sharpens rocks she uses to carve a jack-o-lantern ^TAT
• Subtly closes her hand to pull a pebble back into place ^S3E7
• Tilts her head to change a dice roll ^S3E7
• Bounces a coin purse up into the air where she catches it ^S3E7
• Pounds several little columns into Aang's back as therapy ^S3E9
• Launches a small creature out of the ground a vast distance away so it lands in her hand ^S3E9
• Replicates a small army for a training session, hurling flaming boulders and coordinating several statues ^S3E18
• Reshapes a stone etching into the Earth Kingdom symbol ^TP
• Old Toph strikes two stones together to produce sparks ^RotE

Sand

• Solidifies sand into firmer ground ^S2E10
• Creates quicksand from water Katara wet the ground with to trap her ^LA
• Says she has been working on her sandbending, and producing an intricate replica of Ba Sing Se ^S3E18
• Idly shapes sand into a sculpture of a building ^IM
• Pushes a group of people away with a wave of sand^FCBD

Mobility
Amplified Jumps

• Raises the ground beneath her to amplify a jump through the air away from Mai's darts ^S2E8
• Launches herself, Sokka, and Suki onto an airship with little direction ^S3E20
• Launches herself up onto Appa ^TP
• Launches herself and Chong onto a rooftop where she catches him ^MBA

Burrowing

• Pops out of the ground to surprise Aang, then uprights him from the ground ^S2E9
• Creates a tunnel to burrow through to obscure Team Avatar's approach to a war machine ^S2E13
• Creates a hole for she and her team to hide in ^TAT
• Burrows from behind her barrier to pop back up behind Katara ^LA
• Tunnels through the ground, guiding her allies through the dark before emerging into a tank ^TP

Raising Herself

• Shakes pillars Aang trains on, and raises herself up on a column ^S2E9
• Raises several people from underwater to below sea level on a column of earth ^S2E12
• Raises a column beneath she and Katara to remain above a deluge of slush ^S2E13
• Rises herself on a column and blasts away Dai Li approaching her ^S2E17
• Raises herself on a large column and threatens a crowd with a large boulder ^TP

Earth Surfing

• Launches herself across a gap, and then surfs along the earth to travel quickly ^S2E19
• Continues surfing along a swell of earth ^S2E20
• Rides a swell of earth, then later does so again ^TR
• Rides atop the earth and blasts open a barricaded door ^IM
• Old Toph surfs on mud with agility ^{LoK S4E3}

Misc.

• Makes an opening in a solid wall and closes it seamlessly ^S2E6
• Hides inside a rock until she gets sick of waiting ^LA
• Pulls up an earth slide while falling that catches she and Sokka ^TP
• Raises an earthslide to a rooftop she stands on ^TP
• Old Toph hides in a cave wall ^RotE

Misc.

• Pulls up a cloud of dust to blind approaching fighters, clearing it away when she whittles them down to one ^S2E6
• Chops her hands through stone that resists Aang's hands ^S2E9
• Creates a massive dust cloud to obscure she and her team's approach ^S2E13
• Clears mud off herself ^S3E7
• Stifles flames alongside Aang ^KPS
• Flips earth over onto fire to stifle it ^S3E4

Metalbending

Crumpling

• Dents the wall of a prison cell and tears out, closing it back up around two men to trap them ^S2E19
• Crumples a cell door and rebounds it off the surrounding walls ^S2E20
• Crumples a bridge between two ships ^S3E1
• Wedges open a metal barrier ^S3E11
• Closes metal around a Dai Li to pin him in place ^S3E11
• Crumples the fin of an airship to redirect it ^S3E21
• Punches from the ground into a tank ^TP
• Launches herself into a large machine she crumples on impact ^TR
• Old Toph bends metal seamlessly, opening a hole in a wall and closing it behind her ^{LoK S4E10}

Binding

• Knocks down a metal door, armors herself in it, and flings pieces of the room off at attackers to pin them ^S3E20
• Tears a chunk of metal off a boat and binds men together with it ^LA
• Pulls a halberd from behind a man and twists it around his head, then tightens it with a twitch of her hand. He seems unable to remove it. ^TP
• Binds soldiers in metal debris ^TP
• Unwraps a man's chain from several people, then wraps it around the man himself ^TR
• Wraps metal around a fleeing person ^MBA
• Grabs Yakone's wrist with alength of chain and pulls him from his seat ^{LoK S1E9}
• Tries to ensnare Yakone, but he bloodbends her ^{LoK S1E9}

Precision

• Bends meteorite into a variety of shapes ^S3E4
• Forms her meteorite into a key to open a lockbox ^S3E8
• Forms her meteorite into a key that unlocks several manacles ^S3E8
• Disassembles a battalion of tanks simultaneously ^TP
• Senses the inner workings of an engine, fixes its malfunction, and says even her most novice students could do the same ^TR
• Forms her bracelet into a hand she slaps someone with ^N&S
• Summons an urn to her hand, reshapes it into a small statue of herself, then returns it to its original shape ^IM
• Begins repairing in moments machinery said to requires months to fix ^IM

ArmoStructures

• Creates armor and barriers that resists Sozin's comet-amped fireblasts, crawls along a metal ceiling, and hurts a man's hand when he strikes her ^S3E20
• Combines several pieces of armor into a big scary suit she animates that later serves as a statue ^TP
• Creates a metallic prison cell she guarantees is escape-proof ^IM
• Shifts walls around to create a moving labyrinth ^IM
• Pulls up a sheet of metal as a defense, then forms it into a glove that protects her from friction burn ^IM
• Forms the siding of a building into a slide ^MBA

Strength

• Throws a metal door off its hinges ^S3E8
• Keeps an iron mine from collapsing for a sustained period of time as Sokka goes to collect her students from the next town over to dig her out, holding it successfully until they do so before collapsing in exhaustion and resting a short while ^TR
• Peels off iron scales from a giant spirit, then manages to hold him back while her allies flee ^TR
• Manipulates I-Beams and catches several when they fall ^N&S
• Catches a falling sheet of metal ^MBA

Misc

• Twists apart cymbals hurting her ears ^TR
• Raises a shield of metal that protects her from an explosion that destroys a factory ^IM
• Duels more evenly with Yaling later, but Sokka intervenes after Toph is downed ^IM
• Runs straight up a wall by bending footholds beneath her feet ^IM

Senses

Seismic Sense
General Info

• Explains her seismic sense, that she always had it, and detects an anthill from far away Aang struggles to see ^S2E6
• Learned to bend from the badgermoles, mimicking their style to learn to interact with the world ^S3E13
• Stubs her toe on a buried sand-sailer, saying the impact produced enough vibrations for her to identify it ^S2E11
• Toph trains Aang to hear the smallest creatures burrowing beneath him, to feel roots growing, and to feel the slightest shift in the deepest rock ^LA

Individuals

• Predicts the Boulder's movements and defeats him quickly ^S2E6
• Detects Iroh approaching from behind a boulder ^S2E8
• Senses Iroh's arrival from behind a door, recognizing him from the one time they met before ^S2E20
• Wakes up from a nap, identifying Sokka as he approaches ^S3E4
• Wakes up, sensing the approach of "a big metal man" from the top of a caldera ^S3E5
• Detects Zuko a short distance away before the others ^S3E12
• Adult Toph senses Aang on the other side of a door ^FCBD

Groups

• Identifies Team Avatar soon after they enter her estate ^S2E6
• Detects intruders a distance away, but falls into their trap ^S2E6
• Wakes up, detecting a large oncoming threat from far off, then detects it again later on ^S2E8
• Senses a battalion nearby in a forest ^KPS
• Detects hundreds of creatures underground ^S2E10
• Can tell Mai and Ty Lee are not the real Kyoshi Warriors within moments of meeting them, despite never meeting the real Kyoshi Warriors herself ^S2E20
• Detects cave hopper insects around her, and hits a cave wall to rock them out ^S3E2
• Detects several approaching guests from outside a cave ^S3E2
• Hears people yelling for help within a mountain, later locating them ^S3E8
• Wakes up after detecting the White Lotus' approach ^S3E19
• Locates a crococat and her kittens in a house when the Boulder could not hear them ^TAT
• Old Toph senses Guan's forces approaching in vehicles from a distance away ^RotE

Metal

• Strikes a metal wall several times until she can detect granularities of earth within it and metalbends for the first time ^S2E19
• Says that if someone is close enough to see metal she's close enough to bend it ^TP
• Located potential metalbenders by sensing the subtle vibrations of her bracelet when they unknowingly bent it while in emotional distress ^TP
• Senses the inner workings of an engine, fixes its malfunction, and says even her most novice students could do the same ^TR
• Old Toph senses metal poison in Korra's system that Suyin missed ^{LoK S4E3}

Structures

• Detects a hidden city deep beneath Ba Sing Se and starts a tunnel toward it ^S2E20
• Senses the scale and contents of Wan Shi Tong's Library by placing a hand on the outer wall ^S2E10
• Identifies a cave as excavation and alerts others to approaching buzzard wasps ^S2E11
• Senses a hidden tunnel beneath Lake Laogai and accesses it with earthbending ^S2E17
• Senses an entire village with hundreds of buildings buried beneath ash ^S3E6
• Detects several criss-crossing tunnels, and a bunker buried below ground before tunneling toward it ^S3E11
• Senses the Western Air Temple hanging upside down from the cliff she walks on ^S3E12
• Warns that Combustion Man's attacks will blast the Wesern Air Temple off its cliffside ^S3E12
• Senses that a mine is about to collapse ^TR
• Senses underground tunnels that go on for miles ^N&S
• Old Toph can feel a cavern stories below her and detect several mech suits there ^{LoK S4E10}

Misc.

• Detects a shell game nearby, saying she can sense a pebble on a wooden board to cheat at the game and does so successfully ^S3E7
• Wakes up, detecting a malfunction at a nearby factory, then tracks the saboteurs through city streets despite the difficulty of sensing those on rooftops ^IM
• After performing an investigation, says she recognizes footsteps from saboteurs the night previous and senses their mastermind lying to her ^IM
• Detects a fighting ring from several buildings away ^MBA
• Recognizes the sounds of the fighting ring's new locations again from several buildings away, and though she has difficulty sensing the proceedings from her vantage on the roof she can pick up fragments and scraps of conversation ^MBA
• Old Toph says she can see everything in the world from her place in the Foggy Swamp, including specific individuals in different cities ^{Lok S4E3}

Hearing

• Hears the Gecko swinging in from behind her ^S2E6
• Says she never forgets a voice after she recognizes a sandbender ^S2E11
• Hears men whispering to eachother from across a ship ^S3E1
• Dodges Sokka's boomerang when she hears it coming ^LA
• Recognizes the Boulder crying in his house while passing it on the street ^TAT
• Catches Momo as he is flung through the air, and indicates his scream aided her ^LA
• Recognizes Appa's raaaaar ^TP

Lie Detection

• Can read heartbeats to tell if people are lying ^S2E17
• Can tell Jet is lying when he says he'll be fine ^S2E17
• Confirms Zuko approached the group in sincerity and spoke truthfully ^S3E12
• Puts her hand to Satoru's chest to confirm he speaks the truth ^TR
• Old Toph confirms Kuvira tells the truth ^RotE

Limitations

• A Dai Li agent poses as a citizen who lies to Toph successfully ^S2E17
  • His name is Old Sweepy, and he was deliberately lying rather than brainwashed ^ANW
• Jet's brainwashing is so complete that Toph cannot tell he is lying, and he seems to wholeheartedly believe the brainwashing ^S2E17
• Quiet conditions are necessary ^DC
• Azula can fool Toph's ability to detect lies ^S3E11

Sensing Limitations
Airborne targets

• Has difficulty pinpointing Aang as he floats between steps ^S2E6
• Pinpoints Aang when he leaps off Appa, but fails to catch a belt thrown off Appa's back ^S2E6
• Misses a buzzard wasp with her projectile, expressing difficulty with airborne targets ^S2E11
• Hits airborne targets with stones when directed and does so again ^S2E11
• Mistakes a hot air balloon for Appa ^TP

Sandy terrain

• Explains how she sees through vibrations in the ground, and that surrounding sand is so loose it makes her vision fuzzy ^S2E10
• Cannot identify attackers approaching in a sandy desert and has difficulty aiming waves of sand she tries to throw at them ^S2E10

Surprised

• Detects intruders a distance away, but falls into their trap ^S2E6
• Grabbed by a Dai Li's earth gloves surprising her amidst a party ^S2E14
  • It's noted here she has more difficulty making predictions against such airborne targets ^DC
• Caught by a Dai Li's earth glove after defeating his allies ^S2E17
• Ambushed by two men who drop a metal container on her ^S2E18

Water

• Does not feel comfortable walking across a bridge made of ice, and nearly drowns while saying she cannot swim ^S2E12
  • She cannot sense vibrations through ice ^DC
• Freaks out in shallow water because she cannot swim ^LA
• Gets nauseous while riding in a submarine ^S3E10

Other impediments

• Says she cannot see as well with shoes on, so tears out the soles of those she has on ^S3E2
• [Says she can barely see the event of a play from the nosebleed section]() though still able to intuit actors' attributes based on their voices ^S3E17
• Says thick boots she wears at the South Pole make it harder for her to see her surroundings, though still manages to detect the approach of an underground drill ^N&S

Cont'd in Comments

Teamwork - Tandem Bending

Katara

• Brings in enough of the tide to lift a ship ^S1E9
• Pulls up underground water to create a continuous geyser ^S1E10
• Manipulates the clouds to change them into the shape of a bad omen ^S1E14
• Katara raises the water level beneath a ship while Aang bends air into the sails, lifting the ship enough to clear several jutting rocks ^S1E15
• Creates a whirlpool around a sea monster powerful enough to slam it into a cliff side ^S2E12
• Uses water to saw through thick metal girders ^S2E13
• Uses a wave of water to block fireblasts from Azula ^S2E20

Toph

• Launches Dai Li off a wall and into a nearby lake ^S2E17
• Surrounds his team in surrounding bricks that defend from massive projectiles^S2E18
• Raises a platform along the Ba Sing Se outer wall to carry everyone to the top ^S2E13
• Raises large platforms from a bay to serve as a dock for ships ^S3E10
• Raises a platform up a slide to ascend to the Earth King's temple ^S2E18
• Creates a large trench to keep a fire away ^S3E4
• Purifies a body of water with Katara and Toph, separating the earth from the water ^S3E03
• Purifies water with Toph ^S3E03

Skills & Abilities

Spiritual Abilities

• Intuitively knows the name of his past life and not sure how ^S1E3
• Touches Hei Bei, establishing a connection with the spirit as he sees its true form and understands its motivations ^S1E7
• Meditates into the spirit world while sitting at the Spirit Oasis ^S1E19
  • Returns to his body in a visible beam of light ^S1E20
• Establishes a connection with the Banyan Grove, using it to locate Appa and Momo elsewhere in the surrounding forest ^S2E4
• Roku visits Aang in his dream to deliver a message ^S3E6
• Meditates while floating water in one hand and earth in the other ^LA
• Summons his past lives for advice, and told he has all of their wisdom available to him ^S3E19
• Instinctually makes faces communicated through spirits, sensing different expressions ^TS
• Meditates to confer with Roku ^TP
• Confers with Roku and learns of Zuko's heritage ^TP
• Severs his connection to Roku ^TP
  • Avatar Yangchen appears to him several times and gives him visions, though she is unable to speak. Honoring an ancient tradition in her honor allows her to communicate with him and explain that severing Roku's connection limited her ability to contact him, and when next she appears she is silent again. ^TR
• Reestablishes his connection to Roku ^TR

Energybending

• Granted the ability to energybend by a lion turtle, allowing him to use his uncompromising spirit to remove Ozai's bending ^S3E19
• Energybending is considered dangerous, and if the target's spirit successfully corrupts the user it can kill them ^LLA
• Removes Yakone's bending ^{LoK S1E9}
• Nearly removes a woman's bending, but decides against it ^IM
• Visits Korra in his next life, unlocking her blocked bending abilities ^{LoK S1E12}
  • Korra was then able to restore the bending of others thereafter

Senses

• Trains blindfolded under Toph, striking at stone columns ^S2E8
• Toph blindfolds him for training, saying it will help him sense the vibrations of an approaching boulder ^S2E9
• Leaps out of the way of a boulder while blindfolded ^S2E9
• Toph trains Aang to hear the smallest creatures burrowing beneath him, to feel roots growing, and to feel the slightest shift in the deepest rock ^LA
• Trains blindfolded, using his seismic sense to evade attacks from Katara and Toph ^S3E7
• Senses Combustion Man about to launch a surprise attack from behind him ^S3E7
• Detects Ozai's attack behind him with his seismic sense ^S3E21

Animal communion

• Swims quickly and holds onto the fins of elephant koi to ride them through water ^S1E4
• Leaps from Appa to the water below, riding the Unagi and directing it to douse the flames on a nearby village before leaping back up to Appa again ^S1E4
• Knows where to tickle a pentapus to make it unlatch ^S2E3
• Uses a bison whistle to summon Appa ^S1E9
• Amplifies his bison whistle to summon every animal in a wide radius so they follow him ^S2E15

Respect Avatar Aang

Come on, Appa. Yip-yip!

History: Aang was just a fun-loving 12 year old when he discovered he was the Avatar, destined to master the four elements and bring balance to the world. At first fleeing his responsibilities, Aang became frozen for 100 years while war consumed the world. Awaking to discover he was the last airbender, Aang gathered friends who helped him master the four elements and restore balance to the world.
Powers: Aang controls the four elements, can enhance his power with the Avatar State, and has a mix of other spiritual and learned abilities.

Source Key & Notes

Strength

• Picks up Katara and makes several tall leaps with her in tow ^S1E1
• Breaks off a stalagmite to throw it ^S1E5
• Carries a large boulder on his back as Toph disrupts his footing ^S2E9
• Smashes a club through stone pillars ^S2E9
• Pushes against Toph's armored form tackling into him, driving her back ^S2E9
• Trains with a kettle bell, maintaining his balance on pillars even as Toph shakes them ^S2E9
• Boosts Katara and then Sokka up into a machine ^S2E13
• While severely sleep deprived, trains for hours punching a tree hard enough to shake it ^S3E9
• Flings furniture across a room ^S3E18

Durability

Concussive

• Crashes headfirst into a pillar of snow while flying and recovers ^S1E1
• Bumi craters him into the ground with falling debris, and Aang quickly recovers ^S1E5
• Takes a hit from Hei Bei that breaks through a chunk of building, appearing fine right after ^S1E7
  • Hei Bei previously destroyed large structures with his hits
• Matches blasts with Zuko, cratering them both into shingled roofs before they continue ^S1E15
• A chunk of earth tears him through a balcony and he recovers during his fall ^S2E1
• Azula blasts through his shield, dazing him briefly before he counters her ^S2E13
• Azula blasts through his armor and craters him into a wall, and he bounces back ^S2E20
• Dazed by Ozai's fireblast that tears through his stone defense, but comes to midair ^S3E20
• Often takes hits he recovers from with little damage ^COMP

Esoteric

• Suffered a burn he seemingly did not notice until Katara pointed it out ^S1E16
• Dies to a surprise bolt of Azula's lightning while in the Avatar State, though revived by Katara healing him with spirit water ^S2E20
• Bloodbent by Yakone, tossed aside and rendered unconscious, but recovers with the Avatar State ^{LoK S1E9}

Speed

Movement

• Sprints quickly, kicking up a trail of snow ^S1E1
• Outruns Sokka, dodging a club swing to run along a wall while outpacing him ^S1E3
• Runs along the surface of water, and crashes onto land where the impact digs up a trench ^S1E4
• Races forward, sending out gusts of wind when he stops ^S1E5
• Races through hallways, outspeeding Katara and Sokka ^S1E8
• Leaps away and begins running quickly to find medicine for his friends ^S1E13
• Said to be able to run as fast as the wind, and blows apart a guard tower in his wake ^S1E13
• Races up a flight of stairs and across a courtyard ^S1E13
• Chases after Katara, and catches her despite her head start ^S3E3

Reactions - Bending Projectiles

• Evades several fireblasts from Zuko while in a confined space ^S1E2
• Evades several of Zhao's fireblasts, ultimately tricking Zhao into burning his own ships ^S1E16
• Evades Zuko and Azula's simultaneous attacks ^S2E8
• Intercepts Combustion Man's blast mid-explosion with his airbending ^S3E5
• Evades Ozai's lightning, whirling himself away from it in a tornado and later redirecting it ^S3E20
• Often dodges basic bending attacks, including some from Bumi, Zuko, Toph, and Azula ^COMP

Reactions - Weapons

• Reacts to projectiles and spears obscured by smoke ^S1E9
• Sees arrows flying toward him, and deflects them with a bubble of air ^S1E13
• Evades several arrows while fleeing the Yuyan Archers ^S1E13
• Breaks through several branches while continuing to evade the Yuyan Archers ^S1E13
• Continues evading arrows, and blocks some with a wall of ice before being pinned ^S1E13
• Dodges thrown hammers linked to chains ^S1E19
• Dodges darts from Mai ^S2E3
• Catches someone fleeing him while evading thrown axes ^TP
• Often evades weapons in close quarters ^COMP

Reactions - Misc.

• Leaps out of the way of several canyon crawlers at the last moment ^S1E11
• Flies straight at Nyla and evades her tongue ^S1E15
• Evades Nyla's tongue and Zuko's fireblasts in quick succession ^S1E15
• Katara congratulates him on having the reflexes of a waterbending master ^S2E8
• Evades several of Azula's attacks and falling boulders ^S2E13
• Dodges several falling boulders ^S2E13
• Evades a bully trying to fight him without using his bending ^S3E2
• Catches himself from falling on spikes by blowing air that flips him over a trap ^S3E13

Agility & Mobility

Against others

• Races around a hallway, then cuts his bindings on an attacker's helmet ^S1E2
• Escapes Zuko's grasp and flips around Fire Sages to get into a room behind them ^S1E8
• Evades Zuko's blasts in close quarters and grabs a necklace from him while doing so ^S1E15
• While spinning around and bound, evades a fireblast precisely enough for it to free him ^LA
• Wedges a grapple out of a mountainside, and doges several projectiles from tundra tanks ^S1E17
• Performs an impromptu dance with Katara ^S3E2

Navigating Environment

• Leaps to the top of a totem he is tied to, cutting his bindings ^S1E4
• Navigates several stalagmites with deft leaps ^S1E5
• Navigates treetops while fleeing Jet and evading his slashes ^S1E10
• Implements improvised stilts as an escape, carrying Zuko on his back as he makes a leap ^S1E13
• Leaps across rooftops ^S2E3
• Bends while balancing on a carafe ^S2E14
• Leaps across rooftops and gusts away animals harassing people ^S2E15
• Quickly ascends a cliffside ^S3E5
• Often makes leaps over large distances ^COMP

Glider

• Explains how he can control the air currents around his glider to fly ^S1E1
• Flies around on his glider to show off, though he crashes ^S1E1
• Flies after Hei Bei through a forest, catching up to him briefly ^S1E7
• Flies around on his glider to show off ^S1E17
• Helicopters his staff overhead to fly a short distance ^S1E4
• Uses his staff to helicopter up in the air ^S1E5
• Helicopters atop a wall, and carries Zuko along with him using his legs ^S1E13
• Flies a considerable distance while exhausted ^S2E8
• Flies after a buzzard wasp that has a head start, but catches up to it ^S2E11
• Navigates around fireballs and tears through war balloons ^S3E11
• Often carries others while flying ^COMP

Air Scooter

• Uses his Air Scooter to race around the walls and ceiling of a chamber ^S1E2
• Loosens snow to create a small avalanche that sweeps soldiers off a mountainside ^S1E17
• Air Scooters up a wall and runs the rest of the way ^S2E1
• Outpaces a stampede of animals ^S2E15
• Air Scooter keeps pace with a train ^LA
• Makes air scooters for half a dozen others ^TP
• Creates an Air Scooter beneath Zuko to whisk him away ^S&S
• Bursts through doors on a large Air Scooter he rides across buildings, tearing into them ^{LoK S1E9}
• Often uses his Air Scooter in mundane circumstances ^COMP

Misc. movement

• Pulls himself out of quicksand before two boulders could smash him between them ^S1E5
• Catches himself before he falls over an edge with a quick correction of air ^S1E10
• Uses air to balance on one finger and to split a stream of fire ^S1E16
• Floats between landings, making it difficult for Toph to pinpoint him with her seismic sense ^S2E6
• Creates an aircurrent he runs across over a crowd ^TR
• Rises on a column of air to scout ahead ^TR
• Ascends on a column of air that then keeps him aloft when he exits the Avatar State ^TR
• Flies on a column of air while carrying others ^N&S
• Often aids his mundane movements, even outside combat ^COMP

Air

Airblasts
Destroys Material - w/o Weapon

• Blasts apart a flaming catapult projectile, shattering it to pieces ^S1E8
• Throws one man through a wooden railing and another a distance away ^S1E9
• Matches blasts with Zuko, cratering them both into shingled roofs ^S1E15
• Blasts Zuko against a wall, sending out shingles in his wake ^S1E15
• Blasts through Mongke's fire to send him through a wooden board ^S2E5
• Blasts through a dock to send the firebender away ^S3E3
• Extinguishes a swathe of flame, and blasts Zuko through a wall and out a building ^S3E18
• Shatters a chunk of road and a carriage's reins, sending the carriage toppling over ^{LoK S1E9}

Destroys Material - w/Weapon

• Blasts Zuko through a wooden structure with a pair of fans ^S1E4
• Destroys a trebuchet ^S1E19
• Collapses several railings to try to impede Azula ^S2E3
• Collapses scaffolding ^S2E3
• Breaks apart a sand-sailer ^S2E11
• Shatters another sand-sailer ^S2E11
• Blasts two large palace doors off their hinges ^S2E18
• Blasts 2 large metal doors off their hinges ^S3E11
• Tears through a throne ^S3E11
• Flings people through a door that shatters on impact ^TP

Moves Material

• Gusts a cabbage cart down a street where it crashes into a few men ^S1E9
• Blasts a wrecking ball structure off the side of a mountain ^S1E17
• Whips away boulders rolling down a slide and breaks them apart ^S2E3
• Blasts a boulder away and Toph out of the arena ^S2E6
• Sweeps away falling debris and tackles Smellerbee out of the way of more ^TP
• Blasts back attackers and barrels, and flips giant drill ^N&S

Moves Individuals

• Blasts back 2 groups of people in opposing directions ^S1E11
• Repeatedly blasts away several men at a time ^S1E13
• Blasts away an attacker ^S1E13
• Gusts himself back after failing to earthbend ^S2E9
• Knocks away a charging giant owl spirit ^S2E10
• Gusts himself back while repelling Combustion Man's explosion ^S3E5
• Often gusts away other people, groups, himself, and animals ^COMP
• Often gusts away himself and others by blowing or sneezing ^COMP
• Often uses airblasts for a variety of purposes ^COMP

Lifting/Throwing

• Whips a mattress into Zuko, slamming him around a room ^S1E2
• Floats a ball around before ricocheting it off posts and launching Sokka back ^S1E3
• Accelerates a thrown stalagmite to hit a precise target ^S1E5
• Creates a wind tunnel that spits out projectiles of coal hard enough to knock men overl ^S1E6
• Flips several tundra tanks in quick succession ^S1E17
• Blasts back attackers and barrels, and flips giant drill ^N&S
• Often lifts weights ranging from very small to very large ^COMP

Misc. maneuvers

• Whirls soldiers around him in a wide circle ^S1E10
• Pulls a man away from the charging Wan Shi Tong ^S2E10
• Creates spinning circles that carries away Toph's students to land safely away ^TR
• Often creates tornados of varying size he manipulates to a variety of purposes ^COMP
• Often creates or clears away particulate that hinders visibility ^COMP

Defense
Repelling Fire

• Deflects a fireblast that brings down a chunk of a glacier large enough to partially bury a ship ^S1E2
• Blocks four simultaneous fireblasts that scorch the area around him ^S1E13
• Spins his staff to block quick jabs of fire from Azula ^S2E3
• Swats away a trebuchet projectile strong enough to destroy a ship and shatter stone ^S2E12
• Extinguishes firebenders' flames while hidden ^S3E3
• Rebels point-blank fire breath from Ozai ^S3E21
• Often blocks firebenders' flames, including Zuko, Azula, and Ozai ^COMP

Air Bubbles

• Creates an air bubble around himself that protects from falling debris ^S1E7
• Creates a small shield that blocks Jet's hits and returns a gust in response ^S1E10
• Sees arrows flying toward him, and deflects them with a bubble of air ^S1E13
• Twirls a ball of air in front of him to direct away sewage ^S2E3
• Surrounds Appa and everyone inside in an air bubble that resists a tornado ^S2E4
• Expands an air bubble out that loosens restraints on him well enough to escape ^S2E4
• Clears away scorpion bees coating him ^LA
• Creates a breathable air bubble underwater and reestablishes it when it dissipates ^TS

Utility
Slicing

• Slices a melon into portions ^S1E11
• Beheads a buzzard wasp from a vast distance ^S2E11
• Slices vines apart with air ^TS

Heat

• Cools a large amount of lava into stone ^S1E14
• Cools off Toph's soup from across the table ^S2E6
• Amplifies Kuzon's flames with his air ^LA
• Cools a geyser of lava with a blast of air so it solidifies ^S3E11

Cushions

• Cushions his fall so an egg he holds does not break ^LA
• Cushions he and an ally's fall ^S1E13
• Cushions his fall after taking a hit ^S2E1
• Cushions he and Bumi's fall while Bumi is locked in a metal coffin ^S2E3
• Cushions several people's fall ^TR
• Cushion's Zuko's impact against a wall ^S&S

Drying

• Dries himself off after a cloud drenches him ^S1E7
• Gusts Sokka dry after Katara washes him clean ^S2E3
• Quickly dries himself off ^S2E10
• Gusts a woman to dry her off, stiffening her clothes and hair cartoonishly ^S2E14
• Cleans polluted water off himself, then off his friends ^S3E3

Misc.

• Pulls his staff from Sokka's hand to his own ^S1E1
• Rapidly rotates the wheel to a door to open it ^S1E2
• Produces sustained gusts of wind that open a special mechanism on an Air Temple door ^S1E3
• Manipulates the air around a toboggan so he and his friends fall back into it ^S1E5
• Raises a tent ^S2E8
• Gusts Katara's hat off her head ^S3E3
• Often rotates marbles between his hands as a neat trick ^COMP

Water

Training

• Picks up waterbending easily, waxing and waning water before moving it around him ^S1E9
• Proved natural at waterbending, and continued training with Katara and Pakku ^COMP

Offense/Defense

• Pulls a wave onboard strong enough to wash a man overboard ^S1E9
• Blasts water out of a well that overpowers Zuko's fireblast and sends Zuko flying into the air ^S1E15
• Surrounds himself in tentacles that catch projectiles ^S2E2
• Whips Azula's hands as she attempts fireblasts, and then forms a shield from another blast ^S2E13
• Redirects a whip of water back at Katara ^S3E7
• Knocks Combustion Man off a train with a wave ^LA
• Throws a waterfall at Ozai that blocks his flame ^S3E20
• Forms a shield that blocks Zuko's fireblasts ^TP

Slicing

• Creates 3 geysers that slice a ship mast in half as it falls over ^S1E12
• Slices a reed in half
• Slices repeatedly at the hull of a Drill, making a deep X ^S2E13

Utility

• Creates a stream of water to wash off Appa ^S2E8
• Collects water from a cloud ^S2E11
• Bends several drinks out of their cups and whirls them around ^S2E14
• Creates a cloud around Appa to obscure him ^S3E6
• Pull water into a circle around him ^N&S

Icebending
Offense/Defense

• Raises a wall of ice that blocks oncoming arrows ^S1E13
• Freezes the water in a moat to lock guards in place ^S2E18
• Freezes several giant crab claws while underwater ^TS
• Trips fleeing people with the snow beneath them ^N&S
• Pulls ice up from beneath a chi-blocker to bind his limbs ^N&S

Utility

• Collects the snow around him to turn himself into a snow man ^S1E19
• Freezes a chain, embrittling it so he can shatter it ^S2E3
• Freezes a chain with his breath, embrittling it so he can shatter it ^S2E3
• Freezes himself in a block of ice ^S2E12
• Catches a mass of water from Katara and expands it out into an explosion of snow that extinguishes a conflagration ^S3E4

Mobility

• Dives underwater and swims quickly past a barricade ^S3E1
• After speaking with the Moon Spirit, amplifies a tidal wave that carries him to the safety of an island ^S3E1
• Freezes the water beneath his feet as he runs across water ^S3E3
• Swims quickly around a giant lion turtle the size of an island ^S3E19
• Catches himself on a column of water to land safely in the water ^S3E20
• Propels himself across water away from Ozai ^S3E20

Earth

Projectiles

• Earthbends for the first time, launching a boulder away where it releases a dust cloud on impact ^S2E9
• Breaks off a huge portion of stone from an outcropping ^S2E9
• Catches and throws a large boulder ^S2E13
• Throws a large pillar of stone at Combustion Man ^S3E5
• Launches and curves boulders a vast distance away and destroys chunks of an airship ^S3E20
• Tears off the top of a stone column and hurls it ^S3E20
• Kicks away a massive stone column ^S3E20

Columns

• Earthbends up a column in his sleep, and sends out a tremor that dislodges an avalanche ^LA
• Bursts through a stone barrier and knocks away a Dai Li with a column ^S3E11
• Knocks a Dai Li away with a column of stone ^S2E17
• Raises a column ^S&S
• Blocks attackers with a column so they knock themselves out and moves a stone barrier ^S&S

Barriers

• Raises a barrier to hide from viper bats ^LA
• Creates a stone defense to Azula's fireblasts and launches rocks from it, but she overpowers it ^S2E13
• Creates massive walls, columns, and enclosures to form a whole zoo ^S2E15
• Raises and pushes a stone wall to knock away attackers ^S2E18
• Raises a wall against Azula's sudden attack, which blasts through it ^S2E20
• Raises a crystal defense that stifles Zuko's large fireblast ^S2E20
• Closes off a cave passage ^S3E2
• Raises a stone wall that Ozai's blast destroys ^S3E20
• Raises a barrier that blocks shuriken ^TS
• Shields from earth projectiles ^IM

Armor

• Creates a rock glove that intercepts Azula's strike, then pushes her away ^S2E13
• Armors himself in crystals and charges toward Azula, who blasts through it ^S2E20
• Surrounds himself in crystal to allow him to meditate into the Avatar State ^S2E20
• Hides in a pillar and emerges with armor that protects from Combustion Man's blast ^S3E5
• Armors himself in earth that resists Ozai's fire ^S3E20
• Wraps himself in a boulder against Ozai's attacks made repeatedly before it is destroyed ^S3E20&21
• Forms earth around him so he can meditate ^TP

Busting

• Destroys a stone barrier raised to impede him ^S2E17
• Shatters a boulder and slices another in half ^S2E18
• Bends away stone bindings around his wrists and returns them ^S2E18
• Shatters stones thrown at him while defending his team ^S2E18
• Shakes apart a column to bring Azula down from it ^S2E20
• Busts through a stone pillar, then hides himself within one ^S3E5
• Bursts stone projectiles thrown at him ^S3E11
• Shatters a stone barrier with a wave of his hand ^S3E11
• Busts through a stone barrier raised by a Dai Li ^S3E11
• Shatters a battering ram with his head ^TP
• Smashes flung rocks, and raises juts of earth that hold falling debris ^TR
• Shrugs off a projectile from Toph to smash the next stone she throws ^TR

Binding

• Binds Ozai's limbs with earth ^S3E21
• Sinks a soldier into the ground ^TP
• Traps Azula's feet with the ground ^TS
• Binds a man's hands together ^TR
• Dodges a surprise knife swing and sinks his attacker into the ground ^TR
• Binds a man with the earth beneath him ^IM

Ground Slams

• Slams into the ground, sending out a wave of earth that throws away guards ^S2E18
• Tears off a chunk of cave and craters it into the ground where it sends out a wave that knocks over Zuko, then crawls from the crater ^S2E20
• Raises a platform and slams it down to damage a factory ^S3E3

Mobility

• Repeatedly extends a tunnel he and Iroh navigate until they reach an underground cavern ^S2E20
• Launches himself out of the ground and rides a swell of earth when he lands ^S2E20
• Slides across the ground while evading attacks ^S3E7
• Throws a rock at Toph, then burrows beneath it when she returns it ^S3E7

Utility

• Moves a boulder over and carves it into the shape of a spike ^S2E13
• Stifles flames with earth ^TS
• Launches several others over a fence ^TR
• Turns a rock into a meditation bead with an etching on it ^TR
• Begins digging others out of a collapsed mine, then aids metalbenders who arrive to help ^TR

Fire

Fireblasts

• Produces a plume of flame ^S3E13
• Produces flames while practicing with Zuko ^S3E13
• Practices firebending alongside Zuko ^S3E17
• Blasts through his stone enclosure, ripping it apart ^LA
• Trains with Zuko, creating plumes of flame ^LA
• Practices firebending and produces 3 simultaneous plumes from his hands and mouth ^S3E18
• Matches Ozai's fireblast with his own, creating an explosion visible from a significant distance away ^S3E20
• Releases a massive fireblast that brings down an airship ^S3E20
• Attempts opening a firebending mechanism alongside Zuko ^S&S
• Throws a fireblast at the Kemurikage ^S&S

Control

• Keeps fire from reaching the edge of a leaf, then stokes the flame ^S1E16
• Stokes a flame into a fireball ^S1E16
• Throws a stream of flame and juggles around a fireball ^S1E16
• Sends out a radial blast of fire that burns Katara's hands ^S1E16
• Tries to firebend, producing a sputter of smoke ^S3E13
• Carries fire up a mountain, feeling its "heartbeat," then feeds its flame to make it stronger ^S3E13
• Blocks Ozai's flames ^S3E20
• Redirects Ozai's lightning and dispels it into the air ^S3E20
• Burns a piece of his meditation beads to cinders ^TP
• Holds a flame in his hand to light his way ^S&S

Avatar State

Pre-Mastery

• Froze himself and Appa in an iceberg that preserves them for a century ^S1E12
  • Emerges from the iceberg exhausted and collapses, though up and mobile moments later ^S1E1
  • During this time, Aang was preserved in a ball of energy ^AoAS
• Ascends on a column of water he sends out radially to knock soldiers away, though collapses right after, yet remains well enough to defend himself moments later ^S1E2
• Often creates cyclones of air and damages surroundings when entering the Avatar State ^COMP
• Possessed by Roku, redirects several firebenders' flames to melt chains binding friends, blows attackers back, and opens a trench of magma that brings down a building ^S1E08
• Evades high waves on Appa before getting overwhelmed, entering the Avatar State and enclosing everyone in a sphere that flies them to safety ^S1E12
• Merges with the Ocean Spirit while in the Avatar State to create a kaiju out of water ^COMP
• Possessed by Kyoshi to testify in court, summoning a tornado and darkening the sky ^S2E5

Post-mastery

• Duels Ozai, surrounding himself in an elemental sphere and destroying much of the landscape as Ozai flees him frantically ^COMP
• Pulses the Avatar State to bring in the tide to extinguish a forest of flames, then returns it ^S3E21
• Forms an elemental sphere, encircles a city with a massive trench, and catches the falling Zuko ^TP
• Forms an elemental sphere and flies off, preparing to destroy a factory with large fireballs ^TR
• Creates a giant of earth that duels with General Old Iron, then defeats him with a blast of all the elements to a weak spot ^TR
• Crushes an earthbender's boulder, binds her in ice, and nearly removes her bending ^IM
• Recovers from bloodbending, then resists Yakone's bloodbending and restrains him ^{LoK S1E9}

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