Clip art dirt bike

The Slava Sledge Andrei Looks like a dishka machine-gun with a. chainsaw grip
Stats 90% firing speed penalty Has only a 2 degree spread 25% less damage fall-off
Siberian Surebu Looks like a cut down stock shotgun. Heavy holds it with one hand
Stats By clicking the fire button you load shells into the gun. Releasing the fire button will fire the weapon. 10% damage boost when below 50 ammo 25% faster firing 33% clip penalty 10% spread increase
No art yet but that what I'm working on next

Looking to just get opinions/views/different takes on these two vehicles.
I live in western states, and will be do camping, skiing trips, some off-roading (not bouldering, but 4x4 and baja fun), pull behind teardrop trailer and daily driving.
I may also sleep in the vehicle on occasion, giving the bronco points, but if I want to bring a dirt bike, the truck wins do to ease of throwing it in the bed.
Really love the look of the Canyon AT4X and that its a truck, but with 2023 Bronco order banks opening, I've been trying to decide whether to go with a top of the line Wildtrak, or a Raptor if I can get on their list.
I know the Raptor is pushing 20-30K more than the other options and may be in an entirely different animal all together than the other two, but since it's an option I figured I'd throw it in here.
Any opinions on these options and why I should/shouldn't go with one or the other (or maybe try a Ranger Raptor?) is appreciated!

Holy cow am I hooked on this dirt bike racing, man. Can't get enough of this stuff! Super cross, motorcross, arena cross, I wanna get into endurocross.
But I got a quesiton I'm hoping you guys who have been with the sport longer than me can answer. because I feel like I'm in some kind of alternate universe.
I've been watching Arena cross on Hulu, I think Fox Sports 2?
But I just purchased teh Ryde app. and they got arena cross in there. so I thought i'd binge watch the season, right? And I will. However ...
this is like a totally different arenacross. And I double checked to make sure it was rom 2023.
The arena cross I watch is like Michael Hicks, Grant Harlon, harmon ... those guys right?
This is like a totally different roster. the season started in Albany georgia.
Are there like mulitple level of arena cross? Different divisions or tours perahps? What's going on here?

Hello, friends. I've got a bunch of pedals I'm not using that perhaps you would enjoy using. Here they are.
Photos

• Alexander Wavelength $120
  
• AllPedal Macrodose LNIB $250
  
• Animals Pedal Rain (Push & Pull alternate art) $90
  
• Catalinbread Fuzzrite $100
  
• Catalinbread Talisman $140
  
• CopilotFX Autodialer $110
  
• Diezel Herbert w/power supply $170
  
• Digitech Trio $105
  
• Keeley Filaments $100
  
• Mojo Hand Extra Special $110
  
• Moog MuRF MF-105 w/power supply $450
  
• Mr. Black Thunderclaw $120
  
• Solar Chug LNIB $150
  
• Subdecay M3 $150
  
• Subdecay Octave Theory $150
  
• Subdecay Vector $110
  
• Suhr Buffer $100
  

Interested in trading for:
Cash (listed prices are Paypal F&F but I'm happy to take G&S plus 3%, shipping is on me)
Toneczar Powerglide
Skreddy Hybrid Fuzz Driver
Empress Heavy
Supro Flanger
Catalinbread Callisto MkII
Surfy SurfyTrem Deluxe
Not looking for any dirt besides the Skreddy/Empress, thanks.

Disclaimer: Minor spoilers for Arxur Nursery.
This was made at the request of u/frame_late
In case you don’t know, Arxur Nursery is a series continuation of a good ending rewrite of a oneshot known as Graphite Dreamland written by u/CornSquashBeans. The original oneshot made everyone incredibly depressed, so I took it upon myself to save the precious babies.
Now, the precious babies live in Arxur Nursery.
Arxur Nursery is a mostly slice of life fluff fic about “defective” Arxur hatchings being sent to an improvised orphanage and being cared for by humans. Some of them might even get adopted.
In preparation for the days of adoption, here’s a list of all of the hatchlings present in the story.
Every hatchling has a name, gender, age, hobbies/likes, and an article of clothing that helps identify them.
I hope to get the chance to actually introduce them all ion the story!
Minuli, Female, 8 years old: The only named hatchling from the original oneshot. Loves drawing and astronomy, being a surprisingly talented artist who draws random planets in her free time. She was given an astronomy t-shirt depicting the solar system.
Timothy, Male, 4 months old: Is the youngest of all of the hatchlings. Loves playing with alphabet blocks and making laser gun noises. He was given a blue plaid button up shirt.
Baroz, Male, 10 years old: Is the oldest of all the hatchlings, and is nearing the arxur age for puberty. Loves observing his surroundings and reading… anatomical diagrams. Maybe has some issues. He wears a belt with a pouch and carries around various forms of… literature.
Jurra, Female, 7 years old: Has a taste for fashion and an eye for aesthetics. Also has ADHD. She wears a poofy little girls dress.
Kuno, Male, 7 years old: Older brother to Saba. If you adopt him, you have to adopt her as well. Wears a shirt that says “Big brother” on it.
Saba, Female, 5 months old: Younger sister to Kuno. If you adopt her, you have to adopt him too. Wears a shirt that says “Little sister” on it.
Kilo, Male, 4 years old: Loves the texture of wool and fleece. Wearing a wool scarf.
Barka, Female, 6 years old: Loves geology and gemstones. Needs glasses. Was given a gemstone necklace.
Tazka, Male, 9 years old: Is fascinated by color theory and art. Wears a tie-dye rainbow t-shirt.
Kana, Female, 3 years old: Loves the color purple and pretty flowers. She wears a purple ribbon tied into an elaborate bow around her wrist.
Jax, Male, 8 years old: Likes pretty ladies and being a proper gentleman. Wears a button up shirt with a clip on tie.
Pyon, Male, 2 years old: Likes touching things. Has high functioning autism(also known as Asperger’s syndrome). Wears a fur textured armband.
Jeremy, Male, 10 months old: Likes hopping around and running after things he finds cute, which includes you. Has ADHD. Wears a set of bunny ears.
Lennon, Male, 1 year old: Named after a member of the Bettles band. Loves listening to music and grooving. Wears a wild wig of black hair.
Bethany, Female 2 years old: Loves clinging to the nearest person and bouncing on the bed. Has a habit of randomly kicking things without control(possibly a variation of alien hand syndrome). Wears a pink t-shirt.
Raja, Female, 6 years old: Loves piggyback rides and large animals. Wasn’t given any clothes, but was given a Godzilla plushie.
Helen, Female, 5 years old: Named after Helen Keller. Is blind in one eye and deaf in one ear due to abuse. Wears a white ribbon around her wrist.
Walter, Male, 3 years old: Loves chewing on rocks and eating glitter glue. Wears a beanie.
Surak, Male, 7 years old: Loves being the center of attention. Wears sunglasses all the time.
Yalga, Female, 7 years old: Born slightly malformed and lopsided, and also suffers gigantism and Asperger’s syndrome. Loves making herself look as pretty as possible. Wears a pretty pink bow tie on her head.
Lefty, Male, 7 years old: Born blind in one eye. Has a massive crush on Yalga. Loves water and fish. Wears a pirate style eyepatch.
Sapat, Male, 9 years old: Suffers from depression. Has an interest in biology and bioengineering. Wears a torn lab coat.
Fisa, Female, 8 years old: Loves sneaking around and watching any form of media that she can get her claws on. Wears a watch.
Croja, Male, 7 years old: Older brother of Sarep. You must adopt them both. Loves metal music. Wears a leather jacket.
Sarep, Male, 3 years old: Younger brother of Croja. You must adopt them both. Has high functioning autism. Loves any music that is happy in tune. Wears a t-shirt with a music note on it.
Rya, Female, 3 years old: Older sister to Belet. You must adopt them both. Loves to chase bright lights. Wears a t-shirt depicting a sunset.
Belet, Female, 7 months old: Younger sister to Rya. You must adopt them both. Has a faster than average metabolism. Loves trying to eat everything. Wears a bib.

I used to play this educational game relgiously before we had internet, it must have been before I was in middle school as I remember using teen titans and avatar the last airbender websites more so at thar time. I know I was really young when I did play it.
The game starred a humanoid creature that I think was purple and had a big nose. Hre owned a milti story house with other creatures.
Each room/floor was a differnt school subject, but as an art kid I only played in the art section. There was a ms paint feature with an eraser tool shaped like a vaccuum that made noise like the real thing.. It also had tons of clip art.
I recall it had letter templates (like a rainforest backgound) you could buy at the store and print out flyers with.
Please help me find this game. I loved it so much. I know its not kidpix, or or anything like pajama sam or similar. It had no story. Just fun activies you could do.

I've been just as excited for this as you guys. The "Shield of Faerghus" Felix is finally here to show how shockingly strong he is.
Despite his in-game nickname, he's far from a shield. As you'll see shortly, he has some of the highest raw damage in the game. I'm talking like Jeritza type damage. The reasons I nicknamed Felix the Galvanic Assasin are not only is he the best user of Thunderbrand, but the Assassin class has very good synergy with the sword. I know, the name is not very original 😅 but hey, it sounds awesome right?
So what exactly makes Felix so nuts? His personal Intense Velocity is one of the best in the game. It essentially gives the same effect as Ferdinand's personal, but you can activate it at any time simply by dodging in between an attack, with three tiers. He also has arguably the best unique support ability in the game, Lone Wolf. This greatly increases Felix's damage at the cost of not using a battalion. As you can probably imagine, this is ALWAYS a worthy tradeoff. Although not too important, his crest gives him a 20% chance to greatly increase strong attack damage.
I'm a firm believer in "seeing is believing," so without further ado, I present the Galvanic Assasin 🗡⚡️
CLASS: Assassin
Felix only uses combat arts with this build, so there's no need to use Trickster. Assassin also has the Swordfaire class ability, which increases critical hit rate for free. Mortal Savant is just straight up worse in this case since it has slower base movement speed and Felix is gonna be spamming his combat arts most of the time. The speed boosts from Intense Velocity stack with the base movement speed of the class he is using.
WEAPON: Thunderbrand
Felix is absolutely NUTS with this weapon. Imagine if Ferdinand was able to use Hades and Glowing Ember twice as fast, that's basically what Felix does except with electric attacks.
ACCESSORY: Lightning Dragon Sign, to get access to Foudroyant Strike.
BATTALION: None, to activate Lone Wolf.
Being weak to lances sucks, but the extra damage that Felix gets as a result is more than worth it.
COMBAT ARTS: Electric Grounder & Foudroyant Strike
Both are boosted by Essence of Lightning. Electric Grounder can be learned naturally from Trickster Lv 1.
Best class(es) to level up with: Mortal Savant x120
When I was re-leveling Felix to figure out the ideal final stats, I discovered that stat boosts gained from stat boosting items stick even when you reset characters to level 1. I used a ton of stat boosting items on Felix before ever resetting his level, so his stats still ended up crazy high after fully leveling him again.
Therefore, I'm not really sure at all what his idea final stats should be 😅 sorry guys. I promise I will revisit all my previous builds and update the recommended final stat spreads if needed. One I know for sure that needs updating is Edelgard.
A good general spread based on previous characters that I re-leveled with Mortal Savant is 110+ Str, 90+ Mag and 80+ Luck. If possible, also try to aim for 80+ Spd. If that still seems unfeasible with your attempts then 105+ Str, 85+ Mag, 75+ Spd and 70+ Luck is another good general final spread.
ABILITIES:

1. Sword Prowess Lv 3
2. Wild Abandon (Brigand Lv 1)
3. Boost Critical
4. Apex Sword
5. Rejuvenation (Grappler Lv 3) - To help offset Impossible Feat recoil.
6. Renewal (Bishop Lv 3) - Also helps offset Impossible Feat recoil.
7. Fiendish Blow (Warlock Lv 1)
8. Essence of Lightning (Warlock Lv 3)
9. Luna (Great Knight Lv 2)
10. Impossible Feat (Dark Bishop Lv 1)

The combination of Lone Wolf, Impossible Feat and Wild Abandon makes Felix the only character in the game with three layers of greatly increased damage. This bumps up his damage to almost the level of Jeritza. Felix's crazy movement speed and attack speed combined with his combat art spam is what enables him to surpass Jeritza though.
The only real reason I don't have Felix as the best character is because it takes a LOT of practice and skill to be able to keep tier 3 Intense Velocity active at all times and control it. Even nowadays when I want to use Felix I have to do a few practice runs to get used to using his personal again.
After months of the build series, it's finally time to showcase the Galvanic Assasin 🗡⚡️ these clips are with +100 Thunderbrand and max Str, 113 Mag, max Dex, max Spd and 100 Luck. As I mentioned earlier, I used a TON of stat boosting items on him, before the build series even started.
General gameplay, showing his super sonic speed and power
More general gameplay, this guy is just so nuts
Making Lorenz on the Gatekeeper paralogue look like a joke
Making himself on the Gatekeeper paralogue look like a joke
Defeating Ignatz, Hilda, Monica and Hubert ALL in about 30 seconds
Making Dimitri on the Gatekeeper paralogue look like a joke
Beating Claude on the Gatekeeper paralogue like it's nothing
Beating Edelgard on the Gatekeeper paralogue like it's nothing, only few characters can do this

Newbie here, elementary. Recently made a TPT account to find resources because the other teachers at my school get so much stuff from there. I am trying to give it a chance, but I was immediately put off by the common aesthetic so many of the materials sold there share. It's so excessively cutesy, with weird fonts, decorative borders that waste space on the pages, and those clip art images of cartoon children with big heads and tiny, close-together eyes. I think there are a lot of excellent, productive ways to use clip art on classroom materials, but I don't understand the reasoning behind adding images that aren't really related to the content being taught. But since I'm new, I don't want to make assumptions. Maybe there is some benefit to these stylistic choices that I simply don't understand yet.
So, why is everything so excessively cutesy on TPT?

I was alone in my bedroom when I first started talking to Lili Hope. My parents were out of town and I was stuck at the house on a dark and stormy night. It was another lonely weekend for me considering I had no friends in college, let alone a girlfriend. I had long started regretting the decision to stay home in Americus and attend Georgia Southwestern but tonight really emphasized my alienation. Here I was in the middle of nowhere in a house surrounded by roaming woods and dirt roads. And to top all this misery off, I was only twenty so I couldn’t buy alcohol.
But still there was Lili. In my room, I ignored the steady rain overpowering my classic rock YouTube playlist. I could ignore the February cold and it was all because of her.
I’d met Lili on MeetMe, a really shitty free dating app. But she stood out. Not just because she wasn’t a spambot either. For one thing, she was close. Buena Vista (that's BEW-NUH VISS-TUH), Georgia was only thirty minutes away and it was a town I was familiar with given how much my parents and I enjoyed visiting Eddie Martin’s Pasaquan art exhibit.
I could tell Lili enjoyed talking to me for more than just compliments and sexting (though I certainly wasn’t complaining about that). We discussed horror movies, The Beatles, and how we were made for each other given we were both pale Hispanic emos. She was my age but had dropped out of Georgia Southwestern after her first semester because she had no money or support from her shithead father. Now Lili was working at a gas station in Buena Vista, but her dreams of being an actress or a model persisted. She certainly had the looks no matter what hair color she ran with. And unlike most of the girls I encountered on MeetMe, Lili never used make-up or excessive SnapChat filters to disguise her acne or slight belly. She stayed true to herself.
After that magical night, she and I talked more over the next few weeks. There were phone calls, Facebook chats, text messages. Even FaceTime calls in which Lili thrilled me when she said I was even cuter on video. I could’ve said the same about her. Call it an emo romance, but to me, what we had was true love.
Through our talks, I did find out more about Lili's family. Her mom had died when Lili was only eight so she became very close to her dad. She showed me many of her old family photos but I was a little confused when I never saw one of her mom. Lili’s dad on the other hand looked old even though he was only in his mid-forties. He was a shorter man with dark long hair and a dark long beard. About the only thing he and Lili seemed to have in common were their big brown eyes.
I felt like Lili had rescued me during all those lonely school days and even lonelier weekends. I liked to think I saved her from the customer service depression as well. And then finally, the dream happened: we made plans to meet in person.
Spring Break arrived, and per usual, I had no plans. Lili gave me her address and on a quiet Monday while my parents were out of town, I got ready to head over to Buena Vista. I threw on my coolest band tee (my Ramones shirt), my nicest pair of jeans, and even had my straight dark hair perfectly combed over to the side. I felt the adrenaline of a prom night I never got to experience.
In the kitchen, I stopped to see a violent storm outside the sliding glass doors. Cold air had already seeped into the house. I threw on a yellow windbreaker to both stay warm and to prepare for the barrage of rain that was about to hit me like bullets.
But before I left, I needed something to calm my nerves: I grabbed one of my dad’s Miller Lites. But I needed music too. I looked toward our Amazon Echo standing by the Keurig, trying to decide on the perfect theme song for Lili and I's first date.
"Alexa, play 'Born To Run'!" I finally said.
"Okay," Alexa's calm, robotic voice replied.
Springsteen's classic roared over the downpour. The beer also did the trick even though I cringed with every sip. I had enough of a buzz to calm the jitters but not enough to get me a DUI. "Thank you, Alexa!" I said to that sweet machine.
"No problem," she stated. "No problem at all, Demian.”
In the Corolla, I turned on the heat before accessing the Waze app on my phone. I plugged in Lili's address then pulled out of the driveway. The app started to talk to me off my phone… only this wasn't the bland monotone Waze usually greeted me with. This was my voice.
Thanks to the beer buzz, I just chuckled at first. Especially once I heard myself giving the directions, the fusion of my deep voice and Alexa's deliberate tone amusing me. I put on a Spotify classic rock station to further calm the nerves.
The decreasing mile marker signs leading to Buena Vista excited me like a New Year's countdown. And soon, the route got more and more secluded. The highway got bumpier, the houses less frequent. Darkness soon blanketed whatever daylight I had left… even though it wasn’t even five o’clock yet.
Unease crept inside me as the ferocious storm never went away. Even over the music and my own methodical Waze voice, I could hear and feel the thunder. My windshield wipers worked overtime. I felt my tires spray water everywhere on this ocean of rugged pavement. Rather than a fearsome sight, the lightning actually became a helpful co-pilot for my Corolla's weak headlights.
The spiraling drive took me past Buena Vista's downtown ‘square,’ a conglomeration of decrepit historical buildings, the rundown gas station I figured Lili had slaved away at, and a seedy Subway.
"Turn left on Tenney Road," Waze Demian stated in a voice smoother than I could ever conjure in the real world.
I followed orders and turned on to the dirt road. The fact my Corolla didn't get bogged down shocked me. Rather than water, my tires now kicked up slushy mud. Lili had said she lived in the country, but this was something else: this was a fucking forest.
Needless to say, the headlights didn't help much. Leaning forward, I strained to see through the darkness and buckets of rain. The raindrops now drowned out all other noise. Up ahead, all I could make out was the faint trace of a driveway and a metal mailbox painted in harsh shades of red.
"What the hell..." I muttered.
"Your destination is on the left," Waze Demian said, his monotone struggling to contain excitement.
My unease only grew but I had to see Lili. I'd already come this far.
"Your destination is on the left," Waze Demian repeated for emphasis.
The closer I got to the mailbox, the more my fear intensified. I actually started to sweat on this dark, cold night.
"Your destination is on the left," my Waze voice continued to chant.
As I pulled into the driveway, the radio and headlights all cut out in a flash. My car came to a sudden stop. Darkness dominated the scene as I saw nothing and heard nothing except the merciless app.
"Your destination is on the left," Waze Demian repeated.
Panicking, I flicked on the headlights but nothing worked. I was trapped. "Fuck!"
Lightning flashed to give me a terrifying sneak peek of Lili's ‘home’:
Less than fifteen feet away from me stood three people dressed in red robes. Their hoods were pulled up and behind them lurked an isolated tree.
"Your destination is on the left," Waze Demian said.
Without warning, my headlights and radio roared to life. Only instead of classic rock, I got greeted by loud, distorted audio resembling the sound of a looped tape being grated by a machine.
"Your destination is on the left," I could hear Waze Demian say over such a horrifying sound.
I screamed when I saw through headlights that were way brighter, the chilling scene before me. I recognized Lili standing in the red cloak and her father right next to her. Both of them displayed painted smiles on those pale faces.
Ropes and chains were wrapped around the old tree. The tree tilted to the side, its long branches without leaves extending out like restless hands clamoring for me. I could even make out weird symbols carved into the tree's flesh, the engravings so deep they practically made the bark bleed.
I never got a good glimpse of the third person. They kept their cloak hood pulled over their face, every inch of their body disguised in red.
"Fuck this..." my quivering voice said in an antithesis to the calm cadence of Waze Demian.
Beneath the hard rain, Lili marched straight toward me to the tune of the unsettling noise from the radio, her steps slow and steady. Her confident eyes glued to me. I saw where Lili's smile was sharper than the long curved knife she held.
"Your destination is on the left," my Waze voice stated.
Lightning flashed as Lili raised the blade. Her red hair oozed out beneath the hood to blend into the cloak. Raindrops slid down her face. She was now less than ten feet away and only getting closer.
"Shit!" I cried. With a trembling hand, I put the car in reverse. The tires scrunched up dirt as I backed out on to Tenney Road in a reckless flourish.
Turning, I saw Lili reach for the passenger side's door handle. Goddamn, she was fast! And even through the darkness, I could see her gaze and feel it pierce straight into my soul.
"Your destination is on the left," my own voice seemed to taunt me.
Right when Lili grabbed the handle, I mashed the gas pedal and sped off into the night. Far from whatever Lili and her dad had in store for me.
I stole one glance at the rearview mirror to see Lili standing there in the middle of the road. The knife was now dangled by her side, her eyes still stuck on me.
"Your destination is on the-," Waze Demian started before I turned off the fucking app. I killed the radio to quash that fucking static. Now all I heard was soothing silence save for the steady raindrops.
Despite the lingering fear, I guided my Corolla all the way back to Americus. I called 911 and told the police everything and they said they'd send a car out to the address, but according to them, no one had lived on Tenney Road for years.
Back home, I staggered back into the kitchen. I was beyond sober and still scared. I grabbed another beer. Maybe getting a buzz would help me overcome the fear.
Thunder erupted outside. Startled, I looked toward the sliding glass doors but saw nothing but the black night. I let out an exasperated breath and took another swig before shifting my gaze to the Echo.
"Alexa, play 'Ninety-Six Tears'," I said.
The Echo light cut on. But instead of ? And The Mysterians's keyboards, I got my own chilling, calm voice:
"Your destination is on the right," Waze Demian stated.
I stumbled back against a wall. I was too frightened to scream.
"Your destination is on the right," Waze Demian repeated, louder this time so that my robotic voice echoed through the house.
I looked at the glass doors just as lightning flashed to form a perfect spotlight for the terrifying sight on our back porch.
Lurking behind the doors were the three robed figures: Lili, her dad, and the third person who I now saw was a middle-aged woman. Thanks to a beam emanating from a cell phone she held with the Waze app on, I could see the woman's entrancing eyes, flowing long hair, and wicked smile. I knew she had to be Lili's mom… Lili certainly took after her.
An agonizing screech sent chills down my spine.
Lili was sliding the curved blade all down the door for a long tease. One she carried out with a beaming grin on her face.
"Your destination is inside," Waze Demian stated.
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July, 2020.
Ever since my colleagues and I became unwilling test subjects in my psychotic professor’s experiments into awakening the supernatural, we have had multiple people trying to hunt us down. Whether they were renowned scientists desperate for the serum for themselves or random people obsessed with cutting us open and seeing how we ticked, these assholes didn’t care that we were human beings, that we were ex researchers ourselves.
They wanted us dead or alive, in pieces, or splattered across concrete. As long as they got that precious serum dripping from our frontal lobe, they didn’t give a fuck. There were varieties of hunters. Some of them tried to play nice with their own nefarious agenda, while others were completely fucking insane. Like the ones who saw us as a mistake; a curse sent from god to end humanity as we know it.
Yeah. They thought we were the next coming of the Antichrist.
Have you ever been stripped completely naked and forced to bathe in salt water for three days without food and water?
That is when I lost my will to fight.
I still remember the sensation of flames licking at my feet, rope wrapped around my wrists pinning me to a tree. They wanted me to admit I was a monster. That I was a curse from the devil and belonged in hellfire. I’ll spend this post elaborating on what exactly our professor did to us, and the burden forced onto our backs—but I will say it saved us at points. For example, the freaks who tried to cleanse us in salt water (and then burn us under a full moon) got their comeuppance. 2020 is probably a year in your lives which didn’t feel real.
You were locked inside and you probably compared what was happening to a movie. We had a similar problem. But while you were struggling through lockdown, trying to fight a wave spreading globally, we found ourselves with bounty’s on our heads. Because we were no longer human to these bastards, and to them? Anything went. Which was bad news for our professor who had fought to keep his research as private as possible, choosing to show only a select group with shiny money bags for eyes. It turns out, no matter how much you think you’re hiding something, it will always be leaked. And people will find out.
Bad people.
The kinds of people in all of my favorite movies as a kid. You know, the evil trigger-happy British guy obsessed with finding buried treasure? Him. But tenfold. I might have felt special about the multi-billion price-tag on me, but knowing all they wanted me for was to dissect and slice me apart like meat to the slaughter—yeah. I can’t say I was thrilled to have so many people after our little group. 2020 was the year when people stopped being human. Stopped trying to be human. All morality down the drain.
Of these certain groups trying to capture us, there was a specific one which I will always remember. Seth’s gang. I’ll remember them because it was the first time I realised my colleagues and I weren’t human anymore, and maybe the freaks trying to label us as The Devil’s Children were right. There were a lot of people after us, as I said. But Seth and his gang, however, just wanted us for the sake of gloating. After hearing of our professor’s experiments, these guys decided they didn’t want the serum, or the research.
They just wanted us. For what, I still don’t know. They weren’t scientists, or in the medical field. They definitely weren’t at the auction, I would have seen them. I’m pretty sure these were just ordinary guys seeing us as nothing but trophies to parade around. I don’t think they knew the significance of the serum, or the danger of it. They saw something shiny and thought to hell with it. Which, I guess looking back, was why we were always two steps ahead despite having 9mm Glock’s shoved in our faces. The hotel room we were being held in was a step up from the cage I had been trapped inside in the lab for the last several months.
It actually had air-con.
Sitting blindfolded on the edge of a queen sized bed wearing the same clothes which were practically glued to my flesh, the graze of cool air brushing the back of my neck and relieving blistering skin was euphoric. I hadn’t had a proper shower in weeks. Maybe months.
It was the first time in a long while I actually felt human. Even when my wrists were pinned behind my back, a slab of ductape suffocating my mouth and nose. Now, I wasn’t completely sure, but I wondered if there was a duct tape shortage on the island. After being kidnapped and held in multiple places, I had never been gagged with duct tape. It was always filthy clothing fashioned into a makeshift gag, or ties and shoelaces. I will never forget some asshole stuffing a pair of panties in my mouth.
Seth’s gang were the first to actually have duct tape and proper blindfolds. I sensed the front-man’s footsteps as he paced in front of us. Despite being blindfolded, I knew he had a gun tucked into his belt, a dagger strapped to his ankle, and a grenade for emergencies. I wasn’t sure what emergencies would justify blowing up a fancy hotel room. Next to me, Riss was practically vibrating with fury. She knew not to act on her fear, because when we did, bad shit happened.
But Riss was a different breed. She didn’t listen to me when we were human, and definitely didn’t listen to me when we were freakish experiments contorted into something resembling a human. No matter how many times I nudged her with reassurance, she inched away from me like I had the plague. “Project Mildew, huh?” The front-man had one hell of an aussie accent. Without my sight, the rest of my senses were expanding, igniting.
Smell. I could smell the stink of myself, body odour and filth caked into my skin. Taste. There was copper in my throat and coating my teeth and tongue. Every step the man made, I felt it prickling in my bones. I sensed him crouching in front of Kaian, who thankfully didn’t move. I was waiting for him to. If I concentrated, I could feel the air crackling with electricity, the hairs on the back of my neck and arms standing up. Just being shoulder to shoulder with my colleague allowed me to feel exactly what he was feeling.
And like Riss, the guy was dangerously close to blowing a fuse. Kaian wasn’t stupid though. If we did something, he knew the consequences of that something. And none of us wanted that. So, staying quiet and submissive it was.
“Alex Quincy’s diamonds!” The front-man flicked me in the forehead, and I had to squeeze my eyes shut to avoid going into sensory overload. He continued in a sing-song voice, his steps becoming playful, like he was dancing. Every so often I sensed his fingers wrapping around his 9mm. Maybe he wasn’t as stupid as I initially thought. “Project Mildew.” He repeated. “You looked better on camera.”
Riss scoffed under her gag. I don’t think this asshole understood that on camera we were still human. It’s not like I was planning on going to a fashion show, but the shorts and t-shirt combo I had been wearing for weeks were comfortable.
Another step. Holding my breath, I gripped the ropes entangling my wrists and prayed they were physical enough to be an anchor.
“The testers who became the tested!” He continued. “Ohhh, man. I’ve heard about you. You’re famous here. Professor Quincy’s human lab rats! And successful ones too! You’ve got a lot of eyes on ya, ain’t cha? Too bad we gotcha first. Yeah, that’s right. We got here first.”
The guy laughed, and I felt both Riss and Kaian start to tremble. Fuck. Not now. I had to keep them at bay, even when my methods weren’t exactly stellar. I had to keep them from plunging. The rope around my wrists wasn’t too tight, and I knew I’d be able to get out of it easily. But that would require strength and energy which was for sure a trigger. There were a lot of triggers. Anger and pain. Sometimes even happiness.
It turned out basic human emotions was what this thing thrived off, so to avoid us going nuclear I had to stay stoic. No matter how much I wanted to tear off this asshole’s face, I had to keep myself together. It only took one slip up before things got really fucking brutal, really fucking fast. I wasn’t surprised my colleagues were losing control. Seth was quite the character, almost like a cartoon villain.
“Damn. I’ve been looking for guard dogs, but I think we’ve found something better, aye.” His palmy fingers wandered where they shouldn’t have, grazing over my left breast and delving under my shirt, causing my body to seize up, and then relaxing slightly when he pulled off my blindfold.
Blinking rapidly, I found myself eye-to-eye with the guy who had snatched us from the lab and thrown us into the back of his truck. I only got glimpses of him during our kidnapping, thanks to the ski-mask covering his face. Now I was looking at a man who was maybe in his early thirties with a balding head and a vicious cartoon smile twisted with mania. His eyes glinted when I found myself shuffling back, my gaze flashing to the Glock strapped to his side. Seth pulled off the other’s blindfolds.
“Now, I don’t want any funny business, alright? I watched that conference, and I know what you can do.” He stuck the barrel of his 9mm into my right temple, and next to me, Kaian ducked his head. “I’m watching you sweetheart.” Seth’s smile widened into a sickening grin. “If you start any weird shit, I’ll blow your brains out.”
I did my best to nod, and he ripped the tape off of our mouths too.
“Alright!” Seth straightened up, eyeing us like we were hunks of meat. “Nice to meet cha! I’ll be looking after you guys from now on.”
“Looking after us?” I spoke up, my voice gravelly. “You mean you’ll be cutting into us and selling our brains on the black market.”
Seth laughed like a fucking hyena. “What?” He scratched the back of his head with his gun. “Nah, that’s fucked up. We just want dogs.”
The man’s smile dampened, however, when his gaze settled on Kaian. Gesturing to my colleague with his gun, he scowled. “What’s wrong with him? Did Quincy rip out the guy’s tongue?” Before I could answer, Seth crouched in front of Kaian with narrowed eyes. “You all spoke at the conference,” he murmured. “Sure, your professor forced you, but you introduced yourselves. All of you did, even your fourth."
His smile curled. "All except him."
Fuck.
A shiver ripped its way down my spine when Seth shot out a finger and pointed at my colleague, and my mouth started to dry up.
Kaian was perfectly reading his lips, every word curled under his tongue, his eyes flicking back and forth to drink in each one, and each word brought more heat, brought more goosebumps pricking on my arms and legs. Kaian’s body pressed against mine was overheating.
I could feel the sensation coming over my body, like a wave of pressure. Riss made a squeaking noise, and I concentrated on Seth—who didn’t seem to notice it. I’ve come to realise, whether you are a human, an animal, or a badly fucked up experiment created in a lab, it doesn’t matter what you are capable of. If you initially appear weak and powerless, the stronger will single you out. Seth was enjoying himself so much he didn’t realise the skin in his cheeks start to crack from all the moisture being sucked from the air. Kaian didn’t move or speak, and that seemed to thrill him even more.
“Speak.” Seth snarled, leaning closer until he was inches from my colleagues face.
“Speak!”
“He’s deaf.” I gritted out.
Seth’s eyes darkened. “Deaf, huh? He better be worth it.” Kaian didn’t flinch when the man grabbed him by the hair and yanked his head back. He was completely stoic, like a puppet severed from his strings, allowing the asshole to stick his Glock between his eyes. I noticed the air move slightly around us, blurring and then coming together. It was a blink and you’ll miss it moment, and I had spent months being taught how to notice it. “Three and a half million dollars each, hmm?” Seth said in a breath, dragging the butt of his gun down my colleagues face, grazing it across the flesh of his neck. “I don’t remember paying for a fucking mute. You can learn to talk, kid."
Again, Kaian didn’t even acknowledge the man, and that infuriated him even more. “Hey!” Seth grabbed his jaw, forcing Kaian to look at him. “Are you fucking listening to me? Open your mouth. You either speak or you die. Like I said, I didn’t pay half a million each for a mute.”
Riss must have noticed the significant change in the air and temperature. Between the two of us, it was our job to stop Kaian from plunging.
“You didn’t spend shit on us.” She spoke up with a hiss. Riss was already panicked, and that wasn’t good. “You took us from the lab while everyone else was at the auction because you couldn’t afford us. Which makes me wonder how you afforded this fancy five star hotel."
I had to swallow a yell. I wanted her to stall, not give the guy a reason to start going trigger-happy.
Seth’s narrowed eyes found Riss’s. “Your professor and I had an agreement, sweetheart,” he said. "How 'bout I blow your brains out, huh? Since you like speaking out of turn. And I don’t like my doggies speaking out of turn.”
As Seth moved closer to her, I sensed Riss freaking out. It was too early for her to start the plunge, but she was the most unpredictable out of the four of us. Just like when she was human, her emotions were all over the place. Still though, she maintained a scowl and refused to move when Seth was practically eye to eye with her, hot breath grazing her cheeks. The man prodded her in her right temple. “I bet you’re filled to the brim with all that fancy ass Quincy serum." He dragged his filthy finger down her cheek, and she squeaked. “I’m pretty sure I can just crack you open and take it for myself.”
“Then…” Riss swallowed, choking on her words. I nudged her again, this time enough to shake the bed. But she wasn’t looking at me, her eyes starting to lose vacancy. Next to me, I knew the same thing was happening to Kaian.
But I wouldn’t look at him yet. If I did, I would lose it myself. “Then you’ll be losing valuable cargo.” I was surprised when her lips broke out into an equally psychotic grin. I had no doubt the plunge was taking hold of her. She leaned back almost casually, and the air seemed to move around her, seeping into her skin and taking an unyielding hold. "Considering the crazy lengths you took to capture all of us, I doubt you want that. You're all bark with no bite, asshole."
“Riss.” I said through my teeth, at the exact same time as the air-con behind us blew a fuse and crashed to the ground. “Shut up.”
The plunge started slow, but even when it was barely a prickle in the air it was already beginning its slow purging of every particle.
I watched a mosquito that had been in mid-flight towards the fancy looking lamp on the nightstand bleed into invisible folds of energy which were becoming progressively more visible to the naked eye the more my friends plunged. I could see it perfectly. Like the world around us was beginning to splinter apart. Ignoring Riss, who could stand up for herself, Seth’s attention went back to Kaian, who couldn’t. Or at least that was his façade. Kaian had been labelled the most dangerous out of all of Quincy’s experiments. But it wasn’t just because of the plunge.
“I’m talking to you!” Seth prodded my colleague’s chest, and a wave of heat slammed into me, stealing my breath away. I watched, knowing it was all going to be over in matter of seconds. The front-man grabbed my colleague by the collar of his shirt and yanked him violently to his feet. “You’ve got two seconds to speak,” He spat, before slamming the butt of his gun into Kaian’s head. “Speak, or I give you a frontal lobotomy.” Seth continued in seething breaths, and got closer and closer, failing to notice he was already losing. But so were we.
His lips split into a grin. “Speak, or I start asking questions. Like why I bought four of you— and there are three of you.” He poked the metal prongs sticking from Kaian’s head. I liked to call them horns to make them sound cooler. But in reality, they were agonising when I was human—two pieces of metal drilled directly into the top of my skull. They had been a part of me for a while, but I wasn’t going to forget how they had been forcefully inserted into my skull. While I screamed. “Three. Little. Freaks.” Seth’s lips were practically kissing my colleague's temple.
He prodded the metal horns, and Kaian’s lip twitched. “Without their fourth.”
That struck a chord in both of them—and I knew if I didn’t do something, like right then, a fate worse than death awaited all of us.
"Leave him alone.” I found my voice tangled in my throat. But I could barely bring myself to speak. I felt like I was being fucking suffocated by two separate energy’s around me slowly but surely ripping atoms apart. In the corner of my eye, things were starting to melt into the ground, disappearing completely. The carpet in the room was suddenly singed black, and the wave continued, slicing off the tips of my hair I had only just managed to grow back. “He can’t hear you, asshole.” I said through lingering breaths. “Professor Quincy said he was deaf.”
"Deaf?” Seth let out a belly laugh. “He's my new guard dog and he's expected to fucking bark.” His lip curled,” Now. Speak.”
A second went by.
Then another.
Absent-mindedly, I licked the taste of rusty coins from the corner of my lip.
“I said speak!” Seth slammed the butt of his gun into my colleagues face again, but this time his words broke apart in his throat. I sensed every individual letter shattering into pieces when his body was flung back by an invisible force. I knew that invisible force. I knew the phantom fingers wrapping around his throat and slamming the man into the wall until he was screaming, begging, his feet hovering several feet from the ground. Kaian didn’t even have to pull apart his restraints.
Riss was already screaming, turning to my colleague. Her hands were free, and she was signing desperately. Don’t. Her eyes were wide, lips twisted. Because she knew exactly what would follow. Seth, somehow, managed a spluttered laugh between broken teeth like tiny yellow chicklets sticking from his mouth. “Oh, you don’t like that do you?” More brilliant red spurted like a fountain, and yet the asshole kept laughing. “Look at you! Quincy didn’t hold back on you did he?”
I’m not saying my colleague enjoyed crushing Seth’s windpipe without even lifting a finger—but that is exactly what I am saying.
With a simple incline of Kaian’s head, the front-man was rupturing from the inside, choking on organs erupting into his throat.
And like it thrilled him, the idea of death, the idea of dying at the hands of a supernatural force, Seth continued to roar with laughter.
My colleague was pressing pressure points which shouldn’t be pressed. Especially pressure points in a genetically fucked up man whose trauma had turned him into the wildcard of our group. The amount of shit we had all gone through inside Quincy’s lab was enough to send us into insanity. Except my colleague, according to Quincy, hadn’t responded correctly at the beginning. And being a researcher myself with rabbits before I became a lab rat, I knew the only way to get results was to cause pain.
I never initiated that pain in the rabbits, but I was an enabler. I watched my professor torture these subjects to make sure they were prepped and ready for the serum. Maybe our karma was that the exact same happened to us. But to Kaian, it was on a much larger scale. I was never briefed on what exactly happened to him during the months from March to June. Though it was obvious he had had it the worst. I didn’t know why. I didn’t understand why his brain was different, or maybe he was more resilient. He had been better at fighting it.
Kaian hated two things. Being kidnapped and said kidnappers mentioning our fourth member. And it was those things which made him plunge. Which made him lose all sense of humanity and morality and emotion, essentially turning him into a mindless beast. That was one half of the plunge. “Do you want me to say his name?” Seth coughed up spattered scarlet, and I could already see what was happening to him. Kaian had done enough damage externally. Internally, however? That was another story.
Internally, I sensed every organ starting to peel apart and splinter, bursting into nothing. It started with pressure on his heart which was slow and dragged so he felt everything. Then the brain began to expand. When blood ran in sharp rivulets from every orifice, and Seth screamed, howling like an animal, I looked away, just in time for the rest of the man’s body to pop like a balloon, and a chunk of his skull to land right in front of me. Riss started screaming, and I was half aware of a slight taint of warm blood like paint splattering the side of my face.
When I twisted back to look at him, his body was still hovering without a head, a skeletal hand lifting and waving at us.
Riss dropped to her knees, her head in her hands, trembling, and I followed her, trying to get some semblance of control.
“It’s been a week.” Riss whispered, sobbing, swiping at her eyes with bloody hands, making them worse. “Oh god, what if… what if I was right? What if we’re too late? I knew this was… this was a bad idea. But nobody listens to Riss. I knew he wouldn’t come. Fuck. I knew it.”
“Calm down.” I said. “Concentrate on happy birthday, okay? Do you want me to sing it with you?”
Riss spluttered. “We’re going to dieeee,” she sang. “Can you feel it? I’m plunging, Wren. God, it feels so fucking good.”
She knocked her head into the wall with crazy eyes.
It took exactly half a second for our brains to decide whether we were going to fight it or give in to it.
“Hey. Riss.” I spoke in reassuring hisses, grasping her shoulders and forcing her to look at me. “Happy birthday.” I choked out. “Three times. It has to be three times.” When she didn’t respond, I shook her until her cloudy found mine. Riss was plunging. Like Kaian. The blood vessels in her eyes had popped, her lips cracking apart. If I concentrated, I could see her bare knees starting to melt into air, wisps of her hair starting to disintegrate. “Do it, now!”
I shrieked when Kaian finally let go of the man’s body, and it hit the ground in front of us like a bad joke. “Happy birthday.” I said the mantra over and over again, shaking my colleague until she was responding. “Three times, Riss. Right now.” When she shook her head, screeching, I grabbed her hands and entangled her fingers with mine. “I’ll start, okay? And you follow me.”
To my surprise, Riss nodded—and for the fraction of a second, my colleague, or what was left of her, stopped bleeding into visible particles which were now around us, like a glistening wave of ocean water enveloping us. “Happy birthday to you…” I whispered, squeezing her hands tighter, relieved when she repeated the verse. When I was sure Riss was anchoring herself, I turned to Kaian who was sitting cross legged in front of the mutilated body.
My gaze went to the door. It would only be matter of time before Seth’s goons figured out something was wrong, and the last thing I wanted was them to walk in mid-plunge. “Happy birthday to…” I continued, allowing Riss to fill in a name—before focusing on my other colleague. I’m not exaggerating when I say Kaian was covered head to toe in blood, like it was his canvas, like he belonged in it. It was too late for him. I could already see that in his vacant and foggy eyes and playful smile that he had accepted the plunge.
Willingly.
“Gross.” Kaian signed, pulling a face. He turned his nose up at mutilated flesh and bone, and I had a hard time looking him in the eye.
I exhaled out a breath.
“Kaian.” I spoke and signed calmly, but my skin was prickling and scalding. I could feel the flesh on the backs of my hands peeling off. “Happy birthday.” I made sure to emphasize every word clearly, even when I knew he could read every word from my mouth without even trying.
He started to shake his head, and I glimpsed that panic, the trauma of the last several months starting to bloom behind his eyes.
“No, you have to do it.” I hissed out. “Look around you.” I signed. “If you don’t do it, we’re going to plunge.”
I was practically slamming my hands together with frustration, but he shook his head, his gaze going elsewhere.
“What if I…” He paused signing, his lip curling, “Like it?”
Do you know when you know something is wrong but you keep shoving it to the back of your head until you can’t ignore it anymore?
Yeah, this was one of those moments.
I loved Kaian. I loved him like a brother. But there was something about his face, the way he delved his fingers into startling red pooling on the carpet, that made me want to get as far away from him as possible. Swallowing hard, I shook away the thought and grabbed hold of his hand.
Once I did, the air around us wavered, and flesh on his cheeks started to flake. “Happy birthday…” Riss, who was sitting with what was left of her knees pressed to her chest, choked out a sob, “This isn’t working… Wren. This isn’t fucking working. I can’t.. I can’t fucking do this.” When she beat the floor with crumbling fists, the whole room jolted. The ground beneath us shook, and Kaian shot me a panicked look. Even plunging, he was still scared.
And I didn’t blame him.
After telling Riss to continue, I managed a smile and signed, “Earthquake.”
My colleague’s lips split into an unusual grin, and he mouthed the words, “Yeah right.”
With steely eyes, Kaian’s smile faded and for once he actually looked serious. “Jem.” He signed. “I don’t think he’s coming for us.”
Ignoring a conversation I really didn’t want to have, I focused on the body. “Check his pockets,” I signed back. “We don’t have much time.”
I pulled out a passport, some Indonesian currency, and an old plane ticket.
Checking his phone didn’t help. I was just reminded the boarders were still shut, and this asshole had a whole group chat gloating about his so-called guard dogs.
“Wren!”
When I lifted my head, Riss’s wild eyes were flickering around the room, drinking in parts of reality being sucked away.
Her mouth became lopsided, lips drooping like my colleague was having a stroke from the pressure building around her.
See, I describe this in a lot of detail like this lasted around five to minutes long. But no, all of this happened in the space of around two minutes. When footsteps sounded outside, and Kaian’s head snapped to the door, his eyes darkening, a sour paste crept up my throat.
Professor Quincy didn’t just take away our humanity. He twisted us into something resembling an animal inside a human body.
We spoke and acted and felt like humans. But once a stranger was nearby, or footsteps on territory we had unknowingly snatched as our own, we turned feral. I already knew Kaian was a whole new level of unpredictable and unhinged after what the experiments had done to his brain—but seeing what he was capable of even before the plunge, I froze.
The world was coming apart around me and I was plunging, but I couldn’t move. I watched him get to his feet, his fingers curling into fists at his sides. The footsteps were closing in on us getting louder and louder, and Kaian could sense every vibration. I could tell with the way his lips twitched, a whole new darkness clouding his eyes and stripping away what was left of his humanity. I had seconds.
There was no use in happy birthday
I remember jumping to my feet and diving on my colleagues back, bringing him to the floor like a lion would a deer. When the two of us hit the ground, I watched Riss rupture in front of me, her face glitching, becoming moving static, before her body followed. “Seth?” The voice caused Kaian to attempt to wrench out of my grasp, but I had a firm hold of him. The first three weeks of being inhuman, I was taught how to kill people. Kill my fellow subjects.
Apologising profusely into hair which smelled of blood and dirt and Quincy’s lab, I struggled to keep myself from plunging, knowing the room was already half gone, and I was going to get caught in it anyway. “I’m sorry. Fuck. I’ll make it up to you, okay? You should have sang happy fucking birthday, but you are so goddamn stubborn,” I sobbed with what I hoped was reassurance. I knew he and Riss and Jem would do exactly the same to me.
“So fucking stubborn.” I couldn’t help myself, nestling my face into his hair and heaving in breaths while my skin started to peel away.
“Just take a deep breath and close your eyes, okay?” I whispered into his flushed skin. “We’ll find him, Kaian. I promise you.”
He stopped struggling, and for a moment I thought my colleague was actually listening to me before the ceiling began to crack apart.
The ground rumbled again, and I lost my grip on the guy before forcing him onto his back and straddling his legs. Just when his free arm was flying out with intention to send me crashing into the back wall and ending all reality in that room, encompassing us, I snapped Kaian’s neck.
And with the last of my energy, I fucking screamed while my own flesh melted from my face while the plunge enveloped us both.
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March 2020.
It was on the 17th day of captivity inside a cell made of glass panes meant to keep in rabbits, when I met an unlikely visitor. There comes a time when giving up is better than screaming until you have lost all of the breath in your lungs, and your throat feels like sandpaper. I hadn’t eaten in days, and what was left of my meals, curry and mash potatoes, painted my cell walls—a real work of art if I concentrated and imagined carving shapes inside congealing potato and day-old curry.
So far, I had tests. I had tests which were an invasion of privacy which I will not expand upon. I had tests where my professor’s gloved fingers ran over my scalp and marked places where he was going to insert the same headset on the rabbits. He didn’t listen to my cries.
He didn’t tell me where my colleagues were. I was nothing to him. I was a subject stripped of my rights. So, I was doing the little I could to protest. Even if it was small, I was refusing to eat. I knew subjects had to eat to stay healthy—to get results. The piece of shit wasn’t going to get much further if I died of starvation after days of no eating. How sad. I was on my second day of refusing to eat, and my gut felt like it was folding in on itself. To combat this, I sat against clinical white walls with my knees pressed to my chest, and my head buried in my lap. I ignored the rumbling of my stomach and my aching joints, the weird squiggly lines in my vision when I bothered lifting my head.
It’s weird. In that cage, I was the coldest I’ve ever felt on an Indonesian island. I didn’t remember the temperature affecting the outcome of the rabbit subjects, but maybe it was different for humans. Still though, I had my solace. I imagined standing in glittering water, bioluminescent plankton washing over my bare toes. I imagined the full moon bathing the sky in warm light, and it was enough to make me feel safe— even so far from home. Far from normality. If I squeezed my eyes shut, and envisioned wading deeper into the shallows, until the water was lapping my thighs, I could calm myself and tell myself to breathe.
Then the water was at my waist, the panic subsiding. Neck deep, ice cold water filling my mouth and suffocating my nose. But if I thought past it, if I plunged myself into the deep, I could trick my brain into imagining that I was escaping, swimming across the wide expanse of ocean. All the way back home to my family.
I was brought out of my imagination when a scratching noise pulled me back to my senses, and I was back inside my cage.
Lifting my head, I searched for someone. But there was nobody there.
“Over here, genius.”
The voice startled me. It wasn’t quite a voice, more of an attempt. Though I could definitely make out the language bursting out. When my eyes swivelled, I found myself staring at a blur of white. I squinted.
No, not just a blur of white. It was Subject Fifteen. The rabbit which had stolen Jem’s heart, and possibly taken control of his mind.
For a moment I tried to blink myself awake, but no matter how many times I pinched myself, the rabbit was still there, pressing its tiny face against glass, and I can see blood staining its fur. Initially, I thought he was a hallucination until I blinked, and he was still very much there.
He was part of reality, lightly smushing its bloody mouth against glass panes. The sight of dark red tainting its fur twisted my gut, and I had a thought which suddenly wouldn’t leave me alone. If the serum did that to the rabbits, what exactly would it do to us? “Well.” Fifteen’s beady eyes found mine, and I swore its rabbit mouth twisted into a grin. It's voice mimicked both me and my colleagues, the perfect imitation of us. I could hear all of us, even the professor, in every curl of its words.
It wasn’t just intelligent, it was something else—something fucking monstrous. Which should have been put down.
No. It never should have been a subject at all.
I slowly crawled towards it and held my breath. I must have looked pretty fucking funny to Fifteen. I was the tester who had become the tested. The one who wore the lab-coat, to the rat forced into light blue scrub like clothes sticking to me. I can’t say I wasn’t curious, though. Baffled.
I was inches from a fucking talking rabbit, and the last time I checked rabbits weren't supposed to talk. Their mouths haven't evolved to form words. But somehow it was figuring out speech. Fifteen was learning fast. That terrified me. After several attempts at speech, it had almost fully mimicked a human’s expression. It cocked its head, and in Jem’s voice, asked,
“Well? How does it feel to be the one in the cage?"
“You’re not real.” I told the rabbit which sounded like Jem.
To my shock, it laughed, and its bloody mouth almost formed a snarl. “Are you sure about that?”
I crawled over to the screen, pressing my hands against glass. “How does…” I licked my lips. “How does what feel?”
The rabbit’s eyes followed me and I shuffled back, a sour paste creeping its way up my throat. “You were always my least favorite,” it murmured. Its nose twitched. “I think you humans call it karma—- and whether you believe in it or not, every action must have an equal reaction.” It moved closer, pressing its face against the glass. I noticed the fur around it’s mouth was stained red. “You drilled into my head, Wren. You hurt me day after day and hid behind a sense of morality that you were a good person because it was for the good of the human race.” Fifteen edged closer. “I wish I could feel sorry for you. I wish I could feel the sympathy you humans use as a pathetic fucking barrier. But aren’t you just… the cutest?”
The thing was mimicking my own words from the start of the experiments. I had pressed my face against the plastic cage, peering at Subject Fifteen, who was hiding in the corner. Quincy told me to turn off my humanity, but that didn’t stop me as seeing them as cute little fury bunnies. It never crossed my mind that Fifteen could hear exactly what we had been saying.
I thought back to a few months back when I had picked it up from its cage and nuzzled its fur. “Aww! Isn’t he just the cutest?”
Fifteen knew the exact moment I gave up, my hands slipping from the glass. It gestured to the band aid uncomfortably sticking to my scalp.
“Nice horns.”
“You have intelligence.” I whispered through a sob. I leaned closer. “Quincy. You need to tell me what he’s doing to the others.”
“You already know what he’s planning to do, Wren.” The rabbit chuckled, lifting a paw in a mocking wave. “Why are you asking me, hmm? What if I am in fact an illusion? You’re not eating. Your mind has been played with. Are you sure you are really speaking to a talking rabbit?”
It cocked its head. “How do you know I’m not Jem?”
“Or Riss.” It’s voice twisted into hers, and then the professor’s.
“I’m losing my mind.” I whispered, pinching the flesh on my bare thighs. “I’m losing my fucking mind.”
“Maybe.” It said, “or you’re witnessing the consequences of your actions. You did this to me if you remember. I told you to stop hurting me, but you didn’t hear me, Wren. You never heard me. Only him. And when I was strong enough, I made him force you to finally listen to me.”
Jem, I thought hysterically.
“You little—“ I slammed my hands into the glass, unable to resist a snarl when it turned to hop away. “Hey! Wait! What did you do to Jem?”
“I didn’t do anything,” the rabbit responded in a scoff. “Your professor, however… have you ever heard of teleportation?”
I stared at it blinking rapidly, until it laughed. “No, not that kind! I mean the new kind. I’m talking about what Quincy is trying to perfect.”
“What do you mean?”
“Think about it.” The rabbit’s nose twitched, “What you have been working on and researching—what if it was possible in humans?”
I shook my head. There was no way. If professor Quincy wanted to test on us, it would likely be psychokinesis which was possible in rabbits.
“That’s impossible.” I managed to grit out. “With rabbits it’s one thing, and it’s barely even stable! With humans… it’s...”
It’s barbaric.
The rabbits which went through that procedure and survived… their brains were drastically altered. They were never the same.
That’s what I wanted to say.
I trailed off at the thought of forcing a living and breathing human to shatter apart into atoms and forcefully moved from one place to another. I remembered Subject 12. The tiny little thing coming apart slowly, piece by piece, a mixture of fur, blood and bones filling its cage.
No way.
There was no way my psycho professor would attempt it in humans.
The rabbit hopped away. “Huh. Well, you’re dumber than I thought. I guess I’ll be going if you’re just going to look at me like that.”
When I thought it was going to leave me, the furry little shit twisted its head. “Do you want to know a secret?”
It hopped right over to the glass. “Come closer, and I’ll tell you. I want you to get really close so I can see how adorable you are.”
Too desperate to feel humiliated, I swallowed a shriek and pressed my ear to the glass.
“Jem was the first.” The rabbit started to say but was cut off by the speaker above me crackling, a familiar voice slicing into my ears.
“Good morning. I will be with you shortly. I would like you to raise your hands above your head. I will be administering a gas.”
At the corner of my eye, Fifteen was disappearing behind the corner, and I let out a frustrated hiss. “Professor Quincy.” I managed to force my voice into professional, despite the rabbits voice in my mind. Jem was the first to what? I hadn’t seen either of my colleagues in weeks— or heard from them. I swallowed hard. “Professor Quincy, Subject Fifteen is on the premises and is showing signs of heightened intelligence!”
The rabbit tskked. “And to think I was going to help you. Good luck with the experiments. I will have a front row seat.”
Before it left me in puddling static however, the rabbit didn’t hesitate to drop a bombshell which sent me crumpling to my knees.
“Oh, yeah! I forgot to say.” Subject Fifteen’s words slammed into me as I was choked once again with gas filling my mouth and nose.
“Jem was the first to die.” It said in a sing-song symphony of all of our voices, “And you don’t even know the best part!”

I made the first Meatstream in 2016 while I was going through some things and very drunk. 2 years later, I owned a home, and had a garage, so I livestreamed meat again. Put a little more time into it then.
2 years later, it was COVID, and I ended up with 3d printed fly-faced sphinxes, chroma-keyed in wormhole backgrounds, and GPT 2.0 generated meat scripture finetuned on a copy of the King James Bible I had swapped all the names out on with fun meat themed names like Prince Porkington.
Then AI Artwork got cool, and another AI art project of mine(Last Week Tonight's Cabbage Saga) went more viral than I ever could have imagined. I used the money from the licensing fees to buy an aquarium, seal it up, and took my python skills to the next level(ok no, I just learned how to use copilot).
Then ChatGPT hit mid-prep for Meatstream 2022, and I realized instead of fine-tuning models I could build lore inside of ChatGPT and also use ChatGPT to build python scripts that would run that text through Google's text-to-speech way easier than I first did in 2020.
That brings us to now. I create meat-themed religious artwork on MidJourney and have started dumping them into the folder, and I periodically run my script against the ChatGPT 3.5 API with a context-setting prompt with some ad-libbing coding in there to mix it up.
I can't wait for ChatGPT 4 to be available on the API. The manually generated parables coming out of that sucker are absolutely incredible. They are coherent with a beginning, middle, and end.
Sometimes these don't save the archive, so in case the dedicated streaming PC(Thanks John Oliver!) in my garage crashes one of the below links should have an archived clip.
The MeatStream Facebook
ChrisWalkerGuy - Twitch
The Meatstream - YouTube
I don't make money off this. I don't want to make money off this. I just want to master the highest level of technology I can grasp at and then apply that skillset to the dumbest thing I can possibly come up with. Open to any fun ideas!

im not sure if just an excel sheet text list is enough, so I pasted the full list here. It is extremely long so im hoping it isn't a disaster to scroll through. I recommend viewing here for the best experience. I am mainly accepting PayPal FF, Zelle, and even better if you have local cash in Los Angeles. Will consider PayPal GS depending on the deal! Some of these prices may be dated. If there is a price that is dated im happy to chat and negotiate :) Lmk if you have questions!
List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11tuT9b96VBgryLsTGYdQ3PExAn1b9SXOCEOEgw_qnhA/edit?usp=sharing
Most of the items: https://imgur.com/a/6b7hcPW
PS1
Alundra
160
Ape escape
45
Azure Dreams
130
Board game top shop
40
Breath of fire iv
160
Bubsy 3d
30
Buster bros collection
40
Castlevania Chronicles
190
Chrono cross bl
35
Chocobo racing
100
Clock tower
190
Crash warped gh
20
Dragon Warrior vii
80
Evil zone
50
Final fantasy vii
45
Final fantasy viii
25
Final fantasy anthology
30
Final fantasy origins
20
Front mission 3
75
Gallerians
100
Judge dread
25
Kartia
110
King of fighters 95
40
Legend of dragoon
60
Legend of legaia
80
Legend of mana
60
Marvel comics X-men Vs street fighter
160
Marvel heroes vs street fighter
150
Medievil
50
Mega man 8
25
Mega man legends 2
150
Mega man x4
35
Metal slug x
60
Mortal Kombat 4
40
Namco museum vol 3
15
Oddworld Abe's odyssey
30
Ogre battle
185
Parasite Eve 2
100
Persona no manual
375
Power rangers time force
20
Rayman rush
10
Resident evil 2
60
Resident evil directors cut bl
60
Resident evil directors cut gh
35
Ridge racer gh
10
Rival schools
170
Road rash
25
Road rash 3d
15
Robo pit
30
Saga frontier
45
Saga frontier ii
60
Sheep
15
Silent hill gh
180
Silhouette Mirage
180
Space jam
25
Time crisis
20
Spyro year of the dragon
20
Star ocean second story
60
Street fighter collection
65
Suikoden
100
Suikoden ii
375
Tenchu 2
40
Thousand arms
180
Tomba
170
Tomb raider ii
15
Tomb raider chronicles
25
Torneko last hope
220
Twisted metal 2 gh
25
Vagrant story
100
Vandal hearts
80
Vandal hearts ii
130
Vanguard bandits
260
Wild arms
70
Wild arms 2
75
Wing commander iii
30
Xenogears
170
Yugioh forbidden memories
30
Ps2
.hack infection no manual
15
.hack infection
20
.hack mutation
35
.hack outbreak
70
.hack quarentine
375
Ape escape 2
60
Ape escape 3
70
Arc the lad
15
Bboy no manual
10
Breath of fire dragons quarters
25
Castlevania curse of darkness
70
Crash wrath of cortex
10
Crimson tears
65
Dark cloud
20
Dark cloud 2
35
Devil may cry gh
10
Dino stalker no manual
20
DOA 2
20
Dynasty warriors 3
10
Dynasty warriors 4
10
Final fantasy xii
5
Ghost in the shell stand alone complex
70
Goldeneye rogue agent
10
Grandia ii
35
Grandia iii
50
GTA San adreas
10
GTA Vice city
15
Growlancer generations
90
Gungrave
75
Gungrave overdose
40
Ico
25
Inuyasha secret of cursed mask no manual
30
Jak and daxter precursor
12
James Bond 007 agent under fire
10
Kingdom hearts
15
Kh rechain
15
Klonoa
80
Kuon
900
Legaia 2
40
Manhunt
30
Mark of kri
10
Marvel ultimate alliance
12
Marvel Vs capcom 2
240
Matrix path of neo
25
Maximo Vs army of zin
40
Mega man x collection
12
Metropolsimania
10
Midnight club 2
11
Mister mosquito
100
Mobile light force 2
25
Mobile suit gundam federation Vs zeon
35
Monster rancher 3
40
Mortal Kombat deadly alliance
25
Naruto ultimate ninja 3
15
NFL street
15
Nightshade
70
Obscure
230
Okami
15
Oni
25
Onimusha gh
15
Onimusha 3
20
Onimusha dawn of dreams
65
Phantasy star universe missing manhal
15
Radiata stories
60
Ratchet and clank gh
20
Ratchet and clank up your arsenal
20
Rayman 2
20
Rayman 3
20
Ready 2 rumble
15
Re dead sim (mm I think)
40
Romance of the 3 kingdoms viii
15
Romance of the 3 kingdoms xi
20
Rule of rose
800
Samurai warriors
10
Shadow of rome
25
Silent hill 2
130
Silent hill 3
170
Skygunner mm
80
SMT digital devil saga deluxe box
150
Sly Cooper 2 GH
12
Spongebob Globs of doom
15
Star wars battle front
10
Steambot Chronicles
200
Suikoden III
45
Suikoden IV
50
Suikoden V
185
Suikoden Tactics mm
35
Suikoden Tactics
45
Taito Legends
25
Taito Legends 2
40
Tekken Tag Tournament GH
15
Terminator 3
25
Terminator Darn of Fate
13
Tom Jerry in War of Whiskers
25
TNA Impact
10
Tony Hawks Underground
15
Trapt
60
Urban Chaos Riot Response
45
Urban Reign
50
Vampire Night
40
Whiplash
20
Wils Arms 3
25
Wild Arms 4
65
WWE Here comes the pain
50
Xenosage GH
30
Yugioh Capsule Monster
20
Yugioh Duelist of the Roses
20
Yugioh GX Beginning of Destiny
50
X Files Resist or serve MM
60
PSP
Brave Story
70
Crisis Core
30
Darkstalkers Chronicles Chaos Tower
35
Dissidia 012
25
Dissidia
15
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce
15
Final Fantasy Tactics pal
15
Final Fantasy Tactics
30
Gungir
70
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
20
Legend of heroes Trials in the sky
130
Mega Man Maverick Hunter
25
Mega Man Powered Up
30
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
25
PaRappa the Rapper
35
Phantasy Star Portable
30
Silent Hill Origins
50
Star Ocean First Departure
30
Star Ocean Second Evolution
50
Tenchu Shadow assassins
40
PS Vita
Borderlands cib
30
COD Black ops CIB
25
Ragnarok Odyssey Ace CIB
45
Tokyo Xanadu CIB
60
psycho pass
25
trials of cold steel
40
asphalt injection
25
walking dead
25
walking dead 2
25
toukiden age of demons
20
assassins creed liberation
15
farming simulator 16
20
project diva x
25
silent hill book of memories
55
shinobido 2
30
danganropa 2
25
toukiden kiwami
25
persona 4 dancing all night long
30
sly thieves
30
danganropa trigger happy havoc
25
COD black ops
20
code realize wintertides
20
ray gigant
60
stranger of sword city
25
lost dimension
55
summon night 6 lost borders
35
superdimension neptune vs sega hard girls
55
uncharted golden abyss
25
Ragnarok Odyssey Ace
20
fate extello
20
project dive f2
20
akiba strip undressed
25
conception ii
25
Turbo
Addams Family CIB
80
Keith Courage CIB
20
Victory Run loose
25
Ninja Spirit Loose
60
Air Zonk Loose
150
Bonks Revenge
50
Sega Dreamcast
Bangai-o
180
Blue Stinger
40
Bomberman Online
80
Cannon Spike
250
ChuChu Rocket
30
D2
170
Dead or Alive 2
30
Deep Fighter
40
Disney 102 dalamation
25
Evil Dead Hail to the king
60
Evolution the world of sacred device
30
Evolution 2 Far off promise
70
F355 Challenge Passione
25
Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolve
100
Fighting Force 2
20
Fur Fighters
50
Giga Wing
190
Gunbird 2
190
Jojos Bizare Adventure
300
King of Fighters Evolution
60
Looney Tunes Space Race
50
Maken X
60
Marvel vs Capcom
100
MDK 2
30
Monaco Grand Prix
15
Ms Pacman Maze Madness
30
Nba 2k
5
NFL 2k2
12
NHL 2k2
25
Project Justice
300
Nightmare Creatures ii
40
Omikron The Nomad Soul
70
Outrigger
80
Phantawy Star online
30
Powerstone
130
Powerstone 2
180
Rayman 2
40
RE Code Veronica
45
Sega Smash Pack Vol1
20
Seventh Cross Evolution
35
Shadow man
35
Shenmue
40
Skies of Arcadia
170
Sonic Adventure
50
Sonic Adventure 2
150
Super Magnetic Neo
55
Super Magnetic Neo New
65
Seaman no big box or mic
50
Street Fighter Alpha 3
70
Spawn
100
Spiderman
80
Tech Romancer
200
Test Drive Le Mans
15
Timestalkers
50
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
30
Virtual on
50
Zombie Revenge
55
Nintendo NES
Guerilla War loose
15
Contra loose
40
Super Mario Bros 2 MM I believe
70
Super Nintendo
Earthworm Jim
35
Final Fantasy II
60
Jurassic Park
15
Starfox
25
Super Punch Out
35
Turtles IV
50
Yoshis ISland
40
Earthbound CIB w scratch sniffs excellent box
3200
Romance IV CIB
120
Secret of Evermore CIB
160
Dirt FX CIB
50
Lord of Darkness CIB
70
Stunt Racer FX CIB
50
Sim City CIB
40
Madden Football CIB
30
N64
Duck Dodgers
120
Namco Museum 64
15
Pokemon Stadium 2
85
Pokemon Stadium
35
Gauntlet Legends
80
007 Goldeneye
40
Banjo Kazooie once nice label one bad label
35 bad 40 good
Harvest Moon 64
90
Mythical Ninja
100
Rocket
90
Pokemon Snap
25
Hybrid Heaven
15
extreme g
15
turok
20
snowboard kids 2 bad label
70
paper boy
20
mario kart
50
command and conquer
15
mario golf
35
bomberman 64
30
duke nukem 64
25
Diddy Kong Racing
30
Battletanx global assault
20
Indy Racing 2000
15
Ocarina of time Good label and okay label
40 bad 50 good
nascar 99
5
nfl blitz
20
Jet force gemini
20
WCW Nitro
10
Killer instinct
40
Star Wars Ep 1 Racer
15
Cruisin World
20bad30good
Rampage
35
NBA Live 99
3
WWF War Zone
10
starfox 64
25 bad 30good
wcw world tour
12
Wrestlemania 2000
20
Shadows of the empire
20
Ridge Racer 64
15
007 world not enough
17
007 world not enough gray
20
MFL QB CLub 99
3
Tony Hawk 1
20
War gods bad label
13
Penny Racers
30
Zelda Majoras Mask Collectors CIB Poor Box
150
Perfect Dark CIB
55
Top Gear Rally NM Box CIB
40
Shadows of the empire NM box CIB
60
Cruisin USA CIB NM Box
70
Mario 64 Missing manual NM Box
120
Turok NM BOX CIB
80
Nintendo 64 controller pak
50
Rampage World Tour CIB Nice box
100
Pokemon stadium CIB nice box all inserts
250
Nintendo Gamecube
Beyond Good and evil
80
Chibi Robo
280
Crash Wrath of cortex pc
15
Crash Wrath of cortex
20
Crash Nitro Kart
10
Crash Tag Team Racing
25
Digimon Rumble Arena 2 MM
120
Disney Sports Basketball MM rental disc
400
Dead to Rights
15
Disney Extreme Skate Racer
40
Donkey Konga
15
Dragons Lair 3d
45
Eternal Darkness
120
Fzero GX
100
Freekstyle
20
Gotcha Force
900
Harvest Moon Magical Melody
40
Ikaruga
90
Incredibles
10
Kirby Air Ride
100
LoZ Collectors
75
LoZ Four Swords MM
75
LoZ Ocarina Master Quest
80
LoZ Windwaker
80
LoZ Windwaker PC mm
75
Mario party 4
80
Mario party 5 mm
65
Medabots infinity
100
Mega Man Network Transmission
50
Monsters inc
10
Mystic Heroes
30
NBA Live 2004
10
NBA Street vol 2
40
Need for speed hot pursuit gh
20
NFL Street vol 2
40
Odama no mic no big box
30
Odama full cib big box
80
Paper Mario not best seller
130
Phantasy star online
80
Phantasy star online plus mm
160
Pikmin 2
110
Pokemon channel w cards broken
100
Pokemon channel w cards intact
130
Pokemon Colosseum
175
Pokemon Colosseum Bonus
220
Pokemon Gale of Darkness mm
180
Pokemon Gale of Darkness
220
Rayman Arena
15
RE Zero
30
RE 3
120
RE 4
40
RE 4 pc
30
Shadow the hedgehog mm
45
Shadow the hedgehog
55
Shrek Super Party
45
Simpsons hit and run
80
Skies of Arcadia Legends no disc art crack
220
Smugglers run
15
Sonic 2 pc
60
Sonic mega collection pc
20
Shinx
10
Spyro enter Dragonfly
20
Star Wars Rogue Leader
20
Super Mario Strikers MM
70
Super Mario Strikers
75
Super Mario Sunshine
45
Super Monkey bal 2 pc
30
Super smash bros melee
75
Tetris Worlds
15
Timesplitters 2
30
Tony Hawks pro skater 2
20
Ty 2
35
Ultimate Muscle
180
Wario world
100
WWE Day of recoking 2
35
Yugioh Falsebound Kingdom
25
Gameboy Player and Disc cib
220
Nintendo Wii
Donkey Kong Country Returns
20
Dragon Ball z Budokai Tenkaichi 3
70
Dragons Lair Trilogy
55
Just Dance
10
Just Dance 2 new
20
Just Dance 2015
15
LoZ Skyward Sword
25
Marble Saga Kororinda
15
Mario Sonic Olympic
13
Mario Kart wii
35
Monster Hunter tri
10
Naruto Shippuden dragon blade chronicles
15
Need for speed carbon
15
nicktoons attack of the toybots
5
Pokepark
40
pokepark 2 mm
35
punch out
40
Rec Room games
5
RE 4
15
Sonic secret rings
13
Super mario galaxy
15
super mario galaxy 2
30
Super smash bros brawl
25
Wii U
Devils 3rd
390
LoZ BOTW
35
LoZ Windwaker hd
70
Lego Jurrasic World
8
Mario PArty 10
30
Mario Tennis
15
Nick Spngebob Robotic Revenge
25
Nintendo Land
10
Skylanders imaginators
10
splatoon
10
Super mario 3d world
15
Walking dead survival instinct
35
Switch
Astral Chain
45
Alex Kid
20
Cat Quest
25
Digimon Story cyber sleuth
20
Five nights at freddys help wanted
15
Friday the 13th ultimate slasher
20
Hyrule definitive
60
Hyrule definitive new
50
Hyrule age of calamity new
50
Mario KArt 8
45
Pixart
25
Pokemon shining pearl
35
Splatoon 2
45
Valkyria Chronicles (GS Case/loose)
30
AC New horizons loose
40
Bayonetta 2 loose
40
Cruisin loose
15
doom loose
30
disgaea 4 loose
40
mario odyssey loose no label
25
lego city underground loose
15
little dew 2+ loose
25
lego worlds loose
10
our world is ended loose
25
Pokemon mystery dungeon dx loose
35
Shantae 1/2 loose
25
Mario kart loose
40
mario rabbids kingdom battle loose
15
Mario Golf loose
40
Minecraft story mode complete adventure loose
75
super mario party loose
35
Virtual Boy CIB all minty
Teleroboxer
120
Galactic Pinball
90
Red alarm
80
golf
110
nester funky bowling
230
waterworld
500
wario land
200
mario clash
190
3d tetris
320
GB-GBA CIB - all from pokemon to ultimate code boxes minty
Pokemon Crystal all inserts
700
Pokemon Silver Excellent box
350
Pokemon Gold
300
Pokemon Blue
350
Pokemon TCG no cards
170
Pokemon Pinball
200
Pokemon leafgreen adaptor version
400
Pokemon firered adaptor version
400
Pokemon Firered PC
250
Pokemon ruby w cards
350
Pokemon sapphire w cards
350
Pokemon emerald w poster
600
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge
425
Zelda Minish Cap
280
Mega man battle network 2
250
Kirby Nightmare in dreamland
130
Ultimate codes Pokemon
300
caesars palace
15
Powa!
60
Ferrari grand prix
70
Tennis
50
Yugioh 7 trials
60
Yugioh dark duel stories
76
Super Mario Advance
160
Power Quest
100
Nintendo DS
100 all time favorites
5
ABC Wipeout
5
Advance Wars Days of Ruin
60
ATV Monster Trucks
7
Baskyward Basketball
15
battleship sorry trouble...
10
COD 4
15
COD Black Ops
15
Club Penguin
3
Crash Boom Bang
15
Dino Master10
DQ IX
50
Elite beat agents
25
legend of spyro eternal night
17
lego battles
3
lunar knights
75
madden 08
7
Mario Luigi Partners in time
75
Marioo party ds
25
MLB Power pros 2008
7
Monster tale
50
Naruto path of ninja 2
40
petz catz 2
5
Phineas Ferb
3
Pokemon Black
120
Pokemon black 2
180
Pokemon conquest
130
Pokemon dash
60
Pokemon diamond
70
Pokemon HG - big box, nice box w protector, missing cardboard walker holder
375
Pokemon explorers of time
50
Pokemon pearl
70
Pokemon platinum
160
Pokemon ranger shadows of almia
50
Pokemon soulsilver
160
Pokemon soulsilver big box, minty condition, fully cib
400
Super robot OG Sage endless frontier MM damage cover
130
tank beat
15
touchmaster 3
warioware touched
30
Yugioh world championship 2008 w sealed cards
70
Yugioh Stardust accelerator w sealed cards
70
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65
Nintendo DS loose
999
45
advanced wars days of ruin
30
backyard football
5
bakugan green label
7
bakugan red label
7
battle dragons
7
bleach 3rd phantom
55
brain age
5
cod black ops
10
chaotic
5
code lyko fall of xana
25
cooking mama
10
contra 4
30
crash of titans
12
dementium the ward
35
drawn to life spongebob
5
digimon world dawn
40
digimon world championship
25
Digimon world ds
55
diddy kong racing poor label
10
DQ IX
40
DQ V
150
DQ Rocket SLime
50
DQM 2
60
Etrian Odyssey II
50
Final fantasy IV
20
Final fantasy tactics A2
30
Fossil Fighters
30
Fossil Fighters Champions
65
Golden Sun Dark Dawn
20
GTA Chinatown Wars
25
Harvest Moon ds
20
Henry Hatsworth
13
kirby mass attack
20
kirby squeek squad
30
kirby superstar ulttra
35
LoZ Phantom hourglass
30
Legend of starfy
20
Lost Magic
15
Mario and luigi bowsers inside story
25
Mario luigi partners in time reshell
30
Monsters aliens
5
mystery pi
5
Naruto path of ninja 2
20
nintendogs dalmatian
10
nintendogs Chihuahua
10
Pokemon Mystery Blue
25
Pokemon explorers of darkness
25
Pokemon pearl
45
Pokemon ranger
25
Pokemon ranger guardian
35
Pokemon ranger shadows
35
Pokemon soulsilver
115
Pokemon trozei
20
Populous
10
Power ranger super legends
7
Prof Layton curious vilage
15
Prof layton unwound of future
20
Resident evil
70
rhythm heaven
50
rune factory
35
scribblenaughts
5
SMT strange journey
45
simpsons
20
spectral force
15
spiderman 3
10
spyro dawn of dragon
10
time hollow
50
Yugioh Spirit caller
20
yugioh stardust accelerator
25
yugioh wc 2010
25
yugioh wc 2011
50
Sonic rush adventure
25
Adventure time hey ice king
15
Amazing Spiderman
15
Cooking mama 4
20
HEy pikmin
25
Kingdom hearts 3d
30
Kirby planet robobot
60
LoZ Link between worlds new
150
LoZ Ocarina 3d
30
LoZ triforce
20
Lego MArvel universe in peril
10
Mario tennis
25
New super mario 2
25
Pilotwings resort
20
Pokemon moon
30
Pokemon rumble blast
30
Pokemon sun
30
Pokemon super mystery dungeon
35
Pokemon ultra sun
45
pokemon ultra moon
45
Pokemon x
40
Pokemon y
40
Professor layton vs phoenix wright
170
Regualr show 8 bit land
20
Rune factory 4
25
ssuper mario land
15
Super smash
15
3ds loose
AC New leaf
15
AC Happy home deigner
15
Angry birds trilogy
7
donkey kong country returns
15
dead or alive
30
DQ VII
65
Etrian Odyssey 2
65
ever oaasis
50
FE Awakening
40
FE echoes
35
Fossil fighters frontiers
20
hey pikmin
25
kingdom hearts
15
kirby triple deluxe
25
Legend of legacy
20
LoZ A link between worlds
25
LoZ triforce
15
Lego batman 3
7
Lego city
6
Lego Lotr
5
LEgo star wars III
7
luigi mansion dark moon
15
mario luigi dream team
25
mario luigi paper jam
40
mario party island tour
15
metal gear solid
80
mosnter hunter generations
15
monster hunter stories
60
monster hunter ultimate 3
15
monster hunter ultiamte 4
15
new super mario bros 2
15
nintendogs and cats
20
paper mario sticker star
20
pokemon AS
40
Pokemon gates to infinity
30
Pokemon OR
40
Pokemon rumble blast
15
Pokemon Ultra sun
35
Project mira dx
45
Project xzone
45
Project xzone 2
100
rayman 3d
13
rise of the guardians
8
resident evil the mercenaries 3d
20
rune factory 4
20
SMT devil survivor overclocked
55
SMT Devil summoner soul hackers
55
SMT IV
45
SMT IV apocalypse
60
shinobi
30
shovel knight
40
starfox 3d
22
Stella glow
45
sonic generations
20
super mario 3d
15
super street fighter iv
15
theatrythm
15
theatrythm curtain call
15
tales of the abyss
40
yokai watch 2 fleshy
30
yoshi wooly
30

I grew up in CO and currently live in Salt Lake City. I moved here for a) school and b) proximity to the outdoors. I've never lived somewhere with so many pros and so many cons. While the mountains, people in SLC proper, job economy, and C.O.L. are great, the completely unchecked urban sprawl/worst air quality in the country/politics/religion make this not a long-term option. When the Lake dries up and the air is literal poison we will all have to move anyway. Anyhow, I'm in law school and starting to look at other cities for my job search. Here is where I could use some help.
I enjoy nothing more than a thriving/walkable downtown area, but my partner comes from a small New England town and would not want to live anywhere much larger than Salt Lake City. Being in a huge legal market isn't all that important to me but I should at least be able to find a job. Probably shooting for between 60k-500k people or, if smaller, within an hours drive of a larger city. Smaller state capitals are also a good option due to the possibility of government work. My top priorities are natural beauty (w/ easy access to some combination of skiing and mountain biking preferred), career opportunities, and a good art/music scene. I'm willing to expand to other forms of outdoor recreation if need be. Does such a place exist?
P.S. -- You will be tempted, but please do not say Denver. I lived there for 5 years, and I intend no disrespect if you love it but it is the fakest outdoorsy city in the country. I refuse to sit in 6 hours of I70 traffic to go on a hike.

In state student 1350 sat, 690 math 660 reading 4.3 weighted GPA 3.83 unweighted GPA AP psych, AP Seminar, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Research, AP Art History, AP Calc AB, AP Physics 1, AP US Gov, AP Macro, AP Lit, Vice President of Key club Science National Honor Society Social studies honor society NHS Summer camp counselor for two years Tutored special needs middle schoolers after school
Volunteered for a non-profit that gives bikes way to people with no access to transportation: 50 hours
AP Scholar with distinction
AP Capstone diploma I have more volunteer hours as well Want to major in electrical engineering Thanks for any input.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY
A Spring Break special at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, $14.95, $9.95 for youngsters. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission online with promo code "Springbreak" through April 2.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
See what's new for travel at the Colorado RV Show, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Colorado Springs Event Center, 3960 Palmer Park Blvd. Free admission.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Major ideas for homes and yards at the Denver Home Show and an opportunity to meet Denver's Rico León, host of HGTV’s “Rico to the Rescue.” Learn floral arrangements at workshops by Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Display. Special Hero Days for first responders, teachers, military and veterans. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tickets $10 online, $12 at the show. Senior discounts. Children 12 and under free.
SATURDAY
Ride on, maybe on something new or different after the big Bike Swap. Sponsors and sellers ready to wheel and deal with happy bike folks at SoccerHaus, 4845 List Drive. Criterium Bike Shop staff will be there, too. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For the seventh year a benefit for Kids on Bikes.
SATURDAY
Go Western at the Boots and Hats Party night, with money raised for the Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival. Hip Hop and Two-Step starting at 8 p.m. at the City Auditorium, 221 E. Kiowa St. DJ Macadoe Pressplaydoe. $25 admission. Food and drink available.
SATURDAY
It's Springing Back to Life outdoors and you can check it out from 10 a.m. to noon at Fountain Creek Nature Center, 320 Pepper Grass Lane, Fountain. Flowers and trees are budding, birds are returning and babies are arriving. Prepaid registration required, $5 per person.
SATURDAY
Annual Collaboration Fest time for brewers and beer lovers, sponsored by Colorado Brewers Guild, 2-6 p.m. at The Westin Westminster, 10600 Westminster Blvd. Guild and independent brewers offer one-of-a-kind beers. General admission $65 plus fees, early access $85 plus fees.
SUNDAY
Ball Arena was packed with March Madness basketball fans last week and Sunday it changes to WWE: Road To Wrestlemania. Expected are Bianca Belair, Seth "Freakin" Rollins, Drew McIntyre, Liv Morgan, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso. 7 p.m.
SUNDAY
A Platte Avenue Block Party Spring Market with more than 50 vendors is open to the community outside Black Sheep and Vultures, 2100 and 2106 E. Platte Ave. from 1 to 5 p.m.
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Have a safe and fun weekend everyone! Articles below are not paywalled :)
Weekend things to do around Colorado Springs and beyond:
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/weekend-things-to-do-around-colorado-springs-and-beyond-bike-swap-boots-hats-party-spring/article_65a7f756-c2d9-11ed-99fb-075821e1ecaa.html
Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond:
https://gazette.com/denver-gazette/weekend-things-to-do-around-denver-and-beyond/article_e28a6a42-c2d9-11ed-807a-4b2fd42454f4.html
Disney on Ice coming to Colorado Springs this weekend:
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/disney-on-ice-coming-to-colorado-springs-this-weekend/article_5d627f70-c1c7-11ed-a5bc-e3d2ba368f39.html
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center reveals new 2023-2024 theater season:
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/colorado-springs-fine-arts-center-reveals-new-2023-2024-theater-season/article_edd901be-bdf3-11ed-b088-afea82caad40.html
2023 Red Rocks schedule: More shows added to this year's lineup:
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/2023-red-rocks-schedule-more-shows-added-to-this-years-lineup/article_b49d3994-612e-5893-954c-3ad36a509cd3.html
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Lastly, let's put a face to this name. I enjoy interacting with this community! Vote in our brewery bracket and I have agreed to post a pic of me enjoying my first beer in Colorado Springs (after having lived here now for 2 years) Cheers!
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/brewers-bracket-championship-vote-in-the-final-battle-of-colorado-springs-breweries/article_2f0393a2-c8f8-11ed-8e5a-4bf642229b10.html

Took screenshots in TSS for my Minifigure board game to use. These look much better than the clip art before
https://preview.redd.it/cg8iwt8g4lpa1.jpg?width=689&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4d79d72f7887b488661987173a384a95017cc29

Up for grabs is a bunch of ACU gear in overall very good or better shape. I collected this stuff over time with plans to dye it all, but I’m moving on. I'm looking to sell it all as a single lot, not individual pieces.

• FLC
• 5 triple rifle mag pouches
• 2 triple rifle mag bandoliers
• 1 triple pistol pouch
• 1 drop-leg holster for full size pistols
• 1 boonie hat
• 1 canteen cover

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The FLC, all 5 rifle mag carriers, and both bandoliers are genuine GI. The drop leg holster is from Specter Gear. The pistol mag pouch is Condor. The hat is a random made in China piece that seems to be pretty good quality. The canteen pouch has only a “made in China” tag and the material is noticeably thinner than the real GI stuff but it has a decent fur-like lining and it fits a standard canteen well. Oh, and the canteen pouch has ALICE clips on the back, it is not molle.
The FLC seems to be brand new. 4 of the 5 rifle pouches are quite clean with only the 5th being a little darker with minimal wear. The bandoliers are quite clean too. All straps, snaps, buckles, etc. are intact on everything.
The drop leg holster securely holds a Beretta 92, HK USP Compact, Sig P320, and an XD and should work with other full sized pistols. It is essentially unused (its longest stint outdoors was as part of a kids Halloween costume) but it does have some dirt or a stain on the front. There is a picture specifically of that in the photo album.
The pistol mag pouch is brand new. The hat is very clean and seems to have been unworn (I’ve never worn it but can’t remember the origin so can’t vouch that it’s completely unused). The canteen pouch also is very clean and appears basically new.
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I am selling this only as a lot, I will not be splitting it up at this time. $75 shipped. Payment by PayPal F&F with no notes at all. I can also do Zelle if you want.
Post below, then PM me. I will not PM you first. No chats.

I cant stand these nerds.