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Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

2009.10.09 11:02 akurjata Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

That's the smell of money: a subreddit for Northern British Columbia's unofficial capital and the surrounding area. There is hope beyond Hope.
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2023.06.07 10:35 helloazbee So I walked around Manila (Philippines)

So I walked around Manila (Philippines)
  1. Silahis Art and Artifacts
  2. Manila Cathedral (this was huge idk how to take it better)
  3. Fort Santiago (gate)
  4. Jones Bridge, Binondo, Manila
First 3 photos are from Intramuros, Manila
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2023.06.07 09:27 ___Nyarlathotep___ [USA] [SELLING] Need to sell off unused manga to fund university costs.

Hello everyone. I have a boatload of manga that I need to sell in order to save for university. Prices are as follows:
IMGUR LINK: https://imgur.com/a/EcZyNVT
MHA 1- 24 $180,
OPM 1-22 $165,
S&W 1-16 $155,
HXH 1-12 $90,
DS 1-15 $115,
WATAMOTE 1-17 $165,
DUNGEON 1-10 $100,
BEASTARS 1-7 $70,
UZAKI 1-3 $30,
LOVE IS WAR 1-11 $85,
MOB 1-6 $55,
FOOD WARS 1-13 $100,
DEVIL PART 1-15 $150,
NEVERLAND 1-19 $145,
KOBAYASHI 1-9 $90,
GHOUL 1-5 $40,
TANYA 1-2 $15,
BLACK BUTLER $7,
BERSERK 1-4 $40,
AOT S1 $20,
AOT S3 $30,
FMA $8,
DBZ 1-2 $30,
WOLF CHILDREN $20,
All mangas in excellent condition except for the AOT box sets (they came in with creasing and minor warping). Only selling manga in bundles. Shipping is free for orders over $150. I live in the California Central Valley so I’m also open for local. If you need any additional photos of the books from any angle I’d be happy to oblige. Thank you.
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2023.06.07 09:21 Harry_is_white_hot I'm not buying the whole "We have no data on crash retrievals" narrative being pushed by Gough et. al. and the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of declassified and sanitized information available in DoD and DoE holdings, including organization names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

I'm not buying the whole

Don't know where to look
https://ia601505.us.archive.org/30/items/StarfishPrimeInterimReportByCommanderJTF8/Starfish%20Prime%20Interim%20Report%20By%20Commander%20JTF-8.mp4
There is a lot of scientific data holdings from EG&G, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories regarding Bluegill Triple Prime shootdown, crash and retrieval. These excerpts of transcripts from the Nevada Test Site Oral History archives by former EG&G staff involved in the Operation Fishbowl tests describe the scientific instruments used in the Bluegill Triple Prime shot, the KC-135 platforms they operated from and how they were calibrated. (Interviewer questions in italics).
Interview with Peter Henry Zavattaro (EG&G) May 31, 2005 https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d19g5gr4z
"Shortly after I got started in this, we got involved with Los Alamos [National Laboratory] oratory] on a project called—well, we were building a system called a Z system, and this was designed to—this was a pre-Vela [Uniform] activity and it was designed to look at air fluorescence of a nuclear burst out of space, out in the outer atmosphere. The X-rays would impinge on the atmosphere and light it up at certain precise wavelengths. So we built this system to look at that. And it was deployed around the world. (pg 2)
Dominic was the Pacific test program and, was kind of a period where we tested, I guess it was over 100 tests, every day almost. And I was supporting a branch of the Air Force at the time. And we had a KC-135 that was filled with instrumentation, cameras, antennas. We looked at electromagnetic pulses and photographed things. And we flew on the airplane. Whenever there was a test, we would fly down to Christmas Island or wherever the test was, collect data, and fly back. Lived in Oahu, so we worked out of Hickam Air Force Base [Hawaii] for months and months.
In July of ‘62, I think it was ‘62, [07/09/1962] we started the high-altitude series, which the first test was Starfish. Starfish was a large-yield device, 400 miles up or something. It’s in the book someplace. [DOE/NV—209 Rev 15 December 2000]
But anyway that lit up the whole sky. You could see that the sky turned green from Hawaii to Samoa. It was just spectacular. I had a copy of Life Magazine that had that on the cover and I can’t find it.
It would be in ‘62; ‘62 issue of Life. But after that particular test, there was concerns about what the Russians were doing, and the plane that I was supporting went to Russia. I stayed in Hawaii and took a trailer of equipment, and the government rented a freighter, a Portuguese freighter called Private Frank J. Petracka. My trailer was strapped to one of the holds on this freighter and we went down to Johnson Island, and I spent forty-six days anchored off Johnson Island looking at the rest of the high-altitude series plus some atmospheric shots. The shots down there, the famous one was Bluegill because it took them three tries to actually get that successfully fired. The first one blew up on the pad. The second one blew up shortly after launch, so there were parts of rocket motors and things falling down. And the third test was successful. (pg. 4)
(Zavattaro is mistaken here - it was the 4th test of the Bluegill device that was successful).
But after Dominic was over, I became more involved with Los Alamos. The first thing that happened after the test series was over was coming up with a readiness program for resuming testing in the Pacific, and that was called the Future Off-Continent Program, FOC. And I worked on that until the program was cancelled. Basically, it was a clause in one of the safeguards, Safeguard C, that said we had to be prepared to promptly resume atmospheric testing in the Pacific. So they came up with a concept for that exercise. The concept was that to so that to solve some of the logistics problems of the past test series—because weather in the Pacific is really spotty. You never know where you can see things. So the concept was they would have a flying experiment. They would have the drop plane fly and they would have an array of airplanes follow it and they would find some nice clear place in the Pacific and fire the test. So this was the concept, and to support that, each of the labs had designed an aircraft for experimentation. Sandia had their own, [Lawrence] Livermore [National Laboratory] had their own, and Los Alamos had their own. So they modified these three aircraft, which were called NC-135s, which were refuelable KC-135s, at Fort Worth [Texas]. General Dynamics modified the planes. And I supported—we would go down and we designed the camera mounts and a lot of the stuff that went on the air—a lot of the supporting infrastructure, cameras and things, that went on the airplanes. And then after they completed them, they moved them to Kirtland Air Force Base [New Mexico]; Holmes and Narver designed an array of pad, three pads, for the aircraft, and they were stationed down there. And we had an array of trailers and we staffed it with people from Boston. The first test of this system was called Crosscheck, and we had an experiment. We went out to the Pacific and checked out with a flare and cameras and the whole nine yards to see if everything worked. (pg 5)
What was going on in Boston, supporting Los Alamos, was looking at the high altitude data. We were digitizing all the thousands of frames of data that we had from the highaltitude tests with very sophisticated digitizing equipment at the time. And the lab felt that the arrangement was too costly to have this interface, so they wanted us to move our resources that supported them to Los Alamos, and that’s when we basically opened the office there. I moved to Los Alamos in ’70 to set up an engineering department; and I moved about, I think it was thirteen or fourteen people that worked for me from Boston to Los Alamos."
Now, which division or group were you supporting at Los Alamos?
This was J-10.
J-10 was the field division, the real test division, and at that time that was the biggest, the key group. It was headed up by a guy named Herman Hoerlin who was a quite famous scientist from Germany, and he was a very interesting guy. (pg 9)
And who was the head of J-Division then?
It went through a few people. Herman Hoerlin, after Herman left, God, I can’t— A whole bunch of people. Don [Donald M.] Kerr was there for a while. Hard to remember all these things. It’s been so many years. (pg.11).

Interview with James Arnold Hodges (EG&G) January 17 2005 https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d16m33f80
"Well, not originally. Actually, I went into that pretty quick, too, into the taking pictures. I worked with Harry Smith who had some cameras called, oh, well, what were those called? We were up at Building 400 and we had rotor cameras. They had a rotor in them that turned 4,000 rps [rotations per second] and they would—oh, streak cameras, that’s what they were called. When the bomb went off, they made a streak with time and that showed you, since you knew what the speed of the rotor was and how long the film was, it showed you how big the fireball got. They used that for measurements on the yield, yield measurements. And I did that quite a while. When I wasn’t doing the streak camera measurements, I was working in the office in the other photo camera stations. We had photo stations everywhere sitting out there with cameras in them, all types of cameras, all speeds from Rapatronic cameras that took a picture in four billionths of a second to so-called cloud cameras that took a picture every few seconds and traced the cloud as it was going up. (pg. 4)
Some of the pictures that we took are still classified. One of them was taken by a Rapatronic camera. I had a streak camera with a sixteen-foot telescope on it and it looked right into the cab of the tower and you could see the case of the bomb. We have a picture of a crack appearing in the case as it started to blow up. That picture’s still classified. And then I took one at Johnston Island from the deck of the Boxer, that’s an old aircraft carrier with an old wood deck, it was an old one. And they classified the picture because it was some clouds which had, of course, the aerial bomb went off way up in the atmosphere and there was a cloud shaped like an angel, so they said, Oh, we don’t dare publish that picture. People will say we’re punching a hole in the sky and all the air’s going to run out and everything else. And so they classified that picture, and as far as I know, it’s still classified. I don’t think it was ever released. (pg.6)
I was there for the so-called high altitude sun tests. We took pictures from a high altitude airplane.
So you took pictures from the plane.
Yes. Of the sun. I don’t remember just why.
And did you take those, or again did you have equipment set up to do that?
We had equipment set up to do it. I shot some stills from Johnston Island, from the deck of the carrier, I shot some of those stills. That’s in fact the one where the angel was, I shot that one. And like I say, that one’s hid somewhere far, far down in the—
So none of your stuff ever went out to the media or the press.
No.
This was just all for in-house EG&G?
Yeah. I guess since then they released some of the shots. (pg.25)

Interview with Vernon Henry Jones (EG&G) October 4, 2005 https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d1q23rb6p
"Right. Now physically what happened with the film? Because I have no idea. The cameras are there. You remove the cameras. How does that work?
Cameras, no. We would remove the film only from all of them. Some of them, you just take the film reel out of them and we had regular film-carrying cases that we would put the film in. Some of them had film magazines on top of them. Some of them were quite large. Like the Fastax camera had a thousand-foot roll of 35-millimeter film on top of it. The Fastax, the name of the camera, it was a real high-speed camera, and it would go through that whole thousand feet of film in one and a half seconds.
No way!
Oh, yes! You should hear that camera when it ran. It was like, stand back!
In what sense?
Noisy! The noise would scare you, hearing that thing wind up the way it did. That camera had a drive motor on the film feed and the take-up spool. That’s how fast that turkey went. So there was probably an average, I don’t know, six to eight cameras in each station. Some were small; some were there for just cloud cover, to see which way the cloud went after the shot. Of course they were real slow-speed cameras. And the others, we had the Mitchell that generally ran at a hundred frames per second. I don’t know offhand what they were really after, but it was one of the cameras, and various other ones in there. We had some high-speed Eastman cameras, slowspeed Triads, and others, I don’t recall their names. (pg.11)
Photo. Setting up field photo. Now there were other people helping me some at times, but for the most part I did the majority of that by myself. A lot of the cameras were mounted on a tripod, small cameras. The camera was called by letters GSAP, which stood for Gunsight Aerial Photography-type camera. It’s a little bitty thing, run on 24 volts, had a fifty-foot roll of 16-millimeter film in them. These were all over the place, taking pictures of all these different things (pg. 52)

Interview with Wayne Albert Violette (EG&G) January 12, 2005
https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d1h12vk31
"This was actually done on film. When the bomb would go off, there would be oscilloscope traces recorded and it would record like the alpha growth rate of the bomb. The first few thousandths of a millionth or nanoseconds of the bomb going off is what the critical information was because after that it was all over.
And is that what you guys looked at?
Yes, the first few nanoseconds. That’s where they would get most of their information as far as the effectiveness of the bomb and the efficiency of it, and I’m not sure what the physicists were really looking at, but the alpha growth rate was primarily what we were looking at, right at the very beginning. (pg.10)
I was also sent for two or three weeks to Albuquerque to work on some of the—I think KC-135s, they’re 707s, I believe—was the civilian name for the planes. We went back and we worked on those for putting equipment in them; they were preparing if they went to atmospheric testing again. These had a big window on one side and the equipment was set to where they could take pictures out of it. I had my particular little thing to do, installing certain equipment, so I wasn’t privy to a lot of the details of what they were doing. But that was very interesting, too, to go back there and just be part of it. Sandia built the bombs, and Sandia Labs was back there. (pg.13).
We didn’t process—we came up with negatives. They would look at the negative. It was actually a negative image. It looked like a dark image on a light background, rather than the white image on the dark background. When we would set the equipment up, we would have to get them focused exactly. Very critical on focus and getting the right intensity so they would be the best image possible. We used a lot of Polaroid film doing that. We’d go through boxes and boxes of Polaroid film on the setup of it. The actual photo, though, was then done on an actual negative. So I know Polaroid must’ve made a lot of money off the test site because we used a lot of that, and yellow tape." (pg.15)
Military v Civilian control
It also appears that there were problems within the U.S. Government bureaucracy regarding the military maintaining control over nuclear weapons. This is rectified somehow by the wording in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and is explained here by the Defence Special Weapons Agency's Associate Dean Byron L. Ristvet.
Interview with Byron Leo Ristvet, (DSWA) April 17, 2006 https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d1qf8jw7j
"So the British never had that civilian control quandary that we did. And let me just tell you bluntly, when Truman wanted the Atomic Energy Commission created and in civilian control because he didn’t trust the military, guess who was his strongest supporter? George C. Marshall. Leslie Groves. They both testified secretly at the time that they did not want the production of weapons under the services. They wanted the control of special nuclear material, the design, and the production to remain totally a civilian enterprise.
And what was, their reasoning there again? Was it the knowledge?
No, their reasoning was, is they just felt that the military shouldn’t be in control of such awesome power, that the Constitution had basically said civilians should be in power, and so this way it made it very positive. I think had the Goldwater-Nichols Act been in place where the secretary of war and the secretary of the Navy had control over the CNO and over the chief of staff of the Army who at that time reported directly to the president. It would’ve been different. But the Defense Department really didn’t gain the civilian control power until ’85.
Well, you know, there were changes, and the biggest change to the Atomic Energy Act was ’54, when the military was allowed to have custody of special nuclear material. Prior to that it was always under the control of the AEC, and that was because we were going to these sealed designs, and even where the what’s called the capsule ball assembly was not inserted into the high explosive, it was still carried on the weapon; it was integral to the weapon and you couldn’t manually insert it in flight, it was automatically inserted in flight, and as a result, you had to grant the custody—plus the response times were getting less and less and less. You know, the late forties, three days. By the time you were in ’54, you were getting down to three-or-four-hour kind of response times, about half the time it takes to fly over the poles. By the time you were in the late fifties, you had missiles. Of course we didn’t know the missile gap was sort of nonexistent, but in ’58 the response time was getting down to thirty minutes. And by the time you were in the ’66-’67 time frame, when the Russians had their first fleet ballistic submarines, you were now down to fifteen-minute response time. That’s why the Cuban missile crisis in ’62 was such a huge thing, because now you were looking at seven-or-eight-minute response times. (pg.32)
This is of interest here because according to the Majestic Documents, it was claimed by Allen Dulles that these changes to the Atomic Energy Act 1954 allowed him exclude President John F. Kennedy from knowing the details of the MJ-12 program:

Dulles response to President Kennedy
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/mj12opsreview-dulles-61.pdf
It would be interesting to know if Pharis Williams and Oke Shannon had any involvement with the J-10 group at Los Alamos or have knowledge of the Bluegill Triple Prime anomaly.
For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify film recordings of the U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests. In this video, Lab science communicator Maren Hunsberger interviews Greg Spriggs to answer some of the most frequently asked questions we've received about the test films since sharing them on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOrRWzmmUU&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5&index=99
Digitization of atmospheric test films ongoing at LLNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpqGKUG5yY&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5&index=1

The Pentagon doesn't seem to be trying too hard to find the data.
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2023.06.07 09:07 SelectStage6277 Can this be installed

Can this be installed
I recently inquired a 2 ton weather king unit that we were told was never hooked up and it actually looks brand new still in the box and in great shape.
I currently don’t have central air. I had a new furnace install in 2018 but couldn’t afford the air part of the package. No AC unit when we bought the house it was gutted. The real question is can I have a R22 unit installed or no? Asking before I waste a local guy his time of coming out to the house.
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2023.06.07 09:04 TheGeekyZoologist Jurassic World: The Hegemony of Biosyn (JWD rewrite) - Act III

See the previous posts: https://www.reddit.com/JurassicPark/comments/1419mpy/jurassic_world_the_hegemony_of_biosyn_dominion/ https://www.reddit.com/JurassicPark/comments/142b35e/jurassic_world_the_hegemony_of_biosyn_jwd_rewrite/

Act III - The Gathering of the Clouds

Mia Everett
Visually confirming Rainn's revelation, Victoria is shown in a cage inside Amelia Everett's lab, within Biosyn's Citadel. Mia does her best to comfort the scared and depressed Achillobator and her motivations are explored shortly after. It's revealed that due to her experience within the team who made the Indominus and the Indoraptor, Biosyn tasked her with reviving InGen's IBRIS program by breeding raptors with high obedience potential. However, none of the achillobators cloned by Biosyn proved to be trainable enough for the program's ambitions (even though they attempted to mimic Owen's experience by having keepers being there at the animals' birth), which displeased Dodgson and the other higher-ups, who are now favouring another research team, who focuses on a more intrusive way of controlling dinosaurs. Basically treated as a second-class researcher amidst a rather toxic work environment, Mia became desperate enough to hire poachers to capture Blue, which she intended to breed with their achillobators in order to finally have trainable individuals. As Victoria is not sexually mature, Mia is in front of a considerable setback and fears that Dodgson will pull the plug due to her lack of results, especially in this troubled period for Biosyn.
The tying noose
The next day, the intel collected by the UN agents (people involved in the Black Market, Biosyn's connections with it) are sent to the nearby countries, including Italy, where an arrest warrant is launched against Kayla.
On his side, Isaac Gibbon is contacted by Bigelow who tells him about the debacle of their mission in Malta, saying that Claire and Owen saved the grey guards from disaster. He orders her to stay in Italy for the moment and wait for new orders. Shortly receives, he receives a candidate for a desk job in the DSD: It's Franklin. Gibbon tells Franklin he heard about his bravery during the 2019 incidents and his past connection with InGen (Before the DPG, Franklin worked for it as an IT Technician), before asking questions about Claire as he is aware that she collaborated with him not only on some occasions in the past few years but also in the 2019 Costa Rican incident, where Franklin was the couple's companion while they were running from InGen's agents and the authorities.
Dubrovnik
The inhabitants and tourists of the Croatian seaside city of Dubrovnik are surprised when a Biosyn Quetzalcoatlus descends upon the old town and starts attacking people. As a joke similar to one in TLW with the Japanese businessman and his reference to Godzilla, some extra could yell in Valyrian "I left Westeros because of this!" or "By the Seven, not again!" (Dubrovnik was one of Game of Thrones' filming location).
Ramsay's email
In a manner similar to the Hawaii attack scene in Gareth Edwards' Godzilla, the Dubrovnik scene cuts just as the Quetzal swoops on the bystanders and we are now in the bar of Biosyn's employee village. Wu is watching the news of the Dubrovnik attack on the TV (there is even a declaration from Zoe Murdoch, in which she denies the pterosaur came from Auronzo's Sanctuary and was probably created by a rival company who somehow put their hands upon Biosyn Quetzalcoatlus DNA. In the bar, someone whisper that one of their Quetzals did escaped from the valley thanks to the temporary deactivation of the invisible fence system and that Dodgson has launched an investigation to know who's responsible) when he receives a mysterious email from Ramsay, which includes the name of some woman. Wu search it on the internet and ends up on IMDB where he discovers that the adult "Charlotte" on the videos is actually an actress who lives in London.
Arrest
In Rome, early in the morning, Kayla is arrested in her flat by the police as she is accused of illegal smuggling.
Viscontini
Following all the incidents in the Alps, the clash in the Sabine Hills and the recent Dubrovnik attack, people gets pissed at Biosyn and protests occur in several locations, including Rome. In the Italian Ministry of the Interior, Viscontini has an argument with Pazzi, declaring that they need to take severe actions against Biosyn but the minister retorts that taking large-scale actions against the corporation might trigger a whole deal of undesirable consequences, including deteriorating US-Italian relations due to the close ties between Biosyn and the US government. He won't risk that just because of some rumours, weak proof and small incidents. Viscontini retorts that soon, Biosyn might have an angry mob showing at its gates with the goal of driving it out of Italy.
Following Vuillier's instructions, Claire, Owen, Nyamu and Dougal leave Malta the same day and fly to the Eternal City, where they have to meet Viscontini in the AISI headquarters. There, they have a video call with Vuillier. He and Viscontini wants to send the trio of WDMC agents to Auronzo Valley so they can infiltrate Biosyn's facility, find compromising information and transmit them to the Italian authorities, hoping to finally convince Pazzi and the rest of the government to take action against Biosyn. However, one of the agents points out that they will need an entrance ticket as one doesn't simply walk into Auronzo, since the borders of Biosyn's lands are guarded and monitored while some people disappeared after going too close from the Sanctuary (anti-Biosyn activists, reckless adventurers, Grendel Corporation's spies, others from the AISI's and Austrian government). Viscontini declare they might have that ticket.
We cut to Kayla in her prison cell. The guard announces she has visit and she is brought to a room where Viscontini and Dougal waits for her. The head of the AISI and the WDMC agent then negotiate with her: In exchange for her freedom, she will bring Dougal, Claire and Owen to Biosyn's Sanctuary. However, Viscontini precise he'll have her hunted down if she ever betrays them.
Kayla raises the fact that she can't show up at Auronzo like this and needs a motive. Viscontini and Dougal then talk about the animals seized in Malta's black market.
Theo's Mission
That day, Wu summons Theo, explain the whole issue with the fake Charlotte and ask him to go to London, find the actress and question her about the videos so they can have proofs to show Maisie, who started to really become insufferable because of Dodgson's bad influence (in that part of the story, one of the few scenes where she's likeable is one where she and Drummond bonds over the common passion for dinosaurs). The ex-mercenary soon leaves Auronzo, taking a bus for Venice in the nearest village while Wu explains to Pellegrino and Dodgson that Theo had urgent family matters to deal with in the UK.
Leaving San Francisco
Desiring to supervise the Dolomites Crisis more closely, Vuillier fly to Italy.
Nine containers
As evidence of Biosyn's possible connections to the Maltese black market has been discussed on the news, Dodgson knows it's a matter of time before Vuillier, the Italians or the Austrians send people in Auronzo and expose Biosyn's misdeeds.
We then follow Pellegrino's POV as she oversees the exit of nine large mysterious containers from the Citadel and their departure from the airstrip just outside the valley. One of her subordinates asks what's inside and she answers that she has no idea, with Dodgson only giving her a series of instructions. They watch the containers being flown abroad.
The following day, Pellegrino speak about it to Wu and other employees with anti-Dodgson sentiments like Drummond. She notices that Wu is uncomfortable as they talk about it and realize he must be hiding something. Ramsay, who just arrived from the US in preparation for a big corporate event in the Citadel, almost surprise their discussion. As they're not sure if they can trust him or not, they pretend it's nothing. Wu then phones Theo and asks him about his secret mission's progress.
London
In London, Theo finds the actress from the videos and initially posing as a reporter, filming her in an interview, he then ask her questions about the videos and after some hesitations, she concedes to give him answers and reveals among other things that the shooting occurred a few months ago in some local warehouse, that the director of those videos is none other than Colin Trevorrow (who, desperate for a job after the debacle of the Jurassic World film, accepted to participate to that project, oblivious that Biosyn was behind it since a dummy company took care of the production).
AISI
Vuillier arrives in Rome and meets with his agents, Nyamu and Viscontini in one of the AISI headquarters' conference rooms, where a map of Auronzo Valley and its surroundings has been laid. Kayla is also there and offscreen, our characters talk about the plan.
At the end of the meeting, everyone but Vuillier and Viscontini leave the room. Both have a secret conversation during which the Italian say that the Grey Guard's Mediterranean Company, supported by the Austrians and secretly by him (as he fears that Biosyn has informers within the Italian government), are deployed in one of the villages near Auronzo, and is supposed to act as a Plan B should the Claire-Owen-Dougal trio fail, by taking a secret path through an old mine and a mountain pass before breaking into Biosyn's citadel. The WDMC agents don't know that and when Vuillier ask why, Viscontini answers that it's better that way (should the agents be captured ant tortured, they won't tell Biosyn that there is a second team) and that the secret path isn't safer as one of his spy was killed by some creature after taking it and arriving in sight of the valley. He thinks that a small dozen of grey guards have better chances surviving the pass' guardian(s) than three civilian agents.
To the Dolomites
The next day, in the middle of the morning, Kayla is preparing her plane in some airstrip near Rome and the seized creature from the black market is loaded in the hold (I have no idea which species to choose). Equipped by the Italians, Claire, Owen and Dougal say farewell to Vuillier, Nyamu and Viscontini. The Frenchman tells Claire that it's time to unleash the She-wolf upon Dodgson but Claire correct him by saying "Not the She-wolf. The Dragon." (in this AU, she has a particular connection with the dragon-like Indominus), implying she'll get the mission done whatever it takes. He and the other two men wish them good luck and the trio of WDMC agents climb aboard the plane. They soon take off.
Biosyn's aerial defense
Kayla's plane arrives in sight of the mountains which delimit Biosyn's Sanctuary. Informed of their mission by Vuillier and Viscontini, one of the grey guards is watching the plane through his binoculars as it passes over the village where they are staying.
Kayla is soon contacted by the Citadel's control room as they detected the aircraft on their radars and they ask her why she's coming. The pilot answer that she collected an animal which might interest them (she told the WDMC agents and the Italians that Biosyn doesn't have this particular species in their Sanctuary) and ask to land on their airstrip. While the Biosyn employees discuss, the plane is about to enter Auronzo Valley by the east, as that part of the sanctuary is the furthest from most of the buildings (while the airstrip is in the northernmost parts of Biosyn's lands, beyond the mountains with the frozen dam lake) and thus where Claire, Owen and Dougal has the best chances of landing unnoticed. The trio of agents take their parachutes and prepare to jump, but at the same time, Dodgson, who heard that Kayla was arrested by the authorities just a few days ago, fears that her plane is a Trojan horse and decides to activate the valley's "aerial defense". On the screen of one of the room's monitors, we see a group of dots heading straight towards the plane. It's actually a group of pteranodons, from the same toothed variant as those who appeared in Jurassic Park 3 (there is even at least one black male identical to the scrapped one from Johnston's film), and they just collide with the plane, crashing against the cockpit and getting turned to shred by the rotors' blades, damaging the plane (the scene is partly inspired by a cutscene from the Ninth Mission of Paraworld's campaign). Owen wonder why those pteranodons behave in a suicidal manner. Suddenly, the pteranodons retreat and as their window is shrinking, the agents know they have to jump now (they've reached the middle of the valley and their trajectory deviated northwards, towards the mountain dam). Claire jumps first but as Owen is about to jump in his turn, the plane is attacked by a Quetzalcoatlus and the Raptor Whisperer sees another and a few pteranodons chasing her fiancée, whose parachute opened. Claire shakes the pterosaurs off by disappearing into the valley's dense forest. As they will be grabbed by the attacking pterosaurs as soon as they leave the aircraft, Owen, Dougal and Kayla stay inside it and brace for the crash. The plane crashes down at the surface of the frozen lake by the mountain dam in the northern part of the valley.
Back in Rome, Vuillier, Nyamu and Viscontini are worried as they heard the agents and the pterosaurs' screams (they had an open channel all that time with Kayla's plane). They hope the agents will survive this ordeal and activate the beacons they were given before their departure.
Note: The fate of the animal they took with them is still unclear for me. It really depends on the chosen species. If it's something large and potentially dangerous, Kayla would probably want to drop it in the valley in order to have a lighter plane and not deal with it after crashing. But if it's a creature about the size of a small dog for example, they could free it as they leave the wreckage.
Gigantoraptor
We then cut to Claire hanging in the trees but instead of a Therizinosaurus (which already appeared in TRQ. Moreover, Claire had a small arc with this species in that story), she is threatened by a Gigantoraptor. The scene plays out much like the Theri scene from Trevorrow's version, with Claire hiding in a pond etc.. Once the Gigantoraptor walks away, Claire gets out of the pond and sees the fumes from the plane's crash in the distance, behind the mountain dam.
The dam lake
Before it sinks in the lake, Owen, Dougal and Kayla leave her plane and step on the ice. Under it, they notice a large shadow and know they better move away from the lake. They notice a ladder by the dam but as they head towards it, a Quetzalcoatlus or a Pteranodon lands on their way. They step back, moving towards an opening on the lake's surface. Suddenly, a giant 9-meters long temnospondyl (based upon an unnamed and fragmentary genus from Lesotho) burst out the water, almost killing one of the characters. Ensue a scene where our three protagonists have to evade both the pterosaur and the amphibian. The pterosaur ends up being dragged underwater by the temnospondyl but other pterosaurs arrive and to escape them, our trio climbs on the dam and rushes to its elevator, going down in the valley. Down at the dam's base, they notice it's dilapidated and Kayla tell her two companions that Biosyn sell some of its power to the nearest villages.
Note: The main doubt I have about this scene is having a temnospondyl living in the icy water of a mountain lake. It might be too much of a stretch so if you think it's not realistic at all, it will be scrapped from the scene (and perhaps be replaced by a juvenile Baryonyx or something like this, an animal which could be also the one our characters brought with them in the plane.
Plan B
Since the agents lost their beacons during the pterosaurs' attack and the crash, they couldn't tell Rome that they were still alive. Vuillier and Viscontini fear the worst and send a message to Laurenzo Cesare.
Droppings
Meanwhile, Claire started walking towards the dam, hoping to find her companions on the way if they made it out alive from the crash. When she hears a racket in the woods, she hides and a Biosyn tyrannosaur arrives. But it's not on a hunting mode and instead, it just leaves some droppings on a log near Claire's hiding place. After the predator leaves, she approaches the log and smears her face with the droppings, remembering her "Walk in the Park" with Owen when they searched her nephews during the Fall of Jurassic World (the droppings hide her smell, dissuading the other animals to investigate her).
Argument
An argument bursts out between Owen, Dougal and Kayla while they're walking south. The first wants to find his fiancée, the second says that their mission is more important, and Kayla is mad at both men since she lost her plane (and livelihood) because of the WDMC's mission. And unsure about her intentions, the two men distrust her but she tries to reassure them by saying that Biosyn can fuck off since they are also responsible for destroying her plane.
However, the Sanctuary's denizens remind them that they better be united or else it will be the failure of their quest.
At some distance, in the middle of the fog, they see the recognizable silhouette of a sauropod, that of an Argentinosaurus (the species was seen in the distance and mentioned earlier in the story. Instead of Argentinosaurus, it could also be another large titanosaur). However, this herbivore has the particularity of having a symbiotic relation with some small carnivore species within Biosyn Sanctuary (I'm more thinking about a pterosaur or a flying/semi-arboreal theropod than a strictly ground-dwelling predator. For now, the baboon-sized Variraptor is my candidate), with the Argentinosaurus letting those carnivores eat its parasites and the insects flying around it while the carnivores will let out an alarm call shall a large predator approach. It could be illustrated in a scene where an Acrocanthosaurus (the one from the Drive-in scene) is spotted by the carnivores as it passes by. The Argentinosaurus turns to face the larger predator, adopt a defensive posture, and as the acro hasn't yet moved, the smaller carnivores take off from the sauropod and flies straight to the acro's head. Harassed by those creatures, the Acrocanthosaurus retreats. Thus, if those small carnivores (which we'll call the Argentinosaurus' suite) are brave enough to attack a megatheropod, our three protagonists know they're not safe and that they better move away.
The Sanctuary's true nature
While still heading north, Claire's path crosses that of a bull Shantungosaurus. She move out of his way and stay still. She and the audience recognize the animal as he was already in the JW rewrite and TRQ (in the first story, he gained some scars after a fight with a few Metriacanthosaurus), where he was a secondary "character" (and a threat in a few scenes). Both have a peaceful scene where they make eye contact but that quiet moment is shattered when a gunshot resounds in the forest and the hadrosaur flees, badly wounded. Claire hides and in the distance, she sees a hunter, accompanied by a couple of Biosyn security guards and another employee which she presume is some sort of supervisohunting guide. Watching how the hunter is dressed and how he behave in the wild, she knows he's not a professional hunter but just a rich hobbyist and then realizes the Sanctuary's true nature: It's a hunting reserve. As the Shantungosaurus escaped them, the hunter express his discontentment at the guide, which promise to find him another quarry. They leave and following the blood trail left by the hadrosaur, Claire finds him by a stream. His wounds are too grievous and he's too weak to lash out at Claire, who kneels by his head, trying to comfort him in his last moments, up until his last breath. Watching another of her former park's animals dying fills Claire with not only grief, but also anger. She change her plans and heads back south instead of continuing northward, following the hunting party's track.
Note: It doesn't necessarily have to be a Shantungosaurus in the role of the animal shot by the hunters, but it have to be a recognizable animal from the previous installments for emotional impact and Claire's development (another candidate could be the Therizinosaurus from TRQ)
She later finds another hunting party. One of its members, a Biosyn guard, pulls out an item she recognize: a raptor resonating chamber. The guard use it like a bird call and soon, an Achillobator, arrive, believing it heard one of its kind. The poor animal is shot by the hunters, who scream in satisfaction before taking a picture with their quarry. They then brings it to the Biosyn vehicle waiting nearby but before they leave (after having a short conversation during they mention that another team captured the rex and is bringing it the paddocks), Claire deliberately attract the attention of one of the guards, the same one which used the resonating chamber, and he say to his companions he won't be long. He move away from the road and deeper in the woods, he fall into Claire's ambush. She kill him, loot some of his equipment (including the resonating chamber), hide his body and leave. Worried for his colleague, the other guard with the hunters orders the guide to drive them back to the lodge, and search his friend. But he too is murdered by Claire, who takes a small metallic box on him. Activating the box, she realize it's a sonic weapon she has seen before, in the hands of InGen Security's elite troops during the fall of Isla Nublar (it's like a weaponized version of the box Dodgson and his companions have in Crichton's TLW). She turns it off, take it with her and follows the hunters vehicle's tracks on the road, towards the lodge.
However, Claire ignores she's being watched, and not by human eyes...
Over hill
Cesare and his men leave their accommodation and head for the frontiers of Biosyn's lands. Leaving their vehicles near a ruined fort, the grey guards start their trek while the sun is setting behind the mountains ahead of them.
A bed in the trees
As walking through the valley at night would be too dangerous, Owen, Dougal and Kayla decide to find a resting place and climb in a tree. From it, they have a panorama on a nearby lake and notice they are approximately halfway between the dam and the Citadel. At this moment, we also have peaceful scenes with the valley's denizens at dusk (Pelecanimimus fishing in the lake, herbivores drinking nearby, the same Spinosaurus from the report at the beginning peacefully sitting on the bank like an oversized duck...).
Theo's peace
In the evening, just a few hours before his flight to Venice, Theo also passes by his former home, which he left years ago before joining Ken Wheatley's mercenary company. His ex-wife still lives here and noticing that she started a new life with another man and seems happy, he walks away in peace, leaving behind him the last picture he had of himself and her (earlier in the story, Theo is seen looking at said picture).
The secret path
Back in Italy, the grey guards find the entrance of an old mine and enter it, taking the path that will allow them to pass under the limits of Biosyn's lands.
Mercenaries
Mercenary troops land in Biosyn's airstrip and their leader is brought to the Citadel. He has a discussion with Dodgson behind closed doors.
Foes... or allies?
A few hours after nightfall, Claire finally finds a large old chalet with typical Tyrolean architecture: The Hunting Lodge (it's implied that it was built way before Biosyn bought those lands, when the area was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before WWI). Claire remarks it's surrounded by an invisible fence (identical to the one from Jurassic World Evolution 2's Biosyn DLC) which prevents the animals from getting too close. Aware that the lodge wouldn't be a shelter for her and that its occupants probably outnumber her, she turns away from it, continuing to wander in the woods. But just a few minutes later, she hears sound in the nearby bushes. Aware she might be hunted, she is ready to use the ultrasound box and fight for her life. A pack of Achillobators shows up, menacingly walking towards her. At the same time, it starts to rain.
Claire first thinks of using the box and running away while the predators would be bothered by the sound but she knows it will be useless in the long run as they could track her all across the Sanctuary. She then remembers the reports she read earlier in the story, and especially that of the 2001 incident on Sorna, where Alan Grant and his companions walked out alive and unharmed from a close encounter with raptors.
In dire straits, she makes up a desperate plan and carefully, she pulls out the resonating chamber she stole from the Biosyn guards. She uses it and due to their bad experience in the sanctuary with the resonating chambers' usual users, the raptors get agitated but their pack leader tells them to calm down as Claire doesn't seem to be a Biosyn guard or a hunter. The pack leader walks alone towards Claire and sniffs the dried blood on her hands and clothes, realizing it belongs to other humans. Nothing happens for a moment and then the pack leader lets out a bark. Behind Claire, two raptors move aside. Slowly walking backwards, watching carefully the raptors' moves, Claire exits the circle made by the surrounding predators and continues doing so until she's at a respectable distance. At the beginning, the raptors just watch her but as she's heading towards the Hunting Lodge, she hears them following her. However, she is aware that they would have already pounced on her if they wanted to eat her and knows that they're more intrigued. Meanwhile, the rain intensifies (there could also be a storm).
Claire reaches the invisible fence, crosses it, and searches for its power source. But as she's sabotaging it, the Lodge caretaker (a gnarly-looking old local man) spots her and frightened by her look, runs away towards the building. She is forced to catch him and, after a short struggle, kill him with her knife before he can raise the alarm. After showing some trouble due to killing a probable innocent, she resumes her sabotage and the fence is deactivated. The raptors cross it and see Claire entering the lodge. Near its entrance, she finds a sword hanging on the wall as a decorative element and noticing it's still sharp, she takes it along with its sheath and heads for the rooms. Behind her, the raptors open the door and silently enter in the lodge. In the hallway which leads to the rooms, Claire stays still when the raptors walk past her as they head to the rooms and grin as her audacious plan is working. Claire enters one of the rooms, raises her sword blade over a sleeping hunter and when the time comes, thrust it into his body. Meanwhile, the raptors open other doors and entering the rooms, they rush on the sleepers. Slaughter ensues and only those who locked up their doors have the time to wake up, grab a weapon and fight for their very survival. Some of the lodge's occupants offer some resistance in the lounge but there, Claire activates the sonic weapon she stole and an ear-piercing sharp sound comes from it. While the raptors back off behind her, their common enemies kneel and scream in pain and Claire (who put on some earplug) slashes their throats, deactivate the weapon, and let the raptors tear the hunters alive while she raids some items (stuff like snacks, water, a first-aid kit, a map...) and leave, disappearing in the woods.
A bit later, she finds a small cave whose entrance is high from the ground and rest in it, sleeping until mid-morning.
The mountain's pass
At the end of their night-long ascent, the grey guards arrive in a pass/cave where they found human bones, which they presume to be those of the AISI's spy Viscontini told them about, and the remains of a Biosyn drone. Soon after, they are attacked by the guardian animal(s) the corporation left there to kill any trespasser coming from that direction. (I haven't chosen any species yet). They manage to defeat it (or them) and dawn break out as they arrive at a vista point which overlooks the valley. The grey guards observe it, the eyes of Cesare stop on the Citadel for a moment, and they retreat back inside the mountain to rest a few hours before descending into the valley. They send a message to Vuillier and Viscontini, telling them that they're inside the Sanctuary.
Traces of a slaughter
During their early morning patrol, a security team discovers that a massacre occurred during the night in the Hunting Lodge. They find clues indicating that someone helped the raptors and participated in the killings. The control room check the Lodge CCTV footage and fear spreads like wildfire among the staff when they discover the culprit is a sinister-looking black-clad hooded woman. Seeing that one of the figure's hand is a prosthesis and that the other wear a silver ring with a red gem, they realize it's Claire and Dodgson pretty much start to crap his pants (partly because one of the hunters was a very wealthy and powerful foreign client whose disappearance won't go unnoticed). Since she made it out alive from the plane's crash, Dodgson fears that the other WDMC agents might have too. When asked about the slaughter itself, Dodgson orders his staff to cover it up for the moment, as he don't want to worry the board of directors who are set to arrive later that day for a big event he planned in the evening.
Theo's return
Theo returns to Auronzo and Wu, who just learned about Claire's presence in the valley, tells him that they must get Maisie out of the facility as soon as possible since disaster tends to follow Claire like a shadow.
Taking the gloves off
However, Maisie has meanwhile discovered that the videos were another lie, by recognizing one of the scientists from the video, who also work at the Citadel (and who didn't aged, even though the adult Charlotte's video was supposed to be taken fourteen years ago). Aware that the gentle method is no longer considerable, Dodgson decides to use the hard one and Doctor Lesser locks Maisie in a cell within her lab, to which Wu can't access. Lesser reveal that it wasn't Wu who told Dodgson that she was a clone but the spy he has among Lockwood Manor's employees, and that the only true part in the video was the one about the genetic disease: Charlotte did had it, just like her mother Elizabeth before that (she died in 1993 and it was because of her Lockwood and Hammond fell out), and had the car accident which took her life didn't happened, the disease would have killed her a few years later. As he wanted Maisie to have a long life, Benjamin Lockwood asked the scientists he hired (there is a whole subplot about what they became in TRQ) to cure it and they did find a way. As the scientists' notes were accidently destroyed, the solution is now within Maisie's body, and Dodgson wants it so he can put new drugs on the market.
Before it's too late, Wu and Theo, with Ramsay's help, start organizing Maisie's evasion. The geneticist mentions a secret trail from WWI in the northeastern mountains: It's their escape route. He then heads for his lab, planning something else.
Tracking Claire
Curious about Biosyn's movements around the Hunting Lodge, Owen, Dougal and Kayla investigate it after the departure of the security troops. They discover evidence of Claire's passage and Owen tries to follow her fiancée's tracks. Kayla and/or Dougal make comments about the slaughter of the hunters.
Bigelow's last chance
Isaac Gibbon gives Jessica Bigelow a new mission: Go to Auronzo and ensure the evacuation of Lewis Dodgson and Biosyn's most important research. The agent ask her boss why and he said that he just received news that Biosyn is compromised. He also precise that it's her last chance after the Malta fiasco. Bigelow leave her safe house in central Italy and goes north.
Shady preparations
Continuing south, Owen, Dougal and Kayla see mercenaries positioning some sort of moveable antenna on a ridge which overlooks the road which connects the Citadel to the valley's northern continue, as finding Claire and entering the Citadel is more urgent.
The gathering of the clouds
One of the control room's employees ask Dodgson to come. He shows him footage from the Biosyn lands's southern gate, near the employee village.
Before the gate, a group of Carabinieri stand, showing to the guards and the security cameras a search warrant: The government finally decided to act against Biosyn. But Dodgson refuses to open the gates for the Carabinieri and orders the mercenaries who arrived during the night to intimidate them. The Carabinieri move away from the gate, with their leader warning against the consequences of such an action. At a respectable distance from the gate, Vuillier, Viscontini and Nyamu watched the scene. Soon, other groups of Carabinieri are deployed along the other entrances to Biosyn's lands. The siege of Auronzo has started.
Hearing about the siege's situation, some employees leave their post and head for the metro (which connects the Citadel to the village. Another loop also connects the Citadel to the various facilities across the Sanctuary, including the seven towers and the dam), in order to go to the village and then hoping to be able to leave Biosyn's lands before things starts to get too ugly but Dodgson's has the metro's station locked and commands them to go back to their posts. Seeing their CEO starting to act like Hitler in his bunker, they are afraid.

End of Act III.
See you tomorrow for Act IV
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2023.06.07 06:35 Ok-Falcon-3075 (FNV) Brave New World not overwriting all vanilla VA's.

I don't know what happened, but before it was all fine, but now? It seemed like something overwrite it. I thought it was YUP + DLCs it tends to do that. My loadorder or (Plugins) is sorted out by LOOT and now it's all in alphabetical order (And I am talking about the plugins list, the one with archives, data, etc) I am still new to MO2 and I have been trying to manually drag the plugins, but that doesn't seem to work as MO2 won't let me. In my Modlist I have put Brave New World to the bottom but the problem still occurs. Any help? This is my load order

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HonestHearts.esm
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LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
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Anchorage.esm
ThePitt.esm
BrokenSteel.esm
PointLookout.esm
Zeta.esm
CaravanPack.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
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TheHUDEditor.esm
Configurable Pip-Boy Light Color.esm
Securitrons On Alert.esm
Animated Player Interactions.esm
RagdollsTTW.esm
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Core.esm
Interior Lighting Overhaul - L38PS.esm
Tammer's NIF-Bashed Armor Mega-Pack.esm
Pip-Boy Screen Always On.esm
Simple Open Freeside.esm
BraveNewWorld.esm
Functional Post Game Ending.esm
Simple Open Strip.esm
HiddenValleyOverhauledMM.esp
HiddenValleyOverhauled.esp
Mojave Wildlife (FO3-Style + No Chanced).esp
factions reloaded raiders v2.esm
Mojave Raiders.esm
Sydney Follower.esm
Functional Post Game Ending - TTW Patch.esm
CookCookTwo.esm
Fort_Open.esm
JokerineStripMall.esm
Sierra Madre.esp
WeAreLegion.esm
GreatKhanGreatOverhaul.esm
Functional Post Game Ending - YUP Patch.esm
MD_Jack.esm
WMIMNV.esp
YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
RaidersFA.esp
NVMIM.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
FOVSlider.esp
JustAssortedMods.esp
B42Inertia.esp
B42Bash.esp
B42Inspect.esp
B42Descriptions.esp
Gloveinspect.esp
MigNammo.esp
NPC Use Aid.esp
Flora Overhaul.esp
Uncut Wasteland.esp
Brightweight Strip Overhaul Open.esp
The True Revival of Luxury - An Ultra-Luxe Overhaul.esp
Vicious Wastes.esp
outsidebets.esp
Mojave Raiders.esp
Simple Open Freeside - Uncut Wasteland Patch.esp
Ending Slideshows Ultimate Edition Overhaul.esp
Primm Reborn.esp
Novac Reborn.esp
Vicious Wastes - Complete.esp
Vicious Wastes - Tale of Two Wastelands.esp
DNWeathers.esp
Goodsprings Reborn.esp
EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
Fallout New Vegas Weapons Rebalanced.esp
BLEED.esp
DLC Enhancements.esp
BraveNewWorld-FPGE.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Extra Collection Patch.esp
BraveNewWorld-YUP.esp
Alternative Start.esp
realisticHeadshotDamage.esp
NV_Securitrons_Lip_Sync.esp
GhanimaSexySilkGowns.esp
Kill Feed.esp
Think Tank Sonic Armaments.esp
UniqueThinkTank.esp
TTW Quick Start.esp
Casino Crowds.esp
AwesomeCripplingEffects2 - Staggering.esp
Bullet Tracers TTW Shotgun.esp
VatSthrowableClutteringFix.esp
Weapon Retexture Project.esp
MarksmansMistress.esp
Mannequin Rce.esp
Realistic Safehouse Upgrades Ex- All.esp
Mojave Arsenal.esp
DMButchOverhaul.esp
TTW Armored Wasteland.esp
Realistic Wildlife.esp
T4-plugin.esp
TribalFixes.esp
BraveNewWorld-Override.esp
Wastelander Pack.esp
Fucking Scary Fiends.esp
Fiends Friendly to Khans.esp
Lucky38Overhaul.esp
NCROverhaul.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Wasteland Patch.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - Outside Bets Patch.esp
LivedinSewer.esp
BraveNewWorld-OutsideBets.esp
PrereleaseRestored.esp
Simple Populated Freeside.esp
SPF - FPGE Patch.esp
FalloutNVCheatTerminal.esp
OWB-ChaoticBigMT.esp
Concept 1 Mr Handy and Mr Gutsy Replacer TTW.esp
Concept 1 Mr Handy and Mr Gutsy Replacer.esp
The Town of Vice - A Gomorrah Overhaul.esp
PowderIsTheNewBlack.esp
Lock Those Doors.esp
NVZeppelin.esp
Brightweight Strip Overhaul Open - FPGE.esp
Brightweight Strip Overhaul Open - Iguazu.esp
ultra luxe expanded fountain.esp
NukaColaOverhaul.esp
Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered v1.2.esp
FNV NPCs Travel.esp
Combined Weapons.esp
Sierra Madre Safehouse.esp
Hotplates and Campfires.esp
TribalWeaponsPackHH.esp
FPGE - Lonesome Road.esp
HeinzNCRWeaponExpansionHH.esp
NVxMcCarranMonorailAnimation.esp
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ImmersiveRecoil.esp
zzAlcoholFixes.esp
WWP 45 Pistol replacer - Vanilla Stats.esp
WWP 45 Pistol replacer.esp
CowgirlRaiderOutfit (DT14).esp
zz_Sunglasses.esp
RaiderOverhaulPreview.esp
CookCookNewLook_BNW.esp
WeAreLegion.esp
zzNPCS.esp
Type 6.esp
Dala_CassCowgirlOutfit_Replacer.esp
Park_Ranger.esp
CookCookNewLook.esp
Neckchains.esp
QwibMessengerBag.esp
BunnyType4.esp
SimpleHairs - Color.esp
SimpleHairs.esp
BURN - Hardcore Fire Effects.esp
360Movement.esp
Diagonal movement.esp
360Movement - Diagonal movement Patch.esp
Ammo Boxes.esp
TrueBladeOfTheEast.esp
T4FieldGloveFix.esp
Pearl Cross Necklace.esp
Daniel Better merchant Trades.esp
HitOwnership.esp
TTW Enemy Damage Rebalance.esp
Acquired_Immunity.esp
Lore Fix - Asian Daniel.esp
TTWRude Awakening Erafox.esp
FAR_FullAutoaimRemoval.esp
PlayerDeathVoiceEnabler.esp
Speech_Checks_Overhauled.esp
NPCAccuracyFix.esp
Lucky38 Furniture - Sierra Madre HoloVendor.esp
More Realistic Aiming.esp
Enhanced Corpse Count.esp
MoreBloodDecals.esp
NPCsSprint.esp
Courier Vests.esp
T4-Goblinas.esp
SaveCass.esp
OldWorldBlues - Keep Big MT Active.esp
MysteriousBroadcastFix(1.2).esp
meow_Diverse Gear for Traveling Merchants.esp
Mannequin Races-TTW.esp
Sit Anywhere.esp
EmptyWeapons.esp
Better Burned Man.esp
Project Reality Footsteps.esp
TacticalADSPlusFX.esp
Groundcover Overhaul.esp
NpcDynamicCombatStyle.esp
Digital_Nightmare.esp
UX Toolkit.esp
M.U.X. Series - Compass 3D.esp
M.U.X. Series - Floating Damage.esp
M.U.X. Series - Floating Healthbar.esp
M.U.X. Series - Immersive HUD.esp
M.U.X. Series - Interface Overhaul.esp
M.U.X. Series - Item Explorer.esp
M.U.X. Series - Prompt Overhaul.esp
M.U.X. Series - Targeting.esp
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Immersive Hit Reactions.esp
KillFlash.esp
Realistic Movement.esp
Realistic AI Movement 1.0.esp
Stimpak Hotkey.esp
Vicious Wastes - Ragdolls.esp
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Bleedout - TTW.esp
JIP Companions Command & Control.esp
Animated Ingestibles.esp
NovacOverhaul.esp
BoomersGoBoom.esp
BrotherhoodReforged.esp
The Classic Centaur Replacer.esp
AWSOME.esp
CM Lighting DLC Support.esp
StickyRagdollCam.esp
YourBuddyIsDead.esp
AbbaSkipTranquility.esp
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newfast.esp
B42Dropmag.esp
127 SMG Rebirth.esp
LaserRifleReplacer.esp
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Classic Robobrian Replacer TTW.esp
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FirstReconBooneArmorResource.esp
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BraveNewWorld-PowderIsTheNewBlack.esp
BraveNewWorld-UncutWastelandNPCs.esp
BraveNewWorld-WeAreLegion.esp
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2023.06.07 06:29 Adorable_Choice_8528 Some photos I took of the gardening section at the 123 Farm Lavender Festival in Cherry Valley, CA.

Some photos I took of the gardening section at the 123 Farm Lavender Festival in Cherry Valley, CA.
Like the title says, I went to the Lavender Festival at 123 farms and wanted to share these photos of their gardening section because the set up and aesthetic was just incredible. The plants were all locally grown and displayed on vintage vanity dressers. They had chandeliers hanging from the trees and of course, twinkly lights everywhere! All of the products in the Flower Shop were all from small businesses therefore they were unique, handmade products that you can only get there.
I highly recommend going if you are ever near Cherry Valley, CA. The festival goes one for a couple of months. I love about 5 minutes away from the farm and actually have a year pass so I frequent this place quite often. 😊🌸🌼🌷
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2023.06.07 05:53 OpinionatedIMO "The Currency of His Realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 05:48 OpinionatedIMO 'The Currency of His Realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 05:47 OpinionatedIMO 'The Currency of His Realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 05:45 OpinionatedIMO 'The Currency of His Realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 05:44 OpinionatedIMO 'The Currency of his Realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 05:43 OpinionatedIMO 'The currency of his realm'

In northwestern Greece near the village of Zotiko, outdoor enthusiasts were fishing the banks of the Acheron. Their line became tangled in debris on the murky river bottom and wouldn’t come free. After tugging a bit more insistently, a large piece of wormwood was dragged to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it became clear the handcrafted wooden plank was very old and part of a sunken watercraft. Since Greece has a long history of civilization dating back over four millennia, the fishermen excitedly hoped the lost vessel held valuable artifacts or treasures.
Imagining the potential wealth a lost shipwreck could bring, they tried to handle the complicated salvage operation by themselves. They quickly realized it was too extensive of a task to complete without professional expertise. Not to mention, the severe legal penalties they stood to receive from the Greek antiquities board for not reporting such a find to the authorities. They are understandably protective of domestic historical sites.
The men sought legal advice on their rights to potential financial gain from the shipwreck they’d stumbled upon. Since it was discovered in a Greek waterway and not in international waters, they came up with a big old ‘goose egg’. Any proceeds or treasure uncovered at the site would go directly to the Greek government. They’d be lucky to even receive a finder’s plaque on the museum wall.
Meanwhile, the authorities were quick to assemble a full team to excavate whatever remained of the ancient ship. Initial soundings by divers revealed a ten meter long ferry-style barge immersed deep in the swampy river mud, with only the uppermost portion of it expose. Curiously, there were numerous large stones and boulders piled on top of the deck. As luck would have it, the poorly-placed rocks protected the ancient ship, masking it from wear and the elements. Radio carbon dating placed the construction to around 2240 BCE.
While rocks surreptitiously served to preserve major portions of the wreck, their reason for being piled on the deck was baffling. Any competent ferryman or barge captain would realize their weight at the top of the boat would sink it immediately, and yet they were obviously placed there to do so. The mystery widened. After suctioning out tons of river silt and removing the giant stones which sank it in the first place, the divers bore underneath the ferry and ran inflatable hoses through the holes.
Once a climate-controlled structure was fabricated to protect it from the sudden shock of being exposed again to the air for the first time in forty centuries, they began the arduous task of lifting the brittle wreckage from the bottom. The excavation foreman was excited to see that not only was the ancient vessel surfacing in one piece, but a massive cache of silver coins spilled out the side of the hull as it was raised from the water. The mysterious captain of the ferry had been rich, apparently.
The coins were sent to the University of Athens where they were identified as ‘Obols’. Literally ‘Ferry coins’; according to the associate professor who researched them. It made sense. The ferryman apparently stored his riches down below and had so many he used them as ship ballast! If so, there was an immense folly in his financial success. Greed apparently led to the unknown shipwreck on the Acheron river bed.
The team watched in breathless fascination as the ancient relic was finally dredged from the murky river. Countless layers of mud and debris were carefully removed from the waterlogged carcass. What lay underneath was eerily hypnotic. Its imposing structure was immediately overshadowed by the horrific stench of a slaughterhouse emanating from the bloated wormwood. The majestic ferry boat retrieved from the Acheron river held a sinister aura for all who beheld it. At the time, none of them could articulate why but the truth came soon enough.
At that moment, an unexpected storm struck the valley. It temporarily broke the bewitching spell over the hapless onlookers ensnared by its unexplained power. Mother Nature’s wrath caused the excavation workers to make a ‘mad dash’ for safety. The wreckage hovered just above the surface of the river on its crane riggings, like a phantom vessel stalking its prey.
——————
Other than minor surface rot around the top of the decking and cabin area, the rugged vessel was in remarkable visible condition. The authorities viewing the photos remotely via a web link could hardly believe their luck. They were thrilled about being able to offer the oldest known sailing ship raised from water. While nowhere as ornate or impressive as the Vasa flagship of Stockholm harbor, it was infinitely older. It also predated the Viking longboat in Oslo by at least three millennia; and was even older than the reconstructed Spartan warship raised from the Aegean Sea.
Condition-wise, it was even more impressive than King Tut’s afterlife sailboat. That ancient watercraft was buried in the tomb with the boy king. It had been shielded from the elements and time. This was the real deal. It was unquestionably more impressive as a tourist attraction. Well, except for the hideous, uncomfortable grip it held over all those who gazed upon it in person; AND the unbearable stench which made your eyes water and your knees buckle. It was mankind’s end personified in the wretched form of a wormwood ferry barge.
Both ‘tiny little drawbacks’ warranted avoiding the ungodly relic at all costs. Unfortunately the curator couldn’t grasp the magnitude of its horror from his monitor, 200 kilometers away. The excavation foreman desperately tried to explain the reality of the situation but it was one of those visceral things you just had to witness for yourself. All but a couple members of the crew quit out of fear or lingering illness. It was like being exposed to a deadly plague and they wanted no part of it. They abandoned the malodorous site in droves. Then, after experiencing the menacing hold it placed on those who came near it, no replacements could be found to take their place, either.
In growing frustration, the museum chairman telephoned the university antiquities department looking for volunteers. There he hoped to locate some history students willing to participate in preparing the discovery for final transport to the museum as an exhibition centerpiece. The head of the department answered the call. The learned professor listened to the curator’s tale of frustration and woe before excitedly interrupting.
“Where exactly did you find this sunken shipwreck? It wasn’t the Acheron river valley, was it? My associate Professor showed me the silver Obols your team extracted from it. He was only partially accurate in what he told you about them. Those silver coins weren’t used for ordinary passage on a regular ferry boat. They held great symbolic importance to our ancestors in their funerary traditions. Obols were meant to be presented to underworld ferryman Charon; which is actually a corruption of the word for ‘carrion’. The dead were buried with them over the eyes or in the mouth. It was the currency of HIS realm, and the price he required to transport the restless souls down the Styx to the land of the dead. Later, that river system was renamed: Acheron.”
—————-
Another fierce tempest rolled into the valley. It pelted the swinging relic with torrents of blood rain and typhoon-level gales. Darkness and evil reigned supreme. Brooding terror lingered like an endless burial procession, and made the previous thunderstorm seem like a gentle afternoon sprinkle, in comparison. The sinister corpse-man of Charon materialized on the deck of his ferry, as he surveyed the transforming apocalypse. His skeletal face bore no hint of emotion. Only his flaming eye-sockets betrayed the eternal rage within his blackened heart.
“Coin!”; he screeched with a rotten tongue to the excavation foreman. Though his Greek was an ancient dialect, the meaning was clear enough. The foreman and other mortified souls nearby cowered at his unholy presence. The void in the ship’s hull began to heal itself but the ferryman’s considerably amassed wages were lost. There was rowing to do, and passengers to transport to Hades.
In a moment of clarity, the foreman finally understood the reason the heavy rocks were placed on the deck of the ferry. It was to stop Charon. As if sinking his barge to the underworld would prevent death itself. It certainly hadn’t. Perhaps that explained the strife and civil discontent prevalent worldwide. The dead were no longer able to be transported to their final destination because of a misguided attempt to end death itself.
The natural order of things was lost. The dead could find no peace or rest. The accumulated wrath of countless departed souls wandering the Earth had leached into the world for the last four thousand years. They were lost and furious. It created a bottleneck of spiritual darkness which needed to be righted to rebalance the system. The lost souls needed their ferryman, and the living needed them to finally have closure. To live is to eventually die. It was the only way.
The hole in the hull of Charon’s ferry was almost gone. The foreman knew what had to be done, for the benefit of mankind. He went over to the master switch on the crane and lowered the festering wreckage back down to the water’s surface. A vortex appeared in the middle of the devastating storm clouds, leading off into the horizon. An endless line of impatient travelers appeared beside the Acheron’s bank to book their long-delayed passage.
They had an essential journey ahead to the promised land, and were weary from the delay. The foreman himself was grateful his own time to travel to Hades hadn’t yet arrived. With the dead finally receiving their justice due, he hoped the Earth would soon see the end of wickedness and war. When he himself was finally called down to the great below, the foreman would present the ferryman with his shiny Obol. It was Charon’s price for services to be rendered.
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2023.06.07 02:10 the_mensche Sat night portal schedule announced

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2023.06.07 00:42 potatotanker45 CH-47 sling-loading T-1

CH-47 sling-loading T-1
Vance Air Force Base, in cooperation with the 1st Aviation Combat Brigade out of Fort Riley, Kansas, safely performed an airlift maneuver on June 5, 2023, to relocate an inoperable T-1A Jayhawk from Woodring municipal airport to Vance Air Force Base. A CH-47 Chinook was utilized to sling-load the T-1 for the approximate six-mile journey across primarily agricultural-use areas, affording both agencies a unique, cross-service training opportunity. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airmen 1st Class Ashley Crist and Christian Soto)
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Playstation Network Card $70 PS4 & PS5 63 North America
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Precious Edition PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
Space Engineers PS4 & PS5 10 North America
Miasma Chronicles PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
War Mongrels PS5 25 North America
Serial Cleaners + Dino Park DLC PS4 & PS5 25 Europe
TT ISLE OF MAN: RIDE ON THE EDGE 3 PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence PS4 & PS5 12 North America & Europe
Space Engineers PS4 & PS5 15 North America
DriftCE PS4 & PS5 20 Europe
Stray Blade PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos PS4 & PS5 20 Europe
Transport Fever 2 Console Edition PS4 & PS5 25 Europe
Townsmen PSVR2 PS5 20 North America
Football Manager 2023 PS4 & PS5 25 North America
Scars Above PS4 & PS5 28 Europe
Chef Life Simulator PS5 25 Europe
Townsmen VR PSV2 PS5 20 North America
Cities VR: Enhanced Edition PSV2 PS5 20 Europe
Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder PSVR2 PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Colossal Cave PS5 20 North America
Overland PS4 & PS5 10 North America
Dungeon Munchies PS5 10 North America
Overland PS4 & PS5 12 North America
Emoji Kart Racer PS5 15 North America
Broken Lines PS4 & PS5 15 North America
GRIME: Colors of Rot PS5 15 North America
Do Not Open PS5 20 Europe
Last Day of Lazarus PS5 13 Europe
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Dakar Desert Rally Deluxe Edition PS4 & PS5 20 North America
LEGO Brawls PS4 & PS5 15 North America
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition Island Explorer PS4 & PS5 15 North America
Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom PS4 & PS5 15 North America
Serial Cleaners PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored PS4 10 North America
Path of Titans + Founders Pack PS5 20 North America
DreadOuts 2 PS4/PS5 15 North America
Two Hundred Ways PS4 7 North America
Train Valley PS4 7 Europe
Arcadegeddon PS4/PS5 15 North America & Europe
Hourglass PS4 10 North America
My Universe - Green Adventure: Farmers Friends PS4 18 North America
Escape Game - FORT BOYARD 2022 PS5 18 North America
Lumberjack's Dynasty PS4 15 North America
Tour de France 2022 PS5 25 Europe
Demon's Tier+ PS5 6 North America
This War of Mine Final Cut PS5 15 North America
Ogre: Console Edition PS4 & PS5 14 North America
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The Fortress Deluxe PS4 & PS5 10 North America
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Metal Tales Overkill PS5 10 North America
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Assetto Corsa Competizione 2023 GT World Challenge DLC Steam 8 Global
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Playstation Network Card $70 PS4 & PS5 63 North America
Playstation Network Card €75 PS4 & PS5 68 Europe
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Precious Edition PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
Space Engineers PS4 & PS5 10 North America
Miasma Chronicles PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
War Mongrels PS5 25 North America
Serial Cleaners + Dino Park DLC PS4 & PS5 25 Europe
TT ISLE OF MAN: RIDE ON THE EDGE 3 PS4 & PS5 30 Europe
Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence PS4 & PS5 12 North America & Europe
DriftCE PS4 & PS5 20 Europe
Space Engineers PS4 & PS5 15 North America
Stray Blade PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos PS4 & PS5 20 Europe
Transport Fever 2 Console Edition PS4 & PS5 25 Europe
Townsmen PSVR2 PS5 20 North America
Football Manager 2023 PS4 & PS5 25 North America
Scars Above PS4 & PS5 28 Europe
Chef Life Simulator PS5 25 Europe
Townsmen VR PSV2 PS5 20 North America
Cities VR: Enhanced Edition PSV2 PS5 20 Europe
Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder PSVR2 PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Colossal Cave PS5 20 North America
Overland PS4 & PS5 10 North America
Dungeon Munchies PS5 10 North America
Overland PS4 & PS5 12 North America
Emoji Kart Racer PS5 15 North America
Broken Lines PS4 & PS5 15 North America
GRIME: Colors of Rot PS5 15 North America
Do Not Open PS5 20 Europe
Last Day of Lazarus PS5 13 Europe
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Dakar Desert Rally Deluxe Edition PS4 & PS5 20 North America
LEGO Brawls PS4 & PS5 15 North America
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition Island Explorer PS4 & PS5 15 North America
Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom PS4 & PS5 15 North America
Serial Cleaners PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored PS4 10 North America
Path of Titans + Founders Pack PS5 20 North America
DreadOuts 2 PS4/PS5 15 North America
Two Hundred Ways PS4 7 North America
Train Valley PS4 7 Europe
Arcadegeddon PS4/PS5 15 North America & Europe
Hourglass PS4 10 North America
My Universe - Green Adventure: Farmers Friends PS4 18 North America
Escape Game - FORT BOYARD 2022 PS5 18 North America
Lumberjack's Dynasty PS4 15 North America
Tour de France 2022 PS5 25 Europe
Demon's Tier+ PS5 6 North America
This War of Mine Final Cut PS5 15 North America
Ogre: Console Edition PS4 & PS5 14 North America
Best Month Ever! PS4 & PS5 10 Europe
The Fortress Deluxe PS4 & PS5 10 North America
Rogue Lords PS4 & PS5 15 Europe
Metal Tales Overkill PS5 10 North America
Winkeltje: The Little Shop PS5 10 North America
Cathedral PS4 & PS5 8 Europe
Liberated: Enhanced Edition PS4 & PS5 15 North America
A Juggler's Tale PS5 10 North America

PC Games
Title Platform Price (USD) Region
The Elder Scrolls Online Deluxe Collection: Necrom Steam 50 Global
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection (Vol.1 + Vol.2) Steam 35 Global
Redfall Steam 30 Global
Thea 2: The Shattering Steam 5 Global
Assetto Corsa Competizione 2023 GT World Challenge DLC Steam 8 Global
House Flipper Farm DLC Steam 8 Global
Total Tank Generals Steam 12 Global
Leap Steam 10 Global
Climber: Sky Is The Limit Steam 5 Global
Sunblaze Steam 8 Global
MADiSON Steam 18 Global
Re:Legend Steam 8 Global
Hard West 2 Steam 15 Global
Civitatem Steam 8 Global
Terraformers Steam 7 Global
Arcadegeddon Epic Store 10 Global
The Tenants Steam 12 Global
My Time at Sandrock Steam 15 Global
Tennis Manager 2022 Steam 15 Global
Captain of Industry Steam 15 Global
Space Engineers Steam 15 Globalc
Bunhouse Steam 10 Global
Nero Steam 10 Global
Pro Cycling Manager 2021 Steam 10 Global
Rogue Lords Steam 13 Global
Solaris Offworld Combat Steam 8 Global
Boombox Steam 8 Global
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2023.06.06 23:32 AlphaMarker48 [H] Remnant: From the Ashes, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT, Roboquest, DmC: Devil May Cry, Homeworld Remastered Collection, and others [W] Grim Dawn, Repetendium, Lego games, and others, game offers

My SteamGameSwap flair page.
I start all my trades with other users with a public comment on their trade thread. I also expect my fellow traders to start their trade offers with me with a public comment. I will ignore trade offers that do not start with a public comment.
I currently HAVE the following games available to trade (My keys are from the North American region and I want to receive keys that can be redeemed in North America. I only trade games as Steam keys, due to Humble Bundle suspending some traders.):
Humble Bundle keys:
GOG keys:
Fanatical keys:
Rockstar Social key:
I currently WANT the following games:
I will also consider game offers not listed here.
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2023.06.06 22:41 jravitz [WTS] 255+ Bottles - Niche, Designer, Hard to Find, Vintage and Discontinued - Hermessence, Le Labo, Guerlain, Creed, Kilian, Memo, Guerlain, YSL, Dior, Chanel, Tom Ford, More! (Bottle)

Post here and/or PM me with any questions. Shipping is $5. International is available, please discuss. Free samples with every purchase! Payment is by Venmo, CashApp or Zelle; PayPal must inquire.
All of my contact info as well as all of my bottles for sale, are available in my spreadsheet which you should bookmark and look at for a more updated inventory
Spreadsheet
HOUSE FRAGRANCE SIZE REMAINING Notes/Condition Price Type
1 Amouage Incense Rori Attar 12mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $439 Niche
2 Amouage Material (Woman) 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; Tester Cap $145 Niche
3 Amouage Orris Wakan Attar 12mL 99% Full Full Presentation $419 Niche
4 Amouage Rose Aqor Attar 12mL 99% Full Full Presentation $419 Niche
5 Amouage Vanilla Barka Attar 12mL 99% Full Full Presentation $419 Niche
6 Andy Tauer Cologne du Maghreb 50mL 99% Full First Release, Rectangular Clear Bottle; With box $95 Niche
7 Bond No. 9 Madison Square Park 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $135 Niche
8 By Kilian Apple Brandy on the Rocks 50mL 99% Full Full Presentation, Box has some wear. $160 Niche
9 By Kilian Bamboo Harmony 100mL 100% Full Tester Refill (No Spray) $209 Niche
10 By Kilian Black Phantom 100mL 100% Full Tester Refill (No Spray) $215 Niche
11 By Kilian Gold Knight 100mL 100% Full Tester Refill (No Spray) $209 Niche
12 By Kilian Good Girl Gone Bad 250mL 99% Full Decanter; No Box $800 Niche
13 By Kilian Intoxicated 100mL 100% Full Tester Refill (No Spray) $209 Niche
14 By Kilian Love Don't Be Shy Extreme 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $195 Niche
15 By Kilian Love Don't Be Shy 50mL 99% Full Full Presentation, Box has some wear. $160 Niche
16 Byredo Infloresence 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Niche
17 Byredo Lil Fleur 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Niche
18 Byredo Mixed Emotions 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Niche
19 Byredo Mumbai Noise 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Niche
20 Byredo Sunday Cologne 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Niche
21 Chanel Exclusif Misia EdT 200mL 95% Full Vintage Discontinued Formula; No Box $350 Niche
22 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Bois D'Argent 7.5mL 100% Full Official Mini $30 Niche
23 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Bois D'Argent 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 0V01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $35 Niche
24 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Cologne Royale 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 1X01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $30 Niche
25 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Diorissima 7.5mL 100% Full Official Mini; No Cannister - Price includes shipping $30 Niche
26 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Eau Noire 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 1R01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $35 Niche
27 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Eden Roc 7.5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Price includes shipping $30 Niche
28 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Granville 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 0V01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $35 Niche
29 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Milly-La-Foret 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 0W01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $30 Niche
30 Christian Dior / Dior Privee Mitzah 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 1W01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $35 Niche
31 Christian Dior / Dior Privee New Look 1947 5mL 100% Full Official Mini - Batch Code 1R01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping $30 Niche
32 Clive Christian I Pour Femme (Woody Floral with Vintage Rose) 50mL 99% Full No Box $180 Niche
33 Clive Christian Rock Rose 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $289 Niche
34 Creed Acqua Florentina - F Batch 75mL 95% Full Box, Can add a Creed Cap as well $175 Niche
35 Creed Aventus - 22A11A 100mL 100% Full Full Presentation $250 Niche
36 Creed Aventus Cologne - 2022 Batch 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $229 Niche
37 Creed Aventus Cologne - F Batch (Plastic Cap) 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed in Box $239 Niche
38 Creed Aventus for Her - F567 75mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $185 Niche
39 Creed Erolfa - 15X01 120mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $349 Niche
40 Creed Erolfa - F Batch 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $160 Niche
41 Creed Green Irish Tweed - 19U11 50mL 99% Full No Cap $139 Niche
42 Creed Green Irish Tweed - 2022 Batch 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $195 Niche
43 Creed Himalaya - 22B01A 100mL 100% Full Tester with Square Style Cap $175 Niche
44 Creed Millesime Imperial - F Batch 100mL 100% Full Comes with Box and SQUARE Older Style Cap. $180 Niche
45 Creed Neroli Sauvage - F241 100mL 100% Full Comes with Box and SQUARE Older Style Cap. $180 Niche
46 Creed Original Santal - F511 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $160 Niche
47 Creed Royal Mayfair - 15R01 120mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $229 Niche
48 Creed Royal Oud - F BATCH 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $250 Niche
49 Creed Royal Water - 20C01N 100mL 100% Full Tester with Square Style Cap $175 Niche
50 Creed Silver Mountain Water - 21V01A 100mL 100% Full Tester with Square Style Cap $180 Niche
51 Creed Spring Flowers 2023 75mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $209 Niche
52 Creed Tabarome - 21Y01A 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $160 Niche
53 Creed Viking - F512 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $205 Niche
54 Creed Virgin Island Water - F473 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $195 Niche
55 Creed White Amber - 17W01 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $149 Niche
56 Creed Wind Flowers - 22C01B 75mL 100% Full Tester with Cap $199 Niche
57 DS & DURGA Amber Kiso 100mL 100% Full New, No Box $125 Niche
58 Frederic Malle Eau de Magnolia 10mL 100% Full Official Travel Spray $55 Niche
59 Gallagher Bergamot Silk 100mL 99% Full $84 Niche
60 Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive Gardenia Antigua 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $155 Niche
61 Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive Pierre de Lune 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $155 Niche
62 Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive Rose Alexandrie 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $155 Niche
63 Guerlain Angelique Noire 30mL 100% Full Mini Bee Bottle Decant $215 Niche
64 Guerlain Angelique Noire 10mL 100% Full Tall Glass Decant $55 Niche
65 Guerlain Cherry Oud 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $279 Niche
66 Guerlain Cruel Gardenia 200mL 95% Full Tester; No Box $319 Niche
67 Guerlain Embruns D'Ylang 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $339 Niche
68 Guerlain Epices Volee 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $339 Niche
69 Guerlain Gourmand Coquin 10mL 100% Full Tall Glass Decant $60 Niche
70 Guerlain Herbes Troublantes 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $339 Niche
71 Guerlain Joyeuse Tuberuese 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $349 Niche
72 Guerlain Musc Outreblanc 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $349 Niche
73 Guerlain Oeillet Pourpre 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $339 Niche
74 Guerlain Oud Nude 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $349 Niche
75 Guerlain Rose Barbare 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $339 Niche
76 Guerlain Rose Barbare 200mL 90% Full DECANTED - NO ORIGINAL BOTTLE $250 Niche
77 Guerlain Santal Pao Rosa 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $349 Niche
78 Guerlain Tonka Imperiale 30mL 100% Full Mini Bee Bottle Decant $199 Niche
79 Guerlain Tonka Imperiale 10mL 100% Full Tall Glass Decant $55 Niche
80 Hermes / Hermessence Agar Ebene 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $150 Niche
81 Hermes / Hermessence Brin de Reglisse 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
82 Hermes / Hermessence Cedre Sambac 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
83 Hermes / Hermessence Epice Marine 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $170 Niche
84 Hermes / Hermessence Iris Ukiyoe 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $150 Niche
85 Hermes / Hermessence Muguet Porcelaine 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
86 Hermes / Hermessence Myrrhe Eglantine 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $185 Niche
87 Hermes / Hermessence Osmanthe Yunnan 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $150 Niche
88 Hermes / Hermessence Paprika Brasil 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $170 Niche
89 Hermes / Hermessence Santal Massoia 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $170 Niche
90 Hermes / Hermessence Vanille Galante 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $150 Niche
91 Hermes / Hermessence Vetiver Tonka 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box, No Cap $150 Niche
92 Hermes / Hermessence Vetiver Tonka 200mL 100% Full Full Presentation, Brand New. $399 Niche
93 Hermes / Hermessence Violette Volynka 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $185 Niche
94 Hiram Green Vetiver 50mL 95% Full Full Presentation $130 Niche
95 House of Sillage Hufflepuff 75mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $325 Niche
96 House of Sillage Nouez Moi 75mL 99% Full Tester $120 Niche
97 I Profumi di Firenze Caterina De Medici 50mL 99% Full No Box $35 Niche
98 Initio Side Effect 10mL 100% Full Official Travel Atomizer $75 Niche
99 Knize Knize Ten 125mL 99% Full No Box $110 Niche
100 Le Labo Another 13 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $189 Niche
101 Le Labo Baie 19 100mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $225 Niche
102 Le Labo Cedrat 37 – Berlin City Exclusive 100mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $275 Niche
103 Le Labo Cedrat 37 – Berlin City Exclusive 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $225 Niche
104 Le Labo Gaiac 10 – Tokyo City Exclusive 100mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $400 Niche
105 Le Labo Mousse de Chene 30 - Amsterdam City Exclusive 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $300 Niche
106 Le Labo Musc 25 – Los Angeles City Exclusive 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $250 Niche
107 Le Labo Rose 31 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $175 Niche
108 Le Labo Tabac 28 – Miami City Exclusive 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $250 Niche
109 Le Labo The Noir 29 50mL 99% Full Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box $175 Niche
110 Maison Crivelli Bois Datchai 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $169 Niche
111 Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $159 Niche
112 Maison Francis Kurkdjian 724 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $365 Niche
113 Maison Francis Kurkdjian 724 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
114 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Amyris Femme 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $139 Niche
115 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Amyris Femme Extrait 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
116 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Amyris Femme Extrait Special Edition Bottle 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $245 Niche
117 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Celestia 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $115 Niche
118 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Celestia Cologne Forte 200mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $279 Niche
119 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Celestia Cologne Forte 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $149 Niche
120 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Celestia Forte 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $159 Niche
121 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Universalis Cologne Forte 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $119 Niche
122 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Universalis EdT 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $219 Niche
123 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Vitae 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $219 Niche
124 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Vitae Cologne Forte 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $119 Niche
125 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Vitae Forte EdP 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $159 Niche
126 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 EdP 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $205 Niche
127 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 EdP 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $409 Niche
128 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Gentle Fluidity Gold 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
129 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $170 Niche
130 Maison Francis Kurkdjian L'eau a La Rose 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $129 Niche
131 Maison Francis Kurkdjian L'eau a la Rose 35mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $90 Niche
132 Maison Francis Kurkdjian L'homme A la Rose 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $159 Niche
133 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud EdP 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $170 Niche
134 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud Extrait 10mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $35 Niche
135 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud Satin Mood EdP 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $190 Niche
136 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Petit Matin 70mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $145 Niche
137 Maison Francis Kurkdjian Petit Matin 200mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $350 Niche
138 Maison Lancome Orange Bigarades 100mL 100% Full Full presentation with Box $229 Niche
139 Mark Birley Charles Street 75mL 97% Full Travel Version $90 Niche
140 Masque Milano Tango 35mL 99% Full $90 Niche
141 Memo Paris French Leather 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Cap $135 Niche
142 Memo Paris Inle 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Cap $135 Niche
143 Memo Paris Italian Leather 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box or Cap $135 Niche
144 Memo Paris Lailabella 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $135 Niche
145 Memo Paris Marfa 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $135 Niche
146 Memo Paris Moon Fever 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $135 Niche
147 Memo Paris Oriental Leather 75mL 100% Full Tester; No Box; No Cap $135 Niche
148 Mind Games Caissa 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $250 Niche
149 Mind Games Gardez (Black Queen) 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $225 Niche
150 Mind Games J'Adoube 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $299 Niche
151 Mind Games Scholar's Mate 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $225 Niche
152 Mizensir Cologne de Figuer 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $175 Niche
153 Mizensir Cologne de Matte 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $175 Niche
154 Mizensir Ideal Oud 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
155 Mizensir Mythique Vetiver 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $175 Niche
156 Mizensir Sweet Prailine 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
157 Mizensir Bois de Mysore 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
158 Mona di Orio Cuir 75mL 99% Full No Box $120 Niche
159 Oliver and Co. M.O.U.S.S.E. 50mL 99% Full Limited Edition 87/133 $110 Niche
160 Parfums de Nicolai Patchouli Intense 100mL 98% Full Full Presentation $119 Niche
161 Perris Monte Carlo Tuberuese Absolue 100mL 99% Full No Box $99 Niche
162 Pomare's Stolen Perfume Angel's Share 9mL 70% Full No Box $40 Niche
163 Roja Dove Apex Discovery Atomizer 7.5mL 99% Full $50 Niche
164 Roja Dove Creation-E Essence de Parfum 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
165 Roja Dove Scandal Essence de Parfum 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $165 Niche
166 Roman Monegal L'eau de Rose 50mL 97% Full $70 Niche
167 Santa Maria Novella Sandalo 100mL 95% Full No Box $80 Niche
168 The Harmonist Desired Earth Eau de Parfum 50mL 100% Full Brand new, Sealed $219 Niche
169 The Harmonist Magnetic Wood Parfum 50mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $229 Niche
170 Tom Ford Beau de Jour 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $1,000 Niche
171 Tom Ford Ebene Fume 250mL 99% Full Decanter; No Box $750 Niche
172 Tom Ford Ebene Fume 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $170 Niche
173 Tom Ford Fougere Platine 250mL 90% Full Decanter; No Box $625 Niche
174 Tom Ford Fougere Platine 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $1,000 Niche
175 Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous 250mL 99% Full Decanter; No Box $750 Niche
176 Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $180 Niche
177 Tom Ford Grey Vetiver Parfum 100mL 100% Full Sealed, New in Box $170 Niche
178 Tom Ford Oud Fleur 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $1,000 Niche
179 Tom Ford Oud Wood 250mL 99% Full Decanter; No Box $750 Niche
180 Tom Ford Rose de Chine 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $175 Niche
181 Tom Ford Rose Prick 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $269 Niche
182 Tom Ford Soleil Blanc EdP 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $140 Niche
183 Tom Ford Soleil Brulant 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $145 Niche
184 Tom Ford Soleil Neige 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $850 Niche
185 Tom Ford Tobacco Oud 50mL 95% Full No Box $180 Niche
186 Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille 50mL 90% Full Full Presentation with Box $155 Niche
187 Tom Ford Tuscan Leather 50mL 100% Full Magnetic Cap Decant $119 Niche
188 Tom Ford Vert des Bois 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $900 Niche
189 Tom Ford White Suede 1000mL 100% Full Sealed Dramming Bottle $850 Niche
190 TVGA Milestones Extrait 9mL 90% Full No Box $40 Niche
191 Washington Tremlett Black Tie 100mL 95% Full $125 Niche
192 Yves Saint Laurent Tuxedo 250mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $375 Niche
193 Acqua di Parma Arancia Di Capri 150mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $65 Designer
194 Acqua di Parma Colonia EdC 100mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $75 Designer
195 Acqua di Parma Colonia Intensa 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $65 Designer
196 Aqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $115 Designer
197 Caron Pour un Homme de Caron Le Matin 125mL 100% Full Opened to test, sprayed once $69 Designer
198 Caron Pour un Homme de Caron Le Soir 125mL 100% Full Opened to test, sprayed once $69 Designer
199 Caron Pour Un Homme Impact Parfum 75mL 97% Full No Box $175 Designer
200 Chanel Allure Homme Sport - Aftershave Balm 100mL 99% Full No Box $65 Designer
201 Chanel Allure Pour Femme EdT 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $65 Designer
202 Chanel Antaeus 100mL 85% Full Silver Sprayer $125 Designer
203 Chanel Bleu de Chanel - Aftershave Balm 100mL 99% Full No Box, Minor Cosmetic Damage $55 Designer
204 Chanel Bleu de Chanel - Aftershave Lotion 100mL 99% Full No Box, Minor Cosmetic Damage $55 Designer
205 Chanel Bleu de Chanel Parfum 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $130 Designer
206 Chanel Chance Eau Tendre EdP 50mL 90% Full Tester; No Box $90 Designer
207 Chanel Chance Eau Tendre EdT 150mL 99% Full Tester; No Box $120 Designer
208 Chanel Coco EdP 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $85 Designer
209 Chanel Coco Mademoiselle - Moisturizing Body Lotion 200mL 99% Full No Box $55 Designer
210 Chanel Coco Mademoiselle EdP 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $90 Designer
211 Chanel Coco Mademoiselle EdT 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $65 Designer
212 Chanel Coco Mademoiselle L'eau Privee 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $90 Designer
213 Chanel Cristalle Eau Vert EdT Concentree 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $135 Designer
214 Chanel Cristalle EdP 50mL 95% Full Tester; No Box $135 Designer
215 Chanel No. 19 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $115 Designer
216 Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $85 Designer
217 Chanel No. 5 EdP 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $85 Designer
218 Chanel Platinum Egoiste 75mL 99% Full SPLASH, NOT SPRAY Older Formulation $125 Designer
219 Christian Dior Dior Homme Sport - 2017 Version 125mL 99% Full Tester; No Box Batch Code is 6Y02 $89 Designer
220 Christian Dior J'adore in Joy EdT 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap, No Box $60 Designer
221 Floris 007 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap, No Box $100 Designer
222 Floris A Rose For... 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $65 Designer
223 Floris Cefiro 100mL 100% Full Tester with Cap, No Box $59 Designer
224 Floris Lily of the Valley 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Box. $65 Designer
225 Gucci Gucci Guilty Absolute 90mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $70 Designer
226 Guerlain Habit Rouge L'instinct 100mL 99% Full Sprayed once $84 Designer
227 Guerlain L'instant de Guerlain Pour Homme EXTREME 10mL 100% Full VINTAGE BLACK RIM - DECANT $50 Designer
228 Hermes Twilly 80mL 100% Full Tester; No Box $65 Designer
229 Jo Malone Amber & Lavender 30mL 90% Full No Box $52 Designer
230 Jo Malone English Oak & Redcurrant 30mL 80% Full No Box $49 Designer
231 Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia 100mL 100% Full Brand New with Gift Box and Gift Set (Body Wash, Body Lotion) $180 Designer
232 Jo Malone Rose & White Musk Absolu 100mL 100% Full No Box $180 Designer
233 Jo Malone Velvet Rose and Oud Cologne Intense 50mL 99% Full Tester; No Box $90 Designer
234 Thierry Mugler A*MEN 100mL 99% Full Rubber Flask; No Box $75 Designer
235 Thierry Mugler A*MEN Ultra Zest 100mL 85-90% Full Rubber Flask; No Box $250 Designer
236 Tom Ford Costa Azzura Parfum 50mL 100% Full Brand New, Sealed $130 Designer
237 Amouage Cristal and Gold Ladies 50mL 95% Full Vintage, Incredibly hard to find. Full presentation in nice condition $399 Vintage
238 Cartier Santos EdT 100mL 100% Full Spray; Refill. $299 Vintage
239 Chanel Egoiste Cologne Concentree 100mL 97% Full Bottle Only $399 Vintage
240 Chanel Gardenia EdT 100mL 100% Full Vintage; Sealed $390 Vintage
241 Crabtree & Evelyn Crabtree & Evelyn Extract of West Indian and Sicilian Limes 125mL 100% Full Full presentation with Box $209 Vintage
242 Dunhill Cologne 125mL 99% Full Vintage; Splash $100 Vintage
243 Escada Pour Homme Aftershave 75mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $165 Vintage
244 Escada Pour Homme Aftershave 125mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $240 Vintage
245 Floris Bay Rum 3.5 Oz 97% Full Vintage; Splash. "Use as a cologne, after shave lotion, or hair lotion." $84 Vintage
246 Floris Special 127 100mL 98% Full Vintage; Dark Blue Box., 2 Royal Warrants, Vintage Version $70 Vintage
247 Fragonard Zizanie 240mL 80% Full Shaker bottle (Splash, not spray) no box. At least 80% Full. $240 Vintage
248 Geo F Trumper Ajaccio Violets 100mL 99% Full $40 Vintage
249 Gucci Envy Aftershave 50mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $140 Vintage
250 Gucci Envy Aftershave 100mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $215 Vintage
251 Gucci Rush for Men 50mL 100% Full Full Presentation; These do not come fully filled $190 Vintage
252 Gucci Rush for Men Aftershave 100mL 100% Full BNIB Sealed $140 Vintage
253 Guerlain Heritage EdT 200mL 100% Full New; Vintage; Splash. 1991 Bottle. $225 Vintage
254 Guerlain Samrasa EdP 50mL 100% Full No Box $109 Vintage
255 Guerlain Samsara EdT 1992-1993 Formulation 100mL 100% Full Tester; No Cap; No Box $109 Vintage
256 Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles 9 Oz 70% Full Vintage; Splash; No Box Open to offers on this enormous bottle. $135 Vintage
257 Lacoste Eau de Sport Vivifiante 100mL 99% Full No Box $110 Vintage
258 Lacoste Land 100mL 99% Full $130 Vintage
259 Nino Cerruti Fair Play Pour Homme 100mL 99% Full Full presentation with Box $275 Vintage
260 Paco Rabanne Eau de Metal 20mL 100% Full Vintage; Mini $15 Vintage
261 Ralph Lauren Silver Romance for Men 100mL 80% Full No Box, No Cap $145 Vintage
262 Revillon Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Super Concentrate 60mL 99% Full Atomizer $190 Vintage
263 Revillon Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Super Concentrate 90mL 99% Full Atomizer $290 Vintage​
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2023.06.06 22:08 firewire_69 [WTS] ATH, MFK, Creed, Guerlain, Serge Lutens, Louis Vuitton (Bottle)(decant)

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/OtDOlqU
ATH Supernova 10ml Official, sprayed once — $43 GONE
MFK Aqua Celestia Forte Tester 70ml, missing a couple of sprays — $120 SOLD
Creed Erolfa 75ml missing 4 sprays, full presentation, label has some damage please review photos (15Q01) - $200
Guerlain
Serge Lutens Bapteme du Feu 100ml BNIB (7178ch) - $65
LV official 2ml samples, 13 total [https://imgur.com/a/gUqlNpU](pics) — $79 GONE
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2023.06.06 21:41 GB_9 October 4 Day Itinerary Advice/Suggestions

Good day everyone,
I'm planning a somewhat last minute 4 day/3 night weekday visit in early/mid October with some buddies and wanted some advice after doing a bit of research. This will be our first time visiting the park and although October is not exactly ideal season to visit, it's the only time that works best with our schedule and most roads/hikes seem to still be accessible around this time. We understand that most of the falls will no longer be active, and any chance at securing a half dome permit this late (or if the poles are even up) is basically out of consideration. Because of this we've decided to skip the Mist trail/half dome and UppeLower Yosemite falls. Hopefully we are able to secure a campsite within the valley but if not we plan on staying in Wawona, Crane Flat/Bridalveil Creek (depending on construction completion). Our rough draft itinerary looks like:
 
Day 1 (Mon): Arrive as early as possible (est. 9-10am) and take this day to really just explore the valley/village and the touristy aspects of the area. Maybe do Cook's Meadow loop, but our drive will be long so no strenuous hikes are planned day 1. Artist Point/Inspiration Point planned for sunset.
Day 2 (Tue): 4 Mile trail from the valley to Glacier Point. Some in the friends group will probably head back down the same route, I would like to continue down through the Panorama trail and loop back to the valley through the JMT and shuttle back to the starting point. I'm in decent shape and can routinely do 8-10 miles with 1500ft in elevation gain without much difficulty, but I'm still curious if anyone thinks I'll be punching above my weight trying this.
EDIT: Just became aware that the JMT is closed from the Panorama trail junction to Clark point, making the "loop" impossible as of right now. 4 Mile trail to Glacier Point and back will be the tentative plan unless that section of the trail opens prior to our arrival.
Day 3 (Wed): Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake. Planning on an early start, some friends might not want to summit so may head back after initial summit and hang out by the lake. Again, input appreciated on just how feasible this is at 8,000ft for someone who doesn't have a massive amount of experience with high altitude hiking.
Day 4 (Thu): We'll be heading back home in the afternoon through the south exit of the park, so planning on doing the Taft Point/Sentinel Dome loop from Glacier Point first thing in the morning.
Which brings me to my questions:
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