Welcome one and all to the Continents of Icrasia! (Its a homebrew world)
Hello you can refer to me as Tdroid or Troid whichever you prefer, more about myself: I love the role-playing aspect in dnd and I have been playing the game for more than 2 years now. While I play as a player a lot more I have a couple of campaigns and one shots under my belt.
Alright now to the description of the Campaign, You all are whether you wanted to or not have come to the Continents of Icrasia, a set of 3 continents divided by Empires, Natives, and Great Unknowns. Creatures of vast shapes and sizes so foreign from the lands you all come from before with many new beasts to tame or slay! As to who you all are(the group) you are nobles of the Imperial Tyridian Concordant in the midst of a succession tournament with the successors being 1 person from each of the nine Houses that the empire was founded under, while sadly you cant be one of them you can aid 1 and receive riches beyond the need of greed. In addition there are others here on the continents as well (Other group that's in the world) who might seek to harm your path (Anything done during either group will effect the other). And whatever story you create is all on your own. :D
We will be playing on Roll20 though for voice we will be using Discord. I am looking for 4-5 players, of any age range should be accepted, and any disrespect outside the roleplay that is harmful to the overall group's mood will be met with a warning, then a kick for both arguing players. Pls Dm my Reddit account for your application with the following
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Thank you, have a nice day!

Name: Ad-Ad Fruit
Ability: The Ad-Ad Fruit (Kōkoku Kōkoku no Mi) is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to create and manipulate advertisements around them. Making the user a Salesman Human.
Appearance: The Ad-Ad Fruit is a white head-sized fruit that has a long pointed nose-like protrusion that sticks out from the large amount of foliage from under the fruit that covers the whole fruit. Sticking out from the top of the foliage is a black stem that comes out of the top of the fruit, the stem form into a ‘G’ shape and then curls flatly similar to dots on both ends of the stem, strangely enough the stem’s coloration switches from black to bright red once.
In-Depth Description: Upon consumption the user is granted the ability to create and manipulate advertisements of any type and through any medium. Through coming into physical contact with an advert, the user is able to completely change the appearance of that advertisement and make it one of their [Ads]. Once that happens, the user is capable of remotely seeing through any of their [Ads] and allowing the user to see the current [wants and needs] of whoever is looking at the advertisement as well as communicate through them; and in-real time the user is able remotely change it’s contents to further appeal to the customer who might take the offer. If the customer were to take the offer on the advertisement through either verbal confirmation, signed documentation, or willingly shaking the user’s hand to officialize the [[DEAL]]. Depending on the few situations after a [[DEAL]] is made will the [true power] of the Ad-Ad Fruit take effect.
After striking a [[DEAL]] with a customer, the user must be able to deliver their end of the [[DEAL]] before being capable of receiving the customer’s payment. If the user is unable to fulfil their end of the bargain, then the [[DEAL]] will be immediately voided and any payment made by the customer will be returned in full back to them. But if the user possesses the [“intended product”], then the deal will proceed as normal with the customer receiving the product while the user receives the agreed form of [payment] while in person or through the [Ad] acting as a gateway for both [product] and [payment]. As to more favour the user, they are able to [[SCAM]] the customer so long as they don’t ask for the user to inspect the [product], sign the [“required”] documentation without reading it, or unconditionally accept the [[DEAL]]. While the user has to meet their end of the [[DEAL]], the quality and condition of the [“intended product”] does not need to meet such requirements as long as it looks like the [“intended product”] or it fulfils the purpose of [“intended product”]. The rules of both of these conditions are incredibly loose in interpretation, allowing the user to exchange a bad copy/bootleg of the [“intended product”] so long as it meets either requirements.
However, in the event that the customer does not possess the required payment either during the immediate [[DEALmaking]] or they fail to meet the steps of alternative paying methods, the user is then able to invoke special string-like green wires that rain down upon the [InDEBT Consumer] and attach themselves into their body from behind them. These [[Silly Strings]] are completely invisible to those who either aren’t indebted to the user or to a customer who hasn’t noticed anything, but if the user were to tell someone how this particular facet of the fruit works, then they will have the capacity to see these green wires. Once someone becomes a [InDEBT Consumer] the user is capable of slowly but surely manipulating them into doing what they want, with the more [[Silly Strings]] embedded into their body, the more overall control and sway the user has over them. So long as one green wire remains, the user will always know where the [InDEBT Consumer] is located. Just having a few green wires attached to you will make one susceptible to the user’s [“sweet words”] and [[Sales Pitches]], as well as being more blind to such actions of the user, to then end up with more [[Silly Strings]] attached onto their body. With a certain amount of green wires, the user is then capable of influencing a [InDEBT Consumer]’s actions through sleight hand movements and or verbal commands, after a few green wires after that stage, they will begin to become more reliant and gullible to such [“endearing encouragement”] from the user.
With enough [[Silly Strings]] attached onto a [InDEBT Consumer], their minds will become fully oblivious to any [“bad publicity”] of the user and do just about any of the user’s whims and bidding. However if a [InDEBT Consumer] were to become too indebted to the user and possess far to many [[Silly Strings]], then their mind will automatically start to deteriorate to the point of insanity, and become potentially become too unstable for the user to verbally manipulate them. When at such a stage, a [InDEBT Consumer] will fully acknowledge the existence of the [[Silly Strings]]. But just like all other [InDEBT Consumers], they themselves are unable to cut their own [[Silly Strings]], requiring the help of [“non-consumers”] to cut these green wires.
Back onto the [Ads] part of the devil fruit, the overall range the user has depends on the amount of [Ads] of any kind relative to each other. With the user’s pseudo-omniscience ranging far and wide as long as an [Ad] is in the relative range of another [Ad]. If a chain of [Ads] are all in relative range of each other and the user is at least in the radius range of one of the [Ads] making up the chain. Then the user will have complete and perfect vision through all of them. If the user is not in range of a mass of [Ads] then the viewing quality from them will begin to lessen. But if there are enough [Ads] in relative range from each other, then that will generally improve the user’s pseudo-omniscience. However the user themselves also possesses an effective range themselves, with the more in range the user and [Ad] are to each other the stronger the connection. The user’s range is able to be widened and increased with the more [[DEALS]] they make, which in turn slowly increases the range of the [Ads]. An individual [Ad] can have their own connectivity increased with the more customers they draw in and the amount of [[DEALS]] the user makes through that specific [Ad].
Now onto the last facet of the devil fruit, the user is capable of manifesting [Ads] from technological mediums such as [Pop-ups], [3D Models], [PNG/JPGs], and [Videos] into the real-world. Taking the same form as viewed on a Computer or Phone and appearing out of them into the real-world, where the user can telepathically move them around, enlarge them, shrink them, and stretch them. Whilst manifested they are very incredibly durable and can withstand any elemental attack as if it were all the same, however by tapping the close button the top right of these digital [Ads] will make them disappear. They function just like regular [Ads] of the physical world, possessing a relative range and can allow the user to see through them.
Weaknesses: The Ad-Ad Fruit is a devil fruit that is not inherently combat-based, requiring a lot of preparation before the devil fruit can be used in such a sense. As on its own it does leave the user with many options besides the primary facets of the devil fruit’s powers. While people who are obvious to the green wires or people who have green wires attached to them but don’t notice the effect they cause are completely unable to see these green wires attached to them and seemingly originate from the sky above. Non-affected people who have been informed by the user themselves of the green wires or have figured out themselves are capable of snipping the green wires. While the user can turn normal advertisable media into their own, allowing for further use of their devil fruit abilities, despite becoming more sturdy in terms of not flying in the wind if a gust came, they will all still possess the same durability and weaknesses as their normal counterparts.
The main demographic for the user are usually run of the mill people, people who aren’t observant enough to pick up the pieces of very slight things that happen to them. Such as the feeling of something latching onto them, their body doing something on their own, or feeling a certain way toward something all of a sudden. All manifested technology ads are the ads usable form combat, however they are at the same time the easiest to deal with. Just by hitting the top right “X” button to close the floating window. Most importantly, the user of the fruit must be somewhat capable of being a sales(wo)man or be willing to learn as a minimum to use this fruit at all or just be able to lie very well to people without feeling guilty.
Combative Info: The Ad-Ad Fruit in its entirety is not inherently for combative use, however it is capable of such use. Through coming into contact with any technological medium that adverts can be placed in, the user can make such ads manifest in the real-world. The windows from computer-like mediums are very durable, easily withstanding multiple cannon fire without such much as a crack. And are also capable of cutting someone by spinning it to further increase the windows cutting power. 3D polygon models act similar to props then anything that the user can telekinetically throw, if it so happened to be an animated model, then once manifested it will repeat its actions in a loop. The user is capable of raising the volume and brightness of video pop-ups to both blind and deafen opponents.
While the user ensnares more people in debt as well as deepening their staggering debt to the user for not doing their end of the deal. The user can forcibly take control of the user’s green wires and puppeteer them into fighting, operating in a similar fashion to Doflamingo’s Parasite technique. And the user is able to detach green wires from nearby indebted customers and manipulate to wrap around or attack the unaffected opponent while at the same time not attaching any debt onto them. However this not only allows the unaffected person to see the green wires, but also be able to cut them while they are in physical contact, even if they manage to snap a green wire, then that wire will not be reattached to their original indebted recipient. But can still be used by the user to attack opponents, but they can still be re-used for their intended purpose on another or an upcoming [InDEBT Consumer].
Non-Combative Info: Despite the absurdly greedy uses of the Ad-Ad Fruit, it is still an incredibly useful devil fruit for normal commercial uses or really any other form of normal trading uses. The user can easily create high-quality advertisements of any kind for any purpose on any advertisable medium. Being able to create a fully fledged security system by viewing through any and all [ads].
Techniques:
[Advertise]: The user physically touches a medium used for advertisement and transforms it into whatever form of marketable advertisement the user can imagine. When used on things such as paper or signs, the user erases whatever was written/printed on them before printing whatever they could think of. When used on a technological device, the user is simply able to instantly create pop-up ads and video advertisements. So long as it was possible on the chosen medium.

• [Limited Time Promotion]: The user creates a special ad under the guise of a promotional campaign, and whatever they are selling will be only available for a limited time. Increasing incentive for unassuming targets to quickly make a deal as the user reduces the time limit to add pressure on them.
• [Auction Sweepstake]: The user creates advertisements through any televised or radio broadcasting linked to a special advertisement that visually presents an auction sweepstake of multiple [“intended product”] that hypes them up and pretends to increase the bidding from a low price to make it look very valuable.
• [Wonder Trading]: The user creates numerous special ads that work off the basis of giving away a random item in response to a target donating a random item through this special advert. The value of the item given and received are completely, but the user can alter such values to weigh to their favour or someone else's. In addition to being able to see one’s wants and needs, the user can give out specific items to targets so that they are incentivized to donate more for similar items they desire.

[[Silly Strings]]: The user summons special string-like green wires from the sky onto the backs of a [InDEBT Consumer]. The more wires attached onto the back of a victim, the more susceptible they are to any of the user’s manipulations. The wires themselves become more durable and stronger the further the number of th deals the user makes, but will decrease the more deals get broken. While general training with them will make the base strength of the wires more stronger.

• [Sleight of Hand]: The user calls for a specific line of [[Silly Strings]] that are attached to a [InDEBT Consumer]. It will descend from the sky and wrap around the user’s finger, from there the user is able to completely control whatever part of the victim the wire is attached to. From making ever so slight hand gestures to weave the [InDEBT Consumer] to do whatever the user wants so long as they don’t make it apparent or obvious that they're being orchestrated.
• [Debt Termination]: The user manipulates all of the [[Silly Strings]] attached to a [InDEBT Consumer] and wrapped them in a dangerous sharp hold; particularly around the neck and in turn strangling them to death. Although when the user does this, the [[Silly Strings]] become visible to anyone around the victim who isn’t in debt, allowing them to snip the wires during this time.
• [Account Freeze]: The user summons all the [[Silly Strings]] attached to a [InDEBT Consumer] and simply halt the movement of the victim, for further entrapment the user wills the strings to wrap around the joints of the [InDEBT Consumer]. However once more doing such an action will cause non-[InDEBT Consumers] to witness the existence of the [[Silly Strings]].
• [Raining Green]: The user releases all the [[Silly Strings]] from a [InDEBT Consumer’s] body, causing them to each detach from that victim. The user then manipulates all of them to rain down upon a target and pierce them straight through. Alternatively the user can wrap themselves in a few of the [[Silly Strings]] to lift themselves off the ground and into the air. Similar to that of the [String-String Fruit].

[Manifested Windows]: The user focuses their [Ad-Ad Fruit] power on an advertisement off a technological screen. This causes the advertisement shown on the screen to begin to distort before literally coming out of the screen and assuming itself a 3d form. These manifested windows can be used in various ways from offence to defence. These 3d advertisements can be interacted with like advertisements the user creates. But the user is able to revert any of these manifests into 2d shapes and place them around like normal handout adverts, minimising them so that they maximise when someone is near, or make them float toward the nearest person and harass them.

• [3D Knockout]: The user creates manifested windows advertisements, and transforms them into 2d windows before having them slide underneath certain parts of a target’s body. And after they’ve slid under, the 2d windows instantly become 3d once more and collide into the target with excessive force.
• [[POP-UP Tabs]]: The user creates manifested windows advertisements, and transforms them into 2d windows before minimising them. The 2d manifested windows then sneak up on a target, and right when they least expect it, the windows maximise themselves and pop-up right in-front of the target.
• [Spam Mail]: The user or their [InDEBT Consumer] sets up many hidden pop-ups, minimised and scattered across every corner, door, window, device, etc and have them activated to the closest sentient being approaches its proximity. The Spam Mail pop-up will surprise and continuously annoy them by playing their own sound clips over and over again. And whenever they are closed, they will slightly shift out of the way.
• [Advertisement Block]: The user either during or out of combat grabs a manifested window and expands the window out to defend against attacks. But when expanded, the user can also turn the entire window 3-D, gaining a sudden immense amount of weight added to it. And crushing whoever the user drops it on, or they can use it as a shield or blockade.
• [Loud Notification]: The user creates a special variation of pop-up tab, that plays a loud and obnoxious-type of ringing noise whenever they are open. They can be programmed to follow targets and continuously play the same sound over again similar to spam mail.
• [Advertised Product]: The user reaches over and sticks their hand into an advertisement that’s showcasing an item and grabs it. Then the user pulls the product out of advertisement and into the real world. The user can use the product similar to the actual version, however it will be only half as effective. All that is left of the product from the advertisement is a white space shaped exactly like the item.

Awakening:
Once the user of the Ad-Ad Fruit awakens, catching up their body and mind to the levels of their own ability. The standard abilities given when first consumed are significantly increased beyond what they were before, the proverbial range of advertisements are increased, the strength and durability of [[Silly Strings]] improved, the intricacies of the [InDEBT Consumer]’s body that can be manipulated are heightened, and much more. The former weakness of the devil fruit where the user needed a pre-established advertisement or materials to use their devil fruit has been lifted to an extent*****. Now all the user needs to do to create an advertisement is to simply make a sales pitch of any kind, with the more grandeur the pitch, the stronger the advertisement. The user can even now conjure pop-up tabs and digital lettering in thin air to help begin a sales pitch, or enhance their own speechcraft. They can even be used in combat if the user desires, though they are not as potent as physical advertisements or manifested tabs.
However that is only half of the entire awakening, the other half focuses on the conceptual power of the devil fruit and what the user can exactly turn into an “Advertisement”. While in the pre-awakening state, the user is only able to bargain for and sell physical objects and beings. Now the user is able to wrap their [[Silly Strings]] on more intangible [products] such as a person’s soul, in turn granting complete control over an individual, or perhaps something that has yet to exist like a person’s first born. Or even something tied to their very being like their devil fruit ability, though [WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT FOR THE USER OF AD-AD FRUIT TO ABSORB INTO THE POWER OF ANOTHER DEVIL FRUIT USER THAT HAD [“willingly”] SOLD THEIR DEVIL FRUIT POWER TO THEM WILL SUFFER FROM SPONTANEOUS EXPLOSION OF THEIR ENTIRE BODY. THERE ARE NO REFUNDS\.]*
Lastly while the user is able to wrap their [[Silly Strings]] on more intangible [products], the user is now capable of extending what they can exactly turn into advertisement. Following more in line with a standard paramecia awakening, but in a thematic way, any land the user comes into [“ownership”] of and becomes their [“property”]. The wielder of the Ad-Ad Fruit is able to freely change and manipulate everything within and connected to the user’s square feet of land into advertisements. While the user is unable to manipulate the environment in the same way as other paramecia users due to the less malleable nature of advertisements. The esoteric nature of advertisements and how exactly the user can portray their power because of how broad an advertisement can be makes up for the lack of traditional control over their transformed land. But there is a singular weakness to this facet of the Ad-Ad Fruit, which is that if the deed or proof of documentation (and if there isn't any, one is automatically created every time the user assumes control of a lone land.) is destroyed or damaged, then the affected environment will either be completely reverted back or parts of it will instead.
Awakened Techniques:
[Deal with the Devil]: The user creates a [specil] one time only [DEAL], however compared to the normal advertisements the user creates, this one is created with the intention of the user trading for something not entirely physical but something that has value to a specific customer. This [DEAL] is more one on one than any other advertisement deal. Requiring the soon to be customer to either sign on the dotted line of a document to finalise the dealmaking, or by [“willingly”] shaking the user’s hand.

• [Deal for Another Life]: The user creates a [specil] one time only [DEAL] for someone who needs assistance in saving someone, be it that they're in a dying state or simply injured. By accepting the [DEAL] for the user to save the life of another, the recipient will have their condition ”heal” in a sense depending on the situation. If medical supplies are in the vicinity capable of mending them, then the Ad-Ad Fruit will use those supplies to instantaneously patch them up. If there are none, then the [“customer”] will have either their own life or a certain amount of years off their life to help save or extend out the recipient’s.
• [Devil for a Devil]: The user creates a [specil] one time only [DEAL] for the intent of trading the devil fruit abilities of two people between them. Once that either sign or shake each other’s hands with the user present to finalise the dealmaking. Both people will begin to convulse and scream from the pain of the swapping of devil fruits, what appears out from them appears to be the will or soul of their particular devil fruits which pass by each other before phasing into their new user's body.

[Ad Infinitum]: The user proceeds to make a literal one time only [DEAL] like no other to whom but the Ad-Ad Fruit itself, arranging a [DEAL] that will allow the user to gain a significant amount of power by absorbing all existing goods received through every [DEAL] the user has ever made. In turn however, once the user has finished with what they had intended to do with the power, parts of their own individuality is exchanged by the Ad-Ad Fruit itself with one perfectly lined with the devil fruit’s function. That of being a Salesman and their job of making deals. However once done, they themselves will be ensnared by [[Silly Strings]] with them even knowing, and secretly manipulating them into performing and doing things that allows them to make more deals and benefit them.

• [NEO]: One of two transformations the user can undergo once the deal has been made, and is mostly done through the intake of many material items the user has ["respectfully"] received from a ["customer"]. Granting them a physiology similar to that of a mechanical machine. Allowing to shrug off a majority of dangers that normally threaten a [MEAT PERSON]. They are able to fly at great speeds and ascend as high as they want due to the [[Silly Strings]] attached to their back once in this form. For combat they have many options, from blasting opponents with their arm cannon, opening their chest cavity for their own mechanical heart to spring out and shoot out white diamonds, and even increasing their own size to ram into and squish their opposition.
• [OMEGA]: The second and most powerful and the two transformations the user can undergo once the deal has been made, and is made when on top of absorbing material items, they also take into both the souls of people who gave them up and actual living people who sold their lives to the user. The main difference between the two forms is not only in power but also in sheer size and mobility being more slow. During both transformations, the user experiences a even higher boost in their ability of manipulating and transforming their [“property”] into anything advertisable.

P/N: I had created this fruit around the beginning of 2022, but never got around to actually starting anything. But then around the time Spamton Sweepstakes started I then, randomly out of nowhere, thought of the entire concept for the devil fruit.
I will say that I gave up at the end with the awakening moves, due to not feeling the best. But I just wanted to get this devil fruit over and done with. Any of the moves are up for interpretation.

I am always so appreciative of this group, the kind encouraging people and very helpful pilots and flight attendants. My daughter was on Hawaiian Airlines flight 50 to NY tonight and after an hour an a half or so in the air was diverted back to Honolulu. She said the pilot had come on and said pretty much right after they took off that something was not right with the plane they had to fly to dump fuel and then land back in Hawaii. She is a nervous wreck now. I am trying to share with her all of the great things I have learned on this sub to explain to her that she was never in danger. The protoculs for flying so strict, there are so many redundancies for everything and the flight crew is trained for basically anything. Wondering if any pilots or flight attendants have any words of advice I can share with her. Thank you in advance.

Today's anniversaries are:
2003

• Linkin Park - Meteōra (Alternative)

2005

• Hella - Church Gone Wild & Chirpin Hard (alternative, experimental, instrumental, math rock, punk, Sacramento)

2007

• Portal - Outré (metal)

2011

• Torrential Downpour - Connected Through (experimental metal, experminental, heavy psych, heavy-psych, metal, psychadelic, space metal, torrential downpour, Haworth)

2013

• The Korea - Сатурнус (Saturnus) () Read our review.

2014

• Yvette Young - Acoustics (alternative, acoustic, math, math rock, mathrock, pop, San Jose)

2016

• Atlantis Chronicles - Barton's Odyssey (death metal, metal, odyssey, technical death, technical death metal, Paris)
  
• Book of Sand - Occult Anarchist Propaganda (black metal, metal, rabm, anarchist, anarchist black metal, blackmetal, noise, occult, orthodox black metal, raw black metal, traditional black metal, Minnesota) Read our review.
  
• Fall of Minerva - Portraits (metal, ambient rock, hardcore, post-hardcore, London)
  
• He Was Eaten by Owls - Chorus 30 from Blues for the Hitchhiking Dead (classical, experimental, avant garde, avant-garde, chamber music, experimental, jazz, post punk, post-minimalism, post-punk, queer, queerpunk, London) Read our review.
  
• Mesarthim - Spire (black metal, dsbm, depressive black metal, metal, cosmic, space metal, Australia)
  
• Rorcal - Κρέων (Kréōn) (black metal, metal, black metal, doom, drone, geneva, metal, post-hardcore, post-metal, Switzerland) Read our review.
  
• The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache like I Ache (metal)
  

2017

• Appalaches - Cycles (rock, instrumental rock, post rock, progressive rock, Montréal)
  
• Isenordal - Shores of Mourning (atmospheric black metal, black metal, cascadian black metal, metal, baroque, black metal, doom metal, funeral doom, neofolk, seattle, viking metal, Seattle)
  

2018

• Absently - Entropy (instrumental, metal, rock, ambient, Nashville)
  
• Book of Sand - Sun Going Down (experimental, acoustic, black metal, blues, doom metal, folk, free jazz, minneapolis, occult, outsider, weird, Minneapolis)
  
• Cult Play - In Search of Blood (electronic, dance, techno, Nebraska)
  
• Destrudiac - Pathetic Fallacy (metal, black metal, experimental, industrial, noise, psychedelic, Russian Federation)
  
• Marunata, Dreamshift, A Light in the Dark, and Ghâsh - Colours of the Mind (atmospheric black metal, black metal, blackgaze, metal, post black metal, post-rock, split album, France)
  
• Nytt Land - Oðal (folk, dark-folk, ethnic, folk-rock, nordic-music, viking-music, Kalachinsk) Read our review.
  
• Tuur Moens - Nebula (brazilian jazz, france, jazz, jazz fusion, portugal, spain, world, groovy, indie, melodic, music, nebula, world music, Netherlands)
  
• Yossi Sassi & the Oriental Rock Orchestra - Illusion of Choice (progressive rock, rock, ross jennings, world, alternative rock, metal, oriental, orphaned land, world music, Israel)
  

2019

• Amnesiac - The Grift ()
  
• Eá - Alium (math rock)
  
• João Mortágua - Dentro da janela (folk, jazz, rock, chamber, epic, free, fusion, organic, psychedelic, Porto)
  
• Valerinne - Desire (metal, dark, drone, instrumental, post-metal, post-rock, București)
  
• Will of the Mountain - The Third Silence (metal, progressive rock, ambient rock, post-rock, progressive metal, Costa Rica)
  

2020

• Arise in Stability - Dose Again (progressive metal)
  
• Bear, the Storyteller - Deidades (folk, post-rock)
  
• Erreur système - Œil pour œil (experimental black metal)
  
• Francesc Llompart - Insect Politics (free improvisation)
  
• Hyperdontia - Excreted from the Flesh (death metal)
  
• Kellen Tryon Mills - Wasted Time (jazz fusion)
  
• Musth - Set the Woods on Fire & Catharsis (post-metal)
  
• Oscar Jan Hoogland & Teun Verbruggen - Buurman (free improvisation)
  
• Patrick Shiroishi - Eye for an Eye (free jazz)
  
• The Simns 2 - Pets (free improvisation)
  

2021

• Dreams of the Drowned - Missed Springs (black metal)
  
• Galactikraken & Jonathan Young - Starship Velociraptor (progressive power metal)
  
• Nudibranch - Automaton (mathcore)
  
• Sugar Wounds - Calico Dreams (mathgrind)
  
• Vile Dissonance - Music Theory Is a Social Convention (avant-garde death metal)
  
• Сольвычегодск (Sol'vyčegodsk) - Танец с СВЧ (Tanec s SVČ) (free jazz)
  

2022

• 8 kalacas - Pudrete (skacore)
  
• Aaron Siegel - Fabrications #1: Tris & Iso (ambient)
  
• Aaron Siegel - Fabrications #2: Afternoon Fun (ambient)
  
• Aaron Siegel - Fabrications #3: Brandy (ambient)
  
• Aaron Siegel - Fabrications #4: Omni (ambient)
  
• Aldous Harding - Warm Chris (indie folk)
  
• Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia (progressive metal)
  
• Anne Paceo - Shamanes (modern jazz)
  
• Anwkozik - 4 (jazz fusion)
  
• Arcomusical - Emigre and Exile (contemporary classical)
  
• Astral Tomb - Soulgazer (progressive death metal)
  
• Bâ'a - Egrégore (black metal)
  
• Ben Schmidt-Swartz & the Saxsquatch - Schmidt-Swartz / Saxsquatch (jazzcore)
  
• Brodie West Quintet - Meadow of Dreams (modern jazz)
  
• Crown Magnetar - Alone in Death (blackened deathcore)
  
• Dandy Dandie - Hypnos & Morphée (jazz fusion)
  
• Day of Departure - Day of Departure (post-rock)
  
• Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World (black metal)
  
• District Five - Burnt Sugar (psychedelic rock)
  
• Dream Widow - Dream Widow (thrash metal)
  
• Dust - Dust (deathcore)
  
• Dychromia - The Dangers of Curiosity (progressive metal)
  
• Echo Dolphins - Ⅱ (noise rock, pop)
  
• Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back (folk)
  
• Ensemble Dal niente - Object/Animal (contemporary classical)
  
• Fabian Dudek - Isolated Flowers (modern jazz)
  
• Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Father Befouled - Crowned in venēficum (death metal)
  
• Francois Jalbert & Jérome Beaulieu - L'Aéronaute (progressive folk)
  
• Gewgawly Ⅰ & Thou - Norco (sludge metal, OST)
  
• Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive (art rock)
  
• Hallux valgus - Reflections of Distant Dreams (black metal)
  
• Helpless - Caged in Gold (grindcore)
  
• Hessdalen Light - False Dichotomy (math rock)
  
• Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity (world fusion)
  
• John Zorn, played by Bill Frisell, John Medeski, Brian Marsella, and Kenny Wollenson - Perchance to Dream… (contemporary classical)
  
• Kilo Kish - American Gurl (electro pop)
  
• Knelpunt - Karaf (jazz fusion)
  
• Louis Matute Large Ensemble - Our Folklore (jazz fusion)
  
• Lucky Beasts - We Only Go Backwards (math rock)
  
• Lysandre Ménard - Sans oublier (indie pop)
  
• Maxxxtet - Chapter 3 (modern jazz)
  
• Michael Bisio Quartet - M Before (free improvisation)
  
• Michael Leonhart Orchestra - The Normyn Suites (modern jazz)
  
• Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds, Part 2 (progressive metal)
  
• Morrow - The Quiet Earth (blackened hardcore)
  
• Nailbreaker - Cope (cybergrind, digital hardcore)
  
• Nurser - Nurser (blackened deathgrind)
  
• Ōrdō rosārius equilibrio - La Fleur du Mal (dark pop)
  
• Park - Park (math rock)
  
• Port noir - Cuts (alternative metal)
  
• Potsa Lotsa XL & 성유진 (Seong Yujin / Youjin Sung) - 가야 (Gaya) (world fusion)
  
• Roxy Coss - Disparate Parts (jazz fusion)
  
• RXM Reality - Sick for You (experimental electro)
  
• Sélène Saint-Aimé - Potomitan (modern jazz)
  
• Shake Stew - Heat (Afrobeat, jazz fusion)
  
• Soonago - Fathom (post-rock)
  
• Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (experimental hardcore)
  
• Steven Doman - Our Lady of the High Appalachian Mountains (alternative rock)
  
• Sum of R - Lahbryċe (post-metal)
  
• The Lovecraft Sextet - Nights of Lust (dark jazz, synthwave)
  
• The Tronosonic Experience - The Shadow, Volume 2 (progressive rock)
  
• Thierry Maillard - Caméléon (modern jazz)
  
• Trio Onoda - Trio Onoda (jazz fusion)
  
• Vincent Peirani - Jokers (modern jazz)
  
• Viridescence - Skate the Stars (math rock)
  
• Virocracy - Ecophagia (progressive death metal)
  
• Дмитрий Курляндский (Dmitrij Kurljandskij), played by Vacuum Quartet - String Quartet Series (contemporary classical)
  
• ツンデレ (Tsundere) Alley - Re: Stasis (neotrance)
  
• القات (Al-qāt / El khat) - علبة علوي ('ulba 'alawiyy), Opus 99 (world fusion)
  
• مايا يوسف (Maya Youssef) - Finding Home (Arabic classical)
  

Started off with a bad omen as I had much more trouble with King Kong than I usually do but the other bosses went down easily enough and according to plan, as much as Owl tried (and failed) to thwart my efforts, until I finally reached Inner Isshin - the bane of my existence for the past week or so.
Funnily enough, I started this run just to show my friend some of the bosses, not expecting to win considering I had yet to prevail over Inner Isshin even in a gauntlet of strength. However, despite still struggling more than I would have liked on his first phase but not to the extent I had wasted too many resources, I used the Red Lump + Fine Snow + Empowered Mortal Blade combo to quickly plow through his second phase while still having two resurrects in reserve left via Jizo statues, one more usage of the Ceremonial Tanto, and a fine quantity of healing items. I realized at that point that this would likely be the run where I'd finally do it.
Isshin still gave me hell with his semiautomatic Sengoku-era pistol and lightning bending but after redirecting his lightning twice with Sakura Dance, he was down low enough in posture and health that with another Red Lump + Rice Ball + Empowered Mortal Blade usage would have been enough to finish him. I probably could have beat him without it by switching to the Empowered Mortal Blade and just rushing him but hoped to land another lightning reversal if possible just to seal the deal. After he forced my last resurrect as a result of a mismanaged dodge against his spear, I resorted to the combo and got him to his last death blow with a a single back-to-back hit from Empowered Mortal Blade.
I might not have beaten him via the most honorable methods but that can wait for another time as a Shinobi should know the difference between honor and victory and for me, getting that Tengu costume for NG+ was the definition of victory.

MercadoLibre, Inc.

Ticker: MELI

Sector: Consumer Cyclical

Market Cap: $59.9 billion

1. Overview

MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI) is the largest online commerce ecosystem in Latin America, serving 18 countries. It provides six integrated e-commerce and digital financial services including Mercado Libre Marketplace, Mercado Pago Fintech platform, Mercado Envios logistics service, Mercado Credito, Mercado Ads solution, and Mercado Shops online storefronts solution.
Mercado Libre Marketplace is an online commerce platform accessible through website and mobile app. It allows sellers, merchants, and individuals to list and sell merchandise across various categories such as electronics, apparel, home goods, toys, books, and consumer packaged goods.
Mercado Envios is a logistics solution offered by MELI in several countries. It allows sellers on the platform to use third-party carriers and logistics services, as well as offering warehousing and fulfillment services. By using Mercado Envios, sellers can offer a streamlined shipping experience to buyers and may be eligible for shipping subsidies. The volume Mercado Envios manages through its network means that it can offer better prices to merchants on logistic services.
Mercado Pago is a digital payments solution developed by MELI initially to facilitate secure and easy transactions on its Marketplaces. It now has evolved to offer a financial technology ecosystem in the digital and physical worlds, including checkout and payment processes for merchants on their own websites and physical stores as well as credit offerings to scale their business. Mercado Pago is available in several Latin American countries and aims to provide end-to-end financial technology solutions to underserved individuals and businesses, including those operating in the informal economy.
Mercado Credito is a credit solution available in several Latin American countries. It leverages MELI's loyal and engaged user base, both offering credit lines to online merchants and mobile point of sale device users as well as to buyers on and off Mercado Libre’s marketplace. The credit solution is differentiated from traditional financial institutions by using proprietary credit risk models with unique data that differentiate their scoring. In addition to loans for MELI purchases, personal loans are also available. Mercado Pago credit card was launched in Brazil in 2021, allowing users to pay in installments and earn additional points from its loyalty program, Mercado Puntos.
Mercado Ads is an advertising platform that allows brands and sellers to display ads on MELI's webpages, increasing the likelihood of conversion. Mercado Ads enables merchants and brands to access the millions of consumers that are on its Marketplaces at any given time with the intent to purchase, which increases the likelihood of conversion.
Mercado Shops is a digital storefront solution that allows users to set up and manage their own digital stores, with integration with MELI's ecosystem.
Underpinning the entire MELI ecosystem is a loyalty program that offers benefits based on a point-generation system including discounts on shipping and access to third-party video content. Users can also subscribe for a monthly fee without having to reach the required points organically.

2. Customers

Given MELI's large customer base, it is diverse, and spans most age groups, income levels, and countries. However, certain trends and patterns can be identified.
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First and foremost, future orders. (At least for my Flynn group stores) placing a future order doesn’t mean you’ll get it as soon as you get there
Secondly, if you’re ordering on a Friday, PLEASE be respectful to employees and understand if it takes longer than expected. Us in the kitchen are doing the best we can and on a Friday night we’re lucky if nothing needs a remake.
And lastly, if you’re going to order on a Friday night, try to make it later, like 8:30-9pm is when the dinner rush is done.
Tonight was a nightmare for me and my crew, we had 320 something tickets and lots of remakes for pizzas that disappeared into no man’s land, delayed deliveries, upset customers, etc etc.

For context, my teacher has an annual project where we do something to make a change in the community.
In this project, you only have one day of each week starting a few weeks after the school year starts to make something that will do something for the community.
I usually work alone, but it had to be a GROUP project, so I went with a group of girls. (We'll call them A, M, and B for ease and identity concealment.)
A & M are best buddies who could never disagree while B and I are sensible people. (I would say so.)
Throughout the project, A just cannot be wrong. I try to help her with grammar on the slides we want to present, she yells at me. I want to do something, it's not convenient for her. What really got on my nerves was that B and I worked on music to play at our big event for our project and they didn't even take time to consider learning it. They just asked our band director to use our sucky marching band pieces.
A continues to be an asshole to everybody else, and even calls herself the leader when she hasn't done anything. She didn't even know what was going on when we discussed it today and said, "As the leader of this group, I don't know what's going on, but I should." And so she got mad at ME for her not knowing even though I constantly text updates, I email teachers for our schedules, I booked the location ect. ect.
M has done nothing the whole project except complain when we said we wanted our slides done by a certain day, and she didn't have them done. B and I then did them and she got mad because she said "I was going to do them!"
Around last month, B reveals that she can't go to this final event because it will be when she is out of state. She is the only person in the group I could tolerate. I know the project would go down fast without her at the actual event because A & M don't know what they're doing and they just don't listen to me.
Fast forward to now, I have just learned that my grandpa has died and so we're going to his funeral in Wyoming as soon as we can.
This just happens to land on the day that we are performing the music for our project. Now, there's nothing I really can do to change the fact that I'm going to the funeral and I will definitely miss the event. But I'm kind of happy I don't have to go since B won't be there in the first place and I actually want to see them get a taste of what they've been "working" on.
AITA for wanting to see them fail?
TL;DR
Group is an asshole except for one person, and now we're letting the 2 horrible people in our group fail without us because they didn't put any effort in.
For some questions:
Our project is not graded on success, it's for a presentation at the END of the year which we sum up what we did in our project. They won't actually fail, but they'll be super embarrassed if the event does go horribly.
I don't do anything in this because I am part of at least 2 minorities and A is a little bit racist/homophobic, so I'm not going to fight her on anything in fear she'll do something.

(Technically cross-posted from AutisticWithADHD, you can check my profile)
Hello. I will try to keep this one shorter than my standard posts online as I've not much time to write today, but I've been recently considering looking into getting a proper autism assessment/ diagnosis for myself. This is mainly to do with the fact that I had been diagnosed with both ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder at an early age, roughly around the age of 8. I was also diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, though I am unsure if this is to with anything potentially ASD.
During the test in which I received my diagnoses, I was told some years later by my parents that I had originally been tested for autism, hosted at my then elementary school for whatever reason that might've been. It was implied by their story that the doctors there were looking for a more rigorous, or "obvious," diagnosis. I have also been told that ASD/ Asperger's can crop up at later points in life so I figured I'd have myself retested at some point. For the record I am 18 years old at the time of writing this.
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P.S: Thought I'd also mention that, while not being entirely reliable, I had recently taken an online self-assessment out of curiosity. I had consistently landed a score of 35 three different times, leading me to send the test to my friends and have them share their scores. All of them managed to score within the 10 - 20 point range and nothing further beyond that.
I understand full well not to trust medical self-assessments online, especially those that are 'designed' to diagnosis a disorder as broad as autism, but it's really got me thinking. Bearing in mind all of the issues I mentioned I had earlier, would it really be sound of me to seek another test?
Any and all advice is welcome.

I remodeled a home for sale. But the 100 amp service need to be upgraded to 200 amps. The weather head , wire and meter can , add a exterior disconnect , then 40 ft of wire to a new load center . , there pull and replace the wall flush mounted load center and hook it up. What would something like that cost in general?

This question goes out to all the guys that were/are Disney fans that have seen the movie “The Princess and The Frog”
For those that haven’t seen it the movie follows a poor young black woman named Tiana living in New Orleans working as a waitress to save money for her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant
In the movie she encounters a prince from a fictional land called Maldonia (most speculate it to be based of the Maldives in south asia). This is also supported by the fact that Naveen is a sanskrit name and his parents wear traditional Indian attire when they appear at the end of the movie
This movie is tied up there with Aladdin for my personal favourite disney movie and I’m excited at the prospect of having a live-action film. I would definitely recommend this movie to anybody that enjoys the disney style
Recently there has been rumours of a live-action remake beginning development. Actresses Coco Jones and Ari Lennox have posted audition videos for the role of Tiana recently. As far as I know nobody has been speculating who should play Naveen yet
Of course the west doesn’t care very much at all for south-asian representation so I’d be willing to bet that disney will screw us and Naveen will be recasted as black instead, but assuming this isn’t the case do you guys have any south-asian actors that come to mind for portraying Prince Naveen in a live-action movie?

Game is Mondays 5pm pst weekly voice only
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The world is divided into 4- lands.
Aker is the frozen kingdom of the North. It is home to large communities of dwarves, halflings, goliaths, and orcs. Aker is bordered to the south by Aun, their major trade partners, and Prom, who they just finished warring with taking a large chunk of land. The dwarves are the dominant species of the land and rule the North. The Dwarven Trading Clans are what keep the north together, their want for profit has every race in their borders contribute to the production and protection of the north. All citizens can join a trading clan and all members are referred to as Dwarves any race can be a Dwarf but not all dwarfs are Dwarves. A dwarven election for a new king is soon to happen. The king's trade clan is exempt from all taxes for using other clans' trade routes.
Prom is in the Plains and valleys of the West. It is home to large communities of Tieflings and Dragonborn. Prom is bordered to the east by Aun and Latis. Prom is ruled by Human Emperors. The kingdom was the largest and had the most power for 300 years until the last 50 years. The previous emperor's desire to extend his borders further and be a new conqueror caused a collection of lords in the eastern lands to rebel and form Aun. Latis, the target of the aggression won many of the first strikes against them and succeeded in killing the emperor. The new emperor wanting vengeance over reached. The final nail in the coffin was the secret treaty of Aker and Latis which had the North come to the aid of Latis. Prom is currently dealing with a brewing inheritance dispute between the oldest son who wants to keep human dominion on the lands and the only Daughter who wishes to remove their draconian laws.
Latis is made up of the forests and swamps of the east. It is home to large communities of elves, shifters, and gnomes. Latis is a collection of Tribes and self-styled kings. it once had 9 castles all around the continent in ancient times now it holds on to only 4. After the last attack from Prom and the formation of Aun, they have formed tighter-knit communities. When they conquered Prom's entire southern coast, the more warlike leaders decided to attack the newly formed Aun. They quickly lost and made peace after losing a small stretch of coastland. A plague is affecting Aura users in the forest and large aura beasts are found roaming around, strong creatures who rival the strongest around.
Aun was created when the local nobles rebelled against Prom for attacking Latis. Only a few lords directly rebelled but when Aker attacked with Latis more decided to defect. After the war started to turn to Prom losing many lords tired of the Emperor moved to change their fealty to the council that controlled Aun. During the wars, some of the lesser trading clans defected, taking a small part of the northern lands and some of the gnome and elf tribes around the area. They were quick to make treaties with Latis and Aker and within 3 months they had a large amount of territory under them. all their lands willingly decided to join together the one exception being the coastal city of Pasa which they took during the invasion from Latis after Prom was subdued. An is ruled by a council of the strongest members of the land. Merchants, Nobility, and some warriors are granted a voice. The Strongest warrior in the world resides and presides in Aun.
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There are smaller island city-states around. beholden to none.
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Welcome to my home brew I have some experience DMing IRL and a bunch on here.
Some info on the world. All classes and races available except assimar. if you want to home brew something I'll consider it so no problem. Will be a locked story for just the first part of the story maybe 4 or 5 games depending how fast we go through and then we will go to open world. I have histories and some quests going on and you will be playing in the world I put my other games in so you guys will affect each other but never meet.
I will be adding a few threads with world info and slight race changes.
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One thing that everyone will get is an elemental magic it will be randomly picked on day 0.
It's will be available only a certain amount of times a day or week depending on the skill.
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My Style
Expect an open non-linear world that is responsive to player choices and actions. I strive to give players as much autonomy as possible. This game is ideal for players who enjoy creating characters with depth and flaws. I add to the campaign from a variety of different sources in response to character choices and actions. Every play-through takes on a life of its own. My favorite moments as a GM are when the story goes sideways from what I expect due to strong roleplay.
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Expect every session to feature a variety of art, visual aids, and sound to bring the setting, people, and situations alive. This game will include Dynamic Lighting, Fog of War, tactical and exploration maps, abstract game mats, and theatre of the mind as befits the situation.
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Expect fair adjudication with minimal arbitration - that's always a GM's primary responsibility. I don't set out to kill your beloved characters, but if you do something terribly silly like charge into a Demon Lord at level 3, don't expect deus ex machina to keep you alive.
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About Me & Qualifications
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I am 32 with a wife she plays a game with me on Thursday. I was in the military and that's were i started dming full time pretty much. I would make games that we would play every day after our missions and so had a good 6 month period of dming a game were we met every day and had stuff to do. i am good an improvising and setting up worlds.
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I've been playing for about 10 years and dming for 6. I've set up home brew worlds and have run on roll 20 about 6 different games. i love role playing and making good stories and fun locations.
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~ New players are very much welcome. I'm happy to set aside time outside of game to help with Roll20, macros, character sheets, discuss mechanics, answer questions, talk about your character development and goals, you name it.
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How to Join Us
It's as simple as making a post below and writing a few paragraphs answering these questions. If you seem like a good fit, I'll send you a PM with our Discord link so that we can find some time to talk.
~ Tell me something about yourself and your experience with roleplaying.
~ Why do you want to participate in this campaign?
~ What is your idea for a character? I'm less concerned with a "backstory" as what kind of person you are, what really matters to you, and your goals as a character. (You are welcome to include more than one character if you like.)
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Allowed: PHB, XGE, SCAG, EE, and all official books
By Permission: ua
It's Not Going to Happen: NO aasimar and artificer
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