As the machine shut down, the portal fell apart and the darkness began to quickly spread out across the world and return to the hearts of which it was stolen. The darkness no longer lingered in space, instead the seemingly perpetual mist of darkness was finally gone. Some birds began to chirp happily outside despite it being the middle of the night, and everything seemed to finally be peaceful. Like the aftermath of a long and windy storm. Slowly, but cautiously, the black haired girl in the cave was lowered to the floor and she began to stir, sitting upwards and looking around for the others, groggily, "Ugh... what happened... did you guys finish it?" Mora shifted to try and find the spot she was shot in by Ria. The wound was still there, leaving a scar that might always linger there, but it wasn't sucking away her energy and that made the girl sigh in comfort as she tried to stand up, stumbling a bit because of how weak her body was since her strength was still returning to her.
I don't actually know how I missed an entire talk about ASMR but I've been listening to it for years! Um... 5 years actually. But what I didn't realize was that I've enjoyed the feeling of ASMR for years before I knew what it was. So before I found ASMR I found myself watching unboxing videos because the sounds made me feel really relaxed. I watched makeup tutorials before that for the same feeling. The earliest memory of any "tingles" I can think of is 6th grade, when my math teacher would put on these video math tutorials for us and the instructor in the videos would click his tongue I think? (Maybe it was a lip smack I don't know). I would get excited for the tutorials because of how relaxed I felt... don't remember learning anything else though. Might be why math classes put me to sleep now actually. Here are some of my personal favorite channels/videos that I sometimes go back to regularly. Heather Feather (she doesn't really post as much anymore, i believe it's irl stuff. here's her sksk video) Goodnight Moon (she has a fantasy style series on her channel with her own world and characters, here's the first one of her's I found.) Ephemeral Rift (his stuff is a little out there and might wig someone out who might not be into the concepts. here's one of his more relaxed concepts. but it has eating sounds if you don't like that!) FredsVoice ASMR (I love his stuff but his channel has kind of begun to be consumed by the 'rude english gentleman' character he plays, so if you don't like being talked down to, I understand. There's also some videos for helping with asmr immunity which I don't think I've gotten yet but they might be helpful for someone.) yanghaiying (I really like her stuff because of how... unpolished it is. I know a lot of people like background noise taken away and keeping it polished. but I really like how these videos flow. here's my favorite of her's though warning there is a random phone ring at 8:56 so if you get super relaxed and that makes you jump I'm sorry) Anyway, I don't actually know if I have specific triggers but I definitely know when the ASMRtist gets all up in my left ear it works. I don't know why my left ear yet and I may never know. I find myself more into the RP ones because it distracts me from my thoughts and helps me sleep a lot more. I guess I like paper sounds, but not overwhelmingly so.
Hello everyone, welcome to the month of June, kupo! We hope you're getting ready for that summer weather wherever you are, but before we get ready for that, it's time to roll our last month's lottery... if i May... ...kupo? Anyway, as is always the rules, everyone who has posted in this month gets a chance a ticket, which means everyone has the same shot at winning. The only exception is that the person who won the previous month's lottery isn't pulled. So AJ is out this round kupo. Everyone has been sorted in alphabetical order based on the way of the first post. Let's get rolling, kupo! And the winner is... Steel! Steel wins 30 crowns. See you next month (or well, the next weekly lottery, kupo!)
I just wanna ask, since I don't know if staff already discussing it, if there are going to be new ways added to get munny? As far as I'm aware the only way you can get it at this time is from like achievements and from post achievements... but once those points are used the munny is kind of... gone? I haven't reached all the posting achievements but I've definitely reached all the "like" ones and used up pretty much all my munny day one. Is it going to be something given out for events? Are there new landmarks you can hit to get munny? I'm REALLY hoping this isn't a "hey guys you want more munny? uuuuse your money" things cause that's just... bad. edit: I JUST found out from this post that you get munny from posting so there's one part answered maybe
Melus did not have a particular preference to whatever route they took. But when Alex mentioned how he wasn't exactly strong, she realized that applied to her as well, so she was grateful he ended up picking sight. When he mentioned catching up, she smirked a bit. She knew she wasn't the slowest person, but fortunately for her she at least could make her own guts of wind to help herself go faster. The brunette summoned out her harp with a bit of air and began playing a small tune to get the wind to rush with her as she ran down wind. She continued running, she let herself drift up slightly in the breeze to carry her to her desired destination, not really paying attention to see if she was messing up anyone else who had to walk against the wind. When she arrived at the middle of the city, she stopped and plucked a few strings on her harp and looked around at the walls and asked, "So, is it graffiti of a cat... or graffiti of the word 'cat'? x x
Takehiko wasn't exactly sure how to feel about her conclusions but he didn't feel it right to impose. He didn't really think there was anything he could do to help the way her thoughts seemed to force itself to connect to the other world and this one. The way she couldn't break out of that mentality of being afraid of one version of a person, and then having to work with the other version of the person. And trying to come to some sort of terms about it. Maybe she wouldn't, maybe she couldn't break out of the mentality that got planted in her from all that time. He could relate. As he pulled up near Torrin and listened to the exchange and subsequently Torrin's plan, Take looked over and said, "But there could be more hats nearby that reprogram them. More importantly, they could go after us. I think we need to find a way to lure out one of them, save them, and then plan to get the others." he looked among the group there and pointed towards Machina and said, "Maybe him first."
As the extractor began it's process, the humming completely stopped. Almost as if the entire machine decided to just shut off and stop cold. But then a higher pitched noise slowly made it's way from being relatively silent to a near-discomforting louder noise. The core began to spin faster and darkness began to be absorbed into it, beginning to rip the creature apart. It let out a noise of pain as it tried to back away from the machine, growing smaller and smaller as more darkness was absorbed out of it. The shape began to look human again, slowly taking on a shadowy looking version of Chrono before color appeared again. Ria tried summon a portal of darkness but the portal itself began to be sucked over to the other one and he looked over at the group in fear, as if trying to find some way out before he clenched his chest and fell to the ground saying, "No... stay!" then gasped out as darkness began to swirl around his body entirely. It began ripping him fully apart from there as he glared towards Chrono specifically, then the others shortly after. Ria sighed as he faded fully into darkness, "I guess I really should have this place cave in sooner." As the final particles of darkness left Ria, three hearts glowing in a soft light emerged and floated in the spot he once stood. Daeni felt a slightly pressure leave her as another heart floated out of her chest to join the other three. One of the hearts that appeared when Ria faded floated slowly over towards Alder and floated a moment and flickered briefly towards him, before it began to float away out of the cave. The other three flickering and following shortly after. If anyone followed them out of the cave, the four hearts began to float up towards the sky until there was a flash, and four shooting stars crossed the sky all together in the same direction before disappearing completely. In the cave, the darkness continued to swirl as it seemed to create a portal to the dark realm. One that was very large and very vibrant with green and purplish colors. In almost an instant, everyone's memories returned to them. Gently, not painfully like many returned memories had caused before. Mora still laid on the floor, comatose. The only thing left to do was to turn off the machine to close the portal and return the darkness to everyone's hearts.
As the team struck at the creature, either by attacking it's body or by cutting at it's tendrils. The creature let out a cry of pain as it let go of the final two. It backed away in pain as a reflex, and just as it did so, a small alert appeared on the screen of the machine simply saying, "EXTRACTION READY" with text towards the red button saying "start" and text towards a blue button saying "cancel".
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Listening to Tinarah explain that it was meant to make the other Torrin seem less scary was something Take couldn't necessarily relate to, but he at least understood where it was coming from. When she apologized he was a bit confused by that part, he wasn't sure there was anything she did that required apology. And so he told her that outright, "Hey, you don't need to apologize. Well, not to me at least, I don't know about Torrin or anything like that. And I'm not going anywhere." he rubbed his nose a bit and said, "When I get afraid of something, which doesn't happen often but you know, I try to remember that allowing it to be feared gives it power. So I try to think about it in a different way. I don't think imagining he's capable of love is going to help there. Maybe... I don't know. Imagine him as a guy being controlled by an angry goat. Well, unless you're afraid of goats..." he was quiet and thought about it before saying, "Naaa, I kid... you're not afraid of goats right?"
Takehiko listened to Tinarah's explanation and felt a bit caught up to speed. He did notice what was going on with Nini but he assumed it had something more to do with him not liking cats but Nini liking him. As she explained the second half, however, the boy bit his lip and thought about what she said and replied, "I know everyone else has been over this already, but I think you really need to start thinking of Torrin here and Torrin there as two different people." he steered the glider a bit to avoid a couple of obstacles before saying, "I don't know what you've gone through, at all, but that sounds like an unbelievable amount of pressure to put on Torrin for something he didn't do." he rested his hands a bit and glanced in Tinarah's direction, "Maybe that Torrin didn't love Mika. Maybe this one did. Who cares? If this Torrin doesn't love her, and that one did, what are you going to do with that information? Is that going to make you humanize the other Torrin? If they both didn't love her is it going to make this Torrin more of a monster to you?" the boy adjusted his mask a bit and then put more focus on driving again, "I'm just worried you might be comparing and contrasting too much. I hope you're not doing that to your brother."
Despite thinking that his line of logic was probably more realistic, the way Torrin seemed to take that whole exchange felt off to Take. He looked over at Tinarah and almost wanted to apologize for scaring away the conversation, but there was always the possibility it would have ended the same way, regardless of whether she said anything. He looked up at Torrin and sped up a bit only to catch up to Tinarah's speed as he said to her, "You know, I would have believed it up until the point he took off ahead. His reaction is more a... ak... akin? Akin. Akin to when a kid breaks something and doesn't wanna get caught so they hide. Well, not.. exactly like that... I just.. I just mean flight reaction. It's a flight reaction." he looked over at her and spoke, hoping Torrin didn't hear, "We're barely getting him to open about anything and you're asking about his..." he looked confused by which phrase to use and asked, "Sex life? Love life? Intimate relationships? Help?"
Takehiko dropped the glider off the edge and jumped onto it to follow after the other's. He managed to catch up in time just to hear Tinarah's comment about a... 'her'? It took him a bit longer than he probably out to have to realize she was talking about Mika. That's when he realized... when would Torrin have come into contact with a dog to get a dog smell? Once the lies broke from there he was a little confused and he said,"How could he love Mika? He barely knew her. When they met he kept referring to her as the redhead. I don't think he knew her name until she... well..." the boy looked at the direction the duck was going to make sure they didn't lose him and he shrugged, "Doesn't add up for me. Is this another evil Torrin thing?"
