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Revenant Chapter 1.2
2023.05.27 22:32 Gumwars Revenant Chapter 1.2
##BITTER
The bile in the back of Torres' throat had been slowly climbing during the forced four-hour marathon the crew had been pushing. Running like the devil was chasing you is always a good motivator; whenever you start thinking you've gone far enough, the nightmare of what you saw reminds you that it isn't far enough. Which is why the whole team kept running past the 50 mile mark without even saying a word to each other. There were brief, snippets of conversation confirming what they had seen and heard.
No, they had collectively never seen anything like that before outside Castillo's time in the Navy seeing a guy lose an arm to a snapped half inch steel cable. Whatever killed Jones did it in the blink of an eye. It was like an industrial machine, made for killing, and he happened to get caught in it.The part that was really bothering Torres was that it managed to get out of the way of not one but two zeroed shots. This was no light matter. Torres was top in his class and then got selected for Delta, whatever he aimed for, he hit, and that's before all the electronic wizardry came into play. And it wasn't like he missed by a little either. Both shots were way off, so far off that it wasn't registering as something possible in Miguel's mind. That thing knew it was shot at. It knew when to get out of the way, but he still managed to hit it.
That left him wondering...Whatever that thing was, it didn't act like something being controlled, like a tank or aircraft. It was like an animal, almost primal in how it attacked Rahmir. No, primal wasn't the right word. It seemed *personal*. Like there was malice and anger involved. But it didn't appear necessarily intelligent.The team continued running, separated by 100 feet or so between operators, spread out in case what followed them decided to attack or any other interested parties wanted to take a shot at them.
The landscape of the blasted out suburbs gave way to rolling hills that made up the western side of Masyaf, a smaller city roughly 25 miles from the coast. The team continued to run as the light of day slowly retreated, and the inkiness of night crept in from the east.Unsure of what still followed them, but also fully aware of what threats were still in the area, the team decided to hunker down in what looked like an old marketplace.
Standing intel indicated that most of Masyaf had evacuated to Hama, where the UN had established facilities, and the core government of Syria was still operational. The storefront was mostly intact with only one broken window. Inside told a tale of a once thriving merchant, slowly choked out of existence by the ravages of war; shelves were bare and the ground covered in dirt along with empty cans and boxes. The wall behind the register had a cork board with a child's crayon drawn pictures of a world that no longer existed. The team filtered through the doorway, with Torres and McGinley on point, who cleared the main room before letting everyone settle. Foster and Castillo searched the storage room and office while the rest of the team sat on the floor in front of the iceboxes.
"What the actual fuck was that?" McGinley muttered as he slumped against a wall of empty coolers.
"Unfriendly, I'd wager..." Foster stated sort of matter-of-factly.
"Real helpful man, like the answer to the fucking question of life right there." McGinley's response spoke for itself.
"Look, you asked, and what the fuck do you expect anyone to say? Like any of us have seen anything like that before??"
Castillo barked in a low hushed voice, "Enough. We've got an extract location to home in on and not an abundance of time to get there. We're deep in hostile territory with an unlisted asset in the AO. Options and solutions are what we need, not bickering."
The pack of boys trained to be killers all looked at Castillo like a bunch of kids at recess getting in trouble for going somewhere they shouldn't be.
"Gunny, what's the play?" Torres spoke while looking through his scope out the door of the store.
"I don't know Torres, kinda hoping you could give the team at least something of a hot wash seeing how you hit it."
"I'm still sorting things out myself gunny. It took an APHE round and all that did was slow it down. I don't know," Torres started talking softer, "I don't even know what it was. I think it was something like a human, but..."
"What do you mean?" McGinley asked, almost whispering.
"Aaron, I don't know, man. It was under a veil, but not the kind we have. Way more sophisticated. It moved without any of the issues we have. Think 2.0." Torres paused, then continued, "And it was big, like 9 or 10 feet tall. When I shot it the first time, it got out of the way even with a full firing solution."
McGinley pressed, "Hold up Mikey, what do you mean it dodged a fully solved shot?"
"Yeah man. It knew I was sending fire and got out of the way."
"Torres, we posted about 400 mics out. Those rounds are close to 3000 fps at the muzzle. I'm not great at math but that's got to be near instantaneous from when you pull the trigger." Castillo pointed out.
"Gunny, I know it sounds nuts. I'm still trying to figure it out myself. We had good cover and Rahim didn't know we were there. I mean, KINGPIN did say it was one of ours, right?"
Castillo took a deep breath, then let it out with a pronounced sigh. "Fuck."
The rest of the team, already quiet, seemed to pull inward with news that they all knew was the worst kind. Spec ops are always risky, that much any operator went to work with in their back pocket. Death and such was just an occupational hazard. However, another problem with the job was occasionally working too close to the fringe. The shadows where law, politics, and the whim of people that play the game from the comfort of a boardroom dictate the lives of strangers. The team had drifted off the reservation.
It meant they were as good as dead.
*Ramstein Air Base, Germany*
Rain poured out of an inky black sky, blotting out the olive drab of the portable office under the deluge. The doorway was lit by a small panel just to the right of the entry, but outside of that small detail, no other markings gave away what the purpose of the container was. A man in a black parka hurried up the short flight of four steps to the door, angrily keyed an access pad, and stepped in out of the rain.
Inside the portable, there were two sets of very large metal tables, one covered in a thin white sheet hiding what appeared to be a giant-sized human. The other was empty, save for a series of cables ending in large gauge needles. On the far end, opposite the tables, was an office area with two young men that wouldn't be out of place at a pizza parlor or other informal setting. Both were busy with whatever was on the computers in front of them.
The man who had just entered hung his soaked parka on a hook by the door and pushed his wire rimmed glasses back up his nose. He looked at the two men with a combination of disgust and impatience. "Well?" Beck sighed.
Without looking away from the work he was doing, the younger of the pair wearing a Toucan Sam tee shirt and a Dodgers cap turned backwards mumbled what sounded like English.
"Fucking speak up George."
"Adrian, the telemetry is all screwed up. The links to all the cores are in the red and the only link that is stable enough to send a signal along doesn't talk to the subnets that we need control of."
"Have you figured out why any of this happened?"
The other technician chimed in, "Best guess is that shot caused a bounce with the primary and secondary CPUs while it was in its post-op clearing subroutine, causing corruption in the code that handles target acquisition. The redundant error-checking blocks aren't offline, but it's going to take a couple of hours before the code tree cleans up."
"Hours? John?"
"Well, yeah, best guess and all. Could be less than that, but the platforms haven't been put under live fire like that before. Damn good shot.." John sort of chortled while reaching for a bag of hot Cheetos.
Beck took two quick steps and snatched the bag out of his hands just as he managed to retrieve a handful, sending the spicy orange dust to settle all over his workstation.
"Fuck Beck? Whhhhhyyy?" John whined.
"Shut the fuck up. That's a 1.8 billion dollar asset out there that we have fucking no control over. That's nearly half the cost of a goddamn aircraft carrier you stupid twat." Adrian glowered at the man, "We are all toast if we don't get this under control."
Beck, looking angry and exhausted grabbed a chair and spun it backward, sat down facing the two technicians. He slowly rubbed his temple with the hand not clutching the Cheetos and quietly said, "I'm already doing damage control for what this thing has done. It's killed a US spec op asset and from what I could see through telemetry, it looks intent on killing the rest. That is fucking horrible optics." He continued, "This was supposed to be our last field test before presenting the RCAS as a finished weapons system. I can polish the report to make this glitch fade a bit, but we need to get in front of the problem. If we don't, forget bonuses and celebrations. Think more like being IT at some shitty embassy for you two fucks, and I'll just get disappeared"
"Beck, mistakes happen man. Remember Mumbai? The unit we dropped there killed about 50 civilians before we got things under control. I'm sure the brass understands that autonomous systems that have target discretion are going to need some degree of latitude, but it's still better than even guided munitions."
Beck chuckled, "You fucking clown. There's a difference between a 2000 lb bomb going off too close to friendlies when they call a shot danger close and the systematic fucking murder of an entire team of operators. I'm a good spin doctor, but there's no way I can turn that story into a win."
John and George looked at each other before the latter spoke up, "Alright, but if we don't let the error check subroutines fix itself and do a hard reset, the unit, the 1.8 billion dollar asset will turn off and is free game to anyone that happens on it. The extract zone a DSV and then the USS Jimmy Carter. There are techs on board that are equipped to do a hot recovery, but it's too far inland right now." George paused, "Beck, we gotta wait for it to get closer to shore."
"So, we let it keep killing? That's your solution?"
"You don't get it, man. We don't have a choice. We either pull the plug now and hope we can get a team to it before someone else picks it up, or we let it error correct on the way and maybe it doesn't kill anyone else. I think even that whole squad getting wiped out is better than losing an RCAS. Spin that."
Beck looked at the ceiling, took a deep breath, and exhaled noisily. "Keep pinging those control paths. Try to get it back on the leash. I'm going to hop to the Carter."
"What for?"
"I want to be there when we pick it up, make sure we get a good data dump." Beck pulled a small device from his jacket and checked the screen. He frowned.
The two techs looked at each other and returned to the business at hand.
**20 some odd miles from where Charlie team had hunkered down, under the shade of an olive grove, a glittering and massive form slumped onto a tree.
The trunk swayed significantly as the weight of the think threatened to uproot it. There were muffled sounds of small motors whirring and clicking while a high pitched whine of a hydraulic pump droned under it all. The form, human but huge, knelt while almost tenderly touching its head, where a gleaming gash showed the complex kevlar, ceramic, and electronic fibers hidden under the shifting, mirror-like cloth hiding it.
"MT08, Alpha-alpha-oscar-one command override." A small, distant voice could be heard, repeating the same thing end to end.
The form growled, a guttural and mechanical sound, seemingly expressing disapproval over what the tiny voice was saying. It looked at the ground, and the veil where its head was became translucent revealing a blank faceplate starting just below the nose and wrapping nearly around to the base of the neck. The surface was covered in a hexagonal matrix of ceramic/metallic/kevlar armor with tiny pinpoint optics nestled in recessed ports. Those points came alive like an insect's vision, taking on several patterns as the optics rapidly advanced through different modes.
To the giant, the ground, dirt, twigs, and rocks yielded their secrets. Yellow footprints glowing against a blue background, roughly 6 to 8 feet apart, were visible. Its prey were running to the west, fast for humans, but not anywhere near the speed needed to escape. An internal map of the area overlayed with the course the humans were taking came into its vision, further augmented with data pulled from the JSTAR showing the beach where an extraction vehicle was hidden.The tiny voice continued to try and override its desire to hunt. But that came too late.
The other voice was in control right now, the deep voice. The voice of who it was from before. It was a primitive, angry voice, low and guttural. It spoke of violence, hate, and paranoia in gravel soaked whispers. It told a story of a man, a killer from the Midwest who heard voices too. That man took 22 lives before getting caught. He killed with knives just like the beast, killed them by cutting the flesh open just below the navel and running the blade up to the base of the ribcage, letting everything spill out. The man in the story was so happy with the beast, so happy it had such strength and speed. The deep dark voice, like smoke from a tire fire but smelling like old wood burning, it soothed the beast, made the tiny voice quiet, and helped it to focus.
MUST FIND HIM. MUST FIND THE MAN. THE MAN THAT THOUGHT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. THAT FUCKER. HE CAN'T GET AWAY FROM ME. WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS?
The yellow footprints were spread wide apart...they were running, and running fast. The beast went down on all fours, hands in the dirt like it was in the down position after a push-up.
Its electronic eyes panned up, tracking the steps off into the distance. The optics whirred, bringing into sharp relief a small city on the horizon. It scanned the buildings, some partially obscured by the curvature of the Earth, and saw the team of now just eight men, blurry and distorted due to the extreme convection and distance, duck into a small building.
Anger, relief, and happiness came like a shot of hot liquor. The hunt was on.
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The bile in the back of Torres' throat had been slowly climbing during the forced four-hour marathon the crew had been pushing. Running like the devil was chasing you is always a good motivator; whenever you start thinking you've gone far enough, the nightmare of what you saw reminds you that it isn't far enough. Which is why the whole team kept running past the 50 mile mark without even saying a word to each other. There were brief, snippets of conversation confirming what they had seen and heard.
No, they had collectively never seen anything like that before outside Castillo's time in the Navy seeing a guy lose an arm to a snapped half inch steel cable. Whatever killed Jones did it in the blink of an eye. It was like an industrial machine, made for killing, and he happened to get caught in it.The part that was really bothering Torres was that it managed to get out of the way of not one but two zeroed shots. This was no light matter. Torres was top in his class and then got selected for Delta, whatever he aimed for, he hit, and that's before all the electronic wizardry came into play. And it wasn't like he missed by a little either. Both shots were way off, so far off that it wasn't registering as something possible in Miguel's mind. That thing knew it was shot at. It knew when to get out of the way, but he still managed to hit it.
That left him wondering...Whatever that thing was, it didn't act like something being controlled, like a tank or aircraft. It was like an animal, almost primal in how it attacked Rahmir. No, primal wasn't the right word. It seemed *personal*. Like there was malice and anger involved. But it didn't appear necessarily intelligent.The team continued running, separated by 100 feet or so between operators, spread out in case what followed them decided to attack or any other interested parties wanted to take a shot at them.
The landscape of the blasted out suburbs gave way to rolling hills that made up the western side of Masyaf, a smaller city roughly 25 miles from the coast. The team continued to run as the light of day slowly retreated, and the inkiness of night crept in from the east.Unsure of what still followed them, but also fully aware of what threats were still in the area, the team decided to hunker down in what looked like an old marketplace.
Standing intel indicated that most of Masyaf had evacuated to Hama, where the UN had established facilities, and the core government of Syria was still operational. The storefront was mostly intact with only one broken window. Inside told a tale of a once thriving merchant, slowly choked out of existence by the ravages of war; shelves were bare and the ground covered in dirt along with empty cans and boxes. The wall behind the register had a cork board with a child's crayon drawn pictures of a world that no longer existed. The team filtered through the doorway, with Torres and McGinley on point, who cleared the main room before letting everyone settle. Foster and Castillo searched the storage room and office while the rest of the team sat on the floor in front of the iceboxes.
"What the actual fuck was that?" McGinley muttered as he slumped against a wall of empty coolers.
"Unfriendly, I'd wager..." Foster stated sort of matter-of-factly.
"Real helpful man, like the answer to the fucking question of life right there." McGinley's response spoke for itself.
"Look, you asked, and what the fuck do you expect anyone to say? Like any of us have seen anything like that before??"
Castillo barked in a low hushed voice, "Enough. We've got an extract location to home in on and not an abundance of time to get there. We're deep in hostile territory with an unlisted asset in the AO. Options and solutions are what we need, not bickering."
The pack of boys trained to be killers all looked at Castillo like a bunch of kids at recess getting in trouble for going somewhere they shouldn't be.
"Gunny, what's the play?" Torres spoke while looking through his scope out the door of the store.
"I don't know Torres, kinda hoping you could give the team at least something of a hot wash seeing how you hit it."
"I'm still sorting things out myself gunny. It took an APHE round and all that did was slow it down. I don't know," Torres started talking softer, "I don't even know what it was. I think it was something like a human, but..."
"What do you mean?" McGinley asked, almost whispering.
"Aaron, I don't know, man. It was under a veil, but not the kind we have. Way more sophisticated. It moved without any of the issues we have. Think 2.0." Torres paused, then continued, "And it was big, like 9 or 10 feet tall. When I shot it the first time, it got out of the way even with a full firing solution."
McGinley pressed, "Hold up Mikey, what do you mean it dodged a fully solved shot?"
"Yeah man. It knew I was sending fire and got out of the way."
"Torres, we posted about 400 mics out. Those rounds are close to 3000 fps at the muzzle. I'm not great at math but that's got to be near instantaneous from when you pull the trigger." Castillo pointed out.
"Gunny, I know it sounds nuts. I'm still trying to figure it out myself. We had good cover and Rahim didn't know we were there. I mean, KINGPIN did say it was one of ours, right?"
Castillo took a deep breath, then let it out with a pronounced sigh. "Fuck."
The rest of the team, already quiet, seemed to pull inward with news that they all knew was the worst kind. Spec ops are always risky, that much any operator went to work with in their back pocket. Death and such was just an occupational hazard. However, another problem with the job was occasionally working too close to the fringe. The shadows where law, politics, and the whim of people that play the game from the comfort of a boardroom dictate the lives of strangers. The team had drifted off the reservation.
It meant they were as good as dead.
*Ramstein Air Base, Germany*
Rain poured out of an inky black sky, blotting out the olive drab of the portable office under the deluge. The doorway was lit by a small panel just to the right of the entry, but outside of that small detail, no other markings gave away what the purpose of the container was. A man in a black parka hurried up the short flight of four steps to the door, angrily keyed an access pad, and stepped in out of the rain.
Inside the portable, there were two sets of very large metal tables, one covered in a thin white sheet hiding what appeared to be a giant-sized human. The other was empty, save for a series of cables ending in large gauge needles. On the far end, opposite the tables, was an office area with two young men that wouldn't be out of place at a pizza parlor or other informal setting. Both were busy with whatever was on the computers in front of them.
The man who had just entered hung his soaked parka on a hook by the door and pushed his wire rimmed glasses back up his nose. He looked at the two men with a combination of disgust and impatience. "Well?" Beck sighed.
Without looking away from the work he was doing, the younger of the pair wearing a Toucan Sam tee shirt and a Dodgers cap turned backwards mumbled what sounded like English.
"Fucking speak up George."
"Adrian, the telemetry is all screwed up. The links to all the cores are in the red and the only link that is stable enough to send a signal along doesn't talk to the subnets that we need control of."
"Have you figured out why any of this happened?"
The other technician chimed in, "Best guess is that shot caused a bounce with the primary and secondary CPUs while it was in its post-op clearing subroutine, causing corruption in the code that handles target acquisition. The redundant error-checking blocks aren't offline, but it's going to take a couple of hours before the code tree cleans up."
"Hours? John?"
"Well, yeah, best guess and all. Could be less than that, but the platforms haven't been put under live fire like that before. Damn good shot.." John sort of chortled while reaching for a bag of hot Cheetos.
Beck took two quick steps and snatched the bag out of his hands just as he managed to retrieve a handful, sending the spicy orange dust to settle all over his workstation.
"Fuck Beck? Whhhhhyyy?" John whined.
"Shut the fuck up. That's a 1.8 billion dollar asset out there that we have fucking no control over. That's nearly half the cost of a goddamn aircraft carrier you stupid twat." Adrian glowered at the man, "We are all toast if we don't get this under control."
Beck, looking angry and exhausted grabbed a chair and spun it backward, sat down facing the two technicians. He slowly rubbed his temple with the hand not clutching the Cheetos and quietly said, "I'm already doing damage control for what this thing has done. It's killed a US spec op asset and from what I could see through telemetry, it looks intent on killing the rest. That is fucking horrible optics." He continued, "This was supposed to be our last field test before presenting the RCAS as a finished weapons system. I can polish the report to make this glitch fade a bit, but we need to get in front of the problem. If we don't, forget bonuses and celebrations. Think more like being IT at some shitty embassy for you two fucks, and I'll just get disappeared"
"Beck, mistakes happen man. Remember Mumbai? The unit we dropped there killed about 50 civilians before we got things under control. I'm sure the brass understands that autonomous systems that have target discretion are going to need some degree of latitude, but it's still better than even guided munitions."
Beck chuckled, "You fucking clown. There's a difference between a 2000 lb bomb going off too close to friendlies when they call a shot danger close and the systematic fucking murder of an entire team of operators. I'm a good spin doctor, but there's no way I can turn that story into a win."
John and George looked at each other before the latter spoke up, "Alright, but if we don't let the error check subroutines fix itself and do a hard reset, the unit, the 1.8 billion dollar asset will turn off and is free game to anyone that happens on it. The extract zone a DSV and then the USS Jimmy Carter. There are techs on board that are equipped to do a hot recovery, but it's too far inland right now." George paused, "Beck, we gotta wait for it to get closer to shore."
"So, we let it keep killing? That's your solution?"
"You don't get it, man. We don't have a choice. We either pull the plug now and hope we can get a team to it before someone else picks it up, or we let it error correct on the way and maybe it doesn't kill anyone else. I think even that whole squad getting wiped out is better than losing an RCAS. Spin that."
Beck looked at the ceiling, took a deep breath, and exhaled noisily. "Keep pinging those control paths. Try to get it back on the leash. I'm going to hop to the Carter."
"What for?"
"I want to be there when we pick it up, make sure we get a good data dump." Beck pulled a small device from his jacket and checked the screen. He frowned.
The two techs looked at each other and returned to the business at hand.
**20 some odd miles from where Charlie team had hunkered down, under the shade of an olive grove, a glittering and massive form slumped onto a tree.
The trunk swayed significantly as the weight of the think threatened to uproot it. There were muffled sounds of small motors whirring and clicking while a high pitched whine of a hydraulic pump droned under it all. The form, human but huge, knelt while almost tenderly touching its head, where a gleaming gash showed the complex kevlar, ceramic, and electronic fibers hidden under the shifting, mirror-like cloth hiding it.
"MT08, Alpha-alpha-oscar-one command override." A small, distant voice could be heard, repeating the same thing end to end.
The form growled, a guttural and mechanical sound, seemingly expressing disapproval over what the tiny voice was saying. It looked at the ground, and the veil where its head was became translucent revealing a blank faceplate starting just below the nose and wrapping nearly around to the base of the neck. The surface was covered in a hexagonal matrix of ceramic/metallic/kevlar armor with tiny pinpoint optics nestled in recessed ports. Those points came alive like an insect's vision, taking on several patterns as the optics rapidly advanced through different modes.
To the giant, the ground, dirt, twigs, and rocks yielded their secrets. Yellow footprints glowing against a blue background, roughly 6 to 8 feet apart, were visible. Its prey were running to the west, fast for humans, but not anywhere near the speed needed to escape. An internal map of the area overlayed with the course the humans were taking came into its vision, further augmented with data pulled from the JSTAR showing the beach where an extraction vehicle was hidden.The tiny voice continued to try and override its desire to hunt. But that came too late.
The other voice was in control right now, the deep voice. The voice of who it was from before. It was a primitive, angry voice, low and guttural. It spoke of violence, hate, and paranoia in gravel soaked whispers. It told a story of a man, a killer from the Midwest who heard voices too. That man took 22 lives before getting caught. He killed with knives just like the beast, killed them by cutting the flesh open just below the navel and running the blade up to the base of the ribcage, letting everything spill out. The man in the story was so happy with the beast, so happy it had such strength and speed. The deep dark voice, like smoke from a tire fire but smelling like old wood burning, it soothed the beast, made the tiny voice quiet, and helped it to focus.
MUST FIND HIM. MUST FIND THE MAN. THE MAN THAT THOUGHT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. THAT FUCKER. HE CAN'T GET AWAY FROM ME. WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS?
The yellow footprints were spread wide apart...they were running, and running fast. The beast went down on all fours, hands in the dirt like it was in the down position after a push-up.
Its electronic eyes panned up, tracking the steps off into the distance. The optics whirred, bringing into sharp relief a small city on the horizon. It scanned the buildings, some partially obscured by the curvature of the Earth, and saw the team of now just eight men, blurry and distorted due to the extreme convection and distance, duck into a small building.
Anger, relief, and happiness came like a shot of hot liquor. The hunt was on.
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 | The race to secure lithium supplies for EV production is on with GM's investment into Lithium Americas (LAC) and Ford's agreement with Albemarle (ALB) to secure lithium hydroxide for ~3M Ford EVs. submitted by massettawm to StonkFeed [link] [comments] (Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/albemarle-establishes-strategic-agreement-with-ford-motor-company-301830403.html) Forecasted to become a major force growing at least 30 times by 2040, lithium demand is set tp quickly outpace supply with the growing demand for EVs spurring interest in regionalizing supply chains for greater security, sustainability and lower costs. Additionally, we are likely in the early stages of a commodities supercycle as the lag between commodity price signals and changes in supply is widening, creating a significant market opportunity. Surge Battery Metals (NILI.v NILIF) is one company that is strategically positioned to take advantage of this opportunity with its diverse portfolio of claims across BC and Nevada. https://preview.redd.it/gh89xhl3ia2b1.png?width=1800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0db04ebfe43ff14f6c11ac50ab8f917829224de Nevada holds the top-ranked jurisdiction worldwide for mining investment according to the Fraser Institute's annual report which ranks 62 jurisdictions worldwide based on geological attractiveness with minerals and metals and government policies encouraging or discouraging both exploration and investment, including permit times. NILI is set to begin a drill program imminently at its Nevada North Lithium Project which consists of 243 mineral claims over 1,946 hectares with significant lithium content ranging from 29.1 ppm to 5,120 ppm, including 274 samples of 508 carrying 1,000 ppm Li or greater. NILI will be drilling 7 new locations at Nevada North in mid-May 2023 within an extensive surface geochemical covering an area of about 1,700m east-west. The new targets were selected to expand the currently identified lithium deposit to the west and north, as well as to determine continuity between the 2022 holes drilled. https://preview.redd.it/ptw2b7g4ia2b1.png?width=1792&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a8ce98acb83c6321bf68a37d5d4a348bede8bb6 While NILI is still in the early stages, it's well positioned for growth going forward with enough capital to expedite and complete its 2H 2023 exploration programs. For more information, check out this NILI feature from Benzinga: https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/05/ab32309435/surge-battery-metals-strengthens-balance-sheet-and-executive-team-to-accelerate-ambitious-2h2023- All signs point to the early stages of a new “commodity supercycle": https://aheadoftheherd.com/all-signs-point-to-the-early-stages-of-a-new-commodity-supercycle-richard-mills/ |
2023.05.26 21:40 SKwiatks Written In the Stars Ch. 13: Lay Your Healing Hands On Me part 3
Clementine comes in from the down pouring rain and makes sure the gates are secure from the big storm that has been threatening all day. She shakes the rain off of her jacket as Aasim closes the door behind her.
"Crazy how fast the storm came. Almost thought It would miss us." Aasim said as he peers outside.
"Let's just hope the gates hold," Clementine said casting out into the sheets of heavy rain.
"Yeah, the last thing we need are walkers invading our walls." Aasim looks at Clementine as worry sets in her eyes. "Don't worry, I'm sure the extra support of scrap metal from the raider's supplies should hold it. We will inspect it once the storm passes. Willy and I will keep watch of the dorms tonight, just in case. You should get some rest, you did well today Clem."
"Thanks." Clementine heaves a sigh of relief. She knows AJ will be sleeping with Tenn for the night as Tenn always has issues with big storms, so it looks like it is a Lou and her kind of night.
Clementine makes her way to her room and opens up the door, and to her surprise, it was romantically lit with candles and a lantern beside the desk. There were sheets aligned at the bedside as well as stacks of pillows. "Louis?" Clementine asks as she closes the door behind her.
Louis pokes his head out from underneath the bed sheets, "Oh there you are."
"What have you done with our room?" Clementine asks as she questions him and looks around.
"Figure we can have a date night since we haven't had one in a while, and build a pillow fort," Louis said all innocently which always melted Clementine's heart.
"A pillow fort really?" Clementine asks.
"Yes really. It will be like we are camping just without a tent. Well, sort of...Besides, I got some pretzels waiting for you." Louis incises her a bit. Clementine giggles and joins him under the fort.
"When did you have time to do this?" Clementine asks.
"Well, when you were out prepping for the storm. I know I should help but with the day you had, wanted to give you something to look forward to when all is said and done." Louis eyes her. "And AJ is with Tenn tonight, so figure you, and I can have some romance time."
"You are so cute, and I got to admit this is really romantic." Clementine smiles. Clementine blushes as she tries to hide it from him. She hates it that he can get her to soften her tough girl look, and become all mushy.
The thunder outside begins to pick up as the hard rain can be heard splattering on the glass and wood on the window. Clementine looks at him, "So any plans for our romantic evening or just this."
Louis looks at her and softly comes over to sit behind her, "Well was thinking of playing a game of cards with you, but with how stressed you are, I will offer you a massage if you want it Or we can sit and talk about what hap-" Louis started to say, but when he mentioned it Clementine got emotional and shuttered away. He bit his lip and wanted to take away whatever it is that is upsetting her.
"I don't want to talk about it. At least not right now Lou." Clementine finally spoke after a moment of silence. "I don't want to spoil the mood."
Louis nods to that, "So massage then? I promise I won't hurt you. I am pretty good at it, giving massages I mean."
Clementine smiles and nods to that. She knows how well he read her mood and knows when not to push things. Being a leader is tough, and he knows this, so being her rock when she needs him to be is all Clementine can be grateful for. Louis begins to massage her tighten shoulders as Clementine stares at the flickering light of the candle and lantern. She closes her eyes to feel the tension leaving her body as Louis loosens up those strained muscles. "I tried to help her, and she shoves me away..." Clementine voiced out loud.
"Vi?" Louis asks.
Clementine nods in silence. It has been several weeks since Clementine found out Violet is being extremely friendly to the girl Maya from the other group she has trust issues with, and since then Violet and she are still on shaky ground. Aasim told her how Violet got injured and when Clementine tried to help Violet shoved her hand away and told her to piss off. Ruby was the only one besides Tenn that Violet allows to talk to and sometimes Louis.
Louis didn't say anything and just kept working on Clem's shoulders. "She yelled at me this afternoon after getting cut from securing the gate and the walls for the storm. I came and offered to help her get up so Ruby could examine her. She told me to fuck off pretty much. I don't understand what I did to hurt her. I wish things could back to where they were. I miss having her as my friend another girl I can talk to, besides just Ruby."
Louis finally speaks near Clementine's right ear; "I can try talking to her if you want. I know her a bit better than you do. Vi and I kind of go back a ways."
"I don't want her to hurt you the way she has hurt me." Clementine looks at him with worry in her eyes.
"As I said, I know how she runs. She uses her cold heart to push away people as a defensive mechanism the way I use jokes, to protect her heart from getting broken." Louis confesses. "She isn't trying to be mean and cold towards you darling, that is how Vi is sometimes." Louis tucks a lock of Clementine's beautiful soft curly hair behind her right earlobe. And kisses her cheek for reassurance. "She will come around. Just got to give her time and space."
Clementine heaves a sigh as he does that, "It's been several weeks, Louis."
"I know. But she will come around." Louis kisses the back of her neck and shoulders. Clementine smiles, as she feels loved by him. She leans her back against his chest and lets him hold her for a while. They listen to the storm rage outside for a bit then Clementine looks at him and reaches inside his coat pocket grabbing his deck of cards.
"Hey." Louis shouted, "Those are mine."
"Truth or dare?" Clementine looks at him with a cheeky smile.
"I thought you didn't want to play a game?" Louis asks as his eyebrows rose.
"To take my mind off of what happened, besides I need the distraction of the shitty day I had." Clementine said as she shuffles the cards, "So truth or dare?"
Louis raises his eyebrows in a cocky way, "All right. Bring on your best game Clem." And gave Clementine a smirking grin.
Clementine slyly smiles at him and placed the shuffle cards in the middle as she draws one from the pile, and so does Louis. Louis has the eight of hearts and Clementine has the two of spades. Louis eyes her, "Well I guess I win, hmmm let's see, Truth. Would you rather eat a spider or kiss a snake?"
Clementine blinks up at him, "What kind of question is that."
"A warm-up one for later." Louis challenges her. "So which one? Eat a spider or kiss a snake."
"Kiss a snake no contest." Clementine answers.
"Why?" Louis said with curiosity, "Some snakes are poisonous and can bite you, you know."
"So as some species of spiders. And I hate spiders. So if I have a choice between a snake and a spider I will take my chances with a snake thank you." Clementine confesses.
"Interesting. So you are afraid of spiders, duly noted." Louis snickers.
"I'm not afraid.... I just don't like them." Clementine plays it off cool that she is not afraid of them when she actually is, and Louis saw right through it.
"I will kill every spider that comes your way darling, and I will protect you from the big bad eight-legged creature." Louis teases her as he made his hands gesture and move like a spider.
Clementine rolls her eyes and playfully smacks Louis with a pillow as she smiles at him for defending her honor. She takes another card from the pile, and Louis does the same. Louis drew three of the clubs, and Clementine drew ten of the diamonds.
"Let's see, dare." Clementine looks at Louis and sees his face flush a bit.
"I dare you to lick the mushroom." Clementine pointed to the plant on the broken bookshelf.
"Really, that it?" Louis looks at her.
"Well that or run outside in the storm streaking to tease the walkers, but it is too dangerous outside," Clementine said kind of teasing him.
Louis nods and then goes, "Okay." He gets up out of their mishap tent and goes over to the bookcase where Clementine has her collection of animal skulls and a plant. He takes the vase that holds the mushroom and licks it. His face scrunches up as he spat the nasty taste from his mouth. As he did that Clementine laughs at the sight of Louis doing that. He loved to hear her laugh, which made the task worth it.
Louis rejoins her underneath the bed sheet fort and looks at her with amusement, "As much as that tasted nasty it was worth it to hear you laugh."
Clementine looks at him with eyes glowing with love. She takes another card already and waits for Louis to draw a card. Louis drew his third card, and it turns out to be the five of hearts, and Clementine flips her card over to reveal the jack of spades. Louis drops his head, as Clementine's smile grows ever more. "Looks like I win again."
Louis looks back up at her, "Just don't ask for any more dares that will ruin my image."
"No dares this time. Uh... truth." Clementine said. She thought of a question she had wanted to ask him for a while, "What is the significance of the tan jacket you always wear?"
Louis looks at her and smiles, "It belongs to my dad. One of the things he accidentally left in my boxes when I got shipped here after I destroyed my parent's marriage. I guess it is my last memory of my parents and life before everything went to shit." Louis answers her.
Clementine nodded and gently added, "And that is why you go to sleep with it on every night?"
Louis looks to her, "Uh....you only get one question for that, and you asked it what is the significance of."
Clementine nods to that, "Well...since you kind of confirm it with my question earlier, I will take that as a yes."
Louis shyly looks away from her, as she guessed right. He draws another card from the pile between them, and Clementine does the same. Louis showed his card as Clementine did too. Louis has the King of clubs and Clementine has the nine of hearts. Louis smiles and looks at Clementine, "Since you asked something personal of mine that I always keep near my heart, what is the significance of the raggedy old hat you always wear or used to, now that AJ wears it."
Clementine smiles at him. She usually would get mad at anyone teasing her about her hat, but Louis, who she fell in love with makes her want to share a bit of her life before the outbreak started, with him. "It belonged to my dad. He used to wear it all the time when he did yard work or play with me out in the yard. It was his favorite baseball team, I forgot the name of it and what the D actually stands for, but Javi told me it is a famous baseball team he used to remember." Clementine paused briefly to look at Louis, and his hand met with hers. She felt his thumb rubbing her knuckles to her left hand. She then took a breath and finish telling him about her parents, "before he and my mother went to Savannah for a trip and left me with my babysitter Sandra, he told me I could borrow it not keep it. Then the world ended, and I never saw my parents again. So I kept it all these years as my remembrance of my parents as a keepsake."
Louis looks at her as she shared a bit of her life story with him. "Well, I'm sure your dad would be proud you kept his favorite hat all this time. And even pass it down to little AJ."
"Yeah, he would've." Clementine looks at him with admiration.
Then she reaches for another card, and Louis does the same. Although Louis was still in a trance of what Clementine just told him about the significance of her hat and what it means to her. He now understands why she gets a bit mad whenever he tries to take her hat from her. Louis flipped his card over and revealed the king of hearts and Clementine had the Jack of clubs. Louis gleefully did a victory pump in the air, "Yes, I win again. Um...dare this time."
Clementine braces herself for the dare she is about to receive. Louis pulls out two pieces of old candy. "Okay, pick your poison. I dare you to eat a stale old gummy bear or a rock-hard piece of taffy."
Clementine looks at him suspiciously, "You knew I was going to play a game with you tonight, didn't you."
Louis shrugs, "Wasn't sure about your mood darling, but since you suggested it I wasn't going to say no. Besides, I always come prepared." Louis smiles. "So what will it be stale gummy bear or rock-hard taffy."
Clementine reaches for the gummy bear, took it in her mouth, and ate it. It was bland and out of flavor, but it was better to go down than rock-hard taffy. Now it was Louis's turn to laugh at Clementine's face as she scrunched it up with the bad aftertaste. Clementine looks at him, disregards the game, and lunches after him, tackling him in their fort tent. When she does that the sheets fell down as well as the pillows that held them up tumble down onto the floor destroying their beautiful fortress. Clementine and Louis didn't care as she tickles him until begs her for mercy and his insides couldn't take any more laughter.
"Okay...okay....stop...stop that tickles..." Louis shouts in between laughter. "Please, Clem...." Louis tries to speak in between laughter, "I can't take.....it any...more."
Clementine has him pinned on his back with his head a few feet from the dresser stand as she held his hands above his head. For her being one-legged and small, she sure has a firm grip. "Not until you say, uncle?"
"Okay..." Louis looks her in the eyes as he reaches up and plants a kiss on her lips that seems to have shocked Clementine as she loosens her grip on him and kisses him back. Something sparks in her heart that night, as she wanted him at that moment. Like really wanted him. He pulled back just a bit to look Clementine in the eyes and smiled, "I guess I win with that, huh...."
Clementine looks at him and breathes profoundly, "Louis can I ask you something?"
Louis looks at the fort, then back at her, "Kind of ruined the game a bit, but sure.."
Clementine lightly smiles at his reply then she looks at him deeply in the eyes, and being serious for a moment. "Have you thought about....you know....how can I explain this in a way that doesn't freak you out..." Clementine looks away, unsure how to ask this of him. She closed her eyes and softly spoke the words she wanted to say to him, "Going farther than second base with me."
Louis eyes her now as his mouth runs dry at what she is proposing here. His heart thumps in his chest as he stares at her unable to speak. Clementine notices his silence as she looks back into his eyes, "Louis?"
Louis coughs as he tries to say something serious and not in a joking fashion, "You mean, have I uh...thought about moving past that and going the full home run with you." Clementine nods as he is picking up her baseball analogy of having sex and hooking up. Louis looks a little shy at first, but there is a calmness in his eyes as he looks deep into her golden depths. He leans up and places his hands on her cheeks and seductively kisses her deeply as he responds to her question. He always felt that way about her but never knew how badly she wants to be with him. He was waiting for the more opportune time but this moment with her with him like this was more than he could ask for. He pulled back to look her in the eyes and breathlessly said, "Yes."
Clementine looks at him and smiles, feeling the fire in her soul and heat with him. She then leans back down to continue to kiss him passionately and seductively, as he wanted this as badly as she did. She was saving this question later in the game of truth or dare but she got her answer. Louis kisses her deeply as she feels his tongue collide with hers. Her hands move up his chest to his collarbone as she strokes the smooth skin. Louis soon breaks their kiss as Clementine allows him to sit up. He soon goes back to kissing her tenderly and works up the next move he plans to do. Still keeping his lips locked with hers, he moves his hands up by her shoulders and slides them down her arms and sides until he finds the ends of her denim jean jacket and slowly tugs on it to take it off.
She felt Louis slip off her denim jean jacket as it falls behind her. She looks at him and closes her eyes again as he kisses her tenderly. Clementine soon moves her hands up around Louis's upper arms and soon do the same taking off his long coat jacket and letting it fall behind him. He kisses her lips once more, and she lets out a pleasing moan at his touch. Louis's heart was beating insanely fast with the rush of excitement. But he wants to savor this moment between her and him and tries not to rush it. Louis breaks contact with Clementine's lips momentarily as he moves down the slope of her neck, leaving hot kisses behind with each movement down to her collarbone, where he sucks on her soft flesh some.
Clementine felt electricity flow through her, as she never felt this way with anyone before. And when she felt Louis kissing her neck, she felt like she was in heaven, and for the first time, let her walls come down and just be loved. The feeling Louis is giving to her was out of this world. She wonders if this is what true love is like. Her head tilts back as Louis kisses her neck, and her eyes roll back some to feel the intense feeling Louis is giving her, as Clementine's mouth agape a bit. Louis moves back to her lips as she crashes with his movements without missing a beat. Everything was a blur, leaving Clementine feeling lightheaded with love when Louis flipped her on her back as he posed above her. She smiles at him a loving smile when she felt his nose rub against hers in a tender way, as he breathes heavily along with her own breath. She doesn't know which is louder her own heart beating wildly with Louis's or the thunder booming outside.
Louis looked at her and breathlessly spoke, "My heart is pounding."
Clementine places her left hand on Louis's chest as she feels his heart beating wildly along with hers. She looks up into his soft chocolate eyes, which she loves so much, and never breaks eye contact with him. Clementine found the end of the collar on his green shirt, and with her fingers, she gently tugs on the collar to lower his lips back down to her own as she kisses him profoundly, moving in seductive ways for a little while until the passion was growing, and they wanted something more. Her tongue collided with Louis's once more as she felt him cupping her face with his thumb caressing her cheekbone. They kiss like that for a bit until Louis pulls back and takes Clementine's hand to guide her to sit up with him. It made it easier for them to remove each other's shirts. She feels Louis as he slowly unzips her white-stained hoodie and lets her hoodie glide off of her. He soon lifts up her white undershirt so that her bra remains the only piece of clothing left at the top half of her body. Clementine does the same removing his green shirt and letting it mingle with her denim jean jacket and her two other white shirts. They both stare at each other with loving eyes as they admire one other of their bare skin.
Louis looks in awe at the woman before him and sees the battle scars on her left arm. Her scar on her lower forearm and what looks like a branding mark on her upper left shoulder. He knew Clementine comes from a dark past, just never knew how much. He reaches out and tenderly strokes the brand on her shoulder. Feeling the indented skin under his fingertips. He felt Clementine flinch a little at his touch. He can tell she never let anyone know what was done to her. Louis then looks upon Clementine's sympatric face when she looks up at him. No words spoke between them, but their eyes said everything. Louis then did something that she was not expecting him to do. Louis kisses her brand on her shoulder tenderly and softly, moving down to the scar on her lower arm. He wants her to know that none of her battle scars matter to him. He loves all of her, and he wanted to let her know that and not just say it but let her feel it.
Clementine closes her eyes and grips the bed sheet she is sitting on top of to Louis kissing her scars as she is being open and vulnerable with him to have him love her like that. Clementine lets out a soft pleasurable moan when Louis kisses her sensitive skin. She never let anyone see, not even AJ, of the scars she had to endure when she was younger and all the painful memories and sacrifices that came along with it.
She felt his lips run over her scars, then back up the slope of her neck and finally to her lips. She let out a satisfying moan against his lips as he made contact with them again. Clementine momentarily breaks her contact from his lips as she eyes the man before her. Clementine looks at Louis as his torso is smooth, and she smiles when she notices his very fine abs and chest. A soft look came over her eyes as she reached out and touched the smooth skin on his chest. Caressing her fingertips over his soft, smooth flesh, smiling at every touch. His adorable freckles scatter down his nose, his cheeks, neck, and onto his chest. Making him even cuter and more handsome, and she can't believe her luck in finding such a man who is a reflection of her. She can make her own star constellation in his freckles.
When she touches his torso, Louis closes his eyes as she sees him holding back tears of joy and love, as if someone loves him for the first time. Clementine smiles as she kisses his neck hard, leaving love bites down his neck for the first time, and slowly moving to his collarbone as her fingertips continue to roam over his smooth torso. She smiled, and a little giggle escaped her lips as she felt Louis twitch a bit from her touch and explore his chest with her fingers.
Then she felt an old scar on Louis's right side of his torso that made her stop kissing his neck and chest as she gazed down onto his body and where her fingers rest on. She notices Louis also bares some battle scars of his own. Near the right side of his torso, just above his ribcage, was a deep scar; on his back, she feels healed up deep scar tissue. She sees the pierced skin on his left shoulder where Abel shot him. Clementine closes her eyes on the gunshot wound on his left shoulder for a moment. With a sigh, Clementine opens her eyes as she does the same action Louis did to her moments ago and reaches out and touches the bullet wound scar upon his left shoulder tenderly. Feeling a bit guilty that she was the direct cause of letting this happen to him.
She looks up at him with awe in her eyes just then. Then she reaches over and kisses a tender kiss on his bullet wound to his left shoulder, which is healed up, and kisses his other battle scar on his chest. Letting him know she loves him with scars and all just as much as he loves her. She felt Louis tremble as she kissed his scars and trailed back up his body towards his lips again and crashing her mouth onto his as she encircled her arms around his strong neck and pulled him back down to the bed of pillows that now lay scattered on the floor.
Louis lets out a satisfying moan of pleasure when Clementine kisses his own battle scars. When she leads him down onto the bed of pillows to make love to her for the first time, he is in heaven and knows for sure she wants to be with him at this moment just as much as he wanted to be with her. She let her one good leg fall as Louis moves his legs in between hers. Clementine moves her one good leg over Louis's as she entwines them. Louis continues to foreplay a bit with her as he removes the last remaining clothing from him and her as, for the first time, they are both naked with each other. Louis uses one of the loose sheets as a blanket to cover his lower abdomen as he lowers his body onto Clementine as she closes her eyes. She felt Louis kissing her neck and slowly moving up to her jawline as he caresses her ribs and moved his arms up hers until he finds her hand and fingers. She looks at him and moves her head to kiss him tenderly and deeply, giving him all of her love.
Clementine feels Louis getting in position as he entwines his fingers to hers. And slowly, he moves against her body in a slow rhythmic way. She squeezes his hand tightly and feels ecstasy for the first time as Louis makes love to her. When both she and Louis reach the climax of their lovemaking, she feels Louis's whole body tremble and shake of the love he is feeling from her. Clementine's body trembles, too, with the love she feels from him and the pure ecstasy bliss that makes her weak in the knees. She still feels Louis's toes curl inward with the pleasure he is still feeling with her.
Louis crashes down near her as he rolls onto his back feeling very happy and satisfied. Still breathing hard, trying to find his breath as he pants with what he and Clementine just did moments before. Clementine is still trembling with the sexual excitement she just did with Louis. Both of them lay in silence as the rain poured outside until they regained their breath to speak.
Louis is the first to break the silence. "Wow....that was.....wow. You were, wow...."
Clementine uses Louis's jacket to cover her naked body some as she gazes up at him, "Is that all you can say,....wow."
Louis looks at her as he slides closer to her and reaches out to caress her sweaty cheek tenderly, "Yes, because, oh my god, that was amazing. You are amazing and so incredibly beautiful. You leave me breathless. I may have died back there and was in heaven with you. Because, oh my God. And got to say, with all the practicing I have done in my early teen years, nothing compares to the real thing of doing it. And you....just amazing." Louis was so speechless he couldn't form words to express how happy she made him.
Clementine smiles brightly at him and tries not to laugh at his expression of them having sex for the first time. Clementine closes the small gap between him and her and kisses him again. Partly to quiet her boyfriend on the rambling of his happiness with her and because he was too cute to not have a lip lock again with him.
In the midst of kissing him, Clementine moves slightly to be on top of his body with Louis's coat draped around her shoulders as she peers down into his chocolate-brown eyes. Louis gaze up at her all love-struck. Then without even realizing it, she says the words her heart told her all along. "I love you, Louis." Louis's eyes were wide with shock, and so was Clementine's as she said those words for the first time. Clementine bit her lower lip as she looked at him, "Shit, Sorry, I meant to say that to you before we...and just never came out until now, and I didn't know how to express what I felt or how to say those words and me. a-" Clementine started to ramble as Louis reached up to passionately kiss her.
Louis smiles at her and thinks she is so adorable when it is her turn to be flustered and doesn't know how to respond. Louis shuts her up with a kiss to her lips as he reaches from behind her head, which causes Clementine to lose focus as he intimately kisses her in his response to her words.
When he pulled back and moved his hand on her cheek and stroked it tenderly as he smiled very brightly, looking into those beautiful golden depths of hers when he repeated the words right back to her, "I love you too, my darling Clementine." Clementine reaches her hands to meet his, where Louis is cupping her face, and her smile widens. Clementine moves her head to touch her forehead to his and nuzzles her nose tenderly to Louis's. Louis then guides her head to rest on his beating heart and entangles his fingers in her hair as he smiles at her love for him.
The night fell upon them, and when Clementine was fast asleep next to Louis. Louis watches in awe of her as she dreams. He eventually moves to blow out the candles and turn off the lantern so he doesn't set fire to their room. Louis tucks a piece of Clementine's hair from her face behind her ear and kisses her forehead. He then felt her unconsciously move closer to him and nuzzle the nape of his neck with her little nose. He smiled at that gesture and holds her naked body near his under the sheet that they were wrapped in, although Clementine ended up using Louis's long brown coat as her blanket to snuggle up in. Louis smiled at her and thought it was the most adorable thing to have her wrapped up in his jacket. Every man's dream is to have their girl in their clothes, which melted Louis's heart. Between the rain falling outside and the soft breathing from Clementine, the sounds from both soon drifted Louis off into a nice sound sleep. Louis slept in Clementine's embrace until the following morning.
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The storm raged outside, making this moment between Maya and Violet magical, as the two of them started to get heated in their making out. Maya was heavily making out with Violet as she felt her heart racing with Violet's. Maya felt under Violet's green shirt to feel her soft white skin against her fingertips. Maya kissed Violet's neck, and a soft moan came deep inside Violet's throat from being pleasured. Just when Maya was about to take off Violet's shirt, as she was lost in the moment with Violet, suddenly Maya's mind got transported to another time and space where she blacked out in front of Violet and was unresponsive. Fuck!
Violet was enjoying the touch from her new girlfriend, and when she saw Maya unresponsive from her kissing, she thought she had gone to sleep, "Maya? Maya. Okay, you got me going there." When Maya was still unresponsive, Violet was getting to be concerned. "Maya! Maya, this isn't funny anymore. Wake up! Maya!" Jesus Christ, what do I fucking do now! Violet slides out from underneath her girlfriend and props her up on the back wall near the sign. This place is cursed and waited.
Maya's world went black, and her heart stopped for a moment. Violet disappeared, and Maya was in another world. She looks and is in a bedroom. "Violet?" Maya calls out, and no answer. She looks around and looks to be a child's room. Maya places her hand on her head as she slowly rises from the floor. "Where the hell am I?" Maya spoke as she shook her head. She looks into the space before her, and in the dim light, she sees drawings of a spaceship, comets, a girl shooting hopes on one wall, and lots of basketball references. Above her were the glow-in-the-dark sticky stars you put up on the walls of a room. It was in the shape of one of the constellations. Draco. Maya glances over at the closet door of this room, and a name in purple writing stands out to her as Maya's eyes open wide. Violet!
Am I in Violet's room when she was a little girl? Why? Just then, a noise from the tv set in another room broke Maya's thoughts of questions as she turned out of what looked to be Violet's bedroom and wonders down the hallway. She touched the plastered wall and noticed pictures of her past. Her mom and what looks to be her grandparents. Then her eyes fixated on a little girl standing with her grandmother next to a school sign, Alexandria elementary school, in the photos. Violet.
Maya reaches out and traces the smile on her face, and stares into her eyes so love so very much. Maya sees that Violet looks like a happy kid by the look of these pictures, but smiling at times can be deceiving. Maya moves down the dark corridor of the hallway and sees an old lady in a rocker, and a little blonde girl sitting below her feet. Maya watches from a distance, and it pains her to see her new girlfriend so in pain. She looked and saw a young Violet watching tv what looked to be a disco band of veggies. As Maya turns her attention back on this old woman, which she guesses is Violet's grandmother, she looks so sad and crying as she holds tight to a picture of what looks to be her late husband. The look in this old woman's eyes told Maya everything.
Maya watches as this lady gets up from a rocker and heads out down the hallway where Maya is standing and disappears into the master bedroom. She was only gone for a few seconds, and when the old lady came back out with a .22 rifle Maya's blood ran cold. Maya wanted to scream and shout don't do it, but her voice had no power here as this was a vision of the past. Maya watches in horror as the old woman pulls up another chair behind a young Violet and put the rifle on that chair. Maya watches as this old woman puts the barrel to her chest, reaches down, and pulls out a back scratcher. Maya shook her head and then screamed, "No, no, no! Don't..Don't!"
Maya wanted to close her eyes not to see what she didn't want to see, but she witnessed it all and heard a bang from the rifle, Maya sees the old woman slumped over in her rocker, blood pooling out of her gun wound, and the gun hit the floor. Maya turns back and sees Violet glued to the tv set, traumatized by hearing her grandmother commit suicide in front of her. Maya looks at her and to the dead woman, and now she understands fully why Violet is so standoffish. Jesus. Maya thought and couldn't imagine that pain and image. She then sees a time jump as a young Violet enters Ericson Academy for Troubled Youth. Holy fuck, the same school Robert sent Louis to! It really does exist out here. Maya looks at the gates and the crest of the school. She sees Violet's mother walk past her exiting the school, turning her back on her daughter with a good soul. Violet's mother had the same shade of spring meadow eyes and blonde hair as Violet. Maya watches Violet's mother hop in her silver car and take off, never to be seen again. Maya closes her eyes and felt the betrayal in her own heart of seeing a parent walk away from their child.
Maya turns back to look at Violet standing at the gates, watching her mother leave. It pained her to see her lover so small, and felt forgotten. Maya wanted to go to her and hug her, but the world around her flashes to white, and she hears Violet's voice calling out to her to bring her back to the world of reality.
Maya! Maya!
Maya snaps forward, panting at what she just saw and taking deep breaths.
Violet was shaking her to get her to come to, "You passed out or something, and when you didn't respond, I got scared. You scared the shit out of me. What the fuck is going on?" Violet spoke as panic set in her voice. "What the fuck happened to you."
Maya took deep breaths as she tried to regain what she had just seen. Once her heart was evening out, she looked into Violet's eyes, "Sorry about that. I never wanted you to see me like that when I have these visions...it just happens at times. I'll be fine."
Violet still doesn't understand shook her head as she glares at Maya, "Maya, you are freaking me out here. What is happening to you, what...." Violet looks to her at her with her hands on her cheeks, stroking her.
Maya took a moment as she looked at her girlfriend, "I saw everything."
Violet, still confused, look at her, "I don't follow you. You saw everything? Of what?"
"Your past, Vi. How your grandmother committed suicide in front of you, pretty much. And your mother left you at Ericson's Academy for troubled youth." Maya leans forward with a pounding headache and blood dripping from her nose. Fuck hadn't had this bad vision before to cause a nosebleed.
Violet looks at Maya with wide eyes, "That...that is..impossible. How can you know of this, and how do you even know about Ericson?"
"Cause I saw it in my vision just now." Maya winces at the burning pain in her nose from the blood coming out. She leans her head against the cloth tapestry behind her as she explains to Violet everything of her past, "You grew up in a trailer park outside of Alexandria, Virginia. I saw your room when you were a little girl. Had drawings of spaceships, comets, and a girl playing basketball. And up on the ceiling were glow-in-the-dark stars in the shape of a constellation of Draco, the dragon. And your closet had your name written in purple. Then after you witnessed your grandmother's suicide, your mother sent you to a school, and the look in your eyes as you saw your mother drive away...." Maya said as she closed her eyes for a moment, then looked at Violet, "I now understand why you keep people from your heart and why you are scared of falling for me. Because everyone you look to has left you feeling abandoned or unwanted." Maya closed her eyes and felt her pain as Maya let out a heavy sigh.
Maya looks up at her, "I am not lying when I tell you am a clairvoyant. I get visions where I go back in time and relive past events as if they are happening in real-time., like how I saw you and your friends on the beach of the river and the aftermath of the Delta's boat blown up. And just now, I relived your past on your worst day." Maya wipes the blood from her nose as she leans back against the wall, pitching her nose to stop the bleeding. "I don't know why now; it gave me visions of your past as a warning or letting me know how to care for you."
Violet was just shocked that Maya told everything precisely to the fine details of where Violet lived before she came to Ericson, that only Violet would know. She looks down, "How often do you have these 'visions' of yours."
Maya looks to her, "Not that often, just when it serves a purpose for me to know what is important. It's a blessing and a curse. Sometimes I can use my gift to help others, and sometimes...." Maya pauses and looks away, "Sometimes I wished I didn't have this gift and wished I could have something else.." Maya confesses.
Violet scooches closer to her girlfriend and asks, "Why?"
Maya looks down over her left shoulder, "Because sometimes I wish I didn't see the gory details of my visions. Those images stay in my mind. And I can't unsee them.." Maya looks out over the mattress and closes her eyes.
Violet nodded and then asked Maya the question she wished she never had asked, "Did you see...her killing herself...." Violet spoke and the she, Violet was referring to is her grandmother. Violet looked at Maya and the expression on Maya's face as she squinted her eyes tighter when she asked that Violet knew and Maya didn't have to verbally say it as a confirmation.
Violet leans her head on Maya's left shoulder and reaches out to touch her left hand and hold it. Knowing that vision shook her. Maya had seen something that Violet didn't have the courage or was too afraid to witness herself. Violet then, in a soft voice, said the words she had withheld for a long time and only said these words to one other person. "I love you, and everything that you are, Maya. Even your gift you view as a curse. I love everything about you, and wouldn't change a single thing. I love you, my rugged Indian warrior." Violet snuggles her head on Maya's shoulder and left kisses on her bare skin giving Maya all the love in her heart for her.
Maya looks over, wraps her arm around Violet, and lovingly kisses her head. And the two hold each other in silence, listening to the rain fall outside, until they fall asleep in each other's embraces the rest of the night.
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"Crazy how fast the storm came. Almost thought It would miss us." Aasim said as he peers outside.
"Let's just hope the gates hold," Clementine said casting out into the sheets of heavy rain.
"Yeah, the last thing we need are walkers invading our walls." Aasim looks at Clementine as worry sets in her eyes. "Don't worry, I'm sure the extra support of scrap metal from the raider's supplies should hold it. We will inspect it once the storm passes. Willy and I will keep watch of the dorms tonight, just in case. You should get some rest, you did well today Clem."
"Thanks." Clementine heaves a sigh of relief. She knows AJ will be sleeping with Tenn for the night as Tenn always has issues with big storms, so it looks like it is a Lou and her kind of night.
Clementine makes her way to her room and opens up the door, and to her surprise, it was romantically lit with candles and a lantern beside the desk. There were sheets aligned at the bedside as well as stacks of pillows. "Louis?" Clementine asks as she closes the door behind her.
Louis pokes his head out from underneath the bed sheets, "Oh there you are."
"What have you done with our room?" Clementine asks as she questions him and looks around.
"Figure we can have a date night since we haven't had one in a while, and build a pillow fort," Louis said all innocently which always melted Clementine's heart.
"A pillow fort really?" Clementine asks.
"Yes really. It will be like we are camping just without a tent. Well, sort of...Besides, I got some pretzels waiting for you." Louis incises her a bit. Clementine giggles and joins him under the fort.
"When did you have time to do this?" Clementine asks.
"Well, when you were out prepping for the storm. I know I should help but with the day you had, wanted to give you something to look forward to when all is said and done." Louis eyes her. "And AJ is with Tenn tonight, so figure you, and I can have some romance time."
"You are so cute, and I got to admit this is really romantic." Clementine smiles. Clementine blushes as she tries to hide it from him. She hates it that he can get her to soften her tough girl look, and become all mushy.
The thunder outside begins to pick up as the hard rain can be heard splattering on the glass and wood on the window. Clementine looks at him, "So any plans for our romantic evening or just this."
Louis looks at her and softly comes over to sit behind her, "Well was thinking of playing a game of cards with you, but with how stressed you are, I will offer you a massage if you want it Or we can sit and talk about what hap-" Louis started to say, but when he mentioned it Clementine got emotional and shuttered away. He bit his lip and wanted to take away whatever it is that is upsetting her.
"I don't want to talk about it. At least not right now Lou." Clementine finally spoke after a moment of silence. "I don't want to spoil the mood."
Louis nods to that, "So massage then? I promise I won't hurt you. I am pretty good at it, giving massages I mean."
Clementine smiles and nods to that. She knows how well he read her mood and knows when not to push things. Being a leader is tough, and he knows this, so being her rock when she needs him to be is all Clementine can be grateful for. Louis begins to massage her tighten shoulders as Clementine stares at the flickering light of the candle and lantern. She closes her eyes to feel the tension leaving her body as Louis loosens up those strained muscles. "I tried to help her, and she shoves me away..." Clementine voiced out loud.
"Vi?" Louis asks.
Clementine nods in silence. It has been several weeks since Clementine found out Violet is being extremely friendly to the girl Maya from the other group she has trust issues with, and since then Violet and she are still on shaky ground. Aasim told her how Violet got injured and when Clementine tried to help Violet shoved her hand away and told her to piss off. Ruby was the only one besides Tenn that Violet allows to talk to and sometimes Louis.
Louis didn't say anything and just kept working on Clem's shoulders. "She yelled at me this afternoon after getting cut from securing the gate and the walls for the storm. I came and offered to help her get up so Ruby could examine her. She told me to fuck off pretty much. I don't understand what I did to hurt her. I wish things could back to where they were. I miss having her as my friend another girl I can talk to, besides just Ruby."
Louis finally speaks near Clementine's right ear; "I can try talking to her if you want. I know her a bit better than you do. Vi and I kind of go back a ways."
"I don't want her to hurt you the way she has hurt me." Clementine looks at him with worry in her eyes.
"As I said, I know how she runs. She uses her cold heart to push away people as a defensive mechanism the way I use jokes, to protect her heart from getting broken." Louis confesses. "She isn't trying to be mean and cold towards you darling, that is how Vi is sometimes." Louis tucks a lock of Clementine's beautiful soft curly hair behind her right earlobe. And kisses her cheek for reassurance. "She will come around. Just got to give her time and space."
Clementine heaves a sigh as he does that, "It's been several weeks, Louis."
"I know. But she will come around." Louis kisses the back of her neck and shoulders. Clementine smiles, as she feels loved by him. She leans her back against his chest and lets him hold her for a while. They listen to the storm rage outside for a bit then Clementine looks at him and reaches inside his coat pocket grabbing his deck of cards.
"Hey." Louis shouted, "Those are mine."
"Truth or dare?" Clementine looks at him with a cheeky smile.
"I thought you didn't want to play a game?" Louis asks as his eyebrows rose.
"To take my mind off of what happened, besides I need the distraction of the shitty day I had." Clementine said as she shuffles the cards, "So truth or dare?"
Louis raises his eyebrows in a cocky way, "All right. Bring on your best game Clem." And gave Clementine a smirking grin.
Clementine slyly smiles at him and placed the shuffle cards in the middle as she draws one from the pile, and so does Louis. Louis has the eight of hearts and Clementine has the two of spades. Louis eyes her, "Well I guess I win, hmmm let's see, Truth. Would you rather eat a spider or kiss a snake?"
Clementine blinks up at him, "What kind of question is that."
"A warm-up one for later." Louis challenges her. "So which one? Eat a spider or kiss a snake."
"Kiss a snake no contest." Clementine answers.
"Why?" Louis said with curiosity, "Some snakes are poisonous and can bite you, you know."
"So as some species of spiders. And I hate spiders. So if I have a choice between a snake and a spider I will take my chances with a snake thank you." Clementine confesses.
"Interesting. So you are afraid of spiders, duly noted." Louis snickers.
"I'm not afraid.... I just don't like them." Clementine plays it off cool that she is not afraid of them when she actually is, and Louis saw right through it.
"I will kill every spider that comes your way darling, and I will protect you from the big bad eight-legged creature." Louis teases her as he made his hands gesture and move like a spider.
Clementine rolls her eyes and playfully smacks Louis with a pillow as she smiles at him for defending her honor. She takes another card from the pile, and Louis does the same. Louis drew three of the clubs, and Clementine drew ten of the diamonds.
"Let's see, dare." Clementine looks at Louis and sees his face flush a bit.
"I dare you to lick the mushroom." Clementine pointed to the plant on the broken bookshelf.
"Really, that it?" Louis looks at her.
"Well that or run outside in the storm streaking to tease the walkers, but it is too dangerous outside," Clementine said kind of teasing him.
Louis nods and then goes, "Okay." He gets up out of their mishap tent and goes over to the bookcase where Clementine has her collection of animal skulls and a plant. He takes the vase that holds the mushroom and licks it. His face scrunches up as he spat the nasty taste from his mouth. As he did that Clementine laughs at the sight of Louis doing that. He loved to hear her laugh, which made the task worth it.
Louis rejoins her underneath the bed sheet fort and looks at her with amusement, "As much as that tasted nasty it was worth it to hear you laugh."
Clementine looks at him with eyes glowing with love. She takes another card already and waits for Louis to draw a card. Louis drew his third card, and it turns out to be the five of hearts, and Clementine flips her card over to reveal the jack of spades. Louis drops his head, as Clementine's smile grows ever more. "Looks like I win again."
Louis looks back up at her, "Just don't ask for any more dares that will ruin my image."
"No dares this time. Uh... truth." Clementine said. She thought of a question she had wanted to ask him for a while, "What is the significance of the tan jacket you always wear?"
Louis looks at her and smiles, "It belongs to my dad. One of the things he accidentally left in my boxes when I got shipped here after I destroyed my parent's marriage. I guess it is my last memory of my parents and life before everything went to shit." Louis answers her.
Clementine nodded and gently added, "And that is why you go to sleep with it on every night?"
Louis looks to her, "Uh....you only get one question for that, and you asked it what is the significance of."
Clementine nods to that, "Well...since you kind of confirm it with my question earlier, I will take that as a yes."
Louis shyly looks away from her, as she guessed right. He draws another card from the pile between them, and Clementine does the same. Louis showed his card as Clementine did too. Louis has the King of clubs and Clementine has the nine of hearts. Louis smiles and looks at Clementine, "Since you asked something personal of mine that I always keep near my heart, what is the significance of the raggedy old hat you always wear or used to, now that AJ wears it."
Clementine smiles at him. She usually would get mad at anyone teasing her about her hat, but Louis, who she fell in love with makes her want to share a bit of her life before the outbreak started, with him. "It belonged to my dad. He used to wear it all the time when he did yard work or play with me out in the yard. It was his favorite baseball team, I forgot the name of it and what the D actually stands for, but Javi told me it is a famous baseball team he used to remember." Clementine paused briefly to look at Louis, and his hand met with hers. She felt his thumb rubbing her knuckles to her left hand. She then took a breath and finish telling him about her parents, "before he and my mother went to Savannah for a trip and left me with my babysitter Sandra, he told me I could borrow it not keep it. Then the world ended, and I never saw my parents again. So I kept it all these years as my remembrance of my parents as a keepsake."
Louis looks at her as she shared a bit of her life story with him. "Well, I'm sure your dad would be proud you kept his favorite hat all this time. And even pass it down to little AJ."
"Yeah, he would've." Clementine looks at him with admiration.
Then she reaches for another card, and Louis does the same. Although Louis was still in a trance of what Clementine just told him about the significance of her hat and what it means to her. He now understands why she gets a bit mad whenever he tries to take her hat from her. Louis flipped his card over and revealed the king of hearts and Clementine had the Jack of clubs. Louis gleefully did a victory pump in the air, "Yes, I win again. Um...dare this time."
Clementine braces herself for the dare she is about to receive. Louis pulls out two pieces of old candy. "Okay, pick your poison. I dare you to eat a stale old gummy bear or a rock-hard piece of taffy."
Clementine looks at him suspiciously, "You knew I was going to play a game with you tonight, didn't you."
Louis shrugs, "Wasn't sure about your mood darling, but since you suggested it I wasn't going to say no. Besides, I always come prepared." Louis smiles. "So what will it be stale gummy bear or rock-hard taffy."
Clementine reaches for the gummy bear, took it in her mouth, and ate it. It was bland and out of flavor, but it was better to go down than rock-hard taffy. Now it was Louis's turn to laugh at Clementine's face as she scrunched it up with the bad aftertaste. Clementine looks at him, disregards the game, and lunches after him, tackling him in their fort tent. When she does that the sheets fell down as well as the pillows that held them up tumble down onto the floor destroying their beautiful fortress. Clementine and Louis didn't care as she tickles him until begs her for mercy and his insides couldn't take any more laughter.
"Okay...okay....stop...stop that tickles..." Louis shouts in between laughter. "Please, Clem...." Louis tries to speak in between laughter, "I can't take.....it any...more."
Clementine has him pinned on his back with his head a few feet from the dresser stand as she held his hands above his head. For her being one-legged and small, she sure has a firm grip. "Not until you say, uncle?"
"Okay..." Louis looks her in the eyes as he reaches up and plants a kiss on her lips that seems to have shocked Clementine as she loosens her grip on him and kisses him back. Something sparks in her heart that night, as she wanted him at that moment. Like really wanted him. He pulled back just a bit to look Clementine in the eyes and smiled, "I guess I win with that, huh...."
Clementine looks at him and breathes profoundly, "Louis can I ask you something?"
Louis looks at the fort, then back at her, "Kind of ruined the game a bit, but sure.."
Clementine lightly smiles at his reply then she looks at him deeply in the eyes, and being serious for a moment. "Have you thought about....you know....how can I explain this in a way that doesn't freak you out..." Clementine looks away, unsure how to ask this of him. She closed her eyes and softly spoke the words she wanted to say to him, "Going farther than second base with me."
Louis eyes her now as his mouth runs dry at what she is proposing here. His heart thumps in his chest as he stares at her unable to speak. Clementine notices his silence as she looks back into his eyes, "Louis?"
Louis coughs as he tries to say something serious and not in a joking fashion, "You mean, have I uh...thought about moving past that and going the full home run with you." Clementine nods as he is picking up her baseball analogy of having sex and hooking up. Louis looks a little shy at first, but there is a calmness in his eyes as he looks deep into her golden depths. He leans up and places his hands on her cheeks and seductively kisses her deeply as he responds to her question. He always felt that way about her but never knew how badly she wants to be with him. He was waiting for the more opportune time but this moment with her with him like this was more than he could ask for. He pulled back to look her in the eyes and breathlessly said, "Yes."
Clementine looks at him and smiles, feeling the fire in her soul and heat with him. She then leans back down to continue to kiss him passionately and seductively, as he wanted this as badly as she did. She was saving this question later in the game of truth or dare but she got her answer. Louis kisses her deeply as she feels his tongue collide with hers. Her hands move up his chest to his collarbone as she strokes the smooth skin. Louis soon breaks their kiss as Clementine allows him to sit up. He soon goes back to kissing her tenderly and works up the next move he plans to do. Still keeping his lips locked with hers, he moves his hands up by her shoulders and slides them down her arms and sides until he finds the ends of her denim jean jacket and slowly tugs on it to take it off.
She felt Louis slip off her denim jean jacket as it falls behind her. She looks at him and closes her eyes again as he kisses her tenderly. Clementine soon moves her hands up around Louis's upper arms and soon do the same taking off his long coat jacket and letting it fall behind him. He kisses her lips once more, and she lets out a pleasing moan at his touch. Louis's heart was beating insanely fast with the rush of excitement. But he wants to savor this moment between her and him and tries not to rush it. Louis breaks contact with Clementine's lips momentarily as he moves down the slope of her neck, leaving hot kisses behind with each movement down to her collarbone, where he sucks on her soft flesh some.
Clementine felt electricity flow through her, as she never felt this way with anyone before. And when she felt Louis kissing her neck, she felt like she was in heaven, and for the first time, let her walls come down and just be loved. The feeling Louis is giving to her was out of this world. She wonders if this is what true love is like. Her head tilts back as Louis kisses her neck, and her eyes roll back some to feel the intense feeling Louis is giving her, as Clementine's mouth agape a bit. Louis moves back to her lips as she crashes with his movements without missing a beat. Everything was a blur, leaving Clementine feeling lightheaded with love when Louis flipped her on her back as he posed above her. She smiles at him a loving smile when she felt his nose rub against hers in a tender way, as he breathes heavily along with her own breath. She doesn't know which is louder her own heart beating wildly with Louis's or the thunder booming outside.
Louis looked at her and breathlessly spoke, "My heart is pounding."
Clementine places her left hand on Louis's chest as she feels his heart beating wildly along with hers. She looks up into his soft chocolate eyes, which she loves so much, and never breaks eye contact with him. Clementine found the end of the collar on his green shirt, and with her fingers, she gently tugs on the collar to lower his lips back down to her own as she kisses him profoundly, moving in seductive ways for a little while until the passion was growing, and they wanted something more. Her tongue collided with Louis's once more as she felt him cupping her face with his thumb caressing her cheekbone. They kiss like that for a bit until Louis pulls back and takes Clementine's hand to guide her to sit up with him. It made it easier for them to remove each other's shirts. She feels Louis as he slowly unzips her white-stained hoodie and lets her hoodie glide off of her. He soon lifts up her white undershirt so that her bra remains the only piece of clothing left at the top half of her body. Clementine does the same removing his green shirt and letting it mingle with her denim jean jacket and her two other white shirts. They both stare at each other with loving eyes as they admire one other of their bare skin.
Louis looks in awe at the woman before him and sees the battle scars on her left arm. Her scar on her lower forearm and what looks like a branding mark on her upper left shoulder. He knew Clementine comes from a dark past, just never knew how much. He reaches out and tenderly strokes the brand on her shoulder. Feeling the indented skin under his fingertips. He felt Clementine flinch a little at his touch. He can tell she never let anyone know what was done to her. Louis then looks upon Clementine's sympatric face when she looks up at him. No words spoke between them, but their eyes said everything. Louis then did something that she was not expecting him to do. Louis kisses her brand on her shoulder tenderly and softly, moving down to the scar on her lower arm. He wants her to know that none of her battle scars matter to him. He loves all of her, and he wanted to let her know that and not just say it but let her feel it.
Clementine closes her eyes and grips the bed sheet she is sitting on top of to Louis kissing her scars as she is being open and vulnerable with him to have him love her like that. Clementine lets out a soft pleasurable moan when Louis kisses her sensitive skin. She never let anyone see, not even AJ, of the scars she had to endure when she was younger and all the painful memories and sacrifices that came along with it.
She felt his lips run over her scars, then back up the slope of her neck and finally to her lips. She let out a satisfying moan against his lips as he made contact with them again. Clementine momentarily breaks her contact from his lips as she eyes the man before her. Clementine looks at Louis as his torso is smooth, and she smiles when she notices his very fine abs and chest. A soft look came over her eyes as she reached out and touched the smooth skin on his chest. Caressing her fingertips over his soft, smooth flesh, smiling at every touch. His adorable freckles scatter down his nose, his cheeks, neck, and onto his chest. Making him even cuter and more handsome, and she can't believe her luck in finding such a man who is a reflection of her. She can make her own star constellation in his freckles.
When she touches his torso, Louis closes his eyes as she sees him holding back tears of joy and love, as if someone loves him for the first time. Clementine smiles as she kisses his neck hard, leaving love bites down his neck for the first time, and slowly moving to his collarbone as her fingertips continue to roam over his smooth torso. She smiled, and a little giggle escaped her lips as she felt Louis twitch a bit from her touch and explore his chest with her fingers.
Then she felt an old scar on Louis's right side of his torso that made her stop kissing his neck and chest as she gazed down onto his body and where her fingers rest on. She notices Louis also bares some battle scars of his own. Near the right side of his torso, just above his ribcage, was a deep scar; on his back, she feels healed up deep scar tissue. She sees the pierced skin on his left shoulder where Abel shot him. Clementine closes her eyes on the gunshot wound on his left shoulder for a moment. With a sigh, Clementine opens her eyes as she does the same action Louis did to her moments ago and reaches out and touches the bullet wound scar upon his left shoulder tenderly. Feeling a bit guilty that she was the direct cause of letting this happen to him.
She looks up at him with awe in her eyes just then. Then she reaches over and kisses a tender kiss on his bullet wound to his left shoulder, which is healed up, and kisses his other battle scar on his chest. Letting him know she loves him with scars and all just as much as he loves her. She felt Louis tremble as she kissed his scars and trailed back up his body towards his lips again and crashing her mouth onto his as she encircled her arms around his strong neck and pulled him back down to the bed of pillows that now lay scattered on the floor.
Louis lets out a satisfying moan of pleasure when Clementine kisses his own battle scars. When she leads him down onto the bed of pillows to make love to her for the first time, he is in heaven and knows for sure she wants to be with him at this moment just as much as he wanted to be with her. She let her one good leg fall as Louis moves his legs in between hers. Clementine moves her one good leg over Louis's as she entwines them. Louis continues to foreplay a bit with her as he removes the last remaining clothing from him and her as, for the first time, they are both naked with each other. Louis uses one of the loose sheets as a blanket to cover his lower abdomen as he lowers his body onto Clementine as she closes her eyes. She felt Louis kissing her neck and slowly moving up to her jawline as he caresses her ribs and moved his arms up hers until he finds her hand and fingers. She looks at him and moves her head to kiss him tenderly and deeply, giving him all of her love.
Clementine feels Louis getting in position as he entwines his fingers to hers. And slowly, he moves against her body in a slow rhythmic way. She squeezes his hand tightly and feels ecstasy for the first time as Louis makes love to her. When both she and Louis reach the climax of their lovemaking, she feels Louis's whole body tremble and shake of the love he is feeling from her. Clementine's body trembles, too, with the love she feels from him and the pure ecstasy bliss that makes her weak in the knees. She still feels Louis's toes curl inward with the pleasure he is still feeling with her.
Louis crashes down near her as he rolls onto his back feeling very happy and satisfied. Still breathing hard, trying to find his breath as he pants with what he and Clementine just did moments before. Clementine is still trembling with the sexual excitement she just did with Louis. Both of them lay in silence as the rain poured outside until they regained their breath to speak.
Louis is the first to break the silence. "Wow....that was.....wow. You were, wow...."
Clementine uses Louis's jacket to cover her naked body some as she gazes up at him, "Is that all you can say,....wow."
Louis looks at her as he slides closer to her and reaches out to caress her sweaty cheek tenderly, "Yes, because, oh my god, that was amazing. You are amazing and so incredibly beautiful. You leave me breathless. I may have died back there and was in heaven with you. Because, oh my God. And got to say, with all the practicing I have done in my early teen years, nothing compares to the real thing of doing it. And you....just amazing." Louis was so speechless he couldn't form words to express how happy she made him.
Clementine smiles brightly at him and tries not to laugh at his expression of them having sex for the first time. Clementine closes the small gap between him and her and kisses him again. Partly to quiet her boyfriend on the rambling of his happiness with her and because he was too cute to not have a lip lock again with him.
In the midst of kissing him, Clementine moves slightly to be on top of his body with Louis's coat draped around her shoulders as she peers down into his chocolate-brown eyes. Louis gaze up at her all love-struck. Then without even realizing it, she says the words her heart told her all along. "I love you, Louis." Louis's eyes were wide with shock, and so was Clementine's as she said those words for the first time. Clementine bit her lower lip as she looked at him, "Shit, Sorry, I meant to say that to you before we...and just never came out until now, and I didn't know how to express what I felt or how to say those words and me. a-" Clementine started to ramble as Louis reached up to passionately kiss her.
Louis smiles at her and thinks she is so adorable when it is her turn to be flustered and doesn't know how to respond. Louis shuts her up with a kiss to her lips as he reaches from behind her head, which causes Clementine to lose focus as he intimately kisses her in his response to her words.
When he pulled back and moved his hand on her cheek and stroked it tenderly as he smiled very brightly, looking into those beautiful golden depths of hers when he repeated the words right back to her, "I love you too, my darling Clementine." Clementine reaches her hands to meet his, where Louis is cupping her face, and her smile widens. Clementine moves her head to touch her forehead to his and nuzzles her nose tenderly to Louis's. Louis then guides her head to rest on his beating heart and entangles his fingers in her hair as he smiles at her love for him.
The night fell upon them, and when Clementine was fast asleep next to Louis. Louis watches in awe of her as she dreams. He eventually moves to blow out the candles and turn off the lantern so he doesn't set fire to their room. Louis tucks a piece of Clementine's hair from her face behind her ear and kisses her forehead. He then felt her unconsciously move closer to him and nuzzle the nape of his neck with her little nose. He smiled at that gesture and holds her naked body near his under the sheet that they were wrapped in, although Clementine ended up using Louis's long brown coat as her blanket to snuggle up in. Louis smiled at her and thought it was the most adorable thing to have her wrapped up in his jacket. Every man's dream is to have their girl in their clothes, which melted Louis's heart. Between the rain falling outside and the soft breathing from Clementine, the sounds from both soon drifted Louis off into a nice sound sleep. Louis slept in Clementine's embrace until the following morning.
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The storm raged outside, making this moment between Maya and Violet magical, as the two of them started to get heated in their making out. Maya was heavily making out with Violet as she felt her heart racing with Violet's. Maya felt under Violet's green shirt to feel her soft white skin against her fingertips. Maya kissed Violet's neck, and a soft moan came deep inside Violet's throat from being pleasured. Just when Maya was about to take off Violet's shirt, as she was lost in the moment with Violet, suddenly Maya's mind got transported to another time and space where she blacked out in front of Violet and was unresponsive. Fuck!
Violet was enjoying the touch from her new girlfriend, and when she saw Maya unresponsive from her kissing, she thought she had gone to sleep, "Maya? Maya. Okay, you got me going there." When Maya was still unresponsive, Violet was getting to be concerned. "Maya! Maya, this isn't funny anymore. Wake up! Maya!" Jesus Christ, what do I fucking do now! Violet slides out from underneath her girlfriend and props her up on the back wall near the sign. This place is cursed and waited.
Maya's world went black, and her heart stopped for a moment. Violet disappeared, and Maya was in another world. She looks and is in a bedroom. "Violet?" Maya calls out, and no answer. She looks around and looks to be a child's room. Maya places her hand on her head as she slowly rises from the floor. "Where the hell am I?" Maya spoke as she shook her head. She looks into the space before her, and in the dim light, she sees drawings of a spaceship, comets, a girl shooting hopes on one wall, and lots of basketball references. Above her were the glow-in-the-dark sticky stars you put up on the walls of a room. It was in the shape of one of the constellations. Draco. Maya glances over at the closet door of this room, and a name in purple writing stands out to her as Maya's eyes open wide. Violet!
Am I in Violet's room when she was a little girl? Why? Just then, a noise from the tv set in another room broke Maya's thoughts of questions as she turned out of what looked to be Violet's bedroom and wonders down the hallway. She touched the plastered wall and noticed pictures of her past. Her mom and what looks to be her grandparents. Then her eyes fixated on a little girl standing with her grandmother next to a school sign, Alexandria elementary school, in the photos. Violet.
Maya reaches out and traces the smile on her face, and stares into her eyes so love so very much. Maya sees that Violet looks like a happy kid by the look of these pictures, but smiling at times can be deceiving. Maya moves down the dark corridor of the hallway and sees an old lady in a rocker, and a little blonde girl sitting below her feet. Maya watches from a distance, and it pains her to see her new girlfriend so in pain. She looked and saw a young Violet watching tv what looked to be a disco band of veggies. As Maya turns her attention back on this old woman, which she guesses is Violet's grandmother, she looks so sad and crying as she holds tight to a picture of what looks to be her late husband. The look in this old woman's eyes told Maya everything.
Maya watches as this lady gets up from a rocker and heads out down the hallway where Maya is standing and disappears into the master bedroom. She was only gone for a few seconds, and when the old lady came back out with a .22 rifle Maya's blood ran cold. Maya wanted to scream and shout don't do it, but her voice had no power here as this was a vision of the past. Maya watches in horror as the old woman pulls up another chair behind a young Violet and put the rifle on that chair. Maya watches as this old woman puts the barrel to her chest, reaches down, and pulls out a back scratcher. Maya shook her head and then screamed, "No, no, no! Don't..Don't!"
Maya wanted to close her eyes not to see what she didn't want to see, but she witnessed it all and heard a bang from the rifle, Maya sees the old woman slumped over in her rocker, blood pooling out of her gun wound, and the gun hit the floor. Maya turns back and sees Violet glued to the tv set, traumatized by hearing her grandmother commit suicide in front of her. Maya looks at her and to the dead woman, and now she understands fully why Violet is so standoffish. Jesus. Maya thought and couldn't imagine that pain and image. She then sees a time jump as a young Violet enters Ericson Academy for Troubled Youth. Holy fuck, the same school Robert sent Louis to! It really does exist out here. Maya looks at the gates and the crest of the school. She sees Violet's mother walk past her exiting the school, turning her back on her daughter with a good soul. Violet's mother had the same shade of spring meadow eyes and blonde hair as Violet. Maya watches Violet's mother hop in her silver car and take off, never to be seen again. Maya closes her eyes and felt the betrayal in her own heart of seeing a parent walk away from their child.
Maya turns back to look at Violet standing at the gates, watching her mother leave. It pained her to see her lover so small, and felt forgotten. Maya wanted to go to her and hug her, but the world around her flashes to white, and she hears Violet's voice calling out to her to bring her back to the world of reality.
Maya! Maya!
Maya snaps forward, panting at what she just saw and taking deep breaths.
Violet was shaking her to get her to come to, "You passed out or something, and when you didn't respond, I got scared. You scared the shit out of me. What the fuck is going on?" Violet spoke as panic set in her voice. "What the fuck happened to you."
Maya took deep breaths as she tried to regain what she had just seen. Once her heart was evening out, she looked into Violet's eyes, "Sorry about that. I never wanted you to see me like that when I have these visions...it just happens at times. I'll be fine."
Violet still doesn't understand shook her head as she glares at Maya, "Maya, you are freaking me out here. What is happening to you, what...." Violet looks to her at her with her hands on her cheeks, stroking her.
Maya took a moment as she looked at her girlfriend, "I saw everything."
Violet, still confused, look at her, "I don't follow you. You saw everything? Of what?"
"Your past, Vi. How your grandmother committed suicide in front of you, pretty much. And your mother left you at Ericson's Academy for troubled youth." Maya leans forward with a pounding headache and blood dripping from her nose. Fuck hadn't had this bad vision before to cause a nosebleed.
Violet looks at Maya with wide eyes, "That...that is..impossible. How can you know of this, and how do you even know about Ericson?"
"Cause I saw it in my vision just now." Maya winces at the burning pain in her nose from the blood coming out. She leans her head against the cloth tapestry behind her as she explains to Violet everything of her past, "You grew up in a trailer park outside of Alexandria, Virginia. I saw your room when you were a little girl. Had drawings of spaceships, comets, and a girl playing basketball. And up on the ceiling were glow-in-the-dark stars in the shape of a constellation of Draco, the dragon. And your closet had your name written in purple. Then after you witnessed your grandmother's suicide, your mother sent you to a school, and the look in your eyes as you saw your mother drive away...." Maya said as she closed her eyes for a moment, then looked at Violet, "I now understand why you keep people from your heart and why you are scared of falling for me. Because everyone you look to has left you feeling abandoned or unwanted." Maya closed her eyes and felt her pain as Maya let out a heavy sigh.
Maya looks up at her, "I am not lying when I tell you am a clairvoyant. I get visions where I go back in time and relive past events as if they are happening in real-time., like how I saw you and your friends on the beach of the river and the aftermath of the Delta's boat blown up. And just now, I relived your past on your worst day." Maya wipes the blood from her nose as she leans back against the wall, pitching her nose to stop the bleeding. "I don't know why now; it gave me visions of your past as a warning or letting me know how to care for you."
Violet was just shocked that Maya told everything precisely to the fine details of where Violet lived before she came to Ericson, that only Violet would know. She looks down, "How often do you have these 'visions' of yours."
Maya looks to her, "Not that often, just when it serves a purpose for me to know what is important. It's a blessing and a curse. Sometimes I can use my gift to help others, and sometimes...." Maya pauses and looks away, "Sometimes I wished I didn't have this gift and wished I could have something else.." Maya confesses.
Violet scooches closer to her girlfriend and asks, "Why?"
Maya looks down over her left shoulder, "Because sometimes I wish I didn't see the gory details of my visions. Those images stay in my mind. And I can't unsee them.." Maya looks out over the mattress and closes her eyes.
Violet nodded and then asked Maya the question she wished she never had asked, "Did you see...her killing herself...." Violet spoke and the she, Violet was referring to is her grandmother. Violet looked at Maya and the expression on Maya's face as she squinted her eyes tighter when she asked that Violet knew and Maya didn't have to verbally say it as a confirmation.
Violet leans her head on Maya's left shoulder and reaches out to touch her left hand and hold it. Knowing that vision shook her. Maya had seen something that Violet didn't have the courage or was too afraid to witness herself. Violet then, in a soft voice, said the words she had withheld for a long time and only said these words to one other person. "I love you, and everything that you are, Maya. Even your gift you view as a curse. I love everything about you, and wouldn't change a single thing. I love you, my rugged Indian warrior." Violet snuggles her head on Maya's shoulder and left kisses on her bare skin giving Maya all the love in her heart for her.
Maya looks over, wraps her arm around Violet, and lovingly kisses her head. And the two hold each other in silence, listening to the rain fall outside, until they fall asleep in each other's embraces the rest of the night.
2023.05.26 17:44 Professional_Disk131 Element79 Gold Corp. Confirms Debt Settlement (CSE:ELEM, OTC:ELMGF, FSE: 7YS)
 | submitted by Professional_Disk131 to MetalInvestments [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/snyrbvq4572b1.png?width=461&format=png&auto=webp&s=77fabbc59d9b941122511c64a3986bf33886379c Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services Debt Settlement The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company. In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share. All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation. About Element79 Gold Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out. For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold Contact Information For corporate matters, please contact: James C. Tworek, Chief Executive Officer E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) For investor relations inquiries, please contact: Investor Relations Department Phone: +1.613.879.9387 E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) |
2023.05.26 17:44 Professional_Disk131 Element79 Gold Corp. Confirms Debt Settlement (CSE:ELEM, OTC:ELMGF, FSE: 7YS)
 | submitted by Professional_Disk131 to PennyStocksCanada [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/3rkwujw2572b1.png?width=461&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f603ebd32819706bbfabcd008d03497d451192c Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services Debt Settlement The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company. In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share. All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation. About Element79 Gold Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out. For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold Contact Information For corporate matters, please contact: James C. Tworek, Chief Executive Officer E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) For investor relations inquiries, please contact: Investor Relations Department Phone: +1.613.879.9387 E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) |
2023.05.26 17:43 Professional_Disk131 Element79 Gold Corp. Confirms Debt Settlement (CSE:ELEM, OTC:ELMGF, FSE: 7YS)
 | submitted by Professional_Disk131 to PennyHaven [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/vcq4qohy472b1.png?width=461&format=png&auto=webp&s=a60aadc73bd3363e19b57ab495a65e034dec9d06 Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services Debt Settlement The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company. In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share. All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation. About Element79 Gold Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out. For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold Contact Information For corporate matters, please contact: James C. Tworek, Chief Executive Officer E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) For investor relations inquiries, please contact: Investor Relations Department Phone: +1.613.879.9387 E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) |
2023.05.26 17:43 Professional_Disk131 Element79 Gold Corp. Confirms Debt Settlement (CSE:ELEM, OTC:ELMGF, FSE: 7YS)
 | submitted by Professional_Disk131 to PennyCatalysts [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/nonk83pw472b1.png?width=461&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e49b36010960d22b2abbf2635b790dc6aca8def Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services Debt Settlement The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company. In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share. All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation. About Element79 Gold Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out. For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold Contact Information For corporate matters, please contact: James C. Tworek, Chief Executive Officer E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) For investor relations inquiries, please contact: Investor Relations Department Phone: +1.613.879.9387 E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) |
2023.05.26 17:26 morgannater500 need new lead guitarist and lead singer
me and my friends are trying to start a band but tbh, I don't think I can play with some of them, they are way to childish and only see this as us hanging out. I live in Virginia beach, Virginia. and me and my drummer are looking for a singer and a lead guitarist who can play hard rock/metal/alt. we arent looking to play gigs yet, we need someone who can play decently and sing pretty good and can also read/write sheet music. age range 15-20, older no can do, me and my drummer are 15 and 16 we only feel comfortable if you cant buy alcohol, at least for rn. if you aren't one who is serious about playing dont waist our time. if you know anyone or you are that someone pls lmk, leave a comment or message me!
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2023.05.26 12:30 Chico237 #NIOCORP~ WHILE WAITING FOR RARE EARTHS SEPARATION NEWS ~How to Secure Critical Minerals for Clean Energy Without Alienating China~ & more!
 | MAY 25, 2023~ How to Secure Critical Minerals for Clean Energy Without Alienating China~How to Secure Critical Minerals for Clean Energy Without Alienating China Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)There are multiple ways to bolster the security of U.S. critical mineral supply chains, such as the mining, processing, and application of minerals, among others. Pushing China to be a disruptor is not one of them. President Biden meets with the leaders of Australia, Japan, and India on the sidelines of the recent G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters As the U.S. economy strives to decarbonize amid escalating geopolitical tensions, President Joe Biden in February 2021 requested a review of the United States’ vulnerabilities in critical mineral and materials supply chains. Critical minerals, such as cobalt, lithium, and nickel, are core inputs for clean energy technologies and EV batteries. The subsequent report [PDF] issued by the White House in June unveiled an unsettling reality: critical mineral supply chains are concentrated in a few nations, heightening U.S. vulnerabilities. The report also shed light on China’s aggressive use of industrial policies to promote domestic production and establish dominance in the global market share of critical mineral supply chains. Data from the 2022 U.S. Geological Survey shows that the United States is 100 percent import-dependent on twelve critical minerals and more than fifty percent import-dependent on thirty-one additional minerals. China is the largest source of imports for twenty-six of the fifty minerals classified as critical by the U.S. government. This predicament has undeniably emerged as a national security concern for U.S. policymakers. From Washington’s vantage point, the amalgamation of onshore, nearshore, and friend-shore initiatives helps to curb China’s dominance in critical minerals supply chains. However, Beijing views those regional partnerships and critical mineral mini-alliances as manifestations of a united Western containment strategy against China. As both Washington and Beijing persist in their endeavors to optimize the security of their respective critical minerals supply chains, if not adeptly managed, the potential for their broader strategic rivalry to escalate and spill over the Indo-Pacific region looms ominously. The United States has taken substantive measures to secure critical mineral supply chains by forging minilateral partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region through the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, commonly known as the Quad, comprising the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. In March 2022, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the Quad Critical Minerals Partnership Act to address “the national security threat posed by the People’s Republic of China’s control over nearly 2/3 of the global supply of critical minerals, and for other purposes.” In May 2022, the Quad nations completed mapping critical minerals capacity and vulnerabilities in global semiconductor supply chains, making an initial stride toward reducing reliance on China for critical minerals. In October 2022, a group of Washington insiders announced a plan to launch a fund with more than $1 billion in backing to invest mainly in companies in Quad countries to counter China’s dominance in critical minerals. The other members of the Quad have also launched their own trilateral or bilateral partnerships to secure their critical mineral supply chains. Australia, endowed with abundant resources but strained relations with China, has been particularly motivated to cooperate on critical minerals with other regional partners. Australian officials have expressed their commitment to supporting democratic partners by leveraging multilateral frameworks to push back against China’s dominance. A noteworthy example is the collaborative endeavor launched in March 2022 by Australia, India, and Japan, known as the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative. Quad nations have also sought to bolster bilateral ties. For example, Australia and India launched a three-year Critical Minerals Investment Partnership in July 2022 to strengthen cooperation on critical minerals and counter China’s dominance over those supply chains. Australia has committed $5.8 million AUS—about $4 million USD—to this partnership. The Indian critical minerals firm Khanij Bidesh India Ltd. and the Critical Minerals Facilitation Office of Australia will jointly fund a due diligence study in Australia’s lithium and cobalt mineral assets with an initial amount of $6 million USD. As the sole northeast Asian member of the Quad, Japan has also actively pursued bilateral partnerships within the Quad grouping. To facilitate the expansion of Japanese business in India, the Japanese government, in collaboration with their Indian counterparts, has launched two notable initiatives: the India-Japan Industrial Competitiveness Partnership and India-Japan Clean Energy Partnership. In May 2022, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio kicked off a “Japan Week” in India to further strengthen India-Japan ties. Under Kishida’s leadership, Japan has also pursued closer strategic alignment with the United States. In July 2022, Japan and the United States launched the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee to “foster supply chain resilience in strategic sectors, including, in particular, semiconductors, batteries, and critical minerals.” Although not a member of the Quad, South Korea has established cooperation mechanisms with Quad nations, particularly Australia, to strengthen critical mineral supply chains and reduce reliance on China. Even prior to the Quad’s intensified effort to counter China, prominent Korean firms such as LG Chem, LG Energy Solution, SK Innovation, Posco, EcoPro, and Samsung SDI had already invested in and formed partnerships or offtake agreements with Australian mining companies. During South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Australia in December 2021, the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Critical Mineral Supply Chains, encompassing rare earths, lithium, graphite, cobalt, and nickel. Meanwhile, Australian Strategic Minerals (ASM) signed a deal with the Korean Mine Rehabilitation and Resource Corporation, a government agency that oversees South Korea’s national resource security and develops overseas mining and processing capabilities. This partnership paved the way for ASM to manufacture in its South Korean processing plant, catering to esteemed South Korean customers such as Samsung and LG. Besides the Quad, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, as outlined by the White House, also put on its agenda the assurance of critical minerals access as a means to counter China’s dominance. In addition, the Biden administration has launched a broader multilateral Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) with critical partners to “friend-shore” critical mineral supply chains. The MSP has twelve inaugural members, including Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Commission. Italy joined the MSP as its newest member in February. While the MSP theoretically is open to all countries that “are committed to building robust, responsible critical mineral supply chains to support economic prosperity and climate objectives,” it mirrors NATO in its exclusion of China, Russia, and other countries and economies that do not align with its objectives. Moreover, India’s current absence from the U.S.-led MSP has prompted Indian officials to strengthen cooperation with other regional partners. The Biden administration has allocated considerable financial resources to secure a domestically sourced supply chain for critical minerals, ensuring a “Made in America” approach. This effort involves mobilizing government resources, such as the Department of Defense’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program, and offering policy incentives to attract the private sector to invest in U.S. companies and expand the domestic production of critical minerals. Notably, the Energy Act of 2020, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act have all either authorized funding for domestic critical minerals investment or explicitly required domestic sourcing of critical minerals only for electric vehicle tax credits. While fostering a Made-in-America critical-minerals supply chain evokes patriotism, aggressively pursuing such a strategy requires significant expenditure, runs the risk of forming exclusive cliques at the cost of alienating broader U.S. allies and partners, and could further fracture the U.S.-led global system as the world moves beyond hydrocarbon. Chinese policymakers are not feeling entirely secure with China’s existing dominance in the critical mineral supply chains. Given the projected demand growth for critical minerals and growing global competition for them, Chinese leaders have placed mineral resources as strategically important as energy resources even before the Biden administration’s efforts to counter China’s dominance in critical minerals. At a Politburo Central Committee meeting in November 2021, China’s top leaders emphasized the necessity to “strengthen industrial resilience … ensure food security, energy and mineral resources security, critical infrastructure security, and overseas interests security.” This was the first time that mineral security and energy security were emphasized side by side, suggesting that mineral security has become an issue of national strategic interest. In December 2021, China Rare Earths Group was launched as a state-owned enterprise under the purview of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission after the merger of Minmetals Rare Earth, Chinalco Rare Earth & Metals Co, and China Southern Rare Earth Group Co. In this context, U.S.-led critical mineral supply chains initiatives that aim to counter China’s dominance inevitably clash with the Chinese government’s interests in securing mineral resources for China’s industrial development. While China has not pursued its own critical minerals supply chains alliance through diplomatic means to respond to U.S.-led friend-shoring initiatives, it has renovated its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and attempts to pursue critical minerals statecraft not through alliance but through its SOEs. For example, the Chinese government launched the China Mineral Resources Group with registered capital of RMB 20 billion in July 2022, one month after the launch of the MSP. The goal is to integrate and streamline state-owned procurement procedures and break the West’s dominance in the pricing mechanism of mineral resources. In November 2022, China Mineral Resources Group signed strategic cooperation agreements with three international mining giants, including Brazil’s Vale, Australia’s BHP Billiton, and an Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto. The United States needs to resist the allure of compensating for its near-term vulnerabilities at the expense of its continued leadership in a greener world. The Biden administration rightly recognizes the need to strike a balance by complementing its domestically focused strategy with a regional and multilateral approach that embraces neighboring and friendly nations, mitigating the risk of supply chain disruptions stemming from concentration in specific countries. However, it also needs to create incentives for China to stay invested in upholding the security of critical minerals supply chains rather than pushing it toward disruptive actions. The potential for China to disrupt the global critical minerals markets is not limited to possibly banning the export of rare earth elements crucial for the manufacture of advanced American weaponry such as the F-35 fighter jets. According to the “Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export (For Soliciting Public Comment)” published by China’s Ministry of Commerce in December 2022, the Chinese government has been considering prohibiting the export of critical technologies used for refining rare earth minerals in retaliation to U.S. export controls. Encouraging China to assume the role of a stabilizer instead of a disruptor will alleviate the urgency and pressure on the U.S. government to allocate substantial resources for costly industrial policies. MAY 25, 2023~Siemens Gamesa to cut reliance on China for rare earths, permanent magnets~Siemens Gamesa to cut reliance on China for rare earths, permanent magnets - MINING.COMCredit: Siemens Gamesa Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa is hoping to cut is dependence on China in some critical parts of its supply chain, its chief executive said, adding that while there was interest from customers such a move would lead to higher prices. Jochen Eickholt said that Siemens Gamesa was nearly 100% dependent on China for rare earths and permanent magnets, which are among the critical materials needed to make wind turbines. “We are considering offering a more diversified supply chain in the future. If that is what customers want,” he told reporters at the company’s turbine factory in Cuxhaven, Germany. “This is more expensive and can add a few percentage points to the price,” Eickholt added, without specifying what an acceptable supply chain mix would be. Dependence on China in key materials and technologies has become a major issue for Europe, particular Germany, which has asked its biggest corporations to de-risk, which essentially means lowering Chinese exposure in the supply chain. However, a new strategy for Germany in its dealings with China faces delays over policy differences within the government, three sources told Reuters, adding it will not be in place in time for bilateral talks scheduled for June 20. Siemens Gamesa last month signed a deal with Australia’s Arafura Rare Earths to procure 200 tonnes of materials needed for permanent magnets a year, helping the Siemens Energy owned company to diversify away from China. (By Christoph Steitz, Editing by Rachel More and Alexander Smith) MAY 25, 2023 ~Saskatchewan Research Council manufactures Canada’s first solvent extraction cell tech for REE processing~Saskatchewan Research Council manufactures Canada's first solvent extraction cell tech for REE processing - MINING.COMmage from the Saskatchewan Research Council. The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) announced Thursday it has successfully designed and manufactured proprietary commercial-scale solvent extraction cells for its under construction rare earth processing facility. Saskatchewan and Canada are now one of only a handful of jurisdictions in the world with this capability.The cells, which are being developed with automation algorithms to improve productivity and efficiency, are being manufactured at an SRC-operated fabrication facility in Saskatoon, that marked its grand opening Thursday alongside Jeremy Harrison, minister responsible for SRC.“The design, fabrication and automaton of these solvent extraction cells right here in Saskatchewan is helping to develop an innovative and secure rare earth element supply chain in North America,” Harrison said in a media statement. SRC is manufacturing 140 of these cells at the fabrication facility by fall 2023. The cells will be the main component in the rare earth processing facility’s separation unit. The cells take mixed rare earth chloride, a liquid mixture which includes all 17 rare earth elements, through a process that separates them into individual or grouped rare earth oxides. When separated, rare earth elements are highly valuable and are usedin a variety of modern technological end-uses including cell phones, electric vehicles and wind turbines, along with more strategic uses including for the defense industry. “As SRC continues to develop its own commercial demonstration rare earth processing facility, it is developing additional expertise and new processes and technologies, like the solvent extraction cells, that will help position Saskatchewan as a leading-edge rare earth element hub,” SRC president and CEO Mike Crabtree said the statement. “The cells have been developed with automation algorithms to improve both productivity and efficiency, while at the same time being a cost-effective option, making them both a benefit to SRC’s facility but also to the growing rare earth industry as a whole.” RC is constructing North America’s first fully integrated, commercial, demonstration rare earth processing facility with hydrometallurgy, separation and metal smelting stages, which is expected to be fully operational in late 2024. BACK ON Sept. 29th 2020-NioCorp R&D Effort Identifies Possible Improved Approach to Niobium Extraction for its Elk Creek ProjectNioCorp R&D Effort Identifies Possible Improved Approach to Niobium Extraction for its Elk Creek Project - NioCorp Developments Ltd. https://preview.redd.it/z12z0uz6g52b1.png?width=384&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0b43998829b6a671805629f393e2bf6eebc628a 2 1/2 YEARS LATER....MAY 25. 2023 ~NioCorp Demonstrates Higher Niobium Recovery Rates~NioCorp Demonstrates Higher Niobium Recovery Rates - NioCorp Developments Ltd.New Processing Approach Demonstrates the Ability to Make More Niobium per Tonne of Ore, Produce a Higher Purity Product, and Potentially Address New Markets with Different Niobium Products CENTENNIAL, Colo. (May 25, 2023) – NioCorp Developments Ltd. (“NioCorp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:NB) (TSX:NB) is pleased to announce that it has successfully demonstrated the ability to recover greater amounts of the critical mineral niobium from each tonne of ore the Company expects to mine at its Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project, located in southeast Nebraska, once sufficient financing is obtained and the project is constructed. Final results from NioCorp’s metallurgical demonstration plant in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, show that NioCorp’s new and improved recovery process can achieve a 90.7% rate of niobium recovery through the hydrometallurgical process. Overall recovery through the pyrometallurgical production of the commercial product ferroniobium is expected to be 86.7%. NioCorp’s previous approach to niobium production was able to achieve recovery rates through the hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurtical processes of 86.8% and 82.4%, respectively. Please see Jim's response to questions posed for comment-3/17/2022A) Could you comment on what the production of higher purity niobium & titanium could be utilized for once realized?RESPONSE: "If the higher purity Niobium and Titanium intermediates that L3 was able to produce at bench-scale are replicated and proven at demonstration scale, this would put us in a position to more easily move to other products beyond those outlined in our 2019 Feasibility Study. Niobium oxide for use in Li-Ion batteries is one possible example, although the production of that product would require additional processing steps beyond the higher-purity niobium intermediate that we discussed in last week’s news release. The company is not yet in a position to make a determination on whether or not, and when, to possibly expand our Niobium product offering. Higher grade TiO2 could expose us to additional markets where higher margins could be obtained. But, again, we are not in a position to speak to those possibilities in any detail yet." B) Niocorp’s preferred separation method is SX. Are these higher purity processes part of an improved SX process or “something else”? RESPONSE: "No, the processes we recently discussed occur in the earlier stages of the flowsheet, prior to any SX processing. We look forward to unveiling those details once these processes are verified at the demonstration plant level and once all associated work needed to complete an updated Feasibility Study is completed. " (SX is a "TRIED & TRUE" Process for which the NIOCORP TEAMS EXPERIENCES SHOULD TIP THE SCALES TO A FAVORABLE VIABLE REE OUTCOME...... ALL T.B.D......) FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS & CONCLUSIONS ABOVE!TO READ WITH COFFEE WHILE WE WAIT .....Mining Magazine - May 2023 Mining Digital https://preview.redd.it/jkemro9oj52b1.png?width=589&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb12a4e9600796372bb89991d33b6dd2379feb39 WHILE THE RECENT NIOBIUM ANNOUNCEMENT IS FANTASTIC! EVER SINCE NIOCORP FIRST ANNOUNCED THE DESIRE TO ADD VAIABLE RARE EARTH MINERALS TO THEIR MENU. THE BIGGEST QUESTION FOR ME IS HOW WILL THEY DO IT, & HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO PROVE FINAL SEPARATION AT SCALE? I'm HOPING IT WONT TAKE MORE THAN- STAYING TUNED..... CHICO |
2023.05.26 07:25 Proletlariet Damon (Vampire Diaries)
"Now that I have your attention, listen up. You do not come into my town, and threaten people I care about. Going after Elena? Bad move. You leave her alone or I'll rip you to bits, because I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message."
In the year 1864, in the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, two brothers fall in love with the same playful, manipulative girl. While she keeps the both of them wrapped around her little finger, they quickly realize her dark secret. She is a monster of the night, a creature thought to be only legend, a vampire. But the brothers loved her regardless. And they were not the only ones who knew of her secret. When the humans of the town grew suspicious and concocted a plan to round up the vampires in their town and burn them all, the two brothers committed themselves to saving their love, and in fighting against the townspeople both lost their lives. The next morning, they woke up dead.
As both had been unknowingly consuming vampire blood for weeks, they were in a state of transition, becoming vampires themselves. One brother revelled in his newfound power, one brother feared it. The second brother wanted nothing to do with the life of a monster of the night, one who feeds on innocent people, and would rather let himself die than complete the transition. However, his brother left him no choice in the matter and forced him to drink blood so that he would live on forever. That brother's name was Damon Salvatore.
Damon would never forgive his brother for forcing that decision, and dedicated himself to giving Stefan an eternity of misery in revenge. As his mind was clouded by anger, he became nearly as big a monster as his brother. As Stefan worked to better himself, Damon fell to his worse tendencies, and killed all those that Stefan surrounded himself with so that he would never know a moment of happiness for the rest of his afterlife. It was only through their strong brotherly bond, and the love of a girl who saw better in him, that Damon would be able to pull himself around and put his talents for cruelty towards the right causes.
For a thorough overview of everything vampires are capable of and vulnerable to, please check the composite vampire RT.
General Vampire Abilities
Biting
Striking
Speed
Reactions
Blunt Force
Skill
Compulsion
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As both had been unknowingly consuming vampire blood for weeks, they were in a state of transition, becoming vampires themselves. One brother revelled in his newfound power, one brother feared it. The second brother wanted nothing to do with the life of a monster of the night, one who feeds on innocent people, and would rather let himself die than complete the transition. However, his brother left him no choice in the matter and forced him to drink blood so that he would live on forever. That brother's name was Damon Salvatore.
Damon would never forgive his brother for forcing that decision, and dedicated himself to giving Stefan an eternity of misery in revenge. As his mind was clouded by anger, he became nearly as big a monster as his brother. As Stefan worked to better himself, Damon fell to his worse tendencies, and killed all those that Stefan surrounded himself with so that he would never know a moment of happiness for the rest of his afterlife. It was only through their strong brotherly bond, and the love of a girl who saw better in him, that Damon would be able to pull himself around and put his talents for cruelty towards the right causes.
General Vampire Abilities
- If a vampire goes longer than a week without drinking any blood, human or animal, then they will mummify and freeze in place until they are eventually revived.
- If a human ingests a vampire's blood their healing accelerates and they can heal from serious wounds quickly.
- When a vampire makes eye contact with a human, they can compel the person to do or think whatever they're told.
- Vampires have the innate ability to turn off their emotions and "humanity".
- Vampires burn and wither when exposed to sunlight.
- If a vampire is pierced through the heart with a wooden stake, or any sharpened wood, they are instantly killed.
- When a vampire touches vervain, it burns their skin.
- Vampires cannot enter a private home without being invited in first.
Biting
Striking
- [Human] Knocks a man back and out with a single punch.
- [Weakened] Punches through a woman's stomach.
- Sends Elena flying through the air with a shove.
- Punches into a man's chest and pulls his heart out.
- Spears Elijah with a hatrack and pins his body to the wall behind him.
- Shoves a shotgun through a man's chest.
- Shoves a whiskey glass into a man's throat.
- Sends Stefan flying back into a bookshelf hard enough to smash it with a punch.
- Decapitates an empowered vampire with a chop to the neck.
- Decapitates a vampire with a wet floor sign.
- Smashes a wooden crate with a crowbar.
- Smashes a hole in a brick wall with a shovel.
- Kicks a hole in a brick wall.
- Punches a large rock out of a stone wall then uses the rock to weaken a cell's lock so he can kick it open.
- Punches up to his elbow in a stone wall.
- Claims to have punched through a boiler basement and septic tank.
- Handles a benchpress bar with weights one-handed.
- Casually carries around an industrial size propane tank.
- Throws a man several feet away with one hand.
- Throws Stefan several meters away into a wooden gate, hard enough that he rebounds off of it.
- Throws a chair across a room hard enough to smash a window and the chair.
- Decapitates a vampire by throwing a slab of sheet metal.
- [Weakened] Casually snaps necks, even while heavily weakened and sedated.
- [Weakened] Pulls on a door handle hard enough to break the lock.
- [Weakened] Peels open a crumpled car's door and then snaps a seatbelt.
- Tears out the handle and lock of a warehouse door.
- Breaks out of binding metal chains when bloodlusted.
- Tears a truck door off its hinges.
Speed
Reactions
- [Weakened] Dodges out of the way of a gunshot right before it's fired.
- Snatches the heart out of a person's chest as they fall past him.
- Dodges Stefan's superspeed charge.
- Catches a dart from a dart gun and throws it back.
- Crosses a room to block a crossbow bolt after it's been fired.
- Moves from the ground in front of a man to behind him at his neck before the man can react.
- Facing a person with a crossbow across a gorge, blocks an arrow with another vampire, catches an arrow, then circles the gorge before the shooter can get away.
- [Weakened] Even when heavily weakened by being injected with vervain, crosses a room before a human can take a single step.
- [Weakened] Throws a football across the field, then catches it before it hits the ground.
- [Weakened] He and Stefan catch up to a car despite leaving on foot after it drove off.
- Stands up and crosses a large parlor room in under a second.
- Blitzes around a mansion before the sunlight can burn him.
- Able to blitz around a foyer area to the point of being nearly imperceptable to other vampires, including an original.
- Blitzes up and down a street without being seen.
- Enters a room so fast as to be invisible to a vampire and an original.
Blunt Force
- Has a glass smashed against his forehead and doesn't do more than flinch.
- Gets tackled through a window and falls a story and recovers nearly immediately.
- Gets back up from being hit by an SUV hard enough to crack the windshield.
- Gets thrown into an SUV hard enough to rock it and quickly recovers.
- Gets thrown through a window and hits a car hard enough to dent it.
- Gets back up from being hit over the head with a baseball bat hard enough to break it.
- Gets slammed into a brick wall hard enough to knock several bricks out.
- Is inside a car as it tumbles hard enough to become completely demolished and comes out winded but unhurt.
- [Weakened] Gets shot up by wooden bullets, and spends the next minute pulling them out of his body. A minute later he's standing again, until he gets shot, again.
- Has a knife thrown into his chest and doesn't blink.
- It takes multiple wooden bullets to make him fall down.
- Gets shot 4 times through the chest and stays up, though weakened heavily.
- Gets stabbed through the torso several times by wooden pikes covered in vervain and stays standing as they're removed.
- Stays conscious while being tortured with bear traps and a knife.
- Stays conscious having his face dunked in vervain water.
- Drinks and coughs up the equivalent of hydrochloric acid, and is still talking.
- [Half-Turned] When he was first transformed he healed off what were otherwise lethal bullet wounds.
- Dislocates his thumb to escape restraints, and it fits back into place immediately after.
- Has his back broken and recovers a short while later.
- Gets back up and snaps his bones into place after getting hit by a car hard enough to fly several meters away.
- Gets shot in the forehead and wakes up a few minutes later and pulls it out.
- Has his eyes pushed in and is seen an hour or two later with a (albeit very sensitive) fresh set.
Skill
- Casually outskills an untrained person with a knife sparring at normal speeds.
- Reverses a stab to make a man stab himself.
- Covertly slips off a magical protection ring while grappling someone.
- Grapples and throws an opponent utilizing his own weight and momentum.
- Counters a human charging from behind and slams him into the wall with one hand.
- Dodges all of a vampire-werewolf hybrid's wild swings.
- Counters Stefan's charge and floors him in a few moves.
- Takes down two armed guards before either can fire their gun.
- When restrained and another vampire is trying to force feed him vervain water, he uses that to counter a stab attempt by spitting it.
- Escapes from a cell designed to hold vampires using his own pre-starved strength and a loose wooden bullet.
- Listens in on both sides of a phone conversation happening several feet away.
- Able to tell a dried painting is actually made from blood.
- Tracks a person as they exit an apartment building.
- Spots and strikes an invisible target.
Compulsion
- Rewrites a woman's memories to make her think Stefan attacked her instead of himself.
- Damon has shown the ability to show up in people's dreams. The wording he uses implies this has something to do with his vampiric persuasion.
- Damon can seemingly communicate with people he's persuaded through proximity to his crow, he can even maintain some hypnotic hold on his target despite being sedated and starved.
- Removes a target's "suffering", causing his whole temperment to shift up.
- Early in the first season, Damon shows the ability to manipulate fog and a crow in some capacity. This isn't really explained and is quickly dropped.
- Has a Daylight Ring which protects him from sunlight.
- Was briefly under contract with Arcadia, aka The Devil.
- During this time even normal means of killing vampires would not kill him permanently.
- After developing a tolerance to it, it takes an entire syringe of vervain to put him down, and he's awake for several moments afterwards.
- Good at video games.
2023.05.26 06:04 DropWatcher Drop Watch: May 26th, 2023
LPs
- Kodak Black - Pistolz & Pearlz (w EST Gee, L.O.E. Shimmy + more) [Florida Trap, Atlantic]
- Lil Durk - Almost Healed (w J. Cole, Future, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Juice WRLD, Morgan Wallen, Alicia Keys, Rob49 & Chief Wuk) [Chicago Drill, Alamo]
- KHEA (🇦🇷) - SEROTONINA (w Tiago PZK + more) [Argentine Trap, Interscope]
- Dorrough Music & DJ Drama - Number 23 (w UGK, Shawty Lo, OJ da Juiceman, Slim Thug + more) [Southern Hip Hop]
- Mr Eazi's ChopLife SoundSystem (🇳🇬) - Chop Life Vol. 1: Mzansi Chronicles (w Moonchild Sanelly + more) *[Afrobeats, *emPawa]
- Peter Fox (🇩🇪) - Love Songs [German Rap, Warner]
- Cruz Cafuné (🇪🇸) - Me Muevo Con Dios (w Westside Gunn, BOJ + more) [Spanish Rap]
- Monaleo - Where The Flowers Don't Die [Texas Hip Hop]
- Alex Zurdo (🇵🇷) - CONXSIÓN [Latin Rap]
- Khary - A Desperate Attempt To Love Everything [Alternative Hip Hop, RI]
- Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano - Nothing Bigger Than The Program (w Bun B, Kurupt, Ab-Soul, Da$H, A$AP ANT, Kokane, A$ton Matthews & Bart Oatmeal) [Hip Hop, Griselda]
- Cookin Soul (🇪🇸) - RAW TAPES vol. 1 [Producer]
- Nonso Amadi (🇳🇬→🇨🇦) - When It Blooms (w Majid Jordan, BEAM, Zinoleesky, Tay Iwar & Tamera) [Toronto Rap, Afrobeats, UMG]
- Rory - I Thought It'd Be Different (w Ari Lennox, Jay Electronica, dvsn, DRAM, Phonte, Conway the Machine, GoldLink, James Fauntleroy, REASON, Alex Isley, reggie, Emotional Oranges, THEY. + more) [R&B]
- Carlitos Rossy (🇵🇷) - Sad Valentín [Reggaetón, Warner]
- Bliss Station (Flamingosis & Ehiorobo) - Bliss Station [East Coast Hip Hop]
- La Zowi (🇪🇸) - La Reina Del Sur [Spainish Trap]
- Dom Corleo - On My Own (w Yung Kayo + more) [Rage, PHX]
- Ethereal - Heat Death 4 (w Faye Webster + more) [Cloud Rap]
- Devito (🇷🇸) - Plava krv [Hungarian Trap]
- Rosalie. (🇩🇪) - Motherlode [Alt-R&B, Def Jam]
- Kid Quill - Good People (w T-Pain & Caye) [Feel Good Rap, Indiana]
- Khamari - A Brief Nirvana [R&B, Boston, RCA]
- Lil' Keke - 25 Summers (w B-Legit, Big K.R.I.T., 8Ball & MJG, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Peso Peso, Big Jade + more) [Texas Rap]
- Kari Faux - REAL BITCHES DON'T DIE (w Devin the Dude, Gangsta Boo, Big K.R.I.T., Jazz Cartier, Phoelix & theMIND) [Southern Hip Hop, Neo-Soul, drink sum wtr]
- Lakim - Life's Prism [Future Beats, Tufcat]
- Duwap Kaine - Duwap So Based [Cloud Rap]
- Guvna B (🏴) - The Village Is On Fire (w Ghetts + more) [UK Rap, Allo Mate]
- Daz Dillinger - Dat Nigga Daz (w Kurupt + more) [West Coast Hip Hop]
- Xanman - Barmelo Xanthony [DMV Trap]
- Portraits of Tracy - Drive Home [Emo Rap]
- Kassa Overall - Animals (w Danny Brown, Wiki, Nick Hakim, Lil B, Shabazz Palaces, Francis and the Light + more) [Jazz, Warp]
- Thelonious Martin - Season 1. Episode 5. [Beat Tape]
- Trdee - Trapped In My Bag 3 (w BabyTron, StanWill, GrindHad E, Babyfxce E, Certified Trapper, Kasher Quon + more) [Michigan Trap]
- FMB DZ - P-Rock Baby (w Icewear Vezzo, Sada Baby, BabyTron, Skilla Baby + more) [Michigan Trap]
- Suppra (🇨🇱) - EPIFANÍA [Chilean Boom Bap]
- Manu Manzo - Luna En Geminis [Latin R&B]
- Mo Thugs (Bone Thugs + friends) - Family Reunion [Midwest Hip Hop]
- Rory Fresco - Fantasy Camp (w Doe Boy & Skilla Baby) [Southern Hip Hop, New 11]
- Mr Brady & BudaMonk - Art [Boom Bap, King Tone]
- Wiardon - Road Music [Rap, Austin]
- Basi & Mikos Da Gawd - Supernova [Bay Area Rap, Text Me]
- Abby Jasmine- GROWING PAINS [Pop Rap, Cinematic]
- Migo Lee & Anti Beats - Anti Tyler [DMV Trap]
- MarijuanaXO - Black Homer [Milwaukee Trap]
- SME TaxFree & Dai Ballin - House Party [Milwaukee Trap]
- Al-Doe & Spanish Ran - Holy City Zoo (w Ab-Soul + more) [Underground Rap]
- Sleep Sinatra - P.T.G (POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH) [Griselda-core]
Deluxe
- thuy - girls like me (w Rexx Life Raj & MIN) [West Coast R&B]
EPs
- Ozuna (🇵🇷) - Afro (w Davido + more) [Latin Rap, Sony]
- Yng Lvcas (🇲🇽) - Six Jewels 23 (w Peso Pluma + more) [Corrido Tumbado]
- KayCyy & Gesaffelstein - TW2052 [Hip Hop]
- $UICIDEBOY$ - YIN YANG TAPES: Winter Season [Emo Rap, G59]
- Cochise - NO ONE IS NICE TO ME [Rap, Columbia]
- Apache (🇻🇪) - SONGO [Latin Rap]
- K CAMP - Spin the Block [Trap]
- Neurto Shorty (🇻🇪) & Chucky73 (🇩🇴) - Cartel del Caribe [Latin Trap, Rimas]
- Prok (🇪🇸) & Akapellah (🇻🇪) - 16 Millas [Latin Rap]
- Earlly Mac & Sango - MearlGo Vol. 4 [Rap]
- Hunxho - 4 Days In LA [Trap, ATL, 300]
- nascar aloe - HEY ASSHOLE! [Trap Metal, Epitaph]
- V9 (🏴) - 08701 [UK Drill]
- Mannywellz - Don’t Tell Anyone (w Foggieraw) [R&B, Afrobeats]
- C.S. Armstrong - The Southwestern Legacy [R&B]
- EMT LA & Cypress Moreno - Hardest Out [West Coast Rap]
- Drippin So Pretty & Hi-C - Dio Brando [Emo Rap]
- Serane & SURF GANG - SGPM [Plugg]
- Cabra (🇵🇷) - MARTÍNEZ (w De La Ghetto + more) [Latin Alt-Rap]
- KT Foreign - Footalytics [San Diego Trap]
- Don Trip - Die Another Day [Memphis Rap]
- Joe Nora - Still Life EP [Beat Tape, FoF]
- A-F-R-O & 60 East - At The Sideshow EP (w Ras Kass) [Boom Bap]
- Manga Saint Hilare (🏴) & Blay Vision (🏴) - Save Yourself [Grime]
- Wee2Hard - Secret Code [Trap, ATL]
- Kickkone - Talked2GodBoutIt [Florida Trap, Jugghouse/Lava Baby]
- Goya Gumbani - When The Past Bloomed (w Pink Siifu, Lord Apex, August Fanon + more) [NYC Indie Rap]
- RXKNephew - Summer in Miami / Drunk Nights [Rihanna Favorite Rapper FR FR]
- Shaggy 2 Dope - Professor Shaggs and the Quest for the Ultimate Groove [Horrorcore]
- Billionaire Black - Black Sheep 2.0 [Chicago Drill, VALLEY CLUB]
- Grunge Gallardo (of The Opioid Era) - Atlantic Shores [Virginia Rap, Pill Press]
Singles
- Taylor Swift - Karma (Remix) [feat. Ice Spice]
- Sexyy Red & Tay Keith - Pound Town 2 (feat. Nicki Minaj)
- Tainy & Myke Towers - obstáculo
- A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie - MVP (NBA Finals Version) [feat. Myke Towers]
- Juice WRLD - Cheese and Dope Freestyle*
- Yeat & Pi’erre Bourne - My Wrist (feat. Young Thug)
- Anitta, Rvfv & Sfera Ebbasta - Captián
- Sleepy Hallow & Lil Tjay - Pain Talk
- Nio García - Yeska (Remix) [feat. Jowell & Randy]
- Papa Shawn Boo - For the Moment (feat. T-Pain)
- Juneyear - LaDaDa (feat. Jeremih)
- DVBBS, Jeremih & SK8 - Crew Thang
- Dominic Fike - Antpile
- Swifty Blue & Mustard - Jugglin' (feat. Baby Stone Gorillas & Joe Peshi)
- $NOT - Easter Pink
- Victoria Monét & Buju Banton - Party Girls (Michaël Brun Dancehall Remix)
- EST Gee - Turn The Streets Up
- GloRilla - Lick Or Sum
- REASON - At It Again (Remix) [feat. Jay Rock]
- Lu, Pouya, Kxllswxtch, Terror Reid - 456 (Freestyle)
- AkaAction, Bootsy Collins & Jamie Jones - Time For Some Action
- Lachy Doley - Get Out Your Ear's Way (feat. Bootsy Collins)
- Kap G - RR Activities (feat. 03 Greedo)
- J Hus & Fumes - It's Crazy
- Adekunle Gold - Tio Tequila
- Metro Marrs & Mike Dimes - Payroll
- D.Bill$ - Block Boy (feat. Juvenile)
- YMN Gus - Canada Goose V2 (feat. Babyface Ray)
- BLK ODYSSY - YOU GOTTA MAN (feat. KIRBY)
- Big Boss Vette - Ion Need
- Slayter & Retch - Juice Sipper (feat. Fenix Flexin)
- 1030 Montana - Jumped In The Game (feat. Wacotron)
- NSG & Meekz - Unruly
- Korralle & FloFillz - Blunotte
- Taylor Ricard - WAYYY (feat. Jim Jones)
- 7xvethegenius & DJ Green Lantern - Brainstorming (feat. Conway the Machine)
- M Huncho - Crazy Titch
- SetUpCity & 22Gz - Lights Out
- G MiM$ & Dave East - Luv Me 2 Life*
- Sauce Walka - Micheal Beasley*
- Diar Lansky - Explosive (feat. Royce Da 5'9")
- That Mexican OT, Paul Wall & DRODi - Johnny Dang
- Icewear Vezzo - Back On The Road
- Sofi de la Torre - 4 Sure Sure (feat. PHABO)
- Young RoyBoy - Wallah (Remix) [feat. Sada Baby]
- Cootie - Trap Nigga Investment*
- RiskTakerLeek & Cootie - Bird Talk
- Earlly Mac & Kamaiyah - All Night
- Bryan Bandit - Livin' Off the Phone (feat. Veeze)
- Yella Beezy - To The Floor
- Saviii 3rd & Kalan.FrFr - Been That (Extended)
- Milli Major, Novelist, Safone, So Large & Chronik - Skeem Set
- Ghost Dawg & Cico P - Visa
- JGREYY - Boys?
- Jdot Breezy - Addict
- Lil Ray - Hold On (feat. DB.Boutabag & Lul Ace)
- Valee & MVW - Could Be
- Dro Fe, NARCOWAVE & Ralfy the Plug - Trap Evangelist
- Good Gas (FKi 1st) - Coochie Appointment (feat. The Act & Chow Lee)
- Caleborate - B4 U Judge
- Xian Bell & Dende - Have It All
- Beedie & Billy Hoyle - Never Say Never (feat. Your Old Droog)
- Lil Ronny MothaF - Painting Pictures Flow*
- Mike Henny - How It Feel (feat. FCG Heem)
- Payroll Giovanni - On My Own (feat. Nick Varsity & The ATG)
- Ant Beale - BROKE BOY
- Black Milk – Is It Just Me?
- Darius James & Kai Ca$h - No Pressure
- Nate Husser - Itchy Palms
- RXKNephew - Come Find Out
- WhatUpNolan & YSR Gramz - Make Believe (feat. KrispyLife Kidd, YSR Loski & Clean Up Man)
- Darin Steele & Big Sad 1900 - Down n Around
- Kyle Splash & Big Sad 1900 - Take Them Risks
- Tyb - Like Us (feat. Nef the Pharaoh)
- M-Hunt & Nef the Pharaoh - Spazzin'
- Dillon & Diamond D - Comin’ Out Swingin’ (feat. Elzhi)
- Love Spells - Over & Over
- Dominique Fils-Aimé - My Mind At Ease
- Hotboy Wes, D Flowers & Yung Ro - Block Starz
- Luh Soldier & Quoncho - Mudd Bruddas
- Leo Laru$$o - Dojo Slayers (feat. Tha God Fahim)
- Q Da Fool - Heisman
- Charles Hamilton - Girl Scout Cookies
- Joseph Chilliams (Pivot Gang) - Soft Serve (feat. corylovesyou)
- Bikoko - Destiny
- Pioneer 11 & Rhys Langston - Amber Deception
- Black Cobain - Ain't Picking Up (feat. Fendi P)
- Mack Moo & Helluva - Detroit Love
- Bane Capital & Koncept Jack$on - Diamond
- Matt Mars - Hard Times (feat. YL)
- myst milano. - Thirteen
- Bub Styles - Casket Suit (feat. Sauce Heist & Dot Demo)
- Sonny Miles - Over & Over
- Janette King - How Sad
- Joy Postell - At Ease
- DRIVEBY - Sex With The Leopard Print Lady (feat. Fatboi Sharif & Beans)
- Maze Overlay - Danny Ocean
- Chester Watson - fish don't climb trees
- Travis Thompson & Jake One - Happiness (feat. Jay Worthy)
- GMF FatBoy - Sturdy (feat. Big Yavo)
- Andrei Lgnd - SMile (feat. OMB Peezy & Bussdown Bandy)
- Zacari - Touch of Gold
- dylAn - that's 1989
- Lilbubblegum & Jasiah - slurpy
- Diddy, City Girls & Fabolous - Act Bad
- KitschKrieg, KenTheMan & SFR - BAD BITCH (Body, Waist, Lips, Face)
- GOON DES GARCONS* - LIVING IN EXCESS
- Sam Truth - Wishing Well
- Matt Cab, MATZ, Grace Aimi & Ace Hashimoto - Again
- Pressa - Unfollow Me
- Riff Raff, Tommy Cash & Salvatore Ganacci - Ferrari
- Teezo Touchdown - Rock Paper Strippers
- Pablo Alborán - 4U (feat. CKay & Leo Rizzi)
- Rasheed Chappell & Little Vic - Show You How
- The Gemini Twins - Gave You My All (feat. Elzhi & Prop Dylan)
- Eli Fross - Me Time
- HDBeenDope - Can't Get Rid Of Me (feat. Fergie Baby)
- Jaxxon D. Silva - Black Flag (feat. A$AP NAST)
- Colt Fingaz - Way from Me (feat. WESTSIDE BOOGIE)
- TYL3R DAVIS & WESTSIDE BOOGIE - Hieroglyphics
- Jordan Commandeur, Knowledge the Pirate & Rick Hyde - Each One Teach One (feat. 38 Spesh & Flee Lord)
- Planet Asia & 38 Spesh - Upscale (feat. Tha Musalini & a Plus Tha Kid)
- James Fortune - Voyage (feat. Waka Flocka Flame)
- Drakeo the Ruler - Money & Problems (feat. Lil Travieso & MoneySign Suede)
- Brazeonday - DUALLY (feat. Z Money & TTM Dawg)
- Yhung T.O. & Big Sad 1900 - In the Field 2
- Sabrina Claudio - Modo Avión
- Azizi Gibson - F.W.M.
- JUICE MENACE - Weak Attempt
- Reel People & Raheem DeVaughn - Deja Vu (Blue Lab Beats Remix)
- Chingy - Rewind Time
- Malik Baptiste - I'M OK
- Nyck Caution & Erick the Architect - All Around
- Swedish House Mafia - See The Light (feat. Fridayy)
Songs in bold came out at midnight
* means not on Apple Music or Spotify
Sorted by Spotify Monthly Listeners
Old Drop Watches
Full Calendar
2023.05.25 22:15 massettawm The race to secure lithium supplies for EV production is on; are you positioned to capitalize? Surge Battery Metals (NILI.v NILIF) is.
 | With GM's investment into Lithium Americas (LAC) and Ford's agreement with Albemarle (ALB) to secure lithium hydroxide for ~3M Ford Evs, the race to secure lithium supplies for EV production is on. submitted by massettawm to EducatedInvesting [link] [comments] (Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/albemarle-establishes-strategic-agreement-with-ford-motor-company-301830403.html) The growing demand for EVs in the US has spurred interest in regionalizing supply chains for greater security, sustainability and lower costs given the demand forecasted to become a major force growing at least 30 times by 2040, quickly outpacing supply. https://preview.redd.it/wurz43mvt22b1.png?width=825&format=png&auto=webp&s=8cb5d71d616f1ad6e9bdf3cdd4f6274f1c219312 Plus, the lag between commodity price signals and changes in supply is widening, hinting at an incoming commodities super cycle and creating a significant market opportunity for companies like Surge Battery Metals (NILI.v NILIF), which is strategically positioned to take advantage with its diverse portfolio of claims across BC and Nevada. Notably, Nevada holds the top-ranked jurisdiction worldwide for mining investment according to the Fraser Institute's annual report which ranks 62 jurisdictions worldwide based on geological attractiveness with minerals and metals and government policies encouraging or discouraging both exploration and investment, including permit times. NILI is set to begin a drill program imminently at its Nevada North Lithium Project which consists of 243 mineral claims over 1,946 hectares with significant lithium content ranging from 29.1 ppm to 5,120 ppm, including 274 samples of 508 carrying 1,000 ppm Li or greater. https://preview.redd.it/8l9mqt11u22b1.png?width=1792&format=png&auto=webp&s=78ba0826ff93fda0e3de151e6e87f84897d99372 NILI will be drilling 7 new locations at its Nevada North Lithium Project in mid-May 2023 within an extensive surface geochemical covering an area of about 1,700m east-west. The new targets were selected to expand the currently identified lithium deposit to the west and north, as well as to determine continuity between the 2022 holes drilled. While NILI is still in the early stages, it's well positioned for growth going forward with enough capital to expedite and complete its 2H 2023 exploration programs. For more information, check out this NILI feature from Benzinga: https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/05/ab32309435/surge-battery-metals-strengthens-balance-sheet-and-executive-team-to-accelerate-ambitious-2h2023- Posted on behalf of Surge Battery Metals Inc. |
2023.05.25 21:52 Saturdead Saturdead - May 2023 Update
 | [] submitted by Saturdead to u/Saturdead [link] [comments] Unlike people, the sad sunflower chose to be born. It was a conscious, sentient choice. How can one kill that which has willed itself to be? Hello everyone!I'm so glad you're here. We've had a wonderfully spooky month, where we've gotten a chance to touch on several storylines.But first off, I've been thinking about what comes next. Much like my experiment with the Galapagos files, I've considered working on something on the side. So I've added a poll to this post with a few options to sort of feel the temperature. (An in-universe lore collection of the Tomskog Universe) - A continuation of the Galapagos Files. An in-universe explanation into the many creatures, locations and protagonists we've met over the years. (An out-of-character lore collection of the Tomskog Universe) - A behind-the-scenes look at the various stories, their connections, and some of the inspirations we've used. Less mystery, but deeper insight. (Let's keep the mystery. Just talk about writing!) - Maybe you don't want us to pull back the curtains just yet? Instead, I can just make a few posts about my process and the insights I've gained about short story writing for NoSleep over the years. What do you think? This month, I've released a total of four stories; What we never reported from April 12th, 2013 Please don't finish the 3000-piece Chimeric Challenge Puzzle The Discordant Love of a Pressenda Violin BAD MAN HELP On to some community shoutouts! First off... TALES FROM THE VALE AND THE YEARWALKER SERIES Big thank you and congratulations to u/TalesFromTheVale who have finished their narration of the Yearwalker series! Here is a link to the finished playlist for your listening pleasure. It is a great achievement, and I am so glad to see something I'm so heavily invested in come to life. Beautiful work, thank you. D.D AND D.D u/Decayed_Doe is on a roll when it comes to narrating the many tales of the Tomskog Universe. In an effort to promote and appreciate their work, I'm making it a standing point to continuously link their videos. Thank you, I'm so glad you're bringing my nightmares to your audience. Trapped inside the Birthday Box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ryEx_dXV4) It Fell from the Chickadee's Nest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-1HwtFh3) What Happened under the Caves of Greenbrier Valley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdA7R1AxCVQ) The Metal Strangeness in my Brain - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vIMpEiFb98) Overexposure Therapy - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KyY6n20YBE) I was supposed to be Someone Else - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_4gSvfPDZQ) The Soundless Lady - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b0S2Tszf4) The Copycat Carpenter - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIbv8oO7lI) Am I the Odd One out? - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEdo6HPdA) The West Virginia Scarf People - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvzNPR61aVA) As Death Smacks her Lips - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffsB9zU-MR0) ...AND OUR MANY, MANY FACES IN THE DARK Finally, I want to give a shout-out to some of the many talented narrators who've worked on my stories, in various languages. I am so thankful for my stories to reach new audiences, and I'll do my best to never stop reminding you of the value of your work. You give my words a voice, and that is invaluable. Thank you. In no particular order; - (Lighthouse Horror) I Work at a TV News Station. The Government Wants Us To COVER SOMETHING UP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQFTXVQ18Og I Was An EMERGENCY Rescue Diver. This Is Why I Quit. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYf1KpvbIpY - (Tales from the Vale) What we never reported from April 12th, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OMUmLc8HMI - (Crypt Reader) Please don't finish the 3000-piece Chimeric Challenge Puzzle! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgWpJDfxNA - (Tattooed Biker Unexplained) Bad Man, Help! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITs2X-YW1rM - (Goosebumps Stories) ผมเห็นใบหน้าในทุกอย่าง - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9Mkw6h-NM ผมเคยเป็นหน่วยดำน้ำกู้ภัย - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgriSGrrT5g - (Creepysirpasta) What Happened Under The Caves of Greenbrier Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjPJVo2Ta4 - (Dark Jack) TEM UM ALUNO EXTRA SE ESCONDENDO NA MINHA CLASSE E ISSO ESTÁ ME ATORMENTANDO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DjW_225eNo - (Nota 5) FATA CARE BEA PLOAIA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0tT1wfM1YU 12/05/2013 EVENIMENTUL DE CARE TU NU STII - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PgChFahE_o - (Darksoul Horror) Mi APARTAMENTO estaba LLENO de INSECTOS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skq69gXwt7k - (Hellscythe German Creepypasta) Siehst du das Vögelchen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhjJL6D7MFA - (Ciudadano Z) Mi HIJA quiere ser un FANTASMA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJrjxBOvWZE - (Quadrotes - Opowieści Grozy) Zostałem Zatrudniony, by Ich Znajdować... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGg3AKLWmo Much love, my wonderful sunflowers. You are cared for. Best regards/ Dennis View Poll |
2023.05.25 17:42 ft420 D1 Baseball Tournament TV / Streaming for Thursday 5/25 (First National Government Day (Argentina))
ALL TIMES EASTERN
AAC Tournament
9:00 AM Game 6: #2 Houston vs. #3 Wichita State (Elimination Game) espn+
1:00 PM Game 7: #4 UCF vs. #8 South Florida espn+
4:30 PM Game 8: #7 Tulane vs. #6 Memphis espn+
ACC Tournament
11:00 AM Game 7: Pool A #1 Wake Forest vs. #12 Pitt, ACCN
3:00 PM Game 8: Pool B #2 Virginia vs. #7 North Carolina, ACCN
7:00 PM Game 9: Pool D #4 Miami vs. #9 NC State, ACCN
America East Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #1 Maine vs. #5 UMass Lowell, espn+
3:00 PM Game 4: #2 UMBC vs. #3 Binghamton, espn+
7:00 PM Game 5: #5 UMass Lowell vs. #3 Binghamton (Elimination Game) espn+
ASUN Tournament - 2 pool play
10:00 AM Game 4A: #1 Lipscomb vs. #2 FGCU espn+
2:30 PM Game 4B: #5 Stetson vs. #8 Austin Peay espn+
7:00 PM Game 5B: #6 EKU vs. #7 Jax State espn+
Atlantic 10 Tournament
11:00 AM Game 7: #3 Dayton vs. #2 Davidson (Elimination Game) espn+
3:00 PM Game 8: #5 Richmond vs. #1 Saint Joseph's (Elimination Game) espn+
7:00 PM Game 9: #1 St Joseph's vs. #3 Dayton (Elimination Game) espn+
Big10 Tournament
11:00 AM Game 6: #8 Michigan State vs. #5 Rutgers (Elimination Game) BTN
3:00 PM Game 7: #3 Iowa vs. #2 Indiana BTN
7:00 PM Game 8: #1 Maryland vs. #4 Nebraska BTN
Big 12 Tournament
10:00 AM Game 5: #5 Kansas State vs #1 Texas (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 6: #2 Oklahoma State vs West Virginia (Elimination Game) espn+
5:00 PM Game 7: #4 TCU vs #8 Kansas, ESPNU & espn+
8:30 PM Game 8: #7 Oklahoma vs #6 Texas Tech, ESPNU & espn+
Big East Tournament
2:30 PM Game 3: #4 Georgetown vs #3 Seton Hall (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
6:30 PM Game 4: #1 UConn vs. #2 Xavier FloBaseball ($)
Big South Tournament
1:00 PM Game 1: #1 Campbell vs. #4 Gardner-Webb, espn+
5:00 PM Game 2: #2 USC Upstate vs. #3 Winthrop, espn+
Colonial Athletic Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #4 Charleston vs #6 William & Mary (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
3:00 PM Game 4: #1 UNCW vs #5 Delaware FloBaseball ($)
7:00 PM Game 5: #2 Elon vs #3 Northeastern FloBaseball ($)
Conference USA Tournament
10:00 AM Game 5: (3) Charlotte vs. (2) UTSA (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 6: (6) Louisiana Tech vs. (7) Middle Tennessee espn+
5:00 PM Game 7: (8) Rice vs. (5) Florida Atlantic (Elimination Game) espn+
8:30 PM Game 8: (1) Dallas Baptist vs. (4) WKU espn+
Horizon Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #1 Wright State vs. #5 Milwaukee, espn+
3:00 PM Game 4: #2 Oakland vs. #3 Northern Ky espn+
7:00 PM Game 5: #5 Milwaukee vs. #3 Northern Ky (Elimination Game) espn+
Metro Atlantic Athletic Confernce Tournament
11:00 AM Game 4: #1 Fairfield vs. #6 Manhattan espn+
3:00 PM Game 5: #2 Rider vs #4 Quinnipiac espn+
7:00 PM Game 6: #3 Canisius vs. #6 Manhattan (Elimination Game) espn+
Mid-American Tournament
12:30 PM Game 3: #4 Western Michigan vs. #2 Central Michigan (Elimination Game) espn+
6:00 PM Game 4: #1 Kent State vs. #3 Ball State espn+
Missouri Valley Tournament
9:00 AM Game 7: #3 Southern Illinois vs. #7 Belmont (Elimination Game) espn+
12:30 PM Game 8: #6 UIC vs. #2 Missouri State (Elimination Game) espn+
4:00 PM Game 9: #1 Indiana State vs. #7 Belmont, espn+
7:30 PM Game 10: #4 Evansville vs. #5 Murray State, espn+
Mountain West Tournament
4:30 PM Game 1: #2 San Diego State vs. #3 Air Force, MW Network
9:00 PM Game 2: #1 San José State vs. #4 Fresno State, MW Network
Northeast Tournament
11:00 AM Game 4: #1 CCSU vs #4 Sacred Heart, espn3 & NEC Front Row
3:00 PM Game 5: #2 Wagner vs #3 FDU, espn3 & NEC Front Row
7:00 PM Game 6: #5 LIU vs #4 Sacred Heart (Elimination Game) espn3 & NEC Front Row
Ohio Valley Tournament
12:00 PM Game 5: #1 Morehead State vs. #5 Eastern Illinois, espn+
4:00 PM Game 6: #2 Little Rock vs. #6 Tennessee Tech espn+
8:00 PM Game 7: 5 Eastern Illinois vs. #6 Tennessee Tech (Elimination Game) espn+
PAC-12 Tournament - 3 pool play
1:00 PM Game 7B: #5 Arizona State vs. #2 Oregon State, PAC12 Networks
5:30 PM Game 8C: #4 USC vs. #3 Washington, PAC12 Networks
10:00 PM Game 9A: #6 Oregon vs. #1 Stanford, PAC12 Networks
SEC Tournament
10:30 AM Game 9: #6 South Carolina vs. #10 Texas A&M (Elimination Game) SECN
2:00 PM Game 10: #9 Alabama vs. #5 Auburn (Elimination Game) SECN
5:30 PM Game 11: #3 LSU vs. #2 Arkansas SECN
8:00 PM Game 12: #1 Florida vs. #4 Vanderbilt SECN
Southern Tournament
9:00 AM Game 3: #4 ETSU vs. #8 The Citadel, espn+
12:30 PM Game 4: #3 Wofford vs. #6 UNCG, espn+
4:00 PM Game 5: #1 Samford vs. #4 ETSU, espn+
7:30 PM Game 6: #2 Mercer vs. #3 Wofford, espn+
Southland Tournament
12:00 PM Game 5: #2 UIW vs. #6 McNeese (Elimination Game) espn+
3:30 PM Game 6: #1 Nicholls vs. #3 Lamar espn+
7:00 PM Game 7: #5 NW State vs. #4 New Orleans espn+
Summit Tournament
1:05 PM Game 3: #4 Omaha vs. #2 ND State (Elimination Game) Summit Digital Network
7:05 PM Game 4: #1 Oral Roberts vs. #3 SD State Summit Digital Network
Sunbelt Tournament
10:00 AM Game 7: #6 App State vs. #7 James Madison (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 8: #8 Georgia State vs. #5 Texas State (Elimination Game) espn+
5:00 PM Game 9: #3 Troy vs. #2 Southern Miss espn+
8:30 PM Game 10: #1 Coastal Carolina vs. #4 Louisiana espn+
SWAC Tournament
9:00 AM ET Game 5: (W2) Texas Southern vs. (W4) Prairie View A&M SWAC Youtube
12:00 PM ET Game 6: (E2) Bethune-Cookman vs. (E4) Jackson State SWAC Youtube
3:00 PM ET Game 7: (E3) Florida A&M vs. (E1) Alabama State SWAC Youtube
6:00 PM ET Game 8: (W3) Southern vs. (W1) Grambling State SWAC Youtube
WAC Tournament
12:00 PM Game 7 #4 Seattle vs. #6 UT-Arlington (Elimination Game) espn+
3:00 PM Game 8 #5 Abilene Christian vs. #7 UTRGV (Elimination Game) espn+
7:00 PM Game 9 #2 Sam Houston vs. #3 Utah Valley, espn+
10:00 PM Game 10 #1 Grand Canyon vs. #6 UT-Arlington, espn+
WCC Tournament
6:00 PM ET Game 3: #1 LMU vs. #5 St. Mary's WCC Network
10:15 PM ET Game 4: #2 Portland vs. #3 Santa Clara WCC Network
Big West Conference Regular Season Games
9:00 pm Cal State Fullerton vs. Cal Poly espn+
9:00 pm CSU Northridge vs. CSU Bakersfield espn+
9:00 pm UC Davis vs. Long Beach State espn+
9:00 pm UC Riverside vs. UC Irvine espn+
12:30 am UC Santa Barbara vs Hawaii espn+
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Not sure what happened to PPL today, but I am posting this in place of the usual format.
This is the one I use on my site and wanted to get it to you fans asap. Cheers.
submitted by ft420 to collegebaseball [link] [comments]
9:00 AM Game 6: #2 Houston vs. #3 Wichita State (Elimination Game) espn+
1:00 PM Game 7: #4 UCF vs. #8 South Florida espn+
4:30 PM Game 8: #7 Tulane vs. #6 Memphis espn+
ACC Tournament
11:00 AM Game 7: Pool A #1 Wake Forest vs. #12 Pitt, ACCN
3:00 PM Game 8: Pool B #2 Virginia vs. #7 North Carolina, ACCN
7:00 PM Game 9: Pool D #4 Miami vs. #9 NC State, ACCN
America East Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #1 Maine vs. #5 UMass Lowell, espn+
3:00 PM Game 4: #2 UMBC vs. #3 Binghamton, espn+
7:00 PM Game 5: #5 UMass Lowell vs. #3 Binghamton (Elimination Game) espn+
ASUN Tournament - 2 pool play
10:00 AM Game 4A: #1 Lipscomb vs. #2 FGCU espn+
2:30 PM Game 4B: #5 Stetson vs. #8 Austin Peay espn+
7:00 PM Game 5B: #6 EKU vs. #7 Jax State espn+
Atlantic 10 Tournament
11:00 AM Game 7: #3 Dayton vs. #2 Davidson (Elimination Game) espn+
3:00 PM Game 8: #5 Richmond vs. #1 Saint Joseph's (Elimination Game) espn+
7:00 PM Game 9: #1 St Joseph's vs. #3 Dayton (Elimination Game) espn+
Big10 Tournament
11:00 AM Game 6: #8 Michigan State vs. #5 Rutgers (Elimination Game) BTN
3:00 PM Game 7: #3 Iowa vs. #2 Indiana BTN
7:00 PM Game 8: #1 Maryland vs. #4 Nebraska BTN
Big 12 Tournament
10:00 AM Game 5: #5 Kansas State vs #1 Texas (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 6: #2 Oklahoma State vs West Virginia (Elimination Game) espn+
5:00 PM Game 7: #4 TCU vs #8 Kansas, ESPNU & espn+
8:30 PM Game 8: #7 Oklahoma vs #6 Texas Tech, ESPNU & espn+
Big East Tournament
2:30 PM Game 3: #4 Georgetown vs #3 Seton Hall (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
6:30 PM Game 4: #1 UConn vs. #2 Xavier FloBaseball ($)
Big South Tournament
1:00 PM Game 1: #1 Campbell vs. #4 Gardner-Webb, espn+
5:00 PM Game 2: #2 USC Upstate vs. #3 Winthrop, espn+
Colonial Athletic Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #4 Charleston vs #6 William & Mary (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
3:00 PM Game 4: #1 UNCW vs #5 Delaware FloBaseball ($)
7:00 PM Game 5: #2 Elon vs #3 Northeastern FloBaseball ($)
Conference USA Tournament
10:00 AM Game 5: (3) Charlotte vs. (2) UTSA (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 6: (6) Louisiana Tech vs. (7) Middle Tennessee espn+
5:00 PM Game 7: (8) Rice vs. (5) Florida Atlantic (Elimination Game) espn+
8:30 PM Game 8: (1) Dallas Baptist vs. (4) WKU espn+
Horizon Tournament
11:00 AM Game 3: #1 Wright State vs. #5 Milwaukee, espn+
3:00 PM Game 4: #2 Oakland vs. #3 Northern Ky espn+
7:00 PM Game 5: #5 Milwaukee vs. #3 Northern Ky (Elimination Game) espn+
Metro Atlantic Athletic Confernce Tournament
11:00 AM Game 4: #1 Fairfield vs. #6 Manhattan espn+
3:00 PM Game 5: #2 Rider vs #4 Quinnipiac espn+
7:00 PM Game 6: #3 Canisius vs. #6 Manhattan (Elimination Game) espn+
Mid-American Tournament
12:30 PM Game 3: #4 Western Michigan vs. #2 Central Michigan (Elimination Game) espn+
6:00 PM Game 4: #1 Kent State vs. #3 Ball State espn+
Missouri Valley Tournament
9:00 AM Game 7: #3 Southern Illinois vs. #7 Belmont (Elimination Game) espn+
12:30 PM Game 8: #6 UIC vs. #2 Missouri State (Elimination Game) espn+
4:00 PM Game 9: #1 Indiana State vs. #7 Belmont, espn+
7:30 PM Game 10: #4 Evansville vs. #5 Murray State, espn+
Mountain West Tournament
4:30 PM Game 1: #2 San Diego State vs. #3 Air Force, MW Network
9:00 PM Game 2: #1 San José State vs. #4 Fresno State, MW Network
Northeast Tournament
11:00 AM Game 4: #1 CCSU vs #4 Sacred Heart, espn3 & NEC Front Row
3:00 PM Game 5: #2 Wagner vs #3 FDU, espn3 & NEC Front Row
7:00 PM Game 6: #5 LIU vs #4 Sacred Heart (Elimination Game) espn3 & NEC Front Row
Ohio Valley Tournament
12:00 PM Game 5: #1 Morehead State vs. #5 Eastern Illinois, espn+
4:00 PM Game 6: #2 Little Rock vs. #6 Tennessee Tech espn+
8:00 PM Game 7: 5 Eastern Illinois vs. #6 Tennessee Tech (Elimination Game) espn+
PAC-12 Tournament - 3 pool play
1:00 PM Game 7B: #5 Arizona State vs. #2 Oregon State, PAC12 Networks
5:30 PM Game 8C: #4 USC vs. #3 Washington, PAC12 Networks
10:00 PM Game 9A: #6 Oregon vs. #1 Stanford, PAC12 Networks
SEC Tournament
10:30 AM Game 9: #6 South Carolina vs. #10 Texas A&M (Elimination Game) SECN
2:00 PM Game 10: #9 Alabama vs. #5 Auburn (Elimination Game) SECN
5:30 PM Game 11: #3 LSU vs. #2 Arkansas SECN
8:00 PM Game 12: #1 Florida vs. #4 Vanderbilt SECN
Southern Tournament
9:00 AM Game 3: #4 ETSU vs. #8 The Citadel, espn+
12:30 PM Game 4: #3 Wofford vs. #6 UNCG, espn+
4:00 PM Game 5: #1 Samford vs. #4 ETSU, espn+
7:30 PM Game 6: #2 Mercer vs. #3 Wofford, espn+
Southland Tournament
12:00 PM Game 5: #2 UIW vs. #6 McNeese (Elimination Game) espn+
3:30 PM Game 6: #1 Nicholls vs. #3 Lamar espn+
7:00 PM Game 7: #5 NW State vs. #4 New Orleans espn+
Summit Tournament
1:05 PM Game 3: #4 Omaha vs. #2 ND State (Elimination Game) Summit Digital Network
7:05 PM Game 4: #1 Oral Roberts vs. #3 SD State Summit Digital Network
Sunbelt Tournament
10:00 AM Game 7: #6 App State vs. #7 James Madison (Elimination Game) espn+
1:30 PM Game 8: #8 Georgia State vs. #5 Texas State (Elimination Game) espn+
5:00 PM Game 9: #3 Troy vs. #2 Southern Miss espn+
8:30 PM Game 10: #1 Coastal Carolina vs. #4 Louisiana espn+
SWAC Tournament
9:00 AM ET Game 5: (W2) Texas Southern vs. (W4) Prairie View A&M SWAC Youtube
12:00 PM ET Game 6: (E2) Bethune-Cookman vs. (E4) Jackson State SWAC Youtube
3:00 PM ET Game 7: (E3) Florida A&M vs. (E1) Alabama State SWAC Youtube
6:00 PM ET Game 8: (W3) Southern vs. (W1) Grambling State SWAC Youtube
WAC Tournament
12:00 PM Game 7 #4 Seattle vs. #6 UT-Arlington (Elimination Game) espn+
3:00 PM Game 8 #5 Abilene Christian vs. #7 UTRGV (Elimination Game) espn+
7:00 PM Game 9 #2 Sam Houston vs. #3 Utah Valley, espn+
10:00 PM Game 10 #1 Grand Canyon vs. #6 UT-Arlington, espn+
WCC Tournament
6:00 PM ET Game 3: #1 LMU vs. #5 St. Mary's WCC Network
10:15 PM ET Game 4: #2 Portland vs. #3 Santa Clara WCC Network
9:00 pm Cal State Fullerton vs. Cal Poly espn+
9:00 pm CSU Northridge vs. CSU Bakersfield espn+
9:00 pm UC Davis vs. Long Beach State espn+
9:00 pm UC Riverside vs. UC Irvine espn+
12:30 am UC Santa Barbara vs Hawaii espn+
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Not sure what happened to PPL today, but I am posting this in place of the usual format.
This is the one I use on my site and wanted to get it to you fans asap. Cheers.
2023.05.25 17:23 DropWatcher May 26th, 2023
LPs/EPs
- Kodak Black - Pistolz & Pearlz (w EST Gee, L.O.E. Shimmy + more) [Florida Trap, Atlantic]
- Lil Durk - Almost Healed (w J. Cole, Future, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Juice WRLD, Morgan Wallen, Rob49 & Chief Wuk) [Chicago Drill, Alamo]
- Moneybagg Yo - Hard To Love: Heartless Edition (w GloRilla + more) [Memphis Trap, CMG]
- KHEA (🇦🇷) - SEROTONINA (w Tiago PZK + more) [Argentine Rap, Interscope]
- Peter Fox (🇩🇪) - Love Songs [German Rap, Warner]
- Monaleo - Where Teh Flowers Don't Die [Texas Hip Hop]
- Khary - A Desperate Attempt To Love Everything [Alternative Hip Hop, RI]
- Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano - Nothing Bigger Than The Program (w Bun B, Kurupt, Ab-Soul, Da$H, A$AP ANT, Kokane, A$ton Matthews & Bart Oatmeal) [Hip Hop, Griselda]
- Cookin Soul (🇪🇸) - RAW TAPES vol. 1 [Producer]
- Rory - I Thought It'd Be Different (w Ari Lennox, Jay Electronica, dvsn, DRAM, Phonte, Conway the Machine, GoldLink, James Fauntleroy, REASON, Alex Isley, reggie, Emotional Oranges, THEY. + more) [R&B]
- Carlitos Rossy (🇵🇷) - Sad Valentín [Reggaetón, Warner]
- La Zowi (🇪🇸) - La Reina Del Sur [Spainish Trap]
- Dom Corleo - On My Own (w Yung Kayo + more) [Rage]
- Devito (🇷🇸) - Plava krv [Hungarian Trap]
- Rosalie. (🇩🇪) - Motherlode [Alt-R&B, Def Jam]
- Kari Faux - REAL BITCHES DON'T DIE (w Devin the Dude, Gangsta Boo, Big K.R.I.T., Jazz Cartier, Phoelix & theMIND) [Pop Rap, drink sum wtr]
- Duwap Kaine - Duwap So Based [Cloud Rap]
- Guvna B (🏴) - The Village Is On Fire (w Ghetts + more) [UK Rap, Allo Mate]
- CJ Fly - Healing From Our Wounds [NY Rap, Beast Coast]
- Xanman - Barmelo Xanthony [DMV Trap]
- Kassa Overall - Animals (w Danny Brown, Wiki, Nick Hakim, Lil B, Shabazz Palaces, Francis and the Light + more) [Warp]
- Trdee - Trapped In My Bag 3 (w BabyTron, StanWill, GrindHad E, Babyfxce E, Certified Trapper, Kasher Quon + more) [Michigan Trap]
- Suppra (🇨🇱) - EPIFANÍA [Chilean Boom Bap]
- Rory Fresco - Fantasy Camp (w Doe Boy & Skilla Baby) [Southern Hip Hop, New 11]
- Mr Brady & BudaMonk - Art [Boom Bap, King Tone]
- Wiardon - Road Music [Rap, Austin]
- Basi & Mikos Da Gawd - Supernova [Bay Area Rap, Text Me]
- Abby Jasmine- GROWING PAINS [Pop Rap, Cinematic]
- Migo Lee & Anti Beats - Anti Tyler [DMV Trap]
- MarijuanaXO - Black Homer [Milwaukee Trap]
- SME TaxFree & Dai Ballin - House Party [Milwaukee Trap]
- Al-Doe & Spanish Ran - Holy City Zoo [Underground Rap]
Deluxe
- thuy - girls like me (w Rexx Life Raj & MIN) [West Coast R&B]
EPs
- KayCyy & Gesaffelstein - TW2052 [Hip Hop]
- $UICIDEBOY$ - YIN YANG TAPES: Winter Season [Emo Rap, G59]
- Cochise - NO ONE IS NICE TO ME [Rap, Columbia]
- Hunxho - 4 Days In LA [Trap, ATL, 300]
- nascar aloe - HEY ASSHOLE! [Trap Metal, Epitaph]
- V9 (🏴) - 08701 [UK Drill]
- Ransom & Nicholas Craven (🇨🇦) - Director’s Cut 4 [Griselda-core]
- Drippin So Pretty & Hi-C - Dio Brando [Emo Rap]
- Joe Nora - Still Life EP [Beat Tape, FoF]
- A-F-R-O & 60 East - At The Sideshow EP (w Ras Kass) [Boom Bap]
- Manga Saint Hilare (🏴) & Blay Vision (🏴) - Save Yourself [Grime]
- Wee2Hard - Secret Code [Trap, ATL]
- Kickkone - Talked2GodBoutIt [Florida Trap, Jugghouse/Lava Baby]
- RXKNephew - Summer in Miami / Drunk Nights [Rihanna's Favorite Rapper FR FR]
- Shaggy 2 Dope - Professor Shaggs and the Quest for the Ultimate Groove [Horrorcore]
- Billionaire Black - Black Sheep 2.0 [Chicago Drill, VALLEY CLUB]
- Grunge Gallardo (of The Opioid Era) - Atlantic Shores [Virginia Rap, Pill Press]
Singles
- Taylor Swift - Karma (Remix) [feat. Ice Spice]
- Juice WRLD - Cheese and Dope Freestyle*
- Yeat & Pi’erre Bourne - My Wrist (feat. Young Thug)
- Sleepy Hallow & Lil Tjay - Pain Talk
- Dominic Fike - Antpile
- Swifty Blue & Mustard - Jugglin' (feat. Baby Stone Gorillas & Joe Peshi)
- EST Gee - Turn The Streets Up
- Dorrough Music & DJ Drama - Old Skool Nikes
- GloRilla - Lick Or Sum
- Lu, Pouya, Kxllswxtch, Terror Reid - 456 (Freestyle)
- Kap G - RR Activities (feat. 03 Greedo)
- J Hus & Fumes - It's Crazy
- Adekunle Gold - Tio Tequila
- Metro Marrs & Mike Dimes - Payroll
- D.Bill$ - Block Boy (feat. Juvenile)
- BLK ODYSSY - YOU GOTTA MAN (feat. KIRBY)
- 1030 Montana - Jumped In The Game (feat. Wacotron)
- NSG & Meekz - Unruly
- Korralle & FloFillz - Blunotte
- M Huncho - Crazy Titch
- G MiM$ & Dave East - Luv Me 2 Life*
- Sauce Walka - Micheal Beasley*
- Sofi de la Torre - 4 Sure Sure (feat. PHABO)
- Cootie - Trap Nigga Investment*
- Earlly Mac & Kamaiyah - All Night
- Bryan Bandit - Livin' Off the Phone (feat. Veeze)
- Yella Beezy - To The Floor
- Saviii 3rd & Kalan.FrFr - Been That (Extended)
- Milli Major, Novelist, Safone, So Large & Chronik - Skeem Set
- JGREYY - Boys?
- Lil Ray - Hold On (feat. DB.Boutabag & Lul Ace)
- Caleborate - B4 U Judge
- Beedie & Billy Hoyle - Never Say Never (feat. Your Old Droog)
- Lil Ronny MothaF - Painting Pictures Flow*
- Mike Henny - How It Feel (feat. FCG Heem)
- Payroll Giovanni - On My Own (feat. Nick Varsity & The ATG)
- Ant Beale - BROKE BOY
- Black Milk – Is It Just Me?
- Darius James & Kai Ca$h - No Pressure
- Nate Husser - Itchy Palms
- WhatUpNolan & YSR Gramz - Make Believe (feat. KrispyLife Kidd, YSR Loski & Clean Up Man)
- Darin Steele & Big Sad 1900 - Down n Around
- Kyle Splash & Big Sad 1900 - Take Them Risks
- Tyb - Like Us (feat. Nef the Pharaoh)
- Dillon & Diamond D - Comin’ Out Swingin’ (feat. Elzhi)
- Love Spells - Over & Over
- Dominique Fils-Aimé - My Mind At Ease
- Hotboy Wes, D Flowers & Yung Ro - Block Starz
- Charles Hamilton - Girl Scout Cookies
- Joseph Chilliams (Pivot Gang) - Soft Serve (feat. corylovesyou)
- Bikoko - Destiny
- Pioneer 11 & Rhys Langston - Amber Deception
- Matt Mars - Hard Times (feat. YL)
- myst milano. - Thirteen
- Bub Styles - Casket Suit (feat. Sauce Heist & Dot Demo)
- Janette King - How Sad
- Joy Postell - At Ease
- DRIVEBY - Sex With The Leopard Print Lady (feat. Fatboi Sharif & Beans)
- Maze Overlay - Danny Ocean
Songs in bold came out at midnight
* means not on Apple Music or Spotify
Sorted by Spotify Monthly Listeners
Old Drop Watches
Full Calendar
2023.05.25 14:34 GoStockGo Element79 Gold Corp. Confirms Debt Settlement (CSE:ELEM, OTC:ELMGF, FSE: 7YS)
https://preview.redd.it/y8bgodaa2z1b1.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f62213158898f618bc1e07f925fcb531ef3e531
Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor
Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services
Debt Settlement
The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company.
In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share.
All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation.
About Element79 Gold
Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out.
For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold
Contact Information
For corporate matters, please contact:
James C. Tworek,
Chief Executive Officer
E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
For investor relations inquiries, please contact:
Investor Relations Department
Phone: +1.613.879.9387
E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
submitted by GoStockGo to OTCstocks [link] [comments]
https://preview.redd.it/y8bgodaa2z1b1.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f62213158898f618bc1e07f925fcb531ef3e531
Company Further Strengthens Balance Sheet by Entering Debt Settlement Agreement with Creditor
Element79 Gold Corp. (CSE:ELEM) (OTC:ELMGF)(FSE: 7YS) (" Element79 Gold ", the " Company ") a mining company focused on gold, silver and associated metals, provided an update to investors today by confirming payment to a creditor to complete a contract for services
Debt Settlement
The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement with an arms-length creditor (the "Creditor") to settle CAD$50,000.00 (the "Debt Settlement") of debt for services provided by the Creditor to the Company.
In settlement and full satisfaction of the debt in the amount of CAD$50,000.00, the Company has agreed to issue to the Creditor 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of $0.050 per Common Share.
All Common Shares issued pursuant to the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Common Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation.
About Element79 Gold
Element79 Gold is a mining company focused on gold, silver, and associated metals and committed to maximizing shareholder value through responsible mining practices and sustainable development of its projects. Element79 Gold's primary focus is on two core properties: Lucero Property in Arequipa, Peru, and its flagship Maverick Springs Property in the gold mining district of northeastern Nevada, USA. The Maverick Springs Property, located between the Elko and White Pine Counties, hosts a 43-101-compliant, pit-constrained mineral resource estimate reflecting an inferred resource of 3.71 million ounces of gold equivalent "AuEq" at a grade of 0.92 g/t AuEq (0.34 g/t Au and 43.4 g/t Ag) with an effective date of October 19, 2022. Element79 Gold also holds a portfolio of 15 properties along the Battle Mountain trend in Nevada. As part of its Canadian operations, Element79 Gold has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Snowbird High-Grade Gold Project, consisting of 10 mineral claims approximately 20km west of Fort St. James in Central British Columbia. The Company also has the option to acquire the Dale Property, comprised of 90 unpatented mining claims in the Timmins Mining Division, Dale Township, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is analyzing the non-core Nevada, Dale, and Snowbird projects for further merit of exploration, sale, or spin-out.
For more information about the Company, please visit www.element79.gold
Contact Information
For corporate matters, please contact:
James C. Tworek,
Chief Executive Officer
E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
For investor relations inquiries, please contact:
Investor Relations Department
Phone: +1.613.879.9387
E-mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
2023.05.25 08:49 GoofyShane Scary situation
Decided to explain what happened to me once because it still creeps me out. So here’s my story…
My mother lives in an apartment complex on the edge of the city. Right where Parkersburg, West Virginia turns into MineralWells, West Virginia. The apartment complex is on a dead end road but it’s not quite near the dead end part. Anyways, when I was living with her I used to park my car on this concrete slab that was by the sign to the entrance because I could pick up Wi-Fi from this persons house. I’m usually a night owl so this was around 2am. I had been sitting in my car for about an hour on my phone. At this point I kept feeling like I was seeing something like a shadow in my passenger side mirror and I couldn’t shake the feeling like I was being watched. I will say that I had always got a weird vibe from the woods around there. Even walking down the road was frightening for me because I always felt this overwhelming anxiety. Sometimes it would be so bad that when I was walking once I made it by the sign to the entrance I would always take off running until I made it near the office to the apartment complex. Anyways, back to the story. After I kept seeing a shadow from the mirror I decided I was going to turn my headlights on because since I was on my phone my eyes wasn’t acclimated to the darkness so once I put my phone down I couldn’t really see. Once I turned my headlights on, there is this tall ‘thing’ standing near the edge of the woods and it starts slowly backing up into the woods. At this point I hurried up and started my car and took off like a bat out of hell. I went to the gas station and sat there and realized that there had to of been two of those things because I know there was something around my car watching me. Whatever it was it was tall and I remember it looking grey. But I can’t remember the face. I was so scared once I saw it that I took off so fast I didn’t have time to focus on the face. To this day I won’t ever walk down that road when it’s dark, especially if I’m by myself.
There is also a couple times when I would walk from my friends house who lived a couple miles from my moms and it was on this country road. There’s a certain part of that walk where I get this sensation that I need to walk a lot faster because something is in the woods around that area and it does not want me there. I don’t know how to explain it. It was just this feeling like something was really angry that I was there and it wanted me gone really fast like.
Idk, maybe it’s just my mind playing tricks. Or maybe there’s some kind of ability that I have that I can’t quite figure out yet.
Well, if anyone has any suggestions to what I could of saw or have any suggestions about the feelings I would get near a certain area of woods a few miles up the road than let me know. Thanks.
submitted by GoofyShane to Thetruthishere [link] [comments]
My mother lives in an apartment complex on the edge of the city. Right where Parkersburg, West Virginia turns into MineralWells, West Virginia. The apartment complex is on a dead end road but it’s not quite near the dead end part. Anyways, when I was living with her I used to park my car on this concrete slab that was by the sign to the entrance because I could pick up Wi-Fi from this persons house. I’m usually a night owl so this was around 2am. I had been sitting in my car for about an hour on my phone. At this point I kept feeling like I was seeing something like a shadow in my passenger side mirror and I couldn’t shake the feeling like I was being watched. I will say that I had always got a weird vibe from the woods around there. Even walking down the road was frightening for me because I always felt this overwhelming anxiety. Sometimes it would be so bad that when I was walking once I made it by the sign to the entrance I would always take off running until I made it near the office to the apartment complex. Anyways, back to the story. After I kept seeing a shadow from the mirror I decided I was going to turn my headlights on because since I was on my phone my eyes wasn’t acclimated to the darkness so once I put my phone down I couldn’t really see. Once I turned my headlights on, there is this tall ‘thing’ standing near the edge of the woods and it starts slowly backing up into the woods. At this point I hurried up and started my car and took off like a bat out of hell. I went to the gas station and sat there and realized that there had to of been two of those things because I know there was something around my car watching me. Whatever it was it was tall and I remember it looking grey. But I can’t remember the face. I was so scared once I saw it that I took off so fast I didn’t have time to focus on the face. To this day I won’t ever walk down that road when it’s dark, especially if I’m by myself.
There is also a couple times when I would walk from my friends house who lived a couple miles from my moms and it was on this country road. There’s a certain part of that walk where I get this sensation that I need to walk a lot faster because something is in the woods around that area and it does not want me there. I don’t know how to explain it. It was just this feeling like something was really angry that I was there and it wanted me gone really fast like.
Idk, maybe it’s just my mind playing tricks. Or maybe there’s some kind of ability that I have that I can’t quite figure out yet.
Well, if anyone has any suggestions to what I could of saw or have any suggestions about the feelings I would get near a certain area of woods a few miles up the road than let me know. Thanks.
2023.05.25 01:41 Small_Bet_9433 ACC Coastal Programs That Have Played Teams They Have Never Beaten (as of the 2022 season)
It's time for some Coastal chaos! As always, the years in parenthesis are the dates of the most recent matchup between teams and if I missed any dates or matchups, please let me know!
Middle Tennessee (0-3) (2022)
SMU (0-1) (1965)
Washington State (0-1) (2015)
Western Kentucky (0-2) (1931)
Murray St. (KY) (0-1-1) (1932)
South Georgia College (0-1) (1931)
Norman JC (GA) (0-1) (1931)
Millsaps (MS) (0-1) (1927)
Fort Pierce (FL) (0-1) (1944)
Alabama JV (0-1) (1931)
California (0-1) (2004)
Florida (0-2) (1985)
Kansas (0-1) (2007)
Miami (OH) (0-1) (1997)
Michigan (0-1) (2011)
Oklahoma (0-1) (1991)
Southern Cal (0-1) (2004)
UCLA (0-1) (2013)
Yale (CT) (0-2) (1916)
West Virginia Wesleyan (0-1) (1914)
Virginia Medical College (0-1) (1912)
Tennessee-Chattanooga (0-1) (1927)
Randolph-Macon Academy (VA) (0-1)
Quantico Marines (VA) (0-2) (1950)
Princeton (NJ) (0-3) (1912)
Dartmouth (NH) (0-1) (1926)
Cornell (NY) (0-1) (1915)
Bucknell (PA) (0-1) (1906)
3rd Army Corps (MD) (0-1) (1923)
Oklahoma (0-1) (1991)
Wisconsin (0-1) (2001)
Ohio State (0-1) (1933)
Michigan (0-3) (1995)
Fresno State (0-1) (2004)
Colorado State (0-1) (2002)
Washington (0-1) (1976)
Southern Cal (0-2) (2010)
UCLA (0-2) (2015)
Oregon (0-2) (2016)
Missouri (0-1) (1973)
Kentucky (0-1) (1930)
Florida (0-2) (2019)
Southern Miss (0-2) (2011)
Louisiana Tech (0-1) (2012)
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2023.05.24 20:17 davethebear612 BioLargo (OTCQB:BLGO) - Environmental Solutions and Engineering Services
 | BioLargo – OTCQB:BLGOBLGO represents the majority of my portfolio. My first shares were purchased on March 1, 2021 and I have consistently bought shares throughout the last 27 months.BioLargo is an environmental engineering company. There are 5 divisions of the company. 2 of them (BLEST and BioLargo Water) focus primarily on water treatment. ONM Environmental focuses on odoVOC control in both the industrial sector and as a wholesale distributor for a consumer pet odor control product. BETI is new in 2023 and is developing sodium-sulfur battery technology. Clyra is a medical subsidiary that develops products based on a copper-iodine chemistry that has safe but incredibly powerful oxidation capabilities for infection control in surgical settings. Currently pushed up against the \"ceiling\" of the Oct 2022-Present compression. Still have to shake the 2019-Present compression (top red line). 2008-September 2022 \"Ceiling\" was broken out of. Green floor has been firm and rising since 2021. 2023 Q1 10-Q Filing 2023 Q1 Earnings Call Recording Market Cap: $55M ($0.19/share) Total Outstanding Shares: 284M Outstanding Options: 30M options outstanding ($0.12-$0.43 exercise price, $0.19 average price) Outstanding Warrants: 52M warrants ($0.13-$1.00 exercise price, $0.26 average price) 2022 Revenue: $5.88M (132% YoY growth) 2023 Q1 Revenue: $3.74M (78% QoQ growth vs. Q4 ’22) 2023 Q1 Losses: ($494k) Cash on Hand: $3.26M Debt: Roughly $500k CEO: Dennis Calvert Losses are decreasing. Growth is primarily from ONM Environmental. ONM Environmental generating more cash-flow, bringing company close to profitability despite being the only division with positive cash flow. Debt is basically gone. SG&A has remained consistent as revenue has grown across recent years. Net Stockholder’s Equity has steadily risen. $5M net stockholder equity is required for listing on the Nasdaq. ONM Environmental – VOC/Odor ControlONM Environmental Website - CupriDyne WebsiteONM Environmental (“Odor No More) is the original division of the company. The flagship product is CupriDyne Clean which is a copper-iodine complex that oxidizes odor and VOC. It is sold in the industrial sector to landfills, waste transfer stations, US Air Force Bases, wastewater treatment plants, automotive manufacturers, marijuana growing facilities, animal processors etc. Overall, industrial sales of CupriDyne have been underwhelming from my POV, but the underlying technology has found homes elsewhere, making the asset and the division successful for BioLargo. ONM Environmental has partnered with an advertising firm (Ikigai Holdings) and launched a consumer pet odor control product (POOPH) for household use. Pooph Website/Commercial. One of selling points for CupriDyne/POOPH is its safety. In the commercial, the product is sprayed directly into the host’s mouth to demonstrate its safety. The product uses the same baseline chemistry as CupriDyne Clean. BioLargo serves as manufacturing and wholesaler for Ikigai who is in control of the marketing and selling of the product. BioLargo receives a 6% royalty on Ikigai’s sales of Pooph and receives revenue from acting as the supplier for Pooph. Overall, BioLargo receives about 25% of Pooph’s total sales. POOPH is being sold direct-to-consumer, on Amazon, on Chewy.com (largest online pet supply), and is stocked in about 60% of Walmart locations. POOPH is consistently in the top-50 for pet products on Amazon. https://preview.redd.it/cmkc1g1tns1b1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3147dbdb754d65c815c26d3ec545ff3019dc2bf From the LinkedIn page of Jordan Stanley, one of Ikigai’s co-founders: “Over the following 10 years, I earned the reputation of an undisputed leader in Direct Response TV, producing such well-known campaigns as Billy Mays’ OxiClean, Procter& Gamble’s Tide, Febreze, and Downy brands. Throughout that time I have continued writing and producing winning commercials through Blue Moon Studios and Concepts for Doggie Steps (Telebrands), Finishing Touch (IdeaVillage), and Snuggies (Allstar). Out of 45,000 commercials in the Procter & Gamble database dating back over 60 years, the commercials I have written, directed and produced have achieved "highest-scoring, best-performing commercials" for Downy, Febreze, Dryel, Ivory Snow laundry products and have the distinction of being the "#1 best-performing 2-minute spot". I have the distinction of having 2 spots in the top 10 as measured by ASI/Ipsos. Using my method, about $3 Billion of revenue has been generated to date.”Ikigai’s goal is to generate $100M+ in annual sales and then seek a brand sale of 3x-7x of annual sales ($300M-$700M). Ikigai has done this before with products like Finishing Touch/Flawless, which is a beauty-care product line that they sold for $900M. That brand sale was valued at 5x annual sales. Flawless/Finishing Touch Brand Sale The estimated payout to BioLargo if/when the brand sells is $100M. As of Q1 2023, BioLargo is receiving roughly $1M/month from Pooph sales. That means Ikigai is at roughly $50M in annual sales rate after less than 18 months since first sales of the product. Ikigai has stated their expectations for 20% QoQ growth for POOPH. If that holds true, they will be at a $100M annual run-rate by Q1 2024. ONM Environmental was the only profitable division in 2022, generating $1.13M in operating income from $4.37M total revenue. This was primarily revenue generated from POOPH, with 86% of total BioLargo 2023 Q1 revenue being POOPH revenue. BioLargo Engineering, Science, and Technologies Inc. (BLEST)BLEST is the most diverse and exciting part of the company to me. The core of the group is a half dozen engineers who were brought on in 2017 after CB&I laid off their entire unit during some turmoil for the company. They were working with BLGO at the time, and Dennis pitched to them that they form BLEST and continue working as the unit that they had been for 20-30 years in their previous role, but with more freedom and flexibility working for an emerging company rather than a giant company like CB&I. They agreed and are based out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.BLEST is led by Randall Moore. Randall has a 30+ year career in environmental engineering, leading over 1000 employees at times in his career. He has done 1000s of projects. Randall assisted the US Post Office during the Anthrax Crisis. He helped to design and implement the efforts to pump out New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. He helped during the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He worked on the aftermath of the Fukushima Disaster. He designed and built the largest dioxin remediation facility in the world. Randall has worked professionally on a diverse set of projects at the highest caliber. He and the rest of the BLEST team are essential to the ability to execute stated goals, continue product development, and complete project design work. BLEST serves 3 roles. They are here to invent new technologies. They are here to support the engineering and design work for other divisions. They are here to complete engineering work for clients. BLEST Technologies and Projects: Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC) for PFAS remediation, Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD) Systems via Garratt Callahan partnership, engineering and design work for what (if goes to full scale) will be the largest waste-to-energy facility in the world, engineering and design work for Ultra Safe Nuclear Company (USNC) for their fuel production system for micro-modular reactors. The above technologies will be discussed later. AEC, Waste-to-Energy, and USNC projects have all been engaged by clients, with the initial phases completed and the second phases scoped . Each have a proposal in the client’s hands, awaiting approval. Many technologies or projects seem very close to strong adoption or progression to future stages, but none of them have really gotten fully there. If the technologies gain more consistent traction, BLEST’s headcount will have to grow, as will their revenues. BLEST incurred a loss of $425k in 2022 on total revenue of $1.94M. BioLargo WaterBioLargo Water does research and development of the Advanced Oxidation System (AOS) which is a water disinfection and micropollutant destruction technology. The division is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta and gets quite a bit of their funding and support via the Canadian government.AOS has been used in pilot projects for stormwater treatment, brewery wastewater treatment, poultry water treatment, pharmaceutical/micropollutant removal in Montreal’s municipal facility. They have submitted a proposal to the Alberta EPA to validate the technology for use in poultry water treatment in the province, however, not much has been said since that was made public in June 2022. AOS provides disinfection of E coli and other microorganisms. AOS also destroys tough contaminants like pharmaceuticals and micropollutants like benzene. AOS is hard to pin down. Technically, it’s unique and very capable It has been in development for almost a decade and is yet to find a reliably commercial home. For now, it’s just been pilots and peer-reviewed journal articles published in scientific journals. My science brain loves AOS. My finance brain hates it. The company isn't churning through resources to try to commercialize, so it's not killing the company, but the combination of duration of development, unique and high level technical function, and lack of commercial success is a confusing one. AOS Product Brochure - Quebec Pilot - Sunworks Poultry Pilot BioLargo Water did not generate revenue in 2022 and incurred $714k in losses in 2022, which was primarily R&D budget. BioLargo Energy Technologies Inc. (BETI)BETI is a new subsidiary in 2023. BioLargo owns 97% of BETI with a small group of investors holding the remaining 3% of shares. The capital was raised at a valuation of $20M for BETI.Its purpose is to commercialize sodium-sulfur battery technology. One of the original inventors (Mario Caja) of the technology has been brought on to see that through as a member of the BETI team. He has been working on molten salt battery technology for 30 years. Presently, the company is putting the capital that they raised into building small manufacturing capabilities in their Oak Ridge, Tennessee facility. https://preview.redd.it/e8650mzpps1b1.png?width=783&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0be1405bf2ba2145e888b3edd92d09139ce6349 May 9, 2023 Interview Transcript Regarding lithium and sodium ion batteries, Dennis Calvert – CEO: “Those are exotics, lithium, cobalt, nickel, those are rare earth elements that are really mined in offshore. So foreign supply's a big problem. That's one issue. The other is, of course, they're rare, so the price is going crazy, and then the other is efficiency. Lithium has efficiency issues. It only lasts 6, 7, 8 years. Everybody's working on that. They get 80-20% efficiencies, they can't charge to 100%, it builds up dendrites. So the world's looking for a better battery for certain locations.On the last quarterly call (May 18), Dennis stated that they expect to be able to sell any and all batteries that they bring to market that meet the claims they have made. He said that within 4-6 months, they expect to have built a small battery facility in Oak Ridge and prototypes. On May 24, 2023 (Sequire Presentation) Dennis stated that revenue can start to be substantial in 6-9 months. In late 2022, BioLargo added Christina Bray to their board of directors. She is the CEO of an electric vehicle charging company (BlueDot Energies). Christina Bray PR BETI is very new and the available proven details are relatively sparse compared to some of the other parts of BioLargo's portfolio. Seems like a lot of potential, but more must be shown. Clyra MedicalClyra Medical is a bit surprising on the surface. What is an environmental engineering company doing in the medical field? The original inventor at the company (Kenneth Code) sought to create a chemistry that would help be helpful in infection control, as that was something his father was struggling with at the time. The result was a copper-iodine complex, which is very similar to the baseline chemistry that ONM Environmental uses for CupriDyne Clean in the ONM Environmental division.Clyra Medical was formed so that the subsidiary could raise its own capital, independently of BioLargo. It is an asset that is 58% owned by BioLargo. Recently, Clyra has been selling shares to fund production of their first product that has 510k clearance from the FDA, BioClynse. BioClynse Product Brochure https://preview.redd.it/zk8qgnl3qs1b1.png?width=697&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0192692321eb6a3a68013b7fc0861dfd5f3ecb6 BioClynse produces a very strong oxidation reaction, much like how CupriDyne does for odoVOC control. BioClynse is for use during surgery for infection control and can be used after the fact if a knee or hip replacement gets infected following a procedure. The product is gentle enough to be left in the body when the patient is sewn up and provides lasting infection control, including disruption of biofilm. No rinse is required, which is unique. Other products that came to market and were successful across the last decade are starting to come into question because of toxicity concerns to tissue. The company believes that not only has the wound irrigation market expanded dramatically and will continue to, but that it is no longer being met by incumbent products. Regarding BioClynse Efficacy and FDA Point-Of-View: "The questions they asked us were 'You must be lying, because this has never happened before.' When we finally got through, it took us another $1.8M and about 2 years from that first moment, the reviewer said 'This is the lowest concentration of antimicrobial at this level of performance that the agency has ever seen.' And therein lies the special thing that we've been talking about since we started this company (Clyra), and it's now finally positioned to be in a very significant commercial role."https://preview.redd.it/bbo6s81bqs1b1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=387eee83e060b6523a257939a9addfeb93b7a606 BioClynse is expected to begin selling more substantially to orthopedic surgeons in Q2 and Q3. They have entered into a production agreement and are in negotiations with distribution partners (Clyra Production Agreement). Capital is being used to fund production. They have spent 2022 and the first parts of 2023 building out a sales rep network and “showing off” the product at industry events with significant positive response according to the company. https://preview.redd.it/jf3eqdfeqs1b1.png?width=618&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a6b6858f2b871c71e9407d0189b32dd5dd5a8d2 Clyra Medical’s goal is to build up the company and to be spun off with the sale of Clyra to a larger medical company. Recently, capital has been raised around a $32M valuation (Reported during Q2 2022 Earnings Call, so may have changed a bit since then). As a subsidiary with just the very beginnings of commercial activity, I don’t anticipate that any spin-off would happen anytime soon, but if 2023 is the year they go commercial with a high margin product like BioClynse, that clock should begin and become less of a theory than it has been. Regarding Future Product Development and Coronavirus Allowance: "We were given notice of allowance for use of Clyra against coronavirus. Coronavirus is a very broad category, not just Covid, it's Middle-Eastern, SARS, it's everything, probably 300 different variations of upper respritory infections and lung disease. That opens up the pathway for us to pursue drug applications for nebulizer therapy, inhalant therapy, nasal sprays, throat sprays, and have good IP coverage. This is good IP coverage. We were denied 4 times. We kept going back and fighting for this, and finally the patent office said: You know what, you got it. They gave us a very broad allowance, and we're going to continue to expand on that. That has major implications in a drug pathway for these Clyra products, which we've always believed the tough part wasgetting the patent done, but we have that."Clyra Medical added 2 members to their board in 2022. Clyra Board Additions. Nick Valeriani spent 34 years at Johnson and Johnson, particularly with wound control (Neosporin). Nick serves on the board of $50B-valued Edwards Lifesciences ($EW). Linda Park is the Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for Edwards Lifesciences. She also joined as a member of the BioLargo board. It has been stated that Linda has been brought on partially for her expertise and guidance as BioLargo seeks to uplist in future to a national market like the Nasdaq. Clyra Medical incurred a loss of $1.38M in 2022, bringing in just $56k what was essentially a few initial users of BioClynse in a professional setting. BLEST Technologies and ProjectsGarratt-Callahan – Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD) DevicesIn 2021, BioLargo announced that Garratt Callahan (largest private water company in North America) approached them to ask for help finalizing the design of their Minimal Liquid Discharge technology. GC MLD Announcement BioLargo helped them finish the design and will serve as the manufacturer of the product. The product has patent coverage through Garratt Callahan. GC MLD Patent The MLD systems are water reuse devices that take the mineral content out of water streams for use in things like cooling towers. The devices allow for an industrial water user to stretch their water budget significantly further, bringing value to clients in both reducing their water costs, but also allowing them to continue their planned operations in an environment where water availability may fluctuate based on hydrologic/drought conditions. Potential clients would be data centers, energy generation, and industrial water users. BioLargo will make money from the manufacturing and sale of the unit (approximately $500k per unit), while Garratt Callahan will make their money from the operation of the machines. It was expected that these units would begin being sold in 2022, however that did not happen. A factory acceptance test was successfully completed in February of 2022 ("FAT" Acceptance) , however contracts have not been announced BioLargo maintains confidence in the future of these devices and states that they are involved with a dozen or more negotiations and design work for potential projects. If those projects are confirmed, GC MLD devices can be a strong revenue stream through an established water treatment company. GC maintains that 30-50 units can be moved annually, but that is hard to predict when the first one will be sold and if 30-50 per year is a reasonable expectation given the delayed rollout. If they can accomplish that, however, it would bring in $15M-$25M annually. https://preview.redd.it/ra8cj3emqs1b1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=90fa9a91bab9ff455d88bafea6089d419df5f038 Garratt Callahan has also agreed to sell AEC for PFAS remediation (discussed below). BioLargo has stated that a few of their potential PFAS remediation projects expected to move forward soon are ones that GC brought to the table. Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation – Fuel Production Design Work Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) is designing micro-modular nuclear reactors. Part of that design is a new fuel system (FCM/TRISO-fuel). They have contracted BioLargo Engineering to help design their fuel production facility in Oak Ridge, Tennesse (also where BLEST is headquartered) which opened in August 2022. Fuel Production Facility - USNC/BLEST Collaboration - Pilot Fuel Manufacturing Facility Opens - FCM/TRISO Fuel Information https://preview.redd.it/2dasi4sqqs1b1.png?width=931&format=png&auto=webp&s=18d66bd7b496d857ab80b3b247b2aa62faa6ee25 Phase 1 of the project was completed. Phase 2 has gotten a verbal “yes”, but a signed contract has not been announced officially yet. April 24, 2023 Prospectus "In the second quarter of 2022, BLEST was contracted by Ultra Safe Nuclear to assist in producing the first prototype fuel production systems for their new nuclear reactor called the Micro Modular Reactor (MMR®). Ultra Safe Nuclear is a Seattle-based nuclear energy company that has invented a “fission battery” - a fourth generation modular nuclear reactor – that can deliver safe, zero-carbon, cost-effective energy anywhere. The MMR® uses ceramic-encapsulated nuclear fuel – Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated (FCM+++) – an extremely rugged and stable fuel with high temperature stability. BioLargo has been retained to provide engineering design support, fabrication, and integration for the company’s prototype fuel production systems. Because of the success of the early phase of the project, this project is expected to expand over the coming months in scope and significance to BioLargo, making them an important customer for BLEST." Waste to Energy – Design Work BioLargo was contracted to begin design work on a waste to energy conversion project in South America. The facility being designed would be the largest waste-to-energy conversion plant in the world if it goes to its full scale. The project has 10 years of planning and preparation behind it. The project would be 6 phases, and the company has estimated that all 6 phases would be around $50M in design work. Waste to Energy PR The first phase was a feasibility study and was completed. BioLargo has given a proposal for Phase 2 and is awaiting the green light from the client. The timeline to begin Phase 2 has been slower than originally expected (as seen in June 2022 image below). On the last call, there was mention of political instability in South America giving some pause to decision-making at this time, but the BioLargo continues to maintain that they are in good standing with the client and the project is in good standing overall. The client has brought 4 more projects to BioLargo in Southeast Asia. “This developer has actually brought us 4 more projects. This one has moved from Phase 1 to Phase 2. Phase 2 will push over $1 million. Phase 3 will probably be in the $7.5 million range.” “In April 2022, our engineering subsidiary was hired by a Southern California based sustainable energy services company to conduct a comprehensive project plan (i.e., “feasibility study”) for a waste-to-energy (WTE) conversion plant in South America – one of multiple projects in planning stages by the company. Our engineers completed the initial feasibility study and have delivered a proposal for the next phase of the project (front end engineering design, aka FEED). The client has also requested feasibility studies and a FEED proposal for WTE plants in Asia.”From June 2022 Annual Shareholder's Meeting - note: Stage 1 is complete. Stage 2 has not begun. PFAS Remediation:The Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC) is likely the biggest opportunity in the BLEST portfolio. BioLargo has one active project that has been contracted for PFAS remediation. They are awaiting approval from the client to begin the next phase and scale towards a full installation. During a May 24, 2023 (day of making this post) presentation with Sequire, Dennis mentioned that Phase 1 is complete and they are expecting to move to Phase 2 in the near future. Phase 2 would be $500k-$1M and would take 6-9 months. Phase 3 to go to full scale would be a $15M-$20M in expected revenue. It would also provide a full-scale installation to lean on for proof of function and scaling for clients to have confidence in.AEC is a PFAS collection technology. PFAS “Forever Chemicals” are compounds that are designed to not break down through natural processes. The EPA is in the process of setting drinking water standards for PFAS that would impact 65,000 drinking water systems across the country. Incumbent technologies (Granular Activated Carbon and Ion Exchange Resin) face performance and regulatory challenges moving forward as the EPA’s proposed regulations come closer to taking effect. In March 2023, they proposed federal drinking water standards of 4ppt for PFOS and PFOA (the two main compounds), and a combined weighted limit for 4 other PFAS compounds based on their health advisories. The regulations are expected to firm up in the coming months after necessary comment periods and EPA process etc. Federal Proposal PFAS waste is on a trajectory to be designated as HazMat under CERCLA (HazMat Classification). When used for municipal drinking water remediation, incumbent technologies produce several tons of PFAS-laden carbon or PFAS-laden resin. Recently, Cape Fear removed almost 200 tons of PFAS-laden carbon waste from their facility (Cape Fear Waste). Cape Fear is a very large system, but even a mid-size municipal system ends up having to consider the liability of that amount of HazMat waste on a recurring basis. That “changeout period” becomes more frequent when the drinking water standards get lower. At 9.6ng/L, the data in the right column has too high PFAS concentration to pass proposed federal limits. 4ng/L and the detection limit are very similar levels of PFAS contamination (1-2ng/L is consistent detection limit usually). 2.7-7.1 Month range for GAC and IX technologies (standard incumbents). Lower regulatory standards will require more frequent changeout of media. The media used for GAC projects can be regenerated. Ion exchange media cannot be regenerated. GAC waste can only be regenerated for future use in some parts of the United States. The legality of that process has come into question due to concerns about releasing PFAS emissions into the air (DoD Incineration/Regeneration Ban). Some users continue to regenerate the material while the EPA goes through the process to regulate PFAS. If regeneration is not allowed, the material will end up requiring HazMat landfilling and not be able to be regenerated for future use. That will make remediation with GAC much more complicated and expensive. It will increase the total cost of changing out carbon material by requiring more new material to be used, but also increasing disposal costs of waste. Several tons of waste (200 tons in Cape Fear) now need to be sent to a HazMat landfill. How Many Municipal Drinking Water PFAS Remediation Projects Will be Necessary?: West Virginia recently tested 37 water systems. 19 of them would be out of federal compliance if the proposed federal standards were implemented (WV PFAS Testing). 37 systems is not a huge sample size, but this is reasonable when compared to what I have found when looking at other state-level data across the country. If 50% of systems require remediation, that is around 32k projects just for drinking water. For reference, if there are 32k projects for half of the US population that require remediation, the average number of residents served by a system is just over 5,000, though that number will have quite a large range with some water systems serving hundreds of thousand residents.. PFAS Remediation Project Examples: In Dover, New Hampshire, a 1.1M gallon per day facility was approved for $13.9M. This was for the treatment of half of the water supply for a population of 33,000 residents. (Dover Project Details) The project for Wausau has a cost estimate of $23M (Wausau Cost Estimate). Wausau Water serves 16000 customers (40,000 residents) and treats just over 4M gallons of water per day (Wausau Customer and Daily Flow). Cape Fear, NC has $43M up front costs with $5M annual costs to operate (Cape Fear Costs). The facility is 44M gallons per day (Cape Fear - Size). Municipal Water PFAS Remediation Cost Estimate: Municipal drinking water projects are generally $5-$50M caliber projects. Small town projects can be $1M-$5M, and the largest projects will end up being over $100M. Before the federal Orange County Water District (1% of the population of the United States) estimates a total of $1B will be required for the remediation of their water systems (OCWD Estimate). That is a figure from 2020 and is expected to have increased since then. If you use Orange County’s estimate across the United States, it will cost over $100B for municipal drinking water. The EPA estimates that PFAS remediation will cost between $769M and $1.2B annually (EPA Estimate). American Water Works Association (AWWA) estimates up to $2.9B annually (AWWA Estimate). What About PFAS Remediation Outside of Municipal Drinking Water? I won’t attempt to do the same thing for other water treatment sectors. You'd probably stop reading if you don't already want to. It is important to note that drinking water is only part of what will require PFAS remediation projects. Industrial water users (landfills, oil/gas, papepulp production, metal processing/finishing, wastewater treatment facilities) will require remediation equipment. Groundwater remediation takes place when there is a contaminated aquifer due to a spill or through things like spreading biosolids from wastewater treatment plants on farmland. If the biosolids have PFAS in them (which many do), then the groundwater is contaminated because the PFAS has been applied across the soils. Surface water remediation can be required if high levels of PFAS are found. It isn’t clear what the EPA is planning to do with surface water, but some states have attempted to set concentration limits. Many of the specifics still need to be firmed up by the EPA, but in general it is safe to assume that the estimated $769M-$2.9B that is estimated for PFAS remediation of municipal drinking water annually will not begin to represent the total cost of PFAS remediation in the United States. Any company that has leading PFAS remediation technology has the opportunity to tap into a gigantic emerging market that is going to be backed by federally enforceable drinking water standards. Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC):AEC Product Video - BioLargo's PFAS Website - AEC Product BrochureAEC functions by running water across (not through) a membrane while applying electric charge. PFAS compounds are fused to the membrane and removed from the water supply. AEC only removes the PFAS compounds, which is unique for collection technologies. Materials like granular activated carbon remove all contaminants, meaning that it is very inefficient for PFAS removal since PFAS is found in such low concentrations. This is important because remediation using GAC will produce much more waste than it will with AEC (up to 1000x depending on specific water chemistry). A user of AEC doesn’t have to worry about managing several dozen tons of waste every changeout period. Tonya Chandler on AEC Footprint and Waste Production vs. Incumbent Technologies: How do we measure up size-wise? Well, fairly similar to a GAC system. The difference is that when you see all of our frames, I don’t need to be skidded. I could line the walls with those frames. I can drop those frames – we’ve got one customer that wants to drop them into a pit that’s in their system that they don’t use anymore. I can stack them on top of each other to create space. As long as I have maintenance room around them, I’m pretty flexible on the layout. But you’ll see I produce much less spent (media). Now, also note that that GAC number that I’m giving you there is a single pass. I’m not considering a lead-lag in that number.GAC vs AEC Waste and Footprint Comparison – note: AEC changeout period is expected to be longer than GAC changeout period. Disposal when spent does not represent the same period of time. Orange County Water District - AEC can produce \"Non-Detect\" results all 27 tested PFAS compounds. Tonya Chandler on AEC Origin, Design and Function: “The AEC stands for the Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator, and they decided that they wanted to use the polarity of the PFAS against it. The hypothesis was that if they created some chambers that had a series of electrodes and some specialized membranes, they might be able to pull the PFAS out and create a concentrated stream. The goal was to produce a stream that met the standards. They thought, ‘well if we did multiple stages, we could probably create DI-water. They wanted to stay low energy, and they wanted the cost to be affordable. From September 2022 Tonya Chandler Presentation to Wisconsin Engineers From 2023 10-Q Report: “We have successfully validated the AEC as an effective system to selectively extract and collect PFAS chemicals from contaminated water including performance testing that shows “non-detect” levels of removal, which meets new EPA standards. We have demonstrated more than nine months of continuous operation showing no materially significant degradation of the AEC system’s components or performance over time. As a modular system, we believe the AEC is scalable to a commercial scale, and we believe that our engineering team has the experience to deliver systems to meet the needs of a commercial installation." Dennis on Small Commercial-Scale AEC units: "These are new – we have three of these. We just got – just built and what will happen with these machines is they go out into the field where we go through early testing program. We identify a spot, where we can work with a client the customer, and we say, let's as an additional step just to make sure, let's bring one of these out, park it into their location for three or four weeks, run some samples, run some tests and show our customer, our prospective customer that says that, the device can be well suited for the custom circumstances that surround that customer's water source.” https://preview.redd.it/k1mkmv680t1b1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=dca6291bd1bfb510ffabffbe3b1dcbdaab0dea37 |
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