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ALEM

Sound the drums, head on to war — seized citadel Alem has already been there for the lion's share of a year.

Under the Scavengers' guidance, the four sand worms the party captured gently graze underground corridors allowing the group to reach halfway up Mount Attevar. From there, they quickly infiltrate Alem through a bustling trade route.

Young King Deimar strikes a simple bargain: serve Alem in its bitter last days until inevitable downfall, and the citadel will grant access to its Beacon before the final evacuation is completed.

Sounds simple enough. Now, survive it.

Characters arrive today, with our first proper taste of event chaos due on 27-28 January. Get your character settled in, check out the setting and their assignment, and strike some CR:

■ Arc setting & locations

■ Character assignments

■ New NPC inbox — more this round, ~~because most won't make it~~ so every level has a patron. As usual, reach out to NPCs at will and please share findings with the class!

■ Questions

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I just got his post sharing that information up for what that's worth!

Hahaha he's drama version as it is anyhow, but he still retains the heart of spice is life yunmeng style, and doesn't understand cooking if there's not anachronistic chili flakes or oil in everything. everything. A FEAST FOR BURNING he adores it already

wowowowowowowow

wow

he's only resurrecting a dead mom here, okay, he's baby at this!!!

also at kink

the crossover is at least that point--

<3 <3 eeeeeexcellent.

Spicy food is great. You'll have to introduce stephanivien to it sometime.

A baby! My deepest condolences for whoever keeps interrupting "every day means everyday" and your nuptial bliss then.

....also didn't you resurrect like your old classmate that one time? I thought he got a fancy name out of it and everything.

........................... coughs into hand, oh, yes, that nupital bliss

one day

one day they'll figure it out BUT ANYWAY

yeah so a big difference you find between drama and novel/animation/comic is there's no necromancy involved with bodies, and thus no zombies -- no resurrection at all, by technical necessity. (to pass censorship, and meet the need for the lack of desecration of bodies of the dead.) so! he deals with dead spirits rather than anything else, and he does keep his should-be-dead-now-just-almost-died-and-was-heavily-possessed-by-angry-dead-souls classmate going, up to the point where his consciousness is brought back forward and he's now in control instead of the dead-angry-spirits who cohabitate in his body. which is... worse in various ways, sobs, the mechanics of all this

which makes it hilarious, because he had to learn game-specific style resurrection last year to deal with the need for resurrection... because he's not his novel version LMFAO

*lights a candle for lwj and wwx and the fact they can never get their act together*

That totally makes sense wrt the censorship and stuff for broadcast, I hadn't considered that, and also holy shit that is so much worse, Wen Ning will you ever catch a break, cripes

Learning new skills! As should we all. That's actually hilarious tho. I really would like to try to get back to watching it ~~I did watch the tie-in movie w/ NMJ because he's my fave~~ but I'm so bad at Watching Things. I will have to try and bump this up on my list once I acquire the spoons

look each time they've tried we've been very proud of ourselves for having the situation cockblock them and they continue to suffer for their bad timing choices, story of their lives /solemn

Yeah, Wen Ning gets so much... more horrible, and he even has added backstory of! Having part of his soul taken away as a kiddo by the Fairy of the Mountain Statue because now that's a Dafan Mountain Wen thing, so the reason he's easier for resentful energies/spirits to invade is because he literally... doesn't have an intact soul. Which means he can't reincarnate even if he lived a not-possessed life? It's ??? why do we make Wen Ning suffer more

Nie Mingjue is fantastic and we should all nod our appreciation to him! It's a fun watch, pretty much a great way to take it is a fun adaptation that has some nonsense moments that are pure easter egg, and it's reworked to fit censorship needs while still getting quite a bit in there you'd be surprised by, perhaps! but yeah it's a long go, and at least half the series is in the "past" which is a bit awkwardly framed as a flashback starting in the first ep/two episodes... and ending around ep 30 of 52? exact numbers flee me right now

BUT YES it did help i watched with a friend so we could comment at each other the whole time, soblaughs

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