Chapter 20
The dream was always the same. Terra found herself in a familiar place. Behind the control stick of her MagiTek armor. The burning rubble of a bell tower sat ablaze behind her as she continued her attack deeper into the city. Terra did as ordered, opening fire on the city and laying waste to any soldiers dumb enough to attack her. She would quickly dispatch them with her Ifrit Canon. As she stomped through the city streets, the buildings burned and crumbled all around her. She was surrounded by death and chaos as she laid waste to the city. Terra watched in horror as the destruction burned all around her.
But then the dream changed as the world slowly faded into darkness. Terra looked down and could no longer see her armor. She stood there. Alone in the void.
“Terra…” The voice whispered.
The gentle voice returned. That familiar beacon in an otherwise unfamiliar world. Terra tried to remember where she heard the voice. As if it were an itch in the back of her mind, an itch that was near impossible to scratch.
“Who are you?!” Terra screamed.
“Listen well, and think clearly.” The voice replied in the distance, and then it was gone. Terra ran in the direction of the voice. Her feet were moving fast. She needed answers, the voice had them. But she noticed that no matter how fast she moved, she gained no ground. The darkness faded quickly as Locke shook her awake.
“Alright, pal. Up and at, em’.” He said with his grin. “We got a long hike ahead of us, so eat something, and let’s get going.”
The mood was different for Terra as they journeyed South. She found herself finally being able to relax a bit as Locke and Edgar let their guard down. Though they received no escort, word traveled to the scouts. Patrols were roaming the lands and protecting the king as he traveled on foot with his companions. Her worries melted away as she found herself marveling at the beautiful sights.
Figaro was truly a bountiful land. Though her castle stood in the great desert, her countryside was not nearly as unforgiving. The weather was pleasant. The gentle sunlight beamed down on the grassy fields. The sun warmed Terra’s bones and calmed her spirit. Figaro’s snow-capped mountains looked picturesque, like from an oil painting. Not like those dreadful, sharp peaks of Narshe. Even the rains were gentle, warm and sweet. She made it a point to listen carefully to the world around her. The chirping of birds, the winds moving through the grassy fields, even her own breathing. They brought some peace to her frantic mind.
Edgar was leading the party to a remote hunting cabin that King Edwin had insisted on building for his queen, though she seldom used it. Edgar’s mother believed that sleeping outside and tempering the body to the elements was the only way a king should live. “It toughens up the blood” She would insist. Edgar would always secretly wish for a hot meal and a soft feather bed, and although he was too proud to admit it, his dad was the same way during a hunt.
Edgar caught himself chuckling quietly as he looked back on better times. The Knuckleheads were making chaos, causing a ruckus and making the castle their playground. The King was wise and good. The Queen, loving and strong-willed. “But those days are long gone,” he thought. He looked away as the smallest bit of sadness washed past his eyes.
The sadness was short lived when the sight made them stop dead in their tracks. They looked to the sky to see a massive ship sailing across the heavens. Her wooden hull soared above as countless propellers briskly spun. The ship was flying west towards the sea. Terra’s jaw dropped at the sight. Locke looked on begrudgingly while the king looked on with wonder.
“What is that?” Terra finally asked.
“That is The Blackjack, the flying casino.” Edgar said. “She’s one hell of a machine. The only one of her kind.”
“Yeah, but the Captain is a real piece of work.” Locke said before spitting on the ground.
“What do you mean?” Terra couldn’t keep her eyes off the ship.
“He gallivants around the world, living the high life.” Edgar explained. “He spends his days wandering, wooing women, and hosting high stakes poker games.” Edgar looked sullen. “I tried to buy into his last game and he said that I wasn’t rich enough for his blood.”
“But you’re a king!” Terra exclaimed.
“Indeed. That is what I told him.” He said with a sad look in his eyes. “But he assured me I couldn’t afford his price.”
“Yeah.” Locke agreed. “We’d never have a chance in hell of getting on board that thing.”
“What I wouldn’t give to get on board that ship.” Edgar said longingly. “I’d love to find out what makes her tick.”
“I wonder what the world looks like from up there.” Terra said hopefully.
They stood in silence as a warm breeze blew in their direction, as if to beckon them on.
Chapter 21
“Are you going to play or are you going to fold?” Commissioner Allyn asked as The Captain swirled his fine crystal wineglass. “You’re wasting my time, and my time is not yours to waste”. Setzer loved playing against The Commissioner. The Nikeah Trade Union always had plenty of money to burn, and its leader knew how to light a fire. Setzer quietly looked at his cards and placed them on the table as he took a long drink as he pondered his next move.
The Commissioner was on a hot streak. They had been playing for the better part of 12 hours and he was getting nothing but aces and kings. The Captain, on the other hand, was getting rags. Setzer Gabbiani hadn’t had a good hand all night as he quietly looked at his chip stack. He was short. In one bad hand, he could lose everything, even his fine doublet, quite possibly. The very thought excited him. Setzer looked at Allyn and gave him a cool smile.
“Impatient, aren’t we?” Setzer teased. “I didn’t know you were in such a hurry to leave my establishment.”
“I’m in a hurry to buy your vessel.” Allyn shot back. “I’m in a hurry to get this thing back to Nikeah.”
“That would be most unfortunate for me.” The captain responded before taking a sip of wine. “So tell me, how exactly are you going to take my wings from me?”
“You saw the bet. Five million gold pieces. From the looks of your stack, I’d say you have a couple of thousand at best.” He pointed out before taking a drag from his cigar. “Now, unless you just so happen to have 5 million, you’ll need to put something up. Now I’m sure that all of the luxurious finery you surround yourself isn’t worth that kind of money. But, I bet this ship is.”
“I wouldn’t take that bet.” Setzer said with a smirk. “She’s worth a lot more than that.”
“Not to me.” He snapped. “Five million is the bet. Your time’s up. Make a decision, what are you going to do?”
Setzer sat up from his seat and revealed the inside of his doublet. Just inside the coat pocket sat three bar room darts made of solid gold. He pulled one out and studied it. He played with the dart for a moment as he pondered. He looked to a dart board hanging on the wall to his right, then back to Commissioner Allyn. The look of tension on his face was almost comical to Setzer. Allyn may have been a man of leisure, but he couldn’t relax worth a damn.
“Well, I suppose I’ll let fate decide.” Setzer’s violet eyes met with the Commissioner's as he stared him down. In a quick flash, without aiming, he threw the dart at the board and it landed with a satisfying thud. A smile grew on his face as he kept glaring at Allyn. After what seemed like an eternity. Setzer looked over to see the dart sitting dead center in the double bullseye.
“Well, there you have it.” He said with certainty. “Looks like I’ll call you.”
Commissioner Allyn laughed heartily. “You are out of your mind, Setzer!”
Setzer shrugged. “Well, there is no point to living life if you’re not willing to gamble with it. Now, are you going to show me your cards, or should I just take your money now?”
The commissioner showed his cards. “Full house.” He said with a satisfied smile. “Jacks and Nines.” He chomped down on his cigar and looked at Setzer’s face. It showed him absolutely nothing.
Setzer sighed. “I am afraid I only have two pair.” He flipped over his cards. “Pair of deuces with another pair of deuces.”
The Commissioner's smile disappeared as the rage took over. His face turning beet red as he violently stood up. “You dirty little cheat!” he accused.
“Come now, my friend.” Setzer said as he leaned back comfortably in his seat. “You know I would never stoop to such low standards just to win a card game. Lady luck merely flashed me her grin, nothing more. Now, I am more than happy to give you a chance to win back your money if you desire.”
“Win back? No. I’m taking it back, alongside your ship, as payment for your cheating!”
“Sir, I have tolerated your blustering for the better part of 12 hours,” Stezter stated firmly, “I have taken it in stride as this has been a friendly game up to this point. However, if you continue to make such disgraceful accusations, will deal with you in an equally disgraceful manner.”
“I’d like to see you try, you son of a-”
Setzer picked up the 2 of diamonds and threw it at the Commissioner. Allyn laughed at the thought of being attacked with a playing card. Then he felt the side of his head start to sting. Then it started to bleed. Then it started to hurt. Allyn groaned in pain as he put pressure on the bleeding wound across his head. Setzer got up and walked over to him.
“Well, I believe that is enough excitement for one evening, wouldn’t you agree?” He said casually.
“You’re a dead man, Setzer Gabbiani. Mark my words.” The Commissioner Threatened.
“No, you mark mine.” He retorted. “I was able to disable you with the 2 of diamonds. That was one card. Now I’d like you to take a moment and imagine what I could do with the remaining 51.” That was exactly what The Commissioner did. He looked at his hand, he was bleeding more than he thought. The thought of what could happen turned his stomach. And that is when he noticed the friendly and playful demeanor of the gentleman gambler had disappeared, a cold and merciless look had taken over.
“However, I am more than willing to overlook this misunderstanding. After all, what’s a mistake between friends?” Setzer offered as he extended his hand. “All I expect is an apology.”
The Commissioner took his hand quickly and stood up. “Of course, I apologize. What I said was out of line. You played a fine hand, Captain”
“Think nothing of it.” Setzer said as he painfully tightened his grip on The Commissioner's hand. “Now, if you ever forget your manners in my establishment again, I promise you will spend the last moments of your life trying to fly. Have I made myself clear, Commissioner?”
“Yes. Perfectly clear, Captain.” Allyn responded immediately.
Setzer’s playful smile returned as he led the Commissioner out of the poker room. “Marvelous!” He exclaimed. “Let us retire to the lounge for a refreshment as I ferry you home. Are you still a rum drinker?” Setzer asked.
“I am.” Allyn replied humbled.
“Excellent. Shall I set a course for Nikeah?”
“That would be fine. Thank you, Captain.” Allyn said.
Setzer went above deck to the ship’s wheel. A crescent moon was shining in the night sky above the clouds as he steered his ship east towards Nikeah. He smiled as he felt the wind breeze through his long, silver hair. Setzer knew exactly what he was going to do to celebrate.
First stop: Jidoor for the appetizer.
It had been a long day and he needed a proper meal. Then a hot bath with a thinly rolled cigar. And to end the evening with a gorgeous woman and a good night’s sleep in his suite at the Silver Lantern Inn. Then after a glorious breakfast, off to his tailor’s to get fitted for a new doublet and maybe a new suit.
Second Stop: The Opera House for an evening of refined culture. It was opening night and Setzer was looking forward to the show. Aria de Mezzo Carattere was always one of his favorites. And a blonde goddess had been chosen for the part of Maria. Rumors of her beauty had traveled far and wide. He had to see if the rumors did her justice. He made a mental note to drop by the Jewlers in the banker’s district to pick out a diamond ring.
Setzer found himself in the mood for romance.
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Writer's note: Yeah...been a while...
There really isn't much of an interesting story about why it's been almost half a year since my last post. Sufficed to say, life happened. Well...that and a move to the opposite side of the country. I have been working on the story on and off for a little bit, but nothing ever major. Because I got hit with a horrible case of burnout.
Then I started listening to Nobuo Uematsu's "Awakening" and the spark came back for a little bit. I wanted to switch things up as Setzer is one of my favorite characters in the game. I always had an interesting view on his character and I hope to explore that more now that I've gotten off of my butt and started to do some work once again.
But if I'm going to do that, I REALLY need to pace myself. So I'm hoping to do 2 to 3 chapters a month, hopefully more. I sincerely apologize for the delays. I really want to keep working on this. Thanks to all of you who were reading this since the beginning. I'm hoping to keep working with this story as time goes on, so thanks for sticking with it!

Wishing You Well. (Quest Write Ups for Midmouth's Myco-Mess, Of Dice and Deceit, Moving Moorings, The Sending, The Burning Sands, Blasphemous Rumours, Monster Mash, Trouble in Wedding Town, and The Ruined City)
It has been awhile since I have wrote, I know. At first, I wrote to the Curator, as she is the one that we report to. Yet, her disdain for my writing has caused me to put off this task. Why bother if I would only face her derision? I thought this way until wise guildmates urged me to change my views. The Curator may not appreciate my words, but I do not mind writing them. And… there are others besides the Curator who would like to hear my thoughts, and adventures. So, to the Ashcoat family, I wish you well, and enclosed below are my adventures so far.
Midmouth's Myco-Mess
DM: Jacob S.
Players: Thomas S. (Nikola), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Ethan J. (Naeron), Peyton L. (Genevieve), Derek M. (Ice Sculpture), Nessa T. (Dill Picks)
Dear Zemai, I am aware of the fact that you enjoy festivals, and I believe you would enjoy the tale of the first quest I went on for the Mavros Guild.
It was a rather simple task, go to a town and handle a small problem during a festival. The town was called Midmouth, and they were celebrating a ritual for some goddess, although to be clear, I could not tell you which one. The lack of religious studies from being sent off at a young age may have caused an issue in this regard, I admit. After meeting with the organizers of the festival, they instructed us to take time and enjoy ourselves before delving into the sewers at night.
We followed their instructions to the best of our abilities, meeting a fortune teller. We stood around, learning about our fates and destiny, although I suppose some of my guildmates suspected it was. Well, the word is not appropriate to write in a formal letter to an Ashcoat. I, however, liked my fortune. The Lovers, it has a ring to it. Even if it may be silly, it gave me a flash of hope.
With another guildmate, I then went to a game of target practice. I suppose you would be interested in this series of events, Zemai. You said that I would make an excellent brother, had I ever been at the estate. And not to brag, but I do make a good big brother, in a way. I won a doll for a guildmate. Then, I used magic to change it into a better form. And then I snuck it into his bag. As a gift.
After a long day, we went into sewers to meet these disgusting diseased rats, handling them quickly. We found the source of the issues. They were Myconids, yet somehow were sapient, speaking to us in Common. I believed that instead of resorting to bloodshed, we could come to an arrangement, a deal of sorts. We snuck these Myconids to the Guild Hall’s basement, and that was the end of this quest, to be continued another day.
Of Dice and Deceit
DM: Kennon C.
Players: Ethan M. (Noizu), Alea H. (Hazel), Hunter M. (Oliver), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat)
I suppose of all people, you, Darwin, deserve an explanation of what went on in Kostroma. After all, I feared I may have caused your predicament. After careful reflection, I know this is not the case. Regardless, I owe you my apologies and my story. Knowing you as well as I do, I know you will find this story humorous.
My time in the Alchemist’s Guild has graciously given me the experience of being in Kostroma. However, not in this city. Krogstadt, as I recall correctly. An icy town just on a bay, gondolas all around. Of course, I changed my form, before the quest begun, into a plain man to avoid suspicion when possible. Our task required us to meet a rather… suspicious character owning a run-down casino. He explained that he intercepted a request for security at another casino, and that we were to do two jobs. Of course, we agreed to this. Double the payment sounded like an amazing idea, although… We would find out that things were not that simple.
He requested that we gather dirt while working to take down his competition. And as I recall correctly, he did not seem to care whether said dirt were true, but only that we give him something to work with. We then went to our second job, enforcing the rules of the casino and the owner. Over our time working, however, we decided that the owner was someone we did not want to screw over. He seemed to genuinely care about his employees, his business, his livelihood. Like a more notable version of the Curator. A close family. And yet, because we decided to play both sides, we ended up hurting him. During our time in the city, we were followed by an interesting pair distantly related to him, although we never found their intentions. And in the end, we fed false information back to our hirer, still getting payment from both. With some, it did not sit right. For me? Well. I took it. A deal is a deal, and a businessman would understand. There were questions left unanswered, as we delved into matters not our own. But for once, I was satisfied with the knowledge I received, against the Ashcoat ideals.
Moving Moorings
DM: Jacob S.
Players: Thomas S. (Nikola), Austin G. (Orville), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Declen P. (Oz), Brandon Q. (Ziggy), CJ J. (Naoise)
I suppose that eventually, someone complained enough to make this job necessary, forcing us to move the Myconids from their home in the Guild basement to a mountain a good distance away into a mountain’s cave. With the creatures acutely allergic to the sun, we travelled at night, maintaining a cover of darkness until nearly early morning, where we had to use a variety of methods to prevent harm to our clients.
After an uneventful walk, we found a cave, with quite the elaborate ruins, an intricate door blocking off the inner workings of the cave. One of the guildmates on this quest used an impressive amount of strength given his small body to break down the door. I suppose the ghouls in the cave did not like that, and they sprang forward to attack. In a strange circumstance, the shadows that are ever-present about me summoned a purple flame of great destruction, immolating their undead corpses to ash. Exploring further, we quite foolishly walked into a grand room, the doors behind us shutting, preventing any retreat. These hideous creatures, Bodaks attacking as my guildmates panicked. These monsters almost killed us all, with an aura of decay and pain. At one point, I fell unconscious, perhaps nearly dying completely, yet somehow, my guildmates were able to pull through, healing the downed party members after this battle. Stuck in the shoulder of one of the Bodaks was this cruel, malicious dagger, perhaps a source of great evil in the world. As you would expect, we took it back, trying to sell it without much success.
The Sending
DM: Jacob S.
Players: Ethan M. (Noizu), Nessa T. (Dill Picks), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Kennon C. (Zed), CJ J. (Naoise), Brandon Q. (Ziggy)
Apparently, I seem to get on an above average amount of quests relating to festivals or ceremonies. This time, we visited a small town near the ocean that was preparing for a ceremony called “The Sending”. However, this ceremony was delayed due to the attacks of some strange monster, only appearing at night. The Clerics in our party feared it may be divine retribution of some sort, although we quickly dismissed that notion. The beast at night was a type of basilisk, proving incredibly dangerous as it turned its victims to stone with a bite. Unfortunately, we would forget this information until in the midst of battle, of course at night.
One of the Guildmates found a small child who survived the attack, bringing him back to his parent. Quite heartwarming in a way, I will admit. After that day of search, rescue, and reconnaissance, we slept in a conjured tower, awaiting another attack.
And the one on watch at the mid of the night awoke us to the sight of this serpent, rampaging yet again as it claimed more lives. Quickly, we sprung into action. Yet this foe proved challenging, turning Dill into stone. You’d like Dill, Zemai. And I believe Zed almost drowned…
I… almost died again. Yes, that is true. No matter though, someone soon slayed the snake, and another Cleric brought Dill back from petrification.
The Burning Sands
DM: Jacob S.
Players: Ethan J. (Naeron), Will B. (Flake), Nathan G. (Teepimeek), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Josh D. (Beryl), Thomas S. (Nikola)
Our prowess of our guild soon stretched to Ashkiri, and our services were once again requested, this time to find a missing caravan deep in the desert. This quest brough back up unpleasant memories of what the Curator would say to me before she shipped me off to the Alchemist’s Guild. “The Desert is Deadly, anyone lost has perished.” That matter-of-fact tone rang true on this quest, as we would later discover in Qad Takun.
After some rather frivolous shopping, we made our way into the dunes, getting lost on the second day in a great sandstorm, something I did not miss from Arkheion. With us stumbling randomly in the dark dust, we soon encountered an ominous orb, vaguely conjuring a feeling of recognition in my mind as an evil creature rose to protect it. Perhaps most frighteningly, it could stop magic, the ever-present shadows about me put into a stasis as the monster stared deep into my very soul. Yet, luckily for us, there were archers who would pierce its hide with arrows until it finally fell. The horror did not end there, however, Nikola, another guildmate, had his arm wither away upon contact of this orb. We managed to destroy this insidious device with another strange weapon, yet that thought lingered in our minds… What was that orb doing here?
Blasphemous Rumours
DM: Thomas S.
Players: Lauren S. (Gani), Casimir B. (Dr. Faust), Nic R. (Gleich), Sarah M. (Ender), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat).
With the fall winds soon approaching, I found myself on another quest, travelling to Deerreach along with guildmates I was not too familiar with. Our missions always had a way to fix that, however, as even the quickest travel times gave us the opportunity to learn about each other.
Deerreach was a rather interesting city, and I am shocked I never visited it in my travels as a part of the Alchemist’s Guild. The most notable aspect was the mage’s college, yet it was not like any ordinary school I have seen. Corruption lay in every corner, and we were to be complicit to not cause a panic. What was the problem? Students coming back with strange alterations to themselves or disappearing outright. We were to be silent about this aspect, and despite my innermost objections, we were.
Instead, we thought ourselves as detectives, seeking out the source of the eldritch influence on this city. Some split to ask professors, others went to one of the temples nearby, while I and another guildmate went to the medical center to meet a victim. Upon meeting her, I realized I was out of my league. Yet, the knowledge proved tantalizing, as the Curator trained me in her limited time with me. “Knowledge above all else.”
A creature of absolute insanity approached me, gifting me temporary knowledge of the entire city’s layout. It was projected by the victim, and apparently, she learned to do this from a tutor. What sort of tutor dealt with aberrations such as these? I had to find out, not only for the job, but for my own sake, to learn about these shadows…
Our party reconvened, sharing crucial information, and with that, I knew where to go. We split once more, finding the source of these tutoring sessions after a rather… odd encounter with the clergy. I will not go into detail… The tutors were a pair of Chuuls, working for a long slumbering goddess I prepared to meet. Luckily, my guildmate stopped me, despite my annoyance at the time.
He and I convinced these Chuuls to stop working for a possible uncaring goddess, and to make their teachings official somehow. Somehow, this worked, giving a peaceful solution to what may have required bloodshed.
No. We did not inform the Headmaster of everything. He did not deserve to know.
Monster Mash
DM: Thomas S.
Players: Jacob S. (6B), Nessa T. (Dill), Nathan G. (Teepimeek), Declen P. (Oz), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Derek M. (Ice Sculpture)
Apparently, nothing normal can occur in the town of Deerreach, now monsters roamed about that required slaying. So, we sharpened our knives, prepared our spells, and prayed to the gods above this would be a normal fieldtrip. It was not.
Once again, we meet with perhaps the shadiest person to exist (yes even beating out the shadow sorcerer me), vaguely hinting at the fact these prowling creatures could have been created by a former professor. As usual, people were either dead or missing. As usual, we were to not cause a panic. As usual, we could not warn anyone.
Of course! Things cannot be this simple! Just kill some beasts, find the ‘Mad’ professor who did this. We instead met a strange herpetologist who kept these things as pets. Of course, he created them! He wanted us to instead weaken these creatures and promised loot. Like the mercenaries we were, we agreed to help him. I agreed because having someone like that against you is a fool’s play.
Yet the first monster liquified a girl in front of our very eyes, dragging her into the well to consume later. No amount of rage we took out on this thing would ease our fury. The herpetologist soon captured the weakened beast with a spell, instructing us that there would be more later to beat.
The next beast just ate sheep, thankfully. The fight was not difficult, and the former professor added a second, then third creature to his collection. The horrors were not over though, this hellish nightmare continued as we discovered the madman’s ultimate project, a snake… made of snakes. There is a reason I am drinking while writing this letter. Let me just take a moment to thank the Shadows for allowing me to shift the forms of foes and friends alike, as I changed one into a giant bipedal feathered reptile, and another to a giant crocodile. With that, they quickly nearly dispatched this failed experiment. The professor captured this one as well while I fought swarms of more snakes. Thank the Shadows for fireball…
Do not show this letter to the Curator, lest she tries to recruit someone as insane as her.
I still trust the insane ex-professor more than the Headmaster.
Trouble in Wedding Town
DM: Jacob S.
Players: CJ J. (Naoise), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat), Ethan J. (Kass), Hunter M. (Oliver), Alea H. (Hazel), Dylan H. (Dustorin)
At least this quest was to be happy, a marriage in Ashkiri. We were to be bodyguards as this was a politically controversial arrangement, and that is all that we were told. Yet the secretary seemed to know more than she let on, and the general atmosphere pointed to unease and unrest. In other news, water is wet. No one hires the guild for a simple quest.
The journey was long, as to be expected to a trip to Ashkiri. More specifically, Saar. I knew of this place, in fact, I believe it was not too far from Arkheion. Relatively speaking, of course. Once we arrived, we had time before the wedding begun. Some of our guildmates took initiative, scouting out reasons for our employment. I, however, relaxed, naïvely believing that this would be a normal day, with a normal wedding. When the moment of paranoia reached my mind, I took to the skies, learning of the city’s layout.
At the wedding, we all stood in different positions, the archer perched above, the druid and I in the seats, and others scattered about. Unfortunately, we would only know something is wrong until darkness moved across the area, a rather unfortunate look for me. The Cleric somehow already with the bride and groom… as we all rushed the scene.
The bride was poisoned, and we thought her dead. The darkness cleared and it was quite possibly the worst position all of us could be in: framed. No amount of convincing seemed to work, and the guards approached us with harmful intent. The Shadows reached out, gripping two of my guildmates with its talons and turning them into giant eagles. And as this happened, I instructed them to fly. We managed to escape with everyone, including the bride’s presumable corpse.
However, one cannot kill love this easily. She lived. We then explained the situation as she confessed her family was inflicted with a curse. One long, awkward walk later, we found our carriage driver.
So. If Saar falls into disarray or crumbles into dust soon, we may have had a hand in it.
The Ruined City
DM: Jacob S.
Players: Kat R. (Cynic), Ethan J. (Kass), CJ J. (Naoise), Thomas S. (Nikola), Declen P. (Oz), M.E. H. (Galileo Ashcoat)
Archelogy: a surprisingly dangerous field. At least this time we somewhat knew what we were getting into. Travelling to Kostroma, some of my guildmates were caught off guard by the cold, requiring new dress. Others took advantage of the long trip, Nikola, er, Doctor Ivanovich, crafting a surplus of magic items. I, instead, took the time to relax, study, and learn more about the Shadows that plague me so. I was not very successful… yet.
Soon, we were led to ruins by a pair of archaeologists. We told them to stay behind us as we encountered undead warforged. How is that possible, you might ask? We are not quite sure either, but they were unfortunately… sisters to a guildmate. We scoured for items that might belong to this guildmate now, coming back with several magic items.
Moving forward, we were attacked by dragon-like creatures, the archer making short work of both. The creatures seemed to gather around a cathedral, and yet again, we encountered one of those forsaken red orbs, with another, more frightening monster guarding it.
This battle would test our abilities to their fullest. I stood back and boosted my guildmates. To two of them, I blessed with speed, the Shadows enhancing their movements. Yet that was not even enough, our resources slowly flickering away like the flame on a short wick of the candle. As a last resort, once again, the Shadows came through. They siphoned energy from some parts of my magic reserves, gifting energy to others before it clicked what they wanted. And suddenly, the speed stopped, the guildmates falling into lethargy. I thought we were dead, my concentration breaking in a moment like this would prove fatal. Until somehow, two kings rise from the darkness. Lizard kings, but kings, nevertheless. And they finally defeated this monster.
Thank you, Shadows.

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Demigod traits

• All of them are superhuman from the ReadRiordan website
• - ADHD gives them instincts, reflexes, and senses better than regular mortals TLT pg.93
• - Average demigod juggling limes sees them in slow-mo. DOA
• -Every demigod shown has showed that perceive things fast enough for time to slow down when they’re in combat situation, from Percy’s first fight with the Minotaur to Reyna seeing arrows move in slow motion it Annabeth seeing a lion pounce in slow-mo TLT ch.8,BOO,TSS
• - Average demigod archer can be compared to an Olympic gold medalist according to Apollo. TTT chapter 21
• - Magic resistance strong enough to not notice a sleep spell by Morpheus that simultaneously knocked out every person and machine in Manhattan. TLO chapter 9-10

Weapon

Anaklusmos/riptide is a 3 ft long sword with a leaf shaped blade. Made of celestial bronze that harms the divine and monstrous beings of the world along with mortals if the mortal is important enough such as Setne and Carter Kane, and it can even cut down ghouls and ghosts. It’s disguised as a pen that always returns to him and durable enough to survive full submersion in lava

• Celestial bronze is a powerful metal in which even just - small cuts can lead to immense pain SOM ch. 18 and- SOS pg.8
• - and has shown similar abilities to Imperial gold whose wounds can touch the soul and eat away a persons’ life force BOO ch.4
• -After being uncapped riptide releases in half a second TLO pg.158
• - Always returns to him at most in a few moments TLT pg. 160
• - Can deflect energy blasts. TLO ch.8

Strength/striking

• - In the first book as a 12 yo rips off the Minotaur horn with his bare hands. TLT pg.60
• - At 13 he beat down the 15 ft. Cyclops Polyphemus using the power of friendship. SOM ch.8 and pg.218-219 .
• Polyphemus was said to be the strongest of the species. - For reference Ma Gasket and her kids could throw trucks and being hit in the face with a 3 ton metal claw only made Ma Gasket mad TLH ch.24, so Percy had some force behind those hits
• -one shot a gorgon who were later shown able to tank getting hit by a truck in the fast lane of a highway SON ch.2
• - Cuts a stone fountain in half BOTL ch. 5
• -hits someone in the chest hard enough to send them flying SOM ch.19
• - Cuts trees big enough to crush human sized monsters and this was after having his heart pierced by an arrow. HOH ch.30
• - Easily cutting a nikette in half,who's a human sized woman made of metal BOO ch.12
• -clashes between Percy and Hyperion caused shockwaves and charged the air with ozone TLO ch.14
• Him and Kronos shake the entire Manhattan bridge with a single clash. TLO ch. 11 https://imgur.com/2nZ0kDD
• - For reference on his strength, Kronos was strong enough to easily rip down doors large enough to steer a cruise ship and smash them, and stomp a hole through a mountain TLO ch. 19
• - Percy and Jason shook the ground with their strikes. MOA ch.10
• - For reference on Jason,he was strong enough to deflect a blow from a giant capable of shaking an entire mountain, Mt. Diablo to be exact. TLH ch.42
• - Hit colossus a 100 ft. tall bronze statue, who was no selling electrical and fire attacks and boulders from a catapult, hard enough to stagger it THO pg. 330
• -easily blocking a minor god’s blows TSC -Impressive because minor gods still have general god powers including varying degrees of divine strength. Nero, the most minor was still strong enough to be three times stronger than someone who threw a car with enough force to crush a cyclops
• - Slammed, not pierced, the ice on the Hubbard Glacier and caused the whole thing to shake SON ch.46.While this feat may seem ridiculous, so is fighting enemies that can stomp holes through mountains, shake mountains, and even lift them. It also could have just been his geokinetic abilities, but either way it’s one of his best feats because the Hubbard Glacier is huge
• - Stopping King Prophyrion’s charge, a giant who was said could lift mountains. BOO ch.43 Not hyperbole because the - twin giants Otis and Ephialtes show that stronger Giants can lift and stack mountain one on top of the other. GG Ares ch. - His anti, Zeus also has a feat of lifting a mountain and slamming it on an enemy’s head. GG Zeus ch.Percy did this when he was still weakened from Tartarus
• - Jumped onto this wall SON ch.11 https://imgur.com/gallery/JYNYJaN
• - While weakened in Tartarus from the acidic air and other features of the place designed to kill non-monsters, Percy was able to grab Annabeth and jump several hundred yards. HOH ch.56 Notice the corpse complexion cause they are literally dying from just breathing

Lifting strength

• - The second time he fought the Minotaur he was 10 ft. tall in full armor and Percy was able to easily grab him and toss him off a bridge TLO ch. 11. If it weighs anything like a real bull, it’s in the same range as a car.
• - Percy catching the weight of a big spider monster and a car that had been falling under a dark gravitational force for a couple minutes MOA ch. 51.
• - He had a hold on a celedon who he said was as strong as the Minotaur. SOA pg.30 That’s impressive because the - Minotaur could throw a car down a road and it skid for half a mile TLT pg.56 https://pastebin.com/mbtl01iPMeand throw a limo 100 ft. into the air TLO ch. 11. Solid strength feat to hold on to someone that strong that’s trying to throw you off for a couple minutes
• - Withstood being pulled in by setne when he kinda made himself the new center of gravity. COP pg.6
• -Percy casually pushing aside the 10 foot long lid of Kronos’ golden sarcophagus with one hand. SOM ch.9, BOTL ch.16 To compare Kronos’ https://i.imgur.com/L3Cg7w5.jpg to real sarcophagus’ and to see why this is a feat at all King tut outermost coffin lid weighed 1.36 tons and was about 7.5 ft long The sarcophagus of Pakal the Great is close to 12 ft long made of stone weighed between 5-7 tons Since Kronos’ was made of gold Percy was easily moving several tons, maybe even in the low teens with ease.
• - He can scale to Thalia who pushed a boulder the size of a compact car up a 500 foot hill the length of a conversation although she did struggle. TSOH and GG Hades ch.

Combat Speed

• - Cut a volley of arrows out the air. SOM pg.133
• - Blocked point blank gunfire, Zoe and Bianca were shooting at that distance so the skeletons should be too, and raised his lion cost as a shield after six skeletons opened fire TTC ch.12 https://imgur.com/gallery/gyjrcUy. While he didn’t necessarily see the bullets, he could still perceive it showing he can perceive supersonic movements * - Kronos is so fast it’s like fighting 100 swordsmen at once and even then his adhd still made him aware of things around him albeit vaguely TLO ch.19
• - Percy and Jason fought so fast their blades blurred MOA ch.10
• - Soon after having his energy drained Percy was able to fight a Giant fast enough to react to cloud-to-ground lightning and Percy was still fast enough to move as a blur, although it was 2 vs.1 that they eventually lost MOA ch.44 and 48
• -Ares swinging down to slice him, but before the swing was completed he was able to jump over him and attempt a slash at his back Note that the water didn’t actually push him into the air because it’s never worked independently to help him in that way.
• - Percy moving fast enough to amaze Annabeth, who fought and tagged a vampire named Kelli who moves at blur speeds and had a fight sequence that lasted half a second HOH ch.7 and 16
• - Along with Frank and Hazel he was fast enough to kill a group of Karpoi who are grain spirits, SON ch.19, that are fast enough to cross several feet steal a box of matches and back before the person could finish blinking THO pg.290
• -Dodging, reacting, and killing Mrs. Dodds who’s fast enough to appear to materialize. TLT pg.10,15 Materialize is used several times to describe speed throughout the series from Percy such as
• -thinking the gods materializing thing is teleporting when they really just move so fast it appears that they teleport. TLO ch.9
• -Arion running so fast he materializes MOA ch.4
• -Keres, battlefield spirits, materializing. Percy took a couple of these spirits down till he was hit from behind TSOH pg.16 There’s some more, but you get the point ](https://textuploader.com/1pgzm)
• -Percy stomping an Amazon. An Amazon named Kinzie was able to move fast enough that Hazel’s eyes almost couldn’t follow. That’s great speed considering Hazel was able to albeit barely see her supersonic horse Arion run away at a speed she called faster than forked lightning. I had that exposition because Hazel described the Amazon that Percy fought moving her spear with lightning speed. The last thing Hazel used lightning in reference to speed was supersonic, and seeing as a fellow Amazon’s speed made Hazel react the same way she did to Arion, I’d say Percy casually stomped a supersonic opponent. SON ch.32
• - Killed six dog demons before they could make a sound. TLO pg.6

Scaling to a son of Athena * -Zane dodging the charge of a leonte that was fast enough to move down a hall as a flash of yellow, and move across an office in a flash DOA pg.25,42 * -Scaling to Annabeth who could dodge Kelli HOH ch.15 * -Who’s one of the fastest characters we’ve seen in the universe. She’s fast enough to blitz Rachel before riptide can even switch to sword form after being uncapped. BOTL ch.14 And from the lightning thief that it only takes half a second for the sword form to release, but Kelli moves faster * -Leo doing a backward somersault to dodge large rocks thrown at him at super speeds. TLH ch.43 * -Piper coming up from below a ridge to move fast enough to to be a blur of turquoise and black TLO ch.42 * -Jason deflecting lightning in a fight with a ventus he was tagged when he wasn’t ready to fight, so thishad nothing to do with being a son of Zeus cause he can be affected by lightning, This one needs context cause you could argue against it * -but venti are storm spirits. In PJO nature spirits obviously make up nature. From trees spirits to river spirits,they have humanoid forms, but are also literally a tree or river or flower. For this venti named Dylan his true form is a literal storm cloud along with the other venti that comes with him. Venti are literal thunderstorms because they are the thunderclouds. It’s not the same as characters like avatar characters that can generate lightning cause in this case the lighting is being generated by the actual cloud. * -Besides that feat he did dodge a charge of a venti who are fast enough to move only a little slower than Arion who’s supersonic BOO ch. 59

Movement speed

Only faster than above average mortals * - Ran 10 yards before Bianca could say anything. TTC ch.6 * - human magician in good shape struggling to keep up SOS pg.9 * - outpaced Sadie while holding a heavy object, COP pg.12 * - Apollo who had been turned mortal couldn’t keep up with Percy and Meg THO pg. 57

Durability/Endurance

• Took two shots from a nikette capable of throwing a metal wreath hard enough to bust a hole through a brick wall and was alright BOO ch.14 https://pastebin.com/jTd5qpcv
• - Kicked 30 ft by Ares TLT pg.341
• - Flung threw the air from a shockwave caused by a metallic warrior the size of a skyscraper TTC ch. 13
• -thrown across an arena by the giant Antaeus. BOTL ch.14 https://imgur.com/gallery/oxDm3j7 with no harm done to himself
• - Hit by a hellhound, who has been shown knocking down giants, but 12 y/o Percy only stumbles back and isn’t in any pain even though he had been badly cut. TLT pg.130
• - Hit by a magic/cannon ball from a laistrygonian giant who is strong enough to use flatten cars as shields and tree trunks as weapons.They’re also strong enough to send a dozen demigods flying like rag dolls with 1 hit. He got hit and was still able to dodge another ball thrown. SOM pg.17 and BOTL ch.18
• - Took some small explosions that left craters and was close to a little bigger one that destroyed a locker room SOM pg.18-19
• -A spell from Setne that made the ground explode, but Percy was able to stay on his feet while the ground was ruptured COP pg.20
• - Took a couple hits from they 15 ft. cyclops Polyphemus, who could hit hard enough to cause trenches SOM pg.218-228
• - Hit by Atlas who could send people flying,hit a superhuman so far that Percy didn’t even see where she landed, and his hits made fissures large enough to be leaped over. TTC ch.17
• - alongside Annabeth, they jumped off a 300 ft. cliff, landed on solid ground and kept running the moment they landed HOH ch.54 and 55 this was while in a weakened state
• - Hit with a blast of lightning from Jason who was possessed to kill him. Jason's best feat at that point was destroying a mansion while his powers were suppressed with one bolt MOA ch.10
• - Because of poison from a daimon(which can only be cured by a god) he could barely stand, was seeing yellow spots, nauseous , almost passed out from just walking, could barely move his body, and he was still able to fight the Titan Iapetus. TSOH pg.16-25
• - Hit by Ephialtes who’s stronger than another giant who can shake a mountain. TLH ch.42 While weaker than he once was, he used to lift mountains GG Ares ch. although Percy was hurt he could still fight. MOA ch.46
• - Backhanded by the Giant King Porphyrion though he was dazed and if attacked again he would have been helpless BOO ch. 43
• - Carter hit him with the Fist of Horus which team rocketed him. He got hit hard enough to fly out of Carter’s sight at “escape velocity” and knocked into “orbit’. He came back to win the fight. SOS pg. 6
• - In Tartarus, killing Arai brought pain and curses from the monsters he’d previously killed and he simultaneously felt the pain of an arrow piercing his heart, stab in the gut, among dozen others and it took gorgon's blood that disintegrates you to put him down, and even then he got up because he felt it would be a lame way to die. HOH ch.29
• - Tanked and breathed in a poison cloud that caused the ground to steam, air to burn, and dissolved his bag. HOH ch.48
• - Was in a cloud of plague mist by plague spirits which was capable of insta ko’ing a mortal THO pg.49
• His best feat is surviving Mt. St. Helen’s eruption from being in the heart of it. For comparison the 1980 explosion released 24 megatons. While he did almost die, that was more because of the energy drain than the explosion itself. He was actually still conscious and cognitive immediately following the explosion. It wasn’t till he was racing back down to Earth like a comet did he pass out. BOTL ch.11 and 12
• - Some explosions to scale. Luke and Thalia were in a building when it exploded. TDOLC pg.21
• - Jason survived an explosion that turned dirt and rock glassy and made a thirty foot deep crater,and he was the one holding the thing that exploded. TLH ch.43
• - Piper,Leo,Jason being knocked out of the sky about airplane height, with Jason trying to slow them down until he couldn’t TLH ch.22 https://imgur.com/gallery/Pu4d6K4 Piper hurt her ankle, but Jason and Leo were fine.
• -Annabeth fighting a lion/wolf/crab hybrid monster who’s aura alone ko’ed a bunch of mortals in the vicinity. She took three red energy wave blasts, with the last one destroying a train and blasting her 50 yards away. She got back up not too long after SOS pg. 10-14

Agility

• - Jumps 7 ft. In the air (Minotaur height) and turns in mid air to land on its neck TLT pg.59
• - Leapt ninja style. SOS pg.6
• - Agile enough for Carter to think he practices gymnastics. SOS pg.14
• - rolling around and somersaulting. SON ch. 12
• - Impressed Apollo with an athletic display.THO pg.330
• - Pushed from the top of Times Tower, during the fall grabs a ledge and flips back on. TSOA
• - Easily jumped from plane to plane in a museum TTC pg.145 the graphic novel omitted that part of scene but this is the museum https://imgur.com/gallery/no1wCIE
• -jumped up a giants body and swung from the chains on the roof to tie him up with the agility of a crazed monkey BOTL ch.14

Mist control

The mist is the uppermost layer of the Duat which is the realm of magic. It’s the reason mortals don’t see anything out of the ordinary when dealing with the magical. Someone who can control it can alter memories, appearances, summon weapons, make creatures to fight for you, hide objects even if they’re directly in-front of you, create illusions, and teleport. Though he’s not very good at it Percy has shown the ability to make small illusions and hide in plain sight

• - Makes a cop see a presidential motorcade. TSOA
• - Hides their descending ship. MOA ch.31

Magic

• - A warding off evil gesture that sent Gabe flying. Demigod also have natural potential to use magic TLT pg.40

Heat resistance

• - Lava setting him on fire felt warm and first but it quickly started hurting. BOTL ch.11
• - Full submersion and not melting BOTL ch.11 catching me up and blasting me downward into the lava.
• - The air turning into a blast furnace cause magic, knocking out mortals, melting pavement, and quickly rising to the point Percy was afraid Midtown would burn down. TSOA
• -possibly tanked a fire blast from the chimera that melted metal TLT ch.13,14 I said possibly because it’s not clear if he dove into the fire or away from it, but it mentions his clothes and whole body being on fire during the scene.

Magic resistance

• - Didn’t notice a spell that slept millions of mortals and technology TLO ch.9 and 10
• - Carter's magic attack didn’t work. SOS pg.6
• - celedon capable of affecting several thousand through song although he had wax here it melted and the rest of the time he was vulnerable to her magic, he was able to resist later on the roof. TSOA
• - Celadon sang a song to make people on Times Square dance but Percy actively resisted it showing that he can force his way through magic if his passive resistance doesn't hold. TSOA
• - Broke the celadon’s spell that was used to make him lose his resolve. TSOA
• - Setne put a fall spell on him meaning he couldn’t get up without falling back down, but he was able to break it to avoid another spell. COP pg. 6
• - Breaks a time spell inflicted by Kronos by using his water powers TLO pg.10

Mental defense

• - Didn’t have his mind torn to shreds by his father though it almost was. TLO ch. 17

Intelligence

• - After being at Camp Jupiter for about 15 minutes, he deduced why the fifth cohort was so hated and how they lost their eagle impressing Hazel SON ch.8
• - Annabeth, daughter of Athena the goddess of wisdom, says he’s smarter than he lets on TDD. pg.71
• - First to figure out Ares stole the bolt and that he had help from Kronos. TLT pg. 334-337
• - Comes up with good plans even if unorthodox TTC pg.146

Combat feats

• - While it’s just a spar against Luke he hit a move that takes others years to learn with his first try. TLT pg.116
• - Untrained Percy fight the Minotaur for the first time a monster trained since birth to kill that even Theseus one of the greatest heroes and co-inventor of pankration(mma) had trouble TLT pg.60

Percy vs Ares * - Although Ares wasn’t taking him seriously it’s still impressive for a week trained 12 y/o especially since Ares seems to have battle precog because he knew where Percy was attacking before he even did it. Also shows how his adhd lets him see how his opponents tense, so he knows where the attack is gonna come from. TLT pg.341-344 * - After a year he’s considered one of the best swordsman in the last hundred years, cabins of super humans don’t work him out and he wishes he could fight the war gods cabins SOM ch.6 * - Curse Percy vs. Minotaur TLO ch.11 * - Against Carter he showed to be quick and strong, and while it was completely one-sided, he still told Carter he did better against him than most others SOS pg.5-6 * -Beating up the 1st and 2nd cohort of Camp Jupiter. Lots of rolling and flipping showing a very active and athletic fighting style SON ch.12 * -Easily beats Magnus,son of Frey, in hand to hand combat TSTD ch.1 While Magnus isn’t much of a fighter, he’s still capable of ripping a 20 ft. long lamppost out the ground and jump 60 ft. vertically. Percy’s trained in unarmed combat at Camp and this is one of the few times he does

Will

• - Held the sky. TTC ch.17
• - resisted Medusa who has charmspeak which is a power that makes people do as their told no matter what it is and food that puts you in a trance and even looking at her through a reflection is tough TLT pg.187-191 and GG ch.1
• resisted lotus casino which is a place that distorts time and makes you never want to leave TLT pg.269-272
• Thalia’s shield aegis has a power that makes everyone freeze up and move away from it, sometimes run, but Percy resisted the feeling

Aegis feats

• - Dr.Thorn, a powerful monster was scared of it. TTC ch.2
• - Aegis scares all the campers during capture the flag. TTC ch.6
• - The Nemean lion, a legendary monster due to its invulnerability was affected. TTC pg.146
• - Luke being afraid of it and even running away. DOLC pg.13-16
• - Thalia making monsters run away. TTC ch. 17
• - Luke scared during a fight with her TTC ch.17
• - Percy resisting aegis' power TTC ch.6

Important to note that- while using his powers does drain him over time, the amount he's drained is pretty overstated. His storm powers are the only ones that drain him, in the way that he'll feel physically tired from it, but being to able to use his water powers at a high level is never affected especially considering his best feat occured after prolonged use of his storm powers.

Hydrokinesis

• - 2nd time ever using his powers and blasts some toilets to send people out a room TLT pg.96-97
• - Says wave and a wave comes to drag a boar into the sea TLT pg.339
• - Unaffected from long falls into water. TLT pg.220-221
• - Can stay dry and dry things TLT pg.221
• - Made a jet stream for himself. SOM ch.13
• - Made an air bubble for Annabeth the breathe underwater, this was his first time doing that and does it with ease later. SOM pg.197
• - Moves fast enough a normal human would pop TLO ch.1
• - Makes giant water hands to grab gorgons who were trying to fly away and he smashed them, then created a whirlpool for each so they couldn’t reform SON ch2. The graphic novel changed the scene, but visuals always help https://imgur.com/gallery/8MU7UBy
• - Makes a water shield to protect himself from a thousand projectiles fired at him by two river gods TLO ch.10
• - Sent water up 3 stories high TLO ch.1
• - Under a time spell he was able to make a cruise ship lurch sideways and use the water in a pool simultaneously TLO ch.1
• - Sunk a ship MOA ch. 31
• - Lifts a ship up Ft. Sumter while making a storm MOA ch.20
• - Blew up a bunch of water cannons. SON ch.12 https://imgur.com/gallery/x1puXmV
• - Detonates cannon balls. SON ch.36
• - Supports several tons easily and used them as a weapon SON ch.50
• - Causally bursts irrigation tank, and pipes while surrounded by plague smoke like the one knocking Lester out, he still busts a pipe. THO pg.57
• -willed a column of water from a pond to put out flames of fire breathing horses TSC
• -Rides a wave SOM ch.16
• -Rides a waterspout and blasts a sea serpent with 10,000 gallons TSC Basically doing this https://tenor.com/view/fire-avatar-korra-gif-9239739
• - Lifts a creek right after being blasted by lightning TTC pg.88-89
• Makes a whirlpool using a 40 foot crocodile’s own sweat to encompass a cul de sac moving pretty fast too SOS pg.16
• - Kept 3 demigods trapped in water and said he’d let them go when they were safe enough distance away MOA ch.19
• - Sensed pipes under an arena and burst them,a d kept a giant in a whirlpool so he couldn’t reform MOA ch.48
• - Pulled water from half a mile away quickly to rush a forest. BOTL ch.18
• - Solidified water to run on. TLO ch.14
• - Solidified water from Long Island to Staten Island. TSC
• - Trapped in an aquarium tank used for containing demigods and not allowing use of their powers, but he was able to over power it and use them anyway MOA ch.16
• Command water from thousands of pipes causally summoning millions of gallons to quickly drown a factory. TSH https://textuploader.com/1gmmo
• - Destroyed several hundred acres of the Hubbard Glacier SON ch.46 and a camp three times this one https://imgur.com/gallery/0rTkc1f
• - Overwhelms a goddess’ control of poison and fumes while weakened in Tartarus HOH ch.48
• - Controls a magical river that’s fighting him while poisoned, even staying dry in it. TSOH pg. 11
• - Controls liquid fire. HOH ch.70
• - Stalemating the goddess of storms who was summoning waves the size of skyscrapers although she said it was only a little of what she could do. BOO ch.25 The giant water hands must have been pretty big to stop waves that size. Also just pushed a massive wave to the side, even more impressive is that he was weakened this whole book
• - Shoots a rock back to his hand BOO ch.10
• -Percy controlling a poison waterfall with his will while fighting a giant. Son ch. 50 Oh and just being in the area around this Giant was weakening him
• - Controls sweat SOS pg.23
• - Pulls water out of a person’s lungs MOA ch.44
• - A goddess crying from poison, so Percy imagines water filling up her nose and throat which it does and chokes her with her own tears HOH ch.48
• - Burst arteries of a primordial, but it’s weird since his blood is magical rivers but it’s still his blood HOH ch.54
• - Popping blood vessels HOH ch.71

Water healing

• - Heals from a huge cut quickly. TLT pg.129
• - Heals from cuts from a hellhound instantly. TLT pg.130
• - Had poison in his veins from the chimera that was quickly killing, but upon contact with water he healed. TLT pg.219-220

Water amp

• - Pouring a water bottle on himself made him stronger TLT pg. 115
• - Stronger after being pushed into a creek to fodderize the Ares cabin who were just beating him up and heals from spear wound TLT pg.126-128
• - Felt amazing after beating Nereus in water TTC ch.15
• - Rejuvenated against setne COP pg.30

Hydrogenesis

• - Because Texas was under water millions of years ago it left ancient sea urchins and shells that he can bring water out of meaning that he could summon water from any place that was underwater and has remnants of the sea. BOTL ch.9
• - Makes a tidal wave inside a volcano and him releasing his (at the time) full power triggers it to erupt BOTL ch.11. The graphic novel of course changed the scene,but I like visuals https://imgur.com/gallery/vot7cBt
• - Makes a geyser. TLO ch.10. Scene of course changed a little bit, but notice the cars sent flying https://imgur.com/gallery/VBFjsVS
• -channeled his power through a magical cornucopia that caused water to blast from it MOA ch.44
• - Makes a geyser that shoots in the sky and it’s important to note that the earth was very powerful there and that even Poseidon would have a hard time summoning water and shows he could blast at a distance BOO ch.43

Strom Generation

• - Covers 20 yards, puts out Hyperion’s fire attacks, knocks javelins and arrows away, becomes stronger to cause rain and lightning, and blew Hyperion across a field.TLO ch.14
• - Holds back a hundred undead Roman demigods, - icy in nature, and destroys these buildings . SON ch.46
• - Covers a cul de sac and moves cars, makes it hard to see for Carter, and makes a 40 foot crocodile that’s as tall as a delivery truck lose its footing and move around in a circle with a whirlpool he made simultaneously. SOS pg.17
• -working with Jason, they kept a storm up for two hours MOA ch.20,21

Geokinesis

• - Causes an earthquake on a bridge that knocks people down, breaks off chunks the size of houses, creates a fifty foot chasm in a few seconds TLO ch.11
• -Shaking the entire Hubbard glacier could have been through geokinesis SON ch.46 Glacier ice is a type of rock, so it’s possible it was through this. Hazel, a fellow Big 3 demigod, was able to sink an island, so I’d say the upper limits of a Big 3 demigod can go pretty high.

Other powers

• - Talks to fish, horses, zebras and Pegasus’ ,TLT pg. 264,280 SOM ch.16 SON ch.25
• - Fish help him beak an illusion. TSC
• - Sees hot and cold currents. TLT pg.280
• - Has infrared vision while in water TTC ch.8
• - Like a human gps in water. SOM ch.10
• - Controls ships with his mind. SOM pg.185 and ch.15 *-Smells gorgons that were in a forest from a hundred yards away.SON pg.1 *-Sees Kronos smile from a quarter mile away TLO ch.11
• -can sense fear, hate,evil, danger, presence of powerful beings and more TLO ch.2/10, TTC ch.1, SOM ch.8/9/18/19, SON ch.1/18 HOh ch.32/45

Wolf stare

A glare he learned from his mama wolf Lupa that scares people. It’s kinda like his bat-glare
● Scares a gang SON ch. 16 ● Makes Leo,a fellow demigod, tremble MOA pg.46 ● Scares Piper BOO ch.19

Animal friends

• - Blackjack a fast Pegasus that can fly from Long Island to Kansas in a few minutes at most MOA ch. 10
• - Cruises at a 100 mph, TTC pg.111
• In The Lost Hero two Pegasus’ carrying a chariot and five people flew form the Grand Canyon to Long Island at super speeds TLH ch.3 https://textuploader.com/1g2o0
• - Mrs. O’Leary a hellhound bigger than a tank BOTL ch.2
• - barks can shake an arena, BOTL ch.2
• - sends a giant into a wall and throws a vampire through the air. BOTL ch.14
• - shakes the ground by flopping down, knocks down trees with her tail. TLO ch.6
• - knocked a 200 foot long drakon the height of a school bus off the side of a building. TLO ch. 16 from the TLO graphic novel https://imgur.com/gallery/FfngbAe
• - easily throws a giant. TLO ch. 15
• - can teleport long distances such as Long Island to Connecticut using shadows TLO ch.6 https://textuploader.com/1g2oz and without shadows THO pg.328,330

Curse of Achilles

user gains invulnerability, increased fighting prowess, but one weak spot that can only be pierced, and even a nick is enough to kill

• - electrocution does not work to kill although it does hurt TLO ch.19
• - Kronos under the curse survived an explosion that destroyed a cruise ship TLO ch.1
• - Percy didn’t feel hundreds of bullets TLO ch.8 from the TLO graphic novel https://imgur.com/gallery/MlyRYmI
• - Percy blasted 300 yards with a force attack that would have broken every bone without the curse TLO ch.14

Avatar mode

Percy merged with the Egyptian vulture goddess Nekhbet granting him a few more abilities

• - Thousands of years worth of memories and knowledge COP pg.24
• - See multiple layers of reality COP pg. 25
• - Enhanced strength COP pg.25
• - Vulture avatar that gave him flight and protection from attacks strong enough to destroy a soccer field COP pg.27-29

MAME 0.218

It’s time for MAME 0.218, the first MAME release of 2020! We’ve added a couple of very interesting alternate versions of systems this month. One is a location test version of NMK’s GunNail, with different stage order, wider player shot patterns, a larger player hitbox, and lots of other differences from the final release. The other is The Last Apostle Puppetshow, an incredibly rare export version of Home Data’s Reikai Doushi. Also significant is a newer version Valadon Automation’s Super Bagman. There’s been enough progress made on Konami’s medal games for a number of them to be considered working, including Buttobi Striker, Dam Dam Boy, Korokoro Pensuke, Shuriken Boy and Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule. Don’t expect too much in terms of gameplay though — they’re essentially gambling games for children.
There are several major computer emulation advances in this release, in completely different areas. Possibly most exciting is the ability to install and run Windows NT on the MIPS Magnum R4000 “Jazz” workstation, with working networking. With the assistance of Ash Wolf, MAME now emulates the Psion Series 5mx PDA. Psion’s EPOC32 operating system is the direct ancestor of the Symbian operating system, that powered a generation of smartphones. IDE and SCSI hard disk support for Acorn 8-bit systems has been added, the latter being one of the components of the BBC Domesday Project system. In PC emulation, Windows 3.1 is now usable with S3 ViRGE accelerated 2D video drivers. F.Ulivi has contributed microcode-level emulation of the iSBC-202 floppy controller for the Intel Intellec MDS-II system, adding 8" floppy disk support.
Of course there are plenty of other improvements and additions, including re-dumps of all the incorrectly dumped GameKing cartridges, disassemblers for PACE, WE32100 and “RipFire” 88000, better Geneve 9640 emulation, and plenty of working software list additions. You can get the source and 64-bit Windows binary packages from the download page (note that 32-bit Windows binaries and “zip-in-zip” source code are no longer supplied).

MAME Testers Bugs Fixed

• 04300: [DIP/Input] (cliffhgr.cpp) cliffhgr, cliffhnga: DIP switch values are reversed for “Short Scenes”. (italiandoh)
• 06897: [Graphics] (stfight.cpp) empcity: Red screen during scene transitions. (sasuke)
• 07336: [Sound] (intv.cpp) intv, intvoice [b17bomb]: No speech in Mattel Intellivision games. [iwilliamson]
• 07516: [Crash/Freeze] (twins.cpp) twins, twinsed2: Games lock up or reset after level 1-5. (Angelo Salese)
• 07530: [Crash/Freeze] (apollo.cpp) dn3000, dn3500, dn5500: Resetting via typing RE crashes the emulator. (Ivan Vangelista)
• 07531: [Crash/Freeze] (pong.cpp) breakout: MAME crashes with exception with -video bgfx. (Couriersud)
• 07533: [Graphics] (bnstars.cpp) bnstars1: Broken sprites and missing graphics. (cam900)
• 07534: [Timing] (apple2e.cpp) apple2ee: Time advances too quickly when using Thunderclock. (R. Belmont)
• 07554: [Graphics] (m68705prg.cpp) All machines in m68705prg.cpp no longer show LED values (default 000) when booting. (hap)

New working machines

• The Apprentice (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Big Bonus Slots (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sead Riddle, David Haywood]
• Conny PDC100 - Pocket Dream Console [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Cosmo Girl (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Dance Dance Revolution Kids (GQAN4 JAA) [iMp, MetalliC]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 1, NTSC) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top) [algestam]
• Jungle's Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 100 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook / Sit Up Limited Seal 50-in-1 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Mario Roulette [ShouTime, MetalliC, R. Belmont]
• MiWi2 7-in-1 Sports [David Shah]
• Muscle Ranking Kinniku Banzuke Spray Hitter [Darksoft, MetalliC, rtw]
• The Perfect Mate (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Psion Series 5mx [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
• Pop'n Stage EX (ver JB-A) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Sega Genesis Nomad (USA Genesis handheld) [cam900]
• Senario Deluxe TV Poker - Texas Hold'em, Blackjack & Video Poker (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Trump Grand PowerJoy (PJ001, NES based plug & play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Senario, Plug and Play, US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Zone 7-in-1 Sports (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]

New working clones

• Denjin Makai (set 1) [caius, The Dumping Union]
• Enduro Racer (YM2151, FD1089B 317-0013A) [Brian Troha, Phil Bennett, The Dumping Union]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 2, PAL) [TeamEurope]
• Fidelity Electronics Excel 68000 Mach IV 68020 Master 2325 [hap, Berger]
• GunNail (location test) [cpsystem3, trap15]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Lyon 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Portorose 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Berlin (prototype) [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Lyon [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Vancouver [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Vancouver 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• The Last Apostle Puppetshow [Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
• Match'em Up (German) [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
• Minky Monkey (Japan) [ShouTime]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1, B PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1C, G PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 Special Edition (v3.55, C1 PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Fruit Bonus '96 (v3.1, A PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• PC with V20 CPU [rfka01]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver JA-A, HDD 1.00) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver KA-A, HDD 1.01) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Saitek Mephisto London 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Saitek Mephisto TM London [hap, anonymous]
• Sega Mega Jet (Japan Mega Drive handheld) [cam900]
• Super Bagman (version 5) [Michel BLANCO]
• V.Smile Baby (Spain, with Aventuras en el Bosque de los Cien Acres) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Machines promoted to working

• Buttobi Striker [MetalliC, TeamEurope]
• Dam Dam Boy (on dedicated PCB) [MetalliC]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT52 Video Display Terminal (M4) [AJR]
• Fuusen Pentai [MetalliC]
• Kattobase Power Pro Kun [MetalliC]
• Korokoro Pensuke [MetalliC]
• Lucky Girl (Wing) [Ivan Vangelista]
• MIPS Magnum R4000 (le) [Patrick Mackinlay]
• Pittanko Zaurus [MetalliC]
• Rushing Beat Shura (SNES bootleg) [dox]
• Shuriken Boy [MetalliC]
• Tsukande Toru Chicchi [MetalliC]
• Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule [MetalliC]

Clones promoted to working

• Dam Dam Boy (on Tsukande Toru Chicchi PCB) [MetalliC]
• Senario / Play Vision Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (UK) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Senario Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Toki (Modular System) [Angelo Salese]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

• Advance Bright Ltd 4 Player System - 10 in 1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Advance Bright Ltd / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. Wireless Tennis (WT2000, ABL TV Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• AT&T 3B2/300 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/600 [Seth Morabito]
• AT&T 610 Business Communication Terminal [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 730X [Bitsavers]
• Bandai Design Master Denshi Mangajuku [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• Bandai Karaoke Ranking Party (Japan) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Challenge Girl (Falcon bootleg) [ShouTime]
• Diana Elite [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT62 DECscope [balrog, Lord Nightmare]
• Dinoking Battle [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dinoking Kids [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dragon Dance (V1.02J) [ShouTime]
• Eldorado (4.2) [English Amiga Board]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Bowling (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Stadium DX (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• Excalibur Electronics Inc Carl Edwards' Chase For Glory [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Flashman [PinMAME]
• Generations (Retro-Bit) [Porchy]
• Hamy System WiWi 18-in-1 Sports Game [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Intec InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs (G5410) [TeamEurope]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc / Toymax Telestory [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc DC Super Heroes The Watchtower Hero Portal [Sean Riddle]
• Jungle Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 32-bit Gaming Console System (Family Sport 41-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Knock Down 2001 (Japan, KD11 Ver. B) [Porchy, SpinalFeyd]
• Laser Quiz Greece [English Amiga Board]
• LeapFrog Little Touch LeapPad [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Lear Siegler ADM 12 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Let's Play! Game Machine 240 in 1 [TeamEurope]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - 250-in-1 (JL2375) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - Frozen [TeamEurope]
• Majesco Golden Nugget Casino [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Marcel van Kervinck Gigatron TTL Microcomputer [Sterophonick, AJR]
• Mirage World (satellite) [WX JF]
• Mostek AID-80F Development System [Maggi9295]
• My Wico Deluxe (Family Sport 85-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• National Semiconductor unknown INS8900 Multibus card (980305652) [Bitsavers]
• Network Computing Devices NCD19c [Don Maslin Archive]
• Novag Supremo [hap, Berger]
• Odeon Twister (v1.4) [English Amiga Board]
• Plug and Play Sudoku (VT based?) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader [ClawGrip]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader 2.0 [ClawGrip]
• Retro FC Plus 168 in 1 Handheld [PeterVanSilie]
• Scorpion (Jun 15, 1999) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Senario / All in 1 Products Ltd Ultimate Sudoku TV Edition 3-in-1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Simba / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. TV Sports 10-in-1 / Decathlon Atlhetic Sport Games [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Smart Planet Sudoku Plug & Play TV Game '6 Intelligent Games' [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom 500 (JAKKS Pacific TV Motion Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• TaiKee Mini Arcade Games Console (Family Sport 220-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD Jara-Ja Land (Japan, home version) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• TeleVideo Systems TeleVideo 924 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Texas Reels (Ver. 2.00) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Tomy / SSD Company LTD Tomica Carnavi Drive (Japan) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• TV Virtual Fighter / Free Fight Kung Fu (Conny / Big Ben) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• unknown Namco System 10 medal game (MTL1 SPR0B) [SpinalFeyd TeamEurope]
• War III Cherry Best [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Wow Wireless Gaming [TeamEurope, David Haywood]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• 286 motherboards with 6-chip SUNTAC chipset [rfka01]
• 3SIUD-1.1 [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the SiS 85C496/85C497 chipset [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the UNI4800 chipset [rfka01]
• 486IG-B-2-1 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1415 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1425A [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PM4 [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PV4 [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-III [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-II [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-IV [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager PCI-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-III [rfka01]
• Aopen AP43 [rfka01]
• Aopen VI15G [rfka01]
• AT&T 3B2/310 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/400 [Bitsavers]
• Atari ABC-286/30 [rfka01]
• Atari PC4 [rfka01]
• Atari PC5 [rfka01]
• Biostar MB-1433UIV [rfka01]
• Chaintech 486SPM [rfka01]
• Chicony CH-486-33C [rfka01]
• Datavan Book-Size LAN station [rfka01]
• Driving Force (Galaxian conversion, Seatongrove UK, E-0237) [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Edom 486VL3H [rfka01]
• Edom MV035F [rfka01]
• EFA 486 APIO [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMS HL3G-L4-VI [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMU HL3S [rfka01]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD / Sonokong Real Ping Pong (Korea) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• ExpertChip EXP4044 [rfka01]
• Fantasy Story (set 2) [ShouTime]
• Fighting Fantasy (Modular System) [ArcadeHacker, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
• Highscreen Colani Blue Note [rfka01]
• Klax (version 5, bootleg set 3) [f205v]
• The Lord Of The Rings (3.00) [PinMAME]
• Mintek BAY-1000C V1.01 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4134 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4145 [rfka01]
• Multitech Microprofessor II [Marc CAPDEVILLE]
• New Fruit Machine (Ming-Yang Electronic, vFB02-01A) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Octek Jaguar II [rfka01]
• Profex PC 33 [rfka01]
• Quizard 3 (v3.4, German, i8751 DE 132 A1) [TeamEurope]
• Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2, Czech, i8751 TS142 CZ1) [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
• Scorpion (Oct 01, 1997) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Seibu Cup Soccer :Selection: (bootleg, set 4) [f205v]
• Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-3Nsl Notebook Computer [rfka01]
• SOYO 025R2 [rfka01]
• SOYO 30H [rfka01]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD / newgent e-kara (Spain, includes 3 songs) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• TD-4IP-UMC-AIO [rfka01]
• VS Computer Mahjong [ShouTime]
• Wild Cat 3 (CMV4 hardware) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• ZIDA 4DVS [rfka01]

New working software list additions

• apple2_flop_clcracked:
  • Air Navigation Trainer (cleanly cracked), Barron's Computer SAT Study Program (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), The Boy Jesus (cleanly cracked), Diascriptive Reading I (cleanly cracked), Green Globs and Graphing Equations (cleanly cracked), In Search of the Most Amazing Thing (First Revision) (cleanly cracked), Instant Recall (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Magic Mailer (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), MicroChess (Version 2.0) (cleanly cracked), Mind Over Minors (cleanly cracked), The Spy's Adventures in North America (Version 1987-10-31) (cleanly cracked), Temple of Apshai (cleanly cracked), What's My Logic? (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Wiziprint (Version 2.01) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
  • Adventure Creator (cleanly cracked), Construct-A-Word II (cleanly cracked), Life Science (cleanly cracked), MIDI/4 (Revision 5) (cleanly cracked), The Quarter Mile (Version 4.0) (800K 3.5") (cleanly cracked) [4am, san, Firehawke]
• apple2_flop_orig: The Abyssal Zone, Adventure, Adventure Construction Set, Alien Typhoon, The Alpine Encounter, Amazon, Amnesia, The Ancient Art of War, Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, The Bard's Tale, Borg, The Breckenridge Caper of 1798, Chess (Odesta) (Version 7.0), Crown of Arthain, Cuban Fantasy, The Dark Heart of Uukrul, Dave Winfield's Batter Up!, Diamond Mine, Dinosaur Days Plus!, Drug Alert!, Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 1), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 2), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 1), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 2), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 4), Earth Orbit Stations, Ecology Simulations II, Galactic Attack, Gears, Gold Rush! (Version 1.0M), Green Globs and Graphing Equations, Horizon V, The Hunt for Red October, In Search of the Most Amazing Thing, Interpreting Graphs, Into The Eagle's Nest, Journey (version 16), King's Bounty, Koronis Rift, Lords of Karma, Neuromancer, New World, Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (Release 19 / 870722), Now You See It, Now You Don't - Was it there? Was it missing?, Portal, Quest for the Scarlet Letter, Questprobe featuring The Hulk (Version 2.3/127), Rambo: First Blood Part II, Shogun, Southern Command, Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter, Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, SwordThrust, Tangled Tales, Thrilogy, Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (Version PV3S2V1/10-MAR-82), Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Version 2.1), Wiziprint (Version 2.1), Xyphus, Zork Zero [4am, Firehawke]
• bbc_rom: Acorn ADFS 1.33 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.53 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.57 (MMC), Harston ADFS 6.00, Harston ADFS 6.10, RetroClinic RamFS 1.00, RetroClinic RamFS 1.04 [Nigel Barnes]
• bbcb_flop: AMX Stop Press, BBC-Z88 Transfer Link, Beeb OPL: AdLib Christmas Carols, Beeb OPL: AdLib Classical Favourites #1, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox Bonus Disc, Beeb OPL: AdLib Pop/Rock Grooves, Beeb OPL: Brix, Beeb OPL: Droplay, Beeb OPL: DynaBlaster, Beeb OPL: Jill of the Jungle, Beeb OPL: KiloBlaster, Beeb OPL: Solar Winds, Beeb OPL: Wacky Wheels, Beeb OPL: Xargon, Beeb OPL: Zone 66, BeebSID 19 - Classical, Chauffeur, Christmas Crackers, Enigma, EV1 Camera Interface, Harston ADFS System Disk 6.10, Icon Art Master, The Krystal Connection, MagScan - The Beebug Bibliography Disc v1.31, MEDL Tracker Ball Utilities, Mountain Panic, MR4200 32K RAM Board, Paranoid, UTILRAM: The Utility RAM, Video Camera Interface, VideoNuLA Support Disc, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.21, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.30, White Light, Zap! [Nigel Barnes]
• c64_cass:
  • BMX Racers (set 4, Visiload loaders), The CF Power Pack Tape 5, Hero of the Golden Talisman, Match Point (set 2), Mermaid Madness, On Court Tennis, On Field Football, Outlaws, Rad Ramp Racer, Run the Gauntlet, Short Circuit, Skate Rock Simulator, Space Hunter, Spellbound, Sweep, Talladega, Yogi's Great Escape (set 2) [FakeShemp]
  • Hole In One [FakeShemp, c64tapes.org]
• fmtowns_cd:
  • Emit Vol. 3 - Watashi ni Sayonara o, The New Zealand Story (HMA-213) [redump.org, r09]
  • Shooting Towns [rockleevk, r09]
• gameking: 4 in 1 - SeaGuard + Whirlybird + Spectask + Captain (set 2), 4 in 1 - Three Battles + Light Sword + Risker + Metal Deform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 10 - Soldier + Seatercel + General + Seafight (1MB cartridge), [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• gmaster: Finite Zone [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• ibm5150:
  • UCSD p-System [Davide Cavalca]
  • Apogee Software Bonus Disk (Jumpman Lives!, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons) [Justin Kerk]
• ibm5170: Goal!, Street Fighter II [ArcadeShadow]
• jupace_cass: Forth Surround, Superchess II [Robbbert]
• jupace_snap: Casse Briques, Champs De Mines, Millipede, Pacman, Valkyr [Robbbert]
• megadriv: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920821), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920914) [drx, FakeShemp]
• n64: 007 - The World Is Not Enough (prototype, version 21) [Paulweeze71, FakeShemp]
• snes:
  • Missile Command (prototype 19970210) [Baker64, FakeShemp]
  • Earthworm Jim (USA, prototype 19940819) [Radar, FakeShemp]
  • Arcana (USA, prototype), Super Nova (prototype) [Togemet2, FakeShemp]
• svision: Cross High (Euro, USA) [anonymous]

Software list items promoted to working

• gameking: 4 in 1 - AirWar + DeadShot + Challenge + Speedboat, 4 in 1 - CS-I + Soldier + Sea War + Thunderbird, 4 in 1 - Elfin + Chariot + Searcher + Peace Havass, 4 in 1 - Farer + Sortie + PhantomFighter + SeaBed War, 4 in 1 - Manhunt + Bobby + Tantivy + Racing Car, 4 in 1 - Nagual + Revenger + Terminator + Black Jack, 4 in 1 - Nobody + Bad Boy + Air Wrestle + MotherLove, 4 in 1 - TrojanLegend (Trojan) + HappyBall + Supermotor (Motor) + Lanneret (Hawk), 4 in 1 - Warrior + Cleverhawk + Valiant + MetalDeform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 9 - Duckman + Ares + HappyKiller + Cycloneact [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• jupace_cass: 3D Maze, Ace Avoider, Ace Invaders (Forth Dimension), Ace Invaders (Hi-Tech Microsoft), Ace Manual Code Examples - Chapter 11 (mice), Ace Mines, Ace Star, Acevaders, Adventure A - Planet of Death, Alien Defender, Amazing Maze, Astrian Descent (Prototype), Atic Raid, Black Island Adventure, Bomber, Breakout, Callisto, Cavern Attack, Centipede, Chase, Chess, Dodge the Munch (Prototype), Duckshoot, Firebird, Frogger (Boldfield Computing), Fungle Monsters (Prototype), Gobbledegook, Green X Frog, Guessing Game, Krazy Kong (Prototype), Light Racer (Prototype), Memory Stars, Meteor, Meteor Racer, Meteors (Prototype), Micro Maze, Minefield, Othello, Owler, Quick-Draw (Prototype), Quick-Draw Practice (Prototype), Robohench (Prototype), Robohunt (Prototype), Sallors' Hornpipe, Sam and the Time Bombs (Prototype), SokoACE, SokoACE Map Editor, Space Battle, Star Trek, Sudoku, Tank Battle (Prototype), Tetris, Towers of Hanoi, Turbo (Prototype), Zapem, Zombies and Potholes [Robbbert]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• a800_cass: Serpentine, Zaxxon (set 1), Zaxxon (set 2) [AtariMania, FakeShemp]
• bbc_rom: Advanced Ram Operating System 1.00, Digistore Streamer 0.05, Digistore Streamer 0.07, Digistore Streamer 0.09, EPROM 1.03, RAMagic! 2.0B, RAMagic! 2.1M, Smart SPI, Turbo MMC 0.A3, UPURS 3.0R, UPURS 3.1R, UPURS 3.2R, UPURS 3.3R, UPURS 4.0R, UPURS 4.1R, UPURS 5.0R, UPURS 5.1R [Nigel Barnes]
• bdesignm_design_cart: Dragon Ball Z (design), Super Street Fighter 2 (design) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bdesignm_game_cart: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SS Illustration Club (game), Dragon Ball Z Taisen-gata Search Battle (game) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bkrankp_cart: J-Pop Rose, Vocaloid [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• casloopy: Little Romance, Video Seal Wordprocessor [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• gmaster: Space Warrior [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• iqunlim_cart: Englisch für Anfänger [TeamEurope]
• pi_storyreader_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• pi_storyreader_v2_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• sega_beena_cart: Kazoku Minna no Nouryoku Trainer, Meet Bub-Bub to Eigo Tanken, Oshare Majo Love and Berry-Cute ni Oshare, Oshare ni Henshin HeartCatch PreCure!, Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! Chinou Ikusei Pokémon Daiundoukai [TeamEurope]
• telestory_cart: La Cenicienta - Bellezas en Flor / Cinderella - Beauties in Bloom (Spain), El Rey León II - El orgullo de Simba / The Lion King II - Simba's Pride (Spain), Winnie the Pooh - Salta, Tigger, Salta / Winnie the Pooh - Bounce, Tigger, Bounce (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• vbaby_cart: El Jardín de los Sueños... (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Source Changes

• bus/ss50/dc5.cpp: Added configuration option to force ready when motor is enabled. [68bit]
  
  • Allows SWTBUG to boot without patching the ROM to ignore the ready status.
• formats/ap2_dsk.cpp: Don’t use symbolic names in the options specification, as the values are used as preprocessor tokens. [68bit]
  
• cpu/t11: Changed disassembler and register display to use octal number format, and fixed disassembly of SOB instruction. [AJR]
  
• cpu/v60: Sign-extend displacements for various addressing modes and DB/TB instructions. [AJR, Tahg]
  
• Added disassembler and preliminary emulation for National Semiconductor PACE CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• Added disassembler AT&T WE32100 CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• rendebgfx: Fixed incorrect swapping of red and blue components of screen tint. [AJR]
  
• machine/mc68901.cpp: Re-wrote USART emulation. [AJR]
  
  • Added support for 16× clock pre-scaler and data transition synchronization.
  • Implemented break generation and detection, internal loop-back, and synchronous mode.
  • Adjusted clocks in harriet.cpp and machine/x68k_kbd.cpp to to match MFP-generated Baud rates.
  • Serial terminal for tti (tti.cpp) actually works now.
• indiana.cpp: Replaced ASCII keyboard with AT-style keyboard (doesn’t completely work). [AJR]
  
  • Also documented some clocks and interrupts.
• vt100.cpp: Merged video emulation with DEC Rainbow, implementing AVO attributes. [AJR]
  
• cpu/rx01: Added disassembler and preliminary CPU device for DEC RX01 custom firmware architecture. [AJR]
  
• cpu/vt50: Implemented character drawing, and added notes about processor architecture. [AJR]
  
• input_sdl.cpp: Process control characters so the natural keyboard can see them (SDL normally strips these out). [AJR]
  
• natkeyboard.cpp: Don’t strip linefeed characters (Ctrl-J) from natural keyboard input except when pasting strings. [AJR]
  
• tv912.cpp.cpp input updates: [AJR]
  
  • Improved natural keyboard bindings for backspace and forward delete on tv912b.
  • Made Ctrl-K and Ctrl-L work with natural keyboard on tv912b tv912c.
• Add preliminary DEC VT61/VT62 microcode disassembler and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• s2650: Changed to big-endian. [AJR]
  
• gigatron.cpp: Hooked up ROM and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• cpu/gigatron: Added disassembler. [AJR]
  
• unidasm: Handle word endianness for address-shifted architectures correctly and safely. [AJR]
  
• Added disassemblers for Motorola MC88100 and MC88110 RISC CPUs. [AJR]
  
• alpha68k.cpp: Improved dash event timings for Gold Medalist, relaxing gameplay qualification requirements. [Angelo Salese]
  
• toki_ms.cpp: Added some meat, confirming it’s similar to tokib. [Angelo Salese]
  
• twins.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Refactored driver code and split into multiple state classes.
  • Added default non-volatile RAM contents for all games.
  • Worked around crash after stages 1-5 in twins and twinsed2.
• psion5.cpp: Added Psion Series 5mx personal digital assistant driver. [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
  
  • Added logging for system-on-a-chip peripheral accesses based on WindEmu.
  • Added support for timers, keyboard, touch screen and buzzeticker.
  • Implemented HALT register, improving performance.
• bus/isa/s3virge.cpp: Started implementing bit-blit operations, making Windows 3.1 usable with ViRGE drivers. [Barry Rodewald]
  
• pgm.cpp: Corrected ROM region widths, corrected sprite pixel extraction algorithm, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
• taitogn.cpp: Reduced redundant code by refactoring to share base class with Capcom ZN2. [cam900]
  
• c6280.cpp: Updated to more closely emulate behavior described in manual, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• machine/vrender0.cpp: Improved sound emulation, updated notes, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Fixed sample start position, partially implemented envelopes and interrupts, and made wave memory access use an address map.
  • Improved sample rate calculation and support for dynamic sample rate changes.
• fmtowns.cpp: Updated notes on sound chips used. [cam900]
  
• model2.cpp: Changed manufacturer for Dead or Alive to the developer Tecmo. [cam900]
  
• system1.cpp: Fixed Sega System 1 color handling, improved ROM region names, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Converted PROM-based palette handling to use indirect entries, fixed bitmap clear behavior, and reduced runtime tag map lookups.
• sound/2612intf.cpp: Added YMF276 variant, and fixed output resolution. [cam900]
  
• sound/fm2612.cpp: Added support for different output resolutions. [cam900]
  
• megadriv.cpp: Added handheld variants, and added machine configuration for variants with YM3438 integrated in ASIC. [cam900]
  
• kaneko_spr.cpp: Fixed priorities when sprite persistence is enabled, and split sprite drawing from mixing. [cam900]
  
• kaneko16.cpp: Fixed sprite delay, corrected explbrkr sound ROM banking, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6230.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate, reduced ADPCM volume, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6272.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• Netlist library updates: [Couriersud]
  
  • Added netlist library version number to code, and used it to invalidate save states if library version changes.
  • Ensure diodes step by enough to alter the matrix.
  • Increased time resolution to 100 picoseconds and improved synchronization with MAME icount.
  • Added CD4006, CD4070 and TL084 devices.
  • Added proxy support for clock.
• video/fixfreq.cpp: Added adjusters to aid in development and debugging. [Couriersud]
  
• netlist: Worked around MSVC bug in expansion of variadic macro arguments. [Couriersud, Firewave]
  
• atarittl.cpp: Hooked up fixed-frequency monitor for stuntcyc. [Couriersud]
  
• galaxian.cpp: Converted Konami audio filters to use netlist. [Couriersud]
  
• segas16b.cpp: Added analog audio filters to systems with YM2151 and µPD7759. [Couriersud]
  
• sunplus_gcm394.cpp updates: [David Haywood]
  
  • Show startup screens and respond to inputs in jak_gtg and jak_car2.
  • Fixed jak_car2 bitmap test display in service mode.
• xavix.cpp: Converted to direct RGB video output to allow support mid-screen palette changes. [David Haywood]
  
• pockchalw.xml: Changed chukkesr to use correct dump (previously used a duplicate from a different set). [David Haywood]
  
• vii.cpp: Added hacks to zon32bit and mywicodx to select correct banks for all games. [David Haywood]
  
• Split up the unwieldy vii.cpp into multiple source files. [David Haywood]
  
• plugins/hiscore: Made read_config function more robust. [eadmaster]
  
• imds2.cpp: Added Multibus slot and implemented iSBC-202 floppy controller card. [F.Ulivi]
  
• luaengine: Added read_range function to addr_space, allowing scripts to directly read blocks of data. [feos]
  
• Fixed crash when using -aviwrite or -mngwrite with system that lack screens. [Firewave, hap]
  
• atarisy1.cpp: Don’t generate interrupt 3 on systems that don’t support it. [GadgetFreak]
  
• mephisto_modular.cpp: Added Bavaria piece recognition chessboard. [hap]
  
• video/psx.cpp: Changed NTSC refresh rates to 59.82 Hz for 240-line mode and 59.94 Hz for 480-line mode. [hoholee12]
  
  • Works around synchronization issues in beatmania IIDX games.
• gaelco2.cpp: Restored perfect quantum device configuration that was omitted from some machines after refactoring. [mc68k]
  
• machine/s3520cf.cpp: Improved emulation, and added RTC-4553 variant. [MetalliC]
  
• cpu/sh: Implemented SH-3 INTEVT register. [MetalliC]
  
• konmedal.cpp updates: [MetalliC]
  
  • Added hopper, non-volatile RAM and timing/interrupt controller.
  • Decoded graphics tiles for GX-based games and added per-game palette offsets.
  • Added µPD7759 sound output.
  • Added hack to fix mariourou scrolling, and documented observed row/column scroll issues for K052109 tilemaps.
• geneve.cpp: Implemented lower-level emulation of the Geneve architecture (Gate Array, PAL and Genmod daughterboard). [Michael Zapf]
  
  • Also added RESET line to I/O port and peripheral box, and made Genmod card modifications a configuration option.
• ti99_2.cpp, ti99_8.cpp: Improved Hexbus handling, and fixed instability when loading from/saving to Hexbus floppies. [Michael Zapf]
  
• ti99: Block invalid accesses to VDP like writing on read address – fixes Ambulance game. [Michael Zapf]
  
• rended3d: Allow -attach_window to work with non-root windows. [Nathan Woods]
  
• formats/acorn_dsk.cpp: Added support for HADFS floppy images. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bus/bbc/1mhzbus updates: [Nigel Barnes]
  
  • Added BeebOPL FM Synthesiser.
  • Added Sprow BeebIDE 16-bit and RetroClinic BBC 8-bit IDE interfaces.
  • Added Acorn Winchester Disc.
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcm FinMOS 3.29 BIOS option (pre-release of MOS 3.50). [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcmaiv internal modem port, with Acorn AIV SCSI Host Adaptor card device. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• video/ims_cvc.cpp: Implemented cursor, simplified handlers, and reduced logging noise. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/mips/r4000.cpp: Fixed bad virtual address for [ls][dw][lr] exceptions, and fixed CP0 status on soft reset. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
  • Also improved logging and cleaned up code.
• machine/dp83932c.cpp: Implemented networking. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• jazz.cpp: Implemented soft reset, and hooked up sonic DMA. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• machine/mct_adr.cpp: Added crude sonic DMA bus master support, and fixed reset handling. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed XOR instruction to not alter the carry flag, and improved debugger flags display. [R. Belmont, Tahg]
  
• konmedal.cpp: Improved colors for shuriboy, fuusenpn and mariorou. [R. Belmont]
  
• konendev.cpp: Hooked up correct real-time clock, and hooked up DPRAM. [R. Belmont, Heihachi_73]
  
• machine/spg2xx.cpp: Fixed a subtle interrupt bug that prevented clikstrt from booting. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed carry flag handling for AND, OR and NEG instructions. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added ARM710T variant. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• plugins/cheat: Ignore leading colon on tags, as all tags must be absolute in cheats (GitHub #6114). [Ryan Holtz, DjDiabolik]
  
• romload: Increased width of total ROM size members to 64 bits (fixes loading percentage display for hapyfsh2). [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7/arm7.cpp, machine/s3c2400.cpp, machine/s3c2410.cpp, machine/s3c2440.cpp: Converted logging to use logmacro.h. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary FS8806 I²C hookup, and expanded notes. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added support for printing hapyfsh2 diagnostic messages. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• ut88.cpp, v6809.cpp: Removed use of deprecated machine configuration macros. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• naomi.cpp: Added preliminary 315-6154 system manager chip device used in DIMM board. [Samuele Zannoli]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary inputs. [Tahg, Ryan Holtz]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Replaced Music Construction Set (cleanly cracked) dump to fix damaged sector. [4am, Firehawke]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Corrected several titles. [Anoid]
  
• mephisto_modena.cpp: Added an older version of modena as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• mephisto_montec.cpp: Added another megaiv version as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• vsmile.cpp: Removed regional V.Smile variants and turned alternate ROMs into BIOS options with version numbers. [bmx]
  
• igs011.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to the Virtua Bowling sets. [Brian Troha]
  
• splash.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to Funny Strip. [Brian Troha]
  
• cdi.cpp: Decapped and dumped an i8751 microcontroller for German-language Quizard 2 sets. [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
  
• Added MicroTouch touch screen controller ROM dumps (not hooked up). [ClawGrip, Kevin Eshbach, ArcadeHacker]
  
• ninjakd2.cpp: Re-dumped the ROMs for jt104 and corrected labels. [coolmod, The Dumping Union]
  
• snes.xml: Re-dumped Mr Tuff. [drx, FakeShemp]
  
• snes.xml: Documented Earthworm Jim - GamesMaster Special Edition PCB. [FakeShemp]
  
• megadriv.cpp Added Mega-CD Japan BIOS version 1.11. [Fredrik Nyqvist]
  
• namcona1.cpp: Updated chip types and ROM locations. [hammy]
  
• ddragon.cpp: Updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• gunsmoke.cpp: Removed watchdog that isn’t present in hardware, corrected frequencies, and updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• cpu/rx01: Dumped firmware PROMs. [Lord Nightmare]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Changed aburner, aburner3 and lastsurv to used dumps with proper track indexes and offset correction. [redump.org, r09]
  
• at.cpp: Updated notes and added BIOS options. [rfka01]
  
  • atturbo: Added cl286 BIOS option.
  • epsax: Added 3vim002 and zz1343 BIOS options.
  • ecs38632: Added 092588 BIOS option.
  • op386wb: Added d41107 BIOS option.
  • 386sc2c: Added s1b BIOS option.
  • at486: Added 486upio, acer48622, 4alo001, 4alp001, zz1130, optimus, umc486a, a9c11f1f and 109k BIOS options.
  • a486sp3: Added v301, v10101, v10102, v205 and v305 BIOS options.
  • so4saw2: Added iob1, 0730, wa53, wa3, 0911 and 0911b BIOS options.
  • ls486e: Added ls486eb BIOS option.
  • pkm0038s: Added p20302 and p2020 BIOS options.
  • um8498f: Added v14 and um849801 BIOS options.
  • mb8433uud: Added 8881d and 08a BIOS options.
  • mb1433ucv: Added ucvg BIOS option.
• genpc.cpp: Added arc123 and pac BIOS options to PC, and updated notes. [rfka01]
  
• xavix.cpp: Dumped internal ROM for Gachinko Contest! Slot machine TV (Japan). [Sean Riddle]
  
• atetris.cpp: Added UM3482 internal ROM data to atetb3482. [Sean Riddle]
  
• o2.cpp: Add added ip32prom_4_3 BIOS option to o2 (IP32 PROM V4.3). [Sean Riddle, Rampa, ClawGrip]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Added the missing floppy disk dump for Fujitsu Habitat V2.1L10 [StuBlad, r09]
  
• vgmplay.xml: Updated seven items to match the latest vgmrips release. [Tafoid]
  
  • Updated chelnov, fortzone_gb, fray_msx2, illcity_msxr, raiden, spirou_gb and sml2_gb.
• konmedal.cpp: Dumped color PROMs for buttobi. [TeamEurope, The Dumping Union]
  
• gameking.xml: Re-dumped all bad dumps (mc_4v01, mc_4v04, mc_4v07, mc_4v09, mc_4v14, mc_4v15, mc_4v16, mc_4v17, mc_4v18, mc_4v19a). [TeamEurope, SSJ]
  
• ms32.cpp: Confirmed ROM labels for p47aces. [trap15]
  
• segasp.cpp: Added network firmware version 1.21. [WX JF]
  

Hi everybody, here are some stories that you might enjoy during this Quarantine time! They have been written by my students and are based on true events... Will you dare read these stories?
Scary story
The story takes place in Water Valley, Mississippi. My name is Emily and I live in a calm neighbourhood where people are really friendly. I am happy since I left my parent's house about one year ago. I live with my boyfriend and we consider founding a family. I love running in the magnificent local forests, once or twice a week. Last week, I was running in the woods at around 6 o'clock and I was almost at the half of my run when I realized that it was already getting dark but the sun usually sets 2 hours later during this period of the year. I instantly realized that I would not be able to finish my run so I called my boyfriend. Unfortunately, I was in an area without network coverage and my phone only had 10 percent of battery left. I decided to continue running to find an area with network. It was completely dark, I finally got a network coverage and I was able to call my boyfriend to pick me up. So, I stood there trying to distinguish shapes in the dark. Suddenly, I stopped breathing when I saw two red glowing eyes looking at me in the dark. It started getting closer and closer and doing inhuman sounds. I ran very fast in the opposite direction and I heard someone (or something) running behind me. I looked behind to see what it was and I immediately stumbled. When I turned around to get back on my feet, the "thing" wasn't there anymore and I saw car headlights. It was my boyfriend who had come to pick me up and when I entered the car I immediately ask him if he had seen anything. He answered that he didn't see anything. He asked me if I was injured and I said that I maybe had a sprained ankle. We went to the hospital where the doctor said that my ankle was badly sprained. After some research, I have deduced that "the thing" was a wendigo because the night has fallen faster than usual, it happened in the woods and there were inhuman sounds. Next time I'll be running I won't take the same path. I don't recommend you to run at night all alone in the woods.
When I was 16, I was living in Kos which is an island in Greece. I was living there with my father and my little brother. I don’t know my mother very well because she died when I was young but I never knew what happened. As a family, we used to go fishing because my father had a small fishing boat. It was amazing and we always wanted to go fishing but my father could only go on weekends with us because he worked during the week and he didn’t want to go there at night.
When I didn’t go to the sea with my father on weekends, I was spending my time with young people in my village. We played on the dike, we biked and we played PS2. A Saturday evening, I was going home with my friends and we didn’t really know what to do. Passing in front of my fishing boat, my friends had the fabulous idea to use it. Unfortunately, I disagreed because my father had advised me against it especially when my stupid brother was with us. I don’t know how but my friends managed to convince me and we used the boat. Our plan was just to make a one hour trip. After 15 minutes of sailing, we saw a small cave. I didn’t want to go in because I’m claustrophobic, but all of my friends were determinate to explore it. That’s why my friends decided to go in while I was staying at the entrance with my little brother who was really frightened. I let my brother play on my phone while I was watching the time go by and waiting impatiently for the return of my friends. My little brother is very clumsy and he dropped my Phone into the water. He immediately dived to recover it without even asking my opinion. I knew he could swim so I let him look for my phone because it would teach him a lesson. But after a lot of seconds I did not see him resurface. I was worried and started to panic. I decided to dive to look for him but I didn’t see anything under water because I’m myopic. The only thing I saw was the strange shadow of a woman. After I rised to the surface, I yelled at my brother but the only answer was a woman’s laugh. When my friends came back, I was crying and totally disoriented. They asked me what happened but I was too shocked to tell anything. They immediately called for help when they understood that my brother was missing. They kept looking for him for 2 weeks but the only thing they found was his necklace. Since I was young, I think it was the first time I saw my father cry. He decided to leave the island and never come back. For my eighteenth birthday he told me how my mother died. The strange fact is that my brother and her disappeared at the same place and my father and I heard the same sound. Legend says that mermaids lived in these waters.
The cyberspace legend
It has been said for decades that computers and technology will surpass us and even kill us. However, do you know if it is true or not ? Maybe the cyberspace legend can put you in the picture.
The story takes place more than 20 years ago in an office of the left tower of the twin towers, a young man on an internship in economics went to the computer room. He started working and, after half an hour, he left his computer but Internet Explorer was open. After his lunch break, he came back and went to the https//:travail.d.anglais.com/Pict page. The young man visited it as a normal page but did not know what was going to happen to him.
A few days after, the young man returned to his session and when he turned it on, it began to do weird things like opening various applications at the same time, writing green messages on a black background,... The young man found this weird and decided to turn the session off but each time it went off, it turned on again. He then thought of unplugging the computer but each time he approaches the plug, he received an electric shock. While the young man was trying to unplug the cable, he noticed that the PC next to it started to light up and had the same problem. The young man worried and called his friend who was a geek. He thought it was the best idea to save his internship. But, in doing so, he didn't know he was going to lose a loved one.
An hour later, his friend arrived at the tower and he joined him in the computer room. He looked at the PC and wondered how he was going to solve the problem. He started by trying to enter the basic lines of code against viruses, but it did not work so he tried a more complex code which should have had an effect, but did not. His friend had been trying different things for half an hour, but nothing worked. He began to lose patience and he furiously hit the keyboard with his hands. At that moment, he felt a violent electric shock that went through his entire body. After that, the virus had miraculously disappeared and the PC was functioning correctly.
A few hours later, the two friends went to a bar and as he was drinking the geek felt an electric shock when he swallowed. He wondered what was happening to him and the next morning he was feeling so bad that he could not get out of his bed. Worried, he phoned his friend to ask if he also had troubles getting up in the morning, but he didn’t. The geek explained his symptoms to his friend. During the all day, the geek’s friend wondered what disease his friend could have. At one point, he realized that the geek had the same symptoms as the computer when the virus was on it: weakening, poor connection and electrocution. The geek had caught one of the rare Interno biological virus.
This was the cyberspace legend that tells the story of a man who died of a computer virus.
Here is some peace of advice: check your sources before viewing a document…
Weird series of events in Daudzese
There is a Forest near my city named Aklais Purvs where strange events have happened. Some people from my town have mysteriously disappeared. There is an old lady in my town that everyone avoids because she’s always telling crazy stuff. One of her many stories is that she would have been taken away by the forest’s spirit 8 years ago when she was 30 but she’s in her seventies now (and there was a 30 years old lady who disappeared 8 years ago). Nobody really paid attention to her stories until recently when the story became real.
When she was 30, her passion was photography and she wanted to become a professional photographer. On the 29th of February 2012, she went in the forest to take pictures of the nature near the lake. She got off her job early and drove to the forest. She took pictures for hours then she wanted to go home but she couldn’t find her way back to the parking. She decided to walk until she found the Ranger’s office but when she found it, it was empty. She had been walking for about an hour when she noticed a voice that told her that she was trapped and that she had to follow it. She started to run thinking that she was followed by a weird man but she couldn’t find her way back. Hours later, she understood that she wouldn’t be able to escape so she followed the voice. She said that when she accepted to follow the voice, things started to change, everything started to become more colourful and beautiful. She thought she was going crazy so she took pictures. She couldn’t recognize anything. She stayed alone with the voice in this universe for what seemed like 40 years but when she got out she realized that only 4 years had passed in our world. The voice explained who they were and said that it was a kind of forest spirit who takes a woman wandering in his forest on every 29th of February. It chose her because it fell in love with her. She spent all this time looking for a way out and she found it. She is the first woman that was able to escape. When she came out, another lady had been missing for a few hours. She immediately thought about warning the villagers. Nobody listened to her for years until 3 days ago, when another girl went missing in this forest.
DANGER!
I have a good story.
It happened a few months ago. As we are in senior year, we had to choose a type of retreat and we decided to do the spiritual one. So, the concept is to walk a long distance during 4 days and to stop at different places. For example, we slept in a convent with nuns. We were a pretty small group of twelve students and a fearful teacher. During one of these nights, we suffered a kind of paranormal event. It was in the creepy house of “L’Epi” in Beauraing, more precisely at the Ardennes Street 57.
We arrived at that place at 5.00PM and the owner said that we could not enter in some of rooms without doing the sign of the cross before entering those rooms. We were tired and hungry, so we didn’t pay attention to the special atmosphere and we just talked to each other while we were waiting to go to eat in the convent. After that, we went to the blessed Virgin Mary apparition place. When we came back, we decided to visit the entire house and we just laugh about what the man said.
When we went to bed, we all felt an oppressive atmosphere, we slept upstairs but we heard doors banging on the ground floor. We started to freak out so we decided to gather all the crucifixes we found in the house to use them as a sort of protective barrier. Throughout the night, we could hear footsteps and creepy laughter coming from the “forbidden” rooms . The next morning, still frightened by the night, we decided to go downstairs together to see what had happened. Surprisingly, there was nothing special at first look but with a little more attention we noticed that there was a message written on one of the doors: "DANGER! ". We heard a voice far away without knowing where it came from, we realized that this voice was coming from an old radio and we distinctly heard voices that said "leave". We all quickly gathered our things and left this strange place. It was the strangest event of my life, I will never go back to this house again. I understood after all this that the owner's warnings were legitimate.
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What happened last week to my uncle was actually incredible and scary. Let me tell you all about it.
It happened in a ghost town, in the middle of the US, where only a couple of people still live. They are about 80 surviving in this town called Atlantic City. My uncle is named Kyle. He moved there 3 months ago and, well, over the fact that he has a weird life, he is the richest and most powerful man in the area. Just as Al Capone in Chicago. He is not rich from good work but from cheating at games and he spends most of his time in casinos all over the US. And guess what, when he had enough money and was tracked everywhere he would go, he decided to build his own casino there, lost in the middle of Wisconsin. It’s not a big casino but he is making a lot of money out of it. Pretty fast, he became the king of that village. Everyone was scared of him and would obey whatever he was asking. He was living his best life: no police around, no competition. He was respected and admired.
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As the town was in a valley and surrounded by quite a lot of woods, it was pretty often foggy, mostly in the morning and evening. My uncle had always liked nature so he would go for a walk in the forest every day. Atlantic City was a paradise for him; he had never been in such a green place. Before moving there, he was always living in big towns such as Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, etc. The best part is that Atlantic City is surrounded by mountains. The best hiding place! And nothing to do with San Francisco’s hills! Kyle didn’t mind the fog, he actually liked it. As he says: “Fog makes everything look scary and amazing at the same time.” For him, it’s just the sky saying hello to the ground. From the few contacts I have with him, he sent me pictures of the fogy forests and I agree with him, it looks wonderful. But I wouldn’t go for a walk in those conditions as he was doing. He was going on walks for hours, all by himself, with no backpack. He would just take a bottle of water and his phone. Not even a map. One day, he explained me that it was a game for him: walking in the forest until he got lost then finding his way back home by a different trail than the one he took to come. And the best of it: the view on the valley from the top of a mountain. I went there once and, trust me, it’s breathtaking! In conclusion, his only bad point was that he liked money and power too much. Otherwise, he was a really good man. He helped people, taught teenagers mathematics (because yes, my uncle went to Stanford University and is a very good mathematician) and cooked for some homeless person. Unfortunately, he was always asking for something in return. So, he had a personal driver, a secretary, a hairdresser, etc. After the crazy story that just happened to him, he became way nicer to people.
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It happened on an evening; Kyle was coming back from his walk. It was foggy all over the forest and the town. He was walking on the main street, near the playground. Then, he heard some noises; something like a baby crying so he decided to get a closer look. He crossed the road and walked around in the playground. Nothing. So, he walked back to the road. As soon as he was on the street, the noise started again. My uncle is not the kind of person to get easily scared but he wanted to find out what was going on. He walked around the playground again. He didn’t find anything. When he went back to the street, he noticed an empty white car. The car wasn’t there when he first arrived at the playground and he didn’t hear it coming. He started to worry from that moment on. No one was in the street. Thus, me, that car literally appeared out of nowhere; no driver, no driving. So, Kyle took a closer look to the car and there, something weird happened: he saw someone looking at him in the car side mirror. At that particular moment, he got scared, the baby started crying again and the car started. My uncle couldn’t move, he couldn’t feel his legs anymore. He fainted. When he woke up, the car wasn’t there anymore and everything was quiet in the street. The night was falling so he ran back home and hid in his bed until the following day. During the day, he asked around if anyone knew anything about a baby crying and that kind of things. Only one old guy, from Equator, knew a legend about a baby killer, from his country. He told my uncle that it was a sign that death was near. Since then, Kyle came back to Florida. He is living with us from now on and he is haunted by this story. No one died yet but we are on our guards.
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Hi everybody, I’m going to tell you about my last vacation.
As usual, three of us went to a cottage in the Ardennes. The street was empty because there’s only the cottage and another house that is rarely occupied. When we arrived, we saw that there was a new neighbour because the lights were on and to my knowledge this cottage wasn’t for sale the last time we came. So, we deducted that some people were there, but we didn’t care. Afterwards, we took the baggage, went into the chalet and we were finally ready to have fun.
Maxime and I went down in the cellar to turn the boiler on, but the door was open. We thought that we may have forgotten to close it the last time we came. We noticed that some garden tools were gone and footprints with mud were present on the floor. Max immediately phoned his father to get more information. When he got his dad on the phone, his dad said that we should not worry about it as it probably was the last tenants that were responsible of this. So, we turned the boiler on and got out of the cellar as fast as we could.
The first night was calm, there was just some music in the area because it was Raddadesh, a cult that is based not far from the cottage. But we never had any problems with them.
The next day, Jack and Max went to the forest at the back of the garden and they met the neighbour that was cutting some wood. When they told it to me, they also explained that this man had a scary look. It looked like he was in another world. Otherwise nothing to report: the evening went well and we drank a little.
During the evening, I went on the terrace to smoke a cigarette and I had noticed that there was a kind of red light far inside the forest and I called Max and Jack to tell them what I saw. When they came the light was gone. At this time, I thought it was a fire but I was certainly drunk.
After a good night of sleep, I decided to check if there were any traces of the fire in the forest because it seemed strange to me. After about 30 minutes of walk, I found nothing and I decided to retrace my steps. On my way back, I saw a clearing. In the center of it, there was a tree with an intriguing shape. I decided to take a picture of it. And when I approached, I saw a reddish trace on the side of the tree. At that moment, a shiver ran through my body and I decided to quickly return to the chalet. I didn't bother explaining what happened to Maxime and Jack. It was during the last evening that things went wrong. To enjoy it, we drank a lot, so much that I felt bad and I went out to get some fresh air around 1 a.m.. But I saw the fire again and I don’t know why but I decided to discover what it was. As I got closer, I heard music and I smelled a scent of burning. Suddenly, between two trees, I saw men with animal masks burning the tree-clearing. I was so terrified. I tried to run but I fell because of a rock and I remember nothing of what happened then. When I woke up, I was lying down at the entrance of the forest. I had a hellish headache but above all I had a severe pain in my whole left arm. I immediately realized that I had a hot iron mark that reminded me of the shape of the clearing tree. So, I decided to go back to the chalet and I saw a police car in the courtyard and when I was entered the house Maxime and Jack were relieved to see me again. They explained me they thought that I had been taken away. Moreover, the neighbour had also disappeared. Two months later, the neighbour was still missing and I still have some nightmares of men with masks.
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