u/baconburger2022

You were awesome. Never change man.

We still exist!

Im still here at least.

Feeling nostalgic about the past, and was wondering if people still remember the past, what happened, what was gonna happen before we all became busy.

(About 200 of you are out there viewing my content, so i figured id ask.)

Ready set go.

A World Stitched Together is a free flow draft zero project i have been casually working on. It features the country Navaria, a super high tech security and surveillance state, operated by the Falcon AI, who basically runs the country and operates the infrastructure.

During a major event, a blast happens due to a demonstration malfunction, and it picks up Navaria, the whole country and drops it into modern day Earth.

Falcon, Navaria, and the rest of the world will have to figure out how to liberate together, now that a civilization thousands and thousands of years ahead in technology has just instantly appeared out in the ocean overnight.

All sorts of complications and dramatic events take place that will put everyone to the test, and we may just see the cards everyone keeps behind their backs.

Again, its not finished, i think we are on chapter 8? Still working on it every now and then though.

So thats really it.

Hello all, writing block is hell, and im not sure if im back from it, so i might as well answer some questions and say where we are in both the Frozen Fire and the World Stitched Together chapters.

Starting off strong with Frozen fire.

This series is the answer to the question, what if we combined the endings of all 3 previous seasons, claim that they are alternate timelines or realities, and raise the stakes to cosmic proportions. The story follows Arc, a Furnace, the enemy of all 3 previous seasons. He was cursed by the writing gods (when i ran out of story for him) and entombed in a statue on a hill. Preserved until he was needed most. Behind him was the Falcon tree. I took inspiration howel’s moving castle and made it so that whatever damage falcon took was redirected to the tree. But shocker to us all, the tree is dead. So falcon is dead. That note will be important later. When Arc wakes up and tumbles out of his statue, he sees the dead falcon tree, has no idea whats going on, does the main character thing where they ignore important things, and heads to the nearest town. In this town, and in extension the world, there are anomalies that keep happening. Its making furnaces, objects, regions, etc. disappear, and possibly reappear with some kind of distortion or effect placed on them. Turns out, while Arc was still in the statue, and Falcon was alive, Navaria tried to make an energy device that siphoned time. Well that didn’t work, and the whole country blew up. Due to time being weird, and myself being in an emotional phase when writing this, i declared the Red Zone. Which is about a couple extra miles in a circle around Navaria which now is basically a massive fireball. Frozen in time. And because reality has been tied into a knot over there, everything else sucks and the anomalies happen. And they’re spreading. So thats the metaphorical clock we are racing in the background. Meanwhile, in the present, Arc is doing exploring, getting his bearings, getting into fights, getting his ass kicked, etc. but during a particularly bad fight, he gets hit pretty hard, and it literally knocks part of his face off. Then we get to see the raw power Arc has at his fingertips.

Before we continue, lets take a brief look at Arc’s power scaling and powers/abilities. First, Arc is Omnicidal. He has exterminated countless parallel worlds of furnaces to steal power, and now Arc is starting to snowball in power due to a curse he gained unknowingly. If Arc knowingly kills, or does an action that does or may lead to innocents being killed, he essentially steals their souls and power. Adding it to his own reservoir of souls and magic. Problem is, he has done actions knowingly that have killed a mind boggling amount of people, multiply that by 3 for all 3 frozen, and burning worlds tied together, and then also count all of the people that died in an anomaly and never returned, all of those are automatically being added to his power and he is getting closer and closer to the gods’ power. He can perform spells and stuff to the nth degree, and cant die without expelling all the souls first. Which is why we have seen him get his head chopped off his heart ripped out, dismembered, etc, and he just shrugs it off. He feels the pain, but he knows it cant kill him.

He has been doing this so long, has been gaining power for so long, and being dormant for so long that he can no longer remember how he got this way or mostly why he is feared and hated the way he is by other characters.

Regarding the other gods: there is a prophecy that vaguely translates to “If —— on the year ——- awakens it will be the end of existence.” Naturally, oracles suck because of how vaguely worded their predictions are. So time and time again, the gods check on the statue to verify that what they think the prophecy is about (arc) is still sealed away, and push back when they think the prophecy will come true. Nobody corrected them yet so they still believe all that BS. It also doesnt help that someone is vacuuming up souls so fast that almost none are reaching the afterlife.

Gonna fast forward a bit, we have some more fights, more laughs, some more lore and stuff is revealed that i already talked to you about, then we hit the KawaiiFurnace fight. Here, we have essentially the classic anime Holy Knight VS the Demon King script. This time Kawaii is here because she incorrectly thinks that Arc killed Falcon. They have a fight, and actually significantly wounds Arc, via the release of a good portion of stored souls. For some reason he leaves mid fight, and two gods show up and pick up Arc, mistaking him for some poor guy who lost a duel. They quickly realize their bunder and hold each other back from absolutely annihilating Arc, before agreeing to help him.

Conveniently, heaven also steps in and places both of these gods into finding out where Arc went, and to kill him on sight. Now we are in a 3 way split between two retired gods, all of heaven, and Arc. Lots of stress. Anyway, arc is still in pieces from this fight and they are not going back together by themselves, this is bad, so they decide to go talk with Eldrich furnace in his wizard tower and fix things. Thats where i think we last left off.

Regarding the freezers. In the background i gave slowly been reviving the Freezer empire. Their goal is to take control of the Red Zone, and using magic of their own design, turn the disaster in the Red Zone as a point and click reality manipulation device and essentially make Freezers the dominant race on the planet, turning the planet into a frozen hell, and wipe out all the furnaces in the process.

Thats Frozen Fire Lore.

Im hosting a minecraft server in my apartment, and since i cant port forward or mess with settings in the router, im using a tunnel to go from my registered domain mc.ashesofimperiummc.com to my server.

No matter what i do or what guides i watch, none of my users can connect.

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Any help will be appreciated.

I have a Minecraft server hosted on a dedicated machine. Im on apartment network, so i have no router access.

To fix this, im trying to use cloudflare to make a tunnel, and facilitate connection without needing to unblock a port, or mess with port forwarding.

However, despite my best efforts, i cant connect to the domain ive purchased to get into the server.

mc.ashesofimperiummc.com

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Thank you.

I have a final today, i have recieved no word from my professor, it was supposed to be online on canvas.

I cant get on it, my phone and computer both say im not authorized to access the site from this device. I do however hear that some students have access again. How? Id really like to get this done.

Ive been playing the game for about 30 hours, and i am a proud green level 10. Running the control group warbond.

I join in a squad, all these guys are lvl 80 or better, and we go a few rounds on bot diving missions, and they’re asking me a bunch of questions i dont know answers to. Weak points and stuff.

After about an hour of challenging difficulty against bots with only lasers, one asks me have you ever done a level 10?

I tell him no.

All three of them erupted in shock and demand one of them to head to the bug homeworld for a level 10. I still at this point have no idea what to expect. Worst ive played was medium on bugs, and ive never been to the home planet.

They start talking about hive lords, bile titans, and “larry.” And to not even engage larry if you see him, and this was a caves mission. Never been there before.

The mission was chaotic, they really carried me, and were the best teammates ive ever had in a videogame. Completed all objectives and side objectives, as i did crowd control. As good as someone who had never been past challenging could but good nonetheless.

At extract, we came across Larry. The sand worm from doom. And apparently my shoulder laser beam can damage only his face. Didnt kill him, he did destroy all of our mechs.

We all extracted, and nobody was left behind. No time left on the 40 minute clock.

I thought i did nothing, but they say i had more kills than all of them combined. Fire damage from laser spam i guess. Should have brought turrets.

After some laughs, we did the same thing on a bot mission. On that mission, we landed in the middle of the fortress, were all immediately killed by a factory strider, and in the end, we all extracted with only primary objectives completed.

I do not regret paying the extra $20 to get the armor with “democracy protects.”

Had a blast with those guys, and i would join them again for another dive. After all this, i hear i am now officially a helldiver.

There is a spam caller that has been relentlessly calling my phone. 8175525655. He doesnt want anything, bat wants to know all about me.

If anyone is up for a little trolling, pretend that they are selling furniture that you are interested in, and relentlessly call them.

Hopefully by flooding their call center, this will protect people who fall for this stuff.

They have been pumping out the basement of the union for a few days. Anyone know what happened?

“My lord, the troops are ready to mobilize.”

FreezerEmperor stood at the edge of the platform looking down at the hundreds of thousands of armed freezer soldiers.

“Excellent, may your tea be forever cold. I will make my rally now.” The emperor replied.

“The emperor protects.” Said the saluting freezer commander, before turning as stepping off the platform to join the ranks of his brethren below.

The snow blowed 50 degrees below, as the wind quieted from a roar to a whisper. The emperor raised the mic to his lips, and began.

“My fellow people, 3 parallel universes ago, a cataclysm we all know and hate struck the freezer empire….” He gave a pause to let the soldiers direct their focus. “The Furnaces.” He bellowed bitterly to the choir of boos from the men. “They came and slaughtered us. Slaughtered our children in their beds! In their classrooms! They butchered, chopped, mangled and gored all of your brothers and sisters all so long ago!” He continued to rally, as the freezers began practically foaming at the mouth at the memory of the slaughter.

“They expected us to die! They expected us to surrender to extinction! They wanted to poison our water, melt our houses, and melt us down until the sparks cried out for mercy!” The crowd’s rage was building rapidly, but the emperor was not finished yet.

“But we did not die in the extermination! We did not surrender to our extinction! We lived! We proved we are worthy of survival! We improved our very cores and essence to eradicate the Furnace race and bay them back for all the lives that were lost all those years ago!” The emperor gave another pause to let the crowd cheer.

“Bring out the example!” The emperor shouted as a massive screen of ice was raised behind him.

When the screen clicked on, it was a video of a furnace. AgentReddishRed, tied to the wall, as three freezers entered from the doors on the left. They carried ice weaponry, weapons that could freeze and convert if not digest everything furnace down to the very core.

The beatdown and torture was nothing if not brutal. And the crowd was loving it. But suddenly, in a flash of fire, one by one, each freezer on screen was melted by the fire magic AgentRedishRed possessed. When the steam cleared, the mangled and half frozen body of RedishRed was there for all the crowd to see.

“Arise my brethren and do not mourn, for the more they try to melt us, the stronger we become!! Ahahahaha!!!” The emperor laughed as the melted freezers on screen began to reform, gaining more mass and more freezer steel as they grew into bulky hulks twice in size. Their weapons were larger too, more barrels, more power, more range. And with the transformation complete, the freezers in the crowd were jumping like popcorn in a pan.

“Today, we start the war, and tomorrow we secure our victory!!” The emperor shouted, arms wide, and his cape flowing. On screen, one of the soldiers took their knife, and ended AgentRedishRed, his blood and oil splattering on the walls and camera.

The crowd went up in a roar of cheers that shook the very ground and snow that fell.

CapitalistFurnace lay back in his chair, taking a nap. Bird song and rain was playing on the desk speakers. The phone began to ring.

Capitalist tried his best to ignore the ringing and remain asleep. But after the 3rd ring, he stretched out his arm and slammed a button on his desk, putting the phone on speaker.

“What do you want!? Dont you know its my nap hour?” He barked, while still laying back in his chair.

“Uh… sorry sir, but i just received word that there is a lot of movement out in the Coald Mines regions. Rumor of freezers moving battle groups.” The voice on the phone explained.

“You seriously woke me up for rumors? Didnt i hire you assholes to silence rumors?” Capitalist shouted while still laying back trying to nodd off.

“Well you see sir, the workers… they are worried. They worry that the project is not going to launch in time and these Freezers are going to overrun the base.” The voice resumed his explanation.

“If you want to keep your jobs or your lives, i suggest you do your job and silence these rumors. Freezers do not exist in this world.” Capitalist stated confidently.

“But sir, the Freezers-“ the voice on the phone was interrupted by Capitalist rapidly bolting upright, swinging around in his chair to face the phone, slamming both fists into the surface of the desk and bellowing i to the reciever.

“FREEZERS ARE NOT FUCKING REAL!!! Now suppress this rumor, kill anyone that spreads it, and….. i don’t fucking know…. Fuck off!” He slammed the button again terminating the connection, before turning back to the window, slamming the blinds shut.