u/quatregatsdebarna

Hello! I would like to try pen-palling again. The last time I did it was great, and I made lots of friends. Unfortunately, some of those friendships faded because I was busy, and interest died down before we could reach any meaningful point. But I'm free all summer now and I'd love to chat again!

My name is Alex and I'm a girl from Barcelona, Spain. I'm a historian with a background in archaeology, with a particular interest in prehistory, ancient history, and medieval history. I'm looking forward to doing a Master's in Political Science, Archivism or a general Master's that include the three historical periods I've mentioned. My other interests include writing (my goal this summer is to start planning a hard sci-fi novel), gaming (I enjoy games such as Stellaris, CK3, Vic3, EU4 and HOI4 but I'm open to playing anything), and reading (I'm currently reading Larry Niven's Known Space novels, specifically the Man-Kzin Wars spin-offs, I'm also a huge nerd of Warhammer 40,000 lore!). I also love learning new things everyday, and I really enjoy learning languages (currently learning German, but I know other 3; Spanish, Catalan and English. Technically I do have a knowledge on Classical Latin as well!). Other hobbies of mine include cycling, mountaineering and travelling, I love nature!

I would describe myself as a calm and relaxed person. I'm quite shy, so it may take me a while to adapt. I'm looking forward to forming a long-term friendship with people on my age range (20-30 yr). If we get on well and live close to each other, maybe we could meet in person! And who knows what else, haha. I'm open to anyone, but I especially value commitment to keeping in touch! I don't mind what method we use, whether it's snail mail, email or something else. DM me and we'll figure it out!

Thank you for taking the time to read this!

-Alex

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The Ceruleans are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a successor of the Ultramarines raised during an Unknown Founding (M38). While officially recorded as scions of Roboute Guilliman, Imperial Scholars and Geneators suspect that their true parent chapter are the Blood Angels, due to a suppressed battle-fury specific phenotypical traits observed in their ranks. The Chapter serves as the refounded tragic successors to the Sea Behemoths, a Chapter nearly wiped out from Imperial records due to their disastrous fall to the forces of Chaos.

The Chapter's original incarnation, the Sea Behemoths, was established during the 23rd "Sentinel" Founding in the late 37th Millennium to serve as sentinels on the galactic frontier. Renowned for their expertise in ship-to-ship boarding actions, the Sea Behemoths were a proud brotherhood until a disastrous campaign in which the majority of the Chapter succumbed to the heresy of blood psychosis after their original Chapter Master, Nikodemos, fell to the temptations of the Lord of Skulls, Khorne. Fewer than twenty battle brothers remained loyal to the Emperor, choosing to execute their corrupted kin rather than join them in damnation. 

You can read more about the Chapter here: https://wh40khomebrew.fandom.com/wiki/Ceruleans

What do you think? The template I used for the battle-brother pict is annonymous, I couldn't find the original author anywhere.

EDIT: Lore update.

Hey lads! This isn't that much of a horror story but more like a "searching for advice" post. Also sorry if my English is bad, it's not my first language.

I've joined this campaign about three months ago, when I told a friend of mine I really felt like playing some DnD as a player since I'm usually stuck as a forever DM. Eventually I got in his campaign that's being DM'd by another person after one of their players quit for personal reasons and wasn't able to continue. I got immediately hooked since I really liked the custom world and story the DM made, but I've been having more issues lately, which led me to wanting to quit the campaign.

His campaign has a set of custom races, and I'm playing what would be essentially be an Aarakocra Rogue. Cool. Starts at level 1. First sessions were fun, introducing my character to his world. But what caught my attention is that the DM made a system for "offline roleplaying", from where if you miss a session you can do it by text, or you can advance for a limited time your roleplay. Here you can start seeing the issue.

See, he told me about it because recently I have become real busy with college and wasn't able to assist much. So he giving me this alternative was great! Thing is... Other concurrent players also use the system, and are way more active than me, meaning they get constant individual offline sessions were they level up and are way more advanced than me. Yes, it's on me because I haven't been able to be active, but it also felt weird, because the roleplay hasn't felt connected at all, everyone is just on their own.

What annoyed me last time we roleplayed was the following. My character was caught trying to sneak in a guarded palace through the sewers grate. She managed to escape by flying away before being caught, after a small combat section. As this was near the city's walls, my character managed to stand on the walls and then come out outside the city. Cool. DM then tells me that I was lucky, because since it was night-time, the guards didn't manage to identify who I was (they were human guards, no night vision). Cool! Issue comes just before our next session: in the offline roleplay part, DM suddenly informs me that my character is on the brink of collapse from exhaustion and from not having eaten or having drank. I ask, how? He then tells me that, since I didn't manage to do this week's offline session (I warned beforehand I was on my final exams) and the campaign has progressed, he established that my character was identified by the guards in the end and had to run away to the jungle, and since I don't have a high Survival skill, I didn't manage to make a makeshift shelter and didn't manage to sleep, drink, or eat at all. This was decided with a series of dice rolls I didn't partake in.

I feel so confused, and I'm left with no options at all. If I stay in the jungle, my character will die from increased exhaustion from not eating, drinking, or sleeping (I wasn't warned beforehand that there was such a system!). If I return to the city, I will get immediately caught by the guards and be sentenced to a possible execution (DM's words). He also told me that I can circumvent both situations if I'm "smart" about my roleplay, but I'm also limited as well because of my exhaustion, my rolls have debuffs, and I have a lesser chance to infiltrate back again or do anything at all. Another issue is that, since I joined later than the other players and wasn't able to roleplay lately and utilise the offline system because of college, they have leveled up to level 4 and I'm still stuck at level 1, being at a massive disadvantage every time we're together, and me being a pain to the group because of it!

I'm not sure if I did anything wrong, if I did, please tell me so I notice. But I've been pretty unhappy with the campaign lately, and I've considered leaving, because this is not the first time it happens as well! I just don't want to seem rude either, specially because I was the one to insist to get into the campaign, and I don't have any personal issues about the people involved.

Thank you for your help!

Hello! First time in this sub. I just wanted to share my experience with MLMs, as I almost got hired by one. I will give their name: Vitha Group SPA, so you avoid them.

When I first got called, I was excited, since I've been looking for a job for a while now. They called me for an administration team position, which was fine for me. Then, the first suspicious thing happened: they told me to have an interview in person the next day. But I decided to go anyway.

First red flag when I went there: it wasn't an individual interview, it was in group. This is where I started suspecting even more. Then, the typical motivational speech they give to you; no mentions of what you'll work as exactly, salary... Only all about their company, their great products, how you can ascend easily... That's where I said, ok, something's definitely fishy there. They told me to go again the next day after their showed me my apparent work office, but I invented an excuse, they told me no problem, and I went today.

The day I didn't go I dedicated to investigate about this company, since I'd never heard of them before. Apparently, they're Italian, and I could find very little information on them: all I found were negative reviews on how they were an MLM scam, and how other people that went to interviews had a very similar experience. So I said, ok, I will see for myself tomorrow if this is true, and, in fact, it was! I was supposed to work on an office as I said as part of an administration team; what they told me is that I'd go sell from door to door their products and that I'd get money from the sales I make!

Thankfully I detected the scam earlier and was able to get out as soon as I could. Be very careful with this company, as apparently they're known to harass employers that quit; don't waste your time with them like I have. The most positive thing about this whole ordeal is that I made new friends, who were people that also almost fell into the scam, and now we hang out often!