Preze Park.

Hiruma Hebiko yawned and crawled out of her tent into another day in this strange, strange city. Her clan and the JSDF sent her here to evaluate American heroes, so far... She was confused. The city was at constant war with the Rikti, time traveling Praetorian and the forces of lord Recluse, but the average citizen didn't seem to mind.

To keep her edge, she found one of the so called hazard zones and set up camp, kept her edge sharp, reminded her of her time on the battle field, walking down to the stream, she stripped off and started washing, her bow and arrow with in arm reach as she cast her gaze around, normally her morning bath was interrupted by Hellions or Circle of Thorns, but it seemed they started avoiding this area, maybe she had driven them off finally? A shame, they where a good foe.

Finishing up, she grabbed her bow, taking aim and shooting her breakfast, a nice fait trout. She was shocked that in the middle of a city, there was not only a stream, but it was bountifully.... One of the many oddities here. Heading back to her camp, she started a fire, cooking her fish as she sat and dried.

Beedliy beep.

Sighing she tapped her ear, activating her com. "Hebiko here."

The upbeat voice of her mission support came through. "PAX here, we have another mission for you, contacts in Kings Row want you to take on the Skulls."

"Skulls huh? What's their deal?"

"They are a gang of death worshiping drug dealers, to join them you must kill some one and take their skull as a mask, be careful Hebiko, some of the higher ups even know magic!"

"Huh, magic? Better keep my eyes out."

"And Hebiko? Don't try the box routine, people are starting to catch on."

"There is nothing wrong with the box, it is the perfect but of stealth gear!"

There was a sigh from PAX. "I keep telling you, we have perfectly fine optic camoflauge here at the base for you."

Hebiko just grunts. "Heading out now, mission start."

"Good Luck Hebiko, I'm just a call away if you need anything."

While I wait for my invitation to be issued later this month, I went looking for a couple of my older fics... and actually found one that I wasn't completely unhappy with. So I figured I'd post it to AO3 once my account's set up.

I see that publication dates can be backdated. How far can they be backdated? I originally posted the fic in question to USENET, on 1999-01-17...

Has anyone else seen repeated problems with Cloudflare being able to reach the sites it's "protecting" over the past few days? I've run into issues on multiple sites, including AO3, using multiple browsers and machines since yesterday morning, and despite its error messages they all can't be having problems responding to Cloudflare.

https://roosterteeth.com/

Previous thread began to commence here. Launching this one because, as the guy who over-egged the previous beer, it's my duty now for the future.

I have some, but I would like to start with Crystal Millennium. Since France is a core region of Sailor Moon fandom, I think French should be spoken more as my first idea.

If this edit becomes a thing with other tools

"French was historically spoken by two distinct subgroups, both of whom idolize stories that are set in France, before French/French-speaking anime fen came to the Crystal Millennium en masse due to the magical girl genre being extremely popular in France. The first of these groups existed to celebrate stories such as Rose of Versailles and Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris, while the second were Fen who loved stories such as Noir. All of them merged together to an extent after the aforementioned newbie bump, along with the Age of Sail fen and/or Sammies who loved Hearts of Iron mods and who could also count as military fen helping out in French-language bureaucratic matters such as government offices."

Also, is Noir the anime with 26 episodes?

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Best used with "I'll Play for You" unless Doug wants to wear makeup, this one makes its target look her very best.

I just tried to go to the EPU forums a few minutes ago and it was down; Down For Everyone or Just Me? confirmed that it wasn't just me.

Now this is the second, maybe third, time in the last few weeks that I tried to hit EPU only to have it be down. Does anyone know what's going on with them? Has the site been down constantly? Or have I just been unlucky the last couple times I tried to connect?

EDIT: Never mind. I find I can reach EPU just fine at http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/ . Trying to use https://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi, like I used to, doesn't work any more for some reason, and just gets me "This site can’t be reached - www.eyrie-productions.com refused to connect." in Chrome.

Starting with the one in Ontario. CBC News ticker

As of the first morning:

• Conservatives (who called the election 18 months early): "Protect Ontario", negotiate with the USA in a position of strength. No mention of health care.
  
• Liberals: They say the province didn't need an early election, it needs doctors. They also want to fight the perception that young people need to leave Ontario in order to succeed.
  
• NDP: “Time and time again, Doug Ford has shown he can’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.” They're making health care a major platform plank.
  
• Greens: “We should be here at Queen’s Park working across party lines to show Donald Trump strength through unity. Instead Doug Ford has called an election, abandoning the people of Ontario when they need him the most” They're also campaigning on housing and health care.