Emerald Queen Casino & Hotel

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• Codes mostly do not include DMI, if they do consider it a bonus.
  

Side notes:

• i4K means 4K iTunes
• GP means GooglePlay
• I have so many codes in stock, it’s impossible for me to keep track of every sale with different retailers, if it is lower elsewhere then great. I do not price match with retailers.
• Lots new shipment have arrived, may update later!
• Reasonable offers are considered

Special -
i4K Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - Vertigo + The Birds + Rear Window + Psycho - iTunes $20
DISNEY+ 6-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION - $25 *This is for new accounts only. If you wanna test the waters and give Disney+ a chance, this is great. More than x1 available.
Toy Story 1-4 - GooglePlay $18
Tremors 6-Movie Collection - MA $45 (x3 sets available but only one is priced at $45) * $5 more to add Part 7
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FORTNITE Xbox One code - I have been approved in the past to sell these and have sold multiple bundles of this. I have another bundle available. This will be verified on Microsoft/Xbox right before sending to you.
Dark Vertex Skin + 500 V-Bucks - $100 — Exclusive Skin for Xbox One
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Collection Sets + TV Shows
007 Daniel Craig 3-Movie - Casino Royale + Quantum of Solace + Skyfall - Vudu $15
Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - Vertigo + Birds + Rear Window + Psycho - MA $15
4K Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - MA $20
i4K Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - Vertigo + Birds + Rear Window + Psycho - iTunes $20
Annabelle 3-Movie - MA $22
4K Apocalypse Now 3-Movie - Final Cut + 1979 Original + Redux - 4K Vudu or i4K $15
Ash vs Evil Dead - Complete Series - Vudu $20
Batman Complete Animated Series + x2 Bonus Movies - Vudu $40
Big Little Lies - S1 - GooglePlay $8
Bug’s Bunny 80th Anniversary Complete Collection * Lot’s available but check Vudu, currently on sale for $39.99
Daddy’s Home 1 + 2 - Vudu $10
i4K Daddy’s Home 1 + 2 - iTunes $12
i4K Despicable Me 1-3 - iTunes $15
Divergent 3-Movie - Vudu $15
Eddie Murphy 4-Movie - MA or Vudu $15 (possibly SD)
Entourage - Complete Series - GooglePlay $25
4K Fast and the Furious 8-Movie - MA $45
Fifty Shades of Grey 3-Movie - MA $15
Game of Thrones - Season 1-7 - GooglePlay $40
Game of Thrones - Complete Series - iTunes $55 - Note: I have many available and you could get 1 code or 8 codes.
Game of Thrones - Complete Series - Vudu $55 - 1 code or 8 codes
Hannibal - Complete Series - Vudu $20
Hobbit Trilogy - Extended Set ONLY - HD MA $25
4K Hobbit Trilogy - Theatrical and Extended - 4K MA $45
Hotel Transylvania 3-Movie - SD MA $12
i4K Iron Man Trilogy - iTunes $35
Jack Reacher 1 + 2 - Vudu $9
i4K Jack Ryan 5-Movie - Hunt for Red Oct + Patriot Games + Clear and Present Danger + Sum of All Fears + Shadow Recruit - iTunes $35
Jurassic Park 5-Movie - MA $25
4K Jurassic Park 5-Movie - MA $40
i4K Kingsman 1 + 2 - iTunes $14
Leprechaun 8-Movie - Vudu $20
4K Lord of the Rings - Theatrical + Extended - 4K MA $
Mama Mia! 2-Movie - MA $7
Maze Runner Trilogy - MA $20
The Mummy Trilogy - MA $10
The Mummy Ultimate 4-Movie Collection - Mummy 1-3 + Scorpion King - MA $15
Outlander - S1 V1 + S1 V2 + S2 + S3 - Vudu $50
i4K Pet Sematary 1989 + 2019 - iTunes $14
i4K Planet of the Apes 3-Movie - Rise + Dawn + War - iTunes $20
Rambo 5-Movie - Vudu $20
4K Rambo 5-Movie - Vudu $25
Rick and Morty S3 - Vudu $9
i4K Santa Clause Trilogy - iTunes $12
Saw Collection - Vudu $12
Scorpion King Collection - PART 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 - MA $16 — $5 each if purchase separately
Secret Life of Pets 1 + 2 - MA $12
The Smurfs 3-Movie - 1 + 2 + Lost Village - MA $17
The Sopranos - Complete Series - GooglePlay $30
Spider-Man 3-Movie (sam raimi) - Spider-Man 1-3 + Ex 2 + Editor’s Cut 3 - MA $20
Spider-Man 4-Movie - Homecoming + Into The Spider-Verse + Far From Home + Venom - MA $25
Star Trek 10-Movie Universe Collection - All x10 original films - Vudu $50
i4K Star Trek Kelvin Timeline Trilogy - iTunes $20
Star Wars Complete SAGA Collection - All x9 films + Rogue One + Solo - GooglePlay $55
Supernatural Season 10 - Vudu $8 (possibly SD)
Supernatural Season 11 - V
Supernatural Season 12 - V $10
Supernatural Season 13 - V $12
Toy Story 1-4 - GooglePlay $18
i4K Toy Story 1-4 - iTunes $35
Transformers 6-Movie - 1-5 + Bumblebee - Vudu $15
i4K Transformers 6-Movie - 1-5 + Bumblebee - iTunes $35
Tremors 7-Movie - Complete sci-fi creature comedy collection - MA $50
True Blood - Complete Series - GooglePlay $35
True Blood - Complete Series - iTunes $40
Twilight Complete Saga Collection - Vudu $25
Universal Monsters 6-Movie - MA $25
Vice Principals - Complete Series - iTunes $25
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4K MA
4K Aquaman $8
4K Birds of Prey $8
4K Charlie’s Angels $8
4K Deadpool 2 - SDC $8
4K Despicable Me 3 $5
4K Goonies $8
4K Jumanji - Welcome to the Jungle $8
4K LEGO Movie $7
4K Mad Max - Fury Road $8
4K Midway $8
4K Meg, The $9
4K Men In Black International $9
4K Mortal Kombat Legends - Scorpion’s Revenge $9
4K Pacific Rim $9
4K Parasite $9
4K Rampage $10
4K Scoob! $8
4K Venom $9
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HDX Vudu — $6 each or marked price
2 Guns
Annihilation $4
Arrival
August Osage County $4
Book Club $3
Call of the Wild
Crawl $5
Dallas Buyers Club $4
Death Of Me - 2020
Deepwater Horizon $5
Despicable Me 2 $3
Despicable Me 3 $3
Divergent 1 $5
Divergent 2 - Insurgent $5
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Dreamgirls
Dredd
Ex Machina $7
Expendables 2 $3
Fighter, The
Flight
Ghost in the Shell - 2017 $5
G.I. Joe Retaliation $5
Girl on the Train - $5
Gods of Egypt
Gone Baby Gone
Grace Unplugged $5
Hereditary
Hercules - rock
Hugo $5
Hunger Games 1 $3
Hunger Games 2 - Catching Fire $3
Hunger Games - Mockingjay 1 $3
I Am Wraith $5
Interstellar
Last Witch Hunter
Legend of Hercules - 2014 $5
Magnificent Seven
Midsommar
MI4 - Ghost Protocol $3
MI5 - Rogue Nation $3
MI6 - Fallout $3
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mummy - tom cruise - $4
My Little Pony - Movie
Oblivion $5
Pitch Perfect $5
Playing With Fire $5
Red 2 $4
Serenity - 2005 $5
Single Moms Club $5
Split $5
Star Trek Beyond $4
Star Trek Into Darkness $4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 2014 $4
Terminator 5 - Genisys $5
Terminator 6 - Dark Fate $5
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon $3
Transformers 4 - Age Of Extinction $3
Transformers 5 - Last Knight $3
Transformers 6 - Bumblebee $4
Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 $3
Unbroken - 2014
Uncle Drew
Vivarium $7
Warm Bodies $5
Winchester $7
World War Z
XXX Return of Xander Cage
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HD MA — $7 each or marked price
1917 $6
5th Wave $6
A Dog’s Way Home
A Good Day To Die Hard - Extended $5
American Sniper $5
Argo $4
Artist, The $6
A Star Is Born
BlacKkKlansman
Blockers - 2018
Book of Life
The Call $5
Crazy Rich Asians $5
Deadpool 1 $5
Deadpool 2 - SDC $5
Doom Annihilation - $8
Drive - 2011 $6
Fast Five $3
Fast and Furious 6 $3
Fate of the Furious 8 $3
Ferdinand
Final Destination 5 $5
Furious 7 $3
Gallows $5
Game Night
Get Smart
Glass
Godzilla - 2014
Good Boys
Gravity $5
Green Lantern + Emerald Knights $8
Grudge Match $5
Hangover 2 $5
Hidden Figures
Hobbit 1 - Theatrical $6
Hobbit 1 - Ex $9
Hobbit 2 - Theatrical $6
Hobbit 2 - Ex $9
Hobbit 3 - Ex $9
Horrible Bosses $5
House with a Clock in its Walls $6
Huntsman - Winter’s War - Ex $5
Isle of Dogs $6
Jack and the Giant Slayer
Jackie - 2016
Jumanji - Welcome to the Jungle
Jurassic Park 3 $5
Jurassic World $4
Just Mercy
Justice League Doom
Justice League Throne of Atlantis
Justice League vs Teen Titans $8
Kidnap $6
King Kong - from Ultimate Edition set
King of Staten Island
Kong Skull Island
LEGO Batman Movie $6
LEGO Movie - Second Part $10
Les Miserables
Little Stranger
Live. Die. Repeat. / Edge of Tomorrow
Longest Ride $5
Lucky One
Man Of Steel
Max $5
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Murder on the Orient Express
Nun
Other Side of the Door $9
Parasite $6
Pacific Rim 2 - Uprising
Pitch Perfect 3 $6
Prisoners
Queen and Slim $8
Ready Player One
Rio 2
Rise of the Guardians
Searching $9
Skyscraper
Slender Man
Smallfoot
Smurfs - Lost Village $5
Sorry To Bother You $8
Stuber
Skyscraper $6
Superman Unbound
Storks $6
Taken 2 $5
Ted 1 $5
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
Teen Titans Judas Contract
Terminator 4 - Salvation
Tremors 6 - A Cold Day In Hell
Truth or Dare?
Turning $11
Us $6
Warcraft $5
Wrath of the Titans
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HD iTunes — $6 or less
2 Guns $6
Aliens - part 2 $6
Bad Grandpa $5
Cult Of Chucky $5
Dallas Buyers Club $4
Death of Me - 2020
Dreamgirls $5
Fast Five $3
Fifty Shades Of Grey - Unrated $4
Fifty Shades Darker - Unrated $4
Fighter $5
Flight $5
Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York $5
Hugo $5
I Feel Pretty $5
Killer Elite $5
Mama $5
My Little Pony - Movie $5
Noah - 2014 $5
Pain and Gain $6
Second Act $5
Sisters - Unrated $5
SpongeBob Movie - Sponge Out Of Water $6
Ted 1 $5
Unbroken - 2014 $6
Vivarium $6
Winchester $5
World War Z $6
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i4K titles - 4K iTunes titles are $6 or less
47 Ronin $6
007 Quantum of Solace $5
2 Fast 2 Furious $5
Addams Family - 2019
Alvin and the Chipmunks - Road Chip $6
Annihilation $5
A Quiet Place $5
Arrival $6
Book Club $3
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $6
Deadpool 1 $6
Deepwater Horizon $5
Despicable Me 3 $5
Dora and the Lost City of Gold $6
Ender’s Game $6
Expendables 2 $5
Fast and Furious 6 $5
Fate of the Furious 8 $4
Fences $6
Furious 7 $5
Ghost in the Shell - 2017 $6
G.I. Joe Retaliation $6
Girl on the Train $5
Hercules - rock $6
Hidden Figures $6
Hitman’s Bodyguard $6
Home Alone 1 $6
Hunger Games 1 $5
Hunger Games Mockingjay 1 $5
Instant Family $5
Interstellar $6
Jackie - 2016 $5
Jack Reacher 1 $5
Jexi $6
John Wick 1 $6
John Wick 2 $6
Let’s Be Cops $5
Longest Ride $5
MI4 - Ghost Protocol $5
MI5 - Rogue Nation $5
MI6 - Fallout $5
Mountain Between Us $6
Night at the Museum 3 - SOTT $5
Oblivion $6
Overlord $6
Pet Sematary - 1989 $6
Pitch Perfect $5
Playing With Fire $5
Rambo - Last Blood $6
Revenant $6
Robin Hood - 2018 $6
Secret Life of Pets 1 $6
Serenity - 2005 $6
Sherlock Gnomes $5
Sicario 1 $6
Sing $5
Sonic the Hedgehog $6
Split $6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 2014 $5
Terminator 2 - Judgement Day $6
Terminator 5 - Genisys $5
Terminator 6 - Dark Fate $5
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon $4
Transformers 4 - Age Of Extinction $4
Transformers 5 - Last Knight $4
Transformers 6 - Bumblebee $5
Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 $3
Uglydolls $6
Uncle Drew $6
War for the Planet of the Apes $6
Warm Bodies $6
Wonder Park $5
X-Men Apocalypse $6
X-Men Days of Future Past $6
X-Men Logan $6
XXX Return of Xander Cage $5
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4K iTunes - Redeem directly in your iTunes account (HD titles are marked with ***)
101 Dalmatians - 1961 *** $6
Aladdin - 2019 $6
Aladdin - Animated *** $7 (possibly 4K)
Ant-Man $7
Ant-Man and the Wasp $7
Avengers 2 - Age of Ultron $7
Avengers 3 - Infinity War $5
Avengers 4 - Endgame $5
A Wrinkle in Time $5
Bambi 2 *** $7
Beauty and the Beast - 2017 $7
Beauty and the Beast - Animated $7
Big Hero 6 $6
Captain America - Civil War $8
Captain Marvel $5
Cars 2 $7
Cars 3 $7
Cinderella - 1950 *** $7
Cinderella - 2015 $7
Coco $5
DisneyNature - Born In China *** $6
Doctor Strange $7
Finding Dory $5
Finding Nemo $7
Fox and the Hound 2 *** $7
Frozen $5
Frozen 2 $6
Good Dinosaur $6
Guardians of the Galaxy V1 $7
Guardians of the Galaxy V2 $5
Hercules - 1997 *** $7
Incredibles 1 $7
Incredibles 2 $5
Into the Woods *** $6
Iron Man 3 $7
Jungle Book - 2016 $6
Jungle Book 2 *** $8
Lady and the Tramp 1 *** $7
Lady and the Tramp 2 *** $7
Lilo and Stitch 2 - Stitch Has A Glitch *** $8
Lion King - 2019 $6
Lion King - Animated $7
Little Mermaid 1 $7
Lone Ranger *** $7
Maleficent 1 $7
Moana $7
Monsters, Inc. $8
Monsters University $8
Mulan 2 *** $7
Peter Pan - 1953 *** $8
Peter Pan 2 - Return To Neverland *** $8
Pete’s Dragon - 2016 *** $8
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales $6
Planes *** $7
Planes 2 - Fire and Rescue *** $7
Queen of Katwe *** $6
Ralph Breaks The Internet $6
Robin Hood - 1958 *** $6
Rogue One - A Star Wars Story $4
Sleeping Beauty - 1959 *** $6
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs *** $7
Solo - A Star Wars Story $7
Star Wars 7 - Force Awakens $5
Star Wars 8 - Last Jedi $5
Thor 2 - Dark World $7
Thor 3 - Ragnarok $7
Three Musketeers - Mickey + Donald + Goofy *** $7
Toy Story 1 $7
Toy Story 3 $7
Wall-E $8
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GooglePlay HD — Redeem directly in GooglePlay — $5 each or marked price
Aladdin - 1992
Aladdin - 2019
Aladdin 2 $7
Aladdin 3 $7
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Ant-Man $6
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Aristocats $8
Avengers 1
Avengers 2 - Age Of Ultron
Avengers 3 - Infinity War $4
Avengers 4 - Endgame $4
A Wrinkle In Time
Bambi 2
Beauty and the Beast - Animated
Beauty and the Beast - 2017
Black Panther $4
Bolt $8
Brave
Call of the Wild
Captain America - Civil War
Captain America - First Avenger
Captain Marvel $4
Cars 1
Cars 2
Cars 3
Christopher Robin
Cinderella - 2015
Coco
Disney Nature - Born In China
Doctor Strange
Dumbo - 2019
Dumbo - Animated $8
Finding Dory $3
Finding Nemo $7
Fox and the Hound 1
Fox and the Hound 2
Frozen 1
Frozen 2
Good Dinosaur
Guardians of the Galaxy V1
Guardians of the Galaxy V2 $3
Hercules - 1997 $8
Hocus Pocus
Incredibles 2
Inside Out
Iron Man 3
Jungle Book - 2016
Lady and the Tramp 1
Lilo and Stitch 1 $8
Lilo and Stitch 2 $8
Lion King - 2019
Lion King - Animated $8
Little Mermaid 2
Little Mermaid 3
Maleficent 1
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh $8
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins Returns
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Million Dollar Arm
Moana
Monsters University $7
Mulan 1
Mulan 2
Nightmare Before Christmas
Nutcracker and the Four Realms $4
Onward $6
Peter Pan 1 $7
Pete’s Dragon - 2016
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales
Planes 1
Pocahontas 1 $7
Pocahontas 2 $7
Princess and the Frog $6
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Robin Hood - Animated $7
Rogue One - A Star Wars Story $3
Santa Clause Trilogy $10
Sleeping Beauty $7
Spies in Disguise $8
Sword in the Stone $7
Tangled $7
Thor 2 - Dark World
Thor 3 - Ragnarok
Toy Story 1
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4
Up $7
Wall-E $8
Winnie the Pooh - A Very Merry Christmas $6
Wreck-It Ralph $7
Zootopia
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SD titles — $3 each or marked price — iTunes titles do not have quality shown on slip, assume SD
Adventures of Tintin - iTunes
All Star Superman - iTunes
Alpha - MA
Angry Birds Movie 2 - MA
Appaloosa - iTunes
Arthur Christmas - MA
Call Me By Your Name - MA
Chappie - MA
Cowboys and Aliens - iTunes
Bad Boys For Life
Brave - iTunes
Due Date - iTunes
Equalizer 2 - MA
Fast and the Furious 1 - iTunes $3
2 Fast 2 Furious - iTunes $3
Fast and the Furious 3 - Tokyo Drift $3
Fury - MA
Gran Torino - iTunes
Hall Pass - iTunes
Hangover 1 - iTunes
Heaven Is For Real - MA
Hotel Transylvania 2 - MA
Interview - MA
Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Peter Pan Returns!
Jonah Hex - iTunes
Miss Bala - MA
Paul - iTunes
Perfect Guy - MA
Rambo - 2008 - iTunes
Roman J. Israel, Esq - MA
Sausage Party - MA
Season of the Witch - iTunes
Sicario 2 - Day of the Soldado - MA
Slender Man - MA
Star Trek 1 - iTunes
Taken 1 - iTunes
Up - iTunes
Walk
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Other stuff
2 Guns - CA iTunes $4
Bate’s Motel - Season 1-3 - $35 - this is for Vudu UK accounts only
Book Of Life - CA GP $4
Call of the Wild - MA $5
Equilibrium - GP $9
Guardians of the Galaxy V1 (6FV4) - $6 MA
Hunger Games - Mockingjay 2 - GP $3
The Thing - 2011 - CA GP $4
X-Men Origins Wolverine - CA GP $4

All prices are firm. I’ve priced them at the lowest I will accept.
Venmo / CashApp / PP Friends Family
All codes verified seconds before sending your way

• Codes are split, redeem only purchased portion. All violators will be reported. If you did NOT pay for it, don’t mess with it.

Side notes:

• i4K means 4K iTunes
• GP means GooglePlay
• I have so many codes in stock, it’s impossible for me to keep track of every sale with different retailers, if it is lower elsewhere then great. I do not price match with retailers.
• Lots new shipment have arrived, may update later!

Special -
Bug’s Bunny 80th Anniversary Complete Collection $45 * Lot’s available but check Vudu, currently on sale for $39.99
Tremors 6-Movie Collection - MA $45 (x3 sets available but only one is priced at $45) * $5 more to add Part 7
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Xbox One code - I have been approved in the past to sell these and have sold multiple bundles of this. I have another bundle available. This will be verified on Microsoft/Xbox right before sending to you.
Dark Vertex Skin + 500 V-Bucks - $100 — Exclusive Skin for Xbox One
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Collection Sets + TV Shows
007 Daniel Craig 3-Movie - Casino Royale + Quantum Of Solace + Skyfall - Vudu $15
4K Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - Vertigo + The Birds + Rear Window + Psycho - MA $20
i4K Alfred Hitchcock 4-Movie - Vertigo + The Birds + Rear Window + Psycho - iTunes $20
Annabelle 3-Movie - MA $22
4K Apocalypse Now 3-Movie - Final Cut + 1979 Original + Redux - 4K Vudu or i4K $15
Ash vs Evil Dead - Complete Series - Vudu $20
Batman Complete Animated Series + x2 Bonus Movies - Vudu $40
Big Little Lies - S1 - GooglePlay $8
Bug’s Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection - Vudu $45
Daddy’s Home 1 + 2 - Vudu $10
i4K Daddy’s Home 1 + 2 - iTunes $12
i4K Despicable Me 1-3 - iTunes $15
Divergent 3-Movie - Vudu $15
Eddie Murphy 4-Movie - MA or Vudu $15 (possibly SD)
Entourage - Complete Series - GooglePlay $25
4K Fast and the Furious 8-Movie - MA $45
Fifty Shades Of Grey 3-Movie - MA $15
Game Of Thrones - Season 1-7 - GooglePlay $40
Game Of Thrones - Complete Series - iTunes $55 - Note: I have many available and you could get 1 code or 8 codes.
Game Of Thrones - Complete Series - Vudu $55 - 1 code or 8 codes
Hannibal - Complete Series - Vudu $20
4K Hobbit Trilogy, The - Theatrical + Extended - 4K MA $45
Hobbit Trilogy, The - Extended Set ONLY - HD MA $25
Hotel Transylvania 3-Movie - SD MA $12
i4K Iron Man Trilogy - iTunes $35
Jack Reacher 1 + 2 - Vudu $9
i4K Jack Ryan 5-Movie - Hunt For Red Oct + Patriot Games + Clear and Present Danger + Sum Of All Fears + Shadow Recruit - iTunes $35
Jurassic Park 5-Movie - MA $25
4K Jurassic Park 5-Movie - MA $40
i4K Kingsman 1 + 2 - iTunes $14
Leprechaun 8-Movie - Vudu $20
4K Lord of the Rings - Theatrical + Extended - 4K MA $45
Mama Mia! 2-Movie - MA $7
Maze Runner Trilogy - MA $20
The Mummy Trilogy - MA $10
Outlander - S1 V1 + S1 V2 + S2 + S3 - Vudu $50
i4K Pet Sematary 1989 + 2019 - iTunes $14
i4K Planet of the Apes 3-Movie - Rise + Dawn + War - iTunes $20
Rambo 5-Movie - Vudu $20
4K Rambo 5-Movie - Vudu $25
Rick and Morty S3 - Vudu $9
i4K Santa Clause Trilogy - iTunes $12
Saw Collection - Vudu $12
Scorpion King Collection - PART 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 - MA $20 — PART 2 is not available on digital
Secret Life Of Pets 1 + 2 - MA $12
The Smurfs 3-Movie - 1 + 2 + Lost Village - MA $17
The Sopranos - Complete Series - GooglePlay $30
Spider-Man 3-Movie (sam raimi) - Spider-Man 1-3 + Ex 2 + Editor’s Cut 3 - MA $20
Spider-Man 4-Movie - Homecoming + Into The Spider-Verse + Far From Home + Venom - MA $25
Star Trek 10-Movie Universe Collection - All x10 original films - Vudu $50
i4K Star Trek Kelvin Timeline Trilogy - iTunes $20
Star Wars Complete SAGA Collection - All x9 films + Rogue One + Solo - GooglePlay $55
Supernatural Season 10 - Vudu $8 (possibly SD)
Supernatural Season 11 - V
Supernatural Season 12 - V $10
Supernatural Season 13 - V $12
i4K Toy Story 1-4 - iTunes $35
Transformers 6-Movie - 1-5 + Bumblebee - Vudu $15
i4K Transformers 6-Movie - 1-5 + Bumblebee - iTunes $35
Tremors 7-Movie - Complete sci-fi creature comedy collection - MA $50
True Blood - Complete Series - GooglePlay $35
True Blood - Complete Series - iTunes $40
Twilight Complete Saga Collection - Vudu $25
Universal Monsters 6-Movie - MA $25
Vice Principals - Complete Series - iTunes $25
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4K MA
4K Birds Of Prey $8
4K Charlie’s Angels $9
4K Deadpool 2 - SDC $9
4K Despicable Me 3 $5
4K Ferdinand $9
4K Goonies, The $8
4K Jumanji - Welcome To The Jungle $9
4K LEGO Movie $7
4K Mad Max - Fury Road $8
4K Midway $8
4K Meg, The $9
4K Mortal Kombat Legends - Scorpion’s Revenge $9
4K Pacific Rim $9
4K Parasite $9
4K Rampage $10
4K Scoob! $8
4K Venom $9
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HDX Vudu — $6 each or marked price
2 Guns
Annihilation $4
Arrival
Book Club $3
Crawl $5
Death Of Me - 2020 $8
Deepwater Horizon $5
Despicable Me 2 $3
Despicable Me 3 $3
Divergent 1 $5
Divergent 2 - Insurgent $5
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Dreamgirls
Dredd
Ex Machina $7
Expendables 2 $3
Fighter, The
Flight
Ghost In The Shell - 2017 $5
G.I. Joe Retaliation $5
Girl On The Train, The - $5
Gods Of Egypt
Gone Baby Gone
Grace Unplugged $5
Hereditary
Hercules - rock
Hugo $5
Hunger Games 1 $3
Hunger Games 2 - Catching Fire $3
Hunger Games - Mockingjay 1 $3
I Am Wraith $5
Interstellar
Last Witch Hunter, The
Legend Of Hercules, The - 2014 $5
Magnificent Seven, The
Midsommar
MI4 - Ghost Protocol $3
MI5 - Rogue Nation $3
MI6 - Fallout $3
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mummy, The - tom cruise - $4
My Little Pony - Movie
Oblivion $5
Pitch Perfect $5
Playing With Fire $5
Red 2 $4
Serenity - 2005 $5
Single Moms Club $5
Split $5
Star Trek Beyond $4
Star Trek Into Darkness $4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 2014 $4
Terminator 5 - Genisys $5
Terminator 6 - Dark Fate $5
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon $3
Transformers 4 - Age Of Extinction $3
Transformers 5 - Last Knight $3
Transformers 6 - Bumblebee $4
Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 $3
Unbroken - 2014
Uncle Drew
Vivarium $7
Warm Bodies $5
Winchester $7
World War Z
XXX Return Of Xander Cage
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I latch onto specific problems and when I do everything else around me diminishes into nothingness until I complete the task at hand. I line these problems up and solve them, one-by-one, and I find updating the task list awfully difficult. If I am on my way to do a job, breaking off to attend to something else is almost impossible. I once finished buttering my toast before putting out a fire by the stove. I once lost a girlfriend after she trapped her fingers in a food processor, and I quietly went over to the fridge and put the milk away before turning to help her. She couldn’t believe that I hadn’t rushed over straight away, but of course it wasn’t really like that. I was unable to review or address my priorities until my mind had freed itself from the current task.
I have to manage these tendencies. And I learned at an early age that it helps to focus on discrete tasks that, if things get really bad, I can remind myself don’t matter. That, at least, limits the anxiety of abandoning them. I have my work and that gets me through the day, but outside of those hours I need other things to pull me through. I can paint and read and they’re involving, for sure, but they don’t tend to have the sense of completion that I get from a simple puzzle. Jigsaws, sudoku, word searches, videogames; these all make up part of it but oddly enough it’s crosswords that have taken over my mind. It started because they weren’t too taxing and if I was pushed to cheat then it didn’t really matter. They let me say things like,
“Right, I’ll do 9 across while on the toilet and that’s it.”
Like most things I put my mind to, I quickly turned the hobby into an obsessive pursuit of completion. The harder they were, the better. If I had to watch a film, read a book, or even visit a real-life location to get an answer, I would. And I credited it all with pushing me out of my comfort zone in order to experience new things. I would have never watched Breakfast at Tiffanies, read Little Women, or visited the London Museum of Natural History without needing to get answers from them. And they were all new experiences for me, some better than others, but I enjoyed the feeling of expanding my little bubble with each new puzzle.
Crosswords, like everything, have communities surrounding them and I even found a few friends online. For some, the compulsion to get obscure answers was a vital lifeline to the outside world, and you’d be surprised at some of the cultures lurking at the fringe. A good crossword is more than just a puzzle, it’s a curated string of experiences picked to evoke a deliberate journey. A common example might be the kind of thing some tourists could use to guide them around a city:
Below the Phoenix of a Blinded Saint, 8 down.
Resurgam – the answer can be found carved on a stone beneath a statue of a phoenix at St Paul’s Cathedral. But what about something like the following:
The final song of a thunderous singer, 5 across.
The answer was Toxic, the final song lip-synced by a Drag Queen (Daytona Thunder) at a popular club in Manchester. I went a long way for that one and had a surprisingly good night, albeit one a little outside my wheelhouse. But still, I got the answer and it wasn’t like I’d find it just by reading the forums (posting answers is a big no-no if you want to get into the best clubs). The creator was a well-known Queer academic working out of London who has a popular following in the community. I appreciated their work but perhaps not as much as those by one anonymous Berliner.
A companion’s lips tasted through the looking glass, 6 across.
Her name was Alice and she was an escort for an agency called Intimate Companions. She was wearing Cherry lip gloss, something I found through a process of elimination.
Over the last few years I’ve discovered more about myself than I ever would have at home. I have learned that I can lie very well, that when I know who I am meant to be, who others want me to be, I can be confident and even charming. I have learned that I am not a jealous person, that I am not a vain person, and that there are times when I can be as reckless and adventurous as anyone else. I just need a reason to, a job to complete with routes to success I understand.
The name of a one-eyed watchmen’s gun, 12 across.
There was a policeman—with two eyes, I might add, but the unfortunate Christian name of Dick—and the answer was the serial number of his gun, converted to letters. That was an odd one, but absolutely invigorating. The crossword had been made with clearly defined geographical boundaries which helped (many of us attended it as a communal event although I largely acted alone), and for a moment I almost thought the policeman was in on the game. Right up until he tried to shoot me.
Like I said, the experiences can be invigorating.
But the good ones, the really good ones, they can be a struggle to find. You have to be accepted into the right groups, often you’ll be vetted, even tested, but the reward can be worth it. I’ll never forget the day I had a hand-delivered envelope deposited at my doorstep and the anticipation I felt opening it, unknotting the brown twine so delicately tied around the heft. God, some of them even had wax seals. I liked those the most. I found the violet and crimson seals delicious to look at.
But they were so, so much more than simple puzzles.
A principled affair, 5 down.
The headmaster of the local school was having an affair with her sister-in-law, Sarah. It was hard to find that out. It wasn’t exactly public knowledge. Frankly, I had to resort to stalking and it wasn’t a good look, but it was a new experience nonetheless and the few times I nearly got caught were quite exhilarating. But what was truly amazing was that this was at the school just a few blocks from my house! You have to understand, it wasn’t just a template handed out to everyone. I still don’t know how big any of these communities really are but I imagine they’re quite small and involve people from all over the world. It was truly remarkable to think someone had laboured over a tailor-made puzzle just for me.
There are quite a few groups I belong to now. Some aren’t even organised online, instead requiring that you ferret them out, sometimes as clues in other puzzles, sometimes as their own elaborate games. But there are always more to be found and in the best circumstances, they find you, choosing you out of all the people in the world to rise to the challenge at hand. The right ones will push you to do things you never thought possible.
A baker’s jewels, 7 down.
Harriet Baker who died in 2012 at the age of 86 and was buried with an emerald necklace in the local graveyard. I still have it, kept away somewhere in a special drawer along with news clippings of the crime. It even has some of the soil from the grave still muddying its shimmering gems, and admittedly they do still smell a bit. But I bet that I know something most people don’t, and that’s what happens to little old Grandma five years after being sealed up in a box beneath the Earth. Not just the abstract, either. I know the specifics, I know exactly what she looks like, smells like, and even what her cold lumpen flesh feels like. I spent years as a child wondering what happened to the many relatives of mine who passed away, but it was an adult I finally found the answer.
People have lived their whole lives looking down on me. Teachers assumed I was slow at learning, my parents mourned that I cared more about organising my wargaming miniatures than I ever did about girls or friends, everyone around me treated me like I was a timid mouse in a world of thundering giants. But I’ve lived a more exciting life than they could ever imagine, and it hasn’t been in spite of who I am. Only someone like me could pursue these clues to such dogged ends and I gladly take the bad with the good.
The colour of the tea plates served by the Biellier Historical Society, 9 up.
Don’t let the name fool you. The Society is a private organisation for some rather unusual gentlemen who serve tea after their annual conference is finished. Crazy bastards, I can see why they need a drink once they’re finished and I’m not surprised half of them didn’t take a seat during refreshments. I’m just not sure I’ll ever look be able to look a farm animal in the eye again.
Oh, and turquoise, by the way. That was the answer.
I know things very few people know. That’s a rare privilege and, like I said, it comes with a price. It would be ridiculous to think one might look upon the fraying edges of our world without having to face some uncomfortable sights. And you might think the worst of it is a leather-bound orgy in a dungeon or perversions you can safely find on Wikipedia, but there are other lingering truths buried in the Earth and I am one of the few who have seen them. There is always more to learn, always another word to find, another puzzle to complete. And I have come a long way in my education since I first received that letter on my doorstep years ago.
The inheritor of Maeson’s oldest home, 6 down.
Albert. Albert was the named inheritor of the first house built and designed by obscure architect Harold Maeson. It was not, as almost everyone first expected, the current owner’s first born son named Alexander, but instead the old man’s male sexual interest Albert who was a rather unwilling 17 year old. Perhaps the old man thought it made up for his actions towards the boy he had kept around as a family friend for years, disguising his abuse as mentorship. Either way it caused a tremendous uproar and poor Albert wasn’t exactly thrilled to have his face all over the papers. No one could have possibly known he would be the inheritor. The will was written up in total secrecy, something I spent considerable resources finding out.
Credit where it’s due, the old man put up a fight but his death was the only way I would get my answer. I can’t speak for others, but I found the experience quite a revelation. I felt as if I’d learned profound hidden knowledge, a truth about reality found in the glassy bloodshot eyes of a man violently dying. There’s something in there, you know, something that lies just beneath our own reality. I saw a glimmer of it that night, just like I had so many others before it. It’s quite beautiful, a confusing glittering mess of contradictions and unknowable madness. It is, by definition beyond our ability to every truly know but you can still see facets of it, one bit at a time.
It’s beautiful. But… well, it’s not always so painless.
The missing piglet counted right to left, 5 up.
Eight. That was the answer. I spent all night researching fairy tales and children’s rhymes only to fall asleep at my desk sometime around 2 in the morning. When I awoke I had been moved to the sofa and my left foot was raised on the armrest and bandaged heavily. The whole tingled from anaesthesia and it wouldn’t be until noon before I could walk on it again. Anxiously, I undid the white swaddle of blood-tinged gauze and winced at the sight of my mutilated foot. The middle toe on my left foot had been amputated cleanly, the wound sewn up neatly like a cross-stitched grin. Counting right to left, I noticed it was the eighth toe missing and I have to admit I pumped my fist in the air and rejoiced at having the answer.
But the experience caught me off guard, and it might not surprise you to know that I have since looked into slowing down and maybe even taking a short break from this hobby. I’ve had to manage these tendencies in the past and I suppose this one should be no different. But there have been some difficulties. For one thing, they won’t stop sending new puzzles to me and it’s all but impossible for me to ignore them. And for another, the clues are becoming increasingly pointed.
A sea of white and flakes of gold to flood a castle of ivory, 6 down.
Cereal, right? That’s what I thought, at least until I had the unpleasant surprise of discovering a needle hidden in my cornflakes. That, it turned out, was the correct answer and I was lucky to catch it before it wound up anywhere near my mouth. The thought of that thing sliding down my throat or catching in the roof of my mouth, spearing the gum and cartilage, left me riddled with an ever-growing anxiety. Clubs have pushed things in the past, boundaries take a backseat when it comes to pursuing the absolute limit of knowledge. But it felt like such an odd inclusion for the latest puzzle, one that didn’t necessarily teach me anything. If I had the ability to trace it to a single group I might have a better sense of what it was meant to mean, but then again anonymity was always kind of the point.
The currency of a strategic withdrawal, 3 up.
I initially thought of the military, but in fact the answer was Yen and it turned out that around £50,000 worth of them had been withdrawn from my account (by myself, somehow) at the bank. God knows how that was possible, but it happened and there’s not a lot I could really do about it. I’ve written to some of the groups but as far as I can tell they’re playing coy.
I am sorry, one replied. But our puzzles are sent out as part of a weekly newsletter via e-mail. We’re not sure we’ve ever offered bespoke crosswords but we’d be fascinated to hear more if there’s anyone out there who does. It’d interest quite a few of our members, myself included.
I received similar variations to this message from just about every organisation I had listed in my ledger and frankly I found the suggestion ridiculous. I’d always assumed those newsletters were part of a front, making it appear as though the focus was on banal little puzzles about obscure military defeats while secretly directing us to brothels and illegal casinos. It made sense, perhaps, that they would maintain the ruse but an acquaintance I called wasn’t exactly reassuring.
“Well of course they’re a front,” he said. “Don’t you get the packages? I’ve had a few seedy adventures with those!”
“Oh that’s good!” I laughed while breathing a deep sigh of relief. “I was beginning to think… well, I’m not sure what I was thinking.”
“Oh yes the packages are very real,” he replied. “The Spring edition was quite a naughty affair, don’t you think?”
“Invigorating,” I smiled. “I didn’t even know where to buy a burlap sa—”
“Strawberry!? Can you imagine? The Mrs and I had a delight trying out the different flavours.”
“What?”
“Oh come now man, no need to be shy. It’s quite normal to use… lubricant,” he whispered it like a dirty secret. “Agnes suggested we try it on toast!” I hung up with his laughter still bellowing down the other line. My Spring edition of our shared club was not anything like his. I told myself that it made sense it wouldn’t, they were meant to be custom made for each participant, but it alarmed me to hear that his activities were so dreadfully banal. Most of the clues in that edition had directed me to the consumption of a range of meats including something I scraped off the side of a suspension bridge.
Nothing my friend had said to me rang true. Rightly, I should have stopped there. But… but the thing is… it was never really an option, not then and not now. I’m sure you think it’s a silly compulsion or anxiety but it’s not. I can’t do it. It’s simply not in my nature especially not now I know that God-knows-what could be lurking around the corner. I’ve explained this to myself and others before – I am task focused. I needed to finish the job at hand.
PO Box 19777, open it from within, 9 down.
I found the box with ease but there was no key nor any means to open it from within. Whatever the rationale was behind the puzzle, I thought at the time that the whole affair was beginning to frustrate me. I didn’t see any significant challenge to tracing the address, aside from finding the key which, it would turn out, was very much part of the clue. In fact, I’m still not entirely sure how they did it. I awoke to a sort of gagging sensation one night, dreaming that I had swallowed a tangle of wet hair. Only the terrible retching sensation wasn’t entirely dreamed up. Tied to my canine was a line of floss that I painfully had to pull up from my stomach. It was unnecessarily long, spooling out of my throat in a bloody tangle for a good few metres while I vomited and cried from the struggle. It took nearly half an hour to inch it out while I choked and retched but eventually I regurgitated the key, collapsing afterwards to the floor to heave and sob as I recovered.
There was a teddy bear in the locker and I didn’t find it particularly amusing. And, yes, okay, there was a mild satisfaction to getting the answer, but the rest of me was filled with a deep begrudging. I felt like the punchline to a joke that wasn’t funny.
A starry orchid’s window of choice, 7 down.
The answer was eyeball, and it turns out the consumption of the flower in question causes bloody secretions from the tear ducts, not to mention renal failure. It wasn’t easy to explain that one away, and I didn’t much appreciate the stay at a hospital. The price for that answer may one day be dialysis, but for now I hope that I may still see myself clear of such things. The doctors couldn’t say for sure what the chances were. At the very least I hoped that I might find some respite while interred in a hospital bed, but if anything it made things worse. I was not prepared to be incapacitated for so long with the knowledge that the puzzle was but one clue from completion.
I was itching furiously for the last few days, and my doctors were confounded by the state of my heart and were blind to the other tell-tale signs of anxiety. There would be no rest for me until I had finished the puzzle and I swore to myself, swore blind on my mother’s grave, that it would be the last. If things got much worse, I reminded myself, it might not be me who decides what will be my last puzzle.
When I arrived home it was with the kind of relief I never thought possible. I am forever learning more about myself and those first few steps through the front door made it clear to me I was in the thrall of some kind of addiction. No matter what the price was, I told myself over and over again that I would pay it and move on. I would change addresses if I had to or pay someone to physically slap the damn pencil out of my hand if I went to complete another crossword! God knows I have the money.
I will climb this final hurdle, I told myself, and see it through.
And yet… I don’t know. I half-expect there to be some ghoulish double-entendre hiding in the words but for the life of me I cannot see one. It seems more like a hideous joke - one I don’t really understand. I have a possible word choice and it certainly fits but… It’s been weeks and I can’t bring myself to write it in. This is the final clue! The final step at the end of this increasingly desperate adventure and I can’t figure it out. I’m half-tempted to say that I won’t see another answer because I don’t want to finish it. That might be it, surely? I’m an addict. I’ll admit that all too readily and this wouldn’t be the first time I took things too far. It’s just…
The handwriting these clues have been written in, 4 down.
I keep expecting some terrible interpretation to come true, to find a severed hand by my door, or to awake missing most of my fingers. It’s a strange thing but I have come to find myself ruminating often on the look in the old man’s eyes. For while I am sure that I saw something terrible and beautiful deep within the popping veins of those suffocating retinas, it had not occurred to me until now that something was looking back.
And it’s waiting for me to write in the final answer, though God knows it must be wrong for it simply cannot be possible that the answer is ‘mine’.

In the last [History 101]...

2039

Metahuman relations had always been a hot button issue across the globe. These came to an explosive head in Seattle on February 7^th of '39 in a tragic event that became known as The Night of Rage.
To really understand the events surrounding the Night of Rage we have to take a step back and set the scene.
Seattle's Governor at the time was Victor "Vick the Quick" Allenson. Allenson, a former combat biker for the Tacoma Timberwolves, had replaced Governor Kross upon the the latter's retirement from government two years previously. Governor Allenson's campaign billed him as a "human conservative", or what you and I might call a human supremacist. In one of his earliest trideo interviews on the campaign trail he was quoted as saying "Orks and trolls make great offensive combat bikers, but they haven't got the brains for much else." Despite his outspoken views towards metahumanity he still managed to win the election of '36 in a landslide. This sparked a series of protests and sometimes even outright riots in areas of the city with high metahuman populations. Using his newly invested powers, Allenson ordered Lone Star to crack down on the protesters, rioters, and innocent metahumans alike. Unsurprisingly, the Governor's new pogroms did not restore peace to Seattle. Quite the opposite, as for almost eighteen months the city faced increasing terrorist activities from both pro-meta and anti-meta groups alike.
On February 7^th, Allenson mobilized the Seattle Metroplex Guard to round up and "protect" every metahuman they could find. Ostensibly these metahumans were being gathered in the warehouse district of Tacoma to be processed and transported to San Francisco to "improve racial harmony" in the city.
In actuality these metahumans, numbering into the thousands were ripped from their homes, escorted under armed Guard, shoved into dilapidated warehouses along the Tacoma waterfront, and left there. Before long anger and fear turned into hysteria. From one of the warehouses came the sound of screams, an eruption of gunfire, and finally a large explosion. Then more explosions, until the entire waterfront was alight with the flames. The death toll was truly staggering considering the majority of Seattle's metahumans were consolidated in those old warehouses. Many metahumans were able to escape the flames through the cities sewer system, but hundreds died in those warehouses, trapped like animals.
No one can pinpoint exactly who sparked the Night of Rage, but members of a fringe branch of (the already radicalized) Alamos 20,000 known as The Hand of Five were seen in the area just prior to the explosions.
While the waterfront burned and hundreds died the Seattle Metroplex Guard stood by and did nothing.
Once the story broke in the media violence erupted not just throughout the city, but throughout the world. We refer to these events as The Night of Rage, but in actuality the riots and protests lasted for several days, some estimate even into the weeks that followed.
Protestors, the media, and even the Seattle's own United Corporate Court all called for an investigation into the matter, the resignation of all the Governor and the Metroplex Guards that refused to act to save lives and property. The media was particularly hard on governor's administration, and even reported rumours that the Governor himself was a member of The Hand of Five. Despite these accusations and the public outcry, Allenson refused to abdicate his position.
One day earlier, on February 10^th the aforementioned radical humanis policlub Alamos 20,000 used both magical and mundane explosives to destroy the Sears Tower in one of the largest single acts of terrorism in the Sixth World. The Sears Tower came crashing down on the heads of thousands of individuals out on their lunch break. It destroyed several blocks' worth of buildings, streets and sidewalks doing untold billions in damages.
But the damage didn't stop there. Gas lines were ruptured causing the entire Loop area to go up in flames. The Second Chicago Fire was barely averted by a group of mages who managed to contain the fires within the span of an hour. The damage was still done though... by the end of it the death toll reached almost 26,000 individuals.
As if the physical damage wasn't enough Alamos 20,000 made the entire incident appear to be metahuman revenge for the Night of Rage massacre in Seattle. The corporations immediately sealed their corporate 'burbs, excluding metahumanity from their neighborhoods. With the help of City Hall they built a series of projects on the Northside to segregrate metahumanity from the rest of the city. They also built several factories in the area. Ostensibly these were to provide jobs for the displaced metahumans. In reality though they were labor camps where the populace was forced to work long hours for low wages.
The area that was destroyed by the collapse of the Sears Tower were left to rot. Those who could get out did. Those who couldn't tried to eke out a meager existence with no help from their government. All manner of human and inhuman creatures settled in the area. A large ghoul community grew within the area that became known as the Shattergraves. And the ghosts of those who died in that tragedy are said to still roam the streets.
The reason that the Sears Tower was targeted by the policlub was because IBM had acquired it several years earlier during the ASIST Boom. IBM was fairly unique in the Chicago area at the time due to their actual honest to Ghost equal-opportunity hiring practices. In a time when most orks and trolls were seen as only manual laborers, IBM was willing to hire them as programmers and project developers. It's no wonder that Alamos 20,000 saw them as the enemy.
Back in in Seattle, on February 11^th, Governor Allenson was found dead in his office from several gunshot wounds. The mystery surrounding his death was never solved. With the city in flames and the governor murdered, a special gubernatorial election was held. Political analysts of the time believed that Ivar Lindstrom, son of Seattle's first governor Charles C. Lindstrom and current mayor of downtown Seattle, would be the clear victor. Instead, the mayor of Bellevue and relatively unknown, Marliyn Schultz was elected to the position by a surprisingly large margin. Analysts claim, in hindsight, that what won the election for her was that she was one of, if not the, first city official to appeal to the United Corporate Court for aide during the Night of Rage.
Her first act as Governor was to issue an ultimatum to Lone Star; arrest the leaders of the Hand of Five or face a breach of contract lawsuit. This led to a week long manhunt that included countless raids, several shootouts, and countless arrests. This became known as the "Week of Sirens" due to the (allegedly) constant sound of police sirens throughout the city. By the end of the week all of the suspected leaders leaders of the Hand of Five were either dead or awaiting trial.
A little over a month later and on the opposite coast more terrorism reared it's ugly head. On St. Patrick's Day, just weeks after the Night of Rage, a terrorist organization identifying itself as The Knights of the Red Branch "struck a blow for Eire" by detonating a bomb in a popular elven restaurant along the parade route killing two dozen people, and injuring dozens more. The parade quickly fell to general rioting that eventually overtook the entire Boston Metroplex. Residents of different nationalities, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds used the mayhem to strike out against their particular hated group. The civil authorities imposed martial law to quell the riots. But by the time they had achieved their goals hundreds were dead, and hundreds more were injured in the events that became known as Bloody Thursday.
The Knights of the Red Branch claimed that their attack was in revenge for the elven annexation of Ireland, and the creation of Tir na nOg. The Knights, and approximately half of the Irish descended population of Boston at the time, felt that the Sidhe had taken over their ancestral homeland and unlawfully deported lawful citizens of the country. This sentiment was echoed by the metahuman minority of orks, dwarves, trolls, and even the British Isle specific metavariant of trolls, the formorians. It was, and in some quarters still is, believed that the Sidhe wish for Tir na nOg to belong solely to the elves. With every other metatype as second class citizens. While humans are treated with outright hostility, distrust, and no legal rights as citizens.
On June 1^st Fuchi Incorporated hosted the Universal Matrix Specifications Conference in Tokyo. This conference was attended by more than 7,000 humans and metahumans to determine the basic set of standards for Matrix programming. This conference, in conjunction with Villiers' contribution by bringing the portable cyberdeck, launched Fuchi into the forefront of the Matrix Industry. A position that they maintained throughout the rest of Fuchi's "lifespan" as a AAA-rated megacorporation.
A month later on July 5^th in Charleston, South Carolina (CAS) the first case murder to be solved with the assistance of the deceased's ghost is closed by Julius Wren. Wren, a criminologist and thaumaturgist, studied the deceased's actions as a spirit and used that information to bring the serial killer to justice. The arrest and conviction were upheld in court, and Wren's testimony was granted as admissible in open court.
Sometime during the time period above, in London, there was a massive chemical speill on Teeside (aka Teesprawl, locally) that killed more than 70,000 people from nerve gas poisoning. This has widespread effects on the, currently in power, Conservationist Party. The public outcry was the beginning of the end of the Party.
This dome was the target of a terrorist organization called Pan-Europa on August 6^th. P-E released an unknown and previously only theoretical paranormal virus (paravirus) that fed upon the bio-fabric of the London Dome which was under construction at the time. This dome was designed to regulate the environmental conditions surrounding the capital and prevent the sort of poisoning that had occurred in the Teesprawl earlier in the year.
In better times this sort of terrorist action would have strengthened the resolve of the people to support a strong right-wing government like the Conservationist Party. But it came so quickly on the heels of the failure in the Teesprawl that the citizens swung in the other direction completely. The government was lambasted in the media and in the public forum for allowing the ecological situation deteriorate to the point to where the Dome had to be built in the first place. This led to the rise of the Green Party in United Kingdom politics. More on them later.
A week later on August 13^th the African nations of the Cape Republic, the Zulu Nation, Oranje-Vrysraar, and the Trans-Swazi Federation pen an accord that resulted in the creation of the Azanian Confederation. This accord created the largest and strongest industrial nation on the African continent. It was immediately recognized by the UN upon it's formation in 2040 and is an active participant in the Global SIN Registry.
On September 10^th the CAS Senate begins a series of hearings regarding charges of racial prejudice against metahumans and their families. These hearings bring to light that most metahumans living and working in the CAS were living in what amounted to slavery throughout most of the CAS. The NAN immediately issued economic sanctions against the CAS as a means to encourage the nation to reform its views of metahumanity. These sanctions are met with mixed feelings, and it is sometime yet until the metahuman standard of living met parity with the human standards.
Almost a week later on September 16^th, the Western Great Dragon Dunkelzahn met the mysterious Nadja Daviar in Paris at an Alone exhibit. She was soon thereafter selected as Dunkelzahn's newest Voice.
At the time (and even today) little was known about the Estonian elf. Her parents allegedly died during the second VITAS outbreak and she was remanded into state custody. In truth, she pretty much raised herself in the streets of a country that was, at best, indifferent to the those who were "stricken" by UGE. She officially left the state's custody in 2030 just ahead of the Russian invasion that kicked off the EuroWars. In reality she was one of many who exploited the black/grey market of the time to amass no small amount of wealth. Her particular stock in trade appeared to be smuggling throughout the region. With her natural charisma, and rumours of magical ability, she was able to escape the streets and enter into high society.
November 15^th brought with it a successful coup in the relatively newly seceded Shaanxi to install a monarchy in place of the military establishment that was in control. Queen Michelle Chou was crowned Queen of Shaanxi on this date.
Chou was half Chinese and half British, and that combination sowed the seeds of her eventual rise to power, and the form that the Shaanxi government eventually took. Chou's father was Chiangsiu Chou, an executive for China's privatized industries and descendant of the last emperor of the Qing dynasty. Her mother was Vanessa Fitzroy, a distant cousin to the Duke of Grafton. When Shaanxi seceded Party loyalist murdered Chiangsiu for allying with the new government, and Fitzroy fled back to England with her daughter in tow.
While in England, Michelle studied to become a barrister and did quite well in that field. She kept ties with several of her fathers associates that had successfully gone underground to escape the military coup. Michelle used her mothers connections to funnel support to the rebels from afar. Eventually she was able to gather enough resources and allies to overthrow the military junta and seize power of Shaanxi completely. She put her legal training to good use and drafted a constitution for the country creating a parliamentary system much like England's and other European powers. To thank her for her support and assistance the newly formed government of Shaanxi crowned her Queen.

2040

After the busy year that was 2039 it seems that major events in 2040 took awhile to start up. The first truly significant event was on April 7^th in the unlikely location of the Athabaskan Council Nation. This NAN member-state officially recognized sasquatches as a sapient species and granted them the same inalienable rights that all metahumans are entitled to in their legal system. They are one of the first nations to do so, and the only one to do so within the first half of this decade.
Throughout the spring of 2040 the Univerzita Karlova (Charles University) shifted their Arcane Studies program from a strictly hermetic training program, as was prominent throughout the world at the time, to a cross-traditional approach at the behest of one of their instructors, the Western Great Dragon Schwartzkopf. This approach to magical training garnered the University quite a bit of acclaim, and was the foundation of Schwartzkopf's Unified Theory of Magic. That's further down the line though, so we'll touch on that later.
The Middle East at this time was embroiled in a war between Iran and Iraq. The two nations were warring to come a decision as to who had the proper right to rule the Shi'ite Muslims throughout the region. The Kurds had recently declared independence to stay out of the fight, and that brought Turkey and Syria into the fray. Quite simply the Middle East was in chaos. Everyone was fighting everyone else.
This set the stage for Badr al-Din Ibn Eisa and his Islamic Unity Movement to broker a treaty between Iraq and Iran on July 18^th. This treaty guaranteed that the Kurds would remain within a newly created Iraqi Federation, and appeased Iran enough to stem the tide of war in the region. The Islamic Unity Movement became a power player in the region throughout the next decade based on this original showing.
It wasn't all beer and skittles for Iraq though. The newly formed government quickly went broke. Without funds they weren't able to keep Kurdistan from leaving the Federation three years later. But, like a shot from the blue, Saeder-Krupp Heavy Industries stepped in to assist the Iraqi Federation. Before long S-K had control of the last oil fields in the Middle East, thereby cinching their position as the dominant petroleum producing corporation in the world. This helped boost the AAA corporation to the the top of the Corporate Court due to everyone else's reliance on S-K's oil production.
Two days after the Iran-Iraq Treaty, on July 20^th, a famous mage by the name of Martin de Vries began a series of one-man vampire hunts throughout Europe. These early hunts became the basis for his eventual book Shadows at Noon, which sold roughly six million copies world wide. But it was the beginning of his semi-autobiographical "fictional" novels starring vampire hunter Darren Cross. More on Cross as de Vries later though...
Back in the Emerald City on September 10^th groundbreaking began on the Renraku Archology.
During the fall of 2040 BTL (better than life) usage skyrocketed throughout Korea. This trend continued for the rest of the year, but then suddenly changed direction due to a number of awareness programs initiated by several different groups. Chief among these groups is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The UK's Conservationist Party took their final hit on October 15^th when ork journalists on Channel 7's "Medicine Bag" uncovered evidence that the government had encouraged the Adams-Hoffman Corporation's infamous Project 42-20. This project, sanctioned by the Conservationist Party, was a fifteen year long top secret project to manipulate the gene pool of the British populace in order to discover how to control the goblinization process. Over the period of a decade and a half the project had secretly crippled, mutilated, and generally decimated the south London housing estates. Adams-Hoffman had secretly dispersed their testing agent into crowded areas causing unexpected mutations, spontaneous abortions, the deterioration of internal organs, and the destruction of the host's immune system.
One particularly nasty transmission method was applied to Generation Epsilon/Alpha 16. The government inserted the gene-virus into free milk that they were giving out to school children!
Fifteen days after "Medicine Bag's" fateful (and final) episode the citizen of Brixton, Camberwell and New cross took to the streets and rioted. The rising tide of violence made it all the way to the Tower Bridge where the local constabulary had blockaded the bridge to protect the crossing into Adams-Hoffman's London headquarters. During the rioting nineteen people, later dubbed the Lambeth Martyrs, were killed and the Tower Bridge as well as the Thames Wharf shopping mall were badly damaged. The riots continued for several more days until the police, and eventually the military quelled the rebellion.
But the rioters went underground and came back up with automatic weapon and asymmetric terrorist tactics. The Lambeth Martyrs hit Waterloo and Victoria Stations and the Bond Street Station mall killing almost a hundred people. Several more attacks came quickly on the heels of those. The most famous of which was the infamous raid on Dulwich Village which killed seventy-four people, including an ex-prime minister.
The government declared a "medical emergency" and created the Lambeth Containment Zone, colloquially known as "the Squeeze", which arose as a countermeasure to the public's taking up of arms against the government in response to Project 42-20. The efforts of the government to restore law and order have only been partially successful, and the "state of emergency" still exists in the Squeeze to this day.
On November 6^th the UCAS elected Carl Preston to become President of the United Canadian American States while the CAS elected Joseph Alexander as President of the Confederated American States.
December 12^th the New Horizons corporation came under scrutiny for its Superkids project overseen by CEO Paul Louberge when one of the test subjects commits suicides. Investigations into the matter reveal striking similarities between Superkids and Project 42-20. Superkids however sought to genetically manipulate favorable traits into children below a certain again. This extensive genetic manipulation was only the tip of the iceberg though, as it was discovered that there was also substantial physical, mental, and emotional abuse used to punish subjects who were not performing up to New Horizons projected expectations. The Superkids project is eventually shut down later in the month.
President Elect Alexander selected several prominent metahumans for posts in his Cabinet. He used the inclusion of these metahumans as leverage to convince the NAN to lift some of its economic sanctions and provide the CAS with some much needed economic relief.
Christmas Day in a Connecticut, UCAS casino started with a bang. More precisely it ended with one. The casino, built on the site of a former Indian Reservation was hit with a magical explosion of unknown origin that destroyed a part of the building, killed eighteen people, and wounded dozens more. Eventually a group called Warpath claimed responsibility for the attack.
Only two years down and this post is already getting long. I'll do up another one of these soon and try to use up the character limit in the future so we can condense [History 101] into as few posts as possible. I only got about halfway through this one. But it's been forever, and this is a good enough start to get me back on track.

References!!!

• The Sixth World Almanac pp. 57, 59
• Seattle 2072 p. 30
• New Seattle pp. 25-27
• Shadowrun: Third Edition p. 32
• The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America pp. 103-104
• Bug City pp. 34-35
• Target: UCAS pp. 37-39, 99, 79-80
• London Sourcebook p. 20-22, 109-110
• Shadows of Europe p. 192, 75
• Street Legends pp. 148-149, 140-141
• Shadows of Asia p. 35, 94, 184

I collaborated on this story with my friend, Haukur, for one of his fictional writing assignments he was doing for school. After the arduous process of translating this story from Icelandic to English we proudly share:
The Humbug‘s game
Space-Mississippi, Planet: unnamed, but one word to describe it could be ‘sandy’. The locals liked to call it that, Sandy. It was midday, the hot sunlight outside was boiling to the touch. There stood Bodega, considering the tavern before him. Dilapidated and old he thought. He went inside and sat down at the bar signalling the bartender, obviously asking for a drink. Not long had passed until a glass was filled and, in a short moment, emptied again. It had been long since he‘d visited this dump but he thought it was high time he paid Lewis the bartender a visit again. The place had the pungent aroma of weeks old urine and it looked like it could fall apart at any given moment.
“BODEGA!” was heard boom from the swinging doors of the bar behind Bodega. “You‘ve avoided your debt long enough you stinkin‘ weasel, you won‘t get away this time!“ People had begun watching the commotion and the stranger closed in on Bodega. “Are you deaf or something?” Bodega stands up. The man’s dagger came swinging, Bodega was quicker. With the lazgun instantaneously airborne at the sound of the slicing dagger. In the time it takes for a blinking eye to complete its trip, the man’s head was transformed into something comparable with mum’s secret recipe porridge. The people around these parts were poor and didn’t have the highest living standards imaginable so they didn’t take much notice to the occasional person getting their brains blown out every now and then.
“You haven’t gotten any worse with the years I can see, that wasn’t half bad at all.” Says Lewis, the bartender , in an ironic fashion. “Yes, I owed that man 5 dollars. Truthfully told, I had the money on me, he was simply starting to get on my nerves.” Replied Bodega.
“Bodega” Mumbled Lewis. “Yepp” said Bodega. “Booodega” replies Lewis carelessly. “Mhmm?” Inquires Bodega back at him. Raising an eyebrow in a bit of confusion about what strange turn the conversation had taken. “Boooooooodega” Says Lewis again like he could go on all day. “Boooo-“ “All right!” Bodega cuts him off. “We’re done here” Then he paid for his drink and made his exit. Taking confident steps and adjusting his admirable hat as he does. Bodega was always good at making an exit, people would tell him. He agreed.
The weather was hot that midsummers day, hotter than usual. Bodega felt like he was being burnt alive. Maybe, it was time to take a trip down to the casino thought Bodega. He was quite the gambler, some would say the best, and he liked nothing more than spending hours on end sitting at the table. Well, except for vaping, of course. The man from the bar, who he owed the money to, was only one of the many whom Bodega had a quarrel with. He continued towards the casino in town. AS soon as Bodega stepped inside the parlour, he experienced the sensation that the air around had suddenly become a lot cooler. Of all the things in there, there was one item that demanded his attention the most. A poster, hanging on the wall of a rich and affluent man dressed in menacing, red garments with his face covered. Under the portrait was a short description.
HUMBUG: Do you think you are the best at when it comes to betting big and high-stakes gambling? Lucky in cards AND lucky in love? The Humbug hasn’t lost a game of cards in decades! Have you, yes YOU!, the nards to take on the Humbug at a Texas hold ‘em tournament? If so, show your face down at the old casino on Sunday. Bodega almost did a summersault in his excitement, never before had he had a chance to play against the galaxy-famous gambler, the Humbug. Compared to the tavern, the casino was heaven, it smelt nice like a new-opened book (not that Bodega read those things) or your bed after a long day at work.
The music had a bolstering effect on the tension and Bodega felt he was at home. He sat down at one of the tables and started playing Poker all day, he wanted to be well primed and ready if he was going to face the Humbug.
The day had been spent well and Bodega felt prepared for anything short of a Rhynogian train hitting him. The Rhynogians, of course, hulking juggernauts with skin that could deflect even a shot from Bodega’s lazgun and renowned throughout the sector as manufacturers of the bulkiest and biggest hunks of scrap you could call functioning spacetrains. The front of each Rhynogian train was embellished with a large and phallic horn in honour of their king, Horvar-E , the fifth in the alphabet of divine rulers of the planet Rhinoserus. As every good space historian knows, the Rhynogians are infamously bad at counting but have an outstanding affinity for poetic writing and fictional literature so they count with letters, not numbers.
When sundown came and they were beginning to close the place down for the night, Bodega stood up, had a good stretch, and looked around. The place was nearly empty. Tomorrow will be the day, Bodega liked to think of in his mind as, Judgement-Sunday and he wanted to be well-rested for the tournament.
It was night-time and long past Bodega’s intended bedtime. He headed home to finally get some shuteye, and when shuteye is referred to, enough sleep to get yourself through the day is what is meant, there were, after all, only 4 hours to sunrise. Outside it was dark and you could barely make your way in the darkness. After some time walking, a man skid around a corner and confronted Bodega in the road. Bodega felt the barrel of a gun press hard into his chest and froze. He heard footsteps behind himself and realized then that he was surrounded by a party of two. “Howdy partner, out for a walk I see?” The man behind laughed inaudibly. “Hand over any valuables. I want your money, not your life but try anything and I won’t hesitate to take both.” Bodega emptied his pockets slowly but left the 5 dollars he had hid in his shoe that belonged to the unfortunate soul who got his head blown off in the tavern the other day. “Thanks for that” said the man again and the last thing Bodega remembered was a hard blow to his head and a heavy fall to the ground.
Bodega opened his eyes half-way. He had woken up on the road, dirt covered. His everything hurt and a small cockroach crawled up his leg. Standing up and looking around, Bodega saw that the sun was high in the sky, noon had arrived. Bodega limped towards the nearest creek and washed his face of dust. The tournament was about to begin, and without any breakfast, he strode as fast as he could muster down the one road in town, limp and all, until he stopped outside the casino. He opened the doors with a bang. Most had been seated and many eyes met his own. He took a seat at a table with two empty chairs left. At the table where three men, one with a large scar across his entire face, one with a patch over one of his eyes, and one with a long, grey beard. No-one said anything at the table, everyone was obviously completely engrossed in preparing for the tournament.
After a short while of awkward silence, the doors were opened in a loud ruckus. Bodega knew immediately who it was, The Humbug. But the humbug wasn’t a ‘he’ but rather a ‘she’. It didn’t affect Bodega much, the Humbug being a woman but he heard a lot of chatter from the people around him. “The humbug, a female? Never have I heard such a colossal joke in all my years.” Said the man with the grey beard besides Bodega loudly in a screeching laughter. The Humbug had obviously heard him. She walked slowly across the indigo blue carpet and sat down in the last empty chair. Dressed in a long black coat, an archaic, old fashioned gun that fired metal instead of more common laser or ray. It suited the geography of Sandy and the only part of her face that showed were her glaringly green eyes. She stared intensely at the old man and said in a hoarse voice: “What are you waiting for? Now play!”
After a long episode of cards, the three men had been eliminated from the competition and Bodega and the Humbug were the only ones left. The Humbug was out of money but instead of being eliminated said the words, noticeably distressed: “What do you say we make this a little more interesting? If you win the next hand, you get double the cash. On the other hand, if I win, I get everything.” Bodega considered this for a moment. “All right, but if I win I want to be paid in no less than three days.” Then he took a large puff of his vape and blew it out into the face of the Humbug. She was minorly deturbed. “Deal” she replied.
They continued their game, and in the end of a round, the Humbug laid down her hand. 7-6-5-4-8, all spades. The room was silent. Bodega laid down his hand. 10-Joker-Queen-King and Ace, all hearts. A Royal flush! The eyes of the Humbug showed panic. “Very well, you have me beat, I shall be on my way now” the Humbug said and got up from the table and walked away. When she was half-way out the door, Bodega shouted “Three days!” She excited the casino. Bodega was pleased, this was enough money to buy a platinum-thread woven holster for his lazgun. A purchase he was determined to make as soon as he received the money. He went back to his spaceship. The only thing left undone before leaving for the Emerald galaxy of the fashion police was to collect the debt.
One day passed, no word from the Humbug. Another day gone but nothing, still. The humbug was still in town and Bodega had begun to suspect the Humbug of not going to hold her end of the bargain. After five whole days, there was still no sign of payment. Bodega felt it was time to go search for the Humbug.
The first place Bodega decided to go check out was the tavern. Luckily, he needn’t look any further. The long coat sat at the bar on a large stool, back facing Bodega. “HUMBUG!” Screamed Bodega. “Who do you think you are. You owe me and you are long past due on your deadline!” Bodega stepped close. “I don’t have the money, maybe in a month or two” said the Humbug in response without turning her head. Bodega stood, both feet firmly planted on the greying panels of Lewis’ tavern. “A month? No, you will pay me right now or that is not a safe place to sit.” In his anger, Bodega reached for his dagger but as he lifted his hand into stabbing position, Bodega realized what was going on, but it was too late. Before he could react, she fired. The archaic bullet shot through the air and disappeared into Bodega’s torso. The knife fell out of Bodega’s grip and Bodega began to fall, Dead. The bullet had hit him in the left chest, where the heart is. There was no mistaking the trajectory.
Lewis, the bartender, standing near, cleaning tables, is startled and in the harsh recoil from the noise, knocks over two empty beer mugs and they fall to the ground in the direction of the falling body of a man who, mere moments ago, had been the greatest high roller the galaxies had ever seen, Bodega.
“Bang!, Kshhsh!, Kshhsh!, Thump!” pierced the silence in rhythm. The shattered glass all around the body shone and glinted in the sunlight which found its way through cracks and holes in the old walls of the tavern. The glass dust whirled up all around Bodega and the light reflected and danced in all the colours of the rainbow through the splintered fractals and chips. There was something beautiful and serene about Bodega’s death. He always knew how to make an exit, people would tell him, and they would be right. With a lump in his throat, Lewis wipes away a single tear from his eye and with a trembling voice he whispers quietly, to himself, but with more meaning than anyone else who had ever uttered the words . . . “Bodega”
The Humbug turned around, not at all touched by the emotional scene she had caused. “Quit your sobbing, old man. This is just how things work in the gambling industry. Although I must say, I expected more from the great and infamous Bode-Zapp!” The Humbug was instantly incinerated a shot from the barrel of a lazgun, and on the other end of it, Bodega. Alive. “My god!” proclaimed Lewis in great excitement. “You’re alive, but how did you survive the bullet?” asked Lewis in much confusion but more so in relief. “I had this on me.” Said Bodega. Lifting an old pocket watch out of his breast pocked which had stopped the bullet dead in its tracks but completely ruined its ability to tell time in any sort of relative or relevant fashion. “The watch you gave me last time I was here. Remember you had that run in with the Rhynogians and I helped you out. For my trouble, you gave me this watch.”
Lewis remembered it well, both the watch and the Rhynogians. A band of them had been causing a commotion in the tavern, and before the fight turned into a cost heavy tavern-wide brawl, something that all wise bartenders fear, Bodega had them on the run, already poetising the bardic songs that would be sung throughout the Rhynogian star sector for decades on end about the epic event. “OH yeah” Lewis chuckled heartily. “Hey, do you remember the one that had that weird birth mark on his middle ear?” “Yes, that was hilarious!” replied Bodega, standing up and grabbing Lewis’s shoulder.
“Speaking of killing time, I’m gonna be heading out now, but thanks for the good beer and the watchful watch. Take care of yourself, Lewis” “You too Bodega” Bodega swung back the tavern doors on their hinges and strode of into the bright desert light, taking a fat vape and twirling his lazgun in the air. Making his final exit, that day, from the tavern. Watching him from behind the bar, trying to come up with a word that could describe the way he felt at the time, all Lewis was able to utter were that eternal word, that burned inside of every star and beat in rhythm with the hearts of every man, woman, and child, a word that when uttered, demons would run and hide and everything evil in the vicinity would find itself in an unsafe place to stand. A word that could topple empires and challenge gods.
“Bodega”
The End.