The Sandbox has just started the third public land sale of 2023: Hallyu Rising!
- 212 Regular LANDs at 1,011 SAND (514 € / 552 $)- 42 Premium LANDs at 4,683 SAND (2386 € / 2556 $ )- 8 ESTATE auctions- 11 1x1 LAND auctions
With respect to the previous public sale, carried out starting from 26-Apr-23, we observed a -8% in € and -10% in $ in purchasing price for both regular lands (from 559€ / 616$ to 514€ / 552$) and premium lands (from 2589 € / 2853 $ to 2386 € / 2556 $).
This specific block of the map, also known as "Korean Wave", is celebrating K-culture in all its forms. Therefore, if you're looking for having a land in a somewhere exotic neighborhood, this is definitely what you should be looking at!
Who's in the raffle?

We created a simple buyer's agreement that stated the dress would be the same as the sample and the color I wanted. I get the dress and it's the wrong color, fabric, and materials, it also doesn't fit properly ( she was supposed to make it to my measurements ).
Can I sue in small claims court for my money back since it isn't the dress I paid for and is lower quality than the sample dress I expected it to be like? The buyer's agreement said final sale because it was custom and said that they would change things if they didn't have the material in stock, but that it'd be the next best thing / same quality and that the dress would still be fine.
The designeseller had broken the agreement already by never calling / scheduling my dress fitting. But claims that all the changes were approved. She didn't reply to any of my calls so I had to drive their unexpectedly to even get the dress and that's when they gave me the low-quality dress to take home.
I have screenshot of all the messages and attempts to compromise like a discount / refund. Small claims court is a bit weird and I would like to no more about it to see if I can get a refund through the courts. The total cost was around $3,000-$3,500 USD.
I'm in Los Angeles County and so is the business if the specific area laws might be different.

Raymond Virgil Ashburn was born November 7, 1922 in Gurley, Alabama. His parents Robert and Ola (Gray) were also born in Alabama. His father worked as a merchant and later as a farmer. Raymond had two older brothers, one of whom passed away as an infant, a younger sister, and a younger brother. In 1940, he had completed eighth grade and was working on the family farm.
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Raymond enlisted in the Navy in February 1940 and after completing six weeks of training at Norfolk Naval Training Station served as a Seaman Second Class aboard the heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-39). From January to March 1942, Quincy operated in convoy duty off Iceland, then returned to the States for an overhaul at the New York Navy Yard that lasted until the end of May, and then sailed for San Diego.
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In July 1942, Quincy got underway for the South Pacific with other vessels assembling for the invasion of Guadalcanal, the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese Empire. Prior to the Marine assault on Guadalcanal on 7 August, Quincy destroyed several Japanese installations and an oil depot during her bombardment of Lunga Point, and later provided close fire support for the Marines during the landing.
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In the early hours of 9 August 1942, Quincy and several other American cruisers were patrolling the channel between Florida Island and Savo Island, tasked to protect the northern approach to the Guadalcanal beachhead. In the pre-dawn darkness, the American ships were surprised to find themselves suddenly lit up by aerial flares and searchlights of an Imperial Japanese Navy task force of seven cruisers that were intent on destroying the American transports still unloading supplies for the Marine invasion force onto the beachhead. Within a few minutes, Quincy was caught in a vicious crossfire between three enemy cruisers and was set afire from multiple direct hits and torpedoes. The Quincy fought back valiantly, but less than an hour after the battle began the Quincy slipped beneath the waves, taking S2c Ashburn and 369 of the 807 sailors and marines onboard to their deaths.
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While it was a decisive tactical victory for the Japanese, the Battle of Savo Island was a strategic loss as the IJN task force, in fear of being discovered by American carrier aircraft upon daylight, withdrew without attacking the invasion transports, thus improving the American chances for victory on Guadalcanal.
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Raymond Virgil Ashburn is memorialized in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines, in Huntsville Memory Garden in Huntsville, Alabama, and at the Huntsville Madison County Veterans Memorial.
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Raymond’s brother Cecil Ashburn served in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW2 and after the war ran one of North Alabama's most successful road-building companies.
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Thank you S2c Ashburn for your service and your sacrifice, you will not be forgotten.
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Source:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116582131/raymond-virgil-ashburn
Bob Fuerst and the Stories Behind the Stars project (www.storiesbehindthestars.org)
https://www.fold3.com/memorial/529941238/raymond-v-ashburn/stories

Traffic frustration and increasing Real Estate values in NWA's larger cities are escalating too much for young families. There are other suburb options. The first premise is to find a community that is under valued but with potential to grow as a bedroom community. The next premise is based on cost of housing/land, and then traffic.
The bigger issue is that you have to be willing to be involved in making it a better town. It's not for everybody. Some people just want to move to a place that is already hip, but that is a more expensive real estate zone. Do you want to pay that much more for ready made hip, or would you be willing to buy low and sell high?
If you don't have school aged children then it's even better in outlying communities like Lincoln. The schools are improving but they have room to improve. If the children are young then a up-trending school like Lincoln may be to your liking in 3 years? When I lived in Atlanta, people would move to a small town with ok schools for a few years and then move to better schools when the kids went to Jr High. They saved money for 3-6 years and the house appreciated so they could sell and afford to move to a better district.
Hindsville is a rare Eastern growth area along with Elkins, because Beaver Lake locks the top half of the NWA metro area from growing East. Hwy 412 opens up a commuter path for Hindsville to reach jobs in Springdale and Lowell. The developments on Hwy 16 from the 265 intersection east to Elkins are already growing for a while.
Lincoln has an improvement momentum right now with a new bank, buildings being rehabbed on the square, and a good new mexican restaurant on the square. There are run down buildings but one has been torn down and one of the crappy convenience stores has been rebuilt. West Fork is great for anyone working at the UofA or downtown Fayetteville because it is a straight shot North on I49. Fayetteville should want growth in South Washington county because those residents are likely to go to Fay for retail, entertainment and services.
The pedestrian density alternative to sprawl is not going to make our density wishes come true for 2-5 years. We need to recognize that suburban sprawl is a necessary continuation until Fayetteville and Bentonville escalate their pedestrian density communities for a few more years.

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Part 1 of the Evil That Lies Within arc begins.
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Voice Log Entry number: 81-3, Timestamp: 02-15 (estimated (guesstimated)(aintgotacluestimated))
Bit into the -second- year here. Yeah. Still getting used to that. Think I am going to just start counting days as they pass here rather than doing the mental gymnastics needed to convert fifty hour days and two-hundred day seasons into Earth days and years. A 'season' here being about four-hundred and sixteen days long. Give or take a few days. Considering everything else on this world is artificial - I have a feeling the variance in the season timing is intentional and probably oscillates. Not enough pattern data yet to know for sure.
Still no handle on why time feels... compressed here? I have settled into a sleep schedule of about sixteen of the twenty-five hour night - and it feels like a restful eight hours. The dragon folk tend to sleep twenty hours. I use the extra time to practice with my magic sword. My MAGIC SWORD! yeaaaaaah!
This Grand Bazaar is so fun! It is like an enormous ren-fair if ren-fairs were into greeco-roman fashions. Speaking of. Baroness Clade was all ga-ga over some new dresses from the outer ring of the gathering. These were pretty interesting as the floor length skirts billowed out. This was pulled off by weaving the whole thing from wire mesh instead of chain-mail. Or used metal struts connected to a belt to give the garment shape. Just more example of how their textiles diverged from ours due to the radically different materials on hand. No mammals, no wool, a ridiculous abundance of metals. Oh yeah. And freaking magic.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is all on an enormous scale. It takes me about three hours to walk the outer ring. (oh-so much longer because we are window-shopping...) My walk speed is forty-eight kph. So yeah. Its big. And this thing lasts a ten-day. Though the tenth day is when alot of folk start packing up. Some far earlier if they sold out their wares quicker.
Found out what the wigs are made from. Dragon hair. Found a stall selling wigs and turns out dragons with nice hair use a hair growth spell to grow it out and harvest it regularly. Can not do it frequently. Something about needing time to replenish. But it is a business here for dragons who like other hair colors.
If you are willing to hang around a few days there are crafters and brewers who can whip up during the event some basic magic items. Mostly little widgets that do not do a whole lot. Or quick-craft stuff like arrows with basic targeting enhancement enchantments. Potions can be gotten in a day. I nabbed a few "Healing Potions" because they should work on my nominally organic parts. Least that was what I expected. Guess what? That's right. I'm WRONG! Kinda-sorta... Its Complex!!!
We swung around the Druid section of the magic ring at Ghinda's request and got the lowdown on the problems of fixing me up as it had apparently unbeknownst to me, been prying on her mind ever since we met. She would prod me now and then at the keep to do some 'tests', but never said what for?
This for...
She had been talking at length with one of the higher ups in the rankings of nature lovers. This guy looked ancient! Yet strong at the same time. My chest and veins felt a little tingly near him. Guessing that was the more plant based parts of me responding? In any case he was blood red and had these curly corkscrew horns like a ram. Rings everywhere! Fingers, horns, tail. Don't wanna know where else! And holding this staff that was like twenty meters tall! Wood. Like a whole tree. Topped with a turquoise orb and an, ahem, orbiting ring of, er, rings with different elements in the rings where a finger would go. Standard Earth, Air, Fire, Water. But between those were Magma, Smoke, Ice (how'd he get that even???), and Mud. Really impressive looking. The length of the staff was carved with arcane runes and banded in gold. Guy really liked his ring motif huh?
So first glance at me is that dismissive "Fuck off technology." attitude and I'm like "ooooh Imma gonna -show- him somethin!"
But then he does a double-take and starts to look at me funny. Like he is looking -through- me, inside me?
Then he starts to get excited.
Then really excited.
Then -oh fuck! What did I do this time?- excited.
Turns out he could clearly sense all the plant-life inside me comprising my life support systems. A fifteen meter tall enclosed micro-ecology. He was just ooohing and ahhing at the near perfect balance of my internal workins. And so an hour or more passed while I tried to explain in fantasy terms the incredible effort that went into the CyberDyne project and the botanist who made the breakthrough in sealed life support systems. They read it all as a neo-Druid creating a self sustaining eco-system. Something Druids of this world consider a work of art or a religious experience in a way. Due to how the whole world is in a way just that. Self contained and perpetual.
He was really interested in the mini forest that makes up my lungs. Probably because they are not of this world and at a guess are pinging his nature sense. He asked me if he could get a clipping. And I said "Not on the first date."
He got all purple in the face and then laughed and laughed.
So he confirmed that basic healing incantations like [Balm of Life] will kinda-sorta work on me. But due to my, ahem, Golem nature and my botanic parts, I'd get more oomph from a simple [Repair] incantation for my cybernetics and [Botanica's Blessing] for my plant based systems. A healing potion was going to do me little good then - and would be only a -third- as effective. argh! ah well. I can use it in the others in an emergency. Stuff makes triage look like leeches and poultices. hmph. Magic.
From all this I did though get some advice. Mainly to look up a Master of Alchemy to whip up some specialized healing draughts. Cost a bit more. But better than needing the magic equivalent of a Pit Crew to heal me up. Not like I intend to get perforated again. But with these Coalition jokers out there. I have a bad feeling I am going to be in the eye of the storm. Least they pointed me at someone here to talk to about that.
Noon will be dinner with the local nobility. The Baroness suggested I dress well so I guess I will be stowing the Regalia and going formal. Good thing packed the clothes for this. Kinda nervous. Aside from meeting the mayor of Dynamiton City, I have never really had to deal with the higher ups.
Forescout Valkyria signing out.
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Valkyria, with much assistance from Roscida, disengaged her Regalia and a few plates to slim down to a less aggressive profile. Then her ward helped her to get dressed and don her wig. Together they met up with Dasos and she resupplied more goggles to sell and for the morning the Gorgon swapped out with the Ki-rin girl so Dasos could do a little shopping herself.
Wandering the stalls and merchants she was updated on the sales of the goodies and stoning potions. "huh, more sold than I expected?"
Dasos nodded while munching on a glazed tyra leg as she walked beside the War Witch. "The Grand Bazaar is an opportune time to sell and spread word. And word is spreading."
She glanced sidelong at the Gorgon. "Feels good to be making a difference?"
This got an emphatic nodding. "Very much so. The look on peoples faces. Especially the expressions when learning the low cost. After thousands upon thousands of days we are not shunned and driven off."
"In time the cure will be found and you all can go back to living normal lives."
Dasos was keen to buy a new dress for herself after a lifetime of living in rags and whatever they could scrounge or steal. Well the metal equivalent of rags. Dragon clothing was very durable overall.
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As noon rolled around they saw the Gorgon back to her stall and Roscida joined Valkyria in meeting Baroness Clade at the castle gates. The structure was tremendous and some of the taller minarets reached high into the sky perhaps a quarter of a kilometer. The gate guards were armored and looked alot like silver versions of Valkyria. Though without the stiff wing covers. Each was armed with a huge halberd, a pole arm some twenty meters long with a spike pointing upwards, an axe head facing forward and a hook facing back.
Baroness Clade did the introductions and then they were escorted inside by an attendant and Valkyria got to gawk at the decorations, all on a cyclopean scale. Fifteen meter tall statuary adorned some halls. tapestries and stained glass windows were common and there were quite a few paintings. The elder Clade encouraged the guide to elaborate on some of the depictions.
"Here is show the mounted battle of the Phantom Swamps some two-hundred thousand days past."
The white and gold cyborg ran a quick calculation and figured that to be over a thousand years ago by Earth time. "So you even domesticated a thunder lizard?" She was looking at the huge diplodocus that was being ridden like an elephant and was about as large.
"The diplo in the center? Yes. They are native to the great swamps of the lowlands. A few daring souls have trained them for war. But they are difficult to manage. Bron are even harder to tame and for reasons unknown once every few seasons a bull will ascend the plateaus and go on a rampage until either driven off or put down." So explained the attendant.
Valkyria studied this for a time, taking into account the gigantic scale of this battle depicted. Spells were flying, knights with glowing weapons were cleaving into each-other, and a pair of trebuchets mounted on the diplodocus were lobbing stones at some sort wall of earth some mage had called up. The painting had tiny little details in it down to links in armor and little fine inscriptions on weapons and standards. "Who are they fighting? Looks formidable? Are those a pair of Golems? I see hinged joints?" she questioned.
"Indeed m'lady. Ta Matia tis Mageías, The Eyes of Vraja, were a mageocrocy that formed formed around a renowned vraja college of Solomonari to the west between here and the Ki-rin lands. They grew in power and then began expanding. They employed Golems and Elementals in large numbers and were a force to be reckoned with. The painting depicts the final battle on the borders of what would become the Principalities." pointed out the attendant.
"So what became of them?"
Baroness Clade answered that. "Everyone turning against them and internal fraction caused the eventual collapse as they suffered a series of defeats after some initial victories. A faction within the Eye was against violence and secretly aided the unified people opposing the expansion and so inside and out the cracks formed. Finally they could take no more and sued for peace when they realized the horrible loss of knowledge that was happening as one after another fell. They reorganized and police themselves rigorously now as a true college of study and wisdom. That was all some half a million days ago."
The War Witch gawked as she did some calculations. Over two-thousand eight-hundred Earth years ago. "And it is still going today?"
A nod from the elder dragoness. "Indeed. I myself studied there for six-thousand days and graduated well in my class."
Valkyria did not comment on needing to go to magic school for thirty-five years before getting out was a bit mind blowing. "Seems all that study payed off!"
"Twas not that long. Curricula has advanced since those early days. Back then one was expected to study for a full ten-thousand says!" the Solomanari waved it off as if decades meant little in the greater scheme.
This got the cybernetic human in a draconic looking variable frame to wondering just how long these people lived. Something she would have to ask later. She had some clues already based on the ages of Roscida and the younger Clade, which reminded her. "So will Clade and the Baron be arriving in two days?"
"Correct. My husband and daughter wish to do some shopping while the event is close."
After that they met up with Princess Lykofos. This woman was tall and a rich royal purple with blue scale trim. She was dressed in an ebony gown set with hundreds of diamonds so it looked like a starry night twinkling as she moved. Her long hair was a night blue with a streak of lighter blue like a comet trailing down one side. "Ahh. So this is the mysterious stranger I have heard so much about in so short a span?" she addressed the War Witch with a pleasant rumbly voice.
"That is probably me if it is something weird yea, M'lady." she replied.
The Princess' smile grew. "I would not call selflessly aiding the people of the land weird Lady Valkyria. You have performed a deed long thought impossible in bringing back to us our brethren thought forever lost. That alone is worthy of high praise. I also hear you were instrumental in completing my cousin's elemental collection, yes?"
Valkyria looked from one to the other questioningly. "Cousin? So you two are related?"
Baroness and Princess shared a laugh. "Oh indeed. Though Procidens here takes more after her seaside blood while I take more after our inland kin." she then walked along with the group and plied the cybernetic visitor with questions. "I observed you on the streets yesterday. But you were much bulkier and not dressed?"
"Yes. I removed my Regalia as it is cumbersome for formal affairs."
That got a smile from the Princess. "We have lost a few chairs to knights insisting on attending in full dress armor. So your mercy upon my furniture is appreciated!" Glancing at the figure of the strange being she asked. "I understand that you are lost and far from home, with no hope of ever returning. Let me assure you on behalf of the Principalities of the Comet as a Princess of my realm that you are more than welcome in our lands. I wish only that you might have seen us in less troubling times..."
"I would like to think the same if one of you ever ended up in my world. And sadly I am no stranger to troubling times back home. It is how I became as you see me now." So replied the War Witch in thanks to her gracious benefactors. Then she was treated to a lavish dinner and various deserts afterwards. The main course were various soups, some meat stock and some vegetable, all with tyra egg mixed in like a sort of egg-drop soup. Then there were roast uta in some sort of glaze and seasoning with no Earth equivalent. It was faintly sweet. A rarity for dragon cuisine she had learned over the course of her stay. Sugar producing plants were rare in the qualities needed to make it even remotely viable. So she guessed what she was tasting was probably honey.
This got her musing as to what sorts of bugs were in the environment. But she had thus far held off on that question. She certainly had not seen any other than a little flitting thing she guessed was a dragonfly the size of an Earth eagle. A speck at her scale; and butterflies, or the prehistoric equivalents of, with bright single colors in stripes rather than patterns. The wing edges were flat rather than rounded.
As usual she got some amusement from the reactions to her eating. "So how bad has the Coalition been in the last season? I hear the realms bordering on the Coalition have had a few incursions. But nothing big since that ambush on Clade?"
Princess Lykofos nodded contemplatively. "Not officially no. But there have been two attacks deeper into the Principalities that were not made public."
"To keep the enemy guessing what happened to the squads?"
"Correct. Your case was impossible to keep quiet on. That and it was agreed that the nature of your advent would perplex and confound the Coalition well and good. The various Princes and Princesses have been quietly deflecting inquiries about you ever since. And keeping abreast of who is asking these questions. We have designated you a War Witch, though it is rather obvious your nature and incantations function outside the norm. Obvious to those of us with a broader knowledge of the mystic arts."
Valkyria nodded between tossing trees dipped in some manner of broccoli-esque sauce into her maw and munching. "Figured that would be the case really. Trying to mesh what I can do with what you people can had been a challenge to put it mildly." she admitted.
"We appreciate the effort on out behalf. Were I pressed to classify you, based on the information thus far gathered, I would probably lean to that of the Fusillade. An as yet rare outgrowth of Artifice focused on long range strikes. Alchemists are another calling that is much better known due to it's utility." so described the Princess.
"I will stick to War Witch for now to keep the enemy guessing" so smiled slyly said War Witch while taking a bite from a uta drumstick. After that she tried some pie which was remotely similar in flavor to a lemon meringue pie. Made from a thick rinded fruit called a citron. They were about the size of grapes to her and looked like yellow fragment grenades. The actual usable part was the size of a pea inside. "Somewhere on Earth an agriculturist is having fits over the quantities needed to eat round here." she chuckled. Apparently the rinds were fed to styra as they loved it.
After dinner the party retreated to sealed chambers with guards posted round. The Princess sat down in a comfy looking chair and her demeanor got notably more serious. "Now for the more pressing matter we invited you to visit today. There has been a death at the Grand Bazaar."
Baroness Clade looked concerned. "Another?"
Princess Lykofos nodded solemnly. "Another inventor of enchanted items."
This seemed to be an ongoing thing so the white and gold dragoness asked. "I take it that this is one of several? How many?"
"Six thus far. All crafters working on some new wonder. All found dead of what appear to be natural causes. But their inventions missing and soon to show up in Coalition hands. This can not be coincidence. We have tried communing with the spirits of the dead. But to date none have ever seen their slayer and thusly can not place name to this mysterious spy in our midst. We would like to ask if you can assist us in any way with this mystery. Perhaps someone outside the problem can uncover a clue we are missing?" The Princess then laid out the six assumed murders so far.
"The first was several seasons ago. About one-thousand days. An inventor working on a repeating ballistia was found dead in his home and the prototype missing. less than a season later the Coalition is being armed with a new repeating ballistia. The shape is different. But the function and timing are suspect." she sighed and then continued. "Next was a craftsman who was working to produce a more refined healing draught. Found dead and the formula gone. We suspect the Coalition is now issuing it to their soldiers. Third was a friend of mine that I had patroned for years. She was working on a new armor enchantment for the Lightning Knights. Found hanged in her bedroom. Apparent suicide. I -know- better. Tellingly. We questioned her spirit and she remembered nothing of that and was as perplexed as we were. This invention has not yet surfaced in the Coalition to our knowledge. The next three have each coincided with a Grand Bazaar and yesterday we found another crafter dead. No vraja residue and incantations to detect poisons showed nothing. His creation is missing."
"Is the body still on hand?" asked the War Witch.
"Yes. Though we checked thoroughly." replied the Princess. "Also the Ruling Prince sent us an investigator who has been following the case since the second occurrence. He is here now. We wished to speak to you alone before bringing them in."
"If vraja showed no traces then we have to think outside the box. And working with a professional would be a boon I bet. They know vraja?"
The purple and blue dragoness bowed her head and so they retreated to the castles equivalent of a morgue. "Yes they are a practitioner of the arts. "We checked for signs of covert violence. Assassination is rare, but not unheard uf in some less reputable kingdoms."
Here she was introduced to a male red dragon with black scale trim. He looked curiously at Valkyria as she looked over the body laid out on a stone slab pending last rites or other arrangements. "M'lady. I was not expecting you to come down so late." he deferred to the Princess.
Valkyria took some samples and ran some basic tests with her onboard analysis systems. These were not medical grade. But she took some readings anyhow just in case something showed up. "No foreign elements in the blood. But there is an elevated carbon trade in the lungs. hmmmmm." She redid her tests and focused them as an idea began to percolate to the fore. "Has anyone tried contacting the spirit since you have that option?"
"Not yet. It is a taxing incantation and requires five special candles to perform. We have some in stock but supply is limited and the dead tend not to answer exactly coherently. And you can not use the incantation on a spirit again till many days have passed." so explained the red dragon.
"Got it. Makes sense then. Lets see. Here's the results on the test and... ah-hah. Well I can save you some candles."
"Oh?" Both the Princess and the Baroness asked as one.
"Exotic tallow fume traces in the lungs. Someone used that communicate with the dead incantation ahead of you. Maybe to prevent you from finding out something? Or just waste limited resources?" explained the mechanical visitor.
The investigator nodded thoughtfully. "Though that does not explain the lack of clues as to cause of death?"
"Right. But we know from this that the spy is versed in the arts and is using it to cover their tracks. huh. Question. Would an incantation to cure poison work on a corpse? And would it leave any traces of vraja?" she asked thoughtfully.
"A [Counter Poison] incantation would leave faint traces of vraja in the system."
"Ok. Are there any incantations that mask vraja presence?" she followed up.
This surprised the gathered practitioners of the art. "Why no? How would that even work? To use vraja to conceal vraja. That would leave traces itself."
"Would it though?" mused the cyborg. Then she waved it off. "Just a thought. Was there any vraja trace found on the one that hung herself?"
"Why... no there was not?" and a dawning horror of realization shone in the Princess' eyes. "You mean..."
The War Witch looked down at the cadaver and then to those gathered.
"Yeah. Your spy is an inventor too."
<==--------===-=-===--------==>

This Support build's most recent outing was in u/Jayiie's 1mil DPS SS Hydra run. However, there is still quite a bit of room for improvement here, and I thought I'd share it in its current form both for feedback purposes and to satisfy my curiosity on its cost.
Build cost info will be shown in estimated real world dollar values, using the approximated conversion rates in the table below. The final cost estimate represents the amount it would take for a brand new player to copy this build right away as of today. (Disclaimer: Do not do this, it is a terrible use of hard-earned money)
If anyone needs help figuring out some of the abbreviations used in this post, feel free to ask, or use tools like VGER: https://vger.netlify.app/

In-game item/currency	In-game amount	Approx. EC cost as of 7-May-23 (if applicable)	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)	Assumptions
Zen	100		$1.00	Not counting bonus Zen from bundles nor discounts.
Master Key	1	12,000,000	$1.25	Not counting bundled keys, for simplicity.
EC	1,000,000	1,000,000	$0.10	12mil EC/key on the Exchange.
Refined Dilithium	10,000		$0.20	Exchange rate of 500 Refined Dil to 1 Zen.
Lobi crystal	10		$2.50	Average of 5 Lobi Crystals per Lockbox opened. Not counting the goodies from said lockboxes.
Reputation Marks	50		$0.01	Using Rep project to convert 50 regular Marks to 500 Dilithium.
Elite Marks	3		$0.02	Using Rep project to convert 3 Elite Marks to 1,000 Dilithium.
Fleet Credit	10,000		$0.20	Uses the terrible conversion rate of 1 Dil = 1 FC
C-Store ship	1		$30.00	Not counting sales.
Lobi ship	1	320,000,000	$33.33	~300mil EC per Lobi ship on Exchange.
Epic Phoenix T6 ship	1		$80.00	Assuming a 1/1000 (0.1%) chance for an Epic Token, and 40k Dil for 10 Phoenix Packs. RNGesus may greatly vary, of course. (It was more like 1/2190 for me)
Lockbox ship	1	1,200,000,000	$125.00	~1.2bil EC per Lockbox ship via Exchange.
Promobox ship	1	1,700,000,000	$177.08	~1.7bil EC per Promo ship via trade.

Screenshot version of the full build

Captain Details

Captain Name	Jill Stingray
Captain Career	Engineering	SUBOPTIMAL. Tact is the preferred Career for Support due to team-wide damage boosts. Sci also has better utility due to Subnuke Beam. The only utility Engi has here is EPS Power Transfer.
Captain Faction	Federation
Captain Race	Human	SUBOPTIMAL. Should be Alien for the extra personal trait slot.
Primary Specialization	Temporal	SUBOPTIMAL. Intelligence as Primary is better for Intel Fleet. But until they implement loadouts for Captain Specs, I will stick with Temp+Strat for all my builds.
Secondary Specialization	Strategist	SUBOPTIMAL. Temporal should go here instead, for Atrophied Defenses.

Space Skill Tree

Rank	Engineering		Science		Tactical
Lieutenant		Advanced Hull Capacity			Advanced Energy Weapon Training	Advanced Projectile Weapon Training
Lt. Commander	Improved EPS Flow	Improved Impulse Expertise	Improved Control Expertise	Improved Drain Expertise	Advanced Targeting Expertise
Commander					Advanced Weapon Amplification	Advanced Weapon Specialization
Captain		Offensive Subsystem Tuning	Advanced Exotic Particle Generator	Advanced Long Range Targeting Sensors	Advanced Hull Penetration	Advanced Shield Weakening
Admiral	Warp Core Efficiency				Coordination Protocols	Improved Tactical Readiness
					Defensive Coordination
					Offensive Coordination
0 Points Left	10		10		26

Space Skill Tree comment: My current generalist skill tree. SUBOPTIMAL and I'd suggest benchmarking this one instead: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903023278703140915/903067938872000532/casualsabskilltree.png
I would retrain if doing so did not also break all my saved loadouts...

Loadout

Slot	Item	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Ship	T6X Son'a Command Science Vessel	There are cheaper ship options for Support builds. But this one does have a nice combination of Cmdr Command (for CF3 and Inspiration) and Lt Intel (for Ionic Turbulence and UnconSys procs).	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
Fore Weapon 1	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]	Any Disruptor flavour will do, really. Just for the small chance of -DRR proc.	45,380 Dil	0.91
Fore Weapon 2	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]		45,380 Dil	0.91
Fore Weapon 3	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]		45,380 Dil	0.91
Aft Weapon 1	[Omni-Directional Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc] [Arc] [Dmg]]		2.5mil EC	0.26
Aft Weapon 2	[Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Omni-Directional Beam Array Mk XV [Arc] [CrtD/Dm] [CrtD]x3]	For guaranteed -DRR on targets slower than I am	30,000 EC, 15,000 Dil	0.30
Aft Weapon 3	[Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Heavy Turret Mk XV [CrtD/Dm] [CrtD]x4]	Same as above, and stacks.	30,000 EC, 15,000 Dil	0.30
Deflector	[Iconian Resistance Deflector Array Mk XV [SciCD]]	Iconian D-E-C set for the 3pc set bonus chance for extra Energy Damage.	40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Secondary Deflector	[Inhibiting Secondary Deflector Mk XV [CtrlX]x2 [SA -Def]]	Instead of Deteriorating, so as to not steal too much DPS. Also useful for the extra CtrlX mods.	Crafted at Mk 2, upgraded to Mk 15, and then re-engineered. Which makes it hard to put an exact cost to this.	0.00
Impulse Engines	[Iconian Resistance Hyper-Impulse Engines Mk XV [+CRes]]		40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Warp Core	[Iconian Resistance Hyper Injection Warp Core Mk XV [AMP]]		40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Shields	[Tilly's Review-Pending Modified Shield Mk XV [Cap]x4 [Cp/Rg]]	Used for its proc to increase damage to shields	40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Devices	[Team Battery - Weapons and Auxiliary]	Team Weapons and Aux power level buff.	400 Dil /ea. 8k Dil for 20.	0.16
	[Kobayashi Maru Transponder]	Very minor overall buffs. Only slotting this because I already own it via Event, I do NOT suggest spending money on this.	8k Zen from Mudd's.	80.00
	[Deuterium Surplus]	From Crafting or Daily Mission: Defense Contract. More speed	From Crafting or Exchange, former is assumed.	0.00
Universal Console	[Console - Universal - Tholian Webspinner Array]	DO NOT SLOT. It did not occur to me at the time that the DPSer also has to slot this console in order to benefit from the bonus damage to held targets. Open to suggestions on its replacement.	8k Zen from Mudd's	80.00
Engineering Consoles	[Console - Universal - Tachyon Net Drones]	Huge AoE -DRR for an extended period and Shields Offline to affected targets makes this the most powerful Support Console of the lot here.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Hyper-focusing Trinary Arrays]	Massive -75 DRR to a chunky target of choice. Used on Tact Cubes and Gateways.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Deconstructive Resonance Emitter]	Small stacking -DRR in a cone plus disable, stacks up to 12 times, lasts 6 seconds	10mil EC	1.04
Science Consoles	[Console - Universal - Dominion Targeting Synchronizer]	Substantial Haste and -DRR on a single target. Used on Tact Cubes and Gateways.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Mining Drill Laser Emitter]	Stacking -DRR over time on a single target. Deployed on primary target whenever off cooldown.	1x Lockbox ship, or 240mil EC for non-Rom.s Going to assume the more expensive option here.	125.00
	[Console – Universal – Magnetohydrodynamic Fusion Expulsion]	5km PBAOE that repels enemies and inflicts -15 all DRR for 10 second	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
	[Console - Universal - Deep Analytics Sensor Package]	Removes buffs, gives +10% shield pen and armor penetration for weapons to allies nearby	N/A. Comes with this ship.	0.00
	[Console - Universal - High-Energy Communications Network]	-30 DRR PBAOE for 20 seconds to enemies, allies gain +100 accuracy rating, +100 defense, and 20% shield resistance.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
Tactical Consoles	[Console - Universal - Approaching Agony]	-25 DRR in a targeted AOE 3 km radius for 40 seconds, 25% chance to disable	10mil EC	1.04
	[Console - Universal - Interphasic Instability]	-25 DRR in a targeted AOE 3 km radius for 12 seconds	Phoenix box prize. Hard to quantify cost, but is trivial to obtain.	0.00
	[Console - Universal - Cascading Subatomic Disruptions]	To primary target, -40 DRR for 10 seconds, to 2 secondary targets -20 DRR for 10 seconds, to up to 4 tertiary targets -10 DRR for 10 seconds	1x Lockbox ship	125.00

Officer Details

Bridge Officers	Power	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Superior Romulan Operative	Tractor Beam I	Unconventional Systems Proc 1, and triggers Carrier Wave Shield Hacking	160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Commander Science-Command	Photonic Officer I	Secondary CDR alongside Boimler Effect	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Concentrate Firepower III	Useful for support Kinetic Torp, EPG-Torp and DEW-Torp builds.	Crafted.	0.00
	Gravity Well III	Unconventional Systems Proc 2, and primary crowd control means.	500k EC	0.05
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lt. Commander Tactical	Beams: Fire At Will I	For most of the weapons on this ship.	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Cannons: Scatter Volley I	For the single Gamma Rep Turret	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Attack Pattern Beta III	-49.8 DRR to all targets affected by my weapons. Stacks with other sources of APB.	400k EC	0.04
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lieutenant Universal-Intelligence	Viral Impulse Burst I	Unconventional Systems Proc 3	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Ionic Turbulence I	Unconventional Systems Proc 4 and extra AoE -DRR	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lieutenant Engineer	Emergency Power to Engines I	To keep up with the DPSer.	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Emit Unstable Warp Bubble I	Unconventional Systems Proc 5. Though it has such a long CD that Let It Go II might be better…	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
Superior Watcher Operative			10mil EC	1.04
Lieutenant Science	Jam Targeting Sensors I	Unconventional Systems Proc 6	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Scramble Sensors I	Unconventional Systems Proc 7	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00

Traits & Duty Officers

Trait	Name	Description	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Personal Traits	Feel the Weight of Our Presence	Each friendly ship on the map debuffs Damage Resistance Rating of Foes within 12km by 0.5 for 10sec, stacking up to 12.5 for 25 Allies.	Best used with hangar pets, usually teammates have some.	7mil EC	0.73
	Invasive Control Programming	When you use certain Control powers on your target, also trigger random Subsystem Disable. May occur once every 30 seconds.	25% chance to KO enemy shields.	40mil EC	4.17
	Psychological Warfare	+20% Bonus Control Ability Effectiveness	Increases the pull strength of Grav Well, but not the pull radius.	50mil EC	5.21
	Astrophysicist	+10 Exotic Particle Generator, Drain Expertise and Perception.	Filler trait, I am open to suggestions here.	Free	0.00
	Into The Breach	Defeating an enemy debuffs nearby enemies' damage resistance rating by 7 per rank of the downed enemy.	I am unlikely to land killing blows on this build, but it's there if I happen to.	35mil EC	3.65
	Fleet Coordinator	+2% Bonus All Damage per Team member (Self included), up to 10%	Mandatory in Team TFOs.	Free	0.00
	Fragment of AI Tech	Improves Control Expertise. Improves Energy Weapon Damage based on Control Expertise (maximum 30% at 300 Control Expertise)	More for the +50 CtrlX than the damage boost.	35mil EC	3.65
	Intelligence Agent Attaché (IAA)	Weapon Critical Strikes partially recharge Captain Ability	Best used with an effective CrtH of at least ~50%, which this build does fall a bit short of.	45mil EC	4.69
	The Boimler Effect	Provides a chance for using Bridge Officer Abilities to recharge all other Bridge Officer Ability recharge times up to their respective Shared Cooldown Categories	Main BOFF CDR method.	80mil EC	8.33
	Unconventional Systems	Using Control Bridge Officer Abilities reduces the cooldown of all Universal Consoles by 7%.	Very important to get multiple uses out of all my console clickies in the course of an ISE/HSE.	50mil EC	5.21
Starship Traits	Superior Area Denial	Beams: Fire At Will & Cannon: Scatter Volley Debuff Foes And Apply To Pets	Extra -30 DRR, stacks with SAD from teammates.	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
	Redirecting Arrays	While Beam: Fire-at-will Is Active, Receiving Any Damage Grants 0.33 Sec Duration To Fire-at-will (15 Sec Total Duration Maximum)	Not as good an extender as ETM, but I am lazy to switch it up depending on whether the DPSer needs all the CF3 to themselves.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	One Impossible Thing at a Time	To Self and Team: -5% Recharge Time on Captain Abilities (Max once every 5 sec)	Partly helps the team, but mostly helps myself use EPS Power Transfer more often, as this Support build does not have quite enough crit for IAA.	1.5mil EC	0.16
	Carrier Wave Shield Hacking	When your ship uses a Tractor Beam or Intel Power on an enemy, it knocks an enemy's shields offline for 5 seconds.	Parting Gift would also work as filler for DEW support.	1.5mil EC	0.16
	Electrified Anomalies	Your Boff Anomalies Deal Electrical Damage & Grant Power Boosts	Mostly for the power boost to allies, which is already being fulfilled by Greater Than The Sum. Might replace this with Digital Compilation instead.	17k Zen Mudd's Store	170.00
	Greater Than The Sum	Emergency To Aux And Command Boff Abilities Grant Hull+shield Regen And Subsystem Power To Self And Nearby Allies	Team Power Level and Regen Buffs	1x C-Store ship	30.00
Space Reputation Traits	Advanced Targeting Systems		+20% CrtD.
	Piezo-Electric Weapon Amplification		5% Chance with weapons: To targets: -53.7 All Shields. (Can trigger max once every 10 seconds)
	Precision		+5% CrtH.
	Tyler's Duality		~4% CrtH for this build.
	Radiant Detonation		To Target: 2.5% chance: 19.1 Radiation Damage in 1km Radius at Target and removes Buffs
Active Reputation Traits	Refracting Tetryon Cascade		Extra DPS on grouped targets.
	Quantum Singularity Manipulation		Supercharges Grav Well.
	Deploy Sensor Interference Platform		Extra oh-shit button
	Anti-Time Entanglement Singularity		Extra DPS on grouped targets.
	Bio-Molecular Shield Generator		Extra oh-shit button
Duty Officers	Emergency Conn Hologram	Recharges Evasive Maneuvers when Emergency Power to Engines is activated	From Phoenix Prize pack. For speed to keep up with the DPSers.	Easily obtained from Phoenix Prize pack, so I'm just going to skip the cost calculations here.	0.00
	Matter-Antimatter Specialist (Very Rare)	+25 CtrlX for 30s upon Emergency Power to Engines.	From Exchange. For a bit more pull for the Grav Well.	10mil EC	1.04
	Demera	Chance to create up to four additional Gravity Wells near the end of the duration of any Gravity Well activated.	DOFF assignment reward. SUBOPTIMAL. 27 of 47 would be superior, but expensive.	Free from DOFF assignment reward	0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
Ground	Space Warfare Master (Epic)	+10% All Damage. (Space and Ground)	Elder Malik'itan.	Can only be obtained from Gamma Recruitment rewards.	0.00
					Total Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
					1,197.56

Subsystem Power Allocation

Subsystem Power Settings	Value (Target/Display)	Notes
Weapons	71 / 60	So as to not steal too much DPS with my weapons. Though between Electrified Anomalies and Greater Than The Sum, everyone's power levels should be almost always capped out.
Shields	79 / 60	Affects the extra damage to Shields from Tilly's
Engines	50 / 20	Effectively 70 due to EPTE1.
Auxiliary	80 / 60	Affects the -DRR magnitude from Ionic Turbulence

Ship Attributes

Ship Stats	Value	Notes
Hull	88,988	Affected by Personal Endeavour rank (750)
Shields	26,532	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Global Critical Chance	38.50%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Global Critical Severity	155.00%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
EPS/Power Transfer Rate	210.00%
Control Expertise (CtrlX)	277
Drain Expertise (DrainX)	110
Exotic Particle Generator (EPG)	174
Hull Regeneration Rate	185.00%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Turn Rate	6.1	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Flight Speed	56.23	Affected by Personal Endeavour

My Lazy Spambar Sequence

Order	Ability	Remarks
1	Beams; Fire at Will I
2	Attack Pattern Beta III
3	Cannons: Scatter Volley I
4	Photonic Officer I
5	Emergency Power to Engines I
6	Nadion Inversion III	EPS Power Transfer III is manually activated on main DPSer
7	Focused Frenzy
8	Rotate Shield Frequency III
9	Brace for Impact III
10	All my AoE -DRR consoles clickies	Targeted ones like Trinary Arrays, Mining Laser and Targeting Synchronizer are manually activated
11	Ionic Turbulence I	Gravity Well III manually activated
12	Emit Unstable Warp Bubble I
13	Tractor Beam I
14	Jam Targeting Sensors I
15	Scramble Sensors I
16	Viral Impulse Burst I

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Remarks on Total Approx. Real World Cost

Roughly 1.2k USD for this build. Making this pretty much as expensive as an uber-meta DPS build. Little wonder then that there aren't more Support players around.

Appendix

1. Raw combatlog of the supported run, in case anyone wants it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHnlD-swdPfW1yD-2tZfx_4sHUcgjKVI/view?usp=sharing

Disclaimer: This post is long, so you may want to save it and read it later. Also, I put a lot of time into both researching this and writing it up. So if all you have is negative feedback, kindly keep it to yourself. Finally, there’s a lot more that I’ve been looking into beyond the scope of this write-up. If you’d like to join my exp-LORE-ation efforts, please let me know.
Recap: Part 1 establishes that Colonel is the same kid who was playing with his “baer frends” at the Palace of the Winding Path. Part 2 establishes that Darius Angler was the author of the 4 Untitled Poems.
Edit: Hyperlinks don't seem to be working so I'm manually pasting my references to parts 1 and 2.
https://www.reddit.com/fo76/comments/1327e9a/lore_discovery_responder_colonel_flatwoods_was/
https://www.reddit.com/fo76/comments/135xf3y/lore_discovery_part_2_responder_colonels_postwa
TLDR (mad spoilers up in here): Fishbones led the raid that killed Colonel and all the Responders in Flatwoods, and he could very well be Darius Angler’s brother. Colonel may have been up to something nefarious with the children of Flatwoods (but not in that way). Ra Ra might be Ward’s granddaughter. And it looks like mole rat teeth are used to craft Day Tripper.
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We Begin at the End: November 2096. 13 Bridge Street, Flatwoods, WV. Responder Colonel died in the raider attack on Flatwoods, along with just about every other Responder that resided there. The raiders attacked because a Chem Addict stole all their food and chems and fled to Flatwoods. You can find her body and holotape just West of the river. But before we get to that, we need to look at what Colonel was up to before he died. Most people probably overlooked this detail because they haven’t explored Flatwoods since they were level 3, and at that point they didn’t have a jetpack or the Marsupial mutation. But Colonel’s front AND back porches are completely railed off. If you make it over the front railing, you’ll find the corpses of Colonel and (likely) the raider that killed him, Colonel’s second “Survivor Story,” and a stroller with an intact doll in it. Colonel was the “caregiver for children” in Flatwoods, so the stroller may have once been for an actual baby.
But on the back porch, Colonel was burning books, files, documents, and the contents of a mysterious duffel back on his grill. Colonel definitely had a secret and he was literally trying to burn the evidence. And that secret was his past with the Diehards and Darius Angler. If you follow the road West out of Flatwoods, you’ll eventually arrive at Hillfolk Hotdogs, which is the site of Untitled Poem #3 and the former home of Colonel when he lived with Angler as a child (you can find one of his “baer frends” on the kid-sized bunk bed). But inside the bus(?) at Hillfolk’s, you’ll also find similar documents and a duffel bag, just like the kind Colonel was burning in Flatwoods when he died. As a matter of fact, there are other similarly suspicious duffel bags and file caches along the Ohio River. And this takes us to Ohio River Adventures.
Fishbones is a Dirty Rat Bastard: In the exact same way that the Diehards returned to Crater, a former territory of theirs (and site of Untitled Poem #2), the Diehards also returned to Ohio River Adventures. Now, O.R.A. gets overlooked because there is no main quest line that keeps you returning to this area (maybe the grind for Raider Rep), but this place is former Diehard territory too. Now, it is critically important to know that both Fishbones (Bones) and Blackeye are O.G. Diehards. Blackeye was almost certainly Colonel’s 1st grade teacher back at the Palace of the Winding Path. But what about Bones? Well, my friends, I bet I’m about to tell you something you didn’t already know:
When Margie McClintock died in 2096 (as inferred what Rose tells us during the main quest), Meg Groberg took over and soon thereafter led the Diehards out of Appalachia before returning years later (that, you already knew). You probably also already knew that before Margie died, Meg and the other Diehards went against protocol and “shot first” when robbing people. Meg was a true raider in all the ways that Margie was not. But what you probably didn’t put together is that Margie died around the time that Flatwoods was attacked. According to the Chem Addict from Flatwoods:
“Chems Addict: Well, this is it I guess. Rock bottom I think they call it. I still miss him. Billy. I knew he was too young for me, but he made me feel good. Though it's the old Billy I really miss. The one who used to do nothing all day with me but listen to the radio and drink. I shoulda got out sooner when Billy and his buddies started torturing little cats and dogs. His friends... were no good. But that didn't stop me anyway. I can't believe my wake up call was watching people's heads... get stuck on spikes. So... what is an old gal like me to do? Steal all the food. Steal all the chems. And get the hell out of there. *laughs* I'd trade my last bite of food just to see the look on their faces. Oh, I know it's going to piss off Billy's friends, but I don't give a damn. I tell myself I should feel sorry for the little town across the river. But if I'm being honest, and that's what this tape is for, I don't really care. I call myself an addict, but it ain't the chems that finally got me. It was always Billy.”
I want to emphasize the “heads on spikes” part, because that’s something Margie would never tolerate. But Meg on the other hand let raiders be raiders. The other thing that I want to point out is “Billy.” I’m not saying for certain that this Billy is the same as Darius Angler’s brother, but I am saying that technically no body was ever recovered from the molten steel, and Angler didn’t see the accident happen because he didn’t work at Grafton Steel anymore. It’s possible that “Billy Angler,” who didn’t quit because “he needs the money,” could have taken out some kind of insurance policy, named his chem addict girlfriend as the beneficiary, faked his own death, and skipped town. Do I know for certain that this happened? Of course not. But what I do know is this: FISHBONES’S REAL NAME IS BILLY!!! The reason he’s obsessed with the letter B is because that’s his first initial. You see, at first I thought the raiders that wrecked Flatwoods were Cutthroats because of their whole feud with the Responders. But then I learned that the Flatwoods attack was caused by a bunch of chems that the Addict stole, and the Diehards were Appalachia’s great chems supplier (thanks to Angler). Furthermore, Fishbones’s current operation is spiking Mirelurk meat with an addictive substance (chems). And since Bones is an OG Diehard, it means he was the piece-of-shit raider that attacked Flatwoods and killed Colonel.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fishbones
A Bit About Bruiser: I found a few interesting details about Bruiser at Ohio River Adventures, but nothing too profound. We know that he used to play football, his mascot was a “battle bear,” and that he spent some time in a vault. The likeliest conclusion from this information is that he’s from Grafton, given that’s the only high school in the region with a football field and it’s next to the makeshift vault that formerly housed a few raiders before the BOS took over. If you look up the IRL Grafton High School, you’ll find that it’s on Yates Ave (likely the namesake of Sofie Yates, a Responder turned Raider in Flatwoods) and their mascot is the “Bearcat.” Also, all the varsity jackets in FO76 have the letter B on them, but that’s more Fishbones’s thing. But none of this has anything to do with Colonel or Angler, so let’s move on.
The Charleston Cartel (2079-2082): From the Charleston Capitol Building terminal entries, we know there was a massive chem trade happening in Charleston at this time:
“Name: Matoukas, George
Date of Crime: 10.09.81
Description:
300 Block of Oak. Based on anonymous tip, Responder Atkins found subject peddling vast amounts of illegal chems out of his home. Over 300lbs of illegal chems found in the subject's basement.
Resolution:
Matoukas sentenced to 5 years hard labor under close supervision, with possibility of parole for good behavior. Chems were seized and destroyed.”
Since the Diehards’ operation at the Palace of the Winding Path effectively ended with the great rapture of ‘79, it only makes sense that the Diehards would have to adapt their drug trade elsewhere. If you actually look for raider activity in Charleston (outside of the courthouse), you won’t find a lot, but what you will find is very telling of their operations. You’ll find a dead raider at the chemistry workbench inside Hornwright Industrial Headquarters. You’ll find a few dead raiders in/above the pharmacy on the south side of town. And you’ll find a dead raider lurking outside the doctors’ offices (which is NOT the hospital) to the north. And this takes us to Dr. Joseph.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Joseph_(Fallout_76))
Dr. Joseph was a psychiatrist in Charleston who practiced both before AND after the Great War. He had the authority to refer patients to Allegheny Asylum and write prescriptions; Prescriptions that would be filled at the pharmacy on the south side of Charleston. To one patient, P. Davis, he prescribed Day Tripper. This insightful detail is why the Diehards were operating in Charleston in the first place. As many seasoned players have observed, Day Tripper is not craftable in this game; You can only find it out in the wild. Consider the following terminal entry from the Palace of the Winding Path:
“Log: 12.29.77 Since the war, incense ingredients have been hard to come by. We started rationing weeks ago, in anticipation of this, and doses are much lower. The sedative effects of the incense are a priority, to keep people from freaking out.
I've begun to improvise with some other ingredients and found some creative ways of stretching the supply, at least until things return to relative normal. Other chem supplies are plentiful.”
So here’s what I think happened. If the Diehards were in dire need of Day Tripper to make their custom chems (see: Making Incense), and the Responders had a healthy supply of Day Tripper locked inside a pharmacy in Charleston, and there was also a doctor who wrote prescriptions for Day Tripper, then all the Diehards needed to do was register a new patient with Dr. Joseph. Enter: Darius Angler.
Darius Angler was batshit crazy (if in doubt, refer to his manifesto). Angler, who now resided at Hillfolk Hotdogs, was also just a short trip up the New River from Charleston. He would periodically visit Dr. Joseph, get his prescription filled like a meth-head scoring Sudafed, and used the trip as a cover to smuggle the refined chems into the city. Essentially, I think he just made a loop around the southwest “island” of the Forest (area surrounded on all sides by 3 rivers, referred to as “Zone D”). The loop around Zone D functioned as a supply chain/assembly line for producing the chems that were being smuggled into Charleston. There’s a lot of suspicious stuff happening around here: Raider activity, duffel bags/files, bridge control, coffin conspiracies, etc. that I had to edit out for length, but I’ll try to summarize it here.
Hillfolk Hotdogs is where Angler and Colonel raised mole rats for reasons I’ll explain later. Follow the Ohio River south and you’ll soon come to a boat that’s not far away from a crashed truck loaded up with industrial chemical barrels (useful for producing industrial quantities of chems). South of that is a tent with a duffel bag. Further south you’ll find a 3-story house with suspicious files and a duffle bag hidden in the attic (just like at Hillfolk’s). South of that are some dry-docked boats with a chem box and a duffel bag. Even further south is Ohio River Adventure (a current Raider base of operation that served a similar purpose back then). Southeast of there, by Lewis & Sons, is a little “boat” with 2 stuffed bears, which I think was left behind by Colonel as he reenacted his river adventures with Angler using his bears. Southeast of there is a floating Nuka-Cola structure with a submerged safe guarded by 2 more bears, one of which has a liquor bottle. I think this is a dead drop and the bears are another work of Colonel’s. Heading East up the River you’ll find a raider-operated “store” at the end of a questionable bridge. Further east is Charleston, where George Matoukas was distributing the chems. And on the return trip down the New River is another dead drop directly beneath the Bridge on the west side. It’s a safe by a couch with a bear and Jangles (I think Jangles is supposed to represent George). Again, I think that this big loop is a supply chain/assembly line for moving chems and the components needed to make chems.
The smuggling operation also deviously involved Colonel and his “Baer Frends.” If you jetpack up to the very top of AVR Medical Center, you’ll find two people who OD’ed on chems, each with a stuffed bear next to them. So I think that either the Diehards were sewing chems inside Colonel’s stuffed bears and using them as drug mules to smuggle chems into Charleston, or that Colonel just climbed to the highest point on the hospital (as he did at the Palace and later in Flatwoods) and left two bears as a memorial. But I’m leaning toward the former because of an unmarked location in the Savage Divide that I found. It’s southeast of Bastion Park right at the bend of the monorail line. It’s essentially a fire pit with a bunch of stuffed bears thrown in it with a few dead party-goers around the area. I think this is the location where the Responders destroyed all of the Chems, bears and all, that they confiscated from George Matoukas. Speaking of George Matoukas….
Curious George and the Rocket: According to the above-mentioned terminal entry, George Matoukas was apparently the only criminal who the Responders sentenced to hard labor rather than exile. If you go to Rollins Labor Camp (formerly Rollins Work Camp), you won’t find a whole lot there other than Blood Eagles. But what you WILL find at the very top of the crane structure are two stuffed bears and a Jangles. Colonel, as a child, had a thing for playing with “baer frends in high places.” I can’t say with any certainty what happened here, but maybe Angler was the one who gave the responders that “anonymous tip” because Matoukas was starting to rub off on Colonel, and Angler didn’t want him growing up to be a Raider. Matoukas gets sentenced to hard labor rather than exile, with a change of parole pending “good behavior,” which means “snitching.” So maybe Angler took Colonel to visit his “friend” at the labor camp (visiting hours are a thing), Angler introduced George to a “rocket,” and Colonel used his toys to recreate the scene. Or not. Who knows? But what I do know is that the shitty poet (Angler) moved on from Hillfolk Hotdogs to go to the Cranberry Bog, and I think the Christmas Flood gave him the perfect reason to leave.
Untitled Poem #3: I’m intentionally skipping Untitled Poem #2, partly because I haven’t found much deeper meaning to it, but mostly because what I think it means is little more than conjecture. #3, on the other hand, I feel like I can make sense of it:
“white cedar leaning against the shadow of our river
peeling like asylum walls
hobbled together around dignity that died long ago
simple things to jumpstart fogged memories
holed as teeth hidden in tin
we leave our things pinned
winning only the stuck wings”
I think the phrase “white cedar leaning against the shadow of our river” is the title of the painting in Dr. Joseph’s office. Or at least that’s how Darius Angler would describe it as if it was some kind of Rorschach test. “Peeling like asylum walls, hobbled together around dignity that died long ago” is a reference to the office wallpaper, and perhaps another one of Dr. Joseph’s clients, Daniel Boone.
“Patient: "Boone, D"
Observations:
Interesting case.
Patient responds only to "Daniel Boone" and indeed seems to believe himself to be the historical figure by the same name. I'd heard that some of the hillfolk can end up a bit off after lack of socialization, but I'd not expected to see such a case.
Advised that he be sent to Allegheny rather than the Penitentiary for further observation.”
There’s only a VERY narrow window of plausibility to suggest that Angler is Daniel Boone, so I won’t. But this entry seems to refer back to Untitled Poem #3, with worlds like “hillfolk” (as in Hillfolk Hotdogs), “Allegheny” (as in asylum), and “the historical figure” (as in dignity that died long ago). I think the line “simple things to jumpstart fogged memories'' refers to the Souvenir Magnet on the fridge at Hillfolk Hotdogs, and I think it came from Lady Janet’s Soft Serve (not Cow Spot Creamery). “Holed as teeth hidden in tin” refers to the mole rats that he was raising with Colonel at Hillfolk’s (the cat bowl on the floor is for the mole rat that walks around the trailer like Fry’s dog from Futurama, just waiting for Colonel to come home). And “we leave our things pinned, winning only the stuck wings,” refers to Angler’s (and Colonel’s) escape from the Diehards. I’m assuming this event took place just after the Christmas flood, once the chem operation in Charleston was destroyed with the rest of the city. But if you remember those dead raiders I mentioned earlier, there are a few more. Outside of Dr. Joseph’s office is a dead raider next to an ammo box. Well, next to him is a makeshift bridge that goes over the highway. And if you keep going in the same direction once you step off the bridge you’ll hit the southwest corner of Wade Airport. Immediately in that corner past the fence is a locked truck-trailer (watch out for the mine) with 2 more dead raiders and a power armor chassis (sometimes). I think the last line of the poem refers to this exact event, leaving his power armor (and compatriots) pinned in the back of the trailer so he can steal yet another Vertibird. Angler flew the automated aircraft to Watoga. Why? I don’t know. But it explains how he got to the Cranberry Bog and why his body can be found just a short distance south of the city.
Untitled Poem #4: Just like #2, I don’t have any deep insight into the specifics so all I can do is speculate. I’ll spare you the details. But what I think it’s about is the very end of his relationship with Colonel. I think the time Angler and Colonel spent together in the unmarked cabin southeast of Sunrise Field was just Angler teaching Colonel to be self-sufficient (hunting, trapping, maintaining weapons and whatnot). I think that when the scorched attacked Harper’s Ferry in 2086 that there was also generally increased scorched activity in the eastern half of Appalachia. The poem describes Angler providing cover fire to, or perhaps just drawing fire away from Colonel as escaped through Big Bend Tunnel, later to be found by the Responders. But again, like with #2, all I can do with this poem is speculate.
The Mysterious Mole Rats: This is a question I’ve had for almost 2 years now, and I think I finally figured it out. Back at the Palace of the Winding Path, there’s a lonely mole rat that lives in the computer room by the garden. There’s also a dead mole rat next to a dead raider pilot by a downed plane that was headed to the Palace from the north. I didn’t know what the Diehards needed mole rats for because I was only looking at the Palace itself. But the answer to this question is found at Lady Janet’s. Everyone thinks that the two bears in gas masks by the chemistry is just a Breaking Bad easter egg. But I think it’s yet another “baer frend” reenactment left behind by Colonel. Do you remember how the cultists at the Palace ran out of ingredients to make the “spiritual incense” and had to improvise? Well, one of the substitute ingredients they used, and the reason they were importing mole rats, and the reason the Diehards took care of the children like they did, is found in the baby carriage at Lady Janet’s.
A basket full of human jaw bones? Yeah…. Teeth. Or more precisely, “baby teeth.” I suppose mole rat teeth would do in a pinch, but as messed up as it sounds human baby teeth were preferred. This is why the Diehards at the Palace were taking care of those first-graders; because six-year-olds shed baby teeth like it’s raining molars! This also answers a question you didn’t even know you had, and it takes us back to Flatwoods. Here’s a note written by Jeremiah Ward who lived in trailer in the town (and the Ransacked Bunker before that):
“I, Jeremiah Ward, resident in the town of Flatwoods, county of... not sure.
Being of sound mind, and not acting under... duress. Mostly.
Hereby declare this letter to be my last will and testament.
Mia gets the house, and everything in it.
It ain't much but that's all I got to give and... she's all I got.
I know she's still alive.
The Responders say the dogs got her, but I know it ain't true.
They been real good to us. Teaching an old geezer like me how to really cook is something. I'll give em that.
But I know they lyin about those dogs. I seen em in the hills. There's some bad folks scoping us out. They took my granddaughter, I just know it.
I'll get you back, Mia. I promise.”
Mia, a baby who slept in the crib in that trailer, was abducted by raiders. And the only raider gang that ever had any interest in kids was the Diehards. And when you remember that the Responders had a foster care program that would later be run by Colonel once he was older, you’ll remember that a shit load of children went “missing” when Billy (Fishbones) attacked Flatwoods. And if teeth (baby, mole rat, or otherwise) was the secret ingredient in Angler’s chem recipe… and Colonel was Angler’s apprentice for a number of years before he joined the Responders… and Colonel was the caretaker of all of the children of Flatwoods… then exactly what was in those documents that Colonel was burning on his back porch?
Full Circle: So after everything, the Diehards lost their crop of children at the Palace of the Winding Path in 2079, but took the children of Flatwoods and left Appalachia. When they came back, they put Fishbones (Billy) in charge of the Ohio River Adventures operation, who is now spiking the mirelurk meat with a potent chem. It’s totally possible that Ra Ra is actually Mia Ward (Jeremiah Ward’s granddaughter). Hell, it’s even possible that Jeremiah Ward is somehow Ward from Foundation. Since Colonel was obviously keeping, and subsequently burning, secrets, I’d say he was also inclined to keep his raider past a secret as well as the truth about his adoptive father. Like he said in his Survivor’s Story, “he was bad.” Perhaps the reason he kept his Diehard history a secret from the Dassa and the other Responders was because he knew that the Responders were the ones punishing and exiling people back in Charleston. But this whole story began the day Darius Angler decided to get revenge on Grafton Steel. And if his brother hadn’t actually died after all, then it would explain why Angler stayed with the Diehards for as long as he did rather than returning to the Free states. Regardless, this entire story began and ended with Billy. “It was always Billy.”

As the episode resumed to the heat of midday, the camera panned down from the sun and on to Topher and Ezekiel as they stalked through the savanna.
Topher stopped both of them suddenly. "Check this out," The camera features human footprints on the ground. "Those are human footprints."
"I can even see some drool," Ezekiel pointed out the specks of drool.
"That must mean Ezekiel Clone," Topher deduced, and they continued moving forward and holding out their slingshots.
"Remember, we keep calm," Ezekiel told Topher after they stopped, their bodies starting to descend.
"Right. All we have to do is set up a trap that'll lure him in," Topher claimed.
"That's a good idea, amigo," Ezekiel agreed before looking down. "What the? Uh-oh."
The scene zoomed out to show the duo sinking in quicksand. "Quicksand?" Topher realized.
"Help!" they cried out.
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"How are we supposed to find that alien?" Owen asked the girls as they stalked through the savanna with their slingshots ready. He turned around and backed into a bush, only to hit something almost immediately. He slowly turned around to look, and his eyes went wide and the camera zoomed out as he realized he'd just bumped into a rhino's butt.
The camera panned to the animal's head as it looked backwards and snorted, and the focus returned to Owen as he screamed and took off, knocking Eva and Izzy out of the way. The rhino's viewpoint was shown, and in its eyes, Owen zipped through the savanna Road Runner style.
Izzy and Eva got up from the collision. "I am so going to kill Owen for that!" Eva declared.
"Save it for when we find him," Izzy said before they ran to locate Owen.
Meanwhile, Owen was screaming his lungs out and running until he bumped into someone and fell down. He groaned while opening his eyes, and when he saw that it was Mal he crashed into, he yelped and got up.
"What is the matter with you!?" Mal scowled in Owen's direction.
"A rhino chased me away," Owen stammered. "What about you?"
"Same thing, but with a lion instead of a rhino!" Mal growled.
"I didn't mean to run into you," Owen apologized.
"And I didn't mean to do this!" Mal took hold of Owen and hurled him up into a nearby tree. Owen hit his head on a branch, and he held onto it for safety.
"That was on purpose!" Owen confronted him, but screamed for his life.
"Maybe that'll teach you a lesson for nearly killing me, tubby!" Mal mocked him.
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The footage returned to Ezekiel and Topher stuck in quicksand still, Ezekiel holding out a stick.
"I don't want to die in quicksand," Topher moped. "I prefer a quick death."
"Be quiet and look!" Ezekiel hushed the junior Chris when he heard the bushes rustle and Ezekiel Clone hopped out.
"Ezekiel Two. Over here," Ezekiel waved the stick in front of his clone's face, to which he snarled and bit on.
"You've got it," Ezekiel said when the feral clone dragged him and Topher out of the sand, Topher holding on to Ezekiel. "We're nearly out."
The boys were soon out of the quicksand. An antelope was heard off-screen, and as it ran past, Ezekiel Clone growled and went off to chase the animal.
"Shoot him, Ezekiel! Now!" Topher ordered. Ezekiel stood up and readied his slingshot. He shot the ball, but rather than hit the clone, it hit the intern holding a camera and knocked him to sleep, much to their disappointment.
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The scene returned to Mal and Owen. Owen was still hanging on to the branch, but Mal was lying by the tree and whistling 'In the Hall of the Mountain King.'
Izzy and Eva arrived at last, and noticed Owen's plight. "What did you do to Owen, Mal?" Izzy squinted her eyes at Mal.
"I just gave him a little boost up that tree," Mal admitted.
"He did this to me because I ran into him by accident," Owen said.
"You are really petty," Eva told the troublemaker as Izzy stood next to the tree. Izzy kicked the tree hard, and it made Owen let go of the branch, but Eva was able to catch him in her arms.
"Call me whatever you want, but I just found some alien tracks," Mal smiled at the footprints on the ground and followed them. "Enjoy being put up for elimination!"
"Not if we beat you to it. Follow him!" Izzy commanded Owen and Eva, who obeyed willingly.
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Back with Ezekiel and Topher, they were following the footprints until they heard the bushes rustle.
"Did you hear that?" Ezekiel asked and the bushes rustled harder.
"It must be your clone," Topher guessed and they pulled the slingshots. "Ready your tranq balls. On three. One, two, three!"
They ran screaming, and the shot cut to the bushes to reveal Mal, Eva, Izzy, and Owen coming out screaming and holding their slingshots. Topher and Ezekiel shot their balls, and the other four did the same.
One by one, the six were shown getting hit in separate shots. Owen, Mal, Topher, Ezekiel, Eva, and Izzy. A big cloud overtook the scene and vaporized to show the contestants out cold with their goggles lying on the floor.
The music note icon promptly appeared in the top-left corner of the screen, accompanied by its usual ding.
"Iiiiiit's song time!" Chris announced from off-screen, the camera panning right to show him and Chef in a jeep a couple yards away. "Hello?"
The camera was suddenly filled with darkness. "Hey!" Chris shouted as an eye opened to show Chris looking down. "Anyone in there?" The scene showed that Chris was prying Mal's eye open. "What do you prefer? Dynamite or TNT?"
"Dynamite!" Mal answered the question partly awakened.
Chris focused on the contestants lying on the ground. "Half an hour of you guys sleeping?! Oh yeah, that's gonna be great for ratings," he said cynically. "I want a song, pronto! No matter where the tranq balls hit you and how "groggy" you might be. You will be eliminated if you do not sing at least once! Now sing!"
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[The African drumbeat that played from earlier started the song as Chris left and the camera panned down to Mal.]
"What a sickening day on the Serengeti! I just feel like kicking a pup!"
[Mal started the first line.]
"I'll find that clone and win this game! As soon as my leg wakes up!"
[As he sang, the camera focused on his legs not waking up and laying still.]
"You ditched us and went alone! You failed, and I find that pathetic!"
[Topher sang, his face against the ground.]
"We teamed up and almost had the clone! I wish we were a bit more athletic!"
[Ezekiel sang next while on his arms, adding "Really, we were that close!".]
"Almost, doesn't count to me! You didn't catch him, that's all!"
[Eva raised her head up and sang their way, turning her head to see Izzy crawl up to her.]
"To be fair, we didn't fare well! But at least we have our balls!
[Izzy sang next. "Tranq balls, I mean," she added.]
Owen stood on his feet, wobbling his body back and forth. "I should sing or I'll get kicked out. There's something I wanna say. Rhinos…and…lions…are really scary. My body…just…feels…like…resting!" He went back to sleep once more.
[Mal was focused on again, and he was attempting to get up.]
"What a sickening day on the Serengeti! I just feel like kicking a pup!"
[Mal stood on his two feet and noticed them bending over.]
"I'll find that clone and win this game! As soon as my leg wakes up!"
[His knees collapsed to the floor and made him bend.]
"My head!"
[Eva was holding her head with one hand.]
"My hand!"
[Ezekiel rubbed his hands together.]
"My arm!"
[Izzy flexed her arms to see if they're stable.]
"My face!"
[Topher mumbled groggily.]
"Wake uuuuuuuuuuuuuupppp!"
[Eva and Izzy sang together.]
"Wake uuuuuuuuuuuuuupppp!"
[Ezekiel and Topher sang the last line of the song together.]
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The shot immediately cut over to Chris and Chef. "Somebody better catch the clone fast 'cause the plane is taking off in exactly one hour, with or without you," he told the contestants, five of them standing still while Owen rested still.
Chris pinched his nose, then turned to Chef. "Man, you are ripe! But, you wanna watch the tranq ball massacre on the widescreen?" he asked.
Chef pressed down on the gas pedal and sped off, but as Chris had been standing he quickly fell off the jeep.
"Hey!" Chris called out. "Get back here! AND STAY AWAY FROM MY HOT TUB!" he yelled as he ran off after his assistant.
Eva heard the sound of snoring, and it prompted her to make her way towards Owen and kick his side, jolting him awake.
"I didn't eat the strawberry cupcakes at the bake sale!" Owen shouted. "Oh, hi Eva."
"I'm giving you one more chance," Eva warned Owen. "If you ditch me and Izzy again, you're on your own from then on!"
"I won't do it again. I swear!" Owen pledged.
"You two were right about me going alone," Mal said and strolled towards Topher and Ezekiel. "I'll work with you now."
"Now you're reconsidering your plan," Ezekiel snorted. "And what makes you think I'd assist you after you tricked Sadie and got her eliminated?"
"That girl was expandable, and I didn't want to deal with any couples left in the game," Mal explained.
"Even if they're weak-looking and easy to beat in a contest?" Topher asked.
"I'd rather take on a powerhouse than an oblivious fool anyday, anytime," Mal said proudly.
"Temporarily. We'll work together temporarily for this portion of the challenge," Topher sighed.
"That's all I need. Now here's what we're going to do," Mal got the prairie boy and the junior Chris in a huddle and whispered their plan.
Confessional: Mal
"As you saw earlier, I encountered a lion while I was by myself earlier. Having allies by your side is necessary at a time like this," Mal claimed. "Allies that are easy to shove in front of a dangerous animal and let them be devoured while I protect my life!"
Confessional Ends
The scene flashed forward yet again, this time showing Eva, Izzy, and Owen as they walked through the plains.
"I'll forgive you for leaving us behind this fast because I love you," Izzy said to Owen. "Next time won't be so easy."
"I already talked to him about that!" Eva reassured her. "You can lay off, Izzy."
"I just wanted to let him know, Eva," Izzy replied.
Owen sighed. "I'm sorry for being so cowardly. I'm too young to die, sure, but I can't ignore lives as well, especially if they're my friends." A rustling was heard just before he tripped and fell down with a cry of "Whoa!"
The camera pulled back to show Owen had fallen in a bush that was littered with red berries, with red stains all over him. "P.U. These berries are as smelly as my underwear during laundry day," he winced.
"It seems like you fell in a patch of Serengeti blood berries," Izzy told him. "They are a sight to see, but their juice smells just like fresh blood.
"I said sorry for leaving you with that rhino," Owen wailed.
"I didn't push you into that bush. You tripped and fell yourself," Eva said.
"Now I have to go wash off these blood berries," Owen moaned as he stood up.
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The scene moved to Owen at the edge of a pond, covered in red stains. "I'd rather be covered in strawberry jam than this," he complained as he peered into the water. A rustling was heard nearby.
He paused for a moment, and looked around. "What was that?" he asked before Ezekiel Clone showed up and sniffed the air.
He perked up and the camera cut briefly to the still berry-covered Owen washing up then back to him. The clone took the opportunity and launched himself at the fun guy.
The shot cut to Mal, Topher, and Ezekiel as they arrived on the scene. "This is simply entertaining," Mal said happily over the sounds of a violent and one-sided scuffle between Owen and Ezekiel Clone.
"I'm going to shoot if you two are just going to stand there like statues," Ezekiel said impatiently.
"Someone help me!" Owen yelled.
"Help is on the way! Eva shouted as she and Izzy arrived in time. The three boys got distracted by their arrival, and Eva wasted no time taking out her slingshot and tranquilizer ball.
A close-up was shown of Eva's slingshot as the tranq ball was loaded and drawn back, and the shot moved to show Owen trying his best to keep Ezekiel Clone from punching his face.
The shot came, and immediately knocked Owen and Ezekiel Clone into a deep sleep.
"We did it! We stopped that alien!" Izzy shouted to her friend.
"Technically, I was the one who put that thing to sleep, but sure, you can leech off my success," Eva said.
Chris and Chef returned in the jeep. "Congrats, Eva. You are on your way to first class!" Chris announced.
"I would've shot that clone if I didn't lose my balls on the way here," Topher claimed.
"Whatever you say!" Chris said with a smile. "Now quick. Grab Owen and let's get the heck out of Africa before that thing wakes up!"
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The footage skipped ahead one more time to the Total Drama Jumbo Jet as it took off from the Serengeti plains. The camera zoomed in to the top of the fuselage between the wings, Ezekiel Clone pulling himself up before prying off a panel and crawling in through the opening.
Confessional: Mal
"Looks like it's time for me to pack my bags today since I'm the one going home," Mal glumly said, but quickly smiled in satisfaction. "Or it would be if I hadn't suddenly found a loophole through all this."
Confessional Ends
A flash took the scene to the elimination chamber, where Chris was standing in the middle of the room with all six contestants. "Mmm, tension-y!" he taunted, holding out the stack of passports.
"Alrighty then, one vote for Owen. And, the lucky loser with five votes is...," Chris finally said, reading the last passport with a devilish smirk as he paused for further effect.
"Mal."
"Serves you right!" Eva smirked.
"See you never, Mal!" Izzy taunted him.
"So this is where my journey ends…" Mal scowled at the pleased faces of the contestants.
"I'd agree with that, but I have to say otherwise this time around, 'cause Mal is not the one going home tonight!" Chris announced.
"Are you kidding me?" Ezekiel yelled. "He got the most votes out of all of us!"
"That is true," Chris explained, "but I remember telling all of you to sing earlier. You did, but it seems one person broke that rule. And I specifically said that you'll be eliminated if you don't sing, so Owen, here's your parachute!"
The teens, except for Mal, gasped as Owen was given his parachute.
"You're implementing this rule now of all times?" Topher protested. "Some of us don't even sing the songs in every episode."
"True, but this time, I was placing the rule on everybody, not just a select few," Chris said.
"It is what it is," Owen sighed.
"Don't be so down. You're better than this," Izzy told him. "And you're not getting evacuated this time.
"That does make me feel a bit better," Owen smiled again. "And thankfully, Mal has been exposed to the public."
"Just one more thing before you go!" Izzy jumped into Owen's arms and they began to kiss each other.
"Ugh. This is what I wanted to avoid," Mal reacted with disgust.
Owen and Izzy finished their kiss and Izzy got off of Owen. "If you didn't know it yet, we're now boyfriend and girlfriend," Izzy reminded the funniest guy around.
"I'll miss you, but just know I'll be watching you make the finale," Owen said to Izzy and made his jump…only to get stuck in the exit. "Could somebody push me out please?"
The camera cut to the outside of the plane, and Owen could be seen falling out of the open door.
"I'm gonna miss that guy," Chris said idly as the shot cut back inside to show the host staring out of the door. "Now, Eva," the host asked as he turned back around. "Who you bringing to the big leagues?"
"It's a decision I'll regret," Eva said while Izzy smiled expectantly next to her. "But I'll have to choose... Topher."
"WHAT?!" Topher and the others reacted.
Confessional: Eva
"Izzy's my companion, but I couldn't let her be in first class for the third time in a row or her head would be overinflated with arrogance. If I bring Topher over, he could give me tips on how to stop Mal for good," Eva clarified.
Confessional: Mal
"They might miss the big boy, but getting rid of Owen for the second time was like scraping gum off my shoe," Matthew smirked. "A bit sticky, but oh so satisfying. I'll have Chris's rule to thank for that."
Without warning, the confessional door swung open and Chris leaned in. "Things are getting cra-zy!" he told the camera with an excited grin, the series' capstone theme playing in the background. "Thirteen down and only five remain," he continued as Mal scowled. "Who will almost die next? Find out right here, on Total! Drama! World Tour!"
He lingered in the confessional as the music ended, and finally noticed Mal. "Whaaaat?"
(Roll the Credits)
\
(Bonus Clip)
The clip opened up to a shot of Owen parachuting down. "I wanted to sing, but I was too tired to do so. It wasn't my fault."
"Like my other elimination, I was eliminated irregularly instead of just getting the most votes. I think that's lame," he admitted sadly. "On the bright side, I get to keep my brain and me and Izzy are sitting in a tree!" Owen sang. "K.I.S.S.-"
He trailed off while drifting down, eventually landing in the quicksand...right next to a lion. They were both sinking, but it didn't erase the fear in Owen's face and the viciousness in the lion's.
"S.O.S.! S.O.S.!" he told the camera as his parachute covered him completely. The lion roared heavily, and Owen started to scream for his life.
18th: Shawn
17th: Amy
16th: Lindsay
15th: Rodney
14th: Jo
Eliminated: Owen
13th: Duncan
12th: Sky
11th: Heather
10th: Cody
9th: Ella
8th: Noah
7th: Sadie
6th: Owen

This Support build's most recent outing was in u/Jayiie's 1mil DPS SS Hydra run. However, there is still quite a bit of room for improvement here, and I thought I'd share it in its current form both for feedback purposes and to satisfy my curiosity on its cost.
Build cost info will be shown in estimated real world dollar values, using the approximated conversion rates in the table below. The final cost estimate represents the amount it would take for a brand new player to copy this build right away as of today. (Disclaimer: Do not do this, it is a terrible use of hard-earned money)
If anyone needs help figuring out some of the abbreviations used in this post, feel free to ask, or use tools like VGER: https://vger.netlify.app/

In-game item/currency	In-game amount	Approx. EC cost as of 7-May-23 (if applicable)	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)	Assumptions
Zen	100		$1.00	Not counting bonus Zen from bundles nor discounts.
Master Key	1	12,000,000	$1.25	Not counting bundled keys, for simplicity.
EC	1,000,000	1,000,000	$0.10	12mil EC/key on the Exchange.
Refined Dilithium	10,000		$0.20	Exchange rate of 500 Refined Dil to 1 Zen.
Lobi crystal	10		$2.50	Average of 5 Lobi Crystals per Lockbox opened. Not counting the goodies from said lockboxes.
Reputation Marks	50		$0.01	Using Rep project to convert 50 regular Marks to 500 Dilithium.
Elite Marks	3		$0.02	Using Rep project to convert 3 Elite Marks to 1,000 Dilithium.
Fleet Credit	10,000		$0.20	Uses the terrible conversion rate of 1 Dil = 1 FC
C-Store ship	1		$30.00	Not counting sales.
Lobi ship	1	320,000,000	$33.33	~300mil EC per Lobi ship on Exchange.
Epic Phoenix T6 ship	1		$80.00	Assuming a 1/1000 (0.1%) chance for an Epic Token, and 40k Dil for 10 Phoenix Packs. RNGesus may greatly vary, of course. (It was more like 1/2190 for me)
Lockbox ship	1	1,200,000,000	$125.00	~1.2bil EC per Lockbox ship via Exchange.
Promobox ship	1	1,700,000,000	$177.08	~1.7bil EC per Promo ship via trade.

Screenshot version of the full build

Captain Details

Captain Name	Jill Stingray
Captain Career	Engineering	SUBOPTIMAL. Tact is the preferred Career for Support due to team-wide damage boosts. Sci also has better utility due to Subnuke Beam. The only utility Engi has here is EPS Power Transfer.
Captain Faction	Federation
Captain Race	Human	SUBOPTIMAL. Should be Alien for the extra personal trait slot.
Primary Specialization	Temporal	SUBOPTIMAL. Intelligence as Primary is better for Intel Fleet. But until they implement loadouts for Captain Specs, I will stick with Temp+Strat for all my builds.
Secondary Specialization	Strategist	SUBOPTIMAL. Temporal should go here instead, for Atrophied Defenses.

Space Skill Tree

Rank	Engineering		Science		Tactical
Lieutenant		Advanced Hull Capacity			Advanced Energy Weapon Training	Advanced Projectile Weapon Training
Lt. Commander	Improved EPS Flow	Improved Impulse Expertise	Improved Control Expertise	Improved Drain Expertise	Advanced Targeting Expertise
Commander					Advanced Weapon Amplification	Advanced Weapon Specialization
Captain		Offensive Subsystem Tuning	Advanced Exotic Particle Generator	Advanced Long Range Targeting Sensors	Advanced Hull Penetration	Advanced Shield Weakening
Admiral	Warp Core Efficiency				Coordination Protocols	Improved Tactical Readiness
					Defensive Coordination
					Offensive Coordination
0 Points Left	10		10		26

Space Skill Tree comment: My current generalist skill tree. SUBOPTIMAL and I'd suggest benchmarking this one instead: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903023278703140915/903067938872000532/casualsabskilltree.png
I would retrain if doing so did not also break all my saved loadouts...

Loadout

Slot	Item	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Ship	T6X Son'a Command Science Vessel	There are cheaper ship options for Support builds. But this one does have a nice combination of Cmdr Command (for CF3 and Inspiration) and Lt Intel (for Ionic Turbulence and UnconSys procs).	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
Fore Weapon 1	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]	Any Disruptor flavour will do, really. Just for the small chance of -DRR proc.	45,380 Dil	0.91
Fore Weapon 2	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]		45,380 Dil	0.91
Fore Weapon 3	[Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc]x2 [Spiral]]		45,380 Dil	0.91
Aft Weapon 1	[Omni-Directional Disruptor Beam Array Mk XV [Acc] [Arc] [Dmg]]		2.5mil EC	0.26
Aft Weapon 2	[Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Omni-Directional Beam Array Mk XV [Arc] [CrtD/Dm] [CrtD]x3]	For guaranteed -DRR on targets slower than I am	30,000 EC, 15,000 Dil	0.30
Aft Weapon 3	[Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Heavy Turret Mk XV [CrtD/Dm] [CrtD]x4]	Same as above, and stacks.	30,000 EC, 15,000 Dil	0.30
Deflector	[Iconian Resistance Deflector Array Mk XV [SciCD]]	Iconian D-E-C set for the 3pc set bonus chance for extra Energy Damage.	40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Secondary Deflector	[Inhibiting Secondary Deflector Mk XV [CtrlX]x2 [SA -Def]]	Instead of Deteriorating, so as to not steal too much DPS. Also useful for the extra CtrlX mods.	Crafted at Mk 2, upgraded to Mk 15, and then re-engineered. Which makes it hard to put an exact cost to this.	0.00
Impulse Engines	[Iconian Resistance Hyper-Impulse Engines Mk XV [+CRes]]		40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Warp Core	[Iconian Resistance Hyper Injection Warp Core Mk XV [AMP]]		40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Shields	[Tilly's Review-Pending Modified Shield Mk XV [Cap]x4 [Cp/Rg]]	Used for its proc to increase damage to shields	40,000 EC, 32,500 Dil	0.65
Devices	[Team Battery - Weapons and Auxiliary]	Team Weapons and Aux power level buff.	400 Dil /ea. 8k Dil for 20.	0.16
	[Kobayashi Maru Transponder]	Very minor overall buffs. Only slotting this because I already own it via Event, I do NOT suggest spending money on this.	8k Zen from Mudd's.	80.00
	[Deuterium Surplus]	From Crafting or Daily Mission: Defense Contract. More speed	From Crafting or Exchange, former is assumed.	0.00
Universal Console	[Console - Universal - Tholian Webspinner Array]	DO NOT SLOT. It did not occur to me at the time that the DPSer also has to slot this console in order to benefit from the bonus damage to held targets. Open to suggestions on its replacement.	8k Zen from Mudd's	80.00
Engineering Consoles	[Console - Universal - Tachyon Net Drones]	Huge AoE -DRR for an extended period and Shields Offline to affected targets makes this the most powerful Support Console of the lot here.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Hyper-focusing Trinary Arrays]	Massive -75 DRR to a chunky target of choice. Used on Tact Cubes and Gateways.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Deconstructive Resonance Emitter]	Small stacking -DRR in a cone plus disable, stacks up to 12 times, lasts 6 seconds	10mil EC	1.04
Science Consoles	[Console - Universal - Dominion Targeting Synchronizer]	Substantial Haste and -DRR on a single target. Used on Tact Cubes and Gateways.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	[Console - Universal - Mining Drill Laser Emitter]	Stacking -DRR over time on a single target. Deployed on primary target whenever off cooldown.	1x Lockbox ship, or 240mil EC for non-Rom.s Going to assume the more expensive option here.	125.00
	[Console – Universal – Magnetohydrodynamic Fusion Expulsion]	5km PBAOE that repels enemies and inflicts -15 all DRR for 10 second	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
	[Console - Universal - Deep Analytics Sensor Package]	Removes buffs, gives +10% shield pen and armor penetration for weapons to allies nearby	N/A. Comes with this ship.	0.00
	[Console - Universal - High-Energy Communications Network]	-30 DRR PBAOE for 20 seconds to enemies, allies gain +100 accuracy rating, +100 defense, and 20% shield resistance.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
Tactical Consoles	[Console - Universal - Approaching Agony]	-25 DRR in a targeted AOE 3 km radius for 40 seconds, 25% chance to disable	10mil EC	1.04
	[Console - Universal - Interphasic Instability]	-25 DRR in a targeted AOE 3 km radius for 12 seconds	Phoenix box prize. Hard to quantify cost, but is trivial to obtain.	0.00
	[Console - Universal - Cascading Subatomic Disruptions]	To primary target, -40 DRR for 10 seconds, to 2 secondary targets -20 DRR for 10 seconds, to up to 4 tertiary targets -10 DRR for 10 seconds	1x Lockbox ship	125.00

Officer Details

Bridge Officers	Power	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Superior Romulan Operative	Tractor Beam I	Unconventional Systems Proc 1, and triggers Carrier Wave Shield Hacking	160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Commander Science-Command	Photonic Officer I	Secondary CDR alongside Boimler Effect	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Concentrate Firepower III	Useful for support Kinetic Torp, EPG-Torp and DEW-Torp builds.	Crafted.	0.00
	Gravity Well III	Unconventional Systems Proc 2, and primary crowd control means.	500k EC	0.05
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lt. Commander Tactical	Beams: Fire At Will I	For most of the weapons on this ship.	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Cannons: Scatter Volley I	For the single Gamma Rep Turret	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Attack Pattern Beta III	-49.8 DRR to all targets affected by my weapons. Stacks with other sources of APB.	400k EC	0.04
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lieutenant Universal-Intelligence	Viral Impulse Burst I	Unconventional Systems Proc 3	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Ionic Turbulence I	Unconventional Systems Proc 4 and extra AoE -DRR	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
Superior Romulan Operative			160k FC, 40k Dil	4.00
Lieutenant Engineer	Emergency Power to Engines I	To keep up with the DPSer.	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Emit Unstable Warp Bubble I	Unconventional Systems Proc 5. Though it has such a long CD that Let It Go II might be better…	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
Superior Watcher Operative			10mil EC	1.04
Lieutenant Science	Jam Targeting Sensors I	Unconventional Systems Proc 6	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00
	Scramble Sensors I	Unconventional Systems Proc 7	Trivial cost from BOFF Trainer.	0.00

Traits & Duty Officers

Trait	Name	Description	Notes	Cost	Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
Personal Traits	Feel the Weight of Our Presence	Each friendly ship on the map debuffs Damage Resistance Rating of Foes within 12km by 0.5 for 10sec, stacking up to 12.5 for 25 Allies.	Best used with hangar pets, usually teammates have some.	7mil EC	0.73
	Invasive Control Programming	When you use certain Control powers on your target, also trigger random Subsystem Disable. May occur once every 30 seconds.	25% chance to KO enemy shields.	40mil EC	4.17
	Psychological Warfare	+20% Bonus Control Ability Effectiveness	Increases the pull strength of Grav Well, but not the pull radius.	50mil EC	5.21
	Astrophysicist	+10 Exotic Particle Generator, Drain Expertise and Perception.	Filler trait, I am open to suggestions here.	Free	0.00
	Into The Breach	Defeating an enemy debuffs nearby enemies' damage resistance rating by 7 per rank of the downed enemy.	I am unlikely to land killing blows on this build, but it's there if I happen to.	35mil EC	3.65
	Fleet Coordinator	+2% Bonus All Damage per Team member (Self included), up to 10%	Mandatory in Team TFOs.	Free	0.00
	Fragment of AI Tech	Improves Control Expertise. Improves Energy Weapon Damage based on Control Expertise (maximum 30% at 300 Control Expertise)	More for the +50 CtrlX than the damage boost.	35mil EC	3.65
	Intelligence Agent Attaché (IAA)	Weapon Critical Strikes partially recharge Captain Ability	Best used with an effective CrtH of at least ~50%, which this build does fall a bit short of.	45mil EC	4.69
	The Boimler Effect	Provides a chance for using Bridge Officer Abilities to recharge all other Bridge Officer Ability recharge times up to their respective Shared Cooldown Categories	Main BOFF CDR method.	80mil EC	8.33
	Unconventional Systems	Using Control Bridge Officer Abilities reduces the cooldown of all Universal Consoles by 7%.	Very important to get multiple uses out of all my console clickies in the course of an ISE/HSE.	50mil EC	5.21
Starship Traits	Superior Area Denial	Beams: Fire At Will & Cannon: Scatter Volley Debuff Foes And Apply To Pets	Extra -30 DRR, stacks with SAD from teammates.	1x Lockbox ship	125.00
	Redirecting Arrays	While Beam: Fire-at-will Is Active, Receiving Any Damage Grants 0.33 Sec Duration To Fire-at-will (15 Sec Total Duration Maximum)	Not as good an extender as ETM, but I am lazy to switch it up depending on whether the DPSer needs all the CF3 to themselves.	1x C-Store ship	30.00
	One Impossible Thing at a Time	To Self and Team: -5% Recharge Time on Captain Abilities (Max once every 5 sec)	Partly helps the team, but mostly helps myself use EPS Power Transfer more often, as this Support build does not have quite enough crit for IAA.	1.5mil EC	0.16
	Carrier Wave Shield Hacking	When your ship uses a Tractor Beam or Intel Power on an enemy, it knocks an enemy's shields offline for 5 seconds.	Parting Gift would also work as filler for DEW support.	1.5mil EC	0.16
	Electrified Anomalies	Your Boff Anomalies Deal Electrical Damage & Grant Power Boosts	Mostly for the power boost to allies, which is already being fulfilled by Greater Than The Sum. Might replace this with Digital Compilation instead.	17k Zen Mudd's Store	170.00
	Greater Than The Sum	Emergency To Aux And Command Boff Abilities Grant Hull+shield Regen And Subsystem Power To Self And Nearby Allies	Team Power Level and Regen Buffs	1x C-Store ship	30.00
Space Reputation Traits	Advanced Targeting Systems		+20% CrtD.
	Piezo-Electric Weapon Amplification		5% Chance with weapons: To targets: -53.7 All Shields. (Can trigger max once every 10 seconds)
	Precision		+5% CrtH.
	Tyler's Duality		~4% CrtH for this build.
	Radiant Detonation		To Target: 2.5% chance: 19.1 Radiation Damage in 1km Radius at Target and removes Buffs
Active Reputation Traits	Refracting Tetryon Cascade		Extra DPS on grouped targets.
	Quantum Singularity Manipulation		Supercharges Grav Well.
	Deploy Sensor Interference Platform		Extra oh-shit button
	Anti-Time Entanglement Singularity		Extra DPS on grouped targets.
	Bio-Molecular Shield Generator		Extra oh-shit button
Duty Officers	Emergency Conn Hologram	Recharges Evasive Maneuvers when Emergency Power to Engines is activated	From Phoenix Prize pack. For speed to keep up with the DPSers.	Easily obtained from Phoenix Prize pack, so I'm just going to skip the cost calculations here.	0.00
	Matter-Antimatter Specialist (Very Rare)	+25 CtrlX for 30s upon Emergency Power to Engines.	From Exchange. For a bit more pull for the Grav Well.	10mil EC	1.04
	Demera	Chance to create up to four additional Gravity Wells near the end of the duration of any Gravity Well activated.	DOFF assignment reward. SUBOPTIMAL. 27 of 47 would be superior, but expensive.	Free from DOFF assignment reward	0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
	-Blank-		Open to suggestions here.		0.00
Ground	Space Warfare Master (Epic)	+10% All Damage. (Space and Ground)	Elder Malik'itan.	Can only be obtained from Gamma Recruitment rewards.	0.00
					Total Approx. Real World Cost (USD)
					1,197.56

Subsystem Power Allocation

Subsystem Power Settings	Value (Target/Display)	Notes
Weapons	71 / 60	So as to not steal too much DPS with my weapons. Though between Electrified Anomalies and Greater Than The Sum, everyone's power levels should be almost always capped out.
Shields	79 / 60	Affects the extra damage to Shields from Tilly's
Engines	50 / 20	Effectively 70 due to EPTE1.
Auxiliary	80 / 60	Affects the -DRR magnitude from Ionic Turbulence

Ship Attributes

Ship Stats	Value	Notes
Hull	88,988	Affected by Personal Endeavour rank (750)
Shields	26,532	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Global Critical Chance	38.50%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Global Critical Severity	155.00%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
EPS/Power Transfer Rate	210.00%
Control Expertise (CtrlX)	277
Drain Expertise (DrainX)	110
Exotic Particle Generator (EPG)	174
Hull Regeneration Rate	185.00%	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Turn Rate	6.1	Affected by Personal Endeavour
Flight Speed	56.23	Affected by Personal Endeavour

My Lazy Spambar Sequence

Order	Ability	Remarks
1	Beams; Fire at Will I
2	Attack Pattern Beta III
3	Cannons: Scatter Volley I
4	Photonic Officer I
5	Emergency Power to Engines I
6	Nadion Inversion III	EPS Power Transfer III is manually activated on main DPSer
7	Focused Frenzy
8	Rotate Shield Frequency III
9	Brace for Impact III
10	All my AoE -DRR consoles clickies	Targeted ones like Trinary Arrays, Mining Laser and Targeting Synchronizer are manually activated
11	Ionic Turbulence I	Gravity Well III manually activated
12	Emit Unstable Warp Bubble I
13	Tractor Beam I
14	Jam Targeting Sensors I
15	Scramble Sensors I
16	Viral Impulse Burst I

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Remarks on Total Approx. Real World Cost

Roughly 1.2k USD for this build. Making this pretty much as expensive as an uber-meta DPS build. Little wonder then that there aren't more Support players around.

Appendix

1. Raw combatlog of the supported run, in case anyone wants it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHnlD-swdPfW1yD-2tZfx_4sHUcgjKVI/view?usp=sharing

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Ok I’m sure I’m forgetting things but here we go. K - Has been absolutely insane since breaking up with Matt. She’s either manic, on drugs, or both. My personal opinion is she is over taking her prescribed ADHD meds. K goes live from Matt’s house with the police there. Shows PPO and other paperwork taped to the window. K starts begging for money to get back to Michigan. Once her dumb ass supporters send her over $500 she then changes her story that she needs to stay and heal her soul at an EDM music festival in Michigan. She introduces a BOGO gift card deal for a dish room she doesn’t even have set up. Again, her supporters give her more money. K goes live from the storage unit. She says this is the same unit Matt used when they broke up previously. Still displaying manic/drug induced behaviors. She puts music on and starts unloading her rental vehicle. She also lets us know she will be fucking a DJ that night. Brock, a DJ from Michigan that wants nothing to do with her. @canadianaf__ has posted a majority of these lives to the page. K displays very concerning behaviors and states all of us are dead and none of this is real. Big Matt goes live at some point and shows himself carefree on his land on his boat. He claims to still love her and admits they both were physical with each other. K goes live again from her rental car for a short period of time. Puts the BOGO gift card deal up again. The live ends quickly. To the best of my knowledge, the next time we see her is in a blue teeshirt at her new Air B and B that she claims she received an amazing deal ok because she’s a “Social media influencer.” We also were introduced to a new character at some point that K states is her new best friend who is moving to FL with her to be her new assistant…. K goes live from the Air B and B asking for more money . She tours the Air B and B and shows us a room she states she will be sleeping with Brock in. It’s alleged that Big Matt is jealous of this Brock character. I’m sure some things happened after that but no one hears from K for several hours and Mark posts a Snapchat asking K’s supporters to call the Warren county jail to ask them to let K out. (Lmfao) A 911 call is released stating K destroyed a camera (we can assume at Matt’s house) and she is arrested. She is currently in the Warren county jail with no bail. Also it’s a holiday weekend so she won’t even see the judge until tomorrow (Tuesday.) Phewww I’m sure I’ve forgotten some things it’s been a wild ride. Personally I’m glad she’s where she is. Hopefully her family opens their eyes and realizes she needs serious help!! Please add any important details I forgot in the comments.

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There are sealed versions on sale on eBay but for 200 GBP.
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