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So much water! The magikarp's display was certainly impressive, but Vuduin was confident his Budew could preserve. But should he tell Budew to keep growing until the magikarp's flailing was ineffective? Or trust that Budew could finish it off now? It was his first battle, he should be cautious until he had more experience with Budew's power. For now... Plants needed water to grow right?



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A grin of satisfaction spread across Eldarin's face in response to his blade cutting heavily into the relatively soft stone. Despite this the statue responded quickly enough, lunging at him. Eldarin yanked his blade out and whirled, slamming his shield into the side of the blade to deflect it and prevent the statue from attacking again as quickly. Given this maneuver was successful

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Talon


Origin: League Of Legends


Equipment:
  • Main Weapon: Big Knife
  • Secondary Weapon: Blade Cloak
  • Inventory:
    • Lots of little shuriken(30?)
    • Smoke Bomb/Flash Gernade
    • Blahblah
    • Blahblah


Powers and Skills:
  • Blahblah
  • Assasin: Talon's blades cause an abnormal amount of bleeding and he can see blood from something he's attacked through minor obstacles and it is far easier to see in general
  • Blade Magic: Through a combination of wire and magic Talon can throw and retract his smaller blades with incredible skill and accuracy.
  • Cut Throat: A brief amount of focus and with a bit of magic, Talon can move behind an enemy nearly instantly, though they have a second or so to react before he can move again. This ability is difficult to use in rapid succession, in practice being able to be used only once in an encounter, perhaps twice given the circumstances.
  • Bag Of Tricks: Through the use of magic, reflective blades, and tricky use of light, Talon can make himself invisible to any onlookers within the circle of blades he emits. Does not work in broad daylight or open spaces.


Back Story/Bio: Talon was a gutter rat who grew up in the seedy streets of a cruel nation. He managed to survive through his wits and his blades. His skill with them caused several organizations to send recruiters for him, with the intent to either make him join them or kill him. Talon refused, killing all they sent. Eventually he was defeated by a single man and pledged his service to this man. Talon served his master for some time until he vanished, Talon then began attempting to locate his missing master. Now he is here.

Starting Location: Choose a location on the map.
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Alexandra Winters


Age: 16

Level: 2

Personality: Alexandra is a popular girl, and she's used to it. Even before her powers manifested she had a talent for inspiring loyalty in the people around her, sometimes even bordering on fanaticism. It all comes down to two principles: Always seem interested, to be honest, most of the time going through the motions of all the banal platitudes required to maintain "healthy friendships" is almost more than she can bear. She secretly craves someone that doesn't bore her. The second is: Someone is always on the outside, the unfortunate truth of the world is that social groups benefit from "outsiders", they serve as someone to hate, be that the nerds, goths, freaks, or geeks ultimately doesn't matter, but someone is getting hurt. Alexandra aims to ensure that person is never her.

Biography: Alexandra is an only child. Her mother is a revered psychologist, and her father is an acclaimed pharmeceutical researcher. She comes from wealth and never wants for anything, perfect life right? Not really, the truth is her mother is a stern and domineering woman, and her father a good and unambitious man beaten into greatness by his wife. Alexandra sees her father as a mewling coward for putting up with her mother's abuse, and that has colored her view of the world. There's the strong, and there's the weak. Pick a side girlie.

Power: Alexandra can see and influence the social attachments and emotions of the people around her. From binding you to her will to ensuring two people fall in love she navigates the labrynthine darkness within the hearts of her peers with horrific ease. Mostly she uses these powers to remain on top of the social totem pole, but the truth is she has no idea how much control she might have, and she's afraid to find out.

Prodigy: Alexandra is in full control of her powers most of the time, and should be progressing faster than she is. The problem is she fears her power.

Grades: A's for the most part. One of the benefits of popularity is easy access to other peoples notes and being able to put study groups together easily.



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So I was rethinking the classes and stuff. I like the weapon triangles in Fire Emblem Fates. I don't much like how magic is handled, though. You're throwing the book at your enemies (literally!) while using combat-hardened staves to...heal. I suggest swapping the roles of tomes and staves. Complex magic tasks, like warping, fortifying, and healing, should be adequately written in tomes, while cheap destruction should be the purview of staves. With that, I present to you the weapon triangle:
* Swords & staves beat
* Heavy (axes/clubs) & bows beat
* Polearms (spears, naginata) & hidden (knives, shuriken, kunai) beat
* Swords & staves

Now for the base classes:
* Lord: swords, access to McGuffin
* Mage: staves (ranged magic attack)
* Sage: tomes (support magic)
* Archer: bows
* Rogue: hidden
* Myrmidon: swords
* Fighter: heavy
* Lancer: polearms

Note that mounts are handled separately. Fliers generally cannot bear much weight, so knights and paladins are relegated to horses if they want a mount. Available mounts include horses, wyverns, dragons, phoenixes, griffons, pegasi, unicorns, and winged unicorns.

Promoted classes:
* Warrior: swords, bows (promoted from Myrmidon, Archer)
* Wizard: staves, tomes (promoted from Mage, Sage)
* Assassin: hidden, swords (promoted from Rogue, Myrmidon)
* Ranger: hidden, bows (promoted from Rogue, Archer)
* Paladin: heavy, polearms (promoted from Fighter, Lancer)
* Knight: swords, polearms (promoted from Myrmidon, Lancer)


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Name: Sayrn
Nicknames: Sa
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Class: Spear Fighter
Home country: Hoshido
Appearance:
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Personality: Sayrn is a very self confident person in everything she does. She enjoys socializing and competing with others. Sayrn can be overly attached to winning at times and not realize when enough is enough. For the most part she's a friendly individual though, easy to be around.

Biography/history: Sayrn lead a simple enough life. She lived in a small town in Hoshido, barely noteworthy save for how ordinary it was. Sayrn's competitive nature along with the help of the town miltia led to her quickly picking up a weapon and learning how to use it. This was perhaps a bit strange as her father was a simple monk and her mother a shrine maien, but they simply, as good parents, encouraged her to follow her passion. Though some preferred the sword she find the spear more appealing, both tactically and frankly elegantly. The uses of a naginata were limited merely by your creativity. Sayrn however, at her first taste of battle found that it was not the same as drills and sparring. It was a brutal match to the death and survival by any means necessary. Like many after their first kill, Sayrn threw up violently after the first time she killed someone. It didn't get better from their. Though Sayrn had no trouble in combat often afterwards she would find herself torn up over the battle afterwards.
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Weapons: Iron Naginata

Items: Vulunary x3

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The idea of peak oil and the associated consequences of this theoretical, but commonly accepted as true, idea, are both far-reaching and vital to our everyday life. The website, (peakoil.com), is a website that allows people who access it to explore and share ideas relating to peak oil and methods of dealing with it when it occurs. The site is interesting in the fact that it allows users to create posts rather than merely offering information for consumption. In my opinion this is a valuable resource as it allows for better spread of ideas, more perspectives, and an overall better learning experience. The ideas discussed here are inevitably similar to those that Richard Heinberg discusses in The End of Growth. That is to say, that the economy can not progress in the same way it has endlessly and that it will reach a limit, the difference being the website is more focused on oil.

Naturally many people have concerns over the economy and in particular one of the driving forces behind it, oil. Therefore it is no surprise to find many websites and other information sources dedicated to exploring this topic exclusively. The website (peak-oil.org) is one of those many sources. This website is dedicated to both producing and sharing articles that are related to oil, naturally focused on changes in its production, availability, and price. The website offers insights on a wide variety of oil related information such as market prices, investment advice and warnings, analyses of upcoming and past events, as well as speculation about the constantly shifting market. Much in the way that anything focusing on oil or the economy does, the ideas discussed by Richard Heinberg become relevant. Most of the information on this website is about the growth and lack there of, for oil. And most of it seems to indicate a downward trend in availability. This would agree with Heinberg's assertion that constant growth is impossible and that sooner or later it must come to an end, especially in regards to an economy fueled by a non-renewable resource.

The article, "This Time, Colin Kaepernick Takes a Stand by Kneeling" by BILLY WITZSEPT, was written and posted on September 1, 2016. It was distributed through "The New York Times", which is a fairly large organization by all counts. The paper's print version has the second-largest circulation in US cities, is owned by The New York Times company, and is generally accepted to be liberal oriented.

The main subject of the article, as one might guess from the title, is the recent behavior of football player Colin Kaepernick. More specifically, his actions after his famous act of sitting during the national anthem and his newest display of taking a knee during it. The author uses frequent quotes and pictures, as well as a video to support his information. The author sources the associated press for his images and nothing else. The tone of the article is mainly objective, however through the events they were chosen to be portrayed and information given, it can be asserted that the author supports Kaepernick. This stance is subtle, not expressed directly in word choice, but rather information given. The article only lists positive aspects of his decisions, not giving serious though as to whether his actions were anti military. In addition most of the quotes used are Kaepernick saying positive things, or positive things being said about him. Further more his donation to charity was mentioned as well as his successful performance at one of his games despite the negative crowd. Though the article makes no mention of political parties, it can be garnered that those of a right political view dislike Kaepernick for several reasons, such as his high-income undermining his point and the argument that his stand was anti-military and anti-veteran. Most media seems to support his decisions and by virtue of the right disliking his stand, we can assume that the left-minded individuals approve. Information missing from this article are more perspectives of disapproval and their reasons for such, as well as expressing how relatively little he stood to lose from this. This article does a fair job of stating what the original protest was about, as well as how it had devolved from that into meaningless squabbles about political correctness. The author's intended audience seems to be those divided on the issue, seeking information, or slightly opposed. I find myself feeling mixed about the author's stance on it. While I agree that standing against injustice is important and that he did so effectively, I can't help but feel there was a better, less flashy way to go about this. The way it was done inevitably caused widespread confusion the amount of attention garnered seems to have removed focus from the original intent.
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\Name: Eldrik Rampart

Personality: Eldrik is a cheery fellow, already ready for a laugh and some fun. Sometimes he fails to understand the serious of situations due to him growing up without much in the way of worries. His good-natured personality can be somewhat overbearing at times and he isn't much good at taking hints.

History: Eldrik grew up in a most happier world than most. His was relatively conflict free, not rife with pollution, corruption, and the myriad corruption that plagued other worlds. That's not to say it was without excitement, as Eldirk was an avid athlete of a game that was rather Tron-like in nature. He was good at it and when combined with his rather likable disposition, and admirable figure from the sport, he made friends easy. Life was simple, life was good, for a time...

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Items:
-Hover Boots(Like rollerblades but you can float a few inches off the ground while doing it. Or just use it for a flat boost in speed. Something like this.)
-Flashlight. It's a really good flashlight, about the size of a pen, but gives out light like no one's business.
-Advanced Clothing. Clothing comes a long way in the future, Eldrik more or less wears a jumpsuit that keeps him at an ideal tempture and reasonably well protected from cutting, though it's no match for real protective gear, it's better than standard clothing.
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Blackjack castles and hookers, barbie legs fishing pole

Mud slides maintained by moles and basically everything else.

Talltall people with limbs that change color as they grow. Walk everyone, only sign language, eat through gel arms. eat flowers acorns etc. Mostly walk everyone or use mud slides

Big mirrors on moutain for long range talking guarded my moles and upright deer with squirrels good at shaming people and keeping them from vandalizing.

Cube world, 6 moons, 1 has a bite taken of it, trippy af at edges and weird gravity. Orange sky, yellow/orange water.

Big old sky worms. Dunno why.

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Name: Mauve Montcroix
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance: Jet black hair trimmed short so as to prevent it getting in the way and carefully maintained so not a single strand is out of place. Fairly tall at 5 feet and 10 inches, or 178cm for you non USA peasants. Fancy clothing and a general air of refinement. Amber eyes that analyze everything with steady control, evaluating everything at a glance. Smooth skin. the controlled physique of a runner.

Personality: Mauve is a refined person and this much is evident in everything they do. Every step they take, both literally and metaphorically, is calculated and enacted with a calm precision. They are a bit of control freak and a perfectionist, preferring to understand everything and never being caught unprepared or run into something unexpected. Along the same lines, they are a bit of a neat freak, generally sticking to dress clothing and gloves, leaving no exposed skin except for their face and neck. They are very intelligent, easily retaining information as well as seeking out knowledge. This has resulted in a variety of skills that one might not assume Mauve has. He does come off as a bit arrogant

Weapon: Varunastra. Varunastra is a weapon that was hand crafted by x after discovering his semblance and becoming experienced with it. It is or more or less a collection of blade pieces that can link together. Two of the blades are different and serve as end pieces that allow a bow to be constructed. A special lightweight cord can attach the two and fire segmented blades as projectiles. The bow can use more or less blades to fire at longer or shorter distances as necessary. In addition to the blades being used individually as weapons via his semblance they can combine to form other weapons via combining the segments.

Semblance: Air control. Essentially the user can use telekinesis on anything within a 15 foot radius or within line of sight, given that the object is also airborne. The control is stronger the closer and lighter something is.

History: A general overview of their past and why they're at Beacon. Be as in depth or concise as you feel is necessary.
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\Education in America: And How To Start Fixing It

Education is a very important part of our society. It is the entire foundation for how upcoming generations learn about the world and how to interact with it. However, our education system faces several problems that prevent it from operating as effectively as it should. Now some of these problems are quite complex, which makes sense, as if they weren't, they likely would have been solved by now. Regardless, the problems that are going to be focused on are the interactions between students and teachers, as well students and other students. In addition, the problem of sleep deprived kids attending school and the focuses of our education system as a while. Thus, I propose later starting times for schools, a shift in the focus of early education, and a greater prioritization of resources for schools.

First and foremost, the easiest problem, teenagers are sleep deprived. Teenagers need around 9 hours of sleep to function properly. "Today nearly 3/4 get under 8 hours of sleep per night, and over 2/5 get 6 or fewer." Why Change. The detrimental effects of sleep deprivation are as varied as they are well known. "Sleep deprivation's impacts include: weight gain and eating disorders and increased risk of obesity, cardiovascular problems, and diabetes; reduced immunity; depression; anxiety; substance abuse; mood swings; behavior problems; suicidal ideation; and potential impacts on brain development. "Why Change. Furthermore, anyone who's tried to attend class on too few hours of sleep knows its awfully hard to learn anything. It's pretty clear that teenagers need more sleep and the easiest way to do that is to push the starting hours for schools up and inform parents, as well as students, that a regular sleep schedule is important. Evidence also supports that this is not only a good idea on paper, but also in practice. Several schools across the US have found that pushing up their starting hours has resulted in overall increased health and performance for students.

Secondly is the interactions that happen at school, in the way the students interact both with teachers and each other. It's clear from both personal experience and research that kids today are harder to teach than ever. “Why It's So Hard to Teach Students These Days." It is a question of students unwilling or unable to participate in learning and not respecting teachers enough to even try. Being able to command the attention and respect of students today long enough to teach them is a difficult feat indeed. With the shift towards technology and quick short blurts of social media, it results in a lower ability to learn. "Those habits are marked by short attention spans, a very limited vocabulary and unwillingness to look up new words, an aversion to lengthy passages, and a preference for “scanning” rather than close reading." “Why It's So Hard to Teach Students These Days." Fixing something like this is impossible to do in a single step. However, when looking for solution to a problem, sometimes it is best to look at the example of others. Many education systems across the world differ, but one that produces remarkable results is Japan's. There is one facet of that education system that would be incredibly beneficial to export to America. The first three years of schooling in Japan are not spent on exams and learning 'scholarly' subjects, but rather on how to act. "Children are taught to respect other people and to be gentle to animals and nature. They also learn how to be generous, compassionate, and empathetic. Besides this, the kids are taught qualities like grit, self-control, and justice." Brightside. These are traits that are shamefully lacking in American students. One of the ways Japanesse students are taught respect and hard-work is that instead of relying on janitors to clean the classroom, they are entirely responsible for cleaning the school themselves. In schools today it is rare to see students pick up after themselves, much less others. In the past it this sort of character building was left to the parents. However, it is becoming more and more apparent that this is not sufficient.

Teachers do far more than the job description and don't get compensated accordingly. According to a survey of more than 1,800 public and private school teachers conducted in the 2015-16 school year by the nonprofit AdoptAClassroom.org (of which I am the executive director), the average American educator spends $600 of her own money every year on basic supplies. Education Week. Imagine if, when going to work at a fast food place, you had to pay for spatula to flip burgers, to pay for replacement parts for the ice-cream machine. You are not expected to pay for these things, it would be un-reasonable to expect such a thing. Yet teachers have to deal with this everyday. And that's just in order to fulfill the most basic of educational requirements, let alone additional supplies that might make lessons interesting and exciting. But even beyond that, teachers spend far more hours than is on the job description, not necessarily because they want to, but because its virtually impossible to do the job competently without doing so. Hours they don't get paid for. Stack this on top of a mediocre pay grade to begin with and not only is the job difficult to preform, it's unappetizing to consider starting. Teachers are in high demand and short supply, "In 2008, there were about 3.5 million kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school teachers in the country, so we can expect almost another 500,000 to be hired by 2018. Also indicative of the high demand for teachers is the large volume of grants available for teachers." Teach.

grants availiable for teachers." Teach.

“Teacher Shortage Areas by State.” Teach: Make a Difference, Teach, 2018, teach.com/become/where-can-i-teach/sh….

Ness, Ann. “Teachers Spend Hundreds of Dollars a Year on School Supplies. That's a Problem.” Education Week, Editorial Project in Education, 28 Feb. 2018, edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/08/02/tea….

“Why It's So Hard to Teach Students These Days.” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 13 June 2016, jamesgmartin.center/2008/07/why-its-s….

“Why Change?” Start School Later, StartSchoolLater, 2017, startschoollater.net/why-change.html.

“10 Distinctive Features of the Japanese Education System That Made This Nation the Envy of the World.” BrightSide - Inspiration. Creativity. Wonder., Brightside, 14 Apr. 2017, brightside.me/wonder-places/10-distin….
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