Lots of this can be bought with a handful of Thul/Ral/Pamethysts.
Weapons:
>5guided Widowmaker
>278ed 2os Heaven's Light
>BK Mythical Sword
>173ed 7ll Titan's
>Razorswitch
>Naj Staff
>17med 253ed Insight in eth CA
>4os 3bow Mat Bow
>Eth Balrog Blade
Shields:
>3os 29fr 31pr Head Hunter
>5maek Lidless
Spirit Shields:
>35fcr 102mp in 44@ ST
>35fcr 103mp 7msorb in 45@ ST
>35fcr 93mp in Monarch
>35fcr 105mp in 12ed sup Monarch
Armor:
>Que-Hagan's
>4os 1131/1138 def ebug Balrog Skin
>3os 13ed sup Gothic Plate
>4os 15/13 DS
Helms:
>15dr 22@ 1os COA
>G-Face x2
>2os 34str Giant Skull
Boots:
>30frw 10fhr 142ed% 3dex 39cr 18fr greaves
>Silkweaves
>Tancred Boots + Ammy
Belts:
>Arach
>Goldwrap x2 (one is upped)
>17fhr 47hp 5lrep 24cr 26lr 27fr plated belt clvl22
>24fhr 17str 43hp light belt
Gloves:
>LoH
>34 Chancies
>2jav 15str 27cr 19mf Gauntlets
>Trang Gloves
>Frostburns
Jewels:
>+26 max dmg
>15ias/9cr
>Plain 15ias x3
Charms:
>Traps GC x2
>Shadow Disc +28hp GC
>40% EG GC x3
>127ar 12fhr GC
>126ar 35hp GC
Jewelry:
>1sin 17fcr 45eg 21mf amulet
>2pnb 19fcr 17mp 19fr
>2nec 16fcr 17mp 19fr
>Rising Sun amulet
>Dwarf star x3
>28/30 Nagelring
ISO:
>White Diadems and Eth Throwing Spears @ pul/ea
>Arctic Set Quilted Armor
This is something that's been on my mind for a while now, and I wanted to share it.
For context, I regularly watch YouTube videos related to video game news, reviews, let's plays, that sort of stuff. However, since Desmond's passing, I've been feeling that something has been missing from my daily routine. Something exciting.
I really miss either tuning into Etika's livestreams on YouTube or feverishly anticipating for good ol' Jon (jade[d]) to upload a VOD that usually consisted of the entire livestream(s) because I had become accustomed to watching Etika's content in that particular format after watching highlights of his streams from ARORA and im salt.
About a week after I found out about the unfortunate news, I went back to jade[d]'s channel and tried to finish where I left off on an archived livestream, but I couldn't look at Desmond the same anymore. I watched for about an hour, then headed to bed. I haven't watched any of the VODs since.
I only wish right now that I could have flown to New York City sometime around late June of this year and hang out and talk with Etika about his internal conflicts (I'm a Psychology major and hope to become a Marriage/Family therapist), but at the time, I was in a lot of credit card debt (and still am) because of "miscellaneous fees" my uni started charging me for starting in my third year.
Now, whenever I get onto YouTube and watch the latest uploads from channels whose videos I regularly watch, it doesn't generate that much excitement for me as it did when Desmond was still alive. It's a strange feeling..
That’s all. If anyone can relate it’d be somebody on this sub. 😅
I recently finished playing brotherhood ( I played AC1 then 2 then brotherhood, and these are the only games I played ). Im slowly getting kinda lost in all the pieces od eden, temples and the shiny chick speaking nonse. So is there any recap of just Desmond's story?
Thank you.
The ceremonies and celebrations for the wedding were as to the competitions. Small, yet expensive. Only a few had shown up for the melee and tourney, but a few was fine, it was the cost that worried Roslyn. 50 gold dragons were to be handed out to both winners. Her uncle had told her a tourney was nothing without a good reward, but she hardly thought 100 dragons was reasonable.
Nonetheless, it was too late to go back.
Some AC fans are a fan of the modern day arcs and some are simply not. Some are fans of Desmond Miles and his story and some are definitely not. Regardless off which camp you reside in, I just want to say one thing:
No one likes the current modern day arc or are indifferent to it. Ever since Desmond died, the modern day portions went downhill. At least with Desmond, all AC games were connected. Desmond Miles as the protagonist made sense because he was special, simply because of his heritage full of skilled Assassins and because of the significant amount of Isu blood inside him. There weren’t enough Modern Day sections to fully develop his character the way it was developed with beloved Assassins like Ezio, Edward, and Altaïr. And the modern day gameplay is only boring because Ubisoft didn’t give enough effort to make a worthwhile modern day experience the way the rest of the AC games were. Hell, they still don’t with the silent unnamed protagonists and Layla.
But regardless of where you stand, we can all agree that the modern day sections and story went downhill after Desmonds death. And at least with him, the AC community wasn’t as displeased as they are now. I feel like Desmond deserves a second chance and be able to return as the series’ Modern Day Protagonist.
There’s a pretty big love of Locke for how cool and elaborate of a character he was, but Desmond?
Dude was a ex-monk who was just trying to beat Charles Widmore at a race around the world so he can get back with the love of his life, Penny.
He then crash lands on the island, spends 3 years pushing a button in a bunker to save the fucking world.
Comes back to blow up the hatch and gains some time travel powers. The whole scene with him going back in time and talking with Eloise as she explains what is happening is what made LOST so intriguing too me.
He now has a huge burden on his shoulders to save Charlie from his constant death. I’d argue the two best LOST episodes we’re Through the Looking Glass and The Constant, where Desmond probably shined the most.
After that there’s obviously the Constant which again is one of the best 40~ minutes of TV I’ve ever watched.
Him in the flash-sideways where his job is to bring everyone together was beautiful, the fact that the “island wasn’t done with him” and he was the last person Jack ever spoke too before he sacrificed himself.
At the end of AC3 Desmond had a choice keep Juno trapped by allowing the solar flare to devastate Earth and then lead the survivors as a messianic figure or sacrifice himself to activate the "Isu ozone" and protect Earth from the flare but allow Juno to go free. As we know Desmond chose the second option trusting in his fellow Assassins to be able to handle the threat Juno would pose. But how much of that was influenced either consciously or subconsciously by having just relived Connor's memories.
I think most of us would agree that Connor is the most self-sacrificing character we've played as and I think the freshness of that personality possibly even due to slight bleed effect might have guided Desmond in his ultimate action. If Desmond had been given the same choice right after relieving Ezio's memories or had had another person's after Connor's so they weren't as fresh Desmond might have made a different decision.
Ravens fly to all the lords of the Reach and Westerlands except for Honeyholt, Three towers, and Starpike.
>To Lord/Lady [enter name here] [Titles]
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>You are invited to the wedding of Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown and Desmond Flowers of Brightwater Keep in Vinetown of the Arbor in the 9th month of 228 AC. There will be a celebratory feast with the finest Arbor gold and red, as well as the best refreshments Vinetown has to offer. As well, there is planned to be a small melee and tourney for those equipped for such entertainment.
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>Flowing Red
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>Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown
A Raven flies to Honeyholt
>To Lady Joy Beesbury
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>You are invited to the wedding of Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown and Desmond Flowers of Brightwater Keep in Vinetown of the Arbor in the 9th month of 228 AC . There will be a celebratory feast with the finest Arbor gold and red, as well as the best refreshments Vinetown has to offer. As well, there is planned to be a small melee and tourney for those equipped for such entertainment. I also ask that you bring my uncle Ser Gilbert ans well as his family. I would wish them to see this occasion.
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>Flowing Red
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>Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown
A raven flies to Three towers
>To our friend Lord Marlo Baelish
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>You are invited to the wedding of Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown and Desmond Flowers of Brightwater Keep in Vinetown of the Arbor in the 9th month of 228 AC. There will be a celebratory feast with the finest Arbor gold and red, as well as the best refreshments Vinetown has to offer. As well, there is planned to be a small melee and tourney for those equipped for such entertainment. I would welcome you to Vinetown gladly, and ask that you attend out of our houses' friendship and alliance
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>Flowing Red
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>Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown
A raven flies to Starpike
>To our friend Lord Lorimar Peake
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>You are invited to the wedding of Lady Roslyn Redding of Vinetown and Desmond Flowers of Brightwater Keep in Vinetown of the Arbor in the 9th month of 228 AC. There will be a celebratory feast with the finest Arbor gold and red, as well as the best refreshments Vinetown has to offer. As well, there is planned to be a small melee and tourney for those equipped for such entertainment. I would welcome you to Vinetown gladly, and ask that you attend out
To get right into it:
I fell asleep pretty early one night a few nights ago, and I barely remember what happened in the dream or what led to it, but I know Des was in it. After posting that video, he decided against taking his own life. He was found walking the streets of NYC, and life went back to normal. People came back into his life, and he was so happy again. I dunno. He was back to streaming per usual, and so on so forth. He was happy.
I woke up that following morning, so blissfully unaware that I dreamt, and I was beyond happy. Then reality came crushing me down, and I felt destroyed.
I miss him so bad.
Czar Chasm.
People call it out for being too big of a departure from normal AC content during that point in time, but for me it provided context and closure. In fact, those six short puzzle maps had better writing than the entirety of Unity, Syndicate, and Odyssey combined.
It’s just Desmond alone, working through a computer-generated reflection program, considering his place in this larger struggle between Assassins and Templars. Trying to justify the things he’d done, the way he was stuck in disbelief, wanting to escape a place that to him felt stifling and dogmatic.
How he had never been given a choice in this ancient war, that the words of the Creed were constantly drilled into him without his consent or understanding. And for a short while, his escape from the Assassin order was pure bliss, a paradise of freedom compared to his old life.
But when the Templars came for him, his life came into focus sharply for the first time. He realized that the stories his mother and father had told him were all true, and that he had a role to play in this struggle.
The last words he says at the end of the program are:
“My name is Desmond Miles. And I am an Assassin.”
Powerful stuff. No side quest nonsense, no vapid half-baked appeals to historical figures or the grand fight. Just one dude, trying to find himself in the chaos and make sense of everything. And at the end of it all, embracing that chaos by reaffirming his position in the world.
It made a full circle back to what Altair had said to Al Mualim.
“Do you regret this life?”
“How can I regret the only life I have ever known?”
Rest in peace, Desmond. Let’s hope Ubisoft has the sense to leave your memory alone, instead of violating and resuscitating your dead corpse for future plot contrivances.
So, we all remember shitting our pants with the ending to AC II when Minerva warns Desmond of the impending 2nd Solar Flare. But then we learn in III that the using the Eye and protecting the Earth from said Flare releases Juno. Which Minerva is ostensibly against. So, why the fuck would she warn Desmond in II if she didn't want Juno released? Wouldn't it have been more prudent to just not warn Desmond through Ezio?
When we last left the side of renowned and loved silent film director William Desmond Taylor, he was lying dead on the floor of his bungalow and his valet was shrieking for someone--anyone--to help. Little did the valet know that "help" would indeed come, but the only people being helped were the ones who hired William Desmond Taylor to clean up the tarnished image Hollywood had earned for itself.
In the second part of our epic story involving the unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor, as well as the greatest cover-up in Hollywood's relatively short history that followed it up and set the scene for the next century, we'll be looking not just at the crime scene and the shenanigans that occurred there, thanks to Taylor's employers, but also the LAPD's primary theory of who killed Taylor and why that's most likely wrong. Then we'll look at all three major accounts that have been explored in our main secondary sources of who could have done it and who was responsible.
We'll dive into the life of an obsessed teenage girl and her wicked stage mother and the political powers that protected them, the enraged drug dealers and an actress struggling with an addiction to their product, the failed actors and filmmakers who moonlighted as bottom-feeding petty criminals, and the powerful moguls who loomed over it all and made it impossible for Hollywood to ever be the same again; all in the epic conclusion of History Impossible's The Great Hollywood Coverup.
I still can't believe this happened to him :(
