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Act 2 - A Will to Pleasure follows the Colonel as he seeks pleasure in the heart of the wild Comanche empire, turned thriving Texas Hill Country, turned desolate and violent and ruthless once more. A harsh landscape and a society without technology, laws, or base human agreements to guide us. Here in the New West, three lives intertwine in a quest for meaning, pleasure, and power.

LOST. CONFUSED. SILENT. Three words that we have said or felt at one point or another. Too Familiar and not fulfilling. It’s a tough moment when we turn around and realize that where we are and where we want to be don’t look the same. It’s one thing to experience this feeling. It’s another thing to feel stuck there. Maybe you’ve been there. Faith feels shallow Friendships feel surface level Future feels suspect Freedom feels stressed Life can start to feel like a closed box that we can’t find the key to unlock. Settling for going through the same pain and mundane motions in life.

Miss Mary Morstan has received a single, valuable pearl every year on the same day for the last six years. The sender has remained anonymous - until now. This year, a note was included with the pearl: “Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theater at ten o'clock. If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged woman, and you will have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be lost. - Your unknown friend.”

Act 3 - A Will to Power follows Caroline on her drive to power in the heart of the wild Comanche empire, turned thriving Texas Hill Country, turned desolate and violent and ruthless once more. A harsh landscape and a society without technology, laws, or base human agreements to guide us. Here in the New West, three lives intertwine in a quest for meaning, pleasure, and power.

After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon's life in a very small way. They say the "Living Jade Empire" creates individualized quests. They say it can read your mind. They say you can find your heart's desire. They say that there has never been a game like it, and they are right, but they are also wrong. The game is a data mine, built to retell the old tales that humans have been telling each other since language was invented.

Captain Amara Corrin, hero of the late Solar Wars, commands the first colonial fleet. Full of hopeful dreamers looking for a new home, world-weary ex-soldiers, and those just seeking escape, five ships set out from Earth with the hopes of humanity behind them. But Amara soon finds herself with more trouble than she can handle. The Council, Earth’s new governing body, has saddled her with their political rivals, exiling them to a place where they could do them no harm.

This is a tale with a twist. Unlike what you would hear in other fantasy series, where there's a despotic madman in need of overthrowing where the story follows a group of plucky underdogs, this is a tale focusing on said aforementioned despot as he goes about his business with the express intent of getting a group of plucky rebels to overthrow him. Because what's worse than absolute power? Absolute responsibility.

On the scorched world of Schism, all life survives in huge trenches, protected from the heat of the torrid sun. In these chasms, human colonists often find themselves at odds with the indigenous humanoids called Spiders. Jake's airship, powered by ancient technology, takes advantage of the unique terrain, but makes him valuable to both sides of local warring tribes. The captain and crew of the Sky Turtle are forced to risk everything in a fight between these followers of opposing elemental magics.

When neighborhood dogs keep turning up dead, Peter commits himself to finding the killer. His investigation leads him nowhere - until it doesn't. It isn't long before Peter finds himself on the ultimate quest for truth.

All throughout the world, obesity has been identified as a rising epidemic. Obese men and women are often the most labeled and criticized population compared to any other group. Many people view fat shaming as a bad thing, but could it actually be a good thing?

Best friends Stephen and Marco attempt a go-for-broke heist to break into the high school prom and get Marco onstage to confess his love for (and hopefully steal the heart of) Benji, the adorable exchange student and bass player of the prom band.

Wedding planner Adam More has an epiphany: He has devoted all his life’s energy to creating events that he and his partner, Steven, are forbidden by federal law for having for themselves. So Adam decides to make a change. Organizing a boycott of the wedding industry, Steven and Adam call on gay organists, hairdressers, cater-waiters, priests, and hairdressers everywhere to get out of the business and to stop going to weddings, too. In this screwball, romantic comedy both the movement they’ve begun and their relationship are put in jeopardy when Steven’s brother proposes to Adam’s sister....

Less than two days. That’s all the notice America gets of a fast-approaching solar storm so unprecedented in scale it sets the geomagnetic scientists in a panic. Many citizens don’t have the resources, or even the concern, to take preparatory measures for the overhyped-sounding warnings that life as they know it is about to be over. Joel McConnell, a self-made Washington DC businessman and survival hobbyist, is not one of those. But bugging out with his culture-loving girlfriend before the solar flare hits proves to be a too much of a challenge on such short notice.

This children's adaptation of Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle's original work will captivate young readers with abridged and modernized language. Introduce your child to the world of Holmes and enjoy this classic story time and time again. When a German nobleman's engagement to a Scandinavian princess is threatened by the blackmail of a former love interest, he calls upon the only man who could handle such a delicate matter - Sherlock Holmes. With his "calculating mind and cold heart", Holmes carries out a brilliant covert operation to gather all the information needed to save the day and earn his opulent reward.

In the Lord's year 1303, a holy order of knights faces the brink of extinction. Their holy crusade falters as a fiendish monster from beyond the mist decimates their numbers. In desperation, the Knights Templar dispatch a unit to find an ancient relic hoping to tip the scales in the battle against the forces of darkness.

The atmosphere of Mormyr is so dense and turbulent that the surface is unreachable by any conventional means - which apparently made it the ideal place for the enigmatic Gallacellans to abandon a spaceship in the distant past. Now they want it back, and have approached Titus Charlot to enlist his help. Grainger believes the task is much too dangerous, but the Hooded Swan must answer a mayday call, which turns out to be a trap set by a madman who wants to salvage the abandoned ship-and will stop at nothing to achieve that end.

Lukas first dreams about the end of the world when he's five. As a prince of the hound clan, he is steadfast and loyal, able to take the form of any hound. Yet, no one believes him except his grandmother. The shadows, a corrupting force determined to suck the life out of everything on Earth, have infected the hound court. How can Lukas survive to adulthood? Then battle non-corporeal creatures and save the world?

Doc Meadows, frontier doctor working in the small town of Salvation, has always considered himself a sensible man and has not believed in monsters for a long time. When injured half-Indian Wolf Cowrie staggers into his practice one night, however, he brings terrifying news - a vampire he hunts plans to settle in Salvation and turn it into his own private larder.

A femme fatale who goes by the name "The Diplomat's Daughter" is assigned to take down the world's most high-profile Sicario, a task she will execute using "Devil's Breath," a rare flower that removes all free will.

The players in Living Jade Empire grow as their adventures expand their experiences. The game is also expanding its experience and growing more complex. Danika explores new job opportunities and slowly admits to her own feelings. Relationships develop with time, and actions are taken that extend the time available for several of our players.