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Another short one. I can promise that the next few will most certainly be longer.

Scene Three

Even when you're gone I
Find that I'm still searching my mind
In my deepest dreams I
Dream that I may someday find you.
-Terathiel, 'Everything I've Known'

A dark-robed figure sat in the solitary throne, his face a shadow. The messenger sweated, anticipating his command.

"Speak," the bitter voice of the master grated.

"The rumours are true, my lord. From our sources within Nightsilver, and reports of our own, it is determined that, yes, the legions of the Dead God are rising."

A barely perceptible shift from the enthroned figure. "Must we fight?" he rumbled, tapping the blade leaning on his throne. "Can we fight?"

The messenger's eyes drifted to Demon Edge, and back to its wielder. "I do not think we have a choice, my lord. We are situated far too close to the Narrow Maze to simply sit out the storm, so to speak."

"I have seen death. It takes us all, in the end. Some sooner than others…
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Hi :D I'm a South African Dota player, and I would like to find some fun people to play with :P, but I would also like to know if you have any pros, or cons, or complaints and stuff about your server xD. My current MMR is quite low and I'm ashamed >_< and I mostly just play pubbies.
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This one's a bit shorter. Oh, and for anyone wondering, I'll be putting a few lines from a poem, song, speech etc at the beginning of most of these chapters, to give you a vague idea of what to expect. INTERTEXTUALITY

Scene Two

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God.
-Sylvia Plath, 'Fever 103'

"I do not want to."

"You must."

"Magic kills."

"Yet it also brings life."

Tentatively, Rylai stretched out her hand. It was shaking. As she watched it, that long-forgotten caress of cold tickled her palm, and the air crystallised into tiny icicles that danced.

Then she remembered, the blood and the horror, His cruelty and His laughter.

The ice disappeared.

"Leave me alone!" she screamed, covering her face with her hands to try and tear away the vision.

Auroth frowned. It had been two years, and Rylai's scars were still raw. Inwardly, she cursed the Psychomancer who had caused this, murdered the Crystal Maiden's companions in cold blood before letting…
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One mans quest to boost his winrate.

Essentially I felt like sharing my current in DOTA goal. Because I'm not willing to do my calibration matches as of quite yet (I'm getting there, I just still feel like waiting a bit longer before I enter the murky waters of ranked), I felt like I should have a DOTA goal I would be aiming towards.

And when I was looking at my dotabuff (Shameless plug; http://www.dotabuff.com/players/96149094), I looked at my win percentage (Relatively small number of games, but hey), and so I decided upon it. I will try to both reach and maintain a 60% winrate from now till I start playing ranked, because I like the feel of the nice round number.

Now, it's very similar to the idea of hitting a certain MMR I'll admit, but it'll do the same things. Encourage me to continually get better and better ect ect ect.

So yeah, goal is set. Progress of the first day... Sad because I dropped .02 of a percent due to a poorly timed Lion pick making me go 1-1, but hey that's …
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I didn't want to do this.

Actually, let me rephrase that. I *really* didn't want to do this. Especially considering I'm about to enter into my HSC Trials, last thing I should be doing is getting bogged down in another drawn-out story.

But I did. Like a ******.

So this is set post-events in Outside the Cycle with a different focus and cast members. It's got an... interesting opening. Warning for the squeamish.

The Waning World: Act One

Accursed Reunion

Scene One
Nightsilver burned.

Flames leapt from the glittering branches to crackle ominously in the sky, the orange tongues a startling contrast to the deep blue of the night. Around, indistinct forms ran, desperately trying to extinguish the flames.
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An underground cell, the only light coming from a smouldering torch, almost burnt out, set in an alcove high in the wall. Within the cell, one man sits, hunched over, yet his stance is still defiant.
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Buckets of water are being passed around; sections of the blaze are extinguished, b…
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So, I've been messing with bots recently (during which I may or may not have been drunk) and I decided to try something that had no valid reason to exist: A right-click Pudge build. Now, this might be a troll build, but it is one that could fool a scrub like me into thinking it is a super secret Illuminati-Tier build that will let me win TI6.

Now I've tried couple different routes but the one that I found to be the most "feasible" looks something like this:



And you will want to eat this as soon as possible

Yes, you're reading that right, and granted I have not tried this in a pub yet since I don't feel like getting reported (again) but I feel if I were actually a skilled player who could land hooks on a target that isn't stunned, hex'd or beyond point blank range, I could make it work.

So an overview of these items.

Boots of Travel is pretty straight forward as it gives Pudge 100 extra move speed and get around the…
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Both life and Dota put up a lot of resistance to me playing this match.

On the life spectrum: I've been busy working on my grandparents' new apartment, and have spent more time away from my computer than I like to. Between spackling, sanding, painting and what have you I've been a busy beaver. And tired. Very tired. It's been a while since I slept this well.

Nobody cares, talk about Dota.

Thank you, voice of reality. ;_; On the Dota spectrum, when I finally set aside time to do this match, there were a LOT of hiccups. The first time I loaded into a game one of our teammates just sat in fountain until he received an abandon. Thankfully, Valve detected poor network conditions and the match wasn't scored or this would be a very, VERY short and somewhat angry blog post. After that, people failed to load into my game not once, but TWICE. I finally decided to take a break, play some Sunless Sea (amazing, by the way, you should ALL PLAY THIS), and then return to matchmaking, and I…
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Hey there, one and everyone. Safecyn here.

I thought today I'd share a bit of the stuff I work on that you never see, for one reason or another. This in particular comes from a guide I was writing on Clinkz, just... just in case you hadn't guessed that from reading the title.

And? Are you going to tell the good people of Dotafire why you never FINISHED your guide for Clinkz?

I... I am literally the worst Clinkz who ever Clinkzed. I just couldn't ever do well enough to feel confident giving advice.

Didn't stop you from writing the Brewmaster guide, though.

I'M GOOD WITH BREWMASTER NOW OK GOSH.

Anyways, on to the meat of this thing. Be sure to click the link that shows up for appropriate music!
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Hello one and everyone! Safecyn here, bringing you a guide to...

I knew it. I knew right after that freaking blog post that this was coming.

And... this is a problem? You don't …
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Something I wrote for fun.
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There she stood, smiling coyly at anyone who would look her way. From my seat, I witnessed her spurn all advances directed towards her, leaving a large number of disappointed people in her wake… until she looked at me.

"AYY LMAO," I said, and her eyes widened. She dived onto my lap, undressing down to underclothes in an instant in an ecstasy of memes and lens flares. Michael Rosen smacked his lips and nodded, "Nice." Her lips, more perfect than RTZ's GPM, moved closer to mine…

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I awoke, and remembered the harshness of reality - that I was not yet an MLG n0sk0p3 m45t3r, and that there were no pretty gamer grills I could seduce with a come hither look and a tipped fedora.

I staggered out of bed, trying to avoid stepping on any empty Doritos wrappers or cans of Mountain Dew. Successfully navigating the minefield of snacks that littered the floor, I opened the door and stumbled into the hallway, heading for the bathroom. I turned …
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I am on a bad losing trend right now, its just been the past few days but I've literally only won like 1 game. I have free time so I'm wanting to play, but it just has not been working out. But why?

Well I've done a lot of self-evaluation believe me, and I'm not really on tilt. I'm starting out every game fresh and ready to do things right, and the game just keeps falling apart. Like it's ugly. A few games I have lost because of complete ragers and idiots, but most of them are just kinda..nothing works.

So what is it?

Well at the end of almost every game I win, there's something I say:

Nice job guys, everyone did their part

This sentiment goes nicely with the old adage that DotA is a team game.

Why do I say that? I say it because at the end of a good game everything interlocks. Your supports babysat well so you were able to farm well and then mid could go help offlane and offlane could gank your lane and you got items up you got wards up you picked your fights and went as a team …
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