YurixTheWanderer

2024 Retrospection by Yurix =============== I know that the month of December is not finished, but I wanted to at least get this started. I keep falling for the same tropes, believing that the New Year will be better than the last... but end up with a quasi facsimile of the previous year. With 2025 looming, I feel like this will be the first year where I feel like it will be WORSE than the previous one. I'm not saying that 2024 was horrible, but I have a lot of things I want to get off my chest before the new year starts. I can already tell that a lot of my yearly "resolutions" did not land as well as I hoped: 1- Lose weight: while I was able to drop 12 pounds this year, I am currently on a plateau. I try to reduce my plate size and portions, but with my folks constantly filling the fridges like we were back in the years of the pandemic, it's honestly hard. I even resorted to taking laxatives after working out (including my failed Jump Rope challenge) become an utter bore. It also

???: How are you feeling? Karyana: "Like my skin isn't my own. Like I'm becoming something I don't want to be... and that I'm forced into a fight I never wanted to be part of." ---- Demyan: "Medierth has been through enough. Every great city suffered, and everyone who could fight had to. Now isn't the time for conflict. We have to pull together and rebuild. Not just the walls and homes, but the relationships between all of Medierth's people. This isn't a problem one person can fix. We are entering a time of hardships, and the only way to make it through is by helping one another. ---- Karyana: So why is the Old World gone? Did Melothios destroy it? Or was it...? Scyens: To be honest with you, before the Old World ended, it was already in its death throws. Humans in their hubris and greed pushed nature beyond its breaking point. Islands of filth in oceans, unstoppable hurricanes, nationwide droughts, wars greater than any you have experienced... Not to mention how the richest