#traal

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“Cuddle break”

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Traal!

Gabbi’s mobility service Massiff! Feat. some tasks that Traal performs to assist Gabbi.

Retrieval and Accessibility - Traal can help Gabbi be more accessible though tasks such as picking up items from the ground or off tables, opening and closing doors, and turning on and off lights.

Mobility and Counterbalance - Traal uses her body weight to help Gabbi maintain his balance when walking. She also acts as a brace to help Gabbi stand up. This was a task Traal didn’t learn until later as they needed to wait until she was fully grown and developed.

Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT) - Traal lays on Gabbi and uses her weight and heat to help mitigate symptoms. These include but not limited to reducing muscle and nerve pain, mitigating PTSD and panic attacks, reducing stress or anxiety, and coping with flashbacks.

One final, not shown, task Traal preforms is acting as a barrier between Gabbi and people or droids around him. This is especially crucial when they are in tight crowds or when Gabbi is just feeling overwhelmed or panicky due to his PSTD or anxiety. Phycial contact with Traal helps ground Gabbi in these situations as well.

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Traabyrn - Mobile Link

Name: Traabyrn / Traa

Titles: the Dutiful

Tribe: GummGumm

Clan: (pre-thralling) Neger, (post-thralling) Grügun-Hashlan

Family: Mother: Rielos, Step-father: Rhiger, Father: Byrjhen || Brothers: Byrjhen II, Rhiegos || Sisters: Narah, Shirgath, Skyros, Elgros, Eirath

Dwelling: The Darklands

Skills/abilities: Combat, combat training, singing, playing the hurdy gurdy

Bio:

Traabyrn is a thrall who initially fought and fled Gunmar to keep hers and her family's freedom. However, after years of running, working, and caring for her injured family members, Traa fell prey to Gunmar's promises and agreed to become one of his soldiers. After being remade as a thrall, Traa dropped her surname and became one of Gunmar's guards. She is loyal to Gunmar, even without the thralling, and does as best as a thrall can to serve him.

However, when she was thralled into the army, she was officially declared "tribeless" as she was part of none of the gummgumm clans currently marshaled under Gunmar's rule. This, plus her half-changeling heritage, made things especially difficult for her in the army.

But things took a turn for the better for her when she accidentally ran into a Grügum hopeful (an outsider/clanless troll looking to earn their place in one of the 5 Grügum clans) who decided to take out his frustrations on her. Being already angry, he went full-fight mode and she not only defended herself but managed to defeat him. Because he was a hopeful and already slotted to join the clans, the clans took this as a "sign of providence" and invited her to become a hopeful and take the trials instead. She did and became part of Clan Hashlan which trained her to be a specialist in traps and close-combat melee.

In more current times, Traa was the thrall who initially pinned down the trollhunter after the bridge was destroyed and has since learned of the boy's cunning. However, with the trollhunter now in the darklands, there is great hope that they all will escape to the surface lands and complete their missions of taking over the Surface Lands.

Read more here

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Day 06 - Your favorite online game.

If by online they mean through a browser then my favorite, if only for it's incredible ability to satisfy it's genre's requirements, is Traal - a survival horror that runs in your browser.

It's brilliant.

A full single player narrative that has little story behind it, leaving your best horror storyteller (your imagination) to it's work.

Sometimes when it's dark, I feel that something may be waiting round the corner... with a big lidless eye... and a tendency to scream...

I wish I was joking, this game is scary.

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Scary game where you move around a maze full of monsters, a proper horror game.

Runs in a browser.

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The Noble Sir Teenage Eccentric Vs. The Ravenous Student Finance Beast of Traal

It's been a while, folks, so forgive me if i'm a wee bit rusty!

Welcome! it said, This is too good to be true, thought i! And soon i was wading through the murky depths of Student Finance, with nought but a password and bank details! For those of you who are unfamiliar,student finance is a great steaming quagmire of form filling, beaurocratic nonsense and NO FUCKING HELP AT ALL!

To start with, the entire layout is counter intuitive, find the page on site, and you are welcomed not by a login system, but rather a jumble of orange boxes, none of which are relevant to anyone competent enough to be needing student finance. The LINK to the login, not even the sodding login itself, is hidden away in a tiny box that melds handily into the background like a chameleon at the end of an expensive night out. Once here, 3 things are requested of you, your id, your password and your SECRET ANSWER. This is all a tad much for me, considering that an email address must be entered further on anyway-stop trying to be a hipster website and let us use the dull, mainstream TRIED AND TESTED system of email and a password (2 bits?). The id number is about 11 characters long and is in no way memorable! Surely the UCAS id would work just as well, and those without just have their name?

But oh no, instead i must now retain another fucking number to the deepest recesses of my brain because logic has no fucking place in this swamp of cunting incompetence.

Once past the supposedly unbeatable lock of a password and the name of my favourite teacher, we come to page after page after page of inane form filling and probing questions. Now, i'd think it to be a fairly self-evident truth that i will have support from my parents due to the fact i'm filling out a form that will give me crippling debt for a while, but apparently, i'm unique in this thought. So now i must decide whether or not to enter the income details of my parents, of which i know nothing about anyway.

 Once completed, this journey through the unbridled manefestation of bollocks, you are left to wait for a letter that must be signed in order for you to actually receive any money at all. this is then, PRETTY FUCKING VITAL. I, myself, did not fall into the category of lucky recipients of sed letter, discovering to my surprise, only 4 weeks away from my freshers week. Having quite happened upon this by chance, i rang their offices where all i got for 10 minutes was an incomparable apology, akin only to that of someone who has shat on your carpet and wiped with your childhood hero's face. After this, i finally got the letter, which i have promptly signed and returned, hopefully able to get my loan before i need to pay rent!

I, however, am not alone in this tragedy, as i know many others who have fallen afoul of the ravenous student finance beast of Traal. Let this serve as a warning to future generations who seek to take on this mighty foe and return unscathed from the gates of this living hell.

STUDENT FINANCE IS A GIGANTIC PILE OF HORSE BALLS.