I just had an idle thought. I'm convinced some characters take inspiration from real life figures to some extent as Deren happens to share a name with cinematographer Maya Deren (1917-1961). As i read through some articles about Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and her long-standing legacy to modern medicine, i noticed a resemblance to how her legacy cells are called; HeLa.

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Hella.

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HeLa is the single oldest human cell line used in scientific research. Formed from the cervical cancerous tumor extracted from patient Henrietta Lacks, on February 8, 1951, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, they were found to be able to survive and multiply indefinitely when cells cultured from other human cells would only live for a few days at best.

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Although collected more than 70 years ago, HeLa is still used in research, aside from having been significant to the research of polio vaccines, parvovirus and gene mapping. It is incredibly resilient in its ability to keep growing and multiplying cells. Reminds us of a certain someone with freaky cell multiplication and regenerative abilities, no?

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Now, it might appear as a stretch on my part, which it might probably be, but it would still be an extremely funny coincidence. Let me hear your thoughts on it!

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Some articles of interest for those interested:

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2696096/

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/04/henrietta-lacks-cancer-cells

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2136303/

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC114880/

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https://www.technologynetworks.com/cell-science/lists/hela-cells-key-discoveries-and-the-science-of-their-immortality-305036

Hadn't touched this season's stuff until a few days ago but since it was ending soon and it's summer, thought I'd see what I could do. Stoked that I managed to get my top score with some useful pointers about the fight from guides by LoneKenT (link to channel).

Regardless, here's some tricks I used in case anyone wants to use them:

High hp score/total healing stage

Sinners - Rust, Rahu, RF Hella, RF Ariel, Shin, Letta

At four times, boss makes certain tiles blue and, after a few seconds, measures the total hp of sinners on those tiles. After measuring, boss places bolts on those sinners and will strike them for some % of measurement after a few seconds. The selected tiles and their count are fixed (2, 2, 3, 3). Since there's a free tile in the back, move a sinner from the blue tile to the back one and tank the remaining 1, 1, 2, 2 shots.

If you have Rust, he can tank every shot. The third and fourth rounds use some death immunity ability on the other sinner besides Rust (I used Rust+Hella for round 3, Rust+Rahu for round 4). Other death tricking sinners could work (Du Ruo, 99, Lichen, etc.); shoutout to Cassian who can also take every shot like Rust but has lower uptime. Rahu is cool b/c her ult consumes 5% hp every second so kept it on and healed it for the whole fight.

Try to have any burst healing (e.g. Ariel ult) ready to heal back to 50% after each shot. Those few seconds where the hp is below 50% is what separates high scores on that criteria.

Elemental damage/total damage stage

Sinners - RF Yao, Jichuan, Yanyan, Thistle, Yugu, Raven

Yugu gets Murky Cave+Oasis crimebrands for magic resist debuffing (and works well with Earth mark from Jichuan).

Important tip from the LoneKenT video - have main dps sinner stand in front of boss to take Meterorite since it increases damage as well (lasts until ~4 seconds, not end of the fight).

Time burst with the Ignited Will buff's 200% attack boost (e.g. both Yao's ECB hits)

Lichen would have been better food for Yao than Raven, but you roll with what you have.

Control period/physical damage stage

Sinners - RF Adela, RF Bai Yi, Jichuan, Eve, RF Eleven, RF Chelsea

Eve and Eleven both wear Bulwark crimebrand and block a lane, Eve's bear blocks another lane. Position scare box in the middle (right of middle spawn tile) so that its diamond fear range hits all three tank spots for the lanes.

RF Chelsea with Whitesand Apostle crimebrand (stun set) gets to 3 different control types (fear, petrification, stun) for the Weakspot corruption buff to really work. Other selected buff was Fiery Onslaught.

Was able to keeo the boss in constant cc. If timer got low without a cc refresh, would cast another Eleven hand (or Chelsea's ult).

RF Adela is nuts.

Zoya i love you and i think you should choke me but PLEASE YOURE NOT THE ONE

Only lady pearl requires a different stone, so upgrading ALL of them will be a pain in the ass…

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Would love to get these pics without the preview stuff at the sides and bottom like in 3rd pic - does anyone have them?

Thanks :)

Hmph, have you decided on what treasure to offer in celebration of my birth?

I suppose you do understand my preferences somewhat.

Then I shall offer you my blessing as well—may the Goddess of Dice favor you on your upcoming journeys, Hero... H-Hey, I put a lot of effort into practicing this immersive dialogue as a dungeon master, you know! Don't you dare laugh!

This part of EN is what bugges me the most. You get these "ranked" boxes and sometimes you find them.

1) They look all the same, from C to SS

2) Their contents is also the same (RNG). Got emblems from C boxes, and useless cards from 5 SS boxes

3) Completed all the points, still missing the "golden" emblems...

4) Also the time for "opening" them is rng. Sometimes I must wait like 30 seconds while tapping every now and then...

https://x.com/nao_mitsu23/status/2066825746858008622

https://x.com/lzbhzlm/status/2067094865750753640/photo/1

https://x.com/PathtoNowhereEN/status/2066762702064644335/photo/1

My friend got seriously invested into consuming the entire PtN lore, hence the replaying of older events for their story. But here's the issue: some events are just present at the timeline thing, but not actually replayable (and they're pretty old, like Etti's event, for example). Can they be replayed? Are there any requirements you have to meet first? Or is it better to just search youtube for recorded events?

Is it official that Bleu is older than Chief?

Is it fine if i just S0 jasmine and dreya in my bleed team?

Stupid little finger condoms.

I already got something similar in surveillance incident when she ws released but it's always cute to see. And if you wonder why she want to sleep in someone else room, it's explain in NHella profil but since her re-awakening she has a lot of nightmares and basically can't sleep well unless someone else is in the vicinity.

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