The Unbeatables 3 Cast

[Cora Devries]

TheUnbeatables I (双天至尊I) is a Singapore drama series that was made by Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's (SBC) Channel 8. The popularity of the series led to the production of 2 follow-ups, The Unbeatables II and The Unbeatables III.

King of Gamblers, Yan Kun and King of Deception, Long Tingguang, both set their eyes on Coral Island - an undeveloped empty island- for their future casino landmark. Through underhanded methods, Long wins the gambling match with Yan and thus acquires the rights to the island. Yan is then forced to blind his own eyes, while his wife is made to commit suicide, leaving Yan's five-year-old son an orphan.

18 years later, Yan's son has grown up as Lin Jianfei. His happy-go-lucky attitude is a cover for his ultimate goal: to avenge his parents' misfortunes. His gambling skills draws the attention of Long's enemy, Qiu Huaifeng. She hires Lin to work for her family's casino and Lin uses this opportunity to perfect his gambling skills.

Later, Lin and his friend, Xiangnan, are mistakenly arrested for illegal gambling by policewoman, Luo Qifang. Qifang and her sister, Wenxin, both turn out to be Lin's neighbour. Over time, the bickering pair become romantically involved, and Lin reveals his true identity as Yan Fei, the son of the King of Gamblers.

A Singapore card expert, Robert Chew, was engaged to teach the cast card tricks. SBC also engaged Jiang Dou Hai, who directed gambling stunts in Hong Kong gambling films, to teach the cast for two months.[3]

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As was the case in its first go-round, it is the thrilling music-making that distinguishes this production. And, with a superior cast and a great Wagner ensemble in the pit, Siegfried proved that rare thing, a completely satisfying experience, both musical and dramatically.

Siegfried is Stefan Vinke, who was making his Metropolitan Opera debut Saturday. The German tenor has sung the role at something close to two dozen open houses around the world, as well as performing other lead roles in other Wagner operas.

Vinke sounded heroic, like Siegfried should. His middle range took some time to open up in the first act, and in the last scene in Act III, with Brnhilde (soprano Christine Goerke), there was often a stertorous bluntness to his attacks. He does have to be heroic, and Vinke was that throughout, singing with passion and charisma, nearly always expressing a feeling of striding over mountains.

The excellence continued in the smaller roles. Konieczny had a marvelous, flat-edged darkness to his tone, and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy had a huge, bottomless sound as Fafner, even without the artificial reverb used to make him sound like a dragon. Soprano Erin Morley had a beautiful coloratura sound as the Woodbird.

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Cast iron skillets are extremely useful kitchen tools that cater to several cast iron-specific recipes but some people shy away from using them because they come with some rules of engagement. Unlike your other pans, these skillets need to be what's called "seasoned" before use. Seasoning is super easy and the basics of it entail coating the pan in oil and baking it in an oven. The reason cast iron skillets need to be seasoned is that the process bonds the oil to the surface of the pan, reducing the likelihood of rust forming and food sticking.

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Strahd, a powerful Vampire, is the main villain of the adventure, and, as the book describes, he is not a villain that will only show up for the final encounter. Strahd will, certainly, appear many times during the adventure, either to probe the characters, to scare them, or generally to play with them. In the many times I have run the adventure, I never had any problem with this encounter until now.

The party met Ireena, helped with her request, and stayed a little bit too long in the Town. Long enough for Strahd's spies to inform him about Ireena leaving her house in company of the characters (they insisted) and, well, pay a visit to the characters when they were returning from the Tavern to the Burgomaster mansion. Strahd had no intention of actually harming the characters or even getting Ireena here - it was just to, well, make an introduction and... be Strahd.

However, the party has a very beautiful Half-Elf with 16 Cha who grabbed the attention of Strahd. He proceeded to Charm her and Bite her, just as a sign of "affection" - again, no intention of harming, I was not even rolling damage here, I only made the character in question roll the Wisdom Saving Throw and told her to "role play as if she was charmed by a vampire" when she failed - the player was fine with it and joined the role play nicely.

From one point, I can understand their frustration: they felt powerless. On the other, that is... kinda one of the points. At this point in the adventure, they are powerless against Strahd. He presents himself as an unbeatable encounter, who is there for his own amusing.

Other than that, there were many points - most sadly missed by them due to they worrying about how unfair the encounter was - in that encounter, which I tried to convey at the best of my abilities. These will be listed in the spoiler below as they are part of the Curse of Strahd adventure, but essentially, it was a nice opportunity to give some hints about the relationship of Strahd and Ireena, as well as introduce some Vampire Features to them.

I made Strahd constantly call Ireena "my beloved", while, even the high charisma half-elf, he only would call by "my lady" or stuff like that, never using anything resembling "love", since his love is only for Tatyana.

I used it as an opportunity to present some of the features and spells from Strahd, so the players will be better prepared when they actually face him. That's the main reason I used his Charm, a Ray of Frost and the Bite action on the PC.

Speaking of the Bite action, it was also my way to introduce them to the idea that just biting a character is not enough to transform them in a Vampire or Vampire Spawn. Until then, the players (and the characters) believed being bitten by a vampire would lead to immediate transformation.

One of my players also believed Silver would scare Vampires, but there is no such trope in 5e vampires. Sadly, he did not try out that, but it was the opportunity for him to find out that it does not work.

So, overall, I think there are many reasons for the encounter to happen, both from an in-game perspective, and simply to provide some useful information to the players and characters. However, they felt powerless, that the encounter was unfair and generally frustrated, even asking me "what is the point of this encounter?" in the middle of the encounter.

So, how can I present such an encounter, which is essentially unbeatable at this point, without frustrating them? I am asking because I plan to have them meet Strahd after the events in Vallaki again, and actually have a little bit of a combat this time, depending on how they behave, but I don't want it to end up being a "again this unfair fight? There is nothing we can do at this stage please stop throwing him at us".

Some things: First, I do not want to tell them "Don't worry he won't kill you" - they should be scared. And he will kill them, depending on how they act, and how bored he becomes with them. And I also would prefer to not disclose the spoiler'd reasons for the encounter, I would prefer them to find out by themselves that those were clues. I also think, even without them, there is enough in-game motivation for the encounter to happen from Strahd's perspective, and he is a character that I want to develop as well.

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