Considering Elden Rings questionable "lore", I would have thought this was more likely to end up on PornHub with Marika stuck in a dryer crying out "Step Marika, Help!" to which she transforms into Radagon and bangs herself.
Played through a couple clans and its pretty much just as good as the first and mostly the same formula just with different mechanics, so that's a win. Usually on sequels they fuck with the sauce too much.
Correct, as Sanrith pointed out, very few people trade options with the mind set of being assigned the shares and will either sell at a certain premium/profit margin or feel comfortable enough that the contracts will expire in the case of selling puts in which case they pocket all the premium.
You can close out an option at any time before expiration if you're both buying or selling, the only question then would be at what premium. The closer you get to expiration the faster decay happens so you have to move fast on expiry days.
I get choked up just reading your posts and I know that's not even a fraction of a percent of what you have or are going through. If it makes you feel better to type it all out then have at it man, we're here for you as much as we can be. Just know that being there for your kids is all you can...
I'm halfway through the Reforged mod and can recommend it to anyone looking to do another play through but just want to spice it up a tad, but it's still 95% ER with a few tweaks and QOL.