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-Dowager Hua Far-Pearl upon hearing that the Stormsparrow will be in attendance at the trial 28-8 Opening Arguments (II) Vator appreciated the insides of Scale more than its exterior. Here, there was a sense of life to the place: movement; animation. Drones flitted about, passing through forming and dissolving alcoves as if wasps in a hive. Around them, the bricks of this miracle-infused structure shifted, offering channels and paths for the machines to proceed to their tasks. Emotion claimed that…-
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-EGI Hammurabi 28-8 Opening Arguments (I) Vator never quite liked the aesthetic of Scale. The entire concept was just so The youngest Greatling sighed. Perhaps he could regard it as a heart with valves leading out into each of the Great Guilds. Yes, that would be more palatable, but it still didn’t resolve the problem of the Paladin’s mountain fortress. Now that was a true monstrosity: an amalgam of shifting bricks was the best its creators could come up with. Yes, yes, the thaumaturgic benefits…
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-Jaus Avandaer 28-7 No Road Back "And you didn't lose me in this one?" Naeko asked. He was more tired than heartbroken at this point. "The husk I was?" Naeko laughed. It was a mirthful sound for such a rageful man. "I wasn't a husk. I was..." He paused. "No, we're not doing this. I'm going to tell you this right now. I'm going to give you the chance you never gave me. Never gave my Paladins. I'm going to do you kindness, a kindness you didn't give me. A kindness master didn't give me, a kindness that…
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-Mirror of the Inner Council Upon Receiving News of a Potential Forthcoming Godhunt During the Trial 28-6 All the Ways to Scale (II) Avo regarded the vast statue placed at the epicenter of the Court of Truth. Twin interconnected hands clawed out at the world. One bore a feather, the other a blade, and enshadowed beneath its pedestal, stood Naeko alone. The Chief Paladin was clad in his ancient combat skin, and the hound-like helmet enclosed around his skull painted his face in a dreadful visage. For a…
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-”Voidgazer S394” (Or-Thaum Void-Facing Observation Golem) 28-6 All the Roads to Scale It was a truth universally acknowledged by all Voidwatch-facing observers, that when a few million voidships start firing relativistic projectiles at a yet-detected entity, then a Godhunt might be soon to come. This was evermore the case for Bosun. She might just be the longest-serving Voidwatch observer among the Mirrors. She stayed on even as century-old comrades applied for periods of extended retirement,…
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-Jaus Avandaer 28-5 Proclamation All around Avo, bursts of static blossomed like flaring embers. The various EGIs were speaking to each other, trying to process the meaning behind his words. They shouldn't be together. He meant that in so many ways. Avo ignored Kant for now. They would understand soon. Everyone would. He was going to make himself clear. He was going to preserve Voidwatch's sanctity in whatever fashion he could, regardless of what followed. He let silence follow. The minds were not…
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-Ori-Thaum Inner Council 28-4 Nullification He already had His At Sphere Seven, his influence over reality was grander in scope and vulgarity. Reality was simply easier to bend to his whims. As ghosts casually stretched across out like a web that encompassed continental distances, his phantasmal watchtowers only amplifying his resonance. He was already pooling over the 4,000 golems he tracked, his mind encompassing their beings—a colorless membrane they would never be aware of. Nonsensical…
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-Cala Marlowe, The FATELESS Thoughtcast 28-3 Conjunction Avo called, and the gods of his cadre answered, but the effect was closer to a synthesis than a command. They materialized along the threading branches of his sequences, and his presence burned over them, an ethereal shadow layering them in a second layer of parallel ontology. The way they blended with his ontology was equally uncanny, remaining paradoxically themselves but also him concurrently. Templates slotted into their originals as…
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-Calvino, Enhanced Governing Intelligence 28-2 On the Precipice (II) Zein knew when someone was trying to use her. She knew this during her time as a child, living as her father's weapon, making up for her brother's inadequacies, defiling the spirits of her extended family, and otherwise rivals with her unnatural skill at violence. Her family's exploitation of her was a study in dissonance. They at once coveted the brutality she could exert, yet feared and scorned her for being a misshapen vessel. Her…
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-Fatalist Kassadra Ashthrone “Framebreaker” On the Precipice (I) Change had come to the enclave. Change beyond even Avo’s predictions. With each passing moment, more enclavers declared their desires for the future. At present, it was an approximately seventy-five to twenty-five split between those who wished to follow Essus to establish a new haven for the FATELESS and those who desired to wage war alongside Avo. Columns of glass were risen across the city, and across the dome, the Simulacrae…
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