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-Agnos Frost-Moon of Line Jiang, 9th Knowing with Specialities in the field of Metachronology 26-3 Zein smiled softly to herself as the weight of Naeko’s Soul returned. Her blade rang as it deflected an oncoming strike from a temporal echo. She continued circling time-made clone, not bothering to face her disciple when speaking. “Ah. Back so soon. Already have my words affec— Another presence cut her off. Naeko was not alone. Ah. Her students were speaking. Doubtless, the plague had convinced her…-
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- Truth Weight. Such was a thing all Godclads knew well: the ontological mass of Heavens and Hells grafted upon another Soul exerting miracles against your very being. In his short time as a Godclad, weight was Avo’s constant companion. He felt the feeble pressures of golems, the matching intensity of peers, the warning pain following superior rivals, and the crushing dread that hinted of lingering titans. Naeko was a power unto himself. Merely standing beside him made Avo feel as if a wasp caught in…
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-Dowager Valor-Seeker, Born Jiang, Consul of the Outer Court, No-Dragons 26-1 The Keepers of the Flame (II) Jakuta Ajayi greeted the Paladins flanked by two of his Agnosi. The last of their group was still communing with the Gatekeeper, projecting herself using thaumically-attuned streams from the oracle glass bound to her right eye. “Something came up,” Naeko said. “Paladin business. Is the Gatekeeper stable?” “Are you asking if it can be used without potentially collapsing?” Jakuta said,…
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-Agnos Sallid Alsyim The Keepers of the Flame (I) The Gatekeeper remained wary of Avo. The rattling of the surrounding bricks betrayed unconscious fear but also burgeoning hope. With how tethered the Gatekeeper was to the heart of this realm, its every reaction made the tapestry around Avo coil tighter. Scale was quite possibly the single most protected location on Idheim. Maybe in what remained of existence. Countless Domains pressed and pulled against Avo’s Frame. The waves outside ground against…
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-High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi to the 25-20 Wolf Among Hounds (II) Avo took in the shifting bricks within Scale and studied their patterns in the tapestry. As suspected, they were more than mere matter, for metaphysical around him lay knotted over multiple Domains. Space, Matter, Force, Chronology, and more ran entwined within the structure. But there was something more—a presence symmetrical to Avo’s own that rose from the structure’s depths. Veins of “calcified” thoughtstuff extended through the…
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- 25-20 Wolf Among Hounds (I) The inside of the aero was choked with awkward tension. Four sat across from each other in Kare’s aero. Three humans shuffled on faux warg leather while the monster among them inclined at an awkward angle, the dimensions of their body inconsistent with the height of the seating. Despite this, the ghoul betrayed no sense of discomfort. It didn’t even flinch as gunfire sounded from the outside—Guilder drones blowing apart a speeding aero for one reason or another. And…
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-Zein Thousandhand Behold Zein actually took a Phantasmal wisps quivered around its form, but somehow, there was a material substance to their existence—like something had crossed between the Nether and the reach. And that explained what the Gatekeeper was screaming above just hours earlier. Jaus. Dead gods. What the hell was he standing across? What the hell was this Avo? And its eyes… there was intellect there. The Chief Paladin saw Kare pushing herself off his jack station, noted how her eyes…
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-Aegis Threat Assessment: 25-18 Old Wounds (II) Naeko stared on at Zein for a few seconds longer, struggling to process the information. “A ghoul?” “Yes,” Zein said. Her eyes were aglitter with bitter joy. “Noloth’s big embarrassment? The bioforms they made for the Uprising? The flesh-fiends that’ll wrap their mouth around an active fusion burner because it has some blood on it?” “Just so.” Zein was fucking with him. He was sure of it now. The Chief Paladin struggled not to…
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-Quail Tavers, 25-18 “It was the Gatekeeper that unbalanced her. The Gatekeeper. And Jaus’ fear.” Zein said the words quickly, like she was yanking arrows out from her flesh. Considering the content of their dialogue, the pain likely felt no different. “After the betrayal of Noloth and the Naeko’s breath was returning to normal. An itchy patch was growing over his left lung. It hurt to speak, but pain was just a passing annoyance to him. “He wanted to… have the Gatekeeper run things. Or…
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-Random Stormjumpers argument 25-17 Griefer (III) The Infacer made an art of sliding below other players before jumping in rapid succession. The collision registered by the mem-data carried the force from the slide over into the jump, and an error in the sequencing resulted in impacted objects and avatars being launched high into the air. What followed were entire lines of players flung out from their trenches into the open air. In the twelve seconds it took them to fall, threading shots from on high…
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