Christopher Brown
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-The Infacer to the “Sleeper” 25-10 Thirdborn The Infacer’s worlds left Avo stumbling. He refrained from triggering his Pattern-Nullification and continued the conversation. “You were here… trying to give birth? To a god?” “And so your solution was the Sleeper? Thirdborn. Something pure and clean.” As Avo spoke, something inside him quivered. There was too much of the Infacer that reminded him of Walton. The discomfort was philosophical; the countless parallels between the Famine of…-
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-The Infacer and the Famine of Emotion 25-9 Secondborn Egos Contrary to most, the Infacer quite enjoyed home invasions. Even when it was their “home” being invaded. Their favored prey were usually Nolothic nodes, and they kept that distinction by being among the few divers foolish or expendable enough to continue throwing their lives at the Infacer’s installations. They yearned to seize the Anvils—yearned to strike directly at the Infacer—and the fool that their master was content to see them…
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-Thoughtcast between Instructor Murta and Instrument Gellend 25-8 Nemeses (II) Avo didn't so much soar as he crawled, using minds and loci as footholds to slingshot his splinters across the district while keeping Emotion one step behind. They would not notice Avo’s raid until it was done, and so neither would Emotion, peering out from them as he was. The Enigmata Knots numbered eight and masked the three-hundred and eight-five square kilometer district under veils of raining scripts. So dense were…
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-Ying Yang Wei, the Stormsparrow 25-8 Nemeses (I) The flames of the Conflagration were found wanting. An ordinary mind would have turned to cinders within its caress, but directed against the Embodiment of Conceptualization, it became an ember trying to consume a star. Avo’s ghosts propagated within the inferno, his fire devouring its lesser. Two additional branches extended from his consciousness—subminds building upon his ontology. Sequences sprouted from sequences as Avo’s cognitive capacity…
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-Guard Hannata Kanders, Regular and survivor of the “Twelve Minute Offensive” 25-7 Return Fire (II) The Kolot gigafactories was where it all started. Supported by a grid of twelve techno-thaumic reactors that amounted to a total of twenty thousand deaths, the factory district was a succulent raid-target in of itself even if a few other options remained richer in resources. What compelled Avo to strike here was simply how subverted it already was. The sheer brutality of the workplace conditions…
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-Memories jacked from Paladin Kaeders on the day of the “Twelve Minute Offensive” 25-6 Return Fire (I) While his base mind suffered the toils of diplomacy, the rest of his consciousness embarked on a shared adventure of extreme material harm. The decision was made even before the conversation with the voiders began. With his ascension to Overheaven, he now had an unparalleled advantage in operational tempo and asymmetry. More importantly, he wanted to give Veylis and the Infacer something to be…
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-Records taken of a reappeared Vincintine “Ripperjack” Javvers before his apprehension by Stormtree 25-5 Compliments (II) Avo cut through the EGIs meandering. Calvino continued off of Kant’s point without pause. “Idheim?” Kae asked, eyes narrowing. “But… why?” Avo knew this history. They were speaking of gods. Heavens. A shared silence followed as narrowing tunnels of static formed a darting weave between the EGIs. It was clear that the minds were actively talking even as he…
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-Quail Tavers, School of the Warrens 25-4 Compliments (I) With Rend emptied, the enclavers restored, and the situation stabilized, another impromptu gathering had been called on the part of Avo. His near death and ascension made new options available to him, but the downside to such an evolutionary change was inexperience. It took time for him to learn the nuances of his Conflagration—his warminds. It would take time for him to fully comprehend the limits and capabilities of his new form. Time that…
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-High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi 25-3 The Knower of Totality (II) Avo poured into existence without form, for what shape did a dream truly hold? When he arrived, he was a thought melting into the world; he was a mind that dwelled above other minds; above all, he was a fire — a flame born of consciousness and divinity, bridging the material with the metaphysical. His presence was only hinted at by an ethereal shimmer, an incandescent flowing over the accretions of lesser minds. They called to him as…
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-The Mad Monk Alsyim, Fallwalker 25-2 The Knower of Totality (I) There is no destruction like being forgotten. Avo’s ghosts swallowed portions of the world, siphoning away the matter of the real as sequences. When the transference was complete, they were shunted across to oblivion, trauma shattering the ghosts that bore them, unmaking materials reshaped into memory. He became as if an invasive tide crawling across existence, drinking vulnerable patterns into himself and consigning them with his debts…
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