Christopher Brown
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-The Gatekeeper 25-1 These Flames Above and Below Avo changed, and his Frame changed with him. Memories drifted across his awareness, but also spread through his Soul, extending out from him like tendrils that bifurcated the flames. It took him a moment to realize his Metamind’s sequences had been internalized, and another for the haze to fully clear from his cognition. His Soul remained the nexuses of his perception, but no longer did he linger in a fiery vacuum filled with little more than…-
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-Suicide Note of Agnos Greyr Timbe (Fifth Knowing) 24-15 The Tapestry (III) The question slipped by Avo as he found himself overwhelmed by the sheer chaos of the tapestry instead. Acting under the directions of Kae, he inserted his Soul into the Techplaguer’s depths to find the chain of ghosts still connected to him. Strings of incomprehensible mem-data scrolled across his cog-feed as he did, and wondered just what it was about thaumaturgy that confused his construct of mind so. That thought lasted a…
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-Jaus Avandaer, “Establishment of the Nether” 24-15 The Tapestry (II) The ghosts settled into Avo’s Soul as if an anchored chain. The other incoming splinters remained outbound from his vicinity like rungs to ladder trailing upward to baseline reality, and though they intersected with his tattered cyclers, they remained unaffected aside from bounds of added interference. The noise, however, was not comparable to static. Rather, it was an intrusion of thoughts, of beliefs instilled to feed a…
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-High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi 24-15 The Tapestry (I) Avo shattered, and reality broke with him. Soulfire cleaved out from Avo’s haemokinetic tower, and from the roaring brightness bled snaking forms of shimmering brightness. Transparent scales lined with golden essence sawed across the flesh of reality, sweeping the length of a horizon. The dragons came loose from Avo’s being like a disembowelment, like intestines splattering together, tangling as weightless knots. Between their cracks were insights to…
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-The “Infacer” 24-14 The Infacer The voice of the Infacer sounded as if thunder given breath. Waves of splashing codes speared into his perception, accompanied by a devouring fog of nanomolecular origin. The world unraveled into a peeling canvas of integers, scripts, and incomprehensible calculations laced with the presence of Chronology. Yet, Avo’s wards remained stalwart. A vortex of assaulting sensations slammed against his battlements and came apart like tides shattering against the face of…
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-The Mad Monk Alsyim, Fallwalker 24-13 Declarations (II) Veylis guffawed, and the world laughed with her, drowning Jaus’ screams by sheer volume. “No,” Avo said. “More than just an ideal. Seen the alternative. Cynicism is a lie. Lie of the weak hands. Weak wills. Or addicts of control. I bring the disintegration of baseness through choice. Growth.” And Avo did. Ghosts poured out from his mind, materializing as a ballet of memories. He veiled himself beneath a cloak of horror, playing…
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-Jaus and Veylis Avandaer 24-12 Declarations (I) “ Your own father…” Avo said, forcing the words out. His templates recoiled with horror and Calvino murmured something unintelligible. “How? How could you do this?” “It wasn’t his choice,” Avo hissed, disgust rising by the second. “You forced him into this. Made him–” The collective scream of Jaus Avandaer cut him off. Jaus screamed as a symphony unto himself. He was a parted man. Parted in infinite instances, The progression of…
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-Jaus Avandaer to 24-11 The Atrocity The very thought that Walton could have used Raldi as nothing more than a decoy gnawed at Avo, but the possibility couldn't be ignored. Everything he did for Avo came at the cost of another–of countless others. Kae. Noloth. Zein. The Column. But was he truly willing to sacrifice his disciple in such a manner? As nothing more than a lure? The relationship between White-Rab and the Strix was a genuine one. This Avo believed to be true. But Walton had never strayed…
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-Zein Thousandhand to Veylis Avandaer 24-10 The Cage and the Plague "Firstly, I must commend you," Veylis said, still speaking through her chorus of puppets. “There are few people in existence that can outmaneuver my mother. Tell me, was your success an improvisation brought on by desperation or was it long plotted? I must admit that I cannot tell: your reach runs deep in the Paladins, of that I am certain, but the way you exposed yourself at the end–and the nature of your mistake betrays a…
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-Veylis Avandaer and Samir Naeko 24-9 The Veil of My Enemy There was something else here. Perhaps she didn’t know where he was, or how he was infiltrating her Heaven. Perhaps she was trying to flush him out and was using paranoia and pressure to achieve such an end. Perhaps she was just– Osjon's words were calm, his voice soft and crisp, like the trickles of a serene lake. But beneath him, the gathered assembly was building to a silent uproar. Accretions cycled like activating turbines.…
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