Christopher Brown
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-Quail Tavers, 24-4 Defilement (III) “Okay,” Shotin said, taking in the Incubus’ burning halo holding another Conflagration at bay. He didn’t expect that. Hells, he didn’t even know Conflagrations could end up deadlocked. Things were happening too fast for him to keep pace with–Seeker Shotin Kazahara was used to being on the other side of the equation. Not good. “Another day of fucking bullshit. Kare? You alright?” A groan sounded from his niece, indicating her recovery. Just her. No…-
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- 24-4 Defilement (II) The last strings of restraint within Avo broke as he manifested the full might of his Heavens. Damn his need for stealth. Damn the quiet game. He needed Emotion broken–nulled. He needed to do it now. Thousands of kilometers away, within a tower overlooking an enclave, whirling winds twisted around Avo’s recently constructed sheath as chronology and air were wed as a rising tempest. Flowing gold painted the paths of rushing gales. A pulse of blood spread out and connected Avo…
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+ -Recovered memories from Mirror-Concave “Maskdash” in the aftermath of Operation 23-4 Defilement (I) All right, quick recap, Shotin! You invite your niece to a nice lunch – real fancy place. You start talking, you clear the air with her. She's about to open up, tell you about what's been bothering her; whatever secret problem she needs you to help her with, and then this fucking bullshit happens. Everyone's thoughtstuff stopped moving. Kare’s staring at you, mouth open, eye wide. Her…
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-Flavors of the Deep restaurant Advertisement 23-3 The Strix and the Ravens (III) Of course, the name of the restaurant being a very thinly veiled reference to cunnilingus didn’t help. How very typical of Uncle Sho to choose such a place. Truth be told, there were differences even among the FATED. Some among the Colors performed different roles for their Guilds, serving both material and immaterial efforts for the great struggle. Those were the people who earned their positions, who climbed from the…
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23-3 The Strix and the Ravens (II) Avo reviewed Denton’s mem-data as he waited for Kare to synchronize with his Metamind. A collage of moments passed through him; flashes of visual detail overlain with two sets of directives. The first was addressed from Ori-Thaum’s Inner Council to all active assets. The basic takeaways were focused on the mass deployment of Information Domain Heavens and expanded subtly requirements now that Chief Paladin Naeko was back in play. The second came from within Clan…
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-Emergency Address from Ori-Thaum Inner Council to Active Mirrors 23-3 The Strix and the Ravens (I) Noise. With each passing day, the noise in Avo’s head grew. Every death he drank showed him something new–memories of a life lived and passed; how the world was through another’s eyes; how they faced their end; how they believed things to be. The enclavers that lived above the fallen Neo-Creationist warship were no different. They had their own history. Own personalities. Own But now the chain…
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-Unknown enclaver after Guilder raid 23-2 That Which Lurks (III) Every Guild warred differently. Highflame’s cadres are the tip of their war hosts, punching through while golems, Regulars, and armor flood in to hold the land. Ori-Thaum relies on Nether supremacy, high-concept Heavens, and hiding behind Stormtree's skirts while the Scaarthians do the dying for them. Ashthrone and Sanctus are a one-two punch; the latter moves and fights guerilla across space and time with their chronoframes,…
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-Omnitech Scout Group South-K333 23-2 That Which Lurks (II) Draus examined the snakes she tore out along with her eyes and studied them using her Specter phantasmic. Their corpses were strings of matter fused with strips of chrome, each nearly a meter long before she slit their guts open. Initially, she assumed this was just another rogue miracle assailing her flesh. Plenty of those out here, however, after dissecting the snakes via blade of glass, she found their insides to be filled with a mix of…
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- 23-2 That Which Lurks (I) “Attempt number nine,” Kae said, speaking out loud for posterity’s sake. Verbal notes were essential for review. Ghosts spilled out from the surrounding walls to embrace her, threading ethereal trails through her Meta’s accretion. Information ran like a current from her mind, accelerating through all the haemokinetic arteries fused into the city of light as if they were copper. After the modifications Avo made, there was little she couldn’t see or command inside…
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23-1 Borrowed Insight (III) “I told you that you couldn't kill people anymore," Dice said, staring the Dogmother down. She chastised the aged flat beside a pristine fountain. Behind her Ivory—Dice’s aunt—stood huddled with the rest of the former concubines on the veranda. Lanes of perception from splinter-embedded phantasmics lanced down from the surrounding rooftops, and in the skies above, a constant buzzing could be heard as swarms of Bioigniter-birthed bioforms patrolled the enclave. The…
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