Christopher Brown
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-Cala Marlowe, the FATELESS Thoughtcast 18-2 Initiative Revealing White-Rab to the others was a strange act, like giving away a secret that wasn’t even really his. He trusted Draus and Kae. Dice and Chambers were chained to his will by the boons he offered and the approval he granted. Tavers was the only true unknown among them, but her very presence bestowed a lightness upon his templates–the very essence of hero worship. Much of his base mind remained wary of the squire, but considering…-
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-High Seraph Veylis Avandaer’s address to Highflame via the Voice of the Choir 18-1 Moving Pieces Branches of light sprouted across Veng’s Stand, their brambles sinking through buildings and biting deep into supple flesh. From collapsing structures, swollen bodies were plucked, their shapes lined with sores and oozing with the pulp of unformed placenta. Bathed beneath Layer Two’s holographic light, they looked as if malformed cherries in the brightness; strange fruits changed from the forms of…
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-Omnitech NooSphere Report 17-19 Cling Kare resurrected just in time to see a giant in radiant armor striking the glass that surrounded her. Blinking as her cog-feed loaded and her phantasmics came online, she realized she knew that armor–knew the shimmering bronze plates and the person who wore it. Shotin Kazahara. Her uncle. Not two meters away hovered her mentor, Paladin Maru Sandrupal, with a cluster of block-sized pylons sparking in the backdrop behind him. How did they find her? Where was she?…
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-Thoughtcast between Seeker Ikkuoi Rasaga and Instrument Santanado Mondelles 17-18 The Squire The confines of Layer One came into shape around Avo as he emerged from the deepness of his dive. Nested within Chambers’ battered body, pain screamed from every nerve as more sores tore open across his flesh. Smearing the homunculi with a thought, he found himself looking upon the Paladin, Kare Kitzuhada, and wondering when he fused that protective cocoon around her. A phlogiston of phantasmal fire spilled…
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-Quail Tavers 17-17 A New Angle Grief stained every word that left Shotin Kazahara’s mind, and the weight of his implications fell like dirt from the sky, burying Kare’s younger self beneath. The bedroom of her memories was a den of astounding luxury–sixty square meters. Nearly two hundred square feet. Far larger than the hab-cells allotted to the FATELESS and ordinary wagers. Sampling mem-data wrought from both the terrified Paladin simulated before him and the girl’s younger, number self, Avo…
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-Transcribed argument between Shotin Kazahara and his niece Kare Kitzuhada (Memories provided by a member of Clan D’Rongo) 17-16 A Moment Most Feared (II) People feared exploding babies. Chambers wasn’t sure why. Babies were pretty lame if you thought about them. They were like the shittiest version of people possible. Short ass limbs, big ass heads, always screaming, pissing, and shitting themselves. Hells, even the ghouls didn’t really go after them that much during the Uprising. Why get a…
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-Thoughtcast between Shotin Kazahara and Kare Kitzuhada, Fourth Guild War 17-15 A Moment Most Feared (I) All it took to shatter a cadre was a single vector of force. An angle they couldn’t see coming. An attack they couldn’t resist. Avo’s consciousness was a symphony of minds, memories, and qualities manifesting and vanishing on the basis of task and need. Striking at the Paladins was a delicate operation. They were experienced and powerful, but unprepared, and that flaw made all the…
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-Exorcist Public Nether Announcement 17-14 Outbreak (II) By the time Shotin’s corpse splattered in half on a wired fence, Avo was doing little better. Victory was hard to celebrate when a conjoined cluster of babies ruptured from your distended bowels. Each passing second filled Avo with pain beyond description, like a part of his very being was trying to shed itself, releasing itself out into the world as a flood of homunculi. They spilled from his Woundshaper in rivers of writhing red, their…
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-Paladin Baers upon entering Veng’s Stand and contracting the Rash 17-13 Outbreak An important thing to remember when someone was spraying burning aratnids into your mouth with their cock was to keep your mouth closed. This was a lesson Shotin quickly learned by experience as the first of the unnatural rat-spiders pried at his face, palps brushing his inner cheek. The chains of shock shattered. Outrage exploded inside him while he deluded himself, ignoring the pitched peals of his Lustaway. The swarm…
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-First Successful Censureship Trial against Seeker Shotin Kazahara 17-12 The Rash Abides (III) Avo didn’t expect the world to be swallowed by chaos once more upon his return but welcomed the fact he wasn’t trapped in Shotin’s pocket anymore. Matter evaporated from the space around him and the Woundshaper began to assemble where his sheathe once stood. Judging from the way space shivered around him and the heavy weight pressing on his Domains of Space, he guessed another paradox just…
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