Christopher Brown
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-Instrument Santanado “Starsinger” Mondelles, Instructor at Axtraxis Academy (Highflame) 17-11 The Rash Abides (II) Tension pulled at Shotin’s nerves as a lone figure circled toward his megablock in a rapid jog. She was moving pretty fast for someone not using their Heaven of Blood. A Across all the stacks he had in him, the “city reclaimed by vegetation” design was among his favorites. Something about the green just made people want to talk. His Skimmer bathed this layer of spatial reality…-
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-Paladin Dispatch 17-10 The Rash Abides (I) Shotin Kazahara didn’t enjoy being nuked. “Didn’t enjoy” eventually evolved into full-blown hate during the Fourth Guild War when Highflame decided to keep the nights bright, the air radioactive, and the bombs constant. It was under such constant devastation that he got quite used to being deaf. And blind. And the feeling of his flesh cooking off his bones before he managed to switch to another stack or manifest one of his Heavens fully. It was thanks…
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-Wiser Nara, Ori-Thaum Intelligence Officer 17-9 Knife-Fighting in the Dark The sound of the nu-kitten’s shrieking with terror was the first thing that captured Avo’s attention as he pushed himself off the ground with his Echoheads. The second was that Dice–hiding behind a protective cover of her own making–was peering at him over a block of haemokinetic blood, staring at him from behind her holocoat. “ Another Godclad had struck the fabric of space. Ambushed them. Whatever their canons, it…
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-The Voice of the Choir 17-8 Squire, Seeker, Flame (II) A nervous trill sounded from the nu-kitten as a subtle coating of red stained the air. Particulates of blood, smaller than even flecks, washed past the edges of the door and over Dice. The weight possessed by the master was immense. Staggering. There was a similarity in their power to her–a symmetry of capability. But master was capable of more. Much more. If she were to liken them both to blades, she would be a tiny makeshift dagger staring up…
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-Quail Tavers, 17-7 Squire, Seeker, Flame (I) Growing up in the Sundwilds granted one a particular set of instincts that protected them from the things in the dark. The feeling lived stronger in Dice than most. It started as a coldness in the pit of her stomach that spread through her tendons, slowly flaring to a burn. Her heartbeat gradually rose and she began to draw deeper breaths. There was something wrong with this place. Something off. The house where her last targets dwelled was a tower…
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-Wiser Nara (Ori-Thaum Special Intelligence and Deep Nether Operations Officer) 17-6 Midnight Games (II) It took less than an ounce of will on Avo’s part to reshape Elegant-Moon’s mind. Depositing her in a new holding cell on the George Washington after Draus opened a passage, he scrambled her mind to avoid anyone mem-locking her after his departure. He would rebuild her mind via her template after and reactive her sessions and other phantasmics after he plotted how to use her. After checking that…
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-Conversation between Instrument Santanado Mondelles and Seeker Ikkuoi Rasaga 17-5 Midnight Games (I) Recalling the altered form of the Galeslither pleased Avo. The tri-headed steed was already an imposing sight, flesh formed from roiling storms and bones carved from cracks of lightning. Feeding it the Shadowcrawler painted its mane the color of a midnight pond with the air around it shivering like a pool of darkness. But such changes were just paltry adjustments of coloring compared to the majesty of…
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-Ori-Thaum Primer on Highflame Golems and Auxiliary Units 17-4 Extraction A beat passed as Avo and Elegant-Moon just stared at the place where the Manta used to be. A sparking cable swayed–part of it also snipped clean through by the passing Path-Hydra. Abrel’s memories fed him critical information about the Path-Hydra. He really wanted to avoid this. There were good odds that his team had just been tossed over into a Highflame kill box or containment plane somewhere. Being gone and away was the…
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-”Sintaker,” Ori-Thaum Godclad 17-3 Random Encounter Death came at you fast in New Vultun. Things had been going too well. Overstuffed by new opportunities and easy victories, something changed in the makeup of Avo’s mind: he stopped thinking of himself as a member of the city and started believing himself to be above it. Well, he was above it in many ways, considering his unfettered consciousness and Soul, but the poison was expecting perpetual dominance at every turn. Such anticipations were a…
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- 17-2 Prepared The Layers dividing the Warrens were filled by a forest of ever-moving machinery. Fabricated by Voidwatch’s orbital assemblies and installed planetside via the Guilds, even a partial component making up of one of the sky-shrouding plates deserved the term “tectonic.” Considering the complexity of their interior, however, perhaps the word “art” was more suitable. Requiring over five hundred billion drones to maintain, a machine ecosystem was in place to keep the Layers at…
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