Christopher Brown
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-Exorcist coming upon the remains of the Three-Fingers Syndicate 15-7 Bonding (II): This Time With Murder Chambers hated being a Necrojack. Don’t get it wrong, being able to pierce into minds using his newly imbued skills was nova at first and certain to be useful in a pinch, but drinking all those secondhand emotions in? Taking in all those memories and seeing someone else’s innermost moments? That fucked him up something bad. Peel away from all the sexy little edits the Syndicates make for a…-
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-Session Between two Highflame Authorities 15-6 Bonding (I) The Regular grunted a note of disappointment. Communing in the post-mortem as a quartet of ebbing Souls was a fascinating experience. There was privacy to it–a vulnerability. Previously, when he first Ensouled Chambers, Draus, and Essus, time spurred him away from indulging in deeper considerations, but now, without the breath of haste running along his nape, Avo studied each member of his cadre in depth as his flowing flames bridged…
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-Uthred Greatling Experiencing “Technical Setbacks” 15-5 The Cult of the Unborn Avo's question of ontologic distribution was promptly interrupted by footsteps ascending the staircase below. Apparently, his return did not go unnoticed by the absent members of his party. Nor did the infernal brightness of his accretion do favors for his subtlety. First came Sunrise’s drones as a stream, and as the veil of particulate-sized bodies passed, so too followed Essus and Denton. Denton had a comforting…
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-Highflame Monitoring Station 15-4 Group Meeting “So let me get this straight,” Cas began. “You crossed over into Abrel’s mind, subsumed it, restructured her consciousness, took a template of her consciousness that you now have as an advisor, and let her resurrect with an altered consciousness. Then ambushed and ate the Incubi trying to jack into her, used them as a stepping stone to eat the Glaive that was their tactical-level Mirror, wore his body to take a Avo thought the summary unneeded…
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-Quail Tavers, 15-3 Overlap The patterns of thought leaking over from Abrel’s simulated mind were closer to frustration than active annoyance. Normally, she enjoyed a spot of romance, but these were not normal times anymore. Trapped inside a ghoul, she played secondhand voyeur from Avo’s perspective and realized she would never get the chance to indulge in these little love games and moments of bonding. Instead, she would be rewarded with a novel act few humans found relished in: cannibalism. The…
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-Ori-Thaum, Court of Elders 15-2 Ignite And all of a sudden, the world was new to Avo. Beholding his deed–White-Rab staring at a nearby edge ebbing with eldritch distortions, wobbling like a toddler steadied by Reva on his arm–new comprehension dawned within the ghoul. He just committed an act of creation. His power went beyond the merely disruptive or subversive. Now, the spark of an epiphany ignited within him. For the briefness of his empowerment, his compulsion was a step above base desire.…
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[ - 15-1 The Gift As Avo resurrected, he found himself leaning against the side window of the aerovec, and it occurred to him that his understanding of the city was all wrong. For years, he thought himself a creature in a hive, fighting and feasting and failing to ascend to its heights. Not so much anymore. He should have paid attention to the words the Guilders were using. He should have been better at listening. Tiers. They meant that in more ways than one and the philosophy behind the word…
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-Harlem Vaunders, “Rogue” Voidwatch Operative and Top of New Vultun’s Most Wanted List 14-21 Access There was, in fact, no ambush waiting for Avo within the apartment. It was just a small three-room unit with a toilet, personal living quarters, and extremely cheap jack-station quartered in a small ten-by-ten alcove. Aside from the dormant locus slotted into the core of the station, the rest of the room stood barren beneath a sheet of dust. No furniture greeted Avo’s gaze, and even the showering…
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14-20 A Sudden End Killing the Fallwalkers left a bad taste in Avo’s mouth. It wasn’t the lack of effort it demanded–though their ignorance and unpreparedness for him did disappoint. Rather, he found himself more taken with new concerns, his suspicion turning inward as he delved into his own mind, guiding Whispers to serve as an in-facing eye to monitor the changes in his consciousness. He knew not what possessed him to butcher Glitch so. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to kill her, but more…
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14-19 Overestimation For most, the truest prize was immortality. But the mind had a tendency to reestablish its baselines, and once an equilibrium of pleasure was achieved, what followed was the search for a new spike of power. Of course, getting a piece of silver after expecting a chest of gold ingrained one with another feeling altogether. True to the Greatling’s words, the Witherguard came trailing behind the slithering form of a searching ghost. Its perception spilled around the corner, and Avo…
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