Christopher Jackson
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“Cultivating either method turns you into an inhuman creature, a Cultivator. Daoism turns you into a Daoist Immortal, a thing whose soul eats your own, takes your body and refines it into an alien, pursues the Dao, opposes Heaven, wants to alter the world you live on to its whim, and seeks to turn humanity into a breeding pool to create more Daoist Immortals. “The Buddhist Mantra turns you into an Enlightened, a brainwashed, soul-bonded accessory wedded to the Nirvanic Enlightenment, an Axiomatic…-
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“Yes. Yes, they could." Was my smile reassuring? Surely it was. "Let me give you an analogy. Mr. President, you have leprosy.” I flicked a tube into existence in my hand, and set it down in midair. “The cure for leprosy is right here. You can just walk over and take it at any time, and fix your leprosy.” I took a finger, and pushed the tube around behind me. “But, you, Mr. Mother Land, must let your leprosy heal itself, Their faces all fell again. “Gods want mortal Free Will. They don’t…
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“Mortal belief and free will has created divisions where there are none. This has created particular problems along the great border in the northern plains.” The view flashed in there, and the Stelae marching across the landscape to regulate the border scrolled by. Up in the sky, countless spirits raged and howled at the barrier of belief preventing them from roving freely. “When the Shroud falls, America is going to wake up. When She does so, She is going to find that She has been chopped up by…
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Their jaws were dropping, and then dropped further as I said that, while behind me arose a derivation of the solar system, with Earth in it... and a Shroud came down and swept us away, leaving the orbit blank behind me. “The reason for that is, of course, the Curse of the Dawn.” That got them going down another train of thought, while the dawn broke behind me over an illusionary horde of undead who all burned away, and the image was replaced by that pattern of colored spheres charting the advance…
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Among the Powered, the most favored Kings were the Paladine, as they took their jobs very seriously, indeed, for however long they sat the throne. Overall, Sources were the most effective, as their ability to Make Fate for an entire Kingdom was colossally powerful in the long view of things. The Divine might want a Paladin on the throne, but the people wanted a Source! Of course, Huul and Imprus had their own ideas about who was best as a King, but those tended to just be Theocracies, which would be in…
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“The first organization is of the people, among the people. This is the Monarchy system. It is the most common among the Powered.” I paused to let that sink in, looking around and over them. Most present were Powered, some weren’t. Those that weren’t were often Pactbound to make up for it. “That means that Monarchies tend to be gatherings of the elite. While those who are not Powered can certainly swear in, especially the most capable of them, those of Lower Levels and lower aspirations tend to…
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Some of the most powerful people in the secular world began to arrive at Heavenbound Hall. It was both business and pleasure. They could attend the talk that I would be putting on, then hang around long enough to watch the Haze open and the stars fall down upon Heavenbound Hall and Detroit. A lot of famous people came to Detroit every year just to see the stars, and some of the parties were legendary. There were Presidents and Premiers, Prime Ministers and Headmasters, Church Hierophants and even a Royal…
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There are routine things I did in down time. There were big cheap gems to cut, mold, and turn from crappy rough chunks of crystal into I Cast an I could As I had all the money I needed, I could work on progressing magic items. As I could work on items with requirements of 12 Ranks of Spellcraft, or I could instead start up an Item, send it off for others to Infuse it up, and then spend a day at the far end doing the finishing, potentially making more powerful items without directly working on them…
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The invitations going out had naturally stirred up great interest, and great jealousy, too. The invitations were not to organizations; they were to specific individuals in those organizations, namely their most pre-eminent individuals. If they didn’t choose to come, no substitutes were accepted. He, his Vice-President Marcia Kennedy, and the leaders of the Republicans, Democrats, Liberty, and Green parties of the House and Senate were invited, along with the leaders of most of the Churches and powerful…
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The Hologram fell away, and President Havier looked around at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There were some very depressed, borderline frightened men there. It was no wonder. Heavenbound Hall had released some videos of what had gone on in Yellowstone, above and beyond what so many of the men there had witnessed. They still hadn’t issued anything about the final confrontation at the middle of the place, and there hadn’t been any scouts within miles, of course. The biggest thing to the President had…
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