Christopher Jackson
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I reached out and caressed the edge of that Ward. My lip curled at the sensation, and I’m sure my eyes were blazing. Master Fred extended his hand out, passing it through the Ward. Golden angelfire and black-red hellfire promptly erupted over his hand. He pulled it back, his face grim. -They said they couldn’t get close enough to see what was going on?- he /asked calmly, letting the field ripple in the hostile colors over his hand. “No.” I was looking at the interplay of magic harshly. “But…-
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Sama watched the few survivors from inside the whelming Shroudzone above them stumble past. Few carried much beyond a container of water and rough food. Money meant little under the Daoists, after all. The elderly were generally riding bicycles or being towed in rickshaws with the smallest children, while the most fit people walked, trotted, or stumbled along, depended on how tired they were. They were relieved and afraid to the point of tears when they saw Sama’s team there, but it was not time for…
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Everything ahead of us was dead for sixty kilometers. A huge chunk of it was on fire, too. Every single human and animal larger than a dog was sitting and rotting out there in the sun, and death was gathering. The killzone extended off inland and around, representing the territory of the Daoist Warlords around Hong Kong. We didn’t stop as the kill totals mounted, only swinging inland. The bodies were fresher in that direction, so the Daoists carrying out the scorched-earth policy were in that…
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It took few questions to learn they had all grown up in Shanghai under the domination of the Daoists, and so the suppression of the Human Akasha and magic... and the Primos had either found a new path, or rediscovered an old one. The Human Racial Class! The Cultivators had forced the rise of the Human Racial Class to defy them! I wanted to find a Cultivator and give them a big sloppy kiss, just before I blew their head off. This was a species-changing moment. A Racial Class had no Stat pre-reqs! All…
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The guns stopped firing as Sama smirked, an occasional pop or two happening as Daoists on the walls poked their heads up, intercepted the bullets already on the way for them, and soon no more heads were poking up. “Bring it down!” Briggs ordered, and the world heaved. The spiraling jetsilver-and-rainbow helices of two Naturally it was totally useless against Energized Lead ammunition, totally null to magic and treating the Formation as air. The A massive downpour and illusions concealing their…
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When his Dantian hatched and consumed him, to the very end he had thought he was ascending to a higher state of existence. Jade Dragon had inherited his progenitor’s hatred of the Powered, and his thirst for power. He had killed hundreds of them; young, old, powerful, weak, it did not matter. They were to be deprived of the strength they had not earned, so arbitrarily given to some and not others, and rendered down into pills to make the truly deserving strong. His power, coupled with the inherited…
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It has a massive range of Long, which I promptly doubled. Its damage is an extremely nice d8/Caster Level, capping at base 20d8. You get a number of bolts equal to your Caster Level, falling once every ten minutes. The Casting Time is a full minute, but And Casting, and Casting... Ten such spells means a big crashing bolt of doom coming down once per minute. A hundred of them means one every six seconds, flattening everything within 30’ of the impact point... Just one more Valence IV to refill…
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I fought down the urge to vomit at the feeling of contamination surging through my awareness. It didn’t spread that far out into the sea, probably because the Daoists didn’t linger out here much, but it was spreading far, far inland, with thick welling knots of the shit here and there where either converting Formations were in place, or various Sects or Schools had set up shop and were doing the conversion with bodies instead of tools. “Ahk!” I wanted to rinse out my mind. This was…
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The food was good, and the company was excellent and varied, all with their own interesting stories that were fun to listen to. They had a lot of interest and energy towards the changes coming in the world, and a buzz of enthusiasm for what would happen if the Shroud came down, underscored by a trepidation that they would have to be ready for the event when it was time. I was more than happy to tell them that I could eventually take out every single Shroudzone on the planet... but that wasn’t my job. My…
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Master Fred watched Traveler melt into existence over the Energized Seal, like a moonbeam passing over that had suddenly decided to take mortal form. He removed his foot from it, and she stepped off next to him smoothly. All eighteen of the Clan Elders that had come to meet her were now at home with their families for the holiday, stupefying all of them. They had simply not expected anyone to be able to The things she had talked about, of the changes coming to the world when the Shroud fell, meant their…
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