Christopher Jackson
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The Taiwanese were both understanding and envious that we were celebrating a holiday... but quiet words that we would be bringing back some help were very appreciated. Just bringing in some new cell phones and computers would be a big help, let alone something like, oh, new ammunition, and maybe some volunteers and experts in infrastructure development from Heavenbound Hall. Given we were twelve hours ahead, I I dropped Shvaughn off in that parking lot near Chicago, where The Mick, Sir Pellier, Father…-
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When the information conference ended, all three of us were mobbed. I got the scholarly folks and the spellcasters, naturally enough; Sama got the hardline martial artists and the people who wanted to become Forsaken or Sources, and Shvaughn got those interested in becoming Warlocks... and women who wanted to become Amazons. She was a Warlock Grandmaster, but it actually fell to Master Fred to call up the Place Spirits of Taiwan and the seas around it to empower the first Warlocks eager to make more…
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“Papua is also clear of Daoists and Buddhists,” I went on. “However, I have not had the time to take a look at Indonesia yet. I was originally planning to go back south after visiting the Philippines, but when the last of the Daoists fled towards China, but not towards Taiwan, I changed my plans, and so here I am. “Given what I am seeing so far, I think you will find what I have to say both useful and interesting. Also, I will be needing an outcropping of granite or something similar, and about a…
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Taiwan grew on the horizon ahead of us. The whole history of Taiwan from Terra-Luna was basically nonexistent here. Mao was literally an unknown figure here, probably had never become Powered... or maybe he’d become a Cultivator and was simply unknown. Regardless, the Communist movement had failed in China simply because of the existence of so many Shroudzones. The country was basically host to multiple places of great slaughter and massacre, and the conduct of the Japanese coming in certainly hadn’t…
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Naturally, such an infinite power loop didn’t work. Burning a Slot or Engram into my Arcane Pool rendered it unfillable, and thus I couldn’t cycle it. I could CAST from them forever, and refill them, but they couldn’t ‘refill themselves’ within the loop of the Pool. Ergo, I would need an infinitely rechargeable outside method to do that, the closest source of which was being in combat and harvesting ki off crits and kills. It meant my downtime use would naturally be much slower, but that was…
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Perth was a mining center and shipping port, and its relations with the native tribes wasn’t actually all that much better than the other colonial cities of Australia, especially with how mining tailings polluted the Land, and how the miners were tearing it up with wanton disregard for the ecology. However, the arrival of the Buddhist Mantra had at least been enough to warrant a cease-fire, as the brainwashing and mind control of the Mantra was a horrifically effective threat that could potentially work…
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They couldn’t keep pace with Sleipner, even with their enhanced mobility and ability to fly. Really, I could have screwed them all just by Master Fred’s Grit boomed, coordinating with my I’m sure they were cursing and condemning and the air about my If they got close, Fred was fully prepared to cut them down and through with Of course, they really wanted to go for me, but that was a pipe dream. Sleipner knew how to be a Mount, how to cut through and work formations, and was totally…
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I stayed for a day and a half, because there was so much that had to be done. The Druids were reluctant to open a dialogue at all, given how many decades of bad blood there was... but the recovery of three stolen children, the news of the Cultivators being slaughtered or Pierced en masse, and stories of a devil Possessing the main advisor to Lord Yamamoto making the rounds definitely perked up their ears, however they might try to hide it. It was plain something really bad had been going on, and the news…
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It was a horrible feeling to have. This woman, who he did not know, but could not disbelieve, saying something against the man he trusted most, who had stood by his side for literally decades, always there with a comforting word or advice, drinks in times of sadness, congratulations on success... Advice on how to proceed in uncertain times... The Imprusar Priest had an odd look on his face for just a moment, hard to read. “Oh? You have more things to say, child?” he sniffed slightly, head coming up,…
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Looking at all his decisions that had been motivated by anger, hate, jealousy, greed, arrogance, pride, and pure uncaring pragmatism, Kentai Yamamoto could only feel wounded and small, like a child caught doing naughty things before the greatest force of all. He could justify, he could complain, he could challenge, he could defy... but it did not matter. In the eyes of Heaven, he had done Wrong. And something made him turn his eyes on his daughter. She was reeling in pain and anger and hate, her eyes…
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