Christopher Jackson
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The Old Steed burst into motion, his flames going up as he trod on air, and began to smoothly ride the winds as I directed. Target acquisition was my major concern. Each set of initial targets had to start in the same twenty-meter circle, and each successive target had to be within twenty-meters of the prior one. Blanketing the entire area in burst damage had to be calculated, and the effects centered on the areas where the undead were the densest. The That takes a hissing bloody hell amount of…-
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Three active Titles. Technically, I had Six Stars, but there was no extra benefit, other than the blanket +6 total base Caster Level bonus. I didn’t know of a Seventh Star, either, as the other branches of magic weren’t full Casting Classes... There could not be another being on this planet with those Titles while I was here, and at most they’d get a successor version of the Titles. Being the first set the standard for all who were going to follow. The It was all still pretty gratifying, and…
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Sleipner quickly braked to a more manageable speed by making a request of me, and I He drifted back to the ground, wheels made contact, and we virtually trundled up to the exit mouth of the bridge. Without needing to be told, Sleipner came to a halt to let us see the land beyond. The six mountains formed a ring with a central valley that was leagues across. The Frostshroud surrounded the center of that valley, but did not fill in the middle of it, which was full of the gray cloud of the Haze. Because…
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It took us four days to reach our destination, riding over a thousand miles every day over snow and ice and wind-blasted rock, back and forth, tracing a Lived-Line over these time-lost ruins, and whole mountains carved into cyclopean monuments to who knew what. I was pretty sure that the tips of the last few mountains were reaching up to thirty-five thousand feet, but it was impossible to tell. We did find a city, trapped for the ages beneath the weight of ice and snow, only the edges of it visible in…
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He was astonished. “That is... remarkably generous of you, Mistress,” he finally managed to say. “I might have you come out and work geniecraft for minor purposes, or engage you in conversation about your homeland or other areas of interest, with what you feel comfortable in sharing. Other than such minor trifles, I am content enough in denying your power to those who would unduly profit from it while I am trying to liberate this world, and who simply stand by ready to seize power once I do…
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Here in this land where day was currently almost all day long, and the wind wasn’t stopping, and carrying madness on it... and it all seemed to be channeling towards the South Pole. Magnetic readings gave me a Visual File fix on the Pole via triangulation, and it was plain these mountains were curving towards it, having bent away from the Antarctic ridgeline a couple peaks back. Even the Haze was responding to it, swirling in chaotic storms around the peaks that poked right up into their layers. The…
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The incidences of oozes increased quickly as we made for the borderline unnaturally steep slopes of these mountains which should not be here, following the distant wails on the wind. Listening to a shoggoth screaming its song in various pitches and tones was a nice way to go barmy, so I was humming a countersong as we approached, suffused with the I was also tracking harmonics, and was pretty sure we’d heard at least five, but who knew? A shoggoth could manifest as many mouths as it wanted to, all of…
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It was five hundred miles to the South Shetlands, famous largely for seals and puffins and penguins. It took about ninety minutes to reach them, skirt the edges while leaving access points, and then leisurely proceeding from one to the next to the next. There had been research stations out here at one point, but after several of them mysteriously disappeared with all hands lost, and at least two supply ships checking in on them, too, the islands were basically vacated, the more accessible ones explored…
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-Immortals are notoriously patient, but they are also big on cost-benefit. One soul for the loss of all that power is a horrendous trade, as my Hellpact is constantly protesting to me.- He also smirked. -It will come down to whether pride and saving face outweighs the cost... and potentially waiting a hundred years to get a soul just shows how much they want a soul, and will help scare off some of the fools.- -And all you have to be is understanding and nice about it. Strange, that.- -No, no, it…
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Briggs chopped off a lot of heads with That he dared to do it and spit in the teeth of the dignity of the kraken was another thing. Let them come up here and protest! The two crewmen were dug out of their little hidey-hole screaming in fear... which didn’t let up much when they saw we were not sahaug, given the appearance of the four of us, and especially me. Everyone knew halvyr were Powered, after all. They started coughing up names, and through All of them had families at home being held hostage…
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