Christopher Jackson
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I had the overview above, and sent it to Sama, who I could see shooting through the water like a submerged missile, clouds of blood exploding like inkbombs in her wake. I could see all the submerged sahaug and the larger sharks they were using as beasts of burden, complete with nets ready to haul their spoils. There were plenty of bloodstains on the deck, along with the viciously disassembled corpses of crewmembers who had become dinner, gore running in the rain from scattered white bone and scraps of…-
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The drone’s call for help faded a minute later, but we had direction and distance, so that didn’t matter. Miles of ocean blew by under Sleipner’s tires as we headed that way. There was some stormy weather ahead, with the localized flashes that indicated that something had been using Weather Magic. Given the number of people on the world who could use Weather Magic right now was exactly one, that meant something not human had done so, and didn’t that bode well for a vacation? Given how Sama was…
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“Well, my first thought was that we only have enough crafters to process a thousand goldweight into crafted value per week.” Both of them winced. Crafting meant tripling the value! “So mostly, it was “Yes. Hard to describe. Like a river smashing up against the steel wall that is me?” she tried winningly. “I am going to sneeze on that fabulous hair!” I warned her, and it swirled away and out of reach of my achoo, just in case. “Hey, now, no abusing the hair,” Briggs protested. Sama…
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The waves of the Gulf of California lapped gently at the shore ahead of us. It was a mild, grey day, as normal, on the cool side with the sea breeze. The gulls were raucous about our presence, I told them to shut up as we’d be leaving soon, and they did. Briggs and Sama were here, too, as was Master Fred. This was going to be The Big One for all of us, a gluttonous Karmic Feast that should satisfy taking Class Levels for a long time, and pay for massive, massive chunks of their Stat boosts. It didn’t…
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Both of the boys were giving me funny looks when I rode up on the back of something that looked like it had crawled right out of the flaming pits of... hmm, what dimension had jetsilver as a theme? Even the ball of fire burning inside The Old Steed’s chest was edged in silver, Eidolons were pretty good with color schemes. The Mick turned to Master Fred and just pointed, lifting an eyebrow at my fire-and-bones, black-and-silver ride, complete with a burning Sigla below the wicked flaming horns on his…
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I remembered this not-a-horse falling out of the sky, hitting the ground and losing the Old God riding it as it did so. I had ignored it as it scampered for a clear area away from the vivus, totally ignored by its rider, who had commenced freezing alive. Basically, it had just stood there in its little circle about a hundred yards off, forgotten and watching as its master’s horde fell out of the sky, burned away to nothing, and then the Old God Himself had frozen, shattered, and Lit Off in the Or,…
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There were plenty of people outside the volcano, watching projected Holos of all this with their eyes popping. It was so surreal. An army of the damned, falling out of the sky like lemmings into an ocean of vivic fire getting higher and brighter as it devoured more and more of them, and they just didn’t stop. Their master, burning with demonic, unclean flames, raging at the invisible She had put another one of those in place, too, glowing with Holy Power of its own. The thousands of people watching…
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Magos, prepared! From the first moment I saw a pyre knight in the surrounding area, I had retrieved that niche spell and prepared a As long as I didn’t use a Fire spell, it would have no effect on me whatsoever. Guess who had more than Int 6 and wasn’t going to use a Fire spell against Burning Undead... although I totally could have, just to surprise them. As a reply to that wonderful surge of attention, and to their utter astonishment, since there were continuous volleys of fireballs incoming now,…
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In the face of the constant rain of arrows trying to impale me, I began to glide forward, and shoot back. I didn’t need to gesture, and technically I didn’t need to speak. I was Singing through, because the I Cast These Pyre Knights were too strong to one-shot with a single Hastsezini was drawing and firing with inhuman speed and power, and I was simply batting each and every one of them away, Ki feeling out their paths, There were flashes of holy cold meeting profane flame, and the ground…
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I effectively partnered up with the Knights’ efforts, and my team focused all their efforts on the incorps as much as we could. Naturally said incorps became aware of this, but directed as they were to kill the living, and not individually realizing there was no coming back, they still attacked in droves, and died in droves. Other than that, random hate lightning, cinderclouds, and the occasional Swarms of undead creatures were the only major threats, and could be dealt with in their own ways and…
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