Christopher Jackson
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The day was a long, fruitful, constant display of hunting and killing. My main problem was running out of targets. Thankfully, Fireborn had considerably less loot about them most of the time, and what loot we collected I promptly The only breaks in the action were moving from area to area, finding new things to fight, and any healing or buffing to be done. I was a lot more free with the latter, too, since I could get the Slots back so easily with just a flight of It wasn’t that our killing efficiency…-
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“But you can’t do that yet.” It was both relief and consternation. “Damn, that is a lot of stone...” “Yeah, and it’s why he’s most famous for them. Virtually everyone on Terra-Luna lives under a Pyramid’s protection. Naturally enough, you can harness the power of one for a lot of other stuff...” “So, you need to get to a +46 Stonecarving check, or better. Do you use the classical method?” “No. The height times pi is nice geometry, but it is extremely hard to adjudicate block…
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“Ah.” His pale violet eyes glittered. “That is indeed pretty useful. I hear a ‘but’ in there.” “If experience is any guideline, I might be going sideways for some time before hitting Seven. Theurgies.” “You’re a Fake Eleven, Casting at Thirty-plus, and you’re annoyed at the delay to hitting Seven.” He lifted his huge hands to the heavens. “Why me, Lord? Why me?” “Meh. Wait until you have an army of ten thousand Sevens and the Karma is rolling in.” He pursed his lips…
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The Cultivators gathered on the far side of the bridge, staring across it at us on the other side. I think I could have started picking them off, but they seemed very intent on us and gnashing their teeth and everything. A couple of them jumped up, tearing and clawing at the air that wasn’t supporting them, and King Gravity had a good laugh, sending them back down to meditate on the wonders of More interesting was watching the big They were clearly trying to muster up courage to run, especially as…
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“Which naturally translates to?” I went along agreeably. “You’re cheap?” Sama piped up cheerfully, then looked at “I prefer thrifty and acutely aware of the monetary requirements of my chosen career,” I replied loftily, and they both guffawed. “Given such a well-established monetary habit, exactly how likely do you think it is that I’d actually dump forty goldweight down the drain just to make two That narrowed the eyes of both of them. “Okay, you’re doing something clever... and…
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Everyone was up and ready in plenty of time. I burned a III Slot and two Ki to power up the I stood there and murmured the Salute to Aethra, everyone waiting respectfully as I did so... and naturally preening to see just what had changed while they’d been snoring away. The Dome wasn’t looking so hot, literally. The thick streams of Fire Qi about it seemed to have thinned out a bunch, and were occasionally poofing into icy whiteness when they touched the The inside of the caldera just had whole…
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I always had stuff to shoot, given the range I could plink stuff at, and salvoes of I was judicious and spare on using up Slots, as there were a bunch of Cultivators trapped on the island right over there who needed to die. I wasn’t sure if they realized what a pickle they were in, as they simply watched the carnage from afar, as if it didn’t matter to them what was happening. I found that pretty funny, but just kept up with my zapping and This was a big, big nom-nom Karma harvest, and even if we…
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Well, there was nothing for it but to prepare for a really good time, and lots of intense and excitable visitors coming right to us. Or, as The Mick put it, we were going to fight them with money. Claymore mines accentuated with But first, I slowly and grandly flew up above the burning fiery Dome of power these alien wankers had made about themselves, and which they arrogantly believed could hold against our attacks. I wanted to tell them that Sama and Briggs could hack their way through it, but leaving…
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The fire-eyed corpses sitting atop the ledge there, blazing fireballs in hand, were poised and ready to jump out at us, tossing their spells. They checked themselves for just that crucial second when the first thing they saw was nine Guns burning with vivus clearing the edge. The first fusillade wasn’t strong enough to kill them, but it really messed up the molten orbs of fire they were about to throw, which promptly blew up and swallowed them in fire... fire which blew into vivic whiteness as the Qi…
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I looked at the trembling Valence VI, struggling to materialize around the spirals of the other five. Magic all around me was trembling in reaction at this moment, preparing to do something... but I wasn’t going to let it. With a lethal effort and all the Concentration modifiers, emulating what Aelryinth had done at this identical moment, my Core pulsed precisely, the dual Matrices of my Blood and Lore sides swirled in interconnected harmony, and in a gorgeous display of thaumaturgic power, lights in…
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