Christopher Jackson
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The High Council of Heavenbound Hall looked a bit aghast as I finished the Holopoint presentation for them, their questions about how it worked satisfied. This meeting had gone in a direction they had totally not expected, and the realization that the world in the future would be very different than now was laid out before them. “So, democracy...?” Rosesister Lucia had to say. I glanced at her. “People vote with their hearts and their feet. If there is no True King, Allegiances give their loyalty…-
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“I do not do this for myself. I do it for this world, and those beyond, in The Word rang out, and laid bare all falsehoods and lies, including to themselves. They were abruptly aware of their suspicions, jealousies, ambitions, distrust, and suspicion, arrogance and pride, and the feeling of threat coming from my rapid rise. The Word crammed that truth right down their throats, and I could see and feel most of it, courtesy of my “The people of this world now have some of the basic tools they need…
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The The Earth Elemental I’d called up out of the ground and She had great reflexes and tried to flit up out of the way, and quite literally got nowhere. That makes it REALLY hard for the old Reflex save. Circumstance penalty to saves and all that. She screamed as the bright green deluge of acid explosions hit her from all directions. She could have weathered three or four of them easily, even boosted by Alchemical bombs. But eight of them? She was hosed. Down. Yes. Her screams became gargles as…
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The sky exploded with cold lightning in hues beyond the visible spectrum. Writhing beads, swirls, dancing columns, streaking arcs, raging infernos, liquid swirls, crystalline shockwaves, and shimmering reflections of energies, among a thousand other manifestations of unleashed wild magic, tore apart the sky as my spell ripped apart all those Qi weavings and fed them into those who were supposed to be benefiting from them. The two Cultivators up on the back of the thing suddenly became visible, as they…
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“Bird incoming!” Helix called out. The Coal Apes were plenty dead, including their brute of a ruler. They were baboon-like things being led by a burning gorilla the size of an elephant, big and strong and hey, they couldn’t fly. Briggs, Sama, and The Mick naturally went in to mess with them personally anyways, while the rest of us blasted them from on high. I didn’t bother to show off, as I preferred to work on rep counts rather than Kill Them All Fast, and everyone else was perfectly willing to…
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“So probably the ruler of this whole stinking Qi zone?” Father Bower asked for everyone. “Yes. What’s worse is that they are generally a pretty good-natured creature, according to the records... but they are still a Cultivation creature.” And that meant it had to go. “Sorry, my aesthetics stopped right where I was wondering how good it would taste fried up with a fine buttery dressing,” The Mick spoke up, smacking his lips. “It’s got to be basically made of money,” Briggs mused.…
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“Anything in the works with the Void Brothers?” I asked. I was a bit miffed that they didn’t want to work with me, but given how my Aura reeked of the Shroud, it was understandable. I probably tasted like a perfect vanilla ice cream cone wrapped in dead rotting flesh to their Helices. “I’ve got their phone numbers, and Briggs and I got some Weapons made for them, as you requested. Whether they’ll take the negative Levels and rebuild is something else. They were a pretty twitchy pair, but they…
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“Sama... the stars above the Shroud aren’t the stars of Earth.” She blinked once, then leaned forwards. “This planet has been moved, just like Terra-Luna?” “A lot more subtly, but yes. The Shroud didn’t just introduce open magic here; it had to move the planet to a reality that would make it possible. A low-magic reality would have ground down on the Shroud and the undead, eventually neutralizing both. The Shroud is powerful, but it can’t fight an entire low-magic universe’s…
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The airwaves had to be jammed right now, it wasn’t even a question. Sama called out, “ALL RIGHT, YOU SOUL-SELLING PURPLE-EYED FUCKS, I’M GOING TO TAKE THIS OUTSIDE. I’M GOING TO GUT ALL YOUR RIDES, KILL ALL YOUR DRIVERS, AND SEE HOW YOU FUCKING DEAL WITH HAVING NO PLACE TO RUN TO!” She didn’t tell them that Grik had already called the local police, bawling out into the phone that his sister and brother were at the Expo and taking fire from Sinbound and for them to get the fuck down there before…
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I laughed despite myself. “Yeah, I know that feeling!” Still, Sama got an odd look on her face. “I didn’t have to fight every night, but often enough that she and “Okay, so you’ve the Weapons of a Deep Ten... you can’t be suffering too much.” I had to roll my eyes at her. Some things just came with time, and she’d had years more here than I had. “It’s roughly two straight years of Naming Karma to pay for ten Slots, “And you probably don’t even want to think about a Special…
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