Christopher Jackson
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His eyes glanced away, like he was thinking about something else, then he visibly flinched, looking back at me in shock. His phone didn’t seem to be affected by being underground fifty feet when it buzzed a moment later. He handed it to me, I took it and looked at it, the whole thing swam in front of my eyes, and I just glanced at him with a raised eyebrow. “Oh, right.” He reached over and precisely poked one of the many buttons I couldn’t see clearly. “Hello?” I asked politely. “Who the…-
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Tactics were pretty simple. One of us hit something, and then the other one finished it off. He could shoot faster than I could, I got two If he had to cut it, and it wasn’t nice enough to die, I could pop one in the back. Six of them buzzed their way towards us as insects. His forking Wrath marked three of them at range, giving me a target, and I popped the two in back with It materialized on him as a clawing, leering, stinking undead with the gaunt build of a ghoul, burning eyes in a ravaged…
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Mushrooms? I had a 22 Int, which for all real purposes was top of the line human genius. I didn’t forget anything I learned... but the knowledge I had was, in large part, shadows of what Aelryinth had known. He had all the Knowledge Ranks, because he was a Fifteen. I was still a GD One. I had one Rank in Religious Lore, which was a Lore skill with a lot of focus on undead, as perversions of the life and death cycle of religions. It didn’t concern itself with undead society, like The Lore of Death…
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The vylstrigoi was cutting across open fields, and we had to detour around the streets to follow, where Sleipner could have just “There’s a high school and elementary school close by,” he noticed, eyes agleam with a predator’s instincts. “You getting any intrusion vibes?” I asked in return. If he sped up, I’d lose the track and have to reacquire. He coasted His eyes were half-red when he opened them. “The elementary school,” he growled, and stomped on the gas. --- We…
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Master Fred accepted his Vaccine back, tapped away. WELL DONE, he complimented me. HE WARMED UP NICELY ONCE ADDRESSED IN NECRUS. “He did. And while I would prefer to just feed him to the Land, he is adhering to his contract, or he’d be long dead. Mostly, a vylstrigoi is a powerful undead, and he doesn’t want to deal with a potential challenger who is going to get caught and give ghouls a bad name. They look too similar, despite basically being deranged vampires.” ALERT THE VAMPIRES?, Fred…
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Prepping to go didn’t take all that much real effort, as I didn’t have a whole lot to take, and Master Fred basically lived on the move. A few texts to the First Light, and they promised to have someone here to live in the house for as long as needed. I boxed up all the extra clothes and things respectfully but quickly, The list of stuff I wanted actually took a little longer, because that list was not small. I did not expect a great deal of it to materialize, and that was fine. My Ring and Staff…
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His mouth opened, closed sharply. “Wait a moment, now...” he said softly. Because Bracers were considered an Armor item, and Forsaken could make them, adding Value to the base components, AND tripling the value of the comps. Or add them by Naming their Armor... “ His eyes darted and fingers wiggled, doing the math. I helpfully brought it up on If he could hit a 40 on QL, that was 21k in value, of the 35k required for a Forsaken to do that. That left 14k to be made up... which a Forsaken who…
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A comment from Tucson had raised some flags, and one of the Powered back in the Hall had done a Scrying, only for it to be futzed. Given the address of the building, having Scrywards had been very improbable, and a local Aruan had agreed to pass by. He’d flagged at least one person there who had an Aura painted deep purple, and a strike team including a Heavenbound, a Paladin, and an Aethran Ranger who was all over taking out baby-stealers had hit the place. By the time it was over, a nest of Shoul…
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Dusk Renewal came in as I softly called off the Salute to Aethra. Everyone was watching in expectation as the incorporeals began to materialize, and our little ducks of Karma began to show up. And then they began to back away... All along the wall, the undead and unliving who would normally be shambling or flying out towards the living souls on the Wall were instead pulling back from it rapidly, and that included all the corpses down below. A couple of Briggs’ shooters called out that they were…
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“It’s big...” Julio muttered. “Dangerous. Bigger than us.” “Yes!” I agreed emphatically. “Let me be very clear with something, you guys.” I got all their eyes on me as I turned around. “A Citybound Pact is a Local Pact. You are caretakers, fix-it guys, troubleshooters, janitors, and exterminators, and sometimes, you will need to be defenders. “But you’re not like Heavenbound. Heavenbound are warriors. Master Fred is a consummately lethal individual. His job is to fight on behalf…
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