Christopher Jackson
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Briggs arranged a team for each of the incursion tunnels with deft speed and confidence in his men. Finding they were going to be fighting sahaug on their own turf, his men were all eager to go at it. That said, he was perfectly aware they had ears and would be sensitive to vibration. To cover the troops moving into the locations, he arranged for a couple extra trucks to go with them, and drive past them loudly, which would cover their footsteps when they breached. Fred offered to place the explosives…-
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Two notes rang out, and to their astonishment, the wose and its redcap servants found themselves starting to... tremble... “This occasion calls for a song... “ A golden blade fully three feet long that was perfectly sized for her new reach and strength hissed to life, and she was coming, the blue of her eyes like lamps in the glow of her soulsword. The war cries the Fey gave out as they surged to defeat her didn’t sound anywhere near as full of savagery and bloodlust as they should have. There…
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Dusk was coming. Blue-black skin was rising all over Sama as the Hag Curse, empowered by her slaughtering one of her Aunties, writhed and whelmed and prepared to make unto her a new and wonderful Hag to go and bedevil the world with. Yeah, no. She wasn’t afraid, and beyond that, she had no need to be afraid. She was a Null. Even if she WANTED the Hag Curse to win this fight, it couldn’t. It would just rip her apart trying to infuse her power, failing, until she mutated into proto-slime as its…
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Sama saw the Park Rover coming up the drive, and narrowed her eyes. She automatically removed herself from line of sight of it, working inside the barn as she was, stepping to the window to get a better look at who was inside. Department of Fish and Game? All the alarm bells were going off here. “Chomps!” The dog bounced to attention. “Run out there, bark like a fool, and see if there’s a werewolf or something strange inside that damn car.” Happy to be a nuisance, the Alsatian-mix raced out…
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“Humanity no longer has the limits on it that it did. The blinders are off, the foe is right before it. They may not know exactly how to fight this fight... but once they do, they will fight!” Her laugh unnerved even the stolid werewolf. He stared at her, marking the double canines of her teeth, and wondered what it portended. “We have seen the weakness of humanity, time and time again giving in to the manipulations of the Worm, the Spider...” “And the Fangs. Don’t think that we don’t know…
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“This thing is tainted by dark powers. It needs to be disposed of.” “I’m glad you agree with me on that,” she nodded with a smile, and he blinked. “This... you seem to be pulling the power within the Spinechain into your Weapon.” “That is a “It will be corrupted by the tainted magic as well, little Sama!” he emphasized, almost reaching out for the Forge. “Really? And how exactly is it going to do that?” she asked, arching an eyebrow, and his arm stopped. “You must be…
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Sama was all in tight black; tights, t-shirt, bare feet, fingerless gloves, Masspack molded to her back. She watched the way the black chain with its mismatched pattern was moving in a serpentine manner in the clawed hands of the werewolf. Leaping would put her in the air if she continued moving absolutely straight. Instead, she cut down and across, and hurdled sideways without breaking stride, smoothly enough to give a track star conniptions. The spikes went by beneath her this time, hit the…
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Cameras there, there, and there. Cheap set up, not even moving, fixed arcs of coverage. Fooling electronic eyes wasn’t all that hard, especially at night. Now, the vibration sensors they’d planted in the ground could have been bad, but they weren’t counting on a master lightfooter invisible after taking a sip of a Potion coming in across them at thirty-five mph, using an eight-foot branch as an easy vaulting pole. She cleared the ten feet of fence and barbed wire without a problem, hit the ground,…
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She listened to the birds going quiet at the presence of a hunter, circling back to watch the driver they’d left behind, obviously bait in one form or another. They probably weren’t actually expecting anyone to be left behind, and were just doing it in hopes... whatever, they were still going with proper partners. So was she. They should have stayed a foursome, and they might have had a chance. They were walking, not jogging, wary of an ambush, and certainly hadn’t wolf-shifted. Catching up to and…
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The An instant +4 to hit and hurt something was not to be looked down upon. Her choice of +1 Wisdom kicked her 13 to 14, adding +1 to her Ki pool, which was at 19, most of it invested in Power Feats at the moment... or her Sword. But that was enough to get her to 20, and when it dovetailed with her Null Shaman and Null Sorcerer Matrix Levels, brimming brightly with 17 and 11 Valences respectively, her Diamond Vajra came online, +1 Wisdom became +1 Constitution, too, kicking that to 25. Her lowest…
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