David Jackson
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The cockpit of the ship was still filling up with acrid black smoke, and to make matters worse we couldn't see out of the front because of all of the dirt that had suddenly been scraped up onto the viewscreens. "We need… To get out of here," I said, making a move to get up from the seat that Yr'Arl had levitated me into. But as I put my hand down onto the armrest to give myself some leverage I ended up crushing it right underneath my palm. It crumpled up like a can of soda underneath a heavy boot,…-
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Smoke. Acrid, black and burning. It was all around me, filling up the cockpit as we hurtled through the atmosphere of the planet our jaunt through hyperspace had brought us to. I could barely breathe, barely think… and yet. I was just about able to push BB back down into our Synchro Mode. Manna was a strange thing. It was reactive, an element of the universe itself. I closed my eyes and pushed my own consciousness down as well. It was like sinking into a river on a hot summers day, only…
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Never tempt fate. Honestly, that was something that I definitely should have already known, but for some reason, I had seemingly forgotten that tempting fate was a bad idea. I had settled into the chair of the spacecraft and the door to the hanger bay had opened up, revealing the inky blackness of space with the small twinkling dots of starlight far off in the distance. It was a breathtaking sight, the wide expanse of space without any atmosphere to hide the glittering gems that were other stars, and…
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After my admission the three aliens in the cockpit had agreed to surrender their ship to us for our mission. I told them that they should seek out Akash or Fal on the main ship for new assignments, that or they could choose to take things easy while we had command of their vessel. Before they went they also ordered the immediate withdrawal of any ship hands or ground troops that were on board the Sloop at the time. It took a little bit of time, but eventually, the only ones left on the vessel were…
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I would have liked to be able to relax. I would have liked to just chill out on the ship for a while, without having to worry about the next catastrophe on the horizon. The universe didn't really seem to care about what I wanted. If anything, the universe liked to take what I wanted and then give me the absolute and complete opposite. If I'd learned anything from my time in the world, both before and after my reincarnation, the universe was a jerk and it loved to laugh at the misfortune of the…
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With the damage that every step I was taking seemed to do to the floor of the ship, the doctor, Fal and I had all thought it best that I sit down in a hoverchair instead of subjecting the craft to the sudden strain of my steps. It was an unexpected problem, not being able to actually walk around my own ship, but I didn't mind the chance to sit down once in a while. Besides, it was only going to be temporary. At least, I hoped it was only going to be temporary. My chair hovered through a doorway…
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As I came too, my head was spinning and my mouth was drier than a desert. Waking up in floating hospital beds was becoming a habit that I was hoping to break in the future, it wasn't a fun experience in the slightest. "You're awake!" A voice from my bedside gasped, it was Fal the Lyrin. I lolled my head over to the side to look at her and gave the lizard girl my best attempt at a smile, though I had no idea how the expression translated through whatever cocktail of drugs the doctors had me on. "Hey…
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The Coventry Mob. They weren't the biggest gang in the community, but they definitely ranked within the top three. They weren't small fry, that was for sure. They were the drug runners of the city, the ones who took in pretty much anyone off the street to give them a new purpose. If only that purpose had been a good one. The gang did everything they could to get their product in the hands of anyone that was willing to buy and snort it. The more the PHA took down, the more of them there seemed to be,…
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Dark, arcane, purple electricity crackled within the gaseous cloud that made up the entity before me, and once again I couldn't help but note the similarity to the Urstnir of Napdid. The bolt lashed out, arcing across the gap between us so quickly that I knew I'd never be able to get my sword up in time to meet it. Instead, my only option was to dart to the side with a mix of and my . [Emergency Quest Generated! Quest 'D for Detective!' has altered, quest name is now 'The Beast From Beyond I'! The…
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I blasted across the sky of Actaeon with pulses of , the ability sending me rocketing through the sky toward the entertainment district. As I flew, I kept my eyes trained on the ground, desperately searching for anything that may seem out of the ordinary. But, despite my best efforts, I couldn't find anything. I angled myself toward the ground, right at the centre of the park, and fired off another jet of , blasting it again in the opposite direction so I deftly landed on my feet. I couldn't help but…
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