David Jackson
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When I had lived back on Earth one of the things I liked to spend my time in the evening doing was watching people exploring abandoned buildings. There was something strangely eerie about people walking through places that used to be filled with people and then suddenly wasn't. Now that I was walking through an abandoned building myself, I felt quite a bit differently. It was like I had been transported from my fun and powerful Sci-Fi adventure into the middle of a horror movie directed by Ridley Scott…-
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"But… But why there?" Rin asked through hyperventilating breaths. "You know where it is, Fal. You saved me from there. Why do you need me to go back?" "You know the place far better than I do," Fal said, "If we go there, and there's any clue to be found as to where Clan Pren has moved onto after that raid, you're the one that's going to be most likely to find it. We need a guide, Rin, and you're the only one we've got." We may have been from different species but I was fast learning that the look of…
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CONTENT WARNING - Child endangerment and abuse Rin had never liked being alone. But then, she was a Lyrin, and the thing that Lyrin valued above absolutely anything else was being together with other Lyrin. She hadn't seen another person, let alone another Lyrin, for days that felt like years. She deserved it though. Or at least that's what the bad men with the sticks had said as they had beaten her. She deserved to be locked away. She deserved to have no contact with anyone else. That's what happened…
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"I don't know who I'm working for, exactly," The bird alien said. I'd had enough of their beating around the bush. I summoned the beginnings of an energy beam into the palm of my hand and allowed it to sizzle and crackle against my own skin. "I'm running out of patience here, buddy," I said. "What do you mean you don't know who you're working for?" "They went through an intermediary, someone from Clan Pren, but the one who hired me wasn't from Clan Pren themselves," The alien explained. "You want…
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The birdlike alien on the floor had begun to rouse themselves from the unconsciousness I had forced them into with my fist, so we hoisted them up and placed them onto a chair. I conjured some more ropes and wound them around their entire body, securing them easily to the chair. There was no way they were going anywhere. The varied level of life on this planet never ceased to amaze me. You had aliens like Akash who literally looked like a tree come to life, and yet you also had aliens like Yr'Arl who…
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The serious expression on the Lyrin girl's face didn't last for long. In a matter of moments, the new reality of her situation had set in. Rin sat down at the bar, put her head in her hands and began to weep. I could understand where she was coming from. From here on out whatever life she had built up for herself had probably come to an end thanks to us. The moment we stepped into the megabuilding we were probably being tracked by the sniper. The moment Rin showed, the jig was up. The gang member had…
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We sat and nursed our drinks for a while, and in that time I learned a lot about the dynamics of the clans both through BB and through Fal. According to them the three clans had been operating in Perspian City for as long as anyone could remember. At first the clans had operated in relative harmony. Each one set up shop in a different one of the three mega megabuildings in the city, and considering each one of the vertical structures was basically a city in its own right they were content with the…
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[ Rewards are as follows: Reward 1 - 10,000 XP Reward 2 - ??? ] I swallowed hard and pushed off from the wall. That was that then. Neither myself nor BB understood this part of our system, but it hadn't been wrong so far and had already shown reality-warping effects far beyond that of manna's usual effects. To put it simply, if I didn't manage to save Pax and Akash they would die. By the time I had reached the central plaza of the Guard headquarters once again, Yr'Arl had clearly caught up to Fal…
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"What do you mean you've lost contact with Pax and Akash?" Fal all but shrieked as the Squadron Leader revealed the bad news. They had supposedly lost contact with the two while we were out in the megacity, and there had been no success in either tracing them or getting their signal back online. The only possible explanation- "They must have been captured by Clan Pren if that is who you believe to be behind this mess," Belana said. "But try not to worry, Fal, we will be doing all we can to get your…
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I swished my sword back into its holster on my back and nailed Venad with a laser-focused stare down. Venad shrank back into their seat, cowed for now. "I'm human, and that's all you need to know," I said, "Now, you mentioned the three clans being quieter than usual, why don't we go back to talking about that." Venad was staring at me as if I were a demon made manifest in their shop. Scarier than any other human or any other Null Space Invader. It looked like they wanted to run and scream and never stop…
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