Robert Wilson
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For the umpteenth time, Sev glanced at the notifications hovering at the corner of his eye, even as he stormed closer towards Kestel. The researchers flinched back at his approach, but calmed when they saw his robes and the focus he wore around his neck; he was clearly a cleric. The notification was distracting and persistent, though. He'd been doing his best to ignore it, with everything else that was going on, but... Sev's memories of what happened while they were in that not-space were still fuzzy,…-
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For all that everything seemed to be fine for the time being, there were a The first were the system notifications. Several of them were just strings of errors, but a number of them were distinctly ominous. The last warning made Misa flinch — she didn't need to know what the missing words were to understand what that meant, though there were certainly But the implication that her village was on limited time, even after what they'd gone through to save them... that left a cold chill in her heart.…
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Misa stared at the spark for a moment, nonplussed and unsure what to do. Part of her almost instinctively searched for a system notification to explain what was happening — but there was nothing. Just the gentle pulsing of the spark in her hand. There was no hint from "Um... Do we know what it's doing?" Vex's tail swished nervously behind him. "Nope," Misa said. "No notifications, either. It's just... glowing." "What did you do with it before?" Sev asked. "I just... remembered my village." Misa's…
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There were a number of things they had to do, of course, before they could stroll into what was hypothetically the prison of yet another god. For one thing, they had to make sure the bonus room was relatively stable. The dissolution didn't seem to be progressing, and no one was receiving any new boxes; the injuries of all the various villagers were healed, and now they were all trying to recover. That was the good part. The bad part was that it was somewhat difficult to explain to them why they weren't…
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Dirt and rubble exploded into the air as the Serpent struck the ground, the snake-like head snapping at them the same way a snake would. Misa hadn't blocked it, this time — the villagers, while not completely clear, were far enough away that they wouldn't have been hit by the direct strike. The Serpent itself seemed smaller, too; not so small that it could be dodged easily, but enough so that the impact smashed apart a few homes, and not the entire village. The force of that impact was still enough to…
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If there was one thing Misa had never really understood despite trying to, it was how It was, by all accounts, an absurd skill — there was no reason it should be possible to block every attack. More to the point, she'd seen the results of an impossible application of it not too long ago. When she blocked an unblockable attack, rather than one skill trumping the other, She suspected, therefore, that whatever mechanism the skill operated by would be strained by what she was doing now, attempting to…
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The boxes hovered in front of Misa, and she glared at it like she could make it go away through sheer spite. The notifications had appeared almost as soon as they had left and returned to the 'bonus room', for all that Misa was loath to call it that. They'd raced to get back to the village, even as the timer ticked down. She'd returned only just in time to stop that attack from touching her father, and even then, it had been a close one. If it hadn't been for But there was something else that chilled…
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Misa had thought the space with the horde was a void. It had been an inky, dark space, lit only by the light of the portals on either side. Seemed pretty void-like to her. She had never been wherever The space on the other side of the gate was somehow darker than even that, to the point where Misa thought that it was perhaps only this place that could truly be called a void. Looking out into the distance left her feeling And yet somehow, everything here was perfectly lit; there were no shadows at all…
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Vex was realizing that getting to that dark, oozing gate on the other side of the core-space was easier said than done. That was what he'd decided to call it for now, since he had no other words for it, and there was no literature to explain what it was. Core-space — an intermediary space between the world and whatever it was that created monsters during a dungeon break. Not that he'd had all that much time to figure out the name. "Watch out!" Sev shouted. Light blue flared across their vision as he…
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Misa stood with her companions in the makeshift tent Orkas had constructed for himself, where plans and maps were laid out on the table and weapons were scattered to the side; this was his 'command center', though they'd really just lugged a table out of the village and draped a cloth over the whole thing. Orkas had, rather predictably, exploded when told of the plan. "You can't go into the rift alone!" he thundered. Misa glanced at Sev and the others, standing just nearby a touch awkwardly. "I'm not…
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