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7 Strangers

We, the Auroral Council of the Twilight Republic have come to a unified resolution:

On account of the ethical nature of Necromancy, we mark this Lore of Magic and all who possess its associated skill as [Restricted]. Those who walk the Path of...

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6 Abyss

There isn’t a word to describe the darkness when you descend the first time. It clings to you like tar. It touches you and grips you and won’t let go. It’s a darkness you can practically feel. And then there are the things it hides—the nightmares that lurk…

I went dow...

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36-1 The Three-Fold Strike

There is the blow your enemy does not see coming, the blow they refuse to accept, and the blow that they do not believe to be possible.

Be glad if you face an enemy of a small mind, for they will be easy to slay, but strive to be proud as you lay low a brilliant adversary with ...

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5 Path

It is said that the first Pathbearers after the integration earned their Paths by entering and closing dimensional gates.

The world’s mana density was far lower then, and as such, there were many places in the world that remained devoid of magic and Paths, leaving the ones wh...

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4 Deathless

When the system arrived and the old world fell, humanity did not break cleanly. The integration saw the convergence of many create calamities. Volcanoes roared. The sun flared. The moon shattered. The Earth parted. The seas rose. Dimensional gates opened across the wasteland. Some small enoug...

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3 Festival

And so the war between Yellowstone Republic and the Necrotechs came to a bitter end at the Battle of Blackedge. As the republic’s reinforcements arrived to stall the tide of the Necrotech Legions, a daring group of heroes led by Pathbearer-Master Roland Arrow pushed into the depths and slew...

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2 Return

And, to celebrate the grand victory won by the Yellowstone Republic over the Necrotech Legions and the impending marriage of his heir, Pathbearer-Adept Adam Arrow, Pathbearer–Master Lord Roland Arrow of Blackedge has declared the grandest Festival of the Eclipse yet.

This yea...

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1 Pathless

Path

Noun

A Path is a System-born metaphysical archetype that represents a fundamental truth of existence. Obtaining a Path unlocks an individual's ability to gain empowerment through Path Skills, wield true View Post

35-25 Strix Ops (IV)

“...and though your crimes were committed as an act of folly in service of Guild and Line, what cannot be overlooked is your ineptitude and incompetence in allowing the Fallen Priests of Noloth to strike at us so deeply.

First Daughter Green River, for this, you must be punis...

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II-110 The Coming Harvest (I)

To my good friend:

Dear Old Man. I am glad to see you still alive. My time in the higher realms has been… troublesome as of late. The great king of our Circle has grown sullen again, for his precious pupil, Marie Antoinette, disagreed with him once about the color arrangement...

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35-24 Strix Ops (III)

I am not the savior. Truthfully, the proper title I should bear is “Enabler,” for that is my greatest success. I enabled those who had the will, the skill, the daring, and the sorrow to go against the gods, to defy the structures of their cultures.

I found those who could t...

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II-109Second Try

The best Skills aren’t the ones that deliver the most damage, but the kind you don’t see coming. Or are just plain weird.

Everyone in the Fathoms has some kind of beam or blast they can channel. It’s practically the bluntest thing you can do with your Essence and Concepts...

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35-23 Strix Ops (II)

So, here’s the thing about running multiple, high-risk runs at the same time:

Don’t.

Fucking don’t.

Even if you’re a Guilder with all the sources and support in the world, you want to keep the things you need to worry about limited and the ...

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II-108 The Grinding Camps (III)

Why is it so hard to run one of these camps. When I started this, I thought I had thought of something revolutionary—that I was just going to farm my Aspects to new heights of power. Instead, I have to worry about containment and logistics. It’s miserable.

And then there ar...

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35-22 Strix Ops (I)

+People of This Place Above. This is the Strix. Look above you. Look. Watch as day surrenders to night prematurely. Watch.

There is a war being waged. A battle being fought. That which has given you light for so long is now threatened. For eons it has p...

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II-107 The Grinding Camps (II)

I’m not sorry. It’s their fault for being weak. A stronger warrior would have chosen death or avoided being taken to my camps—ah, rehabilitation facilities

Better their pitiful beings be offered to serve as my sect’s glory than wasted on filth and degeneracy.

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II-106 The Grinding Camps (I)

What? No, the Drowned Sky Sect does not run cruel torture camps meant to butcher and harvest the lives of countless Sinners. In fact, we have not killed any innocents at all.

What about the people our patriarch was spotted murdering in the Base? Ah, I see the misconception—th...

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35-21Movement in the Shadows (I)

{All active minds rated below Bleak clearance: Please vacate the lobby or face immediate censure. Time to comply is [.00011 Seconds]...

Censure complete. Remaining minds have been reverted to non-functional states.

This is a transmission...

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II-105 After

Hm? Kidnapping? No, I have not been kidnapping anyone. That’s the wrong term for what I have been doing.

What we have taken are prisoners of war for the Drowned Sky Sect. And rightfully so. I have rightfully captured them in the Base through proper combat, and so they are min...

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35-20 Cage of the Self (II)

The problem is… the ammo. Gun’s not the problem. Hm. Maybe gun is the problem. Part of the problem. Hells. Not too sure. Love gun. Wish gun could shoot harder. Faster. Fire more. Never enough firepower. But the round needs to kill. To hit.

Problem with too many guns. Fléch...

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II-104 Patriarch’s Return

Fellow Consuls. We have a problem. A severe problem.

-Intercepted Message Among the Inheritor High Consuls

II-104
Patriarch’s Return

“Vendrian. Vendrian? Wake up? Are you well? Vendrian?”

A low, muffled groan sounded from the Scion of Dea...

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II-103 Solution: Mass Murder

My greatest mistake was imagining that there were rules at all. There are no rules. I was a fool.

I really should have started killing more people sooner.

So many things could have been made easier otherwise.

Well. Never too late to learn.

...

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35-19 Cage of the Self (I)

{Year… year… year… lost count. Lost count long ago. Last resurrection was… 40% Rend. Took pieces of me. Managed to mitigate some of the damage. Sus—sustainability of functionality and architecture—

I can still work. I am still functional. I—memory issues. Coherenc...

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II-102 The Pale in the Black

“Prince Greatest, greatest of Sinners, greatest of all, greatest to be, I… I need to let you know of certain developments. You know that someone like me is reliable, understanding, and doesn’t waste time. I’ve been here for a long while, you know that—that I’m someone that...

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II-101 Into the Dark

I’ve been trying to bind my mind closer to my Class… my spirit. I’ve been trying so long to give myself a soul. I know that the Inheritors think that we’re special because we’re untouched by the Fathoms—that we’re not from here, that we can take any spirit, become any Class, or ...

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35-18 Cards and Nu-Dogs

There is an inherent inequality in intellect between a mind and most biological organisms. Minds are, after all, designed to be superintelligences—beings created to break through the threshold of conventional human limits and discover the edges of known science and beyond. But as the minds ...

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II-100 The Last of Her Lein (III)

Okay. I’m going to be honest. Summoners shouldn’t be considered a Class archetype. I mean, what the hell does Summoner mean? That they just send spirits and creatures off to fight for them? That’s not how it always works. Some of them are closer to being shapeshifting warriors in that t...

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35-17 Fork (III)

The self can always be betrayed. The self can be shattered. And be remade. And the self can be usurped by another, worn as a sleeve when all memories are taken, when all registered experiences are compiled in a matrix and encoded into an identical sheath.

Whatever notions you h...

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II-99 The Last of Her Lein (II)

Lein. A real fucking monster, that one. I’ve seen her break entire armies in the Base—she would do this thing where she would find the champion among her enemies and just take it to them bad and rough. Take them apart and butcher them like prey. And as she would make it last. She would go...

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II-98 The Last of Her Lein (I)

“You were a fool to come into my den, boy. Fool greater than most to seek your own end. Many have come to slay me, and many begged as my claws tore their flesh and found where their spirits begin to bend.”

“I am only fool if I fall, and fool if I fail. But fool though...

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