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11 – Gathering storm (2/2)

Saturday afternoon. Lunch almost saw Albert eating alone at home, for surely that would have been his fate had he not called his friends over. He had a good time with them, he always did. Marc was teasing Colin about Aubrey, and how Colin might go about trying to seduce her tonight at the club. T...

11 – Gathering storm (1/2)

The Quadrangle. A mostly quadrilateral structure built in the middle of a desertic zone, a few hundred kilometers away from Temalas. Its actual location was [REDACTED], for obvious reasons. Inside, the Quadrangle was a sprawl of buildings and different areas. It was similar to how the Pentagon wo...

10 – Plasticity training (2/2)

Eventually, after some tries and using his phone to take notes, Albert came to the conclusion that there was no logic behind how the glyphs were placed on the circles. He managed to translate them with ease, and it turned out that the outer circle was made of symbols that represented animals whil...

10 – Plasticity training (1/2)

The tiny second hand of Albert’s metal watch, a metal circle with barely lines in place of the usual numbers to tell the time, inched closer and closer to twelve. The other hand was striking eleven. It was a morning without classes, but the relief that should have come with the knowledge that A...

09 - Entropy Matters

Friday, September 19th, 2PM.

There was a purple gem to investigate, and a whole morning of missed classes that needed studying. Of course, he could go to college now and attend the afternoon classes but, without knowing what they did in the morning it was kind of a waste of time. Time that ...

08 – Miracle healer

There was one man Samantha could call her superior. Only one, and she was in his room.

“I need more defense budget.” She stated, towering over his hunched figure.

But as he raised his head from the documents, his face was stern. “Again with this whole Holy War, Sam? The other BS...

07 – Rage fueled battle

The hospital loomed over Albert’s thoughts like an inescapable doom. And yet here he was, stuck in traffic in this hellhole of a city, all because of whatever the military were doing both at the bridge and at the bay. They paralyzed all roads with just two cutoffs, and the whole things was a te...

06 – Room with monsters

Why did Albert ever think that making a magical ball of fire appear in an enclosed space was going to be a good idea?

Albert quickly put out the rapidly spreading flames that were threatening to consume his bedsheets and hid the evidence in his closet, opening the windows to let the smell o...

05 – Beyond superstition

The BSA-operated satellite hovering in a geostationary orbit above Temalas City was like an all-seeing panopticon, its lenses particularly crafted in a way that allowed them to spot Events before they could fully form. The technology was classified, but it came as no surprise to anyone who knew w...

04 – Three types of magic

Albert had come to think, in a catastrophically erroneous manner, that whatever magic he acquired via a skill video was completely instinctive and could be used on a whim. This was not, however, the case and the problem reared its ugly head right when he was in a pinch and needed magic the most. ...

03 – The egg

“This looks just like the other ones.”

Samantha Cromwell towered above her colleagues on her high heels, worn with the casual ease one would wear sneakers when going around town. At the worksite, she looked completely at home, her unusual wardrobe choices not bothering her in the slight...

02 - Flexing muscles

There was a race of sentient stone, inhabiting a separate plane of existence from our own. They were the Lithoids, and among them a faction was the most powerful of them all: the Pilgrims. Their only purpose was to eliminate blasphemous presences from anywhere they could reach. Organics, among al...

01 - Skill video

Nobody knows when the Bureau was founded. Nobody knows how far it extends. But when the first Egg was found, a team was swiftly sent to investigate. Faster than it should have been possible, even with the fastest planes.

And then they were gone, before anyone could ask questions. It was the...