Jason heard Hiro, Ken and Farrah having a discussion as he trudged through his houseboat toward the bar lounge.
“…point of setting it up this way is so that it can be modified as magical conditions change,” Farrah was explaining.
“Do you expect magical condition to change?” ...
2020-11-05 22:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I told you before we went on our helicopter ride that you were a tricky one to find a combination for,” Jason told Amy. They were in her kitchen, along with Farrah, while Kaito watched the girls in the back yard.
"The issue is that you don't have the training to be a fighter," Farrah s...
2020-11-04 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure you want to do this?” Farrah said as she and Jason drove to Kaito and Amy’s house. Given the short distance, they didn’t portal over so Jason had it ready in case of emergency.
“No,” Jason said. “I still say we could go with the chimera confluence for Kaito.” 2020-11-03 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“I have some mixed feeling about this essence,” Jason said, turning the translucent cube over in his hands.
They were still in the ritual room. Hiro's essences had been done and they had moved onto Ian. It was the third essence for Ian's combination after they had already imbued him wit...
2020-11-02 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You can’t just go around killing people,” Erika said.
She stood next to Farrah as Jason stepped off the surface of the water, rainbow smoke rising up behind him.
“If you’re going to go back with us to my world,” Farrah said, “Then you’ll have to learn the same lessons...
2020-10-30 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Well,” Jason said, sitting around a table with three women. “This is complicated.”
“I may be getting used to being the most ignorant person in the room,” Erika said, “but that doesn’t mean that I like it.”
“How drunk are you?” Jason asked Farrah.
“I’m ...
2020-10-29 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs everyone packed up to go home, Greg found Jason in the kitchen.
“This was really great,” Greg told Jason. “Most of our old friends left for university and never came back, and I’ve never been great at making new ones. There was Amy, but after what she did, forget that.”
...
2020-10-28 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite their outward dismissiveness, Jason and Farrah had no trouble finding challenge from silver rank monsters, although in very different ways. Farrah was all about frontloading damage, making endurance the key for her while Jason was just the opposite.
The start of a fight was the most...
2020-10-27 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn the office at her restaurant, Erika was talking to Jason through an incarnation of Shade. After weeks of such communication, it was starting to feel normal which, when she thought about, was rather concerning.
“I told him you had contacts,” Erika said. “What was I supposed to say? ...
2020-10-26 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn the top deck of the houseboat, Asya, Farrah and Jason were enjoying lunch as they looked over the final version of the agreement with the Network.
“While we have the agreement documented,” Asya said, tapping the papers on the table, “it’s a fiction, legally speaking. What court c...
2020-10-23 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe film crew set up next to the Surf Club, with a crowd on onlookers gathered around. The kitchen set was put out, with the fridge and oven hooked up.
“Today we have a special guest,” Erika said to the cameras. “As viewers of my previous program may remember, I would occasionally hav...
2020-10-22 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Farrah and Jason fought the silver-rank monsters, Cotsworth looked on through the monitor displaying what the camera drone above the fight recorded. Although the transmission was occasionally spotty due to magical interference, he had a fairly clear vantage on what was taking place. Mel was...
2020-10-21 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThree black, oversized dirt bikes roared across the red landscape. One had an uncertain-looking woman, another a shadow figure and the third a man in a robe trailing a cloak of darkness and starlight behind him like a comet’s tail.
“Your vehicle forms aren’t normally this loud,” Jas...
2020-10-20 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason ignored the sound and motion of the transport helicopter as he read from the book in his hands.
“Is that Pashto?” Aram asked loudly over the helicopter, peering at the open pages.
“Yep,” Jason said.
“You speak Pashto?”
“I speak everything,” Jason said...
2020-10-19 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s a neat bit of work,” Farrah said, taking in the Network’s Sydney branch with her magical senses. Standing outside the building, she observed the magical array shielding the upper levels. “Whoever put this in place did a great job of working with the low magic area and interweavi...
2020-10-16 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostShade informed the family members who were variously preparing dinner, looking after infants or watching recordings that Jason was about to emerge and they should gather in the bar lounge. As such, they were waiting for him when he stepped out, Farrah right behind him.
“Firstly, my previo...
2020-10-15 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s spirit vault had undergone considerable change, which he discovered on his first entry since accepting the World-Phoenix’s power. Fusing the physical and spiritual aspects of his being had a considerable impact on his spiritual space.
The garden itself didn’t occupy any more s...
2020-10-14 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAmy and Kaito watched Farrah go back into her cabin.
“Do we know who that was?” Kaito asked. “She seemed kind of familiar.”
“It was hard to tell with the Japanese horror movie hair, but yeah.”
“Wait,” Kaito said. “What about that woman from Jason weird hologram...
2020-10-13 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason had his own unfortunate experiences with how essence users dealt with extreme trauma following periods of captivity. In the time he had spent recovering, he had learned a lot from the priest of the Healer and Rufus' mother, Arabelle Remore. In the weeks he had spent receiving their care, th...
2020-10-12 22:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostFarrah felt a freakishly strong aura from above and looked up to see a sight that stirred a strong memory. A man was slowly descending through the air using a cloak made of star-filled darkness. He landed lightly on the bridge, in front of the shadow creature. Aside from the cloak, he was wearing...
2020-10-09 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe pair monitoring the aperture from inside the astral space weren’t even iron-rankers. Two of Shade’s bodies shot out from Jason’s shadow as he emerged from the aperture and used mana-draining attacks, which knocked them unconscious as they had no mana to drain. Jason barely paid them att...
2020-10-08 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe aperture was in a tent that had been set up around it, with a makeshift military camp assembled around that. The story was the usual terrorism readiness exercise. The tent was almost of circus proportions, easily fitting a Network ritualist, Hector, Espinoza, plus Jason, with Asya as an escor...
2020-10-07 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn the time it took Jasons plane to arrive in France, circumstances on the ground had gone through significant changes. The Sydney Network team was met by a driver who took them in the direction of the Networks Lyon branch to participate in an operational briefing.
Its a beau...
2020-10-06 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe transport helicopter touched down at a small airstrip in Sri Lanka. It was small and set amongst an expanse of grassland. The air was hot, thick and heavy with a tang of fuel, although the helicopter stirred it up. There was one hangar and a small, prefab office building. The runway itself wa...
2020-10-05 22:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve hundred kilometres is the best you can do? Miranda complained. And you have to wait an hour between portals? Thats pathetic.
Pathetic? Ramon asked incredulously. Lets see your portal power, bitch.
Remy, calm down, Sebastian said, then turned on Mi...
2020-10-02 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason had just dropped lightly down to the lower deck as the boat rolled under his feet on the open ocean. The three men were startled as the object of the search they just ordered alighted right in front of them. He pushed the hood of his cloak back off his head to reveal his face and the...
2020-10-01 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason came to his senses, which were an incoherent storm of sensations as he tumbled wildly through the air. His head was ringing, wind roaring over his body and through his ears. All the could see was a spinning blur of sky.
His starlight cloak manifested and he righted himself with...
2020-09-30 23:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter deliberating, Jason decided to only leave one of Shades bodies behind, in order to keep tabs on things in his absence. He had no idea what he would face in France but when things inevitably went wrong, he wanted his options as full as possible. Before leaving for Sydney, he portall...
2020-09-29 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the houseboat, Erika pulled up Jasons number on her phone.
I would recommend against calling Mr Asano at this moment, Shades voice came from behind her, making her jump.
Why not? Erika asked as she turned to look at the nerve-wracking figure. Jasons bizarre yet...
2020-09-28 23:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostErika stormed upstairs and threw open the door to her daughters bedroom. Standing in front of a monitor, Jason and Emi were holding plastic guitars and playing a rhythm game. Taika was sitting on the floor behind a plastic drum kit. All three turned to guiltily face the door.
Jas...
2020-09-25 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post