155: The Coffin
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2024-10-25 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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154: Recipes
Jo stood near to the door, observing the outside with her Soul Sense. She’d just seen Nicolai pass by, heading to his room. His Soul Sense was something constantly roving, something which had definitely seen her watching, but he hadn’t showed any reaction. He seemed distracted, focused… ups...
2024-10-23 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post153: Settle Down
It was raining when they returned from the library.
The downpour washed the world out, turning everything dull and grey, darkening the stone, water forming puddles and running in streams.
The castle was quiet in response, all the groups and gunfire gone to ground. The rain only grew a...
2024-10-21 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post152: Plotting
Paxolnaz bobbed gently in the currents of the Interior, part of its being focused, as always, on preventing itself from reaching equilibrium.
The other part was focused on what had just happened. The significant problem it was facing.
The human was not easy prey. Paxolnaz had been whi...
2024-10-18 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post151: The Hole
The things in the Hole reached for him, and Nicolai charged. His Soul was a thing of sharp teeth, tearing nails, and buzzing discs.
But as he rose to meet them he felt the heat of danger, the stench of wrongness, stronger than ever in his life. The occasional, inexplicable impressions he’...
2024-10-16 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post150: Anger Management
[Author Note: Hey guys, I've been less talkative than usual and wanted to say sorry about that, it's cuz I got a wisdom tooth extracted a couple weeks ago and it's been a nightmare, I have dry socket + infection + etc and it just sucks. Wanted to let you know that's why I'm not really liking comm...
2024-10-14 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post149: Playing with Fire
‘No sign of that misty-thing,’ said Jo as he approached the doorway, still watching the exit.
‘I imagine it’s waiting for us,’ said Nicolai.
‘So… what’s the plan?’ asked Beth.
Nicolai clicked his teeth. ‘Might be there’s an easy answer.’ He thought it unl...
2024-10-11 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post148: Bad Bones
Maric had betrayed him. The dark urges pulsed, demanding its death, calling up an image of him throwing the skeleton to the floor and stomping on its skull until it was broken splinters, then tearing its Soul apart. His hands twitched, wanting to reach out.
No. He grit his teeth, p...
2024-10-09 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post147: Thieves of Knowledge
As they entered the final room, Jo paused at the doorway and turned to watch the exit the undead had vanished through. Nicolai shook his arm as he moved, finding it now half-numb and half infected by a painful buzzing like pins-and-needles. He pried his clothes open and pulled his shirt up to loo...
2024-10-07 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post146: Library Guardian
He opted to do the looting himself, sparing Jo and Beth from the grisly task as he picked over the messy corpses. He found several weapons, all the types you could get from the F Tier human tech Market; presumably this group were either Chosen deserters or had looted all this from the Chosen at s...
2024-10-04 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post145: Hitting the Books
They reached the library after half an hour of travel, managing to avoid any encounters on the way. The Chosen were active in the space nearby, and it took some careful manoeuvring to avoid them. Nicolai didn’t want to get in any fights with them, as he’d observed that they were now significa...
2024-10-02 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post144: Yin-Yang Rotation Stick
As they moved through the corridor Nicolai worked to build a rapport with Daksh, asking him about what he’d been through, what he’d done on earth, and telling the man of his own experiences. He’d also lightened his load by having Daksh carry one of the bags.
‘Didn’t you appear her...
2024-09-30 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post143: The Hacker
Where are they? asked Nicolai.
One moment, said Cyberwarfare, and he sensed the new unit in his skull running harder, triangulating over local. Here, said Cyberwarfare, and Nicolai’s Mark activated, the map appearing and immediately zooming on a place not far fr...
2024-09-27 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post142: AA-12 Auto Shotgun
The listing that drew Nicolai’s eye was called a skin suit.
Skin Suit - 40,000p
This suit provides various functions. It has hypersteel plating over vital points and reinforcement throughout, providing good defence against lower-calibre guns and melee attac...
2024-09-25 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post141: Market Upgrade Permit
(Author note: Please let me know what you think of the formatting - it isn't quite how I intended it to look (patreon messes with it when I upload) but I think it kinda works? Let me know if you like/dislike it.)
Nicolai stepped over the bridge and into the cool blue room of the Trad...
2024-09-23 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post140: Vikrum Investigates
Vikrum considered the terrified prisoner, a member of the group calling themselves the New Start Communists. They had been quite a thorn in the Chosen’s side—and therefore Vikrum’s side—since early on, but recently things had gotten even worse.
This was largely because the New Start...
2024-09-20 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post139: Hungry Tree
‘Keep control of your people,’ Nicolai began to Pot Helmet, his voice a rising snarl, only to pause. Cool and calm. He forced his mind away from the vision, refocusing. Nicolai cleared his throat and adopted a smile.
‘I didn’t do anything. What is the matter with her? Is sh...
2024-09-18 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post138: The Tree People
Two days later found Nicolai along with Beth, Cait, and John, standing on one side of a long bridge that let to a fortified outcrop, separated from the rest of the bastion. Elena wasn’t with them. She’d refused to come. Nicolai hadn’t gotten all the reasons for this, as she’d refused to i...
2024-09-16 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post137: Unchained Warden
After leaving the others, Nicolai headed out through the prisons. He didn’t head straight to the exit, because he had another aim in mind.
His first time in the prisons, he had been far too weak to tangle with one of the Wardens. The most recent time, he’d been busy and hadn’t wanted ...
2024-09-13 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post136: Correct, Moral, and Sane
‘What do you want?’ asked the woman, once they were some distance from the others. She was terrified but trying hard not to show it. That was the correct move, but fruitless. She couldn’t hide her emotions from him.
‘Like I told them. You’ll be prisoners,’ he said. ‘Keep movin...
2024-09-11 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post135: Saving the Day
While the others headed back to the safe place, Nicolai opted to take a quick detour. He headed to the tunnel, as by now the three in the prisons should’ve sent up another batch of Oma crystals, and likely their drone would be running low. He’d left the fully charged one there that morning, r...
2024-09-09 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post134: Chain Gang
The echoes of Azure’s cry rang dully off the stone walls. Fuck with us… gonna fucking die!…
He laughed. ‘Is that right?’ He made a frightened face and held his arms out and made a show of looking around. ‘Oh, oh no, they’re gonna get me!’ He paused expectantly. He l...
2024-09-06 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post133: Skeleton Farming
Jo, alongside Perro and Azure, moved up and down the length of undead miners and guards.
The undead didn’t react as the three of them put the loops of rope that Nicolai had sent them over the undead’s heads. They tied each loop tight enough that it wouldn’t fit around the skull, a col...
2024-09-04 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post132: Fruitful Endeavours
They’d all turned to stare out at the jungle as the elevator rattled upward. The dull thumps, footsteps of something big and heavy, were still audible.
Nicolai’s eye was drawn to where he’d seen trees shaking, and then they were abruptly torn open as something thrust itself out from a...
2024-09-02 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post131: Assassination
Nicolai responded without thought as he was dragged through the canopy by the mysterious force, an overriding sense of danger whining through him and telling him where to look as he worked to orient his body, clinging tight around his shotgun.
He activated his Pegasi rings but they were all...
2024-08-30 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post130: Into the Jungle
‘Chosen are busy today,’ Maxine had spoken that morning, over the Radio. ‘Real bee up their bonnet. Dawns just broke but they’re all streaming out across the bridges. I hear shooting already. I’d recommend people stay indoors today… not a good one to be going wandering.â€...
2024-08-28 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post129: Renowned
Later that day Nicolai returned to the safe-place, alone, a spring in his step and a weight of Oma crystals clutched in a bag. It was almost night, the torches he passed a dull orange.
He’d spent most of his time hunting for other groups to trade with (with mixed success), and at the end ...
2024-08-26 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post128: Prisoner's Dilemma
Perro followed after Azure and Jo as they filtered through a tunnel, following after a small group of skeletal miners.
The miners stopped at a mined out gap in the wall, resting their cart as they set to work.
‘These ones,’ said Jo, looking back to Perro and Azure.
Perro swa...
2024-08-23 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post127: Making Money
The other Cultivator, in the midst of activating a Symbiote, was stopped by an outraised arm, held up by the leader of the other group. She shot a warning look at the man, and he subsided with a grumble, shooting another irritated look at Nicolai. The pulsing through the Aura faded, telling Nicol...
2024-08-21 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post126: Trade
As the ringing of the alarm bell in the prison grew fainter, Nicolai having made his escape, he listened attentively to his Mask as it ladled out the expected recriminations; he had not cared whatsoever about the titan’s clear issues. In fact, the moment he’d noticed them he’d simply tried ...
2024-08-19 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post