Saina’s two bodyguards tended to follow her everywhere. So far as they were concerned, school was a dangerous place, one attempt on her life had already been made in the Pit (no matter how much I tried to convince them that her injury had been a coincidence from a magical malfunction), and her ...
2022-11-25 13:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the filters are in place, I drop by the medbay to meet our new doctor. Our Friend isn’t there (apparently it’s doing the autopsy in the other medbay, which is probably smart), but Tinera’s handing the patient a cup of post-chronostasis broth, and gives me a little wave as I enter.
<... 2022-11-22 13:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post1] Staffbreaker brings to hidden lair
2] Both scout and vessel, unprepared
3] Unaware of tribute thrice
4] He will be called to sacrifice.
5] They travel, lost, around the Heart,
ID chips were implanted into colonists shortly before stasis for recognition aboard the ship and new colony, but during the training, accommodation and boarding process, it was more convenient to use these paper ID cards.
2022-11-20 10:41:16 +0000 UTC
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Staffbreaker brings to hidden lair
Both scout and vessel, unprepared
Unaware of tribute thrice
He will be called to sacrifice.
They travel, lost, around the Heart,
Walk deep ...
2022-11-18 13:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostAll six of us gather around Da-bin’s chronostasis pod. I’m not sure why, but everyone insisted on being there, despite the doctor’s warnings that there was a ninety one per cent chance that we were about to watch somebody die.
“Okay,” I say. “Start the process.”
The doct...
2022-11-15 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What did I do?” the spellthing asked.
“What did you do? Your stupid little Sinister Remark right before all that? Thought you’d take one last chance to terrify me?”
“Hey, if you’re paranoid about your own mind, I can’t – ”
“Oh, don’t pull that with me. Y...
2022-11-14 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostStaffbreaker brings to hidden lair –
I’m with Max and Kylie. Max is leading us up a mountain. Grinning, he shows us the new mobile phones he’s hidden to talk to home.
--
I’m crawling through a bush. Chelsea is showing me a new hiding spot. She steps on a...
2022-11-11 13:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I spend the morning working the greenhouse rings and meet up with the crew in Rec Ring 2 for lunch. Adin had made stew, and turned out to be a pretty decent cook with the limited ingredients we had available. When I ask him about it, he just shrugs. “When you’ve got nothing else...
2022-11-08 13:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostDo you have any special requests for your Funeral?
I’m going to have them wrap me up in cloth and toss me off the side of a boat. I’m competent enough with my spell that breathing underwater is relatively simple so a bit of escapology should be fun. Who needs a coffin w...
2022-11-07 14:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post“He’s drunk and his familiar magic is playing up,” di Fiore told Malas.
“Nothing is ‘playing up’, it’s completely fine, and I had one cider,” I clarified. “Di Fiore’s just being a fusspot.”
“Well, let’s have a look.” Malas held out a small electron...
2022-11-07 14:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Talk about wha – hey!” I flinched back in surprise as di Fiore shoved his way past me into the room and shut the door. “What? Get out!”
“No,” he said. He set his backpack on the floor. Bottles clinked inside. “You’re sulking.”
“I… what?”
“You’re gr...
2022-11-04 14:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to talk about what happens after we have enough doctors,” I say to the Friend once we’re alone.
“Yes, captain?”
I hesitate. There’s not really any delicate way to broach the topic, but it needs to be broached. “Back when we were breaching the Chronostasis Ring 1 ...
2022-11-01 13:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post“So let me ask you again, Kayden: how are you able to find the Lake of Inquisition?”
“I don’t know.”
“I see. Well – ”
“But I could probably guess. It all comes down to what’s different about me, right?”
“I suppose. This was before the familiarity ri...
2022-11-01 05:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostI’m surprised it took so long to learn that it would come to this.
I was arrogant, I suppose, to assume a happy ending. I’d been excited to know that I’d give my soul for this, that I’d be able to rid myself of the thing I’d allowed into my arm in an act of foolishness that I’d ...
2022-10-31 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Um,” I said.
Kylie and Talbot both jumped and stopped what they were doing, blushing deeply. Silence stretched for several long, awkward seconds.
“I thought you had an appointment,” Kylie said finally.
“I cancelled it,” I said.
More silence.
“I should ...
2022-10-28 13:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostRepairing the coolant lines takes longer than I’d expect, but finally Denish calls down, “Lines are sealed, now computer can purge!”
“You’re sure you’re alright?” I ask him as he hops off the side of the elevating platform, apparently not willing to wait for its slow descent.<...
2022-10-25 13:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostI had a theory.
It wasn’t an important theory, in any practical sense. It wouldn’t save the world. But it was bugging me. I’d skipped potion class thinking about it (I didn’t really feel like seeing Saina at the moment), and found myself struggling to focus on Instruktanto Ahuja as ...
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2022-10-23 05:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe funeral was the very next day. I suppose that when you’re rich and have access to magical portals, there’s no reason to waste any time.
On the advice of our legacy mage friends, Kylie and I wore well-fitted black robes, meaning I had to wear the stupid binder again. The funeral was ...
2022-10-21 14:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll get the doctor,” Tinera says.
“It’s probably a bit busy now, reviving patients.”
“I’ll find out. But it’s probably the best one to figure out anything from this, right? I mean, we don’t have a proper coroner, but…”
“Yeah. Good point.”
A co...
2022-10-18 15:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t how it was supposed to go. Things didn’t go this way. We went through dangerous stuff all the time, charging into certain death, doing dangerous magical experiments, we were trying to save the world, and Max had… what? Drowned in a well? No, that wasn’t right. That wasn’t ho...
2022-10-17 21:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostLess than two minutes later, several professional-looking, pink-clothed safety personnel were gaining Kylie’s leave to enter Duniyasar and filing out onto the sands. Malas, not one to shirk his duties, got to diagnosing and treating our various minor injuries (he wasn’t happy at all with how ...
2022-10-14 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
ID chips were implanted into colonists shortly before stasis for recognition aboard the ship and new colony, but during the training, accommodation and boarding process, it was more convenient to use these paper ID cards.
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“Okay,” I say. “Now that we have full access to the ship, we – ”
“We don’t,” Tinera says.
“We… don’t?”
“Nope. Tal. Hey, Tal!”
“Hmm?”
“Tell the captain about the airlocks.”
“Okay. I can’t open the airlocks.”
I wait...
2022-10-11 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Max?” Kylie’s voice had a hysterical tinge to it. “Did you pick up a new spell?”
“No, I didn’t pick up – why are you two staring at me?”
I pulled up the camera on my tablet and handed it to him to use as a mirror. He frowned at his own reflection for a few seconds, ...
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