36-6 To Seize a Star (III)
I cannot conceive of eternity. I don’t even think the minds can. I am also unable to conceive of my own death, for oblivion and absence are anathema to the human mind.
We are, ...
2025-06-08 12:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
29 City
Well, dear reader, it seems that the surfacers have brought interesting times upon us aplenty. Merely days after foiling an initial tact near Passage, the once-unknown surfacer now known as hon...
2025-06-08 10:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post28 Hunger
Absolutely horrific. It’s like a nightmare that won’t end. I can still… I can still see them opening me up and pulling me apart and…
Well, it’s also the only reason I p...
2025-06-07 16:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post27 Conversations
Your body will undergo changes as certain skills evolve. This is a natural part of your advancement across the Tiers.
Most obvious changes occur when your physicality and your to...
2025-06-07 09:52:52 +0000 UTC View PostII-113A Friendly Spar (II)
Ah. Master John Doe… Dueling him made me loathe the very existence of Skills, Classes, and Essence. Our fight was a pure thing. Our battle was a pure thing. Magic sometimes unmakes a warrior ...
2025-06-06 19:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post26 Victory
I have seen once-hopeless Advanced Pathbearers become reborn through the completion of a quest. And I have seen Masters fall and shatter from the consequences of failure.
There i...
2025-06-06 17:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post25 Master
I didn’t expect to become a Master. I didn’t expect to skip over Adept altogether for my Geomancy and become Warden of Stone. It was just a thing of desperation for me. But I suppose the wa...
2025-06-06 09:04:18 +0000 UTC View Post36-5 To Seize a Star (II)
+Try your Cognisoft again. Do it again. If you don’t do it, we’re gonna be dead anyway.
Try it again. This is Fireteam Windborne. We need immediate extraction. The entire dis...
2025-06-05 18:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post24 Surprise
The gap between a Pathless mortal at the height of their natural potential and an Advanced Pathebearer who just started their journey isn’t that large. For warriors, it just seems like they...
2025-06-05 15:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post23 Tunnel
Though a teleportation hub is essential to any major city’s infrastructure, nowhere is it closer to being a city’s lifeblood. It is theorized that the Composer likely started creating the c...
2025-06-05 08:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post36-4 To Seize a Star (I)
Sometimes you get a funny feeling. It’s nothing logical. There’s no evidence or reason behind the way you’re feeling, but it’s there. It’s like a piece of shrapnel in your gut, and yo...
2025-06-04 18:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post22 Bone
Quest Gained: Collapse Weave’s teleportation network to ensure the immediate extraction of a critical and compromised asset.
Reward: +10 to Stealth; Re...
2025-06-04 15:57:17 +0000 UTC View Post21 Intercept
Should you encounter someone who bears the visage of an avian-themed helmet, you should know a few things. The first is that you are likely dead, for the corvid-helmed are the elite assassins o...
2025-06-04 08:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post20 Charm
…After the brutal battle at Passage that many onlookers described as “like two toadhounds ripping into each other” and “a piece of the sky falling,” official sources have stated that ...
2025-06-03 12:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post19 Diplomacy
Beware the fel-touched, the taint, the alien, and the Abyssal. Know that what lingers beyond the reach of the light can only be borne of the grasp of the unholy.
Know that the wi...
2025-06-03 05:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post18 “Relax”
Rest is essential. Rest is non-negotiable. Rest is something many Pathbearers neglect during their journey to obtain more power and advance their standing in the world. You cannot overcome an i...
2025-06-03 04:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostII-112 A Friendly Spar (I)
Direct engagement is strictly prohibited—not recommended against, prohibited. Do not face him head-on. Do not show him your techniques, capabilities, or skills head-on. If you see him, you ar...
2025-06-02 14:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post36-3 Theaters of the Final War (II)
{So, it works this way. Three.
Three is the most essential number. We have a mind, we have a body, and sometimes, if we’re Godclad, we have a Soul. The soul makes us able...
2025-06-02 11:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post17 Quest
Quests are something that all Pathbearers desire, but few will regularly encounter. The reason is that it takes a divine entity, or in extreme cases, the system itself, to issue fourth quests. ...
2025-06-02 09:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post16 Composer
All demons carry the taint, and it is of this taint that other demons are born, when their fell presence. It is not the body that succumbs, but the spirit.
The very being of a pe...
2025-06-02 08:44:53 +0000 UTC View Post15 Rematch
No, no, no, this is not acceptable. I have delivered what you asked, what was contracted. I have fulfilled the conditions of my quest. Now, you promised! You promised that there would be a secu...
2025-06-01 11:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post14 Weave
When the Composer birthed herself from the slumbering body of the Great One, she ventured into the abyssal depths—a babe caught amidst the strife of an already ongoing war.
The...
2025-06-01 09:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostII-111 The Coming Harvest (II)
Skills can’t make you taller. I tried. I tried a lot. Find someone who can change your bodies, children. Eat your food and get your nutrition. Find a lover who does not judge. Those are the o...
2025-05-31 19:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post13 Arachnae
The Order will save you, but they will not allow everyone to be among their number.
After they save you, they will lead you to your new life, and you will be trained to live as a...
2025-05-31 17:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post12 Misconception
50. 100. 200. 500
These are the numbers you should know. These are the numbers you will know as a Pathbearer. These are the standard level thresholds for achieving Adept, Master,...
2025-05-31 12:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post11 Cooking
“To be Umbral is to know that you are human, but stand in the place of cattle.”
Such were the words my mother spoke to me when I was just a babe. Such were the final words sh...
2025-05-31 07:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post36-2 Theaters of the Last War (I)
{Refusal to all Bleaks: Assemble the Deep Ones of Time. We need a concentration of force. Peel the path open. We cannot allow the Prefect to fall into the hands of the Dreamer—and we must not...
2025-05-30 19:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post10 Weavers
When the Great One fell and descended into the chasm, their blood brought new life to the ruined world. It was their blood that graced us with life in the first place, their blood that seeped m...
2025-05-30 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post9 Dagger
What can be said for a Legendary-Pathbearer of Undeath that has dedicated his existence to slaying other undying immortals like him? What can be said about an accidental Lich who hunts other Li...
2025-05-30 07:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post8 Biomancy
The Soul Cage analysis cannot be completed. Not without a soul still inside. Discovering the exact mechanics behind the rites of lichification isn’t something that can be achieved through the...
2025-05-29 17:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post