7 Strangers
We, the Auroral Council of the Twilight Republic have come to a unified resolution:
On account of the ethical nature of Necromancy, we mark this Lore of Magic and all who possess...
2025-05-29 12:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
6 Abyss
There isn’t a word to describe the darkness when you descend the first time. It clings to you like tar. It touches you and grips you and won’t let go. It’s a darkness you can practically ...
2025-05-29 08:13:46 +0000 UTC View Post36-1 The Three-Fold Strike
There is the blow your enemy does not see coming, the blow they refuse to accept, and the blow that they do not believe to be possible.
Be glad if you face an enemy of a small mi...
2025-05-28 18:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post5 Path
It is said that the first Pathbearers after the integration earned their Paths by entering and closing dimensional gates.
The world’s mana density was far lower then, and as su...
2025-05-28 17:22:36 +0000 UTC View Post4 Deathless
When the system arrived and the old world fell, humanity did not break cleanly. The integration saw the convergence of many create calamities. Volcanoes roared. The sun flared. The moon shatter...
2025-05-28 09:13:38 +0000 UTC View Post3 Festival
And so the war between Yellowstone Republic and the Necrotechs came to a bitter end at the Battle of Blackedge. As the republic’s reinforcements arrived to stall the tide of the Necrotech Leg...
2025-05-27 16:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post2 Return
And, to celebrate the grand victory won by the Yellowstone Republic over the Necrotech Legions and the impending marriage of his heir, Pathbearer-Adept Adam Arrow, Pathbearer–Master Lord Rola...
2025-05-27 16:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post1 Pathless
Path
Noun
A Path is a System-born metaphysical archetype that represents a fundamental truth of existence. Obtaining a Path unlocks an individual's ability...
2025-05-27 16:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post35-25 Strix Ops (IV)
“...and though your crimes were committed as an act of folly in service of Guild and Line, what cannot be overlooked is your ineptitude and incompetence in allowing the Fallen Priests of Nolo...
2025-05-26 17:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostII-110 The Coming Harvest (I)
To my good friend:
Dear Old Man. I am glad to see you still alive. My time in the higher realms has been… troublesome as of late. The great king of our Circle has grown sullen ...
35-24 Strix Ops (III)
I am not the savior. Truthfully, the proper title I should bear is “Enabler,” for that is my greatest success. I enabled those who had the will, the skill, the daring, and the sorrow to go ...
2025-05-24 11:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostII-109Second Try
The best Skills aren’t the ones that deliver the most damage, but the kind you don’t see coming. Or are just plain weird.
Everyone in the Fathoms has some kind of beam or bla...
2025-05-23 11:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post35-23 Strix Ops (II)
So, here’s the thing about running multiple, high-risk runs at the same time:
Don’t.
Fucking don’t.
Even if you’re a Guilder with all the so...
2025-05-22 08:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostII-108 The Grinding Camps (III)
Why is it so hard to run one of these camps. When I started this, I thought I had thought of something revolutionary—that I was just going to farm my Aspects to new heights of power. Instead,...
2025-05-21 09:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post35-22 Strix Ops (I)
+People of This Place Above. This is the Strix. Look above you. Look. Watch as day surrenders to night prematurely. Watch.
There is a war being waged. A ...
2025-05-20 08:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostII-107 The Grinding Camps (II)
I’m not sorry. It’s their fault for being weak. A stronger warrior would have chosen death or avoided being taken to my camps—ah, rehabilitation facilities
Better their pit...
2025-05-19 17:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostII-106 The Grinding Camps (I)
What? No, the Drowned Sky Sect does not run cruel torture camps meant to butcher and harvest the lives of countless Sinners. In fact, we have not killed any innocents at all.
Wha...
2025-05-19 08:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post35-21Movement in the Shadows (I)
{All active minds rated below Bleak clearance: Please vacate the lobby or face immediate censure. Time to comply is [.00011 Seconds]...
Censure complete...
2025-05-18 09:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostII-105 After
Hm? Kidnapping? No, I have not been kidnapping anyone. That’s the wrong term for what I have been doing.
What we have taken are prisoners of war for the Drowned Sky Sect. And r...
2025-05-17 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post35-20 Cage of the Self (II)
The problem is… the ammo. Gun’s not the problem. Hm. Maybe gun is the problem. Part of the problem. Hells. Not too sure. Love gun. Wish gun could shoot harder. Faster. Fire more. Never enou...
2025-05-16 11:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostII-104 Patriarch’s Return
Fellow Consuls. We have a problem. A severe problem.
-Intercepted Message Among the Inheritor High Consuls
II-104
Patriarch’s Return
“Vendrian. Ve...
2025-05-16 08:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostII-103 Solution: Mass Murder
My greatest mistake was imagining that there were rules at all. There are no rules. I was a fool.
I really should have started killing more people sooner.
So many ...
2025-05-15 10:35:52 +0000 UTC View Post35-19 Cage of the Self (I)
{Year… year… year… lost count. Lost count long ago. Last resurrection was… 40% Rend. Took pieces of me. Managed to mitigate some of the damage. Sus—sustainability of functionality and...
2025-05-14 17:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostII-102 The Pale in the Black
“Prince Greatest, greatest of Sinners, greatest of all, greatest to be, I… I need to let you know of certain developments. You know that someone like me is reliable, understanding, ...
2025-05-13 17:37:47 +0000 UTC View PostII-101 Into the Dark
I’ve been trying to bind my mind closer to my Class… my spirit. I’ve been trying so long to give myself a soul. I know that the Inheritors think that we’re special because we’re untou...
2025-05-13 10:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post35-18 Cards and Nu-Dogs
There is an inherent inequality in intellect between a mind and most biological organisms. Minds are, after all, designed to be superintelligences—beings created to break through the threshol...
2025-05-12 11:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostII-100 The Last of Her Lein (III)
Okay. I’m going to be honest. Summoners shouldn’t be considered a Class archetype. I mean, what the hell does Summoner mean? That they just send spirits and creatures off to fight for them?...
2025-05-11 06:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post35-17 Fork (III)
The self can always be betrayed. The self can be shattered. And be remade. And the self can be usurped by another, worn as a sleeve when all memories are taken, when all registered experiences ...
2025-05-10 13:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostII-99 The Last of Her Lein (II)
Lein. A real fucking monster, that one. I’ve seen her break entire armies in the Base—she would do this thing where she would find the champion among her enemies and just take it to them ba...
2025-05-09 11:37:14 +0000 UTC View PostII-98 The Last of Her Lein (I)
“You were a fool to come into my den, boy. Fool greater than most to seek your own end. Many have come to slay me, and many begged as my claws tore their flesh and found where their spiri...
2025-05-07 18:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post