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Brent Stinebaker

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35-16 Fork (II)

There is a downside to forking one’s ego that most sophants do not consider.

How many times have you had to kill an alternative version of yourself? Hm? Ever done that? Eve...

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II-97 Aggression

The act of doing nothing is also a choice. Sometimes it is the proper choice, born of patience, to lure your enemies into a mistake. Most often, though, it is an act of indifference—a mis...

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Matter regarding 35-14 Jailbreakers (V)

Ahem.

It has come to my attention that 35-14 is now hidden because the opening epigraphs has the term "non-consensual" at the end.

I have edited this term. It should be back soon. Apolo...

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35-15 Fork (I)

The easiest way to perform a consensual theft is to make sure your victims are a little more like you.

It begins with a bit of memetics. A bit of ego-splicing—so subtle tha...

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35-13 Jailbreakers (IV)

Sometimes, when you are asked to repent for your sins, the true meaning behind your repentance is not enlightenment and understanding of your wrongdoing, but a capitulation from what you be...

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35-12 Jailbreakers (III)

{This is 008 to Sol-Central… Respond…

Respond…

I am near internment capacity, and require transfer.

I have sustained internal damage from a critical backlas...

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II-96 Assassination (IV)

I must say, you’re letting this boy play a bold little game. A bold game indeed. Making a move on a Duke of Hell? A Duke of Pride, no less. And all this to draw MacArthur closer to you, a...

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35-11 Jailbreakers (II)

The Prefect’s dominion rests upon two fundamental anchors of influence, each shaping the fate of divine constructs in profound ways. The first, Entropy, is the primal force that governs a...

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II-95 Assassination (III)

“They’re attacking from everywhere! We need support! Support! Divert more casters to boost the shielding! Pull the scouts back—the skirmishers too, they’re just getting killed out t...

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II-94 Assassination (II)

Anyone who considers themselves a true warrior should enjoy a ride on the back of a missile—all the way to its inevitable conclusion.

This is not an invitation of suicide...

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II-93 Assassination (I)

Assassinating the great and powerful. Ah. My favorite topic, and a hell of a thrill.

Anyone who has spent any time in the Fathoms likely knows the sheer distance between a no...

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35-10 Jailbreakers (I)

{THIS IS EGI HOSPITALLER TO ALL MINDS! STOP FIRING! STOP FIRING! THE STRUCTURE AROUND THE SOL CENTRAL CELESTIAL SPHERE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED! I AM REQUESTING AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE—AN END ...

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II-92 Arms Deal (III)

It is easy to conflate the nature of Scions to be as if demigods. From my personal research, this is not entirely accurate. Scions are more like evolutionary strains for a divine entity, an...

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35-9 A Dungeon for Gods

The concept behind the Prefect was simple: to create a construct capable of enforcing judgment on entities once thought ungovernable.

In the time after the Great Brea...

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II-91 Arms Deal (II)

The worst Trespassers are those who were someone in their past life. They come here with an image of who they were, bearing expectations to fulfill their egos.

Most often, th...

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35-8 The Nullstar (IV)

{All forces, the Sapphire Band is compromised. System control lost. The situation has become untenable.

The emergency council has convened—and come to a conclusion.

M...

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II-90Arms Deal

Many claim guns are a coward’s weapons. Many decry the use of firearms and advanced technology, where true nobility lies in using Class and martial skill.

I, coincidentally...

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II-89 The Great Equalizer

Existence is unbalanced. Guns are the cure.

I am talking about “guns” in breadth, as there are many things I could classify under the category of guns. Ballistic missiles...

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35-7 The Nullstar (III)

Our triumph would have been impossible if not for the Infacer. Whatever their sins, whatever acts they committed during their long war against their brethren, I cannot betray them. I will n...

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II-88 A Birth and a Death (II)

The Realmbreaker’s arrival was a new opportunity—and the flourish of my golden age.

For a long while, I sought benefactor after benefactor. Like-minded people who understood ...

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II-87 A Birth and a Death (I)

I am the end of all roads.

I am the conclusion at the end of time.

I am that which waits in the dark.

I am the place where light fades.

I am the post-script...

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35-6The Nullstar (II)

For centuries, our peoples have looked upon the shifting star that lights our world and wondered: “Why does it change color? Why does it shift from light to dark? What meaning does this h...

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35-5 The Nullstar (I)

The stars. Where would we even be without them? Even before the apes harnessed its light to power their world, to break their worlds, all those component atoms, those little things that mak...

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35-4 Enemy of My Enemy

It isn’t that hard to kill a mind. Not really. Almost as easy as killing apes sometimes.

Despite all the notions of our superintelligence—and trust me, almost any functio...

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II-86Life For Death

Of all the Sins and Circles, Wrath remains my favorite. Partially because the act of retribution pleases me above all other emotions, but also because it is clear where one stands when faci...

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35-3 Self-Loathing

+We need a better way of containing the Conflagration. I don’t care what the theorists back at the Trident say, it’s affecting my Incubi in the field—fucking them up even through thei...

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II-85 Firewalker

Soldiers, above all others, pray for peace. Because they bear the brunt of violence. They bear the scars of war.

That’s how I knew the boy wasn’t a soldier when I saw. Hi...

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35-2 Shell Game

+Sometimes, someone just has your number.

There’s no shame in that. Maybe it’s a bad day. Maybe you’re just running against something outside your league. Or maybe, and...

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II-84 No Demon’s Land

Staying out in the open is suicide. Even if you are a Duke of a Circle, someone will have a Skill—or more likely, an entire group of people will combine their Skills—and make a corpse o...

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35-1 A Deception of Time

{Stealth. Evasion. Infiltration. Subterfuge. Sabotage. Total structural collapse.

All are terms associated with the Infacer. All are things they have successfully done time a...

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