13-14 Denial
+There’s something inside Shard-1’s mind. It’s… a memory fragment, I think. Looks pretty frayed. She might’ve broken it off from the half-strand that nulled her. Scrying now–agh fuc...
2023-06-29 19:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
13-13 The Silent War (II)
The guy who pulled my ass out from that Incubi grease fire showed up yesterday. Just popped into the back of my head and said hi.
Fuck me, but that’s humiliating. And here I wa...
2023-06-28 17:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post13-12 The Silent War (I)
+ATTENTION+
PRIORITY 0 ALERT INBOUND:
Incubus,
You are to suspend all other ongoing operations and preparations immediately. A situation of paramoun...
2023-06-26 19:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post13-11 The Shattered Dream (II)
“Once upon a time, there were Nine pantheons. Nine pantheons for the nine great and terrible tribes who carried with them twelve different histories. In each history–”
“W...
2023-06-25 19:21:31 +0000 UTC View Post13-10 The Shattered Dream (I)
And with this Heaven, I divorce us from the atrocities of the past and wed us to the future we are to become. I hope that through the promise of this Ark we all form new bridges, new communitie...
2023-06-23 20:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post13-9 The Enemies of My Enemy (II)
+Why is my mind still whole? I know what you are, Priest. Mercy is not in your nature. Take your retribution. Strip me of my personhood. I do not fear you. I do not fear this. The great work wi...
2023-06-21 12:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post13-8 The Enemies of my Enemy (I)
How many of you remember the dream? Jaus’ dream. The shit we were all promised when they packed us into these big fucking megacities and told us the future was coming.
I rememb...
2023-06-19 20:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post13-7 Hunters in the Dark (II)
There are not many adversaries that can null one of our Strike Cell, and what happened down at Mazza’s Junction went far beyond that. I’ve experienced something like that only once. 2023-06-16 19:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
13-6 Hunters in the Dark (I)
I ran up against the Incubi a couple of times. Nasty biz, but I made it without getting nulled.
Trick with them is to make chasing you a bother. Most times, if the Incubi are aft...
2023-06-15 19:43:32 +0000 UTC View Post13-5 Breather
+ATTENTION+
PRIORITY 1 ALERT INBOUND:
BEGINNING PROXY SYNC…
Good morning, Glaives,
Approximately six hours ago last night, one of our cells...
2023-06-14 19:07:34 +0000 UTC View Post13-4 Necessary Flaws
+I was thinking…+
+Oh, no! What happened?+
+Kae… Come on, I think sometimes.+
[Giggle] +I’m sorry. You try. Oh! I’m sorry, what were you going to as...
2023-06-13 18:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post13-3 Eclipse Phase
It begins with a society feeding a story to a Soul while accompanied by a sacrifice. From the ephemeral confines of baseline reality, history–like a gestalt of collective memory or a single a...
2023-06-12 18:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post13-2 What Was Lost (II)
And it is in ruination that we divine the vessel that will be our deliverance. Flesh must be flayed and bone must be broken before steel assumes its rightful place.
To abandon su...
2023-06-11 17:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post13-1 What Was Lost (I)
+You work way too much, you know that?+
+Hm? Sorry, I was trying to match background details between the Painter of the Pale Morning to the Claimant of Dawn. You know what’s so...
2023-06-09 18:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post12-13 The Matryoshka Eaters
I have no idea why the hell Voidwatch made those things. I don’t. I also don’t want to know how Highflame managed to strike a good enough deal to afford them.
What I can deci...
2023-06-08 17:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post12-12 A Theft of Fire (II)
The Reverie Mark-II Exocortex is a pretty handy piece of kit, but it won’t be replacing your Meta anytime soon.
It's a tangible implant, main benefits being:
- <... 2023-06-07 16:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post
12-11 A Theft of Fire (I)
What makes a good Necro…
Hell. Let’s start makes a mediocre Necro. Easier there, and it’s still hard.
Alright. I need you to do two things at the same time, ...
2023-06-06 15:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post12-10 Restoration (II)
The Conflagration is more than an “advanced trauma pattern.”
Voidwatch has hidden much from us–secrets that are near impossible to tease out with the deviance between our s...
2023-06-05 14:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post12-9 Restoration (I)
It’s…. Understandable why Voidwatch would veto the project, but I still reserve the right to be upset.
Imagine. A fully modern Heaven of Strong Nuclear Forces–can you even ...
2023-06-03 19:49:09 +0000 UTC View Post12-8 Private Transit
In deeds, not oaths.
In acts, not rituals.
In practice, not prayer.
We bearers of the scriptures, though ever faithless, do pledge our undying virtu...
2023-06-02 10:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post12-7 Retrieval
+Jhred Greatling’s Frame is gone; Elder D’Rongo just got arrested. I severing this proxy. It will be the last time I use its memories to contact you. I won’t remember our near-term conver...
2023-05-31 19:57:50 +0000 UTC View Post12-6 Arrangements
You know what’s the sign of a real Necrojack, Avo? Using someone to solve the problems they created.
Look at the dive we just did. Were we richer than the Instrument? No. Not e...
2023-05-30 19:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post12-5 The Frame (II)
+Our Glaives are dead. The Agnos is gone.+
+What? How? The Paladin was–+
+It’s not him. He’s good and snuffed. There was an unforeseen variable.+
+Unf...
2023-05-29 17:16:10 +0000 UTC View Post12-4 The Frame (I)
Don’t fuck with the voiders.
I’m serious, consangs. Just don’t.
I know most the other Guilds talk about Voidwatch and their “Enjoined Governing Intellects...
2023-05-28 19:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shattered Weaveress Part 1
The Shattered Weaveress
Or
The Fortress of Daughters
Part 1
Sky-Flower didn’t budge when her sister first called for her to head to the outer walls, claiming she ...
2023-05-28 16:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post12-3 The Easy Armistice (II)
Heavens are comprised of a unified retelling of a story. This is what makes them so hard to counter–they don’t need to make exact sense in the broad schem...
2023-05-24 19:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post12-2 The Easy Armistice (I)
“Chief Paladin Naeko. What do you think you are doing?”
“Arresth–Arresting you. Why? What’s it to you?”
“I’m being arrested!”<...
12-1 Appeal
Despite their legality, thinkeasys continue to be popular with street squires and high-end memory dealers across the city. With all the restrictions and intellectual property licenses laced int...
2023-05-21 16:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostVolume 2 Retrospective and Near-Term Forecast
I have been writing Godclads for 7 months by this point. The story currently numbers 524k words or so. A hefty number and we're only about 20-24% of the way through.
With the posting 11-2, we...
2023-05-18 20:10:14 +0000 UTC View Post11-2 Epilogue: A Break Between Storms
What do you mean his Frame is missing? That’s impossible. We’re the only ones who can secure and remove it. None of his canons are running either–no Rend–this place is stable. No Ruptur...
2023-05-18 19:57:46 +0000 UTC View Post