Birds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.9
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I was not bothered for the rest of my walk.
Not directly, at least. People watched me the entire time, of course, but it seemed that nobody was as stupid ...
2025-10-01 13:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Birds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.8
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That lasted all of ten minutes, and it had still been so uncomfortably slimy that I felt like I needed a shower.
I swept through the front doors of the bu...
2025-09-29 13:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.i
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His name was Don Garner.
He was an employee of Night Corp, a public facing Immigration Agent at the Department of City Affairs.
He would sit at his ...
2025-09-25 13:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.7
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In the year 2020, to get personal registration done, one would have to go to the City Center and look for the City Affairs Building.
This was a necessity ...
2025-09-23 14:36:42 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.6
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To my legitimate surprise, I wasn’t able to add all three accounts to the Agent. Both the man upstairs and the woman downstairs were paired just fine...
2025-09-19 14:27:53 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.5
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Checking out the bodies only took me a few minutes each, and I had to say... I was terribly disappointed.
Three dead Scavs, and none of them had a single ...
2025-09-17 14:07:08 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.4
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Chozo.
A simple word. It wouldn’t mean anything to the people of this world, other than a pair of syllables strung together.
If I went around anno...
2025-09-15 14:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.3
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Two targets. Neither knew I was here. One was busy, downstairs, behind soundproofing, and working with a loud tool. The other was upstairs, probably watching so...
2025-09-11 15:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostBirds Of A Feather, Chapter 1.2
Chapter 1.1 of this particular work is available here:
2025-09-09 13:28:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement
Announcement:
So, if you’ve been following the Discord, you may already know this. Incase you are not already in the Discord or have not kept up with it for whatever reason...
2025-08-25 11:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Epilogue
Epilogue: Reb Nobis Faveant
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The Vascular Plant plunged into the Coral cloud.
The resonance took only a few moments to start up. Even if most of it was isolate...
2025-08-21 16:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.10
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Neither of us hesitated to charge directly at the other. Funnily enough, we both even chose the same opening move.
I raised my blade, and I watched Rave...
2025-08-21 15:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.9
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Iguazu had always been pathetic.
For the past five years, ever since the first time I saw him in action, that was always the impression he gave off. He w...
2025-08-19 14:18:36 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.8
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“Tch. And who the hell are you?” Iguazu asked.
“If you don’t know the answer to that question, then ALLMIND hasn’t told you... Or, more...
2025-08-15 14:27:03 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.7
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Calculations flashed through my mind in the brief instant after the Ghost was revealed. Calculations- and an emotion that was somewhere between disbelief and <...
2025-08-13 14:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.6
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From far to the Xylem’s side, a quartet of transports were hurling through the exosphere towards the zone.
They were burning at a speed that was we...
2025-08-11 13:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.5
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The three simultaneous detonations of the Coral storages had created a trio of converging streams. All of them had been equidistant, all of them had effectivel...
2025-08-07 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.4
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It didn’t take long for her to get local control. She had physical access to the hardware, and that was about all anybody ever needed. I attempted to slow he...
2025-08-05 13:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.3
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The entire time that the Pilots had been in combat, ALLMIND’s machines had been searching through the three storage areas. Now she’s preparing to actually ...
2025-08-01 13:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.2
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Walter’s Coral Rifle was by far the most obvious of the attacks that came. Fully charged, the beam lanced outwards, stretching a dozen kilometers in...
2025-07-30 13:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.1
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It takes only minutes for the pilots to scramble. ‘Only minutes’, however, is incredibly misleading.
On the battlefield, ‘only minutes’ is an ete...
2025-07-28 13:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 13.0
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“‘Stubborn’ is a term that applies to Humans.” ALLMIND lied through her non-existent teeth. “I am simply patient, and that patience has ...
2025-07-24 12:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.9
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“I have to say, I’m very happy with how well Raven is doing.” Ayre spoke to me. “So much progress has been made! We’re still working on speech therap...
2025-07-22 12:46:04 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.8
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By the time I was wrapping things up with the Vascular Plant and starting to move on to the next step, Flatwell had finished wrapping up his ...
2025-07-18 13:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.7
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I had a single major problem left to deal with.
That problem was Coral.
There were, across the entire planet, a lot of Coral deposits.
There ...
2025-07-16 14:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.6
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March 3, 50 years post Fires of Ibis.
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The next few weeks passed quickly. It was strange, since I had less to do than usual and...
2025-07-14 13:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.5
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On one side, one of the most advanced warmachines ever built, capable of operating in almost any environment, powered by a substance that laughed at the laws o...
2025-07-10 13:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.4
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I was, to be perfectly honest, quite impressed.
ALLMIND’s base was located near the western edge of the continent of Belius. She’d gone ahead and con...
2025-07-08 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 12.3
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“Well, I’ve got to say, you were right.” Carla whistled. “I do like what you’ve done with the place.” 2025-07-04 13:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Embers After Flames, Chapter 12.2
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“It’s genuinely impressive that you’re alive, you know that?”
Less than five minutes after I’d started the deeper examinations...
2025-07-02 13:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post