Drich's Demesne

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.1

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“That voice...”

“I’m the one that Carla calls ‘the annoyance’, yes.” She had called me that to my face and I was oddly pro...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.0

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I told Flatwell first, of course. Of everybody in the RLF, he more than anyone was the person who could properly make use of the information.

When he’d ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.9

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Despite how the last five or so years had felt like they were just flying by, it was only now that I felt like I didn’t have enough&nbs...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.8

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By the time that Walter came back with the next set of Hounds, Carla had their new ACs ready to go. 618, 619, and 620 joined with 617, all of them receiving LUN...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.7

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January 1, 47 years post Fires of Ibis

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This year started the same way that the last year ended.

Balam and Arquebus went t...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.6

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Time passed quickly enough.

Carla filled Walter in on the events that happened. Walter wasn’t exactly pleased, since he could recognize a complication t...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.5

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I waited only a few moments to respond, a timeframe to ensure that the signal and response took long enough that they wouldn’t know how close to the Grid I 2025-03-20 12:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.4

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“Okay, so it turns out that raiding the PCA might be harder than we thought.” Carla spoke, and if I’d had a head, I would have shaken it.

I...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.3

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If not for the fact that she was travelling in a group, Carla would have been a tricky bitch to keep track of. I was honestly kind of impressed with how good sh...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.2

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Walter and Carla.

A real blast from the past, those two. Sure, I’ve thought about them every now and then over the years, but that’s mostly in the con...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.1

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The first corporate invasion of RLF territory came before the month was over.

It was not, as one might suspect, a particularly big invasion....

Embers After Flames, Chapter 8.0

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In the aftermath of the whole thing, the PCA was, not to put too fine a point on it, mad.

Like, extremely, earth-shatteringly, unreasonably fuck-ass mad.<...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.9

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May 28, 44 years post Fires of Ibis

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“Isn’t this... bad?” Dunham asked, his voice confused. “Why are you supporting this...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.8

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Life continued. Even the new additions didn’t change that. Until the next set of suckers arrived, it stayed relatively quiet, though, and I appreciated that. ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.7

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Ah, silence. Absolutely no response whatsoever- for several seconds, too!

Either I had touched a nerve, or ALLMIND was putting on quite the show in terms ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.6

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It only took Flatwell a few days to finish setting things up on his side of things. In those few days, Marzan announced that it was pulling out, now that its ar...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.5

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I had the WEEVIL ping Raven’s AC, alerting them to its presence before the WEEVIL moved to shift its camo tarp off of its body.

Raven didn’t react asi...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.4

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One thing you don’t realize about combat between two or more Armored Cores is that it is deceptively quick.

For all the power that those w...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.3

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“Captain?!”

Oh man~ 

That guy fucked up. 

Raven’s Pulse Blade had cut clean through the Core/L...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.2

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The SEA SPIDER was quick to skedaddle after the battle was over. The AC waited about thirty seconds before it elected to follow, though it chose to hang back at...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.1

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The plan was enacted only a few days later. I had the front row seats to both of their forces being marshalled, my Antigens keeping an eye on the situation.

Embers After Flames, Chapter 7.0

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Raven.

A very familiar name to anybody who played the Armored Core series. You played as a Raven, the Raven, in every game oth...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.9

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March 2, 38 years post Fires of IBIS.

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I might have considered myself a prophet if I wasn’t aware of just how much history lik...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.8

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“I thought you said you were going on a scouting mission.” Freddie spoke, his confusion evident in his voice.

“I did say that. And I did go on the s...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.7

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“- and that’s the short of it.” I finished explaining.

We were in rare form, today. Every AC Pilot of the RLF was, for once, n...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.6

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Well. Isn’t that interesting?

After literal years of effectively waging a shadow war against each other, now ALLMIND wants to talk.

Clearly, she�...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.5

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The anniversary of the day that the Fires of Ibis had started passed with the same quiet melancholy as it had for the past three decades. The two weeks until th...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.4

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“All settled in, I hope?” Flatwell asked.

“Naturally.”

Ayre’s addition to the family occurred the same way that most of m...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.3

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BALTEUS retreated, boosting backwards in order to gain a bit of distance from the Firekeepers. Even as it did so, I saw its rails deploy, missiles readying once...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.2

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The blinding light had barely begun to dissipate into flecks of red and orange before the Firekeepers reached the Watchpoint, trailing so closely behind the Ove...