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2022-10-27 15:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostCrimson Hydra’s battle up Canal Street was brutal.
For all that James was an unstoppable force within the Hound, he was but one speck of resistance in a sea of slaughter. People thronged, p...
2022-10-25 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostVirtue: Justice
Understanding flooded into James and his mind blanked before the enormity of what was revealed. The four virtues were conduits, means to connect with beings t...
2022-10-24 13:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Here we go,” called Serenity. “Got the official countdown. One minute.”
The crowd was eating out of Kimmie’s palm. She kept hitting them with Inspire every fifteen or so minutes, b...
2022-10-21 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostEverybody was crowded around. Crimson Hydra. Star Boy, Hackworth, officers, operators, Fabricators.
Gawping. Gaping. Unable to process what had just happened.
James understood where the...
2022-10-20 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJames stepped back as the War Engineers got to work. This involved moving into a circle around the War Hound and raising their Mechanicus tools, each of which was distinct yet formed in the shape o...
2022-10-19 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostJames awoke to the sound of his phone buzzing. Serenity was gone. He rolled over, grimaced, then sat up. Cindy.
“Hello?”
“Good morning!” She sounded insanely chipper. “It’s ...
2022-10-18 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat followed was a bunch of meetings. Hackworth and his command folks, meetings where other generals were pulled in, folks from the NSA, the local leadership, Emergency Management.
James sat...
2022-10-17 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThey loaded Joanna’s body onto the Chinook and flew back to Fort Hamilton. People were giving commands, there was plenty of activity, but James felt like the hollow center of the storm, the quiet...
2022-10-14 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJames stepped inside the veil of fire. He moved slowly, warily, watching the horde of Nem3’s before him.
They’d been milling about, turning their heads blindly from side to side as if que...
2022-10-13 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Anima found them a trio of Nem3’s stalking down the center of an avenue as if they owned it, dragging their sword-arms behind them and tearing up the asphalt.
James observed them from s...
2022-10-12 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHow do you process that much carnage? How do you understand, in your bones, that millions have died? To wrap your mind around that number. To visualize it.
Ten dead, sure. A hundred dead, yea...
2022-10-11 16:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostThey cruised out to their intersection, the same one as the day before. Kimmie kept looping around on her Wing then apologizing, while Kerim had a stunned smile that just wouldn’t go away.
...
2022-10-10 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post68 Days till Pits Open
Might as well have been a lifetime. James dismissed the countdown as the elevator doors opened and he led Crimson Hydra out into the parking lot. Jessi...
2022-10-07 13:31:14 +0000 UTC View Post69 Days till Pits Open
James dismissed the count-down as the elevator doors opened on the Marriott’s Presidential Suite. Emerging into the entrance hall, the Anima hovering...
2022-10-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve really fallen down the rabbit hole here,” said Cindy, smiling up at James from where she sat at her computer. “But in many ways this is still simpler than running fantasy conventions....
2022-10-05 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSouth Beach, Miami, USA, 3:17 PM EST
“Yo dude, pump it, pump it!”
Chris spun the wheel as they came tearing off the intercoastal causeway, sliding down the McArthur...
2022-10-04 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You did what?”
James stood straight in the small conference room. His heart was pounding, and in his mind he saw Bjørn widen his eyes just as James aimed the gun at his face. 2022-10-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Becca tore her gaze from Bjørn to glare at James with such horror and shock and outrage that her voice shook from the intensity of her emotions. “You murdered him.”
James swung ...
2022-09-30 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Bless Green,” James said as he eased the Wing around. The blessings boosted his stats even as he scanned the intersection. The triangular median. The subway station building.
The crowd s...
2022-09-30 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostJames descended to the Marriott lobby, his Animus hovering just above and behind his left shoulder, and when the elevator doors opened he emerged, already painfully aware of how unusual a figure he...
2022-09-29 12:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostJames awoke at the crack of dawn, his alarm beeping mildly by the side of the hotel bed. It felt weird to wake up; he’d grown used to burning Aeviternum over the past couple of weeks to keep goin...
2022-09-29 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s only one thing we need to determine, and determine tonight,” said Major Duffy. “How are we handling the Second Wave?”
Everybody was gathered in what had come to be called t...
2022-09-28 12:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostInstinct caused people to look up as he descended upon the crowd, and a ripple effect took place, upturned faces spreading as more noticed and looked up in turn. The crowd parted before him, allowi...
2022-09-28 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post(To see Trigger Warning, scroll to the bottom of the chapter.)
James flew out over the ocean, his speed slow, his thoughts in turmoil. She was fucking with him. This was a test, a trap. There...
2022-09-27 12:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostJames brought the Wing around to face the approaching Monitor, because what else could it be? He was out of Aeviternum, perilously low on divine power, alone and a hundred and fifty yards up in the...
2022-09-27 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe command center was tense, filled with admin making calls, connecting different units, coordinating forces, overseeing their two Groups and working on bringing them home.
James crossed the...
2022-09-26 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt took five minutes to cover the ten miles north. It was a beautiful drive. The suburbs north of the city were swank. It’s where the rich folk who got tired of living in Manhattan but couldn’t...
2022-09-26 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHow you guys doing? Happy Sunday. I hope you've got your coffee brewing and nothing but good things planned for your day.
So look, I've been writing like a madman these past two months. Since...
2022-09-25 12:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt took ten more minutes of bloody work but they cleared the last of the Nem3’s. Having four Black Hawks in the sky helped like crazy, though they almost lost one when a Nem3 wheeled and loosed a...
2022-09-23 18:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post