James led the way, fire-axe propped over his shoulder, gaze fixed on the empty street ahead. Streets lights came on, burning with a toxic orange light, illuminating the remains of dead demons and t...
2022-09-08 12:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post“No way,” said Serenity, glancing about rapidly if about to cross a busy street, then striding right up to him. “No way am I going to let you go in there alone.”
“You’re out of am...
2022-09-07 21:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe hotel bar was unattended; an air of controlled panic was palpable and turning in a slow circle James saw few hotel employees in evidence. The front desk was swamped, and a couple of valet guys ...
2022-09-07 21:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later they were back in the Marriott. It was surreal to enter that spacious, clean, luxurious building after their expedition into the heart of horror, and there blood-spattered and battle-...
2022-09-07 21:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Lead us in,” said James, grip tight on his fire-axe.
Becca had her Bushmaster up, and her voice was taut with tension. “I’m going to drop down. You guys better be right behind me. Th...
2022-09-07 21:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostJames felt a surge of cold panic that made him want to stand rooted to the spot and stare, wide-eyed, at where the kid had gone down.
Maybe the old James would have done that. Given Yadriel u...
2022-09-07 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hydra squads were attacking the target dead zone from the south, coming up Franklin Ave in an arrow formation, with the Golem triad following right behind. The avenue was a one-way street with ...
2022-09-07 20:59:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Thanks for bearing with me,” said James, shoving the phone back in his pocket. “Let’s get to the details. First off, I’d like to introduce Serenity. She’s a Supplicant Level 1, and I...
2022-09-07 20:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Marriott was as fancy and grand as James had imagined. Its main tower soared up into the cloudy sky, pale gray stone with hundreds of blue windows embedded seamlessly in its face. The front was...
2022-09-07 20:57:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Marriott was just down the street. They walked and ate Manna bread as they went, James having decided to bow out of the last slate of meetings, consequences be damned.
“You’re looking...
2022-09-07 20:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostJames and Serenity texted Jessica and headed down to the NYCEM. No buses were running, dawn was on the horizon, and the air was thick with the pungent, cottony smell of an unseen fire. In the end t...
2022-09-07 20:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostSanta Marta Slum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4:13 AM EST
“João!”
Paulo’s yell was lost in the narrow streets of the slum, in the sound of automatic gunfi...
2022-09-07 20:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe hummer was wrecked, so Mancini radioed in and was told he needed to hoof it down to the NYCEM, a distance of about four miles.
“We can make that in an hour if we go carefully,” said M...
2022-09-07 20:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostJames’s breathing sounded impossibly loud. He wasn’t used to this kind of silence. The past few days had been non-stop noise, sirens, shouts, gunshots. A tapestry of continuous panic and the so...
2022-09-07 20:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostJames watched the hummer drive off and turned to stare at the demon symbol. “I got a bad feeling about this synergy.”
“Walk and talk?” said Serenity.
“OK Jessica.”
She...
2022-09-07 20:54:23 +0000 UTC View PostSingh drove the hummer down the avenue. It was that still, magical hour of the night when the city seemed enervated, the streetlights causing the iced over pavements to glitter, coronas of orange l...
2022-09-07 20:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe military meeting wrapped up an hour later. A bunch of people chimed in with updates, many of which were being revised on the fly, but all pointed out one key fact: shit was fucking grim.
...
2022-09-07 20:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostJames took his seat. The vibe was different from last time, with less people both in the chairs and on the monitors. Folks were quieter, most not making eye contact, the strain and exhaustion and q...
2022-09-07 20:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostNemesis 2 Defeated
You are #178 to survive Global First Wave Nemesis 2 Incursion
16 Days till Nemesis 3 Released
86 Days...
2022-09-07 20:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostThey rolled out in the hummer, four in the back, Mancini and Singh up front. The roads weren’t always passable, but Singh didn’t let that stop him. They’d bounce right up onto the sidewalk, b...
2022-09-07 20:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostJames awoke to the sound of someone moving around the kitchen. Blinked, palmed his eyes, then sat up. Jessica had set a bunch of to-go boxes on the counter, some bags on the floor, and was digging ...
2022-09-07 20:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostJames pushed open their apartment door. Serenity staggered inside, dropped her Sigs on the counter, and without a word entered her room and face planted on the bed.
With extreme effort James ...
2022-09-07 20:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fourth Wave was the largest yet.
With all the progress and meetings and killing of gremlins, James had momentarily lost track of the shitstorm that was spreading across the world. He’d ...
2022-09-07 20:39:37 +0000 UTC View PostSerenity staggered in just after lunch. Her eyes were glazed, her clothing shredded, her left arm sleeved in dry blood.
“Oh wow, you guys wait up all this time for me? How sweet.” She swa...
2022-09-07 20:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post33 Hours till Nemesis 2 Released
James groaned and draped his arm over his face. Clanging and voices came from downstairs. His head throbbed. How much had he drunk...
2022-09-07 20:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostJames told them everything. Never had he had an audience so breathlessly rapt. He’d had his moments over the past few years when he’d gotten into the flow of telling a good story, though those ...
2022-09-07 20:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe wave of gremlins finally began to die down. Perhaps he’d pulled in all of them within the chitterer’s radius, and there just weren’t enough left right now to respond to the summons. How f...
2022-09-07 20:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostSerenity bit her lower lip and forced herself not to glance at the fire team again. Three hours they’d been waiting, and her new Sig Sauer’s were as perfect as they were going to get. She misse...
2022-09-07 20:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostJames stopped walking.
The gremlins kept ashing upon him, the chitterers working themselves up into a frenzy, but he ignored them and focused on the words.
Your choic...
2022-09-07 20:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostJames tooled along the street, windows down, listening.
Nothing good came in with the night air.
The sounds were nightmarish, a tapestry that would have had him sweating bullets only th...
2022-09-07 20:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post