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181: Odd Tree People

[Author note: Merry Christmas my dudes ^_^.

Also thanks for the feedback the other day, mostly people seem fine with events as they were except that it was a little abrupt. I don't wanna make...

180: Soul Rot

Nicolai left the others discussing the formation of the Coalition, taking Kleos and Maric into his room. He had questions and he needed answers.

‘My whole Soul is covered in Soul rot. Every...

179: Seeds of Blood

The Mask and Jo found the others interrogating the two heads.

‘If this place is falling down, then what can we do? Is anywhere safe?’ Old Ben was asking.

‘The jungle,’ said Kleo...

178: The Mask

Paxolnaz was seething. It tore at the Interior around it as it travelled, spikes of it launching out and impaling weaker entities, shredding them and sending them fleeing before it. How much had th...

177: The Signal

Nicolai felt the Demon’s surprise, its fury, as his Soul Sense penetrated into the midst of its effort and reached the Symbiote. Then the Demon’s Soul Sense tightened around the Symbiote, block...

176: Demon's Gambit

The route back to the safe-place was difficult. The latest earthquake had been the worse yet, and it had had significant effect on the castle.

Hallways were blocked by collapses. Bridges had ...

175: Closing the Cage

Nicolai streaked over the ground, and he was Nicolai again. The Zero-Twelve state had faded from its peak as he escaped their field of fire, and he’d been unable to cling onto it. However, he was...

174: Zero-Twelve

Move the arm, the shield!

Within Nicolai’s unconscious form, where even the thrill and the dark and the mask were all put to sleep, two remained functional.

In an odd reversa...

173: Come and Kill Me

Nicolai stood atop the Radio Tower. The wind whispered around him, picking at his poncho and flaring it, a black banner. He stood alone, ready and waiting.

In the clear space around the tower...

172: Maxine

‘Go keep an eye on things from up there,’ Nicolai told Jo.

‘Trouble?’ she asked him over Local.

‘Most likely.’

She nodded and headed up the stairs, a...

171: Honourable Men

At the bottom of the tower, Nicolai moved to the entrance of the room where the others hid. He contacted them over Link before showing himself, wary of being shot by an overly primed finger-on-a-tr...

170: The Angel

Nicolai kept firing, but as he fired he retreated backwards.

In its fury, the bird’s eyes were fixed only on him.

He was floating above the tower when the bird came within range of hi...

169: Brother and Sister

The Centipedes gazed at him with many eyes, exuding hunger and curiosity. A vine crept out and touched on the ground before him, where a small amount of his blood formed a pool. After soaking in hi...

168: The Tower

Jo looked aside from the horde of bugs as she reloaded her rifle, looking over now she finally had time, to see what had become of Nicolai.

Her eyes widened. He was floating in the air, suspe...

167: Assault

The shakes ended quickly, everyone letting out faint sounds of relief.

‘Another one,’ murmured Daksh.

‘They happen so often, nowadays,’ muttered Beth, which received an unhappy ...

166: Radio Woman

‘Who’s that?’ came a recognisable voice, with a long-dead accent of the American deep south.

‘Hey! Maxine? It’s me, Perro!’ said Perro, faster than ...

165: The Bird

After returning from the Library with his gains, Nicolai had been accosted by Perro, who once more demanded they go to rescue Maxine.

Since healing the laser burn, he was in good health and t...

164: Late to the Party

We arrived too late, said Cornwall as Vikrum dashed through the hallways. He spotted another destroyed drone and knew he was going in the right direction.

I want him dead, h...

163: No Prisoners

‘High Rollers: I’ve checked on all my guys. Everyone’s fine. No problems.’

That was the third to report in. All groups had confirmed their status, except for one. Book Club.<...

162: Infiltration

He activated the Pegasi ring and floated in a straight line towards a corner of room, at the bottom of one side of the library. He kept eyes on the Chosen guards via the hacked feeds. They were all...

161: Cyberwarfare Goes To Work

Nicolai lurked in a quiet, shadowed hallway, peering up at the bulk of the Library with his Soul Sense tendril. Jo and Beth crouched behind him.

They had just got here, and immediately found ...

160: Soul Sense Swordsmen

Nicolai strolled down a corridor, Jo and Beth in tow. He was feeling quite good. Since his… moment of release the other day, the internal tensions within him seemed reduced, and with his Mask rel...

159: Pondering

Why was he with them? When he saw them being happy, being alive, it made him oddly happy, too. Not just because of his Mask, it was something deeper inside of him. Some hint of real humanity? He wa...

158: Socialising

Nicolai was sucked into a world of information. A great list of Symbiotes rolled out in front of him and dragged him inside. He saw dozens of them, all tiny little creatures, held out on hands.

157: Small Silver Ant

‘You’ll need to be careful with that,’ said Kleos. ‘If you are slightly too harsh, the Symbiote inside will die. Even if you do everything perfectly, it’s still likely to die.’

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156: The Black Gift

‘Stories, legends,’ murmured Kleos.

‘I know more than most, but less than few,’ said Maric.

‘I have a story to tell you both,’ said Nicolai. ‘Of something I have seen. Of ...