155: The Coffin
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154: Recipes
Jo stood near to the door, observing the outside with her Soul Sense. She’d just seen Nicolai pass by, heading to his room. His Soul Sense was something constantly roving, something which had def...
2024-10-23 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post153: Settle Down
It was raining when they returned from the library.
The downpour washed the world out, turning everything dull and grey, darkening the stone, water forming puddles and running in streams.
... 2024-10-21 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post152: Plotting
Paxolnaz bobbed gently in the currents of the Interior, part of its being focused, as always, on preventing itself from reaching equilibrium.
The other part was focused on what had just happe...
2024-10-18 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post151: The Hole
The things in the Hole reached for him, and Nicolai charged. His Soul was a thing of sharp teeth, tearing nails, and buzzing discs.
But as he rose to meet them he felt the heat of danger, the...
2024-10-16 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post150: Anger Management
[Author Note: Hey guys, I've been less talkative than usual and wanted to say sorry about that, it's cuz I got a wisdom tooth extracted a couple weeks ago and it's been a nightmare, I have dry sock...
2024-10-14 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post149: Playing with Fire
‘No sign of that misty-thing,’ said Jo as he approached the doorway, still watching the exit.
‘I imagine it’s waiting for us,’ said Nicolai.
‘So… what’s the plan?’ ask...
2024-10-11 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post148: Bad Bones
Maric had betrayed him. The dark urges pulsed, demanding its death, calling up an image of him throwing the skeleton to the floor and stomping on its skull until it was broken splinters, then teari...
2024-10-09 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post147: Thieves of Knowledge
As they entered the final room, Jo paused at the doorway and turned to watch the exit the undead had vanished through. Nicolai shook his arm as he moved, finding it now half-numb and half infected ...
2024-10-07 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post146: Library Guardian
He opted to do the looting himself, sparing Jo and Beth from the grisly task as he picked over the messy corpses. He found several weapons, all the types you could get from the F Tier human tech Ma...
2024-10-04 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post145: Hitting the Books
They reached the library after half an hour of travel, managing to avoid any encounters on the way. The Chosen were active in the space nearby, and it took some careful manoeuvring to avoid them. N...
2024-10-02 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post144: Yin-Yang Rotation Stick
As they moved through the corridor Nicolai worked to build a rapport with Daksh, asking him about what he’d been through, what he’d done on earth, and telling the man of his own experiences. He...
2024-09-30 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post143: The Hacker
Where are they? asked Nicolai.
One moment, said Cyberwarfare, and he sensed the new unit in his skull running harder, triangulating over local. Here, said Cyberwarf...
2024-09-27 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post142: AA-12 Auto Shotgun
The listing that drew Nicolai’s eye was called a skin suit.
Skin Suit - 40,000p
This suit provides various functions. It has hypersteel plating over vital po...
2024-09-25 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post141: Market Upgrade Permit
(Author note: Please let me know what you think of the formatting - it isn't quite how I intended it to look (patreon messes with it when I upload) but I think it kinda works? Let me know if you li...
2024-09-23 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post140: Vikrum Investigates
Vikrum considered the terrified prisoner, a member of the group calling themselves the New Start Communists. They had been quite a thorn in the Chosen’s side—and therefore Vikrum’s side—sin...
2024-09-20 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post139: Hungry Tree
‘Keep control of your people,’ Nicolai began to Pot Helmet, his voice a rising snarl, only to pause. Cool and calm. He forced his mind away from the vision, refocusing. Nicolai cleared...
2024-09-18 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post138: The Tree People
Two days later found Nicolai along with Beth, Cait, and John, standing on one side of a long bridge that let to a fortified outcrop, separated from the rest of the bastion. Elena wasn’t with them...
2024-09-16 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post137: Unchained Warden
After leaving the others, Nicolai headed out through the prisons. He didn’t head straight to the exit, because he had another aim in mind.
His first time in the prisons, he had been far too...
2024-09-13 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post136: Correct, Moral, and Sane
‘What do you want?’ asked the woman, once they were some distance from the others. She was terrified but trying hard not to show it. That was the correct move, but fruitless. She couldn’t hid...
2024-09-11 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post135: Saving the Day
While the others headed back to the safe place, Nicolai opted to take a quick detour. He headed to the tunnel, as by now the three in the prisons should’ve sent up another batch of Oma crystals, ...
2024-09-09 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post134: Chain Gang
The echoes of Azure’s cry rang dully off the stone walls. Fuck with us… gonna fucking die!…
He laughed. ‘Is that right?’ He made a frightened face and held his arms out and...
2024-09-06 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post133: Skeleton Farming
Jo, alongside Perro and Azure, moved up and down the length of undead miners and guards.
The undead didn’t react as the three of them put the loops of rope that Nicolai had sent them over t...
2024-09-04 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post132: Fruitful Endeavours
They’d all turned to stare out at the jungle as the elevator rattled upward. The dull thumps, footsteps of something big and heavy, were still audible.
Nicolai’s eye was drawn to where he...
2024-09-02 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post131: Assassination
Nicolai responded without thought as he was dragged through the canopy by the mysterious force, an overriding sense of danger whining through him and telling him where to look as he worked to orien...
2024-08-30 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post130: Into the Jungle
‘Chosen are busy today,’ Maxine had spoken that morning, over the Radio. ‘Real bee up their bonnet. Dawns just broke but they’re all streaming out across the bridges. I hear sh...
2024-08-28 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post129: Renowned
Later that day Nicolai returned to the safe-place, alone, a spring in his step and a weight of Oma crystals clutched in a bag. It was almost night, the torches he passed a dull orange.
He’d...
2024-08-26 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post128: Prisoner's Dilemma
Perro followed after Azure and Jo as they filtered through a tunnel, following after a small group of skeletal miners.
The miners stopped at a mined out gap in the wall, resting their cart as...
2024-08-23 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post127: Making Money
The other Cultivator, in the midst of activating a Symbiote, was stopped by an outraised arm, held up by the leader of the other group. She shot a warning look at the man, and he subsided with a gr...
2024-08-21 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post126: Trade
As the ringing of the alarm bell in the prison grew fainter, Nicolai having made his escape, he listened attentively to his Mask as it ladled out the expected recriminations; he had not cared whats...
2024-08-19 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post