Nicolai avoided the undead guards with ease, his shelled Soul Sense allowing him to spiritually blend into the background while the poncho hid his form, and after scaling a series of stairways he l...
2024-08-16 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe warden’s chains didn’t loop around throats, the blades on the ends didn’t cut and slice. Instead it just gripped the others tight and began to pull, dragging them stumbling after it, Perr...
2024-08-14 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai sat himself by the desk in his room, looking to Kleos. Onwards and upwards. All of this was only a minor event. His course was unchanged.
‘You felt the castle shake?’
... 2024-08-12 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey all emerged onto the tower-top of the safe-place, peering out over the wall. Slow moving clouds of dust choked the castle lower down, thrown into the air from places where chunks of the castle...
2024-08-09 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai grinned at Karl through the shimmering disc of energy, staring down the man’s gunbarrel. Naturally, he’d charged his shield in readiness of something like this.
He crouched down s...
2024-08-07 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai emerged from the painting to find guns pointed at him, and his shield snapped into existence as he sidestepped, raising his gun-limb. He recognised an ally and connected to them over Local,...
2024-08-05 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostEverything around him was transformed, oddly surreal and dreamlike, vague and shifting. The ragged dark of the enemy retreated out the corridor ahead of him, into the area beyond, and Nicolai pursu...
2024-08-02 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Come, finish your part,’ hissed the painting to Nicolai, Jo, and Kleos who Nicolai held in his hands, as they stood before it.
They’d gotten away without issue, and now Nicolai needed ...
2024-07-31 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘The paintbrush is there,’ Nicolai told Beth over Link, indicating the spot, keeping his eyes on the two armoured knights across from them. ‘These things are very hard to kill, b...
2024-07-29 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai paused just short of the tunnel exit. For this particular operation, he’d successfully taken a kind of temporary, operational-only leadership from John, with the man and the others agreei...
2024-07-26 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostCyberwarfare sunk spiritual claws into the thing and dragged it from where it had hidden, leapt at it and savaged it like a wolf, but the thing, which appeared as a little ball of slick, oily darkn...
2024-07-24 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘Yeah, I remember. What about it?’ Kleos responded to his question about the Demon, Paxolnaz.
‘It mentioned a sword to me. It told me how to get to that sword.’ The memories resurface...
2024-07-22 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostTorches dulled from yellow to orange, the sun kissed the horizon, and Nicolai and Beth returned with more purchased items to find John and the others were back from their trip. Nicolai didn’t ask...
2024-07-19 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai was already up and launching himself over the edge of the tower after Beth, falling into open air. As gravity seized him he clutched the three rings tight and injected a surge of Oma into a...
2024-07-17 16:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostBeth came at him, and she’d learned from his tricks. She feinted at him with a cutting strike then switched to crushing, but he’d seen it coming and a Loose Guard awaited her, the blow glancing...
2024-07-15 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai reacted to Beth’s Soul Sense attack immediately. He formed his own into the tight sphere around him in time to endure the attack, and worked to keep it solid and concrete while she struck...
2024-07-12 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs he entered the safe-place and looked upon those within, he could feel the Modules stirring within him, watching out from his eyes and ears with interest.
‘Perro.’ Nicolai gave the yout...
2024-07-10 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai almost laughed but inside he knew this was wrong, his Mask was still there and it was fighting hard. He couldn’t kill them. The Contract prevented it. The darkness writhed through him, pu...
2024-07-08 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostSome of the deafening boom of the chaffbang and a flicker of the blinding light made its way through his hands and eyelids, and Cyberwarfare growled at him when his Link connections fuzzed, the res...
2024-07-05 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs the three of them made their way outside and looked over the bridges, Nicolai noticed something had changed.
There were no longer any archers floating over the largest bridge, and there we...
2024-07-03 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostHalf an hour later found Nicolai floating beneath the bridge over the chasm to the Trade Link.
He finished shaping and squeezing the C4 into one of the bridge supports near the centre, then s...
2024-07-01 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai crept up the ladder, the other two following after him. He was almost at the top, close enough that his Soul Sense was able to push up and slip around the tarp and check the area. Nothing i...
2024-06-28 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai awoke, cushioned by air, floating, staring at the ceiling.
He was changed. It distinctly reminded him of waking up in the white void that first time as a human, everything different.<...
2024-06-26 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai glanced at the area before him, thinking of how this would work. He was going to use the permit, and have the surgeon install one of the augments he’d bought. Beth would have a BIS and Ne...
2024-06-24 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe black metal of the Trade Link seethed before him, shifting like a mirage, strange patterns forming in its surface. A handle rose from the metal, a square indentation forming around it.
Ni...
2024-06-21 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome, User #53,217, to Trade Link Access.
You have one (1) Market available.
The words on the screen faded away, then it bloomed with light an...
2024-06-19 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai and the other two stared at the deer. Nicolai thought they looked very proud, and vibrant, and fitting. No deer roamed the earth they’d left behind. Not truly. You could find them in expa...
2024-06-17 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘Hey! Hey!’ John raised his arms, ending the argument before Nicolai could share his views, which was probably for the best. ‘Enough. There’s no point in all this arguing. Come on people, w...
2024-06-14 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe torches crackled to life and found Nicolai sitting there, his body unmoving after hours.
His eyes slowly opened and a smile crept over his face, a deep, satisfying thrum rolling through h...
2024-06-12 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostKleos glanced at the Node in response to Nicolai’s question.
‘What can you do with it? Mmmm. If it were inside you, I’d classify it as an unfinalised Node, needing time and more Oma, fe...
2024-06-10 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post