Nicolai and Kleos sat in the dark and listened to the music on the radio, turned low, little more than background noise. He didn’t want to disturb anyone, because that would be impolite. His Mask...
2024-06-07 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Nicolai! It’s ok!’ Kleos was yelling. ‘I remember now! There’s a way, there’s a way you can do it!’
‘How’s that?’ hissed the Dark, paying little attention to the tiny voi...
2024-06-05 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostPaxolnaz, True Demon of the 9th Circle, Renegade member of the Unwinder’s Host, corrupter of Kings and devourer of Ascended, swam through the Interior.
A broken mirror of the Material, the ...
2024-06-03 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe human was doing it again. Kleos observed from the side as it stood, and from how it positioned itself, how it breathed, how its body moved as it struck the Symbiote with its Soul, he knew it ha...
2024-05-31 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai read through the Examine texts for the three Symbiote’s available from Beth’s reward shrine, while Jo and Beth continued to stare at him, puzzled. He knew they were well on the way to w...
2024-05-29 16:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post‘What are they talking about now?’ Jo whispered.
‘Food, sounds like they’re running low.’ Beth wore a focused expression, frowning towards the door as though able to see through it....
2024-05-27 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostOutside, he set Kleos onto a handy table where it could watch proceedings. John started towards him but Nicolai waved him off. ‘A moment,’ he said, pulling Jo into a quiet corner of the main ar...
2024-05-24 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a time, as the Integration continued, Beth’s moans of pain turned into gasps of pleasure. Nicolai recalled how he’d felt in the same moment as the consuming pleasure of the finalising cha...
2024-05-22 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai was feeling very pleased with himself as he left. He’d used up his two remaining Contracts, but he felt it well worth it.
He’d already seen how effective the woman, Jo, was with h...
2024-05-20 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostJo moved quickly, jogging through the castle, her drone moving out in front of her. She knew this latest haul of crystals wouldn’t be enough, but until she reached her sister she could pretend to...
2024-05-17 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Don’t go,’ broke in a new voice, and Nicolai looked up to see Cait looking at him. The squirming of the dark in its cage faded as his attention shifted away from it. ‘We don’t all agree ...
2024-05-15 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘What about the guy who ran?’ Nicolai continued his questions, gesturing behind the Chosen field leader, to the tunnel the only survivor of her group had ran through.
She threw a glance o...
2024-05-13 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘This is Vikrum. Everyone, get back here. Now. We have a problem.’
The Radio receiver clicked and Vikrum placed it aside.
‘Are they all gathered?’ He glanced at Katnin,...
2024-05-10 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostBullets snapped around him, cratering the walls, chips of stone raining from where they impacted. None of them touched Nicolai. He was behind a column, a grin on his face.
Nicolai felt aching...
2024-05-08 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostWearing everything of use, Nicolai lurked in the crack like a spider, peering down into the Gauntlet.
The big skeleton was pressed up against the tunnel out. When he’d began watching, he’...
2024-05-06 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostHe hadn’t been at his practise for long, less than a minute, but already Nicolai had drained the two Oma crystals and his Node was guttering, almost out of Oma.
Regretfully, he returned to ...
2024-05-03 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai snatched his glove from the ground and tugged it on. Immediately he felt it, connected to it, and the same blue lines as always crawled through it as he injected Oma into it and shaped the ...
2024-05-01 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai tapped the Blue Hornet, thinking I choose you. Immediately the statue shrank away, the other Symbiotes disappearing, and at the same time a new hand emerged from the statue, holdin...
2024-04-29 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note: for those who saw the last chapter right after it was posted, I've made a small change since then. Now, he cleans himself immediately, so he's not covered in filth the whole time lol....
2024-04-26 16:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai felt the Seed’s eagerness and desire to start, pushing out from it, pressing against his mind from the other side of their connection. It knew it was in the right place, it k...
2024-04-24 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note: MAKE SURE YOU READ CHAPTER 74 FIRST (below)
By the grace of a Patreon update that broke things and published this chapter early, today is a double chapter day.<...
2024-04-22 16:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai encountered no issues in the night. He awoke rested to the light of the torch. He was filled with a nervous energy, like a child on Christmas day, eager for what was to come.
After ta...
2024-04-22 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘If anyone harms Kleos, I will kill them.’
The fading echo of Nicolai’s words was still faintly audible in the room. The others were staring at him, shocked.
From how taken aback ...
2024-04-19 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai’s Seed’s strain was increasing, and he knew it was nearing its limit. Perhaps this is unwise? But he wanted to know what was up the crack, and now was a good time to check.
... 2024-04-17 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘Do you trust him?’ Perro asked Azure, sending his virtual voice message through their connection.
‘No. He’s a creepy asshole and he took my ring. But what choice do we h...
2024-04-15 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai and John matched gazes, hands still half-extended, Nicolai considering John’s refusal to return the SMG he’d seized from the Chosen.
He knew why John wanted the gun, even though i...
2024-04-12 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai closed his eyes, standing there, doing his best to centre himself. He breathed slowly out, forcefully slowing his heart, calming his body, emptying his mind. I’m calm and I’m in con...
2024-04-10 16:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai gazed at John, his eyes squeezing at the man’s face, guessing at his thoughts from the movements of his facial muscles.
He’s not keen on making this decision, even if they cal...
2024-04-08 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai awoke to a painful throbbing radiating from the back of his skull through his head, pulsing in time with his heartbeat. Alongside that major pain were various sharp, burning aches in his si...
2024-04-05 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Chosen’s leader stopped in front of Nicolai and gazed at him a moment, eyes moving up and down, taking in his various weapons and scavenged armour. Then he let out a little snort of laughter....
2024-04-03 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post