A/N 11th July: Added more detail to Krahe's reminiscence of Oasis.
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“We will now begin with the extraction of your spine.”
Bit by bit, the two...
Collier froze at the mention of Forgehand, furrowing her brow as she tried to remember, then finally looked back at Zefaris.
“...I don’t know who that is, but it’s no wonder he worked on That Monster if he can pull sorcery like this. T...
2023-06-28 22:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Mentions of Liminal Diving and Liminal Skimming in the previous chapter have been edited to just "Diving" and "Skimming" for lore consistency reasons.
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<... 2023-06-28 21:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe returned to the entrance, where the door had closed behind her. Willing a tendril to emerge from her back, Krahe smashed it at full force into the door, once, twice, thrice. It opened seconds later, Fidelia waiting on the other side.
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2023-06-28 15:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostFour scrolls in, she found what looked to be a document penned by someone after the fact specifically for the purpose of making Barzai’s tortured writing legible. Much of it described how he repeated himself and reiterated what Krahe had painsta...
2023-06-27 04:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostFrom where he stood, he felt her aura; they all did. It was a familiar sensation, as if being in the immediate presence of a predator about to lash out. The difference was that in the past, it only got this intense in her immediate vicinity and wh...
2023-06-26 08:02:40 +0000 UTC View PostA welcome party awaited them in front of the gate, made up of members of the Newman Sect as well as the city’s tankmen, both in Third-model and Second-model suits. It wasn’t the whole sect, or even a substantial portion of it, just two handful...
2023-06-24 11:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostFirminus paced as he spoke, eventually settling down on one of the benches.
“Collating this with other information that I rightly should not possess, I would wager that the Molted Vestige has extraordinary sensory filtering properties whil...
2023-06-23 16:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostZefaris had no issues remaining awake for days on end, and she wasn’t physically exhausted, yet she wanted to do nothing more than to pass out. Only now, having ended her work, did she notice the persistent, strangely ephemeral headache, somehow...
2023-06-23 06:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes passed while Krahe and Casus both quietly walked through the vault, reading about the various relics. Most of them were wholly organic body parts, both entire limbs or individual organs, or even just particular muscle groups. Some se...
2023-06-22 21:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of assimilating a Remnant was quite like grasping the Core itself: She felt out the location of the Remnant’s densest portion, then placed her hand at that location after having brought out the Phantom Core. From there, she had to un...
2023-06-21 20:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe strange symbols immediately surrounding her lit up with a milky-white glow.
She couldn’t put together an oath on the spot, so she closed her eyes and focused on the convictions for which she had fought and died once already. To master ...
2023-06-21 20:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Your Relic - hopefully Relics plural in the future - will be the sole proof of your apostlehood, should you need to prove it for access to church facilities. In such cases, your identity will not be recorded either, as I will embed a warning wi...
2023-06-21 01:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: You're not having a stroke, I accidentally numbered this one 85 at first.
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Casus and Firminus soon returned with a woman in tow - at least Krahe wagered it...
It was the moment when she witnessed Zelsys torn limb from limb. Back then, when she fell into that trance and carved the glyph of Eternal Snow upon the Living Storm.
That was where her Phantom Core waited, in the middle of her memory of Ubu...
2023-06-19 01:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostIncoherent, flickering, repeating phantoms, all across the battlefield, wrought of ghostly non-matter in hues of pale blues and cyans. Most of them were barely even recognizable as people beyond their shapes. Those who still held vaguely person-li...
2023-06-18 00:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a brief exchange with her opponent immediately preceding his death, Zefaris returned to them with a strange rolodex in hand.
“Let’s make camp. We’ll have to stay overnight,” she said.
Without a moment’s questioning, the...
2023-06-16 21:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Paragraph fixed near the end.
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As Firminus spoke, it was him who grew increasingly more disquieted, rather than Krahe, due to her overall lack of reaction....
Zef’s bullets tore straight through the ghosts which leapt into their trajectory, one prevented from striking true by a sudden block by Toza’s ghostly limbs and the other by a near-inhuman spot dodge. His blades were exquisite, exactly of the ...
2023-06-15 19:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostSome distance away, on a rooftop, a lanky figure rose from a prone position. He unhooked the crescent-shaped head of a long staff-rifle from under his armpit, and pulled magnifying goggles up off of his eyes. He had felt the impact confirmation pi...
2023-06-15 00:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostAnother day passed.
Upon his return from running errands in the morning of the first day, Casus visited upon Krahe good news. Slaughterhouse 9, the Old Street Butchershop, and two other Hashem Family locations had been cleared and secured by...
2023-06-14 04:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostA grisly mirror of Ubul’s Tomb, this place was; the only thing that forestalled the perfect completion of that mirroring was the absence of any Pateirians. This battle had been between Ikesians and Grekurians alone. With her left eye, she could ...
2023-06-11 22:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostA pig was brought out to be butchered, and Zelsys was once more put to task as organic heavy machinery, this time in killing the creature. Remembering the captive-piston tool used by many modern butchers, she turned to the pig’s owner, who was h...
2023-06-10 21:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostSophia. That was what her parents called her.
Zel was well aware that Zef’s original name was Sophia Gottfrid, but until now, it had been just a piece of information no more relevant than her hometown. It was something Zefaris had told her...
2023-06-10 13:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the dust cleared and the desolation revealed itself, a wide grin painted itself over her face. From where Casus sat, her glasses, turned white by reflection, obscured her eyes, and a strange inhumanity replaced her face. Her grin became almos...
2023-06-09 20:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, they visited one of the smaller Zaveshian temples in the city. Besides the main one, there were five of these smaller, yet still sizable compounds, one for each district, with even smaller shrines to fill in the zone of influence. 2023-06-08 19:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post
“The statue. You kept looking at it. Does it have anything to do with this offer of yours?” Franz asked.
“There is power in the monument, yes; it attracts and houses minor spirits. Were it to be destroyed, the forest would not fall upo...
2023-06-07 23:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, right. I wanted to ask you to show me how that belt of yours works - unless it’s a church secret,” she asked after taking a sip of ekarone juice.
Casus was more than happy to do so, rising from his seat.
“Wait here.”
... 2023-06-07 15:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostRather than Jahangir, the treason which Damrus had been made aware of was related to a loss which he hadn’t mentioned. Silberblut himself. Damrus had meant to take his body as the next step in his own growth. The old Coupler meant nothing to him...
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