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30-12 Hidden Bonds

I can still feel you. Still feel all you twitching inside me. Feels kinda nice to be honest. Fuck me, consangs. Ain’t life a motherfuck. Here you were, living your nice little Guilder lives, enjoying “forever” and watching the war far from your doorstep, and now, suddenly, you’re part of me. No hint. No warning. Just here and then lost. Swallowed by the big ol’ cunt that is my Heaven.


Heh… hah… heh.


Jaus. What a fucking jok...

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30-11 The Sins of Myself


CATEGORY [BLEAK] THREAT DETECTED

  • Threat Identified: Separate iteration of Aedon Chambers, (Current Host of “Anomaly-Classification-Love-Remembrance”) Bearer of Liminal Frame Pattern Stillborn have been spotted. Iterations have been identified as Propagator behind new variants of the Wombrash outbreak ...

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II-5 Shell of Masteries (I)


What do you imagine the shape of your soul to take? What do you think your spirit resembles? I can give you an answer.


Your spirit is rawness at first. Just a shape—jagged with points toward different inclinations. Then life shears away at its edges, molding it into a proper form, your decisions honing it further, leading you toward masterpiece or ruin. For all that we master, all that we achieve, we become evermore ourselves—or at least the divine...

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II-4 Second Ascension

And to guard against the tyrants of creation, a vessel made to take, to infest, to empower, and to cage…


-Asaru the Creator


II-4

Second Ascension


Cherub’s Corpse station was clustered with different exits going everywhere, but they only sought A-34: To the Third Rib.


The Third-Rib hotel was, much like the Cherub’s Corpse, literally named. It was quite literally the demon coiled around the third r...

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II-3 Cherub’s Corpse

The Cherub’s Corpse is one of the few decent places you can go if you down want to live in a den under Circle control. Sure, there are your usual issues such as skin-stealing horrors hiding in the vents, malformed monsters waiting to ambush you in the darkness, and those greedy Crossroad merchants screwing you out of your last Sin, but as a whole, it really isn’t that bad of a place.


Running some three hundred kilometers long between the Circles of Wrath and ...

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II-2 A Glimpse of the City

680 trillion is a large number, almost unfathomable to most people, but ultimately it is quite paltry for the Claimed Hells, considering it is a set of ringworlds collapsed over each other.

This, however, had its own reasons. Mepheleon’s naturalization process was sophisticated and cruel, ensuring that only a certain type of character made it in.

The higher layers were mostly dedicated to designing high-level demons, experimental planar realities, demonic a...

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II-1 Preceptor’s Descent

O’ miserable fiends, bastards, sinners, liars, deviants, and murders all.


Heed these words!


The Blood Games for the latest recruitment cycle have come to a close. The Lowest House hopes you’ve enjoyed your time, and plucked the ripest fruits, most juicy with potential!


In sixty full revolutions, the new System War will be upon us! That’s right, Sin...

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95 Welcoming (II)

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30-10 Post-Heaven Clarity

“So…”


“No, Zein—why must everything be turned into a blade? What purpose does it serve?”


“The idea of beheading someone when they fall in love or get intimate amuses me. It will serve as a sublime assassination method as well Imagine—”


“I can imagine that, dearest, and it sounds horrible. This, I expect from the Infacer, not you. There’s no duel in this.”


“Yes....

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30-9 Unworthy Vessel

And so it is that love found its newest vassal, himself a mirrored shadow to this city, a perfect, unworthy vessel. Chosen by the Dreamer, blessed with debauched lust and virtuous love, within him burgeons power beyond gods below and mortals above.

Yet what path he takes, what shape will he bestow upon this city, driven mad with want and ruin from old? No path is clear, the future uncertain, for struck down is truth and the pasts and memories interw...

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30-8 Feeling Good

Correspondence. Such a strange Domain to study. Some novitiate Agnosi liken it to the Domain of Spaces—and of course they would. That is the way its patterns seem to work on the surface, anyhow. The defiance of distance is commonly understood to belong to only a few Domains. Of course, Borders, Geometry, and Boundaries can all be included as well due to varying cultural understandings, but as Kaswi’s Unifying Theory of Branching Archetypes, Modernist Thaumatugical Theorist all attribu...

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30-7 By Love Are We Bound

I don’t know! I don’t know what’s happening to the rash! I don’t fucking know why it’s changing! We need to get out, we need to…


Oh…


Oh, I see now…


I see…


I… It’s okay. It’s all going to be okay.


-Mem-Log of Agnos Nasu Kalimus 


30-7

By Love Are We Bound


—[Cas]—


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94 Welcoming (I)

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Brief Update

TTF's first volume is coming to a close. Overall, my first attempt at a litrpg hasn't really become an on-market story (which was the original intention), so there I'll probably have to make more adjustments for my next attempt. Presently, I am trying to adjust my schedule despite workload spikes so that I can get more chapters written out for both Godclads and TTF. Book 3 of clads has been in editing hell for over five months because the opening is a problem; don't know if I can get that do...

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93 Naturalization 

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92 The Sin of Hope

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30-6 Lovebringer

Hearts Aligned: Creates a pathway using a tether composed by feelings of love or lust. A gateway will form on both entities allowing them to swap places or immediately arrive beside their bonded one. Should both sides consent—or if this relates to an individual and an inanimate object—a superimposition of ontologies can follow, allowing both to temporarily merge in a single entity in mind and flesh.


Hubris: Should either side fall out of love whil...

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30-5 Half-Chained Love (IV)

Welcome to the No-Dragon sim-series, applicant.


As you go through the upcoming coursework, you will learn the following major items on the syllabus.


  • Exomath-penetration and specialized Nether-breaching techniques against alt-consciousness entities

  • Convention enemies: Bioforms, bio-rigs, viruses, bloodgrafts, shapeshifters

  • Preventative measures against the Dragon-Curse

  • <...

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30-4 Half-Chained Love (III)

Well, if that’s the deal I got, that’s the deal I got, right, Veylis?


I kill other me. I get my consangs back? I get the rotlick back? My life gets better, and I get to fuck and snort and be Steelhard?


Yeah. Yeah, alright. I’ll play grav-ball. I’ll play.


Yeah. I know I’m the alternate. I know I’m time-made. But fuck. Whose to say what’s real? It’s all an illusion. Whoever wins decides what’s re...

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30-3 Half-Chained Love (II)

So, then, is the knot of Love severed; a plague shattered—a plague remains.


Hark! Comes the vessel: a broken man, his pieces paired to the shape of love fallen.


And when shard greets shard and two among the countless broken become one, a new path will unfold, and an untruth will stand…


That an unworthy vessel for an unworthy city will cast low the shackles of lust, and seed what is for the rebirth of love…...

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91 Trauma

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90 Overload

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89 Time’s Up

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30-2 Half-Chained Love (I)

No… No, I have no idea… I don’t know what to tell you! I barely…


Listen. I don’t know why everyone on this street is affected by the rash, and why walking across the road makes you clean. I don’t. My specialty is in Spatial-Geometrics for Jaus’ sake. This… there’s no one else on standby and I just… the first batch of sacrifices we sent in expressed common symptoms. Sores. Homunculi.


Second batch we instructed to walk ...

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88 These Wounds Unchained

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87 The Closing Cage

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30-1 Too Numb to be Numb

+Ahem.


Attention, people of the gutters. It’s uh… it’s your fucking boy Aedon—


What? What’s wrong with saying, “it’s your fucking boy,” Marlowe?


Why does it sound like shit? How do you know it sounds like shit, like, all the big vicarity stars—okay, yeah, I guess you have thoughtcasting experience but…


Alright. Fucking—alright! First impressions are important, I kn...

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29-15 Back to School (VI)

+This is Acting Authority Santanando Mondelles broadcasting to all active Highflame personnel. Repeat, all active Highflame personnel that receive this thoughtcast, listen closely.

Do not engage the Massists. I repeat, do not engage. 

Contact has been lost between us—those on the outside the anomalous boundary—and those within. Effective immediately, all units that can hear this thoughtcast are designated as Exo-Boundary assets and should heed the fo...

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29-14Back to School (V)

I...

I can feel it inside me.

I can feel...

I can feel... how...

I can feel... love.

All the world is just... love.

And all the world is... hunger.

Excerpts recorded from a Stormtree soldier infected with the Beloved Virus (Also known as the Nu-Ghoul Contagion)

29-14
Back to School (V)

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86 Tiger Among Wolves

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