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85 Plots Against Plots

Yes, yes. They raided your establishment and killed some of your people. What do you want me to do about it, dear boy? You're in Hell. These are the Claimed Hells. I'm merely the master of this parlor, not the lord of this den.

Why, if I wanted to be something as banal as a king, I would have named myself a dying king or something dramatic like that, given my name gravitas, and held all my subjects in crushing sway. But that i...

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84Forcing the Hand

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29-13 Back to School (IV)

+Come in. Come in. Come in. Is anyone there? Block L007 to G012 are no longer responding. Is anyone there? Is anyone—+

[SESSION UNABLE TO BE RECEIVED; TARGET ELIMINATED; SESSION LOST]

+This is Bloodfang designation: Carnivore. Preliminary scouting has generated results. The innermost section of the Highflame defenders are no longer reactive. Suspect they have sustained at least operational kill. Levels of harm from the anomaly nested at the...

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 83Experience (III)

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29-12 Back to School (III)

Preparation.

Tempo.

Firepower.

Unpredictability.

If you're going to be engaging in close-quarters combat within a megablock or any other constrained space, you're gonna wanna be a tide. You're gonna wanna sweep through sector to sector, burning through the threats like wildfire. Hesitation will kill you. So will missing your shots. So will being acquired. So will not knowing what's ahead. And you can even do everything right and ...

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29-11 Back to School (II)

//[Priority Cult Cast]

Source:

Inner Council

Beginning Transmission...

ATTENTION SLEEPER.

The Nether has fallen. The Hungers are no more. The Fifth Guild War is upon us. You have been activated. The time for secrecy is at an end.

The dissolution of the Nether is a...

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82 Experiences (II)

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81 Experience (I)

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80 Bitterness

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79 Endure

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29-10 Back to School (I)

+Hey, hello? Is anyone there? Well, if you are, it's your… It's your girl, Cala Marlowe, coming right... live from the gutters. Got flung down here after… after… shit went down. Shit… Fuck… Alright. Alright, Marlow, just breathe.


So. I’m safe. I’m with… uh, let’s call them people I trust. But things are looking, uh. Kinda fucked. I might not need to tell you guys that though.


Alright. We’re not dead. Not dead yet. Oh,...

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29-9 Upgraded

No, Dawson, you're not thinking of it right.

It's not just a very smart system built into a frame's root data.

It is fundamentally capable of mingling and altering a Heaven's mythology from the inside, on a level of detail that no human can match, because it is perfectly able to merge and simulate every single sacrifice while keeping them aligned in belief and thought.

You have no idea how hard it is to condition all the sacrifices needed to cr...

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29-8 Child of the Enemy (II)

A prayer, then, offered to thee, with the birth of this newest child I come to be.

In times of strife, sickness, and famine, I offer sanctuary, comfort, feast, and wine for my charges, per the decree of my canon.

From my concept I carry you, cradle to grave, and in the light of my divinity I offer blessings for all, be you son, daughter, matron, patriarch, or slave.

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78 A Preview of Damnation

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77 The Plan (II)

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76The Plan (I)

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29-7 Child of the Enemy (I)

“What about the children?” This is a dilemma that all purveyors of virtue propose, yet few offer worthwhile solutions. This is the question you have cast at me in cowardice, faither, seeking to strike at my decency.

Let us talk, then. Let me speak now. Often, when this question is asked, the presiding intent is to harm the esteem of the listener rather than guide them along a path towards satisfying resolution. The purveyor inflicts false virtue on the listener, outrigh...

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29-6 Flame Anchor

Vator? Abrel? Where… where are you…


And where am I…


High Seraph? Yes… Yes, I can hear you… I… I understand. I will follow your light. I will walk your path. I will accept this flame.


I will be your champion.


Just… let my children be once more. Take my failures away. Let them know what it means to have a good father.


-Uthred Greatling


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75 Reintroduction

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29-5 Between

+This is Instrument Cavara Arrano! We are being overrun. We have been cut off by… something! My cadre is down to less than eight Knots and two fleets of patrol drones. Ashthrone is massing on our borders. The demiplanes aren’t going to last longer than a day.


Again… again… if there is anyone out there… if anyone can hear us—


H-hello?


H-High Seraph? Is that—


Yes. Yes, I und...

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74The Veteran

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73 A Calm Conversation

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72 More Mountains to Climb

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71 Mutual Benefit (III)

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29-4 Reflections

The paths for the Guard-Captain have been walked. Her ultimate fates have been compiled.


{Oh. Joy. Let me guess: she tries to solve everything by shooting or exploding various people and places?}


She will seek to resolve matters the way she was trained: Through every means available; by any method of victory possible. She is a fine weapon. A good hound. A worthy adversary.

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29-3  Chronoframe (II)

It don’t matter if you’re me. It don’t matter. I have to get to the Ladder. I gotta make this count. This world is broken. Ain’t no difference between echo, template, delusion, and reality no more. I am. So I wish to be. So I have to be.


Ain’t no other way about it.


I need to make it out. I need to make it to the tower.


Even if I have to snuff my original self to do it.


-Jelene Dr...

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29-2 Chronoframe (I)

+Chronoframes are constructs designed to embody the very tenets of maneuver warfare. But even before discussing potential tactics and strategic counters to their deployment on the battlefield, it is important to understand the composition and creation of these unique adversaries.

All Chronoframes are grown from specific Sanctians who exhibit a high Temporal Synchronicity rating. This means that their Chronoshifts are more fluid than most of their clade, by a factor of two a...

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29-1 Missing in Action

Alright, cadets. We’re going to be having some fun today.


There’s gonna be a time, juvs, when you get cut off from the rest of your fireteam during an op. Usually, this is because someone decided to prolapse the metaphorical laws governing space to make various balloon animals to dubious levels of benefit—or you could be facing a classic spatial rupture.


Now. Observe the Rendbomb of Space we placed next to you. In a few seconds, it...

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70 Mutual Benefit (II)

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69 Mutual Benefit (I)

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