The Nether was never meant to be a prison, but it served as a perfect one all the same.
Alas, the masters of Noloth were as much slaves to their nature as the gods were. So desperate were they to see the world conform to their desired delusions that they revealed their hand preemptively.
Was it hubris that made them think we would not notice? That I would just trust blindly? Or was their failure something simply lesser? Baser?
More human.<...
2024-01-05 19:24:09 +0000 UTC
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Her blade, a song of woe through time,
Her blows, her strikes, death her rhyme.
Mother against daughter, an ordeal of fate.
The future rests their clashes, hearts bound by love and hate.
But upon the tides of time an infection comes,
The ravenous beast molting, a god he becomes.
Mother and daughter are no longer the only shadows that loom,
For only will the true struggle begin when the...
2024-01-04 19:16:26 +0000 UTC
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All of time is but a dream,
With blades bearing history, unravel the seam.
The serpent-tyrant screams its end,
Though vengeance is served, our flesh is never to be mend.
All our memories are but a lesson,
As are our bodies, gardens enchained to a question:
For woman and serpent are same-cycle bound,
Who then is the prisoner; the jailer, in this pattern round?
-”Insufficien...
2024-01-03 18:12:25 +0000 UTC
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Do you feel it wielder?
Did you sense the change?
Something is in the veins of history.
A new entity has entered the paths.
-[REDACTED]
21-3
Those That Stray (II)
The gathered doublethinkers shifted uncomfortably. With two sentences, they stood unbalanced. “You have… chosen to aid us?”
“Yes,” Avo said. “Will annoy...
2024-01-02 18:39:05 +0000 UTC
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+Chambers. Are you alright? The Nether–+
+Yeah, it kinda got fucked everywhere… I think Avo did it.+
+Avo… caused the entire Nether to destabilize?+
+Yeahhhh. It’s my best guess, anyway.+
+Elaborate.+
+Well, we were coming up with some shit because Naeko’s trying to catch our asses–+
+What? The Chief Paladin+
+--and we decided to leave a bunch false leads–ah, fuck, I’ll skip the most important part. Avo was s...
2024-01-02 11:50:20 +0000 UTC
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[Incident Detected]: Higflame and Stomtree skirmish on the edge between Mazza’s Junction and Nu-Scarrowbur; multiple Knots engaging in active combat.
Location - Warrens; the Spine; Mazza’s Junction/Nu-Scarrowbur; Yuulden-Yang Sovereignty
Dispatching Paladin(s): Paladin Rores Aellimaei; Paladin Yasnag Jagganoth
[Incident Detected]:
2024-01-01 15:33:30 +0000 UTC
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Understanding how specific subsections of a civilization operate is the key to learning how to leverage pressure against the polity. More than sabotage, learning to comprehend the suprasociology of a communal or multi-sophont entity is key to treating social ills, predicting rogue elements, and improving the structures of stability.
It is also the primary discipline you will be mastering over the next 12 years of your martial tenure per the conditions of your public service...
2023-12-31 19:11:13 +0000 UTC
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{EGI “Only Way To Be Sure” Generating Report}
TO: Citizens, Friends, NON-MIL Minds, Assholes from Guilds (Eavesdropping Parties)
FROM: AEGIS
SUBJECT: Dragon Incursion, Fun Times in History, and Strategic Countermeasures
BEGINNING REPORT:
Citizens
Friends.
Minds.
Assholes from Guilds ...
2023-12-29 19:42:31 +0000 UTC
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+This is High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi.
The Heaven of Truth has been triggered.
Someone must have tried to manipulate memories from a restricted zone of Scale. One of your number must be compromised.
Get me Chief Paladin Naeko.
I do not care about your excuses. I do not care about where he is or what you need to do to get him. Use technology, use your Heavens–use anything. Get him back here now!
Since we are talking ri...
2023-12-28 18:42:54 +0000 UTC
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I can't explain this. Hells, I’ve never even seen anything like this.
This is worse than a disruption. Your thoughts–they just disentangle when you get caught in a Thoughtwave Detonation. This though… it’s like entire sequences have collapsed in on each other, artifacts and constructs blended like something between colliding rivers and combined debris.
…All the Sovereignties? All of them?
Jaus.
Fuck.
Our ...
2023-12-27 19:15:51 +0000 UTC
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Thought is the root of divinity.
Worlds are built within our minds, the gods are birthed. With this knowing, it should not come as a surprise that this wellspring can also serve as the blessed unbirth.
Come, Jaus Avandaer. Come, Zein O'yaje. Enter my temple. I wish to lay my eyes on both of you. It is not often that I encounter those freed from the road of their fate. Come and greet my masters with me. There is much we have to discuss. Much we can learn...
2023-12-26 19:05:46 +0000 UTC
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+NO! AVANDAER! THIS WAS NOT WHAT YOU PROMISED! WE GAVE YOU THE WORLD! WE GAVE YOU THE FUTURE! DO NOT STEAL OUR HIST–+
[ASCENSION COMPLETE]
-The Hungers of Old Noloth
20-19
The Dreaming Unsea (II)
Go now. They’re coming. You’ve seen the shape of the world. You understand. Avoid where the Hungers bite. Move fast. Abandon stealth–the fires and Sprites will betray us before the consistency of our thoughts will. I...
2023-12-25 18:06:48 +0000 UTC
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The Dreaming Unsea.
It was meant to be a paradise of the mind. A world upon a world where ideals and thoughts could be made manifest, and our most dangerous theories and darkest desires could be tested to fruition without harming the world that was.
Indeed, by all our efforts combined, and the unique composition of the city eternal–the masters of Noloth–we prepared a great work, fashioning it from the greatest Heavens of Mind, Thought, Information, and Aw...
2023-12-24 19:59:57 +0000 UTC
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And so it was, with deception upon deception, tragedy upon tragedy, the slaughter of the Paladins was engineered far in advance of the actual onslaught.
Veylis Avandaer, daughter of Jaus Avandaer and Zein Thousandhand, made her play carefully, quietly, and completely. While most reeled and struggled to come to terms with the new world order in the aftermath of Jaus’ death.
In the year 53 Post-Fall, chaos still gripped the stage of Idheim.
The...
2023-12-22 19:19:04 +0000 UTC
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Word of advice that no one ever follows: don’t fuck anyone you’re probably going to kill. Or make them your consang.
It sounds like common sense but you’d be surprised how many half-strands think they can “double-dip” so to speak. And I’d count myself among them because I had to learn that the hard way as well.
Listen, if there's one thing above all others you can do for yourself as a Squire or a snuffer or whatever kind of professional you want t...
2023-12-21 19:07:09 +0000 UTC
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The Guilds are not unbreakable. Nor are they as united as people think, even internally.
I've spent my years among them. I’ve glimpsed the heart of the machine–its inner structures.
The Godclads at the top. The administrators running their operations. The warriors they use to enforce their might.
They're all people.
People.
That's the problem.
People.
People who have their own want...
2023-12-20 19:09:22 +0000 UTC
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A singularity is building within the paths.
Actions are collapsing into actions.
Decisions are narrowing into fewer decisions.
All of possibility is approaching a bottleneck.
Soon, we will tread the shallows caused by history rendered inexorable.
Then, at Scale, a new shatter-point awaits.
A place where the future will fragment once more.
Now. A singularity. A collapse.
...
2023-12-19 18:20:08 +0000 UTC
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Uplift? What are we, Voidwatch? These half-strands are cultists. Look at them. They’re less than human, sacrificing their own to a “god” that isn’t here anymore. Hell, they still have statues of [REDACTED] placed around here.
If it wasn’t for the Fallwalker’s Heaven, we wouldn’t even be here. Understand this: this is not a liberation. This is a liquidation. We have deaths to collect, memories to wipe, and Heavens to claim.
2023-12-18 06:38:28 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, yeah, keep crying. Do it louder. Do it more. Hold her closer to your chest and spray that snot all over her hair–that’ll bring him back. Hells. Why stop there? Shove her corpse back up your cunt and leave him there for nine months. See if you recycle your dead wife into being a daughter. Maybe spice things up with a little incest.
Not like you aren’t a stranger to that, judging from your parents and all.
Yeah…
There’s the look I...
2023-12-16 17:07:57 +0000 UTC
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Every half-strand has an opinion on vengeance.
None of it really matters. Because guess what? Shit’s complicated. Always. There’s no all-killing munition for this kind of thing.
Also, I'm gonna tell you something now so you don't need to be confused about it in the future: anyone who tries to sell you a platitude about forgiveness or letting things go when you’re obviously hurting is a fucking clown. Best case is they’re talking to talk. Worst is that...
2023-12-14 17:24:44 +0000 UTC
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[EGI] “Kant Was A Prick”: Operative Zein, we need to talk about your in-field ethics. Specifically about the collateral damage.
Zein Thousandhand: Hm. I think things are well, no? Things are proceeding in accordance with our designs.
[EGI] “Kant Was A Prick”: Yes… However. But. What demanded the beheading of 400,000 uninvolved people?
Zein Thousandhand: Ah? That is what you wished to talk about. [Barked Laugh]
2023-12-13 12:28:26 +0000 UTC
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There is no light but that which comes from the master.
There is no will but what is gifted to us by the master.
There is no life but what is allowed by the master.
By the act of the Godbreaker, we were damned.
Abandoned to the darkness of the old world, we were lost.
With the shrouding of the sun, existence ceased to shine, and the sea that was night swallowed the world entire.
Damnation was our fat...
2023-12-12 12:22:12 +0000 UTC
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Approaching, infiltrating, and overthrowing an enclave is built on information.
Information regarding what we know about the governing Fallwalker–or Fallwalkers.
Information regarding the environment, the localized anomalies, the factions at play, the key holders of power, and the general socio-structural aspects of such homesteads.
So, today is going to be a special day, boys and girls. Today, you’re getting your sequences updated free of ...
2023-12-11 07:04:37 +0000 UTC
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All who claim to understand the shattered puzzle that is the Sunderwilds speak lies! Lies! Sense cannot be found here. You grope for stable foundations but the sky is down and up is not true.
Pain yourself not. Accept the softness and prosper.
Impossibilities stack over, against, beneath, and within. Watch the language of madness. Watch the art expressed by the unchained world. Glance upon the twisted bodies of its children. Those who remain trapped. Touched ...
2023-12-09 17:03:33 +0000 UTC
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There are paths woven into the architecture of the Tiers. Sometimes, they’re bridges leading upward and sideways into a place unseen. In others, the way ahead exists as a tunnel. Regardless of what form these roads take, to tread their lengths will lead you to a single junction above junctions.
Scale.
Once the seat of governance for Jaus Avandaer himself, now the central nucleus from which the Paladins enforce their duties, the demiplane of Scale exists abo...
2023-12-07 19:00:47 +0000 UTC
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+Shitfuckshit. What’s he doing now? What’s he doing? Where is he? Make sure he fuckfuckfuck! NO! DO NOT TRY TO SPOOF YOUR WAY INTO HIS MIND! Are you stupid? Are you fucking stupid? No! You are not cleared for action–just watch him!
If you touch him with malicious intent, he will know and he will kill you. Or maybe not. Maybe you get to be one of those unlucky half-strands that Naeko has a “conversation” with. No clearance. Pull back and just watch.
...
2023-12-06 18:59:15 +0000 UTC
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Getting yourself out of a tight spot requires some counterintuitive tactics at times.
Let’s use an ambush for example. Most people tend to break, turn, run. Try a fight retreat. That’s what gets most people killed. You’re reacting, burning all your capacity to keep the current problem at bay while the bastards about to snuff you are free to pull more tricks out of their asses.
What you need to do is find the weakest section of their assault and turn int...
2023-12-05 17:55:51 +0000 UTC
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The lives outside our borders are an untapped resource. I know–I know. We’re not supposed to touch them and Voidwatch is watching per the Articles, but we need to start making special considerations.
They are currently a resource drain on our efforts. All those sanctuaries of subjects, publicly funded, offering nothing but trickles of lives. It’s maddening. Our installations need to be insulated against the Sunderwilds–protected ag...
2023-12-04 18:50:16 +0000 UTC
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When you patrol the Warrens, it's important to know the prey you face. Every step you take, every alley you peek into, every Syndicate you encounter, and every transgressor you break matters. But blind destruction and rampant misuse of power lead nowhere. You must learn the nuances of your foe. Understand what drives, motivates, and commands them.
It is only by breaking the baser habits indulged by the denizens of this city that crime and destitution can be overcome. We are...
2023-12-03 18:46:34 +0000 UTC
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+We don't have a cens+We don't have a census for how many people are living in the refugee sanctuaries.
You want to know why? It's not because we don't have the logistical means to count them. No.
The Guilds, if anything, are more than competent logistically. All it takes is a few divisions of dedicated Necros and a little bit of time and they will have every true living person surrounding New Vultun counted and catalogued.
That is not the issu...
2023-12-01 19:09:07 +0000 UTC
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