Do you know how the Sunderwilds got its name?
It's quite simple.
“Sunder” to describe the damage, for cracked is the tapestry of existence.
“Wilds” to express how the entropic madness leaks, the patterns and laws of reality bleeding into a festering wound and spilling out into broader stability beyond, creeping forward as slithering vines; roots of impossibility spreading deep into the bones of the material, giving rise to forests of ma...
2023-11-30 17:45:30 +0000 UTC
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There was a time once, an age upon an age, a day upon a day, a year upon a year, long lost before the now and the evermore, where we could have walked the fields free, or our grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfathers could walk the mountains, descend its paths, sail the oceans, traverse the deserts, carve their way through the forests and jungles.
These days are dead and dust, dead, dust, and never to return.
What remains now is cruelty made manifest madne...
2023-11-29 18:30:49 +0000 UTC
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2023-11-28 18:05:59 +0000 UTC
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+Hey, Sevens, there's something popping up on the DeepNav. Pairing aerial imaging now. Scrambling interceptors from anchor [SE-SEC7].
Looks like some kind of subtle spatial distortion. Ninety kilometers ou–
Shit, twenty now…
Eight.
It’s getting close. Too close. Fire up the Knots. Send–
WARNING: PARADOX DETECTED
DOMAIN: (SPACE)
2023-11-27 17:00:44 +0000 UTC
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The Maw’s too damn big for us to cover. There’s practically an unfinished city down in the Umbra–one final fuck you from the Low Masters. Made with the explicit support of the Guilds back when Jaus was still smoking that hope shit, thinking he could charm anyone into believing in his vision.
I loved the starry-eyed bastard–maybe a bit less than Naeko did, but still, we would’ve all done anything for him. But sometimes–and I can't believe I'm saying this–his Ze...
2023-11-26 13:34:36 +0000 UTC
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You know, I always hated the term “sheath.” The term is deliberately backward. Your sheath is the hardware–the physical apparatus you use to interface with the world. Your ego is not the blade, but more like the hand that wields the weapon.
Whatever voider bastard we stole the term from should be ashamed of themselves; their focus on poetic marketing betrays the conveyance of ideas. Pitiful.
But I can deny it does sound good. Catchy. The concept just cl...
2023-11-24 19:15:10 +0000 UTC
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+It's the High Seraph.
She's the one who did this. She's pulling the strings. I know it. I know Uthred–the proud bastard wouldn’t have given up his position on his own. There’s something going on behind the scenes. Something she doesn’t even want the other Chivalrics to know about. All I know is that he resigned and departed the Tiers immediately after.
That’s not someone consumed by shame or despair. That’s a man with a mission. No expression on ...
2023-11-23 12:36:36 +0000 UTC
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Okay. So. You’ve survived your first five runs. Good for you. Good, good, good. Maybe you're made of more than luck. Maybe there is a lick of skill or potential inside you. Maybe you gonna be more than just fighting meat bound for the Maw.
Seeing that you made it this far, let old lady Tavers give you some advice.
Up to this point, you’re probably still alive because you’re not like the other idiots. You notice things. You anticipate. Plan ahead. Prepar...
2023-11-22 11:48:56 +0000 UTC
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[BREAKING!]
BREAKING RUMORS: UTHRED SONGLESS–FORMERLY AUTHORITY UTHRED GREATLING OF HIGHFLAME— HAS OFFICIALLY RESIGNED HIS POSITION AND PRIVILEGES
THESE LEAKS REMAIN UNCONFIRMED. AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE NOT MANAGED TO OBTAIN ANY CONFIRMATION FROM THE LEADING MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR
HOWEVER, AN AERO-VEHICLE LINKED TO THE FORMER AUTHORITY HAS BEEN SIGHTED CROSSING A CHECKPOINT ON THE EDGE OF THE TIERS.
2023-11-21 10:36:02 +0000 UTC
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It is impossible to regard reality as anything but a cage once you brush the power of the absolute. Or perhaps that is the wrong way of thinking of it. Perhaps it is the power of redefinition. The miracles delivered by the gods and their Heavens were not “divine originations” in the end, but a reinterpretation of existence’s patterns. Fire, but more. Metal and flesh. The sky reimagined as a place....
2023-11-19 18:46:41 +0000 UTC
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We are not certain what the paths are or how they are functionally expressed. All we know is this: of the 62,384,556 attempts that we, Stormtree, Sanctus, and Ashthrone have made on the High Seraph’s life, every operation has ended in abject failure with no survivors among the operatives deployed.
Despite the Sleepers we have seeded across Highflame’s choirs and the personnel we have turned, we remain unable to procure any useful intelligence regarding Veylis Avadaer’...
2023-11-18 18:23:55 +0000 UTC
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+Hey, hey, New Vultunites. Lots of exciting things on the horizon. Oh, for the “actual people” living upstairs, I mean. Not us FATELESS. But hey, at least we get front-row seats and can watch shit burn down. That’s something, right?
Anyway, I got a special program planned for us today. A consang of a consang told me a little something about which Stormjumper lobby Chief Paladin Naeko might be spending all his time in. Since he’s a man so dedicated to the public, I t...
2023-11-16 18:55:31 +0000 UTC
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Effective 19-12, Avo's build will resemble the following. More updates will come and changes will be made. Other characters will get their builds posted as well soon. Coldtech and structural upgrades will be included next week.
Ghosts - [25,557,009]
Liminal Frame (V) - 16,062 THAUM/c
User: Avo
Heaven/Hell: [Woundmother] - 10,002 THAUM/c
Heaven
->Domain: (Blood)
->Canon: Haemokinesi...
2023-11-16 11:56:41 +0000 UTC
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People like to think of Heavens as being made up of living stories. That is what mythologies are supposed to be after all, yes? Living stories?
Hm.
I never fully thought so. The best stories leave you with a feeling. A sense of expression that you cannot find anywhere else; a concept or understanding you will not glimpse upon other pages or meticulously edited memories. The best stories are a seamless mechanism. Characters, narrative, setting, plot, themes…...
2023-11-15 18:45:17 +0000 UTC
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No one has actually seen the Sleeper, not even most of Omnitech’s Chroniclers. What I can say for certain is that the entity seems real and it is giving orders.
But not like a god.
No. I’ve hunted cults in my time, and embedded our own assets–the similarly named “Sleepers” in cells across the city [NOTE: REQUEST TO REFER TO ORI-THAUM ASSETS USING ALTERNATIVE TITLE DENIED; WE WILL NOT ALLOW OMNITECH TO DECIDE OUR CLASSIFICATIONS]
2023-11-14 19:01:09 +0000 UTC
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Jaus alive, what did they do to this thing?
This is supposed to be a Heaven of Signals. Radio transmissions. That kind of thing. The coldtech it was based on was neutered. We practically built it under EGI supervision with how many eyes we had on us. How the hell did those mad bastards turn that into this? I haven’t seen this many people cut in half in over a month.
And what are these canons? The mem-data’s pure gibberis...
2023-11-13 18:11:12 +0000 UTC
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+Log: 238 Post-Fall
Agnos Kae Kusanade speaking. Ah… Former Agnos.
I have not been able to discern any changes in my Frame. If my prior theories were correct, the Imitators should have spread by this point, and the nature of my Soul should resemble that of the Stillborn. Alas, my Liminal Frame remains relatively “normal” from my examinations, with Avo continuing to be the only one of us capable of sophisticated canon auto-manufacturing.
M...
2023-11-12 19:33:38 +0000 UTC
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Preparation is not enough!
I don’t care if you were prepared, trainees! You need to succeed! You need to perform! You need to execute!
As we just saw in gray team’s performance, they had full situational awareness, Deep-Nether control, time to shape their surroundings to their advantage, and two hundred more heavy assault drones to deploy.
And what was the result?
They still lost. Right. Can anyone tell me why?
No.
2023-11-11 18:27:28 +0000 UTC
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Make no mistake: we’re in the war-making business; the heart-stealing business. Fuck this and that about entertainment, role models, or whatever the shit for the children, this is about getting people into the cause, and then driving them against the Massist fucks.
Do you wanna know what people want to believe more than anything else? They want to believe that they matter. They alone. They wanna believe they are the ones who are going to be in control, that they will be h...
2023-11-09 19:18:56 +0000 UTC
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+Kill me.
I am serious.
Kill me.
Ten different canons we need to patch into the wall. Ten. Just today. That makes six hundred this month. And we still have two more months before maintenance. Madness.
I said it once, I will say it again: the Paladins need to rebuild themselves. They need to reconstitute the Fallraiders Department they had before the Second War. Why? Because the problem isn’t with us! We fix the threshold–Main...
2023-11-08 19:05:36 +0000 UTC
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Regulars are an easy problem to solve so long as you have a nuke or a couple of nasty miracles on hand. But if you gotta handle them through conventional means, well…
I got two suggestions for you there: don’t; get more people.
The honest fact of the thing is that the Regs ain’t like you or me. They don’t think like us. They don’t feel like us. They hurt or even break like us. They’re beyond discipline. Beyond morale. Concepts and feelings become ...
2023-11-07 19:14:09 +0000 UTC
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Building a Heaven is like trying to bottle an apocalypse. Designing canons, then, is giving said apocalypse a personality.
It is obvious to even the lowest creature that a Heaven is calamity manifested. A defiance of reality and all its laws in exchange for a new order. This, more than the looseness of the tapestry, is why Heavens are built within controlled ruptures, for what better to encompass a wound than another we already know how to suture?
Beyond the ...
2023-11-06 18:33:04 +0000 UTC
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Lives.
It’s all we really have to offer.
We’re already less than useful for labor. Been that way for years. Wights obsoleted us before. The new mechs and drones coming out are just going to make the process faster. The Guilds offer all the public education we might need in public lobbies, but that’s useless as well. They don’t need the most of us to think or learn or become experts. They just skim the cream of the crop.
The rest of us a...
2023-11-05 17:35:49 +0000 UTC
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Hounds of my father’s will.
Hear me now.
I acknowledge your choice to stand.
Stand and deliver.
Stand and fight for what you believe.
Stand, and be slaughtered for what you cannot achieve.
I have broken the Rungs. Your encirclement of our districts is no more.
2023-11-03 18:59:23 +0000 UTC
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Greetings:
As some of you may have noticed recently, the advanced chapters have been shooting up. This progress should continue for the foreseeable future. I have decided the total number of chapters for Squires to 10 and will be expanding FATED chapters to 22 soon.
What happens at 22? Well, we'll continue building advanced chapters, but maybe at a bit slower pace.
In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out issues with how opening FATED chapters to Squires after a day h...
2023-11-02 19:11:41 +0000 UTC
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+Seeker. Mo+Seeker. Mondelles here. Moon’s Meta just came online–location: gutters, below… Nu-Scarrowbur, Yuulden-Yang Sovereignty. I tried her session. She isn’t responding.
Might be a trap, but she was moving and then stopped. The area around her looks to be some kind of housing complex. Drones detected squatters and light Syndicate activity. No other hostiles were spotted.
Meet me at Xin Yunsha [DEEPNAV MARKER PLACED]...
2023-11-02 19:06:49 +0000 UTC
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+Wah! Everyone likes to talk about freedom, freedom, freedom. You kids spit this and that. It’s all funny to me. Saintist this, Massist that. It’ll shit. I was there at the start of this mess, and it didn’t mean anything then. Just like it doesn’t mean anything now–
Left! Watch the left. Dammit, Juns, how’d you get wiped by that guy.
Anyway. This “Death Farm” map we’re raiding now? I was born in one of those. A bit cleaner than this one. The...
2023-11-01 19:05:23 +0000 UTC
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+Mag? Mag? We’re coming in rough, what’s–+
[Moment! No! Run! Stay away! Don’t do this! Don’t use me like this!]
-Final thoughtcast between Moment and Two-Mag, Syndicate Forgotten Lance
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These Bodies Be Our Prison
Hubris: Neither of the organisms that the user is melding must not be destroyed during the process or thaumic backlash will be triggered
Avo and one of the bioforms fell into each other like ...
2023-10-31 19:32:55 +0000 UTC
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A mixed force is not a preference but a necessity, for the contingent of forces you face in battle will be clasped with varied shells in turn.
The No-Dragons have cultured beasts of impossible vitality, but even their mastery of the flesh is not beyond rebuke. Other Guilds and Fallwalkers have their own Heavens–imbued with miracles of the absolute that can flay flesh, or deny bone its structure. Through these means come viruses of all varieties, some targeted, some not, a...
2023-10-30 18:32:58 +0000 UTC
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Two-Mag: Where the hells are you? It’s almost morning. No-Dragon Nimbuses are going to be passing through soon–they tag us and that barge is for the slagging.
Moment: Calm down. Nine kilometers [5.59 MILES] out. Flying low. Had to duck another Guilder drone patrol. Highflame’s really coming out in force these days. That’s almost a month they’ve spent grid-sweeping the Maw. Wonder what the fuck they lost.
Two-Mag: I...
2023-10-29 19:21:24 +0000 UTC
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