Can I light up some hiflass? You mind? No. Alright, good.
So. Trafficking. You can’t stop it. You can never stop it. You wanna stop it? That’s a problem for the Agnosi. Ask them how many Heavens there are. Ask them how many gods there used to be.
Right now, New Vultun’s perimeters? The liminal borders you can restrict at any time? That’s nothing. It’s bullshit. Liminal space that doesn’t let directionality in or out blah blah what the fuck–you h...
2023-10-28 07:15:07 +0000 UTC
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New Vultun will be made up of 35313 districts by 288 P.G. That is 4414 trans-polity post-mortem taxable zones. Sovereignties, in a word.
At the rate things are currently progressing, we will only reap 12% of the total taxable deaths, placing us as the lowest profiting Guild in the city.
This is not acceptable.
As of present, Project Alloyed Revival and the “Return From Ashes” Initiative are concluding their start-up phases. Breakthroughs in...
2023-10-27 12:23:54 +0000 UTC
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+Another day, another outbreak. Pour one out to the unfortunates at Veng’s Stand today, consangs.
It’s looking pretty bad. But what’s different about today?
[Hiccup; sound of cup hitting a table]
Details are sparse and censors are chewing up any leaking mem-data as best as they can, but my on-site sources and my Exoricsts contacts are talking about a ‘Clad on ‘Clad incident. Three Ori-Thaum Knots playing gangbusters.<...
2023-10-26 18:50:42 +0000 UTC
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I do not believe that most of us qualify as human.
Not truly.
The darkest test of apotheosis has been a war against hatred. Hatred of humanity. Hatred of culture. Hatred of norms and ethics and faith. Hatred of consciousness itself.
With each rung I have trod up the ladder of existence, I find myself ashamed to have ever been mortal. Ashamed to have ever wanted for anything, or felt ref...
2023-10-25 18:51:39 +0000 UTC
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{ATTENTION CITIZENS:
THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MASS SUICIDES AT [HEAVY ALLOY PLANT Z-1338] IN DISTRICT [2GATE] HAS BEEN CONCLUDED (focus here to relive death simulations).
TRAWLERS HAVE DETERMINED (0) SUSPECTS INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT.
IN LIGHT OF THIS UNFORTUNATE EVENT, WE WILL BE OFFING INCREASED JOY SUPPLEMENTS FOR ALL WORKING PROFESSIONALS ALONGSIDE A NEWLY DEVELOPED INSTA-THERAPY NEUROMOD (purchasable at 88,000 imps; 50% discount for citi...
2023-10-24 19:20:20 +0000 UTC
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+Instrument. It’s me. Do you know about what’s happening at Veng’s Stand?+
+I am aware. We have a few Liebreakers monitoring the situation. The Planeshift is there as well. Eh. Wombrash. Nasty way to die. Kazahara… Did you know about his presence in the area?+
+...Seeker Kazahara has a habit of… declaring his operations post-hoc.+
[Santanado chuckles] +That’s not an Ori-Thaum habit, now is it? How did he manage to ...
2023-10-23 18:04:55 +0000 UTC
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+Rab. I’m inside Layer One. Our “consang” made a tunnel complex of some kind all the way down through the district–couldn’t stay topside, streets and skies are crawling with glassers right now. Had to snuff two that were following me earlier.
Nether’s still stabled here, so that was a concentrated bomb they dropped. Good thing too. My Incog kicking in earlier was the only thing that kept me alive.
My drones are fried, but I think I have someone to...
2023-10-22 15:00:56 +0000 UTC
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Shotin Kazahara: No.
Kare Kitzuhada: I’ve already taken my oaths, uncle. I’m not requesting permission, I’m informing you that I’m done. I’m a Paladin in training now.
Shotin Kazahara: [Sigh] No. Reject the offer. I’ll finish up my assignments and we’ll talk.
Kare Kitzuhada: There’s nothing t...
2023-10-20 19:46:52 +0000 UTC
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+Kare. I, uh, I need to talk to you. I thought–I asked them to be the one to tell you that… oh, gods, oh fuck. I–it shouldn’t have happened. She wasn’t a soldier, they shouldn’t–the fucking Paladins were useless and–and they should’ve–the fucking bitch just did it anyway and they let her! They let her! I was… I couldn’t get there without abandoning my post but they kept going! I had to listen–they made me listen to what they did. I–I+
[Sh...
2023-10-19 19:27:49 +0000 UTC
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+ATTENTION ALL SUBJECTS! THE DISTRICT: [VENG’S STAND] IS NOW UNDER QUARANTINE! WOMBRASH OUTBREAK IN PROGRESS!
PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR HOMES AND SHELTER IN PLACE.
PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS ANY NETHER LOBBIES HOSTED IN THE HIGHLIGHTED DISTRICTS DURING THIS TIME!
THE AFFECTED ARE RECOMMENDED TO FIND A SOURCE OF FIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO FIND A SOURCE OF FIRE, PLEASE COMMIT TO YOUR CIVIC DUTIES AND COMMIT SUICIDE VIA THE FATEST METH...
2023-10-18 18:55:09 +0000 UTC
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Alright, that’s it, everyone’s… oh… oh, no… No! NO! AGHHHHHGHHHG–
-Paladin Baers upon entering Veng’s Stand and contracting the Rash
17-13
Outbreak (I)
An important thing to remember when someone was spraying burning aratnids into your mouth using their cock was to keep your mouth closed. This was a lesson Shotin quickly learned by experience as the first of the unnatural rat-spiders pried at his face, palps brushing his inner cheek.
The ch...
2023-10-17 18:58:25 +0000 UTC
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Judge Ygwamawe: Let this recording stand as the third attempt to censure Seeker Shotin Kazahara on the counts of insubordination, ignoring direct commands from a superior body, assault on a superior citizen, unauthorized seizure of Guild property, libelous slander of another citizen, inappropriate language in an official forum, kidnapping of a fellow citizen, unlawful interrogation of said fellow citizen, and… secondhand public urination via nu-dog on said tort...
2023-10-16 19:15:08 +0000 UTC
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The Parallelist looks like an easy Heaven to overload and rupture from a glance and used by someone less capable than Shotin Kazahara, it would be.
Unfortunately, one of us poor bastards will be facing the Planeshift in the field before this thing is done, so listen close. It might just keep you from getting real deathed.
The Heaven stands as the very definition of a “Sea,” focused on the breadth of influence across a vast number of different Domains inst...
2023-10-15 16:06:30 +0000 UTC
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+Paladin Baers, we’re getting reports of a nuclear blast going off over the district of Veng’s Stand. Do you have eyes on the situation?+
[Messy eating noises; slurping]
+Paladin Baers?+
+Yeah. A whole bunch of drones. Golems tearing shit up. Next to a megablock. Fucking Syndis, dispatch. You know how it is.+ [Food wrap wrinkling] +Looks to me like some kind of foggy missile or something is–the hell is t...
2023-10-14 19:57:49 +0000 UTC
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+All units scramble! Repeat! Deploy all assets! The Seeker has been engaged! The Seeker has been engaged!+
-Wiser Nara, Ori-Thaum Intelligence Officer
17-9
Knife-Fighting in the Dark
The sound of the nu-kitten’s shrieking with terror was the first thing that captured Avo’s attention as he pushed himself off the ground with his Echoheads. The second was that Dice–hiding behind a protective cover of her own making–was peering at him over a block of haemo...
2023-10-14 13:33:34 +0000 UTC
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Authority Uthred Greatling
You have been marked for a personal audience in the Paths with the High Seraph. Before official proceedings begin, she would like to hold a personal dialogue with you with regard to recent incidents.
Only your presence has been requested, and you will be drawn into the paths in one day and three hours from this time. Prepare yourself appropriately for any and all danger you might encounter, ...
2023-10-13 13:28:40 +0000 UTC
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Hiring a squire is either the best or worst investment you’ll ever make depending on a variety of factors.
The easiest of which is separating the professionals from the chaff. The ones that light the wick are usually stone-cold snuffers prepared to face and overcome anything. These guys do their own intel, source their own gear, and plan their own runs. Don’t gotta hold their hands, just give ‘em the mem-data for the run and make yourself absent until after shit goes ...
2023-10-12 19:01:28 +0000 UTC
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+Seeker Kazahara:
I think the Registry might have a hit for the one you’re looking for. It’s a single instance and the facial capture is only partial, but the physical characteristics match the memories you sent.
155.45 centimeters.
Female. Possibly adolescent.
Heavyset musculature for her size judging from the width of her shoulders.
The memory was sourced to a street ganger of the “Silver Tongues.” A Marh...
2023-10-12 08:15:07 +0000 UTC
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“Instrument Mondelles, I assure you whoever just attacked us wasn’t one of ours. I can–”
“I know. It can’t be. They were too good in a scuffle to be a Silver.”
“...”
“Your fourth member. I need to talk to him. He’s the last one that had eyes on Moon. Her session is scrambled. I can’t sense her mind anymore.”
“Perhaps I can–”
“I’m not letting you jack into my mind. But you’re going to help me, and I’ll let y...
2023-10-11 13:15:31 +0000 UTC
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The Highflame Path-Hydra Heaven is a Second Sphere Heaven usually attached to a golem. With its extremely low thaumic cost and simple canon, its uses in combat are few but focused.
It will be deployed to disrupted demiplanes or spatial anomalies via paradox.
It will be deployed to shuttle objects and personnel from one of its heads to another.
With the specificity installed in its canons, this Heaven has also proven to be highly difficult to de...
2023-10-10 19:05:32 +0000 UTC
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+Proxy-ID Sintaker to Mirror-Convex. L-213382 is compromised. We just got hit by an unknown hostile. Serpentine was nulled. She’ll be resurrected in thirty seconds. Cog-cap overload–enemy cracked her Incog with a Skimmer.
…
Convex, do not bullshit me right now: do we have any assets operating in the area? Because Skimmers aren’t standard issue-scrying phantasmics. Yeah. Because they’re ours. Exclusively.
I think I caught a glimpse of ...
2023-10-10 12:13:06 +0000 UTC
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+Yeah. Yeah. I got eyes on the girl.
Really wasn’t that hard to track, honestly. She’s quick and efficient, but she doesn’t know the city very well–and doesn’t change up her methods nearly enough. Similar approaches. Similar exits. Similar holocoat setting.
She might have an old Sangeist model burning inside her. I’m not sure, but that’s what the signs are pointing to.
Relax, I’m just trailing the juv. I’m going to use my Inco...
2023-10-09 12:22:57 +0000 UTC
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+Hey. I got a personal message for all you consangs striving and struggling at Light’s End.
You know you guys have the highest suicide rate in New Vultun if we separate the Warrens across all its layers, right? It’s rough out there, being so close to the light, but not really part of it.
Don’t disconnect. I’m not here to try to hurt you or anything but… I’ve always found all of you beautiful, you know?
You’re like moths. Moths to ...
2023-10-08 14:51:28 +0000 UTC
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Even with all the information granted to me, I cannot fathom the scope of the conflict. Of arms used and the sheer destruction involved.
How far we have fallen.
How far.
We live nested on this little world, our lives spent to feed the thirst of our gods, fuel for their impossible miracles that bend the structure of reality to our whims.
Yet, there was never a need for those that came before. They lived in a world barren of Souls....
2023-10-07 15:15:02 +0000 UTC
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The art of weaving flesh and blood and bone is like crafting a story–even if the architecture is nothing but a lie, birthed from your own artistry and creation, there must be a narrative behind it. Even with the aid of Heaven, miracles are nothing but structures of poignancy and meaning, and such things have to make sense.
The pattern must flow.
Here. Let me show you.
Do you see these? Veins. Blood courses through them, carrying the fuel of o...
2023-10-07 05:42:06 +0000 UTC
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+Rab. Got an update for you. I haven’t gotten eyes on your new consang yet, but there’s this new Fallwalker that’s appeared out of nowhere. Name’s Dice. She’s been working her way through the districts, hunting down former members of the Three-Fingers Syndicate. Crushing the gangs spinning off from them too.
From the mem-data I managed to cobble together, she entered the city near the end of last month. Got brought in by a Fallwalker calling himself Crowtongue. Da...
2023-10-06 16:01:26 +0000 UTC
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Threshold sickness is something you all have to get used to. You will be fighting within demiplanes, pushing into enemy demiplanes, dropping into demiplanes, surviving and navigating ruptured demiplanes, and destabilizing and escaping from demiplanes.
You will do all these things because positioning decides wars, and the laws within these microcosms will either see your miracles stalemated or suppressed altogether.
Once perimeters are established at key point...
2023-10-05 20:53:40 +0000 UTC
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Anything cultured from Sang tissue should be regarded as an anomalous construct rather than actual flesh. With how much the Pattern-Swimmers {See “Dragons” for more resources} have damaged their ontologies, their bodies exhibit qualities similar to that of golems rather than actual biology.
It’s also the very same “biological laxity” that allows them to create their specialized bioform variants and grants them the ability to inte...
2023-10-04 20:04:44 +0000 UTC
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Look, like it or not, ghouls are a party of this city’s messed up ecosystem now. There’s too much darkness, too many FATELESS, and too much flesh for them to fully die out. Not that the Syndicates or Sang want them to.
The fact is that ghouls are more a benefit to the city than a bane. Free meat for the killing, for live-fire exercises, for stapping explosives to and sending them as hordes to run down your targets, as incubators to grow cheap mods and organs, as test su...
2023-10-03 17:30:17 +0000 UTC
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+Listen–look, fuggin’, just, like, listen, consang–
I think we should stay off the streets for a bit, y’know?
Just buy a month’s worth of kovoli rolls and hole. Hole deep and dark for a bit somewhere safe. Or jock ourselves a ride outta this district.
Yeah, I know–I know we don’t got much imps left but… Racker, brother, fuckers be dying out there. Like, getting snuffed left and right. You know how the Three-Fingers were supposed...
2023-10-02 17:47:44 +0000 UTC
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