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Victor 8.32 - Chaos Sorcerer

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-Plum

“Well?” Lam asked, wiping the toad blood from her cobalt-blue hammer head with a well-soiled rag. They’d all just recovered from their Energy infusions after the “boss” toad battle, and she wanted to know if Darren had hit level ten. He grinned at her, then at Edeya, who sat, eyes glazed, staring at System messages of her own. He...

Head's up - Plum is taking a week off soon!

Hi all - Normally, I take a week off when finishing a book, but I have something coming up at the end of this month and decided to do it early - I don't think either Victor 8 or Cyber Dreams 6 will be done yet.

Anyway, I'm going to have a lot of family in town, almost like a mini-reunion, and I know it's going to be hard to get my daily writing in. That said, I'm going to take a week off between Friday the 28th of June and Friday the 5th of July.

So, to be clear, I'll post a chap...

Cyber Dreams 6.34 - Confrontation

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Several times, as she ran, Juliet paused and peered with her other vision, keeping track of the strange, wrong mind as she drew ever closer. Each time, she pointed, and Angel refined her destination. By the time her countdown timer reached nine minutes, Angel pinned down the target location. It was a small cargo or shuttle bay situated two decks below the bridge. The s...

Victor 8.31 - Friends or Foes

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-Plum

Arcus locked eyes with Victor and nodded. “Agreed. Let us evaluate the rest of this treasure before settling the matter of the orb.”

“Of course.” Arona took a step back and gestured at the big, iron-bound chest. “This orb is part of a treasure, likely generated by the System. If touched, it may be absorbed, so let’s use caution.”

Victor...

Cyber Dreams 6.33 - Critical Malfunction

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-Plum

At Angel’s reminder, Juliet was struck by a wave of guilt and whirled away from Montclair’s corpse. What had the madman been trying to achieve? Had he been so sure of himself that he thought he could toy with her? Why not line this corridor with shape charges? Why not set up a turret outside the d...

Victor 8.30 - Lich-Wyrm

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Victor looked up the scree-covered slope to the dark cave entrance. It opened into the side of the hill, some hundred yards from where he and the others stood, watching one of Arona’s skeletons, the one with the long, hook-clawed arms, scrabble upward. They stood in a narrow valley between two rows of low hills. The environment was largely barren, with on...

Cyber Dreams 6.32 - Quickdraw

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-Plum

Tanaka leaned over the control console, blood dripping from a dozen wounds. He was trying to work his way through the menu to open the cell doors, but as he stabbed his fingers at the controls, they weren’t doing exactly what he wanted. He gritted his teeth in frustration and leaned against the plasteel stand, gripping it tightly as another wave of darknes...

Victor 8.29 - A Slight Detour

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-Plum

Arona wasn’t exactly what Victor would consider a socially adept person, but after he’d basically told her he didn’t trust her, she became decidedly standoffish. She brooded by herself on the northern edge of the clearing with her five skeletal servants standing watch in a wide circle while Victor and Tyn continued to chat, sitting on flat stones and snacking whil...

Cyber Dreams 6.31 - Angel 3.7

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“She didn’t even try to dodge . . .” Angel’s surprised outburst trailed off as Chen’s body began to twitch, and her right hand, still holding the pistol, lifted off the ground. Juliet sprang forward and managed to get one whole step in before Angel reacted and fired her speed boost. She didn’t know exactly what was happening with Chen’s body or how it could be ...

Victor 8.28 - Lay of the Land

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Victor sat on a large stone block and, groaning and cursing, worked to dig the arrow shaft out of his armpit. A dozen bloody, broken bolts and arrows already lay at his feet. He’d finally run out of enemies to kill—they’d kept coming in twos and threes out of the ruins, seeking to capitalize on his “weakness” after he’d killed the original crew of ambushers. Those la...