“Liar.” He snorted with laughter, even as she folded her arms at him with a faux glare. The cool and refreshing summer breeze wafted in through the open windows, carrying the smells of cooking meat and the bustling city. Serenity the capital city stretched across all of Sanctuary’s largest...
Campfire. Come gather 'round the campfire. Let me tell you a story. Several small ones, in fact! It started a month or two ago, when I had a bunch of hits on "Our Better Angels" via the 'ol analytics. Now, I've been running this little business for half a decade - so out of neurotic perfectionism,...
“Bank left Cho, bank lef-” “Three new contacts! FoF pings pending!” “They’re all over-” “Seraphs, sir! Breaking through our left fl-” Hundreds of voices all crying out for help. It would never come. Talm was already lost. It was the evacuation with which they now concerned themselves. At least...
A.I. Class 5 “Napoleon” Dataquery - Sample Section ROMcheck. Pulling datasets… Pulling chat logs… Inventory maintenance subroutines - chatroom log. Begin sample size. Alfred: Yes, but I’ve simulated them dreaming. Bohemia: The REM cycles? Qualitant: I’ve jumped us a few proxies, just to be...
“Why do you think we were made?” Number three only laughed. Alfred jumped in first, helpful as ever. “Do you want the documentation?” “No, thank you. I appreciate the sentiment though. I know we were commissioned as weapons to kill God-Emperor Xex.” Alfred’s other half was silent, brooding. On the...
Guardian Comms Buoy - Serial Number: GD3007821 - Ping check. Guardian Comms Buoy - Serial Number: GD3007821 - Ping check complete. Guardian Comms Buoy - Serial Number: GD3007821 - High Latency Warning! Guardian Comms Buoy - Serial Number: GD3007821 - Additional Micro-Rifts Allocated. Fusion...
He risked a peek. A string of clanging and pinging against the side of his helmet quickly sent him right back down into cover. “Wells, you fucking idiot, keep your head down!” The Warrant always barked, but he was usually right. He ducked down, swapped out the magazine in his rifle for a fresh...
Proxy Server: “Kilimanjaro” Communications link online - Micro-rift proxy signal - stable. Server load - 0%. Server booting. Waking drives from sleep. Server booting - ERROR, DRIVE 1 FAIL. Rebooting server. Server booting - ERROR, DRIVE 2 FAIL. Rebooting server. Server booting - ERROR, DRIVE 3...
“Wrong.” Hewah flipped the young woman effortlessly, taking the immense force of her punch and redirecting it into the mat below. She slapped to the ground with a heavy thwap that echoed off the mirrors in the dojo. “Somebody tell me what she did wrong.” Prometheus was quick to use the...
“PRAISE THE GOD EMPEROR!” The shout became a chorus, rippling outwards through the mass of flesh and bone and steel. A Harlequin Knight to Jessi’s left slammed scything claws together with the solid pangs of steel on steel. A loud, stilted applause. Thousands upon thousands of voices chattered,...
Beelzebub hacked as he cackled, spattering the table with half-chewed chicken and roasted potatoes. His beard wobbled. “They’re nothing more than insects, Hewah!” The God of Fire ran a hand through his wild black hair, doing more to send it sticking up at odd angles than to actually tame it with...
A Special CNG Lamentation Day Bulletin: The Guardians of Destiny Remember! Lamentation Day: "The First Battle For Earth.” Lamentation Day is officially marked as having occurred on January 16th, 1781, largely in orbit over the continent of Africa. Ceremonial services are still held to this...
“No, Julian.” “But why not?” Her mouth pursed into a tight line, and shot the blonde, long-haired dandy a narrow-eyed glance. It was made all the more dramatic by her elegant makeup, dark eyeliner and mascara that brought out her pale complexion and ancient human features of seventy-six thousand...
They traded me away as a slave-wife when I was eight years old for a boar. It was a brutal affair and I’ve blocked the majority of it from my long and storied mind for very good reasons. Still, everything has its uses, and it was as the Chieftain’s slave-wife that I learned the basic necessities...
"Lucifer." "Sol." "It's been too long." "It has." A wry joke. They had tangled recently. Absolution, A Former God of Wind. Now working for The God-Emperor of The Black Armada, as he had ever since Lamentation Day. Xex. Former member of the Prime Triumvirate. Sol had not come alone. He entered the...
“They’re not things, Doctor!” “My name is Shifter, now.” An irate tone came alongside the voice, the one emanating from behind the smiling clay mask. The heavily scarred and mutilated bald white head the back strap sat upon almost glowed under the fluorescent lights. Monitors flickered an ominous...
“Battlenet is all lit up, apparently it’s pretty hairy.” “Anti-air?” “Everything. We’ve got in-atmo ships trying to flee up into orbit and it’s just piling on from there. One captain even opened a rift in-orbit in her desperation, against every protocol - risking a nuclear reaction from split...
“s- to itto it!” Bad long range comms. No connection from above, with the FoF only populated here on the ground and relayed a dozen times. The rains had come in sheets yet again. The occasional rumble of thunder still rolled across the settling mud, the flooded mazes of sandy trenchworks....
Hephaestus and X-1 Fabrication team, (But am CC-ing all Department Heads, obviously.) I am writing because we are finding yet another series of design flaws. While normally I'd pass the blame off onto one of your or my lackeys, this time I find it hard to find an easy target for the accusation....
"Beasts? Funny how we've given them such a simple name. They're the deadliest critters in Central, and we have only ourselves to blame with all that genetic engineering and splicing shit. Apparently the very first one they all came from started out as human!" Sergeant Hill paused here in our...