Brent Stinebaker posts
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85 Plots Against Plots
Yes, yes. They raided your establishment and killed some of your people. What do you want me to do about it, dear boy? You're in Hell. These are the Claimed Hells. I'm merely the master of this parlor, not the lord of this den.Why, if I wanted to be something as banal as a king, I would have...
84Forcing the Hand
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29-13 Back to School (IV)
+Come in. Come in. Come in. Is anyone there? Block L007 to G012 are no longer responding. Is anyone there? Is anyone—+[SESSION UNABLE TO BE RECEIVED; TARGET ELIMINATED; SESSION LOST]+This is Bloodfang designation: Carnivore. Preliminary scouting has generated results. The innermost section of the ...
83Experience (III)
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29-12 Back to School (III)
Preparation.Tempo.Firepower.Unpredictability.If you're going to be engaging in close-quarters combat within a megablock or any other constrained space, you're gonna wanna be a tide. You're gonna wanna sweep through sector to sector, burning through the threats like wildfire. Hesitation w...
29-11 Back to School (II)
//[Priority Cult Cast]Source:Inner CouncilBeginning Transmission...ATTENTION SLEEPER.The Nether has fallen. The Hungers are no more. The Fifth Guild War is upon us. You have been activated.The time for secrecy is at an end.The dissolution of the Nether is a lamentable, but ultimately inevitable, out...
82 Experiences (II)
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81 Experience (I)
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80 Bitterness
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79 Endure
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29-10 Back to School (I)
+Hey, hello? Is anyone there? Well, if you are, it's your… It's your girl, Cala Marlowe, coming right... live from the gutters. Got flung down here after… after… shit went down. Shit… Fuck… Alright. Alright, Marlow, just breathe.So. I’m safe. I’m with… uh, let’s call them p...
29-9 Upgraded
No, Dawson, you're not thinking of it right.It's not just a very smart system built into a frame's root data.It is fundamentally capable of mingling and altering a Heaven's mythology from the inside, on a level of detail that no human can match, because it is perfectly able to merge ...
29-8 Child of the Enemy (II)
A prayer, then, offered to thee, with the birth of this newest child I come to be.In times of strife, sickness, and famine, I offer sanctuary, comfort, feast, and wine for my charges, per the decree of my canon.From my concept I carry you, cradle to grave, and in the light of my divinity I offer ble...
78 A Preview of Damnation
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77 The Plan (II)
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76The Plan (I)
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29-7 Child of the Enemy (I)
“What about the children?” This is a dilemma that all purveyors of virtue propose, yet few offer worthwhile solutions. This is the question you have cast at me in cowardice, faither, seeking to strike at my decency.Let us talk, then. Let me speak now. Often, when this question is asked, the pres...
29-6 Flame Anchor
Vator? Abrel? Where… where are you…And where am I…High Seraph? Yes… Yes, I can hear you… I… I understand. I will follow your light. I will walk your path. I will accept this flame.I will be your champion.Just… let my children be once more. Take my failures away. Let them know what it m...
75 Reintroduction
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29-5 Between
+This is Instrument Cavara Arrano! We are being overrun. We have been cut off by… something! My cadre is down to less than eight Knots and two fleets of patrol drones. Ashthrone is massing on our borders. The demiplanes aren’t going to last longer than a day.Again… again… if there is anyone ...
74The Veteran
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73 A Calm Conversation
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72 More Mountains to Climb
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71 Mutual Benefit (III)
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29-4 Reflections
The paths for the Guard-Captain have been walked. Her ultimate fates have been compiled.{Oh. Joy. Let me guess: she tries to solve everything by shooting or exploding various people and places?}She will seek to resolve matters the way she was trained: Through every means available; by any method of ...
29-3 Chronoframe (II)
It don’t matter if you’re me. It don’t matter. I have to get to the Ladder. I gotta make this count. This world is broken. Ain’t no difference between echo, template, delusion, and reality no more. I am. So I wish to be. So I have to be.Ain’t no other way about it.I need to make it out. I ...
29-2 Chronoframe (I)
+Chronoframes are constructs designed to embody the very tenets of maneuver warfare. But even before discussing potential tactics and strategic counters to their deployment on the battlefield, it is important to understand the composition and creation of these unique adversaries.All Chronoframes are...
29-1 Missing in Action
Alright, cadets. We’re going to be having some fun today.There’s gonna be a time, juvs, when you get cut off from the rest of your fireteam during an op. Usually, this is because someone decided to prolapse the metaphorical laws governing space to make various balloon animals to dubious levels o...
70 Mutual Benefit (II)
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69 Mutual Benefit (I)
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