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16-9 On the Trail (I)
{Mayflower-3288-B}: So, I got an idea…{Terror-3285}: Oh, god{Mayflower-3288-B}: Hear me out…{Terror-3285}: Oh, god{Mayflower-3288-B}: What if…{Terror-3285}: I’m not making you one of your walking atrocities{Mayflower-3288-B}: …we combine…{Terror-3285}: No. We’re not doing that.{Mayflow...
16-8 Armor
I know you’re there. I know you’re giving me new memories in my dreams.Come out. I want to talk. I’m ready to talk.I want to know why.Why are you helping me?Why did you make me a Godclad?I had a master once. He was a good master. He fed me. He asked for simple things. He spoke to me directly. ...
16-7 Choice of Skins (III)
The experiment that was Noloth was of a society supreme–a preservation and further compounding by securing the stock of esteemed individuals to create a “perpetual greatest generation.”Such was the theory to what they sought to practice, but in practice, I can only describe their habits as enf...
16-6 A Choice of Skins (II)
+Esteemed seniors,We are getting fucked.If I have your attention now, I need you all to understand that it is not an unruly “partner” we are dealing with. Whispers from the Bazaar tell of suspicious attacks on various organizations across the Warrens.I trust that you all remember the Three-Finge...
16-5 A Choice of Skins (I)
Glaive Benhata’s body remains missing, an entire node has been stolen after appraising the situation at the Trident. As of now, I am certain we face an enemy ace that has achieved a feat beyond skill.It really smacks the words right out of your mouth.Aside from myself, Not-Here, Signtaker, and per...
16-4 Meldskin
They’re watching us, you know?The voiders. From all the way in the deep void. Using modified bugs that fly around our cities. Even using some of our implants–just read any Omnitech published reports on the tech infiltration being committed by our “benefactors.”That’s not all though. You se...
16-3 Inventory (II)
Tatterskin: +Holy shit, she’s still alive. We set off the entire goddamn hanger and she’s still moving down there. Godsdamned…+Rip-Nail: +Fucking Regs are hard targets. Hit ‘er again. We don’t need an intact body. Memories will serve as proof of death enough. Cycling another salvo of hamme...
16-2 Inventory (I)
+...And this marks the thirteenth declaration of General Assembly for Highflame since its founding.Details are still sparse at present, but we have reliable sources claiming that the High Seraph herself, Veylis Avadaer, is set to address the gathered host of her forces for the first time in over nin...
16-1 The Path Ahead
[Voideater Proposal]By Wu Three-Burdens and Golgo 9Summary: As is known to the committee from the war-sims our alliance has run regarding the Dawnfall Contingency, our non-thaumaturgic assets will last less than a few seconds at most if Voidwatch decides to turn their wrath upon us.Functionally, our...
15-20 Bad History (II)
Free will is an untruth for all who aren’t Godclads.Your will is not free. You are not free. Everything you do and think bears costs.Perhaps each individual is capable of making a variety of decisions, but that doesn’t make your choices free. Only flexible. Only variable.I caught the first glimp...
15-19 Bad History (I)
It would have taken approximately eighteen thousand and twenty-two deaths to light the miracles of my lightest Heaven if I was without a cycler. Let us not account for the others: I despise playing with numbers when the question posed to me is philosophical.Some “enlightened” viewers have sent m...
15-18 Justify
With clenched fists and battered hearts,With our pain inflamed, the journey starts.Find out where it all went so wrong,Find out to whom your sins belong…-Cas eld'Canduir, “Testify”15-18JustifyThere was a particular wretchedness that afflicted a person consumed by grief. Both father and mot...
15-17 Threshold (II)
My first encounter with our erstwhile kin was of pure chance. Born to worship the Seraphs and bred from the genetic stock of the Proselytizes, mine was the duty of ensuring compliance and accord among all members of the faith, and it is with great sourness that I look back upon the conduct of my you...
15-16 Threshold (I)
You have no idea the heights from which we fell.We. Humans. Humanity. Us and the voiders at a time before time; before the gods and fissures bleeding over into the real. Before Idheim itself was ever a thing.No idea.They didn’t torture me when I was discovered. Not really. Not in the ways we imagi...
15-15 Watchers On High (II)
Look, if you’re running a Neurodeck, you’re going to want to turn your Meta off. It’s as simple as that. I’ve seen people try to run both at the same time, but if you’re not using one of those Omnitech Thresholder-patterns, the deck flips shit when ghosts swim through it.Okay. Very basic l...
15-14 Watchers On High (I)
Syndicates.Deniable Guilder assets. Cancers of the city. Eaters of the FATELESS… Hells, call ‘em whatever you want, just know that unless the war ends, they’re here to stay.Now, if you’ve been living here for any amount of time, you might have heard something about the “Accords.” Now, I ...
15-13 After Action
The Elders are trying to cause an outbreak. I’m sure of it now.I mean, what do you see what the hells they have us digging through?The Soft Master Collection? Nu-Dog in the Wrong Ass? Nu-Dog: Re-erected? Operation: Storm my Step Sister’s “Nether” Plane? This–this is absolute–Listen–loo...
15-12 The Lapse
Anyone can be a Godclad. Any self-aware creature.When someone asks me who deserves the mantle of apotheosis, silence is my answer. There is nothing to say to such a false question; Godclads are imbued with the immensity of influence, but none of this is truly decided by virtue.Think of the gods from...
15-11 Portrait
POTENTIAL OPERATIVE “AVO” HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR INTERVIEW.RECRUITMENT EVALUATION FOR OPERATION REVISIONIST NOW PENDING.-Aegis15-11PortraitCOG-CAP: 99%SESSION LOSTSESSION LOSTSESSION LOS–SESSION LOSTWARNING: HEAVEN DETECTEDWARNING: HEAVEN DETECTEDWARNING: HEAVEN DETECTEDWARNING: HEAVEN DETECTEDU...
15-10 Grounding
CRITICAL TERMS: MISSING; NECROTHEURGY; THANATECH; THREE FINGERS; CRUCIBLE; EMPTY GOLEMSGENERATING REPORT SUMMARY…SUMMARY: At an undetermined time during the last day, the Three-Fingers Syndicate (an unofficial subsidiary of Sanctus) vanished along with all associated assets across the real and the...
15-9 Bonding IV: First Massacre
I don’t remember the first person I killed. Or the second. Or, well, most of them really. Look, I snuff lots of people and I’m old, so you can’t blame me. The ultimate point to this conversation remains the same, however: somewhere, sometime, some unlucky fucker’s gonna get it at your hands,...
15-8 Bonding (III): The Will in the Flame
I don’t know what happened to them.I don’t know.They just started… killing themselves. Killing each other. They did… these terrible things and the laughing... They… they started taking their blades to their own flesh and… oh, gods–they started eating themselves! And the corpses of thei...
15-7 Bonding (II): This Time With Murder
+Holy shit… what the hells happened here…+-Exorcist coming upon the remains of the Three-Fingers Syndicate15-7Bonding (II): This Time With MurderChambers hated being a Necrojack.Don’t get him wrong, being able to pierce into minds using his newly imbued skills was a delight at first and certai...
15-6 Bonding (I)
+An assembly will be called.Tell no one where you heard this from. You need to get your allegiances in order. Divorce your husband. Disown your children. Disown your father.The High Seraph is returning from the Paths, and she comes bearing a reckoning.The Greatling incident and the missing Frame mig...
15-5 The Cult of the Unborn
She was in your custody. It is your duty to–An attack. When. How severe was the breach? Was it Ori-Thaum? Where is Elder D’Rongo. I wish to have words with her–Then I wish to have words with Naeko–“He will be on a ‘Stormjumpers’ marathon for the weekend, so he won’t answer.”…You...
Update and Near-Term Schedule Changes
Good Evening,As some of you in the Discord group might already know, I will potentially shift my free update schedule to a staggered release next week.What this means here is that I will continue trying to deliver daily updates on Patreon but will update on RR and Spacebattles one day on and one day...
15-4 Group Meeting
Look at that Nether traffic. Those Silver fucks are up to something…-Highflame Monitoring Station15-4Group Meeting“So let me get this straight,” Cas began. “You crossed over into Abrel’s mind, subsumed it, restructured her consciousness, took a template of her consciousness that you now ha...
15-3 Overlap
Cults in this city are nasty godsdamned rat nests.Considering what they’re up against, they kind of have to be.First, there are the Guilds and the Exorcists and the Paladins and the Syndicates and all the usual problems. Let's name the obvious half-strands first to get them out of the way. Mos...
15-2 Ignite
We are being hunted.I’m sure of it now. First, the travesty in the Oversec that saw our Incubi slaughtered so, then the sudden theft and murder within our own walls! A Mirror went missing! A Mirror and his entire cell along with him. But that’s not all–one of our administrative nodes just… v...
15-1 The Gift
+Rab?Long time no cast, how the hells are you?Oh, not a social call is this? What’s the run? Don’t make it boring. I’m too old for boring.[TRANSFERING MEM-DATA]Alright. You hooked me already. This one’s a real–[IMPS TRANSFERRED]Damn, Rab, paying fast today. This thing must have yo all kind...
