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[Voidus]

On 6/5/2019 at 1:44 PM, ZincAboutIt said:

"I agree," Lita said. "That seems like the best option."

Actually, staying in here is the best option. She chewed her lip and leaned over the map, tracing one finger along the paper. "We'll need to find somewhere close enough to PlasmaCore to require immediate attention, but far enough away to avoid getting ourselves mixed up in all that mist." She pointed towards a neighborhood she knew to be full of people - her old neighborhood, actually.

I wonder if my flat has been overrun by bird-headed abominations? She wondered idly for a moment. Then, she shrugged.

"What about here? Lots of families, not too wealthy. Seems like the ideal spot for an evacuation attempt."

"Seems like a likely place for them." Laurelai said after observing the map for a moment. "Populated, not well off enough that they'd have much to protect them against all of this."

She gave a final nod of confirmation, pen spinning a few more times between her arched fingers before finally coming to a rest, the point quivering slightly beneath her palm.

Hands going to start cramping soon. Laurelai noted before tucking the pen away and gently stretching her fingers out. Not an ideal condition to be going into a warzone with but needs must I suppose.

She gave a small cough, clearing her throat a little before addressing Lita and KanMien again.

"Well I think that's our best plan for now, we'll need to be careful while we're on the streets, try to stay out of fights. Lita, could you keep an ear out? We might be able to skirt around most of the actual combat."

She picked up her glass, raising it to her mouth before remembering that it had already been finished and set it back down on the table again, her hand shook for a moment but with a frown she stilled it, placing the glass down gently and prepared herself to Alleytravel.

8 hours ago, Fatebreaker said:

 

@Voidus

Voidus twitched as a voice called out softly, his head suddenly twisted to identify the noise that shouldn't exist in this place, the sound of another person in this secure location. But he calmed as he identified the Stranger, giving him a grin in return.

"Going to take a while before it sinks in that you're really back." Voidus replied. "Not many others who could surprise me like that."

He sighed, leaning against the sturdy metallic spike for support, feeling the cool metal against his skin, pulsing with Hemalurgic energy like the heartbeat of the world, rippling out across the Alleyverse to keep everything from tearing itself apart.

"We ripped apart another universe to create this one." Voidus said, looking back towards the Stranger. "To test boundaries and push them, to research new possibilities. We destroyed a universe for science."

He left the sentence to hang in the air between them, not judgmental or regretful, merely a statement. As though Voidus himself weren't sure what exactly he was trying to suggest. The universe had been empty when they'd spiked it after all, no life on any of the worlds that had dwelt within it, no matter at all in fact. It had simply been a universe of space. Empty. An enormous void.

[+Sorana]

1 hour ago, Grey Knight said:

"Master Gadriel fights against the bird-things to the west," the Space Marine said. It slammed a clip into its bolter and started firing over Zokora's shoulder. "We saw the shields flicker too, assassin. The Council is already preparing to take advantage of it."

@Sorana

"Thank you."

Zokora waved at him cheerily and then vanished again, moved closer to the shield. A monster saw her, but she killed it easily, then went back to hide. She was close, closer to the shield than she had been so far, but still too far away to be able to discern details. Waiting. She inhaled stormlight and then waited. It would flicker again.

58 minutes ago, I think I am here. said:

Wes was stomping on ants when something large hit him by force and he was toppled out of the red haze, his emotions turning to normal as he stared down what had tackled him.

It was a wolf-man, a real werewolf looking back at him. “Oh, hi sir,” Wes said, hesitantly pushing his glasses up. He smiled slightly, and then more, it was so great to see Mike again.

“I killed lots of ants,” he suddenly said, wide eyed. “And Lusk messaged us, to unite with the other troops or something. Didn’t you say you had to meet a girl?”

Wolf licked his hand in affection and then moved his head to the left and to the right, as if asking where to go.

Mike pushed at Wolf, but only received a groal in reply. Wolf was in charge. At least follow our orders. He begged him silently and felt Procupine cuddle his leg.

[+Ark1002]

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Please note that the Bureau will decide when the shield flickers again.

So don't do it in your posts.

 

[Nohadon]

Astiel snuck up behind Azreal, showing him his canton intelligence card. Prepared to dodge any strikes that may come his way.

"I'm Astiel, member of the triumvirate. I need a mission report and a whereabouts of Silphio, we're here to help now, we've been stopping panic in the city."

@Grey Knight

***
Silphio woke up in the middle of an alley.

Oh hell. He thought to himself as he quickly covered himself in armour. He remembered being hit in the head after talking to the Crusade member, and now he was here.

He took off as fast as he could towards the canton building, someone had tried to take him out of the fight, and had done so successfully. He needed information, and he needed his chapter.

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Can I get an update on the plot so far please?

 

[+ZincAboutIt]

3 hours ago, Voidus said:

"Well I think that's our best plan for now, we'll need to be careful while we're on the streets, try to stay out of fights. Lita, could you keep an ear out? We might be able to skirt around most of the actual combat."

She picked up her glass, raising it to her mouth before remembering that it had already been finished and set it back down on the table again, her hand shook for a moment but with a frown she stilled it, placing the glass down gently and prepared herself to Alleytravel.

Lita nodded. "Of course," she responded to Laurelai. She readied her tin inside her, then, on a last-minute impulse, she took the Coin out of her pocket and slipped it into her sock, feeling the metal press up tight against her ankle, pushed flat on her skin by her boot.

There, she thought, feeling a slight tremor move through her body as she contemplated the mission ahead. Now I won't need to take the Coin out of my pocket to tap Gold. Hopefully, she wouldn't need to tap at all, but if she did, she didn't want to worry about reaching into her pocket.

Lita looked down at her hands, which shook only slightly. No one else can see, she told herself, clenching her jaw.  It's the tin. No one else knows you're scared out of your rusting wits.

She put her Alleycant pen into her pocket, tightened her braid, and took off her spectacles. There would be no need for subtlety in that regard tonight, and there was absolutely no way she'd be turning off her tin until she was safely back in the Alleys. Lita tucked the spectacles into an interior coat pocket - it never hurt to be prepared - and uncorked one of her new tin vials, downing it in one go. The reserve of power within her bolstered her courage a little, and she thought of the Coin tucked against her skin.

Which face are you showing, then? She wondered darkly, stepping next to Laurelai and KanMien. Lita's hand strayed to her other pocket, where she had slipped the long, thin spike she'd brought to the PlasmaCore party. Just in case.

@kenod 

Edited June 7, 2019 by ZincAboutIt
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[Fatebreaker]

The Stranger nodded, remembering that day with crystalline clarity. “It was an unprecedented advance, nothing like it had even been conceived of. But I didn’t think it would exact such a heavy price.”

He walked forward and placed a hand on the Worldspike. “We should have known better, everything has a price. Sacrifice remains a constant, no matter how great our ability or skill. It is one of the first lessons I ever learned, you would have thought I would have remembered it better.”

He turned around and rested against the Worldspike, feeling a sense of fatigue that wasn’t physical. He closed his eye and let out a long breath.

“I did it, Voidus.”

The Stranger grinned wryly as he spoke, “I made a new Worldspike, one that not only rewrites a planet, but the preexisting life on it as well. I refined our formula and narrowed the focus. I was able to rewrite the spirit webs on an entire planetary population. And not a single soul perished. But they were no longer themselves. I changed the geography, which meant I had to change the cultural developments, which led to changes on the individual scale. The people that once lived there no longer exist, they have new identities, families, new souls.” 

He gave a short, sharp laugh. “So in a way I killed an entire planet without a single person dying.”

He looked at the barrier and contemplated the world beyond it. “And I could do it again, here. I could refine it, mold the formula to accommodate the Prime Worldspike and rewrite this planet’s history. We could start over, without the guilds, without the interlopers, without the godhood they have ascribed to you.    We could remember what it’s like to be people, not arbiters of the world. We could be unknown, free to work in the labs without the distractions of running a planet. No one would know, no one could tell that anything had ever been different. We would lose everything, but...”

The was no smile on the Stranger’s face, not so much as a grin. His countenance was solemn and his eye was darker than the void.

“We could start this experiment anew.”

@Voidus

[Silva]

5 hours ago, I think I am here. said:

He looked to Azael. “Where exactly is this teleportarium?”

"I can show them to it to save you some time," Light said, speaking up. She'd started listening silently to the entire conversation after Pietr's comment about the world looking like it was ending. "Unless anyone has an issue with that."

Walking the Ghostbloods and the Stormbreaker fellow wasn't a particularly interesting sounding thing , but it would be nice to do something after a year of being out of most events directly.

@Grey Knight

---

Pry's phone buzzed. She looked down and spotted an alert from TUBA. Across the room she noted Tino doing the same thing.

"Is yellow bad?" she asked him.

"Yeah," he said. "Didn't you know you were still on their emergency system list."

"Me neither. Guess they never took me off," she said.

"Well, we'd better head down. There's a tunnel entrance in the building," Tino said.

Freedom looked over to them from where she sat at the window. "Why can't we help?"

"What do you mean?" Tino asked.

"We're here," she said. "We know how to fight. So why don't we?"

"Because you are young and you shouldn't go throw your life away," Pry told her.

"What use is it to live a life while watching others suffer?" Freedom said. She shifted to a few years over. Lusk was right - extrapolation did change how you thought.

"Freedom, you're thirteen," Juon said, finally speaking. "You are young. You are rare. You are needed. If everyone took risks when they were young we wouldn't-"

"We wouldn't what? We wouldn't exist?!" she said. "No. We wouldn't exist if no one did anything. We can't all just sit back and let others do things for us. Especially since we're Invested. I get it, you don't want me to die, but at the end of the day, I'm less fragile than you'd think."

Pry shared a look with Tino and Juon. "Look," Pry said. "Mejin started doing stuff at fourteen as did I. The fact you're here is already progress enough. Don't push your luck too much or I'll see about sending you to the Invisible Reason."

Freedom sighed then shrugged. "Fine." She paused. "But I want updates as to what's happening up here."

And next time, she thought. I'll be there in person.

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Eiran returned to back below ground after escorting a group of bedraggled citizens off the street. The fog's bloodlust had made it difficult to stay on task while up there. If it hadn't been for the presence of his weakness, it might have been near impossible.

He let out a breath as he watched a family reunite. A warm feeling filled him then quickly disappeared again. There were many more up there that still needed help. He readied himself to organize the next surfacing.

This time he'd avoid the mist. It was too risky to go in it again. Even he'd had trouble with it. Eiran looked at a nearby map depicting the city and the spread of the fog. It was mostly centered around the PlasmaCore building, though a little off. So what he'd seen had been right.

A vision of two women walking on a street floated to the top of his mind. He strained his eyes and caught sight of a street sign. On the map it was pretty much on the edge of the fog. A pretty much perfect spot to evacuate. Close to danger, but not too close. 

He'd go there with a group next. Hopefully it wouldn't be a mistake.

[Vargo Seldon]

23 hours ago, Darth Woodrack said:

The Rocket he was strapped to hit the station, and The Tattered one jumped off it, before it was sucked out into space and the wall was sealed shut. He looked around for someone to kill.

 @Any body who wants to fight this guy, who would plausibly be there. Please?  

Silva landed next to Darkness, and shot off the head of the decrepit corpse that was about to hit him with a spine whip. 

"How goes it?" She yelled towards him as he decapitated the frying pan person.

@Vargo Seldon @Clyde Froggins

Darkness turned, throwing a knife into the throat of another one as he went.  "Not well, there are far too many here.  And this flood is happening all over the city.  It will be a massacre.  We need to take the head of the snake."  He pointed towards the dark figure of Plasmacore.  He looked back and saw Mike, in wolf form.  He ran back, channeling quite a bit of energy.  He was running out fast.  

"Mike!  What's the plan?"  

@Sorana

6 hours ago, I think I am here. said:

“The ‘Ghostblood plan’ is how the ‘Allies’ plan’. We can’t do this on our own, unfortunately, but to answer your question, the plan...” the shields flickered and Lusk turned on the spot, looking at the live feed of AlleyCity.

“Play the last five seconds of the feed back to me,” he told someone and there it was, a flicker in shield, a weakness. PlasamCore. They must have been rushing, maybe they were worried, but either way, they were making mistakes.

“New plan,” Lusk said to Stormbreaker, and then turned to address the ship. “New plan! The shield flickers! I want every analyst to find out why it flickers and to see if we can prolong it! We might not even have to waste resources and bodies going through the roof, if we time this right, we could barge straight through the front door.

He turned to look at Stormbreaker. “You’re squadron will be useful in this, however, they will not be alone. We’ll be sending forces from each of the allied guilds. Infiltration units.” He grimaced as he looked down at the feed. No sign of the Guns n’ Roses, they were recorded down as being good at reconnaissance.

*^*

Wes was stomping on ants when something large hit him by force and he was toppled out of the red haze, his emotions turning to normal as he stared down what had tackled him.

It was a wolf-man, a real werewolf looking back at him. “Oh, hi sir,” Wes said, hesitantly pushing his glasses up. He smiled slightly, and then more, it was so great to see Mike again.

“I killed lots of ants,” he suddenly said, wide eyed. “And Lusk messaged us, to unite with the other troops or something. Didn’t you say you had to meet a girl?”

Stormbreaker furrowed his brow.  "The Guns n' Ninjas?  Isn't Darkness on that team?  I can tell you from experience that Darkness has loyalty problems.  He's a very good fighter.  Just not a team player.  Are you sure that we can trust them to get the job done?"

@I think I am here.

[Darth Woodrack]

"I would advise that we regroup with whatever force need us the most!" Silva yelled, as she shot a pair of monsters with her laspistol.

@Vargo Seldon @Sorana

The Tattered One laughed as he slowly walked through the station, slashing any space marines who got to close, and throwing tiny splinters at the smart ones who stayed out of his htreet feet spike length limit.

  @Anyone who wants to fight this guy who would practically be there. Please? 

Dusk blasted across all radio channels, "Is anyone in need of immediate assistance?! If not, I will continue to help people escape, but if you do, we can help you!"

 @Everyone on this thread. 

Special Incursion squad 016 walked through the city, occasionally helping someone, btu mainly ignoring the monsters. They were here to eliminate high value targets, nto get themselves killed. So, stay hidden, as well as possible, until they came across a leader.

@Ax's Boyfriend

[I think I am here.]

1 hour ago, Vargo Seldon said:

Stormbreaker furrowed his brow.  "The Guns n' Ninjas?  Isn't Darkness on that team?  I can tell you from experience that Darkness has loyalty problems.  He's a very good fighter.  Just not a team player.  Are you sure that we can trust them to get the job done?"

“I trust in what their description is on the Database,” Lusk said. A Council Member wouldn’t put in good word for a squadron, a squadron of underlings, no less, for no reason.

“If his loyalty proves an issue, have no mistake, he will be dealt with. But until that happens, we need very blade we can get.”

2 hours ago, Silva said:

“I can show them to it to save you some time," Light said, speaking up. She'd started listening silently to the entire conversation after Pietr's comment about the world looking like it was ending. "Unless anyone has an issue with that."

Walking the Ghostbloods and the Stormbreaker fellow wasn't a particularly interesting sounding thing , but it would be nice to do something after a year of being out of most events directly.

Lusk looked to the girl who’d offered to walk them to the teleportatium. Something about her was vaguely familiar, she seemed to have similar features to the Atium Ferring.

“You, girl,” Lusk said. “You wouldn’t happen to have an Atium Ferring twin, would you?”

[I think I am here.]

7 hours ago, Sorana said:

Wolf licked his hand in affection and then moved his head to the left and to the right, as if asking where to go.

Mike pushed at Wolf, but only received a groal in reply. Wolf was in charge. At least follow our orders. He begged him silently and felt Procupine cuddle his leg.

“Oh, that tickles a bit,” Wes said, laughing slightly when Wolf licked his hand. He raised his other hand slowly, petted Wolf slightly on the head. Was he supposed to do this to his leader? He didn’t know.

Wolf looked left and right and Wes pointed at a congregation of forces near the roof of the PlasmaCore building, blocked by the shields. “I think we go there, sir.”

[Silva]

6 minutes ago, I think I am here. said:

Lusk looked to the girl who’d offered to walk them to the teleportatium. Something about her was vaguely familiar, she seemed to have similar features to the Atium Ferring.

“You, girl,” Lusk said. “You wouldn’t happen to have an Atium Ferring twin, would you?”

"One of my sister's is an Atium Ferring," she said. There was no way he could be referring to Freedom. Talking with Ghostbloods definitely did not qualify under the list of safe things to do in Alleycity they'd given her. "Why?"

[I think I am here.]

Just now, Silva said:

“One of my sister's is an Atium Ferring," she said. There was no way he could be referring to Freedom. Talking with Ghostbloods definitely did not qualify under the list of safe things to do in Alleycity they'd given her. "Why?"

Aha, so they were related. Unless there happened to be two Atium Ferrings with a similar appearance to this girl, but looking at how long it had taken for Lusk to find another he doubted it.

“How is she?” Lusk said, ignoring the question. “Does she use Atium for combat? Is she better at it?” A part of him was slightly excited to see how his student was doing.

Well, ‘student’. He’d met her in a bar, gave her advice, then gotten into a fight while she passed out, and then they’d went their separate ways.

[Clyde Froggins]

Maxwell, having followed Mike through the streets, was now looking at the shielded PlasmaCore roof, "So, how are we getting up there?" He asked Mike as he lit a cigar, "And if we do, how will we not get murdered by those guards?"

@Sorana

[Silva]

35 minutes ago, I think I am here. said:

Aha, so they were related. Unless there happened to be two Atium Ferrings with a similar appearance to this girl, but looking at how long it had taken for Lusk to find another he doubted it.

“How is she?” Lusk said, ignoring the question. “Does she use Atium for combat? Is she better at it?” A part of him was slightly excited to see how his student was doing.

Well, ‘student’. He’d met her in a bar, gave her advice, then gotten into a fight while she passed out, and then they’d went their separate ways.

Light raised an eyebrow. "Combat? I think you might be thinking of the wrong Atium Ferring." She hadn't seen Freedom in a while, but her PTSD didn't really seem like something that would go away any time soon. "How, exactly, is it that you know Freedom?"

[+Ark1002]

On 5/27/2019 at 5:38 AM, Silva said:

However, there were no Acutes there. The only sign that the six owners of the voices had been there moments before were some childsized fingerprints trailing on the wall, close to the ground.

In front of Crow stood a closed door. Through it, the sound of children frolicking could be heard.

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Really sorry for the late reply!

Crow slashed through the door with her shardblade, rushing into the room.

@Silva

[+Sorana]

6 hours ago, Darth Woodrack said:

"I would advise that we regroup with whatever force need us the most!" Silva yelled, as she shot a pair of monsters with her laspistol.

Zokora saw her shoot some monsters and waited until she turned to try to catch her attention. The more people tried to get through, the better.

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Wes patted hus head and Wolf turned his head to show him the spot right behind his ears. Mike gave Wolf a desperate shove, when both Maxwell and Darkness and Wes tried to talk to him. He pushed him away, tried to get his body back.

Panting Mike kneeled on the ground and then got to his feet.

"We need to meet our forces."

He looked to the roof Wes had mentioned.

"Let's move to the roof, see if they have orders for us. Something is going on."

It wasn't far, they should be able to get there in no time.

"What happened?"

He asked Wes and Darkness.

"Could you give me a quick update?"

@Vargo Seldon

@I think I am here.

@Clyde Froggins

[Nohadon]

Silphio flew hard and arrived at his canton in minutes. His chapter was already assembled. He called over Seymour, head receptionist.

"Get me three ops squads stat." Seymour nodded as Kestraal stepped out of the canton building.

"You need the guard forces too sir?" He asked.

"No need, We need you here to make sure we aren't attacked once we've played our hand"

"Understood." Kestraal withdrew as three operation squads, thirty canton fighters total ran out into the courtyard, fully equipped in their own weapons and armour.

"Listen here everyone, odds are, not all of us are coming back from this, so if you want to bow out, do so now, you won't be punished for deserting this mission. We are the auxillary forces for the allied guild, we are the reinforcements. Canton teams, I want you protecting the chapter's flanks, Crusade, I want you to breach that godsdamned shield of theirs! does anyone want to bow out?"

Silence filled the courtyard. Not a single person moved

"Good. Lets go"

Silphio began to walk out, leading the march towards plasmacore. 

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@Ax's Boyfriend

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Also I have a feeling my last post got buried, update, anyone?

 

[Voidus]

18 hours ago, Fatebreaker said:

The Stranger nodded, remembering that day with crystalline clarity. “It was an unprecedented advance, nothing like it had even been conceived of. But I didn’t think it would exact such a heavy price.”

He walked forward and placed a hand on the Worldspike. “We should have known better, everything has a price. Sacrifice remains a constant, no matter how great our ability or skill. It is one of the first lessons I ever learned, you would have thought I would have remembered it better.”

He turned around and rested against the Worldspike, feeling a sense of fatigue that wasn’t physical. He closed his eye and let out a long breath.

“I did it, Voidus.”

The Stranger grinned wryly as he spoke, “I made a new Worldspike, one that not only rewrites a planet, but the preexisting life on it as well. I refined our formula and narrowed the focus. I was able to rewrite the spirit webs on an entire planetary population. And not a single soul perished. But they were no longer themselves. I changed the geography, which meant I had to change the cultural developments, which led to changes on the individual scale. The people that once lived there no longer exist, they have new identities, families, new souls.” 

He gave a short, sharp laugh. “So in a way I killed an entire planet without a single person dying.”

He looked at the barrier and contemplated the world beyond it. “And I could do it again, here. I could refine it, mold the formula to accommodate the Prime Worldspike and rewrite this planet’s history. We could start over, without the guilds, without the interlopers, without the godhood they have ascribed to you.    We could remember what it’s like to be people, not arbiters of the world. We could be unknown, free to work in the labs without the distractions of running a planet. No one would know, no one could tell that anything had ever been different. We would lose everything, but...”

The was no smile on the Stranger’s face, not so much as a grin. His countenance was solemn and his eye was darker than the void.

“We could start this experiment anew.”

@Voidus

Voidus stared back at the Stranger, locking eyes with him with equal solemnity. He didn't answer immediately, waiting a moment for the weight of the suggestion to hang over both of them. The consequences of what they discussed would affect the entire world and everyone on it.

Is that what I want? He pondered. To remake the world anew?

It was what good scientists did wasn't it? Even when an experiment was a success you had to repeat it to be sure. And if it wasn't a success then you ran multiple trials, altered the variables and tried again. But was the entire world simply an experiment? In a way it certainly was, that had been their original goal after all. But time had let it change and grow. It had surprised him at times, disappointed him at others.

But mostly it imply weighed down on him, an immense responsibility, one that constantly fought for its own destruction even as he sought to preserve it. To most people of the world he was either deified or vilified, sometimes both in equal measure.

But for those few who did not, perhaps it was worth it. This experiment had brought many people flocking towards it from a dozen different worlds, creating a melting pot of culture, information exchange, invention. Could they remake it and still keep that? If they meticulously made things the way they wanted them to be then would the world be able to surprise them any more?

"Our problem has almost never been whether or not we could do something." Voidus replied, his face seemed almost to age as he dropped any facade and allowed his weariness to how in expression and tone. "Our problem has always been whether or not we should do something."

He glanced once more towards the Worldspike, giving a tired and nostalgic smile towards it.

"I've thought about destroying it many times before." He continued. "When I was released and saw how everything had changed. Or when I was trapped here while an army marched on the city. When you left."

He gave a soft sigh, dropping to the ground, leaning his back against the Worldspike and bringing one knee forward to rest his arms on.

"I thought about it many times. But I never did."

Part of it had always simply been his stubborn nature, a refusal to allow it all to fail, to admit that this experiment was flawed. Part out of camaraderie,  he hadn't been the only one to create this after all and so one-sidedly destroying it didn't seem fitting. But there had always been another reason as well, something that had kept him focused on this world, dedicated to this unceasing experiment and his refusal to end it. As far as Voidus was aware it was one of the only secrets that even the Stranger didn't know. 

[Fatebreaker]

The Stranger looked into the eyes of his friend with a gaze that could shatter minds. The world around them seemed to fade for a moment, and time stood still.

There they were, a man and a monster. The Stranger cold and alien, a detached shadow of the man he had once been. Voidus tired but hopeful, an image of the best and worst of humanity. Their limitations, and their capabilities. 

When did I start thinking of humanity as them?

He dropped the lightweaving that he constantly maintained, and his form changed. His spikes were visible now.

All of them.

He was a mosaic of spikes, some large and intimidating, but many of them were needle thin. He looked down at his hands, at the innumerable small spikes running through them, forming an intricate pattern. The weight of them pulled him down with every movement, but he had always remained unbowed, unbroken. This was eons of sacrifice, of loss and triumph. He should feel nothing but pride for his unparalleled triumphs!

But all he felt was cold. Standing in front of his only friend, he felt like he was a galaxy away. Voidus had held on to his humanity, could the Stranger say the same? Had he become exactly that: a stranger to the universe?

"How do you do it?" He whispered softly. "How do you hold on to that which makes you human? I feel the pull of oceans of power, of the song of the stars and the screams of stolen souls. I am stretched and expanded beyond the ken of mortals. I have become the embodiment of the pursuit of Science.  How to you regain that which I once lost? How do you do it, Voidus?"

@Voidus

Edited June 8, 2019 by Fatebreaker

[I think I am here.]

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Edited June 8, 2019 by I think I am here.

[Voidus]

Voidus looked up, a sad smile on his face as he stared back at the Stranger, at the multitude of spikes that were now visible, at the cold eyes, and at the man that lay beneath it all. They'd known each other for a long time, far longer than most people would be able to. They'd forged a new path for the denizens who followed after, conducted countless experiments throughout the years. But throughout it all they rarely talked of how they had changed, or of who they had been to begin with.

When they'd met, both had already been changed by Hemalurgy. It had been a shared interest that inspired their interest in each other, but it also meant that neither of them knew what the other had been before making those changes to themselves. Since then they'd both trodden the same path, they'd both changed so far that most people didn't even consider them human anymore, not physically at least. But for all their similarities, they were still different. The path was the same so was it their origins that had caused them to arrive at different destinations?

Voidus didn't know of the Stranger's ultimate origins, but he could speak to his own at least. If there was any place to talk about it, it would be here after all.

"Family can cause a person to make strange decisions." He replied quietly.

@Fatebreaker

[Grey Knight]

10 hours ago, Nohadon said:

Also I have a feeling my last post got buried, update, anyone?

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The world seems to be ending. Mist covers the city, driving people mad with bloodlust. Void-spren run rampant through the streets. There are literal dragons flying around, burning everything down.

It's not over yet, though. The Ghostbloods, Black Crusade, and TUBA are marching on the PlasmaCore building. The building itself is being shielded by an Aonic barrier, which is starting to flicker due to sustained bombardment from the Invincible Reason.

 

[+Ark1002]

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Wrong! The bombardment is actually strengthening it!

The problem is the Vortex within!

 

[Vargo Seldon]

On 6/7/2019 at 3:49 PM, Darth Woodrack said:

"I would advise that we regroup with whatever force need us the most!" Silva yelled, as she shot a pair of monsters with her laspistol.

Darkness nodded, and ran to greet Mike.  "What's the plan Mike?" He asked.

23 hours ago, I think I am here. said:

“I trust in what their description is on the Database,” Lusk said. A Council Member wouldn’t put in good word for a squadron, a squadron of underlings, no less, for no reason.

“If his loyalty proves an issue, have no mistake, he will be dealt with. But until that happens, we need very blade we can get.”

Stormbreaker nodded, "Of course.  So when the shield flickers again, my team will be teleported in?"