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A bit of duralumin with her bronze told Marie that there were Allomancers here - emotional ones, all the worse. Of course Harmony would send her to work with emotional Allomancers; extra ropes to tie her down with. Scowling, she walked up to the bar and snapped a boxing onto it. "Water." She kept her head carefully angled away, not showing her face. @Ookla the Stick

Welcome to the Shard! The cosmere really is awesome, I agree.

This is actually going to happen around the next site update, though some reactions will add to your rep count. Honestly, I agree that it can be taken too far. People don't need to try to get popular; we should just be friends with one another imo. But that's only my opinion.

It wasn't uncommon to see a Coinshot or Lurcher traveling, and people looked over but didn't blink as Marie plunged from the sky, a large hood drawn up over her head to conceal her eyespikes. She strode into the tavern, flaring bronze, searching for the associates who had somehow caught Harmony's interest. @Ookla the Stick

Marie had tried to argue with him at first, but there wasn't much arguing you could do against a force of the world when it could do literally whatever it liked with you, and so she went. (She refused to think of him as a Him, a god. That was what Ati had been. This was a thief of his glory.) It was her own will that burned steel and Pushed herself forward, but it might as well have been his; if she'd turned around and gone a different way, he would have stopped her, and asserted his consciousness over hers, and told the little blue lines to take her where he wanted her to go. Her body might be her own for the moment, but nearly all of his attention was on her, and any stepping out of line would be punished. Oh, he wouldn't torture her; he was too passive for such an act of Ruin. But she wouldn't be allowed to move on her own, and there were...other creativities he'd politely threatened. Marie gritted her teeth; it was like having a knife to her neck. The simile was a pleasant diversion for a few seconds: she pictured the obsidian edge slipping, biting into skin and opening the way for lovely redness to come spilling out, languorous...but then her thoughts clumsily jumped to watching her surroundings. She hissed softly. Not even her choice of distraction was safe. Such musings are not healthy, Harmony said almost apologetically in the back of her mind. I do not wish to encourage you to hurt yourself or others. That had been his mantra for at least a century now. He had tried to leave her alone at first, gently steering her away from population centers but otherwise letting her come to terms with the shift in world circumstances. Then she slipped under his radar, in those first few years when he was still getting used to holding Shards, and killed someone. He had taken her then, plucked her up like a mother might snatch a child's toy, and - fearing she'd cause more deaths - had not given her autonomy back for...five years? Six? Time passed differently for immortals, and Marie hadn't been in a good place mentally right then. For a while she hadn't been much of anywhere mentally, just drifting, until at last he'd set her free. Even a man with all Harmony's power couldn't be everywhere at once, so at the end of her punishment, he had allowed her to wander once more - with kandra watching her when he couldn't, even decades afterward. Every now and then he would pop through her mind and rifle through her findings, using her as his watchdog. He exuded goodwill each time, but she would not forgive him for it. The scraps of metal she dropped landed with clinks on stone, pats on grass, or the thwap of earth. None of the puffs of ash she knew from her youth. And all these plants were so different. It had been over 300 years; she knew most of their names now. Once she'd set a forest fire, breathing in the sweet smoke before humans put it out. Marie wished she could burn a flower now, but she wasn't going to delay with this urging onward thrumming through her. He was trying to mold her into just another agent of his, a willing tool rather than a captive one. It was...tiring. Often these days, instead of finding small things to wreck and attempting to spite him when he wasn't looking, Marie merely rested from his influence. Took the time to think her own thoughts, to stretch if he'd been guiding her directly. Sitting and shredding grass idly while entertaining fantasies. She knew there was no escape from this except death, and she had considered it more than once; take out the right spike and fall away into oblivion. She was pretty sure he'd let her. But...but. Marie wanted to live. No matter how much hatred and age she built up, she wanted to keep being. You couldn't close your eyes to steelsight, but she breathed deeply and kept Pushing and Pulling her way to the next hill...and the next...and the next...

"So you busted into our house." Cassie rubbed her forehead. "How have you not been arrested yet. Okay, well, hang on." She Transported herself to the Cognitive Realm, taking their hands, and brought the others back into the house.

Ohhhhhhhh Good one.

Do I need to have seen the movie?

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Just a side note to anyone reading now, you can absolutely still join and everyone who's asked has been added to the PM.

I can't see it

As someone who was The RP Person a year or so ago, can confirm that they're good for getting people to know you but bad for rep. Also, I don't always follow someone based on wanting to see more of their content. Sometimes I want to see more, but don't want the notifications.

Holy heck, the yay has existed in its current form for that long? @MacThorstenson your creation is as immortal as you are

"Okay," she said cautiously. He was something other than a Radiant, apparently. "And why did you..." She waved at the door vaguely.

"YOU'RE WELCOME," she yelled back, yeeting something to the balcony across from her.

Bridge Four poster! Plus a ton of gift cards and stuff.

Ene informed him that there actually weren't any, she was just considering naming some in the future.

Hen, you could talk about Christmas stuff, since you organized part of it? Idk

Taking a deep breath, she summoned hers, letting it fall lightly onto her in a matter of seconds. She left the helmet off. "It's this."

Welcome to the Shard! Lol, I haven't played Undertale but I can see it. Which Hoid sighting is your favorite? Also, we prefer that you don't post multiple times in a row unless it's been a long time, to keep pages less cluttered/spammy. Don't worry about it since you're new, I've merged your posts, just something to keep in mind for the future; you can edit instead. I'd say we live on a planet with this Shard