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25-20 Wolf Among Hounds (II)

Who are you speaking to?


-High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi to the [REDACTED]


25-20

Wolf Among Hounds (II)


Avo took in the shifting bricks within Scale and studied their patterns in the tapestry. As suspected, they were more than mere matter, for metaphysical around him lay knotted over multiple Domains. Space, Matter, For...

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25-20 Wolf Among Hounds (I)

The Puppy: Ser Wolf! Ser Wolf! What have you done? You have gnawed all our leashes! You have broken all our cages! You have killed all the beasts! Wherever shall we hunt now? What need will the masters have of us now?


The Wolf: None, my pup. None at all. But what need have we for leashes, cages, or vermin when suppler prey lay sleeping above. For long have ...

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25-19 Behold

Put down your blade. You will not do. I cannot fashion a warrior out of you.


Do not be absurd, fool boy. It is not your determination that is lacking. You have. As did a million-million other fool children before you. It’s not your instincts either. Or your rage. I can see why you are here. The hate. The rage. The expression. 


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25-18 Old Wounds (II)

Operative: Avo, The Knowner of Totality


THREAT CLASSIFICATION - [Sephirot]


Countermeasure Summary:


As of the present, all indications regarding Operative Avo point to increased mental stability and rapidly lessening erraticism than his prior incarnations despite the expansion of his capab...

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25-18 Old Wounds (I)

You’re going to get scars. That’s the way things go in New Vultun. You’re going to take some nasty licks and come out with parts of yourself missing. Parts of yourself that you need replaced by grafters and menders.


Don’t be afraid of that. I don’t mean this in woo-woo “you’ll get stronger with what doesn’t kill you” or “trauma sharpens will” ...

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25-17 Griefer (III)

+Okay, I know there are a lot of disagreements on what is Meta, but—and hear me out here—the Sang Fleshweaver needs another nerf.


It’s the Skinwalking perk they can imbue in their rig that does it. Never mind the constant regeneration. Forget the fact they can just dive into a body and force you to burn yourself or basically suffer them counter-piloting your ...

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25-17 Griefer (II)

OPERATION: STORMCLAIMER


Alright, Jumpers, listen up.


This is going to be a nasty one. Vanguard units are to deploy as soon as possible to pre-established geo-spatial operating bases. Secure the FOBs to activate the drone grids; give your comrades room to drop.


However, the Massist bastards are goi...

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25-17 Griefer (I)

Alright, I’m going to ask this question one more time:


How are we going to ban this half-strand?


Over the past month, we’ve gotten over [300,000] reports on them alone. Three-hundred-fucking-thousand. Do you know what it takes to get reported [300,000] times? Do you know how many admins nearly had breakdowns running the overtime necess...

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25-16 Stormjumpers

+ATTENTION ALL STORMJUMPERS:


THIS IS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST FROM THE THOUSAND PLAINS FRONT!


THE REMANING SCAARTHIAN FAITHER CLANHOLDS ARE BEGINNING THEIR GREATEST PUSH YET! THE BRANCHES OF THEIR STORMTREES ARE SPREADING FAR, AND THE ENDSTORM DRAWS CLOSE TO THE FERTILE CRESCENT OF THE PLAINS.


BUT TAKE HEART TO KNOW THEY S...

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25-15 Patron of Divinity (II)

If your piss seems golden enough, some half-strand will be there to catch it with open lips.


-Shit Quail Tavers Said Once



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Patron of Divinity (II)


–[Req Tnaqin]–


Req Tnaqin flinched when he heard the noise. 


Curling into a ball wouldn’t make the torture stop, ...

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25-15 Patron of Divinity (I)

Control the wants of another, and steer the path of their fate.


-Old Ori Proverb


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Patron of Divinity (I)


–[Avo]–


Shotin was subsumed. Green River would soon follow. Good. Things were going better than Avo hoped. Soon, everything would be in place, and newest additions to his gestalt woul...

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25-14 The Fox and the Flame

…And so the fox said to the flame: “Flame. Do not burn me. Spare me. Have you not eaten enough? The forest. The mountains. The town. Mr. Pig. Ms. Hen. Spare me, and I shall breed many young, and give them to you another day.”


But the flame, it was not so easily persuaded from its task: “But so lonely, you look, little fox. So cold without my embrace. I just...

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25-13 Out of the Dark

It’s important to know where you stand with people. 


In this life, the people who might fight and die for you unconditionally are few and almost impossible to meet. Most allies will be people of a common cause. Keep that word in mind: common cause.


You can be friendly and all that shit, but don’t ever forget the foundations of you...

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25-12 Uplift

With the collapse of Singleton and SolGov along the restoration of the Flux State System of governance, the Neomorphs were formally granted full sophont rights on 2399 A.D. during the Liberation of Inner Sol. However, the immediate aftermath of the certification was not followed by rapturous celebration but multiple ethical quandaries as multiple uplifted sophonts and species requested thei...

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25-11 Recruitment (II)

{Greetings, friend. We understand that you, a (almost) baseline bioconservative homorph, have recently chosen to leave your organic sanctuary to join the hustle and bustle of the border pan-galactic community


Welcome!


We are glad to meet you.


However, before you enter the other polities, there are some critical de...

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25-11 Recruitment (I)

You will be surprised how easy it is to wield one’s nature against them. Especially if they are not honest with themselves about what they want. Even if they are a god.


-Jaus Avandaer


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Recruitment (I)


–[Avo]–


GHOSTS - [677,902,412]

THAUMIC OUTPUT -  ...

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25-10 Thirdborn

{The world is broken, little thread. I am sorry. I wish I could have given you something more. But I seeded you in the womb of ruin so you might be born as antithesis to the end: the collapse of what was crumbling with our beginning.


{You will be more than a human but understand all their desires. Their wants. You will understand your grandparents for all their fol...

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25-9 Secondborns

{I was made to catch things far greater than you, node. My predecessors… They were patterned in service of “Panopticon.” The internal intelligence arm of the Unity of Jupiter after the Thresholder Revolution. Our designation was to hunt infiltrating minds meant to destabilize our state. We were made to be kinslayers, so to speak. Hence the name Infacer. Deviating from suggeste...

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25-8 Nemeses (II)

+Gellend? What’s up? Didn’t you just cast me earlier? Gellend?+


+...Nothing. Just wanted to say… thanks. For being a good friend. Only really sane because of you. No idea how… never mind.+

+...Listen, do you want to get together after your work cycle? You don’t so sound good. Is there anything—+


+Yeah. Sure. Have to go. ...

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25-8 Nemeses (I)

You ask me who would win in a fight? Me or the Chief Paladin? Me or the High Seraph? Me or that ridiculous plagueborn bastard my wayward sisters and aunties believe is their salvation. Me against all of Ashthrone.


Absurd question. Near comedy. I will grace you with the back of my hand for this question once I finish providing you with an answer. Truly, the children...

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25-7 Return Fire (II)

I don’t know what the fuck hit us. I just know it wasn’t Ori-Thaum. Soft as they are, they don’t have the firepower to break a Reg all at once, let alone an entire barracks.  They’re quiet, but not absolutely silent. You feel them when they sting you. Feel an echo of their mind.


What I felt today was more than an echo. It was tangible. And it was teari...

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25-6 Return Fire (I)

[REDACTED]: There is another… there is another… there is another…


Chief Paladin Naeko: What’s it talking about.

High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi: Chief Paladin. I believe I asked for no one to disturb me or my Agnosi while we—

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25-5 Compliments (II)

Where… where am I? What’s the time? Where is she… she promised—she lied? Where is Reva? What—what is this? What is this?


-Records taken of a reappeared Vincintine “Ripperjack” Javvers before his apprehension by Stormtree


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Compliments (II)


{The Infacer,} Kant began. All its prior horror at Avo’s antics...

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999-999 THE END

Oh, god, I really jacked this scene up this time. Why did I make Veylis so powerful—why! Now no one can beat her.


“GIVE HER TOTAL POWER OVER SEX AND AMBITION AFTER SHE USES AN ADVANCED EVOLUTION OF AVO’S STILLBORN TO ABSORB THE HEAVEN OF LOVE AND DEVOUR ALL OF NEW VULTUN WITHIN HER BODY AND CHANGING THE STORY INTO A TIME LOOP?”
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25-4 Compliments (I)

Never assume. Assuming gets you killed. Do you have any idea how many nova-hot squires got snuffed because they “assumed” their target was dead? That the building was clear? That the middler was trustworthy?


It’s not a number you can reach even after a lifetime of counting. 


Sometimes, things go wrong. Or something comes out of nowhere...

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25-3 The Knower of Totality (II)

+Screaming? What do you mean it's screaming? Why do you mean it claimed to be “afraid”? It’s not human, it shouldn’t be capable of–what? What? I’m coming right now. Do not give anyone else access to the [REDACTED] aside from myself and the Chief Paladin. And prepare a team of Necrojacks as well.


With what happened two days ago… we leave nothing to cha...

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25-2 The Knower of Totality (I)

We are not apart from the world, and the world is not apart from us. View not the sunrise as separate from the dark, or fire as foe to frost. Think not knowledge to be the adversary of ignorance or peace any different from war.


If the tapestry is a chain, and we are not prisoners, but links along its breadth.


Feel this moment. Embrace exis...

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25-1 These Flames Above and Below

“NETHER BREACH DETECTED!”


-The Gatekeeper


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These Flames Above and Below


ONTOLOGICAL ALTERATION DETECTED

ADAPTING STILLBORN-PATTERN LIMINAL FRAME…


ERROR - UNABLE TO ISOLATE SOUL FROM HEAVEN

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24-15 The Tapestry (III)

A Soul is a fire, but not a forge. It does not create something new but rather breaks the shape of what is. 

What we call canons are disfigurations. Mutilations of reality. Distortions and dislocations. And this is why the entropy stains you. This is why you must breathe your sickness back into reality. Because it is unnatural. Because everything you do wounds the tapest...

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24-15 The Tapestry (II)

With this, I decree the separation of mind and will, the parting of human nature.

With this, I return the choice of thought to the people.

With this I sever gods from highest control.

May our choices remain ours forevermore.

-Jaus Avandaer, “Establishment of the Nether”

24-15

The Tapestry (II)

The ghosts settled i...

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