“We’re the first Humans to visit this planet in a while, yeah, Elodia?” Octus asked as the group continued their trek through the ruined city.
“As far as… I know… Perhaps… the Dragonlord could tell you… more…” Elodia answered. Her speech was slowly getting more fluid but it still had an odd tone that made it obvious that the Human language didn’t come naturally to he...
2023-07-02 02:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostIlioch and Elodia faced off against each other. The father sneered at his daughter and the daughter stared unblinkingly back at him. Neither of them moved. The tension in the air between them was thick enough to cut.
A familial bond had been broken. Years of resentment boiled beneath the surface but Elodia’s expression remained placid. Years of apathy and disappointment showed clearly o...
2023-06-29 22:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Ya ever think about how our species used to live?” Octus asked, surprisingly contemplative as they walked through the ruined city of old. “What were their lives like without the God-Emperor? Without the Imperium? Was Humanity even united under one banner?”
Octus walked through the ruins with the exploratory party at his back. He’d naturally taken the lead, an incessant, burning...
2023-06-27 23:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Elodia attracted quite a bit of attention as she made her way back through the village. She was quiet, which already wasn’t like her. Her long, elegant ears were drooping in a clear sign of stress and inner conflict. Her steps lacked the smoothness that came naturally to all Aeldari. In all, it was clear to every clan member she passed that something was wrong with one of the flowers of their...
2023-06-26 03:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Mon-keigh…” A smooth, cold, inhuman voice sneered.
Elodia looked past her father, seeing what he saw but not quite understanding where the hatred in his voice was coming from. The Mon-keigh… Humans… looked harmless. Sure, they were a bit more scruffy than her kin… and they were loud… And she could smell them from the tree she was perched in… Especially that one Human male...
2023-06-24 05:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post“3… 2… 1…”
Captain Amelia’s First Officer counted down. The air aboard the bridge of the Immortal Spirit was tense and alive. Octus stood next to the Captain’s Throne. Ashe stood on the other side. Sabine stood at Octus’ back and Lacey stood next to him, clutching his hand tightly. And, of course, Amelia sat in her rightful position on the throne, lord of all she surveyed....
2023-06-21 16:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Ugh, that dummy…” Lacey muttered.
Lady, the only one close enough to hear her, chuckled, “Yeah… You gotta admit he’s getting pretty good though, right?”
They were watching as Octus and Sabine dueled, something that had become a routine aboard the Immortal Spirit. Octus and Sabine had sparred every day except for one during the ship’s month-long journey through the W...
2023-06-21 14:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of grinding gears played within Octus’ mind. He was still trying to process the sight before him, not to mention Sabine’s revelation. She… wanted him to fuck other women. She wanted him to spread his seed. It would have been any other man’s fantasy but it just left Octus feeling confused.
Did Sabine think she wasn’t enough for him? Sure, he had the stamina of an immort...
2023-06-18 17:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Yer tellin’ me I can’t even cough?!” Octus asked in disbelief that bordered on disgust.
“It would be safer if you didn’t,” Diana said, shaking her head sadly. “Some nobles I knew would have taken a single, ill-timed cough as an offense worth dueling over.”
“I must agree with Lady Diana on this, Octus. While I have confidence you will win any duel you are challen...
2023-06-16 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Mmmmm~ Yes, Octus~ Harder~” Sabine moaned.
Octus grunted, “I’m tryin’! Yer armor is Emperor-damned heavy!”
The suggestive mood of the scene broke to reveal Sabine standing to the side, trying to stifle her giggles, as Octus struggled with her power armor. He was currently deadlifting the torso piece of her power armor, and struggling to get it high enough to put onto th...
2023-06-13 03:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, this don’t make a lick of sense,” Octus grumbled.
He was currently leaning over the Navigator charts of the House of Ra. Ashe and Amelia joined Octus in pouring over the charts while Alastor stood ‘guard’ hunched beside the room’s door. Osiris, the young Navigator scion who was one of the two remaining members of House Ra, ‘supervised’ from the head of the table. Or ...
2023-06-12 01:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post
“So what now, Octus?” Ashe asked.
“Hell, I don’t even know where to start,” Octus replied with a snort.
“While we will advise you, the decision is ultimately up to you. You are the one chosen by the Emperor for your holy mission. We will defer to you, Octus.”
“Don’t ya have yer own duties to see to?”
Ashe shook her head, “Yes, but they are irrelevan...
2023-06-10 00:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post
“Yer sure this is fine,” Octus asked.
“It should be acceptable,” Ashe answered. “It is my personal ship in all by name. And we are now… partners? Apologies, I do not know how to name our relationship yet, Octus. Still, you should feel free to requisition it as the first of your fleet. She’s not much but-…”
Octus scoffed, “Not much? Yer kiddin’, right? Sure… i...
2023-06-07 16:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostA flash of brilliant golden light filled the chamber. As it faded, everyone there realized that a demigod now stood among them. A gold-clad ‘man’ now stood between Octus and the Inquisitor, towering over all. A decorative plume as red as blood fluttered atop the behemoth’s helmet. Glittering golden armor still glowed with the Emperor’s light. By his side, the demigod carried a great Gua...
2023-06-06 05:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post“And finally… this is Octus Humblestock,” Sabine said, wrapping up her introductions of everyone accompanying her to her superiors. “A fine and upstanding Guardsman. I have never met anyone like him. When we were stranded apart from the regiment together, he did everything in his power to ensure the survival and success of both of us. Even to the point of overcoming death…”
...
2023-06-04 02:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostAshe Bellatrix considered herself a woman of action. She had to be to succeed as one of His vaunted and venerable Inquisitors. But that did not mean she acted without thinking. Nor did it mean her first choice was to resort to Exterminatus like… some of her Puritanical colleagues.
No… though decisive when she needed to be, Ashe Bellatrix was also a woman with a modicum of subtlety and...
2023-06-03 00:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostViolet was completely in her element. She’d never been able to go all out like this before. No longer was there the worry of exposing herself to the world and getting taken away by some representative of the greater Imperium. Worries like those were for people who survived.
She also didn’t have to worry about losing herself to Chaos anymore. Thanks to Octus and events she still didn...
2023-05-31 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Please take care of me, Octus Humblestock.”
Octus’ mind stuttered. He gaped at the Sister of Battle below him who had just declared her heart was his. Her declaration was just so simple, so direct, and so sincere. Octus wasn’t very smart about these kinda things but he was sure most relationships didn’t start like this. But on the other hand… It was just so… so Sabine that ...
2023-05-30 02:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe effect of the statue’s perverse transformation was immediate and pronounced. Its stone skin cracked and fell away, revealing a crimson hide underneath. Its now-eternally screaming face broke away like a poorly-fitted mask. Great, curved horns grew out of the side of its head. The broken halo around the statue’s neck turned into a wreath of Warpfire.
The… thing that repl...
2023-05-27 23:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Right! I’ve got a plan,” Sona said exuberantly once she managed to stop sobbing and compose herself.
“When did ya come up with a plan?” Octus asked, obviously amused.
Sona blushed, “When I was crying… Well, half of it was one of my backup plans to spice things up. I just adjusted it now that you’re with me.”
“One of yer backup plans was to ruin the ritual?...
2023-05-25 00:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostSabine Hallow stood in the middle of a scene of bloodshed and destruction. Her chest heaved with each panting breath. Her head hung back limply, eyes staring up at nothing. Hundreds of heretics and traitors lay around her, dead and dying.
And yet, despite all the death and all the good she’d just done in the Emperor’s name, Sabine felt nothing. All her anger had been vented. She was l...
2023-05-22 16:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Y’all should tell Sabine soon though. I don’t like keeping secrets from her,” Octus said.
After Violet woke, Diana spent a good couple of minutes babying and worrying over her. Octus had transferred her to Diana’s arms and the much taller woman was still holding Violet to her chest. Octus had let Diana get it out of her system — especially because Violet seemed to enjoy the a...
2023-05-20 17:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostOctus wasn’t really sure what to make of the heatsink. Sure, it was bigger than any other single piece of metal he’d ever seen and the folds and branches of it made it look impressive. But it just looked like a big fancy hunk of metal to him. They were fighting to defend this thing… and Octus just didn’t really get it.
Sabine had tried to explain it to him. She told him how it dre...
2023-05-18 02:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostOctus was the first to wake the next morning. Dreary eyes slowly blinked open to the back of a short bob of pure white hair. His mind puzzled over the sight for a couple of seconds. He recognized the hair as Sabine’s but his sleep-addled mind was struggling to put two and two together. As much as he tried, he couldn’t figure out how he’d come to wake up like this.
He quickly decided...
2023-05-17 00:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostEvery eye in the amphitheater was locked on Sabine. Smoke still rose from the muzzle of her bolter. Before anyone could’ve reacted, the mystery Sister had killed the innocent-looking Jimmy Space. And then the audience watched as Jimmy’s body twisted and morphed after his death into some wrong and revolting Xenos creature.
None of them knew what they were getting into...
2023-05-15 03:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Miko put out the word about the meeting rather quickly. She led Sabine through winding streets and passages within the labyrinth that was Zion. Sabine had long since lost track of where they were by the time they reached their destination. She figured she could trace their steps backward but this city messed with her sense of spatial awareness. At one point, Sabine could’ve sworn they were up...
2023-05-12 22:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostOctus stood on his miraculously healed leg, testing it with his weight. He gave it a few little hops and seemed satisfied with what he felt. He turned to Sabine with a goofy, lopsided smile on his face. Seeing that Octus could move, Miko began to walk in a seemingly random direction, indicating for them to follow her. Sabine and Octus did, taking up position next to the bunny girl while the res...
2023-05-11 17:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Sona Roxxy was a… complicated woman. Her life had not been a particularly hard one, nor had it been particularly easy. It just kind of… was…
She just existed, drifting from one day to the next in a sort of fugue that never allowed her true personality to show. Everything around her and about her was normal compared to what one would expect from an average Imperial citizen in the 41s...
2023-05-10 17:36:24 +0000 UTC View PostSabine sat there for a while, simply waiting for Octus to wake up. After she had settled her resolve, she spent most of that time watching Octus. Her hand stroked gently through his hair. She burned his features into her mind. She resisted the urge to strip him out of his Guard uniform in case they had to move fast but it was a close thing.
Having Octus so close to her and so defenseless ...
2023-05-09 00:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostWorry pounded in Sabine’s chest. It fueled her in her desperate search for her Guardsman, her Octus. He was lost to her at the moment, which was entirely unacceptable for the Sister of Battle. She needed to be right by his side, to keep him safe, to make sure none of these traitors laid a finger on what was hers.
The longer Sabine searched, t...
2023-05-07 17:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post