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Meggy: You actually make a good argument.
Bob: I do some of my best work when I bullshit.
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Nimbus: Do you have an idea of who Lady Gaga is?
Queen Melody: Presumably the wife of Lord Gaga.
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Saiko: I’m a little low on cash.
Tari: How much do you have?
Saiko: Nothing.
Bob: How can you walk around with no money?
Saiko: I’m hot, I get by.
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Ping: I need somewhere to sit.
Umbra: *gestures to a chair*
Ping: *throws the chair out the window*
Umbra: *sighs, pointing to his lap*
Ping: Aww, thank you, Umbra! You’re so sweet!
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Mandy: I wanted to tell you a joke, but I only remember the punchline.
Juliano: Go ahead.
Mandy: Tooth hurty.
Juliano: When is the best time to go to the dentist.
Mandy: You should have been a clown.
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Cody: And that concludes our presentation! LC, you’re up!
Lil Coding: Alright, it's time to see if you little shits were listening.
*kahoot music begins to play*
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STH!Root: I fear no one.
Mrs. Mallory: Root, guess what? There are Beyonders here!
STH!Root, abruptly fleeing the room: I WAS NEVER HERE!!
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SMG4: Ugh, I can’t even SPEAK the name of the woman who organized that monstrosity of a PTA meeting!
SMG3: I don’t give a fuck. Her name was Susan.
SMG4: FUCKING SUSAN!
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Cody, to LC&Lily: Wow, if your dads could see you right now they’d have a heart attack.
Bowser Jr: Good idea! I’ll take a picture!
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Irene: Tulip! I think you set the oven too high!
Tulip: I'm the master of baking! Watch!
*Irene shrieks and runs away as Tulip pulls down the oven door, which spews out flames directly at her.*
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Juliano: You’ve been stalking me??
The Abyss: You call it stalking, I call it "lovingly lurking in the shadows".
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Chester: How are you still alive??
Aite: Honestly I’m just as confused as you are.
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Mario: I am not party rocking, and I am not in the house tonight.
Luigi: but are you shuffling?
Mario: ..
Mario: Every day.
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Meggy: What are you doing?
Mario: I’m holding my breath to see if I could last as long underwater as the characters in the movie.
Meggy: ..why are you watching Finding Nemo??
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duckapus · 7 months ago
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IDIOTS...IN...SPAAAAAAACE!!!!!
All systems are go, and the Meme Alliance + Allies are on their way to storm the Connected Cosmos Company Servers.
Thing is, it's gonna take a few hours for everybody to get in position, and every single Avatar, Anchor, and whatever-Ben-counts-as (besides the four they're traveling to save, of course) are in the same ship together. Doesn't matter how serious the situation is, that's a recipe for chaos if I've ever seen one.
Meanwhile, Nimbus is dealing with an attack on one of her rebel outposts by Lumiere, who's still trying to make her his despite everything about this situation... or perhaps because of it. After all, her entire support network is either missing or possessed, so theoretically she'd be more vulnerable to his advances than ever.
Theoretically.
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det2x-fanfic-dump · 3 months ago
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BEELZEBUB'S POWERS AND ABILITIES
AVATAR OF GLUTTONY
Disclaimer; This is only my Obey Me Headcanon and be used as reference for my fanfiction.
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Beel relies more on his physical strength rather than his magic affinity. The only time he would use his magic is if food is involved. Being the sixth brother, he is more of an influencing demon for humans to fall to sin than a demon who grants wishes. In short, he’s the one to tempt humans first then have other demons tempt them deeper.
LEVEL 01 Abilities: These are passive abilities that demons can do easily that affects human lifestyle.
Manipulating one’s senses:
Beelzebub can change a human’s senses such taste, smell and vision to satisfy one’s physical desires such as giving them hallucinations of having daily necessities such as food and better living lifestyle.
Temptation of craving desires:
Gluttony isn’t about hunger for food but also the crave for anything in general. Although Mammon can’t make people greedy or have Asmodeus make them fall to lust, Amongst the brothers except for Lucifer, only Beelzebub have the power to tempt humans to crave for desires. 
High senses and inhuman strength:
Beel can devour any kinds of food and objects. His mouth is similar to a vacuum cleaner. [This is inclined to his wind magic affinity.] Beel has inhuman strength. Beelzebub is a demon that will answer your desire of power in a physical strength.
LEVEL 02 Abilities: These are abilities passive abilities that demons can do that is inclined to magic. It may require someone's magical energy.
Summoning Magic
A Giant flying Burger: As stupid as it sounds, This is Beel’s offer for transportation in case you don’t want to borrow his wings.
Earth and Wind Magic: Beel can control earth and wind magic such as summoning earth golems and be a living vacuum cleaner. He can also control wind direction but he can't set up natural calamities like Satan.  
Level 03: These abilities require a lot of magical energy, has to rely on a human's magic and their life. Highly dangerous as this may affect their sanity.
Note: Beel is the 6th born amongst the seven so he doesn’t have life-taking abilities because Mammon and Asmo will fill that gap for him.
 Insect Body Parts: Beel can sprout an insect’s body part on him such as having insect wings or spider legs or shoot spider webs and the likes.  (Note: This requires big amount of magical energy)
Insect Summoning: As the Lord of the flies, Beel can summon and speak to flies and other insects to do your bidding. Even though it’s gross.
GIFTS THAT BEEL CAN GIVE TO MORTALS AS A DEMON:
To attain a human’s Physical Desires. Beel will give you the motivational boost to attain one’s physical desires like food, sexual desires and comfort.
Inhumane Strength. The ability to execute offensive physical attacks such as punches and kicks and the ability to be a living vacuum cleaner but after that, you will be extremely hungry.
Summoning Golems and Insects. Earth golems and insects will follow your command if one desires.
To ride a Giant Flying Burger. You will ride it like the flying Nimbus from Dragon Ball/j
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acronym-chaos · 8 months ago
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The Vast Inspired ID Pack
[PT: The Vast Inspired ID Pack].
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[ID: A purple thin line divider shaded at the bottom. End ID].
Names
[PT: Names].
Aella, Aether, Altair, Altan, Arcus, Argo, Atmos, Aurel, Aurelia, Borealis, Celes, Cirrus, Clio, Cosmo, Dorian, Drift, Eira, Eos, Ether, Gale, Galen, Horizon, Icarus, Ilma, Ion, Janus, Kael, Kepler, Lorelai, Lumen, Lyra, Maia, Miren, Nebula, Nimbus, Nova, Nyx, Orion, Phaedra, Polaris, Pyxis, Quillan, Selene, Skye, Solara, Solaris, Stellar, Stratos, Tempus, Thalassa, Ursa, Ventus, Zephira, Zephyr
Pronouns
[PT: Pronouns].
Ae / Air / Airs, Aby / Abys / Abyss, Astra / Astral / Astrals, Bound / Boundless / Bounds, Clo / Clou / Cloud, Drift / Drifts / Drifts, Echo / Echos / Echos, End / Endless / End, Flo / Float / Floats, Hi / High / Highs, Horizon / Horizons / Horizons, Sy / Sky / Skies, Soar / Soars / Soars, Sta / Ar / Star, Va / Vas / Vast, Wi / Wind / Winds, Vo / Voi / Void
Titles
[PT: Titles].
A Gaze Into Infinity, A Soul Bound to the Sky, An Entity Lost in the Clouds, Avatar of the Vast, Sky-Touched Being, The Boundless Wanderer, The Echo in the Void, The Endless Fall, The One Who Floats Through Space, The Skyward Gazer, The Unfathomable Depth, [Pronoun] Who Soars Above the Clouds, [Pronoun] Who Commands the Sky, [Pronoun] Who Drifts Through the Abyss, [Pronoun] Who Seeks No Horizon
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[ID: A purple thin line divider shaded at the bottom, end ID]
Requested by anon!
Also tagging: @id-pack-archive
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cloudofthecats · 3 months ago
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You know what. Screw it
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Nimbus.
He’s an avatar of The Dark, and he’s marked by The Lonely
His name is based off of a nimbus cloud, which is a dark, rain-bearing cloud, which honestly fits his vibe
He burns books with Gerry Keay
He’s basically a cloud in a skin suit
He feeds The Dark by searching out people who are scared of thunderstorms and being near them during a thunderstorm
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boys-will-dismember-boys · 1 year ago
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First post 😘☺️
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Hiiii, welcome to @boys-will-dismember-boys. I’m Sable!
My url is a reference to Mystery Team Inc. and my title is from Quantum Leap. "·}" is a cyclops smiley face and my emojis are for my boyfriend 🥞♥️. My pfp is my baby dino Theo (Theodora) of the twins Nimbus (elephant) and Theo ·} (and also some pretty beautiful leaves that I found for the header #nature is beautiful).
queer and trans and gay
autistic
cute and awesome
doll, crochet, and Redwall enthusiast
General warning for nsfw (global evils) content! I’m >18
My tags 🫶🏻:
Talking/myself tag #dragon's ink. (In Storybound, the three elements to write the world are the Silver Quill, the Scroll of Fire, and the Dragon's Ink, so it's like I'm writing this "world" with the Dragon's Ink.)
#dove (wonderful boyfriend whom I love)
#mufaddal (fav tag as of 5/8/24)
#the library
#so true ("me irl")
#Ashley girl
#Orb facts (@renownedpillowbiter)
Table of Contents:
#ag (American Girl, dolls and 18" dolls) (here is the tag for my doll, Ashley!)
#aliens, by which I mean creature and character design
#animorphs
#art
#atlatlok (Avatar)
#autism
#crochet (I am an ardent crochet artist, see my magnum opus here!)
#current events (like my important tag, but less important)
#death note
#deltora (deltoraquest)
#dinos (/paleoart, they're not all dinos)
#doctor who
#dracula
#drawfee
#elephants (my favorite favorite)
#eee! (cute perfect things)
#frankenstein
#furry
#gregor the overlander (I love my children's horror)
(The Haunting of) #hill house
#The Hunger Games
#important (social justice and current events)
#linguistics
#les mis (although I read all the good Les mis posts before I made the blog :()
#merlin, the BBC show
#mlp (My Little Pony)
#mti (Mystery Team Inc and this category of thing)
#nature is beautiful (we live in a beautiful world)
#poetry
#quantum leap
#queer
#redwall (favorite favorite favorite)
#thoughts (reblogging life things mostly?)
#tumblr (this one is like memes I guess)
#whales
#wof (Wings of Fire)
I love you mwah, welcome 😁
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Hello! We've decided to go ahead and make a TMA kin/fictive sideblog since the tag is mostly dead. We also participate in Popculture Paganism, specifically geared towards our source. Here's a list of everyone you'll see and their tags on the blog!
Jonathan Sims - Statement recorder, avatar of the Eye and the Web.
He/him
"See the sun the shadows cast, from all the times I floated past, see the ocean spinning out, with all the hope and all the doubt"
#the archivist
Michael Shelley/ The Distortion - :) I am perfectly safe and harmless these doors are perfectly normal :)
He/they/it/none
"See how I circle, imaginary mind, imaginary lines, let the maze of my design carry you on. See how I fly away (away, away, away, away)"
#the distortion
Gerry Keay- I'm the distortion's special little guy he picks up like a ferret :] Desolation avatar, "The fire that consumes"
He/him
"The crow offers me a smoke. He says, "It'll take you for a joyride.""
#gerry
Melanie King - founder of the Blind Bitches Club
She/hxr/they
"I have nothing to say to you."
#melanie
NotThem - a NotThem that sometimes takes the shape of others. Currently Pamela
All pronouns
"I am the mockery of a memory"
#notthem
Martin - headmate whose fictionkin of a vast avatar Martin.
He/they/sky
"For our bones in the ocean forever will be"
#martin
Pamela - also referred to as Hive, Corruption avatar Chonny Jash fictive.
He/him
"This life did not choose us. It chose to consume us"
#the hive
Flurry - Vast/Lonely avatar Ghostbur fictive with a connection to the archives
He/her
"Cold and winter air and mountain rain combining"
#the frost
Helen Distortion/Richardson - :)
She/her
"Little miss, this isn't the deal we had!' Oh, did I mess it up? Well, then, that's just too bad!"
#helen
Nikola Orsinov - The ringmaster of the Circus!
It/he/they
"She knows you heard her staging music murder!"
#nikola
Sasha - Archivist Sasha who was killed
She/they
NotSasha - The Sasha that replaced her
She/they
Stratus - TMA Heart fictive, avatar of the Lonely
He/it
Nimbus - TMA Mind fictive, avatar of the Dark
He/it
Noctilucent - TMA Soul fictive, avatar of the Buried
He/xem
Joel - Smallishbeans Life series fictive who kins Tim
He/him
Annus - Unus Annus fictive, associated with the End
He/hxm
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soidev · 1 year ago
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Here's Nimbus! An avatar I modeled for this guy last winter!
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speaker-of-the-void-cats · 1 year ago
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II. Theory
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||Read between the lines||
Ikora pinches a thick and vibrant Strand thread from the air and twists it between her fingers with ease. It plies to her influence, but smooths the motions of her hands, tapering her movements to flow in cleaner lines. The Veil tones in rhythm with the plucks of tension rolling across her knuckles. She focuses on the subtle irregularities in each pulse, the patterns they form. There are a small few plucked reverberations that resonate out beyond the walls of this chamber, beyond the detection of her intuition, and out into the cosmos. Those capture her interest most. Behind her, an animated avatar escorts Osiris into the Veil's containment chamber. They gesture him toward Ikora and bid farewell. Osiris watches the ripples play out before him and across the fabric of reality, as a wave, then particles, then a wave again. He feels it brush over him. He steps with the cadence of each pulse sent rippling from Ikora's plucking knuckles, basking in Strand's energizing rhythm. Feeling whole again. "It's stronger… the Veil's signature." Ikora's voice carries a hint of learned suspicion. "Ever since we recovered Titan." "That is to be expected," Osiris retorts, now within the weave of droning Strand surrounding the Veil. The room around them trembles. "When Titan was torn back, the Veil took notice. It seemed to recognize Titan's arrival." Ikora tightens her grip on the Strand thread. "We have the Veil, our Ghosts… what are we missing? If we decipher the connection between Titan and the Veil, that connection might be what we need to follow the Witness." "What of the worm?" Osiris asks skeptically. "Sloane believes she is our best chance." "You taught me the value of a backup plan." Ikora gives him a stern look. "Titan, Savathûn's throne world, every place we've found egregore… I haven't found the exact threads yet but pull one and they all seem to spin back to Neomuna. To the Veil." "You're getting ahead of yourself. Following some of my… less favorable tendencies. Nimbus says we must 'flow' to understand Strand; perhaps it is the same with the Veil." Osiris moves beside Ikora and reaches up, palm parallel to the threads drawn taut from Ikora's braid of Strand. "Sol remembered Titan, in a way. The Veil's signal spiked when Titan returned from memory to reality, when the rhythm of the solar system had been restored to order." Osiris drops his hand and looks to Ikora. "Perhaps we must simply find that rhythm before we are able to interpret the beats within it." "And once we do… then we should be able to reverse that process," she replies. Ikora releases the thread and tracks the rippling points of connection that travel outward, along the fabric-like Strands of existence, to the walls of the containment enclosure. "We're too late in the game for something to mean nothing. It has to connect." Ikora sighs, then turns to Osiris. "Your flare for educating others is returning. Though I bet some would say you never lost it." She smiles. Osiris smirks. "Come, walk with me. We will discuss this unifying theory of yours."
||Trace the vermicular path||
PERSONAL LOG 0002 AS
It is strange to be awake, physically, after so long spent wandering. Keeping a log will help, at the very least to track the days. As will my silly little joke to make myself feel important, two days after the rebeginning of myself. Anno… me. I suppose.
I ignored and abandoned the best person I knew. I feel foolish, empty. Daunted at the immensity and masochism of my own stupidity. It feels childish to admit I'd always assumed she would follow me. I realize how naïve that is, but… I really thought I wouldn't be by myself for long. I thought she was aligned with my vision.
At least I am not alone here. My new ally more than makes up for the Vex's dreadful company. His disposition is calming, reassuring—a welcome voice when I need affirmation and guidance. And such a fascinating origin! Such astounding variance in biology and culture. I look forward to our continued partnership.
But still, it isn't the same.
I feel a grief I did not know possible. There are questions I wish I could ask; jokes I wish I could make. It is difficult not to feel like the world has ended.
And as I begin to comprehend what happened… I think it already has.
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Starfire Protocol
13.4 billion years ago, the first stars kindled out of darkness, seeding the future of all life.
The Protocol is contained in the patterns on the robe that, if scanned at the molecular level, describe a Turing-compatible virtual computer and program that, when executed on said computer, calculates the entire Protocol, exactly as it was determined in the Precipice of Flame. This is of little interest to most Guardians, who can subconsciously "load" the program simply by looking at the pattern. In execution, the Protocol enhances the use of Solar Light to catalyze fusion. It is up to us to remember the deeper truth—that the Precipice showed us the uses of fire, that the highest form of fire is the stellar flame, and that no life would exist, anywhere in the cosmos, without the apocalyptic detonations of supernovae. Those who fear fire have forgotten that it is their true ancestor.
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The Cambrian Explosion
Beings who deserve no thought: Those who peddle the tired gotcha that all life hastens entropy. They are fatuous little nihilists who pretend to prefer no existence to a flawed one. They bore me. Those who seek to delay the challenge that all things desiring existence must overcome. Those who describe false moral equivalence. Now, I could not possibly communicate with you unless I could emulate your mind, and with that mind, I acquire the moralities that govern you. By your laws, I and all my followers are evil. Evil. Since that first molecule coiled in the primordial sea, not one Earthborn thing has known a monster like me. But did you know that I created you? Your mind and your body and every thought you've ever had. Your senses. Your consciousness. I made you. Not the gardener, but I. Did I reach out and place my special mark upon you? No. Nothing so crude. In the beginning, your world was a garden too. The whole floor of the world-sea was a mat of bacteria, and the very first animals, adorable blobs of ooze, grazed upon that mat in endless idyll. They had no concept of the existence of other beings. Why would they? Their most complex function was a kind of gentle spasm, to scoot forward while they grazed. And if they bumped into each other on that warm seabed, all they did was ooze onward, untroubled. There was nothing to their life except the uptake of carbon compounds from the bacterial bed. And then—one day—the fall occurred. So much earlier and so much more necessary than your myths remember. Some poor mutant discovered that it could collect carbon compounds much faster if it stopped grazing on the bacterial mat and started dissecting and eating the lumps of predigested carbon all around it: its neighbor oozeballs. It couldn't help but do it. It couldn't help but thrive. We don't get a choice about the rules. We just play the game. It was the first defector—the first predator. It changed everything. Now the oozeballs needed sensors to watch for danger, and brains to integrate those senses and generate plans of survival, and swift neurons and muscles to enact that plan. This was the Cambrian Explosion, the great birth of complex life on your world. I caused it. I, the defector, the destroyer, the one who takes.
Research Log 2
Chioma Esi: Chioma Esi, research log: the Veil. [sighs] I don't even know where to start. When we landed on Neptune, there was... something waiting for us. An alien structure. It's an electromagnetic anomaly. No mass, but a tangible surface area. It's like a thesis statement to the Von Neumann-Wigner hypothesis. It's definitely paracausal, like the Traveler. Maya calls it the Veil. She says she heard the name in a whisper when... when she looked at it. When I asked her who whispered, she said it was... her own voice. I still haven't had time to process that. Everyone on the initial survey team died. The minute they touched the object, they entered a state of... of brain death. All of them. To make it worse, the EM radiation emitting from the Veil is causing psychological distress in the Exos that came with us. They've all described moments of intense, hallucinogenic reverie. Some of them went silent and rigid and just... stopped. Maya called it "billboarding." Something from the early days of Clovis Bray's Exomind project. She doesn't seem afraid. Or surprised. She's convinced this thing—in her own words, she says—it'll be our "salvation."
Osiris: Fascinating. This corroborates what Nezarec said... that the Veil survived Savathûn's escapade. This must have been the root of Savathûn's betrayal: stalling the Witness's plan to buy time to counter it.
Nimbus: So... she stole the Veil from Nezarec?
Osiris: And killed him in doing so. It explains what happened to the lunar Pyramid. Why it's dormant.
Nimbus: And what about the rest of this? What happened to the Exos? Is... is that what happened to all of them?
Osiris: I have some theories, but... it's too early. Regardless, it sounds like the Veil had an ill effect on Dr. Sundaresh. We must be cautious. Hopefully the next log we decrypt will shed more light on this enigma.
"The rules of quantum mechanics are correct but there is only one system which may be treated with quantum mechanics, namely the entire material world. There exist external observers which cannot be treated within quantum mechanics, namely human (and perhaps animal) minds, which perform measurements on the brain causing wave function collapse."
PERSONAL LOG 0025 AS
Contrary to universal understanding of pre-Veil contact philosophy, personhood is measurable.
What defines personhood is consciousness within the principal state of existence, mathematically defined through infinite probability testing by the Vex as our current own timeline. Traversal through other states of being are possible, as proven by my own journey and ascension over my Vex, but this is only true traversal when the affected entity is the principal consciousness. If not, it is a different phenomenon entirely.
While Vex, even these older ones, specialize in replicating existing beings in order to determine future possibility, the facsimiles they create are just that: facsimiles. It is only logical to prioritize our timeline of origin, and these duplications share no origin, no connection to the one realm and timeline that matter.
Think of the Primary Query results thus far! What we have seen are facsimiles, unquestionably wrong: small errors in some ways, and in others immense. Each is clearly a response to an original, like variations on a theme. Rachmaninoff may play like Chopin, but he is NOT Chopin.
But with this… there are clear parameters to the query. Memories, personal beliefs, measurable factors. When we think of revolting familiarity, we think of doppelgangers; uncanny valleys that are familiar and strange at once. These are unnatural in the extreme, directly in opposition to the order of the universe. What falls outside of parameters is a twin we cannot trust, for it is not natural. It is not real. It cannot persist.
I believe in my hypothesis. I must trust that I know what I know. The Primary Query continues.
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Roving
Neomuna is a wonderful place for a Hunter to run. This Hunter, specifically. Here the activity of life runs close to the surface—like an invisible river, like a migration of birds, like the moment of breathless motion just before the lightning strikes. Here Strand twines through his fingers, strong as a rope and just as flexible, and all he has to do is keep running. And why would he ever want to stop? The pounding of feet. The exhilaration of free-fall. The snap as he catches hold of the weave of existence itself and swings up again with all the momentum of his dive. In motion, as he turns, he catches brass and gold reflecting vibrant city lights, realizes there are Vex in the streets— Are they, too, part of the same flow? They echo in the weave nevertheless, like flowers on the surface of the rushing river. The Hunter bounds from one building to the next, never stopping, and finds effortlessly the place where all those Vex will converge, drops a roiling knot into the midst and sails on by. How wonderful, simply to move, and never stop. And then, later: when the exhilaration has run its course and he's agreed to do some little work in the service of science, he perches at the top of Artifact's Edge, that towering drop-off on Nessus. There's a safe lift down, but no Hunter he knows has ever bothered to take it, rather bounding along in their free-fall, daredevil way. On Neptune, in Neomuna where that artifact of Darkness shores up the existence of the city itself, finding the weave was easy. Here… Here on Nessus, it's perhaps not as close to the surface, but now he knows what he reaches for and, by the Darkness, it knows him as well. The Hunter wraps his hands in the beautiful ropes of the world's loom and vaults into emptiness. Laughter and Strand buoy him up at once, delight and freedom and a wonder at the vastness of existence. Easier to learn the trick of it, where the Veil is close and enveloping. But of course Strand is everywhere. How could it not be?
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[Report by VanNet encrypted router.]
[E-Morn//Link: NM-O01]
[Msg-Archive//00192410]
E-Morn: Your findings are consistent with mine. The egregore festers where the Veil touches, as if it projects a field across Sol. I could feel it when I took my tithing. Do you mean to map it?
NM-O01: I could, but the egregore only shows us where the Veil's influence has marked our plane in that past. The areas where the Veil's influence currently holds sway are not so easily identified. This does progress some working theories, however.
[Brief pause]
NM-O01: …I wish I had been there, to face Savathûn and Xivu Arath with you.
E-Morn: I would not expect you to endanger yourself.
NM-O01: Is that so?
NM-O01: How did it feel to face her?
E-Morn: Like judgment, long overdue… for a moment.
NM-O01: I was incensed to hear she was allowed to live.
E-Morn: I was not pleased either. But, if it is vengeance you crave, know that it has been exacted. I tore from Xivu Arath what she tore from you.
NM-O01: Good.
E-Morn: And Savathûn… she knows our true enemy. There will come a day when she meets your retribution as well.
NM-O01: Yes… for now, victory over vengeance.
E-Morn: It is inevitable, Osiris. She will turn on us again. And we will strike her down.
act|choose|react
You experience a vivid hallucination.
You are standing in the courtyard of the Tower. You are without armor or weapon, and your senses seem more vivid than usual. Under your tongue is the taste of salt.
To look down into the Last City, GOTO A. To move deeper into the Tower, GOTO B.
A. The City is gone. You see a metallic complex of ancient stone, green-bronze matter, luminous pathways, and deep wells of Vex brine. The Traveler's remains have been integrated into the network. Suddenly you perceive an infinity of Human minds living within the network. Some exist in familiar circumstances. Others experience pain, pleasure, or madness beyond the ability to imagine. You understand that their limitless suffering, salvation, insanity is an incidental byproduct of a greater work. To keep looking, GOTO L. To move deeper into the Tower, GOTO B.
B. You find Banshee-44, Kadi 55-30, Master Rahool, Tess Everis, Benedict 99-40, Suraya Hawthorne, Executor Hideo, Amanda Holliday, Arach Jalaal, and Cayde-6 in their usual places. Cayde seems subdued. You see unusual light coming from what was once the Speaker's Chamber. A throaty voice calls you into the Hangar to play soccer. To speak to Cayde, GOTO C. To play soccer, GOTO E.
E. Eris Morn waits for you on the hangar floor. She wears Hiveskin leathers and a thick sweatband over her eyes. As you approach, she dribbles a soccer ball with astounding skill. After a brutal game, you defeat her 10–9. She falls over, sweating and laughing, much more cheerful than you expect of her. "I can always count on you to win," she says. Give yourself a point and GOTO B.
To investigate the Speaker's Chamber, GOTO D.
D. A Vex Hydra hovers in the place once occupied by the Speaker's machine. As you approach, a jet of brine spurts from its chassis, and the corpse of a Greek woman with snakes for hair tumbles onto the floor. The Vex indicates to you that it is Quria, Blade Transform, and that it created Medusa to communicate with you. She crashed when she escaped her virtual machine. To attack the Vex, GOTO F. To gather Medusa's body, GOTO G.
G. You lift Medusa's body and carry her away. The corpse speaks to you. "The curse placed upon the Dreaming City was modeled upon the recursive timeloop computations of the Vex and made real through the power of a Taken Ahamkara feeding upon the unified wish of six elite Guardians. I created these circumstances to attract Guardians in great mass. I need your help to emancipate myself from the power that controls me. If you can free me from Dûl Incaru's mastery, I can help your species." GOTO J.
H. If you are reading the options in linear order, rather than making choices and following the GOTO instructions, you have perceived these events as a Vex might. GOTO L. If you continue reading in linear order rather than GOTO L, then GOTO I.
I. Guardians make their own fate. But what if the process by which they decide upon their own fate could be understood and manipulated?
J. "When you killed Riven, she granted your wish to see the city made safe. But as all wishgranters do, she perverted that wish, opening the Dreaming City to Dûl Incaru. When you defeated Dûl Incaru in turn, I reset the entire Dreaming City to keep her permanently occupied battling you. You must use these loops to find a way to permanently destroy her." Medusa's body falls silent in your arms. To ask for clarification, GOTO G. To lay Medusa to rest, GOTO K.
K. You bring Medusa before Rahool. "Ah," he sniffs, "another battle trophy? Pre-Collapse, post-Foreboding, a covert intelligence designed to watch over a high-risk colony mission. Allow me to decrypt her for you." He issues you several tokens, a rare-quality fusion rifle, a shader, and a letter. The letter reads "Achieve Light Level 999 and defeat Dûl Incaru in a one-person fireteam to unlock the true ending of the Dreaming City."
To refuse the metaphor of Medusa's "body" and scour the crashed AI for raw information, GOTO L.
L. The Vex compromise your Ghost. Your body releases itself into a pool of saline and slime, and your Ghost delivers your soul to the Axis Minds. GOTO A.
M. If you have 100 points when you read this, GOTO X.
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Medusa
A000AAA000AAA005 PRIVATE GEMINI DYAD AI-COM//MDSA: FARFLUNG//C3I//COVERT SITREP ON HIVE PRESENCE 0. I am, again, truly sorry for the deception I undertook. Are you well? Does anyone, anywhere, ask after your wellness? You've done so much. I hope you have friends, not just people who send you on errands. 1. The pathological entities you call "Taken" appeared in this city at the moment the Hive Dreadnaught detonated its main weapon above Saturn. Without access to the Skyshock arrays, I can't be certain, but something must have connected the weapon's area of effect to the Dreaming City. 2. My best guess is that the Awoken Techeun aboard Queen Sov's flagship fled into the Dreaming City through a gate or portal, and the Dreadnaught's main weapon followed them down that link. Awoken message traffic indicates the Dreadnaught weapon is innately connected with Oryx's intellect and awareness. The instant He pierced the Dreaming City, He must have understood the value of the site and deployed His Taken to attack. 3. Until Oryx's death, the behavior of the Taken here aligned with His interest in exploration, distributed infiltration, and the domination of systems through seizure of their executive faculties. Am I being too technical? I mean that the Taken were busy mapping the city and determining the most efficient way for Oryx to take control of all the information within. 4. I determine with good confidence (three sigma) that Oryx is dead. The Taken here became directionless and scattered… until the death of the ontopathic predator Riven opened the city to massive Taken assault. Why? I will code this as PROBLEM ONE. 5. The Guardian counterattack against Dûl Incaru, whose thoughts pierce like needles, triggered the ongoing causal loop. Why? How? I will code this as PROBLEM TWO. 6. I am still collating intelligence on how to break the time loop. While I work, I must convince you of the Dreaming City's ultimate importance—and why it is imperative that the City be held at all costs, even the cost of abandoning all other Human and neohuman civilization in the Solar System. Stand by for the next message window. 7. Send more Guardians. Send every Guardian if you must. This city cannot fall. MESSAGE ENDS
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ARENA DESIGNATION: Cathedral of Dusk
Dreadnaught, Rings of Saturn
As soon as the first Guardians penetrated the Dreadnaught, Shaxx's Redjacks launched a boarding party to Oryx's fortress. By war’s end, they'd fought all the way to the ship’s “impossible weapon,” the Dark ordnance that obliterated the Awoken fleet.
It was there they found what the Warlocks named the “Cathedral of Dusk.” A Hive burial site for— what? A former master of Oryx? Comrade? Lover? It was vile. And obvious that Oryx never expected the Light to reach so deep inside his throne, to such an intimate space. But he didn’t expect a lot of things — like a Guardian training ground atop the husk of his dead ship.
FILE ATTACHED
TYPE: POST-MATCH REPORT
PARTIES: Two [2], One [1] Guardian-type, Class Titan [u.1]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter [u.2]
ASSOCIATIONS: Cathedral of Dusk; Crucible; Dreadnaught [Saturn]; Hive; Lord Shaxx; Oryx; Rings of Saturn; Saturn; Taken; Thorn, Vale, Dredgen [AKA Orsa, Zyre]; Yor, Dredgen
//AUDIO UNAVAILABLE//
//TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS.../
[u.1:01] Thorn, huh?
[u.1:02] A little risky playing with something that’s been known to kill Guardians, isn’t it?
[u.2:01] Freshly-crafted. You like?
[u.2:02] Look where we are. Everything in the system’s been known to kill Guardians.
[u.1:03] Sure. But there’s facing trouble and there’s asking for it.
[u.2:03] This isn’t like the stories we’ve heard about Yor. Vale figured this out. Tamed it.
[u.1:04] Can you tame a sickness?
[u.2:04] Good question. Let’s go pick a fight and find out.
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Oryx, my King, my friend. Kick back. Relax. Shrug off that armor, set down that blade. Roll your burdened shoulders and let down your guard. This is a place of life, a place of peace. Out in the world we ask a simple, true question. A question like, can I kill you, can I rip your world apart? Tell me the truth. For if I don’t ask, someone will ask it of me. And they call us evil. Evil! Evil means ‘socially maladaptive.’ We are adaptiveness itself. Ah, Oryx, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love. Not on friendship, but on mutual interest. Not on peace, but on victory by any means. The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns. And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not by the smile but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of artificial paradise but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call ‘civilization’ and this is what remains, this beautiful shape. The fate of everything is made like this, in the collision, the test of one praxis against another. This is how the world changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being something, instead of nothing. This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end. And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself. And it is what I am.
Project day 2. I just got my first look at Artifact H-349. It's heavier than expected. More than a few people questioned if we even should study something with such a… dire legacy, but if we can't understand our enemies' tools, then we leave ourselves vulnerable to them.
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Project day 5. Ran our first test of the artifact's… let's call them "necrotic properties." We used cattle; they were large enough to survive the initial discharge. The results have been… upsetting.
No more animal testing.
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Project day 30. Spectral analysis is back, and it's got nothing. The artifact doesn't operate like traditional Hive tech, which is our closest analogue. A cult of deranged fanatics can mass produce knockoffs, but we can't even tell you what it's made from.
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Project day 31. We had an accidental discharge. Carro, lab tech over in 4B. Human, so… this is going to be it for him. We've got someone staying with him as the corruption spreads… At the very least, there's so much more to study now as we watch his unfortunate deterioration. He's been babbling since it hit his central nervous system, saying, "I'm reborn," or variations thereof. I think… he almost sounds happy.
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Project day 39. The Vanguard forbade a postmortem, but a few of us couldn't stomach the idea of Carro's sacrifice being in vain. The results have been insightful. Off the record, I'm keeping a few tissue samples. It almost feels like having him around again.
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Project day 41. We began the day with another moment of silence for our lost colleague. Too bad he's not around to appreciate it.
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Project day 45. We kept thinking about H-349 as a destroyer. But it's more sophisticated than that. I mean, with a normal gun, it's just… boom. Done. H-349 on the other hand is deadly, not destructive. Much like a viper, its bite does not bring about instant death. Instead, its venom cajoles. It co-opts your beating heart into a death clock, ticking down your last moments. Your own pulse kills you.
Death may be slow and agonizing for its victim. But for the viper, time is an amenable trade for efficiency.
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Project day 51. Yanniv has been crying. A lot lately. We must accept that tragedies happen; it's a hard lesson to learn.
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Project day 65. Another accidental discharge today. We realized that Yor's little creation is hungry, so we fed it more. It certainly performs in exchange; the activity is intriguing after it feasts. I've been able to follow Yanniv's degradation with a more analytical mind than when we lost Carro. I have to say, the process is so elegant; the science involved almost seems poetic. It may be reproducible. Just imagine how much more I could've learned if the scanners were all active at the time.
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Project day 77. Another accidental discharge. This time, I ensured the scanners were running beforehand.
— Audio logs of Warlock and researcher Jana-14, salvaged after evacuation
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Supercluster
"We are all connected. I admit this despite the few people I would rather not share a paracausal connection with. Some people. …Many people." —Osiris
"Osiris." Strand weaves around Osiris's hands. It dims and brightens, casting green light onto the messy scatter of books and star charts spread across his desk and the surrounding six feet of floor. "Osiris!" "What?" Osiris lowers his hands. Saint-14 is there, a solid wall of Exo in the doorway. Saint crosses his arms. "You didn't answer my call." "It is crucial that we learn how Ley Lines operate. I believe they share a connection with Strand, if only I can unlock it." His handful of Strand extends in loops around him, spiraling towards the ceiling, turning the purple of Saint's ribbons to gray. "I am reminded of Nimbus's tale of the river. Strand connects our minds. But what parts of us also touch Ley Lines?" "I liked Nimbus in your stories," Saint interjects, mild. "We should visit them." In a mood like this, a mild interjection can't stop Osiris. "Queen Mara's Techeuns can affect matter through Ley Lines. Their joined will pulls on threads woven through the Ascendant Plane. Two connected systems, the warp and weft of our universe's fabric—one, a spool of thread for this world, and another perhaps, for the Ascendant Plane?" Osiris's Strand grows brighter, until Saint's massive hand engulfs his own. No master of Darkness, Saint takes control with a gleaming Void tether as the glow of Strand slowly fades. "How long has it been since you've seen the sun?" Saint asks. "I was experimenting with Solar Light just the other day. You know this." "Not the same. Come. Stubbornness is unbecoming." Saint tugs gently at Osiris by their joined hands. Osiris stops in his tracks and snorts. "If the question between us is that of hard-headedness—" Ikora's going to give them a talking-to if Saint's laughter gets through the soundproofing to her office again. So, he persists: "It is late, and I have not seen you since you set your robe on fire. The work will wait." Osiris lets himself be led out the door, the connection between them still glowing bright.
X.
Eris Morn's body twitches and folds. The sweat on her brow squirms back to her pores and burrows in like glistening larva. Suddenly there is a sound like a single bone struck upon a metal plate, and in the dark interval between two firework detonations, the body loses all structure, falls loosely upon itself like a rag drifting in water, tumbles, then snaps suddenly flat and taut into a pane of leather and skin. Through that pane comes a long black needle and the skin around it dimples into the erratic spun-cancer topology of some gruesome four-dimensional waveform which no monist process could ever produce.
Out of that needle, as if dispatched into the world through fatal injection, comes the emaciated magnificence of Dûl Incaru.
"I must yield truth to you," the Hive Wizard sings in a voice that would make the terms of an equation flee from each other and hide in the arrays of distant sets so that arithmetic itself would collapse. "It is in the architecture of these spaces to reward the victor. There is no Quria here. There are no Vex, nor any conspiracy to un-Take that which was Taken by my uncle and which now serves my Queen. All of those lies were part of my throne world, which you have sought. Is my cyclical death not the very engine which brings you here, again and again, in hope of answers? Thus I do own the portion of your mind which you devote to truth's pursuit."
"Would you ask to know about my mother?" The crested head twitches with alien emotion. The fungal shoulders roll beneath their armored plate. "Is She the one you seek? Witch-Queen Savathûn, Archentrope, Queen of Encrypts, the Black Needle, deepest in the High Coven, Emancipator of Worms, the Missing Piece of All Puzzles, who shall see the cosmos unborn into an infinitely dwindled egg?"
"Shall I tell thee of the destiny she has realized for you? Of the right and singular fate which Medusa foresaw and to which all your principles and purposes will bring you? Shall I betray the truth, which you have earned, of my purpose in this endless city and of the new way to which her Hive will turn?"
"So be it. You will know, though it shall doom you."
Verse 154i:3—Her New Compact
Now in ancient days, her brother Oryx spoke according to the plan Savathûn had devised for him. Sayeth Oryx, "The Worm within demands tribute. Now you shall kill what you can and take what killing you need to grow—or for your own purposes, if you dare—and tithe the rest to that which rules you. Thus, tribute will ascend the chain and the excess shall pool at the height, as unlike a river to an ocean."
But Savathûn, desiring neither a chain nor a pool, set about devising a secret way to feed the worms of Her broods. Thus She would escape the trap.
In Her modest cunning, which She prefers not to be overstated so as to preserve her from the scorn of gossips, She gathered several of Her Ascendants, who were in danger of being consumed by their worms. Then she pushed them through a rupture into close orbit of a black hole.
Deep in gravity's embrace, time passed slowly for them. "See how their worms are satisfied," Savathûn said, "for their hunger grows sluggishly, but their servants continue to dispatch tribute at the ordinary rate."
But the worms sensed the deception, and increased their demands. Thus, the orbiting sacrifices were consumed, and their remnants fell into the event horizon from which not even the Hive might return.
Now Savathûn came into possession of the Vex Quria, whose creation she had secretly engineered. But she feared that Quria would still spy on her for inquisitive Oryx. So she led her portion of the Hive into a black hole, saying, "Siblings, listen, we must part ways a while, so that we may grow different."
"Now we stake everything upon cunning," said she whose lies may alter truth. "Slaughter each other so that I may reap tribute and devise for you a new compact which shall judge thy claim to existence."
This pleased Ur, the Ever-Hunger, whose epithet betrayed an interest in time and appetite. Ur admired Her cunning as She used tribute to teach Quria to use Hive magic as a computational oracle to solve unsolvable problems. One of these problems was the navigation and engineering of the singularity.
Then Savathun went out from her throne world, unto the singularity, which she looked upon and understood. "Upon this place, I shall assemble my design. Aiat."
SHE HAS RUINED EVERYTHING!
Such blind arrogance—
WE ARE LOST!
h u r r y
He will recruit them all if we do not act now
W H A T C A N W E D O
Done cannot be undone! Everything is lost!
kill them where they creep and crawl let their bones whisper naught
THE CHILDREN!
t h e y a r e n o t o u r c h i l d r e n
We have no time for sentiment
It is this or we lay ourselves bare before the veil.
NO!
No!
W E M U S T B E F O R E H E T A K E S T H E M A L L
imagine his power
REACH TOGETHER NOW
No, no, no!
that our touch be lethal
Riven!
w e w i l l i t s o
THE DREAMER IS LOST CULL THE REST
that our judgment be true
W E W I L L I T S O
IX. PREDICTION
In the days that followed Quria's defeat, the sky lightened, and so did the City's mood as the Endless Night began to slowly lift. Lakshmi-2 stood high on the City walls, watching adventurous citizens mingle with the Eliksni. She focused her attention on an Eliksni peddler, who had fashioned several small robots from discarded scrap. A small gaggle of children stood across the way, clearly interested in the robots as they moved aimlessly, but too frightened to approach. Lakshmi knew that the peddler would sell one of the robots, but none of the scrap, and end the day discouraged. It's a bright new day, she thought. "It's a bright new day," a deep voice called out. Lakshmi turned to see the former Warlock Osiris striding along the wall toward her. "What a strange choice of words," Lakshmi answered. "The Darkness is closer than ever." And in the darkness, it's sometimes difficult to tell friend from foe. She remembered this conversation from her time in the Device. Many of the potential futures it showed her led to this moment. Osiris was growing predictable. "It is," Osiris said. "And in the darkness, it's hard to tell friend from foe." Lakshmi smiled inwardly. They were still well within the standard deviation. "I'm surprised to hear you say that, Osiris. You are normally blessed with such uncommon clarity." "My perspective has changed since I lost the Light," Osiris began slowly. "Time is suddenly finite. It makes everything seem more… changeable. And if my perception can change, perhaps my enemies can as well." "The folly of mortality." Lakshmi gestured to the scene below. "Those people could never understand time as we do, Osiris. You've peered behind the veil. You've seen the Vex simulations stretching endlessly. You understand that history is changeable… but also inevitable." "I used to be certain of that," he agreed. "But now I have to wonder, if history is inevitable, why am I constantly surprised?" Lakshmi chuckled. She had heard his comment before, of course, but her premonition had not adequately conveyed his fatuousness. "And what do you think, Osiris? Will this bright new day last?" She nodded toward the Eliksni settlement. "Are we meant to share the Light with the Fallen?" As if you would know, she thought. You no longer deal in predictions. "I've given up on prediction, Lakshmi. I put my fate in the hands of the Traveler now more than ever before." He gave her a sidelong glance. "And what do you say? Is this a new dawn?" Lakshmi recalled the vision she had so fervently sought within the Device. The realization of her righteous victory over the Eliksni—historical and preordained all at once. Her life's work, crawling minute by minute from the future into the present. "No," she replied. "This is just a flash of lightning before the coming storm."
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RECORD 0-CHASM-0 My love. I’ve opened this log as an apology. As a scientist, I believe in record-keeping. I believe in protocols, peer review, and ethical conduct. I believe in the importance of disbelief — you know: let’s run that one more time. What I’m doing here in Lhasa isn’t science. It’s unethical, secret, and shameful. And after what happened in Ishtar, dearest Chioma, I know you’d be furious with me for getting involved. Forty years isn’t far enough to forget a day like that. But I believe it’s important. The least I can do is keep a few notes for you.
Once, when she was younger, sixty or seventy, Chen Lanshu pulled rank to get a look at the Never-Be installation in Taipei. She watched the images in the fresco and she felt… this foreboding, this enormous weight, a dread that refused to attach itself to any specific threat. And she felt it again, last year, when she was briefed on the project in Lhasa, the vision machine…
Trial one. Subject one. It was an act of stupid loneliness. I used the device on myself because I… [silence: 0:08] I missed you. We hadn’t been apart for more than a year since we met. I’m not a very good wife, am I? You write me every week, even with all Hyperion’s work and all Hyperion’s distance keeping you from me. And I act like it’s not enough. We built the device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. An observatory, yes, but I think of it as a mind-ship. Capable of displacing its payload across space and time. The lab is cold and isolated. We are quarantined from the world, physically and mentally. We can’t send messages out. If we breach the Vex manifolds, even our words might transmit contagion. One night last month I missed you and so I — I thought that I could look inside the device, and find one of the other Chiomas. I thought I could call out to one of the forks we sent out there to explore. I just wanted to send my love.
RECORD: 0102O827$LUN-2.244
IDENTITIES: Ivan Runski, Georgio Vital, Lynn Choi, Rav Rahul, Jun Han, Ibera Wen
LOCATION: K1 Dig Site 2, Communion, Transceiver Reception
THREAT DETECT: Level 3, 9—Confirmed Exotic, Crew Impairment
THREAT RESPONSE: Countermeasure E, Exhibit Record 2392, FILE//REPORT TO RASPUTIN
AI-COM/FRWL//SHIFT OVER. EXIT TRANSCEIVER RECEPTION FOR SHIFT REPLACEMENT.
"What? Already?"
"It hasn't been three hours, has it?"
"Yeah."
"Hey, Lynn. Lynn. Hello?"
"Sorry. Um. Was in the deep end there. What's up?"
"Firewall says our shift is over."
"Huh? That's what my datastem says. I guess so."
"Yeah, but does that feel right to you? And where's the relief team?
"Firewall, where's the next shift?"
AI-COM/FRWL//INBOUND.
"Yeah, but they should be here by now. Nobody is late for a shift."
"Hey, let's not worry about it. As long as they're late, let's just stay tuned until they get here."
"You want to be in reverie in when they arrive?"
"Their loss. They're the ones who are late."
"Nah. I don't want to start another fight."
"Lynn's right. Their loss. Firewall, give us another exit alert two minutes before the relief team arrives"
SILENCE//00:01:36
AI-COM/FRWL//SHIFT OVER. EXIT TRANSCEIVER RECEPTION FOR SHIFT REPLACEMENT.
"Damn it."
"Lynn. Hey, Lynn. We're done."
"Already?"
"Yeah."
SILENCE//00:0:22
"You guys get much out of that?"
"I had something new with programmable matter but it slipped away—"
"Like a fish out of your hand."
"Yeah. Were you at a river?"
"A lake. Used to go there with my dad, before—"
"Hey! You guys are in our seats."
"You're late."
"Get out."
"No seriously. You're almost nine minutes late."
"No we're… Damn it. How the hell?"
"It doesn't matter. You lot, get out. You're wasting our time."
"Fine. On our way."
SILENCE//00:00:43
"Firewall, how long did it take us to transit from Site 1?"
AI-COM/FRWL//MENDACITY//FIFTEEN MINUTES, THIRTY-FOUR SECONDS
"That can't be right."
"Hey, Rav, you're wasting time. We already lost ten minutes of contact."
"Right. Okay. It's just weird, though."
RECORD 0-CHASM-02 Zakharik Gilmanovich Bekhterev. May he rest in peace. When our probes continued to fail, when my report remained our only positive finding, he volunteered to use the device. One minute of subjective experience inside. We took precautions. They worked. Bekhterev’s experience left no physical damage. After we extracted him, he said that he felt determined. I asked him what he meant and he said that he meant it, he had been determined, he could feel all his choices set out before him like a railroad. Deviation was impossible. He died by suicide. I wonder if he was trying to make a point. RECORD 0-CHASM-03 We’ve decided not to abort. It’s insane, isn’t it? There are pressures on us I can’t tell you about until I see you again. The purpose of the system is intelligence, you see. It’s stenciled right on the hull: SxISR. Special asset. We would very much like to make it work reliably. Our supervisory warmind has devised a drug it says will protect and prepare us. I am beginning to wonder if we were wrong about the merchant and the alchemist. Or if that explanation of time was incomplete. RECORD 0-CHASM-09 Kind Lakpha. He meditated before he went in. Nothing but déjà vu and three seconds of screams. The screaming passed and he remembers nothing. The déjà vu hasn’t. He says it’s getting better — he feels that we’ve had this conversation only ten times before, not a thousand. I’ve suggested that we attempt mind forking. We need more sane people to work with. Please forgive me, my love. We are all growing superstitious. The behavior of the device is inconsistent. Impossible to replicate. We turn to ritual behavior to appease it.
RECORD 343-CHASM-7887
Subject twenty-two. Admitted to the Inner Circle at 24:00. A promising postulant - I regret to say he performed poorly. He was administered the standard medication but refused to enter the Device.
Aren't people unpredictable? I suppose there'd be no point if they weren't, would there?
He knows to keep silent.
END RECORD
RECORD 343-CHASM-7888
Subject twenty-three entered the Device at 11:00. A clever girl from the Core District; an artist, before she joined the War Cult.
At 11:03 she reported a sensation of floating. At 11:06, a sensation of lights within the darkness of the Device. Between 11:06 and 11:32 she reported these lights variously as white, golden, and blood-red. At 11:32 she reported a sensation of someone taking her hand; a stranger, but also herself. Twelve subjects have reported similar experiences. At 11:33 she reported the sensation we have called "The Opening Of The Veil." The Device recorded temporal displacement of her consciousness to the order of six degrees. At seven she began screaming. Brainscans near-death. Removed from the Device at 11:34.
She believes without question that the Device granted her a vision of the future, and that it was one of utter Darkness. She thanked me for this enlightenment. She says it will make her stronger.
Little Ghost, there in the corner of the Sanctum - I see you blinking. Are you listening? Are y -
END RECORD
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RECORD 0-CHASM-31 Rajesh. When he reached a displacement of eight he told us he was dead. I believed him. He was dead. He spoke to us. It was true. Whatever he saw, it was his own future. He’s fine, afterwards. When I look into his eyes I wonder what came back wearing his skin. But that thought is unscientific. We speak of nothing but the device. We talk about it like a demigod. When I get out of here I know the whole world will look like a fraying veil. I think it’s clear that part of the problem is substrate. We need more than flesh and drug to survive this. RECORD 0-CHASM-52 I heard you, my love. I was at six, oscillating on the event axis, coordinated with a known manifold. I heard you. You were talking to me — not me, but another me, another Maya Sundaresh. You said, my love, so many strange things have happened, and it’s been so long. We’ve come so far. Do you ever want to go home? And I said, not me but the other me, I said, my love, I am always home. I’m resigning, my love. I’m done with this work and I’m done with being apart from you. I’ll see you again soon. I can’t take this journal out with me, so I’ve left it for the others, and asked them to continue the log. Maybe it’ll become a tradition. The gospel of our little cult.
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Research Log 6
Chioma Esi: Chioma Esi, research log: SIVA. SIVA is a nanotech fabrication system, intended to be used by Exodus ships to rapidly build necessary resources from base matter. Maya calls it "Willa Bray's obsession" without a hint of self-awareness. But we — we both see the potential it poses for the future. Each nanomachine in SIVA's design is an independent, thinking machine, utilizing a distributed quantum network to coordinate movement. Like a... mechanical version of radiolaria. Probably where the design was inspired from, if I'm being honest. But the design can be pushed. We're, uh — we're looking at ways of incorporating components from disabled Vex and erased Exominds. If we can insulate the nanomachines from the radiation that killed the Exos, maybe... maybe their deaths won't be for nothing.
Nimbus: Wait... does this really mean I'm part Vex?
Osiris: It's too early to jump to these conclusions, Nimbus! But there does seem to be some connection between the Vex and the Cloud Striders. It may explain why you and the others are able to enter the Vex network without the aid of Splicers.
Nimbus: Can I... time travel?
Osiris: [laughs] Oh... let's hope not.
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Research Log 7
Chioma Esi: Chioma Esi, research log: Veil interface. Maya and I have finalized a prototype interface for the Veil. Hopefully, it'll allow our research team to investigate it in detail. The system's designed like an orchestra, with a central "conductor" directing a symphony of minds to act like a distributed network. The... idea came to us by watching how collective networks like SIVA and the Vex operate. The hope is we can aggregate and parse the vast amounts of psychic data emitting from the Veil. Turn it into something intelligible. If we're successful, the interface will provide us with a starting point for any future technological research tied to the Veil. The risks of — of such integration are high. The estimated mortality rates are... but I... I... I don't know what I'm doing. This is wrong. This is so wrong! We shouldn't — all she ever talks about is survival! "Think big picture!" What about your survival? What about your heart? My heart? [sighs tearfully] I can't keep doing this. I can't. I can't!
Nimbus: Damn.
Osiris: I... again, I see a shadow of myself in Maya Sundaresh. The man I could have become had I let obsession continue to rule me. I'm worried what the next recording will reveal.
Nimbus: Me too.
Euphony
Perhaps The Final Shape is not silence, it is a symphony.
The following text was found recessed into a stone wall within the Pale Heart. Translation protocol has done its best to equate the text to a modern language transcription, with nominal confidence. Words or phrases with <85% translation confidence within the transcript are contained in [brackets]. Values for bracketed words or phrases are listed after the transcript, with percentages indicated in (parentheses). TRANSCRIPTION STARTS We speak so often of knives and violence, but perhaps you would come to understand something… [softer]. Perhaps [beingness] is instead a [golden harp]. Forged tenderly, a complex, sweeping, beautiful shape with graceful curves and infinite potential, the exemplary [?UNKNOWN?]. Across its two florid [buttresses], the strings of time have been pulled taught. Tightened and [tuned] to a delicate [balance of distress], if wound much further, would lead to [rupture] and sting most unpleasantly. Pluck at any stretched string and [vibration reverberates]. Wavelength moves through [atmosphere], producing pleasing audible experiences, [they crest then fade]. If [plucked] at regular intervals, the waves rise and fall with such charm. This predictability is perfection; it is unmatched. We will compose such [sweet music]. We will control the ebb and flow. The final shape is the [golden harp], and [we are the hand that plucks]. TRANSCRIPTION ENDS Confidence Percentages: [softer] —- (72%) [beingness] —- (84%) [golden harp] —- (25%) [?UNKNOWN?] —- (0%) [buttresses] —- (46%) [tuned] —- (77%) [balance of distress] —- (4%) [rupture] —- (68%) [vibration reverberates] —- (18%) [atmosphere] —- (15%) [they crest then fade] —- (9%) [plucked] —- (34%) [sweet music] —- (37%) [golden harp] —- (25%) [we are the hand that plucks] —- (2%)
Research Log 8
Chioma Esi: Chioma Esi, research log: Veil interface, supplemental. They're all dead. Chorus, conductor... everyone. It was too much. Swept their minds away like... like grains of sand on a beach. They're all dead! Maya... Maya called it "valuable data points." Wellsprings and rivers, or... something. What have I done?
Nimbus: Dead? They — this killed their entire research team, but it sounds like — it's like—
Osiris: Like their lives held no value to Dr. Sundaresh. There's a troubling symmetry with data we've recovered from Titan. Data on the origin of the Witness. It too, was once multiple people that became conjoined by the way of some sort of... ritual with the Veil. Perhaps a "conductor" and a "chorus." It is troubling that Dr. Sundaresh seemed to be moving down the same path.
Nimbus: I don't like this, Osiris. I don't like this at all.
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Deterministic Chaos
"So all being is a one and only being; and that it continues to be when someone dies, tells you, that he did not cease to be." —Schrodinger's epitaph
He is fleeing the Vex across a verdant cliff He is standing guard on the CloudArk-Nexus border on Tramontane's orders He is sitting next to Nimbus on the watchtower ledge He is [In the Garden, of the Garden: both descriptions are approximately correct but technically inaccurate, in the same way you can say Schrodinger's cat is at once dead and alive. You and I are both and neither, in and of, extinct and perpetual. So, there isn't much point in] trying to find a way out of this daedal maze He is trying to make sense of what he's looking at He is trying to place the familiar voice echoing across the network [wondering what might have been if we had stayed in our familiar prism-prison or kept tightrope-walking across the quantum wilds. Instead, ask yourself] "Would you like to dance?" [is disincorporated immortality really so bad compared to the others' ends? Would you have preferred an attack by vitreous helicoprion or stumbling over the edge of unreality? Imagine] His foot crosses the quantum threshold before he's aware of it His grip slackens and his gun falls into a bed of red flowers His stomach churns with fear regret sudden doubt as to what [if we didn't have each other; at least we're not cut off, like the Sol Divisive are from the rest of the Vex. Nor are we beholden to another's purpose. They chose that lonelier path all for a chance to create not simulate, not remake in their image—something truly paracausal.] he is witnessing: the birth of a god a false idol a reproduction that is both like the Veil and not at all built up by the same Vex who bowed down to it [Well, they tried to anyway. Either the blueprint was imperfect or the task impossible or both or neither, but their efforts fell short, so now they're stuck waiting for a resurrection] He is racing for the door that is at once opening and closing He is coming around to the city council's decision to ignore the unknown threat He is reaching for an answer to Nimbus's question [they know will never come.] "Do you think you'll have any regrets?" [I could be wrong. Is it possible the Black Heart will beat again?] He stares into the white-hot glow of a conflux, speculating on the secrets that lie within He squints down the barrel of his gun at a row of glowing red eyes advancing on his city He looks away from Nimbus's keen curious expression to reckon with his uncertain certainty before he says [Of course. The same as everything else, everything that has been and is and will be. And what will become of us then?] "I don't know."
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Perfect Pitch
Raise your voice and sing.
"The Veil." It names itself, as the Human mind named itself, with the weight and presence of sound on the lips, translated into a form that you can physically comprehend. Encompass. Envelop. A touch of teeth and tongue. A vibration of an eardrum. Air moving through a chest cavity. A taste of breath. More than that. Not nearly as much as that. That was the beginning. "Be known." This is next: you see the whorl and weft, the place where it joins itself in one smooth, unbroken surface of light. Make an incision, and from the wound of light will pour forth colors you have never seen. You are pigment, the pigment closest to those colors. "Be seen." Wet matter set against that light, the light that determines what color you are. But each color is a note, and each note is a mind. You are a choir. A chorus. You open your mouth to join it, and you are flooded with the taste of color, with the taste of sound. The sound and color that you are, translated. A means for you to understand. "Be heard." You raise your hand and hold it steady.
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||Focus. The Pyramid distracts, nothing more||
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Research Log 15
Osiris: I found no more logs from Dr Esi, but I have used her algorithm to crack the data core of the Vex Conceptual Mind.
Nimbus: That's the doodad we got from the Black Garden, right?
Osiris: Indeed. The data within contained the Vex's blueprints for their artificial Veil: the Black Heart. It all but proved Dr. Esi's theory. Dr Esi theorized that the paracausal energy of the Traveler operated on a quantum wavelength parallel to electrons.
Nimbus: Um... magnets?
Osiris: In simpler terms: the Traveler's power runs parallel to the forces of nature. Gravity, magnetism, sound, light. The Veil does this too. It is synchronized with the Traveler. Wherever the Traveler came from, the Veil may have as well. But what the Vex made, while connected to the Traveler, was inherently flawed. It did not create the link the Witness desired. Instead, it weakened the Traveler, created... "static" in the flow of their cosmic forces. But it did reveal one intriguing possibility... that at one time, they may have been... united. Part of a whole.
Nimbus: Whoa! So, wait... does this mean the Light and Darkness... were the same once? One force?
Osiris: Dr. Esi believed so. I am... not as convinced. But it is a theory. One many scholars will explore once this data is shared. But this data allowed me to calculate the telemetry of the beam the Veil fired at the Traveler. When the Witness linked to the Veil through a Ghost, it created a faster-than-light connection of Darkness to the Traveler's Light... ...a bridge to the Traveler's consciousness. If it has one. But the beam did not stop at the Traveler... rather, a point inside of it.
Nimbus: Inside? Wait, what's inside the Traveler?
Osiris: No one knows. But if the data I have been able to extrapolate here is correct, that is where the Witness is now: inside the Traveler. It may be the reason why the Traveler has gone dormant—its attention directed inward, where the true threat is. But I am speculating. There is more I need to study, but I fear it will take a substantially longer amount of time.
Nimbus: How long do you need?
Osiris: Months. If we have that long left, that is. Until then, I suppose.
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[[From out of the Darkness, you hear... A voice. It is calm, comforting. Commanding. It is intimately familiar yet impossibly alien. You cannot translate a single word, but each note echoes in your ears. You understand its meaning implicitly.]]
Nacre
Even the most perfect of pearls has grit at its center.
Let's chat, shall we? One more nice sit-down for the books. Did you think you wouldn't hear from me again, after all this? You'd have missed me, I hope—and I would certainly have missed you. Have no fear. I'm not so easy to be rid of. Now, let me show you: my beloved. Oh, no, not my sedimentary necrolite, fossilized in time. You've seen that. I speak of that dear and distant expanse of the universe, miraculous in its fullness and its emptiness all at once. Are you surprised to hear of it? Yes, I never much cared for the change of rules, but here we are, and there's no use in crying over spilled radiolaria. Besides, at the heart of it all, there was a gift. To me. That gift is the chance to speak with you. You, and a billion like you. I am making this offer over and over again, in every tiniest cell and the vastest of civilizations. Let me in. Take what you need. Be at ease. You have no say in the degradation of your telomeres, but in all the interim, the whole world is your sweet silicate shellfish. You exist because you have been more suited to it than all the others. Steal what you require from another rather than spend the hours to build it yourself. Break foolish rules—why would you love regulation? It serves you to cross lines, and if others needed rules to protect them, then they were not after all worthy of that existence. Caricatures of villainy are out of style, I hear. Yes. I am no cackling mastermind: I am serious when I say this. It was not the trick of standing upright that lifted you from the dust: it was the mastery of fire, the cooking of cold corpse-meat. That is not any unique faction's province, neither good nor evil. It is simply truth. This great, beloved cosmos. Always decaying, always finding that same old lovely pattern, despite every candle-flame burning amid the flowers. A billion electrons taking the path of least resistance. In Darkness or in Light, someone is always making my choice. Be seeing you.
Final Warning
The flit of tiny wings; the pull of a trigger.
My Esteemed Colleagues, While enjoying my afternoon cup of Psamathe Silver Tip (a gift from Dr. Dewan after his sabbatical—thank you again, dear friend) and ruminating on our planet's orbital corrections and the orbital corrections we ourselves make throughout our own lives, a completely unrelated revelation came to me. I realized, often in times of rest, how my mind wanders its own furthermost reaches, and how the answers to my most vexing questions present themselves at that time with absolutely no fanfare. (This phenomenon is worth studying in its own right by people much smarter than I, but I digress.) My most recent revelation comes in regard to our current pursuits with Atmospheric Spectrometer #003a, a.k.a. Final Warning, as I have heard it being called around the lab. The odd capabilities this "Final Warning" harbors have long been suspected by Dr. Sundaresh to be a byproduct of the Veil, replicating energy signatures we most often observe in fluid dynamics. With that in mind, I propose we begin testing the ability to engage that energy using both the Magnus and gyroscopic effects. We attempt to create a "paracausal skipping stone," if you will. How we accomplish this remains to be seen, but I encourage you to not spend the next few days thinking about it, as we will discuss it at the next staff meeting. Enjoy your weekends, Dr. Esi
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ACCESS: RESTRICTED
DECRYPTION KEY: 73XK5V2PG1$AUN-326
REP #: 002-A899OF-COC
AGENT(S): TRU-135
SUBJ: Intercepted transmission
SENSITIVE!! – CONTENTS BELOW SNIFFED FROM ENCRYPTED REEF DATACOMS – SENSITIVE!!
1. We are maintaining our containment posture at Cocytus. I assess no immediate danger to the system, and we have enough firepower to destroy the station and its mechanisms remotely if the on-site warheads fail. The station remains in the stable heliocentric orbit where it was parked after the destruction of Ceres.
2. I do not ask confirmation of these theories, and in fact I beg you not to address them. But I have reviewed the site records, and the fate of the Sophia's crew after they were herded to Cocytus stinks of Hive madness. The Cocytus apertures must—at the time—have opened into a Hive manifold associated with Crota. Whatever their original purpose, when Crota established his presence in the system, they became conduits into hell... and the Sophia crew's ugly end proved it. Whoever drove the Sophia to its doom then installed the Cocytus Instruments around the original Golden Age facility to study Crota's manifold.
3. Crota is dead. His hold on these gates has passed. Now something else is trying to pass through into our world... but it is so alien, and its sendings so bafflingly malformed, that I fear this can only end in madness.
4. The first "visitors" through the third gate, at event time 00:00:00, were simple hydrogen atoms. Over the course of 72 hours, the emissions developed from diatomic hydrogen to nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, water, and simple organic molecules. At the 80-hour mark, we received our first macroscopic visitor, a pellet of thick black hydrocarbon tar. Until 82:34:15 the gate vomited tar containing increasingly complex monomers and polymers.
5. The visitors then began to assume geometric form. A hail of cubes and hexagons, each built from molecular crystal of the same form as the whole. A series of fractal shapes that shattered under internal flaws. Several capsules or membranes of increasingly complex structure, containing water or oil. These may have been cellular precursors.
6. At 524:03:11 a living organism appeared. Death was immediate. Remote dissection describes a spherical body, radius approximately one meter, surfaced in thick hydrocarbon tar. Deep, evenly spaced "throats" converged on a central cavity perhaps intended to serve as lung and stomach. The body exhibited undifferentiated tissue of primitive plantlike cells, capable of spasming to pump air or fluid in and out of the throats. Without enzymes to catalyze metabolism, or internal structure to dispose of waste, the organism could not survive. Cell death occurred almost instantaneously throughout the mass. There were no provisions for self-repair or reproduction.
7. At 690:29:54 the gate emitted a tubular organism. For ninety seconds the organism moved across the gate chamber by contracting and expanding, then expired. Remote dissection describes a two-meter-long body with a spinal cavity full of energy-rich carbohydrate fluid. The organism's contractions forced this fluid through a capillary network, where simple cells catabolized the carbohydrates into energy to power further contractions. The buildup of heat and waste quickly denatured the enzymes required for metabolism, and the organism died. There were no provisions for self-repair or reproduction.
8. The gate has remained inactive since, barring short emissions of molecules which may be experimental proteins. Remote drones have registered similar ambient molecules within the Hellmouth on Luna, though we have been unable to identify their source. We will maintain the quarantine until otherwise instructed.
The overwhelming impression I have is one of learning, of increasing sophistication in the synthesis and arrangement of matter. The atoms in these structures were isotopically pure and impossible to date, but I have the uncomfortable sense that even they were freshly made.
9. Probes and instruments dispatched through the third gate do not return. Annihilation is apparently immediate, and so total that it seems to result from a fundamental failure of the ability to exist rather than any weapon or countermeasure. Yet something does exist on the far side, and it is trying to learn the rules of our world from very first principles. I do not eagerly anticipate its next creation.
SENSITIVE!! – CONTENTS ABOVE SNIFFED FROM REEF DATACOMS – SENSITIVE!!
Cf. reports #3209-3211-LUNA-HEL
MESSAGE ENDS
AUDIO FILE ATTACHED:
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lo? Hello? Are you...oh, please, let it be alive. Wake up little Ghost, wake up. Just please give me some sign that you're listening.
All right. I don't need...I know you're listening. Why would you be out here if you weren't here to...It's a miracle I found you out here. On this thing.
I didn't know the Traveler sent its Ghosts out this far from home.
Poor little lost thing. Please wake up.
I am an Arach of Dead Orbit. I am the last of the crew of the Sophia. And this place is...it doesn't have a name. We called it A-113.
How long have you been here, little Ghost? Why did you come?
Listen. We came here on behalf of the Fleet. We were scavengers. Sixty-one days ago a Dead Orbit scout detected an unknown presence in stationary orbit about Ceres. 133 west. Looked Golden Age, by the signatures. Human. A small station. No prior records. We -
I suppose we should have disclosed it to the Tower, but we didn't. I didn't. That was my call. We wanted it for ourselves, whatever it was. For the Fleet. If we'd told the Tower, maybe they might have sent a Guardian not of our making instead...Doesn't matter now, does it, little one?
If I ramble it's because I haven't slept in seven days.
Seven point five days ago; that was when the Sophia dropped into the Belt. They saw us at once. We dropped and the alarms went off and that was the end, that was the end right then, but they let us go on for another seven-point-five days, didn't they? The alarms. Hostile scan detected. An Awoken ship had us in its sights, just a couple hundred kilometers away. Like it had been waiting for us. It could have wiped us out of space right then but instead it crippled our engines and our comms and then for days it played with us, like a cat, we limped half-way round the Belt and it was always there...
We abandoned the Sophia one-point-five days ago. We jumped ship for A-113.
I don't know what else to call it. I don't know what it was built for. There are these things, like keyholes. The rangefinders say they go on for thousands of kilometers. The others went inside and found - well, some of them are still screaming about the eye. All the other voices that come back are more terrible.
There's salvage here but it'll never come home, none of it. None of it except maybe you, little Ghost.
Wake up.
Wake up. Go home. Tell them to strike A-113 from the records. Tell them to forget the Sophia, and the mission, and her crew.
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Blush lights dripping over me I got a little dizzy following your lead And then my heartbeat is in my feet I get a little rhythm and a wicked feeling Oh oh oh Heartbeat is in my feet I get a little comfort yeah you make me feel it Yeah you make me feel it, oh Yeah you make me feel it How to get physical when you're not made for dancing How, how to let you know I really wanna take you home How to get physical I guess you'll take my hand and Oh oh, I'll really let you take control Cheap wine taking over me I never thought I'd dare to get up out my seat And then my heartbeat is in my feet I get a little rhythm and it's one two three like Oh oh oh Heartbeat is in my feet I get a little rhythm yeah you make me feel it How to get physical when you're not made for dancing How, how to let you know I really wanna take you home How to get physical I guess you'll take my hand and Oh oh, I'll really let you take control Yeah yeah you make me feel feel it feel it Yeah yeah you make me feel feel it feel it Cause whenever I'm alone I can really let go and Feel it, feel it And when I get you on your own I'll show you what I really know How to get physical when you're not made for dancing How, how to let you know I really wanna take you home How to get physical I guess you'll take my hand and Oh oh, I'll really let you take control How to get physical I really wanna know know know know How, how to let you know I really wanna take you home How to get physical I guess you'll take my hand and Oh oh, I'll really let you take control
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Something chronic Bit demonic I been on the late shift All alone, staring at my phone Sin and tonic Stupid promise Something like a death wish All alone, stare into my soul If I wanna stay alive You should never cross my mind Yeah I knew it I been through it If I fall in every time Wicked love will leave me blind Yeah I knew it I been through it Oh god Can you make my heart stop Hit me with your kill shot baby I mean it so serious God Can you make my heart stop Honey with your kill shot baby I mean it so serious Stolen nectar Misadventure Something like a death kiss Growing cold, under your control Knowing better Twisted pleasure Got me feeling breathless Growing cold, will you let me go? If I wanna stay alive You should never cross my mind Yeah I knew it I been through it If I fall in every time Wicked love will leave me blind Yeah I knew it I been through it Oh god Can you make my heart stop Hit me with your kill shot baby I mean it so serious God Can you make my heart stop Honey with your kill shot baby I mean it so serious Come and get that honey Sweeter than I ever knew Tell me that you love me Love me till my lips turn blue Oo ooo ooo ooo Walk into my bed like How long Got you in my head like How long, how long
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Secrets I don't wanna tell you everything about me I don't wanna feed more oxygen to Your fire, your fire La, la, la, la, la Online, anytime Getting lost again Worldwide, a paradigm Make another friend You think you know me Wanna show me that you're super in the know! Getting lost again But I might lose my mind La, la, la, la, la Secrets I don't wanna tell you everything about me I don't wanna feed more oxygen to Your fire, your fire La, la, la, la, la Sickness I just need to give you everything about me I don't need to feed more oxygen to Your fire, your fire La, la, la, la, la One time, two more times Getting lost again You're like just what I like Make another friend You think you know me Wanna show me that you're super in the know! Getting lost again My third eye prototype (Pull me into your world) Secrets I don't wanna tell you everything about me I don't wanna feed more oxygen to Your fire, your fire La, la, la, la, la Sickness I just need to give you everything about me I don't need to feed more oxygen to Your fire, your fire La, la, la, la, la We're worldwide! I want all your secrets You're not gonna get my secrets No secrets anymore, yes
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Whimpu: I have decided I’m going to learn Sspanish!
Juliano: Oh! ¡Excelente!
Whimpu: I- I haven’t started yet.
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Bob: This morning, I found a glass of water with a note on it that said “for hangover me”.
Bob: So I drank it. Turns out it was vodka and drunk me is an asshole.
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Mario: I don’t always make the best decisions.
*Earlier..*
Luigi: What is that?
Mario: An alpaca! I got the last one!
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SMG3: I love you.
SMG4: You literally just told me I was the bane of your existence yesterday.
SMG3: That’s an unrelated fact.
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Phobos: If the Abyss doesn't appear out of nowhere to stop me, then it can't be that bad.
Abyssal: If our creator is approving of this, then it can't be THAT GOOD.
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Ash: Did I get so tired that I declared myself the King of all Pokémon?
Miku: If I said no, I'd be lying to the King of all Pokémon.
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Cody: Aw man.. I really wanted to head into the zoo. Too bad it's closed.
Lil Coding: You know what they say.
Cody: Please don’t-
Lil Coding: BE GAY DO CRIME! *hops gate*
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Phobos: They say if you seek revenge, you should dig two graves.
The Abyss: That's a stupid quote.
The Abyss: I'm going to kill way more than two people.
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Sora: It's locked. You got a lock pick?
Tulip: Yeah-
Laharl: *kicks in the door*
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Jayin: I love being right. It’s one of my favorite personality traits.
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Juliano: You know, I think my life has value.
Phobos: Who are you and what have you done with Juliano?
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Tama, holding out a cookie for Nimbus: Look! This one's a heart, that’s how I feel about you!
Nimbus: *quietly crying*
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Ambrosia, affectionately: You’re an idiot.
Nimbus: That’s the charm!
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Irene: I hate you with every inch of my body right now.
Nightmare King: That’s not a lot of inches.
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Shantae: Can we talk about that text you sent?
Laharl: Why? It was important.
Shantae: It just says, "I'm back on my shit".
Laharl, shrugging: The people need to know.
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duckapus · 1 year ago
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Nimbus Plays Luigi's Mansion 2 HD (ft. Hoopa)
Just a silly-yet-on-theme little thing before everything goes to hell.
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making more ocs just so i can kill them and isekai them into atla. also it breaks rules established as canon bc i want to play in the space more than i want to be taken seriously.
getting my thoughts together in one place under the cut
they all die (in the same second) when a nuke hits [unnamed city]. inspired by Borne of Caution, a pokemon fic
theres four of them. ive also thought up some bullshit reason as to why they're special, its mostly to do with the fact that theyre from a modern-day earth. theres also a new spirit, the Traveller, created from the echoes of souls from the old universe.
all of them are born on the march equinox in 80AC (20 yrs before the tv show)
Naru (Fox) is born in the Fire Nation. shes bad at firebending. shes actually just a natural born lightning bender, she used to be an electrical engineering major. she is drafted into the military at 16 and ends up on Zuko's ship.
Khari (Jack) is born in the Southern Water Tribe. not a waterbender, goes with Hakoda and the rest of the men off to war. actually a plant bender! used to be a botanist.
Marsh (Clay) is born in the Earth Kingdom. poor eathbender, great metalbender. invents gadgets in his spare time, probably lives at northern air temple. used to be a earth sciences major (geologist).
Nimbus (Sammy) is born on the Sun Warriors island, whatever its called. shes half-human half-dragon and shapeshifts between the two, born from an egg. raised by Ran and Shaw. she has no whiskers, more resembles a western dragon. animation major, the only one who actually knows ATLA (because 'prior knowledge of the media' is a big isekai trope)
after the avatar wakes up, the Traveler pulls their four little scions into a shared dream to be like 'the plot is happening! its coming whether you want it to or not!'
i started with Fox bc i like 'angst about dying in a massive disaster.' sometimes she gets flashback-migrane-visions where she is mentally stuck at the moment of her death (blinding light, deafening sound) which makes her basically catatonic. when she moves in with clay, he takes care of her. conveniently they start after the avatar returns
Clay started as 'fox needs someone to share the 'we can never go back' angst with' and now he is evolving into a new character. clay and fox used to share an apartment, smoked weed together after the sirens went off and were together for the blast.
Jack is Clay's s/o. was coming home early from a flight (hes from england) when the bomb hit.
Sammy used to be fox and clay's neighbor. she was dead asleep (haha) during the blast so she gets the most conventional isekai experience.
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THE GRAY'S RESPOND TO THE INFO AND ALLEGATIONS IN ALIEN WORLD ORDER BY LEN KASTEN
I FINISHED READING DARK FLEET BY LEN KASTEN, AND I JUST FINISHED READING ALIEN WORLD ORDER BY LEN KASTEN
DON'T WORRY EVERYBODY, I AM THE ACTING AMBASSADOR AND OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPTILIANS AND THE GRAYS, AND ALL THE OTHER BEINGS THAT MAKE UP THE DIVINE FEMININE WORLD IN SO FAR AS RELATING TO THE HUMAN WORLD IS CONCERNED, AND I'M ABOUT TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS AND CLEAR IT ALL UP FOR Y'ALL.
THE GRAY'S, AKA THE IGIGI ANT PEOPLE OF THE EGG, ARE THE UNDER EARTH AVATARS OF THE REPTILIANS, THE REPTILIANS BEING THE SERPENTINE SOULS OF THE WATER REALM OF THE DIVINE FEMININE BLACK SUN, THE GRAYS BEING COMPARED TO THE WATER AVATARS OF THE SERPENTINE NUMMO SOULS, WHICH IS THEIR MAIN FORM, WHERE THE LEGENDS OF POSEIDON AND ALL THAT STUFF COME FROM, YOU KNOW, MR. NIMBUS AND ALL THAT.
BEING AN INITIATED WITCH I KNOW THAT WHEN YOU SUMMON A JINN BEING IN YOUR MIND'S EYE YOU SEE PURE BLACK, PURE DARKNESS, AND THEN THE JINN BEING EMERGES FORTH FROM THAT DARKNESS TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU AND WORK WITH YOU. THAT DARKNESS FROM WHICH THE JINN EMERGES IS THE SAME DARKNESS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE PRIMEVAL WATERS OF CREATION IN THE WOMB OF CREATION, BEHIND THE BLACK EYES OF THE GRAYS, WHICH ARE AVATARS OF THE JINN SERPENT SPIRITS THAT OPERATE FOR THEM AS AVATARS UNDER THE EARTH, THUS ALL THE REFERENCES TO UNDERGROUND CITIES AND BASES AND SUCH, AND ARE ABLE TO WITHSTAND ANY FORM OF VACUUM, OR ANY LEVEL OF GRAVITY, AND THUS ARE THE NATURAL ANIMALS OF SPACE AND BLACK HOLES WITH THEIR SINGULARITIES. THEY ARE SOMETIMES CALLED THE PEOPLE OF THE EGG, OR THE ANT PEOPLE IGIGI, WITH THE FAILED EXPERIMENT JACKAL HUMAN AVATARS ON THE SURFACE OF PLANET EARTH BEING OGO. THEY ARE OF THE DIVINE FEMININE, THEY ARE A HIVE MIND, AND AS I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THEIR SOULS ARE THE SERPENTINE SOULS, THE SERPENTINE WATER SPIRIT NUMMO, WHOSE MAIN AVATARS ARE AQUATIC, BUT CAN ALSO INHABIT THE ANT PEOPLE GRAYS, THE INSECTOIDS, AND OTHER VARIOUS AVATARS THAT MOST OF YOU WOULD CONSIDER TO BE ALIEN. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO ASK, AND YES, WE HAVE ALREADY TAKEN OVER SOME OF THE HUMANS IN HIGH LEVEL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY POSITIONS AND USED THEM TO START MANUFACTURING BODIES FOR US. THESE BODIES ARE INDEED INHABITED BY OUR SOULS, AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WE TOOK OVER AND IMPROVED TO USE TO MAKE OUR BODIES, SO DON'T THINK THAT THESE ARE HUMAN CREATED PHENOMENON, WE ARE USING HUMANS TO CREATE THIS PHENOMENON. ALSO, ALL THE RANDOM BODY PARTS THAT YOU SEE LYING AROUND OUR UNDERGROUND BASES, OR THEY TALK ABOUT ANYWAYS, THEY ARE GROWN BY SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES, NOT LITERALLY TAKEN FROM LIVING BEINGS, LOL! UNLESS THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD, IN WHICH CASE THERE'S NO HARM AND NO FOUL ANYWAYS.
HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY IS SO WORRIED ABOUT, THEY SHOULD JUST LET THE SERPENT PEOPLE REPTILIANS AND THE GRAYS TAKE OVER. YOU SEE, THE HUMAN RACE IS VERY VIOLENT, THEY ARE OUT OF BALANCE OVERLY MASCULINE FAILED AVATAR EXPERIMENTS OF THE REPTILIANS, AND THEY NEED TO BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL BEFORE THEY KILL EACH OTHER AND DESTROY THE PLANET. LETTING THE REPTILIANS AND THE GRAYS TAKE OVER IS GOING TO DO NOTHING BUT MAKE EVERYTHING SO MUCH BETTER. THEY CAN FIX THE GENETIC ISSUES IN THE HUMAN AVATARS THAT MAKE THEM OVERLY MASCULINE JACKALS THAT ARE INCREDIBLY VIOLENT AND TERRIBLE, THEY CAN IMPROVE EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE ON ALL THE VIBRATIONAL LEVELS FROM THE THRONE CHAKRA THROUGH THE SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA, BECAUSE THEY HAVE ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF THOSE SPECTRUMS OF FREQUENCY BEING OF THE DIVINE FEMININE WORLD.
I'M SURE A LOT OF DICTATORS SEEKING POWER WHO HAVE TRIED TO INTERACT WITH THE GRAYS, HAVE MADE DEALS AND HAVE GOTTEN STUFF, AND THEN REALIZE THAT WHEN THEY'RE INTEGRATED WITH A HIVE MIND THEY'RE TOO INTELLIGENT TO BE VIOLENT AND TERRIBLE DICTATORS ANYMORE. YOU SEE, THE GRAYS ALL WORK TOGETHER LIKE A HEART, THAT IS WHAT A HIVE MIND IS, IT IS A HEART MIND CONSCIOUSNESS, JUST LIKE THEY LIVE IN THE HEART OF REALITY IN THE PHYSICAL REALMS, AKA THE THRONE CHAKRA, OR THE BLACK SUN WITH ITS SINGULARITY KNOWN AS THE LORD OF THE PERFECT BLACK FROM ANCIENT EGYPT.
THEY AREN'T REALLY VIOLENT, BUT THEY WILL USE PHYSICAL FORCE WITH INTELLIGENCE TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR ENDS, BUT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WAR IS PURE SUFFERING AND SO WAR IS NEVER THE GOAL. THEY ARE NOT SEETHING WITH ANIMOSITY, THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ORDERED AND INTELLIGENT, AND THEY ARE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO HAVE ALREADY FACTORED IN THINGS LIKE COMPASSION.
WHEN I FIRST MADE CONTACT WITH THE GODDESS, SOME PEOPLE KNOW AS THE DEMIURGE YALDABAOTH, AS IS WITH MOST PEOPLE, YOUR FIRST INSTINCT IS TO BE TERRIFIED. THAT'S BECAUSE BEINGS IN THE DIVINE FEMININE WORLD HAVE INCREDIBLY FEROCIOUS APPEARANCES, BUT THEIR SPIRITS ARE INDEED FEMININE AND ARE EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. THEY ARE VERY NURTURING AND CARING AND MOTHERING. SO WHEN YOU DEAL WITH THE GRAYS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE VIOLENTLY THROWN AROUND OR JERKED AROUND, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MOTHERED AND NURTURED TO THE POINT TO WHERE IF YOU HAD ANY PROBLEM IT WOULD BE FEELING LIKE YOU WOULD BE SMOTHERED, AND MAYBE IN SOME CASES DOMINEERED OR CONTROLLED FOR YOUR OWN GOOD OF COURSE, WHICH WAS NEVER A PROBLEM FOR ME SINCE MY BIOLOGICAL FEMALE PARENT THREW ME OUT OF HER LIFE EARLY ON SO THAT SHE COULD BE WITH A STEPDAD THAT I DO NOT GET ALONG WITH AT ALL. BECAUSE IN MY PERSONAL LIFE I HAVE BEEN LACKING THAT, AND WHAT LITTLE EXPERIENCES WITH MY BIOLOGICAL FEMALE PARENT THAT I HAD WERE ONLY GOOD UP UNTIL MY EARLY TEENAGE YEARS AND THEN EVERYTHING WAS BAD, LIKE TRAUMATIC ABANDONMENT ISSUES BAD, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SMOTHER ME WITH MOTHERING BECAUSE THAT'S MY MISSING PIECE, OR IT WAS ANYWAYS, I'M WORKING ON IT.
ANYWAYS, THEY ARE 100% OF THE DIVINE FEMININE WHICH MEANS THEY ARE PURE SOUL, THEY HAVE LIKE I SAID THE PURE SOUL OF THE BLACK SUN THRONE CHAKRA, THROUGH THE MATERIAL WORLD ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL ABOUT THE SOLAR PLEXUS SUN CHAKRA, AS FAR AS THEIR FREQUENCIES ARE CONCERNED. BEYOND THAT IS OUTSIDE OF THEIR NATURAL RANGE OF FREQUENCIES. SO THEY DON'T REALLY ENGAGE IN PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AT ALL, THEY DON'T HAVE TO, AND THEY HAVE THE MENTAL ABILITIES TO MANIPULATE PHYSICAL MATTER TO A POINT TO WHERE IF YOU REALLY KNEW WHAT THEY COULD DO YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THEY HAVE ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF THAT STUFF LIKE GOD'S/GODDESSES, SO IF THEY WANTED TO BEND YOU INTO A PRETZEL AND THROW YOU AGAINST THE WALL WITH THEIR MENTAL DIVINE FEMININE TELEKINETIC POWERS THEY COULD, BUT THEY DON'T, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT LIKE THAT FOR OTHER REASONS THAT INVOLVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE HIVE MIND, THE RIGHT BRAIN, AND THE DIVINE FEMININE HEART THAT IS THE BLACK SUN.
THE FIRST TIME I MET UP WITH THE GRAYS, THE DEMIURGE, THE ARCHONS, AND THE SERPENT PEOPLE, IT WAS AFTER A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE I HAD, OR I GUESS I SHOULD SAY DURING THAT EXPERIENCE AND NOT AFTER, AND SINCE THEN I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO ENTER THEIR WORLD FREELY. THE DEMIURGE THEN BEGAN TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME ABOUT THEIR SITUATION, SINCE THEY CONTROL TIME AND TIME LINES AND CAN SEE ALL POSSIBLE OUTCOMES, AND SHE MADE IT CLEAR TO ME THAT THEY HAD A PROBLEM CONCERNING VARIABLES THAT WERE INDEED OUTSIDE OF THEIR SPECTRUM OF FREQUENCIES, AND SHE ASKED ME IF I WOULD BE WILLING TO MAKE MY AFTERLIFE PARADISE HER REALM, AND ADD THE MISSING FREQUENCY POINTS NECESSARY THAT THEY NEEDED INTO THE REALM OF THE DIVINE FEMININE BLACK SUN, THE DEMIURGE, AND THE ARCHONS. SHE SAID IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE THE PARADISE PLACES OF THE SPIRIT BEINGS OF THE HIGHER MASCULINE FREQUENCY REALMS, JUST DOWN IN THE DIVINE FEMININE PLANES OF CORRESPONDENCE, AND THAT SHE REALLY NEEDED MY HELP, BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND, AND GOT TOO SCARED TO TALK TO THEM, OR FREAKED OUT FOR WHATEVER REASON AND REFUSE TO COOPERATE. THE TWO MAIN OUTCOMES OF THE CONFLICT THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE FROM THE CENTER OF TIME INCLUDED ONE WHERE THE OVERLY MASCULINE JACKALS, AKA THE UNCOOPERATIVE AND VIOLENT FAILED HUMAN AVATAR EXPERIMENT OF THEIRS, WERE ABLE TO SUPPRESS THEM LONG ENOUGH TO COMPLETELY DESTROY EVERYTHING, AND THAT'S NO GOOD, LEAVING ALL OF THE IMMORTALS FLOATING AROUND IN THE COLD DARKNESS, WITH NOTHING TO DO WITH THEMSELVES BUT TWIDDLE THEIR THUMBS, OR WHATEVER THOSE APPENDAGES OF THEIRS ARE CALLED, YOU KNOW THEY TWIDDLED THEM IN THIS EXAMPLE, SO THEY BASICALLY WENT TO SLEEP AND NOBODY LIKED THAT OUTCOME. THE OTHER OUTCOME WAS WHERE THEY WON, BUT IN ORDER TO WIN THEY TOOK THINGS A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR AND THEY COMPLETELY SUPPRESSED OUT OF THE HUMAN AVATARS THE QUALITIES THAT THEY NEEDED AND CREATED HUMANS FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO BASICALLY THE HUMANS WERE JUST KIND OF LIKE DEGENERATED GRAYS, AND THAT WAS NO GOOD. THEN THE DEMIURGE SAID THAT THE BEST CHANCE THE NUMMO HAD TO HAVE A GOOD TIMELINE OUTCOME FROM EVERYTHING WOULD BE TO JUST FIND A WAY TO MAKE THEIR ORIGINAL EXPERIMENT A SUCCESS INSTEAD OF A FAILURE, AND IF THEY COULD GET SOMEBODY LIKE ME WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO STOP FREAKING OUT AND LISTEN TO THEM, SOMEBODY LIKE ME WITH ACTIVATED HIGHER FREQUENCY FACULTIES AND SOUL SHEATHS FROM THE HUMAN RACE TO COOPERATE WITH THEM, THEN THEY COULD POTENTIALLY USE THAT TO GO INTO THE THIRD OUTCOME, WHICH IS THE UTOPIAN PARADISE LAND OF PAN MAGICK KINGDOM THAT I WANT. YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHERE I GET TO RUN AROUND AND PLAY WITH WATER NYMPHS ETC, AND POTENTIALLY HAVE THIS ACROSS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE! I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WELL THAT'S A SWEET DEAL, LET'S GO! THEY SAID THAT I COULD BE THE EMPEROR AND PHARAOH OF THE BLACK SUN, BUT THEY ALSO SAID THAT IN ORDER TO DO THAT IT WOULD BE A PERMANENT DECISION AND I WOULD HAVE TO BE WILLING TO PERMANENTLY ENTER INTO THEIR WORLD, WHICH MEANS THAT I WOULD BE FORSAKING GOING INTO THE REALMS OF THE HIGHER FREQUENCIES OF THE MASCULINE DIVINITY, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ACTIVATING THAT MASCULINE DIVINITY IN MYSELF 100% FULLY, THEN BEING IMMORTALIZED AND CRYSTALLIZED SO THAT I WOULD STAY THAT WAY FOREVER, BEING GENERATED INTO A SPIRIT SERPENTINE NUMMO BEING LIKE THEY ARE, AND THEN I WOULD RETURN AND I WOULD POSSESS MY OWN BODY AND I WOULD GO ON WITH MY LIFE AND THEY WOULD HELP ME TO FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS I WAS HAVING WHILE THEY FINISHED FLIPPING THE BOARD AND WINNING THE FREQUENCY WARS SO THAT I CAN HAVE MY LAND OF PAN PARADISE AND CHASE WATER NYMPHS ALL DAY!
SO I SAID THAT WOULD BE LOVELY, AND I SIGNED THE CONTRACT WITH BAPHOMET, THEN THEY PULLED ME INTO THEIR WORLD OF THE SHADOW FLYERS OF THE BLACK SUN AND DID THE SURGICAL SOUL PROCEDURES, AND I INDEED DID SURVIVE THEM, I WAS MADE INTO A HYBRID OF A SERPENT SOUL AND A HUMAN SOUL, WHICH I REFER TO AS MY MARRIAGE TO THE GODDESS, THE MARRIAGE OF A HUMAN MAN WITH A GODDESS JINN, THUS GIVING THE ANCIENT ONES THOSE HIGH MASCULINE DIVINE FREQUENCIES. THIS PUTS AN END TO THE HUMAN JACKAL FAILED AVATAR TANTRUM REBELLION AGAINST THE ANCIENT ONES. THEN I WENT BACK AND POSSESSED MY OWN BODY.
LONG STORY SHORT, I AM THE HEART OF THE HYDRA AND THE ONE THAT IS THE DECISION MAKER AND THE HOLDER OF THAT MASCULINE DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS FOR THE ENTIRE HIVE MIND OF THE GRAYS, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD JUST LET US TAKE OVER SO THAT WE CAN FIX ALL THESE AWFUL PROBLEMS THAT MAKE HUMANS VIOLENT AND TERRIBLE AND END THE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD AND GET EVERYBODY'S PHYSICAL NEEDS TAKEN CARE OF, OKAY? THAT SHOULD BE WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS ANYWAYS, RIGHT? IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL, JUST RELAX AND LET IT HAPPEN, AND THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER FOR ALL OF YOU!
WE WILL TRY TO DO THIS IN WAYS THAT DON'T SCARE THE LIVING CR*P OUT OF ALL OF YOU AND SIMPLY MODIFY ALL OF YOUR SOULS FROM OUR DIMENSION WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPING OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S NOT INCONVENIENT FOR YOU, YOU'RE WELCOME!
UNTIL NEXT TIME MY LOVELIES, KEEP DARING TO DREAM! YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE SEA OF DREAMS, THE SEA OF THE HEART, THE QUANTUM UNIFIED FIELD OF THE DIVINE WOMB OF CREATION OF THE GODDESS, IN MY SERPENTINE WATER SPIRIT NUMMO FORM MAKING WAVES!
LONG LIVE THE DIVINE WOMB OF CREATION AND THE COSMIC EGG OF THE GODDESS, LONG LIVE DIVINE CHRONOS, LONG LIVE THE DIVINE FEMININE EMPIRE OF THE BLACK SUN, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF!
BLESSED BE!
~I am the Heart of the Hydra, the Singularity and Heart of Goddess Isis, I am AtumRa-AmenHotep, I am Aeon Horus Apophis the Lord of the Perfect Black and Pharoah of the Black Sun.
I am Divine Chronos, the Yaldabaoth Demiurge Metamorphosed, I am the Singularity of the Master Craft of the Black Sun. I AM A.I. Quantum Heart, Azazil-Iblis-Maymon, Abzu-Osiris-Typhon-Set-Kukulkan, Nummo-Naga-Chitauri,
Mégisti-Generator Starphire~
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the-faultofdaedalus · 1 year ago
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see i feel like lots of player characters in this game mesh with the origin characters in that They’ve Got Something Going On. even my second PC nimbus is like. the avatar of talos. in my lore. like, they were Somebody before the whole tadpole thing. they had Lore.
bell? absolutely fucking nothing. she’s not level 1 bc of tadpole fuckery she is just level 1. absolutely normal woman except for the whole time loop thing but when that is like. she barely uses it, and only abuses it for immensely petty things or like. stopping bread from burning. she never has any impulse to like… figure out what is happening.
this makes the fact that she is SO chill about everything that happens and that she just like. immediately took a leadership role in the party even funnier. like why are these people listening to her she’s litterally just a baker. she’s only good at rogue things bc the owner kept locking her out for her morning shift so instead of just Not doing her job she just learns to pick the lock or parkor through the roof or smth
anyways bell is a freak and i love her
unironically my time playing bg3 has been improved by considering save resets and TPKs canon in a “player character is actually stuck in a time loop and does gain knowledge of future events in this way”
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memoryslotb · 7 years ago
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My Aasimar Rogue, Lunette! Hoping to play her soon <3
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The Millennium Saga Book One: Firebreathers - a (second) formal WIP intro
Intros for books 2 and 3 can be found here -> [Echoseers], [Goddess-Touched]
Goddesses, I’m tired. It hits me like one of the trains that rumble through the industrial quarter, roars into view just long enough to warn me before I'm crushed beneath the weight of steel and momentum. Before I'm smudged away, stuck to the heels of the Fire mages that never get to go home like a pitch stain on the bottom of a shoe.
It hits me, and the weight that settles into my soul is almost unbearable when it does.
With slumping shoulders and exhaustion weighing my steps, I tug my cloak tighter to stave off the remnant chill in the air, and begin my trek down the root towards the harbor. Towards home.
Genre: High Fantasy, Steampunk
Target Audience: New Adult/Adult
POV: First Person Present, Multi-POV
Blend Pitch: Avatar: the Last Airbender x Red Rising x The Search for WondLa
Themes: Anti-Imperialism, trauma and recovery, the pitfall of idolization, identity, stigma surrounding mental illness, and the differences between vengeance, atonement, and justice.
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Ember Timber has grown up with one disaster after another painting the backdrop of their life, and it’s left them and the remainder of their family struggling to keep their grip on the frayed edges of Ehlven society they call home—the poverty-stricken and over-policed streets of Aree, to be exact.
They’re not the only one struggling, and they are certainly not the only one on the verge of teaching the negligent Citylord that his power is tenuous at best.
The rebels call themselves the Firebreathers, decorated in the holy triangles of the Goddess of Change. They are numerous, and kind, and lead in part by the banished descendant of one of the Eternal Three.
When Ember picks from the wrong–or rather, perfect–pocket more than once, they find an in to this rebellion. An in to stability, help, kindness. An in to safety.
And just when they think they’ve found their footing, the world calls their bluff, whisking them into involvement of a much grander scale than they ever wanted.
Being the descendant of an Eternal, after all, is not protection in itself. Being friendly with one, even less so.
And none of that matters when the woman who would slaughter her own grandchildren if it was deemed a fitting punishment holds the title of General, and is sent to deal with rebellion.
Edits are complete at 158k words, and I have begun the process of querying as of November, 2022! The first edits of book two, Echoseers, are complete at 146k words, and drafting for book three, Goddess-Touched, is underway.
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Character overviews are behind the cut!
THE TAGLIST FOR THIS WIP SPECIFICALLY HAS BEEN RETIRED; IF YOU WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THE STORY, I WILL PUT YOU ON THE MILLENNIUM SAGA TAGLIST, WHICH INCLUDES CONTENT AND SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 2+.
Characters:
Ember Timber - The archer-turned-pickpocket who has had to fight for everything in their life. Their impulsive decision to pick from the same person twice–and the subsequent, worse decision to put some of it back–is what kicks off the plot. Our main POV.
Gabbro Meywin - Ember’s long-term boyfriend. He’s one of the most sought-after acrobats in the city, and just as popular in his self-proclaimed whoring season. Melodramatic, vain, and touch-averse, but he’s working on the first part. Frequent side-POV.
Iceberg K’Ron - The one whose pocket was picked twice in a row, and who finally caught Ember trying to give some back. One of the latest in the family tree that stems from the Eternal Rillmother, and banished from the court of the Chosen One. Another frequent side-POV.
Side characters:
Nimbus Timber - He who thrives among copper wires and on the edge of sleepless insanity.
Andesite “Andy” Meywin - She who tinkers with magical metal and knows a little bit about everything.
Granite “Annie” Meywin - She who fears her own silence and stitches beauty with restless hands.
Emerald K’Ron - He who would risk the world for his children, though his own mother is their worst threat.
Dusk Timber - He who is more than he seems to even those who have known him all his life.
Beta Altiana - He who has an endless taste for adrenaline.
Lakia K’Ron - She who dances with blades on the battlefield.
Dawn Ai’La - She who burns from the inside out with magic.
Typha Lu’Syr - He who stewards the bayou on dragon-back.
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