TGCP Chapter 7: The Endless Cycle
Name: Paradox
Species: Snake, Ouroboros
Major Title: [The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail]
Minor Titles: None
Innate Traits: [Venomous II]
Blooded Traits: None 2021-02-21 18:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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TGCP Chapter 6: Threads of Red
I found myself stuck, unable to slither away. The mother Aridae continued to drift down on her shimmering thread, its arrival as inevitable as the Great Core’s victory.
Or at least, I hoped the Great Core’s victory was inevitable.
I prayed for it, because otherwise things were looking extremely bad right about...
2021-02-21 03:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostTGCP Chapter 5: An Agonizing Thirst
I thrashed, doing my best to dislodge the bad-thing that had ambushed me. Its fangs loosened, and it skittered to the side. I could feel a cool sensation spreading through me, starting from where the thing’s fangs had cut through my scales. Already, I could feel myself beginning to slightly slow, my reactions impeded by whatever ven...
2021-02-21 00:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 30: Stonewolf
It was a scream that I hadn’t expected to hear. Of all of the mercenaries, Katrina had seemed the most indomitable. She had seemed that way because she simply was. The woman carried herself with a poise and confidence that reflected her utter faith in her own abilities - a faith that was, in many ways, entirely justified. T...
2021-02-20 20:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostTGCP Chapter 4: The Glow Of Dead Scale-Flesh
What did it mean?
My discarded scale-flesh glowed with the same light as the Great Core. I remembered vividly, despite the distraction of the fire-pain, the feeling of the Great Core changing. I remembered the overwhelming hot-fire that pierced through my head-scales.
I remembered the flickering of the th...
2021-02-19 05:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 29: Swirling Clouds
Roy puffed, his desperate breaths feeling as if they were cutting into his inflamed throat. The High Market was somewhere he was rather unfamiliar with before the day’s start. He had always kept his activities near the Low District, in the hopes - or rather, the certain knowledge - that the Spectral Guard did not keep as close a wat...
2021-02-18 20:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostTGCP Chapter 3: The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail
Still working on the current chapter for Risen, have been given a bit of trouble by the recent weather. I should be able to finish it late tonight or sometime tomorrow, depending on how quickly I can write it. For now, here's a chapter of The Great Core's Paradox.
The sacred-spots shifted their locations; a slow-spot press...
2021-02-18 01:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 28: The First Taste
“Looks like you were worried for nothing, huh?” Roy teased as the sun fell. Despite his words, he had been notably concerned throughout the day. Part of that had been my fault; I had taken care to impress upon him the dangerousness of the Gray Woman, along with his own relative helplessness. Though he had already begun to take Jac...
2021-02-15 23:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 27: Guard Detail
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I was surprised - and more than a little concerned - to see that Roy was going to join us in the High Market guard detail. I supposed that it shouldn’t have been entirely startling; he was, after all, now a member of Katrina’s Killers - and it was Katrina’s Killers that held the contract t...
2021-02-11 01:37:31 +0000 UTC View PostTGCP Chapter 2: For The Great Core
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I leapt from my hiding place, uncoiling my length and springing into the air. My mouth opened wide in a defiant hiss just as I hit a sacred fast-spot that suddenly appeared in my path. The Great Core was smiling upon me. I would succeed. I would drive away the evil baddest-things.
My speed of trave...
2021-02-10 04:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostTGCP Chapter 1: The Little Snake And The Bad-Things
I curled upon myself, idly chewing the tip of my tail. The Great Core - even smaller than myself - rested upon its nearby pedestal. Gleaming light shone down upon me like a divine benediction. Somehow, it warmed my scales, a soothing comfort in the otherwise damp and cold room that we called home.
It was just the two of us - the...
2021-02-09 05:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 26: A Gray Dust Powderkeg
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It took some time for me to find myself. I don’t mean that in some sort of philosophical sense. Rather, it was more difficult than I had expected to find the building where my optera-self lay in broken pieces. I supposed that I could have left it there; it’s not as if it would bleed out. That, howeve...
2021-02-08 20:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 25: A Warning Drop
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“Well, Alexander?” the masked woman asked impatiently. Her voice was heavily distorted, giving the words a sort of aberrant quality. It was a shame; I had been hoping to be able to see or hear something to allow me to identify her. Then again, there was a reason why both heroes and villains ...
2021-02-03 20:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 24: Every Villain Needs A Hero
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My enthusiasm was dampened slightly by my current dilemma: I was still ‘dead’ on the warehouse floor. Though I could leave any time I wanted, I’d prefer for my would-be murderers to not realize that their conclusions had been invalid.
Fortunately, dawn was soon to arrive and they had no desir...
2021-02-01 23:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 23: Every Hero Needs A Villain
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The blurry vision of my orthopt-self painted a rather dire scene. I say ‘painted’ because of the resemblance it held to a work of art that I once saw in a museum. A man surrounded by malevolent figures shaded in hues of black and gray. Someone stood behind him, weapon raised, betrayal imminent. The a...
2021-02-01 23:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostRisen Chapter 22: Dangerous Curiosity
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“Please, just stop,” Mel begged. “You’re only hurting yourself more.”
I knew that she was right. She always was. Always so smart, always so kind, always so...nothing, now. Nothing but my own insanity. Nothing but a memory of her voice.
My head lolled, made heav...
2021-02-01 23:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: The Scent of Fear
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“Every idiot out there thinks it would be great to directly control a big bad monster like the Axtail you saw Markus fight - but I’m sure you saw its controller. The man might as well have been a vegetable. Completely defenseless; it would be far too easy to take him out, rather than wasting time try...
2021-02-01 23:05:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Hero For Hire
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It took only a moment’s thought.
It rarely took more than that, really. It was, after all, the thought of only a moment that recommended the guilty avoid responsibility. The thought of only a moment that cajoled the weary into capitulation. The thought of only a moment that required the fearful t...
2021-02-01 23:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: What You Are
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I was worried. Something was wrong.
Roy had arrived, at long last, but he looked far different than before. The former thief’s eyes were sunken, underlined by the dark circles that stood out prominently on his ever-paling face. He shivered, his hands trembling; his shoulders slumped under some in...
2021-02-01 23:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Thief In The Night
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I had found myself surprisingly intrigued. While the powers that Katrina and Jack had displayed - Katrina in particular - would have made them rather effective heroes, I had yet to hear notable mention of heroes.
Where had they gone?
Surely, they still existed.
In fact, there were a num...
2021-02-01 23:01:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Katrina’s Killers
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I leaned against the alley’s wall, one hand braced against it while the other directed the stream of fluid. It dripped down, forming a small puddle on the ground below me.
“Hey!” I heard a voice shout. “You can’t do that here!”
Can’t a man empty out his beer in an alleyway w...
2021-02-01 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: The Hunt
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I was a bit shaken.
Though I knew that it wasn’t actually me, that I was only a mind piloting the limbs of the spider, dying had not been comfortable. I had felt my mind tear away from its pulverized corpse, ripped asunder at the moment of its death.
I felt less.
It was stran...
2021-02-01 22:58:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Destroyer of Men; Killer of Spiders
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There, in the empty shop, I learned far more about the soul I had replaced than I might have wished.
“I failed Sylv,” Gil lamented. “I lost her boy, just like I lost his father. Sylv, Victor’s mother and my own sister, left on a business trip to Orham a few months ago. She was trapped insid...
2021-02-01 22:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: Loss and Memory
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“I love you, Eran.”
The words repeated ad nauseam, spilling into themselves again and again, forming a droning buzz that was simultaneously heartening and heartbreaking.
True awareness slipped in like an early morning drizzle; sputtering in fits and stops, hesitant...
2021-02-01 22:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: The Dark
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A thousand, thousand legs crawled across my skin; they spilled from my bleeding wounds, poured from my gaping throat, dripped from my open mouth.
Spiders seeped from my skin, venoms both minor and major dripping from their maws. Wasps whizzed from my wounds, stingers held in the air. Cent...
2021-02-01 22:53:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: A Better Choice
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Nations of Rothel:
The Veil: The nation of Inath, former Savior of Seals, otherwise known as the Suborned Savior, is the source o...
2021-02-01 22:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post