Tag: story
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Secret stairs, Guardian pair High above the Pass of the Damned, hidden beyond the edge of the cliff, there’s secret stairs carved in ancient masonry that no one knows the origin. Scholars still speculate on this artificial construction, and many adventurers went looking for a way inside to what must be some forgotten dungeon full…
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Bazaar of nowhere Today’s too heavy, too sunny. Enclosed inside theses high wall, no wind that can reach us. So we sit behind our goods and we wait for a customer, a visitor, a thief… whatever you’ll be.There’s nowhere to go for us, we don’t exist in the outside world. Only necessity can reach us.…
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Late-night visitor The old librarian has seen all sort of unusual faces. Albinos, vitiligo, prehensil forked tong, tattooed irises, pointy ears, glowing blue eyes, missing nose, mechanical, reptilian… You name it. He’s seen so many face to the point of being desensitized. For someone who deals with ideas and words, he thought of it as…
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Inktober 31 – Risk Living in Space is assessing risks. Living is assessing risks.Should I do this? Or that? Should I destroy a newly discovered intelligent species and kill what’s left of my crew?Should I let a space-traveling, invasive hive-mind alien take over a desolated moon? Captain Horacio has made a choice. What is yours?…
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Inktober 30 – Slither All’s done.Pressure ok.Oxy-tank full.Warp engine stable.Antimatter fuel tank full.Van Halen deflectors operational.Navcomputer online and calibrated. Horacio slithers into the cockpit and took a brief look outside: Ever growing crystals. Raven. Doc. The crew, or whatever they have become.Her hands reach for the com. She tries to say something but can’t. What’s…
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Inktober 29 – Patch The good thing about focusing on a task, is that you can ignore your environment.You can ignore the crystals that kept on growing and set up a life support module with Doc’s help.You can ignore the faint presence at the back of your skull and gather the tools to set up…
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Inktober 28 – Crispy She slowly stands up and feels something crispy under her suit… crystals.She sees Raven walking nearby, his helmet’s wide open. She could… might… No. There’s nothing to do but returning to the ship. Now… slow and steady. No rush. Oxy’s fine and so’s the suit. One cut and she will be…
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Inktober 27 – Connect Like a cable that is cut, Horacio is disconnected from the network, disconnected from them.Her integrity restored; she slowly starts to regain consciousness of her environment. It hurts a bit.A quick glance at the oximeter, all right. No pressure drop. No leak. Chrono tells her she was out for no more…
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Inktober 26 – Extinct New memories, new connections. Memories not her own.Horacio’s not dreaming, she’s remembering.There was there was a world, a long time ago.Like earth, life happened, thrived, evolved.Like earth, humanoids took the lead and built cities.Like earth, knowledge was created and lost.Unlike earth, they discovered how to rebuild their brains on periodic molecular…
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Inktober 25 – Spark Captain’s log, supplemental. I… I don’t think I’m talking. I don’t know where I am. I can’t feel a thing. Everything’s dark. Pitch black. No… incorrect. I can’t see, can’t hear, can’t feel a thing. There’s no darkness if I can’t see. Seeing nothing isn’t not seeing. What am I thinking? Am…