With the discussion of the blockade put behind them, an unfortunate and untimely inheritance from his recently departed brother, Claudius bent an eye to Laertes, the son of his most loyal steward Polonius. “Come Laertes ascend the steps at my side, I …
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Dogs didn’t live long in the Tangle, the Spire didn’t allow it. They were a “burden” on the system. But Crab had somehow defied the odds, somehow avoided the culling, and thrived in the shadows. Ophelia looked down at her adopted, …
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Vek Technician: Study carefully the example specimen shown below. While Vek Technicians themselves are deadly physical and mental adversaries, the Ultra Technician is the most formidable of their kind. As you well know the Technician is one of the three …
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Note: This vignette is a continuation from Heavy Metal. Our transport pushed through the shell and entered Nullspace, the void between realities, a shortcut that allows humanity to bypass its shell of reality and travel the galaxy at greatly reduced time. Or …
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Most people get a sense of home when returning to haunts where they’ve grown up. Not Horatio. He loathed the Tangle, but from time to time certain aspects of his servitude required that he descend from the Spire when he …
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Eight years. He’d spent eight years clawing his way halfway across the planet to get back home to Michelle. Earth was no longer a place of rules, comforts, or even sanity. It had all ended after Alpha had achieved consciousness …
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Note: This vignette is a continuation from City Red. Collector AIs 4K9QEKDQ and B9Y5YBHV exited the mundanity of the elevator, forced to adhere to the same loose physical laws of Möbius City as clients. After all, who would want to …
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Note: This vignette is a continuation from Heist. The Cleaner pulled himself over the lip of the building’s roof and uncloaked. He looked over his domain . . . Möbius City, gathering place for all the rabble and freeloaders looking to …
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Fortinbras’ mechglider burst through the cloud deck, its leading edges still glowing from the heat of atmospheric re-entry and its shock wave leaving behind an ever expanding hole through which faint blue sky could be seen. He was just off Hamlet’s …
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Word of the day: Improvise. Most Citizen rats improvise by deciding what to eat for lunch or who to kowtow to each day. Their identities are chosen for them and the concept of destiny taken from them at birth. Not …
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Infinispace Infinite worlds, infinite possibilities.