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18-4 Seize the Roots (I)

Can I light up some hiflass? You mind? No. Alright, good.

So. Trafficking. You can’t stop it. You can never stop it. You wanna stop it? That’s a problem for the Agnosi. Ask them how many Heavens there are. Ask them how many ...

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18-3 Playing God

New Vultun will be made up of 35313 districts by 288 P.G. That is 4414 trans-polity post-mortem taxable zones. Sovereignties, in a word.

At the rate things are currently progressing, we will only reap 12% of the total taxable de...

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18-2 Initiative

+Another day, another outbreak. Pour one out to the unfortunates at Veng’s Stand today, consangs.

It’s looking pretty bad. But what’s different about today?

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18-1 Moving Pieces

I do not believe that most of us qualify as human.

Not truly.

The darkest test of apotheosis has been a war against hatred. Hatred of humanity. Hatred of culture. Hatred o...

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17-19 Cling

{ATTENTION CITIZENS:

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MASS SUICIDES AT [HEAVY ALLOY PLANT Z-1338] IN DISTRICT [2GATE] HAS BEEN CONCLUDED (focus here to relive death simulations).

TRAWLERS HAVE DETERMINED (0) SUSPECTS IN...

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17-18 The Squire

+Instrument. It’s me. Do you know about what’s happening at Veng’s Stand?+

+I am aware. We have a few Liebreakers monitoring the situation. The Planeshift is there as well. Eh. Wombrash. Nasty way to die. Kazahara… Did you know ...

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17-17 A New Angle

+Rab. I’m inside Layer One. Our “consang” made a tunnel complex of some kind all the way down through the district–couldn’t stay topside, streets and skies are crawling with glassers right now. Had to snuff two that were following me...

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17-16 A Moment Most Feared (II)

Shotin Kazahara: No.

Kare Kitzuhada: I’ve already taken my oaths, uncle. I’m not requesting permission, I’m informing you that I’m do...

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17-15 A Moment Most Feared (I)

+Kare. I, uh, I need to talk to you. I thought–I asked them to be the one to tell you that… oh, gods, oh fuck. I–it shouldn’t have happened. She wasn’t a soldier, they shouldn’t–the fucking Paladins were useless and–and they sh...

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17-14 Outbreak (II)

+ATTENTION ALL SUBJECTS! THE DISTRICT: [VENG’S STAND] IS NOW UNDER QUARANTINE! WOMBRASH OUTBREAK IN PROGRESS!

PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR HOMES AND SHELTER IN PLACE.

PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS ANY NETHER LOBBIES HOSTED IN T...

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17-13 Outbreak (I)

Alright, that’s it, everyone’s… oh… oh, no… No! NO! AGHHHHHGHHHG–

-Paladin Baers upon entering Veng’s Stand and contracting the Rash

17-13

Outbreak (I)

An important thing to remember when someone was ...

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17-12 The Rash Abides (III)

Judge Ygwamawe: Let this recording stand as the third attempt to censure Seeker Shotin Kazahara on the counts of insubordination, ignoring direct commands from a superior body, assault on a superior citizen, unauthori...

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17-11 The Rash Abides (II)

The Parallelist looks like an easy Heaven to overload and rupture from a glance and used by someone less capable than Shotin Kazahara, it would be.

Unfortunately, one of us poor bastards will be facing the Planeshift in the fiel...

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17-10 The Rash Abides (I)

+Paladin Baers, we’re getting reports of a nuclear blast going off over the district of Veng’s Stand. Do you have eyes on the situation?+

[Messy eating noises; slurping]

+Paladin Baers?+

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17-9 Knife-Fighting in the Dark

+All units scramble! Repeat! Deploy all assets! The Seeker has been engaged! The Seeker has been engaged!+

-Wiser Nara, Ori-Thaum Intelligence Officer

17-9

Knife-Fighting in the Dark

The sound of the nu-kitten’s ...

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17-8 Squire, Seeker, Flame (II)

Authority Uthred Greatling

You have been marked for a personal audience in the Paths with the High Seraph. Before official proceedings begin, she would like to hold a personal dialogue with you with rega...

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17-7 Squire, Seeker, Flame (I)

Hiring a squire is either the best or worst investment you’ll ever make depending on a variety of factors.

The easiest of which is separating the professionals from the chaff. The ones that light the wick are usually stone-col...

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17-6 Midnight Games (II)

+Seeker Kazahara:

I think the Registry might have a hit for the one you’re looking for. It’s a single instance and the facial capture is only partial, but the physical characteristics match the memories you sent.

...

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17-5 Midnight Games (I)

“Instrument Mondelles, I assure you whoever just attacked us wasn’t one of ours. I can–”

“I know. It can’t be. They were too good in a scuffle to be a Silver.”

“...”

“Your fourth member. I need ...

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17-4 Extraction

The Highflame Path-Hydra Heaven is a Second Sphere Heaven usually attached to a golem. With its extremely low thaumic cost and simple canon, its uses in combat are few but focused.

It will be deployed to disrupted demiplanes or ...

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17-3 Encounter

+Proxy-ID Sintaker to Mirror-Convex. L-213382 is compromised. We just got hit by an unknown hostile. Serpentine was nulled. She’ll be resurrected in thirty seconds. Cog-cap overload–enemy cracked her Incog with a Skimmer.

...

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17-2 Prepared

+Yeah. Yeah. I got eyes on the girl.

Really wasn’t that hard to track, honestly. She’s quick and efficient, but she doesn’t know the city very well–and doesn’t change up her methods nearly enough. Similar approaches. S...

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17-1 A Sickness in the Bones

+Hey. I got a personal message for all you consangs striving and struggling at Light’s End.

You know you guys have the highest suicide rate in New Vultun if we separate the Warrens across all its layers, right? It’s rough ou...

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16-16 The Body-Garden (V)

Even with all the information granted to me, I cannot fathom the scope of the conflict. Of arms used and the sheer destruction involved.

How far we have fallen.

How far.

We live nested on this littl...

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16-15 The Body-Garden (IV)

The art of weaving flesh and blood and bone is like crafting a story–even if the architecture is nothing but a lie, birthed from your own artistry and creation, there must be a narrative behind it. Even with the aid of Heaven, miracles are n...

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16-14 The Body-Garden (III)

+Rab. Got an update for you. I haven’t gotten eyes on your new consang yet, but there’s this new Fallwalker that’s appeared out of nowhere. Name’s Dice. She’s been working her way through the districts, hunting down former members of...

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16-13 The Body-Garden (II)

Threshold sickness is something you all have to get used to. You will be fighting within demiplanes, pushing into enemy demiplanes, dropping into demiplanes, surviving and navigating ruptured demiplanes, and destabilizing and escaping from dem...

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16-12 The Body-Garden (I)

Anything cultured from Sang tissue should be regarded as an anomalous construct rather than actual flesh. With how much the Pattern-Swimmers {See “Dragons” for more resources} have damaged their ontologie...

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16-11 Tainted Flesh

Look, like it or not, ghouls are a party of this city’s messed up ecosystem now. There’s too much darkness, too many FATELESS, and too much flesh for them to fully die out. Not that the Syndicates or Sang want them to.

The f...

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16-10 Armor (II)

+Listen–look, fuggin’, just, like, listen, consang–

I think we should stay off the streets for a bit, y’know?

Just buy a month’s worth of kovoli rolls and hole. Hole deep and dark for a bit somewhere saf...

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