The door hissed open at the key-in sequence of the guard. Sage Alissa Paddrang strode confidently into the laboratory, leaving her guards behind with a dismissive wave. The minute she walked into the large room, she noticed how cold it was, despite the fact that there was a boiling hot sun just outside the […]
Read more "Jet Black Pope"With a final tinkling of moving lumina crystal, the corpse of Solomon Arctus Shinoda was sealed away from the ravages of time. Once the crystal had stopped expanding, Kingsley moved to place a foreign-looking coin over the forehead of the dead man. “Here lies Master Shinoda of the Orion,” he said solemnly as […]
Read more "Gorea"“This is all your fault!” Jed thumped the side of his fist against the hull of the Arthnou, anger stamped firmly on his green eyed, and blonde-haired features. The other passengers looked up at the noise as he rounded on the tall, muscular dark-skinned man who was returning his glare with a placid, collected […]
Read more "Grifter"“We need to talk,” were the first words out of Vex’s mouth after a relatively silent supper. Kirin shrugged at this, but said nothing. Overhead, the three moons were all up in the sky; large white-faced Cassiopeia and her smaller blue twin Andromeda were halfway across the ocean of stars while nearer the horizon, little […]
Read more "Talk"“The Marahute is a marvelous creature. It has no need of sleep, nor food or water. It never grows tired or restless, feels nothing of pain, and unless its creator is nearby…also damn well impossible to destroy completely. It is astonishing the amount of work I had to put into the making of it, but […]
Read more "Battle With The Four-Armed Fiend"The girl slept as they took watch, alternating their gazes from her slumbering form to the fire, then beyond and back again. The wind in the trees spoke for the both of them, with the large blue-white moon watching from on high with numb apathy. “Sooner or later you’re going to tell her the […]
Read more "The Dark"After defeating the Moonlight Queen, Sylph finds herself on the road again, leaving the dead city of Tier – and her legacy – behind. However, out in the Hinterlands, she finds herself caught in one of the mysterious “rifts”, where she meets the White Sins; a group of mechanical beings whom claim to be the last living (original) humans. They entreat her to help them recover a lost artifact known as “Grimoire”…or else the tears in space and time that are the rifts will grow to consume the planet…
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Gryphon's Nest 2.0 