They call their home the Patchwork. Long before the first of them awoke underneath the boughs of the White Tree, the once-proud humanity fell and was consumed by their own hatred and madness. In the final days of their downfall, those with the vision crafted the Tree, and a guardian to watch over it from […]
Read more "Vignette 1: Blood On The Flowers"Previously… Rain, freezing cold and wet, cascaded down upon the great wall that surrounded the inner citadel of Drakonia. It stood many tens of thousands of feet tall, the wall, with its lifeless grey construct of steel, plastic and ceramic. Its thickness measured within the region of 100 to 250 feet wide, and the […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 12: When Things Explode"Inspired by WARFRAME It was the dog that woke him up. Its shrill fearful barking cut through the remnants of a dying dream like a knife going through wet paper. “Pipe down, Deuce,” he grumbled, turning over on one side. Deuce’s barking rose a few notes higher, then was promptly silenced. At once, he was […]
Read more "DIRT: A Vignette"Previously… 178 hours later ALICE: …. “What is it?” Yato said, looking out at the storm that was blowing in from the polar south. The tengu did not reply immediately, and for a while the two odd friends sat in silence. Beyond the protective canopy stretched over their heads, water pelted the mute earth as […]
Read more "YATO, Haiku 1.2-1.3"Shard by painful shard, his consciousness returned from the icy wilderness of oblivion like a man crawling over a field of broken glass. At first he felt light and empty, adrift in the wind. Then he realized that he could feel nothing from his body; no warmth or numbing chill or blinding agony of pain […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 11: Pointless"Recommended Playlist: Haiku 1: Triple Helix He crawled out of the docking cradle only to find that everyone in the village were long dead. “Alice?” He called out as he struggled to get to his feet, internal systems reeling as they made impromptu recalibrations to catch up with his waking synaptic network. The world shifted […]
Read more "Yato, Haiku 1.0 – 1.1"The train slid to a smooth stop at the station platform, rumbling through a final set of light gates spaced at regular intervals along the track. The lengthy steel-and-glass beast powered down with a dying whine and a vent of hot gas that covered the platform like smoke. Out of this brief fog stepped a […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 10: Rising Defiant"/Blade Soul Hazard/ A one-shot A/N: Based on the Universe setting. Day 32, Cycle Unknown A crest of light peeked over the great dark curve of the planet that was horizon. The sunlight glittered against the backdrop of the black cosmic sea, shedding its radiance on a colossal object dangling far above the curvature […]
Read more "Blade Soul Hazard"I. Temptation Town “Here there be dragons,” mused old one-eyed Duncan Strife as he pored over the scrap of paper in his hands. “What in blazes does that even mean?” “That there are dragons there?” Dahlia offered offhandedly while studying the bank of screens before her. “What are you, some kinda Zendarist?” Duncan shook his […]
Read more "Ashes: A One-Shot"Credit goes to a great friend, Mitchel Rose. This story is set in the Universe. Laser fire strafed the side of Ina’s sea racer. A bolt of panic shot through the girl, and she banked heavily to the right to avoid being hit. The sudden motion sent up spray from the ocean beneath her, […]
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Gryphon's Nest 2.0 