<MEMORY SEQUENCE 201.390.001.677 IDENTIFIED> <DATA TRANSCRIPTION COMPLETE> <BEGINNING RECORD PLAYBACK> I was there when they devoured the Earth. We made them, you see. Our species dragged them out a world of schematics and theories and spooky action and gave them form and substance. They learnt from us humans, and what they learnt they made […]
Read more "Daylight’s End"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"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"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"Previously… “Hey…hey Vlad, look.” With an annoyed grumble, the kami looked up from the board game that had been in progress since the beginning of forever. “What is it, Estragon?” His machina partner, a barrel-bodied lump of metal and plastic with two sets of eyes, pointed fingers at the only other inhabitant of the car […]
Read more "Gryphon, [X-Act] Alone I Break"Previously… In a room at the top of the obelisk that stood in the heart of Nastrond, a figure garbed in white stood before a pool of silver liquid. “What is it, Shin?” a reverberating voice called out of the pool. The figure in white pulled back the hood of his long robe, revealing a […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 9: Parabola"Previously… “Dad? Dad!” With a startled jerk, Karambit looked up to see the petite worried face of his haokah daughter. A grimace escaped him as he noticed that his subjective internal chronometer was off by at least half an hour. #wha…what’s happening?# The dark-haired haokah girl – almost a woman now at seventeen winters of […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 8: Eternal"Previously… The Quietlands stretched as far as the eye could see in any direction. It was the last stretch of wild frontier that lay between the inner citadel of Drakonia and the rest of the hinterland. It was a large patch of mostly smooth plains land, seeded with large broken structures and smaller architecture that […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 7: The Tempest"In memory of Elo May your dreams be gentle and kind When he came to, it was to the sight of a wall of light. For a long time, Zendar lay still as he stared at the underside of the Mobius’ lid, his brain beginning to stir to life. Eventually the machine recognized that […]
Read more "Gryphon, Act 6: Old Friends"There was a discontinuity, a vast crack in the conflux of time and space, and suddenly he was somewhere else. The disorientation kicked in the second Zendar began to move; intense nausea hitting him like a rail gun report, causing him to keel over and empty his guts of its contents. An afterglow of light […]
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Gryphon's Nest 2.0 