<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"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, […]
Read more "The Iron Hermit"Act 1.0 There was no gunfire here. No bone-dry howling wind tearing at her coat and hair. No cloudless sapphire blue sky overhead. No pain to feel. Vaguely, she wondered what manner of fresh hell she’d found herself in. “Sis.” The air was clean here, and fresh, carrying a fragrant mixture of wet rich soil […]
Read more "Act 1.1: Lost"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…
Read more "Act 1: Hassan"Slumtown: land of the enslaved and home of the morally decadent. The air down here carried a smell that was somewhere between wet towel and week-old piss. Its people moved and scurried about like the very rats that often moved beneath their feet, sticking to the dark shadowy alleys in an effort to avoid the […]
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Gryphon's Nest 2.0 