Going silent, the bird looked sideways, staring at Krahe with one eye. As she ate, the passing thought of invoking Chernobog’s Mystic Wisdom came to her; the Snare-sign of Blackest Pitch did, after all, carry the Outer God’s Touch tag. That thought alone, it seemed, was enough to set it off. ...
2023-08-22 23:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostMeanwhile, two-thirds of the supporting force waited behind them. Zelsys had retained a few sect members, Strake, three Third-model tankmen, and three squads of Hellhounds. All others had been assigned to Zefaris and Victor. It was no surprise, between Lady Zelsys and Strake, there would likely o...
2023-08-21 22:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Semi-abstract artwork of Krahe's Astro Diver form
2023-08-21 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostOh. Oh no. Oh, that was not good. Roderick felt that. All his bodies and subordinates felt that. Her words - they carried a Pseudo-Truth. The world itself reverberated and carried her speech, as if acknowledging the legitimacy of that maxim, or perhaps unable to deny it: The Universal Tongue of V...
2023-08-19 19:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis was Krahe’s chosen tactic for the simple reason that Sorayah wasn’t lying when she spoke of her own abilities; based on Krahe’s cursory investigation, she likely had the superior firepower between the two of them. Deception and terror were tactical powerhouses of human history; when it...
2023-08-18 06:44:29 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: First paragraph had a mistake, fixed.
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With not much to do for the moment but wait to be contacted by Mistress Yao, Krahe had taken to occasionally frequenting the Society in intervening days. Due to the Tarn...
A few minutes passed as Zachariah began the arduous and, indeed, time-consuming prepwork. The only sound to fill the silence was that of the inkstick grinding against the inkstone.
“I’m curious. How does this work? The thing with the Flower. Not on the magical side, the personal one. Wh...
2023-08-15 04:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostThese purple-burning sigils were unmistakable in the cursed, ancient power they held, and irreplicable to all but a select few enlightened souls with eyes like scalpels to glimpse the glyphs and ironclad wills to withstand the strain without going mad. It was said that the First Truthseeker had j...
2023-08-14 04:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post
WIP abstract art of Krahe's Astrodiver form
2023-08-14 01:10:26 +0000 UTC View PostOutside the dome…
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“Hellhounds! Disciples!” Zelsys bellowed. The reply was a concussive blast of amplified sound, a mixture of warhorns and warcries. From her disciples she received flares of magic,...
2023-08-13 19:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostShe noticed Reuben staring at her as she thought aloud with her hand to her chin, aghast. There was something there, he wasn’t aghast because of the far-stretched theory. Did she coincidentally hit close to home? But how would he know? At that moment, Krahe realized. She recognized the rings on...
2023-08-12 04:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostWith that, he left, and so did the rest of the crowd, doubtlessly to change out of those ridiculous robes. He exited by a door behind the chimera, while the others filed out of doors to the sides. In the meanwhile, Krahe made her way to the common area upstairs. The Society was legally an agency,...
2023-08-11 20:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe ripple intensified and changed direction, as if… Bouncing? No, that couldn’t be right. And yet, that was exactly what seemed to be happening. The ripple had taken a substantial time to traverse the whole diameter of the dome, and now, it was not only moving faster, but was more intense an...
2023-08-11 02:42:20 +0000 UTC View PostZefaris provided most of the structure, glyphs, and a number of reinforcement and velocity magnification glyph circles in the rod’s flight path. Its design wasn’t a spear, but a battering ram, with a gigantic seething glyph at its flat head. It was the most discordant, disruptive Antediluvian...
2023-08-10 03:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostMost of them lacked any edge, exuding the aura of high-level enthusiasts and geeks. The Lost Sun Society decisively leaned on the side of a glorified clubhouse rather than a true occult society; that didn’t discredit it as a place for gathering intel, and it certainly made it easier for Krahe. ...
2023-08-09 23:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe didn’t feel cowardice from the man, but he wasn’t brave. He lacked the bravado, the ego, that drove others to smash themselves against a wall; the bravado that had driven her to such an end.
“How much is it?”
“A- quarter mil. A-and another quarter mil for the gun, if i...
2023-08-08 02:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe colour of the sky had gradually changed from a semi-cloudy blue-white, reddening and growing overcast with a dolorous red. People fleeing the region forced them to slow slightly in a few places where vision was blocked by hills, but otherwise, Zel continued pushing without reprieve. They reac...
2023-08-07 19:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostWithout another thought, she willed Fulguris to consume her Tablet as well. Then, she called Fulguris back to herself, leaving everything as it was, and closed her eyes to begin meditating. Inward, she looked, delving far down, and she found it. Fulguris’ inner realm, the spiritual representati...
2023-08-06 22:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It was somewhat amusing to see three individuals arc overtop the wall as if they’d just jumped on a trampoline. One was an evoy with an uncannily humanoid build, wearing a suit, the other was that pure-white Inax from earlier, while the third was a Mamon Knight of the insectile variety with a p...
2023-08-04 22:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post“This material feels different to what we got directly from Eisengeist. It obeys more readily. Maybe refining more in this way will eventually lead to a truly reusable mask. Did you at least get some answers?”
“Roughly the same number of answers and questions.”
“A best-case ...
2023-08-04 20:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Know you, how vast your own world is? Know you every tree that surrounds Willowdale? Every city in Ikesia? Every country and tiny municipality on this continent? Every continent and island on the face of the planet? This planet, why, this Sun, is only one, and look how many shine in the heaven...
2023-08-03 19:11:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: Attached is the chapter illust. as well as an alt variant of it.
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On motorbikes, he alongside five of his best subordinates went after the woman, catching her before she even got out of his te...
Krahe conjured a capsule of Class 3 Painkiller and threw it at him. One of his hands caught it.
“...Pristine. Original capsule. Unbroken seal. Where’d you get this, I wonder? I won’t ask. I know better. The deal’s made. Come with me.”
Several minutes later, Krahe realized th...
2023-08-02 18:13:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment she laid eyes on the structure, with its blacked-out windows, she fully expected to be antagonized or even openly attacked. As she walked through its halls, somewhat to her disappointment, she only got hateful stares from beyond cracked-open doors. Before she could reach her informant...
2023-07-31 21:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post”Do not worry, it does not corrode cold-iron. It does, however, do this…”
Fritz took out a long glass pipette and put it to his mouth, drawing in precisely one single drop of the compound after Makhus opened the flask for him. Then, he dropped it onto a shank of chicken meat which he ...
2023-07-30 19:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Am I right to assume that you intend to test it against a live target some time soon?”
“I’m not in the mood to go looking for trouble, but trouble has a habit of finding me nonetheless. All my leads go straight into Hashem territory, so I’ve got a good feeling that I’ll get to ...
2023-07-29 06:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sure our disciples will be glad to get in on the action, but I’ve already solved the problem of numbers even if nobody volunteers. Plenty of tankmen, both Second and Third-models. Strake, too.”
“Really? How’d you convince him?”
“Dragon nerves for Zero’s drive tr...
2023-07-29 01:10:07 +0000 UTC View PostWith a smile, she dropped a cold-iron sovereign and a golden coin on the counter, taking one of the pastries as she passed behind Ulrich. Three gelt for a pastry. She vividly remembered paying a single gelt for a full meal her first time in Willowdale. Such was the price for a stabilized economy;...
2023-07-27 03:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was done, and it made Casus grimace in apprehension when he first saw it.
He’d seen grisly talisman designs before, sure, but there was something malicious about this one. The central image was a disembodied forearm, clawed and with gnarled skin like cooling magma, a more monstrous ver...
2023-07-26 20:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post