33-20Reunion (II)
It isn’t enough.
A mind is not enough.
A Soul is not enough.
Reality is not enough.
I must feed.
I will feed.
-Avo, the Dreamer of Ashes, Devourer of All...
2025-02-06 14:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
33-19 Reunion (I)
Every child knows what it means to break, to sever, to cut, to kill. This is a simple thing—to apply pressure to a structure beyond its means and foundations.
To build is sublime. To build is the path of a matriarch, of a team master, and of an experienced worshiper. For you must understand how to br...
2025-02-05 08:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post33-18 Forget (II)
Have you ever wondered who you might be without your memories? If you would be different? If you would be freer or lesser than you are?
Avo. I hope you can find an answer. Even if I am not there to bear witness.
-Defiance, Low Master of Noloth
33-18
Forget (II)
—[Fatalist Malak Hammuarari...
2025-02-04 16:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post33-17 Forget (I)
Change is a constant in life, and change is a constant in war. For every advance you take, your enemy must adapt. And as they adapt, they too will advance. In turn, you must learn to change anew.
During this process, you will find yourself growing, flourishing, and branching—if you are not cut down. You will pursue different...
2025-02-03 13:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post33-16 Weary
The war minds we created are more than a weapon for destruction. No, they are a weapon of asymmetry, of breaking all common laws relating to the nature of consciousness. For in the breaking of laws, new ones emerge, new patterns or unpatterns that allows us our greatest advantage. We are Noloth, bound, exiled, torn from our rightful ...
2025-02-02 17:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostII-61 Openings (III)
A word of advice to all aspiring tyrants, warriors, and professionals: get over yourselves. Instead of wallowing in pride, learn to work with your family—especially those who possess the skills you need. You can linger, groan, and lament everything that might have been, but while you're stuck in the past, a most promising future will colla...
2025-02-02 09:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostII-60 Openings (II)
Never agree to do a small favor for the Realmbreaker. Not even if he saves your life and your son’s honor.
Not because it’s not worth it—it will end up being too worth it. Because there is never just one favor with a powerful person.
-The Blackwind Sage
II-60
Openings (II)
“How many Aspect ...
2025-02-01 13:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostII-59 Openings (I)
Here’s some advice for all you thieves out there. If you want to conduct a heist, I recommend that you find a way to be in two places at once. I mean that literally. You can do this through teleportation, through simulacrum, or through even cloning.
But ultimately, you want people to think that they know your whereabou...
2025-01-31 16:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post33-15 Seeds
Consciousness itself is a pattern. A specific one. A surgical pattern.
Where force, energy, space, or chronology affect the world on a grand scale, miracles of consciousness alter the nature of a person the most. How we understand ourselves. How we perceive. What we understand or fail to know.
These things shape...
2025-01-30 18:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post33-14 Bound in Blood
Supplicants! Hear me now! Let my words strike you like lightning and forge the foundations for your resolve!
We are banished! Severed and lost in a world consumed by madness! Yet we remain! I remain! I! Once Saathwu! Once the God of Huntresses! God of Blood! Now resurrected by the esteemed hand of the ...
2025-01-29 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post33-13 Information (IV)
Be mindful in what pond you fish.
-Old Sang Proverb
33-13
Information (IV)
—[The Majority]—
The Majority surveyed the situation through their various Constituents. At present, several were protesting. A few even threatened the Chief Paladin. All this was to be in vain. ...
2025-01-28 19:40:41 +0000 UTC View Post33-12 Information (III)
There’s a secret to raiding Guilder facilities. A little trick you can pull on all of them.
Most Squires don’t have the firepower to raid a Guilder stronghold. Sorry, juvs, but the vics lied. A couple of half-strands with a slap-dash golem, a dozen drones, high-end augs, and a bit of grit aren’t going to be anything but ...
2025-01-27 19:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostII-58Out of the Pan
The only thing more dangerous than fighting in the Everwar happening at the Base of the Claimed Hells is trying to play politics with the big players in the Heights.
-The Trespasser’s Compendium
II-58
Out of the Pan
The Collectress hid her surprise as she watched them emerge from the crumbling nest. She would have...
2025-01-26 18:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostII-57 Making a Friend
Yeah. The “Realmbreaker.” I’m not calling him that. The little bastard’s ego is already large enough as it is. If I pop and kill him for good, the bloody princess might actually try to put me to her flame. Might be the Scion of Death, but being disfigured and mutilated physically and spiritually isn’t really a fun experience.<...
2025-01-25 15:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostII-56 Rematch (II)
There are many kinds of death one can experience, and the way one dies also matters immensely.
But my favorite to inflict in battle is the slow death. The bleeding death. The looming death. This is the foundation for your enemy to make mistakes, for a bleeding adversary often seeks a path of salvation, to live or strike back. ...
2025-01-24 18:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post33-11 Information (II)
There is bitter wisdom in offering a tiger an envenomed limb…
-Old Sang Proverb
33-11
Information (II)
—[The Majority]—
THE INNER COUNCIL HAS CALLED AN EMERGENCY VOTE INTO SESSION:
MOTION TO RENDER ALL CONSTITUENTS OF ORI-THAUM IMPOT...
2025-01-23 11:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post33-10 Information (I)
Anyone who understands the Ori knows that our primary focus is not only on mastering the mind, but also the shaping and manipulation of knowledge itself. The mind is only a portion of the equation, after all. Essential, of course, but merely the receiver compared to everything “that is.”
Consider this: Your mind is l...
2025-01-22 18:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post33-9 Guilty
Everyone is spying and scrying on each other. That is the most natural thing. Especially between allies. Trust is for amateurs. Professionals verify. Professionals know. And professionals understand that other professionals have obligations to meet and duties to perform.
This is why you Juv-Necs shouldn’t be surprised if you...
2025-01-21 17:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostII-55 Rematch (I)
“Sarah. It happened. Hound came to a bargain with the boy. Yeah. Not sure what deal they made—didn’t think it was a good idea risking my life for a peek.
Well, Wei’s definitely has a connection back to the Final End in himself now.
William’s fine to...
2025-01-20 10:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostII-54 Death-Touched
The gods are not how we understand them to be. In the Fathoms, the gods are more like administrators for specific concepts, or perhaps even more like anchor points from where these Concepts flow. Every time someone dies, they go to the hound here. Of course, if they’re a Trespasser, the rules are different. But then again, that applies to ...
2025-01-19 17:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post33-8 Unwelcoming Committee (IV)
There is someone watching the world from inside me. I can’t hear them, I can’t feel them, but I know they’re there. Patches of my memories go missing, and there are these times when I can’t separate my dreams from the waking world, but I know… I know…
What I don’t know is who I really am. Not anymore.
...
2025-01-18 13:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostTemp. Update
Slightly sick today. Will finish editing chapters when I finish burning out the fever. Expect updates in around 12-15 hours or so.
2025-01-17 17:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostII-53 A Pact With Death
This is not acceptable.
Failure—right now—is not acceptable. All Inheritors need to know what is at stake. Understand that if we are not the ones to reach Earth first, then we will be condemning our home—our people—-to the Fictionals and degenerates that lead them. Think of what they’ll do to our world. Our culture. ...
2025-01-16 09:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post33-7 Unwelcoming Committee (III)
The role of “emissary” is often seen more as a punishment than a position of privilege. Those who enter such roles usually do so under genuine belief toward the institution of diplomacy, or—more often—are forced into such positions after being displaced by internal power struggles.
For those familiar with military matt...
2025-01-15 18:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post33-6 Unwelcoming Committee (II)
What we are doing is pure folly. Transporting millions of Citizens down into the Warrens, trying to displace the FATELESS. This is stupidity of the highest order — and being an act of stupidity, all the Guilds have taken to practicing with it with unmatched fervor and zeal.
The Warrens are mostly underdeveloped. Disrepair is...
2025-01-14 17:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post33-5 Unwelcoming Committee (I)
{It’s not a question if the terrestrials are going to kill each other — They simply will. Eons of unending warfare and mutual loathing have created a people so desensitized to death and creative in its implementation that even with every safeguard put in place, there will inevitably be those who try regardless of the cost they might suff...
2025-01-13 16:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostII-52 Three in Ruin
Death doesn’t care about you. I don’t mean that in the metaphorical sense, but very literally.
I’ve met the Hound of the Withered Moon, you see. Saw the dog of the Final End and the bringer of the Gravechill themselves. I’ll tell you this much, if neutral and indifferent could be distilled into a single entity, they wo...
2025-01-13 07:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostII-51 Beyond Death
The composition of a Fictional’s being comes in six parts. Six parts that connect their beings to the rest of the Fathoms. They don’t consist of component atoms. Hell, their biology isn’t even consistent with our protein-based structures. They are, for lack of a more scientific way of describing things, shaped by the lores that spawned...
2025-01-12 12:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostII-50 The Offering
Death is not my domain to rule. It already has a master, a Hound that governs that final journey one takes in this lifetime.
A final journey that fuels its power and invigorates its Concepts.
Oh, the Hound of the Withered Moon. One of the few intact gods left in the Fath...
2025-01-11 18:20:51 +0000 UTC View Post33-4 Lost Gun Days (II)
The foundations of war are cast during ages of peace.
What you do to your population, how you raise the young and the talented, how you create institutions, industries, and organizations, determine what you can spend when the time of the fires call.
My father taught me this in theory at first, and then I learned...
2025-01-09 18:48:37 +0000 UTC View Post