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Open Soul Massage

by Tower Curator — Izsha and Kasita. Gone. The feral demons that had been chasing them were gone as well. Between her heart stopping from shock and motion from the Justice startling her, it took Alyssa a few moments to comprehend just what happened. Looking around, it was obvious. The remains of Owlcroft, skeletal as they were, had been torn up and partially buried. Formerly upright posts and columns of cobblestone were lying on their side. Chunks of earth ranging from the size of dust to beach balls pockmarked the…
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Cardinal Virtue of Justice

by Tower Curator — “Don’t you want to save life, Alyssa?” The true demon maintained eye contact for a moment before another Patience swooped down. The Taker readied himself, but a flash of the scythe took its head off before he could react. “Just something to think about, I suppose. It seems I have a mess to clean up.” Reaching up, the true demon redid the buckles of her mask. As soon as it was in place, she jumped. Another flash of her scythe took off the wings of a Diligence, but the blade sparked against the…
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Owlcroft

by Tower Curator — There was a certain peace to sleeping on top of Kasita and Izsha. Alyssa couldn’t move far from either of them without the protection of the staff failing. It made some… tasks more difficult than they needed to be, but she wouldn’t be here long. She could bear with it. It wasn’t a restful kind of sleep, but she got enough to do what needed to be done. Still, it was quite the change. When she first met Izsha, she had nearly fallen over herself in an attempt to get away. Those sharp teeth were…
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Warning

by Tower Curator — Alyssa could feel it. And she wasn’t the only one. Two days of travel had brought them much closer to their destination. Owlcroft was supposed to be a week out from Illuna. But that metric was based on horses moving at a steady trot. Izsha was much faster. And, without other people, they could travel even quicker than that. Izsha moved at its own pace, setting the schedule entirely, including when to stop for breaks and nights. The only real input that Alyssa had was when demons were afoot. And…
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Respite

by Tower Curator — “You stupid angel. I just want a stupid portal from here to Owlcroft. Ugh. Work damn you!” Alyssa let her arm drop with a groan. Her fingernails hadn’t even turned black. Five minutes of trying to make a portal and she had nothing to show for it. She didn’t understand the rules. Was it because time was stopped outside their little bubble? Was Tenebrael just screwing with her? Ugh. She needed Iosefael to come and explain again, or explain properly. She had thought that she was getting the hang of…
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Entropic Decay

by Tower Curator — Alyssa charged through fields of wheat on Izsha’s back, fleeing from Illuna as fast as she could. The golden light of a single Kindness was still visible over her shoulder. It didn’t look like it was following her, but Alyssa wasn’t taking any chances. If it spotted her, she had a feeling that hundreds of the Astral Authority wouldn’t be far behind. The others were still in the city. Partially to warn off people from attacking the Kindness. Partially because Brakkt hadn’t quite finished…
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Illuna

by Tower Curator — The city of Illuna was, indeed, a city. It wasn’t as large as Lyria, but Lyria was known as the Grand City for a reason. It was still the largest man-made settlement Alyssa had seen since coming to this world that wasn’t Lyria. It seemed to have taken a lot of cues from Lyria’s layout as well. A wall surrounded the majority of the city, though it did have a significant number of buildings outside, sprawling the city beyond its borders. A few towers were stationed around the wall as well, though…
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Oasis

by Tower Curator — “Fela? Think you can convince them to calm down?” The monsters in the pit were clearly panicking. A few, like the two with animal ears, ran to take cover inside some of the carved out houses. A whole lot more had emerged, looking more than ready to fight. Some of them looked fairly scary too, like the ones with scythes attached to their arms. Between Brakkt’s skill and sword and her overpowered Spectral Chains, the scythe that would likely remove their souls as easily as a knife through butter,…
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Plains of the Dead

by Tower Curator — A week and a half on the road had Alyssa wondering just how upset the Astral Authority would get if she tried to portal directly to Owlcroft. Or at least Illuna. The terrain varied quite a bit over the journey. From the green plains and forested hilltops to a fairly winding path through some canyons. For the past three days, they had been in a fairly arid and incredibly flat area. There weren’t any tall trees, mountains, hills, or anything to break up the scenery. The only things living around the…
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On the Open Road

by Tower Curator — “I can’t believe this is happening again.” “Well,” Oz said with a bright smile. “think of it this way. At least you aren’t rushing off into the desert with little preparation to rescue someone you got mind controlled before they could be eaten only to discover an enemy encampment protected by monsters that only you can see.” “That seems like an oddly specific occurrence,” Raugis, the first daughter of House Illuna, said. A hand covered her gentle smile. “The lives of mercenaries…
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