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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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Where it Belongs

by Tower Curator — Alyssa paced back and forth, hands nervously rubbing against each other as she watched Irulon take notes in a large book. Brakkt stood to one side, fully armored up as he, Fela, Ensou, Musca, and Dasca all kept watch for any hostile threats that might approach. They were still deep in the demon’s territory. None were around as far as Alyssa could see, but she had seen several likely feral infected making their way toward the pit as if called there. Any further out might pass through their little camp on…
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Intelligencer

by Tower Curator — Dignitaries, such as those visiting from Yora or Irulon and Brakkt, had dedicated quarters almost directly adjacent to the manor of the lord of the land. Brakkt and Irulon weren’t staying in it, of course, choosing to distance themselves by housing with the guild instead, but they could request housing at any time. The building itself rather reminded Alyssa of a mother-in-law house. It was attached to the manor by a covered walkway, but was otherwise a completely separate building. It had its own guards…
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Chapter

Beneath the Dome

by Tower Curator — “Hm.” “Hm? Hm?” Alyssa hissed, snatching the binoculars back from Irulon to find out the extent of the damage removing that mask might have caused. So far, it didn’t look like too much had gone wrong. Both the demon’s hands were still clamped around the tip of the Justice’s sword. But every scrap of leather that had once bound her body had fallen away, turned to dust and ash that coated the molten ground surrounding her without actually being consumed. But the ash only entered into…
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The Endless Expanse

by Tower Curator — Alyssa stayed for ten minutes, just sitting and waiting for something to go wrong. Accelero was still active—if something did go wrong, she wanted the extra speed. That meant that she would have to wait another thirty minutes before canceling the spell, but that might just be worth it. So many things came to mind. From the Justice having compromised the structural integrity of the sliver before it left reality proper to lesser members of the Astral Authority portaling their way in to try to kill…
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Card Games

by Tower Curator — There were no assassins for the entire night. Not a single one. Kind of a let down after all the preparation that Alyssa made. Disturbing Fela and Kasita to have a slumber party in a filthy jail cell—there was a vacant room opposite from the intelligencer that Alyssa had asked to use for the night—had been entirely unnecessary. Not that either of them seemed to mind. Really, it was just Alyssa who had been grumpy about it all, despite it being her own idea. The intelligencer hadn’t been all that…
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Reunited

by Tower Curator — “So, first thing first I guess… I am assuming because you are here that you got rid of the Astral Authority?” Alyssa said as she walked along the street. She would have liked to have had this conversation in a bit of a more relaxed situation. She didn’t have to talk with Tenebrael over tea and crumpets, but standing around on the street able to talk face-to-face would have been nice. But she had other work to do and not a lot of time to do it in. She could have asked Tenebrael if she would stop…
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Long Night

by Tower Curator — Alyssa took a seat for what felt like the first time since she woke up this morning. Her thighs didn’t feel particularly great at the moment and the less said about the soles of her feet, the better. Her old boots, the military boots she had been using since she first arrived in this world, were still around, but Alyssa had started worrying that they might not have the lifespan that she needed them to have. They were already fairly old, having been her mother’s service boots from before she left the…
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Lowering Tensions

by Tower Curator — Waiting for the Fractal Lock to end was a lot more nerve wracking than Alyssa felt it should be. She had neglected to look at her phone immediately after starting the spell, so she didn’t know the exact time she had cast it. Even with that, Fractal Lock wasn’t a perfect twelve hours. Just close enough. So Alyssa had started a small camp fire in the middle of the island nearest to Lueta. Partially for the light. Night had just fallen a short while ago. But mostly, it was to try to dry off a bit. For as…
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Cracks

by Tower Curator — Yora was gone. Alyssa had watched from Illuna’s walls as the entourage disappeared over the horizon, the tips of their banners being the last thing to go. It had made Alyssa wonder whether the bannermen were supposed to carry their banners the entire way back to Yora—a location roughly two weeks out from Illuna—or if they could be collapsed and attached to their horses in some manner. Regardless, after ensuring through Kasita that they hadn’t caused any incidents on their way out, she got some…
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