"Mmm! Ahh!" A young woman, appearing eighteen years of age, stretches after waking up early in the morning. Her room, while simple and small, appears quite colorful with lots of pretty red and pink decorations and a few palm-sized animals carved from wood sitting on wall-mounted shelves. The young woman pops her back and moans…
"Whaddya mean grandma doesn’t have a choice?" Bael asks Ose point-blank. "Did you mind control her?!" "By no means." Ose starts to explain. "The Archangel of Divination-" Bael interrupts her. "Hold on a sec. I wanna hear it from her mouth!" Before Ose can explain her brilliant scheme, Bael turns back and charges into the…
Somewhere in the Milky Way, inside an underground facility deep beneath a certain planet’s crust. Dozens of technologically advanced robots armed with melee and ranged weaponry unload bullets, beams, and blasts upon a rampaging demon wearing powerful demonstone armor. Bael, the Duke of Pain, charges toward the nearest robots and smashes them into pieces with…
A few hours before, around the same time as the Wordsmith’s incursion into the future… Archangel Uriel, Gabriel, and Michael all sit atop a circular stone bench, facing inward toward one another, nestled within the second story of Tarus II’s only church. Gabriel and Michael take their corporeal forms through Uriel’s magic, appearing as light…
Jason’s future-dream fades away, and he finds himself back in reality. Immediately, he swivels around to check his surroundings, but naturally, Gressil is nowhere to be seen. "Jason?" Fiona asks. "Is something wrong?" "What do you mean?" Jason asks, still turning and looking with all his might for the invisible specter of torture. "Were you…
The world shifts around Jason. Fully cognizant of the changes, Jason slightly frowns as a blackened void of distant stars swallows him up, erasing the world of Tarus II. He watches with rapt attention as flickers of images race toward him, their contents becoming more lifelike and vivid for instants at a time before fading…
After departing Unarin’s Sanctum, Jason’s expression becomes somewhat dull and muted. He falls deep into thought while autopiloting his way toward a turbolift which will lead him back to Sangin Kordonis. At the same time, he converses with his mind-wife at the blistering speed of thought. We’ve learned so much. But I feel like we…
The Founder’s Spear drops out of orbit and travels toward Volgarius’s surface within just a few minutes, eventually arriving at the Founder’s Thumb. It docks inside the secret hangar at the top of the building, allowing Jason, Unarin, and Muuxunuu to depart. Jason stretches his legs as he exits the craft and glances around the…
After another chunk of a day spent in Hyperspace, Jason and Unarin re-enter the Volgarius system’s inner limits, while Raphael has returned to his ring. The Founder’s Spear cuts through the Void with ease, slipping past hundreds of thousands of other Volgrim vessels without them ever gleaning a hint they nearly got a chance to…
Aspirator Raavul guides her disciples along for the next several hours by offering them much more specific direction than she did at the outset of their meeting. After first ensuring all of her students have started or continued walking the paths most appropriate for their abilities, she turns to one-on-one instruction for each individual First…
