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Occulturation Calendar

You may have noticed that time in Occulturation isn't the same as time on Earth. In Occulturation: a day is 25 hours instead of 24, a week is is 5 days instead of 7, a month is 25 days instead of 30, a year is is 5 months instead of

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Occulturation #16 Welcome to Ghostlight Grove

Ghost-Incorporeal-Restcha (4th day, 4th week, 3rd month) - “Welcome to Ghostlight Grove!” Isuertal says excitedly. She bows dramatically, with her hand outstretched to highlight the wooden cabin with the large parking lot around it. The cabin is where they pay for their visit and register as campers. Chylclanth and Isuertal

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Occulturation #15 Investigation

Ghost-Incorporeal-Restcha (4th day, 4th week, 3rd month) - “I’m sorry, but we can’t do it today.” Salsan says over the phone, “There was a massive Screamer-related catastrophe around midnight last night. Sorry, Isuertal, but work comes first.” Isuertal grips the phone in her hands, frustration is pulsing in

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Teaser: Inspiring Nightmares

Here is a little section of some nightmares I had last night. I close the door behind me. There is no one else in this house. We only moved in recently, but it was my grandparents house. My Mom used to live here as a child. She will probably be

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Occulturation #14 After Death

Date: Pixie-Incorporeal-Restcha (3rd day, 4th week, 3rd month) - Millie thought that death would be peaceful and still. But it isn’t. The sounds of screaming and panic hurt her ears. Even with her face against the ground, she can tell there is a great deal of movement as she

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Occulturation #12.5 A.S.S.F. Receives New Orders

Werewolf-Incorporeal-Restcha (2nd day, 4th week, 3rd month) Greesha is the captain of Angel Strike Force in the A.S.S.F. She has four members in her squad besides herself. There are 5 squads in the A.S.S.F., each contains 5 individuals, one of those 5 is a

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D&D Clementinenade [Spoilers for Occulturation]

Amber, Katie, and Goschol and the Clementinenade adventure. D&D fifth edition. Amber is a Moon Druid Fairy. For the fairy race, I just made it a Tiny humanoid with 30 feet of walking speed and flying speed. Katie is a Glamor Bard Fairy. For the fairy race, see above.

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Trouble

Featuring Arachan the outlaw from Lawlight Trouble, my only friend. Trouble, my enemy. Trouble, my motivation. Trouble, my everything. Trouble is loaded in my gun. Trouble runs through my veins. Trouble’s something from which I can’t run. Because trouble is my name. Angels increased my bounty by double.

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Occulturation #13 Clementinenade

Date: Pixie-Incorporeal-Restcha (3rd day, 4th week, 3rd month) - Garesh and Millie take another bus to the edge of town. Then they leave the metropolis of skyscrapers and quickly find themselves in a forested wilderness. After about an hour of walking, Millie goes tense as a feeling of unease comes

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Dream: Alchemist (Romeo & Juliet?)

11/18/21 Dream… I had a dream last night. Or rather, I had multiple dreams because I kept waking up to my alarms but went back to sleep because I was so tired. I remember my dreams in reverse order because I remember the most recent events first and

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Sylan Myrkul Freewrite

Kyle is on patrol. He patrols the perimeter of the village. It’s night. But even so, the streets are not empty. Writhing on the gravel road are swarms of rats. During the daytime, they squirm at the sides of the road, keeping away from people. But at night, they

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Sylan Myrkul Snapshot #2

“Very well, you have me convinced.” Sylan says, “Perhaps we can form a symbiotic relationship after all.” … A few months later Sylan has named the fungal colony Mycal because it is the same name that the millipede-type antrhopomorphic arthropod had, and that creature is part of the fungal colony. When

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Sylan Myrkul Snapshot #1

Long ago, in her home realm, Sylan Myrkul lies in a fungal forest next to a giant mushroom. She groggily gets back on her feet but her head reels as she stands up. A voice vibrates in her head. “Submit!” She feels her sense of self slipping away as she

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Snapshots: The Lady of Life and Death

Sylan Myrkul practices a simple light spell in a graveyard. The college doesn’t usually forbid casting magic, but they made a special exception for her since she has yet to pass the safety classes that are prerequisites to arcane classes. To keep from prying eyes, she went to a

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Sylan Myrkul Backstory

“Sylan? Are you paying attention?” The reptilian professor asks. Sylan looks up from her book. She doesn’t know why she’s even taking mathematics. This is supposed to be an academy of the arts, as in the arcane arts. Why would she need to know algebra to cast spells?

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Erage #9 Werewolves

Xi Cì walks forward towards the pack of five werewolves. Sure, Untoltelage and his apprentices are equal to the number of werewolves. With Xi Cì on their side, Untoltelage outnumbers the werewolves. Those numbers are meaningless. Only Untoltelage and Xi Cì are even worth counting in the balance of a

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Erage #8 Primitive Pondering

“You left your precious artifacts in that mountain?” Xi Cì asks, “Untoltelage, that seems like it is kind of hard to get to. I understand that you can’t just keep your most important belongings on you at all times, but it’s going to be a bit inconvenient to

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Erage #7 Xi Cì 喜刺

Untoltelage was leading the kids through the woods in search of his precious artifacts that store multiple lifetimes worth of magic. He knows that it is somewhere to the north. He passes tree after tree under the canopy of this forest. He can’t shake the feeling that he is

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Erage #6 Snakes

Untoltelage finds what he is looking for. Wolf tracks. The wolves were extra afraid of the forest fire after getting singed by Untoltelage. He follows the tracks. The kids follow. They follow. But they think Untoltelage is acting strange. Untoltelage is looking at the ground. Looking at tracks. They wonder

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Erage #5 Wolves

“Where are we going?” Hyethra asks. “We are going to find my magical artifacts.” Untoltelage says, “If they are where I last saw them, they should be far north into the mountains.” Untoltelage walks north and the rest of them follow. The journey that day is uneventful. But they all

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Erage #4 You can't leave us behind

Hyethra doesn’t know how long it has been. She is very impatient with waiting for Untoltelage to wake up. She thinks he’ll make it through his wounds, but the possibility of him dying and leaving them stranded in the woods with no help is terrifying. She doesn’t

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Erage #3 Together

Jostahim is a nine-year-old boy. Him and three other kids were taken to a stone structure set into a wall. One of the girls of the four surviving kids left to go inside the building. There were police guards in the way. She hadn’t cared. She went through them.

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Erage #2 Escape

Quastiffany is a nine-year-old girl. She sits in a van with the three other survivors surrounded by about a dozen police. But they don’t like normal police. Quastiffany isn’t going to judge them on their outfits, though. She knows to be thankful. But it is so hard to

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Erage #1 Magic is Real

Erage: Untoltelage and his four apprentice: Quastiffany, Jostahim, Hyethra, Kekister (Plot event idea I had last night. Shapeshifter names Xi, as in the Chinese Xi. Xi is an adult woman that the nine-year-olds would consider an old lady even though she is only in her 40’s. Xi is pronounced

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Occulturation #12 Respite

Day-Week-Month: Werewolf-Incorporeal-Restcha → Pixie-Incorporeal-Restcha - Garsh opens his eyes. His throat and lungs feel like they’re on fire. He looks around and sees that the building he is in does not look the same it did before. It was in poor condition when he first entered through the window, but