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Occulturation #19: You Left Me

Dylishan hour of the Ghost Quintuple (4th hour of the 4th 5-hour period) Ghost-Incorporeal-Restcha (4th day, 4th week, 3rd month) “I’m Millie.” The pale little girl in a white-blue hospital gown without shoes says, “What’s your name?” The creature that looks like the cross between a spider and

Poems

Unyielding, Undying

Eddy sworn to both land and sea. Contradiction in the oath he keeps. Demise is set into his soul. Life he takes, but death’s the toll. - Trial of ancients sprung From the peak of the mount on tarn. Mont shall burst and Font shall flow. Broken boulder rivers

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Hours of Power: Setting Description

This setting is a world in which a certain magic system is in place that produces this specific magical effect in everyone in that world determined by the time. This setting and magic system was created in the earliest conception of the Egocentric Concentric Circles multiversal setting. I first brainstormed

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Occulturation #18: It's A Monster!

Dylishan hour of Ghost quintuple (4th hour of 4th 5-hour period) Ghost-Incorporeal-Restcha (4th day, 4th week, 3rd month) Ystra can barely only barely see the road lit by the dim porch lights and street lamps. She is already saddle sore from riding Lauren at full gallop for what feels to

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Tarn Nation: Secrets of Font

“Mishlan! Get out of the water! You’re scaring the fish!” Mishlan ignores the voices of angry women yelling from their boats as they try to catch fish in their nets. Mishlan doesn’t understand the big fuss. They always collect enough fish to feed the village. They always take

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Introduction to Tarn Nation

“This is the land of Issylun. It is home to the people of Tarn Nation. This realm consists of a few major features. First, the whole of the land is a single island. It is roughly a circle shape. The whole island appears to be a massive mountain, but the

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Second Encounter

“No. I won’t let you, Belladonna!” The woman shouts into her phone, “You were supposed to help. I never should have told you.” She angrily hangs up the phone, stands up from the bed, and stomps to the bedroom door. After unlocking it, she storms through the house, collecting

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First Encounter

The little girl, only about 10 years old [3 Earth years] runs into her mothers arms, crying. The woman hugs her daughter and speaks softly, trying to sooth her. “It’s okay. It’s okay. You had another nightmare?” “Waah! It was terrible!” The little girl sobs. After a little

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Last Life

Reckless violence like a tornado siren. “Youth is wasted on the youth.” Idle elders on porch sitting are cry’in, “Uncivilized, it’s so uncouth.” - I fight back so that death won't take me. Kill the winged warrior of death, the Val-cry. “Wait, Ace, isn’t it pronounced ‘Valkyrie?

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Chicken

They call me Ace. I'm a fiery flyer. Death I’ve escaped. But now I’m retired. - How many times can I die before I fail to rise again? I’m no longer willing to take that risk, testing Space-Makers’ patience. I used to throw caution to the wind,

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Escape Artist

Bear Trap! I see it. I touch it tentatively. A swing and a miss! I pull my leg out of reach. Vicious sabers claw together beneath. - A loop of rope limp on the ground. A snare trap I must disarm. Trip over a tripwire into a canvas. Tightening around

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Hand-Hook Monster

Be careful when you hunt, stay out of sight. No matter how much those tourists ask for a bite. Don’t let anyone know that you’re a Screamer. Beware the death sentence of the hook-hand monster. - Unnatural, inhuman, unliving yet not undead. It’s a machine made to

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Lethal Drug

Explicit Content Warning! Gore! Isuertal is absolutely brutal. You may want to look away if you have blood and body parts. Blade glinting in the darkness. I can see it in his hand. What does that matter? I’ve got him right where I want him. Time to strike, time

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Paranoia

It’s next to me. The desk of the seat of the child Undead. I saw it last month too. Always watching through the roof. Haunted by nightmares. I stay awake all night in bed. Every shadow, every blur, I’d swear I see them move. - But I don’

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Occulturation #17: Night Trials

Explicit Content Warning! If you have internal organs or are internal organs, you may want to cover your eyes when reading an explicit section about Isuertal. This is a blood warning. That lady is violent Dylishan hour of Ghost quintuple (4th hour of 4th 5-hour period) Ghost-Incorporeal-Restcha (4th day, 4th

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Reckless Adventure

Bubbling up from the dark blue abyss. Rises a sand wyrm that doesn’t fit in. A cry from the stern, “What in Tarn Nation?” “Aye, Mate E. We’re far from that lake mountain.” - Never rode a ship larger than a rowboat before. Never fear the monsters that

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Change in Leadership

Captain of the Angel Strike Force You’re the Captain, so calm down and breathe. “Nothing can beat you.” If only you were so naive. Shadows in the corners of your eyes. Behind each corner you swear there’ll be pixies. And when you close your eyes, you hear whispering.

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File Redacted

I may have been possessed by an evil spirit. But don’t worry. It’s gone now. No need to fear it. But after that, my mind never was the same. I fear that sadly, it may have damaged my brain. - Good luck trying to hold me down. No

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Occulturation: Vengeful Spirits

Call upon the evils in the shadows. We must use them to cleanse the world from its sins. Reveal to the world the works of the Council of the Grave. Never give up until the mission is complete. But this new evil, it has demands of its own. - A

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Lawlight #1: Lawbreaker

Pyeskul was a police officer. Law enforcement was a dangerous job. His job naturally made him the enemy of most people in the city. Of course, he was only so avoided while wearing his uniform. The reason for the wariness of the people was because everyone broke the law in

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Lawlight: Rebel Teen Story

Rebel Teen Story—Based off a dream I had. I need a name for her. Let’s go with Rebutena. Rebutena was only a little girl, probably less than eight years old. She lived in the orphanage and kept an electric lantern with her at all times. All of the

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Lawlight: A Preview

They say that the world was made when laws were produced and irrevocably spoken. These laws set in place could not be removed, even if they held mistakes. And they held mistakes. The space-makers hadn’t made a world before. But they had to make more than a world. They

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Dream: Origins of Rebutena

I found where I originally wrote down my dream that evolved into the character Rebutena. This is the original, unadulterated dream. I had a dream in which I was a little girl. Much younger than my current age. I had a friend who was a boy of the same age.

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Lucrust

There he was, ramming his bar stool through the face of another sail-scorpion. Solman was really struggling against these monsters. The sail-scorpion is a mix between a dimetrodon and a scorpion. It’s a scorpion with the size and sail of a dimetrodon. And it was nowhere near dead though

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Erage Sidestory: Banshee, the Army Slayer

Jaleb the Specialist commander had one hundred specialists under his command. They were all gathered with him here today as he had The Banshee surrounded. She was beginning to be a menace, performing assassinations against individuals with no real pattern between them. The Specialist Order could not ignore such a