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I see them as robots.

Programmed to respond according to their programming.
So, they can sense supernatural evil.

Best guess, a non-evil character attacks, they do nothing until they are near destruction, then they might evade or flee or fight defensively and stopped after they are not being ...

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Location: House Isen

Knight Three’s Journal Entry on House Isen

As I continue my training at House Isen, I find myself becoming more attuned to the structure and purpose of this academy. On the surface, it is a place of immense beauty, inspired by the designs of old yet crafted from materials we ...

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Location: The Mess Hall

They sat around a large, polished table in the Mess Hall, the aroma of expertly prepared food filling the air. The atmosphere was lively, with the clink of silverware and the murmur of conversation as the recruits enjoyed the lavish meal laid out before them. It was their ...

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Location: House Isen of the Order of the Mystic Knights

Knight Three and the other recruits passed through the gates with the sigil of a golden eagle.

The heavy Ironwood oak doors creaked open with a deep groan as Knight Three entered the Hall with the other recruits. Their boots echoed on the ...

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Location: The Tree

Knight Three opened his eyes, his mind racing with the memory of his youth, and the choices he had made that brought him here. The Tree wanted more.

The memory of his childhood felt distant, then he closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall back into the past, to the sterile ...

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Location: Hayley’s Hotel room

The faint glow of the neon sign outside flickered in through the blinds, casting soft, fractured light across Hayley’s desk. The hotel room was quiet, the hum of the city outside her window the only sound breaking the stillness. Her room was a sanctuary of sorts, but ...

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I was never very clear about how long it should take to travel between places in Rifts Earth or Palladium.

Running speed, to me, implied a flat track.

The wilderness is not a running track.

However, even with dense forest, I feel a guy used to the land ought to make a mile or so an hour minimum ...

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I like the idea of making Union of the Dead an option to have it made permanent.

And I agree with it; especially for those Necromancers who lost their limbs in the Coalition's War on Tolkeen.

I would want a scale though.
Adding humans limbs might only cost 1 or 2 P.P.E. permanently.

In one ...

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Anything left in the sale?

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Location: Hayley's Hotel Room

Hayley lay on the bed of her hotel room, her door securely locked behind her with her chair blocking it as an extra barrier. The only light in the room came from the soft glow of a neon sign outside the window. Her mind, however, was somewhere else entirely.

She ...

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Location: A Bar

The air inside the bar was thick with the smell of alcohol, stale smoke, and the faint odor of sweat. The clinking of glasses, muffled conversations, and the occasional burst of laughter or shouting that filled the space. Neon lights buzzed above, casting flickering colors onto the ...

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Location: The "Glass Wall" an iconic skyscraper that once stood.

The Glass Wall was a state of the art building built in 2098 before the great cataclysm. Once-towering, it’s fall reflected the fall of the once great civilization of humanity.

The supposed glass is called AM-III, developed by ...

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Location: A Cyber-Clinic

The sun had barely risen, but Hayley was already making her way through the winding back alleys of Chi-Town Burbs. The city’s streets were a mix of old, decrepit buildings and newer, sleek corporate storefronts. The stench of rust, garbage, and something else—something ...

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Location: A place where people used to go to watch banned movies.

Examining the burnt down remains, Hayley is not surprised.
Maybe the Coaliton caught on to the unground movie scene.
Or it could have been a criminal competitor.
Or it could have just been a fire.

"Let's see if there are any ...

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Location: Central square, known as Founders’ Plaza, is the heart of Chi-Town Burbs.

The square is lined with old cobblestone streets and gardens, giving it a historical feel. At the center of the square stands the iconic statue of the Burb’s founders—two figures, a man and a woman, cast in stone ...

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Location: Flying over the Coalition

The airplane buzzed beneath her, a metal bird slicing through the air, its engines rumbling softly. Hayley Chonlan adjusted her goggles, the world blurring slightly as she stared down through the small window. Below, the land stretched out, lots of untamed ...

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Location: At the Edge of the Refugee Camp

The rising sun bled streaks of orange and red across the treetops. Smoke drifted lazily from a dozen cookfires, curling upward in thin, tired ribbons. Breakfast before resuming the trail hiking.

Lady Serana stood alone at the edge of the camp. Her gaze ...

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Location: The edge of the refugee camp. Dawn.

The rising sun cast golden rays across the wild meadows burnishing the dew-laced grass and the crumbling skeletons of buildings with a warm, ephemeral glow.

Lady Serana, in her full armor, moved quietly through the makeshift encampment, her boots ...

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Location: En route to Coalition Village via Autonomous Car (Vehicle)

The Electric vehicle hums quietly beneath me as I pass through the southern checkpoint, the mechanical sentry offering no challenge. My credentials, falsified through Coalition access routines "borrowed" from a destroyed outpost ...

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Location: Deep forest in Northern Iowa, Coalition territory.

Pre-dawn. Mist hugs the ground. Distant wind turbines creak. Faint sounds of Gargoyle grunts carry on the wind like low growls.

Knight One steps away from the edge of the encampment, as he disappears into the trees to take answer the ...

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Location: The Refugee trail somewhere in South Dekota

The day waned into golden quiet as Lady Serana reined in her horse atop a ridge just west of the Missouri River, her gaze sweeping across the sprawling wilderness below—a forgotten town now overgrown with life.

Below her, were the remains of ...

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Location: A News Broadcast in the City of Lazlo - 107 PA

The camera zooms in on a polished, pristine news desk, where a well-dressed female anchor, Sarah Dresin, sits with an air of professionalism, her face lit by the soft glow of studio lights. Her dark hair is neatly pulled back into a tight ...

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Location: Coalition High Command — Deep Strategic Operations Briefing

The lights are low. The security here is absolute.

Only the Emperor and his absolute inner circle are present.

The holotable glows red with the projected map of Earth. Ley Line Nexus points pulse like beating hearts across ...

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Location: Somewhere in Iowa

Knight One's War Journal

I have spent time now among the Gargoyles. The longer I observe them, the more I come to understand the strange simplicity—and terrifying purity—of their nature.

They have no fear of death. It holds no sway over their minds. Old age is not a ...

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Location: Ruins of Coalition Outpost, Iowa

The air still reeks of scorched metal and burnt flesh. The gorgoyles have moved on, following their Gargoyle Lord as they march toward their next feast. I remain behind to gather what knowledge I can from the shattered remains of the enemy.

Amid the ...

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Location: Solomon

The tree lies on its side, a massive, gnarled trunk sprawled across the ground like a fallen giant. Its once-mighty roots are exposed, twisting and coiled in strange, grotesque patterns. The bark, now weathered and splintered, bears the scars of its fall, with jagged pieces torn ...

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Location: Lemurian Outpost: Rapa Nui (later to be named Easter Island, in the future)

The first light of dawn crept into the home, casting a soft golden hue across the walls woven from living wood. For a moment, Knight Three lay still, feeling the warmth of the morning sun on his face. His eyes ...

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I look at this like a Mind Melter can use Telemechanics to know EVERYTHING about an energy rifle.
Still, that does not make them an expert shot with the rifle.

There are other factors, like controlling ones own body (breathing, position, squeezing the trigger right, resisting moving).

Similarly ...

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Location: Knight Three's journey through memory via the Lemurian Tree.

The ocean swallowed Knight Three in a vast curtain of blue as he descended along the ley line current, his biomancer’s body takes naturally to the underwater environment.

Below him, The Garden Valley unfurled like a dream ...

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Location: Solomon — The Garden Fortress

Days passed since the breaking of the siege, but the memory of battle still hung in the air like a distant storm. Yet, within the walls—where once there was only crumbling stone, ash, and ruin—life surged forward.

The Biomancer walked slowly through the ...

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Location: The Refugee Train West

The sky hangs low, heavy with thin gray clouds that filter the sunlight into a dim, silvery glow. The forest is dense and old, a living cathedral of towering trees, their gnarled branches reaching high above like the twisted ribs of some great beast.

The air is ...

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War Journal

Location: Forward Encampment, Wastelands, Northern Iowa

The Lord hungers again.

Today, the Gargoyle Lord stood upon the ridge before dawn, wings flexed wide against the dying stars, eyes burning like twin furnace coals. Ten of his gurgoyle grunts crouched at his feet—hulking, patient ...

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Well written Nekira Sudacne.

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Location: The Sanctuary of the Tree of Wisdom

Hidden deep stands the Tree.

Knight Three sits cross-legged at the base of the trunk, close enough that his bare hand rests lightly against the bark. His breathing is slow, measured, eyes closed. His mind is open.

Images pulse into Knight Three’s ...

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Location: The refugee trail

The convoy of refugees slowly moves along the rough trail, the rumble of wagons blending with the murmurs of displaced souls. Near the front, Lady Serana rides, overseeing the movement of the people.

A messenger on horseback, wearing Knight One’s crest on his cloak ...

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Location: Coalition Inner Sanctum — Midnight Strategic Council Meeting

Once again, Prosek sits alone at the head of the obsidian war table. Around him are his top operatives.
The mood is tense. This is now no longer a theoretical discussion—this is a point of policy.

Director Helstrom (concise ...

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Location: The Battle of Solomon

No one wanted to see what was happening.

No one could bring themselves to shoot. The militia’s hands trembled on their triggers, eyes wide with disbelief.

A veteran near the front dropped his rifle to his knees and whispered, “What kind of monsters...”

The ...

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Location: Solomon - The Skelebot Battle

South side — The Water Warlock’s kill zone

As the first ranks of Skelebots stumbled out of the hail-storm — their sensor heads shattered, their limbs mangled by the iron-hard spheres — they surged blindly into the waiting wall of ice monsters.

Towering ...

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Location: the Town of Solomon

The sky was overcast and heavy, as though the world itself held its breath. Then came the first rumble—not thunder, but the unified stomp of 10,000 Skelebots charging across the battlefield.

Like a tidal wave of steel, a Coalition mechanized legion surged forward in ...

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Location: The Farms

The grove is calm again. The survivors of last night's battle rest far away, out of sight. Knight Two arrives alone, walking through the open field, his boots sinking slightly in the damp soil. He wears no helmet, his rifle slung. His presence here is deliberate — not as a ...

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Location: Outside of the town of Solomon

Knight Two and his team move through the undergrowth like shadows. Silence. No birds. No wind.

The hairs on Knight Two’s neck rose a fraction of a second before the sound reached him. Every bit of his experience screamed ambush. That’s when the Mystic ...

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Location: Far outside of the town of Solomon

Knight Two lay prone on a slight rise in the earth, his breath slow, shallow. From a distance, he looked like nothing more than another dead man lost to the swamp—camo fatigues muddied, boots half-sunk into the soft loam, face streaked with charcoal and ...

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Location: The Inner Chamber of the Emperor – 12 Hours After the Return

A private intelligence briefing room deep within Chi-Town’s fortified core. The air is tense. A steel holotable glows with security feeds, biometric scans, and troop tracking overlays. Emperor Karl Prosek sits at the center ...

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Location: Lady Serana’s Tent, Night

She sits down at her desk. Dips a quill in ink.
And she begins writing:

To Knight One,

“I left without saying goodbye.
Without fulfilling my duties, or explaining why I did what I did.
I won’t offer excuses.
But I will offer this:
I have too many Coalition ...

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Location: Tolkeen's POW camp.

Sir Drake—the man who has overseen the capture and humane detainment of the Coalition prisoners of war.

A Tolkeen government official says, “We’re feeding them. Protecting them. And we can’t even trade them for our soldiers because the Coalition doesn’t talk to us ...

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Location: The Grove – North of the Farm, Dusk

The towering trees arch overhead, their bark glowing faintly under the moonlight. A ritual clearing has been prepared—swept clean, ringed with glyphs drawn in nutrient-rich soil, lit by fireflies and bio-luminescent moss. The forest holds its breath ...

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Location: Reclaimed Farmland – Northern Minnesota

The land is strangely alive here.

Fields that should be dead from war and neglect are lush with corn, beans, and thick green vegetables. Flowers bloom along collapsed fences. Trees bend as if whispering to each other. It smells like damp earth and ...

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The War Room – Temp HQ of the Mercenary Company “Black Vow”

The makeshift war room is buried in the lower deck of a grounded Coalition transport turned command center, salvaged and repurposed by Knight Three.

The floor is layered with maps, gear crates, and wires. The stale air smells of ozone ...

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Location: The Forge of the Mystic Kuznya

The forge was cold.

That alone said more than a dozen oaths etched in stone. For five weeks it had roared like a god kept in chains — bellows hissing, hammers ringing, steel howling under the discipline of fire and spirit. Now, silence. Only drifting smoke ...

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Location: Emperor Prosek’s Intelligence Council Chamber

Dark stone walls, an imposing eagle-and-gear Coalition sigil behind Prosek’s seat. Prosek sits alone at the head of a long black table, surrounded by senior intelligence officers, military strategists, and propaganda chiefs. The report on ...

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