Category: Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage
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Living Dreams
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Bury the living, eat the dead.” -Ast aaned proverb If you aim to learn about a place’s habits and character, the mores that its natives hold closest to their deep-hidden hearts, then consider the textured attitude toward capital punishment. In Rhaagm, you would get any sort of personality storage…
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Dead People
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Name for me a higher art than that of salvage. It is the caste system writ small, into desirables and undesirables, but across laterals lacking the moral implications of bigotry. Look behind you later, and read the epitaph you left for denuded relics.” -Tuoamas Pennat, The Cleaning of Pennat…
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The Actor and His Dilemma
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Putting on a role is just killing a small part of yourself for a while, then resurrecting it.” -Annotation in Epinoster Nine-thousand-six-hundred-thirty-centimeters’s Pontification in Gold Rhizomes, ascribed to the playwright Eihks remembered everything. That was a state of being, a blessed curse, to which he had long since consigned…
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Depart the Nest
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Paradox is a useful unit measure of cognizance. A prime example, found in many extrafacetarily-conversant societies in this the thirty sixth age: consider the biases and attitudes on the subject of race and species. Should I desire, I can go through a conjugation procedure the afternoon that I write…
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Intermission: Eraser Machine
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage Sergeant Carline Sandany, first echelon Sol Confederation Marines, deflected a blow aimed at her head with her gun hand. The plating of her gauntlet screeched under the translucent blade – not doing damage, but coming far closer than the purely metal weapons occasionally found on this nonsense planet. It…
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Cry Havoc, Hateful Children
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Cry havoc, hateful children; pick up your spyglasses and cross the hot seas of war.”-Holdimidloth, A Guide to Feeling Normal -Holdimidloth, A Guide to Feeling Normal It is always a good sign when you round a corner and see complete and total chaos. To the right stretched the long…
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Eating Sand of the Glass
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Their stories were all but identical, from a statistical point of view. Every single one of them. Sixty two percent of the university staff of the main Weguerreguwregerr campus, and a lot of the students and unaffiliated civilians, all went walkabouts considerable distances from their homes. The ones who…
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Doctoring Without a License
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Sure, go ahead – try to keep information from getting free. See how that turns out.” -Unsigned journal entry at a tenth age laboratory dedicated to reverse-engineering Ktarebte-Blackbottom subreal matrices, recovered from the remains of the facility’s annihilation “I can’t decide if I’m going to give you the highest…
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Hearts of Warm Tin
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Statement: pray for past. Statement: expected is praying for future to bear fruit. Statement: fair is accounting for things on other side of ‘present.’” -Froduffortururdodrut She was a studious thinker who appreciated beauty, not an artful arranger-of-words. At least, that was her past life. In her present, given the…
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Intermission: Big Plots Inside Little Plots
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage A certain man’s lip curled as he examined several scenes across the surface of the world. He lounged in a “sophisticated” spaceplane that would have been pretty swanky to anyone who’d never seen the inside of a well-crafted gemship. It had first-line stealth capabilities that would make nearly any…