Category: Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage
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Rubicon
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Good medicine for when no medicine is in the body, worse medicine for when there is bad medicine in the body, and a journey for when medicine is needed and nothing else can be done.” -Yrdkish saying of the fifth age BANG. “That’s a nice shot!” Eihks enthused to…
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The Storm’s Fringe
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Some people mistakenly call a decision problem, or its solution set, a ‘gray area.’ I pity these people. What they are so painfully oversimplifying is the essence of morality: the clear of good implication entwined with the opaque of bad implication. Decisions should never be made based on ‘taste’…
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The Souls of Cold Cannons
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Statement: correct is only one time of preparation for confrontation. Statement: correct only when wildly inconvenient and supposedly unnecessary is time of preparation for confrontation.” -Rulliruglriugig, founder of the Bequastish university of Drabhammer An oilskin bag. A Morris-weave blanket. Water thermos. Non-water thermos. Food-preservation supplies ranging from drying racks…
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Assimilation
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Make many into one. Make one into many. Make none into one. Make one into none. All problems can, in some sense, be described by a failure to perform a combination of those operations. The hardest, of course, is the conversion from having zero solution sets for your problem…
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Intermission: Showtime
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage The old man, whose progeny called him Grandfather Apple, and had been long ago christened Heran Dwisrol, looked down and over his wizened shoulder at the sensory on the holojector. He scowled. “I knew it,” he muttered. He turned back to his ART. Before him stood a scale effigy…
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Cultivar Transplantation
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “SHUT UP AND LET ME DROWN YOU IN FRUIT JUICE.” -Opening line of the Dacsar Sun campaign script, for the role-playing game Banana Ache Eihks was a good listener, and loved good stories. He’d collected them from around the vast planetarium of existence over his years of exploring the…
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Seeds of a Difference
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “If broken things look the same after their fixing, you court the same problem.” -Ast aaned proverb “Sorry about the mess,” said the tall human, hunching over a little cabinet and pulling a variety of objects from its flat top, while he stared at a collection of glowing symbols…
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We the Consuming People
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Woo! Drugs! Parties! More parties! A bit of composition! That’s all fun, right? Wrong! Sooo many things to plan behind the scenes! Fobbing off the right amount of publicity while making other obvious public appearances. Don’t get me started on how many eidolons we have to consult to keep…
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Cannot Go Backward
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Don’t speak of the fifteenth age, for mistakes can teach where regret only hinders.” -Bequastish adage Ktsn Wdondf Daephod snapped awake like the closing of a rugfos trap. She was comforted at first, relishing the feeling of her bed against her legs. Then her eyes widened when she remembered…
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Toothed Minds
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “A thing living, I did dream, and it was me – when I awoke, I was dead, and had died free.” -English inscription in the Tower of Rhaagm, accredited to the Maker As he strolled over the field, he picked out and tried to play guessing games about the…