Category: The Simulacrum of Dread
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A Dreaded Decompression
<< The Simulacrum of Dread If it survives long enough, an entropy-subject culture with the concept of ownership will eventually meet a point of advancement where it temporarily gains the illusion of license for irresponsibility. This usually occurs near the advent of volitional mass-energy allocation, or a substitutable milestone. The culture’s members begin to embrace…
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Interlude Amidst Suns
<< The Simulacrum of Dread Yawning Kris was ever so slightly cool. He floated across the heavens of Rhaagm and similar civilizations, doing what he did often: sleeping, watching, and thinking. The fact that he was less than warm brought trouble to his ponderings. It meant one of a handful of things: an onset of…
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A Dreaded Homecoming
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “Statement: insufficient is action of winning battle. Statement: insufficient is action of winning war. Statement: sufficient is action of winning present conflict and successive conflict in single operation.” -Ord Navy Admiral Dolpappoladod, after the sterilization of a rebel dagacha colony in the Ord Dagacha Uprising Returning from the facilities, Bugbear…
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A Dreaded Composite
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “There he goes, GedGetKroDra the Sword Hand! See his sword! See his hand! See how the two are one! Touch his hand, lose your own.” -Opening of many assassin children’s stories about GedGetKroDra, and his collection of bladed prostheses Sebastio felt the writhing beneath his skin, and knew the primal…
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Interlude Amidst Abstraction
<< The Simulacrum of Dread In a context which provides no reason or mechanism to measure many aspects of physics thought of as “traditional” by a large proportion of homo sapiens – no basis or allowance for magical influence, or time, or matter, or self-consistent mathematical expressions, or nearly anything else which one might describe…
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A Dreaded Dark
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “A system incorporating both one or more dæmon clusters and one or more folding-capable simplex suites is capable of accomplishing any formally definable task which that system can parse, provided that the system receives appropriate direction.” -The Metasymbolism Equivalence System Hypothesis Niall Bennosuke, better known as The Nightmare Count, slid…
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A Dreaded Sword
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “I am the Maker, creator of many things. Enjoy the fruits of my labor, which make the impossible trivial, and provide for countless generations to come. Keep watch over my Tower, and it will keep watch over you.” -Inscription on the Northwest cornerstone of the Tower of Rhaagm Sebastio Artaxerxes…
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Interlude Amidst Administration
<< The Simulacrum of Dread An interlude is how those few familiar with it might have described the unmappable space. An archetype, others would say. The Beings of Old who occupied Avram’s Bosom, named the Trinity of Gray by their peers, simply called it “home.” Two female, one male, as much as could be reckoned…
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A Dreaded Incomprehension
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “‘What’ one knows-and-feels is inconsequential. ‘How’ one knows-and-feels is profound. ‘Why’ one knows-and-feels is destiny.” -Ast aaned proverb “He can’t hate classic Grea disks! That’s practically hating art!” “It’s a cheapskate, mindless strategy the whole way through, and you know it. Just look at the last twelve league matches. Not…
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A Dreaded Immortal
<< The Simulacrum of Dread “Don’t want to fight, don’t want to die, don’t want to be an Old. / Save me from forever, or slave me to a clock.” -Shear Boot, Clipped Coins, Final Greetings of Iodine In spite of the precisely measured straight-line distance between him and his apartment complex, Sebastio didn’t know…