Category: Cypher

Chapter 7: Passage (2019-12-15)

The Weaver’s Cafe Naranth’s Weaver cell is based out of a conveniently-visible cafe in the Topiary district of Satyrine. (Meaning none but members or like-minded Weavers can even find the brick lined place with its slow service and its even slower courtyard service.) Founded by Rota (3rd Degree), Heliophon (4th) and a rarely-present Kyrie (5th),…


Chapter 5: Patronage

Enkidu Fissure sits up in his house that is a refuge spoiled by time and loss. He sits up in something like his house, knowing instinctively, with a sure sense, that this is not his house. He’s in a long corridor, green carpet strip held down by brass railings between a long line of pale…


Chapter 4: Master Naranth

WHAT ALES YOU In a corner of “For What Ales You,” a quiet argument was transpiring between three Elderbrin. It gradually grew more animated (and less comprehensible) as the combatants reverted to their native language, replete with gestures, glottal stops, and incongruous transformations. Having had enough, one of the Elderbrin left with a dramatic flourish…


Chapter 3: Angels Weep

2018-10-7 Leaving Aunt Crystal’s house, it turned out that Zerah’s damage to himself with his Ambulatory Bloodfire Oath was more severe than anticipated. Getting him back inside her house was only slightly more awful than the process of disentangling Naranth from Aunt Crystal’s moth “clothing” after their queen had laid eggs in his clothing… his…


Chapter 2: The Abiding Curse

As the vislae agonized, the quiet, percussive sounds of nighttime gradually provided accompaniment. The chirping of insects harmonized with other less identifiable Satyrine strangeness in an almost hypnotic, rhythmic beat, which in turn was slowly overpowered by a dull roar of rushing air and fierce steam. The beat persisted in the form of a harsh…


Ah… Satyrine

Thriving and ever-changing, Satyrine easily accommodated four new arrivals within its walls; however, the entangling and radiating influence of their histories and current machinations could already be felt in the neighborhoods where each made his berth. Whether great or terrible (or both), the full impacts of their destinies remained to be seen… It was no…


Truth of history

Breaking the Black Diamond   Invisible Beside, behind and around all the questionably-noble personages cluttering up plinths and squares and balustrades are the heroes not cast in synth and titanium. Those whose secret and costly movements truly bank the world into a new course. The destruction of the Black Diamond ( the fortress of the terror that…


Orienting to the Truth

In the aftermath of the battle, they walked among the men, healing wounds, dealing with the dead – including making sure that the pale man, D’vorak the Endless, remained dead despite the particles in his body that were laboring toward his resurrection. Judging by Roz’ bruises, keeping him down was a good idea. Thom tended to their…


High Price of Liberation

Unleashing terror upon the camp disabled many of the soliders. Rising to battle them nonetheless were: laser spheres animated armor suits chalk-white warlord with some entranced gaians crystal star refrigerator man The battle was intense, and on. A force field protected by the laser spheres kept Gabriel mostly out of the fight.   At the…


Missives of the Atom

Alien duplo blocks laid out like a child’s experiment creating enough clean fusion power to split the night with a focused plasma torch and power four (now one) Archangels soaring the clean airs of the northern Steadfast. The Gaian wave of the Tithe that broke a million-year-old safety-design project could not destroy it. A Nano of the…