13 Results in the "Permission to Bleed" category
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Welcome to the Lodestar
So. Somebody you trust gave you a link and told you to click it. This is, perhaps, the one and only time that doing so is a good thing. Welcome, new friend, to the landing page of The Lodestar. You may or may not have heard of us - some folks talk about us pretty openly and our public pages do have a large spread of information. We're not going to make any assumptions, so if you know who we are and what we're about then you can skim the next few paragraphs. If not, then read away. Might save your…-
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Fiends. One of the first things you learn here at the LAGOONs is that you are always on fiend disposal duty and since this is Fiend Disposal 101 - it's my job to make sure that you understand what they are so it doesn't disarm you in the field. They're us. Or they were, at some point... after a fashion. You can see it and hear it in the younger fiends - when they scream, they still sound human. There's no turning them back. Get that bit in your heads - there. is. no. turning. them. back. See,…
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The word hangs in the forest air like a settling fog. It nixes several possibilities from the list I had constructed in my head and highlights others. Just one word and I can adapt and change what I'm considering based on it. None of us respond immediately. I presume that Chaisee, Rehema, and Sara are coming up with their own thoughts to share with me later. And the socially polite thing is to wait for elaboration. Elaboration that never comes. The client repeats themself. "Assassination." Slower…
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Kukali lets out this little huff of air that I've learned means she's swallowing a hiss at that shout. She doesn't seem all that surprised, an' that means I need to assess what's going down. The announcer talking about economic changes is less important than taking in how she's doing. I've never traveled with Kali before so I don't have a single damn thing to base my assumptions of her reactions on. …Well, that ain't entirely true. Hema is a big cat like Kali is… I glance around quick. Sara's…
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The way in which I've jinxed us doesn't show up immediately. We have time to make decisions on what to eat and Sara fusses at Chaisee trying to make everyone food on her own. It's an opening that Rehema immediately takes advantage of and I slip in to make sure everyone has napkins and drinks while those three are playfully bickering. My stealth goes unnoticed until Sara is grabbing napkins and stops short with a confused croak. Rehema eyes me suspiciously and I put my hands up. In my defense, I…
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I make it to my apartment without any further problems or running into anyone. A sigh of relief escapes me once I'm back on my own floor, back alone like I'm used to being. Putting away the food from Chaisee means seeing the single remaining pastry in the fridge from Yilmaz and I hiss as I close the door. There's no one here to hear it and still it's only a quiet noise. There's too many variables. Too many what ifs and maybes and three days is far too much time to waste. Three days could see him dead…
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Battlefield Regulation 1 – Hostiles come in Many Forms, Identify Them before they Identify You
"Ten minutes? So you already have one for here?" Chaisee asks, tone doing a weird waver that I can't discern the meaning of. "Yes, at least two." I nod. I'm about to open my mouth to explain how LAGOON apartments are even easier than most places due to the mirrored layouts when Rehema's voice cuts me off. "Yilmaz status?" Chaisee twists to look at them, already answering with information on how the discharge paperwork redacts even that so we have nothing to go off of. But I can feel Rehema's…-
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"Pumpkins." I answer before I can think otherwise of it. My tongue crackles in the air as the frost starts to thaw with the motion. "I'm partial to papayas as well but I've yet to meet a pumpkin that I don't like." That's… yes, I have a script relating to favored fruits and vegetables. I can work with that, even with what folks expect to follow. "What about yourself?" I am, I find, actually invested in the answer. Knowing the favored foods of an ally is always useful information, even more so when…
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Going to Chaisee's place for dinner is the first thing all day that has actually had a transparent plan of what needs to happen and I grab onto that thought as hard as I can. There's comfort in something finally having a script that I know how to follow, even more so as the pain in my skull inches up another few notches. Step one - get back to a more populated area. This first step is the the most important one as staying in this mostly deserted area is practically begging for another… issue to crop…
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I don't have plans for things like this. Fiends don't roam the halls of the LAGOON. So I wind up wasting valuable time scrambling for an idea beyond throwing myself out of the way of the charge. The only idea that comes to mind is a bad one. It's such a terrible one that Yilmaz would have already jumped to do it if he could. And it's the only thing that comes to mind as I realize that my dodge has meant that the lobster-shaped fiend is now right in front of the doors of the infirmary. I can hear…
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