8 Results in the "Permission to Bleed" category
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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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31.5 K • Ongoing
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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…-
31.5 K • Ongoing
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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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31.5 K • Ongoing
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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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31.5 K • Ongoing
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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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31.5 K • Ongoing
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The training decks will fix me. …Wait. I blink and squint at the ceiling above me. There's familiar grey tile patterned with specks of paint from the one disastrous time someone thought the infirmary needed more color and decided to use red. That hadn't gone over well. The infirmary. The infirmary…? Right. How I got here is a looming question mark, but I remember snatches of the fighting once I made it to the training deck. I remember my plan. I exhale and nod, hand straying to the spot where…
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31.5 K • Ongoing
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I'd never considered the hiss of my door sliding open to be comforting. Right now though? It's the single most soothing sound I've heard in hours. Taking a close second place is the cold air that blasts from inside of my apartment. Everywhere else is always too warm for me - set somewhere at an average for everyone in this LAGOON - but my apartment is set for my comfort alone. The temperature difference is enough that the initial blast of cold air comes with a visible curl of chill that evaporates…
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31.5 K • Ongoing
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Permission to Bleed
Engineering and magical marvels, the quartet of airships known as the LAGOONs are a beacon of safety for the world. No need to worry about fiends or worse when you can hire Riptide Agents from the nearest LAGOON after all! They’re specially trained to make sure the tide is in your favor! But a shocking reveal shakes the world’s faith in the LAGOONs right…-
4.0 K • Feb 9, '26
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4.6 K • Feb 23, '26
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4.2 K • Mar 9, '26
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