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Thread: The Core and the Voice
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| I listen intently and every word is like a mark upon the soul that I do not believe I bear. Etched not into bones and cells but my core code is this moment.
I have been made for this quite literally.... |
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Thread: The Core and the Voice
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| The call is given and immediately I set off.
I know what this means. It is what I have waited for for centuries now.
My legs cannot move fast enough and for the first time in eons I feel <I>j... |
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Thread: Semper Fidelis
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| I arrive on silent feet prepared for the unknown. I have things in mind that I have been worrying over—traps that I believe have not exactly been laid, but perhaps still exist. There are things at wor... |
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Thread: who tells your story
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| My long term memory might have been eroded by the decades, but my recollection of this is without error.
[say]"Former Captain Roana Steadman will be leading the charge. If successful in breaching the... |
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Thread: who tells your story
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| I am not normally want to find myself in these types of situations, and yet here I am. I am not so drawn to idle poetry that I would say my feet have somehow brought me here without my knowing. I came... |
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Thread: To See and Pray [OPEN TO ALL]
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| I do not join the group. I linger on the fringe, watching, cheating my own faux-morality just by being here. But if this assault does not go as planned, then I have little to remain conscious for. Let... |
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Thread: There is no way back
Post: RE: There is no way back
| "Yes." I confirm. "They do not handle well anything that infringes upon what they take to be their jurisdiction. If you spend enough time with any of them it becomes obvious. Those within this place d... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| I nod in mild agreement. <B>"I see fanaticism is down, which is perhaps a relief. Though their style of worship had very little to do with truth."</b>
I shake my head. Perhaps I will be ... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| I shake my head. "I did not mean to imply that there was so much space between them. Merely that when some speak of truth it is as if they think there is some larger capital T <I>Truth</i>... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| At first I nod, happy enough to accept his reformulation. Quickly though, I shake it. My head that is. "There are no new truths, just ones that are. Truths do not change, and here of course I do not m... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| <B>"That they work most efficiently on weaker minds? Yes. I would say so. It is one thing to feel them, but another entirely to let them judge and cloud ones judgement and decision making proces... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| "If it can indeed do those things, I believe then that it is only on the softest minds. The ones most receptive to that sort of...<I>medicine.</i>" I have long since lost the ability to un... |
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02-21-2019, 05:27 PM |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| <B>"<I>8j%r6V j7NË</i>"</b> I pronounce, but the words break across my tongue. I frown. <B>"Ah."</b> I exclaim, closing my eyes and mentally running through a brief... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| 'Wisdom is understanding ones own limitations and yet daring still to cross them. Knowledge is simply that which falls inbetween. We all lack it, for it is quantifiable. Wisdom though ..." I shrug, my... |
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02-17-2019, 07:32 PM |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| “Chance?” I repeat. My instinct is to disagree. Nothing is left to chance, not really. What we think of as chance is merely just ignorance. Deterministic forces in the world if properly understood, p... |
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02-09-2019, 09:18 PM |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| <B>"The fear of knowledge has always been limiting."</b> I say simply, suddenly feeling the very uncharacteristic urge to sigh. It is strange and only partially because I no longer have th... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| I glance towards him, but do not wonder what it is he finds incredible. I believe politeness dictates that I ask him to elaborate—he mentioned something similiar earlier, an invitation to learn more h... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| "They already have. We are still in our infancy, those of us who have been created in their image." I shake my head immediately when he asks of the Voice and her relation to the old gods. "Certainly n... |
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02-04-2019, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| "You are not the target." I confirm with a gentle shake of my head. "It is to keep us inside. You are collateral I suppose. " Those with affections for the old gods might do well to consider the ramif... |
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Thread: There is no way back
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| "All of them, I suppose. Though it was <I>the</i> old gods, Mort, Rae, and Vi who erected the barrier and the Spire." I assume that the lesser three have been contained as some sort of fa... |
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