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DETH'S DESCENT 1: Grume & The Tricky Bitches

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A wolf howls in the cold frigid night above ground; an unusual group has found themselves sat around the same dwindling fire as the true dark of night sets in among the barren trees. 100 yards back lies the yawning portal, the toothless mouth of the beastly land of Görga.  A small statured man with an ass’ face squats on his heels poking a stick into the fire, he hardly notices the massive, scarred hulking frame that's come to warm itself, and the once finery of Cornelius’ shit stained pants. Aside from the three wanderers sits a frail old man, the journey here, or perhaps his sickness has rendered him weak and dying. He sips, with great effort, from a dented tin cup, his only possession in the world. With a few quick words SmartAss has swindled the dying man out of his last meal, and downed it in front of him. The two strangers look on, Cornelius grinning at the cunning of the swindling. With his dying breath the old man asks that the three simply leave his body across th...

GRADIENT 7: Pilgrimage

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Asher: Buchanan 17 / 7 of 8. Scotty: Doc Marty. Nico: Bucky Andrew. Christian: Breacher (H) / Breacher (BW). Rob: Odysseus. DAY 18 Pilgrimage through the depths of the Cloudbank Synthetic Production Facility. Buchanan 17 leads Wolfsheim 6 and the two unnamed Breachers on a sadistic romp. Smashing androids, looting corpses, laughing, shouting. Anything lurking in the darkness of zero gravity stays out of their way. Marty, Bucky, and Odi follow closely behind. Marty grabs Artifact #88 from behind the mirror where he last hid it. Eden. There's no Cherubim guarding the experimental Chosen colony anymore. The Great Gatsby death cultists raze this place. Synthetic corpses shredded. Nothing from Monarch. Quiet. It is eerily easy to reach Floor 1.  No ships docked. It appears the Acheron will arrive in 19 hours. The divers scour and loot the first floor and get some rest. Buchanan 17 steals the Golden Rat. He will never know the consequences.  DAY 19 Doc Marty has a dream. He's back...

GRADIENT 6: The Party

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Asher: Tootsie Thompson / Buchanan 17. Scotty: Doc Marty. Nico: Bucky Andrew. Christian: Hyde "Breacher" Finch . Rob: Odi. The bees buzz closer. Hyde sees two green lights pulsing in the distant darkness. In the hot glow of the nearby lava bath emerges two Breachers. One with eyes painted on his headset, and the other with a pair of glasses. Eyes and Glasses quickly dispatch the bees with their vibechetes. Eyes sizes Hyde up and realizes he's killed a fellow Breacher to earn the Breacher armor. Eyes invites Hyde to the party. But Eyes says he needs to gather a few more guests before the party can begin. Glasses silently records this conversation by entering it on the side of his headset. The trio move through the factory. Doc Marty decides to join them as a guest. Tootsie is taken, too. Odi tracks the group through the vents. Bucky follows, not far behind, using her thermals to stay out of the Breacher's vision and looking after Odi. Sweltering heat in the vents. Od...