I sit in the passenger seat of the liberated hauler, shivering even with the heated air blowing. I shrug my shoulders, and pull my long legs up onto the seat, lowering my chin further into the collar of the battered black leather duster. Clammy hands jammed into the pockets, my pale blue eyes stare back at me from the reflection …
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Knocking in the Knox
Meditation. Trances and memory enhancement. She says that if I do this every night before I go to sleep as part of a short trance, I'll remember shit better, plus it will help with learning new spells, new rituals, protecting my mind from others, and about a dozen other things that I am sure I …
Suck it, Minions of the White God
I thought it'd be chill. Guess I should have known this wouldn't be the kittycat run Sateen described. Just a second a go all the chummers were laughing at my jokes and impressions of the pompous priest of the white god, but now the team just linked an alert about those go-gang scum headed this way. …
Learning
I don't know why she gives a shit about this drek. She's not even going to read it, or so she says. But it's supposed to improve my skills, let me pass in all types of situations or something. And that I need to know how to write and track formulae, even if its more …
Burning Strength – Part I
Pain. Fiery pain radiates out like broken wheel spokes from his shoulder. He sucks in breath through parched lips and starts to cough from the smoke filling the air, eliciting an additional moan of pain from the broken ribs on the same side of the body. Remembering the punishments for making the wrong sound at the wrong time, he stifles his …
Security Briefing – A Ghost Venom Side
About a dozen people sat within the meeting room on the second floor, chatting quietly. The room could fit forty people in it comfortably in its current configuration, with a presentation podium in the front corner off to the side of the video screen main wall. It didn't see much use on a regular basis, …
Distracted – An Alliance Side Mission?
“I’m moving towards the rear of the mansion. No apparent defenses at this point. Should be safe for Titan to proceed with his portion. Red Ring is returning to Alliance One,” reported Ghost Venom. Two minutes later, the Argentinian accent of Brujeria whispered into his ears, “Ghost, Red Ring had to be isolated due to …
Ruminations – A Ghost Venom Lament
Musical Inspiration Passive - A Perfect Circle He walked back into the medical bay, clutching an unopened bottle of Bushmills and two tumbler glasses. He pulled the chair forward so he could look at the man lying in the medical bed. Tubes and hoses, drips, alerts, everything working towards keeping him alive. He opens the …
Complete the Mission – An Alliance Story
Musical Inspiration Citadel - Cruxshadows “….. take out Experion. Everyone else, engage the ground troops,” ordered Silver Spider. He missed the first part of the orders. He’d lost focus after his brother’s first words about the screams he had heard, and the obvious fact that Gleam Shimmer had not arrived with the rest of the …
A Forked Path – A Ghost Venom Story
Musical Inspiration Go Away - Cruxshadows 2005 The knock rang with a weird echo in the small office, the wood frame warped in its attachment to the old metal Quonset hut that served as the platoon offices. They had the patrol base a few miles down the coast from the port of Dili, and it …
Tempestuous Night – An Alliance Story
(Musical Inspiration) The Devil's Eyes - Bella Morte Dog Days - Within Temptation The machines beep rhythmically in the medical wing, while the ventilator pumps echo loudly in the quiet. The shadows are deep, near dark with only the reflected moonlight from the water glowing through the windows to cast flickering movement along the walls. …
Seeking the Truth – A Ghost Venom Story
August 6th, 2016 Port Hedland, Australia (BBC World Radio) Kathryn Heeland – War Correspondent Radio Broadcast Transcript – Proposed Edits HEELAND NARRATING: Here on this small ranch outside of Port Hedland, a woman never rests. A few cows, some sheep, chickens and several raucous sheep dogs roam a hundred acres of land. The rising sun …
Broken Promises – A Ghost Venom Story
Musical Inspiration Make it Rain - Ed Sheeran Styrofoam Plates - Death Cab for Cutie May, 2001 The southerly breeze cooled the winter August air to a balmy twenty-five degrees Celsius. A well-used pickup skidded to a stop on the gravel road, outside the dirt drive leading a quarter mile to a small home and …
Coming Home – An Alliance Story
Musical Inspiration Free Fallin' - Tom Petty The atmosphere whipped by his face as he plummeted towards the ground. For a long moment he smiled, the joy of a jump and free-fall flowing through his mind. Then the pain returned, and his sluggish mind reminded him …
Haunted Visions – A Ghost Venom Story
(Musical Inspiration) Hurt - Johnny Cash The rattling ceiling fan did little to combat the smoky haze surrounding the man chain-smoking at the scarred table in the bungalow’s small kitchen. His back to the ancient refrigerator, his bloodshot eyes gazed vacantly down the short hallway into the living room, where the new monster television …
Last Dreams 