Recent content by Cain Darlite

Sounded like Mr. Ford never saw a game of Go then. Honestly, how could any sculpted piece surpass the minimalist eloquence of black and white discs gradually forming patterns of conquest and counter upon the intersections of a 19 by 19 grid? Then again, he was a journalist who used his access...

160 +36 Buff [0/3] Vulnerable Damage Reduction: 0 Sublimation: 1 Mark of Misery He could see it too, the sudden drop as a result of the concentrated fury of the Starspawn. Kyra Vashtana, laid so low that she was near-death, when she had been entirely healthy just moments before. The...

Except even if there was a way to return, there was no body to return to. Cain sipped at his own drink, watching the flames. He wasn't stupid, after all. It was easy to tell that Seigi had things she didn't want to talk about, easy to sense a forceful swapping of topics. They were closer, four...

"You're overthinking it," Danielle winked back towards Dayeon. "This is tech industry, after all. 90% of participants were nerds in school, and the other 10% just got lucky with their investments. Won't be expecting any sort of old-money stuff here, outside of just having some manners." Sure...

160 +36 Buff [1/3] Damage Reduction: 20 Sublimation: 2 Mark of Misery The starfire was so brilliant that he had to look away. Not from the nuclear flames that blistered his skin, seared his clothing, but from the fully realized presence of @Seigi Ling Ling, the natural charisma she possessed...

On the one hand, it was adorable to see Chelsea try so hard, but on the other hand, alas, the usage of Misters and Misses made it pretty clear that this really was a professional networking event, rather than a social one. Well, that was fine. When it came to impromptu afterparties, Danielle was...

160 +2 Haste from Ruby +63 Buff [0/1] +36 Buff [2/3] -5HP from Retal Damage Reduction: 20 Sublimation: 1 Mark of Misery Shadows, errant and spectacular, snaked behind him, a familiar face emerging from the darkness, accompanied by a…familiar intonation as well. It was amazing, perhaps, how...

160 +36 Buff [3/3] When a devilish fear sows the seeds of its own damnation, even angels may strip their wings. The paralysis of conundrum enforces a twisted meditation upon all, and at the apotheosis of one's path, hesitation scorches disorder into the symmetry within the muse's heart. Oh...

Heels weren't her go-to, nor a dress as plain as the one that hugged her body at the moment, but Danielle had to admit: she totally rocked whatever look she went for! And she absolutely loved the details on her watch, the latest little self-gift she had splurged upon. It probably wasn't going to...

Broken into bits. Floating in the aether. A half-death, identity distorted and mixed, only for those bits and pieces to be puzzled back together by a mascot that yet wasn't a mascot. Danielle looked at all this. Took it all in. The Boundary. The Origin Matrix. Dissonance. Proper nouns fell like...

160 There had to be irony in this, no? It was, indeed, the sort of moment where things could actually be played up for comedy, when a character triggered a trap and everything suddenly became so much more exciting than it otherwise would have been. In this case, however, Cain simply suppressed...

It was good that Toko had it in her to follow along with his whims. Even for a summoner such as himself, who still had partial access to the portions and mythology of Terrasphere buried over years of separation, the Crystallized Zalra was an unpleasant place to be. The amount of simultaneous...

160 Location: 5A Bleeding: 6 -20 HP from Distorting Reality -30 HP from Bleed +43 HP from Self Heal Vulnerable Backwards. Forwards. Swaying left and right, tossed by the tempest of spatial distortions, his physical form unmade and remade. The blood continued to flow, unstaunched, perpetually...

160 Location: 7B Bleeding: 6 -20 HP from Astral Break -69 HP from Zephyr -30 HP from Bleed +45 HP from Self Heal Vulnerable What was there, if not spite, to keep one going after something like this? He felt it in his bones. He felt it in his heart. He felt it in his mind. He felt it in his...

160 Location: 6D Vulnerable -20 HP from Wing Formation Retal Bleeding: 1 She would not feel pity. This was just a creation, twice-artificial. Programmed by this black box of a death-game, birthed from machinery. This was a defect and an enemy, the guardian of the Forge that some King who...