“NETHER BREACH DETECTED!”

  -The Gatekeeper

  25-1

  These Flames Above and Below

  ONTOLOGICAL ALTERATION DETECTED

  ADAPTING STILLBORN-PATTERN LIMINAL FRAME…

  ERROR - UNABLE TO ISOLATE SOUL FROM HEAVEN

  ERROR - FRAME RUPTURE DETECTED

  ERROR - CYCLER CONDITION UNKNOWN

  ATTENTION - UNKNOWN ONTOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT DETECTED

  ->UNKNOWN ONTOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT ORIGIN > USER [EGO]

  UNKNOWN ONTOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT IDENTIFIED AS USER [AVO] EGO

  WARNING - USER [AVO] NOW CLASSIFIED AS _ARK_

  ->ONTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE NOW INTERWOVEN WITH COMPONENT ONTOLOGICS

  SOLUTION: MERGE SOUL WITH ALTERED USER ONTOLOGY

  INITIATING MERGE… 100%

  ATTENTION: EMBODIMENT CREATED

  ->(CONCEPTUALIZATION)

  [OVERHEAVEN] CREATED - AVO, THE KNOWER OF TOTALITY (CONCEPTUALIZATION)

  ATTENTION - DOMAIN SHIFTING POSSIBLE – NEW STILLBORN DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAY DISCOVERED - [CONCEPTION OF ONTOLOGY]

  INTERNALIZED DOMAIN OF (CHRONOLOGY) MENDED

  CYCLERS CONJOINED

  REDIRECTING REND…

  WARNING: UNABLE TO UNGRAFT ATTACHED ONTOLOGICS

  SOLUTION: ASSIMILATE ONTOLOGICS INTO OVERHEAVEN

  ASSIMILATING ALL COMPROMISED ONTOLOGICS UNDER HEAVEN OF (CONCEPTUALIZATION): [WOUNDMOTHER]; [FARDRIFTER]; [TECHPLAGUER]; [ARSENALIST]

  WARNING: REND CAPACITY RISING…

  ASSIMILATING EXCESS ONTOLOGICS: [STEEL MAGNOLIA]; [RAVAGER OF THE DEPTHS]; [DAWNGAZER]; [THE CHARIOTEER OF DIRECTIONALITY]; [NIGHTGOUGER]; [SKYGRASPER]; [CENSOR OF DETAILS]; [HEART OF NOLOTH]

  ASSIMILATION COMPLETE

  ADAPTION COMPLETE

  LIMINAL FRAME STABILIZED

  Avo changed, and his Frame changed with him. Memories drifted across his awareness, but also spread through his Soul, extending out from him like tendrils that bifurcated the flames. It took him a moment to realize his Metamind’s sequences had been internalized, and another for the haze to fully clear from his cognition.

  His Soul remained the nexuses of his perception, but no longer did he linger in a fiery vacuum filled with little more than ontologics, cyclers, and his Soul. Phantasmal architecture rose from the burning waves, orbiting him as the ghost-made continents they were. More than this, however, he could feel his Soulfire suffusing his ghosts, pouring streams of gold into their structures, into his mind.

  They drifted upward, and Avo followed their movements–was shocked to discover a beacon of phantasmal fire projected upward from a gaping wound in his liminal border. Threads of ghosts crawled upward toward the firmament, Avo gazed through them, felt through them, was them.

  Parts of his being were drifting back up into the Nether, were pulling information back down. Or maybe that wasn’t the right way of looking at things. Maybe he now embodied an aspect of the Nether itself.

  His Frame… it classified him as an ARK now. He felt himself change, but the outcome of his most recent apotheosis remained unexplored.

  As he turned his perception outward, he found his Soulfire tinged with a second flame within. The ethereal inferno of his conflagration and the empty space between were filled with places, streets, sensations, and more.

  Memories. Memories lined his Liminal Frame. Memories grown from him, born of him, that composed him.

  And within these memories were his Heavens embraced. The Woundmother reached out to sink its tendrils into the surrounding architecture, and in the streets below, thousands of templates looked up to take in the Heaven of Blood that now shared their space. Fardrifter sailed over the sprawl, surprised to be alive, surprised more at the changing of this enclosure. The Techplaguer, meanwhile, found itself superimposed upon a phantasmic–its antennae was protruding from atop one of Avo’s Auto-Seances, broadcasting reverberations of wisping static.

  But even as Avo took in his Heavens, he found himself able to do more. Able to feel exactly where they were within him, exactly how they were bound to his skein–his ontological makeup. Each one was tangled by time, such was metaphysical expression that melted them into him as well.

  Time. A Domain that allowed him to bridge all his ontologics. A pattern in existence that all others operated within.

  [It was like I… momentarily vanished,] the Fardrifter said. As its spoke, he found himself able to see out from its perspective, brush his memories using wind and shadow and time.

  [The end did not come. But what is this? What pattern now bolsters my structure.] The Woundmother felt at itself and discovered a ceaseless trickle of ghosts radiating from its blood.

  [I can hear so much… so, so much,] the Techplaguer breathed. And it did, for it heard all the other templates, and became as if a satellite for countless streams of communication.

  No longer did his Heavens exist as entities separate from him. They were now substructures to his Overheaven, to his very nature. Avo could feel them flowing into him, manifested because of him, manifested as him, and vice versa. They occupied a place within him greater than a phantasmic but symmetrical to a template, and his miracle-infused memories preserved their metaphysical forms.

  What changed too was his understanding of their Domains–their ontological roots. Every Heaven embodied something and altered reality’s rules within their structures. Countless strings spilled out from Avo, Domains of Blood, Shadow, Lightning, Speed, Perception, Information, Biology, and more.

  Each was a pattern unto themselves, but each did not exist in isolation from the others. All patterns were interconnected, and a Domain was compromised when one pattern was woven over others in specificity. One absolute to dominate its lesser relatives. The bridging of two Domains thereafter granted a structure of ontological complexity, and from this was a Heaven born.

  The realization flowed with his intuition, and Avo found himself above to sense the currents of the tapestry still. He could part himself from existence more than ever before–easily done thanks to his persisting connection to the Nether. More than that, however, he could pull at the strings making up his Heavens, and as he did, he felt his ghosts sink into the sacrifices fueling their thaums.

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  Could he alter them this way? Even change a Heaven’s Domains?

  His suspicions were distracted by a note of rising disbelief.

  [How the fuck do you keep doing this?] Abrel breathed. Her template was sitting on the ledge of a building, staring up at Woundmother slowly growing itself across the recollected district. A level below her, another world unfurled. A Rend-choked reflection of the Woundmother slept in trauma-infested waters, and lower still was the Soul itself. A Soul crowned by a world made from a mindscape. [You stood. You delivered. You pulled another transformation out your ass. Another. Jaus, Avo, what the hells are you anymore.]

  [Your internalized Domain of Chronology–that’s why this is possible,] Kae said. The Agnos’ template materialized next to Abrel’s like a specter. But her shape was truer than mere memory, for now, Avo’s memories were entwined with the essence of other Heavens. Blood wove her being into shape and her ghosts traveled like gales in the wind.

  She rose to take in his changing mindscape with awe. Arching scales of curling gold swept across Avo’s inner world, and as he dissolved the simulated architecture of his memories, Avo found the dragons all interconnected like a nest of strings. Something about the disfigurement made her recoil–he plugged wounds with wounds, and now his cyclers effectively functioned a single ring born from several, each revolution folding into another.

  Festering darkness traveled downward into the traumas, into the Hells, and suddenly Avo felt his cog-cap spiking as well. As the strain of entropy built in his Soul, so too did cognitive agony swell in his mind.

  Assimilated.

  His Metamind wasn’t as it was. Neither was his Soul. He was something else altogether once more.

  [Your cyclers breaching kept you from dying,] Kae began, watching as aspects of mind and matter were wed within Avo. No longer was lighting but memory, and from ghosts did blood and materials flow. The wind brushed across his sequences, moved to its own across in every mindscape, and his shadows came alive like portals that heeded only the Overheaven’s will. [The dragons did not rupture completely, and breach in your Frame gave you means to cross over without suffering Rend. But it did more than just that. It–it must have allowed the full nature of your mind to pass over; your Metamind to follow after the ego. The connection to the Nether proves this. And… maybe that is how you are now. Your Soul has reforged your nature into a god. Because this is how gods were born. You have… no one else has ever crossed this threshold before. I don’t think anyone else could.]+Avo?+ Chambers’ Soul screamed outside Avo’s liminal boundary. +Avo? You alive? You alright? Your dragons are twisting around everything and shit. They’re sticking out from your Meta! Hey, how’d you get that to work anyway?+

  Reflexively, Avo tried to reach out and thread a ghost through Chambers. Yet, this time, he needed no link to hear what the man was saying. Every thought from the man made Avo’s very being tremble with resonance. His Woundmother reacted the same way to blood, as did the Fardrifter with space, or the Techplaguer with signals. He sensed Draus and Dice too, could sup their thoughts as if they were his own.

  The sheer intrusiveness left his cognition spinning, but the flash of a sudden warning delayed his consideration of these implications.

  INFUSING HELLS WITH TRAUMAS…

  WARNING: HELLS APPROACHING OVERLOAD

  REND CAPACITY - 87%

  RESURRECTION - RESUMING… 4%

  Right. He fixed his cyclers. But his Rend was still building, and he needed to get the entropy out of himself before he resurrected or he’d just die again. But how was he going to do that without venting? He was technically dead at present; there was something for his Hells to release their sickness into.

  [Maybe not,] Kae’s template said. [You are… well, I have never seen a single individual be classified as an Ark by a Frame before–and an idea of an Overheaven… that–we never had that. You’re breaking too much new ground for me to properly follow, but I think we can use this to our advance. You can still access the Nether, yes?]

  “Yeah,” Avo replied, and when he spoke, all his domains and templates spoke through him. Everything he did bore a new weight now. A greater layering of thaumaturgy.

  [Good. Now… Let’s try to establish a new Hell of some kind–something for your Domain of Conceptualization. You might be able to metaphysically alter minds through that. Maybe you can connect to the other members of the cadre–transfer some of your Rend over to them.]

  He let Kae guide him as he began his work. But this time, his Frame spat forth no prompt, and neither did he need simulated options to achieve his desired outcome.

  His Soul descended once more and he found himself diving down through a sea of mem-data, deeper yet through a single pattern–his new Embodiment of Conceptualization–as he found himself in the tapestry once more.

  He saw himself as he was, but isolated the festering dark within his being. They were stored in the patterns of his assimilated ontologics, triggering inconsistencies that left patterns trembling, threatening to tear. Yet from these patterns flowed nodes that represented his Hells’ canons. Ways for him to calm the turbulence that gnawed at his existence. With him parted from baseline reality, he lacked access to most catalysts, leaving most nodes trapped against a dead end.

  His pattern of conceptualization, however, was not yet cultivated.

  No time like coming death to learn some new rules.

  GHOSTS - [100,134,996]

  THAUMIC OUTPUT - 144,870 THAUM/c

  AVO, THE KNOWER OF TOTALITY

  ->EMBODIMENT OF (CONCEPTUALIZATION)

  ->DOMAINS OF ([VARIABLE])

  DOMAIN SHIFT ACTIVATED - CONCEPTION OF ONTOLOGY IN EFFECT

  And all at once, he found his ghosts guiding his thaums, fragments of consciousness binding temporarily with wills to reweave the very nature of his Heavens and shape his ontology to something that could serve his needs.

  Right now, though, his problem wasn’t one of architecture but a need to expel his Rend. Thankfully, he still had unused thaums left to spend and with only his Embodiment of Conceptualization and mind flowing free from the confines of his Frame, the choice of his newest enhancement was quite simple.

  CANON OF (CONCEPTUALIZATION) - 144,870 THAUMS/c

  Avo paused momentarily to take in the amount of thaums that were flowing through his Embodiment. “All of them?

  [Because you are assimilated maybe… your nature is interwoven. Unless you graft an external cycler, things within you of a conjoined chronology will not be considered separate constructs… maybe? Avo, this isn’t the important thing, make a new mind-hell first or you’re going to die!]

  EMBODIMENT: (CONCEPTUALIZATION) - 144,870 THAUMS/c

  ->DEFINEMENT: IGNORANCE (IV) - “I am all you don’t know, and all the world does not know. I am the missing detail. I am what goes unnoticed. I am a warmind reforged–made complete through your rebirth.”

  APPLYING DOMAIN OF (ENTROPY)

  ->CANON: UNSEEN, UNKNOWN, UNMADE - THE ARK PERMANENTLY DESTROYS AN ENTITY’S ABILITY TO LEARN SOMETHING THEY DO NOT ALREADY KNOW. REND IS EMPTIED BASED ON THE SPECIFICITY OF THE SEVERED KNOWLEDGE AND HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE IS TO BE SEVERED PERPETUALLY.

  WARNING: THIS ACTION WILL DAMAGE THE FABRIC OF THE NETHER AND INFLICT COMPLETE COGNITIVE COLLAPSE ON A STABLE EGO

  REND CAPACITY - 91%

  VENT! VENT! VENT!

  [Potent!] Kae breathed, [Wait. One more thing. Maybe we can… we can adapt this. Use this. Avo! Apply a Domain of Matter to this canon.]

  A new configuration of the canon materialized, but Avo found himself slowly weaving the Hell, guiding patterns that could afflict the material world out from pathways once containing nothing but pure thought. He converted branches from his Woundmother and grew them from his new Embodiment. Kae was no less bewildered than he, but her plan slowly revealed itself, and Avo found numb with anticipation.

  APPLYING DOMAIN OF (MATTER)

  ->CANON: WITHERED MEMORY - THE ARK DRAWS A SECTION OF MATERIAL REALITY INTO THEIR MIND VIA THEIR GHOSTS. THE AMOUNT OF GHOSTS VARIES BASED ON MASS AND SITUATIONAL COMPLEXITY, AND ALL GHOSTS ALONG WITH THE MATTER THEY CONTAIN WILL BE UNMADE BY REND-INFUSED TRAUMAS.

  REND CAPACITY - 93%

  VENT! VENT! VENT!

  [What the fuck,] Corner breathed, trying to understand the canon Avo just cultured within himself.

  The newly ascended Ark—a cognitive rival to the great towers held by each of the Guilds—wasted no more time. He flung his awareness outward from his Frame, pouring his perception outward as he began to take in anything comprised of material substance. Ghosts flooded out from him as they swallowed the walls of his tower, and further did they flow downward like a waterfall. All that they touched turned from matter to memory; it was as if an unseen presence was unzipping the blood-made spire from the outside. Pieces just vanished upon ethereal currents, slashing wounds spreading to become fissures. With all that went missing beyond, new structures entered Avo’s awareness without difficulty.

  The strands composing his skein jolted with violence as his Embodiment siphoned existing patterns out of the actual world, but as he cast mentally subsumed mass into his traumas, he sacrificed three thousand memories and flattened the distortion.

  And with that, the strain prying at his very ontology lessened, and Rend flowed out from him, injecting his debt of entropic disbelief into to another structure; a sacrifice was found in his stead.

  REND CAPACITY - 87%

  Inside his mind, Kae began to giggle, then laugh. [This… this is… we… I have created a masterpiece. I have created salvation. I have created victory. This cannot be possible. But we are doing it. We are doing it. Avo. You’re a miracle. You just turned yourself into a Concept given metaphysical shape.]

  More of the external reality unraveled. He found Chambers and Dice trying to comprehend the sudden annihilation taking place around him, and quietly, he simmered with growing pleasure.

  REND CAPACITY - 84%

  REND CAPACITY - 79%

  REND CAPACITY - 75%

  UPDATES INCOMING

  Ontologics

  In effect after 19-12

  Ghosts - [26,562,372]

  Liminal Frame (V) - 23,871 THAUM/c

  User: Avo

  Heaven/Hell: [Woundmother] - 10,002 THAUM/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Blood)

  ->Canon: Haemokinesis (IV) - All blood in user’s area of influence can be controlled; speed and force experience exponential increases with each ton of force controlled

  ->Hubris: Central pillar of the Heaven must remain 80 tons; each ton of non-central mass controlled increases thaumic and Rend-based demands (5%)

  ->Canon: Linger - User can eject constructs shaped from their blood; each construct generated accrues Rend based on design and size

  ->Hubris: Central pillar of the Heaven must remain 80 tons; each ton of non-central mass controlled increases thaumic and Rend-based demands (5%; x2 backlash)

  ->Canon: Sanguinity’s Reign (IV) - A building haemokinetic storm continuously expands from the user, spreading their area of influence (without limitations) as far as the storm can metaphysically expand; generates more Rend the larger the area it takes up

  ->Hubris: Attempting to move and alter more than 80 tons of matter without constituting a central construct will result in thaumic backlash (20%)

  ->Canon: Exsanguinating Helix - Allows the user to instill an exsanguinating effect in a piece of matter, causing it to drain all the blood its mass can contain when in contact with a non-user designated entity; the larger the object instilled, the higher the Rend

  ->Hubris: If the object is destroyed, thaumic backlash will be inflicted (15%)

  ->Domain: (Matter)

  ->Canon: Alchemization (V) - The user can subsume and channel and combine the properties of 108 fragments of physical matter through their blood; the limit of fragments channeled can be increased at the cost of thaumic and Rend-based demands.

  ->Hubris: Any attempts to subsume gaseous or liquid matter will incur backlash. (12%)

  ->Canon: Remembrance of Matter (V) - The user can memorize the traits of all physical matter they subsume at a hundredth of the thaumic cost; the matter they memorized can be assembled and blended before a construct is formed

  ->Hubris: If matter being subsumed has their state changed mid-subsumption, thaumic backlash will be triggered (9%)

  ->Canon: Stormwreathed - The user can temporarily convert their mass into electricity

  ->Hubris: If the user is submerged by water in this state, thaumic backlash will be triggered (15%)

  ->Canon: Haemification - The user can turn all influenceable matter into blood

  ->Hubris: Any attempts to subsume gaseous or liquid matter will incur backlash (12%; x2 backlash)

  ->Domain: (Fire)

  ->Canon: Matterbomb - The user can detonate pieces of matter based on mass and inherent energy

  ->Hubris: If the matter being detonated is destroyed before ignition, moderate (EST. 35%) severe backlash will be inflicted

  ->Domain: (Luminosity)

  ->Canon: The Light Unseen - The user can blend their matter with the light of their surroundings should they stop perceiving the world visually

  ->Hubris: If the user has their perception active while this canon is in use, (EST. 51%) severe backlash will be inflicted

  ->Domain: (Protection)

  ->Canon: Fortress of Luminosity - The user emanates a luminous shroud that renders all physical matter bathed by its shine invulnerable; generates heavy Rend (1.2%) every second canon is active

  ->Hubris: There must be a persistent source of light for the user to imitate in the environment or from the user themselves or thaumic backlash will be triggered. (5%)

  ->Domain: (Biology)

  ->Canon: My Blood The Harvester, My Flesh the Symphony (III) - Allows the user to grow, blend, or extract biological organisms and structures from their blood.

  ->Hubris: Another source of biomass must be present and in the area of influence or thaumic backlash will be inflicted. (6%) ->Canon: Remembrance of Flesh (V) - Allows user to memorize traits from biological organisms at a tenth of the thaumic cost; the biomass they memorized can be spliced before they are grown.

  ->Hubris: Another source of biomass must be present and in the area of influence or thaumic backlash will be inflicted (6%; x2 backlash)

  ->Domain: (Lightning)

  ->Canon: Boltstride (III) - Allows the user to transmute and move all blood-based structures as bolts of lightning; distance limited to the reach of user’s Sanguinity

  ->Hubris: Attempting to move over 120 tons of matter as a single bolt will trigger (EST. 87%) extreme thaumic backlash

  Hell - [Fifth Circle]

  ->Domain: (Matter/Entropy/Luminosity)

  ->Canon: Breath of the Withered (V) - Allows the user to expel their total Rend as an entropic storm across their area of influence; the storm will disintegrate matter through withering bolts of lightning (This canon is absolute)

  ->Daemon: Striking the same place twice will result in the manifestation of an Anathema of Ruin, causing the user to lose control of the Heaven

  ->Canon: Barrage of the Withered (V) - Allows the user to expel their total Rend as an entropic projectile the size, shape, and speed of the Woundmother at its maximum potential; this projectile can be guided by the user and is loosed faster with higher Rend (This canon is absolute)

  ->Daemon: Should the projectile not dissolve sufficient matter, the projectile will birth as an Anathema of Ruin

  ->Canon: Shadowbreaker (III) - Allows the user to influence all shadows in their vicinity with a touch of luminosity that will continue to expand and dissolve anything physical covered by the shadows

  ->Daemon: Should an insufficient amount of physical matter in darkness be consumed in (8 seconds), an Anathema of Ruin will be manifested.

  Heaven/Hell: [Fardrifter] - 5,660 THAUM/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Air)

  ->Canon: Horizon Strider (III) - The user takes on the properties of a hurricane and can influence winds for 250 kilometers

  ->Hubris: If an external force counters the motion of the user’s centrifugal force, severe (EST. 59%) thaumic backlash will be triggered

  ->Domain: (Space)

  ->Canon: Yondergales (IV) - The user’s demiplane now encompasses ten kilometers, with each ton of mass multiplying the base speed of their winds (252 kilometers per hour)

  ->Hubris: If an object over 5,000 degrees celsius is drawn into the plane, extreme (EST. 83%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Canon: The Nine Streams of Freedom - The user can materialize from any nine points in space their winds encompass (250 kilometers)

  ->Hubris: if they emerge in a confined space and are unable to fully materialize, thaumic backlash will be triggered. (10%)

  ->Canon: Shadowrun (II) - The user can surge within shadows as if they are wind tunnels (x10 current speed); shadows must be connected to pass from one to another.

  ->Hubris: If a light shines and clears away the user’s shadow, heavy (EST. 39%) thaumic backlash will be triggered

  ->Domain: (Shadow)

  ->Canon: Midnight Hand - The user can blow, move, and shift shadows together as if they are waves in a storm.

  ->Hubris: If the user is between shadows when the wind stops blowing and the bridge breaks, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Domain: (Labyrinth)

  ->Canon: Path of the Nine Storms (III) - User manifests a maze-like dungeon in the walls of their winds, allowing them to create and weave winding paths from tunnels of air; the maze is a fixed spatial anchor (may not be affected by spatial changes) that can be triggered at any time.

  ->Hubris: If the inner walls of the dungeon are forcibly breached and someone enters the eye of the storm (where resides the Yondergales), heavy (EST. 39%) thaumic backlash will be generated.

  Hell - [Fourth Circle]

  ->Domain: (Air/Entropy/Labyrinth)

  ->Canon: Halt of the Passing (IV) - The user can enchain all actors and objects moving through their area of physical influence (250 Kilometers) with stasis

  ->Daemon: An anathema of correspondence will be birthed if the total velocity drained exceeds the total Rend accrued

  ->Canon: Waybreaker (II) - The user distorts all directionality about them (10 kilometers), causing space to coil and distend, randomizing vectors of movement for all actors and objects caught in their wake.

  ->Daemon: Rend must be balanced in nine minutes or an Anathema of Correspondence will manifest.

  Heaven/Hell: [Techplaguer] - 200 Thaum/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Signals)

  ->Canon: Skin of Virtuality - Layers user in mirror-reality raw data and information, allowing them to move and exist as radio signals might and shift inorganic objects in their vicinity as blocks of temporarily stored data (reloads back to their original position in reality after miracle ends)

  ->Hubris: The user cannot pass through lead without incurring heavy (EST. 41%) thaumic backlash.

  ->Domain: (Space)

  ->Canon: Techjumper - User inserts themselves into a signal or system capable of transmitting signals, moving as a packet of data and materializing at the endpoint of the transmission.

  ->Hubris: If the transfer is disrupted halfway, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Domain: (Biology)

  ->Canon: TechSick.exe (II) - User mimics the properties and symptoms in a virus and transfers that over to a signal-receiving system, affecting the machine as if it were a person

  ->Hubris: If the transfer is disrupted halfway, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered. (x2)

  Hell - [Third Circle]

  ->Domain: (Signal/Entropy)

  ->Canon: Datarot - The user decays and distorts signals and data within their ability to influence

  ->Daemon: If a signal the user is decaying is disrupted and they are unable to find another within (5 seconds) to continue expelling their Rend, an Anathema of Epistemology will be generated

  HEART OF NOLOTH]: 0%

  DOMAINS DETECTED (SHADOW/FORCE/SPACE)

  Implants

  Mime-Fog: Allows Avo to produce a spore-expelled field of active camouflage

  Celerostylus: A symbiotic reflex booster laced into Avo's spine; accelerates him a bit over sixty-five miles an hour in his baseline body

  Echoheads: A chimeric bioform adapted into an implant. Can provide echolocation for eight hundred feet. Designed from a hyper-durable silicon-chitin structure that also allows each of the eight heads to piece forward from the inside like a mantis shrimp punches.

  Bone Demon: A body-sheathe--complete overhaul of Avo's physical form. made from a nest of super-tensile, hyper-synaptic nanofibrous mycelia on the interior. Beyond the threads, thick plates of cordyceramite line the outside like jagged skeletal continents emerging from a sea of webs. Bound to his biology, Avo is able to harden and shift his structural integrity, as well as shape the growth of the fungal-ceramic matter that would encase his outer skin.

  Meldskin: A smart-fluid adaptive combat skin capable of altering its composition to suit almost any environment and slowly return to full integrity. Possess holographic disguises, advanced visual sensors, omnidirectional thrusters, and a highly advanced reactor. Can also interface with other pieces of advanced voidtech.

  Metamind

  Ghosts: [17,313,887]

  SPRITES: {4.2TB/s…}

  [QUICKSAND SYNC TRAUMA] COG-CAP: 55 SEQUENCES (VARIABLE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A LIMPID POOL FILLED WITH BODIES DRIFTING BENEATH THE WAVES; WHATEVER TRAUMA STRIKES THE SURFACE WILL IN CAUSE IT TO IGNITE AND SIMULATE A RESEQUENCING OF SAID TRAUMA”

  ->FUNCTION: GUARDS THE MIND USING A LAYER OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES: CAPABLE OF ADAPTING TO TRAUMAS AFTER SUSTAINING AGAINST THE FIRST IMPACT

  [THOUGHTWAVE DISRUPTOR] COG-CAP: [ERROR] SEQUENCES

  ->STRUCTURE: [NULL]

  ->FUNCTION: TAPS INTO THE ENTIRETY OF THE USER’S COGNITIVE CAPACITY AND EXPELS UNSTABLE MEM-DATA OUTWARD, DISRUPTING AN AREA OF (CONTINGENT OF GHOST CAPACITY) SPACE

  [INCOG] COG-CAP: [x] SEQUENCES (VARIABLE; MUST MATCH ALL OTHER INTERNAL MEMORIES BEYOND THE WARDS)

  ->STRUCTURE: “AN OPALESCENT SUN RAINS DOWN OVER THE LANDSCAPE; LIGHT SPILLS FROM IT MORE LIKE MERCURY DOLLOPS THAN RAYS, BASKING EVERYTHING IN A REFLECTIVE SHEEN WHILE DRINKING UP MEM-DATA INTO ITS CORE”

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE USER TO CAMOUFLAGE THEMSELVES FROM NOTICE VIA THE OBFUSCATION OF THEIR MEMORIES AND THOUGHTSTUFF. NO ACCRETION WILL LEAK DURING THIS PERIOD AND ALL OUTWARD REACTING PHANTASMICS WILL BE PLACED INTO A DORMANT STATE UNTIL DELIBERATE ACTIVATION.

  [WHISPER] COG-CAP: 19 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: FIVE/SIX LEGGED DOG CHASES A FLYING LETTER WHILE A DRONE STRIKES A VILLA.

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE EXTENSION OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS BY 60 FEET AND THE DELIVERANCE OF COG-DATA WITHIN SAID FIELD OF AWARENESS; CAN BE EXTENDED BY MULTIPLES SHOULD MORE SEQUENCES BE USED

  [PHYS-SIM] COG-CAP: 18 SEQUENCES (FIXED)

  ->STRUCTURE: A MISSILE LOCKED TO AN AEROVEC, EVER INCHING CLOSER, DODGING INCOMING POINT DEFENSE FIRE”

  ->FUNCTION: CALCULATES THE ACCELERATION VECTORS AND IMPACT LANES OF UP TO TWELVE DYNAMIC OBJECTS

  [OSARAI MEMGUARD] COG-CAP: 20 SEQUENCES (BASELINE) [REPLACED BY QUICKSAND IN AVO'S METAMIND]

  ->STRUCTURE: “A HURRICANE TWISTING AND HURTLING SCREAMING FIGURES AND BROKEN STRUCTURES”

  ->FUNCTION: GUARDS THE MIND USING A LAYER OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES: CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING AND REFORMING AGAINST HEAVY-MASS PHANTASMAL INTRUSIONS; VULNERABLE TO NARROW-BUILD INVADERS.

  [AUTO-SEANCE] COG-CAP: 2 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A STAR BLEEDS INTO A SPIRAL OF SPLICED MEMORY SNIPPETS [ERROR: MEMORY ARTIFACTS TOO BRIEF FOR REVIEW...]"

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS OMNI-SYNCHRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE MINDS ACROSS ALL AREAS ENCOMPASSED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE NETHER

  [MORALITY INJECTOR] COG-CAP: 20 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A RESPLENDENT CAGE WITH A CINEMA PROJECTION OF PAST HAPPENINGS PLAYING ACROSS THE SKY"

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE USER TO NULLIFY SPECIFICALLY ENCODED IMPULSES WITH COUNTER-EMOTIONAL DOSES OF MEMORY.

  GHOSTJACK (ALLOWS FOR THE MODIFICATION AND EDITING OF MEMORIES AND SEQUENCES; SHAPES TRAUMA AND COMMANDS GHOSTS)

  [SKIMMER PERCEPTION EMANATOR]

  TRAUMA PATTERNS:

  [ASELERI'S FOLLY] - HIGH PAIN INFLICTION; PHYSICAL TORTURE BASED

  [LUCILLE’S REGRET] - HIGH EMOTIONAL TORMENT; REGRET AND ANGUISH ALIGNED

  [LUCILLE’S AGONY] - HIGH PAIN INFLICTION; PHYSICAL TORTURE BASED; BODY DYSMORPHIC AFFLICTED

  [SECONDHAND FATALITY] - EXTREME PAIN INFLICTION; EGO-KILLING TRAUMA FOR HUMANS

  [BENEFACTOR’S DREAD] - HIGH EMOTIONAL TORMENT; FEAR OF COMING DEATH

  [ARATNID’S KISS] - HIGH PHYSICAL TORMENT; CASTRATION AND PRIMAL FEAR-BASED

  THE BURNING DREAMER

  MIND-TEMPLATES

  [AVO]

  The Talons

  Abrel Greatling

  The Shadows

  Benhata Veloso

  Glitch

  Lip

  Corner

  Osjack Thenndenn

  (Ashthrone/Sanctus assault force)

  Dice

  Chambers

  Paladin Kare

  Paladin Kassamon

  Enclavers

  I hope you enjoyed today's installment of Godclads!

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