Well, they'd gotten a call from Orphan, who made a most interesting statement... ----- Chapter 8. "Welcome back, Captain Austin, Dr. DuQuesne," Orphan said expansively as she and Marc entered, Wu Kung just behind her. Simon was visiting Relgof and the Analytic, starting discussions to find out about the Sky Gates, while Gabrielle and Carl were moving their merchandise from the Grail to the Embassy; Laila Canning was currently at the Embassy in case others came to call. Orphan's hard, [ Continue reading... ]
Spheres of Influence: Chapter 7
June 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
They'd just sat down to discuss their problems... ----- Chapter 7. "Well, that does seem to rather complicate things," Laila said, pushing her own bobbed brown hair back with a distracted air. Ariane noted that she seemed to have absorbed the data-dump more easily than Carl. Not surprising – she was used to having three fully-active AISages before we came here, and losing them nearly killed her. If anyone can handle immense amounts of data in one shot, it's Dr. Laila Canning. "Yeah. Whoa." [ Continue reading... ]
Spheres of Influence: Chapter 4
June 19, 2013 By 3 Comments
We continue, with our friends having made a worrisome discovery... ----- Chapter 4. Ariane looked at the mixture of anger, sorrow, and pain on DuQuesne's face, and the horror on that of the Hyperion Monkey King, and instantly understood. "Oh, my god," she murmured. "She was one of the five, wasn't she?" "Yeah," DuQuesne said slowly. "One of us. One of the best of us, in the beginning." "Five?" Simon echoed. She glanced at DuQuesne; he said nothing, but [ Continue reading... ]
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