Stories tagged “MindscapeCollective”
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Above All Else [01]
It’s cold. The night air rushes through my hair, chilling my eartips to numbness. The bleak desert tundra sprawls out around me, the breaking light of the sun just beginning to tint the sky grey. The flight seemed to go on forever, the thrumming ...
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Above All Else [02]
Where am I going? What was I doing? I was suddenly very cold, falling… I hadn’t noticed it, but the comforting thrum of the thrusters had turned into a dull roar of the wind against the metallic wings as I fell to the ground. A blurred red ...
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Above All Else [03]
Wakefulness came slowly at first, then accelerated into searing pain by the late day sun. Great spires still glinted from my back, shimmering from exposure and reflected heat. I felt sick, like something was deeply wrong. I moved to push myself up, for...
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Above All Else [04.1]
Trudging onward, I was barely cognitive. The HUD weakly attempted to warn me of the damage I was doing to myself. My vision shuddered occasionally, the integrated systems shutting down to conserve power. My awareness dropped slowly, field of influence ...
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Above All Else [04.2]
A jagged stone jutted out of the ground before me, casting what was fast becoming a long shadow on the ground. It was almost pointless by now to seek shelter against the coming night, but I collapsed in the shadow all the same. Propped up against the r...