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Choo choo motherfucker.

Quote from: scapheap on January 18, 2013, 01:51:18 pm

Eat a mouse, in a town like this there got to be a few and it hopeful won't set the world on fire.

Good idea.


You are distracted from your efforts by a mouse scurrying across the floor of the man's house, so you latch onto it, sucking its pitiful life energy from its body. All that remains is a very dead and rather singed carcass in a corner of the room.

Whisper to everyone! Make them fear the night!

Reaching back into the man's mind, you come upon a curious piece of information. Chaos... chaos can be harnessed as easily as fire and darkness. Hungry for more, you burst through the stone battlements of his mind, absorbing all that is to offer.

Knowledge is power.

There is apparently a treatise on the history of Chaos magic kept by the clerics you learned of earlier, as a warning to those who might be tempted by its power.

There is talk of a land to the East where entities such as yourself roam freely, warring and vying for power as humans once did here.

Strange beasts have been seen in the night near the forest - stranger than usual, anyway.

The man you have stolen all this knowledge from does not live here, but has come for family and to participate in the festival.

Knowledge from just one man floods your mind as six others could not, how is this possible?

Recent technological developments in the cities have.....





Everything stops.

With a sudden realization, you find that the human is dead, wisps of steam rising from his closed eyelids.



Tentatively, you reach out for other minds, deciding not to dive so deeply into their thoughts. Instead, you hide at the very edges of their dreams, tugging and whispering instead of reading. You cast a general feeling of dread and malaise across much of the village, and some awaken with sudden shock. The plants around the silo you are projecting yourself from wither and die, some crumbling to ash, but something else occurs as well. A single, pristine flower has been turned the deepest shade of black, with what look like embers swirling inside the petals themselves. This impossible transformation baffles you. Is this a sign? An omen?

It is Dawn, July 3rd.

Power: 4.1 (eating the mouse)
Focus: 3.8 (-0.3 due to the incident with the human.)
Experience: 0.6 (+0.4 due to the sudden influx of knowledge. You understand the world you live in a bit better now... if "live" is the right word. You are not sure you do.)

Not enough to help.

<---- Atheist pro-gun libertarian

Regardless, awesome.

A weapon of mass destruction of any kind would be infinitely cheaper and more useful on Earth, simply due to distance. On Mars, you have a communication lag time of around 45 minutes due to the speed of light. Now, if the shit hits the fan, do you really want to have to wait that long, or much longer if your weapon doesn't travel at the speed of light? A garden variety nuclear missile can hit a target anywhere in the world in approximately seven minutes. Not to mention getting an intact WMD to Mars is going to take a very large, obvious rocket launch to get the weapon to Mars, and at the very least one more to set up the necessary infrastructure. It would be rather difficult to explain those away, not to mention the suspicious thing that looks like a weapon of mass destruction on the Martian surface.

Right, Sithis it is, title changed accordingly.

Actions?

I really loved the sequences where Subaru was getting into fistfights with Orks inside an unstable power plant..