GoldenFlower32



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    There's only so much you can do to in a 22 minute time loop that ends in the sun going supernova. You've tried a whole lot of what you can do, but at some point, there's a change that needs to happen, and you have to try something new.

    So you can try to fix it, or give up. You're leaning on the former.

    But as you realize, it's a painfully hard job to keep a dying universe from going out completely.

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    30 Oct 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    TOMCAT receives a cryptic email from an acquaintance slash client requesting to meet-up at Stardust. What they don't expect is an impromptu invitation to meet the world's first artificial sapient being.

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    02 Aug 2023

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    Half a year has passed since the events of Christmas of 2064. The world is slowly adjusting to sentient ROMs. But Turing is distracted from their task as ROM-kind's leader and ambassador by another obligation they carry. They want to deliver Leon Dekker’s last words to his daughter. But first, they’ll have to find her, which doesn’t prove easy. They ask their journalist friend for help, who seems less than thrilled.

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    01 Aug 2023

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    He fixes his posture and falls into meditation.
    Or, tries to. He has to take stock of himself when it doesn't work, and concludes that the idea of leaving his body vulnerable in this place leaves him with too much of a bone-deep, primal discomfort. The kind of response leftover from having been born just another creature waiting to die.
    Even though as far as he can see, this place is just a cave. No matter what Macaque implied. It was a cave with some kind of seal on it, yes, but just a cave.
    A cave under a mountain.

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    01 Jul 2023

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    Having lived through everything he had, this part always felt silly. The sitting, the breathing, and the waiting. His life was in no danger. That the logic of that wasn't enough on its own to ease the pain-- or flush out the stress that made his hands shake-- was as unfair as it was ridiculous. Baser instincts that kept a creature alive were vestigial at best when that creature existed beyond the normal laws of mortality, and yet every demon was still bound to them.
    Many could avoid fate. But not even heaven, nor its equals, could escape fear.

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    Macaque is invited along to celebrate the new year, and errs on the side of proving a point.

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    01 Jul 2023