14 Works by Rastaban
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Categories: Manhunts | US Marshal's Office | Overturned convictions in the United States | Withdrawn drugs | Gay & lesbian figures in the 1990s
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Wash wakes up in the medbay of an unfamiliar ship, and finds a stranger watching over him.
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- Part 3 of You Ever Wonder How We Got Here?
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The vampire bloodchief Drana of Malakir did not shy away from the fateful battle of Sea Gate. She did not turn aside when the eldrazi titans breached the world of Zendikar. And when the Gatewatch drove the wounded titans back into the chaos of the Blind Eternities, she refused to let her prey escape. That determination is about to land her in a strange world lit by a silver moon - and alter the course of her life forever.
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- Part 3 of Unmapped Worlds
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Frank Lapidus did not sign up for this. Frank Lapidus would love to leave The Island Adventure firmly in his rear-view mirror. But sometimes chance isn't chance, and the island isn't done with him yet.
He's gonna need a checklist.
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- Part 1 of The Cauchy Horizon
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When Adam Jensen goes looking for trouble, there's always someone on the other end of the line. And when Adam Jensen turns up more than he bargained for, his isn't the only life turned upside down.
Frank Pritchard can stop doing what he did. But it's not so easy to stop being what he was.
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- Part 2 of The Gospel of Judas
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Project Freelancer has had an unusual stroke of luck. The neuropsych engineers have found a good match for the first AI fragment, the young but flourishing program they've started calling Gamma. Agent Wyoming doesn't like being a guinea pig, true, but his hazard bonus will more than cover that. They're the perfect pair to test the first implantation on, especially if they have to be separated later. No need to worry about codependence or erratic behaviour, about any awkward attachments. Reginald's a heartless mercenary and Gamma's an emotionally-crippled digital savant. The Counsellor says they'll be predictable. Controllable. Not a threat.
It's not the first time the Counsellor will be wrong.
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- Part 1 of You Ever Wonder How We Got Here?
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"Do you know how I became part of the Izzet, Beleren? Do you know what I went through to find a place where I belonged? I grew up in a tiny district. Small district full of small people. Did they encourage my storm magic? No. Everybody picked on the 'rain mage.' "
Natalka and Alexei Zarek don't understand where they went wrong with their oldest boy. Ral Zarek doesn't understand why nothing he ever does is right, why what seems obvious to him is such a mystery to others, why the magic that comes so easily to him frightens everyone else away. Why he sees impossible places in his dreams.
He doesn't understand what's wrong with him.
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- Part 2 of Unmapped Worlds
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Written for RvB Fluff War 2016. Wash certainly does not have a contraband cat hidden aboard the Mother of Invention. Said cat has certainly not escaped his quarters and wound up in Wyoming's. And Wyoming is certainly not about to help him keep the secret so long as Wash lets him introduce Gamma to the delight of petting a cute, fluffy cat.
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- Part 2 of You Ever Wonder How We Got Here?
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After collapsing on the steps of Ravnica's Chamber of the Guildpact in his desperate quest for help against the Eldrazi threat, Gideon Jura takes a nap, has a decent meal, and tries to find the person who solved the Implicit Maze.
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- Part 1 of Unmapped Worlds
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The Natural Philosopher and the Nonlinear Terms by Rastaban
Fandoms: Dishonored (Video Game) - Fandom
15 Dec 2014
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"Soon the two greatest minds of the Empire will be here. Together. If I could get these rivals to cooperate they could create weapons and tools of unimaginable power. If I could command both of them-- Well, I'll wait and measure their disposition towards one another before following that line of thought."
In which Anton Sokolov wants a drink, Piero Joplin wants revenge, and neither of them wants to be killed by the City Watch; in which surviving a siege may be easier than surviving each other; in which the city is dying and two obsessed, dysfunctional, brilliant madmen are the only way to save it.
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The Devil You Know by Rastaban for patho (ghostsoldier), NeverwinterThistle
Fandoms: Splinter Cell (Video Games)
14 Dec 2014
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What Andriy Kobin is right now, nobody's quite sure. But when a mission on the Ukrainian border goes awry, Fourth Echelon is going to find out the hard way.
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They never published the article, and even if they had, no one would have believed it. It was clearly mad, and despite the byline and the inarguable authority of the source it diverged so far from reality that it had to be considered fiction. No one could understand why Mr. Robert Harrison Blake might have penned it; some thought it simply a joke or a half-hearted attempt at venturing into literature, while still more considered it must be a component of a performance piece, and all the lucid semi-reality it described merely an extension of the artist's sculptural work into text. In any case the artist himself denied all knowledge of it, despite the fact that he must have been its originator, and dismissed any questions as to its truthfulness with a laugh, asking only that they set it aside and forget about it. And with that most considered the matter settled.
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What Remains by Eltanin (Rastaban)
Fandoms: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex (Video Games)
15 Jul 2014
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An excerpt from a much longer story, Shell Game, that I really will post one day. After the attack on Sarif Industries, Pritchard deals with the messier parts of cleanup.
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- Part 1 of The Gospel of Judas
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HARDTACK-TEAK. That's what Stuart keeps remembering, at a time like this, when he needs to be awake and aware and useful. That's all he keeps coming back to. HARDTACK-TEAK.
How do you patch a hole in the world?
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- Part 2 of The Cauchy Horizon