Noel hummed lightly to herself as the doors of the pneumatic elevator swished open and she exited onto the fifty-seventh floor of the apartment tower. The lilim was having a pretty good day, and once she got paid for this next job, it was about to get even better. Sure, she was about to be turned into a giant sloshing blue sphere for the ten billionth time, but quite honestly, it had become one of her favorite activities over time. Nothing better than getting paid for what you love!
Except, whe

She didn’t know how long she had been sending that command. A repeat of “Abort, evacuate AI” which has been repeated for who knows how long. Trapped within a dilapidated war machine of conflict

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t, the resident AI had degenerated to its base designation and form. Said form was a standard and androgynous human hologram with no true face which sat around doing nothing while waiting for the command to go th

Bricking the Key
A purplish-ethereal gateway swirled behind them, letting off an eldritch hum. In front of them, a shimmering wall of yellow buzzed ominously. Between the two gathered five of the Alliance's finest champions, currently checking over their equipment and preparing themselves for a foray into the mysterious halls of Tyrhold. Concerns of the growing primalist threat had brought the group together, and now they sought the bounty that had been placed on a cunning primalist named Sariya

The safety lights overhead flickered gently, their slightly dirty frames casting a green glow over the interior of the bunker as Joeseph carried a box of canned food to a corner. The box rattled with each step and Joeseph wondered, not for the first time, if he had packed them in correctly, setting the box down with a thud. The young man, wearing his white lab coat and brown hair slightly dishevelled from the rush turned to a mounted camera at a desk and stat there, rubbing his hazel eyes and ta