Never Less Than Everything

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Finally!

The Life Fantastica finally has it’s own tumblr space : https://thelifefantastica.tumblr.com/  Thanks to all that follow and read every day. 

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Searches, setbacks, and certain surprises

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Inconveniences 

Eudora is summoned to her father's home for orders.

Join the story from the beginning HERE   Eudora Carton rested the bow of her violin and sighed. The music was a nice distraction. It was metered and organized and wonderfully mathematical. Sitting on the veranda of her father’s estate, the crisp spring breeze chilling her shoulders, she felt entirely irritated. Her attendance had been requested and she knew better than to refuse, but her father…

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The Inside Girl

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!  “So. I’m basically a parasite.” Trixie rolled her eyes and juggled a pinpoint of amethyst fire along the tips of her fingers. Her mechanical cog responding with a sad whir.  Trix sighed and cooled herself, saving her strength for a time when she could burst forth and burn;  She was planning an inferno on that day. These moods seemed to come on…

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Tiny Surprises

TriAnna reveals an amusing ability as she and Marcel learn more about one another. Before.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!  Marcel Ghostraven was trying to solder a hinge on the hatch of his wrecked vessel. He was also certain that his Auric Rectifier was the most infuriating, second-hand, cheap salvage, bloody Consortium piece of … He threw his soldering iron hard and fast into the brushy undergrowth of Lys, burning his thumb and then promptly hitting his head on…

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Mayor Perryn

Meiville's mayor returns with a message.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!  Mayor Perryn Peterson was not happy when he returned home. His meeting with the city council had been frustrated and unproductive. The citizens of Meiville were overtaken by a strange malady and no one seemed to know what to do. Businesses were suffering as people feared gathering gathering in public spaces , and trade was grinding to a halt…

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DreamWalk

Marcel and TriAnna reach other across time and space and prepare to battle Kronos.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!  Blood pooled and ran in thin fingers through the white sands of an ancient beach. It had taken TriAnna days of focused effort to find Marcel on the far edge of the Oehn Sea, at the dawn of creation. Had he gone any further she might not have reached him in time. She had seen him drifting. She had even believed for a moment that he was dead- an…

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Identity

Nym and Amos explore identity and intimacy.

To live the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!  Amos lay in his bed listening the soft falling of  spring rain. It was the dark hours of the early morning and he found himself feeling an electric mix of emotions that made it hard to sleep. It had been years since he had rested in the home of Perryn and Mike but in so many ways the room that he had always slept in felt exactly the same. The…

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Family

Amos reconnects with his past.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!    Mike Kiligrew was more than a little surprised by the sudden appearance of Eudora Carton and her friends. It was late in the evening and he was in his smoking jacket and slippers and had been preparing to enjoy a pipe and a book before bed when the bell rang. His grey hair was a wild mop on his head, his mustache unwaxed. “I’m terribly…

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Daddy's Girl 

Nym gets to know Eudora and questions everything.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE!   Eudora Carton did not like killing people but in her mind there were simply some lines that could not be crossed. The pistol was warm in her hand and she watched petulantly as the body that was once Marcus fell to the ground. Chaos was erupting all around her as she pulled her hands back into her dainty white gloves. People, she thought, are…

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Events in Motion

Marcel and TriAnna meet in another time and place

Journal entry * Captain Marcel Ghostraven * 4.11.16  The initial trials of the Auric Rectifier are complete and I am pleased that preliminary recordings indicate suitable conditions for a maiden voyage- perhaps as soon as tomorrow evening. I have double and triple checked my calculations. If I am correct, my departure and return should be almost synchronous, but it is better to leave nothing to…

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The Snare

Nym and Amos walk into a trap.

To follow the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE! Time marked itself into moments with the chuffing and clacking of the train. Amos had drifted off to sleep, exhausted from their trot through the city, his head resting on Nym’s shoulder. Nym gazed out the window watching the districts of Meiville move past, the moon riding high into the sky. She was alert and responding to every moment…

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Pursued

Amos and Nym have an unwelcome visit

SkyCaptain Anders Magruder was very disappointed that he could not kill his man Marcus as he wiped the blood from the brass handle his cane. It was proving a satisfactory weapon which was made necessary by the bullet hole in his foot. A bullet hole that in his opinion would  not be there if Marcus had searched the woman Nymphae. It had not escaped his consideration that in Addison to the pistol…

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Strange Messages 

Nym has a strange vision related to Marcel's writings.

“What is this place?” Nym asked, looking around her feeling confused and lost. She was sitting high atop a rocky ledge of what appeared to be an volcano. From this distance she could safely  overlook  a once grand but now devastated city. Twisted spires of obsidian rose into a ginger colored sky. Acrid smoke bloomed from a smoldering plane that cracked and flowed liquid and cooling lava and…

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Little Lights

Amos and Nym recover.

To join the adventure from the beginning click here! Nym rested back into her chair and feeling the chill of the night air and wrapped her blanket more securely around her shoulders. She wore only her petticoat dress, her amber hair falling fluidly over her shoulders. Her cog, which had been favoring the shape of a dragonfly perched atop of her hat, which she had discarded onto a chair a near the…

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Trixie "Trix" Nymphae

Youthful rebellion leaves Marcel marooned and Trix in the clutches of Kronos.

To join the adventure from the beginning CLICK HERE Trix watched from within her automatonic cog as the unconscious body of her father floated away. She felt very little sadness though, watching him adrift in the Oehn Sea, on the perimeter of time in an ancient epoch of a foreign dimension. She was too angry with him for that. The remnants of their submarine was sinking into the depths and she…

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Catch Me

Nym and Amos face the vile SkyCaptain Magruder.

The points of Nym’s boots raked over the tile floor as the called Marcus dragged her toward Magruder, the feeling of terror and helplessness overwhelming her.  Magruder waited with a satisfied smile, enjoying her struggle -and Amos’ continued attempts to stand and defend her. The man called Skin restraind Amos even in his beaten and confused state. Nym prepared herself for whatever Magruder might…

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