#whatever writing

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- ...a hiss is in the air, fine particles blooming in a burst. I don't wait to find out if it smells sweet.

I hurl myself into the bubble of a Nullifier crewman near me. They, too, are mashing their controls with shaking hands, the bubble expanding. All around us, others wheel and turn. Some draw guns on the spot. Some try to flee. These are incorrect responses: I meet the Nullifier's eyes, stumbling, and know only we are safe, for now.

The question is whether it will be fire or ice. If this aerosol is fuel, the others around us will be breathing in a blaze soon. Catching fire from inside and out; repeated blasts of new waves until we are all naught but ash and ruin. The Nullifier and I may not be spared, if the Tenno warmachine is thorough; gunfire will shred through our pocket oasis with ease.

But if the aerosol is coolant, we may have a chance. If the Tenno makes to run, instead of executing us all.

My knee crashes against the ground. There's never enough padding in these things for violent maneuvers, like leaping to safety. Getting up isn't a priority in this case. We watch the mist hang in the air through wobbling blue.

It bursts into.. Ice. Crystals form just like that, a mockery of snowflakes, razor-edged. Another sheer cold snap, and our coworkers are mere statues.

And the warframe rushes through the room, ignoring us all. Although they crash right through one of us, I doubt they even noticed their still form was in the way.

Everything glimmers. It's horribly beautiful. The shards of a person lie scattered on the floor. They owed me two credits that I'm never getting back, because they're never getting up.

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has anyone included a sphinx of black quartz in their media yet? you know, to judge vows?

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cartoonish retired villain voice: yeah those are my two henchmen harm and mony. what do you mean you don't think they're a good fit for the peace corps (pronounced peace corpse)

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fighting game with dodgy healing item where if you use too much of it shadow enemies start spawning (they either look identical to real melee enemies but deal no damage when they reach you or they show up with real ranged enemies that periodically duck into cover and run to different cover if you approach)

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cursed amulet gets accidentally bestowed on someone being prepped for burial. funeral has to be postponed because the corpse gets up and skedaddles

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medieval fantasy power wash simulator the Big Bad got defeated but! his entire undead army simultaneously exploded so the ENTIRE COUNTRY is just covered in zombie gunk.

you are a student mage being deployed for community service with the spell Aqua Jet. normally community service is stuff like 'help the community kitchen in the lower town keep their fires going despite the seasonal firewood supply issue' or 'go take a shift in the Pro Bono Locator Bounty Guild casting spells and doing divination to find lost stuff' but this season? this season EVERYONE is on cleaning the streets. and the walls. and the roofs. and the fields, but that's a job for experienced nature mages who know how to handle the interactions of magic zombie gunk and plant life.

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i think ill give the mimic knight an awkward phase where it hasn't quite settled into the knight thing. maybe as the mimic armor stage it peeks out with its little monster features. maybe it can have rather basic armor to begin with and take over more elaborate armor later on? it doesn't have to graduate to a helm with the lower face exposed immediately.