"I expect a free beer after this."
The Jester could not, by any stretch of virture, apprehend their hilarity at this phrase - given the context of what had just occurred. Oh, how woefully tragic! Their masque was then displaying the muse of comedy. The Jester glanced over to Anika and beckoned...
The Jester stood up from their seat and began their waltz, with a modicum of flair, and approached the tavern's entrance. They stood near the door while fiddling with a concealed armament stashed within their garb. Their eyes were keen with intent yonder the masque - which had also, somehow...
”It’s done.” Anika said, looking down at the milk. “You want anything added to that?”
The Jester quickly perked up and invited Anika's presence with a welcome gesture. "Nay thanks," they replied. Words were absent with the Jester. Always silent and tucked out the way. Communication with them...
"Alléluia, alléluia - alléluia, alléluia! Alléluia alléluia, alléluia - Alléluia..."
The chorus gently rescinded with the trumpets and the Jester stirred themselves awake.
"La la la la le lo la la la la le lo - La la la lo la la la lo..."
A crashing of waves that seemed to stream alongside both...
PROFESSOR
"Gosh, how interesting! A very interesting hypothesis indeed," he proclaimed while retrieving a journal from his gear. He clicked a pen and began scribing research notes. "It's quite possible the forest could be retrieving nutrients through photosynthesis as we know it, or by entirely...
PROFESSOR
It was fascinating to behold something so peculiar so early on in our expedition. I had to assuage my excitement at the behest of Pegas' order to file into what I assumed was preliminary caution. Gosh, I wanted to just run in there myself and take the reigns of exploration! I obeyed...
A pristine shimmer glistened with an ethereal majesty that grazed upon the opulent horizon far yonder. As the solar midnight emerged in resplendence over the barren escapades in a lustrous haze, cascading the winterscape into a nebulous twilight, the expedition group at once realized the...
LOU "LOVEABLE ROGUE" CALLAHAN
The ecstasy of envisioned rapture against these daring folk blessed him with zealous fanaticism and Lou was thundering along the freeway to the lacerating applause of lightning. He throttled the accelerator and these pistons hammered with ardent diligence. Lou...
LOU "LOVEABLE ROGUE" CALLAHAN
Lou wore a stern scowl as his motorcycle growled into the Aphrodite's parking lot. After Enzo slowed to a halt then so did Lou. His macabre machine idled beneath him, purring like a jaguar, in gnawing anticipation of the hunt. His token spectacles (somewhat of an...
He measured restraint at the prospect of battering Kita's incessant babbling with some lurid repartee though curbed his inclination of hampering the nimble-witted scientist's excitement due to relating some semblance of the enraptured passion to pleasures of his own. Dubravko was eager to...
The projection didn't bode well for an astonished Dubravko, who listened in to the mission brief with stunned silence though maintained a stoic composure. This wasn't just a planet harbouring intelligent life but. There were other humans out there? Not the planet specifically but. Other. Humans...
Dubravko accompanied the Pathfinder unit and mulled over the situation to himself. CID wouldn't stir them awake without good cause. He controlled his breathing, suppressing the pang of anxiety that welled in the pit of his stomach but made sure to acknowledge it still. Until it became just an...
"Attention all Pathfinders, please report to briefing room 15-A immediately. We have a situation."
Came the nettling blare, sneering at and jarring away Dubravko's peace of mind as he was in the tranquil midst of calibrating the brass rivets and metal spurs of a battery cell. He kissed his...
My mind, resting on the abyssal shores of oblivion, I feel the carousel of my subconscious gently derail and withdraw into an empty bliss beyond this world, into sullen obscurity. I raise my head to speculate the shimmering horizon through downcast lashes. A wavering lucidity comes in elusive...
Strider acknowledged both Ray and 0001 with a cursory nod. Upon feeling Grom's tap he immediately strode post-haste up the stairway then into the preliminary scanning chamber. Behind him he heard their footsteps, the shuffling up the stairs, the quietude spoke volumes between them as they moved...
Strider's welfare was unequivocally assured with Grom by his side. A man among men, but together; lions of a pride. "Strider, found some potential ELINT." beckoned his attention as Grom approached him, Strider rose up from his kneeling position and turned his gaze over and down towards the...
Upon the abomination's presence, Strider's body flared with an aching sore that lathered his back with a jarring, burning sensation, and his teeth began to jitter uncontrollably. He felt the pressure mount inside his skull and emerge once more, deploying some wearisome agony into his psyche. It...
Strider dashed through the vault-bay opening doors at 0001's behest and as well to ameliorate an Abzu-inflicted splitting headache - it felt like his cranium was about to fucking rupture! He immediately switched on his NVGs and adopted a kneeling position a few strides ahead, sweeping the...