The Nexus

[Unfashionably Early] [Unfashionably Early] Reina's fingers slowly run up and down along the stem of her glass, smirking about something. "Oh I wouldn't worry about the competition. Surely you can outclass and outperform any alternate timeline versions of yourself. If you try, that is." F...

Tower of Oujet What are you even talking about, Laz? The notice on the job board even SAID that these zombies were serious business and not to try taking them on alone. They're MAGIC zombies and a giant pain in the butt. Is that what you really wanted? A walk in the park where you aren't in any rea...

Unfashionably Early Magtok winces a little when the memory ritual idea isn't immediately discarded. Fortunately he has all of his memories saved electronically, so a missing file or two could easily be identified and replaced within a week, but even if his own thoughts and history are safe, if the ...

Perfect Water "Yeah, sure. I can brew a cup or two - won't be the best you've had, though." "I've never had a single cup of coffee that I didn't hate, so yours will be in good company," the cyborg shrugs. It's going to be hell, sitting around drinking that horrible bean juice an...

[Unfashionably Early] "You know, I'd always wondered how the hell he got his hands on that whip. That makes a lot more sense than any of my theories," Magtok admits. Some of those ideas were pretty out there, too. Calublufiok's ghost manipulating probability so their extradimensional stor...

Tower of Oujet Oh come on! This was supposed to be an easy adventure! A boring little walk in the park, chopping heads and showing off the superiority of her own particular undead form over lesser zombies, what with her sapience and tenacity and knack for swinging a really big sword. All of this ma...

Unfashionably Early "Ilpholin's that demon hunter lady over in Riverside right?" "Yeah, her. The very, very indiscriminate demon hunter. I know we were both AMENites, that she wasn't the best person even before demons killed her girlfriend and broke her psyche, but when I found out a...

[Unfashionably Early] "I'm from out of town. I dropped by...I can't remember if it was last Thanksmas, or the one before it, but I showed up to get a gift for Ilpholin and her new kid for the holidays, and then I left. I haven't been around since then, so technically, yes, he was the only Magt...

Unfashionably Early Oh. Oh wow. Magtok blinks a few times, to make sure prolonged use of the drones hasn't somehow damaged his optic nerves and caused him to start seeing catgirls that aren't really there. Oh dear, this is substantially more significant than what the scout had been worrying about. ...

Unfashionably Early Black chinos and matching shoes. A grey collared shirt and necktie beneath a black sleeveless vest.A shoulder holster over the black vest, with a very visible gun tucked under the left arm. The note said 'dress nice,' but it said nothing about going unarmed. Of course it didn't;...

[?????] The door shifts a few minutes later, and a solitary mechanical claw extends out from the darkness of the cave, extending five, maybe six feet in length before its palm locates the bouquet and letter, and drags them both into the shadowy depths from whence the skeletal appendage originated, ...

Goin’ Through the Motions [The Misty Gloom Seems To Soak Up My Sorrow] "I'll do my best to relay your complaints," Blanche responds diplomatically with an amused smile on her lips. Admittedly, she's pretty sure she could wake one or both of the commanders up by calling them if she needs t...

[Tower of Oujet] [Tower of Oujet] Well these are some developments. Anika finds that she is, sadly, on the receiving end of the seal's dumb retribution damage. Just corrupted blood spurting everywhere. It's terrible! But, thankfully, Anikia is one TANK of a bear! Too bad she doesn't have someone ar...

[ I Love The Night ] After Dark Blanche gives him a flat look. "Dad, it's 4 am. You're lucky I was even awake right now." And indeed, Magtok's projected watch reads just that. 4:19 AM, to be specific. "Wenomir gets up pretty early, so you might not have to wait long, but I feel like w...

Tower of Oujet Laz's sword carves great bloody swathes into the blood seal, causing the monster to... well... it sounds like a really deep baritone burp more than a war cry but when you're a seal you do what you can. Laz now has the monster's undivided attention as it whirls around toward her and t...

All Our Times Have Come "Alright, I'll give them a call in a couple hours once they're up, try and force them to listen to you asap today." Our cyborg immediately regrets his decisions leading up to this the moment the word 'hours' passes Blanche's lips. Stupid bureaucracy, stupid mortals...

Tower of Oujet [Tower of Oujet] Laz violently yanks her sword out of the blood seal's flank, spraying even more corrupted blood everywhere and making its awful wound-mouth even bigger. This is all rather terrible. Also terrible is slashing at the hulking car-sized abomination from the OTHER side, w...

Career of Evil Secret Treaties Blanche thinks through all this as Magtok speaks, her brow knitted in thought. "Okay, I think I understand what you're thinking here better now. It's... a lot, but I can see the logic behind it. I guess the focus on psychic ability makes sense for a ghost like Pr...

Flaming Telepaths "You're throwing a lot of questions at me at once," Magtok sighs, raising his hands up to ward off her suspicions, already fearing the worst after that last question. Blanche wasn't going to go along with this at all, was she? It's going to get caught in Vigil bureaucrac...

Tower of Oujet [Tower of Oujet] Disbelief seems like a pretty solid reaction on Laz' part. Crashing headlong into her foe also seems like a pretty Anika reaction on Anika's part. Anika smashes into the seal with terrific force, the blubbery monster failing utterly to be budged even a little bit. It...

The Symbol Remains Not All of Those Scars are on the Inside "No, Magtok, it's fine - I have an actual dad now, so, I just... have to get used to it. Even if it does feel really weird." Blanche waves off her stepfather's concerns, silently trying to also immediately forget the entire conce...

Veteran of the Psychic Wars "...Oh, er- hey... dad," Blanche awkwardly greets, relaxing somewhat when she sees that he's the one visiting instead of one of her bosses or a colleague asking if she wants to join them for another mission. "Your mom's not here with me, Blanche, you don't...

Tower of Oujet "Ourt ourt!" Oh no. The blood seal just summoned a Blood Seal. This one doesn't look quite as huge and awful as the one Anika faced in the basement of that restaurant, but it's still a blubbery abomination covered in way the heck too many mouths and tentacles. It immediatel...

With A Purposeful Grimace And A Terrible Sound A rogue clone. Magtok had fought them before, back in the civil war. This was different from sitting in a chair, pressing a button, and waiting for a battleship’s targeting computer to handle the rest, however. This was significantly more personal, muc...

Tower of Oujet With Laz shouting about Anika just reaching deep down inside herself and finding even more bear! Just a deep wellspring of bearness. They charge forward together, Laz swinging her sword through zombie necks and Anika... being... a bear? I guess. They chew their way through the mob of...

Needs Food Badly https://i.imgur.com/yatnJsX.jpg Needs was originally meant to be just another squad member on a team of wacky disposable MagClones. There was a grumpy soldier, a grumpy traitor, a wilderness expert, and uhh...well it's not really important anymore, is it? Fortunately for him and hi...

Tower of Oujet A useful fact for Laz! The zombies don't appear to be armored around their necks at all. Decapitating should work, right? It always does in the movies. "Faster Anika, faster! We have their attention now!" Laz calls out, before narrowing her eyes at the zombies ahead. Saint ...

Jenette d'Aubigny https://i.imgur.com/bKzxOSW.png Jenette was originally an attempt at affectionately poking fun at the character trends I'd been seeing in the Nexus. She's a cute tomboy monster girl attracted to other girls. Her combat style would fit perfectly into a Dungeons and Dragons campaign...

Deal with a Demon "Ms. Amici," Magtok manages to mutter, trying to politely but firmly discourage her from persisting with this, hoping she'll realize the state she's in and awkwardly withdraw on her own, without any need for scolding and scorn from the cyborg. He holds both his arms in t...

Lord Magtok https://i.imgur.com/ynGsalW.jpg Unless you've joined our community fairly recently, Lord Magtok is a man who needs no lengthy introduction. You know him, you love him, you hate him. His greatest deeds and most pathetic achievements are written into the very fabric of the Nexus, his name...