Y’all ready for this? We got the continuation of the best serial fiction on the internet and things are heating up, like the temperature outside. It is very hot these days, I hope you’re taking care of yourself and staying hydrated. It’s a good time to crank up the AC, put your feet up and enjoy some serials. So get to it. Be on the lookout for the Volume 5 Crossover Event coming at you very soon. Enjoy, dear readers!
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This week:
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Everyone is gathering in the Smiting Chamber. There are beings from other Discs of the Fonlands and other universes, and Issac mingles while he waits for his Smiting Exhibition with the Vodun Sakpata.
Master’s Log 2100 (The Master of Multiversal Arcana 1st Tel): “While I waited for Skapata to be available for a game of Smiting against the enchanted Gray deck, I was in the Smiting Chamber, mostly assisting with preparations for the expedition to the Talj Junction. The 4Warriors had arrived and it was heartening to meet them; they were excellent proxies for their Vodun and seemed fully capable of doing what needed to be done. The one called Nwa Wa had a chilling presence made much worse by the pale skull mask she wore and never removed in all the time that I was in the Chamber.”
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Sakpata’s game for his first Smiting Deck is a game called Rock, very on brand. Then it’s the Smiting Exhibition where Issac learns that rocks are more complex than they seem on the surface.
Divine Power (acɛ 1st Tel): “Issac emerges through a portal into the Meta Chamber that is large, like a dome carved into rocks, but it isn’t as large as the Smiting Chamber. There is a heptagon that is an exact replica of the one in the Smiting Chamber and it is in the same spot directly above the heptagon in the Smiting Chamber.”
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The 4Warriors have assembled and Djallon managed to make it on the team with her Deads’ Town defying armor. They have a little down time before reporting to the Smiting Chamber, and Djallon hopes to wipe away her teammates’ suspicions.
Smiting Champs: “I was hoping you could help me,” Djallon said, trying to speak privately with Yiri, though the other of the 4Warriors were in the master’s forge as well. “It’s like I told you, I am having trouble getting them to trust me because I came out of nowhere. Well, one of them is having trouble trusting me.”
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Maxx is the Mad now, he has embraced it to accomplish a singular mission. While trying to save him and the Fonlands from himself, Pultine and Zaccheus get roped into Maxx’s madness, just like Shini.
Codeine Crazy (Âmuk Mini-Tel.): “The place where Maxx and Shini find themselves is very dark but there is light from the rip in existence. They are in what looks to be a large hole in dirt, a circular clearing with high dirt walls, but the nature of existence itself is hazy, out of focus and shimmering with a light blue glow. Shini recognizes this look of distortion, it is the oblivion he’d existed in before Maxx freed him, but seeing it now transposed over the location on the Disc of Agê where he had been before jumping into the large hole, made him realize that tales of Kútmómɛ were true and Maxx had told him the truth that he’d been sent to Kútmómɛ but to a spot far away from the landmarks he might have recognized.”
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Detritus is doing a number on Ariel who just can’t catch a break. But the Supremes never leave a man behind and they call in the big guns to try to rescue Ariel from the past.
The Time Eater (The Divine Essence 2nd Tel): “You still don’t get it do you?” Detritus asks. “I am using you, channeling my amazing mastery of Death Magic into you, a user of Divine Essence with seemingly endless potential, in order to recess into the past. Haven’t you noticed how disjointed your life has been lately, especially since you met me? I have been using you for quite some time to slip into the past, but I have learned that the closer I am to you, the easier it is for me to make lasting changes that can’t be undone by you forgetting them. The power to travel through time is in you, big sister, I am merely hijacking your ecstatic gland and trying to learn exactly how it works.”
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The trials begin as Anansi goes to the Disc of Gu to retrieve a python at the behest of his Luminary mother. Not that Nyame is interested in any of this, but it happened while she was there on her Cotton-Wood home.
Star Flower (Cotton-Wood 1st Tel.): “You may be the child of a Vodun,” Obea barked, “but you are asking for a lot from your mother. If you take stewardship of the stories in the Time Chamber, it will be your responsibility to maintain them. Your consciousness will be linked to the Scroll. The Scroll, the Time Chamber, are important things of the Disc of Jo and for the Luminary Nyame to hand that over to someone else, that someone else must demonstrate their worthiness…”
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