Category: 2023 Interim Shorts: Pultine’s Greatest Hits
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SOS – 1 – The Arch of Hysteria Campaign: Pultine Character Introduction
“I honestly think that this is cause for celebration,” Yana said, hanging from a cave wall that she clung to with the talons of her feet. The cavern was dark, but there was a neon blue glow from the pools of water that made the darkness soft and welcoming. The rocky ground of the cavern…
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April 27, 2023 – The Hits Don’t Stop…
…but the Interim Shorts 2023 are done. We hoped to bring you an April story, but the Arch of Hysteria is long and bends toward an extraordinary Volume 3 that you simply cannot miss. Pultine will be there, and Tracia, who Pultine was convinced had died at the hands of Seraphiel. And who is Jophiel?…
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Used – 5 –
Pultine’s mirrored prison was inside of an underground bunker on Bromeran and when she emerged from it, she thought that she was in a larger building, like an aircraft hanger with a ceiling many feet over her head that was domed and extended like a long hallway at a distance from where she had been…
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Used – 4 –
“That doesn’t look like Endla,” Rusa said as he stood before the large front window of the ship that was propelled by Pultine at close to light speed. A large planet of turquoise with tan continents hung in the black of space at a distance that closed with each passing moment. “How do you know…
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Used – 3 –
“Do you want my entire story, like a tale told to empty youths? Is that why you have trapped me here and attempted your mind games?” “You are dangerous and there are many who want to end that danger. If you have something to say, you should say it now.” “I am older than entire…
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Used – 2 –
“Are you Pultine? Iuma’s only offspring, of the large flower? Touched by the hand of the mighty Vodun Agê as a newborn? Agê, the life bringer, creator of the forests and the jungles. Are you Pultine of the Supreme Hive, elder of the mmoatia?” “Yes,” Pultine said aloud. She was alone. She heard the voice…
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Used – 1 –
Pultine was trapped. She was in darkness unless she released her aspect, and when she did, the view all around her made her nauseous. In the glow of her aspect, Pultine could see the mirrors that surrounded her and no matter how hard she beat at them, she couldn’t shatter them. Even the blinding orbs…
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Seek and Destroy – 5 –
Lazer beams meant to destroy their ship whizzed by on all sides. Just as many hit the ship as missed and it was clear that the xaxews pursing them in their ships meant to blast Pultine and Rusa to nothing. “Do we even know how many are after us?” Rusa asked. “I don’t know enough…
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Seek and Destroy – 4 –
The forests of Xaxax are dense and difficult to traverse on the ground or in the air, even for one such as Pultine, who was forced to flee the technologically advanced weapons of the xaxews. After many moons deep in the forests, avoiding xaxews while she plotted her escape from the planet, she and Rusa…
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Seek and Destroy – 3 –
“Is that really our best option, my Pristine?” Rusa asked. He was standing on the forest floor that was carpeted in greenish-blue plant growth. There were large trees all around with thick, scaly bark that was gray like xaxew fur, with black and white scabs of bark that gave them their color. The canopy was…