As Shoggoth dealt with Kilika, I was to find and deal with
Ojau. He was one of the few men on the whole continent who was actually
respected by the Queens. Most, apparently, were kept out of the cities to
manage smaller settlements or told to keep watch over the Doorways. A precedent
had been set that any male superhuman who even hinted at displeasure with his
position was cut down viciously by his female cohorts. When the female supers
who supported the Queendom system outnumbered the males five hundred to one,
there was little a man could do other than die or know their place.
Monday, August 20, 2018
46 : Shoggoth
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Though the strobing effect of Strider’s teleport could be
disorienting, you couldn’t say it wasn’t just about the most overpowered
ability we had. Aside from its offensive potential, the speed of travel was
frankly insane. Even assuming that the continental force field had not a
problem to get through, any other group of would-be assassins might have had to
spend days, if not weeks, working their way across the length of the continent,
braving god knows how many dangers, between untamed wilderness, roving bandits,
superhuman warlords and soldiers, etc.
45 : Strider
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I started from the southernmost shore of Barbados, followed
the ocean floor until I sensed the edge of the Great Shield. I plunged deep
into the Earth until I reached the ten mile limit, cut over, and terraported us
back up. The heat and pressure were intense, but I was just tough enough to
take it. I jumped us to the top of a rocky sea-side cliff where I sensed no
people.
Sunday, August 19, 2018
44 : Team
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SHOGGOTH
“And with this, we are seeing the last of the accessible
Doorways sealed away for good. All eleven Doorways, even those hovering over
the oceans since the formation of New Gondwana, have been filled with concrete
and sealed inside three-foot thick walls of solid steel. Some have been further
protected by superhuman force fields. With this, the American States and
Provinces completes its first cooperative effort with a foreign power since the
United States’ ban from the UN six years ago.”
43 : Echo
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The Department of Superhuman Affairs office was a large
facility in Washington, DC, a perfectly square, three story fortress of
concrete and mirrored glass. I used my SFF ID Card to gain access through the
gated entry. The guard gave me a salute with a solemn expression as I passed. I
saluted back.
42 : Cero
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I am a synthetic biological construct designed to resemble
one of you. My creators were a species that would be utterly alien to you. The
closest creature on your planet they resemble would be a Portuguese Man O’ War,
but with sturdier appendages. The closest equivalent name that the human vocal
chords can produce is the Riuktoouluvasoli.
Yes, it is difficult for you to pronounce. They communicated
through psycho-chemical transference as well as low frequency radio wave
pulses.
I use the past tense, because they are all dead, thanks to
your species and the ones you call the Masters.
41 : Team
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HITCHHIKER
Before the Villain Maker could complete the word “them”,
Echo whirled and used a “gentle” palm strike to send me flying into the lantern
boy. When I saw the kid, I figured she would do something like the moment a
fight started, so I was ready. I possessed him on contact. He must have been
powerful, because I immediately felt the strain.
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