tencandles

A collection of 64 posts

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A Knife in the Dark

It's been several months since the rumors started, people snatched off the streets at night and found the next morning throat slit from ear-to-ear. Their blood completely drained, yet not a drop to be found nearby. At first it was just a few people that society looked down

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Artemis's Charge

Hunters without peer. That's how each and every one of you has been described. By friends, by family, and most of all, the Temple of Artemis. This day your devotion has been rewarded by the goddess to undertake one of her most sacred hunts. You shall rise to

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Enhanced Ink

Science Fiction writers are always coming up with all sorts of ways the world is going to end. Genetic modification run wild. Crop failure on a massive scale. Robot uprising. You know the staples. When the first genetically-adapted biotic tattoos came on the market, it was met with a mix

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Desert Rover Mk. II

The hum of the engines, and the soft swishing of the sand seas below you have been a persistent theme of your life. You were born here, on the Desert Rover Veltrain, along with everyone else you've ever met. The massive rover is the size of two city

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Neverending Masquerade

It began the same way for each of you. An invitation, gilded letters guiding you to the ancient manse. A masquerade ball, for one and for all, it promised to be the party of the century. Of course you simply had to accept. An ebony carriage pulled by white stallions

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The Glazed Tower

Being security guards in a mostly empty skyscraper isn't the easiest job, you know? It takes a lot of skill, dedication, and most importantly of all: the ability to fight off boredom while still managing to halfway pay attention to the security cameras. Sure, there are the sweeps

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Impelling Vaults

The last thing you remember is falling for what seemed like forever, followed by sharp pain as you landed. After that, the stench filled your nose. Putrid. Rotten. It shocked you awake. As you tried to right yourself, your hands sunk into the soft floor below you, making it difficult

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Catacomb of Bones

It's been two days since you fled down under the city. Ten days since the sky turned dark and the rains started. The news called it an acid rain but the truth is that it's far more potent than that. A few drops will cause flesh

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Solar Rostrum

The buildup to the first international solar expedition was muted, to say the least. Climate change had already changed the habitable zone by more than 30% by 2054, and frankly, the expense to fund a trip to the Sun to "see what we could do about it" was

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The Carnival of Midnight

It's always an event when the Carnival rolls into town, the mayor of Downcreek Falls always ensures there's an abundance of fanfare. The annual event is truly the only excitement you get around these parts - seeing as the town is in a remote valley with

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A Call for Aid

They've stood for thousands of years, and stationed by your people for just as long. The symbol of an ancient pact between two nations - beacons, that should they be lit would signal the need for aid. A duty, an obligation. You are honor bound to answer the

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Prism

We used to love the light. Spend the summers watching the patterns it creates as it filters down through the canopy of trees that was our home. It's amazing the patterns you can see in the shadows of leaves on the forest floor. The elders often used it

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Mansion in the Woods

It was supposed to be a simple train ride up through the mountains - a nice diversion from your mundane life. Get a bit of relaxation time in on an old-timey luxury train, enjoy a cup of tea in their opulent dining car as the mist-shrouded trees rolled by. This

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Color Over the Stellar Waves

Yours is a lonely post - out in the reaches of space. Over a hundred years ago humanity set out into the stars using a miraculous new technology that allowed for faster-than-light travel into the cosmos. Unfortunately, the precision of the FTL drives were...lacking. In order to make space

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Dark Mist Rising

Each of you have no idea how you got here. One minute you were at the pinnacle of some sort of human achievement: A lifetime award for your brilliant acting, the Nobel peace prize, breaking the world record for fastest 100 meter sprint time. Or something altogether more brilliant. You

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Bibliophobia

One of the greatest achievements of our species is inarguably the written word. It allows us to communicate over vast distances of both space and time. It's the reason, dear reader, why I'm able to communicate this warning to you even now. Read them. Let'

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Solar Winds

You'd always admired the view growing up. An endless vista, almost like a tunnel. Miles and miles of farmland, dotted with towns and cities that extended as far as the eye could see. Almost like an endless tunnel. At the end of that tunnel, the sun always shining.

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Castle Bluebeard

It happened again. He's brought home another bride. The poor girl has no idea what she's in for. Maybe this time will be different. Maybe this time she'll leave. But no, they never leave. This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings

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The Price we must Pay

Some people say it escaped from a secret government laboratory, deep under the city. Others say it was trapped in the polar ice caps, only to be released as global temperatures began to rise. You know what I think? A blessing. A boon granted to us by Gaia, her last

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Of Oil and Blood

It can be exhausting working out in the middle of the ocean, with a hundred other people in a small floating town, joined in unified purpose to extract the black blood of the earth and pump it into barrels to fuel the insatiable demand for energy back home. Between the

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Fall of the Aquatic City

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! For centuries your people have guarded this place, deep under the waves. The city of Tramaria has held the heart of the Goddess Una in its depths. That

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Opulent and Imperial

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! "Ruin has come to our family. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor." These are the

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Creatures of Dance

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! The big night is almost here! Everyone at the school is stoked for Senior Prom and you haven't found a date yet! Do you ask Mummina?

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Bed and Breakfast

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! It's been a long time coming - you've been working hard and you've honestly been a little burned out. You managed to

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The Cubicle Farm

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean? You know what, you've got six different bosses all asking you why you've not put