The Nation – the zone designed to look most like the outside world, was a crowded mess full of normalcy and strife. Here, those from reality gathered to meet loved ones virtually and exercise a more intimate form of what social media used to be. The capital city in the heart of the zone was…
Post Game + 2-2: Dymir
Of all the Hub’s users, there are few who can spend as much time as they truly want immersed in the experience. Vernon Cray happened to be one of them, but at what was once perceived to be a great cost. During a particularly harsh winter sixteen years earlier, he and his family were caught…
Post Game + 2-1: State of the Hub
The Hub. Ever-present since its inception. Ever-influential, ever-popular, everlasting. It was all that mattered in a post-internet world, this space with no area, this digital realm cherished by many, taken for granted by many more. Social media brands had been absorbed into its breadth, creating one space for all who want to both speak and…
Violet Halo Chapter 5
For the longest time Nadine Hunt was dormant. The mage’s grip throttled of her senses into submission, so in her fragmented thoughts she slept. In darkness. In that total void where one’s inner self goes during the deepest sleeps, she felt at peace. Suddenly there came a faint awareness which only told her where she…
Violet Halo Chapter 4
The ride back to Willem’s manor was made in humble silence, at least by the two agents held against their will in the back seat. Up front, his subordinates bickered and took cheap shots on each other’s less than perfect qualities. ‘Petra’, the sprite, was apparently an energy-sucking leech who Willem will have no use…
Violet Halo Chapter 3
Throughout the tour of the crater Willem was strictly business, as though he had only just met the agents charged with investigating the anomalies. He knew far more than his subordinates could have gleaned, describing the nature of the land-shifting plague that had gripped Albrooke. He claimed that what they were standing in was actually…
Violet Halo Chapter 2
The ride across a bumpy rural highway served as the last leg of Nadine’s commute to Albrooke. This was one of those parts of the province where tall buildings and busy streets had yielded hours ago to field upon field of frozen soil. It was rough, exchanging Undel’s neon lights for the monotonous scene composed…
Violet Halo Chapter 1
When Nadine Hunt was just a girl, she knew little outside of her parents’ home in the tropical nation of Lio. Of what she could recall, she enjoyed her time in the land of short nights and bright, clear days. Her first year of school introduced her to people she thought she would be friends…
Violet Halo Prologue
Upon the higher realms of existence, where the fractured nature of the multiverse makes sense only to those who tended to it, the possibilities are literally endless. A semblance of order that can be found in the overwhelming spectrum, are concepts, and from each concept there are divergent paths, exponentially growing as branches in the…
Violet Halo Preview
One planet. Two worlds. Long have the halves upheld segregation so that both the Kingdoms of Magic and the Civilizations of Man could thrive without each other. Nadine Hunt is a Mask who walks the line as one of the many agents of balance, but when her latest case calls her back to her hometown,…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 