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Formidable

The image forces its way back to you -- Reno's unblinking, obsessive stare, while on the bed Ramses convulsed.

Medium

By the sound of it, it's more expensive than a mere toy.

Formidable

He includes himself like one coming to terms with the things done during a blackout, or a bout of amnesia.

Challenging

Massive? That's the second time you've heard about a majestic woman with a gigantic form. You must find out more.

Challenging

You ran right into that one.

Challenging

You are reminded of a ripe cherry tomato, about to burst between thumb and forefinger.

Challenging

Infused with transcendant meaning, somewhere between a symbol and the thing it represents, the junior negotiator's conception of the gap escapes definition.

Challenging

She's concerned, but she knows his limits.

Challenging

Voice somehow constricted, as though some heavy object really were pressing down on her chest.

Challenging

A pseudo-language stretching back centuries, cobbled together from imperial slang and colonial patois. You first learned of its existence after joining the Opera.

Challenging

A FETISHISTIC RESIDUE OF OUR ENEMIES' PAST, BACK WHEN THEY OWNED LAND -- AND PEOPLE.

Challenging

A possible rendezvous. Actionable intelligence.

Challenging

A poorly conceived, underbaked hodgepodge of old and modern Developed World languages -- mostly from Mircea and Ile-de-Söze.

Trivial

That is EMTERR cant, no question.

Formidable

Dancing on insanity, his understanding of reality and roleplay had merged entirely.

Challenging

'Tomorrow night'. A battle arena.

Legendary

Concrete and plastic. Droplets on dark air. Voices raised under moulding canopy.

Formidable

The negotiator said he had a 'request', and suggested tomorrow night.

Challenging

A tremor in his voice. Like a kid addressing his crush.

Trivial

Common figurative speech for an astral door. EMTERR love to use them as drop-off points between operants.

Challenging

The outline of a small alcove with seated patrons shimmers in your mind.

Challenging

You recall the faint clinking of glasses, just a few metres away.

Challenging

'Why twist the knife?', his gaze seems to say.

Challenging

Mind reading level: Tutorial.

Formidable

Like the master sword-makers of Tsun's Arc, he is a relic of times long past, an initiate in some forgotten craft now performed in seconds by machines.

Challenging

A joint would be quicker. No tobacco.

Challenging

Alright, that's got to be the last step.

Legendary

As he puts it away, you see the look he gives his masterpiece, as though wondering why it is not good enough for you.

Challenging

If there was any sarcasm in that phrase, it flew way over his head and directly into the Noscorrentes sea.

Medium

You've heard him talk, you know his arrogant, fast-talking manners -- he's faking the stutter as part of the roleplay.

Formidable

The editing job alone is probably a week's work.

Formidable

There he is. He's back.

Formidable

Nodding mechanically, eyes glazed over and gently smiling, it's hard to tell how much he's even understanding.

Formidable

Not the slightest sign of surprise. Supreme, unfeigned spiritual indifference.

Challenging

He's gone. Audience, lost.

Legendary

It's hopeless. You brought this on yourself.

Challenging

We got places to be. Anywhere free from nonsense tech jibberish.

Formidable

Only a monster would say 'no' to free, top-grade telecom nerdery full of hyper-specific details.

Challenging

Like millions of capillaries feeding a single, bloated vein.

Legendary

If this was anyone else you'd feel patronised. But that's not Ram's style -- he's genuinely trying to help.

Challenging

Picture a hundred guitars connected to a single amp, strumming all at once.

Formidable

His brow furrows, as though struggling not to let the idea through.

Challenging

A sudden, bizarre flare of hope.

Challenging

Even you have memorised the names of their cartoon wolves.

Challenging

You feel the weight of your fancy toy sword, suddenly.

Challenging

Symbols, repeated over and over -- a quiet process of attrition.

Formidable

Mass conditioning. It never fails.

Legendary

Rustam Fatihler, the Conqueror, sought centuries ago to unite the myriad warring tribes of the peninsula under a single banner, hence, the Dream of Rustam.

Challenging

Malignant growths, forever squirming against each other.

Formidable

A slow death by erosion.