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Shirtaloon
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January 6 - January 8, 2024
“No,” Jason begrudgingly admitted. “I recreated Clive’s mum’s voice a bit, but it’s mostly just squelching noises over some videos from my world that Farrah put on a recording crystal.” “I need to get that crystal back, now you mention it,” Farrah said. “A girl has needs. Do you know what it’s like trying to get some action in Rimaros? Some gold-ranker got the fever over me, but he’s about eighty and refuses to make a proper move until I’m at least half his age. No one else will go near me because they don’t want to offend him, though, but I’m not waiting quarter of a century for my next
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“Mercy and compassion aren’t about deserving. Or they shouldn’t be, not if you genuinely want to make things better. Compassion can be hard to give, and so easy to give up on. I did that for longer than I’d like to admit. Mercy and compassion are so often regarded as pointless, weakness or all cost and no payoff. I once showed mercy to a man who tried to murder me, and that choice saved my soul. When I was alone and in the hands of my enemies, that man whose life I spared turned out to be working for those enemies. He betrayed them to run for help, for me. They realised he was gone and what he
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“At least your friends didn’t all sleep with your imaginary wife,” Clive grumbled. “What?” Marcus asked. “It doesn’t matter,” Clive said, looking defeated.
Real trauma, Brah...
We don’t deserve to be judged only by the worst things we’ve done. Not so long as we try to do better.
True Redemption takes Sincere Effort. Consistent effort because we keep messing up.
and the golem had added their technological and biological distinctiveness to its own.
Crystal golem-borg
