Four Seasons Hotel, Cairo Yong-Su Kim helps Noriko Null put on her green leather jacket, while she tries to avoid making eye contact. She’s following the news: they’re talking about the sudden appearance of an alien structure above Djoser’s Pyramid,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Max Black (Quantum)
Neptune, 3 billion miles from Earth The blue planet is a beautiful and majestic sight rarely witnessed by mortals, almost four times larger than Earth yet seventeen times more massive. Leiko Tanaka never imagined that she would see it with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saqqara, Egypt Yong-Su Kim looks at the pyramid, raising his hand to shield his eyes from the sun. It’s hard to believe that just yesterday he was having a date in South Korea and that now he’s in front of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seoul, South Korea Noriko Null enters the hotel room she just paid for, slamming the door behind her to distance herself from the crowd that’s already following her. Yong-Su Kim is right behind her; as her security guard, he has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kremlin, Moscow Dmitry Voron doesn’t like coming here. He’d much rather stay in his lab without other people bothering him than going through the trouble of passing the many hurdles of security, especially since he doesn’t even like the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Myridia, 50 light-years from Earth In the complete and utter chaos of the last half hour, it’s impossible to follow the events from the crowd. People were fleeing the City Hall before its destruction, and now there are thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hell, 100 years ago Two Demon children approach the gate. The girl looks like she’s twelve years old and the boy ten, but they’re both four times older than that. She’s created an energy lockpick and is trying to open[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null City Hall, Myridia There are few sights like that of a Myridian crowd going into panic. Thousands of duplicates disappear, while hundreds are created just to push other people out of the way and save the original body. Today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null City Hall, Myridia One thing can be said for sure of the Myridians: they’re not a quiet people. They’ve been deprived of chances to celebrate for centuries, so now every excuse is good to throw a party: something even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Temple of Aphrodite, Myridia Kristen Lynn feels increasingly out of place. She didn’t know what to expect during this visit, but watching dozens of Kari duplicates immerge themselves in the sacred waters to be re-absorbed by Kari’s original body would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…