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The Words of the Masters

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[This collection of scraps and fragments appear to be a collection of Eldan statements and records assembled by the Pell in a haphazard fashion.]

Project is all we have… hoped for the procedure to achieve new greatness in these otherwise unimpressive… subjects show progress.

Primal matter and primal energy… interchangeable focus and concentration of powers equal… reach a state of equilibrium and self-sustaining… pressure
variations.

… if the Project does not succeed, all work is… nothing can manifest a sufficient level of power suppression, but we believe… the others cannot understand what we have attempted. What we will… decide at a later time.

Primevals experiment wildly successful in terms of… every attempt at recapture has failed, recommend… protocols calling for extermination and reconstitution and cloning procedures will be appropriate for… the future of Nexus.

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WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING OF YOUR ADOPT-A-RAVENOK ADVENTURE!

Everyone loves those cute, cuddly, feather-faced baby ravenok, and now you can too – in person, and for life! Just fill out this simple, legally binding form and deliver it to your nearest Adopt-A-Ravenok agent and you’ll be cuddling your fluffy, feathery friend in no time!

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WARNINGS AND DISCLAIMERS
1. – Do not feed baby ravenok raw meat for any reason. Even if they look at you with those eyes. Ravenok that consume raw meat cannot be reliably tamed and will almost certainly grow into terrifying kill-birds
with a craving for your flesh.
2. – Baby ravenok can develop unhealthy attachments to power generators, autoturrets, and other charged technology, believing these objects to be their mothers. Even after seeing fellow baby ravenok come to a crispy end, they may persist in this behavior. Baby ravenok are not smart.
3. – Do not attempt to ride a ravenok without proper training. Proper training available for a small safety fee from Adopt-A-Ravenok Enterprises. See your Adopt-A-
Ravenok agent for details.
4. – All prospective adopters must sign a sworn affidavit declaring they will not resell the baby ravenok, no matter how much the finest restaurants from the Fringe to the Galactic Core are paying.
5. – Leashes are not recommended for your new baby ravenok. Guaranteed ravenok transport cages are available for a small fee from Adopt-A-Ravenok Enterprises.
6. – The Protostar Corporation is merely an underwriter
of the Adopt-A-Ravenok Enterprises Charity and Animal Rescue Program, and any profits that may come by way of this underwriting are perfectly legal and should not raise any eyebrows, qualms, concerns, moral dilemmas or most significantly lawsuits!

This public service announcement brought to you by the Protostar Corporation. Remember to try Protostar Mystery Poultry Wing Sandwiches wherever your favorite unidentified bird-derived products are sold, cooked, and consumed.

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Tracking the Hybrid

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First Day of the Hunt
They tell me the beast is no typical monster. Bound to the very planet by infernal root and treacherous stem, the Hybrid is as much plant as animal, a demon and a blossom of death. It will not be the first such creature I have faced, but I must prepare. Every hunt is unique. I shall take my time, and study the beast.

Second Day of the Hunt
The jabbering little Lopp are little more than prey dressed up as merchants and playing at the hunt. They are not my targets today, but they
will tell me of the Hybrid. This “stemdragon.” They say it hoards some fantastic treasure, but I care not. The only thing I want from this Hybrid is a truly challenging hunt.

Third Day of the Hunt
I have followed the course the Lopp gave me, and told them I would bring news of any “shinies” I should find. A promise I shall keep, ridiculous as it may be, if the Lopp have treated with me honorably. They have no reason not to. The hoard is of no use to me. It is only the head of the Hybrid, my trophy, th
at I seek.
I have emerged from a hidden cave network into a secluded glen cut off from the rest of the region. Now to study my prey from a distance… if I find it before it finds me.

Fourth Day of the Hunt
The Lopp will pay for this. This is no Hybrid! No “dragon”! There is nothing of the beast about this creature at all! It is a flower, nothing more. A large flower, true, but nothing a sharp blade cannot slice down in a single blow.
Still, only a fool rushes the hunt. I have found a place to
observe the creature. Perhaps there is more to it than meets the eye. I released a few small decoybots disguised as jabbits to see what this stemdragon made of them. Then it came to life in an instant, snapping at one of them immediately. It barely damaged one of the decoys before giving up, however. The Lopp insist the thing ran them out of the valley. How? It is rooted to the very valley floor! Not even a robotic decoy was able to get itself caught by the stemdragon. What danger could
it have posed to the Lopp? The vermin are making sport of me, I think. Tomorrow, I shall begin the hunt. I do not expect it to take long.

Fifth Day of the Hunt
The Hybrid fooled me, and earned its name, for my hunt does not go as planned. I knew it was fast, but it can move. I mean, really move – it erupted from the ground in a shower of earth and stone, roaring into the sky, and charged on strong legs of fibrous sinew! A dragon indeed, big as a shuttlecraft and fierce as a space-crazed pumera. Now I
have become the prey, or so it must believe. But I am patient. This wound is not mortal. I can wait in this tree for some time. It must return to the soil eventually.
And when it does, I have a new plan. Trophies are overrated. I will burn this creature to ashes, or I shall die trying.

[The state of this journal and the lack of subsequent entries seems to indicate the Draken hunter who kept this journal went with the latter option.]

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Cargo Lifter Operation Manual

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Thank you for purchasing, renting, or stealing the FreightSpace HCL-47 Hypermagnetic Cargo Lifter for your project/war effort/subjugation/picnic. With the HCL-47, we’re sure you’ll be successful/victorious/profitable/relaxed. Here are just a few of the special features that set FreightSpace apart.
– FreightSpace’s patented Micro-Suck Waves find the metals in any object – organic or mechanical – right before they attune a primal magnetometor to that
frequency. Then they suck, lift, and manipulate with the same raw power that made the HCL-46 the best cargo lifter you’d ever need – until now, that is!
– Internal FreightSpace BalanceSure Gyroscopes ensure you’ll never knock your giant metal-moving machinery off-balance or out of whack! Because nothing’s more awkward than being knocked over by your own cargo.
– FreightSpace knows that operating levers and pushing buttons can be truly exhausting work, which is
why the HCL-47 cab boasts 20% more head clearance than the HCL-46, all-new heated seating options, additional cup-holders, even a charger socket for your datachron so you’ll never mess a call!
Repulsion Mode is the latest time-saving feature from FreightSpace, and it’s built right into the HCL-47! Yes, usually you’ll want to be lifting – but sometimes, you need to repel things as fast as you can! By reversing the polarity of the neutron flow in
the power convertors feeding into the HCL-47’s central magnatron, you can turn your lifter into a serious pusher.

Approved for military uses by both FCON and the Dominion Military.

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Nerissa’s Diary Vol. 35

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[This diary – the latest of many, it seems – reveals Nerissa’s secret life as Scarletta Bloodheart, writer of romance fiction both torrid and turgid.]

And Trees Also Have Roots

by Scarletta Bloodheart

The trees of her home village always struck the young matria as a bit too familiar. A bit too much like family. And like most families, the trees of Lushleaf had a
few residents who didn’t play by the rules. Neither did the trees.

Matria Fondi Hoogleheart was the third daughter of village hunters who had earned no great repute, she had never planned on taking over from her second cousin, the beautiful and righteous Matria Tanallyra Oakenheart. The unexpected and mysterious death of predecessor, who
did not survive an attempt to make peaceful contact with the enigmatic and savage stemdragons of Nexus, left a gaping wound in the Weave that young Fondi could not hope to heal so soon. Instead she was too focused on just keeping her new job. She certainly wasn’t expecting her consorts to so quickly become so important to her, three extensions of her very
spirit, helping her to navigate the first fragile steps of her stewardship of the village.

And she had certainly never expected to fall in love.

But on that first walk through the forests of Celesttttttttttttiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzz

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Ravenok Racer Illustrated #119

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ALL THE RAVENOK RACING NEWS YOU CAN HANDLE!
In this issue: Racing forms! Ads for specially bred speed-enhancing splorg bait! Full-color holograms of all your favorite ravenok racers! AND MORE

CONTENTS

Page 04…..THE FUTURE OF RAVENOK RACING! It’s the hottest new competitive, timed, animal-based sport on the Fringe – and beyond! Who’s the greatest ravenok racer? Who’s got the hunger to knock them off their lofty perch? And who will be the great
ravenok racers of the future? We’ve got all the inside analysis!

Page 12…..RRI HALL OF FAME UPDATE! Who are the fastest ravenok of all time? Who rode those ravenok to greatness? We polled experts and our own reporters for to find out, and you can see all our current rankings on the hall of fame charts. Will Feathered Fury finally reach the top spot, or will Beak Dancer maintain her three-issue winning streak? Can anyone break Chua jockey “Dangerous” Dozzi Nak’s record of
thirteen straight victories? Probably not, but you won’t know until you read the article!

Page 16…..BLOOD ON THE TRACK! Will the tragic events of last year’s Wilderrun 5000-Meter Dash be repeated, and if so, how many in the crowd might be slaughtered by aggressive, intelligent, predatory birds that are barely domesticated and generally pretty surly to begin with? We’ll lay down the odds for all your bookmaking needs.

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