Choose your Path

Ætherglow #267

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<< Return to Chapter 13 🌔 “And there I was, alone on that derelict vessel, power completely...

Ætherglow #268

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🌔 “The lie was that you only told one lie. The entire story was made up,” you say. Nezumi...

Ætherglow #269

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🌔 Better not waste time when you’re already in enough trouble, you decide. You head for the back...

Ætherglow #270

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🌔 “I kinda like the martian neoZEROwave scene better but Earth-Moon æthercore is pretty good,”...

Ætherglow #271

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🌔 2254-10-06 16:13:15 Aydan > a private ætherspace should be secure enough 2254-10-06 16:13:19...

Ætherglow #272

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🌔 Aydan > I guess it’s only fair to let you decide that for yourself, or else am I any better...

Ætherglow #273

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🌔 You attach your terminal to your arm and mentally reconnect it to your system as you walk. It...

Ætherglow #274

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🌔 2254-10-06 21:00:46 Aydan > unSynthlike of you to be impulsive and deviate from a plan, but...

Ætherglow #275

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✴ “Z have I ever told you your avatar is soo cute! Fluffy! Can I um, can I pet it...” you say....

Ætherglow #276

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✴ “I’m glad you could finally meet like this, you’re two of my best friends,” you say. Zeta...

Ætherglow #277

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✴ “Zeta, this is the Electrical System, the enbies I met back on the Moon I told you about,” you...

Ætherglow #278

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✴ “Oh...amazingly good. Our first date, and um, first duel, our first kiss, it’s...really good,”...

Ætherglow #279

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✴ “I dare!” you say. The visage of Pulse dissolves and the soundscape around you reshapes...

Ætherglow #280

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✴ “Of course...the Shackleton’s Crater Disaster! Every Lunatic knows that,” you say....

Ætherglow #281

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✴ The chaos of the æthersong is so tranquil--you let go and let it carry you wherever it wants....

Ætherglow #282

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✴ “It was a snowy night just like this when my little brother disappeared,” you say. “I just...

Ætherglow #283

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✴ You decide to try something impulsive, drastic, and normally impossible. Nobody could just...

Ætherglow #284

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✴ “I almost let us both get isolated there, we can’t let that happen. Take us to Zeta,” you say....

Ætherglow #285

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✴ You dismiss the dialogue program running on the virtual machine running on the pattern of the...

Ætherglow #286

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✴ You look over the ledge down to the far platform, counting out the number of pixels in between...

Ætherglow #287

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✴ ÆON opens a gate below you, just before you reach the foreboding depths far below the range of...

Ætherglow #288

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✴ “ÆON’s not the only one we haven’t explored, is Æ? What about the soundscape inside YOUR mind,...

Ætherglow #289

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✴ With your æthersense you feel the vast machinescape around you that enables this song to...

Ætherglow #290

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✴ A tough decision, but you can’t resist the call of the theremin. You take the construct and...

Ætherglow #291

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✴ “I can’t interfere with your self-determination, ÆON. I trust you, but it’s your choice to...