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Threadmarks: Chapter 0032: Resource Check and Lingering Shadows
Chapter 0032: Resource Check and Lingering Shadows
The initial surge of adrenaline from discovering a potential path forward via Project Chimera quickly dissipated, leaving behind the cold, hard reality of our situation. We were trapped, low on everything, with a damaged ride and a guide who...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0031: Schematics and Suspicions
Chapter 0031: Schematics and Suspicions
The heavy thrum of the Probability Drive's minimal life support system was the dominant sound now, a low pulse against the backdrop of dripping water and the unsettling silence from within the sealed steel door. The air, thick with the scent of ozone...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0030: Calculated Risks and Corrupted Codecs
Chapter 0030: Calculated Risks and Corrupted Codecs
The silence that followed Cipher's pronouncement about Obsidian Crawler territory being the route to Project Chimera wasn't comfortable. It was the heavy, leaden quiet of people contemplating a truly terrible set of options and realizing the...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0029: Damage Control and Diminishing Returns
Chapter 0029: Damage Control and Diminishing Returns
Anya didn't waste a second after sealing us back inside the relative, if highly questionable, safety of the Maintenance Junction. Pragmatism was clearly her default state, especially post-near-death-by-Apex-Predator-and-Wraith-tag-team...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0028: Junction Recon and Lingering Echoes
Chapter 0028: Junction Recon and Lingering Echoes
The crudely etched error code pulsed in my vision, mocking, real, [ERR: SYNC_FAILURE_7G]. It wasn't just a phantom of my damaged cognition anymore; it was physically scratched into the damp rock of the Undercroft, a cryptic message left by… who...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0027: Echoes, Anomalies, and Unwanted Attention
Chapter 0027: Echoes, Anomalies, and Unwanted Attention
The passage on the other side of the temporal distortion felt… quieter. Colder. The faint scent of ozone and burnt cinnamon from the spore explosion was thankfully absent, replaced by the familiar damp earth and metallic tang, maybe even...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0026: Temporal Static and Recurring Errors
Chapter 0026: Temporal Static and Recurring Errors
My hand tightened instinctively on my multi-tool as I stepped across the threshold into the shimmering temporal distortion. The boundary felt… wrong. Not solid, not liquid, but like pushing through a membrane of staticky, vibrating air that...
Hey all, sorry for disappearing. I had limited access to internet and electricity recently. Will be publishing all the chapters in a bit after proof-reading once more. Thank you for your understanding 🙏
Threadmarks: Chapter 0025: Aftershocks and Temporal Hiccups
Chapter 0025: Aftershocks and Temporal Hiccups
The world exploded in blue-white light and a deafening roar that felt like it resonated inside my skull. The shockwave hit me like a physical fist, throwing me stumbling, off-balance, through the narrow fissure entrance Cipher had disappeared into...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0024: Recon, Resonance, and Bad Reception
Chapter 0024: Recon, Resonance, and Bad Reception
Cipher melted into the narrow, spore-lined burrow entrance like smoke dissipating into shadow. One moment they were there, a silhouette against the eerie green glow, the next they were simply… gone. No sound, no disturbance of the pulsing fungal...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0023: Fissures, Fungus, and Focused Observation
Chapter 0023: Fissures, Fungus, and Focused Observation
The fissure Cipher led us into was barely shoulder-width, a jagged crack in the ancient brickwork and underlying bedrock that felt less like a planned passage and more like a scar left by some immense geological stress. The air instantly...
Threadmarks: Chapter 0022: Cipher and Calculated Risks
Chapter 0022: Cipher and Calculated Risks
The filtered voice echoed in the sudden, heavy silence of the Undercroft tunnel, seeming to cut right through the oppressive dampness and the lingering scent of fear. "Runtime Exception Handler identified. Your processing load appears… critical...
Chapter 0021: Tracks, Traps, and Temporary Truces (Arc 1.1 End)
The silence stretched, punctuated only by the faint drip of unseen water and the low hum of Anya's flashlight. The discarded boot and its grisly contents lay there in the dust, a stark, mundane object made sinister by context and...