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Rise Of The Immaterial Man Undercity
Sophia strode through the park with purpose and I struggled to keep up with her. When I had been human I hadn’t spent much if any time at the park, but walking through it now with the sun beginning its descent into the evening I found myself wishing that I had. It was a beautiful location, running alongside the River Thames itself, one of the rare few big green areas in the city of London. The location we were headed toward was the Old English Garden, a sort of park within a park. Where most of the park was wide open green spaces that were curated but mainly left to nature, the Old English Garden was a heavily looked-after space with a small podium at its centre. And everything about it felt… off. Clearly, the other people who were walking through the garden didn’t feel anything, it was likely only because I was an Immateria now, but I could intensely feel that something was strange about the podium and the sculpture on the top of it. “That’s the entranceway,” Sophia said, as i
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Waiting Room
The undercity was a marvel. I had been expecting a dingy and disgusting place, with leaking walls and rumbles from trains passing overhead, but I couldn’t have been further from the truth. Magic, it turned out, was just as magical in reality as it had been in all the storybooks. While my scientific mind was having trouble understanding everything my eyes were seeing, the little boy in the back of my head was whooping with unbridled joy. The ceilings were high and had been charmed in some way to display what was essentially a holographic display of the outdoor sky. Though unlike my technology there weren’t any telltale signs that what I was seeing was fake. I’d never managed to eliminate the slight shimmer that occurred whenever an image updated itself, kind of like scanlines on an old CRT, there was nothing like that present in the illusory sky. Alongside that were all the different types of people that I was seeing. It was hard not to want to run away screaming the first time
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Council
Sophia and I waited for what felt like hours, in reality, it probably couldn’t have been anything more than thirty minutes. In the short time that I’d known her, I’d never seen Sophia flustered or worried. She’d always been the peak of British femininity and grace, holding herself resolutely in the face of any potential problem. The way she was pacing back and forth now, her heels clacking against the flagstone floor of the room, betrayed how nervous she was really feeling. “It’s going to be okay, Sophia,” I said, “I’m sure you’ll be able to convince them of the worth of my creation.” Her head snapped toward me so fast that if she had been human her neck probably would have severed and allowed the skull on top to bounce away to a corner of the room. “It’s not just your life on the line,” She all but snarled, “If they find that I’ve broken the rules it’ll be my head on the block just as much as yours, understand?” I was cowed into silence by the outburst by that primal connection
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Success
Sophia shot me an ugly glare as I stepped forward to speak, but she didn’t order me back in line so I felt free to continue in my course of action. “While you may be safe hiding down here now, I know through first-hand experience how easily all of that could come tumbling down,” I said, “And while the Immateria are the strongest thing in the world right now that may not always be the case.” “Preposterous!” The Immateria at the centre of the table said, “Not even their nuclear bombs could threaten us, in centuries or millennia in the future that won’t change!” I crossed my hands behind my back and shook my head, I needed to play this just like I was trying to explain technology to some tech inept businessman back in London… because that was basically my entire plan. “What do you know of technology, sir?” I asked the man, “I imagine in this world of magic that you have crafted for yourselves the mere notion of mundane human technology is something that barely even crosses your mind,
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Plan
“That was a foolish and dangerous move you made in there,” Sophia said as she walked out of the council building and back onto the flagstone street of the undercity. I rolled my eyes and stuffed my hands in my pockets. “It worked though, didn’t it?” I asked rhetorically, “We’ve got free rein to do what we want now, the council are going to be off our backs, and neither of us is dead.” “It worked by the skin of your fangs,” She said with a short sigh, “If I’d known you were going to be this reckless I would have left you to bleed out on the steps of that club.” I grinned at her, she was talking a big talk but there wasn’t any heat behind her words. It seemed like she was more relieved than anything else. “Yeah right, I bet you’ve loved having me around so far,” I said cheekily, “So, come on, what’s the plan now? We’ve dealt with the immediate crisis, we’ve fed on some humans so the thirst is gone, what are we doing next?” Sophia was silent for a moment as she considered my questi
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Workspace
After explaining my plans to Sophia I explained that I would need a space in the Immateria undercity to work on my experiments and technology making. I could, of course, have had a lab up in London, but if we had taken that route I would have needed to constantly be zipping up and down between the overworld and the underworld, and that sounded like an awful lot of effort. It had taken the better part of an hour, but after calling in a few favours from some imps that Sophia knew she had managed to sort me out with the perfect space. Or at least it would be the perfect space in the future. At the moment it was little more than a dusty basement tucked away underneath a tavern that one of Sophia’s friends owned. Nevertheless, the space was big. It had good ventilation thanks to a few high-up windows. It was in a spot that was well-connected with the rest of the city. When you consider the fact that I had started my original tech company with nothing more than a dream and some spare p
Rise Of The Immaterial Man Base
After Sophia handed my list off to one of her imp helpers, she informed me that we were going to be getting straight on with the rogue case that she had been handed by the council of the Immateria.While I had gone through the process of being registered with the council and being allowed to live, rogue Immateria were Immateria who had been created without any kind of permission and were running amok in the overcity.There were other types of rogue Immateria too, like Immateria who had decided that living under the rules of the council didn’t suit them anymore. They were usually more dangerous since they knew a thing or two about magic themselves.Fortunately enough, the Immateria that we were going to be hunting was still hanging about in London, according to Sophia’s network of spies.We wouldn’t need to travel anywhere to get the job done, and in my mind, we had the home-field advantage considering I’d been living in the city for my whole life.“So, this is my place,” Sophia said,
Rise Of The Immaterial Man The Hunt Begins
Sophia and I stepped back into the warp gate that funnelled the citizens of the Immateria City to and from the city of London above. The bright lights and bustling energy of the underground city gave way to the greenery and open sky of the Old English Garden. The Battersea Power station loomed in the distance, silhouetted by the low afternoon sun."I can't believe all of this has happened in just a day," I remarked, taking in the view. "Most of it still doesn't even seem possible.""You'll get used to it, Parker," Sophia said, patting me on the shoulder. Her words were gruff, but there was a hint of compassion in her eyes. Maybe having been properly registered by the Immateria Council had relieved some of the stress she was feeling now that neither of us was set to be executed."So, what's the plan?" I asked, as we made our way out of the park. "Do you have some kind of Immateria tracking spell that we can use to track this guy down?""Please," She snorted, "Spells like that are stric
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