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Askolta, or as my new people called it, Askorta, has not changed since my last visit. This is always the case with medieval cities, they can stand for millennia, only growing a little by the periphery - and that’s not a fact if it suddenly turns out that the enemy is strong and able to quickly get close to the walls. In this case, the city, once rebuilt, freezes in eternal stone for many millennia. And I don’t know if there are any enemies near the port city, climbing to the sea along a slope that abruptly breaks off at the very water, but here everything was as I remembered - they removed a few dented guards, took away the corpses, replaced the gate that the avatar knocked out Warcraft and continued to live on.There was something new in the air, though. A sort of anxious expectation of some kind of change. Perhaps the city will be wiped off the face of the earth and rebuilt like Moscow, perhaps the world will see the second coming of the old bloody gods. But the guardsmen at the gat
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Sorry, nervous. But specifically for this blue-eyed bastard, I have a counter from the last character. We exhale smoothly, relax our hands reaching for the weapon and pretend that nothing is happening.“And who told you that you are a saint, cudgel?” With ecstatic horror I heard my own voice. - Isn't it your dead god?“What am I doing?!” His mind wavered. “He’s going to chop me up for a salad and he’ll be completely right!”No, I understood the logic of Mekon's behavior. We have already encountered the paladins of Khaang - all touchy, like small children. More importantly, constantly training their abilities along with sword fighting, clubs and who knows what else, they primarily react by being able to reach the enemy from afar. Should, anyway.And if now the paladin's eyes light up, then that cloud that is eager for Palov's flesh will immediately appear in his soul and dine with him. Problem solved, account closed.But Master Rick was not easy.- Wow. He remarked as he thoughtfully d
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I glanced at the Asian in bewilderment. Well, or what is it called here? The entire western Habitat was predominantly inhabited by people of Caucasian appearance, with the exception of only red-skinned slaves, therefore, she arrived from somewhere in the eastern part of the mainland, as is the case in my native reality.- And why should I? I drawled. So far, I've managed on my own!- Yes Yes. Gary nodded, and Zhdan chuckled. “That's why we had to pull your impudent personality out of the problems where you dragged yourself into.- OK OK! I already realized that I owe you. That is, you insist!- Not. Zhdan shrugged indifferently.- Yes! Gary snapped.- When there is no agreement among comrades ...“Listen, at home I learned something useful in battle, so I not only know how to swing knives, but I will inspire, and fly up if something happens. I will not become a useless burden on the journey."I am a buffer and a healer" - I easily translated into the game language. Well, for a fool wi
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- Let's admit it. What about you? The curve of the English sideburns, in line with the moustache, moved skeptically.— Ship to Exodus.— Exoda? The captain laughed. “Milaha, it’s a problem to get to Pearl, and you’ve swung at the wrong place — across the ocean.- What's the problem? Do you have friends who go across the ocean?- Were. - The gray-haired man grew gloomy. - Everyone left. You, dear, now you will not find suicides either in Kintun Ga, or in Ichilna, or in the whole Mixtli. He waved the pewter mug, and its contents spilled onto the dirty boards of the dock. - Although Erebus and Nyukta are witnesses - I have not met more desperate skips than in Perl. Come home, honey.— Pearl. - Gary snarled and moved away from the gray-haired.- Something is wrong?- I would have followed the news - I would have known what was wrong. she quipped. - Fanatics have appeared there. Butchers - catch sailors and cut them alive for the glory of the bloody gods. And even if the local skippers sen
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So let's improvise.- Can you? She stared down the bridge of my nose with incomprehensible admiration. — Eduard Semyonitch said something, but I did not understand anything.- Listen more to Eduard Semyonitch. Sighing, I pulled on my jacket. "He's not going to tell you that kind of nonsense either." Heard about his theory of people with disheveled brains?Rose nodded - heard they say. Very interesting, but nothing is clear.- Went.- Went! - She exclaimed. - And where to?- Directly. We'll decide next.— Wow! She clapped her hands and the overhead light turned off. - Lead us, Susanin, lead us, hero!We slammed the door and slid down to the front door on foot.— I have never been in this area before, everything is so interesting here! After a pause, she added. “And a bit like my hometown.Sleeping area in the southwest, stunned how interesting. Alova is dark about something, does not say anything. But it's a business. If he wants to walk around the area, filled with identical boxes - m
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"A group of role-playing activists who do not want to obey the rules of the game announced today that they will engage in progressive activities and opened four weather stations on the coast of Kintun Ga. The administration of the game fully supported their endeavors and provided access to the API. Thus, you can now always check the forecast and current weather in the Western Habitat, Ichil Ga and parts of Elkin Palav."- Curious. And what's the weather like in the ocean today?Light breeze, calm waters. And yesterday it was. And the day before yesterday. Fun, very fun. “When he arrived, Elkin Palav was silent, and there was a comet in the sky,” - it seems that the blind amri said so? Of course, individually, these signs mean absolutely nothing, but can it turn out that together they really hint at something?— Hey, Rob! — I was blinded by a smile from the very entrance. - Every day I come earlier and earlier, and you are always there! Are you even sleeping?- Sleep is for dweebs. I c
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“Another single target, two kilometers. - Said the younger. — It radiates in our range.And here comes the traitor. The elder chuckled a little. What are we going to do, Commander?- Think. I answered. Where are the first two targets?- Take cover. he answered.Yes, in an open battle, one Poisk operative is worth two or even three Conquest fighters, but still you should not discount their commander: with his knowledge, skills and with the rituals and other mystics of the Conquest, he can arrange this - the sky it will seem like a sheepskin.And once upon a time, all mysticism and magic were considered the fiction of overworked and-people, eh ... Why didn’t it stay like that?- Tags?— I can't find the corner. he complained. - They sit too well, the detectors do not catch.Cursing, I ran another fifty meters and froze in a crevice between icy stones. The armor was warming and protecting for the time being - I didn’t want to think what kind of dog cold was going on out there."Commander
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Shot!TASK COMPLETEDRating: SLead Time: SReport to your officer on successful completion.- But this is nonsense! I complained, pulling off my helmet. “You don’t have to be an intuitive, but some kind of prophet!” How can I know that...“But no one knows. The civilian answered. - She just went for broke, made a bet that everything was in the same position, on the same plane. And won.- She is?- Yes, she will study with you on the same stream.Coupe shuddered.- Arrived. Take your things, let's go to the gateway. Don't forget your tablet.- But it's not mine!- Now yours. The civilian nodded.I have always dreamed of going to space! But the space, to be honest, disappointed - there were no huge space liners, no aliens, not even an atmosphere that spoke of some kind of cosmicity ... The most ordinary compartments, a corridor with a round section with a rattling metal flooring-platform and a room that looked more like - a provincial station, with burning panels of arrival and departu