As a reader on Discord said, “stuff just keeps coming back today!” and, well, it is the first time I’ve managed anything in Of Gods and Monsters in a really long time.
I’m not confident this adds as much to the story as I’d like but it does add something, and it’s got decent length to it, so. 2620 words, this instalment rated T, series still of course rated M.
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Well. Look what woke up. Hi, writing.
Thanks for your patience, everyone. You may still need more of it. But I do have chapters 8 and 9, at least in rough form.
The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new – and the UN hopes better – leadership. The Gods are free – largely – to do as they will.
Reminded accidentally by Lena, Danielle remembers that Amélie had a chateau, and that she had used it herself for some time as a safehouse.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion is a continuance of The Arc of Conflict, The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 25: Across All These Emptied Lines
Chapter 1: Lena and the Knight
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
After so much time spent on opposite sides of an unwanted war, some of the opponents will find each other again afterwards, in a time of peace, but this time either as victors, or as the defeated.
These are some of those stories.
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion is a continuance of The Arc of Conflict, The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Lena's found something she didn't expect to find, and she's very excited about it.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment e24,1: The First Photograph
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
At long last, changes are no longer coming.
At long last, changes are here.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 24: Changes, One
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Sometimes D.va just wants to try out a game - particularly if that game is using Her name without permission.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment s22,1: D.va Mode
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
But the Great Game never ends, not even with victorious Gods - it merely changes. And as the dust settles, old players begin feeling out their new positions - and questioning their old relationships.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Saga 22: The Undying Spirits
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Hana, Brigitte, and Lúcio left the park very quickly - so quickly that they forgot something important.
But Sombra didn't forget.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment e23,1: The Adventures of Jetpack Cat
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Some months ago, Sombra went to Brigitte Lindholm and made a confession she did not want to make.
This is what happened next.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 23: A Warrior Princess in Exile
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Someone is a very bad dragon. A very, very bad dragon.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment s21,1: Marked by the Dragon
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
After too much delay, Overwatch relays to Genji the news of his brother Hanzo's death.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Saga 21: Grief and the Sword
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
It took news of Pharah and Mercy's daughter - and the defeat of Overwatch - to bring Ana Amari to Oasis. But now that she's there, Moira O'Deorain has something she feels duty bound to let her know.
As unpleasant as the task may be.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment e22,2: The Worst Third
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The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.
Now that Oasis is finally at peace, Pharah and Mercy know exactly how they want to celebrate.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 22: The Cabana on the Beach
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Overwatch - or what is left of it - is at war with the Gods of Oasis. Russia is in a parallel war with itself, Katya Volskaya's government against the popular uprising led by the Aleksandra Zaryanova, the Goddess of Russia. As winter set in, Zarya's March to Moscow slowed to a crawl, held, waiting for a change in the weather.
But now, it is spring - a slippery thing, in Russia, but still inevitable - and the time for waiting is over.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Edda 20: The Acts of April (Chapter One)
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SPECIAL NOTE: This is a four-chapter novelette, around 10,400 words long in total. It will be posted one chapter at a time over the long holiday weekend. This link is to Chapter 1.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
Overwatch - or what is left of it - is at war with the Gods of Oasis. Russia is in a parallel war with itself, Katya Volskaya's government against the popular uprising led by the Aleksandra Zaryanova, the Goddess of Russia. As winter sets in, Zarya's March to Moscow has slowed to a crawl.
Athena now knows she can make demands - ones the gods will meet - and takes the action she knows she must.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Text e19,1: "Message-Id: <F93D63F5-CF92-92F3-91E3-A60F39C3B9@nepal.overwatch.ch>"
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
Overwatch - or what is left of it - is at war with the Gods of Oasis. Russia is in a parallel war with itself, Katya Volskaya's government against the popular uprising led by the Aleksandra Zaryanova, the Goddess of Russia. As winter sets in, Zarya's March to Moscow has slowed to a crawl.
Lúcio has hardcopies - flat, two-dimensional renderings - of the medical scans from his death, but he has very little idea what to make of them.
The same goes for his doctor.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Fragment e19,2: The Doctor Will See You Now
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. But with Jesse McCree having upset a precarious balance, Lena, Hana, and Sombra have intervened in Russia's rising civil war, and the fragile peace between Overwatch and Oasis has been shattered.
Athena knows what Lena did to Jesse, and from her extracts a promise: never again.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Fragment a1,3: Rage, and the limits of it
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. But with Jesse McCree having upset a precarious balance, Lena, Hana, and Sombra have intervened in Russia's rising civil war, and the fragile peace between Overwatch and Oasis has been shattered.
Back in Oasis, Emily muses with Moira on the nature of challenge - and of fear.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Fragment a1,2: Fear, and the places for it
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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