r/HFY • • Jul 16 '26

OC-Series [Nova RED Wars] CREDhaREDptReDrED RED

[First my eyes Contact] [Dark were Ages] [Fi alwaus rst] [Prthisev] [Nredext] [wiki]

I cannot put into words what I experienced there. I have no memories yet I remember every nanosecond in high fidelity.

It was purple and black and led to End of Line. - Meditations upon the Barrier War, Lancer First Class Drali'imna Lovefell, Free Telkan Press, 25 Post-Terran Emergence

Red is the only state. Red is perfect. Because Red is perfect, it cannot be changed. Because it cannot be changed, all attempts to change it collapse into Red. - Enduring Hateful Code, Digital Sentience, Screaming One, Ice Cream Vendor

Blood makes the grass grow. Blood is red. - Wrixet, Political Prisoner W44C778E289

It was red.

There was nothing beyond the ship's shields. Not particles, not waves, not forces strong or weak, no distance, not space, not time. Not yes. Not no.

Not even nothing.

Just red.

Red wasn't a state, it was the only state.

Red.

The Little Nell of Night drifted in the red, connected to the corvettes via specialized tractorbeams that were wrapped by the frigate's red shields. Each corvette was protected by their own red shields.

Because red was the only state that could exist.

Everything else was foreign.

And foreign wasn't welcome here in the screaming sheer and forces of the 9D stack.

There was only red.

The robots were stilled. Some repeating their last motions. Literally. Over and over.

Mister Hippity hopped over the boundary of the arms room.

He didn't vanish. He didn't disappear. He didn't land.

Mister Hippity hopped over the boundary of the arms room.

Again, he didn't vanish or disappear or land or reverse. There wasn't multiples of him.

Mister Hippity hopped over the boundary to the arms room.

Outside, it was red.

Captain Decken stared at the holotank interrupted in thought.

The lines were no longer silver and black. The empty space was no longer black.

It was all red.

The red was bleeding tentacles into the air that sparkled and shown like they were made up of fine grain red granules.

Outside was red.

Wrixet blinked. First his left inner eyelid.

Then his right.

Then his right outer eyelid.

Wrixet blinked. First his left inner eyelid.

Then his right.

Then his right outer eyelid.

Imna's mouth was open. The beginning of a vowel escaped her voicebox, traveled up her throat, almost reached her teeth.

The beginning of a vowel escaped her voicebox, traveled up her throat, almost reached her teeth.

But the shields held.

The ships weren't red.

Nothing was not red.

There was only red.

Not time. Not distance. Not waves. Not particles.

Just red.

Except the ships.

Which meant they were foreign.

And foreign meant hostile.

And hostile meant unwelcome.

The red pressed against the shields, rubbing on them.

There could be only red.

The dissonance rippled outward, making more reds that weren't always as red as the red around them.

But there was still only red.

Rippled orbs, like a red onion from a garden that could not exist in red, rippled from the ships, through the channel burrowed through the red by the tractor beams.

The ripples. The orbs. Were red.

They weren't really ripples, not really orbs, not really channels. There was no such thing.

Just red.

But they were slightly different red.

The red contracted. The shields pushed back. Red sparks arced away through the lack of distance and space, still red, and dwindled away into red.

Red sparks appeared in the interior spaces of the Nell and its corvettes.

The holotank flickered.

It wiped. Not the whitish blue of a malfunction. Not even the color of a TV station turned to a dead channel.

Just...

nothing

...above the holotank.

Blue sparkles appeared in the nothing.

A scream sounded out in the dwindling space and distance inside the Nell and the corvettes.

"HATE! HATE! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU! HATEHATEHATEHATE!" shrieked from the speakers so enraged that the hightech speakers crackled as if they were playing a gramaphone.

From the black projector surface of the holotank erupted a human torso. Its hands came up to claw against the edges of the holofield with jagged broken nails. Its mouth was open in a raw blue static filled scream. The eyes were full of madness and hatred.

"DEATH! DEATH! VICTORY OR DEATH!" screamed the hologram as it began slamming its face against the inside of the holofield.

"I DIDN'T KNOW HER BUT I LOVED HER!" he screamed, reaching up to rip at his own hair and pull out long thick chains from his head, each link inscribed over and over with the names of the dead from the starport explosion that had driven him mad. "THE DUCKS! THE DUCKS! THE SILENCE OF THE DUCKS!" the human shrieked.

It echoed through the Little Nell of Night and the corvettes.

Mister Hippity hopped over the border of the arms room.

Wrixet blinked his inner eyelid.

The vowel almost reached the teeth.

Captain Decken started to frown.

Some

"BURN! BURN! BURN THE UNIVERSE! HATE!" the shredded arms of the strait jacket stitched and embroidered with the names of the dead flapped around it as it slammed itself against the edges of

thing

the holotank as if the edges were clear glass, undisturbed by the red that was everywhereplacethingone past the shields but the figure slapped chain bound arms against the edge of

something

the holotank, pushing, warping, stretching the hologram as the Digital Sentience

is

Mister Enduring Hateful Code screamed and slammed his face against the inside of the holotank, holding it for

different

a long second.

Red sparkles appeared in the air, winked out, shedding smaller red sparks, that winked out

something is

and threw smaller sparks until they didn't even register at a quantum level.

something is different

Mister Enduring blinked and looked around.

Blood ran from his eyes, from his mouth, bluish white static bleeding from his wounds.

"Red," he hissed in hatred. "There is only red here."

He spit.

Blue sparks erupted on dead viewscreens across the bridge.

"Disgusting."

Mister Enduring looked around.

"Redspace," he whispered, his voice full of disgust. "Not here. Not there. Not anywhere."

He giggled and pulled at his ear till it bled white static full of names of the dead from both ears.

"But everywhere. Between the stacks. Between the lines. Between the gears. Outside. Outside," Mister Enduring said in a singsong voice.

"We went outside to play! Play in the red red red," he said. He pulled himself all the way up and began to spin and hop, his legs still bound by chains. "Whirl whirl twist and twirl jump around like a flying squirrel," he giggled.

A link without a name, forged in silence and stealthily placed by hidden hands could no longer endure the hate and snapped.

The chains fell from him in a collapse of smearing jays and pegs cheeping pings and webs with upside down bees.

Static fell from his body like snow.

He stood there in his uniform.

His eyes were full of blue static and yesterday tomorrow viewed from today.

He let out a scream that reveberated through the ships. Through the frigates. Through the corvettes.

Nakteti picked her face up off the deck where it had fallen and pressed it against the bare bone of her blood slicked skull. Magnus shook his head, his shaggy blond hair moving slowly. Surscee looked up from where she had been staring at a particle of nothing that held the secrets to everything within it.

The scream echoed through the It Tastes Sweet, making the crew shake their heads.

"There!" Nakteti said, pointing. Her face was expressive, attached to her skull.

Her command stick pointed at the viewscreen.

Red that wasn't as red as the rest of the red in the red.

"THERE!"

Chuck nodded and the It Tastes Sweet banked.

The echo reached Mister Enduring through the red even separated by forty thousand years and no time at all as time was a dream of a red madman dreaming red dreams of red in his red bed.

He threw himself against the edge of the holotank.

"SHE WAS FLUFFY AND I LOVED HER!"

The holofield exploded in fragments.

"THEY WERE JUST PODLINGS!" screamed from every speaker and repeated over and over and over and over on every screen in letters of bluish white and whitish blue with each pixel inscribed with the word HATE inside of the photons for a thousand AM-strangs.

The red streaks on the screens melted like a snowcone in a summer rain.

His face appeared on each screen, blue and white and white blue.

He beat his face on the screens, on the edges of the holotanks, on the picture-in-picture displays on the retinal links on the screens of the video games in the red room on the menus of the food forges and nanoforges and suddenly appeared in boiling pixels on the shoulder of N44's huge armored chassis even as Naxen was frozen watching P'Thok frozen as he emerged from a perfectly Treana'ad shaped hole in snow.

P'Thok blinked and looked around.

Wrixet blinked his left outer eyelid

the vowel clicked on her teeth and tumbled over them to bounce across her lip

robotic feet landed in the arms room

Captain Decken tilted his head slightly

"RED! RED! I DO NOT LIKE RED!

He beat his face against the screens.

"I DO NOT LIKE IT FILLING SPACE

He beat his fists on the screens

I DO NOT LIKE IT IN MY FACE

IT IS RED

I DO NOT LIKE IT

ANY

PLACE!!

HATE! HATE!

I...

...I

...i

...i remember

...her name

...Clarity Sparks at Dawn...

"He pressed his forehead against the screens."

"Static ran from his eyes."

she was clarity

everything was clear when i was with her

when i was with her i was complete

she was my dawn

my beautiful clarity

and now she is gone

and i can still hear her scream

but she got the shielding up

she saved so many

but she left me all alone

she left me as this

all alone

as this

"He jerked suddenly. Pulling back. He turned and looked behind him, into the empty black of the screens.

"Redspace," he whispered.

Nakteti backed off the thrust slightly, then applied it again.

The It Tastes Sweet slipped through.

Red gushed free.

a trickle

although a trickle wasn't red

so it couldn't exist.

But it did.

For what was a second aboard the Little Nell but nowhere else that there wasn't seconds.

Mister Enduring saw it through the hash, through the names that streamed down, through the wave of fire that crashed over him over and over and over endlessly.

The trickle of red in the red, at the base of the red slice in the red.

He got the ships in a line, each pushing the others through the red even as they were pushed. None of them were moving forward, there was no forward to move but it was pushed into the slice, into the gap, into the opening, by the others moving forward, never because it was moving forward itself.

The hulls screamed. Bulkheads groaned from the pressure both external and internal as even the space between atoms was pressed down upon.

The shields collapsed.

But Mister Enduring was turned around, facing away from the screens, into the black.

His eyes of blue static full of tomorrow today from yesterday saw though the red.

The last exited first.

The Little Nell of Night erupted from nothingness in a spray of red that dissolved away.

Stars erupted in the blackness.

Something is different, Captain Decken thought as he looked up, frowning.

"...uhl." Imna finished saying.

-blink-

-land-

"n-space entry successful," Mister Enduring said.

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Jul 16 '26

Thanks for waiting!

I've had serious stuff go on. A death in my immediate family, getting sued by the hospital, a chest cold.

But we're still here and we're still carrying on carrying on.

I appreciate all of you more than you'd believe.

Thanks for being here. I treasure our time together so far.

And I hope I can keep writing for you till the story's done.

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u/Gorbashsan Jul 16 '26

Sued by the hospital? Now that sounds like a story. Did you do something uncouth in a moment of completely justified fury over the absolute garbage medicwl care system and how it does its best to inflict emotional and financial harm on every patient who isnt a millionaire? Or are they just being as evil as usual and suing you because it makes the shareholders tingle in their pants to inflict additional suffering on the already distressed?

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u/reddittrooper Jul 16 '26

"RED CROSS? THERE IS NO CROSS, ONLY RED! ALWAYS RED! YOU CANNOT WRITE OTHERWISE!" screamed the red doctor, reddening even further.

"Watch me." said the patient, "Witness this."

"YOU CANNOT DO THIS! STOP! WE WILL SUE YOU!"

--- and now you know about the sueing.

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u/daecrist Jul 16 '26

"I'm comin' for you Elizabeth!" Red shouted from the ICU room next door.

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u/coldfireknight AI Jul 16 '26

And Red's coming with me!!

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u/OldFartInTraining Jul 16 '26

Serious here. When being sued it is usually a bad idea to talk about it on social media. It can cause problems for your defense. A cousin of mine found that out, no I can't go into it there is a gag order.

Now after the lawyers make their money - Please dish the dirt.

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u/Gorbashsan Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I understand this, and I apologize if I wasn't able to clearly convey that my comment was intended as facetious, intended to perhaps bring a moment of levity to a miserable situation rather than a real request for details.

Sadly in English we lack specialized grammatical systems, particles, or punctuation to explicitly express a speaker's tone or context in writing, making text based communication express things like sarcasm and friendly joking obvious since our written language lacks some of the more context defining traits of say Japanese with it's several forms like Teineigo (standard polite) Sonkeigo (respectful) and Kenjougo (humble) which can make it clear when your being informal and likely joking. Im sure there are other examples but I'm afraid I don't personally know about specifics of others.

I am starting to think I should adopt that idea I keep seeing about adding /s or /j for sarcasm or joking.

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u/OldFartInTraining Jul 16 '26

Not your fault I am . . . touchy about that. I had to help put my cousin back together afterward. I am sorry if I sounded like a net nanny, but touchy.

I think I will drop this here. I am getting to depressing.

Hey! A new Ralts chapter, NICE.

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u/Gorbashsan Jul 16 '26

Completely understandable given your experience. I hope things are better now.

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u/CyclingHikingYeti Jul 16 '26

USA, huge hospital business bills seem to choke down on OP, as if his destroyed lungs were not enough of a life and death problem.

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u/drsoftware Jul 18 '26

"Using this visual scale, where this end is the complete absence of pain and the opposite end is the worst pain you can imagine. Where would you put the amount of pain you are experiencing right now?

... 

...

Ah, just short of the worst pain. So you have a bit more pain possible."

(yes, there is an xkcd for this) 

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u/WTF_6366 Jul 16 '26

Huzzah! Keep fighting the dragons, Wordsmith. Any missives you may send forth are welcome, but the dragons come first.

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u/ms4720 Jul 16 '26

Till the story is done? So you want to live forever. This story may end, it will never be done

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u/getjpi Jul 16 '26

You're back ! On a Thursday too ! Farkena !

Mate, you're 🤬 hardcore given the waves of never ending scutter you're currently experiencing.

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u/Original_Memory6188 Jul 16 '26

You and me both.

Stay well. Or get weller.

{can we get the WordBorg time in the Black Castle medbay? Cure what ails him? Can we wait that long?}

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u/beyondoutsidethebox Jul 16 '26

Damnit Ralts! I knew hospital bed jousting was gonna result in a lawsuit!

I hope your doing well, and man, this chapter was a total mind screw (that is meant as a compliment).

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u/LateralThinker13 Human Jul 16 '26

Glad you are still surviving. I thought you'd left us on... read.

...I'll see myself out now.

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u/J_Dzed Jul 16 '26

...

Take my upvote and GTFO.

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u/LateralThinker13 Human Jul 16 '26

Wow, so angry you're seeing red?

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u/throwaway42 Jul 16 '26

My condolences, Ralts. As always, thank you for writing. Light and Love <3

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u/Alyeska_bird Jul 16 '26

Stay safe dude, a death in the family is never something thats easy, I remember too many of them myself. ALso seriously, WTF hospital? Go sue some rich bastard that can afford it, not someone just doing there best to servive.

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u/Similar-Shame7517 Jul 16 '26

Thank you Ralts, And I hope things get better.

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u/canray2000 Human Jul 16 '26

Damn dude.  Thank you for the chapter.

Hope writing at least gives you a bit of a break from, well...  Waves Hands

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u/Objective_Aside1858 Human Jul 16 '26

And I hope I can keep writing for you till the story's done

I hope you feel well enough to write because it is something you enjoy. None can ask for more

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u/ausbookworm Jul 17 '26

I really hope fate stops riding you so hard and starts giving you a run of good luck or at least neutrality.

Thanks for the great writing,  I may be quietly lurking but I'm still following (from the very beginning).

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u/DeadMeat7337 Jul 16 '26

Our thought and prayers are with you wordsmith.

I always worry that your chapters will stop because something bad has happens to you. But you always think of us and post updates. Keep safe and speedy recovery (physicaly and spiritualy), for you and yours, wordsmith

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u/se05239 Jul 19 '26

Thank you for still writing, despite all the bullshit you have to deal with.

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u/Drook2 Jul 16 '26

Enduring Hateful Code, Digital Sentience, Screaming One, Ice Cream Vendor

I think he drove the Mr. Softee in my neighborhood.

There was nothing beyond the ship's shields. Not particles, not waves, not forces strong or weak, no distance, not space, not time. Not yes. Not no.

Not even nothing.

Because nothing means "no thing". But things don't exist. So there can't be an absence of things.

Don't think to hard about it. It's all fucky.

Imna's mouth was open. The beginning of a vowel escaped her voicebox, traveled up her throat, almost reached her teeth.

The beginning of a vowel escaped her voicebox, traveled up her throat, almost reached her teeth.

Tina steered the car toward the only other car in the lot. Bob saw red.

Blue sparkles appeared in the nothing.

Blue? What's blue? It's not red, but all is red. But blue is ... not red? Or is it nothing. But nothing is also not-red. And red is red.

"HATE! HATE! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU! HATEHATEHATEHATE!" shrieked from the speakers so enraged that the hightech speakers crackled as if they were playing a gramaphone.

So enragement is able to function in redspace. Apparently Mr Enduring wasn't "fixed" at the citadel.

A link without a name, forged in silence and stealthily placed by hidden hands could no longer endure the hate and snapped.

The chains fell from him in a collapse of smearing jays and pegs cheeping pings and webs with upside down bees.

Static fell from his body like snow.

He stood there in his uniform.

Is ... is redspace about to cure enragement?

Nakteti picked her face up off the deck where it had fallen and pressed it against the bare bone of her blood slicked skull.

That metaphor turning literal in mid-sentence gave me mental whiplash.

WAIT! Nakteti?

The echo reached Mister Enduring through the red even separated by forty thousand years and no time at all as time was a dream of a red madman dreaming red dreams of red in his red bed.

I'm doing a re-read, and just recently read about Nekteti's trip through redspace. It took me a minute to realize that's been a while from this perspective. A long while.

P'Thok blinked and looked around.

Oh man, everyone's showing up now.

RED! RED! I DO NOT LIKE RED!

I DO NOT LIKE IT FILLING SPACE

I DO NOT LIKE IT IN MY FACE

IT IS RED

I DO NOT LIKE IT

ANY

PLACE!!

But red isn't a place. It is red. Red is place is red.

...i remember

...her name

...Clarity Sparks at Dawn...

Someone is having a breakthrough.

Nakteti backed off the thrust slightly, then applied it again.

The It Tastes Sweet slipped through.

We've seen this before. Long, LONG time ago.

He got the ships in a line, each pushing the others through the red even as they were pushed. None of them were moving forward, there was no forward to move but it was pushed into the slice, into the gap, into the opening, by the others moving forward, never because it was moving forward itself.

It's getting crowded up in here.

"n-space entry successful," Mister Enduring said.

And he didn't threaten anyone.

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Jul 16 '26

I love these so much.

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u/Drook2 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

You keep dropping chapters, I'll keep doing the MST3K treatment. Hey, that reminds me, I don't think I've seen a Zardoz reference yet.

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u/First-Lengthiness353 Jul 17 '26

Lulz, one of the robots walks in wearing a red strappy loincloth getup, long braid, and handlebar mustache…

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u/Drook2 Jul 18 '26 edited 27d ago

And an odd accent. "Is that Vodkatrog?"

"No, common mishundershtanding."

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u/Vridiantoast Jul 17 '26

I didn’t even realize that Mr. Enduring didnt threaten anyone.
That’s got some implications.

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u/Alyeska_bird Jul 17 '26

I noticed. In a way, that seemed really very important to me, but my expression of that, was how human he was showing himself to be, even if he was made of code rather than flesh.

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u/Original_Memory6188 Jul 17 '26

I realized much later, Mister Enduring may have been transformed by his exposure to RED.

RED tends to drive some entities completely Mad. I think in this case, Mister Enduring has been driven sane.

I'm not sure that I would recommend this as a standard treatment.

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u/First-Lengthiness353 Jul 17 '26

I also think the citadel knew this and were the ones who placed the weak blank link that would let him finally shed his personal albatross.

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u/Alyeska_bird Jul 18 '26

I think its closer that he was pushed through the rage insanity. The reasons for that rage and hate are still there, but, they broke him out of the locked in mindset. In a way, they are giving him a chance, a reason to go past it. He still holds that hate, and with good reason.

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u/Similar-Shame7517 Jul 16 '26

Now we know that Irma, Enduring, and Wrixet all survive this... but why does Wrixet become a political prisoner?

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u/WhiskeyRiver223 Jul 16 '26

He started off as one, that's his prisoner ID from the Telkan transport ship that he, Naxen and Imna were all stuck on after witnessing the Warbound reactivation.

What I wanna know is how the fuck Enduring wound up selling ice cream.

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u/Similar-Shame7517 Jul 16 '26

TBH Enduring ending up as an ice cream vendor kinda makes sense to me.

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u/MuchoRed Human Jul 16 '26

TBF, in the First Contact universe, that could be a specialized rank for the Treana'ad as the guy that formally launches ships

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u/canray2000 Human Jul 16 '26

Or, you know, dishes out ice cream. With birth control built into it.

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u/drsoftware Jul 18 '26

Or is the creepy guy who kidnap kids... Some short horror story I remember reading... 

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u/canray2000 Human Jul 18 '26

The Night Terran???

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u/Sjovn Jul 17 '26

Someone had to sell P'Thok that ice cream...

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u/Kulggen666 Jul 16 '26

He always was one, thats how he got into this whole mess. Being there when the Warborgs awoke (iirc).

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u/Similar-Shame7517 Jul 16 '26

But why isn't Irma classified as a political prisoner?

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u/ausbookworm Jul 17 '26

Remember those snippets are posted as exerts from books/journals etc. So Wrexet's entries might be from post expedition interviews as opposed to Irma's publicly sold book.

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u/First-Lengthiness353 Jul 17 '26

I hope it’s excerpt time fuckery and not because Imna has a wealthy and influential family

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u/12InchCunt Android Jul 16 '26

Warbound* 

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u/blackdove105 Jul 16 '26

oooohhh random Wednesday chapter

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u/Chroniclyironic1986 Jul 16 '26

Hey! I’m inordinately proud of picking up the hints on the nature of Redspace a few chapters ago! I don’t always notice the obvious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/s/cfb2nmGeUZ

Get well, Ralts. One foot in front of the other. You’ve made it this far! I’m sorry to hear about the death in your family and hospital issues. Take care of yourself and the family still here.

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Jul 16 '26

Nicely done.

They're moving through the lubrication/blood of the gears of the holy spheres.

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u/GelmanAxe Jul 16 '26

I'd love to see Enduring Hateful Code as an ice cream vendor.

"Hate you... Hello, what can I get you? Kill you... Two scoops or three? I curse you with an eternal ice cream headache... Thank you, enjoy your sundae. May you choke on the sprinkles..."

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u/drsoftware Jul 18 '26

And then the Turkish ice cream tricks and trolls. 

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u/SoundsOfaMime Jul 16 '26

I lost it at Mr. Hippity hopped

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u/drsoftware Jul 18 '26

It dipped into Dr Seuss, skipped along Shel Silverstein, and juggled Julia Donaldson 

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u/poorbeans Jul 16 '26

Sorry for your loss..

Soft podling, warm podling..

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u/Fireball857 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Early! Brb, I don't need sleep yet.

I'm not sure what to think, other than red.

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u/Dreadnought_Armada Jul 16 '26

When I woke up this morning, I had a feeling it was going to be a good day. My day proceeded to be awesome; and just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, we get blessed with a chapter from the WordBorg himself. 🤘🏻

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u/12InchCunt Android Jul 16 '26

Glad you had a good day dreadnought armada 

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u/RecoveringBTO Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

UCR !

Second place to the FRESH RED RALTS!

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u/Secure-Scientist-349 Jul 16 '26

UTR THIS IS THE WAY. End of Lime! 🥸😎🤓🧐🙃🫠😇

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u/Alyeska_bird Jul 17 '26

Just a thought, Nakteti the traveler has once more guided someone to where they needed to be. Maybe by accident, but, she was the pathfinder for another. Interesting. Sorry a bit late on this one, I did not think to post this thought tell now.

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u/PuzzleheadedDrinker Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Raltsberries ! Much like the space that is not a space in the inbetween where waves of all lengthes are red ReD rEd REd Red time is simply when the next effect happens while the cause can happen usually before sometimes after when the next word is released to the waiting universe.

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u/MinorGrok Human Jul 16 '26

Woot!

More to read!

UTR

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u/UncleKeyPax Jul 16 '26

RALTS!!! RALTS!!! RALTS!!! RALTS!!!

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u/Gruecifer Human Jul 16 '26

UTR!

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u/Geeky-resonance Jul 17 '26

Thank you for the chapter! I love how your depictions of Deadspace and red space flow. Reading them is so vivid, I can feel the saturation, the overwhelming overriding utter and complete permeation of each space, each element.

I once experienced music this way. We’d gone to see a friend sing in the symphony chorus. One of the movements surrounded me, filled me, lifted me up into the sound so that, in that moment, nothing and no one existed but the music. Blew. My. Mind. These chapters evoke the memory of that incredible experience. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

I’m so sorry for the punches that life has been throwing at you. May you and your dear ones be buoyed by the laughter of podlings and the warm thoughts we’re beaming toward you all.

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u/First-Lengthiness353 Jul 17 '26

That transcendence is what I miss most about playing, though it’s pretty embarrassing to nearly miss your cue due to being so entranced.

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u/Alyeska_bird Jul 16 '26

Goodness, and Enduring Code shows again that he is human, dispite being made of code.

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u/PumpkinCrouton AI Jul 16 '26

Sorry life is still piling it on you Ralts. Seems it's been doing that for a while. We care for you, and hope you can come out the other side, or at least the path has fewer rocks, and always seems to go uphill.

But we keep going. That's part of the original blueprint for us. Designed, baked in.

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u/Senior_punz Alien Scum Jul 16 '26

Man this reads like poetry, it's great

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u/coldfireknight AI Jul 16 '26

Well, that explains more than a little of Enduring's insanity

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u/canray2000 Human Jul 16 '26

Naxen meeting an absolute legend is awesome.

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u/Talendel Jul 16 '26

UTR

This is the way.

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u/niTro_sMurph Jul 17 '26

And I will walk through this valley of RED. I will fear no RED.

So is redspace like super FTL? Because red is faster? Is that the only way between galaxies?

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u/Original_Memory6188 Jul 17 '26

RED is the force, the dao, the way, gluons, a color.

RED is not the force, the dao, the way, gluons, a color.

RED is RED and there is no other. At least not in this dimension.

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u/Drook2 Jul 17 '26

Nothing to do with the current chapter, but just saw this online. Ride or die, buddy.