Cloud McCloud and the Curse of Godhood
Part 5 - The Ender and the Black Plate
Cloud didn't know exactly where he was going, but he was on his way somewhere. All he knew that he was headed toward something significant, and that was good enough for him. A few hundred feet from the ground a short distance from where Cloud sensed a powerful enchantment, he jumped off his Dragonskull Carriage and landed lightly on the roof of a shack not unlike the one he lived in before he became a god. Pandora's Box rested in bag where the Golem Rubies were before Cloud put them away. A bald man in his sixties came out of the hut. He wore a white robe, o
Truisms of Existence by Ankh-Infinitus, literature
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Truisms of Existence
Everything exists.
Existence is self evident.
You exist.
You know that you exist.
You can express that you exist.
Not everything can express that it exists.
You can express that everything exists.
You are not everything.
Book One Chapter One by Ankh-Infinitus, literature
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Book One Chapter One
Cloud McCloud and the Curse of Godhood
Part 1 - Origins, the Cloak of Shadows, and the Golem Rubies
It was twilight in the life of Cloud McCloud, an old hermit who lived in a small hut on the beach beside the Fish Sea. He had been a soldier in his youth, fighting for the glory of the kingdom and for the god of empires. When he was done fighting, he settled down and assembled a family - a wife and a son, all taken from him by a disease that all too mercilessly spared him. In time he grew to accept it, but it made him bitter and grizzled. He spent his days fishing and thinking about his youth. So much potential turning into nothing but
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Cloud McCloud and the Curse of Godhood
Part 2 - Boots of Teleportation and the Dragonskull Carriage
Cloud didn't know where he was going, and neither did the horses. He knew he was going somewhere, because logically, nowhere doesn't exist. The somewhere they were headed for loomed on the horizon as Falcon Kingdom, a magnificent kingdom of builders and iron workers. They also had a lot of falcons, but nobody really noticed them. The name of the city was purely coincidental.
Cloud entered the gates and looked down the road at the glorious palace on top of a hill. It looked like it was made out of bubbles. It was almost amusing. The horses,
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Cloud McCloud and the Curse of Godhood
Part 3 - the Feather of Angelos and the Kiss of Death
Usually, Cloud got a lead or a feeling on where an artifact was and went after it. This time, the object came to him. As Cloud's carriage raced along the road, a pillar of light shined down in front of it. The horses stopped suddenly, shaking Cloud in the carriage like the marble in a can of spray paint.
"Hey!" he shouted irately, untangling himself on the floor. "What's going on out there?"
Cloud got out of the carriage and saw the light, which stood out greatly against the darkness of the night. He approached it and put his hand up to it like
Book One Chapter Four by Ankh-Infinitus, literature
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Cloud McCloud and the Curse of Godhood
Part 4 - the Third Ruby and Pandora's Box
In his new life as a god, nothing put Cloud's mind at ease like soaring through the sky, surfing on top of his dragonskull carriage. He was able, for a moment, to forget that the god of evil cursed him to live forever, never to join his wife and son in the Land of the Dead. The horses, Gold and Silver, enjoyed it as well. They lived to serve Cloud, and they did all that was in their considerable power to take him where he needed to go. Nothing could seem to stop them, which made them valuable allies. Just as valuable, though Cloud was slow to see them th