SENTINEL BONUS FOR AUGUST & NEW CONTEST

HAPPY AUGUST 2024!The monthly bonus for Sentinel editorials and Fan-Fiction continues this month with the usual editorial bonus for reviews, commentaries, game guides, gear talk, and origin stories.This month's fan-fiction theme (prompt) is "WHAT IF..."That's right: it is an open-ended prompt and you are free to interpret it in any way you want. Just be sure to post your entries to the Fan-Fiction forum with the following in the title: "FAN-FICTION CONTEST: WHAT IF" and the title of your entry....

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Fan-Fiction Contest: My Multiverse - Late to the party

Vol Kana (ID: 11074 aka AJ Slade) Multiverse PrimeProlog:I have an older sister (really my first cousin). It’s up to “Dark Mourning” to tell you that story.As a child I spend before and after school with my Nana and Pop Pop. One day Pop Pop said "Let's build something. You got any ideas?". I replied "A volcano." When it was time to make the volcano to erupt, I mixed red paint with the baking soda and vinegar to make red lava.Later I became a volcanologist. I traveled world-wide to study volcanos....

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Fan-Fiction Contest: My Multiverse - Cracked Mirror

by Dark Mourning aka Kyra Slade (ID: 10894)  Multiverse PrimeProlog:I was an orphan by the age seven. My father was killed in a war and my mother overdosed on drugs. I lived with my maternal grandparents until my grandmother passed. Shortly afterwards I was adopted by my father’s brother and his wife. They invited my maternal grandfather to live with us. While AJ (aka “Vol Kana”) and I were raised as sisters, she is really my first cousin.My first supernatural encounter occurred when I was...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age part 12

 Adrianne stood with Arx right next to her. While seated at the table, Nova glared at Adrianne with seriousness as he calculated his anger and curiosity.“Tell me why I shouldn’t have your put in a cell right now,” Nova quietly asked.Adrianne said, “I came to this station under false pretense... well, not entirely false. Okay, so this is what happened. My brother and I both gained morphon powers at the same time. I got ice powers, he got extremely powerful stone powers. We were both working...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 11

 Adrianne waited in the operation room of ATLAS with a few of the other trainees. The others looked a little disheveled after last night’s party, but were in good spirits. Adrianne appeared as though she were going to be ill.“Hey, didn’t see you much last night after that amazing dance,” A young man said.Adrianne didn’t catch anyone was talking to her.“Musta had one hell of a night.” He nudged her arm.She jumped and then looked at him. “Sorry. Did you need something?”“No. I was just wondering...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 10

 “Report!” Nova called out the moment the lift doors opened.Gar, in charge of Operations, answered. “Krystal Fae reported in. I didn’t know she was on a mission.”“She isn’t, technically. That alone makes this odd. What else?”“The message is weird. Something about it doesn’t seem right.”“Play it.”Gar pointed at a robot, and the viewscreen activated. Krystal stood in the middle of an empty field, smiling at a camera recording this. “Alex, are you ready? Good. This is Agent Krystal Fae reporting...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 9

 Arx couldn’t bring himself to look up. His whole body felt as if lead had poured through his veins.“Arx?” The gentle, deep voice of Nova approached.He didn’t want to see or talk to anyone right now, and Nova was at the top of that list.“Sorry, sir. I need to go.” He stood to leave, but Nova stopped him with a hand on his shoulder.“Son, sit down.”“I really don’t want to talk right now.”Nova said nothing. His commanding presence was enough for Arx to sit back on the bench. There was a moment...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 8

 “Wait, I hear someone coming.” Krystal led Alex along, slinking through the tall grasses. She prepared a spell in her hand in case this was bad news.Alex checked his mp meter. “I’m not detecting any spikes nearby. Just an enormous one in the distance.”They had ditched the jeep to scout the area on foot. There had been several more tremors, and that was making it hard to drive. The further they scouted, the more the mp meter was pinging something big ahead of them.She let the spell dissolve...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 7

 A brown Jeep rumbled through the dried grasslands in the middle of Africa. Alex drove while Krystal looked over some information on a tablet.“Remind me again why we aren’t flying, or using portal magic?” Alex asked.Krystal set the tablet down and relaxed. “Because this is the first real time together, away from BADGE, the newspaper, or anything like that. I want to enjoy the view and spend some time with my husband.”“We are still on the clock.”“I know, the mission. But, we can still enjoy...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 6

 A hot wind cut through the busy streets while cars rushed around in the heavy noon traffic. Alex and Krystal walked close together, so the thickly populated sidewalk didn’t separate them.“I wish we had more time to just look around. I love the ancient ruins here in Tripoli,” Alex said.Krystal patted him on the side of the face. “Honey, after we get done with this mission for Nova. Let’s take a long overdue vacation from BADGE and just enjoy a world tour. Magic travel is cheap and there is...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 5

 Arx ran along a cliff that looked down at the ocean. Great waves of water ripped across the surface and bashed into a town in the distance. An entire harbor was already in ruins, debris floating in the thrashing water.“Watch it! I need you to protect that town!” Arx yelled at two of the trainees.A young man ran and let out a powerful scream. The shockwaves of his voice cut the power of an incoming tidal wave until it only washed ashore. An older man ran beyond him and quickly lifted both...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Stone Age Part 4

 Screaming children run around as they chase a ball through the street. Krystal dodged the kids several times as she and Alex make their way toward St. Patrick’s Park.“I love Dublin, don’t you?” Krystal mused.Alex, dressed in civilian clothing, checked a small BADGE sensor device. “Sure. It’s nice.”“You aren’t looking. The city is around you, and all you do is stare at that sensor.”Alex looked up. “We’re not here for the tour. We are here on a mission.”“We can still enjoy ourselves. This place...

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