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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The Arc of Dominion, Edda 25: Across All These Emptied Lines
Chapter 8: A Cowboy in a Monastery
1552 words
Rated E (Series rated M)
The ninja and the cowboy have made their way back to the monastery, where they are welcomed, and yet, both feel tasked to keep moving.
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So I was playing in a Flashpoint match, which I kind of think of as “5CP” because it’s 2CP but five points instead of two (plus some other changes that make it work better), and basically, you fight over as many as five contested points on a map in random order and first to capture and hold three points wins.
We were winning pretty handily and had just nailed down the second point when I flew off as D.va and got to… I forget which point, doesn’t matter, maybe ruins… and started defending. We won the first team fight, but right as enemy team was coming back I noticed that the possession counter hadn’t started ticking up. And then we won the second team fight and the possession counter still kept not ticking up. And we were winning the third team fight and I’m like nobody else is on this goddamn point, why the hell isn’t the possession counter still at 0-0, why isn’t it ticking up?! when I realised
OH MY GOD WE’RE DEFENDING THE WRONG FUCKING POINT
and flew off to the right one, which was, you see, just past the one I’d been defending in the same direction as I’d come from, because I’d followed the point marker to the third point, but stopped one point too early – these are big maps, so that can happen. So I when I landed and started to fight everyone on both teams apparently just kind of assumed from the way I was playing that I knew what the hell I was doing and took my word for it until I suddenly took off screaming GROUP GROUP GROUP via emits and OH MY GOD in text chat.
We fought over the wrong goddamn point for… I don’t know. Almost five minutes.
We still won. I mean, they hadn’t noticed either. But it’s still the funniest (and dumbest!) moment I’ve had in Overwatch in ages xD
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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.
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 25: Across All These Emptied Lines
Chapter 5: The Stars Around and Above
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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.
What are Tracer, Widowmaker, and Oilliphéist doing up on the roof, anyway?
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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 25: Across All These Emptied Lines
Chapter 4: Brigitte and the City of Oasis
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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.
Brigitte has three questions, and, as always, she's willing to do what she must to get the answers she needs.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
It took news of Pharah and Mercy's daughter - and the defeat of Overwatch - to bring Ana Amari to Oasis.
Fareeha wants very much to trust her mother.
Michael Ngcobo wants to make sure Ana does not abuse that trust.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Fragment e22,1: The Simplest Solutions
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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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The war is won; spring - a slippery thing - has come at last to Russia. The snows have melted, with only remnants left to clean away. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. Oasis is again at peace, with the Gods free to do largely as they will.
In the midst of all these great actions, of these large shifts of state, a single person can be very small, and difficult to find, no matter how urgently that person may need to be found.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Coda 1, Edda 21: Hanzo, the Dragon, the Sapphire-Eyed
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SPECIAL NOTE: This, finally, concludes The Arc of Conflict...
...and begins The Arc of Dominion.
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