[ LOCATION ] - TEMPLE OF OUR GREAT VICTORY / STADIUM OF REVELATION / 4TH OCTANT [ CHARACTERS ] - TARQIQ (HUMAN) / KESSLER (SYNTHETIC) [ STATUS ] - SECOND PLACE. ———————————————————— Not everyone who comes to a forbidden world is there to pray. Two travellers, both once Vidyan, who left it for the one thing Vidya could not give them: somewhere new. They take turns choosing the trouble. This time the trouble is Tarqiq’s. ———————————————————— Tarqiq. A soldier, until the soldiering grew dull. He collects difficult places the way others avoid them. Kessler. A sphere, a synthetic, once Nayan8, that gave up hunting people for the quieter work of saving art. ———————————————————— They are the two who still work for pay, in a galaxy that abolished want. Frowned upon. Long past caring. So when the commission came, they took it. Reach the forbidden world. Find the god beneath the temple. Speak to it. Omnith. They had known the name since birth. The wise god who carried its people to...