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Well, true, but Man vs Nature also includes natural disasters, wild animals (that may or may not be magic), and potentially ocean travel, even back as far as The Odyssey... so Mars is just another variant amongst many.
I'll try again, when I can maybe hopefully have a bit more of an audience that will actually post.
Part of the culture and part of the very laws of reality in the setting.
What you're looking for is the "Man vs Nature" archetype of conflict.
Threadmarks: Chapter 3, Episode 74- Sanity is Overrated
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Calenda arrived home long before the others, and so spent an inordinate amount of time hiding in a nearby alleyway, petting the ebony furball. "If I'd known you were so soft, I'd have done this sooner. I think I was trying to distance myself from this carnival of death...
Threadmarks: Chapter 3, Episode 73- Past and Future
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From now on, there is no longer votes guiding this story. Doing the behind-the-scenes mechanics was always a resource sink, adding about 2-3 hours to the workload of the story every update. I was fine with that... but only when I could actually get people to participate. Which has...
Threadmarks: Chapter 3, Episode 72- Uglier Big Truths
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Ketak stood at the shore of the temple, considering the sky while giving occasional check on the glowing red eyes which watched her. The joke was on the death-eating rodent, for her eyes were more than capable of seeing its sleek fur in the darkness. Dwarven vision may have...
Threadmarks: Chapter 3, Episode 71- Ugly Little Lies
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Ketak eyed the shore as she approached the temple. Its colorful spires against the night sky was perhaps the most beautiful merger of nature and engineering she had ever witnessed outside of Liselm. That beauty loomed overhead, made threatening by the knowledge that this...
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"The necromancer's been here." Elruin drew her conclusion before they got in shouting range of the small Seyid town on the outskirts of Engeval's empire. Her bleak sight could spot the torn tapestry of life energy that came from the most blatant use of necromancy in combat...
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Scratch allowed himself to drift away from the group, knowing full well what would soon come. He was surprised only that Elruin found him sooner than expected, and asked him outright.
"What happened to the other necromancers you've been with?"
He understood the girl was...
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Elruin awoke to Cali sitting next to her sleeping bag. The woman put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you feeling okay?"
She sat up, wondering about the soft tone in Cali's voice. She decided that her back didn't hurt anymore, and the magic in her armor had repaired the...
A quick forward: please be nice and give upvotes to today's music selection. The guy who made them is somehow even more obscure as I am, and I want give him a bit of a boost. No, he didn't ask me to, offer payment, or anything of that nature.
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"Cali, you're hurt." Elruin's...
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Two days of travel later, the teams found each other near the southeastern edge of the Engeval mountains. These were tough lands of foothills and deep gulches carved by heavy storms. Scratch made direct contact first, by virtue of being able to ignore all terrain.
"Look...
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Elruin flushed another burst of magical power through her armor, this time taking it to the same extreme that she had used while driving off the bloodmold. With nowhere to go, the energies wrapped back upon themselves in a storm of death energies. She watched a few of her...
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Priestess Erena locked eyes with the necromancer, the first time they'd seen one another since she came into the church a dirty homeless peasant-girl following Priestess Calenda like a lost puppy. Erena knew the girl was dangerous then, but had no idea how dangerous until...
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An aura of flame still dancing around her, Juna looked around at her guards with a barely hidden disgust. She had fought, Elruin had fought, and this priestess had fought, while they stood and watched. When the adrenaline wore off, she would ensure each and every one of...
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Elruin clasped her hands together and bowed as was expected of her as a vassal. "Please give me a moment to check on the patients, first. I wouldn't want to put anyone at risk."
"Be as thorough as you need. In fact, if you need anything, just tell me. Preventing an...
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"Now that you have stripped the sarite of all its unique aspects, it will lose cohesion. Much like salt, you may have to grind it some to fully break it apart." Professor Abrax's own shard fell apart, as did Elruin's, but some students had to take the time to apply their...