World Lore, Dice Rolls, Tables and Cypher System mechanics (Dropbox Folder)
I pulled my lips in and just watched him squirm as he confessed his desire to kiss me. I had to admit since seeing the video of him dancing I wanted to more than kiss him. In the video he’d been wearing clothes that left little to the imagination. Every line his muscles made as he moved were clearly visible.
I had stalked the other videos on his feed that day. I dreamt about that body for many nights afterwards. I fantasized in the shower and in the moments of just before sleep about his mouth on the hardest parts of my body. Fuck!
He stared at his plate and we ate in silence. It wasn’t awkward, more like energized. He seemed to hum with energy, a crackling along my skin. “You think, maybe that crazy shit you’ve been doing could be happening right now?”
Nox looked up at me and blinked. “You mean making the sexual tension higher?”
I laughed. “No, Well… No. That was there before we met I think. This is different. I feel like there is energy dancing over my skin.”
“You mean like magic?” Nox said. He held out the palm of his hand and small puff of flames erupted in his hand. And the ground below us rumbled.
We both looked around and when the rumbling stopped Nox had a wry grin on his face, but the purple flame sat shifting in the indoor light casting an eerie glow to the table.
“How did you know you could do that?” I asked.
He shrugged. “I dunno. A whisper in my ear maybe.”
“I don’t know if I like that. I want to be the one whispering in your ear.” I said. It had sorta just fallen out of my lips before I could stop it.
He bit his bottom lip and grinned at me. “Your place or mine?” He asked.
I was left blinking back at him astounded by the question.
Nox was standing, offering me his hand. His long fingers with nails tipped in short black paint. His arm outstretched inviting me to look at him, the rest of him as my eyes followed the arm to greet his eyes.
How much of this afterlife was I going to regret? How much of it would plague me for eternity? I took his hand and grabbed the bags and Nox took the trays after neatly stacking them and we deposited them in the bin. I didn’t really have time to marvel over the magic I just saw.
A tingle of magic fluttered under my fingers and Nox looked at me. “I don’t know what that just did.”
“It did something though?” I inquired but pulled him out of the venue and into the chaotic lobby. And out through the large exit I saw a sprawling city skyline just outside. I wanted to see where we were going. And we had to find a place to stay.
Nothing in the vicinity looked like a hotel. We stood waiting at a cross walk and Nox kept looking at me like he wanted to say something but he kept biting his lip and squeezing my hand like he was trying to decide if I was real.
I headed to the left. I didn’t know where I was going. I didn’t really care. The city around us was skyscrappers and towering buildings built with steel and glass and covered in gears and runes and the mingling of science and magic was astounding. I wanted to take time to stare up at the marvels but my little brain was focused on finding a bed.
We walked across another street and the entire atmosphere seemed to change. It had gone from magical and mystical to stale and boring with an added extra tingle of magic. It was different than before. Like the area radiated some sort of energy and a light from no where beamed down on us.
Nox sighed. “This is going to be so fucking annoying!”
“What did you do?”
He looked at me and frowned. “I didn’t do anything, we crossed a line and the magic rippled through me again. There has to be a fucking way to fix control this.”
A tug at my free hand drew my attention to two reptilian like kids snatching the bags from my hand and scampering off. “Hey!” I shouted and dashed after them.
The Mind of Nox 