Chapter Forty -
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When Rac said ‘I’ll show you his camp’ I kind of expected to follow her there, but we didn’t even leave the parking garage before she turned to me and rather sheepishly asked if I could give her a ride there.
To be fair, she did...
2025-05-08 01:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue Five - The Complicated Love Life of Ivil Antagonist
A Year Later, Mars
Ivil Antagonist, Empress of Mars, Destroyer of Worlds, Embarrassed of Emperors, and Best Girlfriend in the Solar System (Pixie got her a mug that said so) was currently lounging on a sofa....
2025-05-07 16:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Nine
“Did you want to come with us?” I asked.
It was probably... definitely a little premature. We hadn’t agreed that we’d be going out to visit that island yet, but I was going to try to convince my friends to go and chec...
2025-05-06 22:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Nine -
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The next day came, and I found myself back at CIAL again, this time back in uniform for another set of classes.
It went pretty well. Professor Rogers knew his shit, and this time Nya stayed... actually, I didn’t know where...
2025-05-05 22:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue Four - A Held Together Homecoming
Phobos - Nine Months Later
Twenty-Six didn’t want to let her excitement show, but... yeah, she couldn’t stop herself. Her legs were twitching more than Pixie’s whenever Ivil said something scary like ‘I have an ...
2025-05-05 01:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Eight
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I left Nya at home before heading out to pick Lucy. She was her own woman, she could handle a few hours unsupervised, and besides, she seemed happy to be silly around the kids and playfully hissing after Catkiller. The poor mutt did not unders...
2025-05-04 02:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
By: https://www.artstation.com/edwardthygee
Huge shout to Edward, who was a fantastic artist to work with. I'm hoping that...
2025-05-03 18:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty -
Teddy perked up when the Boss returned with Trinity. It was nice to see that she’d made it back in one piece, not that Teddy doubted the Boss, but she didn’t have the world’s best bear (which was saying something as bears were the best) with her...
2025-05-02 18:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi! Another small one!
So, let's go over what was done:
Hired someone on Fiverr to make character sheets that are fillable PDFs!
Added the Walking Tank catalogue (big ...
2025-05-01 17:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostPart Two - Everything Will Be Okay! - /
After returning home, I did a little dance. A bit of a jig. First, because I wasn’t shot up, which is nice. And second, because I made bank!
Five hundred credits! That’s huge!
Well, no, by all reasonable measures it’...
2025-05-01 13:26:02 +0000 UTC View PostDelivered on the 1st! Wow! Much on time, very organized!
...
Wow, that meme is old.
...
Wow, I am old
Anyway: Li...
2025-05-01 12:30:55 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue Three – Meeting the Parents
Highstation Prime, Phobos - Six Months Later
Aurora took a deep breath, then another. The ship she was in was... nice enough, she supposed. She had to take it from Mars to here, from Ivil’s place. It was a luxury ferry, of sort...
2025-04-30 18:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostPart One - The Artist - ///
“Alright,” I say as I take in my canvas. There’s a blank wall that’s actually pretty large right behind the chair. The strange chair bolted to the floor. The strange all-metal chair that looks like it was made from a few bits of square-tu...
2025-04-29 19:52:40 +0000 UTC View PostDead Tired Three is... Released!
Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Dead-Tired-III-Audiobook/B0F4F3BHJW
2025-04-29 18:00:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight
Ceglia shifted in his seat. “I’ve mentioned how I started to look into the black Avatars some time ago, yes? Well, initially there was a lot of scepticism, on my own part most of all. The last sightings are only a little over a hund...
2025-04-29 15:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Seven
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“So, how many gangs are there, across New Montreal?” I asked.
Franny shrugged, still while holding her coffee close. “No way of knowing, really. Maybe ten thousand?”
“Gangs?” I asked. “No, wait, I guess that makes sen...
2025-04-28 16:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nineteen
It was still so early in the morning that the sky hadn’t turned fully blue yet, and dew still clung to the grass. Still, Emily walked across a ditch and was hit by a familiar message.
Entering Endgame.
“The limit’s here,” she said....
2025-04-28 13:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue Two - The Pirate Killer Queen
(Birb Note: I renamed the previous Interlude Epilogue One)
The Crevice, Ceres - Three Months Later
When things happened in the solar system that made entire gover...
2025-04-27 10:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostPart One - The Artist - //
Going to a gang’s HQ is... not something very wise, but it’s not the worst idea. Maybe.
Most of the time, a gang isn’t going to just blow the head off someone who steps in. There are... reasons why you don’t want a rep as someone tha...
2025-04-27 06:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi hi!
Didn't have as much time as I might have wanted to work on this, sadly. But I still got some work done!
Let's see... since last time:
-> ADDED: the Nomad Catalogue! (Th...
2025-04-26 20:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Two
56th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Little Lake, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
Before Three Lakes was Little Lake, the small town that man they’d encountered had mentioned. It wasn’t much to look at.
Viridian and her c...
2025-04-26 14:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighteen -
They made it to the gas station with no issues. The place was closed down, but surprisingly still had power. The lights within were on and she suspected that the pumps still worked.
Maybe the HRF was using the station to refuel their pat...
2025-04-26 03:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Six
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Delilah stared at me. Really stared at me. “Why do you want to talk to Franny, Catherine?” she asked. “Is this some sort of prank?”
“I don’t play pranks,” I said. “Look, we’ve got a situation brewing, and I wanted to talk...
2025-04-25 15:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi! So, I've been writing a story as part of an SCS Quest over on SpaceBattles. Mostly because... I miss writing Quests? But also, I need to test out Hope//Punk, and this seemed like a cool way to do it beyond the weekly playtests.
There's a link to the SB page here, if you want to join i...
Update time!
Okay, so... I was a busy birbo since last time!
Added:
Bit more to the Roleplay section.
Switched a few things around in the Gameplay section
Started on the Nomad catalogue. Mostly done with the Modifications, ...
2025-04-23 16:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude Eight -
Sonic Spectre was having a difficult time recently reconciling her religious beliefs and the reality before her.
Part of her, one she would admit had been indoctrinated and groomed, but which she cherished nonetheless, wanted to see the Empress...
2025-04-23 06:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Seven
“Why would the Black Avatars being riftwalkers be controversial?”
It was a great question, and one that I was happy to not be the one to ask. I nodded to Calamity, trying to non-verbally thank him for asking in the first place...
2025-04-22 06:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Five
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Angelo was a lot more comfortable with us by the time we were done. Unfortunately, he didn’t have too much more to add. At least, nothing immediately pertinent. Nya asked a few questions, about the names of gang leaders and how things were or...
2025-04-21 07:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One Hundred and Eleven
They battled.
If words were spoken still, they were drowned in a tempest of roaring energy. In a deluge of plasma, in screams not unlike the howl of a sun being compressed into the seed of a supernova.
The Emperor of Earth re...
2025-04-20 21:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post