Chapter Three
49th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
The Sapphire Ocean
She sat between her companions, though remaining seated wasn’t an easy affair. She lacked a posterior to sit upon, and so the back of her....
2025-01-28 09:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
48th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
The Sapphire Ocean
Maldrak stepped out of the captain’s cabin and out onto the ship’s deck. He was immediately hit by a wave of warm, humid air as soon as he cross...
2025-01-28 09:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
47th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
The Sapphire Ocean
“It’s active,” a voice said. Soft, calm. It was... bored, perhaps, as if saying something that it had oft repeated.
“I see,” another...
2025-01-28 09:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue
42nd Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Harbour Town, Harbour Isle, the Sapphire Ocean
“This way, sir, to the dead. Though as I said via our correspondence, the dead are slim-pickings at the moment,” ...
2025-01-28 09:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three
Clark had been working for the Heroic Response Force for twelve years now, and he still wasn’t used to how quickly things could just suddenly get out of hand.
He was in his mid-thirties now. Still young, he hoped, but sometimes he didn’t feel i...
2025-01-27 23:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
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Olivia seemed to go quiet after a while of walking through the campus. I noticed that once we were away from the Bastion, the number of stares I was getting decreased pretty sharply. I guess I was sorta fitting in, what with the ridiculous u...
2025-01-27 12:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Eight
Ivil wasn’t usually privy to the gossip and hubbub travelling around. She didn’t care much for media things, and ever since she discovered that she could just order MINT to record her soaps for her, she never really had to interact with the extranet...
2025-01-26 11:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
*** written while very eepy, plz point out grammar
Delilah had gone on about... ignorance or some such the night before. It was a lot and she was pretty excited about it, in her own little Delilah way.
Anyway, it was very sm...
2025-01-25 19:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude Lucy - School Days
Lucy looked at herself in the mirror, then gave a little spin.
CIAL had their own uniform. From what she understood, and from what she saw, there were some strict rules about what a person could and couldn’t wear, but the rules were also...
2025-01-24 22:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Seven
“That was surprisingly fun,” Twenty-Six said as they made their way out of the dining room and into the Emperor’s foyer. She was carrying a large basket filled to the very brim with leftovers and was smiling bright enough to compete with the sun.<...
2025-01-23 00:50:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Six
“Right... well, we know where to look next time, I guess,” Jenny said. She adjusted her mask, then shook her head. I had the feeling she was one part frustrated and one part annoyed. Two not-so-distinct emotions.
“We can always come back,...
2025-01-22 04:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Five
“So... what do we do now?” I asked as I leafed through the fairy tale book. There were a few illustrations here and there that caught my eye. Monsters sometimes, and then knights in all-black armour that were usually depicted h...
2025-01-21 22:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
“Trinity, stop putting the trash out of the bag,” Emily said.
Across the room from her, Trinity looked down into the brown plastic bag she was holding, then back up. “But... it’ll be thrown away.”
“Yes, that’s the entire point of puttin...
2025-01-21 02:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five
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It wasn’t often that I considered visiting someone at their home, but I was willing to make an exception for Gomorrah. Mostly because she lived an elevator’s ride away and I didn’t actually need to step out of the house to visit her.
Chapter Fifty-Five
Jenny grumbled a little, but Alyssa was surprisingly ready to pay Sharp for the assistance. “Five hundred,” she said.
“That’s a little low,” Sharp replied.
“It’s a job you’re double-dipping on,” Alyssa replied.
“Yeah,...
2025-01-20 04:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Six
“Ice cream?” Twenty-Six asked as the desert was revealed.
The only sign that the butler was surprised by her question was a very slight perking of his eyebrow. “Indeed, ma’am,” he replied simply. “This is Europian Comet Cream. Milk...
2025-01-19 01:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
A month ago she would have been panicking.
Two months ago, she might have been nearly catatonic with anxiety. The sort that bubbled up in her stomach and made her entire body felt like it was being squeezed in from every direction all at once.
...
2025-01-18 00:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Four
“We can step out to talk,” Alyssa said. “Or at least, go somewhere less loud.”
That was a fair point. I had that gasmask on, which did some work muffling my hearing, but the area was still quite loud. Rushing water breaking against concrete ...
2025-01-17 19:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Four
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“So, what did you think?” Lucy asked as we stepped back into the Bastion.
“Eh,” I said with a shrug. The vice Principal had a few things to show us after the cooking class, but the other classes were out at the momen...
2025-01-16 20:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Four
“So, this is the book, huh?” Booksie asked as she eyed Rainnewt’s gift.
The book was sitting on the captain’s desk in the little office at the rear of the ship that Amaryllis had long ago taken over. I didn’t mind that. S...
2025-01-14 22:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue
Fun!
She burst into life and knew one thing: Fun! Life was good! It was pretty and loud, it was vibrant and bright and there was so much to do!
Yes, her goal was fun! Maximum amounts of it!
Her attention spread, malignant tentacles of seerin...
2025-01-14 05:16:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three
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The CIAL campus was bigger than I imagined. It encompassed the entirety of the little city around the main campus and about half a dozen much larger buildings around the central park area.
These were the picturesque, big, modern buildings...
2025-01-14 00:58:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's liiiiive!
Link: https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0DQQ99M4X
Every self-respecting lich has a few hund...
2025-01-13 14:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Three
“Ew,” Sharp said as she took in the entrance into the city’s underground.
It was... a reasonable feeling, to be honest. Te water out-flow was a long, large set of concrete openings that were spilling brackish water out onto the Boston river. ...
2025-01-13 06:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Five
The dinner started off well enough. Ivil was no gastronomist, but she could appreciate fine taste, and the Emperor... well, his tastes were certainly rich, which had a certain correlation with regards to taste.
A butler--not the same as the o...
2025-01-11 19:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Two
We left the house at half-past six in the morning only to hit traffic into Boston Two anyway. That was the biggest downside to living outside of the city. The traffic in and out was god awful at the best of times.
Still, we managed to arrive at...
2025-01-10 19:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
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There was a problem that I hadn’t considered when I bought the Bastion and that was that the damned thing was fucking enormous.
Being big was mostly a feature. It was a transport, and its largeness meant I could fill it with sever...
2025-01-09 18:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Four
Opulence wasn’t something the Empress of Mars was unfamiliar with, and yet it seemed as though the Emperor of Jupiter was determined to stretch the definition of opulence as much as he was ready to stretch the fabric of space to his whims.
...
2025-01-09 09:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Three
~Starting a new volume~
The next morning found everyone in a state of incredible exhaustion.
I barely managed to trudge my way out of my room onboard the Beaver and to the kitchen, and I ...
2025-01-08 03:32:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
Sorry for the slow chapters this weekend. Am sick. Prolly picked something up at the New Years party I went to. Yay!
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I wasn’t sure if I was onboard with the whole... ‘go to school’ thing. In fact, I was pretty sure it wasn’t going ...
2025-01-07 08:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post