Chapter Fifty-One
I was teetering on the edge of a deep slumber, currently in the position informally known as ‘loafing’ while resting at the foot of my own bed with a thinner blanket draped over my back. It was warm, especially when the kitties came and laid down next ...
2025-01-05 06:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe January Index!
New Year! New index!
Link is here: LIN...
2025-01-04 09:05:55 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
“I’ve had worse,” Crystal said, then she groaned as she tried to sit up. Glass and loose metal crunched under her, and she quickly recognized where she was... more or less.
This wasn’t the first time she’d been thrown into a car. There was a v...
2025-01-04 02:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty -
Sharp, unfortunately, spent a solid half hour talking up the blonde before we finally left. It was mostly a litany of excitable babble that had me wanting to cringe to death, Nine Lives perk or no.
Doubly unfortunately, the woman took the prattle...
2025-01-03 05:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Still not sure about the volume name! But this is a start!
Prologue
“Catherine?” Lucy asked as she stepped out of the elevator into the parking garage and was instantly hit with some regret.
Why wasn’t she wearing pants? Why did she go down to t...
2025-01-03 00:46:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Three
It came as no surprise that someone in the position of Empress or Emperor would run into people that could be considered traditionally attractive.
Honeypots, of course, but also normal functionaries and officers of a high enough to afford well-tai...
2025-01-02 03:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Two
“Booksie!” I cheered, though I tried not to be too loud about it.
I was meeting the Bun out by the side of a large warehouse that Amaryllis hd rented out for the occasion. It wasn’t the prettiest building, but it was one of th...
2025-01-01 22:18:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine
It was Monday morning, which meant another day at the range.
We arrived bright and early, unloading from an auto-taxi with a large duffel bag that I sat in so that Sharp could carry me about without much fuss. Being that it was so early, I mig...
2024-12-30 21:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostIsabella shot a quick glance at the kitchen, before stealthily crawling across to the living room. Jane was sitting at the table, doing ‘Adult Stuff’, and she wanted to know what that was. Sure, she was only six, but she was learning ne...
2024-12-29 19:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-Two
“I’m afraid that we have a problem,” Ivil said as she watched over her... fleet of companions.
They were gathered once more in the main living space onboard the Sappho. Twenty-Six was sitting on a narrow fold-out couch usually pressed...
2024-12-28 22:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostVasilisa the Brave - Epilogue
She was named by her grandmother.
That woman had been good to her, to everyone. Tough as nails, but with a heart of burnished gold. She believed in fairytales and magic, and on seeing a new baby girl in the family, she decided that ...
2024-12-28 00:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight
The next day, or at least the next day’s morning, was spent rigorously testing Sharp’s new perk.
It was... potent. But it was also not impossibly strong. I suspect that we had traded strength for utility with Sharp’s choice, and that was tota...
2024-12-27 19:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
Delilah stood on the edge of a field. To her left were rows upon rows of flowers. Small, red things with black centres. Her hand trailed down to her side and she gently pinched one of them. She imagined that it was soft, but her gloved hands hid any such thing from...
2024-12-26 23:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnd happy Holidays!
Posting this week might be a smidge slow! But we'll be getting back to our normal schedule by the end of the week!
In the meantime, thank you so much for being th...
2024-12-24 12:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm a smidge bored! Last time I did one of these was... well over a year ago, back in 2023, so let's do another?
Kittypunk Christmas Special
“Hmm,” I said.
Sharp sighed.
“Maybe... but no.”
I felt Sharp’s grip shift ever so slightly so that she was holding me on her other arm. She shook the arm I’d been resting on out. Had it fallen ...
2024-12-22 10:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty
Crystal remained behind to watch over Vasilisa. Their magical shielding around her was wearing out rapidly, even when they put a little more power into it.
They could secure it better, but then... Alice was wary of all the magic in this space.
Abov...
2024-12-21 08:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven
Sharp wrote down the next few perks to pick from with the speed borne of someone who desperately wanted to get something done now. I think she was genuinely worried I’d send her to bed without picking anything if we weren’t fast enough.
<... 2024-12-20 12:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Five
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There’s actually another option as far as mechanized units go.
“Oh?” I asked. I was still looking at the smaller, lighter mecha that was apparently within my now very much reduced price range. “What’s that?”
(I was supposed to make this post a while ago, oops?)
Teddy Bears on Brigade has its own shirt added to the LitRPG Forge featuring... Teddy!
50% of the proceeds of the sh...
2024-12-19 06:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety-One
The elevator continued to accelerate the deeper into the station it went until, finally, it stopped with a lurch that might have made the average person crash into the ground. Ivil weathered it without even a dip of her knees, but she still didn’t appre...
2024-12-18 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Six
As soon as we crossed the wide ditch behind the warehouse to use the shrubbery Sharp and I were both hit with a couple of notifications. I couldn’t see her own, obviously, but that didn’t stop me from knowing that she’d received something. Her gasp, ...
2024-12-18 04:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Twenty-One
It took nearly an hour, but eventually it was determined that none of the contents of the box were dangerous. Well, not dangerous in any sort of obvious way.
We had them all laid out on a table within the building the city had let u...
2024-12-18 01:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Four
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“What’s this one even called?” I asked as I gestured to the mech carrier.
The changes I’d asked for weren’t too extreme, I don’t think. It mostly came down to adding sofas in the little command room in its centre and an integr...
2024-12-17 01:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Five
“Uh, this feels dangerous,” Sharp said as she looked upon the labour of our work.
We had to pick up a few essentials and bring them back into the gas station’s washroom. Fortunately, the stench around the place kept most people at bay, and thi...
2024-12-16 01:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ninety -
The Sappho was directed to the centre of the station, towards a smaller docking bay near the space where the ‘stem’ met the ‘cap.’
Ivil was interested to note that the insides of the hollowed-out moon was filled with ...
2024-12-15 02:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine
Alice expected to discover Fractured Time at any moment, but instead they kept moving further and further into the bowels of the power plant.
Long tunnels stretched out before them, ankle-high water, the constant and potent stink of burning metal in...
2024-12-14 03:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Four
Sharp and I walked back and forth across the front of the warehouse twice.
Twice was as far as I would allow. There was an old adage about once being an event and twice a coincidence, and generally speaking that was true. People noticed if something...
2024-12-13 23:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Three -
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I think, before you start spending points on a new mech, you should decide what you’re looking for in a new vehicle.
I frowned at that. “What do you mean?” I asked. Wasn’t I just looking for a bigger, better vers...
2024-12-12 21:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Nine
Ganymede stations approached. Or rather, they approached it.
The station was carved into the side and centre of a small moon, and that had led Ivil to imagine a certain... shape to the station.
Stations and habitations stuck to the side of as...
2024-12-11 23:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post