To an outside observer, there was no difference in Haven’s movements. Not for hours. But even a tiny thrust added up.
“Dad, you’re screwing our calculations up,” June said, her face on the com screen.
“I think a nuke would screw them up more,” Jackson told his daughter. ...
2025-01-27 08:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostComing up tonight, and then back to Orb Weaver tomorrow. After that, we'll start alternating.
2025-01-27 01:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostChrista had grown up on earth with a nice home in Long Beach, a brother, and two outspoken, politically active, parents.
After Amaris, she was a 16-year-old orphan, shipped out to Inglesmond with the Runt. Her parents were dead.
That was all anyone would tell her after they were taken...
2025-01-25 06:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostInglesmond, March 5, 2785: Kline Shipping, Penthouse.
“Your daughter is here, sir.”
“Send her in, Darcy.”
“Yes, sir.”
Jackson frowned as he looked out over the blazing cityscape, finally looking over at the door, waiting fo...
2025-01-24 22:12:04 +0000 UTC View Postwhile the exalted v. WOD story will continue, it probably won't go as fast as it was. Originally, you know, corrupt evil government, everything going to shit was nice to write... then certain recent events happened. It makes it more difficult to get into the writing aspect, and some story concept...
2025-01-24 01:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostRune was not very good at staying hidden.
Or maybe I was being unfair. The cache of “street clothing” was hidden from plain sight, in a little alley off 7th Street, designed to look like a loose section of bricks in a wall.
It just wasn’t hidden from my bugs.
Building a campaign:
There are three questions any GM needs to answer about a campaign involving starseeds: How recently, how many, and how big.
How Recently:
The assumption is that Starfall was long enough ago that the situation has ...
2025-01-21 03:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Orb Weaver Chapter, probably tomorrow, while tonight, a starfall chapter. But if you're anxious, if you truly need a little snippet... I provide.
"Well, it's not the Temple, but come with me to the top of your apartment building. There we shall talk, and there I shall offer...
2025-01-21 01:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostChoose a city and its related port facilities. Why? No particular reason...
2025-01-19 05:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe seedlands:
The first thing anyone notices, coming over the divide, is how alive the seedlands are. The very air is impregnated with a sense of fecundity, of burgeoning life. No matter the original climate there are vast trees and plants, animals grazing...
2025-01-17 11:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostAnd this time I made certain to actually make it public...
2025-01-15 21:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostNever go out after dark. You never knew what might be there. Maybe muggers, maybe worse. STay in the lit parts of the city and go right home. Even the college had that rule.
Now, Claire was standing in the little park by the school as the sun went down, with Michael. She'd to...
Sitting at home, I had to consider my plans. I still wanted to find Rune, and draw a line to Kaiser that way. For one thing, one line wasn’t a certainty. If Kaiser was indeed Max Anders, he’d be protected, and I could not risk any chance of being wrong.
For the second thing, Rune might...
2025-01-14 05:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe lands around any seedlands, as they have come to be called, are divided into three general regions: outlands, borderlands, and the divide. Nearly every seedland has something like this, although the size of the regions can vary, depending on the region. A seedland established in a desert may ...
2025-01-13 06:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're in California, you know about the Eaton fire, which now has parts of Pasadena in either the "get your shit ready for evac" or "Leave NOW" zones. I've got a carless friend in the "get your shit ready" zone, so i'll be driving up, to convince him to leave and/or hit him over the head. So ...
2025-01-08 23:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostTwo more Interludes and we're back to Taylor's plans, and this in no way has anything to do with me reading through what I've writtne, to avoid forgetting anything important. Taylor isn't just looking for Kaiser, she hasn't forgotten Rune...
2025-01-08 03:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot wondered if she had personally insulted the gods at one point or another. It would explain this.
“Mr. Evans, I am here, in person, because I hope to resolve this issue.”
“Rosita Reyes.”
“Yes. A girl who both worked with Madison Clements, and who was involv...
2025-01-07 00:03:50 +0000 UTC View PostAnother chapter of Orb Weaver, where Assault and Madison meet and someone unexpected does a favor...
As for the Starseeds, I'm wanting to get back into rpgs, and this is about a 60 page module that can be used for other campaigns or as a core for itself. It'll had advice in the back for va...
2025-01-06 08:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostStarseeds.
The Coming of the Seeds:
The starseeds came from deep space, and they came without warning. Dozens impacting upon the world, sending shockwaves across the land. Castles were shattered, dragons flung out of the sky in mid-flight. Even the gods were ...
2025-01-06 07:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostClaire hated the rest of the day. Every second she expected… something to happen. Every poster, every comment… And she could hear and see so much and somehow, she could understand better. It was like her eyes had been opened.
And for some reason she kept having urges. The scho...
Has now gone public! Happy New Years Eve!
2025-01-01 02:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHe was running. He was running and sobbing, because…
IT was after him. More terrifying than even the guys in special projects, but he didn't know about them. He was just a reporter.
But then the eyes opened up in the walls of my house. Then the whispers started then…<...
Back home after speaking to the police and letting Dad know I’d solved a murder, it was time to consult my newest research project. And time to consider what I should do with some of my known bad-boys. The corrupt evidence room sergeant was keeping his head down, like many others. I could provi...
2024-12-30 02:19:37 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://archiveofourown.org/works/61633747
2024-12-25 06:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post(with the help of Sir Terry Pratchett, and free for all on this Christmas Eve)
“Are you sure Mike?” Tom said, looking around. The warehouse was empty save for all the toys and shit piled high to be wrapped and distributed on Christmas…
They even had a pile of fake snow done up a...
2024-12-25 03:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostLots of people home, lots of things to do, so just to let people know, not a lot of stuff will be appearing until after xmas, though possibly Orb Weaver may make a Christmas Eve appearance in a short story...
On another note, I've become inspired by a robotech idea but that will be a...
2024-12-24 05:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post"Claire?" Michael asked. "What am I…"
"You came in," Claire said. "You were sick. Didn't you…"
"No, I got bit by a rat… I was thinking of getting a rabies shot but then I…" He blinked. "What is on your face?"
Claire looked over at the mirror, and shook her h...
I kept my bugs out, swarms moving in and out of my sphere as we drove. Nobody followed us. Kanshi sat in the rear seat next to me, a single driver in front, with a small pistol in a shoulder holster. More disciplined than your average ABB member, but then I expected that Lung would not want to ri...
2024-12-18 03:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post