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The Good Life: Orange Colored Sky (ch. 45)

“This place is a ruin,” Nora observed as we stood the wreckage of MIT. The building itself was shaped like a bracket with what had once been a green park running up the center to a dome. Behind us was the brackish brown river that was filled with radiation and not much else. The dome had coll...

The Good Life: Tread Carefully (ch. 44)

Taylor caught a glimpse of red hair as they stepped into the dilapidated Hallucigen building. Her insects detected something in the air, but their senses couldn't detect exactly what it was, but to be safe, they entered the building with gas masks on. The building wasn't any more dangerous or run...

A Fun Time, Not A Long time: Orange Island 2.2 (ch. 6)

If Kobeni had to summarize her entire life in a handful of words, they would be ‘a series of unfortunate events.’ She had been born underneath a lucky star, as her mother had once said, but her mother neglected to mention that luck was completely neutral. Being lucky meant as much bad luck a...

Legends Never Die: Desire for Creation (ch. 80)

It took another two weeks for us to hear the truth of the battle between the Romans and the Abbasids. The battle had been a series of clashes -- the Romans attacked the Abbasids outside of a castle, breaking their siege, before defeating them in the field. After that, the Abbasids began to retrea...

Legends Never Die: Causes for Celebration (ch. 79)

“The tiger is tame so long as you don't go anywhere near her. But his idea of what counts as too close changes minute by minute. Made for a really awkward ride back,” Thorkell said before tipping his head back, taking several large gulps from a horn of ale while one of our healers saw to a wo...

Legends Never Die: Eyes on the Prize (ch. 78)

Without boats filled with treasure, the sail back to Norland was relatively quick even with the much slower Abbasid ships. After a quick day of sailing, we arrived at the docks to cheering applause that didn't diminish even when they learned that we came back empty handed. That, I suspected, was ...

Legends Never Die: Danegeld (ch. 77)

The battle was a fierce one, but Acre still fell to us in little time. And not wholly because we managed to overcome the defenders. I felt it in my bones that Hadi, the commander that had proven to be a thorn in my side since this war began, was behind it. They contested our landing, drew what bl...

Never Fade Away: I Won't Let You Go (ch. 66)

Sorry for missing yesterday -- I spent all of Monday thinking that it was Sunday until I started to get the chapters prepped for 'Monday.'

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“What the hell do you mean, ‘We won?’ You were gone for like… two hours, L. There are movies that last longer, even a...

Never Fade Away: To Hell and Back (ch. 65)

Sorry for missing yesterday -- I spent all of Monday thinking that it was Sunday until I started to get the chapters prepped for 'Monday.'

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“This is insane. This is actually insane,” So Mi uttered, looking around the spaceship for a convenient exit. Something t...

Never Fade Away: Been Good To Know Ya (ch. 64)

Sorry for missing yesterday -- I spent all of Monday thinking that it was Sunday until I started to get the chapters prepped for 'Monday.'

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“Oh, fuuuucckkkk…!” Johnny groaned, eyelids butterflying as his eyes felt like they were rolling from the back of his s...

Never Fade Away: The Sacred And The Profane (ch. 63)

Sorry for missing yesterday -- I spent all of Monday thinking that it was Sunday until I started to get the chapters prepped for 'Monday.'

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“Damn was I not lyin’ when I said things were developing fast in Japan.

Barely been a day since the Chiyoda City Ma...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.8 (ch. 13)

“All things considered, that went as well as it could have,” I remarked, up and out of the hospital bed that I was carted to. I looked in a mirror to see a fresh set of stitches held together my eyebrow from where Vicious tore them with those hamfists he called hands. Despite getting hit with...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.7 (ch. 12)

I felt calm as we descended into the belly of the beast. There was fear there, pooling in my gut, but it was firmly in check. I controlled it rather than the fear controlling me. If I had to describe what I felt in a single word, then the word righteous came to mind. And if I was being honest, I ...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.6 (ch. 11)

“Left, left, left, right, left,” I chanted, running next to Mankey and I had to admit, I was doing a lot better than I thought I would be after a solid three hours of running. Pokemon humanity seemed to start at a base level of Olympic athletes and only got better from there. My t-shirt was s...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.9 (ch. 14)

Marnie got her gym badge and the entire battle was pretty enlightening. Especially when she had been marked for one of the play battles -- she wasn't given lines or anything, but she had been described on the stage by a narrator rather than an announcer. The entire thing was pretty funny, but I f...

What characters would you like to see in The Good Life?

The latest poll is over and it was a pretty close one since the very start! Tanya and Azula were within 10 votes of each other the entire time, so I'd call them both winners in this case. And, as always, the polls are to determine interest in characters and not a promise that they'll actually sho...

The Good Life: Some Enchanted Evening (ch. 46)

“I would like a human body,” Curie announced as we were putting the finishing touches on my control over the Institute. The deal was pretty simple, when it came right down to it -- the Institute was going to be absorbed into Nuka-World's overall structure as our science division. They would d...

The Good Life: Orange Colored Sky (ch. 45)

“This place is a ruin,” Nora observed as we stood the wreckage of MIT. The building itself was shaped like a bracket with what had once been a green park running up the center to a dome. Behind us was the brackish brown river that was filled with radiation and not much else. The dome had coll...

The Good Life: Tread Carefully (ch. 44)

Taylor caught a glimpse of red hair as they stepped into the dilapidated Hallucigen building. Her insects detected something in the air, but their senses couldn't detect exactly what it was, but to be safe, they entered the building with gas masks on. The building wasn't any more dangerous or run...

The Good Life: Deeper and Darker (ch. 43)

“What the fuck do you mean, he's been captured?” Rumi blurted, a frown twisting at her lips as she regarded Taylor coldly. Another psychopath in Law’s merry band of them. The girl was young, around the age she would have started going to UA, and back home she already would have been a dange...

Legends Never Die: Causes for Celebration (ch. 79)

“The tiger is tame so long as you don't go anywhere near her. But his idea of what counts as too close changes minute by minute. Made for a really awkward ride back,” Thorkell said before tipping his head back, taking several large gulps from a horn of ale while one of our healers saw to a wo...

Legends Never Die: Eyes on the Prize (ch. 78)

Without boats filled with treasure, the sail back to Norland was relatively quick even with the much slower Abbasid ships. After a quick day of sailing, we arrived at the docks to cheering applause that didn't diminish even when they learned that we came back empty handed. That, I suspected, was ...

Legends Never Die: Danegeld (ch. 77)

The battle was a fierce one, but Acre still fell to us in little time. And not wholly because we managed to overcome the defenders. I felt it in my bones that Hadi, the commander that had proven to be a thorn in my side since this war began, was behind it. They contested our landing, drew what bl...

Legends Never Die: Ravenfeast (ch. 76)

I was pretty satisfied with how things had turned out, I thought, looking down at the sea of Abbasid soldiers that we had managed to pen in. It had been a challenge, but for weeks, I had been slowly setting the stage for this. It hadn't been easy and the cost was honestly higher than I would have...

Never Fade Away: To Hell and Back (ch. 65)

“This is insane. This is actually insane,” So Mi uttered, looking around the spaceship for a convenient exit. Something that had been unthinkable about thirty seconds earlier. After years of her body slowly betraying her, parts burning out under the intense strain of channeling the Blackwall,...

Never Fade Away: Been Good To Know Ya (ch. 64)

“Oh, fuuuucckkkk…!” Johnny groaned, eyelids butterflying as his eyes felt like they were rolling from the back of his skull. He opened them, just to catch a glimpse of blinding light that stabbed daggers into his brain. It might have been a good fifty years since he had had a hangover, but ...

Never Fade Away: The Sacred And The Profane (ch. 63)

“Damn was I not lyin’ when I said things were developing fast in Japan.

Barely been a day since the Chiyoda City Massacre and the start of the Steel Dragon Rebellion, but the way things are going it ain't likely to last another.

The Steel Dragons have been going at the PM and his...

Never Fade Away: You Shall Never Have To Forgive Me Again (ch. 62)

“The situation in Japan has taken a dark turn, darlin's.

Some basic context first. The Japanese government is centered in Tokyo, specifically in one of its ‘special wards’ - parts of Tokyo that are basically cities in and of themselves - called Chiyoda. Right smack dab in the heart o...

The Good Life: Orange Colored Sky (ch. 45)

“This place is a ruin,” Nora observed as we stood the wreckage of MIT. The building itself was shaped like a bracket with what had once been a green park running up the center to a dome. Behind us was the brackish brown river that was filled with radiation and not much else. The dome had coll...

The Good Life: Tread Carefully (ch. 44)

Taylor caught a glimpse of red hair as they stepped into the dilapidated Hallucigen building. Her insects detected something in the air, but their senses couldn't detect exactly what it was, but to be safe, they entered the building with gas masks on. The building wasn't any more dangerous or run...