The situation was less than ideal, with Strategos Tatzates leaving Crete almost as soon as he’d arrived, taking his loot with him. He clearly anticipated a quick response over the contested island and wanted nothing to do with the battle to come, with my scout ships reporting that he was alread...
2023-11-29 15:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostGreek Fire, I learned it was called. A secret weapon that had been used by the Romans for nearly a century, and it was a secret that they guarded jealously. For good reason too. A few ships outfitted with the substance could completely change the course of a naval battle -- there were few things ...
2023-11-29 15:52:27 +0000 UTC View PostStrategos Tatzates was the leader of the Bucellarian Theme of the Roman Empire. Which faced against the Black Sea, making his involvement in my taking of Crete rather unusual. His domain was on the other side of Anatolia, and I saw little merit in him providing any kind of support. Its lands were...
2023-11-29 15:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Here we go darlin’s, time to go on a duck hunt. This song I'm leaving you with ain't really got the tempo for a fight and sounds more like an emergency siren goin’ off than a country song, but trust me, it's perfect for what's about to happen.
Here's Indian Love Call. No...
2023-11-27 16:05:48 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Lucitus Erasrius gazed upon the human city with a growing sense of disgust the longer that he looked upon it, for there were endless reasons to despise what he saw. The literal mountains of putrid garbage that the Humans left to fester in the streets and alleys. The complete lack of any k...
2023-11-27 16:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Sheeeet, was Nora right or was Nora right? Y'all see the feeds lighting up when L came down in that ball of fire? Goddamn! Got a pic of when he landed - might make it into a poster or something.
But that's the future. Back in the now, plans are brewing now that L’s back, b...
2023-11-27 16:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post"....thing on? We live? Good.
Sorry for the interruption darlin's, had to fly the coop when the pigeons came across it. Don't worry - Nora's mobile now.
If you're going out to indulge in some pigeon-shooting, here's some advice - Smart Guns slip right past their ...
2023-11-27 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostRock Lee got robbed of his rightful place as the protagonist of Naruto, and no one could convince me otherwise. He was the physical manifestation of the themes the manga was supposed to convey -- that hard work, more than anything else, is what made champions. That was Rock Lee. The man lacked th...
2023-11-26 15:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostPain wasn't something that Homelander had much experience with. He had memories of it, from back when he was a small child, where they tested the limits of his durability. By the time he was thirteen, he had taken an ICBM to the chest and only had some bruises to show for it. He wondered...
2023-11-24 15:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostLife had been less than kind to Robin, she knew. There were a great many points that she could use as a point of reference -- her mother leaving her behind for years on end, to the point that neither of them had been able to recognize one another when they finally met. The ostracization she had f...
2023-11-24 15:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post"The obstacles are being removed as we speak. You should be sworn in by the end of the day," Stan Edgar said, speaking into an untraceable phone that he very rarely found occasion to use. He sat in a chair, flanked by concrete walls while he tore open a package of mochi sweets with his freehand. ...
2023-11-24 15:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn't how I imagined this happening. For a variety of reasons, really. Like, I had always imagined myself facing the full roster of the Seven, and now I wasn't even facing half of their total number. And, as of late, I had imagined myself facing off with them with Robin and Yoruichi at my s...
2023-11-24 15:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Lucitus Erasrius gazed upon the human city with a growing sense of disgust the longer that he looked upon it, for there were endless reasons to despise what he saw. The literal mountains of putrid garbage that the Humans left to fester in the streets and alleys. The complete lack of any k...
2023-11-20 15:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Sheeeet, was Nora right or was Nora right? Y'all see the feeds lighting up when L came down in that ball of fire? Goddamn! Got a pic of when he landed - might make it into a poster or something.
But that's the future. Back in the now, plans are brewing now that L’s back, b...
2023-11-20 15:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post"....thing on? We live? Good.
Sorry for the interruption darlin's, had to fly the coop when the pigeons came across it. Don't worry - Nora's mobile now.
If you're going out to indulge in some pigeon-shooting, here's some advice - Smart Guns slip right past their ...
2023-11-20 15:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post"...Reports coming in say that what prisoners the Bluebloods have taken are being moved somewhere, no…"
"…watch out for the prosthetics, humans put rockets in them…"
"…taken most of the City Center and Westbrook, Watson's bird cou...
2023-11-20 15:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostThere were some fights that you just didn't want to step into the ring. This one was one of them, I concluded as the building deflated like a balloon, folding over on itself. The Reality Stone was one tough cookie to break -- it's why I dismissed using it out of hand as soon as I realized what it...
2023-11-18 16:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostI was being interrogated. I'm sure that the Avengers would call it a more polite word, but I was essentially in an interrogation room as my butt was planted on a couch with the Avengers all around me. Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Iron Man, and War Machine. The full team, and, if n...
2023-11-18 16:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey now, no need to be rude. If you want to kill me, there's another me running around that I'm happy to direct you towards," I said, floating above the street and making no attempt to come closer to him. Honestly, I didn't feel comfortable being on the same planet as him, even before h...
2023-11-18 16:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostLife had been less than kind to Robin, she knew. There were a great many points that she could use as a point of reference -- her mother leaving her behind for years on end, to the point that neither of them had been able to recognize one another when they finally met. The ostracization she had f...
2023-11-17 15:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post"The obstacles are being removed as we speak. You should be sworn in by the end of the day," Stan Edgar said, speaking into an untraceable phone that he very rarely found occasion to use. He sat in a chair, flanked by concrete walls while he tore open a package of mochi sweets with his freehand. ...
2023-11-17 15:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn't how I imagined this happening. For a variety of reasons, really. Like, I had always imagined myself facing the full roster of the Seven, and now I wasn't even facing half of their total number. And, as of late, I had imagined myself facing off with them with Robin and Yoruichi at my s...
2023-11-17 15:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostI should be horrified. I should be terrified. Vought, the US government -- one or both of them had finally found me. I knew, in the end, my greatest asset was secrecy. It was the mask. I could put it on to become Heartless and I could take it off to become just another face in the crowd ...
2023-11-17 15:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe situation was less than ideal, with Strategos Tatzates leaving Crete almost as soon as he’d arrived, taking his loot with him. He clearly anticipated a quick response over the contested island and wanted nothing to do with the battle to come, with my scout ships reporting that he was alread...
2023-11-15 16:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostGreek Fire, I learned it was called. A secret weapon that had been used by the Romans for nearly a century, and it was a secret that they guarded jealously. For good reason too. A few ships outfitted with the substance could completely change the course of a naval battle -- there were few things ...
2023-11-15 16:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostStrategos Tatzates was the leader of the Bucellarian Theme of the Roman Empire. Which faced against the Black Sea, making his involvement in my taking of Crete rather unusual. His domain was on the other side of Anatolia, and I saw little merit in him providing any kind of support. Its lands were...
2023-11-15 16:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah, so I'm out of the fight then?" Was Astrid's rather lackluster response to learning that she was pregnant. She looked down at her stomach with an expression of mild annoyance, but didn't exactly seem displeased with the news. "Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. Honestly, the only s...
2023-11-15 16:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post"We are on our own," Rogue Amendiares began the third ever meeting of every major faction in the city. And this time, the turn out was greater than the previous two combined. As if her gaze was drawn by a magnet, Rogue looked to Kurt Hansen in the flesh -- he sat directly across from her, his fee...
2023-11-13 16:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post"....thing on? We live? Good.
Sorry for the interruption darlin's, had to fly the coop when the pigeons came across it. Don't worry - Nora's mobile now.
If you're going out to indulge in some pigeon-shooting, here's some advice - Smart Guns slip right past their ...
2023-11-13 16:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post