I woke up in my room in Exodus City the next morning, reeling from a new nightmare. The dream I had was twisted, dark, and had me desperately trying to prove that I was a girl to everyone around me. The body I had for the dream was my normal one—my Keiko body—but nobody seemed to understand. ...
2024-08-10 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike Ghoul’s End, Grand Celestial Temple was absolutely teeming with people. The temple had three distinct wings that radiated out from a large circular area in the middle. Up and down those wings were various amenities, including cafes and bars, while the central region contained the massive...
2024-08-07 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise! Coven Chapter! Idk why or where this came from. Actually, nah, the blame is squarely placed at the feet of my adhd. Anyway, hope you enjoy! A second chapter is already in the works, too!
May
Watching the operation from ...
2024-08-06 14:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostI logged back into my Lightstalker character with extreme levels of trepidation. Sirona had gotten a message saying my character had changed, and when I checked, I saw that the name was now Rescera Vega. Sirona's friend had changed the vowels in the first name, making it sound very different. It ...
2024-08-04 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHoly hell, just when you couldn't hate landlords more. Our rent is paid fortnightly, but I am paid monthly. So now we're required to pay three rent payments this month. Almost certain this is on purpose, to squeeze more money out of us. Looks like it's ramen time and extra work for as...
2024-08-02 04:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I found the copper node two hours of walking later. My thighs hurt from the exertion of climbing the ridgeline, so I was forced to stop and rest before actually grabbing some of the ore.
The ravine that housed the ore vein was pretty large. You could've driven two cars down the whole thing ...
2024-08-01 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Can I trade you in for a trainer that’s less of an asshole?” I asked, after I’d processed Mheitai’s statement.
Her answering chuckle was not a kind one. “You can no more be rid of me than I can of you. We are, very unfortunately, stuck with one another.”
Gritting my t...
I was only able to follow the road a couple more kilometres before I was forced to leave it behind. While it turned to connect a few outlying farmsteads to the hamlet, I forged a path around the brambles and through the intermittent copses of trees.
For a short time, I saw evidence of the v...
2024-07-26 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSpicy chapter for those who want it :)
“Ugh, I want to stop thinking about all the depressing stuff,” I complained weakly, my voice muffled by the side of Cerri’s boob.
My girlfriend snorted softly and, with a sudden flurry of movement, I was in h...
2024-07-25 01:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cherish came roaring in like the finale of a violent apocalypse, and to some, it may as well have been. The superheated charged particles of her exhaust as she arrived lit the sky of Central America with daytime auroras. Then, as she shifted into a close, stable orbit and the nozzles in her s...
2024-07-25 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostSilence descended the moment the Winslows were back in the docking tube. I seated my butt back on the sofa again with a sigh, and promptly froze when there was a low whirring sound that rumbled through the hull of the craft. My hackles instantly rose again, but before I could act, the sound of he...
2024-07-25 01:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBang!
The sharp cracking sound startled me and the rest of my comrades in the plane, and for a split second I began to look for gunshot wounds. Then, I realised that it hadn’t been a gunshot at all, but the sound of a door hitting a wall.
At the rear of the spacecraft, near...
2024-07-25 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe settlement of Geilig's Hook was a quaint run-down hamlet where all the houses were cobbled stone and clay. The most impressive thing about the place was actually its size. It probably would've been considered a village if it had an inn and a temple, but neither were present. They did...
2024-07-23 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, every now and then I check the exit polls for those who dropped patronage. It's mostly a morbid curiosity a lot of the time, but nowadays I don't feel so personally shit for not keeping up a good release rate. Now, I feel a much more encompassing existential dread.
Currently, 90% of exi...
2024-07-21 15:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I set out on a mission to find some copper. Guides from other Rellithesh players said that if you wanted piped water in a custom made structure, copper was the best and easiest to acquire material. The region we were in might have a few nodes that spawned—It was a relatively low t...
2024-07-20 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe piled through the door on the other side of the concourse like a pack of riotous foxes, and as we did so, I turned and closed it, then pulled one of my tools from the cargo shorts I was wearing. It was a small hand-held plasma torch. The kind that, in Digital Galaxies, had a functionally infin...
2024-07-20 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostMum and I spent three days in our new house, decorating the interior to match the vaguely cottagecore parts of the exterior. We also saw that we had a small amount of miscellaneous processing tokens called Processing Time Tokens. A quick search told me that they were tokens you could get through ...
2024-07-17 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe lift came to a halt with a soft sigh and a dull thump. Already, we had our guns trained on the door, while the humans were safely hidden behind a box. Actually, we were all taking cover, but they were especially taking cover.
A chime sounded out in the hallway and the huge doors began t...
2024-07-15 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe ‘pick-and-mix’ operating system had, indeed, been a ton of fun. We got to test and acquire a whole plethora of interesting little apps, along with the standard things like the web browser and communications app that they gave everyone.
Some of the more niche and interesting program...
“If you're going to call your son, I must advise you that while he may know about the existence of the Exodus Union as a political entity, he is not allowed to know anything I have told you about our Callisto facility, or Exodus City, is that clear?” The doctor told us with a kind smile. When...
2024-07-14 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAt a much more sedate pace than the name of the inn would suggest, we began our journey up towards the expansion zone. With us, we had mum's friends—The guild ‘Carnival Historica’—and a whole host of random players who were paying for a chill, leisurely ride up to the new zone.
Buil...
2024-07-11 01:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe all agreed—Including Vesuvia’s gladiators—to take three days to build out the towers that Willow had started. They needed everything other than the walls, window holes, and doorways. Thankfully, two of mum's friends were woodworkers so they were able to help us make the most of Willow’...
2024-07-09 01:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostI sat down heavily on a random crate and allowed my mind to just… take stock. We’d been going non-stop since we began the stake-out to find Jason’s folks. Now we were riding a cargo lift up a four, maybe five kilometre high spire.
In that time, I’d taken my first life… or ten, I...
A third of the main school building was a write-off. The flaming core was too powerful and imbued with too much Storm energy for the weak Pre-Storm construction to survive, and so the fire had claimed a large swath of it before we got it under control.
The deaths were a far greater loss th...
I kicked one of the Pastor’s people in the knee, shattering the joint and sending him to the ground, then I followed up by ramming the butt of my axe into his face. Blood and teeth flew into the air, but I didn’t stop to finish him. I kept moving—I needed to find Chloe.
Out past the e...
2024-07-08 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post[CW: Gore.]
The fire spread for all of thirty seconds under Chloe’s renewed winds, until the storm bird finally rose to meet the challenge. Its scream cracked like thunder, and a new wind bore down on us from its direction. With two opposing streams of air colliding, the gusts ...
2024-07-08 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI slept up in Willow’s branches that night—Hiding from everyone and everything—and she was kind enough to weave a little basket for me to do so. Then, early the next morning before everyone awoke, I got to work on the crafter's hall. I wanted it finished before we moved out, and… I wanted...
2024-07-06 02:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostGloria, Jason, and Roger all suffered superficial cosmetic plate damage when we took out the remaining four turrets. We had to wait half a minute after they were done before attempting to leave our cover, and I was a little nervous that there might be other cameras in the turret network, but when...
2024-07-05 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI leapt forward, wings straining to bring the point of my axe down through the thorax of another scorpion.
“Burn the houses!” I shouted back to my comrades. “Let us lay waste to this nest of evil!”
Yet again, I spoke like some old timey warrior in a movie. It was weird as hell...
2024-07-05 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I've done a big editing pass of this story. Some things have changed, a few things have been added. My goal was making things like the game systems more consistent, and smoothing out rough spots and stuff. Anyway hope you all enjoy. Have fun!
“You an...
2024-07-03 11:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post