Tami
We hustled through the surreal city streets of the Vienna megapolis like rats fleeing a fire—Extremely well armed rats made of metal. All around us were signs of battle. A decrepit old house had taken a hit and chunks of its centuries-old masonry had been sprayed out...
2024-01-16 13:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostTami
One after another, we leapt out of the back of our aircraft as it belched smoke from one of its engines. The sleek wedge of a vehicle had a huge hole torn out of one stubby wing, while almost every part of its underside was peppered with jagged li...
2024-01-11 02:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs always with chapters from stories that I haven't written in a while, let me know if you spot any inconsistencies with plot stuff.
Tami
Retreating from my kiss with Dawn, I gave her a little finger-wiggle wave and hopped over to m...
2024-01-05 04:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I've been taking a rest for a while. I'm going to ramp back up again though. Kaia will continue, but I'm also looking at continuing and/or reworking Gauntlette. Thanks for your patience!
Finances-wise, we're stable for now, if only barely. I want to thank everyone who contribu...
Still taking a rest from Kaia. I've been very head-empty recently so I'm just dinking along writing DE for you all. Hope that's okay <3
The moment we got out of the meeting, I got to work integrating the hyper-conductor material into my designs for...
2023-12-16 13:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt felt like my entire life was meetings, bursts of hectic activity, and then boring waiting times. I was currently stuck in the meetings portion of that triad again.
At least I was free of meditation stuff now. Gosh, my poor little brain had hated that. I just wa...
2023-12-12 01:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I accessed my new body and took control of it, I laughed when I found myself in a small padded coffin with tubes plugged into the back of my neck and belly button. I guess the body had some other non-human standard parts, besides my tail and ears, of course. Thankfully, those types of augmen...
2023-12-06 00:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostI approached the external smithy with trepidation, and if it weren't for Ollie, I might've run away altogether. I could hear the clang of metal on metal, so I knew April was in there.
The smithy was almost entirely enclosed now, wooden walls hastily erected around it, and black plastic shee...
2023-12-04 00:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostOllie lent me a pair of jeans and a shirt, and I wore my old shoes which surprisingly fit me. As for my… uh… pokies, I covered them with the big woollen jumper I liberated from the house right before I went into that transformation coma. It was enough to make me look passingly presentable, bu...
2023-11-30 23:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The first test for my absorption armour created a feedback loop of energy that detonated and tore apart the entire test rig. So did the second, then the third. Two months later, and I was at my wit's end. Nothing made sense. My maths checked out,...
OKay! Touching base with everyone. What direction would you like to see the story go, or what individual things would you like to see happen? Time for ideas!
I was not ready to see everyone else.
As soon as we passed through the door, Camilo's hand guiding...
2023-11-28 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“He— uh… they are still stable,” someone was saying as I woke up.
"Why is he… different now? When is he going to wake up?” That voice was definitely Alec.
“We don’t know,” the person said, her voice resolving into a more feminine tone that I vaguely recognis...
2023-11-24 23:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t far from the third corner, out in the parking lot, but with the frigid wind gusting at speeds that felt like it might strip my skin from my muscle, it felt like much further. The battle hadn’t found its way to this side of the school yet, so it was only the wind getting in my way. 2023-11-21 23:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The doors creaked open, pulling an ice scorpion thing into the room. Its tail, still lodged in the door, was hacked off by a burly firefighter. The cold entered at the same time, blasting us with a wave of icy knives that chilled flesh and bone in moments.
My lungs burned when I took in a b...
2023-11-18 23:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe man approaching was one I recognised from before the Storm. Pastor Thomas was an older man with just the dregs of his old dark hair remaining amongst the grey. He was one of those older people who carried himself with an arrogance that no longer matched his height and build.
"Who would...
Something was wrong. Just two minutes into our five minute journey back to Edgewood High, and I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck doing the danger dance.
The snow was coming down as ghostly flakes too small to be felt, but there was a lot of it and the wind was whipping it up into...
2023-11-13 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe rushed out into a gymnasium that was half forest. Gnarled old oaks tore up out of the once shiny wooden floor. The tops of those trees had busted out through the ceiling and into open air and fog.
Everywhere that the floor was split or cracked in some way, forest underbrush was growing. ...
2023-11-10 04:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise! Early chapter!
Before we left, I did a quick scan of the redcap bodies and came up with a singular attribute orb. I gave it to Chloe, because I was feeling generous since we’d had that rollercoaster of a conversation.
While she did that, I addr...
2023-11-06 00:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostPlaster and paint flaked off the walls everywhere we looked as we ventured further into the strange and twisted school. Chloe was still giving me the silent treatment, which I wasn't overly bothered by. Our attention was best fixed on the horror house we were inside anyway.
The hallway curv...
2023-11-04 23:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostOh dear, this chapter is... I have no idea. I literally just let my brain vomit unhinged chaos onto the page. I hope you all like it...
I stumbled back into our house like a wobbly little gazelle fresh from being born. Shiori was very… lots. She was lots...
2023-11-04 11:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe fog vanished as soon as I stepped over the visibility threshold. In its place, I was greeted by a scene plucked right from the original Brothers Grimm stories, but with a modern suburban twist.
Three redcaps dressed in elementary schooler outfits were running towards and screaming unint...
2023-11-02 01:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the wait on this one! I've been going hard on Kaia. Anyway. Hope you enjoy this interlude! Muuuuuuuuuuch worldbuilding.
Interlude, Athe's perspective, several hundred light years from the Sol system and the Exodus' struggle.
"Priso...
2023-11-01 12:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Okay, I think I've calmed down," April said sheepishly as she returned to the room with the schoolbag. "I'm really sorry about kissing you. I mean, it was nice don't get me wrong… but I'm not really interested in you like that. Romantically—I mean. You're hot as fuck and if it weren't going ...
2023-10-29 22:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostI woke the next morning to find that my friends had surrounded my sleeping sofa with a little privacy screen of stacked classroom chairs. A note on one of the chairs read, 'Gone to ransack the neighbourhood again. Good luck with crafting.'
Once I was washed and dressed...
2023-10-27 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostOllie and I trudged through the snow towards the workshop and found the forge area outside had changed somewhat. Several well-built wooden windbreaks had been erected around the area, turning the entrance to the workshop into a semi-enclosed space.
April had the forge running and was busy p...
2023-10-24 00:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up when the wind battered the windows so hard that my sleep-addled mind thought there had been an explosion. I fumbled around looking for my phone for almost a minute before I remembered where I was and why I couldn’t find it.
The apocalypse.
Everything that'd happened up unt...
2023-10-21 02:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostWe were inside for only a minute or so before thunder began to roll continuously.
“What the heck is that?” April asked, and then we both got it at the same time.
Charles was using the massive sheet of metal and the hammer to make a huge racket and stun the crowd back into...
2023-10-18 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m going to check again,” April said, pushing to her feet and grabbing the tongs.
I gratefully hopped off the bellows-bike and picked up and slipped on a pair of big fire-resistant gloves, then followed her. I took the brick we were using as a door in both hands and lifted it easily...
2023-10-15 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI said goodbye to my friends as soon as we were done eating, giving Finn an apologetic glance as I did so. When I got back to the workshop, only Charles, April, and one of the dudes were there. The random guy was carving out more candleholders, and April was messing around with the forge while Ch...
2023-10-12 07:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostI was dashing across the rainswept courtyard towards the cafeteria when I spotted a squirrel sitting up in one of the decorative oaks. Taking cover under the tree, I stared up at it in consternation. Why was the squirrel so weird to me? Wait, holy crap! It was an un-monsterified squirrel! Just a ...
2023-10-09 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post