The apartment complex was mostly abandoned. It was kinda eerie on our way up. Advertisements along the walls and ceiling played to ghosts, making the halls twist and twirled with colorful lights that no one could see. Massive waste of electricity, but waste was the name of the game for Aythryn Ci...
2025-10-01 22:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt’d been a day since we went to see Uncle Ezra. He was busy with stuff regarding the military. I thought Mira would want to hang out with her dad more, but weirdly enough she seemed to be avoiding him. There was definitely something going on there.
I wasn’t idle either. Yesterday...
2025-09-29 22:03:07 +0000 UTC View PostI sat next to Mira in the booth of a diner not far from Blitz Base. I was planning on originally just heading into the base to meet Uncle Ezra as he landed, but that plan fell through. He insisted we stayed off the base as much as possible. Must be worried a traitor was still in the base. I told ...
2025-09-26 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI worked on stuff for a couple hours while I tried to figure out how to approach Mira. For her part, she sat around on one of my work tables and idly watched me busy myself running from one machine to the next.
My autominer robots I was designing were mostly complete. My prototype was...
2025-09-25 00:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post-🝰-
I sat inside of a hospital room. The heavy scent of chemicals burned my nose far more than they usually did, and the clinical whites of the room were like a flashbang.
Beep! Beep!
A console next to an inhabited bed beeped lightly with life signs. ...
2025-09-23 22:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post”Shiro!?” Mira appeared at the door to the bathroom in a flash, wide-eyed and ready to go. “You alright?”
”Ah- sorry… d-didn’t mean to wake you up.” I glanced at my mikata, dipping my head without looking at her.
”What’s wrong- Oh.” Mira paused at the door, stari...
2025-09-22 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post”Trust me. It’s all part of the plan. I’m just- I-I’m faking being nervous so she won’t feel uncomfortable around me! Yeah- yeah, that’s the reason!” A voice called out, though it sounded far away.
“You’d sound a lot more convincing if you weren’t trembling…”
U...
2025-09-19 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Here.” I handed the stuff over to Fox. Or, more accurately, I offered them and they kinda just floated over to her. Probably some kind of magic? I wasn’t a hundred percent sure. Aetherial Perception was going crazy in the Aether.
“Hmm…” Fox looked over the parts, looking far mo...
2025-09-17 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was knocked onto my rear by a particularly large fox and then literally drowned in fur. There were so many of them that it was hard to breath. I lightly ruffled the kit that jumped up onto me’s ears, and that seemed to just set the rest of them off. It wasn’t all bad. Their fur was incredib...
2025-09-15 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, getting the hibiscus set up right was hard. So much harder than I gave it credit for. Thankfully, Mira took it off my hands and focused on getting everything done all by herself. She seemed just happy to have something to do considering recent events.
When night rolled aro...
2025-09-12 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn’t hang around the speakeasy for long. I just swung by quick enough to get some parts printing. There were two new projects I had my eye on. The micro-fabricator for Nael was the first. The second was an autominer I’d been roughly sketching recently.
I needed space. Buildin...
2025-09-10 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI pushed open the door and got my first look at the man that would become my manager. Although he was wheelchair bound, the guy was incredibly well built. It looked like he just got out of the military a day ago rather than honorably discharged several years ago.
He had a similar griz...
2025-09-09 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Mira settled back into her own skin, I left the room to speak with Nael. I found the man sitting down on the edge of the clinic by himself reading a book. Doctor Cumen was gone. Hadn’t seen her since yesterday she did some more final checks on Mira to ensure everything still went smoothly...
2025-09-08 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostMira paused behind me. I likewise ground to a stop and looked back at her. Snow drifted around her, settling on her beanie, halo, and shoulders. “You okay?”
My mikata looked back toward the hover bike parked on the roof and huddled into a poncho. It was one of the extras I ordered. “I...
2025-09-05 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI parked near the HQ and left a spectral flock bird stashed inside one of my saddlebags just in case. I didn’t get the vibe I’d be arrested from the short call I had with Hope, but it never hurt to be safe. I’d rather be over prepared than caught off guard and captured.
”I told you....
2025-09-04 22:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt started with a bang. Literally. The cannon on top of the APC fired off when they closed in, starting the entire fight off. The cannon wasn’t aimed at Temoc and the Wardens, who could probably survive one way or another. It was aimed at the grunts in tac-gear.
When the cannon fire...
2025-09-04 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI snuck down to the server room, easily bypassing most of the security. I’d done this dozens of times by now. This place couldn’t hold up to some of the other security I’d gotten through in the past. There were more turrets scattered around, but they were just as useless as always. Guns did...
2025-09-01 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI left Mira behind. I could still feel her with the ring though. She was like a second heartbeat filling me with a soft comfort knowing that I wasn’t alone. If it had this much of an effect on me, hopefully it’d have a strong effect on her. Mira had made it clear she didn’t want to be alone...
2025-08-29 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are we in the closest- this is really tight with two people.” Mira pressed into the cleaning closet behind me. She may have had a point. When I finally buy this building and made the bar public-ish, I’ll have to expand the entry.
“Just- just give me a sec.” I hit the hidden r...
2025-08-27 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI waited for Mira to get in the shower before I bought the flowers from Hummingbird. I wasn’t a hundred percent what to expect. The Aether trembled, and a cardboard box popped out like some kind of wild express delivery.
”Oh…” I stared at the box, hesitantly reaching out a hand to i...
2025-08-25 22:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostI flicked my scythe super far down the hall, controlling it almost like I had telekinesis. The Will Wire really was something else. Although it didn’t have a ton of push and pull strength at base, if I manipulated it just right I could get a surprising amount of force from the scythe. It flicke...
2025-08-23 04:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostI rested my head on my fist, idly watching Mira chow down on a massive burger like she’d been starved for months. This was already the third platter of pizza-sized burger that I’d bought. At this rate, she’d single-handedly chew through my wallet.
She shifted in her seat, wiping her h...
2025-08-22 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone on RR asked for a map of Bastion’s districts. Completely went over my head that this might be a good thing to share. Here it is though. Sorry if my handwriting is hard to read.
The white lines are district dividers, and the red ones are Bastion’s walls.
Also, a chapter i...
2025-08-21 22:18:56 +0000 UTC View PostI helped Mira out the back door and to an elevator, taking it slow. She moved like a snail, seemingly struggling with the black exoskeleton. It wasn’t that the exoskeleton had faults—I’d checked it several times and had to admit it was high-quality chrome—just that she wasn’t used to it...
2025-08-20 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post