The more Blake stewed over his current situation, the more angry he became. He grasped his spear tightly and squeezed the wood between his fists as he stomped from the office.
What the hell is wrong with her? Is she trying to destroy our faction? She even told people the video could be ...
2025-02-15 00:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostThey look exhausted.
As the diesel truck slowly approached their new faction town, Blake could see his town’s defenders from atop the cab. Spread across the ground, outside the ring of campers, were vast piles of corpses.
Next to the mounds, his four defenders struggl...
2025-02-13 00:19:22 +0000 UTC View PostBlake stood atop the cab of his converted diesel truck as it puttered through the streets of Eager. Behind him, the truck bed was full of medical supplies, canned food, and spices they had scavenged. Attached to the truck was a twenty-eight-foot camper, filled with twelve survivors they had rescu...
2025-02-11 00:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostBlake scratched at the open gash on his arm while he waited for the scheduled meeting with his chancellors. As much as he hated it itching as it healed, he had purposefully allowed himself to be injured within the Tiefling scenario in order to increase his mastery over Focused Regeneration. ...
2025-02-08 00:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Remember you two, stick close so we can protect you,” Antonio ordered before he strode forward through the grass field.
You’re a freakin’ weekend warrior paper pusher.
Captain Jeremy Jackson seethed on the inside, but kept his outward expression neutral as he pushed ...
2025-02-06 00:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostBlake yawned and wiped the sleep from his eyes as he stomped down the stone stairs to the faction hall’s basement. When he reached the cell that held Major Dominguez and his command staff, he opened the door.
“Time to go.”
Two people jerked awake at his words, while two others h...
2025-02-05 00:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostBlake sat in the passenger seat of a diesel truck and explored the new social media feature as their convoy slowly travelled back to Pinetop. The caravan was a medley of diesel trucks towing camper trailers or flat beds, stuffed full of people and their belongings.
It had taken an ext...
2025-02-04 00:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostBlake navigated the narrow forest road north of Payson in his converted diesel truck. He intended to meet with Jessica hours prior, but it had taken him far longer than he expected to reach the expansion town, and he was anxious to collect his charges and return to Pinetop.
Stupid Jenni...
2025-02-01 00:25:13 +0000 UTC View Post“President Warner has not only declared martial law nation-wide, but has urged Governors, Mayors, and others in positions of power to form factions through the Collective. Despite this advice, the president has so far remained silent on how to gain the billion nano required to form a faction....
2025-01-31 00:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post“You mean Jennifer Taylor?” Blake clarified.
Oliver rolled his eyes. “Who else would I be talking about?”
“How do you know she needs help?” he asked.
“Because she messaged me, duh.” Oliver’s breath was finally recovered. He strolled into the room and plopped hi...
2025-01-29 23:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostBlake rested on the couch in his mother’s office, one of the few items that survived his temper an hour before. While he lounged, she summarized the events he missed over the last twenty-four hours while he conversed with the Architect.
“So far, about eight hundred people from the Apach...
2025-01-28 00:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostRajesh Kshetrapal stared at the tomb of his family, the structure that used to be his dormitory. Smoke billowed from the collapsed building, like a pyre for those lost within. The catastrophe that happened on Invasion Day, less than twenty-four hours ago, was so unlikely, he could still hardly be...
2025-01-25 00:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!! Book 1 is now finished, and I have moved on to Book 2! There will be no delay between books, I will continue to post new chapters as soon as they are written. I have also included here a list of Blake's stats so you can reference them if needed. I know I don't list them often, as I ge...
2025-01-24 23:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostZeleck seethed in anger as he stood over the laborers while they chopped wood. Yet again, he regretted his reckless honesty.
Why did I tell Lord Galrod anything? I should have kept my mouth shut!
Six months before, he had woken from what he thought was a prophetic dream. It w...
2025-01-23 00:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostBlake’s eyes widened, and his heart hammered within his chest.
“WHAT?!” He roared and attempted to rise, yet his limbs refused to work. “Why would you do that?” he demanded and struggled against the Architect’s control over his body.
The AI tisked, and then the unnatural g...
2025-01-22 15:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostBlake took a deep breath and tried to picture his mother’s disappointment if he lost composure. He slowly released his breath and continued his well rehearsed speech.
“How do I know all of this? Because I have already lived through it before. I’ve somehow traveled back in time to befo...
2025-01-22 00:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostPresident Warner stood in front of the urinal. He was glad he had the room to himself for once, it would be the only break he would get between briefings. He had consumed far too much coffee in an effort to keep him awake.
Damn prostate. Damn kid. I should be golfing.
Suddenl...
2025-01-18 00:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait, it’s leaving!” Jordan shouted, which prompted everyone to look at the sky.
Everyone but Oliver congregated outside in the shade and passed the sniper rifle between themselves. For the last six hours, they took shots at the craft until they ran out of ammo. His brother sequester...
2025-01-17 00:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
There will be a very large chapter release today (unless things go horribly wrong with editing) It is currently 4,200 words long, and finishes with Invasion Day.
I would like to remind you guys about Discord access. It is very active, and has a wide range of discussions t...
Blake was exhausted.
The government had bombed them throughout the night, with only an hour or so break between rounds. Each time he drifted off to sleep, he was quickly awakened by a harsh blast. Now, he lay in his bunk half awake, unable to enter a full sleep, as his eyes strayed to...
2025-01-16 00:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, I have decided to raise the price back to $5. I originally lowered it because I was concerned that I would not be able to keep up the pace of releases over the holidays. That did not happen, and I am currently in a writing frenzy. (Hopefully another chapter release this afternoon!)
Blake ignored the radio for six hours. He was not sure if they tried to contact him while it was offline, but a full day had passed, and they had yet to reach out. He reclined with the microphone in his hand on the comfortable couch in his mother’s office alongside the rest of the small town’...
2025-01-14 22:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Your hair looks ridiculous.” Oliver commented as Blake entered his mother’s office.
In the two hours since he secured his new hostages, he had cleaned the blood, sweat, and soot from his body, as well as eaten.
Blake ran a hand through his half charred, chin length locks as he ...
2025-01-13 22:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Blake’s faith in the shield, he flinched as the munitions fell, and released the breath he did not realize he held. The iridescent dome above him shimmered opaquely over a two hundred foot area.
Donna Summers: Blake, that brought the shield down to seventy per...
2025-01-11 00:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are they doing this to us?” Donna exclaimed and rubbed her temples as loud music blared over the holo-chat feed.
“Because Jessica stopped them from using rockets and artillery last night,” Peter reminded her and handed her a cup of coffee. “The FBI did the same thing to that ...
2025-01-09 23:43:40 +0000 UTC View PostBlake lounged before his campfire and warmed his hands before the flames. His back was to his small tent and bedroll, which had surprisingly survived the rain of bullets earlier that day. The tent required only minimal duct tape to seal the holes, but half his water bottles were destroyed.
...
2025-01-08 20:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostJennifer Taylor slumped in the back seat of her large electric vehicle, parked outside the checkpoint, and scanned through the top-rated comments on her now viral video. It had been online for a few hours now, and her viewers were decidedly split into two camps.
Skeptics believed the footag...
2025-01-07 00:36:02 +0000 UTC View PostBlake sat on the couch in his mother’s office and rubbed his bruised cheek.
His mother frowned. “Why haven’t you healed that yet?”
“Yeah, that totally worked against you in the interview,” Oliver added helpfully from a padded chair across the room. “What kind of ...
2025-01-02 22:19:12 +0000 UTC View PostJennifer Taylor stood in the crowded field, and stared at the new world wonder in awe. A semi-transparent iridescent dome covered the walled city like a hat. It began at the top of the twenty-foot stone walls and rose hundreds of feet into the air.
The internet had named it ‘The Dome.’ ...
2024-12-27 00:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostBlake peered down from the castle merlons on the assembled forces below. The few law enforcement vehicles, which spotted the road at the beginning, had multiplied until their front gate resembled a parking lot. The FBI had descended on the small town of Pinetop, and had made it their own. 2024-12-25 23:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post