“The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor.”
—BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN
When Paul turned back to the group, the faint scent of cordite and cleaning solvent lingering in the air from the returned firearms...
2025-05-23 02:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post“When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.”
—FROM ”THE WISDOM OF MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
The journey north from the Boardwalk was yet another descent into the city’s decayin...
2025-05-23 02:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post“At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.”
—FRANK HERBERT
A hush descended with the closing of the folding doors as Paul stepped from the bus. Evening light—thin, bay-smudged—stretched along the pavement like a frayed carpe...
2025-05-22 03:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I don't feel like wrestling”
—BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN
The city night embraced him, a tapestry of damp air, distant sirens, and the hushed secrets of sleeping houses. He moved through the residential labyrinth, an unseen current in the urba...
2025-05-20 02:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post“A total of 1.46 million, 62 solaris round trip…”
—THUFIR HAWAT
The faint, lingering scent of grape juice clung to the air as Paul stepped from the classroom into the corridor’s muted light. His hands found the familiar recess of his poc...
2025-05-20 02:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostI am still a few hours away from finishing the next chain of chapters, but it feels weird not posting anything. So, I decided to polish up a few old drafts and upload them here to tide you guys over until I am done with the next chapters.
P.S.: None of this is canon, just me experimenting w...
2025-05-19 01:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostGreg Veder stared through the back wall of the classroom like he could see something the rest of us were too small-minded to notice.
I was supposed to be taking notes—U.S. History, westward expansion, Mr. Gladly droning at the front—but my pencil hovered ha...
2025-05-17 05:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis shit is absurdly well made. Still hallucinates a bit, but it's negligible.
Also, the next chapter is in a few minutes...
2025-05-17 03:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence was the first thing that really got to you. Not the absence of light, or the immobility, or even the numbness in the flesh. Its was a different silence from what most people knew. A dead silence. The kind that pressed in on your eardrums until you could...
2025-05-16 04:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe scent of stale coffee and disinfectant clung to the air, a familiar perfume of PRT Headquarters that had, in recent weeks, acquired a sharper, more acrid undertone – the smell of desperation. I walked beside Colin, his powered armor a silent, gleaming s...
2025-05-16 03:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe burner phone felt cool against my ear, a cheap piece of plastic that nonetheless connected me to a voice that had, in the span of perhaps forty-eight hours, redrawn a not-insignificant portion of Brockton Bay’s power dynamics. The line was clear, digitally...
2025-05-15 06:13:06 +0000 UTC View PostInitial Critique (from Edoardo Abbondio):
Q1: I'm disappointed with how Lisa's powers were portrayed in this chapter regarding Paul. It seems the most she could gather was th...
2025-05-14 00:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostMy head was already throbbing before he even showed up.
The world outside the grimy walls of our little shithole factory was painted in the dull, washed-out colours of a Brockton Bay afternoon. Rain threatened, the air thick with the smell of wet co...
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2025-05-13 08:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”
—PAUL MUAD’DIB ATREIDES
Paul stood beneath the corrugated awning that jutted from the warehouse row like a rust-tongued prayer flag, letting ...
2025-05-13 00:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.”
—PAUL MUAD’DIB ATREIDES
The city was hushed beneath a pewter sky when Paul stepped from the bus and enter...
2025-05-12 21:22:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in the bunker tasted of recycled oxygen and the faint, metallic tang of humming server banks. Not a hum, precisely, more a vibration in the bones, the silent thrum of power coursing through the earth, through the walls, through me. Six in the morn...
2025-05-12 01:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.”
—DUKE LETO ATREIDES
Alone in the sanctuary of his bedroom, the door a thin barrier against the house’s unfam...
2025-05-10 19:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.”
—DUKE LETO ATREIDES
The humid, early evening air of the Veder neighbourhood lingered on Paul’s skin as the d...
2025-05-10 19:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.”
—DUKE LETO ATREIDES
A plastic sack dangled from his right hand. Two contoured memory-foam pillows, bought cash...
2025-05-09 06:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostFor the nerds in chat; Dune tech is comin' to Brockton Bay...
2025-05-07 10:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.”
—GOD EMPEROR, LETO II
The engine idled in a broken staccato, heat s...
2025-05-06 04:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post“We Braavosi are descended from those who fled Valyria and the wroth of its dragonlords. We do not jape of dragons.”
―Tycho Nestoris to Jon Snow
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The Braavosi wedge struck the gap like a mailed fist. Jace watched from ab...
2025-05-05 03:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Braavos is the odd duck among the Nine Free Cities, but still more Valyrian than Andal in its origins.”
—George R. R. Martin
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The Braavosi fleet spilled forth from the lagoon’s mouth, a river of tim...
2025-05-05 03:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post“The Nine Free Cities are the daughters of Valyria that was, but Braavos is the bastard child who ran away from home. We are a mongrel folk, the sons of slaves and whores and thieves. Our forebears come from half a hundred lands...
2025-05-05 03:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostI began drafting this yesterday after seeing how the polls swung. It is not final nor is it canon. In fact, I have three other incomplete drafts that would work better for other names like Ozymandias(this one has the poem rather than a Ballad), Agamemnon and Charon, but I decided...
2025-05-03 04:09:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sa...
2025-05-03 01:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th y...
2025-05-02 06:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
All running polls will end in 24 hours. I will make the next(or final) decision then.
2025-05-02 00:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post