Mechalopolis University had more than a few challenges and disputes to resolve every single day, from resolving the situation when someone spilled coffee on another person's jacket to when a dispute over attendance needed to be settled. If you wanted an extra day to get homework turned in? If you...
2022-09-17 19:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post... Nothing in particular changed for Malicia's day to day life after that. It was... In some ways it was infuriating, that even after slipping up and tasting the blood in full view of everyone, it hadn't changed how Lord Ravensworth treated her even a little bit.
But on the othe...
2022-09-05 12:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt might seem nonsensical to assume that Central, the region where the Emperor sat upon the Golden Throne and his close family resided, where there was more money poured into hiring and maintaining standing guard regimens, roaming patrols of bandit hunters, and law officials working under the loc...
2022-08-25 08:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostDue to being 'generated in character creation', the 'Protagonist' character has a uniquely versatile breadth of options in a video game, where most others are relatively set in stone.
What Class should the Protagonist have, when encountered by Malicia?
2022-08-25 08:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostA basic model of PI-doll didn't include anything like distributed repulsor nodes to allow an effect similar to anti-gravity, or kinetic amplifiers to allow the movement of disproportionately large objects, or even significant reinforcement beyond what was required for the PI-doll itself to functi...
2022-08-15 15:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Humph! Don't think that this is because I l-like you, b-baka!"
Alex and Genesis considered the approximately twenty centimeter tall schoolgirl model PI-Doll as it crossed its arms and tossed hair over its shoulder, making the condescendingly dismissive expression that matched th...
2022-08-10 17:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that Malicia recognized about Central was that it was notably warmer, all of the time. The North was the coldest region of the Empire, of course, followed after by the peaks of the West and the chill over-seas winds of the East for second and third coldest. While it held not a sin...
2022-08-06 23:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostMechalopolis was a city built on the top of a floating super-structure, the artificial island 'Tentatio', built in a rough circular shape and with a radius of approximately thirty kilometers. It had been, Alex recalled, an experiment in determining if it was viable to build a self-sufficient and ...
2022-07-28 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no light in the room save for the muted, low glow of lines of code scrolling across subdued and dimmed screens. The occupants didn't need the ambient light, with visors fixed over their eyes or entire helmets in place to provide a display directly to the wearer. The occupants worked in ...
2022-07-27 18:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostFor a little while after Malicia woke following the fight that could be thinly veiled as either chastisement or training she wondered if Jack had simply made up the mention of the lady Ravensworth's pregnancy. It did not take long to conclude that he hadn't, though. The position of head butler le...
2022-07-19 18:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe blades carved deeply into her forearms, scoring lines of white-hot pain as they ground against the bones where Malicia had thrown them up to block while backstepping away from the most recent swinging arc of steel in her direction.
It wasn't ideal, but when she wasn't in a po...
2022-07-11 11:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostDinner went normally, with everyone at a polite distance from one another and the meals being gracefully served by maids that would transfer the meal from a large trolley to the requisite dishes and elegantly exchange them for used ones. Far from dinner at an orphanage or for commoners in general...
2022-07-03 23:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Today, we have a little treat prepared." the butler declared, smirking from his position standing on top of several crates that had been prepared. "This was intended to wait until you were at least ten years of age, young master, but both the construction and your training proceeded ahead of sch...
2022-06-27 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostSocial connections were important for the nobility, and unlike commoners, they spread out vertically as well as horizontally.
A commoner's important social connections were almost always going to be other commoners, with few exceptions. Usually, that would also be limited to thos...
2022-06-21 06:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn 'Black Heart', a Heritage can have obvious effects on the body. For example, a Porter in Malicia's orphanage had a notable feature that set her apart.
What should that be?
2022-06-19 22:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostSophie's journal was still Malicia's most treasured item, as her fourteenth birthday came and went with little fanfare.
Admittedly, the celebrations for the blood-related Ravensworths weren't much of note themselves, from what she had seen. Edward or Adrian would be allowed to ch...
2022-06-16 21:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no remark on Malicia having missed meals, but she couldn't say as to whether that was because it had approval from the elder Ravensworths to begin with or if it was simply because such things were beneath their notice and of no particular consequence. It hardly mattered which. Even if i...
2022-06-12 18:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post"There's no need for you to attend dinner today. You must be exhausted, miss Malicia." the butler said, almost managing to feign kindness. "Wash up and head right to bed. Ah. And for breakfast..."
With a smile, he dropped a small cloth pouch in Malicia's hands. The thing felt lik...
2022-06-09 15:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe elder son, Edward Ravensworth, was eleven years old to her twelve when Malicia had been brought to the estate.
He was still set to inherit. Not because he was the first child of the Ravensworth's blood, and not because he was a boy while Malicia was a girl, though her inherit...
2022-06-08 22:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Empire of Phantasma could be broadly divided into five parts.
There was the North, frozen over and forested heavily, rich in trees and ice and not much else. The Northern wilderness grew few edible plants, which in turn meant that the game animals were few in number. Those so...
2022-06-07 17:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostSophie's little journal was about half writing practice and actual journal entries and about half prophecy that had been written just speculatively and vaguely enough to come off as idle musing about the future.
Or, and much more frequently, as unclear rambling, with tidbit lines...
2022-06-06 21:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Empire of Phantasma, Status was everything.
A person would be born with a Class. This was something decided in a way that no living being could find a reasoning behind. Sometimes, a family would consistently produce the same Class, over and over again through the centuries...
2022-06-04 14:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostTry as he might, Rick couldn't get the sword out of his mind, questions of just how it had gotten there circling around his head. On some level, he wanted to believe it was a prank... but if that was true, then it was a joke that not just the car owner, but also the police force, were in collusio...
2020-09-16 04:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt was ironic, considering he worked in an auto shop, but Rick did not actually own a car of his own. He could have one if he wanted, of course. He had the license, and he knew enough about how cars worked to keep one in good operating condition. Couldn't get away without knowing that much, worki...
2020-09-09 01:32:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe beast paused, rearing its head back and snuffling at the air with flared nostrils, head turning from side to side in uncertainty. Something had changed, it could feel it in the air. But just what that change might be, it couldn't tell. Not beyond one simple fact.
It had been ...
2020-09-04 23:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post