Yuriko bent low, her nose almost touching the ground. She pushed off to the side with her fingers, snapped an Edge at Monument, then clicked her tongue when all it did was create a two-inch wide ga...
2025-01-13 13:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Living Monument’s form was larger than Yuriko remembered, but she didn’t miss the glint of gold around his neck. A collar similar to the Crimson Apes though it was thicker. The gigantic dae...
2025-01-13 13:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostCrimson Ape daemons.
Yuriko froze for half a moment as she hadn’t expected something from her past would surface now. Well, not that she had much of a past. It’s just been over five...
2025-01-13 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe star-filled mists and the bridge were both familiar to Yuriko even if the current iteration was not identical to what she experienced before. Even more to the point, she was here with her physi...
2025-01-13 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostMichael Stonereiz was just a hair away from freaking completely out. Not only had black ink marred his skin, formed ugly pictures across his forearm, but he and the other members of the cast were s...
2025-01-07 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was easy for Yuriko’s Anima to hook into the fabric of reality, tough as it was. Nearly half a year of living in Dragon Fall City had made some of her reflexes sloppy when it came to flying, b...
2025-01-07 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko carried Michael and Victor along as she ran back towards the main building.
Flick! Swish! Thunk!
While beheading the flesh golems hadn’t worked, it seemed that d...
2025-01-06 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHotel de Lune sprawled over an entire block, roughly two hundred paces to a side, and was seven storeys high, or at least, the main building was. The compound had five distinct buildings, each one ...
2025-01-06 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostReaching the abandoned hotel involved another one-and-a-half-hour bus ride from Jiran Station. The roads, for the first half hour, were well paved but afterwards, the roads got progressively worse....
2025-01-06 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe ARtrack train left the station, and it would take half the day to reach the country’s middle states. Yuriko wasn’t sure where they were going, and Lilibeth’s grasp of geography was sadly ...
2024-12-30 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostJust a bit more than three weeks had passed since the revelation of Yuriko’s child. She had not been able to peek into her circumstances, but the steady feedback assured her of the child’s cont...
2024-12-30 14:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a bit longer to reach the rally point. It was Outpost Sigma attached to a resource biome, and all three ships had to dodge around pursuers for a couple of days before they shook them off. T...
2024-12-30 13:39:30 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s Nitsuda Civillian, an Aralian coupe car that cost her nearly twenty thousand Torries, pulled into the basement garage of her new apartment. After a few false starts, a couple of lost dep...
2024-12-30 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t as if the situation at Outpost Omega was a surprise. No, it was very much expected. The presence of the Hallowed Echoes hinted at it, though raiders were common. But Mazoga, and to a le...
2024-12-30 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko gave Evan Andrews a flat look, then said, “What do you want?”
The far edge of the boardwalk had a few stalls, but she had wandered over to a relatively empty garden that had ...
2024-12-23 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“What is this about?” Yuriko asked, her tone neutral. From the sheaf of papers in front of them, she had an inkling of what it was. Darrel Schutter, her talent agent, introduced the two other m...
2024-12-23 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko hummed in pleasure as her arms absorbed the impact of Mazoga’s blows. She was stronger than Yuriko expected, even more than she could expect from the woman’s size. She also couldn’t de...
2024-12-23 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Mazoga of Brokil gritted her teeth. Her tusks nearly pierced her upper lip if not for the fact that her practice had long strengthened her skin beyond the level they could be breached by ca...
2024-12-23 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe first order of business was to repel the boarders. Once they were contained, Yuriko could follow the path back to one of the ships and take over.
The incursion cylinders struc...
2024-12-23 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSpreading her Anima perception showed her the truth her eyes couldn’t quite believe. It was emptiness. Yuriko shook her head, muttering to herself. The Void, as she and Damien knew it, was the pa...
2024-12-16 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe commercial shouldn’t have aired for another couple of weeks yet, Yuriko thought. But the odd thing was that the next day, Sunsday, as she browsed things on the Network, the ad popped out. She...
2024-12-16 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days to the end of the Season passed quickly. The morning after the trial, while still cuddling in bed, Yuriko, Heron, and Gwendith continued their talk.
“My libido in my...
2024-12-16 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIlvarra continuing to flirt with Heron amused Yuriko to no end. It wasn’t that she was jealous. She was possessive, that much was true. She wouldn’t even mind if Heron slept with the woman— 2024-12-16 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yuriko’s first reaction to losing her footing was to latch onto the fabric of reality with her Anima. That failed, as it often did, with the hooks sliding off the slicked canvas. A moment of anno...
2024-12-16 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostDinner turned out to be burritos. Yuriko glared down at the oft unsatisfactory meal found mostly through the vending machines around every corner of the mega buildings. This one, in contrast to the...
2024-12-09 14:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostDarrel Schutter was a middle-aged man who looked like he averaged four hours of sleep at night. Yuriko and Scarlett entered the meeting room not quite sure what to expect, though an enthusiastic gr...
2024-12-09 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s modelling session for Madeline didn’t involve nudity this time. The clothes she wore were her regular school uniform though the art class professor directed her to wear it more…allur...
2024-12-09 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko didn't know what to expect.
The test site for the Millennium State’s mercenary qualifications was not in the city centre, nor was it the squat building at the very periphery of the c...
2024-12-09 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Those Lawbringers blocked access to my Ennoia,” Yuriko said as she and her companions settled into the living room of the apartment they appropriated in Junktown. It was different from the one...
2024-12-09 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko felt the Ancient struggle to get up and for a moment, she eased up on the pressure she exerted. She looked at him for a long moment. This was the first time she met another Ancient, one that...
2024-12-03 13:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post