I carefully pulled myself through the hole, dodging a mound of bones just before me. I had ways of taking care of visual detection, but any sound I made could set off the security lurking in the sh...
2024-12-04 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post"Zuku, it's here.” Lia brought down the rather lightweight plasma torch.
“Set it down over there… think you could get it hooked up to the Prowler?” I asked as I fiddled with the...
2024-12-02 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI got a day of rest after returning from New Tress Radio. The doc gave me a quick check-over just before I went to sleep. The stim Yonrow administered had already stopped the internal bleeding of m...
2024-11-29 22:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post”How’s it look?” A call came from above, causing me to lose focus as I glanced over my shoulder. Renold and Hampton stood at the uppermost balcony, the latter of which waved down to us.
The other three would probably be fine, but Lia and I were squishy compared to them. I grabbed the recovering woman’s arm, pulling her with me as I used Burst Step to get out of the area. My legs...
2024-11-25 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was going fine as the squad carefully scouted the place, leaving no corner unchecked. We ascended Floor by floor, carefully watching for any signs of trouble. We couldn’t just leave fl...
2024-11-22 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI looked over my scrappy handiwork with a vague sense of satisfaction. Course, that sense of satisfaction was nearly smothered by my worries that the modified chrome would even hold together, but a...
2024-11-20 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know what I was expecting from the area around New Tress Radio, but it certainly wasn’t this. A thick junk barricade made from scraps of cars and broken blocks of cement blocked in the ...
2024-11-18 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe met up with the rest of the Crimson Company near the middle of the city, near a massive sinkhole that swallowed the entire city center. It was a cataclysmic sinkhole, looking as though a titanic...
2024-11-15 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe APC continued to get hit with potshots for several blocks till we lost our pursuers. The bastards just didn’t give up, or at least that's the feeling I got from them as they continued to hamm...
2024-11-13 23:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostClyde took the lead as soon as we started coming across patrols of guards. Not city guards though. They were more… militaristic. With what Moll said earlier about a defensive line… were we near...
2024-11-12 21:17:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe repair was going smoothly. Too smoothly, almost. With Melas making the exact parts I needed from bits of scrap metal, I could easily replace the parts of the drivetrain that were messed up. Sur...
2024-11-11 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI stared out the window at shattered buildings and vine-entwined architecture. We were pretty far into what would’ve used to be the city’s downtown area. Even back when everything was built for...
2024-11-08 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI checked the fitting one last time, ensuring the line wouldn’t detach if it was jostled too much. The first time I ‘fixed’ a Prowler’s fuel line, I hadn’t secured it enough. They barely ...
2024-11-06 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Zuku! Got another one for ya’!” A woman’s voice called out to me, a hint of nerves evident through the shake in her voice, yet the shake was so suppressed it could easily be missed. Triss,...
2024-11-04 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostA man stepped out of the truck, waving his hand to the Prowler as it approached. We watched as Captain Roger himself got out of the prowler. Unfortunately, the magic screen Lia made couldn’t send...
2024-11-01 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe smooth rumble of an engine chugging along woke me up. Instantly, my drowsiness vanished as my brain kicked into high alert. It took a few moments to settle back down.
I rubbed at my...
2024-10-30 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe central point of the approaching wall was just in front of us. They’d gotten close enough that their forms were distinguishable through the sands. And oh man did I wish they weren’t.
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2024-10-28 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a long time since I did one of these. Probably will be a while before the Squires actually pop up, but I figured I'd get the names sorted out now.
If you're interested, it's on a first...
The silence lasted for several minutes, only covered by the hum of engines and a subtle tension that held the entire camp active. Something had to give. And eventually, it did. Engines from afar sl...
2024-10-25 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe night, as it turns out, was anything but uneventful. Where did it start going wrong? Somewhere after I laid down for the night, and then paranoia kept me from falling asleep amongst a bunch of ...
2024-10-23 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo be honest, I don’t know quite what they were expecting to happen when they decided to ram what they suspected to be an ambush. Mine laying is pretty basic when it comes to vehicular ambushes. ...
2024-10-21 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostI wiped a streak of sweat from my brow as I pumped up the cooling from my poncho. It was still cold out, but the intense heat radiating from the Mouse was something else. I rolled out from under th...
2024-10-18 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt’d been four days since my meeting with Athena and Captain Roger of the Crimson Company, and things hadn’t been going all that well. At first, I thought I’d get done with the whole Blackout...
2024-10-16 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI slammed my shovel down into the dirt, forcing myself to slowly breathe. What would Vayne do? …probably make a shit pun and help dig out this Moll person anyway. He was always like that; ever th...
2024-10-14 23:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostRain tapped against a far window of the Jagged Clover, drawing my attention away momentarily as a yawn stretched my jaw. My phone buzzed as a city-ordained warning about mass shootings in Bricktown...
2024-10-14 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI sat at the bar of the speakeasy, drinking from my canteen as I idly toyed with my ectrobola. I already got everything moved over, most of which was in the back. Unfortunately for me though, my ch...
2024-10-11 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostA guard with a Constellation patch on his arm passed me the same black card I’d gotten the last couple times I’d been through the initial checkpoint. “Don’t lose this. We don’t offer seco...
2024-10-09 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI idly stroked the top of Corvid’s head as he chowed on a burger. It’d already been a day since I infiltrated Cold Moon Solutions, and yet I still found myself stuck watching the news clips ove...
2024-10-07 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI downloaded all the files from the various projects I could access while I waited for the AI’s response. I took a particular interest in the ones missing Cold Moon Solution’s label.
Defi...
2024-10-04 22:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post