Mira sprayed into the lunging rat with Blaze rounds, causing fire to sprout all over its body. It didn’t even seem to notice. Instead, the rat let its bone plating take the hits while it leapt at...
2025-11-21 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe lift groaned and creaked with every passing second. Old gears shrieked in protest, and the cables shuddered heavily as if trying to shake us off midway. Every creaking gears caused Burt’s of ...
2025-11-19 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostMira and I walked aimlessly down the halls for a while. Honestly, I had no idea where I was going. The blueprint I had for this place from the city archives was entirely different from what was act...
2025-11-17 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post”R-ready.” Luna called out to us through the Packheart Ring. I looked up to see three combat drones buzzing just overhead. One of them dipped as if acknowledging my gaze.
I silently patte...
2025-11-14 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostIts’s been a long time since I did one of these. We’ve come even further since those days. I think there were only a couple questions asked on the last one, but there’s way more of you guys. ...
2025-11-14 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post”So this is it?” Mira moved forward next to me and leaned over the railing of a roof.
We climbed up on a building as soon as we neared our destination and had been roof hopping ever...
2025-11-12 23:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostI quietly slid back into the building where I left Mira behind. The handoff had been a completely uneventful affair. I slunk toward the edge of the heights, strapped Iris to the waiting hover-bike,...
2025-11-10 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What do we do with them?” Mira stared down at the collapsed mercs. Her eyes flashed with concern, though she shoved that emotion down just as quickly as I noticed it.
“L-leave them. We...
2025-11-07 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we were halfway to the bridge arching to the next floating island over. Without warning, the wind abruptly picked up. If before it was a pleasant breeze, then what hit me was closer to a high ...
2025-11-06 23:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostContent warning: Suicide
Woah, this is the second content warning this arc. Considering I’ve only ever written three of them, including this one, I dunno how I feel about that.
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2025-11-05 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe moved through the rest of the building, picking off the occasional mutant that ran away from the initial fight. There weren’t many of them. Most of the mutants fell into herd mentality and rus...
2025-11-03 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI eyed the compass. “We should be closing in soon.”
Mira and I had already been moving through the heights for a while now since I pulled her out of the Aether. So far we’d managed to a...
2025-10-31 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostTidings of Joy
This one was going to be a massive sci-fi style space opera in the same vein as Restless. Similarly to Restless, I hid a spot with it that I just stopped feeling it, which is u...
2025-10-29 22:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post“How you holding up?” Saint idly called out to the other inhabitant of the room.
”I-I am. Somehow.” Luna’s voice still trembled slightly, but she had stopped crying, at least. Small...
2025-10-29 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostLike I expected, this was a control room of some sorts. Server banks lined a far wall, and the other was covered in monitors and terminals. There wasn’t even a hint of the biomass in here like th...
2025-10-27 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Here’s a warning. This one gets a little messed up. Think snake altar back at New Tress City type messed up.
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I touched down as light as a feather, though sunk into the...
2025-10-24 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostMira and I cut through a dim alley illuminated by the raging fire of a building far above. The drone that Luna captured floated just behind us, projecting a bright light for Mira to see by. I didn...
2025-10-22 22:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostImperial World Tree
This one was from a bit earlier than even Shattered Veil. I was probably sixteen or seventeen when I started to write this? It’s, uh, it’s kinda bad? It’s also super...
2025-10-22 21:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostRise of the Penguin Guild
This was a joke story I thought up based on a feature of Royal Road. If you go edit your profile, there’s a primary user group. I don’t really know what it was f...
2025-10-22 20:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostLost Drops: I talked a bit about having stories that I either dropped or put on hiatus before releasing them for whatever reason. After listening to you guys, I decided to upload a couple of them i...
2025-10-22 20:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe city was on fire. Or, at least, this section of the city. There was no doubt in my mind that East End was collapsing slowly but surely. First the whole AEZ incident, and now this? Things weren...
2025-10-20 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe hover bike shot up into the air. I tightly grabbed onto Mira to avoid being tossed off by her erratic movements. “Guys?! Where’d that come from!”
“O-one sec… g-got it. There’s...
2025-10-17 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Are we killing these guys too?” Mira asked from up so far above me. “They look like civs.”
I glanced down toward the bottom of the tower. This was the third one. The second one was e...
2025-10-15 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostI flicked on the Blackout module as well as the sonic suppressor for my bike well before reaching the tower. As far as anyone knew, there was nothing in the sky. We had no signature, no profile, an...
2025-10-13 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI sat at a coffee house. Of course I did. Where else would I sit and wait for someone? The coffee was on the house too. It was some kind of special event or something? I was apparently their 100,00...
2025-10-11 17:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post”Are you sure that was a smart idea?” Mira leaned forward to my ear and wrapped her hands around my waist just under my poncho. Her Sorrow jacket wrapped around my shoulder and her ballistic ve...
2025-10-11 04:02:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe hotel wasn’t the fanciest establishment in all of Aythryn City, but it was pretty decent as far as places went. Had okay security, each room with its own full bath, and even the usual ameniti...
2025-10-10 22:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostScript popped up into my HUD of its own free will. A moment later, it turned into a text message from an unknown number. ‘Lead them into the basement. All sorts of turrets set up down there.’ 2025-10-08 22:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I checked the location and nodded to Mira. “Looks like this is it.”
We were pulled into a hover over a warehouse in Portside. It looked abandoned and decrepit, with half of it collapsed u...
2025-10-06 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostI checked a mechanical arm, manually sending an impulse of electricity through the delicate circuit boards. The arm flexed, sticking out straight. I went over its parts a few more times and then st...
2025-10-03 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post