I woke up in my room in Exodus City the next morning, reeling from a new nightmare. The dream I had was twisted, dark, and had me desperately trying to prove that I was a girl to everyone around me...
2024-08-10 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Unlike Ghoul’s End, Grand Celestial Temple was absolutely teeming with people. The temple had three distinct wings that radiated out from a large circular area in the middle. Up and down those wi...
2024-08-07 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Surprise! Coven Chapter! Idk why or where this came from. Actually, nah, the blame is squarely placed at the feet of my adhd. Anyway, hope you enjoy! A second chapter is already in the ...
2024-08-06 14:53:19 +0000 UTC
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I logged back into my Lightstalker character with extreme levels of trepidation. Sirona had gotten a message saying my character had changed, and when I checked, I saw that the name was now Rescera...
2024-08-04 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Holy hell, just when you couldn't hate landlords more. Our rent is paid fortnightly, but I am paid monthly. So now we're required to pay three rent payments this month. Almost certain t...
2024-08-02 04:32:56 +0000 UTC
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I found the copper node two hours of walking later. My thighs hurt from the exertion of climbing the ridgeline, so I was forced to stop and rest before actually grabbing some of the ore.
The ...
2024-08-01 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“Can I trade you in for a trainer that’s less of an asshole?” I asked, after I’d processed Mheitai’s statement.
Her answering chuckle was not a kind one. “You can no more be rid ...
2024-07-29 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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I was only able to follow the road a couple more kilometres before I was forced to leave it behind. While it turned to connect a few outlying farmsteads to the hamlet, I forged a path around the br...
2024-07-26 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Spicy chapter for those who want it :)
“Ugh, I want to stop thinking about all the depressing stuff,” I complained weakly, my voice muffled by the side of ...
2024-07-25 01:03:01 +0000 UTC
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The Cherish came roaring in like the finale of a violent apocalypse, and to some, it may as well have been. The superheated charged particles of her exhaust as she arrived lit the sky of Central Am...
2024-07-25 01:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Silence descended the moment the Winslows were back in the docking tube. I seated my butt back on the sofa again with a sigh, and promptly froze when there was a low whirring sound that rumbled thr...
2024-07-25 01:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Bang!
The sharp cracking sound startled me and the rest of my comrades in the plane, and for a split second I began to look for gunshot wounds. Then, I realised that it hadn’t been...
2024-07-25 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The settlement of Geilig's Hook was a quaint run-down hamlet where all the houses were cobbled stone and clay. The most impressive thing about the place was actually its size. It probably would've ...
2024-07-23 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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So, every now and then I check the exit polls for those who dropped patronage. It's mostly a morbid curiosity a lot of the time, but nowadays I don't feel so personally shit for not keeping up a go...
2024-07-21 15:25:54 +0000 UTC
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The next day, I set out on a mission to find some copper. Guides from other Rellithesh players said that if you wanted piped water in a custom made structure, copper was the best and easiest to acq...
2024-07-20 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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We piled through the door on the other side of the concourse like a pack of riotous foxes, and as we did so, I turned and closed it, then pulled one of my tools from the cargo shorts I was wearing....
2024-07-20 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Mum and I spent three days in our new house, decorating the interior to match the vaguely cottagecore parts of the exterior. We also saw that we had a small amount of miscellaneous processing token...
2024-07-17 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The lift came to a halt with a soft sigh and a dull thump. Already, we had our guns trained on the door, while the humans were safely hidden behind a box. Actually, we were all taking cover, but th...
2024-07-15 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The ‘pick-and-mix’ operating system had, indeed, been a ton of fun. We got to test and acquire a whole plethora of interesting little apps, along with the standard things like the web browser a...
2024-07-14 02:29:18 +0000 UTC
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“If you're going to call your son, I must advise you that while he may know about the existence of the Exodus Union as a political entity, he is not allowed to know anything I have told you about...
2024-07-14 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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At a much more sedate pace than the name of the inn would suggest, we began our journey up towards the expansion zone. With us, we had mum's friends—The guild ‘Carnival Historica’—and a who...
2024-07-11 01:27:34 +0000 UTC
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We all agreed—Including Vesuvia’s gladiators—to take three days to build out the towers that Willow had started. They needed everything other than the walls, window holes, and doorways. Thank...
2024-07-09 01:08:27 +0000 UTC
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I sat down heavily on a random crate and allowed my mind to just… take stock. We’d been going non-stop since we began the stake-out to find Jason’s folks. Now we were riding a cargo lift up a...
2024-07-08 02:20:43 +0000 UTC
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A third of the main school building was a write-off. The flaming core was too powerful and imbued with too much Storm energy for the weak Pre-Storm construction to survive, and so the fire had clai...
2024-07-08 01:02:00 +0000 UTC
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I kicked one of the Pastor’s people in the knee, shattering the joint and sending him to the ground, then I followed up by ramming the butt of my axe into his face. Blood and teeth flew into the ...
2024-07-08 01:01:00 +0000 UTC
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[CW: Gore.]
The fire spread for all of thirty seconds under Chloe’s renewed winds, until the storm bird finally rose to meet the challenge. Its scream cracked like thunder, and a...
2024-07-08 01:00:00 +0000 UTC
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I slept up in Willow’s branches that night—Hiding from everyone and everything—and she was kind enough to weave a little basket for me to do so. Then, early the next morning before everyone a...
2024-07-06 02:27:35 +0000 UTC
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Gloria, Jason, and Roger all suffered superficial cosmetic plate damage when we took out the remaining four turrets. We had to wait half a minute after they were done before attempting to leave our...
2024-07-05 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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I leapt forward, wings straining to bring the point of my axe down through the thorax of another scorpion.
“Burn the houses!” I shouted back to my comrades. “Let us lay waste to this ne...
2024-07-05 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I've done a big editing pass of this story. Some things have changed, a few things have been added. My goal was making things like the game systems more consistent, and smoothing...
2024-07-03 11:04:37 +0000 UTC
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