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The Perfect Run 30: Bites the Dust

“Do you want to be my friend?”

The plushie’s words echoed in the corridor, while Ryan found himself trapped between two monsters. On one side was a ruthless abomination against nature, ...

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The Perfect Run 29: The Rampage

Six.

Ryan counted six future victims in the atrium as he opened fire, Sarin included. Some took cover, while others immediately charged at him. All were Psychos, and soon, they would be dead....

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The Perfect Run 28: Suicide Run

After attacking Ghoul with his car in all his previous restarts, Ryan thought it had grown a little stale.

So this time, he hit the Psycho with a truck instead.

Ryan couldn’t find a J...

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The Perfect Run 27: Past Fragment: The Crimes of Augustus

  • Years ago, the region of Campania, Italy, December 2008

Julie Costa tended to her garden, hastening the growth of its wheat.

As a green aura flowed through the plan...

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The Perfect Run 26: FPS

Ryan thought his life was a role-playing game.

“Kill them all!” a druggie shouted from atop a roof, hitting Ryan’s car with a submachine gun, the bullets unable to pierce the shielding....

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The Perfect Run 25: Never Enough Dakka

Vulcan’s workshop echoed with the sound of welding, while Ryan reviewed an armor sketch, ass on a chair and legs on the workbench.

Ryan’s job as Vulcan’s assistant turned out to be more...

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The Perfect Run 24: Transition

It was a bright new day in New Rome.

The sun was rising. Bullets were flying. Rats were singing.

Standing at the balcony of Jamie’s apartment in casual clothes, a coffee mug in his ri...

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Perfect Run Cover: which one do you prefer?


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The Perfect Run 23: The Reunion

When Vulcan said she had a second spot in her cockpit, Ryan thought he would have his own baby seat at the back. But as it turned out, the Genius was more fond of motorcycle designs than cars.

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Perfect Run Interlude Poll: Friends or Foes?

Election time! Nah, just kidding. Time to choose November's Past Fragment interlude. 


1) Urban Guerrilla (Wyvern & Vulcan)

Before they became bitter...

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The Perfect Run 22: Speech Checks

And so, Vulcan’s biblical judgment was passed upon the heathens at Dynamis. Wyvern’s movie ended in rats and pestilence, like the previous Augusti loop.

It saddened Ryan to ruin Atom Cat...

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System Failure

A/N: from my nightmares to your eyes. 

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I was driving when it happened.

I had just returned from abroad bac...

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The Perfect Run 21: The Rehearsals

All was well so far on the Augusti Path.

Ryan had met Zanbato as expected, beat up Sarin at the harbor, and now repeated the exact same conversation which would lead him to crash at Jamie’s...

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The Perfect Run 20: Past Fragment: Under the Sea

  • Four years ago.

Len Sabino woke up on a mattress, the room cold, and chill. Water leaked from the wood ceiling, rain hitting the window. Thunder echoed in the distance, t...

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The Perfect Run 19: The Right Road

What a bright day. As Ryan drove towards the ship graveyard and Shroud’s warehouse, he felt utterly happy with himself. The courier had the intuition that everything would turn out well for him t...

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The Perfect Run 18: Acid Rain

Ryan dived towards the servers, dodging flailing wires while the glass windows shattered around him. Outside, someone had opened fire on the garage, bullets piercing through the walls and damaging ...

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The Perfect Run 17: The Hidden Route

“It can’t be them.”

Ryan searched inside his car’s trunk, finally putting his hands on his secret weapons: his coil gun, and a bag of flour. “What do you know of Leo Hargraves’ Ca...

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The Perfect Run 16: Secret Enemies

Ryan hated hospital rooms. Even if useful for sanitization purposes, the constant whiteness made him feel sick and isolated.

Hours had gone by since the orphanage battle, its occupants evacua...

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The Perfect Run 15: Good Karma

Ryan had been shot at more times than he could count.

Unlike Psychos or special cases like Augustus, all of the courier’s abilities, from his save point to the time stop, derived from a sin...

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The Perfect Run 14: Field Work

No matter how many times he would visit it, Ryan would never get used to Rust Town. The whole place reeked of misery and despair.

Atom Cat seemed to share his sentiment, as both drove through...

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The Perfect Run is now on Royal Road

It was bound to happen, the Perfect Run submission has been reviewed and posted on Royal Road. The Perfect Run is thus now freely available for everyone!

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The Perfect Run 13: Batman & Robin

Hell existed, and it was a corporate seminar.

Ryan had thought his first day on the job as a Little League member would involve superhero training, maybe a routine patrol with Wyvern. Somethi...

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Never Die Twice 41: Forever Serpent (Ending)

Never Die Twice was sponsored by you

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Ragnarok had been prevented.

As he sat on his throne,...

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The Perfect Run 12: Corporate Heroes

Il Migliore’s HQ, the Optimates Tower, was the most luxurious place Ryan had ever seen.

Most of Dynamis’ properties were located northeast of the city, on the far opposite of Rust Town. U...

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The Perfect Run 11: Railroading

“This is stupid!”

“Lanka…” Jamie trailed off at the back of the car. “Calm down.”

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Never Die Twice 40: Vae Victis

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The moment of truth had come.

For eons, Asclepius, Grandmaster of the...

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The Perfect Run 10: Heroes and Villains

It had been a while since Ryan drove a group in his Plymouth Fury.

He often transported one or two people, especially when on a bender or working as a getaway driver, but rarely a group like ...

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Never Die Twice 39: Ragnarok

Chapter sponsored by you.

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A dance of dragons.

Few of these creatures could fly, but when they did,...

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The Perfect Run 9: The Made Men

It was May 8th 2020 for the fifth time, and Ghoul once again had a car accident.

As he climbed down from his Plymouth Fury after hitting his favored undead maniac, Ryan took the time to look ...

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The Perfect Run 8: Past Fragment: Len

2016, Venezia, Italy. 

They once called it the city of canals. They said it was the most beautiful city in the world, with tourists all the way from Ch...

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