To start, a small note that today's chapter will be moved to next week, I should've mentioned this last week but forgot we were past the half-way point in December, sorry.
Things have been ra...
2025-12-21 23:37:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe room had been an office once. Now it was cracked concrete and stripped wiring, the windows boarded from the inside with scavenged sheet metal. Someone had dragged...
2025-12-15 18:55:29 +0000 UTC View PostThings hadn’t gone dark. To my eyes, the world had just lost all color.
The air tasted of pulverized concrete, dirt, and iron.
Silver chains surrounded ...
2025-12-07 23:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostI hated the roof.
The metal plate beneath me vibrated with enough violence to rattle teeth. Every pothole sent a jolt straight up my spine, and my fingers cramp...
2025-12-02 08:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostFully removing the mask after a whole day’s worth of wearing it around was borderline orgasmic. I practically chucked it at the corner but gingerly dropped it on th...
2025-11-24 03:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Caveman!”
When I’d approached the Saint’s base of operations (which was to say, the garage entrance to the bunker they’d requisitioned some indefinit...
2025-11-09 20:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe greenhouse air clung to Fulton's skin as she stepped through the entrance. Too warm, too humid, too alive. Summer's territory always felt like walking into someth...
2025-11-03 12:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground crunched under my claws, a mix of pulverized concrete and sand that'd been baking under the sun all day. I'd covered maybe two kilometers in the last ten m...
2025-10-27 15:58:24 +0000 UTC View PostI clung to the exterior of the AV as it banked hard, the hot night air screaming past my claws. The heat hadn't died with the sun, just traded its searing intensity f...
2025-10-20 02:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostVesper had been awake for thirty-six hours straight when the notification arrived, running on stims and spite while cross-referencing supply inventories that never ad...
2025-10-12 22:25:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe locks engaged behind us with the same heavy finality, each thud driving through the floor and into my chest. My shoulders pulled tight with every one.
The ...
2025-10-05 18:53:25 +0000 UTC View Post“I need air.”
Three simple words, but they barely made it past the constriction in my throat. The weight of everything pressed against the base of my skull,...
2025-09-28 21:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostI lost.
That was the first thing that came to my mind the moment I regained consciousness, it was a cold rock in my gut.
Shadow had been right all this ti...
2025-09-21 20:50:55 +0000 UTC View PostI hauled myself up from the floor with my claws open and my throat a raw grate. The floor drank the shock and fed it back as a dull ache through my frame. Fulton stoo...
2025-09-15 00:40:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Axel.”
I opened my eyes to the distant high-pitched buzz of drones, every alarm in my body firing at once. I scrambled and yanked the sheet of corrugated m...
2025-09-10 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“The ISPs have started throttling us.” Quinn’s message chirped in the common chat, clipped and angry. “Remote workers are getting shafted. Contracts will get ...
2025-09-07 15:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostWith a groan and an annoyed huff, I set the last protein vat down carefully, then peeled off the “metal gloves” I’d cobbled together for the job. They kept my c...
2025-08-31 18:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostSir Corin Vale disliked being pulled from his chair for anything short of blood. The bell had rung twice in quick succession, not the soft chime for a misfile but the...
2025-08-28 17:09:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter about an hour of mostly wandering around in search of anything useful, Tessa marched us to a circulation desk where a clerk tallied receipts and coins. T...
2025-08-25 09:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn New Francisco, as in much of the world, the phrase “consequences for criminal activity” meant wildly different things depending on where you stood on the socia...
2025-08-24 16:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome to the palace of Tessa,” the green-haired elf proclaimed as she set me down on the floorboards.
The room was hardly larger than a cupboard, certain...
2025-08-20 02:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostSKREAAaaaaagghhh
SPLAT
The mouther took one look at me and bolted the other way, scrambling frantically just before I crushed it with a chunk of debris I ...
2025-08-18 05:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostLevel Up!
You have reached Level 5!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You can unlock a Class!
You...
2025-08-14 21:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The automaton bore the name “Fire‑Tusker” across its forehead, followed by the custom stamp of the lunatic artificer who had decided a forge furnace deserved fo...
2025-08-12 19:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostIgnore the squeak of lesser minds as they rub two half-baked ideas together; greatness begins here.
Archartificer Magnifiria the Mindglow read the insc...
2025-08-10 23:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostI was trapped somewhere between a dream and a nightmare.
At one level, I clearly grasped the grim reality of my task. I faced a monster powerful enough to oblit...
2025-08-10 23:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some fenagling and wrangling on my end, I've managed to get the following implemented:
Since the chapter frequency will remain to 1x a week, Gamma Protoco...
2025-08-06 19:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra thick chapter!
ESTIMATED STRIKE-ZONE: 2km from [coordinates]
ETA: 4min 52secsYou are currently “20.2 meters” from [coo...
2025-08-03 20:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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It had bee...
2025-07-27 17:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post