It takes Emily two more attempts to get to the same point in the battle without any casualties after the boarding ships once again unluckily prove deadly to their inhabitants on the way to the ground.
Emily again manages to ground four of the twenty interceptors before Virgil starts throwing bolts of fire towards her. This time, she dodges...
2025-01-06 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostEmily once again leaves the engine room and heads to her workshop to prepare her potions and ammunition alone. This time, she pays extra attention to the powder blend filling the hollow shells of her ice bullets.
First, she adds some white iron filings to the bottom of her mixing beaker, before grabbing a handful of five lesser ice crystal...
2025-01-03 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis marks the end of my scheduling spree for now, gonna go write for a bit instead. I will be back tomorrow with some more after editing them a little.
Sorry for the notifs, kinda forgot to turn them off after the first like I was meant to... I'm kinda tired right now.
(Also free cookies to anyone who understands any of the niche re...
2025-01-03 00:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post“You can’t give them human thoughts; the poor raccoons will get depression!”
--A raccoon rights activist arguing against genetic modification online.
[“What?”] I ask, tilting my head to the side again.
All of my siblings mimic me, and Gwen pauses for a moment before responding, clearly a...
2025-01-03 00:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Trash Bandit’s raccoons? Yeah, of course you can feed them. They love snacks!
Just don’t give them any cotton candy. For some reason, it makes her cry.”
--Newtonian, talking to a civilian after the incursion.
[{Hey, Spot}] I chirp back through our mental connection, knowing how t...
2025-01-03 00:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Eee, eee eeee.”
“E! Ee ee. Eee e.”
--Spot and Stripe, plotting The Great Hotdog Robbery of 2032.
The black ooze hits my chest, spreading out to cover every inch of my body, creeping up over my face. I hold my breath and shut my eyes, but the expected rush of fluid up my nose neve...
2025-01-03 00:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait-wait-wait. Back off a little. Four hundred?”
“Lowest estimate.”
“You’re saying that there are at least four hundred hives hidden in the sewers of England alone? That’s crazy talk!”
“A conservative guess really. There’s probably one right under Buckingham palace.” 2025-01-03 00:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“Do I trust my AI? Depends on what with.
My life? In a heartbeat.
My body upgrades? Not in a million years.
This fucker in my head has tried to give me animal ears more times than I can count! No, shut up, I won’t hear you out! THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN I’LL ENJOY THEM?!”
--Shado...
2025-01-03 00:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Protector AI have admitted to generating their personalities to fit their chosen Vanguard. Our study of subjects one through five in your information pack, along with the government records of dead Vanguard, have revealed that this leads to a few curious patterns forming.
There are three main relationship types the Protecto...
2025-01-03 00:09:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Are war crimes really valid against plants? I mean, come on!
It’s not like they’re people or something.”
--Uncredited. Suspected: Samurai Shoggoth, during the Global Incursion.
The plants near silently turn some of their ranks to face me, and the entire flock of flyers swoop down...
2025-01-03 00:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Most Samurai will die in their first incursion. Can anyone hazard a guess at the most common cause of death? No?
It’s carelessness.
It’s easy to think you’re invincible when you’ve just been thrown crazy alien tech. Unfortunately, the Antithesis never fail to capitalise on a weakness, and most Samurai...
2025-01-03 00:06:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Remember well. Antithesis are not animals. They’re plants, and they’re not just any plants, they’re weeds. Given a chance, they’ll always grow back. Roughly half of the incursions we deal with are the result of a hive that has grown from a few forgotten corpses somewhere in a hard to access place.
So, unless you hav...
2025-01-03 00:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post“It's not known if Protectors chose Vanguard with certain... inclinations, or if their AIs are actively encouraging them, but there is an active trend for many Samurai to modify their bodies with animal characteristics.
And so, Dear Members of The Board, I present to you the newest addition to our Samurai fashion line that w...
2025-01-02 23:59:26 +0000 UTC View Post“I have been wondering about this for a while now. A lot of samurai have changed their gender, right?”
“I know you don’t want to go to a gynaecologist, but getting a sex change is not getting you out of it.”
“What? Right, no, not what I meant. I was just wondering if that was one of the deciding fact...
2025-01-02 23:57:36 +0000 UTC View PostBit of a warning for this one just in case!
Tw:
Deadnaming and dysphoria fun (not so fun).
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“The advent of samurai-tech has made embracing your gender both easier and harder in many ways.
On one hand, with enough money, there aren't really many limits to customising your body. On ...
2025-01-02 23:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter half of Oxford was blown up to end an incursion in late 2023, the city underwent a rapid period of growth with the help of several local samurai, who caused the explosion, and massive corporate investment. Several nearby towns were almost completely emptied as their residents moved into the forming megacity, New Oxford.
...
2025-01-02 23:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, the birb has given permission, so chapters are being dropped here too!
The first five chapters are available on RoyalRoad or ScribbleHub if you're interested and need to catch up!
Also, I'm making no promises on advance chapters always being available for this one, so its available for all tiers for now.
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2025-01-02 23:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a chapter post, but just letting you guys know I'm releasing a Stray Cat Strut fanfiction on RoyalRoad and Scribble.
I will probably be putting some advanced chapters on here once I have bird's permission, but I make no promises....
Also here's the link for scribble if you want to read it there before it gets approved: 2025-01-02 12:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The Clock rewinds and Emily finds herself back aboard Calypso in full control, guiding the ship towards Erenmoor from the engine room. She breaks her meditation, opening her eyes that glint with a cold, calculating light.
There’s no way I can actually block that spell if he aims it at Calypso. Even a glancing blow instantly tore thro...
2024-12-30 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostEmily stands up, stretching her arms above as she looks at the army ahead, her eyes scanning their numbers with relative ease despite the low light.
“Hmm,” she mumbles, sending a large stream of machina into Calypso and using Overdrive to speed up their approach. “Doing this at night isn’t a good idea. We’re still an easy target ...
2024-12-27 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCalypso sets down a short distance from Erenmoor once again, and this time Emily doesn’t leave the ship. Instead, she sleeps for six hours, completely resting all of her cores ready for the final break for the border.
After, she wakes up and heads towards the engine room to meditate till lift-off. On her way, she hears faint gunshots fro...
2024-12-23 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dropping from the ship to the sands below, Emily sprints across the desert with crackling charge burning her footprints into the ground beneath her. It takes a short while for the city to enter her sight and, as it does, she can’t help but let out an impressed whistle.
The entire city is wrapped in a gargantuan wall, equalling Chro...
2024-12-20 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Emily!” Podrick calls out, knocking his fist against the wall above the crawlspace she’s tucked into to grab her attention. “Ash says they think we’re done and wants you to come check.”
“Okay,” Emily calls back, her steady hand carving a rune into a structural beam of metal without pause. “I’ll be there in a momen...
2024-12-16 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Haha,” Podrick’s father laughs heartily. “It’s good to see you, my boy.”
Emily silently watches the reunion from the side, the sight awakening memories of Herber, which she quickly pushes away as the lack of emotional connection unsettles her, a pang of guilt and discomfort resonating in her chest despite her absolute calm. 2024-12-13 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Emily settles down in her temporary workshop with Podrick for the duration of the storm. She tirelessly works on fabricating armour panels while watching through her spider scout for anything approaching the ship.
A few times, she notices distinct clusters of motion passing them by, but nothing approaches Calypso, so she happily ignores th...
2024-12-09 18:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Emily’s earth-shattering kick connects, the twisting vortex of wind dominating the space disperses, revealing the elemental within. It appears frozen in its attacking stance, the motion of its upper torso halted, with all of the sand within its body half-cooked into a solid mass that leaves several gaps.
Emily capitalises on t...
2024-12-06 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the spirit,” Emily says, offering a shoulder to help Angela keep the weight off her injured leg. “Let’s head to the drone hatch, I want easy access to the outside so I can observe the storm while I work.”
“So that’s how you got out ahead of us,” Anton says in realisation, shaking his head and turning away. “I’...
2024-12-02 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis was meant to post on friday but I messed up while scheduling it... Ah well, enjoy it a few days early.
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Emily puts all of the plates through a series of tests, checking everything from their resistance to bullets and magic to their density in order to select the perfect choice. She settles on a blend of steel contai...
2024-11-27 20:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostEmily and Podrick return to a warm welcome aboard Calypso. The moment they step through the ship’s main hatch, they’re met with the barrels of several guns. Podrick steps back in surprise, but Emily simply walks forward unconcerned.
“Hey,” she says with a small wave before reaching up to drop her hood and pull the scarf from her fa...
2024-11-25 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy and Kyle both flinch at the familiarity and scorn in her tone and glance at each other in confusion.
“You know us?” Kyle asks, relaxing slightly and rubbing his neck.
“I know you definitely can’t beat me in a fight. Speaking of, where have your little cronies gone? Did they get taken away when you were declared failure...
2024-11-22 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post