Elania dodged the spear by jumping backwards, a purely instinctive reaction. In contrast, channeling her [Power] into her legs to give her a burst of speed was purposeful. One thing she had noticed right away was that the Mushroohums we...
2023-09-29 04:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Anton made one final lap through the complex; his arcane sensing stone dialed to its highest sensitivity. There was no sign of any further artifacts or cultists that he had found, and yet he had failed in his mission. The s...
2023-09-29 01:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Two crimson orbs mirrored back at Elania, her reflection painted a vibrant shade of red within the water’s surface. She traced the contours of her face with slender fingers, her eyes not leaving the sight of her own reflection staring back at her. The...
2023-09-28 07:04:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The attack came so fast that the only reaction she could muster was to raise her arms. She caught the creature on its shoulders while its dazzling array of razor-sharp teeth snapped viciously in her face. The impact was strong enough to send her flying ...
2023-09-28 02:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The feeling of Fire and Water was all-encompassing.
As Elania slowly regained consciousness, the first sensation she had was of being covered in a copious amount of sweat; if someone had told her they’d just fished her out of a lake, she’d hav...
2023-09-27 07:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The choice to evolve into an Ash Demon or not, hung in the air, taunting Elania for over a minute. If this was a monster evolution game, then ‘evolving’ might make her stronger. Maybe even better suited for the hellish landscape that remained after ...
2023-09-26 22:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Yolani scanned the man as she turned to bolt, a quick info card appearing informing her of his class and level.
[Bodyguard - Human – Lvl 140]
A second soldier was behind her and reached forward and grabbed her shoulder. â€...
2023-09-25 21:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Morning had ended and the light stones overhead had reached their maximum intensity as set by the city’s day and night cycle. The Noble’s District straddled the line between the Conclave District and Mercenary District, not too far from the City Gua...
2023-09-25 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The light-hearted banter died as they crossed the threshold into the Mercenary District. A half dozen other guardsmen nodded to Henri as they passed by. Traffic flowed freely between the market and the district, but only under the watchful eye of the authorities. If someo...
2023-09-25 04:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The insistent tolling of the morning bell reverberated throughout Neftasu; its rhythm as unyielding as the stone edifices that comprised the subterranean city. An audible groan escaped from Yolani as she stirred. The glint from the massive light stones ...
2023-09-24 01:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Time lost its meaning in the dark.
Eventually, Elania nodded off for a nap. Eventually, consciousness slowly returned.
Submerged in the murky depths of her refuge, her tear-streaked face reflected palely in the dim light as she scanned her surro...
2023-09-21 22:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Elania didn’t slow down as she ran blindly through the dimly lit maze of corridors, her heart pounding against her chest with every adrenalin...
2023-09-21 20:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on the rewrite for New Life of a Summoned Demoness. Those who have read it before will likely find it familiar, but there has been a considerable amount of changes to things.
The original story ended abruptly at 115k words; I estimate the rewrite will ad...
2023-09-20 19:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Thirty-Six hours and thirty minutes since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar System, MNS Aegis Flag Bridge
The cruisers on the battle line slightly retreated as the targeted vessels accelerated, scraping together an extra fraction of a second for better targeting. All the ships in the u...
2023-09-19 11:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia headed into the Bootstrap module and aimed for the decontamination chamber. The bio-research part of the research module would hopefully provide insight into the planet’s micro-biological climate and be capable of providing a vaccine that would enable her to survi...
2023-09-16 17:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
After several hours of monitoring and taking care of anything that needed to be supervised or adjusted, the jungle mining operation was largely taken care of and on its way to full automation. It was going to take time for the CRD-X9s to dig their way to the deposit, even...
2023-09-16 17:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostSigma 16 Book Two - The Ferroin Gate
Talia faces new challenges and unexpected alliances as she fights to escape from the planet she crash landed on, Sigma 16.
Struggling to expand her fledgling industrial base, she must navigate a delicate balance between resource exploitation and the planet’s increasingly restles...
2023-09-13 19:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Twenty-four hours since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar System, MNS Aegis Flag Bridge
Alex didn’t need Nameless to provide her psych eval reports for her to notice the undercurrent of fear and stress on the flag bridge. The flag lieutenant reporting to Admiral Parks had small beads...
2023-09-12 12:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This should have been part of last week's ShipCore chapter, but I was just having a hard time with it. So just consider this the second part of 193 that should have been together.
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USD: Twenty-Four Hours since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar, MOR-1, Solarian Diplomatic Cutter 2023-09-09 12:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The rest of the day had been uneventful. The Blue had remained safely contained in the new prison module. Her spider friends were content to sleep in their growing metal nest. CRD-X9 units arrived on time and delivered the resources they’d gathered. ...
2023-09-08 07:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Twenty-Four Hours since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar, M3 Orbital Works, MNS Iron Horse, Moonlet Construction Black site
The Iron Horse’s engines hummed softly throughout the bridge as it maneuvered closer to the moonlet’s surface. It was little more than an oversized asteroid,...
2023-09-06 04:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere are lore entries I've been posting but they haven't made it onto Patreon. So here they are!
Lore - MXL-182 HEM-Enhanced Fusion Shell
Lore Entry - S-100 ‘Standard’ Fusion Cell
Lore - UFE Exploration Lore: The Heinlein Warp Drive, Shifting MegaCorp Dynamics, and the Rise of DRM ...
2023-09-04 03:41:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Verrrox’s eyes darted to the holographic monitors that hovered near the command dais at the far end of his office. The screens displayed the most up-to-date information from his Century’s various worlds, but it was the blinking red icon representin...
2023-09-02 23:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post
[Informative: It appears that the Blues may share some similarities with the spiders in their dietary requirements. However, more data is needed to confirm this hypothesis.]
Riiight. More observation. More likely, they needed the...
2023-09-01 06:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia took a deep breath of the cool sterile air her suit produced as she stepped out of the Bootstrap Module. It had taken nearly half the day for her to finish repairing her suit manually, and that made it the longest she’d been out of her suit sin...
2023-09-01 06:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The repair module for her suit had worked wonders on the outer shell and the larger parts that needed replaced. That it didn’t even require her to take the suit off to apply the repairs made it just like one of the upgrade modules, like the one that ...
2023-08-31 02:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Before retreating into the refuge of her habitation module, Talia approached the Blue ‘Taker’ and did her best to make sure the alien was still alive. The spiders immediately became more agitated, but she sent them down the ramp to their nest with ...
2023-08-29 01:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Nineteen Hours since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar, MNS Aegis Flag Bridge
Captain Young was forced to return to tending to operations when Nameless came up with a new formation makeup that forced the Aegis to maneuver. Alex shook her head and watched the man’s back before looking...
2023-08-27 05:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Seeker-H7 flashed through the air toward her remaining Lynx-M3 units and the CIWS turrets that still protected them. The aircraft’s lad...
2023-08-25 01:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Middleboro towers were the central hub of the Cloud district’s middle class. The four massive towers were aligned in a square formation, connected by a multitude of arches with walkways. Near the central floors, there was even a circular tram network...
2023-08-24 00:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post