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Brewer King 2 - 02

“Fire in the Night,” San invoked. The bonfire flared to light, illuminating the grim faced men and women who awaited the falling of the night.

“There was only one in the beginning,” O...

IDGM4 - 13 - Saturn Numbers

The first step to creating core material was the creation of conductive gel. The first step to creating conductive gel was leveling up mana channelers to shape the mana base components. ...

Brewer King 2 - 01

The snow crunched under Sanjay “San” King’s boots; the thin crust of ice snapping and his boots plunging into the undisturbed snow. The wind was still, but he could smell smoke in ...

IDGM4 - 12 - HN4528Z

Maya appeared upon the flat RSH plain and began summoning drone workers. Tender appeared and immediately began ordering the drones to grab the summoned material and begin building. Soon ...

IDGM4 - 11 - Bio Core

“What have you sneaky little buggers been up too?” Maya wondered out loud as she stared into the internals of the C5 rogue AI mana core. She tapped her tool against the marsani casin...

IDGM4 - 10 - Down Time

“Lemme out, lemme out!” Emilia screamed and then began vomiting.

“Oh, god, did you just barf on me?” Maya demanded.

“Lemme out!” Emilia kept yelling.

Maya d...

IDGM4 - 09 - Working the Problem

“Easy, now,” Maya called out as she detached the last bolt. There was a massive shudder as the bolt plinked off into the darkness, lost forever in the maze of wires, components, and ...

IDGM4 - 08 - Operation Overlord

The wind whistled as Maya stared into the gloomy horizon. She tapped her fingers rhythmically upon the rough roll cage of the scouter, casting occasional looks over her shoulder. The two...

IDGM4 - 07 - Trash Valley

“Contact!” one of the scouts from Vehicle Four announced.

Maya pivoted the railgun in their direction and turned on the active scanners. Her HUD lit up with dozens of rogue AIs...

IDGM4 - 06 - Third Army

Maya shook her head and let out a series of soft curses.

“Stupid,” she said as she unhooked various cables from the flesh sample before her. She grabbed hold of a metallic rail...

IDGM4 - 05 - Double Step

“Ah, there it is,” Maya said.

“What do you got, boss?” Tender asked, looking up from the disassembled motor assembly he was working on.

“The mighty mana-chondria,�...

IDGM4 - 04 - Dick City

“This is so fucking ridiculous,” Emilia muttered as the wind whipped her hair and she clung onto the grab bar. Around her dust swirled and the thumping of feet and the slight squeal ...

IDGM4 - 03 - Skip

“The orcs seem to be having fun,” Emilia said, with a tight look on her face.

Maya looked up from her tablet to see the young Mage enter what she was calling the command center...

IDGM4 - 02 - Flesh Mob

“Always be prepared,” Maya said as she summoned weapons and material. The drones began handling them, setting them out on the gray dirt. “Well, Actually I was preparing for the def...

IDGM4 - 01 - Seven Thousand

Maya awoke to a rumbling noise and her world rocking slightly. She blinked her eyes and realized there was a bandage covering her vision. She moved it aside to see a familiar ...

Brewer King - Epilogue

For a week heavy snows hit White Tower. It was as if an entire season’s of snow had been waiting for this moment. Howling winds tore through the shattered and burned out buildings acro...

Brewer King 54

Hesna had arrived. San stared at the towering figure in the flames. It hurt his eyes, it shook his mind, and all he wanted to do was scream and gouge his eyes out. Yet he stood frozen be...

Brewer King 53

Havatair took the lead, relegating the non-professionals to the rear. San shuffled along, his thoughts straying and varied. The bottle of mana weighed heavily in his robes; the responsib...

B3 - Epilogue

Pegarios felt the death of his Mother. He grieved and wailed and cut his flesh as any good grieving son would have done. As was expected from him. As the gods would have wanted him to do...

B3-43 - Bubble

Yosi was getting a headache from the battles going on. She could almost feel the explosions and death filling the Cage. It was one of the side effects of being connected too long, so sai...

Fractured World 011

“Well, don’t drink the water or stay in here too long,” Samira said, glancing at the corpse of the cub.

“These stones, they do this?” Yasimir asked.

“We found som...

B3-42 - Battle of the Rune

Maya hopped over rubble only to immediately hop right back over. There was an explosion of flesh and bone and gore a moment later.

“What the hell was that?” Chu demanded, wipin...

Fractured World 010

“I speak to you thus, mother to mother,” the old monkey bird lady said, “kill these beasts that terrorize our people and we shall have good relations between our people and yours.�...

Fractured World 009

“Live young?” Dal asked.

“Of course they’re alive,” Allakor replied.

“Not born in eggs?”

“Eggs? No, they are born from mothers and they grow up.”

B3-41 Only Fools Lead From the Front

The Cage was in pain. Was that even possible? She had been getting quiet a bit of ‘feelings’ before the Dimensional Poison had shut her down, but it never really occurred to Maya that the Cage ...

Fractured World 008

There was a hideous squelch as Dal slammed the machete down into the creature forming from the floor of the core room. He could almost see the melted core angrily gleam at him as he kill...

Fractured World 007

Dal rolled his shoulders and began stretching. It was still early, perhaps half an hour before sunrise, but he felt completely rested and awake. That was the wonders of upgrading to Rege...

B3-40 - Etched in Blood

“Move, move!” the sergeant screamed. “Come on, little piggies, you wanna live forever?”

The boars surged forward, carrying their shotguns, glaives, and swords. Emilia stagg...

Fractured World 006

“Two thousand pounds of concrete make one iron bird,” Dal said. He flopped down onto the couch, his t-shirt slicked with sweat and his arms scratched and covered with concrete dust.<...

Fractured World 005

“There it is,” Samira whispered.

The pair sat in on the third floor, looking eastward toward the vast landscape that spread before them. Or would have spread before them, if it...