Mechalopolis University had more than a few challenges and disputes to resolve every single day, from resolving the situation when someone spilled coffee on another person's jacket to when a disput...
2022-09-17 19:49:11 +0000 UTC
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... Nothing in particular changed for Malicia's day to day life after that. It was... In some ways it was infuriating, that even after slipping up and tasting the blood in full view of everyone, it...
2022-09-05 12:29:17 +0000 UTC
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It might seem nonsensical to assume that Central, the region where the Emperor sat upon the Golden Throne and his close family resided, where there was more money poured into hiring and maintaining...
2022-08-25 08:23:30 +0000 UTC
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Due to being 'generated in character creation', the 'Protagonist' character has a uniquely versatile breadth of options in a video game, where most others are relatively set in stone.
What Cl...
2022-08-25 08:17:25 +0000 UTC
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A basic model of PI-doll didn't include anything like distributed repulsor nodes to allow an effect similar to anti-gravity, or kinetic amplifiers to allow the movement of disproportionately large ...
2022-08-15 15:48:57 +0000 UTC
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"Humph! Don't think that this is because I l-like you, b-baka!"
Alex and Genesis considered the approximately twenty centimeter tall schoolgirl model PI-Doll as it crossed its arms...
2022-08-10 17:58:09 +0000 UTC
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The first thing that Malicia recognized about Central was that it was notably warmer, all of the time. The North was the coldest region of the Empire, of course, followed after by the peaks of the ...
2022-08-06 23:24:36 +0000 UTC
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Mechalopolis was a city built on the top of a floating super-structure, the artificial island 'Tentatio', built in a rough circular shape and with a radius of approximately thirty kilometers. It ha...
2022-07-28 21:28:47 +0000 UTC
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There was no light in the room save for the muted, low glow of lines of code scrolling across subdued and dimmed screens. The occupants didn't need the ambient light, with visors fixed over their e...
2022-07-27 18:41:50 +0000 UTC
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For a little while after Malicia woke following the fight that could be thinly veiled as either chastisement or training she wondered if Jack had simply made up the mention of the lady Ravensworth'...
2022-07-19 18:31:02 +0000 UTC
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The blades carved deeply into her forearms, scoring lines of white-hot pain as they ground against the bones where Malicia had thrown them up to block while backstepping away from the most recent s...
2022-07-11 11:00:50 +0000 UTC
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Dinner went normally, with everyone at a polite distance from one another and the meals being gracefully served by maids that would transfer the meal from a large trolley to the requisite dishes an...
2022-07-03 23:53:36 +0000 UTC
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"Today, we have a little treat prepared." the butler declared, smirking from his position standing on top of several crates that had been prepared. "This was intended to wait until you were at leas...
2022-06-27 17:00:28 +0000 UTC
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Social connections were important for the nobility, and unlike commoners, they spread out vertically as well as horizontally.
A commoner's important social connections were almost ...
2022-06-21 06:52:26 +0000 UTC
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In 'Black Heart', a Heritage can have obvious effects on the body. For example, a Porter in Malicia's orphanage had a notable feature that set her apart.
What should that be?
2022-06-19 22:22:14 +0000 UTC
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Sophie's journal was still Malicia's most treasured item, as her fourteenth birthday came and went with little fanfare.
Admittedly, the celebrations for the blood-related Ravenswor...
2022-06-16 21:23:34 +0000 UTC
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There was no remark on Malicia having missed meals, but she couldn't say as to whether that was because it had approval from the elder Ravensworths to begin with or if it was simply because such th...
2022-06-12 18:27:21 +0000 UTC
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"There's no need for you to attend dinner today. You must be exhausted, miss Malicia." the butler said, almost managing to feign kindness. "Wash up and head right to bed. Ah. And for breakfast..."<...
2022-06-09 15:53:51 +0000 UTC
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The elder son, Edward Ravensworth, was eleven years old to her twelve when Malicia had been brought to the estate.
He was still set to inherit. Not because he was the first child o...
2022-06-08 22:37:46 +0000 UTC
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The Empire of Phantasma could be broadly divided into five parts.
There was the North, frozen over and forested heavily, rich in trees and ice and not much else. The Northern wilde...
2022-06-07 17:58:58 +0000 UTC
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Sophie's little journal was about half writing practice and actual journal entries and about half prophecy that had been written just speculatively and vaguely enough to come off as idle musing abo...
2022-06-06 21:29:24 +0000 UTC
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In the Empire of Phantasma, Status was everything.
A person would be born with a Class. This was something decided in a way that no living being could find a reasoning behind. Some...
2022-06-04 14:20:01 +0000 UTC
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Try as he might, Rick couldn't get the sword out of his mind, questions of just how it had gotten there circling around his head. On some level, he wanted to believe it was a prank... but if that w...
2020-09-16 04:21:46 +0000 UTC
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It was ironic, considering he worked in an auto shop, but Rick did not actually own a car of his own. He could have one if he wanted, of course. He had the license, and he knew enough about how car...
2020-09-09 01:32:29 +0000 UTC
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The beast paused, rearing its head back and snuffling at the air with flared nostrils, head turning from side to side in uncertainty. Something had changed, it could feel it in the air. But just wh...
2020-09-04 23:58:27 +0000 UTC
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