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
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[111]
The 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
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[110]
Things 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
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[109]
I 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
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[108]
Fully 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
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[107]
“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
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[106]
The 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
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[105]
The 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
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[104]
I 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
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[103]
Vesper 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
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[102]
The 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
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[101]
“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
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[100]
I 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
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[099]
I 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
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[098]
“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
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[097]
“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
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[096]
With 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
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[006]
Sir 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
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[005]
After 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
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[095]
In 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
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[004]
“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
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[094]
SKREAAaaaaagghhh
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
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[003]
Level Up!
You have reached Level 5!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You can unlock a Class!
You...
2025-08-14 21:31:04 +0000 UTC
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[002]
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
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[000]
Ignore 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
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2025-08-10 23:20:02 +0000 UTC
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[093]
I 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
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GAMMA PROTOCOL
After some fenagling and wrangling on my end, I've managed to get the following implemented:
[092]
AN: Extra thick chapter!
ESTIMATED STRIKE-ZONE: 2km from [coordinates]
ETA: 4min 52secs
You are currently “20.2 meters” from [coo...
2025-08-03 20:03:12 +0000 UTC
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[091]
C̴͕̋ ̴̻͌O̸͖͒ ̷͉̎N̴̯̞͛ ̷̝͓̌S̸͚̾͠ ̶̱̓̍U̶̹̐ ̸̞̗̄M̶͇͌͌ ̷̺̈́̅E̷̺̍̌
It had bee...
2025-07-27 17:18:38 +0000 UTC
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