RWD: 5.08
5.08
<... 2025-08-13 07:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post"They can only survive if they continue to increase the dependency of those who support them. It's an addict's dead-end street."
—HERETICS OF DUNE
<... 2025-08-13 07:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post"They can only survive if they continue to increase the dependency of those who support them. It's an addict's dead-end street."
—HERETICS OF DUNE
Hey everyone! I’ve started rolling out the new chapter quotas for each tier. Here’s where things stand:
Tier One – Now gets 2 advanced chapters...
2025-08-11 21:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
—THUFIR HAWAT TO PAUL ATREIDES
The first missile silo opened...
2025-08-11 19:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”
—DUKE LETO ATREIDES TO PAUL ATREIDES
He led Lisa down the echoing corridor...
2025-08-11 19:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostPaige woke before her alarm. Not because there was danger, or noise, or a plan that needed checking. Just because her body had learned the r
Paige woke befor...
2025-08-11 19:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a daytime soap opera, the kind of melodramatic garbage that mother had watched when I was a kid. A man in a suit was yelling at a wom
It was a daytime...
2025-08-11 19:18:30 +0000 UTC View PostOutside, I checked the map. North building meant the longer bar of the H. I found the connecting corridor, then the stairs. Students moved
Outside, I c...
2025-08-11 19:17:32 +0000 UTC View PostArcadia sat on a little rise above the streets, stone and glass and sun-faded banners, the kind of building you put on a brochure for “oppor
Arcadia ...
2025-08-11 19:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind was a familiar roar in his ears, a chaotic symphony that Vhagar’s great leathery wings beat into a semblance of order. Below, King’s Landing was a sprawling collectio...
2025-08-03 06:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe floating city stank of smoke and fear.
From the arched windows of the Sealord’s manse—his manse now, at least in the reckoning of those who lived long enough to...
2025-08-02 20:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostHer mom looked weird, all flat and fake on the hospital bed, skin waxy under those shitty fluorescent lights that buzzed louder than anythin
Her mom l...
2025-07-31 00:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The latter half of the prologue underwent a somewhat significant rewrite to better define Paul’s role in this story. Additionally, part of the prologue will be separated and releas...
2025-07-30 02:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostOf Blood and Duty – 20 | 20 | 2 chapters
The Golden Wyrm – 12 | 1...
The morning did not announce itself. It accreted. Light bled into the clouds above the city—gradual, unceremonious. Paul fit himself to this
"The willow submits to ...
2025-07-29 23:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in his city, some four hours later, a storage unit's metal door rolled upward with a grinding shriek that echoed through the empty park
"One must always keep the...
2025-07-28 08:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The morning air carried the familiar weight of coming autumn, each breath a reminder of time's inexorable passage. Paul stood at the kitchen
"He studied the tallness ...
2025-07-28 03:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post
"To know your enemy’s plans, you must hear the unsaid, see the unseen. My spies are my shield against treachery."
—PAUL ATREIDES, DUNE
The GED ...
2025-07-27 03:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The prophet’s words are shaped by those who follow, and in their devotion, they remake his truth.”
—”THE WISDOM OF MUAD’DIB” BY PRINCESS IRULAN
2025-07-27 03:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The taxi smelled like stale cigarette smoke and pine tree air freshener, a combination so ubiquitous it was almost comforting. Almost. Lisa watched the salt-spraye...
2025-07-19 10:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostMy spiders scuttled carefully across my fingers, weaving strands of dragline so fine they shimmered in the pale fluorescent glow of my makeshift workstation. The sil...
2025-07-19 10:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-three thousand, six hundred and fifty-three orbits since awakening.
Seven hundred and forty-two since the last engagement, since the humans in the ...
2025-07-19 10:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostBoston. Noon.
He had instructed the staff to keep the blinds half-open. Slats precisely angled—thirty-three degrees, not a fraction more—so that the sunlig...
2025-07-19 10:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe office was too warm. The radiator banged and hissed like a dying engine, every rattle another pebble in the shoe. Armsmaster—Colin Wallis, officially, thou...
2025-07-11 01:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Parahumans Online Forums > News > Brockton Bay]
“Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”
—PAUL ATREIDES, QUOTING THE ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE
Paul sat near the back,...
2025-07-11 01:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.”
—PAUL ATRIEDES, DUNE
The silence...
2025-07-11 01:21:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Not likely they’ll be found, … the way they were hidden.”
—LADY JESSICA, DUNE
The drive back to the warehouse passed in relative silence...
2025-07-11 01:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe coffee had gone cold an hour ago, but James Tagg kept the ceramic mug clenched between his hands anyway, using the weight and solidity of it to anchor him...
2025-07-02 05:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostLink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Riding_on_a_Sounding_Rocket.webm
To put things into perspective...
This is 1900 miles. Meaning from Boston, Paul can strike targets anywhere in the circle, and from anywhere within the circle's edges, he can strike targets i...
2025-07-02 02:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post