Interlude - K & K
Kevin looked up as someone pushed the door open. He was in an apartment, though he supposed that it wasn’t much of an apartment anymore if no one actually rented the place out. It was one of those nicer habitation blocks. Enough square-footage to handle a family of six or so. Three bedrooms, one full bathroom, a water closet.
Most of these pr...
2025-06-11 20:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Forty-Three
The biplanes continued to circle the Beaver Cleaver while we moved towards the city. The Ostri who’d jumped aboard stayed by the front of the ship, and signalled that we were safe to land to his companions using a clever sort of mana-burst technique.
Amaryllis mentioned that it was something that other nations were loo...
2025-06-10 18:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty -
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I was worried that Shy would continue to be... well, herself, but Tankette turned out to be an expert at teasing some conversation out of the girl. “Ah, yes, this is... well, it’s a little embarrassing,” Tankette said.
She set down a plate in the middle of the table in the living room. It was one of those self-assembled tables t...
2025-06-09 15:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
And... it's done? Kinda? Almost?
Look, it's basically done. Minus all the missing art... and the typos... and the stuff that was left on the cutting room floor.
Anyway! I'm rushing to get stuff done for the Kickstarter. As it turns out, making a pre-launch page...
2025-06-08 01:40:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine
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“Um,” Shy said, which from her was basically the equivalent of a whole sentence.
“Yeah?” I asked. We were heading to the kitchen. Well, I was heading to the kitchen. Shy was tagging along, hands together and eyes darting around as if she was in a hive looking for the next alien about to try to eat her head... which...
2025-06-07 16:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight
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I had class again the next day, but I couldn’t remember what it was until we landed. Pol Sci. Again. I was thoroughly bored with the class before it even started, but Lucy had a growing girl-crush on Professor Roswell, and I was always there to support Lucy.
The old bat did have some weird charisma to her. She clearly didn’t have a ...
2025-06-04 10:52:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Forty-Two
“Broccoli!”
I jumped, jolting so hard from the surprise that I almost bonked my head against the ceiling. “Yes?” I asked.
I was in my room, repacking a few things since I had a few minutes to spare and the sailing had been pretty quiet for most of the day. I was mostly trying to figure out how to dress to deal w...
2025-06-04 00:23:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven
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“Luuuuucy!” I called as I slumped back home. Instead of being greeted by the most beautiful woman in the world, I had to side-step Junior as she stomped over to me and tried to plop herself down in my way.
“Hey!” Junior said. She ran around, then stood before me again. “Wait, I need to talk.”
“About?” I asked. I wa...
2025-06-03 01:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Six
“So, what now?” Athena asked. She was one of the first down the ladder leading to the roof, and was still feeling a warm glow of satisfaction that she’d found it. She would have been happy if anyone but Teddy found it, but finding it herself let her smile at Teddy in just that way that annoyed the bear to no end.
“Now?” Emily asked. “I...
2025-06-02 08:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'll get around to writing today's chapters (SCS and Fluff) right after this!
... Well, maybe after this I'll play some games, but right after that I'll get around to it, promise!
So, big news! The first bit is the one that'll be easier to announce! Podium reached out to me with some dates for the releases that we'll be having between now and June of next year! That's just ...
2025-06-02 05:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Six
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Mister Veaux gestured to the table. “Please, please be seated, I’ll have someone bring us fresh refreshments.” He walked over, only pausing when his loafers crunched on freshly broken crystal. He was the first to sit.
I walked around the table, pulled out a seat, then plopped down across from him. Almost immediately I leaned b...
2025-06-01 01:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Five
“Now what, Boss?” Teddy asked. She was getting a bit bored.
The last documentary she watched about bears said that bears in captivity needed lots of ‘enrichment.’ she wasn’t so sure about that. The ‘rich’ part of the word sounded awfully capitalist-coded to her, but the bears in the doc looked like they were having fun despite...
2025-05-31 01:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Five - (Probably gonna title this one 57,646,075,230,342,400,000)
Birb note: Mister Veaux has renewed his subscription to his monthly Gender plan, and is now a Male™ once more. The character is no longer gonna switch up genders at random (unless I make a mistake again).
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The inside of the Velvet Wheel was... okay, I ha...
2025-05-29 01:31:51 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
You don't see announcements like this very often! Introducing... LitRPG!
LitRPG is an Action Roguelite (think Vampire survivors) taking a few characters from some franchises and pitting them against each hoards of monsters and aliens.
And yes, you can play as Cat!
There ar...
2025-05-28 17:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Forty-One
We could have left early the next morning... but that would have been a little bit lame. Besides, once we started to think about it, it wasn’t hard to come up with valid excuses to put off our departure until the early evening.
For one, I wanted to take the whole crew out for a nice lunch. Something like a mini-party. That involv...
2025-05-27 20:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Four
“Okay, Aurora, go ahead,” Emily said. She said it as if she had the faintest clue of how the power worked. She was she that if she poked at it enough, the Endgame would eventually unlock the powers she wanted, but she hadn’t seen an interface for that.
Aurora nodded, then looked up and down the quiet street. “Well, here goes, I suppose,...
2025-05-27 00:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Four
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“S, where are we going now?” Nya asked.
I frowned as I considered it. We were back in the Bastion getting buckled into the ship’s cockpit. It was still relatively early. Seven-ish in the evening, actually. I wasn’t hungry, and I wasn’t in a hurry to get anywhere. I had classes in the morning, but like... I wasn’t goi...
2025-05-26 19:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Just a small update! We're doing a Roleplay playtest today (hopefully testing Hacking as a Skill).
Playtest: Intrusion
The next playtest will be a one-shot, roleplay-heavy Playtest where your character will be tasked with entering a Corporate building to… ...
2025-05-23 16:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
At 1200 EST, we'll be running another playtest of Hope//Punk!
I need to test mid//high level play, so the goal of this test is just that! Here's the character requirements:
Character level: 20
Samurai Points available at start: 2,000
Backgrounds: Any
Catalogues: Any
I...
2025-05-19 12:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Mostly just updating because we're doing a playtest today, and I wanna share the latest version of the PDF with everyone!
If you wanna join... uh, SCS TTRPG channel on the discord, we're starting at 1200 EST, so 3 hours from now!~
I'm planning on doing 3 more playtests this week. Those will be a bit easier to jump into with a fresh character, I think!
2025-05-17 13:03:37 +0000 UTC
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Because I haven't taken more than a day off here and there since I went to the UK last year.
But also because I have a heap of non-writing work to tackle.
Like, I'm planning on running at least three playtests of Hope//Punk this week (Come join! I need new players, experi...
2025-05-17 01:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Three
Emily woke up surprisingly refreshed the next morning, which was saying something considering the amount of elbows and knees that had been poked into her all night long.
Today was the third day since they’d arrived at the Endgame, if she counted the day of their arrival as a whole day. Almost thirty-nine hours, basically. That many hours, and ...
2025-05-16 15:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Three
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“Okay, so,” I said, mostly to fill time as I got my thoughts in order. “You know how you and the kid have been clearing the building out floor-by-floor, farming points, killing aliens and all that?”
“Yes,” Hedgehog said.
“Right, well, that’s cool and all, but we think that there’s a good chance that the aliens ar...
2025-05-15 06:37:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Forty
“So, you wanted to talk?” Caprica asked.
We’d made it to the Beaver... eventually. It took a bit of getting lost before that, but we did make it back. By then, the sun was set, but it was pretty much winter, so that wasn’t anything too special, the sun was setting pretty early.
Caprica and I, as well as a f...
2025-05-13 21:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Two
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“I mean, that was conjecture,” I said. “For all we know, this building will be standing here this time next year.”
“You know, I spent most of my life low-key kind of afraid that all of the megabuildings above me, or at least the supporting plate, would just collapse one day,” Rac said. “Like, once, about four years back, the...
2025-05-13 06:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Two
Maple had dreamed of doing this. Walking into one of those big stores that sold a bunch of stuff and just... grabbing everything and anything she wanted.
Like, she wanted that, and those, and she definitely wanted that. And here she was, standing in the entrance of a hardware store with no limits to what she could grab.
Only... ther...
2025-05-12 21:31:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-One
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Gros Baton slowly lowered his styrofoam bowl, then glanced past me to Rac. “T’avais pas envie de me dire qu’elle allait venir ici?”
Rac snorted. “Nah, I thought it being a surprised would be funnier. As... repayment, for that surprise the other day.”
Gros Baton stared for just a moment before rolling his eyes. “Bitch,...
2025-05-11 06:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-One
“You’ve got the next shift?”
Jezebelle looked up from her tablet and at the man addressing her. He was in a full costume, mask that covered most of his face except for his mouth and nose, skin-tight bodysuit over legs and arms, and a sort of almost militaristic top. He had a small patch on his lapel that read Duty Bound.
She knew that ...
2025-05-10 00:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Big update... mostly since it's been a minute since the last one, so a lot of small things piled up. I don't want to push this too hard, in case people get annoyed by the constant emails, ya know? So I'm giving more time between each.
Alright, onto the list of changes and additions: 2025-05-09 00:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post