Chapter ??? - Two Weeks Battle Royale II
Cat stood, dusting herself off, eyes flicking around. The wind carried the soft thump of more parachutes landing. Great. She hated this whole thing, but was making at least a passing effort not to let the fact show.
Aliens she could handle. They were, in her limited experience, either snarky, too-powerful beings with no sense...
2025-04-01 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Nine
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“You sure?” I asked.
Lucy nodded, and I didn’t fail to notice the dangerous glint in her eye. “I’m sure,” she said. “Don’t worry about it, I’ve been handling catgirls for years, I think I can manage one evening with a random stray.”
I read having second thoughts, and third, and fourth ones too.
The ...
2025-03-31 00:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostI was asked to write something for the end of the DT Audiobook, and... well, I might as well post it here for the non-audiobook-listening patreons!
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“Sorry I’m late!” he said as he slid into the room. It was a little cozy in there, the space filled with a few boxes, a half dozen plush chairs, and in one corner, an old cast-iron wood stove. The stove was lit filling the room...
2025-03-30 02:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostFeels like its been ages since the last update on the 25th!
Anyway, got some things done since then! We now have a Monster manual with full art, though only a couple of them are actually made. 5 skills were cut out of the game entirely. They... didn't make the cut, and thinking on it, I realized...
2025-03-29 21:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
Caroline Daniels was the world’s best assassin.
She wasn’t known for it, because famous assassins were usually only famous posthumously. The right people in the right places knew that if they asked the right questions--and paid the right amount--someone would come along and do their dirty deeds for them only to fade away and never be heard of agai...
2025-03-29 01:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirteen -
“One bottle of beer on the wall, one bottle of beer! Take one down, pass it around... No bottles of beer on the wall!” Athena sang alongside Teddy and Trinity. Sometimes Maple muttered the lyrics along with them too, but it was so quiet that it was drowned out by their singing.
There had been a lot of singing so far. The Boss had lowered...
2025-03-28 21:39:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine
56th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Shorefarm, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
The first part of their mission for the day was relatively easy. Head out past Shorefarm, along the road north, and find a place to cut the road off. Magic Nocthorn came to them, still seeming sleepy and unprepared for the day, and handed Lazur a small map...
2025-03-28 03:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Eight
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“That was cool,” Lucy said as we stepped out of the class. She reached up, stretching her back. It had the benefit of pulling her shirt out from where it was tucked into the WORD of her skirt and exposing a tiny slip of belly.
“It was... honestly, boring as hell after the start,” I said.
“Aww,” Lucy said. “You...
2025-03-27 20:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One Hundred and Seven
“Hmm,” Aurora said. Then, a minute later, with just a bit more frustration, she “Hmm’d” again. Then to everyone’s surprise, Aurora reached out and smacked the side of her console. She glanced at the others, then without so much as a hint of a blush, sat up straighter and returned to looking at the screen.
“Is... everything...
2025-03-27 01:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
So, as some of you may have noticed, I started to put together an SCS TTRPG, but... well, I'm not that stupid. I realize that this isn't something for everyone, and it is a pretty big (but fun) time sink.
Basically, I'm here to ask your opinions in the form of a very f...
2025-03-26 21:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Four
“What’s the next one?” I asked.
“Gimme a sec,” Sharp said. “You know, I can only write so fast. This one’s got a long explanation too.”
Narrative Authority
If you demand an explanation, the universe itself starts talking. A villain who would never monologue finds themselves unable to stop. The more you understand,...
2025-03-26 00:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlright... so I've gotten ahead a little!
This is the overall vibe I'm going for with the Catalogues page, at least the 'thematic' ones. A bit of everything you need, centred around a single theme. There's another 2 pages for each Catalogue, with weapons and armour and cyberware. I've finished.....
Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Three
I think Caprica really wanted to impress Bastion. More so than usual. She ended up at the front of the group, acting as our guide through a city she’d admitted to never setting foot in, but she had read about it. The only other people in our group who had as much knowledge were Amaryllis and Awen, and they’d also never been to Dee...
2025-03-25 20:50:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Seven
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“So...” I started as Nya continued to follow Lucy and I as if we’d just popped the tab on a cat of wet food. “You going to stick with us all the way to our next class?”
“You have classes together?” Nya asked.
“Just this one,” I said.
Lucy nodded. “It’s a Pol-sci class. Of a sort. I think it...
2025-03-24 22:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Twelve
“Is that everything?” he dad asked as he easily hauled up a duffle bag and chucked it into the back of his SUV. That same bag was almost too heavy for Emily to lift, and yet he’d grabbed it with one hand and lifted it like it was nothing.
She’d...
2025-03-24 15:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight
56th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Shorefarm, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
Lazur and Carnel were off to fetch their equipment from Tomas the smith, but Viridian had excused herself and told them that she had someone else she wanted to visit before they were off. That person was still parked on the edge of the town.
...
2025-03-23 22:03:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven
55th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Shorefarm, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
Maldrak was happy to see the small ocean-side town up ahead and the Gentle Tidings floating at the docks. They were still a ways away, but already he could see sailors toiling away in the town. A pair of houses had been knocked down, and it looked like th...
2025-03-22 18:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Six
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I slipped out of the class, very aware of the samurai slinking along a step behind me. Nya was being quiet, which was an excellent time to look up what I was dealing with. A browser opened in my augs, and I typed in Nya... which wasn’t helpful. ‘Nya the Japanese Samurai’ did bring up a lot more.
There was this one ancient site, bui...
2025-03-22 12:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup, I had a day off today and yup, I did spend it all on this!
Woo!
Anyway, here's the second update to the SCS-TTRPG. A Catalogue!
So, I'm thinking these play out as the equivalent of a class in any class-based TTRPG. Lots of flavour and abilities bundled together, basically, only it's mostly gear-based in this case. Shout-out to Eldritch on the Discord for help making the ta...
I decided to do weekly updates on this project, mostly for the sake of accountability and to keep people posted, but also to gauge interest in the system and see what people think. I'll be running a Session -1 on Saturday on the Discord as well!
Anyway! Here's Parabellum Ver 0.06!
Formatting is a mess, and there's a TON of unfinished stuff. Only one catalogue is in, and it's incom...
2025-03-20 17:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Six
55th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Shorefarm, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
Viridian wanted to look back at the others, but was afraid that doing so might give away their position. She wasn’t sure if... Three was a threat or not, but they might still be one. They were definitely not human, in any case.
Their body, all mecha...
2025-03-19 08:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One Hundred and Six
They swept around Uranus, using the planet’s powerful pull to turn their straight path into a tight curve that had them coming in hot behind Oberon.
Their arrival didn’t go unnoticed, not when the Sappho’s guns were still hot from her last altercation and she was followed by a pocket cruiser that was larger than most of the ships ga...
2025-03-19 05:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Three
Sharp was vibrating all the way home. So much so that she forgot to flirt--painfully--with the girls before we darted away.
She had a good reason for it.
“I had two level-ups!” she said. Then, before I could ask the obvious question, she spilled the answer out. “Combat levelled up! I’m at four!”
“That’s good,” I said. ...
2025-03-18 18:07:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Two
“Whoa!” I said as I leaned way forwards on the railings and squinted my eyes to take in Deepmarsh. It was about midday, so the sun was almost directly overhead and shining down with a bright light that made the entire world feel vibrant and colourful, for all that the world below was filled with a lot of browns and greys.
Deep...
2025-03-18 08:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Art by GoddArt, whom you may find... here: https://www.artstation.com/goddart0117
2025-03-17 13:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eleven
“Alright Boss, lay it out, what’s the plan?” Teddy asked.
She was sitting in a dark, unlit room. Nothing between her and the Boss but a long table. Sitting along the edges were her co-conspirators, all of them paying rapt attention to the woman at the end of the table.
Then the Boss got up and turned on the kitchen light. “So dark,...
2025-03-17 10:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Five
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Nya wasn’t focusing on me. It took me a stupid amount of time to realize it, but she wasn’t targeting me directly. She’d move in, swipe--why did she have claws?--then put just enough pressure on me to pull me away from the others before pouncing back onto them.
It meant that at some point, maybe a minute into the fight, I was the ...
2025-03-17 07:08:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello Samurai,
So, this is something that a few people have been asking about, and it's something that does exist in our niche. So, with the help of my friend Selkie Myth, I was able to put something together for anyone who writes an SCS Fanfiction.
This is a contract. It allows the persons who sign it the right to own and publish and distribute their own SCS a fanfictions fo...
2025-03-15 08:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Four
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“Don’t forget,” Lucy said. “We have our first Applied Pol-Sci this afternoon.”
“Yeah yeah,” I said. “Kiss before you go?”
Lucy grinned and gave me a quick kiss before darting out of the Bastion with a skip in her step. She’d been doing that a lot lately. Skipping, not kissing. Well, there’...
2025-03-14 06:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Five
55th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era
Shorefarm, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex
“Oi!” a man called out.
Viridian glanced up. She’d only just exited Tomas’s shop. The smith had been working on their short swords for the last few hours and had repaired their pikes as well. It was interesti...
2025-03-13 05:20:39 +0000 UTC View Post