AN: By the time you read this chapter, I'm probably getting hammered at a Christmas party, so if there is any mistake in it, it'll have to wait until I get rid of my hangover ... so probably Monday. Hope you enjoy!
*****
The other Sisters, I decided to just put to sleep like the Marines. Killing that last group felt like … bullying. Bullying a group of supremely irritating and mu...
2025-12-20 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Disclaimer: Objectively gratuitous amounts of violence will be committed against the Sisters of Battle in this chapter. Echidna might think herself objective, but she really is not. I'm not writing with an Omniscient, objective Narrator in the POV.
*****
Aaaaaand that brings me back to having to deal with the Sisters again. Great. No more distractions. I sighed. The fe...
2025-12-17 17:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostThey were the Shield of Humanity, the Hammer that struck down the greatest and most terrible foes of Mankind. Their mandate came from Malcador the Hero himself, and in their bodies were geneseed crafted from the genome of the Emperor of Mankind himself.
He was Rhamiel of the 2nd Brotherhood, and he had failed. That was the one thought running through his head as he saw that potent p...
2025-12-13 17:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This chapter was pretty fun to write, hope you guys will like it.
***
I stood amidst the two hundred slumbering Storm Wardens, taking my time to pick and choose the most interesting pieces of equipment they had on them. The Lock-Warden had a hexagrammatically warded body-suit under his Artificer Power Armour. I also found an Iron Halo on the Captain of the 7th Company and added ...
2025-12-10 16:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostHumans were sometimes so stupid and self-destructive. Had all the regular humans in the world of Spite just all lain down, got comfortable and allowed my spore-cloud to lull them to sleep, none of them would have died. But no, they had to be competent enough to be forewarned of the threat, and stupid enough to panic and start a damned stampede eight times out of ten.
My spores did k...
2025-12-06 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn all honesty, Lorgath Maclir was rather hopeful. Not in victory, that would be impossible unless the God-Emperor himself descended to smite his enemy. No, he was hopeful that he could make taking the world of Spite a pyrrhic victory for the xenos and the traitors. He would make them bleed for every street, for every building, for every damned wall and fortification.
The population...
2025-12-03 17:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s pack up and go solve this little issue,” I said, clapping my hands as if to dust it off as I turned away from the latest Watch Station I had just ambushed. It was named Bellom because it floated in the Bellom system, around the planet Bellom. Creative, I know. It had probably been plopped down there to keep an eye out for the gigantic space-whale-thingy that was sleeping in the sys...
2025-11-29 17:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostHoly Terra, the birthplace of Mankind. Amberley had only been to the planet twice, and while the Imperial Palace and the headquarters of the other great organisations of the Imperium were absolutely majestic, the rest of the planet … was not so much. It was said that the last drop of water had been stolen and sold on a black market auction years before the Great Crusade. Of the natural wildli...
2025-11-26 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, gang, the fun's over!” I announced with a clap and a grin, making my voice echo in the ears of my three fellow humanoids. “Time to wrap this up and get to doing what we actually came here for, and of course, by that I mean I’m going to get to work and you get to sit back and relax.”
With that, I Blinked back to where Amberley and Cain were fighting for their ...
2025-11-22 17:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere were as many different methodologies, approaches and styles in the Holy Orders of the Emperor's Inquisition as there are specific Inquisitors. Still, they could, nonetheless, be slotted into categories, or rather, paradigms. Depending on the Ordo they were parts of, which faction they were in inside that specific Ordo, whether they preferred ‘loud’ or ‘silent’ methods, and so on a...
2025-11-19 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostMia had prepared for the pain. She knew magic could hurt her even in this — Wisp — form, but she didn’t have time for anything else. Stupidly, she didn’t have her trusty Arcane Shield spell ready to cast as she usually did in combat situations, nor did she have a Lesser Ward to protect her. Trying to dodge and Wisp Form were her only options, and she chose the latter in her panic. ...
2025-11-17 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostOctavian delivered on his promise of information about all the players of the Jericho Reach, with a focus on any of the more dangerous and secretive outposts of the Imperium in the sector. It was just about the only part of our agreement that he’d been able to deliver on so soon. Calling off the Achilus Crusade would either require a lengthy trip back to Terra or the use of the unreliable Ast...
2025-11-15 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hello there, I am back, and I am now powered by dumplings and craft beer!
******
Amberley Veil had lived a long, adventurous life. So much so that what most people would consider the greatest or most horrible experience of their lifetimes became just another Tuesday to her. She had hunted down rogue Inquisitors, infiltrated Chaos cults, and held back Tau invasi...
2025-11-12 17:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostSparkle found himself with an overwhelming need for distractions, for something to occupy himself with. As heartwarming as watching his Bond cuddle her partner was, he wasn't the type to sit still and just be. He needed action, and if not that, then something interesting to satisfy his curiosity.
That was how he found himself sneaking around the building, eavesdropping on c...
2025-11-10 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I usually try not to write the same scene from different POVs, as that makes for boring reading most of the time, but I felt like the last chapter and the one before it deserved it. (Also, sorry for the late upload, I was binge-reading and then suddenly it was '18:12'. Oopsie.)
Also, as I said in the previous post: I'm going on a short vacation to Prague this ...
2025-11-05 17:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post“This is …,” Mia started, trailing off as she couldn’t find a word that accurately described the situation Brent laid out after returning from his debrief.
“Fucked,” Mark said. “The word you are looking for is fucked, both the situation and us. We are well and thoroughly fucked.”
“Okay, you can stop cursing now,” Lina huffed with a halfhearted glar...
2025-11-03 17:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hello there, it was a bit of a surprise, but I got the opportunity to join in on a short 3-day vacation to Prague the next weekend (Nov 7-9), and so I'll have to cancel the chapter that's supposed to go live that Saturday (The next chapter after this one comes out on Wednesday, so I'm talking about the one after that) since I don't have enough of a backlog to lean on. (I us...
2025-11-01 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI got the name of the planet Cain had last seen Octavian at from his head. I had a Navigator’s map of the Jericho Reach in my head already, having extracted it from the minds of the Navigators in Tetrarchus’ fleet, but I double checked it in the mind of the Navigator that ferried Cain’s group across the Warp. My mind-cores cross-referenced them, evening out the differences and adding in t...
2025-10-29 17:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostMia woke up the next morning with a smile, feeling the warm rays of the sun caress her cheeks and the warmth of her girlfriend’s body still embracing her. Camie was snoring softly, her fingers curled into the hem of Mia’s PJ shirt, and a leg thrown over Mia’s.
The girl was a cuddler, and Mia couldn’t have been happier for it. She’d read once that people had different love ...
2025-10-27 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I object,” I said, arms crossed as I stared at the Tau faces before me, taking up the entire wall like a hundred little floating heads. “I won’t stop you, but I want you to know that this is stupid. You have read the reports on Sebasticor Ebongrave, you’ve been fighting the man for decades. He had to have a detailed psychological profile built up by now. You should know peace 2025-10-25 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: Sorry guys, I totally forgot about the chapter. I thought it was only tuesday for some reason.
*****
Void Krakens were fascinating creatures. The interesting part began with the fact that ‘Void Kraken’ didn’t refer to a single species; it was merely a catch-all term the Imperium used for any and all colossal void fauna that acted in a similar way. They all...
2025-10-22 18:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostMia retreated into the far back of the group with Camie, with her back against the wall. Sparkle was further back, watching the soldiers closest to Mia for any sign of being a bit too jumpy or prone to getting trigger-happy.
Mia didn’t like their chances against the soldiers, they had fortified positions and probably enchanted bullets. That didn’t mean she couldn’t make their ...
2025-10-20 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostOctavian Gaius, Custodian Guard of the Emperor of Mankind, stepped into the dingy little bar hidden away in a back alley. He barely graced the two patrons with a glance, making sure they were inconsequential. The barkeep looked up, his eyes widening before he glanced towards the stairs leading up to the second floor.
Octavian nodded and swept by, making his way up the stairs, each step cr...
2025-10-18 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostCiaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium, celebrated patriot, exemplar of Commissars everywhere, was considering whether he should have just stayed a tunnel rat in the bellows of the Hive City that birthed him.
It would have been a horrible life, and he likely would have died many, many decades ago from some sickness or getting shanked for a scrap of food by another homeless vagr...
2025-10-15 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe cracked marble gates rose from the ground right above the Guardian’s final resting place, pushing away dirt and grass as they went. They were larger than any Mia had seen before, and had a majesty to them that other gates lacked. She put it down to some mixture of this being both a Raid and a peak Rank 1 Rift.
The air between the pillars shimmered, then warped, the portal lead...
2025-10-13 16:00:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Daemons,” I started out calmly. The main task here would be to convince these bullheaded Tau that the silly idea of ‘the Warp’ that those superstitious humans believed was really a thing. “You already know of them. Likely believing them to be a species of alien adept at phase or teleportation technology, and probably long ago ascertained that they are fundamentally incapable o...
2025-10-11 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post