How About No? 7
How About No?
Chapter 7
-VB-
“... No?” she repeated in honest surprise.
Not many dared to tell her no, never mind even entertaining the idea of refusing her. She was Shiera Seastar, o...
2023-06-02 04:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Vandalvagabond posts
An Arcanist in Karakura Town 48
An Arcanist in Karakura Town
Chapter 48
-VB-
Making an interdimensional portal was not that hard.
Making an interdimensional portal that led to the local cluster - aka Bleach Hell, Soul Society, Dangai, Garganta, and Hueco Mundo - was hard. Part of this had to do with the predilection of local dimensional travel; it was ...
2023-06-01 05:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostCelestial Hymn 39
Celestial Hymn
Chapter 39
-VB-
Robb Stark
He was not a strong man. He was a good swordsman but knew that he wasn’t good enough to be compared to the likes of Jaime Lannister or the former Kingsguard Barristan Selmy. He wasn’t ignorant of how others tried to butter him up.
But there was difference being buttered...
2023-06-01 04:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 62
Swiss Arms
Chapter 62
-VB-
Early Expansions: Toggenburg
The joining of the County of Toggenburg to the Compact soon became a turning point in the entirety of Swabian Alps region. While it might not have changed the Compact’s status as a local power, it certainly started a cascade of events that saw other u...
2023-05-30 21:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Voting: May 28, 2023
Alright. Let's go for another triple update week.
2023-05-28 06:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 24
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 24
-VB-
Armsmaster/Colin Wallis
What was justice?
What was efficiency?
What was right and wrong?
What minimized damage while increasing benefits?
These four questions sat at the core of what it meant to be a Protectorate hero and more so for a Protectorate branch lea...
2023-05-28 06:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostDebauchery Worlds 1
Redo number whatever for the Debauchery(s). Instead of starting off in an AU/historical Earth, we are starting off today at the end of Golden Morning in Worm … and then the Third Succession War in the Battletech universe.
Tags: multiverse, self-indulgent, lewds later, plot and "plot"
-VB-
Debauchery Worlds 2023-05-28 05:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Insistent Assistant 19
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 19
-VB-
Jack Sparrow
He stared out at the horizon as the sun set behind him. The eastern horizon was gloomy and dark just like his future.
Jack didn’t want to die, but he knew that he had a very limited time now. He’d stretched it as much as he could but this was it. Whether it was t...
2023-05-26 05:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostHow About No? 6
How About No?
Chapter 6
-VB-
Alan
The knights escorted me back to their camp. It was, of course, done on foot for me and their horses trotted to match my speed. It was out of the question that a peasant would be allowed on a knight’s horse!
We entered a small town, not a village but an actual town with walls, and...
2023-05-26 05:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostCelestial Hymn 38
A/N: for those of you who are unfamiliar with this story, this is ASIOAF x Celestial Forge v2 SI with the usual randomization.
-VB-
Celestial Hymn
Chapter 38
-VB-
Previously on Celestial Hymn…
Robert died… he shouldn’t have died…
That idiot...
2023-05-26 01:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostAn Arcanist in Karakura Town 47
An Arcanist in Karakura Town
Chapter 47 (NSFW)
-VB-
The somewhat honest Q&A with Urahara came to an end right about as schools were letting the students out, so when I got home, I got there just in time to see both Orihime and Tatsuki coming home.
“How was school today?” I asked them while physically opening the ...
2023-05-24 07:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 61
Swiss Arms
Chapter 61
-VB-
I am not a rational actor.
I knew this for a fact. What kind of a person decides to become a hermit when they had access to potentially world-changing power?
An irrational actor did. In this era where it was even more imperative for someone to take the chance to achieve the most they coul...
2023-05-23 22:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Voting: May 21, 2023
Mega-choice week. 3 choices getting updated.
Kick the Sphere, back in.
Edit:
Oh. Uh. Forgot to add this, but the lowest scoring story here? Perma-Hiatus.
2023-05-21 07:26:58 +0000 UTC View PostDeficiency is Human 1
Deficiency is Human. I Just Own Up to It.
Chapter 1
-VB-
“Alan.”
“Yeah?”
“You are an idiot.”
I tried not to shrivel at the withering glare that my secretary leveled my way. “What did I do this time?”
She slapped down a hardened smartpad (made specifically for her). “You wrecked five de...
2023-05-21 07:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 23
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 23
-VB-
Taylor
She hated the fact that she had that fight with Silly, even if the gynoid herself didn’t seem to consider it so.
What she hated more…
What she hated more was that the people, not the media, seemed to be on Silly’s side on what happened. PRT and the media wer...
2023-05-20 06:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostHow About No? 5
How About No?
Chapter 5
-VB-
Traveling along the Kingsroad was an experience.
It wasn’t a paved road. Despite its grand name, it was a packed dirt road. In some places, there were even weeds growing in the middle of the road itself in a manner that could only be described as “flourishing.”
There were people w...
2023-05-19 20:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 18
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 18
-VB-
Once I had people who wanted to join me in my fight against piracy on the high seas and had two ships to back me up, things started to look great. Once I began turning in one pirate ship, two pirate heads, and even more run-of-the-mill pirates, it really began to snowball.
At each port...
2023-05-19 07:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostKick the Sphere 21
Kick the Sphere
Chapter 21
-VB-
My reason for ordering a raid upon the Capellan Confederation was fivefold.
One, hurting the Free Worlds League wouldn’t help me in the long run while the Capellan Confederation with its incessant need to standardize and brainwash the masses would definitely want to hurt me. Hitting thei...
2023-05-17 03:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostAn Arcanist in Karakura Town 46
An Arcanist in Karakura Town
Chapter 46
-VB-
Urahara’s Shop
“I’m going to ask again. What do you want? Gotei 13’s self-prophecized paranoia can’t be the only reason you asked to meet me.”
Urahara met my eyes for a moment before nodding. “You are sharp.”
I didn’...
2023-05-16 15:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Voting: May 14, 2023
Swiss Arms, out!
Kick the Sphere, in!
2023-05-14 05:08:46 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 17
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 17
-VB-
Her name was Jeanne, and she had been a victim for a very long time.
What she did when I released her was not a show of her somehow still living spark of defiance. No, it was an emotional outburst that flowed over and sent her out of control. She spent weeks throwing up her me...
2023-05-14 04:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostHow About No? 4
How About No?
Chapter 4
-VB-
“You don’t look like a local,” Jarameah said conversationally while looking up and down at the stranger who was temporarily residing in the Blackbark Village.
“I’m not,” the stranger replied as he looked over Jara’s wares. “Where are you from?”
The stranger was rude to...
2023-05-13 06:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 22
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 22
-VB-
Silliconia
No moment she took down Oni Lee, Silly did the one and only thing she knew would neutralize this threat forever without killing him.
“Taylor,” she spoke up. “Keep the bugs on his eyes.”
Kneeling down at the unconscious cape, she turned him ove...
2023-05-12 04:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostReincarnated to the Past 49
Reincarnated to the Past
Chapter 49
-VB-
In my pursuit to see my people safe and rich, I had done what any other empires in the past, present, and future have done: fight, oppress, and annex. A lot of the fighting had been intentional; I raised a banner to fight the Istrians and Byzantions. A lot of the oppression had been int...
2023-05-11 04:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 60
Swiss Arms
Chapter 60
-VB-
Hans of Fluelaberg
Every choice mattered, and I found myself faced with making one of two choices.
It wasn’t about conflict, domestic affairs, personal domestic affairs, or even trade.
No, this was far more important, at least in this very moment that I h...
2023-05-10 02:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 16
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 16
-VB-
Jacobe
It became quickly obvious to everyone, including Jacobe, that their captain was a very enthusiastic pirate hunter when the opportunity presented itself.
Worse, hunting pirates became part of their training while the regular sailors who opted to not receive training just re...
2023-05-05 05:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostHow About No? 3
How About No?
Chapter 3
-VB-
The travel was horrible, as always. Shiera never liked it, but it was a necessary evil to move herself and investigate the source of the Change.
She found on her travel others like her and Brynden, those who had felt the change and moved to investigate. Many of them were greenseers in numbers...
2023-05-04 08:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 21
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 21
-VB-
Oni Lee
“Oni.”
“Hai.”
He stood at attention at the call of his master and waited for his orders.
“You know of the bug hero.”
“I do.”
“Good. I want her disciplined.”
“... Permanently?”
“If it is necessary, yes. If sh...
2023-05-03 12:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post