Weekly Voting: Feb 19, 2023
Sorry about the late post. I'll be extending the end of the voting deadline.
2023-02-20 00:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Insistent Assitant 6
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 6
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It was about a month into our stay in Ilsia Kingdom (or rather, the forest outside the kingdom’s capital) when the first trouble came to visit the island kingdom.
I woke up one morning smelling smoke. At first, I thought that I was just smelling Thorkell cook for once (or fail to cook...
2023-02-19 00:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 11
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 11
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Daniel Hebert did not know how to interact with capes. Sure, there were Protectorate heroes and wards, but they have always been distant from people aside from a select few that Danny knew were great at public relations. He couldn’t remember the last time that a federal hero, adult or n...
2023-02-17 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business 58
Family Business
Chapter 58
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“So it was a misconception and a misunderstanding,” the soldier interrogating her - without torture! - hummed as he looked at what he had written down after questioning and listening to her. “A misfortune that you ended up in front of the duke’s path, and I suspect he may be a little bit...
2023-02-16 22:31:28 +0000 UTC View PostVice Bunker 31
Vice Bunker
Chapter 31
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Fucking Taylor, Kali, Harley, and Vicky were fun.
Dressing up Sophia after scaring her half to death was also very fun.
Designing and playing with tech, making impossible things, was fun.
Calculating exactly how I was going to keep all of my girls, our future children, and my peopl...
2023-02-15 07:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostKick the Sphere 13
Kick the Sphere
Chapter 13
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Time passed, and facilities began to rise up from the ground. The computer lab that I wanted was shelved for now in favor of more pressing facilities like an armory and mech hangar. Those weren’t hard to make, but the latter took time and resources away from other projects because of the sheer...
2023-02-15 05:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business 57
Family Business
Chapter 57
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Ranna came from Noxus. She wasn’t a spy or a soldier. She just didn’t want to live like a servant for the soldiers and warriors, which was the only thing Noxus cared about. “Strength” was great and all, but not everyone was strong or capable of it.
So she used the new peace to snea...
2023-02-12 06:08:59 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 5
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 5
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After a month at the sea, we arrived at Ilsia Kingdom. I decided to be generous to the pirates… and merely took all of their loot.
Oh, I left the supplies they would need, but all of their money and weapons - ranged and melee - as well as their gunpowder was taken so they wouldn’t b...
2023-02-11 11:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 10
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 10
-VB-
Taylor took in a deep breath.
She and dad were eating breakfast, and knew that right now was perhaps the best time for her to talk to dad. She knew that he needed to go to work, but they could do without him for one day, right?
It wasn’t like she intended to talk to him for ...
2023-02-11 02:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostLouis of Bavaria
Rudolf's ambitious younger brother. Stable Diffusion and Waifu Diffusion.
2023-02-09 18:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Vice Bunker 30
Vice Bunker
Chapter 30
-VB-
Sophia tried to keep her breathing steady as she found herself going deeper and deeper into the earth.
The earth made her … uncomfortable. It wasn’t that she couldn’t breathe while phased. She could. No, the reason why she didn’t like phasing into the ground was that as she travels dee...
2023-02-09 18:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 51
Swiss Arms
Chapter 51
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In a manner that was becoming very frequent, Isabella and I sat in our own chairs on the balcony of the highest tower of my fort and looked out into the town that had truly come far in its mere two years of existence. Last I checked, we had roughly three hundred people living in a permanent manner he...
2023-02-07 16:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Voting: January 5, 2023
The Sphere has been kicked for a week!
2023-02-05 08:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 9
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 9
-VB-
“Stay at your place?” he asked with a frown.
Taylor nodded.
See, she had done some thinking and planning. She knew that if dad ever found out about her power, then he would really push her into the Wards, especially after Techscav’s Rampage. However, she also didn’t wan...
2023-02-05 08:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 4
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 4
-VB-
Sufficed to say, everyone still alive at that point in time all submitted to us (read: Thorkell) after TK’s rather excruciating show of violence and dominance.
Wait, did I say violence and dominance?
I’m sorry.
I meant his legally protected way of persuasion...
2023-02-05 04:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business 56
Family Business
Chapter 56
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I fiddled with the traveling cloak while I tried to ignore the whimper of the man in front of me.
Traveling became … normal for me. It’s kind of hard not to when I had two big jobs that both required my personal presence. I was both the Duke of the Duchy of Jorasmang and a minister wor...
2023-02-04 10:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostKick the Sphere 12
Kick the sphere
Chapter 12
-VB-
I hummed as I went through the compound to catalog everything.
So far, everything has been working out extremely well for me and my … Well, calling us a company was technically correct, but it felt disingenuous compared to what actually went on.
See, I think we’re a family busine...
2023-02-03 21:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 50
Swiss Arms
Chapter 50
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Daniel Martinez
European History 313
Professor de Martrado
February 21, 2012
The Compact: The People
A genius hides among us but we would not know until they show themselves in one way or another. This obvious but sometime...
2023-02-01 04:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostFamily business 55
Family Business
Chapter 55
-VB-
Vayne and I stood before the king in a private meeting.
He beheld both of us.
“I am … surprised that you are here with him, Lady Shauna.”
Vayne was infamous before she disappeared at my hands, so her reappearance with me was not only controversial but also suspic...
2023-01-28 02:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 8
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 8
-VB-
What did it take to be a hero?
Taylor thought about that because she saw two sides of the same event. Techscav Rampage, as it was being called on PHO, became a hotly debated topic that her dad’s generation said “harkened back to the Parahuman Golden Age.”
Techscav’s rol...
2023-01-26 18:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 3
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 3
-VB-
I didn’t feel bad for the pirates at all. Now, I would normally not say anything that heartless because, for some reason, I become extremely serious around people and need a bit of time to understand anything other than sarcasm or a blatant joke, but these pirates deserved it.
They’...
2023-01-26 11:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms 49
Insomnia strikes again. I want to sleep more than 8 hours over the course of 3 days, damn it!
-VB-
Swiss Arms
Chapter 49
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Leon held his breath and then swung his pickaxe down just like how Lord Fluelaberg showed him and chipped into the rock. He let his breath out and felt for ...
2023-01-25 04:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostVice Bunker 29
Vice Bunker
Chapter 29
-VB-
Taylor looked at the girl in front of her. The villain in the hero’s skin.
And what a pathetic wretch she had become.
‘Note to self: I become more verbose in my head when I am pissed,’ she thought to herself while pushing her emotions into her bugs, something she hadn’t done in a...
2023-01-24 13:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Voting: January 22, 2023
The first month of 2023 is 2/3 gone!
Also, Swiss Arms back in!
I also changed the voting end date from Tuesday morning to Monday late evening to see if there is a difference in voter count. This will hopefully give me a few more hours between those days that I can work on your voted chapters.
2023-01-22 03:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostInsistent Assistant 2
Insistent Assistant
Chapter 2
-VB-
I took a deep breath in.
And ducked.
The wind boomed above me where my head had been just a second ago as Thorkell’s heavy fist and thick arm vibrated my senses from merely passing close to me.
He really was a monster.
Gritting my teeth, I jumped forward. My right fo...
2023-01-21 07:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostScrap Metal Philosophy 7
Scrap Metal Philosophy
Chapter 7
-VB-
When it came to capes, both national and non-profit organizations possessed methodology to classify the superhumans based on their character, power, and association.
Take two capes, for instance, Kaiser and Lung. Both are native to Brockton Bay, which was in New England. This made th...
2023-01-20 02:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post