Gunmetal Crusade
Chapter 2 - War
-VB-
The clone stared down at its crazy progenitor. Currently knocked out of his mind because of the anesthetic, he laid on the surgery table that Rune had died on after they extracted her power. The original had been shot by a Neo-Nazi before this, so he - and by extension, they - weren’t exactly m...
2020-05-03 04:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Noveria, which was where I was heading, was part of the Horse Head Nebula, which was partly part of the Systems Alliance’s territories. Noveria itself and the system that it resided, however, was not.
This was, thankfully, because the Asari Republics had long since established their presence in the region, though it wasn’t a particularly strong presence. The Asari R...
2020-04-30 02:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
For a half-week more, I continued to work my ass off making crossbows, but as Ghigari’s scouts reported the Scythians coming closer and closer, my duties shifted from making crossbows to teaching women how to use them.
Out of nowhere, Ureya decided that she wanted to learn how to use the “weird bow” too. I knew that she didn’t like me because of … something ab...
2020-04-27 05:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“You intend to remove her instead of killing her?” Accord’s right hand woman, Citrine, asked him through the phone.
“Yes,” Talrith replied, glancing down at the unconscious form of the blonde angel. “She won’t be bothering you ever again. I’ll make sure of that.”
“Words hold no weight, Mr. Talrith. This was not what Accord had in mind.” What ...
2020-04-25 04:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Miss Jeanette Evergreen was a lively woman. A dark skinned, hour-glassed, 38-24-35, full-lipped, spicy, beautiful, and smart enough to get herself a doctorate at the age of 26. Unfortunately, no one wanted her and her degree (a PhD on Xenoanthropology with focus on the many Turian cultures) on the breadbasket world of the Systems Alliances. They had no use for her anywhere. 2020-04-21 21:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Disclaimer: I don't own Worm. It's Wildbow's.
-VB-
Kaiser
A stalemate.
An uneasy ceasefire.
A loss.
That’s what described the situation for the whole of Empire Eighty-Eight under him once Lung came to be. He’s spent the last three years trying to break the dragon’s hold over the Asian town and th...
2020-04-19 03:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, his plan to incapacitate his target via drugs was thwarted by the target herself. It was just as Accord had written; she attracted attention to herself and being very intolerant for things she saw as wrong. Two days after he talked with Accord, Talrith found a discreet enough seller to supply him some medical-grade fentanyl aerosolizer. He would have accepted mail, b...
2020-04-15 23:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been six days since we came back, and we all went our separate ways. After a single day of rest which I spent lounging around eating and sleeping, I have been focusing on making the crossbows that Ghigari wanted. So far, I made twenty-four crossbows with the help of three of the tribe’s carpenters. All of them were basic crossbows with only a wooden hook to help people pul...
2020-04-14 05:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostStay safe, yall.
Safe-at-home, not Stuck-at-home!
2020-04-12 21:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It was easy enough for me to post jobs seeking people for my crew. What was hard was waiting for right people and weeding out everyone else who just wanted a job but didn’t know how to do anything.
Steven had the luxury of being the heir of a rich family and thus had received education and more. When he had been sixteen, he wanted to learn how to fly a spaceship so he...
2020-04-09 21:53:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Interlude: Ghigari
The three of them returned a week after they left, and to Ghigari’s surprise, it wasn’t Ureya or Alan who told them that they messed up but his old friend, Hoktim, who professed that the mission to cull the number of the Scythian raiders had failed.
Ghigari didn’t think they failed, even if the initial night raid that they tried...
2020-04-06 04:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps killing pirates had been the right decision because while the immediate consequence had been an interrogation and being mistaken for a terrorist, I got myself a cheap frigate in exchange (Systems Alliance Law “2160 C.E. Piracy, Privateer, and Rewards” Article 2, Section 9, Subsection 1, Clause C, which allowed for the eliminator of pirate crew to buy the pirate’s ship...
2020-04-03 05:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Just so we can have something to imagine her with.
Sketched her myself with some references... but it feels like I made her boobs visibly too uneven. And messed up her left forearm too.
2020-03-31 03:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: I spent the last four hours doing paperwork for SBA because reasons that are impacting everyone right now. When you think that tropes are too unrealistic, the government pops up and shows you why they exist for a reason… “Complete form 4516-T, and form 5, but also do form 5C if you are sole proprietor, and yes, you have to write out the same information four different ...
2020-03-31 02:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostRemember, I try to focus on the top two voted stories, though you saw that I do try and update more.
Stay safe from the COVID-19!
2020-03-29 06:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Really, saving a whole passenger shuttle filled with weak and defenseless crew deserved not a pat on the back, some reward, and good wishes of those who I saved but the scrutiny of the government.
“So who do you work for?” the naval police officer in front of me demanded without being too aggressive, but it was obvious he disdained me. “Cerberus? Alpines? Some other ter...
2020-03-26 18:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The sun set and we moved, and we made quite the weird group in appearance.
Hoktim wore a short fur coat that reached to his waist on top of his sleeveless linen shirt. His pants was a thick linen pants. Ureya wore a tight leather chest protector on top of her linen shirt and skirt. I had sleeves and all of my clothes were made from leather except at the joints, which ha...
2020-03-25 02:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I am so used to writing first-pov stories that I keep typing “I.”
-VB-
Talrith’s trip to Boston wasn’t anything special. He paid the fare and got on an “automobile” called “bus” to Boston, unlike last time where the entire crew used the crew’s van to get to the location of their job.
It was a mildly stifling experience with...
2020-03-22 02:33:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“{What are you going to do?}” Cortana asked me through the earbud.
I hummed quietly while the other first class goers around me began to panic. Some were trembling in their seats while others were crying.
Which was … a reasonable reaction. After all, pirates that struck human traffic tended to sell everyone to slavery.
I didn’t expect to ...
2020-03-20 19:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post
To my surprise, Ghigari had taken my advice seriously. Less than a week after I said those words, I was already seeing long spears, all of which were somewhere around four meters long. It wasn’t quite as long as those used by Macdonian phalanx, which were six meters long, but four meters were probably enough to keep enemy cavalry at bay.
Since I’ve first learned abo...
2020-03-18 01:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostStay safe from the virus, y'all! As usual, the two most voted on stories will be the ones I focused on first.
2020-03-15 04:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We found the perfect drug for the plan in hand.
Before we found it, we went through a list of drugs, and there had been many chemicals.
The first candidate had been called feranimi, it was an easily aerosolized drug but hard to synthesize. Omni-tools had an “app” called “omni-forge,” which was a low-key molecular forge. Low-key because it couldn’t ...
2020-03-12 21:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
School ended up being … somewhat successful.
The Kettin people didn’t have a written language, which was unfortunate, but they did have a need for math, and so, all of the children who came to my school were taught math for one of the two hours they spent at my school. All of the maths I taught them for now were subtraction, addition, multiplication, and division. O...
2020-03-10 22:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostCoronavirus hit my town a week ago and now an entire school district is shutting down, girls and boys! I give myself two weeks to a month before I have to stay indoors lest I risk infection.
2020-03-08 02:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to Garden of Enchantment.
Margaret = Faultline’s civilian name for this story
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“... But past glorious doesn’t necessarily translate to today’s skills and strength,” Faultline spoke up. “I know we’ve seen some, but obviously not all.”
“No, not all,” Talrith admitted to his lover. He di...
2020-03-07 20:50:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The chief looked thunderously angry.
Thankfully, it wasn’t aimed at me but at Ureya.
“Y-You-!” he seethed. His face was red and his body trembled with barely contained rage while everyone around us looked uneasy.
Personally, I still didn’t understand why and what was happening. I understood that Ureya was under the misconception that I lied to her. I...
2020-03-04 06:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post