Chapter 18: Dead Man’s Duel
Desperately, Aqua put her hands to the dying man’s face. Blood crusted her hands, stained her clothes, even flecked her hair. But she had no time to think, no time to stop. “Heal!”
The man gasped, the gash on his forehead knitting, his severed arm regrowing, his blown off foot reattaching itself. He looked up at her, tears in his eyes, and gave hi...
2023-11-09 04:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostImperatrix Umberos 13: Shadows of the Past
Beta’d and edited by Dr_Feelgood, Philosophysics, the Grand Cogitator, and October Daye
The scent of the tea was rich and fragrant as Ami carefully steeped the leaves. As her mother had taught her, she had Mushu infuse a little Electro into the liquid, which added both a tangy flavor and gave the liquid magical properties. It was hard to ...
2023-11-07 17:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3.04: I Smell a Rat
To say that the rest of the summer passed without incident would be a vast understatement. The trip to Diagon Alley alone (and subsequent tea party with a lich) would have turned heads with ease, but the only real incident worth mentioning wasn’t even Megumin’s fault. Directly, anyway.
“Mum, have you seen Scabbers?” Ron called, wandering into the ...
2023-11-04 20:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostLooking out the viewport, Belzerg looked so very close. The planet had grown from a small brown and white dot to nearly filling the entire field of view. The toxic and polluted waters that had been the oceans could barely be made out under thick layers of suffocating clouds, and the endless wastelands and massive cityscapes could be seen, lights occasionally gleaming in the darkness of the nigh...
2023-11-03 16:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude 3: The Travails of Youth
The morning dawned stormy, with purple skies. As he set out, Jun Mikazuki stopped at the shrine by the exit of his house with his two young children, Keizo and Nami. They bowed to the small family statue of the Raiden Shogun, which was depicted similar to a kneeling buddha figure, with one hand raised in benediction and the other holding a sword across h...
2023-11-02 02:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostLet us all be thankful this month for useless goddesses, be they hikiomori or drunks. As such, we must vote on which story gets an extra update this month, and which of them are forced to go home with no turkey. There will also be a poll on my discord, which you can join at the link here. Don't forget to ping me to get the Patreon role.
Arue Part 2: Sent Back for Revision
That night, Kazuma found himself disinvited from Megumin’s house, while she ended up spending the night with Yunyun along with Darkness. He hadn’t seen Arue since, well, they’d had sex, and to the best of his knowledge she was still in the Red Prison writing, while he was at the bar feeling like a lost puppy.
“I just don’t get it, you kn...
2023-10-29 05:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen Dei 16: What if God was One of Us?
On Tuesday, the audience of the Tone Deaf Bards doubled to over 100, though in the end they still ended up owing about twenty marks for the use of the theater. Naomi said a long prayer with Chaim and Malka, and even went so far as to phone her rabbi to talk to him a bit. She was still vague on the whole “Venti is an angel from Eloheim” bit, bu...
2023-10-26 17:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Knight of the Living Dead
It had been a long time since the Corporations had gone to war. Not that there weren’t constant low-level conflicts, security forces and contractors clashed all the time over resources, real estate, and petty grievances. But the massive war machines of the Corporations hadn’t been deployed on Belzerg in generations. Now, the streets quaked, the ci...
2023-10-25 00:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostBeta’d and edited by October Daye, Dr_Feelgood, The Grand Cogitator, and Philosophysics
The plane landed exactly 4 minutes 38 seconds late, which made Dorothy’s right temple twitch slightly. An unacceptable deviation. As they had rehearsed, Geoff stood first and helped get down their luggage. They exited the plane after executing a thank you to the crew as planned,...
2023-10-21 17:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3.03 The Game is Afoot
“Thank you all for coming, and welcome to the first meeting of the House Points Fraud Protection Committee,” Kazuma said, raising a teacup to his guests.
Ginny snorted and scooped several biscuits onto her plate, sticking one in her mouth and speaking around it. “You said you had something important to discuss, Kazuma. I’m all for free food, bu...
2023-10-17 16:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostBeta’d and edited by Dr_Feelgood, The Grand Cogitator, Philosophysics, and October Daye.
Fists trembling with rage, Richard looked out over the devastation. It had been ten days since the attack on the Berlin facility, and now he stood upon the ruins of the Frankfurt facility. Walter slapped the face of Schutzstaffel, and a small explosion went off as the woman stagg...
2023-10-16 01:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post3.2: How can you kill that which has no life?
There was something oddly surreal about returning to a school you’d once attended as a student as a teacher, and Remus Lupin felt an almost sense of vertigo as he looked up at the entrance to Hogwarts. He dabbed at his eyes, and rested his hand on the head of the dog at his side. “We’re home, Padfoot. After all these years…we’re real...
2023-10-12 17:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen Dei 13: Where the Poppies Grow
Beta’d and Edited by The Grand Cogitator, Dr_Feelgood, and Philosophysics
Rubbing her forehead, Alexandria groaned and took a long drink from her cup of coffee. Next to her, Wyatt was nursing his own latte, which had so much sugar and milk in it that it basically wasn’t coffee. Legend was looking stunned, his own cup of coffee next to him, w...
2023-10-11 07:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostSitting across from Vornheim and Capri, Mushu felt slightly dizzy. Not because of the alcohol: it would take a lot more than a dozen beers to put him down these days. Actually, could he even get drunk anymore? He hadn’t actually tried since, well…since he found Raiden. Or she found him, anyway.
No, the thought of becoming a father, of BEING a father, was what left him dizzy. He wasn...
2023-10-06 16:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostBrought to you by my patreon Koreanwriter
Beta’d and edited by Dr Feelgood, Philosophysics, and The Grand Cogitator.
It had been a slow day at the bar, largely because of the ongoing cape fight. People were staying at home, which meant business was poor. That wasn’t something Franz could really afford. His beer garden, the Dandelion's Breeze, wasn’t doing so ...
2023-10-01 19:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it is the month of Halloween, I'm all out of ideas for spooky stories, so just regular updates will have to do. As usual, this is for stories other than ones I'm going to be updating anyway so they have a chance to continue. There is also a poll on my discord, so make sure you join that and ping me to get the patreon roll if you want to double dip.
Thanks to my patreons for voting for this. It’s still technically September where I live? But anyway…
The Gang Comes Over to Play
Laying on my back with my eyes closed, I tried to pretend that I was drifting off on a cloud, with no worries or problems. That would have been easier if stupid Charlotte wasn’t sitting in a rocking chair in the corner of my vision...
2023-10-01 00:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere were times that Nakamura rather enjoyed his new position as a privileged lord. Yes, he might be trampling on decades of Democracy, but when people like Ishihara wouldn’t shut up about some damn fool thing or other, it was nice to pull the “I’m a noble and you’ll do as I say” card.
He chuckled to himself as he sat. There would be no new funding for jets or tanks. What was e...
2023-09-26 19:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostAdjusting her wig, Capri frowned at herself in the mirror. Her normally short hair had been deemed insufficient for this job, and she’d been forced to don a wig that had two massive ponytails with hair ornaments that could have doubled as dog collars of all things, with massive spikes sticking out that could have put out an eye if they hadn’t been sculpted out of foam. She also had a bongo ...
2023-09-23 18:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostStepping into the corner store, Naomi’s eyes darted around as she adjusted the thick fuzzy scarf hiding her face. She had on a large hat as well, which she’d hidden her red hair under. Hastily, she bought some yogurt and coffee, along with a newspaper, then raced back to the van. Along the way, she glanced at the cover story and winced.
ANGEL OR TERRORIST? NEW CAPE DESTROYS GE...
2023-09-20 20:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter takes place approximately one year ahead of where we are in the timeline currently, but I wanted to get Nahida right in my head first. This will probably eventually become the actual first chapter in her story line, but for now, enjoy what amounts to a look into the future exclusively for patreons.
Exhausted, bloodied, and empty handed, Tina watched as the first hovertank pulled out of the Axel Security station, armored blackhats marching alongside it, drones hovering in the air above it. The sleek, black, ominous lines of the armored carapaces of all three gleamed dully in the neon lights of the city, and another tank rumbled off the transport, ready to be loaded.
“All this for a...
2023-09-15 18:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor being the home of Megumin, the Crimson Demon Village had, so far, been rather ordinary. Granted, Kazuma had just arrived, but the buildings looked like a stereotypical quaint medieval village, with thatched roofed houses with whitewashed walls, and little gardens in front, complete with garden gnomes and goblins. Actually, on second look, Kazuma saw that they appeared to be monsters that ha...
2023-09-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude 2: Broken Strings
The streets of the small town were quiet. Nothing moved, nothing made a sound save for the patter of rain, and the soft tread of boots. Swallowing, Lady shined her flashlight into the broken glass of the dollar store window, seeing only the cardboard cutout of a grinning deer in a suit looking back at her. She shuddered, playing her light over the scattered mer...
2023-09-11 17:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter many long weeks at sea, the HMS Tireless was heading home to her base at HMNB Clyde in Scotland. The Trafalgar Class attack submarine had been on patrol in the Baltic, and her captain and crew were more than ready to be home. Their track home was a bit circuitous, taking them only a few miles off the coast from Scarborough. They were traveling at a depth of 40 meters, with nothin...
2023-09-10 18:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostLooking down at herself, Capri felt slightly embarrassed. She was dressed in skin-tight black and purple tights, with a cape of all things! It was thankfully padded in the right places not to be too obscene, but she still felt practically naked in this getup. She tried to examine herself, but without a mirror, it was a bit hard. She was currently in an alleyway a kilometer from the Gesellschaft...
2023-09-08 07:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the vast black void of space, even the relatively short distance between a planet and its satellites is tremendously expansive and mostly empty. Even with the constant traffic of thousands of ships between Discord and Belzerg, it was actually rather rare for two ships to pass within visual range of one another due to the very nature of orbital mechanics: the optimum path to intercept the oth...
2023-09-06 18:30:13 +0000 UTC View PostBrought to you early by Korean Writer on Patreon.
America, Kenta decided, was a fantastic place. Ever since he’d gotten his powers, he’d had a hard time getting enough to eat, especially when he went to restaurants. It was a lot easier now that he was an actual Lord, filthy rich, and a superstar, but the Japanese-sized portions for a man who was large by most Weste...
2023-09-03 16:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostFortified with enough cookies to make even Darkness feel slightly bloated, the traveling circus headed further into the town. Unfortunately for them, they had shown themselves to be easy marks, and were now assaulted on all sides.
“Get your freshly sharpened, genuine Adamantoise Kitchen knives! Handcrafted by dwarven engineers, they can cut through anything, even a frozen watermelon!”...
2023-09-01 16:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post