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Prologue: From Beyond All Stars In a room of cool blue, slightly luminous metal, far removed from all things, the fate of an unknowing galaxy was in consideration. It was a calm thing, for the most part, a grand image of a galaxy floating above a great wooden table around which three people now...

Chapter 1: Fading Away from the Light Arrakis, 10191 AD The sun above was a hot, oppressive thing, reflecting off the vast sands of the world below it and amplifying the heat of the dry air. Here on the curtain wall of utterly solid stone, it was only a little cooler comparatively. For Daniel...

Chapter 1: Shatterpoint It is said that there is truth, however small, in every story ever told. So few that you and I know realize how true this is. Even fewer still realize how many variations there are to those stories. They are Echoes, so familiar sometimes and yet each so unique. Such a...

"Assemble, my brothers and sisters. The time is now: The Orders stand ready. Let all who can, march as one and destroy the White Hill, once and for all!" -Proclamation of Artorius Veltaan, Grandmaster of the Second Order of the Lion, during the 25th Year of the war against the White Hill...

It is never night, around the Ten Suns Mausoleum. The sun has gone down, the sky has dimmed to ruddy orange twilight, but it does not darken to nightfall and it never will. For this is the grave of nine slain suns, and their presence still echoes and lingers here. Cinxin frowns as she turns...

The days of the Paramount Realm are numbered. Foreign invaders threaten the borders, noble houses build up their armies against one another, and the imperial court is nearly crippled by corruption and infighting. In a time of growing crisis, the emperor is old and infirm, and his counsel...

What are ogres, you may ask? Tall, brutish humanoids packed with muscle and fat. Blue of skin and thick of skull, their feeble brains are incapable of anything even remotely resembling coherent thought. Capable of speech, if barely, but bereft of culture and unable to settle down into organized...

Year 2032. This is the date when many programmers gets a surged of activity. Due to the advancement of modern technology, programming became more easier that many tried to do their own things. This is the Age of Computer, and as such, many wanted to join the ever-changing economy of the...

8th High Autumn. A cloud of ash on the horizon was the first sign you saw. The second was the smell of burnt flesh on the wind. By then fear had quickened your steps as you ran to where your family had set camp for the night. It was for naught. As you came over the hill and finally saw what had...

Mary's Flower Garden My neighbor and childhood friend Mary Raffles lives in a home completely enveloped in a sea of flowers. Ever since I moved back to my hometown of Alemonowa as her neighbor a few years ago, I've been an eyewitness to the development of her garden from a small patch of...

The sun beat down on her neck relentlessly. Sweat beaded on her dirty brow as she scrabbled in the dirt, perched on her ankles like some kind of blue-haired frog wallowing in the spring mud, yet even the prickling droplets that the wet breeze entirely failed to dispel could not, in turn, erode...

"Terrific!" Invigilator Thomas cackled, methodically snapping Novice Wallaby's neck with a gusto he rarely affected, save for when he snapped necks. Every other Novice working nearby flinched and buried their heads in their work, hoping to whatever deity would listen that they wouldn't be next...

The Collective Council laughed at what the human ambassador had just asked. After a ciuple of minutes of unending laughter, one of them finally addressed the human ambassador. Said ambassador did notice that a couple of the delegates didn't laugh though; some of the oldest races in the...

Life as a 102nd Century Warlord It is the year 10100, and while everything is changing, nothing important is happening. Humanity is divided by ideology and chaos, the world too confusing and dangerous for answers. Yet the world is not completely bleak, for the residents have yet to give up...

It happened in another world, but it might as well have happened in ours. It was inhabited by creatures so similar to us that we might as well call them "humans." This world was divided into many different kingdoms, cities and tribes. As is usually the case, they went to war with each other from...

Voidtraipse: Questant For a better idea of what this Art Quest is about check the threadmark index for a summary. Opening post to change. "New Reader, Skip Ahead Here" will be added when the time comes. 🛑 This narrative is likely to explore mature themes. These will range from existentiality...

Schools are creepy. It is just a fact of life to be perfectly honest. And yes, I can just see the thoughts that some of you, or most of you are having. Thoughts like: "Those words make sense individually… but not strung out like that." "Schools aren't creepy. How could they be creepy, what...

It has been many long centuries since mankind has left Terra and colonized the stars. They achieved wonders, invented faster-than-light travel and, of course, created the next generation of weapons: humanoid war-machines armed with everything from miniguns to beam rifles to heat axes to beam...

"It's time." he said to himself as he looked into the city, he couldn't help but close his eyes and listen to the different sounds of its chaotic heartbeat, all of the people, vehicles, and advertisements blended into each other. he activated his cellphone, it was kind of hard for him to call...

The following list is of major events in the world that are both significant and different from OTL. If anything needs further clarity, I will do so as able. 1400-1499: The new Spanish Emperor demands leniency for the native population of the Empire's colonies following a major battle...

Content Warning: this Quest as a whole will run into the following: -A certain extent of both biological and mechanical gore. -Tying into the above: combat, violence and death. -Horror in general, and in more specific biological/body horror, as well as psychological horror. -Not a guarantee, but...

Synopsis In the distant future, Captain Fejka Deimos commands the IMCS Olympus Mons, a formidable spacecraft locked in a high-stakes battle against Ganymedian adversaries over a seemingly insignificant piece of rock. Will she win? Nope. She shall not. As relentless enemy missiles close in...

Chapter-1 --------------- --------------- Had we come to this? To fight to the death against someone I considered my first friend? Why did everything have to end so badly? This mission was meant to rescue Sasuke, taken by four Sound Ninjas. But in every effort to save him, we lost our...

Now yall are probably wondering, Quickdraw, why the hell are you making another story? Don't you have half a dozen already active? If that is your question, then yes, I do have that many stories I'm working on. Why this very specific and kinda out there story? Well, I've been bouncing between...

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