things will go wrong

“Philadephia uplink unsuccessful - rerouting - StratNet uplink successful. Welcome back, Commander. Today’s threat level remains high. While GDI campaigns prior to the Temple Prime explosion have successfully pushed Nod forces back deep into the Yellow Zones and neutralized a number of high...

Facing the Great Crusade Virus infection spreads in Coreward Marches, confirmed among multiple noncombat units. Consumers using sentient AI are recommended to shut them down and wait for a software patch before restarting. -The Times, 27.03.231.M20 Virus infection confirmed among combat units...

I couldnt make this into a proper story so dont take his thing to......just have fun reading this thing ''Are you sure?'' a hollow voice asked. ''Nope, but who cares, I'm not doing this because I want to achieve something, I'm just bored,'' Mark answered the doll. ''How are the rest of you...

About a month ago now, the Diet finally managed to settle the Palma affair without starting a war. Which was for the best really, given that the Cehani turret ship Amiral Guzman had been undergoing repairs less than a mile from your office for the entire incident. This particularly because the...

Beep. Beep. Beep. Thomas Calvert's day had started out like any other. He had woken up, closed the timeline where he had stayed up all night in his underground base, and split timelines again. In one timeline, he had quickly gotten himself ready to leave for work. In the other, he had taken...

Sharing a universe with SACQ 3/2: Armor Edition and SACQ 2: Guns, the second. Oh and SACQ 1, which is dead and succeeded by 2. You are Stefano Tassis, professional project manager. Well, starting today, you are Major-General Stefano Tassis, because the newest project that you have to stop from...

This is the start of the second part of Small Arms Commission Quest, jumping ahead a generation and to the other side of the world. You are Major Flavio Wekiva of the Kubachi Constitutional Republic Navy Marine Corps (naturally serving the people and congress of the Kubachi Constitutional...

(NOTE BE NEW READERS: read the thread. There's a lot that's good and doesn't get threadmarked because there's not enough information to get a threadmark) Your name is Hauptmann Otto von Rabe, late of the 2/5 Saxe-Gotha artillery regiment of the Irmionic Empire, and you’ve gotten the most...

The year was 1912. The location England, more specifically Brickston, a small city located somewhat north of London. In our timeline, Brickston never existed, the village that would evolve into it suffering a nasty case of plague from which it never recovered. In this world, however, Brickston...

You are Anton Varsa, Undersecretary of Small Arms Development for the Royal and Imperial Army Ordnance Board. Your job is to supervise the development of man-portable weapons for the cavalry, infantry and special troops. Three weeks ago the neighboring Empire of Balkhchivan publicly announced...

You have a box. What do you do with the box? [ ] Open the box [ ] Flip the box [ ] Turn the box [ ] Get in the box [ ] Poke the box

Your name is unimportant now. Your past is unimportant now. All you have left is the woods, you pack, and an uncertain future. Behind you, your home burns. What happened? [] Aliens. You had always thought alien invasions were bad scifi, but then it became reality. Thunderous crashes heralded...

At the edge of the ocean, the eternal ash cloud covering the land thinned. One could even see glimpses of blue sky near the horizon. Not that that changed how dreary and desolate the land was. Even without the rivers and lakes of lava one could glimpse farther inland, the ground was dead, with...

Welcome to those of you that came here to read this story by curiosity or by design. For those that dislike strange and complex story construction perhaps it would be best for you to return here when arc2: Doute, will be out and well on the way. For the others, I invite you trying to find the...

"Tikal, is it ready yet?" "Asking me for the fiftieth time won't change anything, Wrench," the orange echidna replied calmly from her perch on top of the massive emerald in the center of the room, legs swinging idly. Her tribal dress and tank top contrasted heavily with the grey steel room...

I jumped on a(n ancient) bandwagon. There are no excuses. Because you guys deserve to know what you are getting into: this is my first thread on this forum, and the first story I'm publishing in, like, almost a decade. Make from that what you will. Also, because my nursing school program is...

...Or Terror. That could work too. So, This is a big project I am going to be working on. Very big. I hope to stick with it and the Questers as well. This has been inspired by Crystalwatcher's Magical Girl Quest. Unfortunately I have no fancy intro for you guys. But I will make the best first...

So you know the drill by now an Rob wants entertainment and decides to pick some poor smuck to entertain them as a plaything. I mean seriously how many of these whatever they are exist because this just isnt funny, frankly I think I lost my sanity in the last place he decided to send me...

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Inspired by the Nightmare After Winter Break story. --- She woke up to the soft sounds of beeping and the feeling of someone stroking her hair. She could barely open her gummed up eyes, but she looked up to see a girl with no face in a ballerina outfit. Just mouth and endless teeth. She gave a...

(Credits to @Velasco for the writing) A SONG OF BLOOD AND SHOT (With credits to @Mina @Sidheach @Texan) The world has changed faster and more painfully in the last few centuries than it has done for thousands of years. Some four hundred years ago the Valyrian peninsula went up in an...

Prologue - (Fuuka) People change. People change all the time. The man you knew a month ago might, in the month that follows, become a completely different person. When the laws of time and space are slippery as lube and as easy to twist as the act of twitching your fingertips, then it might...

VR gaming. Everyone talked about it, everyone knew what it was. Most importantly, though, everyone knew about the game that had been built for it. Dozens of studios had been tapped. Paradox had given it their simulation for the world model, Telltale had crafted the story, Firaxes the setting...

A Play of Steel and Powder (Inspired by @Sidheach) It is two hundred and fifty-one years after Aegon's Landing. One hundred and twenty years ago the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons came to an end. It ended as a victory for the supporters of Queen with Aegon the Usurper's...

11:00 PM, May 2, 1934. Fuyuki, Japan. In a secluded location, an incantation in a foreign language is chanted in a hushed whisper. An intricate circle inscribed upon the ground glows brightly, as the ritual in progress hungrily consumes the available mana to fuel its processes. The great...