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Phtheironauts Part 1: The Kid, Fated Warrior Chapter 1: Cecmu Othrys hanged in the sky like a corpse from a gibbet, its lifeblood burning a dim glow that by its nearness beat down on Chthon with a miserable sanguine radiance. High in the rust sands between the Umi and the Lacustrine basins...

Prologue: Darkening Skies The universe had existed for trillions of years and it was expected to have continued for trillions more before its theorised future demise as entropy ground to an inevitable halt as its unceasing expansion suffocates it of energy. Billions, trillions and...

Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light. ALEXANDER POPE, The Dunciad (1728-1743) 366 DAYS OF MADNESS or, how I learned to start worrying and hate 2020 a "worst-case scenario" 2020, by shearsforest Way back in June of 2023, I had the idea of making one...

Disclaimer: I do not own the material used in this fic. If there was one thing that everyone could agree on about Existence, it was its most basic nature—a nature that, no matter how simple and banal it may sound, always governed it. This nature could be summed up in a small and seemingly...

Think of the worst people you ever met. Good, now we- Wait…That's it? Those are the worst people you've ever met? That's it? Huh, that's not enough. We need someone worse. Think of the real worst people you've ever met, people horrendous, people whose morality makes you question your faith in...

Psychotic friends, crumbling humanity, ancient monstrosity. Zain Valerius has experienced all of it after the apocalypse. Even destroyed Clans that controlled whole Planets. But betrayal was one thing that never changed for him. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Zain is faced...

Psychotic friends, crumbling humanity, ancient monstrosity. Zain Valerius has experienced all of it after the apocalypse. Even destroyed Clans that controlled whole Planets. But betrayal was one thing that never changed for him. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Zain is faced...

Wingflaps Context: Honkai is evil space radiation that turns people into zombies. It also summons generic monsters sometimes. Sometimes there's a whole lot of Honkai Radiation that appears all at once called a Honkai Eruption. If you're resistant to the radiation, you can become a Valkyrie and...

Cascade City, Oregon is the largest metropolis east of the Cascade Range with a population of 126,000. The people here are regular everyday Americans living their lives. Nothing exciting really happens in Cascade City which has been a blessing in disguise. Yes they went through the COVID-19...

September 13th, 2074 Midwest-Appalachian-Atlantic Ecological Restoration Department Headquarters Pittsburgh, PA, USA Conference Room 3 Current Weather: 28C, Cloudy Wildfire Risk: RED Respirator Masks Advised An assembly of Lanyard wearing individuals file into a meeting room, escorted by the...

Turn 0: Planning for Failure August 2065 Beijing, the Office of the State Planning Commission "The roc wings fanwise, Soaring ninety thousand li And rousing a raging cyclone. The blue sky on his back, he looks down To survey Man's world with its towns and cities. Gunfire licks the heavens...

Hey sup, I just got denied from multiple universities in an attempt to get a degree in climate science so I guess escapism through questing is the way to go. So I've been thinking of this idea of a quest, and just to scare off half the people reading this probably a planquest because I love...

This world lingering at the end of history, defined by its concrete and neon metropolises, inept bureaucrats, and frenzied cultural tension, has already signed its death certificate. Not because of decadence or apocalyptic warfare but by something rotten and horrifying. A mysterious illness is...

You dreamed of fire, rising high into the sky: a great burning cloud, expanding over the city that lie before you, consuming it. All around you, you heard the scream of man, woman, and child as people futilely attempted to escape. Those closest were luckiest, vaporized by the white wall within...

The city behind you is filled with corruption, demons, and rapidly escalating artillery barrages. The false face of progress that megacorporations painted on for forty years is washing away in blood, revealing the very literal deals with the devil beneath the world’s prize technology. The city...

Chapter 1: Greetings Earthlings! He thought it was thunder at first. The empty beer cans on the coffee table rattled, his dog let out a low growl, and the single lightbulb hanging from the ceiling swung back and forth. A long moment passed before Clay convinced himself that getting off the...

"Partner up for the group project," Mrs. Lawson announces, her voice barely registering through my anxiety. I keep my eyes fixed on my desk, tracing the scratched wooden surface. I can't help but sneak quick glances around the room, hoping someone, anyone, will meet my gaze. But no one does...

Ethan Parker stared at the dual monitors that dominated his workspace, his fingers dancing over the keyboard in a well-rehearsed ballet of code. Lines of text, symbols, and numbers filled the screens in a visual cacophony only he understood. An untouched cup of cold coffee sat on his desk...

The Kosmos is a tapestry woven onto the face of the Void. Its fashion comes through the whim of its children, through the Night and her daughters, The Fates. The world and all that is in it, is the toy of those weavers, the Moirai: Klotho, Lakhesis and Atropos. If it is their will to unmake...

Yup another PA SI, just a fun little project for me to come back to if I lose the motivation to write anything else. No gimmicks here just everything a PA can do while using as many lore tidbits as possible. This won't be a multi-cross or a single crossover. It's hard to find a setting that can...

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...

THIS STORY IS ABANDONED. IT WILL NOT BE FINISHED. Consciousness slowly returns to me. The usual disorientation of waking slowly fades away and I wonder why I'm lying on the floor. Pushing my upper body from the floor, I notice that I'm surrounded by the still unconscious members of my team...

"It's too late..." The Unknown Area. A place that she stumbled upon within the Center of Creation. It was a featureless area. There was nothing in it at all, though at the same time it was filled with everything. Stars and galaxies flitted through what could be considered as the ground that she...

From the cold depths of space, beyond the armor-plated cockpit windows of the ship, a jolt and a crack rustled Gabriel awake. Only a few minutes on site and he'd passed out on shift. Panic washed over him as he grabbed the flight stick between his legs at the sight of an asteroid directly in...

Hideyoshi Kudo, drawing inspiration from the classic manga series "Dragon Ball," "Fist of the North Star," and "Yu Yu Hakusho," embarked on a creative journey that would give birth to the legendary manga, "Sunlands." Kudo's vision was set in a post-apocalyptic world where the cities were...