bad decisions

The Boot on Zaun's Neck Vi promised us it would be a quick and easy job. Just sneak into some rich Piltie’s place, rob him blind, and sneak back to Zaun before he even realized what’d happened. She’d gotten the tip from Ekko, so we knew it was legit. Get in, get the loot, and get out. Easy...

(CW: Spoilers for Umineko, and some discussions about ableism and the Italian Social Republic) i don't really know what this is By this point, most people who will read this are probably aware that I am not exactly fond of the mid-2000s Japanese visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni. In fact, I...

The notification bells run throughout the hull of the star cruiser, followed by an announcement from the bridge that echoed through the metal corridors. "All hands, prepare for transition." Metal shutters unfolded across the bridge windows and the few other observation points dotting the ship...

You are a new wisp in the void, lesser than even the dirtwalkers and tribal beasts. You wander and wander, hoping to see something, but all you find are glass books holding tales from faraway lands and worlds. "TELL ME, WISP! ARE YOU TRULY A BEING OF POWER, OR WILL YOU FALL?!" As the voice...

It is 1975. The last few years have seen a series of secret escalations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the militarisation of space. Each has developed the capability to put nuclear weapons in orbit and in turn developed anti-satellite weapons to counter such strategies. No...

POV: *Steve* In real life, I sat comfortably at my desk, headphones snug over my ears, fingers lightly tapping on the keyboard. It was just another evening on the server with friends, roleplaying like we always did. We'd been doing this for months now—acting as if we were the default skins from...

May 9, 1994 Alexandria's black cape fluttered against the red stone wall of the Kremlin as she slowly descended onto the stone paving stones near the mausoleum of the first leader of the Soviet Union. The crowd of people gathered in the square looked with apprehension and caution at the...

The Curse of Gundam As the sun dawned over the world at the start of the 21st century, it dawned over a world mired in problems that only seemed to be getting worse. Global ideological disputes, resource shortages and an environment that got a hair worse every year bedevilled the globe...

Welcome to the recruitment drive created by Admin: Kuro. All of you will be erased save one. Now, entertain me with your flailing, I've got a bucket o' boredom, complete popcorn and a side of impatience. But where's the butter? Eh, the portions of your soul that flake off can be my butter! Now...

I want to write something, and I have for a long time, but I always get distracted by another new idea or a lack of motivation. Here I want to lay out the basic premise for a number of quests I've come up with over the years, but never started. It's my hope that getting something started in an...

Welcome friend, to Arkham Lounge. In this journey through Gothams history, you will guide the lounge through the seasons and use it to influence the city's path, in divergences large and small. But before we begin to weave ourselves a tapestry of conversations and sharing of ideals and thoughts...

Hello everyone! This is my first time attempting a Quest, but from what I've seen and what I've heard, it sounds like an absolutely fantastic way to mix collaborative writing with role playing games, so I decided to QM my own! Specifically, using my favorite TTRPG system, Flying Circus, to make...

The Kings Will After fifteen years, the king was finally dying, and the queen could not even enjoy the sight. It was not that she was repulsed by the scene. The boar had opened Robert from the groin to the chest and the wound was festering. The stench was overpowering. Easily worse than even...

Solar Flames This is based off an RPG GMed by @BiopunkOtrera many moons ago in which I was a player. Let's have fun! It is the year 0052 of the Transtellar Era, more than three decades since the greatest war humankind ever saw tore through the origin system; the Solar War. And in its wake...

10: 30 A.M. (Monday) Your name is Homer Less You were recently kicked out of your apartment and now your all alone in an alleyway.... 'Man, being homeless sucks' you thought to your self 'luckily i called up the homeless shelter from the next town over...but i have to wait a week before they...

The day of my birth was heralded by rain. It was a one in a hundred years event, a portent of tidings from the gods. The barren desert became fertile for scant few years, until life became hard once more. For my people, death was a constant bedfellow. Soon, we will be extinguished, for the...

Hefusts Explores the Inner Sphere Commodore Clifford Hale clasped his hands behind his back as he stood at attention, twiddling his three thumbs nervously as he looked up at President Jack English. The man was tall even for a Hefustian, and Commodore Hale was barely a hundred eighty...

Blame @OneirosTheWriter for this one, because the Captain's Logs in To Boldly Go... were scratching an itch that has returned. There's also been a lot of ideas bouncing around in my head for 4X games where you don't just fill up a meter on a research bar with "Science" but that you go out and do...

Within the great halls of the temple cities of Lustria, it was written many times what the herald of the Armageddon would be. It was Lustria that was granted the knowledge of the herald of the end, and Lustria that was charged first with the Great Plan to resist. In the many, many years since...

CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people Games have long been a proving ground for new AI advancements — from Deep Blue's victory over chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, to AlphaGo's mastery of Go, to Pluribus out-bluffing the best humans in poker. But truly...

You are nameless, formless, suspended in a pool of Sludge. You float in an infinite abyss of infinite possibilities. With no way of propelling yourself, you drift aimlessly by the will of the currents. Until something touches you. Something graces you with its presence, granting you a spark of...

The Pan-Papolris Expedition "Councilor Everston announced this morning that he would be broadcasting a speech from his annual Christmas Ball, in a departure from the senior politician's usual practice. For those of you just tuning in for the first time today and expecting our parade coverage...

The wind is blowing. I can hear it's gentle breath. It tickles my ears and it ruffles my hair. It reminds me that I still live, in this little garden of sin. The wind is blowing. It whistles and it howls. It speaks of carnage and chaos. It is a gentle calm before a storm. A catastrophe that...

The thing about heroes, was that they were flawed. There was no such thing as a perfect hero. Not even Superman. That ship had sailed before I was born. This fact was difficult to grasp and even more difficult to accept. I don't think I can yet accept it. The subway of Gotham was, relatively...

Once upon a time, the falling leaves of gold whispered a story. A great tale of the Elden Ring, shattered forevermore. Rent and twain lay our home, the Lands Between hidden within the Fog. Alas, our great Queen Marika the Eternal is nowhere to be found. Lo, Godwyn the Golden, fallen...