Something was wrong.
Something was so wrong that it forced Ash awake, her breath steaming the frigid night air in front of her.
Wait. Why was she asleep outside? Why was she asleep outside in the cold and dark?
Adrenaline spiked through her, and she jerked awake, tossing off the layer of snow...
A gothic fantasy of counterfactual modernity, set in Svet Dmitrin — a thinly-disguised anachronistic synthesis of soon-to-be-Soviet Odessa and Great War era Leningrad — during a protracted stalemate between the revolutionary Red Guard and the increasingly desperate tzarist White Guard.
Our...
Spoilers for Library of Ruina, the specific mod that this quest is about and Arknights.
0.1 - Turbulent Will
…you’re dead.
What a shame. After all you and your friends went through, after all you did to carve your name into the annals of the City, you are dead. As of now, all you can feel is...
The City of Light.
An appropriate name for the endless neon sea that most of humanity called home. Built in the aftermath of Earth’s destruction by the Space Invaders, it has long since become greater than any before it. Under the leadership of great minds such as the late Dr. Light, to whom...
From a young age, you were enamored with the concept of travel and freight, from the lowly handcart to the mighty ship, all of which had held your fancy for a time. In your youth, you had even made a living for a while by repairing carriages until forced to take up a proper vocation as your...
CHAPTER 0
The sky above Flavortown was the color of television, tuned to the Food Network.
He lay there, eyes agape, as reruns of his life hung high over the city. He felt low, both brought by circumstance and the feeling of the concrete gutter against his back. They used concrete in...
Threadmarks: Entering The World/Character Creation
The world of Monster Hunter.
A land filled with dangerous life of all kinds.
From the lowliest herbivore to the strongest apex predator, the inhabitants of the World are all capable of fighting for their lives.
And it's something you can hardly understand.
You have been observing the world...
The Blessed Dragon: The Ascent of Jaehaerys Targaryen
As a trueborn son of House Manderly, I was already a squire at thirteen when I met the young prince in Winterfell’s training yard. Though I was his senior by five years, it did not take me long to realize that my prince was destined to...
Does the Black Moon howl?
███████████ ███████████.
Analyzing… confirmed.
Welcome, O[DATA LOST]
Currently operating at- [ERROR: FILE NOT FOUND].
[ERROR: FILE NOT FOUND] has been lost. Database corruption… 2914.52%. Recovery Protocol initiating. Activating backup AICs.
Attempting to activate...
The world is in a state of crisis.
Some argue that it is simply the way things work now, with madmen, dictators, and aliens attempting to have their way with Earth, and damn the consequences.
Others feel that the state of the world is anything but natural, but curse their powerlessness to...
Threadmarks: Welcome to TraumaTeam! (Character Creation Pt 1)
MatureSci-Fi
Let's face the facts, choombata. Living in the World of Tomorrow? It's a dangerous pastime. Between corporate wars, netrunners who can fry your brain with a look, corporate negligence, corporate due-diligence, cyberware rejection, bioengineered plagues, not to mention your everyday urban crime...
A fantasy addict triggers with the world's most inconvenient Tinker/Thinker combo, and finally gets a chance to use all those fencing and HEMA classes she took in high school. In a city infested by nazis, slavers, and a PRT that acts more like a gang than some of the actual gangs, maybe when...
Threadmarks: A Whole New World (I'm imagining that particular scene but the characters are all Demons)
OriginalAlt. History
It was a new world when 2000 hit
"Iceland almost wiped out when the majority of the population had their worst nightmares crawl out of their skulls"
"Supernatural events occuring across the globe!"
"What is with this african warlord who people are saying has claws?"
"Riots in Ohio are...
31st December, 2010
Brockton Bay is a city that… exists.
It's hard to succinctly sum up Brockton, a city distressingly high on the top ten for parahuman population for its relatively small population. A city that is simultaneously on an economic downturn and upswing. A city home to not one...
Threadmarks: Introduction/Character Creation - Part 1
CrossoverFantasy
The crackle of the flames merges with the screams.
You are Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, and you are marked with death. Your parents are dead, killed in the Usurper's War. Your brother is dead, killed by his own foolishness. Your son is dead, killed by his own birth. Your husband is...
Threadmarks: [Pilot - Fourth of Six (1)] Character Creation 1
Defeat smells like wet cardboard.
While enhanced with magic, duel monster cards are nigh indestructible, pristine regardless of whatever misfortune might befall them. Once spent, however, theirs is the same fate as Dorian Grey. A starred duelist would have the resources to keep their cards...
Threadmarks: Twilight Town: The (Second) Beginning
One thing you will always appreciate about living in Twilight Town is the view.
Waking up every morning (that you can tell by the time) to a glowing sky of blues and oranges, a sky that gets darker throughout the day, is always nice to see, given if you've had a good night's sleep before. So...
Threadmarks: The Story Begins (Chapter 1, Part 1, Post 1)
Original
With one final blow from their hammer, creation was complete.
It had taken eons, but the realm was no longer just a blackened abyss.
The spine of the universe had been shattered and turned into concepts of time, space, light, and many more. The fires of creation burn bright in the eternally...
The Sludge Stage
YOU ARE 100 BLOOD.
TIP: If you run out of blood, you die. Find a way to make more of yourself.
CURRENT BLEED RATE: 4 / TURN.
CURRENT THRESHOLD: 2 VOTES
CURRENT TURN: 0
ACTIONS
[ ] Condense BLOOD:
- [ ] Pick a number 1~5. Spend that much BLOOD on the process.
- [ ] Horizontal...
Threadmarks: Early Spring, 895 CC - Character Creation
Guildmaster, Guildmaster!
A Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Quest
Early Spring, 895 CC
Many years ago, Pym Reuniclus founded the Starlight Guild to provide the port city of Windhaven with an alternative to the increasingly sclerotic and profit-driven Metagross Guild. Although it never quite attained...
The world is slowly moving towards its decline and systematic death. This applies not only to the US, but also to the rest of the world. Europe? Once proud and prosperous, Europe is now divided into warring far-right dictatorships that hate each other. Africa and South America? A complete...
Hello Director,
If you are receiving this letter, then you have been chosen to lead the newly established Division of Intelligence and Strategy: Naval Enforcement Yard. An above top secret organization operating at the highest levels of discretion, backed by important figures in the Monarchies...
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...
This quest is inspired by the Ulthuan quest and is an attempt to relaunch it with some additions as I was fascinated by the idea of playing as the superpower of the Warhammer world with all the related questions.
Some things should be pointed out that may be unfamiliar to those who have not...
You are special. Always have been. Mature too. Because you know free will is an illusion. Our destinies are chalked up by powers beyond our ken who can roll a dice and simply proclaim, "This one has clinical depression."
But I digress. We are talking about you. Because you are special at the...