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If this was any normal occasion you wouldn't be able to sit up here; on the paopu tree's long curved trunk watching the setting sun, feeling the cool breeze ruffling your soft spikes as it passes you by. Normally you'd be out watching the other children play games or trying to understand what...

### So my neighborhood is gone. So is the city. I just moved in dang it. The house I was renting still existed, a small bit of a yard and then just a flat grassland until it hits the river on one end, and a forest which is a significant distance away at the horizon. I felt oddly calm...

You shiver slightly, tossing and turning in your bunk, suppressing another shudder as you try to look for warmth under your blanket. As usual, the air-conditioning had been turned to a too-low temperature, and your blanket was too thin. Ugh. You were gonna wake up with a snotty nose, you were...

1.1 A Tyrant Falls, A Tyrant Wakes Pt.1 In my youth, I lacked wisdom. Now that I am old, I lack empathy --- “You’re the guy that’s gonna ‘revolutionize’ my business? Is this some kinda joke?” Gato scowled behind round sunglasses, cane held in front of him with both hands. He was a short man...

Introduction Hello all questers and welcome, to This is my second quest (Why am I doing this to myself? I can barely keep up with posting updates on Breaking Destiny!) that I will be writing, and the premise is simple (or not so simple, depending on your view). You were alive. Now, you...

Chapter 1: A simple glance When she had first thought of submitting her request to be admitted to Beacon Academy, Weiss Schnee had expected to win big time. It had seemed the best choice among the three possible paths she could have taken, three different futures that had weighted on her mind...

I hate my life- Actually scratch that, I hate the sob that has put me in this shitty situation. I think the term is ROB. SOB or ROB, there is still some sunnuvabeach that got us in this poopy version of Frankestein. It's not that bad. The B1 Droid is still mobile- Compared to a cup of tea...

(Prologue) The terrible sense of tragedy that fills you of despair, the endless abyss swallowing your form without hesitation, the final step towards the ending of a pathetic life, the end of- Okay, I am waking up! Can you not be this much skittish just once in your life? Me, skittish? Are...

Prologue It was the baggage handler. Nobody would ever link it to him. Nobody would ever know that the source of all that would happen...would be the fault of a baggage handler. A Faunus, one of the low, mistreated workers that eked a living out of carrying baggage through the freezing...

Cover By Fragnostic. Prologue A ripple. A pebble. A butterfly who fluttered to the right and not the left. Choices define who we are, when we are confronted with choices, the options we pick determine our destiny. Sometimes, we make the choices ourselves. Sometimes, they are thrust...

Fate/Kaleid Ouroboros - Prologue Time is a river. It is a river, because you can never step twice into it. It is impossible to do so. Time proceeds in one direction, and one direction alone. To accelerate the flow of time to its utmost limit, and reach the very edge of the end of the...

The room was stuffy. Too stuffy. That was the first thing you came to focus on as the fuzziness in your mind faded and you awoke. How you could barely breathe because of how hot the air was. The creaking wood and crackling flames came as the first bit of grogginess slipped away. You frown. You...

And on that fated land shall darkness prevail, and light expire. The future - it’s already been written. Who’s to say I won’t change it? You might be surprised. Oh I hope so. You fall and fall and fall again, memories flashing by in smears and blurs of colour as you plummet ever onwards...

The Human Order You are part of the Chaldea Security Organization, a branch of the Mage’s Association. You may be a Chaldean Master, an unfortunate Demi-Servant experiment or a Servant brought down from the Throne to help Chaldea in its efforts in the preservation of the Human Order. The...

The Human Order You are part of the Chaldea Security Organization, a branch of the Mage’s Association. You may be a Chaldean Master, an unfortunate Demi-Servant experiment or a Servant brought down from the Throne to help Chaldea in its efforts in the preservation of the Human Order. The...

Episode 1 Sometimes Bad Things Happen To People Cycles. Systems. Loops. In nature the life cycle is used to explain how living beings grow, die and return their nutrients to the earth to be used again by other plants and animals. When animals and plants die decomposers such as bacteria, worms...

This quest has been rebooted here Fool's Adventures: The Reboot and the update in the spoiler below is now just a historical piece.

He called it a 'room' but really it was nothing of the sort. To call it an observatory would be closer, but fall so drastically short of the mark as to seem comically reductive. The universe was vast and unknowable but that room was its centre, and all around its occupant the stars and nebulae...

The Great War, the War To End All Wars. The unwashed mundane masses ascribe this name to the first World War, the churning quagmire of cold mud and colder death machines that consumed some forty million lives. Well-bred magi, considering such a figure a drop in the proverbial bucket, ascribe it...

XCOM has won the war. The question is what happens now. Era: [ ] The Long War (2001 - 2129) Since before any of us were born there has been The War. My grandpa used to tell me stories when he could come home from the factory. Sometimes they were about the First Strike, other times the Burning...

You look over the reports as your flight transports you to what will be your new home. You were chosen to lead an international taskforce made for the purpose of protecting mankind from the things that go bump in the night. You were surprised to learn that things like vampires, werewolves...

So, getting that itch to run a godgame again. With a twist (of course) Each god, gets to pick one to three domains. They are sharply limited to their most impressive actions only falling within their domains, and domains will have to be approved. For example, Life-god can only make and change...

First, who the heck are you? Hey! I'm EBR, aka Ephraim Ben Raphael. I came over the site from AH.com following Ian the Admin's Great Purge. I'm still a member over there, but I decided to go on hiatus while I wait for things to calm down. What are doing outside of Alternate History-town...

Prologue Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you ashes. The smell of burning wood filled my nostrils, pushing through my lungs as I breathed it in deeply. This wasn't a barbecue; there was no meat burning on the grill. The crackling of the flames was near enough that I...

"Hello, Directors." "As you are all aware, recently a large number of humans have begun to develop extraordinary powers and abilities, who the public has dubbed as "Metahumans". These people have used their powers either help their fellow man, or for more malicious and illegal activities...