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Checkers Synopsis: Waking up as Jaune Arc won't be a problem if I survive a school of reckless teenage superheroes, understand the Arc family before they find me, and stop a world-ending plot from an immortal mistress. It seems easy enough. 'Thought Bubble' "Speaking/Dialogue"...

Leaf has gone through the blender in the past few years, and is no longer a military superpower. The Fifth Hokage, Goketsu Jiraiya, is dead. The Sixth Hokage, Hyuuga Hiashi, is dead. The Seventh Hoakge, Sarutobi Asuma, is dead. Lord Eighth, Uzumaki Naruto, is a powerful ninja but...

"911, what is your emergency?" "P-please send help! T-they killed him, they just…I can't believe…" "Ma'am, please stay calm. Where are you?" "I-I'm not there anymore, I was at a gas station on the edge of town. It's the…the Shell off Exit 51." "Can you tell me what's going on?" "I was just...

The world is at the edge of sanity. Superpowers wage their secret wars in the dark, blood flowing while the omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation looms further in the background. The clock ticking closer and closer to midnight from politicians gambles, risking the world for power and...

There's something happening here. Music’s barely heard over the roar of a helicopter's rotors, breaking gravity's pull by sheer force and American ingenuity. The UH-1, lovingly nicknamed Huey, keeps you afloat, rumbling and roaring in its path over the achingly hot jungle beneath. Fatigues...

They say that when a child is born, the Nornir decide the moment of its death. On this day, in the home of Steinarr Hallsson on the coast of Agder, the Nornir make their choice and a newborn infant breathes its very first breath. Holding the swaddled infant with a gentleness that surprises even...

Flickering lights pass over a dark concrete chamber. Men and women sit there with grim faces and stoic demeanours. A screen in high definition shows a series of news articles while a presenter on the left side points to the first one. “January third, twenty-twenty-three. We have a report of a...

It has now been a week since the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress, and as was promised on my Interest Check thread, this thread is now going up. Now, regardless of if you are a follower from that thread or a newcomer that has stumbled across this place, I welcome you, to the Plane of Prophesies...

The rhythmic beat of helicopter rotors fills the passenger bay of the Chinook currently landing carefully in the depths of Eastern European wilderness, some two-hundred miles from the nearest piece of proper civilization. Coming to the ground, six men slide out of the vehicle in dead silence...

This once-thriving ball of water and life called Earth has been beset with war on every side, and hope for mankind has been all but lost. From the depths of deep space, extraterrestrial invaders arriving in hopes of conquering this primitive planet in a quick war have instead found themselves...

Dawn breaks a brilliant red over the Elemental Nations. An ill omen, to those who know the saying. Take warning, a storm approaches. The world turns, steadily approaching the culmination of a thousand different factors. One of the most important moments of this world’s history will take place...

The ringing in your ears was the first thing you noticed as your vision cleared. The burning hulk of the technical you'd been riding in sat in a pile of twisted metal a couple of feet from you and the pain in your shoulder and back told you that you'd bounced a few times on landing. As you...

I had an idea and I decided to give it a go and make an attempt run my own quest for the first time. Decisions on semblance, weapon choice, and attribute allocation will occur next vote. I would prefer if you voted by plan to keep things organized. I will close this vote by 10/26 11 AM PST. I'll...

DARK DESCENT Okay, let's try this again. -IMMEDIATE WARNINGS- Characters will die a lot. Missions will fail a lot. Every step of forward momentum will feel like two steps back. This quest will be true to the spirit and style of Darkest Dungeon. In time, you will know the tragic extent of my...

Introduction Over the last few weeks I’ve heard a surprising number of people ask an interesting question. “Who is Nick Land?” Now, I haven’t read Land’s work before, but I’ve run into people talking about him, and had people recommend I read his various works, so I’ve been aware that he...

There was a low gurgle as Miriam struck down the Morte, the black ooze falling apart before her. Continuing her path through the ruined castle, she prepared herself for killing these monsters once and for all. Gremory and Dominique had run for too long, and now they’d finally face justice. Not...

The year is 2110. The Earth is a festering pile of angry spirits and industrial runoff. Understandably, the Megacorps don’t want to condemn themselves to death on a dying world. So like rats fleeing from a sinking ship they unwittingly chewed a hole through, the Mega’s have gathered their...

A chance meeting due to Kushiel bringing her daughter to her project leads to Sariel breaking two girls out of hell, and Felicity Chambers comes to Crossroads with a very different helper. Disclaimer: While Alma Mater should make sense without having read canon Heretical Edge, reading it...

It is the nature of all things to pass away with time. Rivers carve their way through countries, mountains become pebbles and yes, even the names of gods are forgotten. Likewise, it is the nature of new things to arise from the passing of the old. Where rivers dry canyons remain, where mountains...

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IC THREAD (Listen to this!) ASHES OF THE EMPIRE Disaster! Emperor Palpatine and his terrifying apprentice, Darth Vader, have both been murdered, and the Second Death Star destroyed, over the Forest Moon of Endor. The fate of the GALACTIC EMPIRE lies upon a knife’s edge. News of the death...

Preamble || Author's Message Hello! It's been a while, SV. I apologize for my absence lasting what must have been months; my activity on SV, SB, and other platforms was limited due to personal circumstances. I can't promise to be as active as I used to be, and can't even promise I'll devote...

For strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies; and the gulf is haunted by that which it were madness for man to know. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror, and shall come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth. --Clark...

You are not the center of the universe, and you are not special. The World is a violent and brutal place, filled with monsters, Bandits and unspeakable horrors That will kill you without a second thought. You are not The Chosen One, nor are you leading a band of Chosen Ones You're not great and...

The Idea You are going to be in charge of deciding the everyday activities of a D&D 5E mercenary company, from its birth as a ragtag group of adventurers to its inevitable rise as either the army the world needs to fight off the great big bad, or as the army of said big bad. Or anything in...