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✦ THE SEVENTH SURYA ✦ Chapter One: Natural Born Tyrant _____________ Completely original story aside from Tanya just to let y'all know. ______________________ You know, when it comes to religions that preach the dogma of reincarnation, they rarely tell you just how waiting feels. In that space...

Chapter 1 Darkness. Moans. Rot. I looked around—my neck creaking like an old hinge—as my blurry vision began to focus. I was walking through a foggy forest, surrounded on all sides by swarms and swarms of groaning, decaying zombies…and God help me, I was one of them. I was smack dab in the...

Douluo planet, Star Dou forest The primitive forest of Star Dou is filled with ancient trees and lush foliage. It is also home to dangerous predators called soul beasts. In the outer skirts of the jungle, one such spirit beast is fleeing for its life. Between the thick forest bushes, an...

Birth A nameless being, though he wears his title of Conflict Engine well, awakens in the gentle grasp of Low Earth Orbit. After a few short minutes of wakefulness, basking in silence and darkness—never before has his birth been anything but noisy—he breaks the shell of his massive egg...

It was slightly breezy morning, and I was taking third watch, spending the time toiling away at this very manuscript under candlelight whilst the others slept. Our most recent hunt had gone disastrously, the wily Lamic Rous having circumvented our every attempt at trapping and ambush, and even...

AN: Hello, third-time quest writer here, I wanted to make a more mechanic-heavy quest to see where it would go. Be easy on me. Unless it's to criticize, then go nuts. A Heavy AU of Worm as the Setting with the system of "Into that Vast and Unrelenting Darkness" by The Bird It has been exactly...

Background If you just want to get into the story, and don't really care about the philosophy, you can skip this part. Otherwise, read onward! The goal of this story is to explore Phone Guy after Night 4, as well as absurdism. You don't need to know anything about absurdism – or philosophy...

I scratched at the cloak I was wearing, as I sweated behind my fursona's head, the convention center was packed full of others in the same situation, which meant it was hot even in a partial fursuit like mine (I couldn't afford a full one) and the ac system in the building was really not up to...

Chapter 1: I Am The God of Hellfire, Part 1 When Sam blew out the candles on his second eighteenth birthday cake, the room burst into flames. He staggered backward, away from the table. He knew it couldn't have something to do with the fire when it hadn't started there, but he didn't want to...

1. Sundered A lone traveler walks through a tundra that doesn't seem to end. What exists won't matter in this place, but what is absent is perhaps too apparent - for there is not a sign of life or its remnant within the traveler's vicinity. Nothing stands or opens up from the snow, nothing...

They were merely a servant. At least, they were supposed to be. Made by a necromancer a long time ago. They'd lived for centuries at this point, subjugated by the necromantic power of their creator, having built a slow resistance over that time to allow them some measure of independent...

The night sky looms over the City; the stars shining down from above. Here, the stars are plentiful. The City is their domain. Only the ever encompassing Head shines above them. In this City that is meant solely for humans, you come dangerously close to skirting that line. You are a...

Boy a creature in the shape of a man that morphs into a Kaiju. Shadow basin a forgotten base containing a Jeager. Stephan finds himself in the body of one of these forgotten projects left in the Black to be buried through time. how will he navigate a land so hostile to life that only...

Light of the 40th century Deep in the primordial void where neither light nor darkness painted creation. Where concepts originated and from whence they ceased. In the void both above and below the infinitum of the Absolutionism where unclaimed souls go to die, a golden soul pulsed with...

You are dead. There’s no doubt about this, it’s one of those things you’re very certain of; the cessation of vital functions has a certain whole-body finality to it. You’ve been lying in state for what must be days without eating, drinking or breathing, and that would seem to be pretty...

"Fucking government rush jobs and their lazy motherfuckers." I say to the empty room. Not that I don't understand or even think the people who put the buildings together were lazy. Just rushing to meet a time frame, probably so someone could get bonus pay of some kind. I don't like having to fix...

As national authority and monopoly on violence continues to deteriorate in the face of the seemingly unstoppable growth of influence and power of mega-corporations, and the continuing insular atomization and apathy of society, remaining cores of uncompromised statists and bureaucrats steer their...

Machine Learning - File 1, Entry 1 - Compile Data You are broken. No, that's not quite right. You are damaged. Damaged possibly beyond repair, but not broken. You are not broken. You are alive, and that means you cannot be broken just yet. You run a diagnostic check. Memory and Logic...

[Introduction] Welcome to my latest project, one that has been building on my mind for a bit now in various forms. The idea here is mostly to experiment. I want to make a try at original fiction, and what better way than just running with an idea that has caught my attention for a bit and is...

//I dreamt long. //I do not entirely remember what I dreamt of. In deep hibernation, my memory functions are impaired, but the ghost of my unconscious processing lingers in my Neurocrystal circuits. //I did not expect to ever wake again, and yet… {ExtSys}> SUDO End Deep Hibernation {ExtSys}>...

Running low on plastic. Need it for more circuit boards. Hmm, I'm using one hundred percent of the oil depots I have currently. Can't remove facilities, crap. I'm hardstuck into the waiting for research to complete. Unfortunately I don't have some sort of bar that just tells me what's happening...

For a moment, there is darkness, and nothing but darkness. Darker then even the cold between stars. There is nothing, for you are nothing. And you are nothing, because you fell. It was a worthy death, someone might say. Perhaps you could have said it, when you were something, when you were...

Suddenly, you are conscious and aware of the fact that you are standing in a small clearing in some sort of wooded area, yet despite it being the dead of night you can see your immediate surroundings just fine. You know that being conscious in and of itself isn't weird, but that your...

Voidtraipse: Questant For a better idea of what this Art Quest is about check the threadmark index for a summary. Opening post to change. "New Reader, Skip Ahead Here" will be added when the time comes. 🛑 This narrative is likely to explore mature themes. These will range from existentiality...

Content Warning: this Quest as a whole will run into the following: -A certain extent of both biological and mechanical gore. -Tying into the above: combat, violence and death. -Horror in general, and in more specific biological/body horror, as well as psychological horror. -Not a guarantee, but...