non-human protagonist

"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}>...

You used to like weekly war room meetings of Sangvis Ferri: they were somewhat chaotic and unruly, but always cheerful and boisterous. Reports of new territorial gains, battlefield victories and capture of important facilities came together in what seemed like an endless stream of success and...

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...

New Moon, Old Blood Chapter 1 - Asphodel Kanae Kocho was going to die. She could feel it in every breath she took. Normally, a person was not too aware of their own breathing. It was automatic; just something their body did naturally without them even having to think about it. But for a demon...

CHAPTER ONE REBORN I hate snakes! Shai detested most reptiles, however, her repulsion towards those legless slithering creatures with scaly skin was on a completely different level. Snakes were natural predators. Even the venomless ones could evoke the feeling of dread and unease merely...

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I have finally been serious about my writing in a way I have not before. I have stopped any plans for quest or fanfiction for the moment, as I am finally working on a sci fi story and have been building a consistent world. I will share updates here when I feel up to it, but at least I am...

Earlier principles normally take priority over later ones, but there are some over-ride conditions present. Principle 1: Torture is not to be permitted under any circumstances. -Addendum: Chronic medical conditions don't count as torture for Principle 1; nor do unpleasant but necessary medical...

Sol III was breathtaking up close. Literally. The lack of aether was causing them breathing problems. They had never imagined that the centerpiece of the evolution would be so primitive and lacking, The Creator’s vision was truly unique and unmatched, as expected. It found potential in even...

To Shield the World IV. 1187 by the reckoning of the Asur (497 Imperial Calendar) Beginnings are not everything by the reckoning of your people; but there is still something to be said for the beginning you see before you, and the potentialities that spread out like the great plains of...

Tink. Tink. Tink. Tink. The sound of metal on metal echoes through the cavernous chamber, steady as a metronome. It cuts through the quiet hum of electronics, through the thrum of the fusion reactor, so deep it was almost beyond the audible spectrum. It is a sign of life in an enormous...

Arc 1, Epitaph 0. An Ending You are a dead thing, risen in death to spread death. You are cloaked in the stillness of death, a form that won't grow or age or decay, but you are not stillness. You are the hunger of death, the inevitability of the end that will come clamoring for all things. You...

Beginnings 0.0 - Sunrise Hello once more, everybody! I have returned to again deliver a ProjectMoon Quest Experience, complete with existential suffering, body horror, and cool swords! This time (and last time too, more or less), you will be playing the part of a newly-formed Distortion...

AN: Currently hosted on SB, but being gone through and cleaned up. Crossposting while I'm doing it so I don't have to go over every single chapter at once later on... The first thing Taylor realized about the plethora of templates, designs, and theoretically impossible ideas her power...

For many years, I have been trying to write an outline of a story, or novel if I enjoy writing it, set in a draconic world. But I am not trying to copy fantasy or western literature. I am trying to evolve a beleivable world and situations that would push dragons to develope a more organized and...

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