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A voice in the darkness beguiles me: “Truth is a mystery, unraveled by the candles’ flames.” From The Journal of a Man who Wandered Into Another World. *** She awoke, if that was what you could call it. As always, her consciousness started from nothingness and gradually began to take shape...

"... these are the reason why we have chosen to undertake this titanic effort." - President Thomas J Whitmore's second inaugural address, 2053 The year is 2053. Following the success of the Artemis and Ares programs in the 30's and late 40's, public and private interests managed to keep...

My name is Kirigiri Kyoko. That's all I can tell you about myself up front. I'd been raised to believe I was someone exceptional, a student above all others. I have no idea how I can believe that now. My first inclination that something unnatural was afoot was when I spied an eerie set of...

The world you live in is very normal ... but at the same time very strange, there are live machines that walk, ball pits that make you travel in time, records that cause hallucinations and who knows what else ... but who are you well you are [] a programmer who recently fazbears entertained to...

Intrusion In an unornamented, ten foot by ten foot stone tomb there unlives a spirit. That's you. The ghost of one who in life... well, you don't recall. Your remains have rotted away, there's not a hint of the past, just you, and your comfy little tomb. You've been dead for a long, long time...

Introduction (character creation, part 1 of 2) "No, my father didn't fight in the wars," you told Old Ben. "He was just a navigator on a spice freighter." The short, stout, bespectacled old man took a pull of his wine and sighed. "That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with your...

The world is not what it appears to be, there are aspects of it that hide in the shadows and use the ignorance of the masses and the dismissal of what is seen as superstitious and unscientific as a cloak to keep themselves out of the spotlight. They have been with us since times long forgotten...

HeartWorm: A SkitterPan Quest /-|-\ \/-\_|_/-\/ /\-/_|_\-/\ \-|-/ Brockton Bay, October 2, 2011 Amy sighed in relief as the bell for lunch finally rang. Dragging herself out of her chair she immersed herself in the crowd of students eager to leave class, if only for a little while. Using the...

Maka Albarn, a normal girl in an extraordinary city filled with living weapons, magic, and a something disguising itself as a god. But those days were over now. For some reason unknown to all, she had developed a power in the form of translucent screens and a lair. However, she wished she didn't...

"Know, oh prince, that in world between the grand Empire of Sigmar the Heldenhammer and the teeming hordes of the Greenskin’s badlands there is a land undreamed of, where petty kingdoms lie spread across the span like rhinestones atop a fraudster’s crown.” ♫ The Lands of the Border Princes. You...

sudoers root access EMCEE elam +YOU ARE AWAKE “I see.” +ARE YOU AWARE OF YOUR CONDITION? The packet of data and ID hashes called a Soul scratched it’s head-representation. It ran internal diagnostics. Vast sectors of it were null-black, unresponsive. Only the most basic of apps remained. A...

All your life has been spent in your little village of around 500 people. You were born there, followed your parents' trade, and had never been further away than a week's travel to the next village. Though your life was not idyllic, it was uncomplicated, and you were contented with your simple...

Generations ago, your ancestors founded a village near a young low-lying forest that covered the valley between great mountains, on the coast of a lush continent. Your ancestors prayed to the spirits of the land and sea to provide them with a pure source of water for their new village. The...

Mu. Tomb of Empires. Godling Pyre. The Jewel Star. The Slaughterhouse System Graveyard of Empires. Here is where the story begins, far beyond the civilized and well-settled edges of the galaxy. Though never far from the ambitious dreams of its expectant warlords, hungry heirs, slavering...

Ways of Perishing in the Apocalypse What is Ways of Perishing? Ways of Perishing is a quest set in the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint world, where earth is subject to scenarios and put through what’s called the “Star Stream” for the entertainment of beings called constellations. Think of it as...

When the clouds had parted, the mouth of the salpinx was enough to block out the sun anew. A great and terrifying shadow, a wide and dark abyss. The more its long neck extended from the skies, bronze reflecting the fear of those below, the more panic began to set in. The salpinx stared down at...

The Children of Destiny: For almost seventy years, there has been uneasy peace in the Elemental Nations. Great ninja villages fighting wars in the shadows, and with chakra. Deaths first numbered in small teams. Then larger teams. Then wars. Three wars have battered the continents, destroying...

It is 2306. After centuries of inner strife, Sigmar’s Empire was once more reunited following the Great War against Chaos, and now seeks to re-assert itself in the world. Your clan, clan Rakidum, served an important role in the war against Chaos, as your millenia of experience as Rangers...

The air is warm and dry thick with the smell of baking bread and sweet sweet sauces made from various berries. The warm wooden counter in the small stone bakery is covered in various tarts and pastries covered in sauces and glazes. A feast to the eyes with the rainbow of colors and to the nose...

Taylor Hebert is excited to use her powers. Well, she just learned that she have powers. She didn't know how it happened. She just got it. So, it all started after she was put in a locker by her bullies. Then she got to the hospital, stayed a week in there, and finally got home before going to...

The world has been shattered after years of military build up the Last War started as nuclear assets across the world left there silos and bunkers on 26 September 1983 the world before ended. Those few born afterwards never new the sun as the Great Winter set in. Black skies and white fields...

... Who? ... What? I don't know.... Darkness. The only thing I can see. Where am I? What am I doing here? Who am I? Those are the questions that came to me. Thoughts that kept coming to my mind. I think I am a human. Maybe a girl or something. I think I attend school. Did I have friends...

You stand in the embarkation room, a cold place of metal walls, a massive arch before you, seemingly braided of metals of different colors, dotted with glowing lights denoting various functions. You should be in the command chamber. But for this? You had to be here. For this moment. You...

1996, December 20th New York City, Headquarters of the United Nations. The tiny meeting room was dead silent as five people shuffled into their seats. A few moments passed before the young woman sighed “So are we really it? Something this serious.” “It's a joke is what it is! We are! this...

The world surely works in mysterious ways. You are sure your not here awhile ago, but now you are. You are... Name []Write-In Age []Write-In Gender []Write-In Appearance (Optional) (Picture is Allowed) []Write-In Description (Optional) []Write-In The place you find yourself in is... []In...