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Hope has defined your existence. Humanity has been pushed to one, final, desperate position. Though the Gods are as real as you or I, the theocracy has failed in every conceivable way. Only one holy capital city remains. It is surrounded by an unnatural bastion. Eight churches. Eight cities...

Character Sheet Name: Jess Alsser Gender: Female Age: 19 years old Ambition: become the most important and famous travelling writer. Write the best books ever written. See the most mysterious corners of the world.

You hear the sirens your leg throbbing with pain as you feel the flames lick at your body the hungry power-consuming your posters and figurines. You feel your tear run down your face as a limited edition Alexandra melts in the heat. Your own survival questionable you wonder about your mom, about...

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Your world is pain and burning. Your mind claws itself up from the primordial blackness of unconsciousness to a fragmented and hostile reality. The ancient reptilian brain reaches the scene first—smoke is choking you, you feel broken and torn in places, something large and heavy pins you, there...

A Fools Journey Hey welcome to my first quest! I hope we can have a great time telling stories together :) My first quest, totally open to feedback! Setting: Elder Scrolls | Ruleset: Dungeon World How much do you need to know about them to get the Quest? Not heaps. The Elder Scrolls setting...

"Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable." The Erudian Empire bestrides the world. For three centuries it has suborned the continent through conquest and subjugation. It has crushed rebellions and revolutionaries through the...

To you, there is nothing nobler than the fusion of man and machine that is a well-designed war mecha. The elegance of legs and grace of arms serves so well to be a mounting point for the focal point of the creation: weapons. Any gun, no matter how mundane, is improved by giving it the...

Forging the Trident: A Navy Board Quest “To pretend to Universal Monarchy without fleets was long since looked upon as a politick chimaera...whoever commands the ocean, commands the trade of the world, and whoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world, and whoever is...

That toaster fucking Quarter Wit stole your dissertation. Your graduation to a fully recognized member of the mechanicus was tainted by another stealing you work and claiming it as their own. An entire order of the cult is dedicated to the study of logistics and eficency. Your work was the...

Europe stands on the precipice of a third industrial revolution. New technologies formulated by brilliant men such as Professor Hawkins have upended old assumptions, with steamcores powering enormous machinery and massive automatons doing the work of a dozen men. The wheels of progress are...

Din’anshiral A Dragon Age Quest [~] Cry for the past—only there does glory dwell. For here, the bow was strung, the sword bequeathed, the vows sworn. So glory was born within the hearts of elves. The ancestors of the People built wonders that can scarcely be imagined. Knowledge and power lay...

In 2020 the american police had less than 20 days where they killed no one. Slavery is legal and used to supply the largest market and employer in the country. A dying mans last words were "How is my family going to pay for this" because his death meant economic ruin to his family. The upper...

Your intestines and blood spill out between your fingers burning hot to the touch as you try to run forward. You can hear the shouts from behind you. They are getting closer and they will kill you if they catch you. Your breathing is ragged and heavy, your vision spins and every foot step takes...

Major Sylvia Vance Stress: 2/10 Detached on duties for the General Staff of the Albian Expeditionary Force. Content warning This quest is focused on war. There will be violence and it and its results will not be censored or elided.

Great-Mother always told tales of Before, when death would not come with but a moment’s notice. You don’t think she truly knew - perhaps she heard from her mothers before her. Now, you will never know. You are the eldest now, at twenty-six summers, and the people look to you now. Perhaps you...

Blackpowder and Blood (A Fantasy Europa Universalis IV Quest) The Greentide began 19 years ago when the orc Korgus Dookanson, the self-proclaimed son of their foul god, invaded and laid waste to the chivalrous kingdoms of Escann. Only Corin, a mortal woman imbued by the powers of Agrados, the...

Her office is a burst of sunshine caught in a bubble. A perfectly placed trap designed for quite a specific kind of prey. A remnant of a woman who was once called Sarah Nolan and who spent the majority of her life listening to stories right till the moment she became one herself. It’s not like a...

Author's note: I've been prewriting this particular take on the Dungeon Core genre for a while, and am now posting it to SV in a bid to iron out my worries about update schedule and prose-entry-rate before I brave Royal Road. Fan engagement welcome - comments, critique, speculation, et cetera...

Schwarz-Rot-Gold: An Interwar Germany Quest Let us lift Germany, so to speak, into the saddle. Surely when that is achieved, it will succeed at riding as well -Otto von Bismarck to the Parliament of Confederation, 1867 This is a continuation of the thread here - it is not needed to read that...

Hello, this is my first quest! I hope you enjoy, and please tell me if I'm doing anything wrong. This quest is set in the world of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth. TLDR: Earth is messed up. Different factions have colonized this new planet. They are developing different "affinities" -...

The moon overlays the sun, silver hangs edged by gold, the sky goes black while the clouds stay white, and people try to cop a glimpse of Luna mackin’ on Apollo while tryin’ not to go blind. They call it an eclipse. You call it creepy as heck. Serious willies. Just, conceptually, it’s weird...

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Keep Your Rifle By My Side A Cyberpunk ATF Quest “The responsibilities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and...

Turn 1: The End of Days 1620 AGF, Reign of the Last King of the Ymaryn The gates of the Palace of the People lay open. Sundered. Like the great trees from which they had been made, they were laid low by storm. Not one of wind and weather, but of men and murder. It was silent now, but in the...