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"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." ― Abraham Lincoln The United States of America, in the form of the creature of Henry Ford and countless others in his shadow and their successors since 1932, was losing the Great Confrontation, unable to stem the Red...

The story of humanity has always been one of struggle against the odds. From the harsh survival of our earliest ancestors to the plagues that swept through crowded cities, from the firestorms of global war to the quiet dread of slow ecological collapse—again and again, we have stood at the edge...

You have died. You are dead. There is no way to deny that simple fact. You have shuffled off your mortal coil, you have kicked the bucket, you have breathed your last, etc. etc., and are floating in an endless void, the same one that awaits most everyone, resigning yourself to your new existence...

----- Michael Wade knew something was horribly wrong before he opened his eyes. He'd woken up feeling well-rested - which meant eight full hours of sleep. Which meant he'd slept through his alarm. Which meant he'd missed work. And that meant kissing goodbye to his chances for the full-time...

She lay straight on the cold, tiled floor of the damp, dimly lit basement, her arms and feet spread on the floor. The air was thick with humidity, sticking to her skin. There was a stench of humid furniture and damp soil, sickening the head but she was just lying looking at the ceiling. The...

A little foreword; I have dabbled in writing like many people on this cursed website for a couple years, but I mostly spent it shitposting or getting about people’s decisions on how the fictional doll theatre should act. As such, expect low quality and quantity. Proofread by: No one, I would...

Autumn was the last thing Kit ever loved. Rain would freshen the air, and the streets would empty with it. The sun would stay hidden. The fog would soften the needling tinge of regret. That was twenty years ago. The name Kit died then too. The same day the dungeons tore the world apart on New...

Chapter 1: Guilty as Charged! The august imperial throne stood before me as I was forced to kneel before my father. Siblings on the left and the right all stared at me with mixed feelings. Some were glad, others were upset for thinking of me 'above' the charges levied against me, and a little...

Ascendants of the Spire sometimes argue that sacrifice isn't the price of magic, but its purpose. When Earth entered its third millennium, the Spire appeared: shining silver, infinitely reaching, a pillar of paranatural light as if a star had streaked into the earth and its luminescent trail...

The sound of the embers breaking as the fire burned around them as they kept the darkness of the night away. The traveler sat before the children, much like he had done before, and began to tell the same story that had kept both the children in front of him and their parents alive. He spoke...

Years ago... Dawn is alive with the sounds of terror and violence. Valiant heroes invade the lair of evil with light and flame and holy silver, ready to die to purge unclean things from the world. You run for your life down a grand hallway, your feet thudding against black quartz tile, your...

"Where… where am I?" The last thing he remembered was sacrificing his life to stop the Wunderwaffe, a terrible weapon created by the Nazis near the end of World War II. He had been just a few days short of his eighteenth birthday, yet he had died with a smile, knowing his sacrifice would lead...

In this Quest, you all play as the Colony, even if you don't have the same goals and desires. Like another project I… The mechanics may sound quite familiar to you. There are three phases. The Ideas Phase (what you do), and the Results Phase (what I do) and the Events Phase. The Ideas Phase is...

In the year 3047, Humanity discovered the remnants of an alien starship, and with it, they found the mana engine, which led to an explosion of new technologies and science. The Mana Engine made it possible to move from one world to another with hardly any effort, but that was not the only...

"Power, not propulsion, is what limits us. And the sun is too far away." You are the Administrator of NASA. The year is 2025. Solar panels have failed to deliver on the dreams of outer planets. Europa Clipper's near-catastrophic power deficits in Jovian orbit have triggered a cold reckoning...

The Scribe's Tale - Before there was Grärm there was the Scribe, legends state the scribe had a hundred hands, eyes like a insect, and a grand collection of self-written stories - Yet despite it's greatness, loneliness still brought it a deep and powerful woe, there were none to compare itself...

Dawn and reality break together. Space twists; trembles; tears. A tiny hole appears in the air and rapidly doubles in size, twice, thrice, five times, ten times. Around it the grass begins to wither, and the stones begin to crumble, and the very color begins to leach out of the sky, and only...

Reach for the heavens! Riches and immortality await on the diverse and dangerous worlds of Stryfe. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! You will take control of a hero and guide them along their journey to become a true immortal. You will help them acquire opportunities such as thearchic...

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Okay, basically this is a worldbuilding thread where you can contribute to it. Basically you can put up to ten facts that don’t contradict previous facts, you cannot post again until someone else has posted. I’ll get started; 1. It is the turn of the century & mages are hiding away from the...

CH-1 Life was stagnant, similar to other days in the endless cycle of academia. I was sitting in the empty classroom after giving my lecture to the students, my weathered leather chair creaking beneath me as I shifted my weight. The fading afternoon sunlight filtered through half-drawn blinds...

DINNER FOR TWO CAST: ROSE, a melancholy man GILL, a former athlete WAITER ~ [SETTING: A long wooden bench, as used in the fancier sort of restaurant sits behind two tables; one on the left, short, set for one, one on the right, long, set for six. They are both covered in white tablecloths...

"I've got two screaming dots in my cameras, I'll have moonfall in five minutes, try to wrap up by then," Amalie chirped in Ophelia's ear. Ophelia tried to make out the horizon through the darkness. Jupiter lit up Europa well, but the cameras on Gepard weren't perfect for mimicking human eyes...

The smell of dust mixed with the ash in the air as the fires that burned the city filled the air with smoke. The creatures, no the monsters were attacking everyone and everything that caught their eye. It didn't matter if that thing was a street sight that changed colors or if it was a person or...