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Industrialization is the necessary process for the creation of an advanced society. Any spacefaring polity must have gone through the stages of industrial economic development to increase their societal surplus and acquire enough knowledge and resources to escape their gravity well, and...

Lurk for ten years, participate for a year, about time I actually run a quest. Welcome to: FAFO Research Quest I'm not thrilled how research is handled in a lot of games. The tech tree is typically known in advance, and progression is achieved by investing a certain amount of resources...

A car broke free from the looming shadows cast by Stormfiend's dominating spheres of steel and glass and at last entered a sunny road leading to Base Union. But its four passengers didn't bother to admire the flowering fields or distant meadows, too focused on scanning their silver uniforms for...

Servant Heart: You are the Servant You have always lived to serve the family. To others, this dedication might seem peculiar—a life bound to the whims of those far wealthier, more influential, and unshackled by the ordinary moralities that guide most. While some whispered that such a life must...

SOLACE AND THE KNIGHTS OF INSURRECTION Foreward Welcome to Knights of Insurrection! This is a Mecha Rebellion Quest in an Original Science Fantasy setting based on a series of human colonies in the newly explored Andromeda galaxy. You should join this Quest if you are looking for: Science...

It would be lying to call the room a typical dungeon room. Sure the walls were that strange grey stone brick that didn't make any sense; and there was a massive treasure chest that no sane person would ever make to one side. But instead of guttering torches sending dark shadows everywhere...

At the center of Creation, the cradle of all universes, a battle was taking place that would determine the fate of reality itself. Both gods and mortals would be affected by the outcome of what would happen here. The ground of this place looked like the eye of a cyclone of white clouds, and the...

Your name is Daniel Rodrigo, and you are dead. She had the biggest tits you had ever seen - Jesus Christ. And long ginger hair, as shiny as a copper mirror, but none of that mattered now. She had used you as a human shield. Your chest had three excruciating holes in it, made by the gunshots of...

Ok so this is a fun little thought exercise. You don't actually have to add on or interweave your stories or characters with mine even though I do kinda imagine them as the central protagonists in the story. But the setting here is pretty big and can be bigger depending on what you add if you...

Chronicles of a Mad Jumper 1 The life of an author was very boring actually. They lived their lives stuck in stories of far away places without ever leaving their house. Why is that boring? Because they had to return to their drab little lives eventually. Rob was one of those people...

Chapter 1: Beautiful Things The time had finally come for Liselotte to be thrown out. They found her stowed away in the attic whilst clearing out the mansion ahead of winter. Her wooden frame had been scratched and dented in several places and the pale lacquer that served as her skin had begun...

It began a year ago, a bank robbery in Oakland, California was interrupted by what appeared to be a sixteen year old girl in a pink cosplay outfit of some kind. She pointed a wand crowned with a large pink gem shaped like a heart at the robbers and demanded they surrender. The robbers were more...

You are a soul. What you were before is lost, you were dead for a LONG time. However, you do know this much: You aren't quite dead anymore. You woke up in an odd little office. A bed against one wall, with a dresser at the foot of the bed. There was a rug across most of the hardwood floor, a...

This is a collaborative setting construction forum thread. The objective is to combine our shared talents to build an magical school setting. The school in question will probably be pretty large - more of an university with labs and dorms for adult students than a Harry Potter-style boarding...

You are entering the Climbing Vines Sect, in order to become one of its disciples and use your powers to support the Empire in its battle against demons, invaders, rebels, and hungry ghosts. Your future power, that is, for while you may have the ability to touch the Essence of the world, you...

That sound is so annoying. Shrill, repetitive, completely out of sync with the red light that keeps flashing through your closed eyelids, making you wince and groan. What is that? You open your eyes and immediately regret it; pain makes your vision swim, aggravating the pain in your head and in...

Introduction In 1912, the world ended. Massive extraterrestrial craft descended upon the Earth, millions of bizarre life-forms and an army of bizarre machines conquered the world and reshaped entire continents, and then simply pulled out after nearly twenty-five years of resistance and rebellion...

INTRODUCTION I've been itching to run a zombie apocalypse quest for awhile now and with Diogo Nogueira's The Dead are Coming rulebook I think I've found a great array of mechanics that are both minimalistic and able to scale upward in regard to forming communities. The setting for Fear the...

Everything has a soul. Gods, humanoids, beasts, plants, objects, energies and even ideas. The greater the being, the greater the soul, the more complex its composition. Souls of ideas have only one fold: the fold of fate, which grants them existence within the flow of cause and effect, making...

“CARGO FOR PROCESSING: Aurog Kuk-Ur, God (Dead): 1 Angels (Dead): 7 Angels (Alive): 2 Lesser spirits (dead): 13 Barrels of Godsblood: 14” -Cargo manifest, god-hunting vessel HSA Scalpel of Reason Her first sensation in the mortal world was the feeling of cold stone and iron pressed against her...

Islands of Adventure- A Magipunk journey of discovery and heroism! Intro Long ago in the ten Elemental Realms there existed the legendary Adventurers Guild who from their Isles of Hope defeated the Empire of Shadows and led the Ten realms into an era of peace and prosperity with every inhabitant...

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.” - Herb Caen Immortality: a highly coveted yet scorned state of being. It’s very controversial as many argue whether or not it improves or diminishes life. Does having no end make life meaningless? Does it all become...

✦ 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...

The Cycle is Eternal, it has always been and always will be. When one Cycle passes a new Cycle is born. For at the core of each Cycle that has ever been, their's stands a Primordial, a boundless force of creation and destruction. The Alpha and Omega, the eternal heart of existence itself made...

The year is 2059. The first human born on Luna has a child of their own. One world becomes Two. The year is 2067. Humanity lands on Mars. A flag is proudly hung on that planet that so long dominated the minds of millions, and the words coming from Emmet Muhammed will inspire billions more. For...