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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...

A combination of a succession quest and a riot quest, here is how the rules will go In this quest, which will be divided into turns, you will collectively control Amalga/Amalga, the world this takes place in and the god influencing it You control the world via Commands when voting comes (Unless...

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...

Hello my loyal patriots, if you are hearing this, then let it be known Operation Ichor was in fact a catastrophic failure, and the former iteration of our Department Of Correction has been forcefully terminated by forces beyond our control, and this historied agency must now deal with public...

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...

21st of Sextilis, 4350 A.P. The evening had started so well, Gaius Publius thought. He'd visited the theater with his wife to watch his daughter's latest work. A masterful ensemble of illusions and narrative that brought new life to the old tale of the rise of the imperial house without...

Hello everybody. I'm a writer, mostly freelance, but I've been working on my own setting for a while now. So far it's some very raw ideas, but I'd like to share them for feedback and suggestions on how things can be improved. The first one is this world is very similar to ours, but in ancient...

You're currently being held still by a bandit you call Gap-Tooth due to the space between his two upper front teeth, struggling in the hold as his companion, the guy you'll call Steel-Hand was punching you repeatedly in the face with his combat gauntlets Some notable features about you would be...

This from an ASB thread I post in AH.com but considered SV a lot more knowledgeable about this sort of stuff I'll post it here. Anyway let's just say Marx and Engels after publications of Das Kapital Volume I (1867) there's conscious swap with Stalin and Trotsky a few days before 15th Congress...

Tomorrow, something crazy happens that doesn't directly affect anybody. Like let's say the Sun is replaced with a giant Triangle for a day (that still shines), and the moon is replaced with a giant cheese wheel oof equivalent mass. Or let's say that everyone on Earth has the film London After...

The beginning of the Dive is always the worst part, because even if my brain knows I can breathe the stuff that Knights dive into, my body never remembers - so it panics and acts like I'm drowning. But then, covered in super-oxygenated goo almost as warm as my skin, I breathe it and don't choke...