school life

What did I want to be? As my fingers continuously moved over the keyboard like some kind of a cold inefficient machine, my eyes stared at the screen blankly, watching it be filled with words that slowly took over half of the screen. I blinked, realizing that I needed a break, and sighed...

Chapter 1: A new story begins "Hero, I see you have come far to reach me here, you have slain the 10 wyverns of mount Duskmoir, you culled the 3 heavenly dragons and the cursed abomination from below the surface. You have faced armies by yourself and killed many warriors on the same level as...

It was a warm and sunny day. The birds were singing, kids were playing, and most importantly the adults were still working. It was a week before the new semester starts. Somewhere in the vast world of Nexus, on a particular hill surrounded by a sea of trees, sat a building resembling a majestic...

All that lives, must eventually die. That which is dead, will then nourish and protect the living. This is the great cycle of life, a balance. It is a necromancer's solemn duty to protect this balance. The words echoed through your mind as you lay in your room on the girl's side of the...

"Morning, hunny! Time for a new year of school!" Nyg . . nm . . next year . . "Darling! You wouldn't want to be late for a new yeaaar of school!" Mm . . ahmm . . this tastes funny . . . "Young missy! You do not want me to have to come up there and wake you up again! I thought I told you to...

GM Note: My muse won't stop bugging me about this one. So, here we are. HMS Dover Somewhere in the Arabian Sea May 3rd 1916 My dearest son, How are you? I do hope you...

Shadowhorn Seven Suns and Nine Moons. Eleven Kingdoms, all in a line stretching from the red fields with its countless blades of blood, to the last, unending shore and the Crystal Sea beyond that stretched on forever into the horizon. From impassable Nictaya, Mountain of Glass, to the...

Pointy Hats is now on Sufficient Velocity, as my first quest overall, as well as about my first activity on the site, I hope some leeway is acceptable but please give any feedback you think will help improve the game, or even grammar or formatting errors. Forward: Welcome to Pointy Hats, a play...

----- You open your eyes once again. Your ceiling, your fan, your poster all slowly focus into your field of vision. Your room. Yours. For now. We’ll all be awake within moments. You sigh and shake your head; it’s too early to worry about something you’ve been worrying...

You live in a world of wonder and peril, everyday holds a new fun and exciting way to die, I the narrator could list all these enticing ways our hero can die, but i am to bored and lazy to try. Oh of course dear reader i have forget to explain the mechanics of this useless and most likely to be...

Note to self, a mix of alcohol, alchemy ingredients and magical hallucinogens leaves one hell of a hangover, do not repeat. Also Ow. Dougie Sanderson managed to crack open a crusted eyelid on his second attempt and took in the room. It was the same as normal, dark, cluttered with the...

When people with superhuman abilities turn 20, it shows. They awaken the magic that has been tracked inside their bodies, but never clear on what the power gives. Some use their powers for good, others for evil. Of course, justice is always promised to be carried out. In the town of Beyond...

Name:Daniel Craig Age:16(Freshman) Corruption:0.0% Strength: Weak Speed:Average Will Power: Average Powers: None (Loser) Your a loser. It's really a fact not a statement, you have been for a long time. When you were younger you had a speech impediment, took a few years to get over it, by...

Uncle Bob’s Magical Murder-shop Prologue You stood over your uncle’s grave, the dirt still soft and unsettled from the burial. You were the only one to attend the funeral, the cost your uncle paid for a life of seclusion and study. He had always been alone. And now you were, too...

The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained with a cartoon We stunt upward mobility and make college a finishing school for the affluent. Updated by Alvin Chang@alv9nalvin@vox.com Sep 11, 2017, 8:30am EDT A few years ago, hundreds of college administrators received a...

You are in the Nation of Sylvia in the Goodwin Magic Academy. You are 16 and have just enrolled for your 4 year training program. Your end goal is the Sylvian Royal Battle Mages. In this academy you will learn everything from base elements to magic creation. You are unique as you can cast magic...

(note: this is the type of thing that could belong in the possibly upcoming science subforum; join the discussion in that thread if you have opinions about that) What a debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it The case for, and against, redefining “statistical...

This is a world of adventure, a world of great danger, arduous quests and valiant heroes. Forever have the holders of the light fought against the creatures of the dark in an endless recurrence, cowering behind their walls until their forces allow them to push monsters back to their dark towers...

“When wizards convene, the world always changes.” Engelbrecht aen Draquill lets the words hang in the air for the assembly to consider. Behind him looms an arching mural of stained glass; the scene of a blackthorn tree in bloom, lit by the rays of the midday sun. He stands at the exact center...

A/N: for readers of my other two quests ‘Going for a Walk’ and ‘Adventurer Quest’, I am not dropping them. I am, unfortunately, putting GfaW on hiatus. Though it's the more popular of the two, my muse refuses to cooperate and focus. Thus we have this. So I will be splitting my attention between...

Vorstallen Magic Preparatory. The third-best magic academy in the city of Vorstal for which it is named. One of the newer colleges, but one of the better ones. Started by a consortium of Vorstallen merchants who paid a great deal of money to set up many talented mages there, what it lacks in...

Yugioh Quests have one fundamental problem, how to convey the complicated Duels in an appealing way while also allowing for meaningful choice and updates longer than single lines. So I threw it out and upped the scale. This Quest focuses on the Headmaster of a new Duel Academy in the GX Era...

Professor of (Insert When Applicable) of Beacon Academy (RWBY) Character Creation Part 1 --- Beacon Academy. Lauded by may a huntsman and huntress as the finest of all the hunter academies in the four kingdoms of Remnant. Every year thousands of prospective hunters apply with the hope that...

It was Quirrell. "You!?" Harry gasped in confusion. A smile etched its way on Quirrell's face. It wasn’t twitching at all. "Me." His voice was calm, though with an undercurrent of mirth. "I wondered whether I’d be meeting you here, Potter." "But, but I thought – Snape –" "Severus?" Quirrell...

NARAKA HIGH SCHOOL "Can you see the Island!?" Naraka High School. The famous legendary high school where if you graduate, you can immediately work for the government one-hundred-percent without the need for college! It almost sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it may be, but it is the...