steampunk

The Boot on Zaun's Neck Vi promised us it would be a quick and easy job. Just sneak into some rich Piltie’s place, rob him blind, and sneak back to Zaun before he even realized what’d happened. She’d gotten the tip from Ekko, so we knew it was legit. Get in, get the loot, and get out. Easy...

“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...

“So, I heard on 60 Minutes that they’re pretty dangerous. Is that true?” The lady at the front desk of the store, held a purse in both of her hands, her brow furrowed. The smiling Marathon rep chuckled, like he’d heard the question a hundred times a day. You were lounging in the seat by the...

Glamsbury is never warm. It's a cold, damp place, but it's also home. You've never known any other place. You stalk through the veins of the city, past the cells that are the intermingling humans mixing together with each other. Past the stench of acrid smoke and the sounds of rumbling gears...

The Purpose of the Quest The purpose of the game is to command a flying metal airship in voyages across a largely desolate and anarchy-infested North American frontier. Each 'turn', I will present you (acting as either the collective psyche of the Captain in charge, or as the directors of the...

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have...

Chapter 1; This ain't my fucken bed. I was asleep, and that's always a good thing in my fucken books. What was not good was that when I tried to roll over I smacked face first into a wall, that was not good. Rolling the other way, maybe expecting to wrap my arms around a chick I had no memory...

St. Daghlian's was a five star hotel, built on the exact spot where the Empire State Building had been burnt to cinders, something that the placard out front was quite delighted to brag about. Nix swore he could still hear the ghosts as he stood at the front desk and looked up at the vast...

You awaken to bright lights and quite frankly the worst headache you've had since graduating from the officers' academy. Turns out the part after your appointment to Constable-General was significantly more rowdy than you anticipated. Indeed you feel as if you were bludgeoned around 30 times by...

Hey all! This isn't like an actual TL, or a Nanowrimo project or something, more slightly coherent rambling. This was supposed to be a short summary for a friend of mine about a fantasy setting I've been daydreaming about for a long time now, but instead, it exploded into this gigantic thing. I...

[It's not time to be someone yet. You were someone before; but you're not ready to be someone again.] [Be The Unseen Motion][] [Be The Spark of Life][] [Be The Universe][X] Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree; but people have always been dimly aware of the problem with...

Hi there, SV. Zeist here, this time with a new adventure/slice of life series about an overworked witch named Allison Sinclair in a magitek fantasy setting. I decided to just write whatever I felt like with this, and am trying to be under less pressure to create than I was last time. This story...

After so many years of reading in this very forum and learning a bit about writing by penning large parts of ISOT in Grimdark I finally get around to writing something of my own. This is an original setting of sorts, it is a very alternate history, and it features humans as junior ASB. This...

This world is broken. New magic and technologies that could be used to serve all people has been bent only to serve those who are already our masters. Kings, industrialist, aristocrats and old gods. It doesn't matter the form it takes, power encircles the greater potential of all people and...

Part 1 From the black journal of saint Syran whose factual accuracy is verified by pacts of death and truthfulness.Contents declassified and unsealed 755 A.E 500 A.E In the name of our almighty master and father,Wyrm the grand savant-king of mankind and 1 of the three.I Syran...

The year is 1878, and the Age of Steam is in full swing. Airships ply the skies, dreadnoughts sail the seas, and babbage engines clack and whirr their song across continents. Yet all is not well in this time of technological advancement. The common man, the farmer and the laborer, are crushed...

(I might make a map for this scenario later, but for now it's just a vignette. Obviously it isn't meant to be hard-realistic alternate history.) Children of Eve The Story of the Mechanical Homeland The analytical engine, as you all know, changed the world. You have all heard the story of...

=}+{= =} Of Death Things {= Her right arm was utterly dead, not even a hint of the power that flowed through it in working hours could give her comfort: it was a dead thing of cold steel and empty wires, a constant foreign body that was unable to warm up even when lying next to her body...

You still remember the first time you came out to the Community. The awful chance to remake your image, your very self, to something more true to your roots. As your Genius only manifested with music, you had decided to make yourself known through a concert. Perhaps the most stressful part was...

So what is this?: Well like the title suggests this is initial planning faze for a timeline I've had in the back of my head for nearly a year now. What's it about?: The main theme is about alternate technological development and how the earlier development of certain technologies would effect...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmAurh012s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Svs_hl897c Well... damn. I was anticipating this show would be good, but within the first few seconds I was hooked and watched the first three episodes in one go - only reason I didn't binge it in full is cause...

I couldn’t hear it, of course, there was no air for the sound to propagate through, but I could feel it. Reverberating through the ground, like an earthquake. Somewhere on our right, there was a massive plume of regolith thrown upward, rendered as an almost perfect half-sphere in the vacuum. A...

(credit to alex snow) On the continent of Vevenua, peace is a rare luxury. Kings, Princes, and would be warlords have divided the land for over a millennia. In the past century however, a drastic change has come to the land. Experiments by innovators in the merchant republic of Begoli found...

(credit to alex snow) On the continent of Vevenua, peace is a rare luxury. Kings, Princes, and would be warlords have divided the land for over a millennia. In the past century however, a drastic change has come to the land. Experiments by innovators in the merchant republic of Begoli found...

SKYBORNE The World, AD 1850 (click for bigger) The Old World, 1850. For one and a half centuries, Earth has known the World-Sky – a sky above the sky, an endless realm of clouds and unearthly stars where gravity holds little sway. The world-sky's curious properties make flight...