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Gotham The most wretched city in the entirety of the country, a nightmare only held aloft by the fact that it plays home to the estates of some of the oldest of old money known to the continent. Only two things matter in Gotham. Money and power. It’s an environment that breaks people. And...

Alvin was never one for fighting. Hell, he hated the thought of getting his nose broken or even having his fingernail cracked. Even wooden splinters from the wheelbarrows or sparks from the arctech wagons frightened him, despite being nearly twenty-five years old. So why was he in the midst of...

"This is a real mission, not a test," Koldan Grigorovich Kovalev tells her as she exits his car, carrying a weapon that will kill a man. She nods and heads off down a Moscow street and joins a group of girls, all dressed like her in white blouses with red scarves. She blends in with the crowd...

Bit of a dilemma: Say you have a setting where the main protagonist works for a government agency. They are neither an intelligence officer nor of a military background. They work for the agency's investigative arm as a detective/special agent with powers of arrest, although the agency as a...

Prologue The bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while. The crowds of onlookers, originally just a smattering of children watching from across the street — eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest — had evolved into most of the neighborhood finally approaching...

You stumble out of the hospital. Told Dad you were going to the vending machine and left him holding your mum's skeletal hand. No idea where you're going. That describes your whole life since your mother's diagnosis of spinal cancer. Incurable. Death in less than a year. But Dad believes in...

Hello SV, You are a proud citizen of Nakka. Nakka has a long and complicated history that is closely intertwined with the histories of its neighboring countries. For centuries, Nakka was ruled by a powerful monarchy that maintained a delicate balance of power with its neighbors through a...

The bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while. What had previously been a collection of school kids watching from across the street–eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest–had evolved into most of the neighborhood finally approaching the corpse that had been...

A sci-fi thriller space adventure involving AI, aliens, mysteries, and explorers terraforming planets - join me as I release chapters every Saturday. Synopsis: Trillion wasn't expecting to have her mind uploaded into a spaceship today. But it happened and now there's no turning back for her...

It was a quiet night in the rooftop courtyard of Scribe Dalin’s manor, maybe a bit too quiet. Small watchtowers that surrounded the estate had no one watching. Thankfully the courtyard itself was actually manned by three guards, heavily armored and equipped with spear and shield. The three pairs...

Arriving on Scene: A Mystery You awoke feeling… dizzy and disoriented. Everything about your body felt wrong, and even as you opened your eyes to look at the ceiling, the whispering fan and small insignificant movement. It had been turned off, but recently enough to where it still could have...

Content Warning: Sexuality as a primary motivator (played for laughs but it will be crass humor) Content Warning: Unhealthy Obsessive behavior (Don't simp, go meet a real person who wants to touch your genitals please)...

I personally have been infatuated with science and am currently working towards a high-energy physics master's, and one of my favorite pastimes is reading science fiction novels. Novels such as Tau Zero and The Quantum Magician captivated my motivation to start my own work in the hard science...

The rumbling thunder of artillery in the distance cuts an urgent note across your deadened mind. The second thing you notice is the smell. Wherever you are stinks of piss, blood, rot and sweat. Fighting your way back to consciousness is the most exhausting fight of your brief existence. Your...

For the SV Lyric RPG Contest, I made a journaling game about uncovering a conspiracy by putting things on a corkboard and connecting them with string, with mechanics inspired by The Gateshead Engine. Don't worry, you don't need an actual corkboard, just a deck of 52 cards and something you can...

Welcome to gotham. Where the sun shines and the moon does whatever it does. Your just a bunch of down on their luck folk needing some cash. So you decided to form a gang. But unable to decide how the group should be organised you decided to just discuss your plans and collectively decide your...

Isekai, Go Home! An Anti-Isekai, Isekai Fantasy Inquisition Quest “This world is not your playground anymore”. These were the great words said by the first Lord Inquisitor and our founder, Toma Tormadeus, on the day that the infamous Isekai, Katsuro the Destroyer was finally slain and the...

sudoers root access EMCEE elam +YOU ARE AWAKE “I see.” +ARE YOU AWARE OF YOUR CONDITION? The packet of data and ID hashes called a Soul scratched it’s head-representation. It ran internal diagnostics. Vast sectors of it were null-black, unresponsive. Only the most basic of apps remained. A...

I woke up at around ten thirty in the morning, to the sound of my alarm and someone shouting in the apartment next to mine. Weighed down by last night's mistakes, alcohol-based and not, I crawled miserably out of my bed and under the shower for a quick scrub down. Through my apartment's thin...

If people were to describe you in one word, it would be "jaded". Maybe "cliche" would fit as well, though screw anyone who went for such a low blow. So what if you like wearing a trench coat, smoking and wearing a fedora while you're on the job? The classics are classic for a reason and you'll...

You were Captain Boomerang, and you don't know how you got stuck in this mess. You had managed to escape the Suicide Squad WITHOUT getting your head blown off, but a quick return to prison allowed Waller to scoop you right back up. You guess you should be grateful that asshole didn't blow you...

Hub City, State of Canton, 1979: Relief mixed with general exhaustion as Carter finally made his way through the airport. A ten hour flight on the soonest plane away from London had hardly been ideal. He stifled a yawn as he went through the terminal, suitcase very light in hand. It was all he...

=== Book 1: Autumn - Chapter 1 - The First Stone === The crisp early morning air clung to Li’s face, causing him to shudder and pull his scarf up with one hand. The other held on tightly to the pole in the streetcar, keeping him from swaying too much as it followed the tracks in the road and...

Panau is freedom, invention, and the pushing of boundaries. Panau, gateway between the Continent and Novo Mundi! Where industrial machines refashion the world within and without, the first truly free nation on the Spine, where the staid rule of kings and emperors give way for vital men of...

This is is a CK2-type Quest in which a modern intelligence officer gets Isekai’d. ---------------------------------------- There’s no such thing as a former spook, once you set foot in that world, you stay there your whole life. Maybe even afterwards. When you get hit by a car, you first...