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Hear me! Countless bodies lay strewn upon the path accursed sea brought to heel Gods, demons and Kings defied. All my work. Venerable treasures sacrificed great powers mastered. My magic, might and skill all peerless, yet... Why is there yet more Path to tread? ...Ashem?... Anyone? Lost Prayers...

“Bow.” With a single word, the arena became silent. All around me, leaning out from the balcony above or pressing in from the raised walkway, spectators dressed in pale grey instantly stopped their gossip and gambling as the elderly figure at the very centre of the space commanded their...

Mech pilot Dani Rue fuses her brain with an artificial intelligence to survive. Escaping from enemy captivity (and with an enemy's digital ghost in her head), she travels across a war-torn America in a chaotic future setting. What's the line between an insatiable red mouth and a being more than...

Your name is Dustin Bright. Ever since your father started having chronic back pain, you’ve had to work fourteen hour shifts at the factory to support your family. One night, you return home to find them all chopped to pieces. — Your arms are on the brink of falling off after dragging the bloody...

People shouted and screamed as lights danced across the black stage, shifting in a myriad of colors—red, blue, green, yellow, and purple—blurring seamlessly over the exuberant crowd. Tanya, arms crossed and crimson hair falling loosely into her eyes, watched the spectacle. In her opinion, this...

"Talking" "Thinking" [Status Magic or other reference to a system or power] NYC, The Bar With No Name, A Few Minutes before the Incident Herman Schultz was reading a book. This wasn't that weird. What was weird was that it wasn't an engineering one but rather a fantasy one. The Bar With No...

Chapter 1: Over the Top Reflectrix The world was a bloody place, and Reflectrix, hovering on her gauntlets and boots with jets of pure force, thought to herself that she'd rather fight a dragon-themed villain who was actually a dragon. She and this villainous knock-off twirled around this...

Welcome to the Show Chapter One "Damn it, Jason, get back on the camera! They'll be handing out Pulitzers for this and I'm not going to miss one!" the screen flickered and then moved up, no longer just showing a slice of a tire and the ground. "This is Debra Hemsworth of Channel Five...

The first sounds that could be heard were the blaring klaxon alarms. Something was wrong, very wrong. Audio receptors were working this much was obvious, but their optics could only see darkness. With nothing but a hard surface above and below they crawl forward into the unknown. An awkward...

ACT I ___Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, military patrols reported on 'abnormalities' within the Cordon. Brilliant flashes of light, whirlwinds made of fire and electricity, and mutant animals too twisted to be warped by radiation alone. ___The Stalkers came in at a slow trickle at...

Anno Domini 8993 Pater, I write these words with fear in my heart and sweat on my brow. Soon, a great terror will sweep across the land. Soon, our great king shall lay his head to rest for the final time. In the absence of the Great Father, First King of the Anglo-Saxons, will the Kingdom...

Lucy Gray's breath came in sharp, ragged gasps as she crouched behind the thick brush, the cold of the early winter morning seeping into her bones. The forests familiar paths twisted into a maze by fear and desperation. She could hear him—the crunch of boots on snow, the steady, relentless...

FORWARD Here are the groundrules for the thread; 1: No spoilers for any Project Moon content. Not even under spoiler tags. Not of later Limbus stuff, not of Ruina, not of LobCorp. I've seen how that shit gets out of control immediately and I'm shutting it down now. This game is written so as...

Pulp heroes are a lot of fun. Masked, sharp-dressed figures parkouring over rooftops in a bid to stop over-the-top villains who steeple their fingers shrouded in darkness and spout improbable science-fiction nonsense about spurious chemicals and devices. Flying aces soaring high above enemy...

Hey everyone. I'm back, and with a new story from patreon. A while back, around the start of the new year if I remember right, I hosted a poll asking people on my patreon what story they wanted to see. They had three options: A RWBY/Baldur's Gate 3 crossover, a Persona 3/Persona 5 crossover, and...

“Is it worth considering?” “The convulsion of nature, or the erasure of nature? I can’t imagine doing either has any merit for society currently.” “You’re both missing the overall point, I can assure you. Is it really ‘convulsion’ or ‘erasure’ if the subjects will do the same to us?” A...

“The tensions between Militech and Arasaka have escalated significantly; if Arasaka continues to antagonize Militech at this rate, we might be unable to prevent the fifth corporate war from occurring off-schedule and jeopardizing our assets.” “It is of no concern; they were as unprepared for...

1. Sundered A lone traveler walks through a tundra that doesn't seem to end. What exists won't matter in this place, but what is absent is perhaps too apparent - for there is not a sign of life or its remnant within the traveler's vicinity. Nothing stands or opens up from the snow, nothing...

In the spirit of competition and as a way to get unstuck in my other works, I'm making a "traditional" magical girl Quest full of gags, violence, and all the things humanity loves :V Loading... ... ... Ready? Run! DNK Manufacture Presents: Ai Senshi ~ A Maiden's Heart Is Unbreakable You...

It was strange. The world slowing to a crawl in dangerous situations was something you often see in movies but never actually expect to experience in real life. But here I was, watching the tumbling semi-truck bouncing after being bodily hurled aside by the draconic cape that was currently...

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[A/N: Hi, I'm excited to have finally reached this milestone - King Maker System will be entering its 'beta publishing' phase. Reading this, you can look forward to a lot. - First of all, grab your marshmallows, this will be a slow-burn... please don't be discouraged, give the first ten...

For a brief moment the sound of dripping water was the only noise in the small New York apartment. A one bedroom walkup near Borough Park. But then, like any other night, the quiet moment was swept away by engine noises, and the rattle of a train going by outside. Sasha wiped condensation from...

Chapter 1: The Scraplands are Calling "If any of you try anything funny, then I will do more than just whack one of off a cliff again." The synth, Fang, overlooked the smaller, scurrying ones as he jumped across the junkyard. His larger, more predatorial build could not always follow them...