Threadmarks: An Impractical Guide to Ascension: Chapter 1
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An Impractical Guide to Ascension
(Worm / Practical Guide to Evil)
Or: An Impractical Guide to Villainy Heroism
“The best defence is to have killed all your enemies.”
—Dread Emperor Terribilis I, the Thorough
From...
Or, as another indie writer who wrote up a blogpost summarising this fiasco put it: Faleena Hopkins Cocks The Whole Entire Fuck Up
And it just gets worse from there. The whole exercise is basically a shakedown wrapped in plausible-sounding but utterly bogus legal jargon that would take our very...
So This is an SI fic that came as a result of a plot bunny of a character that is sent or just goes on a whim to various places and universes to permanently remove threats from the multiverse. I'm going to say now that this won't update frequently but if anyone has any suggestions, by all means...
Guess who's back?
This latest iteration of AA is brought to you by an actual team of game masters, which is required as it is using my made-for-computer-game mechanics. Respective shoutouts to ninjafish, Panda, Uhtread, and Abby Normal.
EDIT: A NEW GM APPROACHES: Welcome Aabcehmu, the player...
I like this site overall. I disagree with the general consensus on certain things but overall it's a pleasant experience to visit. But there's a very odd problem with its content.
Now, before you ask why this isn't in the fanfiction subforum, it's because I feel that the issue may also be...
The year is 2027 AD. It has been fourteen and a half months since a Category V Kaiju unleashed
a persistent electromagnetic weapon in the upper atmosphere, crippling global communications and
rendering high-altitude air travel nigh-impossible. Swarms of Kaiju roam the planet, brought forth
by...
You are Gohan, son of Goku and Chi-Chi. You weren't the hero anyone was expecting but the responsibility fell on your shoulders. You stood against Cell and even in victory you lost.
Driven by the cruelty of your opponent which culminated in the death of your father before your eyes you awakened...
The bitter cold of the north never ends. Night hangs over the land for half the year, and corruption flows from the Realm of the Gods. The men that live in this land are warriors, reavers, and madmen. They are the Norse, tribesmen devoted to the Dark Gods. Across this cruel realm, many tribes...
A nonmagical quest of two siblings trying to get each other expelled from school... and of the people caught in the crossfire.
Welcome to At Variance.
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So I added an idea to the idea thread for this and, well, I made a recruitment thread. I don't exactly trust myself to properly run two...
Two impossibly large beings spiral through the void between worlds. They travel at speeds which should be impossible, ignoring such paltry obstacles as the speed of light, excessive energy costs, and small celestial bodies.
Their progress is difficult for you to track, but they do eventually...
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
So yeah. Nectome is a preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it company. Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass. The idea is that someday in the future...
Humanity's Manifest Destiny
In the late 1970's, both the United States and the Soviets relied on computer systems to detect possible nuclear attacks. But while the new technology was more sophisticated, it also came with a fresh set of risks in the form of false alarms and glitches.one of these...
Void Wolf
Chapter 1: An entry with a howl and a punch.
Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière was a model student, or at least that's what the written tests said. She was one of the best students of the school academically speaking. But, she had a problem. Although she had learned all the...
So what if your favorite character somehow suddenly gain the ability to take every single powers/stats/etc from a foe they have beaten in their battles and it's stacked up with their original powers since the beginning of their series?
What're changes would happen in their universe?
June 2018...
“Who do you want to be?” Ms. Shepard asks. She stares at you with her impersonal frown. You feel tense, as always when talking to her.
“Honestly?”
“Honestly,” she mimics, with a still voice.
“I'm not sure. I thought about it–” you stop, to correct yourself, “–I think about...
This game as the title said is a 4x game as in (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate), the game is as graphic as a VB program (which it is), the game is complicated too, really really complicated, this is not a game for casual players, the installation in itself is sometimes a challenge, well...
You look over the reports as your flight transports you to what will be your new home. You were chosen to lead an international taskforce made for the purpose of protecting mankind from the things that go bump in the night. You were surprised to learn that things like vampires, werewolves...
You’re starting to hate your family.
For most of your life, you thought you’d remain the only child of your parents. Not for lack of trying, you’re sure, but needing the assistance of an outside Inspired just to have you was not an outstanding indicator of fertility.
One of the “gifts” of...
Art by daarken
Long ago, the enigmatic Old Ones descended to the Warhammer world to shape it in accordance with their mysterious Great Plan. To aid them in the monumental task of painstakingly reshaping an entire world in ways both physical and mystical, they created a race of undying servants...
It is the 41st Millennium. The God Emperor has long been confined to his holy throne, and in that time there has been much to threaten his Imperium of Man. Vile heretics in service to the Ruinous Powers of Chaos connive and fight to destroy any semblance of order. Foul Orks wage their campaigns...
(click me)
As the suns warm rays phase through a window's curtains to greet you to the morning, you hear the sounds of soft waves going against land and the squawks of seagulls. While Pollock Bay is usually filled with the sound of working sailors and ships going into and out of port; it isn't...
It is an Age of Exploration where even the lowest born of citizens can set out on a journey and return as a legends with riches beyond imagining. Such an era has brought the Kingdom of Elysium nearly boundless prosperity as every day brings new discoveries, new wealth, and new talent into the...
Along the Yellow Bricks...
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Introduction
Have you ever looked up into the...