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Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty - 

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When Rac said ‘I’ll show you his camp’ I kind of expected to follow her there, but we didn’t even leave the parking garage before she turned to me and rather sheepishly asked if I could give her a ride there.

To be fair, she didn’t have her own hovercar, and I suspected she was getting to Gros Baton’s ‘camp’ by means of public transportation. 

We could do better than that.

Rac and Nya got into the Ba...

Ivil Antagonist - Epilogue Five - The Complicated Love Life of Ivil Antagonist

Epilogue Five - The Complicated Love Life of Ivil Antagonist

A Year Later, Mars

Ivil Antagonist, Empress of Mars, Destroyer of Worlds, Embarrassed of Emperors, and Best Girlfriend in the Solar System (Pixie got her a mug that said so) was currently lounging on a sofa.

It was her sofa. The one in her entertainment room in her favourite palace.

The room was rather large, with rows of pillars holding up the ceiling far above. A cathedral ceiling, she thou...

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Nine

Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Nine

“Did you want to come with us?” I asked. 

It was probably... definitely a little premature. We hadn’t agreed that we’d be going out to visit that island yet, but I was going to try to convince my friends to go and check it out, at least. Still, if we did go, maybe Celiga would want to come?

The old grenoil chewed on the end of his pipe while eyeing me carefully. “If you had asked me just five years ago, I�...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Thirty-Nine - 

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The next day came, and I found myself back at CIAL again, this time back in uniform for another set of classes. 

It went pretty well. Professor Rogers knew his shit, and this time Nya stayed... actually, I didn’t know where she went, but she didn’t show up at my class to beat the shit out of the lot of us.

I noticed that a couple of the students had new cyberware. There were often little cats embossed into the m...

Ivil Antagonist - Epilogue Four - A Held Together Homecoming 

Epilogue Four - A Held Together Homecoming 

Phobos - Nine Months Later

Twenty-Six didn’t want to let her excitement show, but... yeah, she couldn’t stop herself. Her legs were twitching more than Pixie’s whenever Ivil said something scary like ‘I have an idea’ or ‘I saw this on an episode of Estrellas Enlazadas a Través de la Grieta.’

She was at home, which was a weird thing to think about. Weirder was thinking about having multiple homes...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Eight

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I left Nya at home before heading out to pick Lucy. She was her own woman, she could handle a few hours unsupervised, and besides, she seemed happy to be silly around the kids and playfully hissing after Catkiller. The poor mutt did not understand what was going on, but that was alright, he was doing a fine job as long as he was distracting Nya. 

Nose seemed strangely fascinated with Nya’s tail, which was... yeah, whatever. I ...

SCS TTRPG - Hope//Punk Cover!

By: https://www.artstation.com/edwardthygee

Huge shout to Edward, who was a fantastic artist to work with. I'm hoping that the Kickstarter goes well, because if it does, I'll be hiring him to make all of the full-page catalogue art!

Fluff - Volume Four - Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty - 

Teddy perked up when the Boss returned with Trinity. It was nice to see that she’d made it back in one piece, not that Teddy doubted the Boss, but she didn’t have the world’s best bear (which was saying something as bears were the best) with her to keep her safe from heroes, so... yeah, she was a little bit worried.

Then, the Boss opened her mouth and said something that made Teddy perk up in delight. “We need to plan a heist.”

SCS TTRPG - Hope//Punk - Update Fifteen!

Hi! Another small one!

So, let's go over what was done:

• Hired someone on Fiverr to make character sheets that are fillable PDFs!

• Added the Walking Tank catalogue (big shout to Bronze!)

• Added the Civilian Cyberware section. Only one civilian section to go!

• A few minor fixes here and there

• Added the Model Eight

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SCS Side Story - Elegy Marie - Part Two - Everything Will Be Okay! - /

Part Two - Everything Will Be Okay! - /

After returning home, I did a little dance. A bit of a jig. First, because I wasn’t shot up, which is nice. And second, because I made bank!

Five hundred credits! That’s huge!

Well, no, by all reasonable measures it’s kind of chump change. Less than a week’s pay at a fast food place, way less than what a factory worker would make in that same time. But for a single day? That’s really not bad.

But it als...

The May 2025 Index

Delivered on the 1st! Wow! Much on time, very organized!

...

Wow, that meme is old.

...

Wow, I am old

Anyway: Link!

Ivil Antagonist - Epilogue Three – Meeting the Parents

Epilogue Three – Meeting the Parents

Highstation Prime, Phobos - Six Months Later

Aurora took a deep breath, then another. The ship she was in was... nice enough, she supposed. She had to take it from Mars to here, from Ivil’s place. It was a luxury ferry, of sorts, booked in private and crewed by personnel that she was quite certain were all MINT agents in disguise. She was learning to pick up the tells.

In any case, the ship arrived close to Highstatio...

SCS Sidestory - Elegy Marie - The Artist - ///

Part One - The Artist - ///

“Alright,” I say as I take in my canvas. There’s a blank wall that’s actually pretty large right behind the chair. The strange chair bolted to the floor. The strange all-metal chair that looks like it was made from a few bits of square-tubing welded together by someone who didn’t have an eye for aesthetics or comfort. “S-so, this is my workspace?”

“No,” Chuckles says. He points to the wall. “Paint on that.”

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Dead Tired Three Audiobook!

Dead Tired Three is... Released!

Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Dead-Tired-III-Audiobook/B0F4F3BHJW

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight

Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight

Ceglia shifted in his seat. “I’ve mentioned how I started to look into the black Avatars some time ago, yes? Well, initially there was a lot of scepticism, on my own part most of all. The last sightings are only a little over a hundred years ago. That means that... well, frankly speaking, that’s recent history. That far back means that there are people still alive who might have been present.”

“So you asked them?” ...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Seven

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“So, how many gangs are there, across New Montreal?” I asked.

Franny shrugged, still while holding her coffee close. “No way of knowing, really. Maybe ten thousand?”

“Gangs?” I asked. “No, wait, I guess that makes sense. Most are probably small-fried, right?”

“Yeah. Most are like, a few people that hang out. They technically count, but they’re not what you imagine when you think of a gang,” Franny sa...

Fluff - Volume Four - Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Nineteen

It was still so early in the morning that the sky hadn’t turned fully blue yet, and dew still clung to the grass. Still, Emily walked across a ditch and was hit by a familiar message. 

Entering Endgame.

“The limit’s here,” she said.

“Nice nice!” Trinity replied before skipping over to join her. At the moment it was just Emily and Trinity. Probably not the wisest thing, to head out with just one of her sisters, but the ...

Epilogue Two - The Pirate Killer Queen

Epilogue Two - The Pirate Killer Queen

(Birb Note: I renamed the previous Interlude Epilogue One)

The Crevice, Ceres - Three Months Later

When things happened in the solar system that made entire governments scramble, there was always a ripple.

That ripple was felt across all tiers of life. The merchants tightened belts or started looking for opportunity. The common man found their goods more...

SCS Sidestory - Elegy Marie - The Artist - //

Part One - The Artist - //

Going to a gang’s HQ is... not something very wise, but it’s not the worst idea. Maybe.

Most of the time, a gang isn’t going to just blow the head off someone who steps in. There are... reasons why you don’t want a rep as someone that violent. If any of the gangs on the lower-forty (that is, the lower half of the Mega Building) gain a rep for being too violent, then corp security from the upper floors would come down hard on them...

SCS TTRPG - Hope//Punk - Update Forteen!

Hi hi!

Didn't have as much time as I might have wanted to work on this, sadly. But I still got some work done! 

Let's see... since last time:

-> ADDED: the Nomad Catalogue! (That's a big one, each Module takes like, a few hours, only a few more to go)

-> Adjusted the formatting for Backgrounds so that they're in Alphabetical order

-> Adjusted the formattin...

No Strings Attached - Chapter Fifty-Two

Chapter Fifty-Two

56th Day of Spring - Year 1758 of the Golden Era

Little Lake, Yellowfield, Draya Calyrex

Before Three Lakes was Little Lake, the small town that man they’d encountered had mentioned. It wasn’t much to look at. 

Viridian and her companions walked down the centre of a street, heads on a swivel as they took the town in. It was next to a large basin of mostly still water, one linked out in the distance to the much larger town of ...

Fluff - Volume Four - Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen - 

They made it to the gas station with no issues. The place was closed down, but surprisingly still had power. The lights within were on and she suspected that the pumps still worked. 

Maybe the HRF was using the station to refuel their patrol vans? It would make sense, and save some logistical hassle. The place was locked, though.

Teddy tugged on the door, and all it did was rattle and clang. “Think there’s an alarm?” she a...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Six

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Delilah stared at me. Really stared at me. “Why do you want to talk to Franny, Catherine?” she asked. “Is this some sort of prank?”

“I don’t play pranks,” I said. “Look, we’ve got a situation brewing, and I wanted to talk to someone who knows how the gangs work.”

Delilah shifted to the side, her shoulder resting against the doorframe. “And the first person that came to mind was my... was Franny?”

I s...

SCS-Sidestory - Elegy Marie

Hi! So, I've been writing a story as part of an SCS Quest over on SpaceBattles. Mostly because... I miss writing Quests? But also, I need to test out Hope//Punk, and this seemed like a cool way to do it beyond the weekly playtests.

There's a link to the SB page here, if you want to join in: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/hope-punk-a-stray-cat-strut-squest.12...

SCS TTRPG - Hope//Punk - Update Thirteen!

Update time!

Okay, so... I was a busy birbo since last time!

Added:

• Bit more to the Roleplay section.

• Switched a few things around in the Gameplay section

• Started on the Nomad catalogue. Mostly done with the Modifications, but haven't gotten much further.

• Added a loooot to the GM-guide.

• REMOVED: Black ICE Evasion. The skill's just... not working out?

• ADDED: Hacking. The ski...

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Ivil Antagonist - Interlude Eight

Interlude Eight - 

Sonic Spectre was having a difficult time recently reconciling her religious beliefs and the reality before her.

Part of her, one she would admit had been indoctrinated and groomed, but which she cherished nonetheless, wanted to see the Empress of Mars as more than just a woman. She was meant to be an icon, a symbol, a goddess in the flesh

Then Sonic had to run after her and pick up the pieces. She’s spent actual time within close p...

:3

Soon~

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Seven

Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Seven

“Why would the Black Avatars being riftwalkers be controversial?”

It was a great question, and one that I was happy to not be the one to ask. I nodded to Calamity, trying to non-verbally thank him for asking in the first place.

The mention of Riftwalkers had taken me aback a little. They’d come up here and there as I wandered around Dirt. Rainnewt was one of them, of course, and there had been a few others... that ...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Five

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Angelo was a lot more comfortable with us by the time we were done. Unfortunately, he didn’t have too much more to add. At least, nothing immediately pertinent. Nya asked a few questions, about the names of gang leaders and how things were organized, but while I paid attention, it wasn’t anything too helpful.

OIr maybe it was, but I had no memory for names just dropped so casually, and the economics of running a gang wasn’t some...

Ivil Antagonist - Chapter One Hundred and Eleven

Chapter One Hundred and Eleven

They battled.

If words were spoken still, they were drowned in a tempest of roaring energy. In a deluge of plasma, in screams not unlike the howl of a sun being compressed into the seed of a supernova. 

The Emperor of Earth reached out to Ivil Antagonist with a million million beams of searing light, and she twirled away from them.

First, he chased her across dimensions. Metal formed of stardust and imbued with the a...