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Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Four

Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Four

“Hello, Miss X.”

I nodded to the man who’d spoken. It was one of the doctors. Middle-aged man in scrubs and with a pristine white lab-coat on. The only logo on him, and in the entire room, was a small Orchid Lux logo on the lapel of his coat. “Hey,” I said.

“Is this your first operation with us?” he asked.

“Uh, yeah,” I replied. 

“Fantastic. Don’t you worry, this will be over in no t...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Nine - Chapter One

Chapter One -

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“Okay, so this is going to be an immense pain in the ass,” I said.

I was on the couch, feet up on the coffee table and one of Lucy’s tablets on my lap. The Kittens were being brats, but they were being brats elsewhere after I threatened to hold them by their ankles out of the nearest window until they learned the art of being quiet. 

It was an empty threat, but it still worked. 

Anyway, the tablet was ...

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Five

Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Five

“To be clear, we are absolutely not free,” Amaryllis said. She had her wings crossed and beak pointed upwards. The fact that Amaryllis was taller than the village head probably made her all the more intimidating.

We had relocated from the field the Beaver had landed in to the village head’s house, right in the middle of town. Well, not so much his house as his front porch. 

The village head w...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three

Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three

When I got home that evening, I tossed off my shoes, then set a Save. The first thing I did was go to a trustworthy side and download the spell formation for Sap Strength. That required my ID and about three thousand dollars. 

Luna Corp had a version of the spell as well, but looking at it, I discovered that it was a three year old pattern and that that specific version of Sap Strength wasn’t rated really well.

Cr...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Nine - A Young Lady's Vacation Next Door - Prologue

Prologue

He liked to imagine Sisyphus happy. 

Libre walked down one of the many corridors dug into the earth of his home, cement walls and concrete ceilings, with lights at even intervals and the occasional busy soldier along the path. He had his helmet tucked under one arm, his other hand held up before him so that he could read the display built into his inner arm. 

“This will be a quick sortie,” he said, just loud enough for the assistants...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two

Hi <3 New chappy!

Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two

To say that I was a little distracted the next day would be something of an understatement. I couldn’t stop thinking about Becky’s face, and the sparks that went off around her when she... yeah. Also, kissing Jane.

I could use more of that, actually. 

Shaking my head, I refocused on the now. I was heading in to work. It was Tuesday morning, and today we had... not too much going on. More...

Interlewd - Payments in Experience

Interlewd - Payments in Experience

“Experience?” Becky asked. It had sounded just a little squeaky, which wasn’t something I was used to hearing from her.

“You know, you pay me in first times, and I call it even,” Jane said. She was very clearly teasing. 

I... could put a stop to this. It wasn’t creepy or anything yet, but if Jane pushed it even a little further, it might be. So far she’d always been forward, but never pushy to ...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One

Becky in costume, by Mingrix

Hmm... so... uh... small poll (without an actual poll) who would be down for a Jane X Becky X MC interlewd? Like, probably something pretty tame. A la first interlewd with Jane?

Y / N

Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One

“I’m here, I’m queer, and-- ohh, guns!” 

Jane and I looked at each other for just a momen...

Sporemageddon - Book Five - Psilocybin Nine

Psilocybin Nine

I really wanted to explore what I could do with that [Purelight Gill] some more. How long would one of them work? Could I grow them fast enough to make it  economical?

There had been lessons on that kind of thing at the academy. Most of it was pretty straightforward, logical stuff, but as with every other logical thing, it was also the kind of thing that you didn’t think about until it was pointed out.

If I wanted to sell pure, clean...

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Four

Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Four

It was nearing noon when Sally the Scallywag called out from across the deck. “Land ho!” 

“We’re flying over land, you moron!” Joe shouted back.

“You know what I meant, and you’re the moron for not catching onto my context clues... moron!” Sally sniped back.

I held back a giggle, because while it was funny, and I didn’t sense that they were actually upset with each other, it...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Forty

Second chappy!

Chapter One Hundred and Forty

I spent Sunday doing... not too much, really. I did a few longer loops practicing with my guitar, then some doing some French exercises, but I mostly took the day off and fit in three days worth of relaxing into just one day. It was very unproductive. I did call up Becky to see if we could go meet with Jane, but she was ‘hella busy’ so we had to put it off for Monday. As it turned out, that was a better t...

Save Scumming Sword Arrived!

Hehe!

Sword :3

Took a long while to arrive, but it's here now!

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine

Next... maybe skip ahead to Becky meeting Jane...

omg, Becky meeting Jane...

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine

Fran ended up getting a reservation at... a perfectly ordinary restaurant. It was one of those nicer chains, the kind of place that sold expensive steaks and had a wine menu on the table next to a lit candle. It was a place called Chez Slowbane. More French, so I supposed Fran had a taste for that. 

It was nice but ...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight

“Ew!” Becky said as we shone a light into the room with the birthing pools.

I was pretty sure that wasn’t the technical term for what we were seeing, but it was close enough. There were large pools, and little baby buglings were being born in them, bursting out of weird sacs almost fully formed and just a bit smaller than they would be as adults. 

“Oh, god, it smells weird in here. Like a barn or something,...

The November Index

Hehe? It's 1 month after the other one, so maybe it's right on time, if you squint?

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-vR6vxGw7bDQ3QL3XKV7_AAaembKVLx-YqiAgvvVOI/edit?usp=sharing

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven

Affff, I really wanna get to this really cool aura-farming scene, but it's not for a few daaaaays!

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven

I stepped into the portal first, sword in one hand, revolver in the other. It was a decent combo at short and medium ranges, and that’s about what I needed at the moment.

Taking a few steps forwards, I waited for the girls to pop in behind me, then I gestured ahead. The lone bugling in this room was to one side,...

Fluff - Volume Four - Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Maple hummed as she looked over everything she had to work with. 

She had heaps of gardening tools, donated by the nice people who lived here before. She had some hunting supplies from the hardware store, as well as a bunch of other stuff they’d picked up. Wheelbarrows worth. It was more stuff than she’d ever had to work with before, really.

Next to that, in a cardboard box, were some more natural things she’d picked up whil...

Dead Tired - Volume Four - Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight

I wasn’t impressed on seeing the arena and the city going up in record time. Being impressed implied that this wasn’t the expected result.

One wasn’t impressed that a baker could bake bread, or that a bricklayer could lay brick. It was what they did. An army of undead with magical support from Death Butlers and a (small) nation’s resources to rely upon should be able to build a city in a matter of days, and that’s what happened.

Sti...

Sporemageddon - Book Five - Psilocybin Eight

Psilocybin Eight

It was time.

Well, it had been time yesterday, and a bit this morning, and it was time now as well. Generally speaking, ‘the time’ was a wide band and... and I was probably overthinking things because I was a little excited.

I arrived at the farm early in the morning, Sir Nibbles by my side. Today was the day that I was going to harvest all of the new cultivated mushrooms. The surviving ones, at least. My [Druid Sight] had been pretty ...

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Three

Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Three

I wandered into the Captain’s office early the next morning to find Amaryllis hard at work behind the desk. Maybe it should have been renamed the First Mate’s office? It was more often than not occupied by Amaryllis more than anyone else, after all.

“Morning!” I said. “Did you have breakfast yet?”

“Hmm? Oh, not yet,” Amaryllis replied. “I woke up just an hour or so ago, I decided that if I was going to...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six

Becky was nearly done with her breakfast when Fran arrived. I’d ordered a coffee and a single piece of toast, mostly because the waitress behind the counter gave me the stink-eye and I didn’t want to cause a fuss or be any more memorable than I had to. 

We were just chatting about, of all things, music.

For someone so punk, Becky’s taste in noise was real... mundane?

I liked classic punk rock and the late...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five

No SCS today, so I figured a quick Save instead?

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five

The door into the boss room didn’t exactly have a handle, so after gingerly poking at it from a few angles, I decided to say fuck it, and kicked the door in. It held from the first blow, but a few extra kicks sent it crashing down where it kicked up a wash of dust on landing.

The boss room was a large space, filled with pillars that rose from the floor to the ce...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four

I had choices. Left or right. 

The right path seemed a little wide and more inviting, the left more narrow and winding.

I went left. Maybe I was a bit of a masochist, but some gut instinct told me to always pick the harder-looking option first. I’d circle back around and see what the right path was like later, if I felt like it.

The path was, initially, just wide enough that I could reach out both arms and t...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three

The opening room of the portal was a dark, poorly-lit space. If it wasn’t for the portal a step behind me, the entire room would have been so dark as to be impossible to see in. Even See Darkness only helped so much.

It actually reminded me a lot of the first portal I’d ever tackled solo, that little one with the lizard guys in it. Damn, that had been less than a month ago, real-time. 

Just like in that one, I ...

Fluff - Volume Four - Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Seven

“Okay,” Emily said as she looked over her sisters. They were more or less ready to head out. “Maple, do you want to come, or did you want to stay here?”

“Um,” Maple said. She gripped the fabric of her skirt for a moment, eyes downcast as she hesitated. “Can I come?” she eventually said.

“Of course, I wouldn’t ask if you wanted to if I didn’t expect you to... maybe want to take the option,” Emily said. She could ...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Epilogue

Epilogue

“Merde!” 

She ducked her head out from around the battlements. She didn’t need any of those alien fucks to see her and maybe try to snipe at her position. Next to her, maybe some three metres back, was the bottom half of a volunteer who’d spent too long staring.

The model Fifteen-Aquas were out in force. They were sprinkled throughout the antithesis sieging the city and sticking out too much, or god-forbid, shooting at the aliens, wou...

Sporemageddon - Book Five - The Detective Three

The Detective Three

He didn’t want to be here, and the person sitting across from him didn’t want him here either. They both knew it, and they also both knew that this was out of both of their control. 

It was actually a good thing that they were both aware of where they stood, it meant that even if they didn’t speak things aloud, there was a mutual understanding. They could work with this, be civilized and even helpful to one another so that they cou...

Stray Cat Strut - Volume Eight - Chapter Eighty-Four

Chapter Eighty-Four

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“C’mon,” I said as I grabbed the waist of Lucy’s pants. I wasn’t gonna let her sleep in her fancy business clothes. Sure, it was hot, but not for sleepwear. I had Lucy’s favourite pyjamas on the bed next to her, big fluffy pants, this oversized sweatshirt made of this cottony, soft material, and warm, wooly socks. I especially liked the socks, because Lucy’s feet were cold and she liked pressing them into me. 

“...

Cinnamon Bun - Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Two

Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Two

Showing off my wings to Caprica was fun.

Showing them off to Bastion was a mistake. 

He took one look at them, then immediately had me doing exercise to see if I couldn’t use them as more than pretty back-based decoration. I didn’t want to do exercise, I wanted to have fun with my friends, but Bastion had me running laps of the Beaver’s top deck instead. 

Fortunately, I had an out. ...

Save Scumming - Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two

Started this one last night, but accidentally took a nap instead of finishing, oops?

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two

Convincing Fran to come was surprisingly easy. A quick text letting her know that I’d found an E-rank portal that we could hit and she was onboard. She did say that it helped that it was the weekend, where she wasn’t as busy 

Becky... was a bit harder to convince. “How much?” Becky asked.

“How much what?” I asked.<...