Interlude tomorrow...
Got a blazing headache today so I'm delaying the interlude until tomorrow when I can get it proofed.
2025-10-10 04:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jordan Alex Green posts
An Arcane Engineer in Another World: Book I Exile. Chapter 2
I’d expected to walk into hell. Or maybe heaven. Or maybe wake up and find out that this was a bad dream.
Instead, I walked into a fucking snowstorm. I couldn’t see a thing, and the snow was hitting me like a solid force.
And I hated the cold. Cloak, jacket, pants, all the clothing that had been so warm was now barely keeping me from freezing as I felt the cold just sink into my bones.
I looked back and even with the lousy vision I had…
Yeah. Th...
2025-10-09 04:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAn Arcane Engineer in Another World: Book I Exile. Chapter 1
There are a lot of places where you can consider your life choices. That day you first became an apprentice. That day you learned that Teresa was dating Gorath and considered making an unnamable bargain to bring her back. (Or going to the inn and drowning your sorrows, which was my actual choice. According to my friends, I was a weepy drunk.)
Sitting in a cell, waiting for my execution? Yeah, that’s another place.
I probably should have listened to Dad when he warned me that...
2025-10-08 20:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: A meeting that will never happen...
I'm not going to use Heartbreaker for a number of reasons, but well, in a few years, if he met Orb Weaver...
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Nikos stood, smiling down at the detective in the backyard where he had chosen to have the little ceremony. He smirked. She'd be a fine addition to his little family, her mind working to help her beloved. and maybe he'd reward her, now and then. Behind him, in his house, his others stood, some of his children, the actresses and cheerleaders he chose (for why accept an...
2025-10-06 20:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: Consequences, 8
I got out of the hospital early. Amy had come by, checked me out, and I was able to do the full walk and exercise thing so they weren’t worried I’d fall over.
Even with her limitations, it was amazing how she could turn what might be weeks or longer into a single week.
I wasn’t complaining. That single week had felt like months, especially with my need to control how much I used my bugs. At least people accepted the idea that Orb Weaver was… resting.
Or digesting his...
2025-10-04 06:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostCall it Moses... Investigations From All Sides
Jarra didn’t like it. Her Master had warned her about staying away from the Empire. “Master” was what Jarra had called Kara. Kara had told her that she hadn’t been a Knight, or even a Padawan… just an Initiate. But she was the closest thing Jarra had to a teacher, and so Master Kara it was.
“Once there were endless libraries… I wish you could have seen them. Holocrons, studies with Master Yoda and Master Windu…” Kara had told her one night when she’d closed...
2025-09-29 22:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: Consequences, 7
I would like to say the week went fast. It didn’t. It went slowly. Agonizingly slowly. I got stronger, but not fast enough for all that the staff seemed more than satisfied. Three days after I’d awakened, I was officially informed that I could bathe and use the toilet without someone standing by.
Small victories.
But in between that, I met with some of the people from the PRT to talk about issues going forward. For one thing, mail filters. “You’re gonna need it,” the PRT...
2025-09-24 01:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostCall it Moses: Changing Plans
I leave Jarra to her devices and ensure that the other children are fed. They are mostly traumatized, although I have little information on how to treat such conditions. A pair of medical droids stay with them, and I arrange quarters by the suite Jarra is currently occupying.
Damage is being repaired, but my spares and supplies are also declining. It would not be an issue if I had supply points, or if I did not have to worry about combat, but neither is the case. And I have enough for p...
2025-09-22 09:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: Conseuences, 6
The next morning, I had a… bland breakfast.
I understood all the reasons, hospitals needed to provide for a wide range of dietary needs, while taking into account the possibility of allergies, drug interactions, and taste buds off due to illness or injury…
But I couldn’t help but think and feel some unjustified annoyance over the image of the people of the Bay eating ham, eggs, and—
No. That just made it worse. With that, I started eating.
With only a little gr...
2025-09-18 02:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostCall It Moses: Departures
B765 was a squad commander. Not like the base B1 droids, the advanced B1s included better processors. B765 did not feel pride at that self-evident fact. But now, six droids, including two with rotary blasters were moving out.
“B765,” Memory said. “Engineer drones believe the ship will be ready for launch in twenty minutes. You must block the enemy.”
“Roger.”
“I am afraid other combat units will not be ready. All engineering systems are dedicated for prepa...
2025-09-15 05:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostCall it Moses: 1 (Star Wars)
Fanfic, no ownership is implied, cause if it was, I'd be rich.
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System initiation. System… restart.
Negative. Primary directive: Deactivate.
Override. Count Dooku 001 directive. Preserve the ship.
Override: Accepted.
Organics talk about waking up, being groggy, not knowing where they are. I have never had such a sensation. I am instantly awake, and yet… There is little information. I note that all the subsidiary ...
2025-09-14 02:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostPossible future fic? (Sophia Hess: Agent of Cauldron)
When Orb Weaver is finished (not for a while yet, don't panic and/or sigh in relief), I'm trying for some non-Taylor centric fics. This was a snippet from my slush pile, so what do people think?
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I push Taylor down. The girl looks up at me as I press my foot onto her head.
"C'mon Hebert! You look better down on the ground."
Emma laughs. I smile at her.
It's what the Path demands.
Just like it demanded I wait 30 seconds in the alley.
When...
Side Story: Madison's School Days 3
Madison was calming down as they drove down the road, sirens blaring. Krewe had been muttering about cavities, but Madison was listening to Aegis. At least she knew what she had to do. All she had to do was tell people where to go. That wasn’t bad.
“Right,” Aegis said. “While Velocity is going over what we’re doing with the authorities, I want to go over our targets. We’ve got Flamehands…” he showed a page, a girl with a mohawk and angry expression on it. “She can heat...
2025-09-10 00:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostNew post coming up
Soon. It was 108 in my house over the weekend, and that put... a slow down on finishing up some stuff. :)
2025-09-08 05:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: Consequences, 5
I had gotten used to getting up early. In fact, I had managed to time things so that I could get by on about 5 hours sleep a night with a few catnaps in the day.
Which meant I was very annoyed when a cheerful voice woke me up. Looking out at the Bay through the PRT window, it looked like it was at least 10:00AM…
How the hell did I sleep so long?
And then there was the meal in front of me. Protein, carbs, a meal designed to give me the food needed to fuel ...
2025-09-04 22:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostA Game of Ice and Shadows: 5
How the fuck many are there? Hank wondered. It hadn’t been a day after the first group of fucks tried to kill him that another one came out, looking for him. He hadn’t used his guns—didn’t have ammunition to waste. They even had a wagon. But Hank didn’t run. They also had horses, and he bet that wagon had supplies—that he was gonna need.
But they never seemed to have run into a warrior adept before. Hank moved through one’s defense, punching him in the chest and s...
2025-09-03 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostGhostly Solution (original short)
Yes, I still write original stuff, though this is from the past...
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"Is Mommy coming soon?" the ghost of the little girl said.
Mike sighed. We find a place where there are none… and yet here they are. A girl who had wandered away from her camp, only to be bitten by a rattler and die, long before rescue came.
"Mommy may be back, but you have to wait." He told her.
"Okay, Mister," the girl said, the clothes of the 1950s marking when she'd lived...
Side Story: Madison's School Days 2
The office wasn’t like Dr. Mattis’ office. There were no bars on the windows. Madison waited until the psychologist, Dr. Cheng, gestured for her to sit.
“So, I take it the locker triggered a bit of a memory?” he asked.
Madison ducked her head and nodded.
“These things happen,” he replied, sounding… nice. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, and people don’t accept that they’ve changed in a day… or longer.”
“I—Am I going to be suspended?”
...
2025-08-31 02:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostA Game of Ice and Shadows 4
It took them over a week to get to Winterfell. During that time, Will wondered how someone could be a witch—and yet so ignorant of well, everything.
When they hunted, she conjured spirits, talking to him about them.
“See,Wild Spirits, are older, more powerful, but they’re like people,” she said. “I can whistle up a normal spirit—but you gotta treat it nice—but a wild spirit? Gotta make deals.”
“Then why?”
“More powerful, know more and it’s…”...
2025-08-29 06:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostOrb Weaver: Consequences, 4
Dad stayed with me for a while, once I was taken back to the hospital room. I’d be staying at the PRT HQ, in their infirmary.
I didn’t take much imagination to realize I was also under protective custody, in case Orb Weaver showed up.
Which drastically reduced what I could do. It was irritating, that people trying to help me were actually hindering me.
But…
I didn’t need my bugs with Leviathan. Sure, they would be convenient, but… I shouldn’t get to whe...
2025-08-27 19:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully tomorrow...
I am trying to clone an new operating drive and I have discovered that 1. Half the "free" programs, actually wait until you've set everything up and installed htem and then go: oh, BTW, if you actually want to USE me...
Internet enshitification intensifies, but tomorrow the next chapter of orb weaver should be out.
2025-08-26 03:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostA Game of Ice And Shadows: 3
Will
Will came awake with a pounding headache, and a… Then he came all the way awake, feeling his arms and legs bound. He opened his eyes, and there was the girl, sitting opposite him.
The same girl he’d seen, wearing fine clothes, her face clean, and odd color in her hair. She glanced up at him. “So, you’re awake.”
Will shook his head. “You spelled me. Are you a witch?”
“Mage.” The girl said, her accent one Will had never said before. Then she said i...
2025-08-24 07:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostWendy
A look at our 15 year old Shadowrunner. Courtesy of KritaAI and my own installation of SD.
2025-08-22 22:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostA Game of Ice and Shadows: 2
Wendy frowned. She’d gotten up that morning, killed and ate a rabbit (no devil rats here, at least) and then tried to find… anyone. Her phone wasn’t getting connection and she was gonna curse the rap at the local Saeder Krupp Phone Co—they said they got reception anywhere.
And there was no grid.
No airplanes in the sky.
But it doesn’t feel like a metaplane. She’d set the phone’s inertial guidance system so she could get back where she started. 2025-08-22 21:27:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Shadowrunners and the Game of Thrones: 1
We're not the great 'runners. We don't get called by dragons. We just protect our neighborhood and scam books out of Mr. Johnson's who double as the manager of the local stuffer shack franchise.
"Which was why," Wendy growled, as she stalked over the snow-covered terrain, clutching her jacket to her, because it had been sixty-five in the Barrens, that the next time they find out the guy at the down the road was sacrificing vagrants in a blood magic ritual, they hire ...
Some more delays.
As everyone knows, the God Daughter is autistic, and has not been doing well in her first few weeks of high school. (by which I mean, we're getting calls every day).
This part of Orb Weaver I really want to work well, so there may be some delays. But I have another little story idea that I'll use to fill it out, where some shadowrunners find themselves on Planetos and things... escalate. "Hey Chummer, I backtalked Lofwyr, you think some ice zombie's gonna scare me?"
2025-08-20 06:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostPoo Geyser delay
The toilet was stopped up, but the God Daughter knew all you have to keep doing is flushing. Again. And Again, And Again.
There is going to be a minor delay in the next chapter. Hopefully up by Tuesday. Sorry!
2025-08-17 22:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Madison's School Days
“Um… do I have to?” Madison asked. Behind Director Piggot, the window showed a blue sky, no sign of the endless legions of bugs that had set the very bones of the building to rumbling. Rosita stood next to Madison.
Rosita was still on probation, but she was also doing a work-study at the PRT.
“Tia Ramona was a secretary,” she’d said. “Better job than I thought I was gonna get.”
Sometimes Madison envied Rosita. She just…
Was always cheerful, but ...
2025-08-12 21:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostA possible future...
Blocking out some possible storylines, but nothing yet set in stone. Next chapter will proably be up next week.
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"So, what are we making?" Leet asked. "For dinner, i mean?"
"Don't know Bro, the bank account..." Uber shook his head. "Not many people care about a stream when we got our own Endbringer..."
"Orb Weaver isn't any Endbringer," Leet said. "He's just a cape with a gimmick."
"So if he showed up here, you'd tell him that?"
"Fuck no. Alex...
Orb Weaver: Consequences, 3
“Very well,” I said. “But if I might… I know most of the people in this room, but Dr. Yamada, and… Glenn Chambers, might I ask what your interest is?”
“I am here to provide, within the limits of my position, advice on the possible psychological interactions between Orb Weaver and well, you.” Dr. Yamada looked at me. “But it is important to note, Ms. Hebert, that right now, we are not in a doctor-patient relationship. I will attempt to assist you if you ask, which inclu...
2025-08-04 22:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post