Tomorrow...
Another chapter of orb Weaver. the detective inspects a most dastardly crime and speaks to Lung's subordinate.
2024-12-17 06:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Another chapter of orb Weaver. the detective inspects a most dastardly crime and speaks to Lung's subordinate.
2024-12-17 06:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostAt school, Claire handed the charm to Stacy.
"So, this'll like, make him love me?" Stacy asked.
"No." Claire shook her head. "No. Nothing can make you love."
Well, there were texts she'd read that implied you could make someone show love, but they hinted it wasn't real love and her Grandmother had pulled out the pages talking about it. From the few comments that were left…
Claire got the feeling the things you were calling to weren't interested in ...
I wondered if there should be a western stand-off music track as the Wards wandered over to us along with Vicky and Amy.
Amy looked… Grumpy.
“This is a great place to find a date, Ames!” Vicky said.
Ah, Vicky is trying to find another date for Amy. I didn’t spend a tremendous amount of time examining the high school social environment, since few Arcadia students had much to do with my mission…
But yeah. You’d have to be deaf and dumb to miss storie...
2024-12-12 03:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostWas gonna have something up here, but the youngest had a severe autistic moment and well, gonna have to spend time on family and finding a behavioral specialist. Of course they'd get that via the ACA so who the hell knows how long that is gonna last. something should be up by tomorrow, hopefully.
2024-12-10 09:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostPrimary POIs (Persons of Interest) are those individuals who have been directly exposed to the Master, or who may be the Master. In all cases when interviewing a POI, the interviewer must be linked to an offsite monitor. Furthermore, POIs may be detained without warrant for up to one week, in order to verify that they are not the Master or under a long-term Master influence.
However, it should be noted that POIs under a Master’s influence are victims, not criminals and care must be ta...
2024-12-08 06:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor reading. Have fun! Chapter fifteen later this weekend.
2024-12-07 03:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostIsolation:
Masters, especially mass human masters, exert their power by a wide range of methods. For that reason, the first priority must be the isolation of potential victims, both from the wider public, and each other. During this time, officers must be alert for the possibility of a Viral Master scenario, and offsite analysts must be prepared to take direct control and issue quarantine measures if evidence of a Viral Master situation arises.
Master Con...
2024-12-06 02:25:06 +0000 UTC View PostSorry, a bit late.
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Wacky John’s Park ‘O Fun was sounding as loud as always as I walked in. We’d arranged the meeting for two days after Tattletale had contacted me via the email. I’d spent my time profitably, doing research on Coil and his forces. Mostly trained mercenaries, no sign of any other parahumans and of course Coil’s powers were mostly unknown. Tattletale had promised information in that area with our short exchange.
I’d also researched her.
<... 2024-12-04 06:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about some of the earlier misnaming. I blame my cat. who is actually an infernal exalt.
Also, can people tell me if you're notified when i change the tier setting to free?
Thanks!
2024-12-02 01:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe first step had been to determine how to contact Tattletale.
“I know where they stay,” Aisha had said.
I shook my head. “And what if she realized she was picking up a tail? The very first rule is you don’t let the person tailing know. That place could be empty now, or a trap.”
Aisha frowned. “Think she’d do that?”
“I think if someone was following me, and I picked up on it, I’d consider it a threat. More so if they came to my home.” I tilted my...
2024-11-30 01:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostTo read! Happy Thanksgiving!
2024-11-27 02:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostJulia was happy. I wonder what Sophia and Emma will think up next for Taylor. Her dad had visited after the prank but it didn’t matter. In fact…
You know, if I could visit him, tell him I didn’t know why people were so nasty to her… I could bring him around…
Julia smiled at that. When she’d gotten her power, she’d been pissed. Daddy liked to have special time with her, and nobody listened, and all she got was the power to make pe...
2024-11-26 03:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Mr. Thomas left, I secured his weapons. I trusted him… but I would still have Armsmaster check them. He was no Tinker, and neither was I, and I had never encountered Marquis—so I didn’t know if he was the type to put little surprises in any tools that his minions might one day use against him.
There was a risk in trusting Armsmaster—but again, I was no Tinker, and if it was a choice between Armsmaster, and any other Tinker in the Bay… Well, other than Kid Win or Leet, and...
2024-11-25 05:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I'm probably gonna do something super light for november/december, in addition to the other stuff, since I think a bit of humor can do all well in this time.
Anyone up for a Lower Decks/Shipgirl Taylor story?
Sample bit: "The Protectorate is gonna come after you!" Sophia said, smashing her hands into the forcefield. Emma practically frothing, and Madison was in the corner.
"So... I know you're upset, but the order was to help Taylor deal with her stress and thin...
2024-11-22 20:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostAnd why they are so important. This is for my setting, to explain a few things.
First of all, remember the PRT threat rating is just that. A threat rating. Primarily, "if you run into this guy in a dark alley, how do you stop him and what can he do to you."
And this means, that if you look at PRT threat ratings, the Tinker who can make a battery design 5% more effective is... A Tinker zero. Someone PHO ignores. Someone the gangs ignore, because they're not in the business of set...
2024-11-22 07:42:00 +0000 UTC View Postone of the roomies had their BP shoot up to 180/120, so I drove them to the ER and spent most of the day there until we came home with a new drug to use. Sorry for the delay, should have a new chapter out tomorrowish.
2024-11-21 06:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostClaire blinked, looking up at the ceiling. It was wood, the flickering light of some lanterns competing with the evening light from a low window to one side of the bed.
Her head was pounding and she sat up in bed, noticing the pillows piled around her. She was wearing a gown…
“Hello?” The voice came from outside of the room. “Are you awake?”
“Um, yes!”
“May I come in?”
“Oh, yeah, sure!” And with that the short man Claire had seen came walkin...
2024-11-20 02:06:27 +0000 UTC View PostAnd free for anyone to look at. The next chapter will probably be on Weds, since I'm going for longer chapters now. The next thing up here will be Claire's Experiences in the Shire. Fun. Discoveries, and it turns out Claire and hobbits have something in common...
2024-11-19 01:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostThomas is actually from my past, not personally, but I remember watching a show about former gang members, now adults, with their own children, trying to keep youth out of gangs. And what stuck with me was one mentioning that when he was young... he never thought about the price. It was being tough, taking no shit, being respected... And now he had kids and thought about how very many of his friends were in graveyards or spending the rest of their days in prison--b...
2024-11-18 00:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostFun was in the past when I sat down in the truck next to Dad. “Madison,” he said. “Madison who may be as strong as Alexandria.”
“It’s…” I paused. “At higher levels it’s hard to directly compare Brutes becaused it’s no longer just about—“
“Taylor… Please.”
I shut up.
“You promised to try and stay out of cape events, just be The Investigator and I admit, you’ve tried.”
As The Investigator he was right. Now was not the ...
2024-11-16 08:47:20 +0000 UTC View PostI have two possible directions to take the Weaver's Web. The first is the fall of coil at the hands of the Weaver. The second is the Empire 88 ending in a truly biblical fashion. Since I am not entirely certain which way it should go... I leave it to my loyal fans!
2024-11-14 23:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostWell starting out with a new, original story! Being dead sucks. Being murdered sucks worse. Good news! Even the underworld has detectives...
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You know, the big wigs down here tell me it’s about memory. Our bodies change with how we remember ourselves, and we can change that. It’s like Lotta, my secretary. She didn’t used to be drop dead gorgeous with a rack that wouldn’t quit. She was a mousy little girl with stringy brown hair.
No more.
Just don’t look a...
2024-11-14 05:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnd the hopefully we'll be more on track this week.
2024-11-12 22:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostJim pulled himself up from the wrecked tree he’d landed in. It hadn’t hurt him, but it’d been a long fall, through a dense mass of tree branches until he’d landed… here.
Where am I? He’d never heard of a forest like this, anywhere near Arcadia. And where was everyone else? He’d lost—
“Claire? Claire!” Jim called out, then shouted.
Claire, Claire, Claire… nothing but echoes answered him.
We beat h...
2024-11-12 01:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostIs always sort of difficult. I don't like "We all share our deep secrets" but i figure 1. Taylor is actually known to them, and 2. Talking shop is a different matter and I expect every parahuman has a "my power suddenly showed off an undocumented feature" or "my mission went off the rails" story.
2024-11-11 02:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ah, the fair maiden comes to thank the gallant clockblocking knight!” Clockblocker said as I entered the chamber. I noticed that Gallant wasn’t there.
“Clockblocker,” another said. “Hi, I’m Aegis. I have… to try and run the Wards.”
I glanced up at him. “Should I call Panacea? I know Krewe.”
“Hey!” Aisha’s voice came from the other side of the room where a shadowy figure lurked. Moments later, she was there. “I’m perfect! Follow e...
2024-11-11 02:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen external events cause issues and delays for a story, should i:
2024-11-10 06:41:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis week has been... busy. In every sense, both personally and larger issues. But I really didn't want to miss my deadline, so here is part I of chapter 10, with the next part hopefully dropping on Saturday.
Thanks for your patience!
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Walking down to the Wards room, I tried to disguise my nerves. I couldn’t casually push my emotions into my insects. Not here. If there was any place sensors might detect that, it was here, and the instant anyone tied The Inves...
2024-11-09 06:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostClaire fell. Jim had grabbed her hand as Morganna had pulled her back into the void, and Toby had shattered the staff. But Morganna was holding on, pulling both her and Jim into the void.
Light.
Dark.
Then Morganna and Jim were both whirled away from her, and Claire opened her mouth to scream.
And it was filled with water, cold water. Like she wasn’t in her shadow dimension anymore, but a deep ocean. She flailed around in terror.
Then there was a great figure l...
2024-11-07 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post