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Legends Never Die: Deals with the Devil (ch. 87)

Out of everyone that could have arrived on the ship, the very last people I expected it to be were Otto and Astolfo. I hadn't seen Otto since the revenge killings in Francia where I had helped him and some prisoners escape the coming slaughter. We didn't part on great terms, even if he was thankful for helping some Franks escape. The last I heard, he was part of King Charlemagne's court but I never heard specifics.

Astolfo was a bit different. We’d parted ways after the war ended, wh...

Legends Never Die: The Start of Something New (ch. 86)

Six months could pass deceptively quickly, I discovered. It felt like nothing more than a blink of an eye looking back at the months that went by, but at the same time, so much happened during that time. Winter once again came and went with barely any notice except for the celebrations of my people. It didn't even get cold enough to put a true chill in the air. During this time, all of my projects had taken massive strides towards completion.

Norlands prosperity had only increased. As...

Legends Never Die: Embracing Change (ch. 85)

There were other buildings I should probably start with, I knew, as I hammered away at a chisel, taking chunks of stone with every strike. What Lay Within was guiding my hand, showing me what the marble wanted to be and it was up to me to bring it out of its excess. I wanted to build a bathhouse. I had seen them in Constantinople, and I thought it was a good place to start. Though, I couldn't bring myself to copy the Roman design.

The water they bathed in was dirty. Bathing in it was c...

Duality (Jujutsu Kaisen/DC Comics)

Yuji couldn't describe how great it felt punching Sukuna in the face. It had been something he had been itching to do since he made that fateful choice to eat his cursed finger to save Megumi. He usually had a lot more reservations about hitting people because he was so much stronger than everyone else, but Sukuna absolutely deserved it. The guy straight up asked ‘Where are the women and children’ after taking control of his body at the start of their journey together, and it more or less...

A Golden Path: First Steps 1.3 (ch. 3)

Jaehaerys Targaryen, for all of his considerable faults, did know how to bind the Seven Kingdoms together. Aegon the Conqueror knew how to take them, but Jaehaerys united them. In the case of the North, he stole the New Gift and made them more reliant on southern grain. However, not all of it had been the stick. Jaehaerys also gifted fine maps to all of the Lord Paramounts and Wardens, showing all of Westeros as a single unified whole. It had also been a declaration of intent because Dorne wa...

Best of Intentions: How Far We've Come (ch. 6)

Despite it all, I did manage to snag a long rest. Cure Wounds did nothing to deal with my mental exhaustion, and after the day that we just had, I was utterly spent. I actually felt a bit bad about it when I realized I more or less passed all responsibility over to Jill and the others just so I could catch some z's. You would think that with everything I had to worry about, I would have some trouble sleeping. But no, that was not the case. I slept like a baby and woke up feeling refreshed as ...

A Golden Path: First Steps 1.2 (ch. 2)

Here is a link for the first chapter in case you need a refresher: Link

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“I mislike this,” Mance Rayder muttered, his breath coming out as a cloud of fog. The snows had receded, making it possible to travel beyond the Wall, but the cutting chill in the air was still there. He leaned against the cold stone of Castle Black, dressed in the dark cloth of the closest thing he ever ha...

Best of Intentions: This Fyre (ch. 5)

Oh, he was big. Oh, he was scary. Oh, he was big and scary and this entire situation was not part of the plan! I thought Nemesis would be hunting Jill -- it’s why I gave her the tattoo. Why was he here!? Right now, appearing as if he fell out of the sky almost directly on top of us with pinpoint accuracy. When we were already dealing with a huge snafu in the plan in the form of thousands of undead that would soon start pouring into the city, and we were just a small cork trying to hold back...

A Fun Time, Not A Long Time: Clockwork Island 3.1 (ch. 8)

I breathed in through my mouth as slowly as I could, feeling the wind funneling into me to become air for my lungs. My heart pounded powerfully in my chest in a steady rhythm, I could feel the hardwood underneath me as I sat down on the deck of the Icarus. Blood surged through my veins, the energized blood cells fortifying my body. My lungs felt full, like they were about to pop. There was a sharp pain in them like the skin of my core was going to tear, and right when it became unbearable, I ...

The Good Life Poll

Another poll has come to a close and another has opened. The results are as follows:

RWBY                Votes: 785

Konosuba             Votes: 568

Resident Evil            Votes: 489

Full Metal Alchemist        Votes: 462

Fate: Grand Order        Votes: 415

Attack on Titan&...

The Good Life: Fly Me to the Moon (ch. 54)

The next three months were spent mopping up, if I had to describe them. The resistance was pretty much crushed and decapitated after Nora surrendered. A lot of natives to the Wasteland chose to leave the Commonwealth after the Minutemen’s defeat, but most decided to stay. Integration was having its issues, I'm sure, but they were largely mitigated by the fact that Taylor had fully come into her own. She used her insects, and now her machines, to project her presence across the Commonwealth....

The Good Life: City of the Dead (ch. 53)

The battle began in earnest after her declaration and it was then that something became very apparent. For a month, Taylor had been preparing to conquer the Wasteland. She had her queen ants overworking themselves to create an army large enough to accomplish whatever task she set her mind to. Whatever task that might be, because it felt like it had slowly changed as time went by.

What became apparent was the Mechanist wasn't preparing to fight Law or Cinder. He had been preparing to de...

The Good Life: Anything Goes (ch. 52)

Taylor had absolutely no idea what she was doing. She thought she did. All the way up to that first kiss, she had a plan. She would impress Law, work her way up to a position of power and influence, and from there she would dismantle Law's organization from the inside. Only things weren't as simple as they had seemed.

Law was trying to save millions of lives. Everything he did, all the evils he committed, all of it was for the greater good. He wasn't a hero, Taylor knew, but he wasn't ...

The Good Life: It's Just A Matter Of Time (ch. 51)

“Unfortunately, synthesizing the two agents together has produced… unpredictable results,” Shaun admitted as I leaned forward, looking down at a mouse on a wheel that blurred forward at around three hundred miles an hour. The cage that it was in was made out of thick bulletproof glass. The same as the others in the menagerie of cages, aquariums, and testing areas all holding animal test subjects. Mostly mice, but there was also a lone monkey.

The cages lined the walls, stretching...

Legends Never Die: Deals with the Devil (ch. 87)

Out of everyone that could have arrived on the ship, the very last people I expected it to be were Otto and Astolfo. I hadn't seen Otto since the revenge killings in Francia where I had him and some prisoners escape the coming slaughter. We didn't part on great terms, even if he was thankful for helping some franks escape. The last I heard, he was part of King Charlemagne's court but I never heard specifics.

Astolfo was a bit different. We parted ways after the war ended, when I ransom...

Legends Never Die: The Start of Something New (ch. 86)

Six months could pass deceptively quickly, I discovered. It felt like nothing more than a blink of an eye looking back at the months that went by, but at the same time, so much happened during that time. Winter once again came and went with barely any notice except for the celebrations of my people. It didn't even get cold enough to put a true chill in the air. During this time, all of my projects had taken massive strides towards completion.

Norlands prosperity had only increased. As...

Legends Never Die: Embracing Change (ch. 85)

There were other buildings I should probably start with, I knew, as I hammered away at a chisel, taking chunks of stone with every strike. What Lay Within was guiding my hand, showing me what the marble wanted to be and it was up to me to bring it out of its excess. I wanted to build a bathhouse. I had seen them in Constantinople, and I thought it was a good place to start. Though, I couldn't bring myself to copy the Roman design.

The water they bathed in was dirty. Bathing in it was c...

Legends Never Die: Polite Words (ch. 84)

Becoming nobility came with some unfortunate costs that only made themselves known in hindsight. The social protocols that I benefited from, which made me someone that simply couldn't be ignored, also applied to others. Noble obligations, as Jill described it. An unspoken and elaborate web of social niceties that were expected to be upheld at all times. Most of it, despite my annoyance, was stuff I already knew -- such as treating the nobility with a base level of respect.

Most of my e...

Best of Intentions: How Far We've Come (ch. 5)

Despite it all, I did manage to snag a long rest. Cure Wounds did nothing to deal with my mental exhaustion, and after the day that we just had, I was utterly spent. I actually felt a bit bad about it when I realized I more or less passed all responsibility over to Jill and the others just so I could catch some z's. You would think that with everything I had to worry about, I would have some trouble sleeping. But no, that was not the case. I slept like a baby and woke up feeling refreshed as ...

A Golden Path: First Steps 1.2 (ch. 2)

“I mislike this,” Mance Rayder muttered, his breath coming out as a cloud of fog. The snows had receded, making it possible to travel beyond the Wall, but the cutting chill in the air was still there. He leaned against the cold stone of Castle Black, dressed in the dark cloth of the closest thing he ever had to a family. He was raised by the Watch, saved as a babe, and when he became a man he swore the oath.

Which always made it odd to him when he saw men wearing colors other than ...

Best of Intentions: This Fyre (ch. 4)

Oh, he was big. Oh, he was scary. Oh, he was big and scary and this entire situation was not part of the plan! I thought Nemesis would be hunting Jill -- it’s why I gave her the tattoo. Why was he here!? Right now, appearing as if he fell out of the sky almost directly on top of us with pinpoint accuracy. When we were already dealing with a huge snafu in the plan in the form of thousands of undead that would soon start pouring into the city, and we were just a small cork trying to hold back...

Best of Intentions: Come Sweet Death (ch. 4)

"I cannot believe this is working," Jill marveled as I fought to keep a smirk off of my face, adjusting my hard hat and my bright orange reflective vest as I finished tying off the caution tape to some of those orange and white barrel things. I was blocking off an entrance to the metro station, and it was working like a charm. People saw the caution tape and decided to move on to the next station.

"What's more likely -- that construction is actually being done or that two random people...

Ghastly Adventures: Teardrop 3.3 (ch. 17)

There aren't really words to describe a gyarados in action. The waters surged around him as he swam forward with shocking speed, causing the platforms to flip over in his wake as he parted the arena. My stomach was doing flips inside of me because that same ice cold dread filled me as when Mimikyu lost it against Onix. Only Gyarados wasn't aiming to attack a pokemon. He was a thing that had been unleashed in Misty's direction, and she locked up.

It was the kind of instinctual fear that...

Ghastly Adventures: Teardrop 3.2 (ch. 16)

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions. Past me really was the worst. Seriously, what had he been thinking, kicking the hand grenade my way so it would blow up in my face?

“Hullo?” I said, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frozen stiff. I felt like a deer in headlights -- the phone call had been bad enough, but meeting a member of my- Blair's family in person? I knew even back then when I blocked the call that wouldn't be the end of it. That, eventually,...

Ghastly Adventures: Teardrop 3.1 (ch. 15)

I cracked a hundred wins. All I needed to do after the Gym battle was to hang out at one of the battle courts and they came lining up. It was a good experience for Trevenant, who rapidly got used to his new body in a safe competitive setting. He missed the mobility of being able to fly, but his offensive power had majorly been upped from his evolution. His attacks were stronger, he had finer control -- his strengths got stronger and more refined.

Mankey was another star of the show now...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.9 (ch. 14)

Marnie got her gym badge and the entire battle was pretty enlightening. Especially when she had been marked for one of the play battles -- she wasn't given lines or anything, but she had been described on the stage by a narrator rather than an announcer. The entire thing was pretty funny, but I found it hard to tease Marnie because I ended up getting picked for a play match as well.

“A rugged hero, a cute sidekick, and a mysterious figure?” I echoed, looking at the contract before ...

The Good Life: City of the Dead (ch. 53)

The battle began in earnest after her declaration and it was then that something became very apparent. For a month, Taylor had been preparing to conquer the Wasteland. She had her queen ants overworking themselves to create an army large enough to accomplish whatever task she set her mind to. Whatever task that might be, because it felt like it had slowly changed as time went by.

What became apparent was the Mechanist wasn't preparing to fight Law or Cinder. He had been preparing to de...

The Good Life: Anything Goes (ch. 52)

Taylor had absolutely no idea what she was doing. She thought she did. All the way up to that first kiss, she had a plan. She would impress Law, work her way up to a position of power and influence, and from there she would dismantle Law's organization from the inside. Only things weren't as simple as they had seemed.

Law was trying to save millions of lives. Everything he did, all the evils he committed, all of it was for the greater good. He wasn't a hero, Taylor knew, but he wasn't ...

The Good Life: It's Just A Matter Of Time (ch. 51)

“Unfortunately, synthesizing the two agents together has produced… unpredictable results,” Shaun admitted as I leaned forward, looking down at a mouse on a wheel that blurred forward at around three hundred miles an hour. The cage that it was in was made out of thick bulletproof glass. The same as the others in the menagerie of cages, aquariums, and testing areas all holding animal test subjects. Mostly mice, but there was also a lone monkey.

The cages lined the walls, stretching...

The Good Life: Atom Bomb Baby (ch. 50)

“That stupid, vicious whore,” Cinder snarled, clenching her jaw as she looked out at the battlefield where a small, localized, mushroom cloud was blossoming above the shattered skyline. A mini-nuke, Cinder knew. She recognized the smaller atomic explosions -- both because she had seen plenty of them in the two weeks since they started pushing into Boston and because she had witnessed first hand what a true nuclear explosion looked like.

It wasn't the explosion that drew her ire. It...