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Gacha God Announcement.

I mentioned it before, but I have been struggling with Gacha God a bit lately. I've had a pretty bad case of writer's block that I've been working through. I've been chipping away at it and recently I looked back over what I've gotten out and I'm not at all happy with it. It's the most unhappy I've been with some of my work in a very long time, which prompted this announcement.

Temporarily, Ghastly Adventures will be taking over the Saturday slot. Temporarily. I'm hoping that b...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.5 (ch. 5)

Terror wasn't anything comparable to fear. It was a lesson that I had already learned -- I used to get night terrors. The kind that leaves you frozen upon waking up, heart feeling like it was about to burst through your chest, and drenched in a cold sweat. Once you felt a taste of terror, there was no mistaking it for fear. Right now, what I and everyone else in the Gym felt at this very moment, was terror.

“Mimikyu!” Mimikyu snarled, hate dripping from the...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.4 (ch. 4)

Marnie was an experienced trainer, I quickly noticed as the two of them both began shouting out orders for their pokemon. Brock took up the position of defense, leaving the initiative to Marnie, who was happy to have it as her impidimp hopped from boulder to boulder with surprising speed to close in on the geodude that was squaring up. With a final leap, she closed the distance and the pokemon clashed to a roaring crowd.

“AND IT BEGINS! TRAINER MARNIE GOES ALL IN ON OFFENSE, DELIVERIN...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.3 (ch. 3)

I figured that I had gotten the better end of the deal. I got to live out in a fantastical world filled with pokemon and adventures and what have you. I felt bad about the original Blair, but that mostly stemmed from the fact that I just assumed that we traded places. Because… why wouldn't we? I got pulled across the multiverse and deposited into his body that had a hole in its heart. Why wouldn't Blair find himself in my body back on earth, patched up after getting hit by a truck to live o...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.2 (ch. 2)

The timeline in Pokemon was always a mess, but I was able to guesstimate a bit to say that I was roughly a year before the start of Ash's journey. That bit of information came from Gary Oak -- looking him up, I was able to put an age to Professor Oak’s grandson, which was nine. Which also led me to discover that it was far less common for people aged ten to go on their “Journey.” Quotation marks.

Theoretically, you could get your trainer's license as young as eight, but it functio...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.1 (ch. 1)

Nothing drove home how fragile life really was like death did. At any moment, a blood vessel in your brain could pop and you'd just drop dead. You could be chilling out at the house, completely unaware that the house was slowly filling with carbon monoxide. Or, in my case, you could be walking across the street and some guy behind the wheel only realized he was running a red light moments before, giving me enough time to hear a blaring horn.

Truck-kun didn't claim me then. An ambulance ...

The Good Life: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire~! (ch. 35)

The world had gone kaput. The news couldn’t say as much due to the fact all the nukes going off had ended up frying any electronics with a circuit board, but everyone knew it was true. The nukes only rained down upon the world for around two hours total, starting with the nuke that went off in Berlin, but in that short amount of time, the world was bathed in hellfire and radiation.

As far as the movies had been concerned, that was it. GG. The only people that could possibly survive th...

The Good Life: Curtain Call (ch. 34)

You know, I couldn't help but feel a little responsible for our current situation. Like… shit, things had kinda spiraled a little bit. I mean, even if I knew saving Homelander would end with a couple major cities being devastated and a nuke landing in Berlin I still would have done it, but I really hadn't foreseen the consequences of my own actions. We all stood in relative silence, our gazes on the screen that showed a mushroom cloud over Berlin. The first nuke dropped on a population cent...

The Good Life: Explosive Finish (ch. 33)

Homelander screamed. It was a scream of loss. Of pain. A wretched sound that barely sounded like it could come from a man. A hand hovered over Stormfront as if he was looking for a way to put her head back together. And I could only stand and watch as Homelander broke down, tears falling from his cheeks. He sounded lost. He sounded broken.

It hurt to hear. It hurt to see. His face was splattered with blood, tears left trails through it down his cheeks. He hunched over his dead ...

The Good Life: Last Act (ch. 32)

Soldier Boy. Soldier Boy. The first superhero. The one that started it all. The hero of War World II, the man who punched Hitler in the face and had the Third Reich bounce off of his shield. In the decades since, Soldier Boy was the tip of America's spear. The poster boy for what it meant to be an American. Before Homelander was Homelander, there had been Soldier Boy. Only for that to change in the eighties when he supposedly died.

The Russians attempted to sabotage a nuclear r...

A Fun Time, Not A Long Time: Skull Island 1.2 (ch. 2)

"This isn't working," Mikasa half snarled at me while the fairy, Tinkerbell, I found out after a long session of charades, viciously mocked her from my shoulder. "Explain it again," she demanded, her tone so calm it was pretty easy to tell that she was pissed off.

I coughed lightly in my hand, casting a look at Tinkerbell, who once again went through a series of motions and left me to interpret. Nodding to myself, I looked at Mikasa and Kim, both on the ground while I lazily hovered a g...

Never Fade Away: Trouble Finds Trouble (ch. 55)

Charges spent over timeskip:

Black boxing -- 5 (5)

Predator: Cloaking -- 4 (2)

Fallout: Energy Weapons -- 4 (2)

Fallout: Autodoc -- 5 (2)

Starfield: Grav Drive -- 5 (3)

…

“You've changed,” Kaiden accused me as I looked over the schematics I was developing for one of my many projects. We had gone to ground in the past month since I shot down the Turian ship. In a rather ironic twist, we ended up staying in the Arasaka Tower basement because it wa...

Never Fade Away: When It's War (ch. 54)

Admiral Tacitus Orolus had been honored when he was selected to lead the punitive fleet. His career was a long one, but with dedication and diligence, he’d climbed the steps of the Turian Hierarchy -- he became a ship captain by the age fifty, a Rear Admiral by sixty, and now at eighty, he was the High Admiral, braving uncharted space. He was the iron fist of the Council, tasked with reaching out to bring an upstart race to heel.

A year ago, a Turian patrol fleet discovered a race now...

Never Fade Away: Cloudy Day (ch. 53)

“Yellow-bellied two-faced motherfuckin’... Sorry darlin’s, but I just realized that we may be facing something that's about as welcome as a rattlesnake to a square dance pretty soon.

But let's give context - I've been looking into exactly how Japan’s been doing so well. Something about it just didn't seem right to me, not cuz I think they'd have gotten rolled over, but because actually getting details on how the fight against the b...