Fabled Webs

Spoon: 3.5 Soup

Early chapter? Early chapter.

Soup 3.5

Artoria

Petalburg Woods, Hoenn Region

A fourth mankey went down to my swing. They’d mostly recovered from Jeanne’s Flash by now and were watching each other as best they could, but any form of teamwork beyond basic swarm tactics was far from their strong suit. I had little trouble teleporting behind the one farthest back, striking before any of them could give...

PWP: 3.7 Surge

Preface

Yeah, you’re getting this a few days early. I have a wedding to get to on Friday so I’ll be flying out to CA for the weekend. I obviously won’t be updating then and didn’t want to do you dirty so here it is.

Surge 3.7

2010, November 4: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I arrived at the usual lunch table to find only Stephanie and Chelsea there before me. The two were already lost in a conversation ...

PWP: 3.6 Surge

Preface

Welp, PWP won the monthly poll, so that means I’m going to make the honest effort to dedicate at least half my writing time to this story. Here is the first of a few chapters I have planned for it this month.

Surge 3.6

2010, November 3: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

It hurt. Not physically, I had minimal trouble adjusting to my sprint. Mentally. Emotionally. Kazu, as a fucking novice, was able to use...

Monthly Poll: March 2023

So, fairly clear that you all want more PWP. As promised, this guarantees at least 2 more chapters (half my monthly quota) to that story. 

LT Omake: Inspired Inventor 5: The Call

Preface

New one, and the reason I reposted all four Inspired Inventor omake chapters. Might start a second series, felt this was a nice way to wrap up while leaving myself some plot threads to follow.

Inspired Inventor 5: The Call

Andy Yusung Kim

2006, April 1: Boston, MA, USA

Much had changed in the past four years since I acquired Simmie. Oddly enough, the biggest shift was als...

LT Omake: Inspired Inventor 4: The Chalicar

Inspired Inventor 4: The Chalicar

2004, April 1: Phoenix, AZ, USA

A lot had happened since I got myself a new assistant. Crowning the Simurgh had some unintended side effects, usually good. I knew from Aurelion Sol’s continued rebellion that The Crown would not crush her personality, though the Simurgh didn’t quite have “willpower” in the traditional sense. It was why the first thing I did after leaving Shanghai was to get out a long list ...

LT Omake: Inspired Inventor 3: The Crown

Inspired Inventor 3: The Crown

Andy Yusung Kim

2002, April 23: Shanghai, China

Shanghai was a beautiful city. It was a bastion of culture, tradition, and history, filled with ancient relics that spoke of both the highs and lows of Chinese civilization. It was also a city filled with skyscrapers and bustling crowds, a city where old and new jockeyed for place.

It was also currently in a massive riot.

The Simurgh, ...

LT Omake: Inspired Inventor 2: The Golden Spatula

Inspired Inventor 2: The Golden Spatula

Yasmine de la Rosa

2001, April 1: Phoenix, AZ, USA

We were all seated around the coffee table in the Wards’ common room. Stingray, Ranchero, and Wildshot of Team Three had all moved on into the Protectorate. Stingray was still with us, she worked under Oathkeeper now, but Ranchero and Wildshot had been transferred out in some director-level draft pick that was way above my paygrade, ...

LT Omake: Inspired Inventor 1: The Fork

Preface

Just moving my omakes here. Not much changed about this up to #4.

Inspired Inventor 1: The Fork

Penelope Myers

2000, April 1: Phoenix, AZ, USA

We were all seated around the coffee table at headquarters. It wasn’t often that everyone on Wards Team One got to hang out like this so I treasured these moments. I leaned into my boyfriend’s side and enjoyed the way his breat...

Spoon: 3.4 Soup

Soup 3.4

Aaron Fulan

Petalburg Woods, Hoenn Region

For once in a long while, I was right and testing Murphy didn’t in fact get me a swift kick to the nads. We weren’t even fifteen minutes away from the tied up mightyena pack when a kirlia dove down from the trees in front of us. Female, if the slight curvature of her ruby crests was any indication. I felt unreasonably proud for being able to distinguish a kirlia’s gend...

Spoon: 3.3 Soup

Preface

Yup. New Year's bonus. Have a second update.

Soup 3.3

Aaron Fulan

Petalburg Woods, Hoenn Region

The forest stretched all around us like an emerald sea. No matter where I looked, all I could find were browns and broad-leafed greens. It was honestly a little intimidating, being so far in the wilds with nothing but me, my friends, and my supplies. I had of course downloaded ...

Spoon: 3.2 Soup

Preface

Happy New Year! You know, that one that actually matters for us Asians. All hail the bunny!

Soup 3.2

Aaron Fulan
Petalburg Woods, Hoenn Region

I leaned against a tree, panting and hacking my lungs out. On the upside, we weren’t being chased by ornery taillow anymore. Most wild pokémon didn’t pick fights with trainers in “horde” formats like this because they understood that most tra...

Spoon: 3.1 Soup

Soup 3.1

Aaron Fulan
Petalburg Woods, Hoenn Region

We remained in that grove for several days longer. In a nutshell, why would we leave? It was as good a place as any to train, with a bubbling creek only half a mile away I could fish in, several bushes of berries and wild vegetables dotting the grove, and the occasional wandering pokémon who didn’t mind throwing down with my girls for a bit. Between physical conditioning, sparring, and repet...

PWP: 3.5 Surge

Surge 3.5

2010, November 2: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

Being the first PE class of November, Coach Miller had us playing flag football. We wore belts over our shirts with little flags that could be snatched off easily. Because football teams were rather large, Coach Miller didn’t see the point in dividing us by gender and just had us play two games. It was the perfect chance to test my new genetic enhancements.

From the outside, there were no n...

PWP: 3.4 Surge

Surge 3.4

2010, October 31: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I spent the rest of Sunday in my room, drawing up tinkertech blueprints for the Pledge Regalia. It was a large, cross-shaped piece of machinery that resembled a headstone at first glance. The cross itself was disjointed, with slanted lines intersecting its body to mark the points where it could be disassembled. It was not one cross, but eight thinner crosses stacked atop one another. When fully dep...

PWP: 3.3 Surge

Surge 3.3

2010, October 30: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I appeared in the Palanquin’s upstairs lounge, startling several of the patrons.

The upstairs lounge, reserved for VIPs, was likewise decorated with festive spirit. Rather than spider webs, the walls had been covered in a scale pattern starting from one corner that faded smoothly into fractals and mazes. Looking closer, I could see pictures of jack-o-lanterns and bats embossed in a tasteful...

PWP: 3.2 Surge

Surge 3.2

2010, October 26: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

Tuesday afternoon found me at the workshop, trying to work out a way to handle all that generated power in a safe, consistent manner. As it was, any transformer I stuck to it to try and change the voltage wouldn’t last long. Power stations produced electricity at roughly fourteen thousand volts. The average transformer found in the home handled electricity in the hundreds of volts range, certainl...

PWP: 3.1 Surge

Surge 3.1

2010, October 23: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I hopped first to the workshop beneath Harvey’s to collect the last of my seastone and wapometal ingots. I’d need more raw materials to make more. Every time I looked at the little refinery I had under Harvey’s I told myself I’d build a DSS port there. I’d finally managed it a few days ago during a materials run so all I needed to do was digitize the materials and pick them up at the ...