I was super excited as we reached the pokemon school. “There he is!” I called out to Papa who was walking normally, and not speeding up despite us almost being there!
It was such an adult thing!
“I’m coming, calm down Vicky.” Papa called out and I scoffed, we were almost theeeeere!
“Professor!” I called out racing slightly ahead and he waved himself high above his head.
“Alola!”
“Alola!” I repeated as I raced up to him. “I hav...
“Well sense anything? Or smell anything?” I asked as Riolu kept looking around. She sent me a look and I rolled my eyes and faux zipped my lips. She huffed and continued going… Around in circles.
That was literally the tree we crossed like ten minutes ago.
A good person would say something positive and get us on the right path, maybe something uplifting to make sure they’d know they hadn’t messed up, and they just needed to practice…
“That’s the same tree...
“Aaaand swim swim swim!” I called out. I was resting on an inner tube as my hands were held out, and I was urging Gible to swim as hard as she could.
I grinned as I kept my hands out, giving her little hands something to push against as she began beating her feet in the ocean.
And slowly I was being pushed back. I grinned as the training efforts were showing results.
“Gib… Gib… Gib.” She muttered to herself slowly as she continued to push me around, making ...
2025-06-25 04:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Woooo-oomph!” I once more tasted sand.
It was bad.
Blegh.
I was rolled over by a giggling Milllotic and I saw Dratini beside me in the dirt. The echoing sound of his Devastating Drake sounding on the waves.
“Pfft.” I spit sand and then muttered weakly. “That was too much.”
“Tini!” He offered cheerfully, and I smiled as he leaned in and gave me little Dratini kisses, as he started curling around my head.
“I’m glad you liked ...
2025-06-24 04:13:40 +0000 UTC View Post“New Egg!” I cheered to Mama and Papa as I caught up to them. They’d been out getting lunch or something, but when they came back to our little spot on the beach, I’d stood up and showed off the incubator I’d been cradling.
“Oh my!” Mama cooed as she hurried over and checked it out. The Alolan Meowth looking up disinterested as he rested sprawled across Mama’s shoulders. Mama looked over at Dragonite who was still looking rather proud of herself as she continued to be cr...
2025-06-23 05:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Heard you got a new gig.”
“Juuun.” I whined from the couch. I sat up and glared at him.
“What?”
“Don’t what me. I can hear that smirk on every word. I’m not giving up my Merc job.”
“Sure.” He said very much not agreeing with me, as he said it. I sat up and glared at him.
“I’m too good of a merc to quit.”
“You say that because you aren’t making Rockerboy eddies yet.”
“I don’t care about eddies....
I’d ended up kneeling down and writing in the dirt with a sort of clawed finger to talk to the boys.
“So you can’t see well either!?” Sammy yelled and I shook my head. “That sounds bad!”
I just nodded.
Irritating.
Thankfully communication removed most of the fear, and the boys had come over to poke at me.
Erik had even poked at my teeth which was a weird sensation as they felt like they were completely in the wrong spot for my head.
...
2025-06-13 00:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostI ended up writing down everything I learned while waiting for my spell to end naturally. The length of time for my transformation was kind of important, you know?
But the longer that went on the more I noticed it was sticking around for a long time.
An hour later, long after messing around learning how to write with my goofy ass evil fingers I checked it. Looking at my fingers and just…
They were still alien digits. They hadn’t actually reverted. Like at all. I felt it ...
2025-06-12 00:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostSuzies birthday ended up taking all day, as I helped with cooking the Turkey in the kitchens, and just enjoying the company of my family extended or otherwise.
Yet, the next day wasn’t any better for my experiments, as I was pulled into helping repair some chains that had been damaged, reinforcing them with mana to give them even more strength, which was saying something since I’d already done that, and they’d still been broken.
That took all day, as chains were tedious, and...
2025-06-10 23:58:26 +0000 UTC View PostBitey was back in his enclosure, and I was pacing.
Mana. Wavelength. Magic circles.
The concepts spun around in my head.
Mana was energy, but… Just on its own, it didn’t actually do much for me. I couldn’t really control it well because of my weak Wavelength.
Wavelength was the ability of a mage to control Mana inside, and outside of their bodies… Although I think it was mostly meant to be about outside? I could move Mana through my body pretty easi...
2025-06-10 02:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day or so was mostly getting my baby Croc squared away, keeping him from escaping and learning how to feed him without nearly getting bitten.
As promised I didn’t give him any mana. Thankfully Uncle James finally came through.
“What do you think?” He asked, the wooden box was much bigger than just the metal washing pan that he’d had so far.
“I think it’s perfect Uncle James… Thanks. Sorry to make you do all this work.”
“Eh well… ...
With James' help the next day I had a wood block with the magical circle taken from the Giant Mouth Cat, etched into it.
Frankly it was a little annoying that James had made the whole thing look almost simple and it was even cleaner than the one I had written in my notebook.
With that, I had my first Magic Circle that wasn’t the one in my old pamphlet.
I scurried away taking the block into the compound and settling in the covered meeting area inside. Adults would b...
2025-06-07 18:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostTo my shock the teenagers did actually pull through.
The answer to how, came easily after that. With all the Harpoons much stronger now, there were less of them being broken. So we simply started having more and more excess Harpoons stored up. The teenagers had been granted access to some of them, and they had traded them to us.
They were apparently supposed to have already been handing them out to us for hunting as well.
Michael had tricked us.
While Willis and Sam di...
2025-06-06 04:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostI raced out of the compound eager to find my group. The three boys thankfully weren’t hard to find. They were settled in the bend of the east section of the stream that passed by the compound just under where our little camp was located playing in the shallows.
“How’s the traps!?” I called out and got three raised heads in turn, all of them waving at me as I raced down the embankment.
Willis looked pleased as he pulled one out of the water and even with the distance ...
2025-06-04 18:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostAlice: Check out Growl FM!
The message was simple and instantly had me on guard.
Looked up from my junk. I’d been doing some cleaning on my guns, so I had an array of stuff all over the living room table and a brush scrubbing down everything.
Flipping on the radio and changing the channel, I heard it.
“-Was the wonderful track Do or Die by NoWorld. I really love that one. Now as promised I got a special treat. Last night a new band hit Night City. We...
2025-06-02 17:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up the next morning I rolled over away from the sun slipping through the blinds and had to consider everything. There was no doubt that the band was getting attention. Hiromi had even waved me away assuring me everything was being taken care of when I decided to leave last night, and she hadn’t come with me.
Hiromi had stayed long after the gig talking to the talent scout? Producer? I wasn’t sure what his position was.
Either way, I had a feeling Hiromi was going ...
2025-05-25 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Motokoooo!” I was nearly attacked from behind as Hiromi charged up to the bar and against me.
“Hey Hiromi.”
“Are you ready? Are you feeling sick? I brought a towel I could go wet down and-”
“I’m fine!” I laughed at her mother henning, as I looked around her and waved at Ichi who had followed her in.
“Motoko. How goes?”
“I’m fine!” I responded huffing a bit, he was looking worried for me too!
“Okay so Rebecca said s...
2025-05-17 17:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostI got home and flopped on the couch. That netdive had taken a lot out of me, and I honestly felt ready for a nap, but first.
I looked at my stat screen.
During the dive I’d destroyed so many Daemons I’d actually hit a level up.
Level up achieved!
One Stat Point Gained.
One Skill Point Gained.
Heh. It made me kick my feet a bit as I stretched out on my stomach on the couch.
Levels levels levels!
And it was tim...
2025-05-09 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a minute before the others joined me, and the whole time I was looking around in disgust.
When Sasha’s avatar popped in I instantly turned to her. “How do you live like this?” I had to ask as the entire lobby was covered in pink and glittery cat stuff. The kitty pictures were cute, but the rest of it was just too much.
“Hehehe!” She replied back and that was the only answer I got!?
Thankfully Kiwi looked disturbed even though she stil...
2025-05-05 17:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostBack home I flopped on the couch to get some programming done. First step was to go over the obvious.
Programming 15 had come with a perk choice.
Considering the power of some of the programming perks I’d already taken I was going to need to go through the list.
What was my Programming toolbox really missing? It certainly wasn’t versatility. Between Debug, and Inspired Programmer, I was able to do pretty much anything I could think up, but I still hoped ...
2025-04-27 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up with a big stretch, a late night doing Rockerboy stuff meant a late morning, but I felt great after eight hours.
Sliding out of my bed I headed for the shower as I considered what exactly my day was going to be.
Hiromi and I were going to meet up during her lunch.
Before that I should probably get some things done. I had leveled again, which was just the best!
But I needed to spend my points, and it was adaptation time. As much as...
2025-04-23 17:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing?” I asked a bit breathlessly as we finally found Arcanine.
“Arc!” She whined at me, paws waving in the air.
“How do you keep ending up on your back?” I asked her, and Blissey tittered as we walked over. Blissey and I took a moment to dig and pull her out of the sand until she was on her belly, and of course Arcanine was now completely coated in sand.
She was going to need a B.A.T.H. I blinked as I realized I didn’t even dare...
2025-04-20 13:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Kawaii-Kitten-Koh-”
“Sasha, stop it.” I interrupted her flatly with a glare. “Seriously.”
“Ah.” She hesitated a bit and slumped pouting at me. “Fine… Motoko.”
“Thank you.” I offered back feeling a little better already. “You ready?” I asked her, and she grinned at me.
“Yes! Another trip into the No/Brainer server!” She called out and pointed at the server in question.
We both walke...
2025-04-19 17:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostJudy Alvarez
“Alright time to do this.” She popped the can of Shock Volt, washed down three wake me ups, and sighed as the cool warmth of caffeine washed through her.
Her heart pounding in her chest was the best part.
Then she pulled on the wreath and started up the new BD.
Slipping into a new skin, especially from a raw Virtu was usually a bit rough, new emotions, feelings, thoughts and everything odd random twitches, the way people ...
To my surprise Sensei offered me a ride in his little Mahir Supron. The van was not exactly the sort of vehicle I would expect from a man with so many Tyger Claw connections, but it was kinda… Fitting?
In the back there was a ton of junk from the Dojo, extra shinai and stuff.
The only stop we’d made was at my Quadra to pick up my actual Katana.
I had a feeling something odd was happening, but… Well numbers gone up made everything pretty happy in ...
2025-04-03 17:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe lines of text as everything ran through checks confirming it was working was only barely grabbing my attention as I slowly sat up and stretched a bit.
“Feel alright?”
“Feels alright.” I confirmed, as I looked at my system.
Raven Microcybernetics Ex-Disk Adaptation Ex-Disk 0/0
Raven Microcybernetics RAM Upgrade Adaptation RAM Upgrade 0/0
Camillo RAM Manager Adaptation RAM Manager 0/2
Rostovic Sel...
2025-03-30 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe were making good progress and frankly there was a lot of stuff. Ichi was actually considering heading out with his van and coming back with the Behemoth and Hiromi was angling for that, but I kind of wanted to just get the good stuff and get out.
I took a break from grabbing loot to head to my Quadra, my old Shard literally didn’t work anymore, and that alone pissed me off all over again. I’d ended up breaking into my own car just to figure out what the hell had happened. 2025-03-26 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I dropped down right onto the poor unsuspecting gonk. Knife into the eye socket, slight jerk to scramble everything and other hand grabbed tight onto his throat, squeezing to make sure not a sound could escape.
The death rattle practically squeaked out, and I held the body in the shadows as it twitched its final times.
Only once I was sure it wasn’t going to kick hard and hit something or make too much noise did I lower it to the metal grating. Taking just a second as I pulled f...
2025-03-23 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHiromi as usual haggled fiercely, but even her best wasn’t enough to really give us much, if any, sort of discount.
It was fine. I’d been making a lot of eddies, and never really spending it. Buying new Cyberware was basically my main cost anyways.
Hiromi and I were leaving the stadium, she was holding the gear keeping my hands free as I kept my eyes on everyone and everything.
“Relax Motoko.” She whispered to me voice teasing, but I just...
2025-03-20 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post