A flood of emotions overwhelmed me as I began going through the rest of the containers. Every single one of them was accounted for: the spare parts, the ammunition, the pre-purified foodstuffs, the special armor add-ons and mods, and the drones. What remained distinctly unaccounted for out of everything was perhaps one of the devices I most desperately needed.
The Exoreality Communications Suite, or ECS for short.
But that was only half the story.
The fact of the ma...
2022-12-25 17:05:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone here's the work in progress for Chapter 11! I hope you guys enjoy! :D
A flood of emotions overwhelmed me as I began going through the rest of the containers. Every single one of them was accounted for: the spare parts, the ammunition, the pre-purified foodstuffs, the special armor add-ons and mods, and the drones. What remained distinctly unaccounted for out of everything was perhaps one of the devices I most desperately needed at this hour...
2022-12-24 17:01:55 +0000 UTC
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“Right Vir, so where do we stand?” I asked, my headfrills perked up at attention as I leaned over the central console once more. This time with a reinvigorated spirit, and a flame that grew stronger and stronger with each passing moment.
This was something that I’d noticed ever since my first awakening with Elijah. It wasn’t pronounced at first, nor was it something that I had thought much of, but there was something that felt just slightly… off about myself. It wasn’t anyth...
2022-12-20 15:21:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! The wait is finally over! From the very first chapter I've seen people debating over what exactly Emma's power armor actually looked like. We got from something as tame as simple exoskeletons to Fallout's power armor, all the way through to the WH's big bulky marines. I've long established the suit as being a cross between the T-45 power armor and the NCR Ranger helmet from Fallout. I've also made mention of its gunmetal blue appearance and the red tinted lenses, with a single r...
2022-12-19 16:00:56 +0000 UTC
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I was tired, so very tired. I wasn’t ready for this. I just wasn’t in the mood for more of the academy’s antics. Yet here I was, facing down the third miniboss of the night.
What followed was an intense staredown that I just wasn’t up for, especially at this hour. I realized however that it was very much a one-sided affair as my opaque, and frankly intimidating lenses, were carrying most of the weight in this impromptu standoff. I could see that the elf in question looked as tir...
2022-12-18 17:05:48 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone this is the work in progress for chapter 10! I hope you enjoy! :D
I was tired, so very tired. I wasn’t ready for this. I just wasn’t in the mood for more of the academy’s antics. Yet here I was, facing down the third miniboss of the night.
What followed was an intense staredown that I just wasn’t up for, especially at this hour. I realized however that it was very much a one-sided affair as my opaque, and frankly intimidating lenses, w...
2022-12-17 16:59:57 +0000 UTC
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The projection of the satellite hovered over the command table like a specter of a bygone era. An era that had, in human terms, long since passed into the dusty annals of history. Like a cornerstone memory however, it could not be erased. Like the fundamental building blocks of who we are, it remained present, looming over the evolution of humankind even as it strayed further and further from what it once was. Even as humanity diverged into two distinct camps, the spirit of humanity, th...
2022-12-13 18:09:19 +0000 UTC
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“What the fuck was that?” I asked, not even attempting to bottle up my utter contempt at the spoiled Vunerian.
“What? The aura-less? It’s one of the dorm-porters. Am I to assume you don’t have such things back in Earthrealm?” Ilunor snapped back lazily, still lounging on the couch like an oversized cat.
“Elaborate on what you mean by serve, you were treating him like a fucking slave.” I spat back. I knew full well the implications of the smaller elf’s st...
2022-12-11 17:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Here's the second Work In Progress for Chapter 9! Expect the full chapter to be out at the same time around the release of Chapter 8 on Reddit! :D I hope you guys enjoy! :D
“What the fuck was that?” I asked, not even attempting to bottle up my utter contempt at the spoiled Vunerian.
“What? The aura-less? It’s one of the dorm-porters. Am I to assume you don’t have that back in Earthrealm?” Ilunor snapped back lazily, still lounging on th...
2022-12-10 10:55:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys so after going through and finishing up Chapter 9, I realized that a bit of character interaction there would've made more sense if it was done in Chapter 8. As a result of this I decided to rewrite a few things, adding a bit of dialogue and exposition to properly explain the events of the orientation and expanding on the lore before moving forward with the dorm scenes! :D
Things progressed rather quickly after the end of the orientation. In fact, a lot o...
2022-12-10 10:51:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone so because everyone is just so excited for the next chapter, I couldn't help but to get this work in progress out quickly as well! :D Please enjoy, and please note this is just a work in progress so there will be more of this chapter to come! :D
“What the fuck was that?” I asked, not even attempting to bottle up my utter contempt at the spoiled Vunerian.
“What? The aura-less? It’s one of the dorm-porters. What? You don’t have that ba...
2022-12-08 10:43:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! So while I was writing Chapter 9, I went ahead and did some editing and some revisions to this chapter as well just to make it flow better and to make sure everything flowed well into the next chapter! :D
Things progressed rather quickly after the end of the orientation. In fact, a lot of things seemed to have been expedited for the sake of getting our asses out of the dining hall and into our dorms as quickly as possible; all without actually sa...
2022-12-08 10:39:22 +0000 UTC
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Humanity has always struck me as a species capable of a great number of things. Indeed, I wasn’t truly subscribed to the notion that they would exemplify all of the traits of ecological malignancy during my research tenure above Earth. The genuine belief was that a species without the innate control mechanism that was hibernation, would simply consume the entire universe in due course, creating artificial constructs of unimaginable proportions as growth became not just excessive but complet...
2022-12-06 16:23:04 +0000 UTC
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Things progressed rather quickly after the end of the orientation. In fact, a lot of things seemed to have been expedited for the sake of getting our asses out of the dining hall and into our dorms as quickly as possible; all without actually saying it of course. The lights around us slowly dimmed after the first few courses of food were served, and as the desserts finally came through, so too did these individualized letters arrive on similarly posh silver platters. Each letter was ...
2022-12-04 17:05:57 +0000 UTC
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Things progressed rather quickly after the end of the orientation. In fact, a lot of things seemed to have been expedited for the sake of getting our asses out of the dining hall and into our dorms as quickly as possible; all without actually saying it of course. The lights around us slowly dimmed after the first few courses of food were served, and as the desserts finally came through, so too did these individualized letters arrive on similarly posh silver platters. Each letter was ...
2022-12-03 16:59:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
It’s a new month! So I think it’s high time for another round of updates and announcements! Don’t worry, nothing’s changing, I just want to make sure that we’re all on the same page as my number one goal has always been transparency and open communication! :D
First of all I want to make sure everyone knows that my primary focuses are of course: Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School and Humans Don’t Hibernate. I understand most of you ar...
2022-12-02 16:59:58 +0000 UTC
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Hello Commissioned Pioneers!
I must apologize for the delay in the release of this first tier exclusive story, I’ve been getting used to not just Patreon, but updating stories on the regular and balancing that with my work and academic life irl! It’s a learning process for me, but I intend on seeing it through like everything else I do!
The story is up now, so please feel free to check it out!
I’d also like to clarify just how the monthly voting process works since I j...
2022-12-02 16:57:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! This is the story I wrote for the One-Shot Short Story Poll for October! I'll be posting more about the Monthly Short-Story Votes exclusive to the Commissioned Pioneer Tier, so please check that out for more information about monthly polls! :D
“There’s no way we can save them all.” Talitha spoke, her voice echoing throughout the empty and vacant halls that were once used for ferrying cargo, resources, and an assorted number of paraphernalia that now seemed so...
2022-12-02 16:53:22 +0000 UTC
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The poetry of my current circumstances was not lost on me. Indeed, this entire situation felt as if it had been orchestrated by some higher power, by some unseen machination which had effectively bound the fates of our two species in such a way that not even the cataclysmic force that was the Interlopers, or even the unfeeling and unrelenting passage of time could unbound. It was, for lack of a better term, fate. It was fate that I had been assigned to the monitoring and studying of Earth and...
2022-11-29 16:23:49 +0000 UTC
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Thacea’s return was marked by a similar reception I had just experienced not a few hours prior. However, instead of bewildered and confused expressions, what I mostly saw were looks of utter disgust and abject horror. It was as if they were staring at some unseen monster hovering above Thacea, rather than her actual form. Having seen behind-the-scenes productions of heavily CGI-laden films, it looked as if they were all staring at a monster or a ghostly apparition that would be add...
2022-11-27 17:05:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! This is the first Work in Progress update for Chapter 7 of Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School! I hope you guys enjoy! This is just a work in progress so please keep in mind there's more to come! :D
Thacea’s return was marked by a similar reception I had just experienced not a few hours prior. However, instead of the bewildered and confused expressions, what I mostly saw were looks of utter disgust and abject horror. It was as if they were staring at...
2022-11-26 17:09:41 +0000 UTC
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This revelation hit me like a freight train. It wasn’t so much that I hadn’t expected the Interlopers to have utilized such tactics, and it certainly wasn’t the fact that I hadn’t anticipated this outcome having just seen my kind’s complicit involvement during our past few previous encounters… it was simply the fact that I was now hearing the confirmation of those anxieties with my very own ears. The fact that my species, my civilization, was now somehow inextricably invo...
2022-11-22 12:08:38 +0000 UTC
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Everyone remained completely fixated on me as I marched back toward my seat with loud, unwieldy steps. Each clack of unyielding metal on hardened granite resonated across a room that seemed purposefully made to amplify every sound within it. I could practically hear the micro servos and actuators as they whirred and whizzed accompanying each and every one of my steps. It felt like the entire world had paused just so that everyone could gawk as I retook my seat, and carefully...
2022-11-20 17:05:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! This is the first Work in Progress update for Chapter 6 of Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School! I hope you guys enjoy! This is just a work in progress so please keep in mind there's more to come! :D
Everyone remained completely fixated on me as I marched back toward my seat with loud, unwieldy steps. Each clack of unyielding metal on hardened granite resonated across a room that seemed purposefully made to amplify every sound within it. ...
2022-11-17 10:27:25 +0000 UTC
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A spark of hope welled within me. That fear that had just taken hold upon the first few exchanges with the human Captain had well and truly dissipated now as a new frame of reference took over. One that has pushed aside my primal fears, and replaced it with a conscious understanding of the being on the other side of the commline. A being capable of so much power and ambition that it triggered a primal fear within me, but whose same ambition seemed to have carried on a compulsion and drive so ...
2022-11-15 12:22:46 +0000 UTC
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I genuinely expected someone to have stepped up to the challenge almost immediately. Especially when considering what I could only assume was a generous compensation just for volunteering to be the first in line. So upon seeing absolutely no one stepping up to the plate, or even looking as if they were considering the offer, I knew then and there that something had definitely gone wrong.
There were two distinct groups of students now from what I could tell, those that seemed to be fiddl...
2022-11-13 17:05:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I've been working on Chapter 21 of Humans Don't Hibernate and I realized that the entire beginning of it was much better suited for Chapter 20. As a result of this I'm in the process of rewriting and reorganizing Chapter 21, and I opted to put more plot elements into Chapter 20! I hope you guys enjoy! :D
“United Ascendancy?” I parroted back almost immediately as I turned towards Vir’s faceplate, which at this point was displaying an undeniable expression of abj...
2022-11-12 16:59:19 +0000 UTC
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My fellow citizens. I address you today with a heavy but unwavering heart. At 09:27, United Nations Standard Time, on the 27th of November 3927, we received the final reports from the last of our extragalactic expeditions from Andromeda and Centaurus A. This marks the last of the datasets necessary to fulfill the criteria set out under the Extragalactic Exploratory Charter of 3529.
As the incumbent UNSA First Director and acting General Secretary, I am constitutionally obligated to reve...
2022-11-12 08:45:50 +0000 UTC
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I genuinely expected someone to have stepped up to the challenge almost immediately. Especially when considering what I could only assume was a generous compensation just for volunteering to be the first in line. So upon seeing absolutely no one stepping to the plate, or even looking as if they were considering the offer, I knew then and there that something had definitely gone wrong.
There were two distinct groups of students now from what I could tell, those that seemed to be fiddling...
2022-11-11 15:21:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I've done a bit of editing to make sure this chapter flows better as it's quite conversation intensive so here you guys go! :D
A Princess… a real, honest to god, princess.
My mind had struggled to register that. The past half hour alone was just about enough to overwhelm my head with an inundation of experiences completely removed from my reality. From magic, to mythical races, to talking birds, and an entirely alien civilization that I had no contex...
2022-11-11 15:19:15 +0000 UTC
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