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KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Wider Galaxy INTERLUDE

— Padme —

Keeping the date at a galactic scale was an ever-present struggle. An always important one, but Padme Amidala didn’t envy those committees and bureaucrats responsible for the task. The most relevant — and most argued over — portion of the galactic date-keeping effort would always be the idea of a ‘Year Zero’.

Padme wasn’t part of that discussion (and wouldn’t wish it on her worst political enemies…), but she knew many, m...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.11

— Atom —

“What I do, I do for the sake of everyone. Everyone but you, ——…”

The name was garbled and unintelligible. I knew it to be mine. Mine that I could no longer remember. I was removed. Watching from afar. Yet… I knew I was part of the scene as well. Knew that it took place in the past that was lost to me. Knew that it was a pivotal moment of that lost life, one that had shaped me for years after. And now, it was just an...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.10

— Atom —

“Uh, choom…? How did we get here?” David asked, sounding as baffled and overwhelmed as I’d ever heard him.

“Huyumph,” I huffed in acknowledgment but didn’t actually say anything.

A Twi’lek girl wearing next to nothing — just the sheerest of silks and so much barely hidden blue skin — giggled and fed him a small fruit by hand. Bewildered, David could only open his mouth to accept the offering. She was far ...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY V-INTERLUDE

— V —

“GET A MISSILE RACK. BITCHES LOVE MISSILE RACKS.”

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.9

— Linth —

“Boyo!” Linth grinned, adrenaline pumping in his veins like the alcohol in his liver. “You’re a natural!”

“I have no idea what the frag I’m doing, choom!” David shouted back.

Linth just laughed, “Yet here we are! Flyin’ like nothing else! And isn’t that just the best feeling?!”

“No! Stars-! Fuck-! No! … Maybe…!”

“Just keep trusting that Forcin’ magic of yours! Le...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.8

— Atom —

DUN~ DUN NA~, DA NA~

“What a thrill~… With darkness~, and silence~, through the night~… What a thri~ill~… I’m searching~, and I’ll melt into you~… What a~, fear in my heart~. But you’re sooo~ sooo~ pre~emm~!”

I steadfastly ignored the reference singing in my ear. How Sasha knew it (with only the slightest of tweaks)...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.7

— David —

“Alllll~right, boyos,” Linth slurred and chuckled. “Settle in. We’re gonna be here for a while. I’ve got Sabacc and stories. No rum, though. That’s all for me.”

David… wasn’t sure how to feel about the Weequay spacer. Hell, he wasn’t quite sure how to feel about any of the crew’s new allies just yet. The Weequay simply occupied a disproportionate percentage of that wariness due to him being rather attention-grabbin...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.6

— Atom —

Kyber-crystal meth. Kyber-fucking-crystal meth… The galaxy was fucked. That much was clear to me. And I seemed destined to get caught up right in the middle of it all. Why else would it be brought to my attention? Why else would it be shoved in my face out of all Force sensitives? Fucking Force fucking drugs…

Was I the only one able to immediately see how absolutely fucked that idea was? It certainly seeme...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.5

— Atom —

“Okay, just play it cool, Taati… You can do this. Just don’t blow it too quickly. What do cute human boys like…?” Taati muttered to herself. “Cheese…? Should I bring him prey? Ugh, on Nar Shaddaa, the only option for that would be slum rats…”

I only overheard her with enhanced hearing and a touch of the Force. Taati was remarkably good at sub-vocalization. Likely a winning evolutionary trait for a species with passive e...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.4.5: Maine Interlude

— Maine —

“I hate working for the karking Hutts…” Becca muttered.

“Likewise,” Atom grunted. “Suck it up.”

“But choom~…!” Becca whined. “The slugs won’t let us do anything! Every little gonk I flatline on their payroll has to be run by them! I can’t keep track of that shit! Records this, mandate to rule that, capable vassals too, bullshit! We’re basically showpieces right now! And why the Hell do they have ...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.4

— Sasha —

“Damned vixen in heat…”

Sasha giggled to herself, watching the inside of the elevator after the top hatch had closed. Part of her current duties — aside from slowing the elevator so the team could split — was running interference on the security systems within. As such, she had a perfect view of Atom’s reaction as she left him wanting more. She’d put a wicked sway into her hips, and if that and her kiss hadn’t gotten a r...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.3

In — I drew a breath into my lungs. Out — I released the breath and slight tension with a long, smooth exhale. I repeated the process over and over again, centering myself both in the Force and in reality. My position wasn’t comfortable. I made it work. On a tucked away perch, me and one other looked down over Night City.

“Wind: 13 from the northeast. Not that it’ll matter,” Becca muttered beside me. “That’s some preem, preem fucking equipment, choom...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.2.5: David Interlude

Blood. Fire. A broken body. Lying there… Just lying there. So still. Too still. Why wouldn’t she move…? Couldn’t she hear him calling for her? Why wouldn’t she wake up?! Why the fuck did those bastards just leave them THERE?!

“Mom? MOM! MOM, wake up! Shit- get off me! Why won’t it-?! MOM!” David Martinez remembered crying out with everything he had — anger, fear, pain, so much pain as he...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.2

A trail of vivid red lifeblood leaked onto the carpet of Sasha’s apartment, “Shit…”

Of course, saying that only caused more to leak, drip, spill, and generally make a bigger mess than I needed before I could concentrate enough to stem the bleeding again.

Maine had the gall — the fucking gall — to chuckle at me, “You’re one crazy fucking gonk, choom.”

“Hrng,” I gave him a noncommittal, nonverbal grunt as an answer. He wasn�...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.1

I lasted all of two days in a Galaxy Far, Far Away before I was forced to kill. It was in self-defense but I could’ve run. Technically. I wasn’t going to. I didn’t run easily. Not before, and not after being shoved into an impossible and quite literally outlandish situation. The problem had been directly in front of me. So I took the chance to deal with it directly. That direct action just happened to involve the death of a sentient, thinking being.

So be it. I didn’t reg...

KYBER-PUNK 22BBY Ch.0/Prologue

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ ]

Bass thrummed. Drinks flowed. People danced and mingled as if the night was to be their last. In that city, on that Smuggler’s Moon… it very well might be. Still, the Afterlife was a bastion of good cheer and good times in the wretched, dangerous, and ever-volatile streets and levels of Night City, Nar Shaddaa. The club served a very particul...

November 2024 Story Poll (Kinda...) #3

And now for harem suggestions. This one’s kind of self-explanatory lol. But very, very important. I’m bound to miss some so comment below with any additional suggestions. This one is a multi-vote poll so just pick your favorites.

P.S. Link for the Sasha music video for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ Also a pic, cause why not?

2024-10-30 17:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post

November 2024 Story Poll (Kinda...) #2

Now for the nitty gritty munchkin-y stuff: MC powers. The MC selection shouldn’t change much. I’ll be putting up two choices here.

1 - Inspired Inventor+ (or as I’ve taken to calling it personally: Inspired Skill-Maxer). Essentially, it’s Inspired Inventor, but not just limited to tech. I’m not the best with tech/tinkering/inventing so I think this is a good compromise. Points can be put into skills/talents just like they can be put into tech. Point gain will be steady ...

November 2024 Story Poll (Kinda...) #1

November will mark the second month of this new… thing I’m doing. By that, I mean directing my writing focus one month at a time with your help as my Patreons through monthly polls. I’m already running into complications with that though.

See, I had a new idea for a story a few weeks ago, and my muse latched onto it hard. So November’s story has already been decided. But I’m intending for this to be an exception, not the norm. December’s poll should be much more in li...

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.13

Amy stared. Glared, really. Glowered, if one wa

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble PHO INTERLUDE

Welcome to the Parahumans Online message boards

Just a quick question

So, the next chapter of Fae Gamble will be a PHO interlude. For it, I wanted to use patrons for some of the user names. I won't be using any real names for reasons that I feel should be obvious. But for those of you with user names, would you rather I use your handles directly or just use them as heavy inspiration/references (I.E. the famous Packbat -> Bagrat that Wildbow did)?

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.12

After getting over that first bump, Edgar found that Myrddin the Pseudo-Mage wasn’t nearly as unlikable as he first came across.

“Magic? Truly?” He asked, his voice intent and eager.

They’d taken their conversation inside to an oddly secure room within the Protectorate wing of the PRT building. After Myrddin was made to break character, something Revel had never seen, she thought such precautions were prudent. His second-in-command took the reins of the meeti...

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.11

Ciara’s new life in a true fairytale was surprisingly idyllic, she decided. It was certainly nothing that she could’ve hoped to expect. Predictions went odd and strange and, quite frankly, wonky around her new Prince. Not that Ciara had particularly been in the habit of constantly running the precognition that her court could offer her. She could — and did so often enough — but she preferred the novelty of living her life in the moment these days.

Especially now, having m...

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.10

[Feat: Officially make your official cape debut official! +100P, 200P total.]

“Hmm~?”

The alert from the System got Edgar’s attention. There wasn’t much else of note within the dreary Seattle coffee shop. As a group, Edgar and company were currently relegated to the idleness of logistics as Fortuna waited all too eagerly for her order. Ciara had ordered herself a beverage as well — a fanciful hot chocolate of some kind —, but she needed i...

A Gacha Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.9

[AN: Alright, I’ve got some quick housekeeping to get out of the way before this chapter begins. Fae Gamble was the story that got the most votes in the poll so that’s the project I’ll be focusing on first. Returning to it has already been a breath of fresh air for my writing and motivation.

Going forward… I’m sort of undecided at the moment. Fae Gamble is going to get at least a month of my focus. But I also had the idea of partitioning my atte...