Epilogue – Elsewhere
Being President was not the glorious job that it sounded like when you were a kid. There was a lot of work involved. Long days dealing with politicians, religious leaders, and corporate overlords, all of whom thought that the world revolved around them, and their agendas, both abroad and at home.
It was, to put it bluntly, a pain in the ass.
Especially since he hadn’t actually run for the office! He had never wanted to be President. He still didn...
2022-06-22 17:17:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 259 – Dungeon Pantheon
Once I’d delivered Kang back at Beijing, and we were out of Chinese airspace, I sent a message to Kou through GodNet, requesting that, when her priest came to Earth, that they seek out the Monkey King. I made sure to give her the basic information about what was going on, and warned her to make sure that the priest wasn’t a rude one. After all, the Monkey King had a temper.
But that wasn’t my concern. My next concern was actually something ...
2022-06-21 21:50:14 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 56 – Tea
Brigadier Stanley Brown frowned as he read the documents. It was bad enough that the proper running of his base had been thrown into disarray by the influx of soldiers from across the Armed Forces. Bad enough that he had what older generations wouldn’t hesitate to call unholy abominations walking about, commanding some of HIS troops!
He could handle all of that. He was a soldier, come up through the ranks, and had just been accepted to the SAS when the Awake...
2022-06-16 19:43:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 100 – Call of Battlefield: Medal of Honor: Siege
Rachel frowned as she looked around. “This is…”
“Yeah, I agree.” I shook my head in disgust as we finished clearing the fourth floor of the dungeon. This place had started fucky and gotten worse, fast.
Fighting our way through the dungeon was actually surprisingly easy. Unlike other dungeons, which had a logical progression from floor to floor, allowing you to face harder and harder enemies as you descend...
2022-06-15 21:45:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 258 – Negotiations
As the Monkey King took up his gifts with hoots of pleasure, I smiled, and said, “Oh, Great Sage! If you look upon my gifts kindly, would you not also hear the counsel I have to offer you? For the world of the System is strange and different from the world of myths and legends that you knew. I would offer such warnings and wisdom as I can, so that you may learn from the mistakes of others, rather than painful experience.”
The Mon...
2022-06-14 20:59:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 55 – Boot Camp
It was a cloudy day, as I stood on the training field at Stirling Lines, home of the United Kingdom’s Special Air Service. The SAS was playing host to the training camp I had agreed to. Because of that, one third of the troops being trained were SAS, equivalent to five full teams. The other members of this initial training cadre were split relatively evenly between other special operations forces, the Royal Army, Royal Marines, the King’s Guard, and even s...
2022-06-09 21:02:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 99 – Death in the Night
You have entered the Iahab Allah dungeon.
The dungeon core has sensed a dungeon foe in the dungeon.
Stepping through the edge of the dungeon’s influence confirmed a few things. First, a dungeon didn’t automatically recognize dungeon foes. On the shuttle, we had been in stealth, which clearly had kept the dungeon from recognizing me as a Dungeon Foe. Now that I was on foot, and not hiding, it saw me plainly. Whic...
2022-06-09 00:19:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 257 – Monkey King
And so it happened that the Bloodhawk, manned by my loyal soldiers, picked up an emissary from the Chinese government when we landed briefly at the airport in Beijing. His name was Kang Wei, and he was dressed in a formal Zhongshan suit. As he stepped onto the ship, I took a moment to Appraise him.
Kang Wei
Human Male
Level 35 Monk / Diplomat
Titles: Wise
That Appraisal m...
2022-06-07 21:05:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 54 – Failure
Tatsumi had been quite amused by the ‘gift box’ that I had sent the Americans, containing the bodies of their two men, the tracking devices they were hoping to use, and a note. Of course, technically the Americans were still alive, since all I’d done to them was steal their souls. Autonomic functions like the heart’s beating didn’t care about such things, so they would probably last until succumbed to dehydration, without medical aid. Still, the bodies...
2022-06-02 20:23:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 98 – Surprise
Normally, the process of arranging a royal visit to a foreign country would be full of all kinds of negotiations and arrangements that could take months. Security concerns, travel routes, itineraries, and so on. Not to mention making sure that the guards who come with a head of state play nicely with the country they’re visiting’s forces. Really, a lot of hard work, by a lot of people, goes into making royal visits happen.
Fortunately, I didn’t give...
2022-06-01 21:43:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 256 – Politics
It took more than one call, of course. Flying a ship like the Bloodhawk into not just Chinese airspace, but over the mainland of China itself was not something that you could just do on a whim, and the Chinese government was loath to actually allow it, for obvious reasons. My ship was dangerous, and they did not know if their own air force could shoot it down if I turned on them.
Not that I was planning anything of the sort, but it was their job...
2022-05-31 21:02:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 53 – Foreshadow
As I was leaving the meeting at Phantomline, I ‘coincidentally’ ran across Koyama Shijo, the member of the Magical Affairs Department that had helped Phantomline out with the magical creature-specific CADs, and observed my use of foci, during my initial work at Phantomline. As it just so happened, he was also busy, and didn’t want to take up any of my time. However, he did hand me a note from his bosses, as a friendly gesture.
Akagawa-san,
2022-05-26 19:56:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 97 – Six Months On
Two months after the end of the pirate attack, we were finally ready for the first immigrants to start coming to Ceres. We hadn’t been idle in that time, of course. The construction work was still ongoing, but it had passed the point to where people could start moving in.
Finding people who wanted to move to space wasn’t a problem. After all, people had been dreaming of shit like that for decades, even before magic or technology had made it even ...
2022-05-25 19:26:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 255 – Consul
Arranging to meet the Monkey King was going to be far more challenging than arranging my meeting with Susanoo. And I didn’t have any high hopes that the ‘Great Sage Equaling Heaven’ would be as reasonable as God of Storms was. After all, no one does half the things that Sun Wukong did in the myths if they had any shred of reasonableness about them.
The first problem with arranging a meeting was that I did not have much access to China. There was the ...
2022-05-24 21:46:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 52 – Phantomline, Again
“Ah, Kaori-chan, I’m glad you’re here!”
“Otōsaaan!” I mock-whined at my father, as one might when being called ‘chan’, despite being over fifty years old. But, then, one’s family is one of the few who could do that.
My father just laughed, and waved off my objections, as normal when he teased his family. “Yes, yes. But I am glad you’re here.”
We were meeting in the Phantomline headquarters, along with several...
2022-05-19 22:19:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 96 – Escort and Carrier Design
Samiess looked pleased that I had named her assault shuttle variant after her, but she quickly shook her head to clear those thoughts, and continued with the briefing. “To start, the System separates warships into several categories, based on size and function. These categories are Escorts, Cruisers, Capital Ships, Carriers, and Support Ships. Each category has subcategories with different design strengths and weaknesses, as well as productio...
2022-05-18 22:11:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 254 – Storm God
“Who dares call me to these foreign shores?”
With a roar, thunder and lightning crashed before me, and was made manifest. The first thing I noticed of the god was long black hair, running wild and untamed in the wind. He was dressed in traditional Japanese clothes, all in white, with a red sash about his waist to bind it. Tucked into his sash was a sword in its sheath. He wore no shoes or sandals upon his feet, and yet the sand did ...
2022-05-17 15:14:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 51 – Catching Up
It had been two months since my trainees had proven themselves, and received the rank of Novice. Kinjo had returned to his shrine, and Makoto returned to his school, where they would spread what they knew to the others there. I did not doubt that they would continue training. My hope was that, now that they had a foundation to build from, new styles would rise, their newfound abilities mixing with their old skills to form new masteries and new ways of using ...
2022-05-13 21:52:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 95 – Small Craft Design
“Master! I’m glad you came. I’ve got several new designs for your approval!”
Ran Samiess, my enslaved starship designer, was practically bouncing as she watched me come into the conference room where we would be going over her designs. She was a bubbly genius and a prodigy at what she did, but her insistence on using weaponized antimatter had gotten her enslaved by her former owners. They might have been scared of her, and I certainly wa...
2022-05-12 19:56:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 253 – Preparations
Of course, while GodNet existed, not every god was a part of it. After all, you couldn’t join until you had met another god. My own experience had proved that much.
However, a search of GodNet showed that the Earth section was full of placeholder sections for the various gods. There were so many, in fact, that things were subdivided into smaller categories, separating out deities from divine entities. Divine entities would be demigods and other pri...
2022-05-11 03:12:41 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, we're back in the swing of things, now! Have some trade chat fun!
Prologue – Trade Chat
(Magical World Disharmony Server, General Chat)
UsualSuspect, manoutoftime, muon, MewTwo, Avariel, Chummer, Golddigger, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, MacD, Inquisitor, OrangeQueen, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSolidSnake, BabyShark, Not_the_Face!, Scholar, Salty, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous7, Anonymous9, TheLichQueen, WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, ...
2022-05-05 13:34:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 94 – Growth
The good thing about going public like I had was that instead of searching for talent, the talent was coming to me. My email was literally flooded with resumes and requests, from all over the world. I definitely had my pick of the best of the best.
If I could identify who was the best, that is. I could pick out talent for combat in a war zone, but I didn’t have any clue beyond someone’s levels and skills what they could do in an administrative sense. Th...
2022-05-04 14:56:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 252 – Concerns
With Mercy’s permission, I stepped out of the small radius that my shrine covered, and into her dungeon. I needed her permission first, of course, because otherwise that would be an invasion, and spark a dungeon war. And neither of us wanted that.
We walked in silence, a study in opposites. However, whether it was luck, or some influence of Mercy’s upon the surrounding area, we did not meet anyone else along the way. Most likely, it was both. Since w...
2022-05-03 22:41:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey, lookee what I found on my drive, almost fully complete! So, I went and finished it up. Also, Lewd Dungeon 25, Into the Black 32, and Into the Black Omnibus 8 have all been sent to Amazon.
Chapter 251 – Overseas
With a swirl of smoke, I appeared in my mortal avatar next to my shrine in Silver Mercy’s dungeon. This, naturally, surprised the few people in the area. There were a few visitors who came to look at the shrine that had just appeared months ba...
2022-04-28 20:40:36 +0000 UTC
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Drive came back from Data Recovery today. I'll check and see how much stuff got corrupted, but regular stories should begin again next week.
Chapter 17 – Scheming
I spent the next few hours resting in that bubble of stopped time, and playing with my pets, so that they fully understood their situation. They both had orders to act as they normally did when they were in mixed company, but when alone, or with my followers, they were to address me as Master, and act like...
2022-04-27 17:46:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 16 – Sleepers
“Mph. As eager as I am to get started, Doc, you promised us that we would be able to look over the ritual first, right?”
“Of course, of course.” I pulled out the diagram for her to read. “And here it is. Unfortunately, I do all my ritual work in Vedic Sanskrit, but I have a summary written in English for you.”
Miss Mysterious’s Knowledge (Arcane Lore) check: 1d20+11 = 14 (Fail)
Miss Mysterious nodded as she took both ...
2022-04-26 00:40:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 15 – Time
After sending my pawn to be on her way, the rest of the day went by as normal, leaving me to plot out this new game I was setting up. That was something I had not done in a long time. Since the Pulse, I had not really been ‘doing’ anything. I’d simply been reacting to things, taking opportunities as they came to me, instead of actively working on ideas.
Oh, there was a reason for that, of course. The Pulse had fundamentally changed the world, and everyo...
2022-04-24 20:12:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 14 – Making Plans
As I pulled Yahlonda back into the stacks where I see just how far ‘anything’ covered, my mind started racing. I could use another pawn, one with almost no connection to magic, but who had connections to the student body at the University. I could definitely use her.
But did I want to go so far as doing the full enslavement ritual? She didn’t have any appreciable skills, yet. Oh, she was pretty enough, but there were a lot of pretty women in the...
2022-04-22 19:55:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 13 – Preparation and Consultation
Once the heroines had left, I used my temporal reversion ability to ‘heal’ my knee to how it was before I’d wrenched it about like that. The end result was like natural healing, or even a healing potion, but much faster. Of course, the down side of such an ability is that if I used it on anyone else, it had the ‘lovely’ side-effect of giving me all they had felt from the moment of injury until when I healed them, all at once. That ...
2022-04-21 20:35:04 +0000 UTC
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Not a chapter. Someone asked to see the whole character sheet, so here is how it stands at the moment, complete with his vehicle and mansion.
Character Sheet
Mutants & Masterminds 2e
Name
Remington Livingston
Alias
Chronos
Sex
Male
Age
38 (officially)
Height
5’10”
Weight
180 bs
PL
12
PP
181
XP
2
XP remaining
1
...
2022-04-20 14:51:45 +0000 UTC
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