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Freezing Shadows, Book 3 Epilogue

Epilogue: Elsewhere

(MetaTech Virtual Headquarters, Shadowmen Control Room)

Demi Turner frowned as one of the priority alerts began going off. “What happened, Sally? We didn’t have anything on the schedule, and none of the normal suspects have blown anything up, lately.”

Sally Navarro, one of her shift leads, moved to check the virtual command consoles. “Looks like someone tripped a ‘dragon alert’? Haven’t seen that since about two months into the beta...

System Supervillain, Chapter 136

Chapter 136 – Moscow

Fabricator sighed as she slumped back against the side of the last segment of the massive wall she’d spent all day creating. When she’d heard about the situation in Moscow, she immediately started looking for a flight. Unfortunately, alien invasions cut off most commercial flights to the affected areas. Most businesses did not want to go sending their pilots, or their expensive planes, into those kinds of situations.

Thankfully, her years of work repairi...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 382

Chapter 382 – Mountainheart

As suggested, they rested the night, and set out early the next morning. Or what passed for morning underground. Without external aides like the System interface telling the time, it would be impossible to tell the passage of time underground.

The steel gate blocking the way to the teleport circle was just as she’d seen it the other day. Cold and dark, with a softly glowing circle in the stone next to it, a perfect match to the keystone they’d bee...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Survivors

Berzerker’s attack roll (Kill Team 8): 13d6 = 4 Hits, 3 Miss

Kill Team 8’s Reaction: 7d6 = 2 Hits, 0 Miss (2 Net Hits)

Short, Narrow Burst: 10P, -5 AP

Kill Team 8’s Damage Resistance: 11d6 = 3 Hits, 2 Miss (7P Damage)

Kill Team 8: 14/10 Physical Monitor (Dying)

Shadowgirl’s attack roll (Kill Team 1): 12d6 = 5 Hits, 3 Miss

Kill Team 1’s Reaction: 6d6 = 2 Hits, 1 Miss (3 Net Hits)

Semi-Auto: 8P, -5 AP

Kill Tea...

System Supervillain, Chapter 135

So, last week's chapter continues to be hidden, because some idiot at Patreon thinks there's a 'Teen Safety' problem with it. Which is bullshit, since there was only talking. But here's this week's chapter. No teens in it at all.

Chapter 135 – Meeting

(Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island, New York)

Murwi straightened her costume as she waited in the middle of the park, glancing over the water to the United Nations Headquarters building. ...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 381

Chapter 381 – Reporting In

“Well, you have been busy,” Captain Dattae said, appreciatively, as Gracie and her crew walked into her office in Khav-Szarol, with their three new slaves in tow. The Dogik guard captain nodded once as she looked over the captured slaves. “And there’s a couple of special ones in this group, I see. That Righteous Defender has been wanted for a while. Some had thought to make an example of him, since he was causing so much trouble, but looking at his �...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Expected

I tried healing Berzerker on the way back to shore, but augmentations screwed with healing magic in a bad way, so I was only able to get a couple points of healing on her. She’d have to heal up the rest of the damage the slow way, which would likely take a day or two of rest. Still, that was better than nothing.

“Ugh, Iceblade, I’m back online, and the ringing in my head has died down. Everyone OK?”

“Good to hear from you, Twilight. Ye...

Lewd Dungeon, Book 39 Prologue

I got bored, and posted early.

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Adventurer’s Guild Official Forums, Miami Branch)

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Freezing Shadows, Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Dragon

Roaki’s Attack Roll (Iceblade): 11d6 = 4 Hits, 2 Miss

Iceblade’s Parry: 14d6 = 5 Hits, 5 Miss (No Net Hits)

Spirit of Water’s Attack Roll (Shadowgirl): 16d6 = 6 Hits, 3 Miss

Shadowgirl’s Reaction: 6d6 = 2 Hits, 3 Miss (4 Net Hits)

Elemental Attack (Cold): 12P, -half AP

Shadowgirl’s Damage Resistance: 9d6 = 4 Hits, 2 Miss (8P Damage)

Shadowgirl: 8/10 Physical Monitor

The next thing I knew, the massive form of a feathe...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 71

Chapter 71 – Crossing the Border

Ksa Thalas Keep rose upon a hill, just out of bowshot from the Crystalrill’s western bank, but not so far that the siege weapons I could see upon the castle’s walls would have trouble reaching either the bridge or ford. Looking at it from a defensive standpoint, I had a feeling that the keep would be able to hold off any force so long as they had people to man the walls, and ammunition to keep the siege engines busy. Whoever had designed the fort k...

System Supervillain, Chapter 133

Chapter 133 – Tech Evaluation

“Well, Iceblade, let me just say that the Mechanics thank you for this intriguing opportunity,” Chen Jing smiled, once she and her team teleported onto one of the Gel-nak destroyers I’d left floating up in Earth orbit. Before the lizards in Moscow self-destructed, I’d contacted the Guild to see what it would take to convert one of these ships to my own use. After all, I did promise them that I would go hunting through Gel-nak territory, and I coul...

Dark Fate, Chapter 221

Chapter 221 – “Unpleasantness”

Ambassador Kozhukov Tomas Makarovich was nervous. That much was easy to see. Well, not that I could blame him. After all, he was the Russian Ambassador to Ceres, and I had rather publicly executed his country’s leader just a week ago. To say that things were strained between Ceres and Russia would be a bit of an understatement.

Not that I had any particular animosity towards him, or his country. Sure, they had tried to play terrorist games by...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Execute

It was almost midnight. Lucky for us, it was cloudy tonight, which helped cover our approach. Babydoll had three flying drones up and in the air, but only one was armed. The other two were pretty much there for surveillance, and to extend our personal networks, giving us a bit more flexibility. In the boat, we were going slow, the electric engine barely making a sound as we crept forward.

That wasn’t just to keep from raising any alarms, of course. That was a...

Reborn as the First Boss, Book 8 Prologue

Prologue – Captured

“Well, now. Look what we have here. A rat scurrying about in the Northern Reaches. Wearing the signs of one of those Eclanan gods.”

Thaldruck Coinjaw smiled wickedly at the human his squad had captured near Arrowvein, one of the towns that helped support the Steelstone Wall, a series of fortifications linked by a wall of steel layered over stone, carrying the best enchantments that the elves of fallen Smsera and the Dwarves of Berngron Hold (which lay und...

System Supervillain, Book 12 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Capes & Cowls Forum, General Chat)

Message of the Day: Remember, Capes & Cowls is ‘neutral ground’. Keep it civil, and if you try to track someone through our site, it will not end well for you.

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Dark Fate, Book 23 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(North American System Information Exchange Forum, formerly Community Building and Civil Defense Chat)

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Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 380

Chapter 380 – Backstory Generator

Unfortunately, things weren’t so easy for the last of their three targets. They had found the patrol, but the patrol had found them at the same time. Instead of an ambush, where they could try and put the enemy at a disadvantage from the beginning, it became a brawl, as they literally ran into each other at a blind intersection.

Eight on six, their advantage, meant that they weren’t too bad off. However, the patrol was heavily weighted towar...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Action Plan

A couple days, we got all the deliveries we were expecting. The parts for the boat were stacked in the warehouse, but there was nothing we could do about that. Installing them was several days of work, if not a couple weeks, and we couldn’t take that kind of time.

I’d gotten lucky, and on one of our ‘pleasure cruises’ through the Sound, we managed to get close enough that I was able to go out of body, and check out the home we were going to. That wa...

Reborn as the First Boss, Book 7 Epilogue

Epilogue – Elsewhere

King Sewell Skysword frowned as he listened to the report. Naturally, when young Baroness Pureheart began her journey to Crystalshield, he’d had his sister and Spymistress, Princess Mariun send her agents to keep tabs on the girl. Not that he had any reason to suspect Pureheart of committing treason or anything of the sort. No, it was a more basic concern. The Baroness that had, up till recently, done little more than help her lands gradually recover from the la...

System Supervillain, Book 11 Epilogue

Epilogue – Elsewhere

(Imperial Palace, Gel-Nala)

Agzis, former High Priestess of the Kez Sisterhood, laughed. For twenty-five cycles, she had been under the thumb of that beastly Emperor. Forced to attend his needs, share his bed, bear his spawn. Her, and the rest of her sisters.

Throhi, Ancient Ones curse his name, and all his blood, had come to the Temple of the Old Gods on Gel-Neth, sister planet of Gel-Nala, and one of the Empire’s oldest colonies. There, the Sisterh...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 175

By the time this goes out, I'll be on my way to Rising Phoenix Games Convention in Boston. If you're in the area, come say hello. I have prepped chapters for while I'm gone, so don't worry about that.

Chapter 175 – Opportunity

I was waiting in my throne room when the delegation arrived. I had gone back and forth on how to present myself for this meeting. My formal armor as the Lich Queen was a given, but what form would I take? And would I go with my power hidden, or uncl...

Dark Fate, Book 22 Epilogue

Epilogue – Elsewhere

President Taylor Harris groaned as the live broadcast went to a blow-by-blow replay, with full slow motion, his head in his hands. Because of course the Emperor of Ceres had made sure it was broadcast live, set to go out at noon, Ceres time, which just so happened to be the same as the Greenwich Mean Time. Seven in the morning here in DC, two in the afternoon in Moscow.

“Evie, how bad are we thinking this will go? Are the Russians going to do anything?”<...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 379

Chapter 379 – Hunter Hunted

The trek back to Khav-Szarol was slower than the journey to the ambush site, but not noticeably so. With [Slave Brands] on all the captured runaways, they didn’t have to worry about them running away, so the only thing the Azure Flames needed to do was make sure they didn’t run into that patrol from Shatterchain on their way back. Thankfully, nothing of the sort happened, so they were able to drop off the captured slaves for a healthy payday before head...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 25

Chapter 25: Retail Therapy

It was tempting to just go to the store the moment we turned in the rental and returned to our base, and just start ordering everything we could afford. After all, we were walking into a trap, so we might as well get everything we could to prepare, right? That was a trap, however. Before we started picking out goodies, we needed to make a plan, especially since some of our purchases were going to be long-term investments, like the boat.

A boat, especiall...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 70

Chapter 70 – Speed Bump

Josce shook his head as he considered the report from Magehallow. The Brass Rats had been contracted by their frequent client (who definitely could not be proven to be Baron Longchaser) to capture Baroness Pureheart and slap a [Slave Collar] on her. He didn’t know why. Probably just offended the Baron, or something petty like that. Didn’t matter, the job paid well.

It should have been simple. The group they had stationed near Magehallow would follow t...

System Supervillain, Chapter 132

Chapter 132 – Moscow

(Gel-Nak Command Center, Moscow, Russia)

Army Leader Yanzu, Third Class Noble of the Gel-Nak Empire, scowled as the sun rose over the frozen landscape of this wretched city on this pitiful backwater planet that had never known the perfect order of the Empire. It was the duty of the Empire to bring civilization to these savages, and prevent their wild genetics from bringing disorder to the galaxy. But the damnable savages couldn’t just lay down their weapon...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 174

Chapter 174 – Concept Test

“Your Majesty, it is good to see you again. I trust you remember the rules of the range from last time?”

I chuckled as Rikusōchō Suto Ichiro, the range master at the firing range I’d used to qualify on different weapons just two years ago. “Of course, Rikusōchō. You are, after all, the right hand of the kami on this range.” Then, I looked to the others who were meeting my disciples and I here. “And Koyama-kun, Ittō rikui, Kaisōchō, i...

Dark Fate, Chapter 220

Chapter 220 – Trial by Combat

“LADIES, GENTLEMEN, BOTH, AND NEITHER, NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!”

The voice rang out through the speakers as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the Ceres Grand Arena waved from her box overlooking the sand below. The crowd was packed today, more than it had been in a while, at least for a Trial Day. Oh, the Sport Days usually had a good crowd, at least two-thirds of the seats filled, as the contenders there were always lookin...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 378

Chapter 378 – Ambush

They purchased a map of the floor from one of the local shops, and started to make plans. The question was in what order they would take attempt to take on the minibosses. There didn’t seem to be pre-set boss rooms for these minibosses, which meant that they would have to take time to search them out. That wasn’t a problem, really, but there was a question about timing, and logistics.

The ’efficient’ way to do it would be to hit all three minibosses ...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Meeting

Meeting in the middle of the Sound was a pain, generally, because navigation was not as easy as navigating in the sprawl. Oh, sure, you can just point the boat in a direction, and go until you hit the waypoint, but even after nightfall we weren’t the only boat on the water. Seattle had a port, after all, and it was a busy one. That meant we needed to get to the target area without hitting traffic, but there were no roads or anything so we knew we weren’t going to...