Sanctioned: 6
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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The Americans loved their aerial supremacy, even in a world where some folks could go supersonic and fire lasers out of the eyes. In the early years, there was some aerial piracy going on. Not as threatening as pirates going after shipping lanes and cargo ships, but still a hefty threat to the world’s economy. The ones terrorizing the skies got a kick out of it for a bit, but once the marine shipping ...
2022-12-31 04:58:45 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 26
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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Astride Cornelius, I ventured forth with Gale, Djet’Is, and Averi. A hunter’s daughter, the tribal heiress of the As’Kari, and a Knightess with the blood of monsters running through her veins. Meanwhile, I was technically a child barely a decade-and-a-half in my years, and we intended to make contact with the largest nation that bordered the Great Desert traveling a...
2022-12-29 23:48:25 +0000 UTC
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Somehow I’m the Otome Game Villain 7:
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by LordMarksman
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“Well, this is a nice gift.”
“How… just how do you do it?” Marie looked at the air-bike with wide eyes. It was a top-of-the-line model and customized too. Technically, it had the best specs in the industry. It’ll blow everything out of the water once Luxion and Ideal were done with it. The two AI were eagerly working on it now. “You’re a jerk. A thug...
2022-12-28 19:06:13 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 41
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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“I feel like a few steps are being skipped here.”
Yeah, it feels like some hack author is just making an excuse for the underdogs to start off in the big leagues right away. This is dumb.
I ignored Ddraig’s attempt to equate my life to manga and anime.
It’s low hanging fruit, but you can’t deny it’s accurate.
I just ignored him.
“The issue is ...
2022-12-26 20:26:09 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 36
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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The Japanese sure loved their holographic robots.
Admittedly, it was a better way of meeting with someone safely than face-to-face when some people could throw a punch and level a building.
Whoever I was speaking to was doing so through a projector robot that got dropped off by a drone. It was a faceless and featureless humanoid figure, and the voi...
2022-12-20 04:26:24 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 35
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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Shin gave me time to think about the offer and telling me to get to him through the same contact I’d contacted him last.
It was a thoughtful offering, mostly because I would’ve told him to fuck off if he’d tried to meet him at the same place twice. He’d either booby-trap the place to trap me, or put us both at risk of getting caught by Japan’s ...
2022-12-15 19:04:16 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 169 (Fin)
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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“Well, this feels anticlimactic.”
I waited around for a while, making sure my camp was slowly packed up, and found my caution and concern wasted.
“A’Bel are they really not doing anything even vaguely malicious?”
“No, my dear summoner, unfortunately not.” A’Bel sighed and rested her cheek against her hand. She was all dressed up in armor f...
2022-12-01 19:44:01 +0000 UTC
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A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery: 12
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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Ying cleared her throat and forced herself to speak, despite the voice within her mind that made an unrecognizable mess of her composure.
“I am not wed with your father. There is much for me to do before I can consider settling down.” The words seemed oddly bitter to the tongue. The swordmaster wondered why they were. Had she truly fallen for the man who saved her so tho...
2022-11-30 19:38:35 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 26
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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“P-please, allow me to go with you. Those who you speak to must know with whom they speak.” Averi was pale and could not meet my gaze. Gone was the knightess defiant even in captivity, filled with ideals and views of justice. The woman with the blood of fearsome creatures running through her veins, with talent and power in spades, shook in my presence. “Your eminenc...
2022-11-28 19:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 40: Interlude: Sitri
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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“Well, it can no longer be denied. Issei Hyoudou is most definitely a hero.”
“Mou, I told you that already, Sona-chan!”
I sighed as Rias huffed. Akeno generously served us both tea, while the rest of our peerages worked with the Grigori that arrived to put everything back in order. Even with their assistance, and reinforcements arriving from both our families, it’l...
2022-11-28 18:41:54 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 35
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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The Tokyo branch of the Resistance, the guys who tried to intercept me a while back, met me in the middle of a forest. They had one of their own stick around the island, so that we could stay in contact, and they relayed what I told them to their superiors. It probably cost a lot of supplies on their part, but operational security was a priceless asset. Plus, ...
2022-11-22 19:53:58 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 34
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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There’s a certain overlap when it comes to Japanese media enthusiasts and doomsday preppers. Now, I’m not saying that every prepper has a room solely dedicated to lewd figurines, but I know more than a few with hard-drives filled with backups of certain sites, their favorite ‘media,’ and RPGmaker games.
That’s their prerogative, naturally.
2022-11-21 19:06:18 +0000 UTC
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Somehow I’m the Otome Game Villain 6:
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by LordMarksman
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“Idiot, idiot, idiot!”
“Once again, I must restate that this one will be spared from the coming tribulations that New Humanity has earned.”
“She is quite entertaining isn’t she?”
“Oi, can you get off my back already? I was just trying to stop someone from getting hurt, y’know?” I scratched the back of my head, while ...
2022-11-10 19:27:59 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 168
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I never understood the phrase: “not with a bang, but with a whimper.”
Not until I realized how hard people could fight, and how illogical fighting turned out to be.
Even in the very first battles I commanded in this land, when I thought that we’re on the brink, people fighting to their very last breath and dying gloriously kept everything together. Hell, I’ll...
2022-11-08 22:48:26 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 167
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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When it comes to talking to Kindred as a man, it’s best to do so from a superior position.
If you don’t, they’ll just see you as a meat-stick that makes them feel good.
With power and influence at your back, they’ll see you kinda like a person.
Still mostly a meatstick, but one that talks, I guess.
Anyway, I addressed the eldritch creature as dire...
2022-11-07 17:16:57 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 166: Reiser
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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A hall of horror stretched before me. The very fringes of my sense of self were threatened with annihilation. The tips of my fingers, the outermost edges of my body, felt as though they were exposed to both extreme cold and heat at the same time.
To battle against those from Between the Stars was to wage war in the most inhospitable of conditions: space itself.
...
2022-11-02 18:00:31 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 165
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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The eldritch creature that I had summoned put up a fight, but I’d been in tougher situations with less at my disposal.
“Don’t be fancy, just fire into the front of the mass.” I provided direction to the Amazons. Everyone else was attacking the main body created by my summon, while we held back the tide of half-living, half-mutated creatures it was spanning to overc...
2022-11-01 15:42:10 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 39
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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Extremely difficult odds?
Limited options?
Not only my life at risk, but everyone else’s too?
Yeah, this felt more familiar than I’d have liked.
The moment the battle began, it was clear that our opponents held the advantage. They were soldiers from the war between Heaven, Hell, and Fallen, while also led by Kokabiel, a general of that time too. In terms of battle experience, ...
2022-10-28 18:54:02 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 15
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Commissioned by Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 1000
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Taking a break from my work in Hell was easier than I thought.
I just had to ask to get teleported out by Not!Elena and I found myself back at home.
Home being my orbiting pseudo-battleship, which I had used to take down the Hero Faction.
No, I didn’t tell her where it was, but instead I sent myself through one of the arrays I set up in one of my safe houses. Technically, that ...
2022-10-28 18:51:22 +0000 UTC
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Interlude: Ilych: If
(Currently Semicanon, still refining the concept. Read at own risk.)
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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There are words in the back of my mind.
Words that I do not understand.
Words that I can never comprehend.
Words that can never reach me.
But while words do not reach me, I see something else.
Faded figures. Wisps that only I can see. Ruins made whole.
I see the past come to life b...
2022-10-25 18:59:52 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 25
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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I would be a terrible liar, if I said that I did not care for the power that I now had. Part of me felt wonder at what I was now capable of doing. To be able to stitch wounds without touching others, but with greater precision than my fingers. To think and make things happen, as long as I understood what was required. And, finally, to be able to protect myself from the th...
2022-10-25 18:53:35 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 33
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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There’s an unfortunate truth that reputation builds up over time.
Now, for most people, this is a good thing. They do their job right, they work hard, and they get valued more for their work. It’s a resume that speaks for itself, gets the job done, and you get offers instead of having to hunt for jobs.
But, I decided at an early age to not adve...
2022-10-18 18:58:20 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 32
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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“I don’t appreciate being volunteered to go anywhere.”
“You appreciate getting paid for jobs, though.”
“Touche.”
There was a little celebration going on back in Maelstrom’s territory. As was the case with any agriculturally-focused location, it turned into a get together, and the hostess was now tending to a massive grill cove...
2022-10-14 18:25:03 +0000 UTC
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Somehow I’m the Otome Game Villain 6:
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by LordMarksman
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Marie felt sweat break across her brow.
“This world is a lot scarier than I thought.”
“Indeed.”
Marie sighed, while reading over the political situation of not only Holfort, but also the surrounding lands. Given the fact that she shared what she knew about the game, she took it upon herself to research the actual countries and people in ...
2022-10-10 15:53:38 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 164
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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The Imperial capital brought back a lot of unpleasant memories. While I’d like to say that I looked at the whole place and considered it looking good for future-rubble, I’m not some superhuman that can overcome all his trauma within a few years. The healthy living conditions, caring companions, and many, many victories over the Empire helped. However, wounds were still wound...
2022-10-06 16:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 163
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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We flew over Empire lands unnoticed by any below, but it was hard for us to do the same.
“Damn, they’re really down there just killing each other.” We passed by places that were hit hard by the Eldritch corruption. Places where people and animals warped into unseemly abominations that were freakishly fast and strong. However, most places were relatively untouched in ...
2022-10-06 15:19:31 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 162
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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A day or two after the missives were sent, everything I asked for arrived.
In my old world, this would hardly raise an eyebrow. Businessmen casually hopped onto flights for meetings across the world. Hell, sometimes they had meetings while they were flying, just so that they could be on the clock. Things back in my world, in the context of a feudal world where innovation a...
2022-10-04 16:19:48 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 161
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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While Roseanne was finalizing the details with the soon-to-be child emperor, I went ahead and established a base camp after my supplies came in from Ylstu.
I’ll be honest.
The Americans made having hundreds of bases around the world look easy.
Or, maybe, they just had enough money and industry and desire that they could just mass produce pre-fab military inst...
2022-10-03 16:56:58 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 38
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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“This is a trap.”
I checked in with Sona with a walkie-talkie. The Devils used telepathy to talk to one another, but I already had one voice in my head, so I didn’t accept the offer. Regular technology did just fine, so I wasn’t going to risk having my mental space intruded upon.
If they had any ill intent, I would usher them out.
More likely you’d guide them and show...
2022-09-30 19:08:01 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 24
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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No one knew what occurred.
Not the Knights who followed their vows, rather than their king.
Not the villages who were cast aside, but decided to stand and fight.
Not Djet’Is and the Askari who came with her.
All anyone knew was that the meagre light we had left flickered and failed for a moment. At that moment, it taught all peoples the true mean...
2022-09-29 00:46:30 +0000 UTC
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