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Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Fifty One

Absently, as he clambered off the wing, William glanced at the line of flower shaped wax stains that had been stitched along the side of the Drake he’d just dismounted.

“S’alright kid,” the instructor called from her position in the co-pilot seat. “You flew as well as you could. Sometimes the odds just aren’t in your favor.”

William nodded seriously at the very rare show of encouragement. Instructors, as a rule of thumb, were sparing with praise and generous with cri...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Fifty

William sighed as the crystal orb on his desk returned to its usual blue hue.

“She’s going to make you pay for that,” Xera opined from over his shoulder.

The count of Redwater county just shrugged. “I’ve little doubt. Still, needs must. As tempting as it might be to slink back to the academy rather than stay here and ‘face the music’.”

And it was quite tempting.

The instructor he’d just been talking to hadn’t seemed all that surprised by his request...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Nine

Well, at least he doesn’t look like he’s about to keel over anymore, Piper thought as she followed her liege lord into his personal lab.

Indeed, after a shower and a nap, the young man seemed almost sheepish about the state he’d been in when he’d stumbled into her office.

Fortunately, for him, Piper was one of the few people whom he could have stumbled into that understood. Sure, his was definitely something of an extreme case, what with the crusted blood around h...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Eight

As William stepped into his office, he couldn’t help but feel that just maybe some of the people inside were annoyed with him.

There was his sister, who was sitting on the couch with her arms folded grumpily over her chest.

Xela was… looking a bit haggard. Which was to be expected given she’d both been de facto running his territory while also overseeing the training of more pilots than any other person on the planet beyond the principals of each nation’s flight academies....

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Seven

If anyone had ever told her Xela that she’d be sitting in a shard being piloted by a plebian one day, she’d have struck them for the insult.

And it was an insult.

Though I can’t help but wonder if the fact that this particular plebian in question is pretty decent behind the controls makes it better or worse, she pondered idly as she reached down to grip the secondary controls.

She didn’t think she’d need them, as the craft seemed to be coming in for a...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Six

“It’s so smooth!” William’s muffled voice came from within the confines of the Basilisk’s rear-gunnery position, the bulbous pod twisting back and forth in time with his manipulation of the foot pedal controls. “And responsive.”

Twenty minutes or so ago, that kind of praise would have filled Clarice with pride. And to an extent, it still did, but said swelling only served to equal that lost by her feminine ego.

“What gave you the idea for a pneumatic control scheme...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Five

Contrary to popular belief, William’s mother didn’t actually spend every hour of every day inside her office. Despite the presence of his many aunts, he knew that the head of the Ashfield family spent much of her time riding about the county seeing to many of the issues that might require her attention as the head of a small territory.

Admittedly, a great many of those issues involved long debates over the minutiae of property lines or livestock ownership. However, given those detai...

Airships and delays.

I was originally going to keep this bit of concept art to myself while I commissioned some more, but recent events compel me to unveil it.

(Apologies for any errors in this text, I've been up just under twenty four hours at this point in time due to... some sort of intestinal bug.)

Indeed, part of the reason I hedged my bets on Friday was because I was feeling pretty under the weather then and I was a little worried that'd only get worse. And it has. I'd like to think I can stil...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Four

“The Drake,” Griffith said to her tired audience of Marine-Knight cadets, her voice echoing off the walls of the massive hangar they’d just entered. “Considered old, but far from outdated, the Drake is the workhorse design of the Royal Navy and the craft most of you will fly should you be fortunate enough to be chosen as designated pilots for your future postings.”

It said a lot about the almost mystical reputation of shards that, despite the fact that many of the cadets prese...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Three

Clarice smirked victoriously as she clambered out of her family’s shard and onto the solid tarmac of the academy’s landing field. Ignoring the clouds of blue-green aether that served to obscure the landing area as other shards came in to land, the half-elf took a moment to soak in the many looks of envy, disbelief and confusion that were being sent her way from the crowd of students stood pressed up against the landing field’s boundary line.

“Dear sister, I do believe we’ve ca...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty Two

Finn Mecant was not a man easily given to bouts of nervousness. That certainly hadn’t always been the case, but after nearly ten years spent delivering goods across kraken infested oceans, through monster filled jungles and over treacherous mountain passes, any notions of nervousness he might once have possessed had been for the most part, beaten out of him.

Now, to be fair, a certain amount of fatalism had risen to take its place, but he preferred to think of that as an inevitability...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty One

Piper was an alchemist. A fairly talented one at that. She was the one who invented Bear-Blood after all.

Prior to her enrolment in the alchemist’s guild, the venerable guild had been churning out a variant of Earth-Blood that did little more than burn hotter and longer. In short, a slight improvement on the base asset of the substance at a ruinous cost in reagents.

Ever-Burn, they’d called it.

The Navy named it Demon-Piss.

Personally, Piper thought the latter name...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Forty

“That’s right, careful now. Nice and easy,” Xela instructed her ‘student’ as they slowly came in to land.

Seated behind the younger girl, the wood elf felt more than saw the rear wheels of the craft hit the runway. Then the front wheel.

Satisfied, the wood elf released her own deathgrip on the craft’s secondary control system as the shard slowly started to trundle down the runway. It wasn’t a particularly smooth ride though. Sure, the runway her count had commanded c...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Nine

Pausing only to ensure the clearing was clear, Isabella wasted no time in dashing to the log at the centre of it and shifting it aside.

A peculiar sight to be sure, if anyone were observing, given that she herself was invisible. To a casual observer, it would seem as if the log just… suddenly decided to move of its own volition. Fortunately for the palace guardswoman, her only observers were a pair of disinterested rabbits, as she dropped into the hole that had been revealed.

Pu...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Eight

“Did you really waste a spell-charge on that?”

William ignored Griffith’s grousing as he gingerly applied his newly created bag of ice to Verity’s shoulder.

“How’s that,” he asked carefully of the sitting and slightly fidgety orc. “Better?”

“Y-yes,” she responded, slightly flushed and eyes averted as she kept her gaze firmly on the dining room table.

Something he was hardly going to hold against her given the events of the last few minutes. He dou...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Seven - NSFW

“With that said,” he continued as he slowly forced his rational mind to reassert itself. “I can’t help but wonder why you’re doing this?”

The dark elf seemed momentarily wrong footed, almost reaching for the edges of her shirt, as if to pull it back about herself, before she rallied.

“I thought this was what you wanted?” she said. “You certainly seemed interested in it a few months ago.”

Calming his quickening pulse as best he could as he tried n...

CORVUS BELLI INFINITY SHOW!

Little known fact, in addition to playing Warhammer, Blue is a huge fan of the Infinity Tabletop game by Corvus Belli.

While it takes a lot of inspiration from a lot other things (Dune being amongst the least), I've always loved that a lot of cultural inspirations for the factions are slightly more obscure than in most fiction. Lots of African, Indian and South American themed units.

It's also got a fairly upbeat and colorful almost... anime aesthetic :P

&nb...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Six (and Tala)

“I can’t believe you made me get out of bed for this,” Bonnlyn groused as the members of Team Seven watched the first of two Shards be wheeled down the ramp of the newly arrived airship.

Marline chuckled as she turned to the eye the dwarf. “Not at all excited to see the shard we’re going to be spending the next two weeks practicing on?”

“No.”

William smiled, as he watched his people walk over to collect the first machine from the quartet of Royal Marines that...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Five

“You know, when we decided to go on a tour of William’s new territory, I had a feeling we might encounter the dungeon at some point,” Olzenya opined from her position on a nearby cot, the high elf staring blankly at the concrete ceiling overhead. “Not for any great length of time you must understand. In my experience, once you’ve seen one you’ve generally seen them all.”

William said nothing as he studiously avoided the glaring of the rest of his team. Fortunately, that wa...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Four

‘Ninety percent of sapient communication is non-verbal.’

Truth be told, Piper wasn’t entirely sure where she’d first heard that bit of trivia, but the dwarf woman had never found cause to disagree with it. In her experience, communication, more often than not, was more about the subtle gestures that preceded words than the words themselves.

Especially in politics.

Her current position was a prime example of that fact in action. Stood together with the two ot...

Most of Team Seven (and more importantly, one instructor).

Been meaning to get around to making AI mockups of the main cast for a while - ostensibly to use as references for when I get around to actually hiring an artist :D

For now, enjoy the AI (I had fun putting these guys together, but it took a while :P ).

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Three

As William stepped into his mother’s office, he made sure to shut the door behind him. He wanted this to be a private conversation after all. While he’d likely be denied that by virtue of his invisible watcher’s planting an ear to the wood of the door, he’d at least have made it more difficult for them to make out his words.

It was a thick door after all.

Glancing up, he looked over at the two other occupants of the room; his mother and one of his law-aunts.

“My so...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty Two

William liked to think he’d achieved a fair amount in his new life.

He’d killed an ancient aquatic god-beast in the depths of its lair. He’d lead a disparate team of first years to victory against a team with more than three times as much experience – and triumphed. He’d thrown a spanner into the works of a continent-wide conspiracy, delaying the arrival of a devastating civil war by years. And most recently, he’d sat across the negotiation table from a queen and bargained w...

Hello all :D

Chapter is pretty much finished and I should be posting it sometime in the next... twenty four hours or so :P

With that said, a recent comment has echoed something I've been considering myself. That being that between my break and the surgery there's not been a much content at all this month.

Now, while I don't doubt many of you generous souls accept this as simply the price of doing business with an unreliable creative like myself ( :D ), I must admit I 've felt little bit off ...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Thirty One

Verity struggled to fight down a frown as she watched her teammate ‘chat up’ a pair of his family’s guardswomen from around the corner.

Sure, he was technically just trying to help his team gain access to the family hangar, but it still wasn’t right!

It just wasn’t… proper, for a lad to be acting like that. Being all flirty to get what he wanted.

Not proper. Not proper at all.

“What do you think he’s saying?” Bonnlyn asked from beneath her own positio...

Kang Crawler! :D

Been greatly enjoying my break. So much so that I've been puttering around with my 3D printer attempting to make a new Steam Tank for Age of Sigmar.

...When an idea occurred to me. And I figured I'd see if it was as amusing to ya'll as it was to me.

And I figured I'd also let ya'll know that I'll be back next Friday with the first chapter of book two of Sexy Steampunk Babes.

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Epilogue Part Two

“Well done.”

As far as first words were concerned, William definitely hadn’t expected those to be hers. 

She certainly looked like she wanted to say a few.

“My thanks, mother,” he acknowledged, about as gracefully as he could. “Please be sure to tell Tala it was a hard fought win.”

And wasn’t that the truth.

The whole match had just about gone tits up from the very first shot. His plan had been for that first salvo to take out at least two of...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Book One - Epilogue - Part One

William certainly didn’t remember a dining table being present the last time he was in Griffith’s office.

Hell, how did they even get it through the door? He thought idly as he reached for a buttered scone.

As he did, his eyes briefly passed over the third member of their little post-match meeting.

Griffith was staring at him, as she’d been doing from the moment he’d been escorted in here. Her eyes peered at him like he was some kind of puzzle she could...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Eight

The dull roar of the crowd was only slightly muted by the small alcove they’d been tucked into prior to the start of the match. Rather than starting at disparate ‘duty’ stations as they would be in a regular match, the team was instead all grouped together.

Assumedly to replicate the idea of us landing nearby a downed airship, he thought.

Glancing back, he watched as Verity finished putting on the last of her kit as Marline helped with some of the straps.

A choice!

I said Sunday and come hell or high water you'll have a Sunday release if you want it.

Issue is that I'm fully out of juice for the day and I'm reaching the point where I'm starting to write 'just to get it done'.

I thought getting a huge double length chapter out would be a fun 'treat' with no cliffhangers.

I regret that decision as I'm now feeling guilty for missing that deadline while ironically getting more writing done in a shorter timeframe than normal.

Chapt...