Robert Meta

Project Bastion: Chapter Forty Six - Final Chapter

For those of you who missed it, I am ending Project Bastion. For more details, please go read this post. Thank you for understanding.

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We walked around the perimeter of the massive golem monstrosity, double-checking that, even if it continued to burn completely, it wouldn't spread past the clear area around the barn. Once we were sure we were safe, we stopped by the massive ho...

The Brink and Back - Chapter Thirteen

The following day, I woke up later than ever before, at least while in this reality. It was just past noon when I finally slid out of bed, yawning and stretching carefully, still conscious of my surgery. I was still a bit tired, but a quick cup of coffee fixed that up. I didn't usually drink coffee, but this was exactly the kind of situation I made an exception for. I couldn't exactly spend the entire day moping around, trying to stay awake. I had shit to do, after all. Besides, the coffee wa...

Rise of the Battlemage Poll

Spoilers if you are not up to date on Rise of the Battlemage!

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So, last week, you guys decided that the Skyforged Vanguard would be acquiring a Deep Space Recovery Vessel to function as the fleet's designated carrier. Now, you get to pick just how they are going to do that.

The future of Project Bastion.

Project Bastion was originally an experiment, and while I would consider it to be a success content-wise, it just hasn't caught on like I was hoping. While I consider my own enjoyment a critical majority when it comes to deciding what I am writing, I am also attempting to make this a career, which means I can't stick my head in the sand when something isn't doing as well as I would like.

All of that boils down to the fact that I will no longer be writing Project Bastion. Its fina...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 122

Hello everyone! I'm going to be driving around tomorrow, chasing the eclipse, so I figured I would post this today to make things simple! Normal schedule will continue next chapter.

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Ahsoka and I left the scene of the fight at a jog, looking around and eventually finding an alley to slink away in. We knew that it wouldn't take long for the rest of the Imperial forces to realize something had happened, which meant we were now working on a m...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 121

As the ship got closer, it got a bit easier to pick out details. It was a small ship, smaller than I expected, but its black hull and brutal design screamed edgelord darksider. It made me wonder if the Inquisitors had a hand in designing the ship and how much their influence reduced the original designs' effectiveness. Despite how serious the situation was, I couldn't help but imagine a red-eyed human w...

Project Bastion: Chapter Forty-Five

We stood in silence for a handful of seconds, all three of us pretty stunned that we had so easily dispatched both of the golems.

"Huh…" Barry eventually said, kicking at the cracks formed by the partial emerging and subsequent death of the knarled wooden golem. "Guess we are a pretty bad match-up for them."

"Maybe, but that's only going to go so far," I pointed out, shaking my head. "It's going to get real interesting if we run out of spell charges."

"Yeah... good point,"...

Brink and Back (Poll)

SPOILER WARNING! This poll is a spoiler if you are not up to date! (Chapter 12)

Jackson's new AI assistant needs a name!

The Brink and Back - Chapter Twelve

I made it to Vik's without any trouble, from my stomach or from traffic. The route was pretty easy, and Night City's traffic flow was actually surprisingly clean. Having grown up on the outskirts of a big city, and having been forced to drive into said city for anything important, not having to wait in traffic forever was almost worth how broken everything else in this reality was. 

I parked as close by to the shop as I could, making a short walk to Misty's, once again managing not...

Project Bastion: Chapter Forty-Four

The next day Barry, Danny and I left pretty early, hooking up the bikes to their carts and heading off. We had a decent trip to complete, and we were supposed to make it back in time for the second team to go out to the library when we got back. Getting up early felt normal at this point, so by the time I was out of bed and heading down to the kitchen, I was ready to go. We left with a healthy dose of wariness about what we might encounter, both on the way and when we arrived at our destinati...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 120

We left the safe house behind at nearly midnight, hoping that the city nightlife, present even during the lockdown, as well as the darkness, would compensate for the obvious suspicion of people being out so late. The distraction group, armed with a bunch of supplies from the safehouse, split off immediately, heading out to the checkpoint nearest our planned crossing point. Meanwhile, Tatnia, Sheora, and I split off not much longer after that, heading down different streets before ultimately h...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 119

We brainstormed for a while before coming up with four main ideas for getting of Foless. One was we bought a ship. There were no doubt a few ships worth buying here, and not only could we offload it to the Rebellion when we were done, but this was probably one of the stealthier ways we could try and leave. Unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things, all that stealth probably wasn't going to do us any good. Any ship trying to leave the planet, especially one that had just changed hands recen...

Rise of the Battlemage Poll

So, we gathered some ship types, now it's up to you guys to make the final choice! These are in no particular order:

Marauder-Class Corvette

Carrier-modified CR90 Corvette (I would basically handwave this into being a semi-standard modification)

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Project Bastion: Chapter Forty-Three

Once people had finished exploring and claiming rooms, we started to actually move people in. Most of it was simply grabbing stuff from the temporary setup along the parapet and moving it into the space, but we also went out and around the bastion borders. Previously, while my jump team was recovering from our trip to Resident Evil, the civilians, with some light help from me and a few others, had explored two of the closest apartment buildings. We cleared out every room of anything useful, f...

The Brink and Back - Chapter Eleven

SPOILERS - This chapter, and potentially the following chapters, contains spoilers for the universe that Jackson gets his second tech tree from. What that universe is is revealed first, so you don't worry about surprise spoilers as long as you're reading in order. 

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Jackie left about an hour after mentioning a new job, and I immediately returned to bed. I knew from past experiences that surgery, no matter how minor, could really mess with ...

Project Bastion: Chapter Forty-Two

Just a quick message: there will be no Project Bastion post on the 9Th of April. After that, posting will continue as normal. Thank you for understanding!

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We collectively stepped over the several kobold corpses, heading further into the cave. The massive space dwarfed any underground structure I had ever been in and felt like a massive auditorium. As we crossed the large room, I suddenly stopped, looking around to realize we were crossing a natural stone bridge o...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 118

We moved around the city, eventually making our way to a halfway decent vantage point, an abandoned landing platform for airspeeder, connected to an even older building. It overlooked a considerable amount of the warehouse district, including the abandoned warehouse where our target was supposed to eventually appear. As we settled in, all three of us, Vax, Nal, and myself, did our best to seem inconspicuous. Even with how late it was, the Imperial patrols didn't slow down in the slightest, bo...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 117

The ride to Bestine was, thankfully, a relatively short two-and-a-half-day trip from Omega Station, our transport making good time for its size class. Unfortunately, while the Staggered Bantha was technically capable of transporting all of us on top of our two clone pilots, the interior of the light freighter was cramped and miserable. Our group was clearly pushing what was reasonable for the ship to transport. We spent the time keeping as busy as possible, running everyone through a...

Project Bastion: Chapter Forty-One

The kobolds charged at us, fearlessly attacking us despite our significantly larger size and favorable numbers. Their growling turned to snapping as they jabbed at Barry, whom they reached first, their sharp, dangerous-looking teeth lashing out at him even as they tried to stab him with their spears. Rather than try and fight them both at once, Barry wisely dashed backward, letting both Jessica and Kate attack as he moved between them. The kobolds, caught off guard by the sudden retreat, were...

Rise of the Battlemage Poll (Suggestions)

SPOILERS! Only read if you are up to date! (114 or higher)

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Hello everyone! So, the Skyforged are going on another mission! Before that, there was mention of procuring another carrier ship, one to carry the V-Wings and their pilots. This is the first stage of selecting that/those ships, the suggestion stage!

Please submit ships that the crew could purchase or steal, with the express purpose of them being a carrier for a full squadron (Twelve) of V-Wings. This...

The Brink and Back - Chapter Ten

We stayed at Viks for another hour or so, discussing the bioware implantation process, what I needed to do, and the schedule. On my side, all I really needed to do was not eat anything the day before the surgery. It wasn't technically required, but it would reduce some risks and made Vik's job easier.

Vik also went out of his way to make sure I understood exactly what having the bio-nanosurgeon hive implant meant. He didn't want me getting any delusions of grandeur. The implant could ce...

Project Bastion - Chapter Forty

We spent the rest of the day messing around and doing light work. I ended up testing the flame burst spell for myself after grabbing my spear and changing my spell. Charles hadn’t been kidding when he said the spear turned the spell into an actually focused blast. In fact, if anything, he was understating the change. Casting the spell through the weapon resulted in a stream of flame, harsh and powerful enough to have a noticeable kickback as I held it. It was almost like a flame thrower, sa...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 116

Ahsoka visibly sagged at my promise, beyond happy that the rescue operation finally had a chance. After a moment, she looked at me and nodded before we all sat back around the table and focused on the mission. We were on a timer now, one that could go off at any moment. The quicker we could figure out what we were doing and get to it, the better.

"Would inserting on the Starcaller work?" Tatnia asked. "I know it would likely burn the ship as an undercover smuggling ship, but wo...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 115

While our restructuring and expansion plan only took a few hours to develop, it took just over two weeks to really implement. I spent most of that time away from the station on the Chariot. We bounced around nearly a dozen planets, picking up supplies for Pola and Miru, as well as buying medical equipment, general supplies, and other infrastructure requirements like furniture.

While most of the furniture on the station was fine, since the vacuum tended to preserve most nonlivin...

Project Bastion: Chapter Thirty-Nine

We appeared right where we had left, in the Bastion kitchen. A few people were sitting around, nursing mugs of tea or coffee, all of them jumping a bit when we arrived, but as a whole, the group quickly calmed down. Among them were Charles and Sarah, the other two civilians who had come with us, as well as a few others. George was sitting just a few feet away, wrapped up in a thick blanket, looking like warm death rolled over. Alissa was sitting next to him, listening to his pulse, a compress...

The Brink and Back (Poll)

So, Jackson is about to meet someone! While I control who, what, when, where and how, its up to you to pick how they look!

(Yes this is the second attempt, lets hope it works)

Option 1 

Option 2 

Option 3 (The Tattoos will be more cohesive)

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The Brink and Back - Chapter Nine

Jackie and I spent the next few hours testing out all three of my new and improved mag weapons. We burned through just about all of the custom, high-accuracy ammo I had made, putting all three weapons through their paces. By the end of the second hour, Jackie and I were consistently using the mag sniper to tap our furthest target successfully, which was about a thousand meters out. We even started spotting cacti, rocks, and trash past that. It was impressive, especially considering how little...

Project Bastion: Chapter Thirty-Eight

We left the restaurant about five minutes after dispatching the canine zombies, a heavy weight pressing down on the group. Logically, we knew that George was alive, especially since Barry had already died during the Die Hard jump. Despite that, waking up to him being mauled to death was obviously a shocking experience. In all honesty, I was only minorly worried about George. Sally had been pretty clear when she explained her ability to numb any experience that would leave lasting psychologica...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 114

I took a moment to gather my thoughts, scanning around the room. The troopers all looked healthy and hearty, clearly having recovered from their hibernation sickness. It was hard to tell, but they did also look a few years younger. According to Ahsoka, that was a side-effect of being cured of their accelerated aging.

After a moment, Lieutenant Rider, whom I recognized because of a tattoo on his neck, stood from where he was sitting and made his way over. As he stopped in front of me, he...

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage - Chapter 113

I only had to wait in the large locker for about thirty minutes before Captain Senita hit the all-hands alarm, the klaxon easily audible through the metal door of my hiding spot. I waited a few minutes past that before pushing the door open and stepping out into the airlock entry space. A quick look around proved I was alone, and I released a long breath in relief. I was pretty confident I could handle just about anything they might have on board with no prep or pause, but there was something...