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The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 103 - Date night

I spent the rest of that afternoon coming to terms with what kind of preparation I would need for the next few massive projects. Between the defense fleet and the shield array, I would be using a lot of materials, and I needed to get them ready to keep from running into delays. I was about to start printing things out, only to realize some of my UCMs weren't updated with the divine essence and Uru, which was something that would really hold me back in the long run.

So, I spent a signifi...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 102 - Wibbly Wobbly

I woke up the next morning and spent some time relaxing and some more time training with my new armor. Ema suggested I tried juggling eggs to make sure I could control my incredibly increased strength, but that proved to be relatively easy with my increased speed and reflexes. Eventually, we simply spent some time sparring, and I bulldozed through another three trunks of robots. We now had a whole trunk full of caduceus droids, which Ema painted with a red cross and stored near her other rapi...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 44 - Breach and clear!

By the time I woke up, the rest of the team had already finished their morning workout. Thankfully, M’gann promised to let everyone know I was up late so would be skipping. I woke up and headed out into the living space, grabbing a bowl of cereal and a banana before heading out into the main room to watch everyone spar.

M’gann and Tora were facing off in the ring, with the latter blasting chunks of ice at the Martian, who was using the stone plates I had installed to block them. I s...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 101 - Business time?

I spent a few hours trying out my new armor. I carried two trunks of my robots around to the dark side of the moon, letting them out and giving them an hour to prepare.

I utterly destroyed them.

I was strong enough to tear them limb from limb, even the large behemoths. I couldn't quite punch through their shields, but I could fly fast enough that they couldn't keep up with me. The energy blasts from the battle bot's guns did little to no damage, draining negligible amounts of ener...

What will the research station be called? (Part 2)

Its time to vote one what the actual name of the research base will be!

I wasn't going to contribute any of my own ideas, but I saw it when I was making this post and it fit so well I decided to include it.  

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The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 100 - Regret - Odin Interlude

The cool winds of Asgard pulled and tugged at his wings, in a way that made it almost impossible to tell that they weren't his own. Their movement was so instinctual, so natural, that he swore he could feel the individual feathers shift as he flapped. It was a heady sensation, swooping through the sky like this, in a way that felt as natural as breathing. The concept of personal flight was obviously not difficult for a god of his power, but flying with the Heart of Asgard was different in a w...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 43 - Secrets of metal

Hearing that Kyle was healthy was a weight off of everyone's shoulders. He had been gone for more than a few days and the fact that we haven't heard anything from him was beginning to make us all nervous. Watching him take off into the air, with a big smile on his face had just been the icing on the cake.

We talked for a while, the group bombarding him with questions about his new powers. He explained that while he had gotten most of Superman's abilities, with assurances that his others...

What should the moon research base be called? (Closed on Friday)

Hello Board members! This is step one of figuring out the official name for the moon research base. Please leave a comment with your ideas, and after a few days I will compile them into a Poll for you to vote on! If all else fails I will be calling it the Lunar Research Base, but I'm sure you guys can come up with something better than that. 

Edit: Lets keep it to one idea per person 

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 99 - Build it better

Ema, Steve, Peggy, Bucky, and I spent quite a while saying goodbye. The people of Asgard were apparently fascinated by us, or more specifically finally meeting people from the planet they had sworn to protect. I had been skipping over this by flying to most places, but apparently, the other three had been getting swamped by people wanting to discuss this or talk about that, or even just shake their hands. When the fact that we were leaving got around, Thor insisted on one last walk through th...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 98 - Final gifts

The next morning I flew out to the end of the Rainbow Bridge, landing a few dozen feet from Heimdall, near the shattered edge of the glittering road. He did not turn to see who it was, but he greeted me nonetheless.

“Greetings Maker,” He said in a deep voice. “Asgard is in your debt for healing the Allfather's eye.”

“I wanted to smooth things over after a tense first meeting,” I explained with a shrug. “I’m just glad it worked.”

At that point he turned to l...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 42 - Warming up - Tora Interlude

Tora woke up to the sound of knocking on her door. It was her third day being a member of the New Titans and she still hadn’t gotten a handle on the new timezones or the early wake-up times. Still, today it was fine, the group had agreed that they would call off the early morning routine to take a break. Which probably meant it was later than it felt. A quick check of the alarm clock on her nightstand confirmed her guess.

The young Norwegian woman stood up from her bed and stretched, ...

The next Interlude for The Conceptual Deck

Its time for another interlude for The Conceptual Deck! Will it be about...

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The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 97 - Peace offering

I immediately cracked open the chest and pulled out the armor within. As far as I could tell it was identical to the armor Odin had been wearing at the feast, where I had first seen him. I pulled out all of the pieces and separated them into their sections, setting the helmet, chest piece, arms, and legs into different UCMs. The timer for them was surprisingly short, so I put the original back into the chest so I wouldn't have to worry about ruining the original. I also stored the original ex...

Should Board Member content polls include things from my original content?

I'm only going to leave this one up for a day or so, but I am curious how my Board Members feel about me including content polls for my books. I will probably ask this again after a release a couple of my books on amazon, but for now I want to know what everyone here thinks.

This is just to see how everyone is thinking, not an official vote. Normal polls will resume in a few days.

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 96 - Negotiations

Through the next few hours, Odin and I negotiated over a variety of things, trading everything from basics like a dozen sets of my low-level wings, to more complicated and powerful items, like an entire crate of the same palm healers that I had offered Shield. It seemed that the idea of them being unable to hear bad people was something Asgardians could appreciate.

In the end, I traded the aforementioned equipment, plus six more Destroyer armors, three healing amulets, six ingots of ult...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 41 - Familiar ground

The team was at the tail end of sparring when the Zeta-Tube started spinning up. I was fully encased in stone and sand, sparring with Kaldur, using my armor to tank his heavy strikes and divert blasts of water. I would have struggled to spar with him one on one before, but with access to sand and stone, I was able to hold my own. With a shout he rolled under a disk of stone that I had launched at him, before smashing me with another blast of water, this time forcing me back to the edge of the...

Last Resort - Dimensional Bloodsport - Ch. 6-10

Hello everyone! I am pleased to release the second batch of chapters of Last Resort: Dimensional Bloodsport. 

I hope you enjoy, and be sure to leave a comment telling me what you think!

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 95 - Meeting the king

It turns out no one was eager to fight me after watching what Ema could do. Of course, while I was as tough and strong as her, at least in my armor, I was considerably less flexible. But they didn’t need to know that.

Instead, Ema and I sat on the sidelines, watching Bucky face off against Hogun and Steve against Volstagg, both of which went exactly the way I would have predicted. Both Bucky and Steve could keep up with, and even sometimes hit back, when the Asgardians kept to basic l...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 94 - Full scary mode

The feast was enormous. It started with servings of a thick chunky stew, similar to beef stew but with meat and vegetables that I didn’t recognize. It was served with a glass of some sort of creamy yet sweet drink that cut through its heavy flavors surprisingly well, without detracting from them. After that several massive roasted chunks of meat were brought out on huge plates of cooked tubers and vegetables.

The staff sliced off cuts and brought them around to everyone, serving plent...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 40 - Instructor

The next morning we woke up at our usual time, though M’gann had to wake up Tora, who had apparently slept through her alarm. She was embarrassed and more than a little frazzled, but she calmed down after a few minutes. Once she had we started our morning workout, with M’gann and Tora starting on their cardio. M’gann was determined to work on her weakest point and so far had made some solid improvements. Wally and Robin did resistance training and Kaldur worked on a simple set of battle...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 93 - Dig in!

Just an FYI - I made changes to Chapter 91 - Road trip! Basically, someone on one of the forums pointed out how having so many turrets on a ship that size was ridiculous, and I agreed, but rather than just switch the numbers around I decided it would be a good learning experience for Carson. Long story short the portion of Chapter 91 where Carson and Ema are experimenting with the weapon systems now includes Ema pointing out some conflicts and Carson fixing them. I have included the new versi...

What technique should Toph use to teach Metal Bending?

So the time has come for Warren to finally start learning Metal Bending. The process will start with him just molding metal, but once that's done, Toph is going to teach him a technique to practice with. That technique will be...

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The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 92 - Realm Eternal

Edit: As pointed out by Cams797, Asgardian's would refer to earth as Midgard. Can't believe I missed that but its fixed now.

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It took an hour to get everyone and everything up into the Void Skipper. I dropped off everyone's stuff, stacking it in the entrance to the sleeping quarters in case we ended up staying on board. I directed the people to the cafeteria, where the Alfred bots had put out some snacks to keep everyone occupied. When I was done with everyone'...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 39 - Cold welcome

M’gann, Kaldur, Robin, Wally, and I waited silently by the Zeta-Tube. None of us were in costume, but Robin wore his usual face-obscuring sunglasses. I idly scratched at my cast, which M’gann immediately noticed and mentally nudged me to stop.

It was two days since we had completed our first real mission, and I was already fed up with the chunk of plaster wrapped around my arm. I was just thankful that the super soldier serum came with a pretty hefty healing factor, which meant that...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 91 - Road trip

There has been minor changes to portions of this chapter, where Carson and Ema are experimenting with the weapon systems now includes Ema pointing out some conflicts and Carson fixing them. I have included  the new version if you would like to read it, but its not really  necessary. Thank you for your patience! (the copy pasted below is not edited)

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When I was done getting Loki back in the Void Skipper's cell, and sending up some basic food for...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 90 - Brass tacks

After a quick check to make sure I had everything I could possibly need, something I was going to make a standard checklist after having been stranded in space with “Limited” resources, I traveled down to the Helicarrier, Ema holding my shoulder.

The first thing I noticed was that the deck of the ship had been cleared and repaired, though there were still plenty of defenses set up. Soldiers patrolled the deck, with anti-air turrets, mounted weapon emplacements, and even a series of ...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 38 - Taking a hit

“Robin, send the league a message. This just became too much for us to handle alone,” Kaldur said, Robin immediately pulling up his wrist computer and typing away.

“I’ve activated the emergency beacon, but it's not getting through!” Robin said, even as the Kobra Venom-enhanced cultists roared in their drug-induced rage. “We are on our own!”

I pulled out my shield as M’gann and I rushed to join Kaldur and Wally, Superboy blowing past us. O...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 89 - Negotiation preparation

It took a while for Ema to calm down. While I didn’t hadn’t regretted leaving her on Earth when I left, her argument of “if you ever do that again I will tie you to a chair and never let you leave the warehouse again” was pretty compelling. Eventually, I promised not to leave her behind like that again. When she was eventually satisfied that I was telling the truth, we discussed what Natasha and I had been up to the last two days.

When that was done Natasha asked us to drop her ...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 88 - Homeward bound

Natasha and I stepped onto the bridge and headed straight for the new console, located behind and to the left of the main pilot's station. The battle bot who was stationed as a makeshift early warning system looked up as we entered but immediately looked back down at the sensor console.

“Alright, so let's see how you turned out…” I mumbled, sitting down and activating the screen.

Unfortunately, this chair, while comfortable did not contain the basics of how to use the consol...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 37 - In the Jungle

It was slow progress through the dense jungle foliage, everyone doing their best to stay quiet. M’gann was hovering a few feet off the ground, dodging vines and tree branches while the rest of us struggled with the thick underbrush. Robin was the only one who was perfectly silent, which was why about a minute into our walk Kaldur had him walk about a hundred feet ahead to warn us if anyone was coming.

“Incoming, small armed patrol coming towards us,” Robin thought to us. ...