Chapter 3
Underwater Base 005, “Leviathan’s Depths” Trench, Northern Sea
Novo Franklin, Periphery Space
September 16th, 2980 AD
Ten days of gathering, working, improving, and more, just for this moment.
After finding lithium, improving the power cells to Lithium Fusion Power Cells, improving the Armor Shell of both the base and Marine Mech, I was finally ready to construct the Whale Class Sub...
2024-09-24 07:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
North Coast, The Emeri Empire
Novo Franklin, Periphery Space
August 16th, 2980 AD
With the expansion of the realm, and the winning of new mechs, the Emeri Empire just became one of the ten. That is to say, they became the newest member of that group of nations that would survive forever, provided the future rulers didn’t screw things up. This was not just due to its population, and economic output, but al...
2024-09-24 07:31:05 +0000 UTC View PostYou can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control? ~ John Lloyd
Playing the Game
Celestial Forge x Battletech SI
Chapter 1
North boundaries of “The Emeri Empire”
Novo Franklin, Periphery Space
August 12th, 2980 AD
I carefully rippe...
2024-09-24 07:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7: Paint your Wagon.
I stared down at the spot where the Platinum vein was buried. It was crazy to me that I ended up having to dig deep underground to get the stuff. The closest one was the original one I had detected, which was nearly ten kilometers down. Digging through all kinds of things, from small caves to empty spaces, through the water table and into small pockets of magma that, thankfully, were not connected to any part of the outer core, I finally reached the spot. 2024-02-16 10:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 6: Cold Ghosts.
It was quiet, and cold. The crunch of snow and frost under my feet as I wandered through the front entrance. I wanted initially to search the gate zones closest to my ship and base, but it was crumpled inwards by some great force, once I mined the snow away with the Terrain Manipulator.
It was strange, but I was beginning to have my theories about what happened to the world. It was only that however. Theory. I needed data.
Shooting the front door with...
2024-02-11 17:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: Workin’ my way downtown.
It took me the better part of four hours, but I managed to get all of the Bauxite the Mine had left. Six thousand, eight hundred and forty units. It cost me a good amount of fuel, but within a half hour, I possessed three thousand, four hundred and twenty units of Aluminum.
I had enough to make seventeen Wire Looms, save one issue.
“Now I must get that damned Cobalt. More than ever.”
Given the machine I now had however, getting...
2024-02-11 17:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4: Collecting Bits and Pieces.
There was no power to the building, and I had no real intention of trying to get this place running despite the builder in me wanting to fix it all. Instead, I started to disassemble things as I went, leaving bare bones of a building behind as I went. Rooms were locked here and there, and a quick use of the Mining Laser, or just cutting through walls, allowed me access one way or another.
I became a regular old Wastelander, collecting junk an...
2024-02-11 17:26:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3: Issues upon issues.
After getting back, I realized I had run out to mine before really looking over all the blueprints I had and did not have.
“Dumbass.” I grumbled as I grumbled as I dove back into the catalogue. So, I had all the Timber, Stone, and Alloy components, which saved a great deal of trouble for me despite how “cheap” they are generally. Most of them were only around thirty to ninety nanite clusters in cost.
Industrial technology was a bust, as...
2024-02-11 17:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2: Crawling before you Run.
I was starring at the chunk of Activated Indium that I was slowly whittling down with the mining mode. It wasn’t a deposit as I had initially thought, but rather a chunk of rock infused with the mineral that was the size of a dump truck. Realizing it was a boulder, I decided to dig out a large cavern beneath it, and then mine away the earth below to let it just fall in. Then I would seal it away to keep the cold at bay.
The sound it made whe...
Chapter 1: Awaken
It came without warning.
One moment I was sleeping, and I knew that I was because I had been dreaming. One of those dreams with no meaning, as everything jumbled together in a mashed-up cavalcade of nonsense.
Next, I felt pain. Intense pain that covered my very being. Everything hurt, and I felt every muscle in my body tighten up to the point where they were solid as stone.
Then it stopped, and the pain went away. I felt myself standing upright.
A Battletech/No Man’s Sky SI
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Reality has fractured. Dissonance spreads across reality, cracking entire worlds, systems, and galaxies. Things that should not be, that cannot be, are. The one who watches, is in painful sorrow, as it slowly fades. It may take a million million years, or it may take only so many seco...
2024-02-11 17:19:31 +0000 UTC View PostDay 63
It wouldn't be long before I embarked on my hunt, with my MP fully recharged. Anticipation coursed through my veins, and I could barely contain my excitement. I paced back and forth, brimming with energy, ready to venture out and collect my souls.
"Alright, focus. Let's prepare those pots."
As the dust settled and dried, I knew it needed a few more hours to reach its maximum potency. I sat down, gazing at the dust in contemplation.
"There has to be a mo...
2023-07-20 13:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18933454/cyberpunk_red_city.jpg)
The relentless chaos of the Time of the Red was the cruel forge in which the story of the Murk-Man was cast. Stripped of family and fortune at a young age, an orphaned boy found himself surviving alone on the brutal streets of Night City. But within him, a determination ignited - a vow to transcend his circumsta...
2023-07-07 20:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostN.E.M.A. North Star Subterranean Complex
Eagle Peak, Anchorage, Chugach Mountain Range, Alaska
17th, August, 2103
I watched as my robots slowly pulled out the piles of junk from the side of the mountain. The first few days since the portals in the sky dumped the horde of monsters and groups of aliens into my world had initially been quiet, as I shut down work and took a break until the blizzard end...
2023-07-02 17:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostNot excusing my absence, but after my injuries, life got busy. I was able to write on and off, and worked on some of my stories beside Murk and Claptrap.
I will be posting over the next few days.
Link if you need/want a refresher. Adult story. Has "Plot".
https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/to-be-a-cast-off-monster-reincarnation-cyoa-si.8527/
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Day 62
I sat, and once again found myself glancing over at the spot Balto had called his, and sighed.
I missed my doggo, but what w...
2023-07-01 04:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostI was off for a month because I got hurt. Nothing so serious as a car accident or such. What happened was my bed had collapsed under me, and the springs punched directly into my lower back, and sciatic nerve. I was on pain medication for half of the month, and was unable to do anything but sit for most of it.
So much pain.
While I had focus to work on the story, development notes and such, I just couldn't motivate myself to actually write, until the last week.
So the stor...
“-Continuing with the push into the Free States. With the surrender of Nevada, the NUS Armed Forces now have a path directly to Southern California, and have begun to reinforce the SoCal Divisions. It appears only a matter of time before they march north to their NorCal invasion forces. While the NUSA representatives have assured the citizens of Night City that they have no intention of invading Night City, which had declared its neutrality in this conflict, many see these actions as a ...
2023-04-30 09:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostRancho Coronado is a relatively new suburban zone that used to be a tent city after the fourth corporate war came to an end. The nuke Johnny used on the old Arasaka building killed over fifteen thousand people instantly and irradiated the inner city completely. All utilities and authority went out the window nearly overnight, as the corporations who actually ran the place found their city headquarter suddenly up in smoke.
The city council had no real authority to do anything, and NCPD w...
2023-04-22 16:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
From the old days of Cyberpunk 2020, we have the Bozos. A Boostergang that initially started out as light hearted pranksters. After a few years however, like all things without gate-keeping, the bad ones got into the gang and changed how they worked.
The Bozos then became a gang of pranksters who's pranks often were traumatizing, lethal, and/or insanity inducing. They were known in 2020 to actually pick a single target and stalk, harass, and mess with them until the victim's mind broke....
2023-04-20 14:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostThere is now only a single tier. All of the benefits of the previous tiers are now in a single one.
I have also decided to add a few new benefits because I didn't seen these before and thought they would fit.
Not that people couldn't already make fan requests/commissions if they wanted to, they weren't specifically mentioned before.
Now, if you have an idea, and I like it and am able to write for whatever setting you had in mind, I might do it. Make a poll even to see how w...
2023-04-20 00:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned before, I will be ridding all the tiers and consolidating everything into just one. One tier, and you get access to everything I would do.
It will be $5 however, so for the one person doing $10, you pay less and get everything you wanted. For those already there, no changes except you get more stuff out of it. For $1 patrons, it will get more expensive, but you get everything the higher tiers gets.
A reminder, you do not have to pay to see chapters because eventuall...
2023-04-19 13:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Worked with the AI a bit more and I'm pretty satisfied with the results.
Murk Man from Cyberpunk 2077 is basically an easter egg for Batman. He died before actually doing anything of note, save that he had a Caliburn.
In this story, he was more successful, but ultimately died as he did in Canon. His backstory and the world building surrounding him will be filled in a bit more, but I will be keeping the "Batman" theme the character was supposed to have.
The SI is not Batman, nor does he think of himself as one. If he is, the SI is to Murk what Terry w...
The name says it all.
After being away for so long, due to sickness, life being hard, and a bunch of other stuff, I'm reducing stress upon myself, while doing things to make life easier.
That being said, I've thought a good bit about it and I've decided to change the membership/patron levels.
I had multiple tiers before because I had intended to write more mature stories at one point, and made it so you had to pay top tier for that material. It was most a business decision....
[song]Chippin’ In[/song]
The song set the mood for me as I finished placing on the gauntlets. I watched as they locked themselves into the groves of the vambraces. The clicking of metal clasping itself, followed by a beep of completion told me the unit was now one.
With a nod, I flexed open and close my hands while rotating my wrists and bending my arms. All seemed in order. The mask came on last. Well, it was more of a helmet, but Murk insisted on calling it his mask. Either wa...
2023-04-15 12:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post=== One Week Later in Real time / Four Months Later in Virtual Time ===
I rushed into his space, blocking his kick while sweeping my own leg under his own. He hopped and struck out with another kick to my head as I rolled backwards out of his range, only to roll again as he rushed in with a stomp that would have shattered the bones in my foot.
While my skills had not been to Murk’s level, we had closed the gap quickly these months with daily training. It was weird, at first, tha...
2023-04-13 03:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke with a painful gasp. It was a feeling, like your heart beat too hard because it was under threat, and it felt as if there wasn’t any air in your lungs because you forgot how to breathe. It rushed inward, filling my lungs with cold, moist air. I coughed, and it echoed into the dark. I didn’t pay any mind to it until I breathed, my panting filling the space the ways sound bounced off metal.
I squinted into the dark, pushing myself up, and freezing in place as I felt metal unde...
2023-04-12 03:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostN.E.M.A. North Star Subterranean Complex
Eagle Peak, Anchorage, Chugach Mountain Range, Alaska
23rd, July, 2103
I groaned in frustration as my robots brought back the last of the goods and materials from the ruins of the city. It had been going well until the non-stop snow turned into a blizzard. I could have worked with light and heavy snow despite it constantly falling night and day, but now it w...
2022-09-15 21:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostOne Punch ‘Mon
A silly Hitmonchan Pokémon SI.
The sun shone brightly upon the city of Saffron. Humans and Pokémon, wild and not, went about their day without worry. Construction work being done with humans guiding and doing the more meticulous tasks, while Machoke, and a Machop or two handled the more physically taxing ones. Growlithe and their police officers walked their assigned routes, smiling as they helped give newcomers and visitors dir...
2022-08-28 13:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post