Mechalopolis University had more than a few challenges and disputes to resolve every single day, from resolving the situation when someone spilled coffee on another person's jacket to when a dispute over attendance needed to be settled. If you wan...
2022-09-17 19:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post... Nothing in particular changed for Malicia's day to day life after that. It was... In some ways it was infuriating, that even after slipping up and tasting the blood in full view of everyone, it hadn't changed how Lord Ravensworth treated her e...
2022-09-05 12:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt might seem nonsensical to assume that Central, the region where the Emperor sat upon the Golden Throne and his close family resided, where there was more money poured into hiring and maintaining standing guard regimens, roaming patrols of bandi...
2022-08-25 08:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostDue to being 'generated in character creation', the 'Protagonist' character has a uniquely versatile breadth of options in a video game, where most others are relatively set in stone.
What Class should the Protagonist have, when encountered ...
2022-08-25 08:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostA basic model of PI-doll didn't include anything like distributed repulsor nodes to allow an effect similar to anti-gravity, or kinetic amplifiers to allow the movement of disproportionately large objects, or even significant reinforcement beyond ...
2022-08-15 15:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Humph! Don't think that this is because I l-like you, b-baka!"
Alex and Genesis considered the approximately twenty centimeter tall schoolgirl model PI-Doll as it crossed its arms and tossed hair over its shoulder, making the con...
2022-08-10 17:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that Malicia recognized about Central was that it was notably warmer, all of the time. The North was the coldest region of the Empire, of course, followed after by the peaks of the West and the chill over-seas winds of the East for...
2022-08-06 23:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostMechalopolis was a city built on the top of a floating super-structure, the artificial island 'Tentatio', built in a rough circular shape and with a radius of approximately thirty kilometers. It had been, Alex recalled, an experiment in determinin...
2022-07-28 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no light in the room save for the muted, low glow of lines of code scrolling across subdued and dimmed screens. The occupants didn't need the ambient light, with visors fixed over their eyes or entire helmets in place to provide a displa...
2022-07-27 18:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostFor a little while after Malicia woke following the fight that could be thinly veiled as either chastisement or training she wondered if Jack had simply made up the mention of the lady Ravensworth's pregnancy. It did not take long to conclude that...
2022-07-19 18:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe blades carved deeply into her forearms, scoring lines of white-hot pain as they ground against the bones where Malicia had thrown them up to block while backstepping away from the most recent swinging arc of steel in her direction.
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Dinner went normally, with everyone at a polite distance from one another and the meals being gracefully served by maids that would transfer the meal from a large trolley to the requisite dishes and elegantly exchange them for used ones. Far from ...
2022-07-03 23:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Today, we have a little treat prepared." the butler declared, smirking from his position standing on top of several crates that had been prepared. "This was intended to wait until you were at least ten years of age, young master, but both the con...
2022-06-27 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostSocial connections were important for the nobility, and unlike commoners, they spread out vertically as well as horizontally.
A commoner's important social connections were almost always going to be other commoners, with few excep...
2022-06-21 06:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn 'Black Heart', a Heritage can have obvious effects on the body. For example, a Porter in Malicia's orphanage had a notable feature that set her apart.
What should that be?
2022-06-19 22:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostSophie's journal was still Malicia's most treasured item, as her fourteenth birthday came and went with little fanfare.
Admittedly, the celebrations for the blood-related Ravensworths weren't much of note themselves, from what she...
2022-06-16 21:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no remark on Malicia having missed meals, but she couldn't say as to whether that was because it had approval from the elder Ravensworths to begin with or if it was simply because such things were beneath their notice and of no particula...
2022-06-12 18:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post"There's no need for you to attend dinner today. You must be exhausted, miss Malicia." the butler said, almost managing to feign kindness. "Wash up and head right to bed. Ah. And for breakfast..."
With a smile, he dropped a small ...
2022-06-09 15:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe elder son, Edward Ravensworth, was eleven years old to her twelve when Malicia had been brought to the estate.
He was still set to inherit. Not because he was the first child of the Ravensworth's blood, and not because he was ...
2022-06-08 22:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Empire of Phantasma could be broadly divided into five parts.
There was the North, frozen over and forested heavily, rich in trees and ice and not much else. The Northern wilderness grew few edible plants, which in turn meant ...
2022-06-07 17:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostSophie's little journal was about half writing practice and actual journal entries and about half prophecy that had been written just speculatively and vaguely enough to come off as idle musing about the future.
Or, and much more ...
2022-06-06 21:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Empire of Phantasma, Status was everything.
A person would be born with a Class. This was something decided in a way that no living being could find a reasoning behind. Sometimes, a family would consistently produce the sam...
2022-06-04 14:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostTry as he might, Rick couldn't get the sword out of his mind, questions of just how it had gotten there circling around his head. On some level, he wanted to believe it was a prank... but if that was true, then it was a joke that not just the car ...
2020-09-16 04:21:46 +0000 UTC View Post