“Hello, Miss X.”
I nodded to the man who’d spoken. It was one of the doctors. Middle-aged man in scrubs and with a pristine white lab-coat on. The only logo on him, and in the entire room, was a small Orchid Lux logo on the lapel of his coat. “Hey,” I said.
“Is this your first operation with us?” he asked.
“Uh, yeah,” I replied.
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“Okay, so this is going to be an immense pain in the ass,” I said.
I was on the couch, feet up on the coffee table and one of Lucy’s tablets on my lap. The Kittens were being brats, but they were being brats elsewhere after I threatened to hold them by their ankles out of the nearest window until they learned the art of being quiet.
It was an empty thre...
2025-11-18 18:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post“To be clear, we are absolutely not free,” Amaryllis said. She had her wings crossed and beak pointed upwards. The fact that Amaryllis was taller than the village head probably made her all the more intimidating.
We had relocated from the field the Beaver had landed in to the village head’s house, right in the middle of town. Well, not so much ...
2025-11-18 15:16:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I got home that evening, I tossed off my shoes, then set a Save. The first thing I did was go to a trustworthy side and download the spell formation for Sap Strength. That required my ID and about three thousand dollars.
Luna Corp had a version of the spell as well, but looking at it, I discovered that it was a three year old pattern and that that specific ...
2025-11-17 17:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostHe liked to imagine Sisyphus happy.
Libre walked down one of the many corridors dug into the earth of his home, cement walls and concrete ceilings, with lights at even intervals and the occasional busy soldier along the path. He had his helmet tucked under one arm, his other hand held up before him so that he could read the display built into his inner arm.
“This will be a q...
2025-11-17 11:17:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi <3 New chappy!
To say that I was a little distracted the next day would be something of an understatement. I couldn’t stop thinking about Becky’s face, and the sparks that went off around her when she... yeah. Also, kissing Jane.
I could use more of that, actually.
Shaking my head, I refocused on the now. I was heading in to work. It was Tues...
2025-11-15 12:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Experience?” Becky asked. It had sounded just a little squeaky, which wasn’t something I was used to hearing from her.
“You know, you pay me in first times, and I call it even,” Jane said. She was very clearly teasing.
I... could put a stop to this. It wasn’t creepy or anything yet, but if Jane pushed it even a little further, it might...
2025-11-13 08:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Becky in costume, by Mingrix
Hmm... so... uh... small poll (without an actual poll) who would be down for a Jane X Becky X MC interlewd? Like, probably something pretty tame. A la first interlewd with Jane?
Y / N
“I’m here, I’m queer, and-- ohh, guns!”&...
2025-11-12 11:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostI really wanted to explore what I could do with that [Purelight Gill] some more. How long would one of them work? Could I grow them fast enough to make it economical?
There had been lessons on that kind of thing at the academy. Most of it was pretty straightforward, logical stuff, but as with every other logical thing, it was also the kind of thing that you didn’t think about unt...
2025-11-12 07:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt was nearing noon when Sally the Scallywag called out from across the deck. “Land ho!”
“We’re flying over land, you moron!” Joe shouted back.
“You know what I meant, and you’re the moron for not catching onto my context clues... moron!” Sally sniped back.
I held back a giggle, because while it was funny, and I didn...
2025-11-11 10:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostSecond chappy!
I spent Sunday doing... not too much, really. I did a few longer loops practicing with my guitar, then some doing some French exercises, but I mostly took the day off and fit in three days worth of relaxing into just one day. It was very unproductive. I did call up Becky to see if we could go meet with Jane, but she was ‘hella busy’ so we had to ...
2025-11-10 21:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostHehe!
Sword :3
Took a long while ...
2025-11-10 20:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostNext... maybe skip ahead to Becky meeting Jane...
omg, Becky meeting Jane...
Fran ended up getting a reservation at... a perfectly ordinary restaurant. It was one of those nicer chains, the kind of place that sold expensive steaks and had a wine menu on the table next to a lit candle. It was a place called Chez Slowbane. More French, so I supposed Fran...
2025-11-10 07:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Ew!” Becky said as we shone a light into the room with the birthing pools.
I was pretty sure that wasn’t the technical term for what we were seeing, but it was close enough. There were large pools, and little baby buglings were being born in them, bursting out of weird sacs almost fully formed and just a bit smaller than they would be as adults.
...
2025-11-09 02:54:49 +0000 UTC View PostHehe? It's 1 month after the other one, so maybe it's right on time, if you squint?
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-vR6vxGw7bDQ3QL3XKV7_AAaembKVLx-YqiAgvvVOI/edit?usp=sharing 2025-11-09 02:38:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Affff, I really wanna get to this really cool aura-farming scene, but it's not for a few daaaaays!
I stepped into the portal first, sword in one hand, revolver in the other. It was a decent combo at short and medium ranges, and that’s about what I needed at the moment.
Taking a few steps forwards, I waited for the girls to pop in behind me, then I ge...
2025-11-08 06:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostMaple hummed as she looked over everything she had to work with.
She had heaps of gardening tools, donated by the nice people who lived here before. She had some hunting supplies from the hardware store, as well as a bunch of other stuff they’d picked up. Wheelbarrows worth. It was more stuff than she’d ever had to work with before, really.
Next to that, in a cardboa...
2025-11-07 22:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t impressed on seeing the arena and the city going up in record time. Being impressed implied that this wasn’t the expected result.
One wasn’t impressed that a baker could bake bread, or that a bricklayer could lay brick. It was what they did. An army of undead with magical support from Death Butlers and a (small) nation’s resources to rely upon should be able to build a cit...
2025-11-07 04:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt was time.
Well, it had been time yesterday, and a bit this morning, and it was time now as well. Generally speaking, ‘the time’ was a wide band and... and I was probably overthinking things because I was a little excited.
I arrived at the farm early in the morning, Sir Nibbles by my side. Today was the day that I was going to harvest all of the new cultivated mushrooms. The...
2025-11-05 20:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostI wandered into the Captain’s office early the next morning to find Amaryllis hard at work behind the desk. Maybe it should have been renamed the First Mate’s office? It was more often than not occupied by Amaryllis more than anyone else, after all.
“Morning!” I said. “Did you have breakfast yet?”
“Hmm? Oh, not yet,” Amaryllis replied. “I woke...
2025-11-04 20:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostBecky was nearly done with her breakfast when Fran arrived. I’d ordered a coffee and a single piece of toast, mostly because the waitress behind the counter gave me the stink-eye and I didn’t want to cause a fuss or be any more memorable than I had to.
We were just chatting about, of all things, music.
For someone so punk, Becky’s taste in noise was r...
2025-11-03 21:48:03 +0000 UTC View PostNo SCS today, so I figured a quick Save instead?
The door into the boss room didn’t exactly have a handle, so after gingerly poking at it from a few angles, I decided to say fuck it, and kicked the door in. It held from the first blow, but a few extra kicks sent it crashing down where it kicked up a wash of dust on landing.
The boss room was a large s...
2025-11-02 22:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostI had choices. Left or right.
The right path seemed a little wide and more inviting, the left more narrow and winding.
I went left. Maybe I was a bit of a masochist, but some gut instinct told me to always pick the harder-looking option first. I’d circle back around and see what the right path was like later, if I felt like it.
The path was, initia...
2025-11-02 00:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe opening room of the portal was a dark, poorly-lit space. If it wasn’t for the portal a step behind me, the entire room would have been so dark as to be impossible to see in. Even See Darkness only helped so much.
It actually reminded me a lot of the first portal I’d ever tackled solo, that little one with the lizard guys in it. Damn, that had been less than a...
2025-11-01 17:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay,” Emily said as she looked over her sisters. They were more or less ready to head out. “Maple, do you want to come, or did you want to stay here?”
“Um,” Maple said. She gripped the fabric of her skirt for a moment, eyes downcast as she hesitated. “Can I come?” she eventually said.
“Of course, I wouldn’t ask if you wanted to if I didn’t expect you to...
2025-11-01 01:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Merde!”
She ducked her head out from around the battlements. She didn’t need any of those alien fucks to see her and maybe try to snipe at her position. Next to her, maybe some three metres back, was the bottom half of a volunteer who’d spent too long staring.
The model Fifteen-Aquas were out in force. They were sprinkled throughout the antithesis sieging the city and stick...
2025-10-31 18:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostHe didn’t want to be here, and the person sitting across from him didn’t want him here either. They both knew it, and they also both knew that this was out of both of their control.
It was actually a good thing that they were both aware of where they stood, it meant that even if they didn’t speak things aloud, there was a mutual understanding. They could work with this, b...
2025-10-30 21:04:06 +0000 UTC View Post***
“C’mon,” I said as I grabbed the waist of Lucy’s pants. I wasn’t gonna let her sleep in her fancy business clothes. Sure, it was hot, but not for sleepwear. I had Lucy’s favourite pyjamas on the bed next to her, big fluffy pants, this oversized sweatshirt made of this cottony, soft material, and warm, wooly socks. I especially liked the socks, because Lucy’s feet we...
2025-10-29 15:41:53 +0000 UTC View PostShowing off my wings to Caprica was fun.
Showing them off to Bastion was a mistake.
He took one look at them, then immediately had me doing exercise to see if I couldn’t use them as more than pretty back-based decoration. I didn’t want to do exercise, I wanted to have fun with my friends, but Bastion had me running laps of the Beaver’s 2025-10-28 22:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Started this one last night, but accidentally took a nap instead of finishing, oops?
Convincing Fran to come was surprisingly easy. A quick text letting her know that I’d found an E-rank portal that we could hit and she was onboard. She did say that it helped that it was the weekend, where she wasn’t as busy
Becky... was a bit harder to convince. “Ho...
2025-10-28 14:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
