“I am the Mistress of Time, bow before my might,” Maya stated as she stood in the center of the milling Cage. Bell paused from where he was carrying a crate of items and glared at her.
“Mistress of Time, you’re needed by your little friends,” he said before walking on. Maya raised her middle finger as he walked away. “Stop being childish.”
“I mean Yosi is still suita...
2020-10-29 00:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, shit,” Maya said as silence reigned within the Cage.
“At least… at least all of the flying rogue AIs have left the area… and well, pretty much every rogue AI in a ten kilometer radius,” Yosi said softly.
“Can it force its way through the door?” Bell asked.
“I rightly do not know. I would assume a Tier 3 creature would be stronger than a Tier...
2020-10-26 22:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostTension filled the Cage as Maya stepped up to the control panel. She looked out at the twenty-seven faces that stared back at her, the Tarvana, Badblood, Bell, and Yosi. Fear was evident, but they all stood firm and ready.
Maya was impressed by the adaptability of the Tarvana. They had gone from cowering in fear inside of a panic room to wailing about Whiteclaw’s death, but now they wer...
2020-10-23 18:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post“We do technically over-level the rogue AIs,” Maya said chewing a ration bar. The crew were gathered in the mess hall, a standard day passing since Bell and Maya had returned.
Weariness was etched into their faces, it wasn’t just the fact that they had been busting their asses the last standard day, there was also the addition of mana being slowly leached out of them. The mana purge...
2020-10-19 18:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostIdeas were running wild in Maya’s head as they made their way back to the Hanganathorie. An entire standard day had passed since the rogue AIs had chased them from the watering hole, but it seemed they too had better things to do than wait for a few annoying SIL to show their faces.
They dug themselves out of the trash pile and with some trepidation and caution, scanned their e...
2020-10-14 18:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe roars of the rogue AIs filled the air, a trumpeting sound that announced her doom. Maya stood firm, taking a moment to summon the mana pulse mines that she had packed for such an occasion. She tossed them around the railguns in a small arc. It wouldn’t stop the rogue AIs if the used ranged weapons, but if they tried to rush the guns they were in for a surprise.
Bell’s f...
2020-10-12 19:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I must say that’s the most insane thing you’ve said in the last few months,” Bell said. “I thought you had gotten better in your decision making.”
“What’s insane about heading toward the mana bloom while scores of high leveled rogue AIs are flapping, crawling, rolling, and skipping their way toward the only mana source that exists?” Maya asked.
“All of it.” 2020-10-09 18:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Maya had to give Yosi credit where it was due. She had been the main face of the trading in Ibadan and although Maya hadn’t gone over what she had purchased or traded or even sold, one thing Yosi had obtained was a decent amount of gasoline. As vehicles and generators of newer make didn’t work anymore due to the mana saturation doing weird stuff to the electronics, Yosi had gotte...
2020-10-08 15:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe armored beetle screamed as Maya shoved the sawed off railgun into its abdomen and fired both marsani slugs. The resulting explosion knocked her back, slamming her hard against the hull of the Hangy. She immediately threw herself forward as a hissing blade embedded itself in the spot she occupied.
The railgun was lost so she summoned the last we...
2020-10-05 23:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post“How do these assholes know exactly when to crash our party?” Maya demanded as she exited the Cage onto the bridge of the Bonita’s Revenge. Bell looked up with relief as she entered, followed by Yosi and Nan.
Roci stood by the threshold and grumbled as Maya sent the Cage back to the Hangy and the mess hall. She was on offloading duty as Maya dealt with the rogue AI...
2020-10-02 18:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostMaya flopped down onto a comfortable chair as the last customer exited the shop. It wasn’t that there weren’t anyone else interested in buying stuff, she had just run out of things to sell. Even the excess duracloth that she had was snatched up by people once she explained it could be made into tents or other things. That was after all the emergency tents she had made were taken ...
2020-09-30 18:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostMaya rapped her knuckles upon the marsani block and grinned. “Solid work, Scotty,” she said.
“Thank you, Maya. I had trouble with the tolerances, as the cutter is not a fine machining instrument.”
“I gotcha, bud. Until we can find or make a machining… machine, you’re our best bet to create these things. Keep up the good work,” Maya heard a thum...
2020-09-28 20:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostRogue tech programming was difficult. Maya stared at the tablet screen once more and then grumbled. The Rogue AI manufacturing module before her rumbled as it received the block of marsani and began cutting away.
Originally when Tender had found the manufacturing module, Maya had hopes that it would be able to make all the things she needed on the ship. But life happened,...
2020-09-25 19:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m not going to cheat you out of your labor and possessions,” Maya stated. “Do you know the value of this stone?”
Maya lifted a mana stone from the pile that sat before her. It was an extraordinary amount of stones. From what she could tell, the gobbolds… no the Children or Tarvana (if untranslated), consumed a stone a day to keep starvation at bay. Along wi...
2020-09-23 16:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post“I bet there’s an achievement for losing consciousness,” Maya muttered as she sat in the dark. She had been only out for ten minutes, according to her computer’s clock. When it came to fights, battles, or anything really; it seemed she always found a way to lose consciousness.
The darkness of the hole she sat within didn’t entirely bother her. Maya didn’t know...
2020-09-21 17:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, the existence of other life in this place shouldn’t be a surprise,” Maya said. She pulled open a window, picked up a scout rat and set it down upon the hood of the buggy. The rat scurried forward, lifted its head and began scanning the area. Zono had dumped the information he had on the beings into her computer and she had transferred the data to the rat; system tech and...
2020-09-18 20:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostMaya dropped down onto the deck, the aged metal creaking beneath her armored boots. She stopped, crouching low and peering around a corner. In her HUD she spotted the outline of mechanical monster, six armed and hulking. It stood perfectly still, it’s massive bulk almost blending into the scarred and trashed corridor.
“Junk Monster, nine o’clock,” Maya mutte...
2020-09-16 19:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostMaya groaned and opened her eyes. She immediately shut them. The world spun for a moment, turning the overhead lights into a kaleidoscope of color and nausea.
“Ah, you’re awake,” a voice said.
Maya opened her eyes slowly; she saw Nan looking over her. Nan wasn’t in her usual demonic form, she was in her human form. The blue eyed woman smiled at her, revealing sha...
2020-09-14 18:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Tender!” the small robot screamed out in… joy?
George turned his head to see the small robotic creature suddenly tearing through the modules toward the Pris airlock.
“It can speak?” Hanna asked in surprise.
“I think it knows who that is at our door,” George said. “Tender? Strange name.”
“What’s with that Maya Emp...
2020-09-11 18:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostRoci knew they had been something else before. Something different than what they were now. Roci could still remember some of that life before they became Roci; a life of constant fighting or searching. Alway searching, always hungry, in a way.
In the dim memories from their past life, Roci knew they had been ordered around. A dangerous figure, a commanding figure had con...
2020-09-10 01:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostBoom!
The heavy blast door protecting Captain Huvano’s personal suite hit the deck in a loud crash, sending delicate decorative figurines tumbling to the floor. Maya stepped through the billowing smoke and residual heat, covered head to toe in battle armor.
“Just needed a little nudge,” she said, her voice muffled through the helmet.
“I ...
2020-09-07 13:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostKignarva Class 3 Deep Scanning Module System Liquidation - All the equipment to get a Kignarva Deep Scanner up and running, mid grade, Tier 1 - 300,000
5 metric tons Biomass - It’s biomass, people. Low grade, Tier 1 - 5,000
200 programable processors, low grade, Tier 1 - 60,000
2 metric tons, alchemical material, mana trace ...
2020-09-04 16:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you?” Pegarios demanded.
“Dude, this is the Integrated Multiverse, touched by the System themself; I’m sure you’ve run across weird ass things in your day,” Maya sat casually in her chair, beside her Yosi was nearly a statue, her multicolored eyes barely blinking. “Suffice to say, that I stumbled across your brother’s remains and the pub. Unfortunately a ba...
2020-09-03 18:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Awesome,” Maya grinned. “This is system tech, not crazy mana channeling required crafting.”
“They’re cheap and easy to build,” Bell said. “Although crafted pallets are sturdier and longer lasting.”
“I’m all about cheap and planned obsolescence,” Maya smirked. “It’s the American Way.”
Maya looked at the blueprint and i...
2020-09-02 12:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post16 - Networks
25.5 MXP absorbed
Level up! (Level 20)
You have reached Level 20! You have 2 Pending Occupational Bonuses to Apply.
“Occupational bonus?” Maya asked.
“Ah, you have finally received one. It was a worry that Bell and I had that you had not mentioned it befo...
2020-08-31 23:13:40 +0000 UTC View Post15 - Economic Foundation
“Oof, remind me not to ask how the sausage is made,” Maya said as she and Tender examined the black goo manufacturing device, which was a large metal drum with a mixer within it. It slowly churned, combining the black goo with other minerals and materials that they had purchased off of Zono.
Mana stones were the priciest of the bun...
2020-08-28 23:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe flowing mass of Tier 2 system tech components moved across the gray dirt, bearing their two prizes like ants bringing back food to a hive. Maya watched as the amorphous blob moved the cores from the hole they had resided within to the angular assault craft that had been untouched since Shen’s defeat.
It amazed Maya, the whole aspect of Tier 2 system tech. It was sc...
2020-08-26 14:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the first time that Maya had ever seen Bell laugh hysterically. Sure, he had chuckled, on occasions guffawed, and once even let out an amused grunt, but a full on belly clutching down from the deepest part of his soul laugh?
Maya frowned. “This is not funny,” she said.
Bell nearly fell out of his bed. Nan watched from where she stood over the de-thawed Yosi. E...
2020-08-25 02:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Wow, oh, wow!” Maya exclaimed as the cast was removed from her forearm. Everyone was there, watching with semi-boredom. Bell was still on bed rest, sorting through loot. Tender was remotely controlling his new troop of battle drones, picking up their brethren’s pieces and harvesting black goo. Veskari was there because Yositari was there, still unconscious, but making mewling ...
2020-08-22 13:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Once, long ago a wise woman, living in a dark cave, hinted that I would gain fortune and salvation by defeating the dreaded Peacock Turtle,” Maya said as she, Tender, and Bell sat before a campfire.
They were in the virtual world, Maya had been driven to near insanity with the fire in her arms and had begged Nan to shove her into the VR system to escape it. It had wo...
2020-08-21 13:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post