“Every goddamned business on the street!” Kaiser was in fine form, Brad thought as his boss, stomped around the room, his armor ringing with every step. He glared at Brad, Victor and Crusader with ill-concealed fury. “And what do we have to show for our investigation?”
“Very little,” Victor said. “Our sources are quiet—those that haven’t been arrested.” He shrugged. ...
2023-12-29 10:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostMadison didn’t feel like it was… her. She felt like a puppet, all strings. And right now, her memory came in flashes.
“All rise.” That had been one memory.
“What about her other activities?” A meeting with her lawyer, her mom wanting to bring up violin practice.
And the lawyer’s words. “Trust me, Mrs Clements, reminding the judge of all of the benefits your dau...
2023-12-26 20:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostLater that night, I left the house. The day had been…
Okay! Aisha said, standing with three of her Numbers. Not four.
Aisha was actually pretty good at keeping the full reach of her abilities quiet. I knew that she was lowballing the distances she could pull a Number out and teleport.
“Anyone up for Volleyball?”
It was interestin...
2023-12-21 10:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in Homeroom, I found myself wondering where Aisha was. Had there been a change in plans? She was late, but…
Okay, Aisha had never been great with things like deadlines.
But now I heard…
What the hell? My bugs were picking it up. A group of figures marching down the hallway, and they were…
Shadow clones. There was no scent of humans about them, but ...
2023-12-17 04:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostWas gonna finish it, but had a minor issue which resulted in a doctor having to remove my toenail. Pro-tip. When a doctor says: "this may hurt a little" they LIE. it hurt a great deal. I've got it written, just need to finish up the proofing.
New Chapter. It's the last week before Xmas break for the kid, so things are a bit chaotic.
This post will be released to general people a bit early, mianly because I didn't expect this long of a delay between chapters. Stuff's been a little disordered on my end.
Fifteen minutes after I got home, Dad’s truck roared up into the driveway.
“Taylor?” He called.
“Dad?” I asked from the bathroom, where I was rubbing topical cream on the truly impressive bruise on my upper arm. “What happened?”
“I just—“ There was a pause. “I just heard about how The Investigator went to war with Uber and Leet. I though...
2023-12-10 08:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostUber and Leet did not normally try to hurt people. That was good. But they had hurt people by mistake, and on at least one occassion, on purpose, with their Grand Theft Auto stunt, which had resulted in an insincere apology on their channel.
The danger was that Leet’s tech was notoriously unreliable, which was one reason he was working as a gamer villain—none of his stuff, even when h...
2023-12-05 03:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostAisha was walking along the street. The PRT had finally let her out.
So long as she didn’t go beyond the block and didn’t spend too much time out and didn’t get in trouble.
Kill joys.
But they couldn’t do anything about her Krewe. Aisha was at a diner, eating some stuff—good stuff. Better than what she had at home.
But that wouldn’t...
2023-11-30 05:22:48 +0000 UTC View Postin planning for the fight, so i wanna do a little rewrite, so tomorrow, you get a story of how Aisha saved some tourists, made the Empire look stupid and helped Emily realize that her heart is fine--it didn't explode.
Back from Turkey Day!
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Brandish was not as happy as I’d expected. She listened to the recordings, which I’d taken according to her requirements, letting the individuals know they were recorded, and that the recordings might later be used.
“This is why I hate family law,” she finally said. “It’s messy.”
“Messy?”
“The young lady who gav...
2023-11-25 22:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostArcadia was everything the pamphlets said it was. The teachers were attentive, the student body was mostly well behaved, and if there were Wards—they weren’t obvious.
Nor did I go looking for them. The customs regarding identities, especially in places where said identities wouldn’t normally come up, tended to assume that people getting curious had bad intentions.
Then there w...
2023-11-23 06:18:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that means I couldn't release the next chapter manually on SB. So, a question...
2023-11-22 04:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostMy amusement was absent the next day when I walked into the doors of Arcadia. As a student.
I tagged some of the people around me but fought the impulse to do it to everyone. If the Wards did go here, the PRT had to have security measures in place. Students were walking in, talking, looking at me.
Not like they had at Winslow. Here, for most of them, I was an unknown quantity.
Now keep in mind that the Aisha story is canon-adjacent. Nothing here will contradict orb weaver, but I reserve the right to go back and do rewrites if it turns out that there were conflicts, since some of these stories are gonna be bouncing back and forth.
Aisha sat in the boring, boring room. Bro was also restricted to the PRT HQ.
And she could really go for some food. 2023-11-13 01:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dad was… subdued when he heard the news. “That’s great, Taylor!” he said.
Dad had been subdued ever since Mom had died. Just like me.
I wonder if getting out helped… I shook my head. Dad was trying. And he was still talking.
“Maybe we should go out and celebrate,” he said. “On the Boardwalk.”
“Wilson’s?” I asked. That had been a place whe...
2023-11-06 20:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostDad was quiet until we got home. Then he took a deep breath. “Taylor… why didn’t you tell me?”
I had my answer ready, and it was a true one. “At first? I didn’t want to involve you. I felt that only I could handle things. Later, I became concerned with what I might bring down on your head, legally or otherwise. After all, you could always state you knew nothing.”
“An...
2023-11-02 05:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Weavers Web: The Damsel and the Serpent!
Now The Investigator is known to the PRT and Villains alike, but soon, a desperate mother will come to Taylor to find her missing girl. Taylor's campaign against the Empire will have to be shared with a battle against an enemy that will stretch both The Investigator and Orb Weaver to their very limits.
But one old serpant will...
2023-11-01 04:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostAisha stared at her nemesis. He stared back at her over his desk, then frowned. “I’m sorry, but Shade is a entirely inoffensive name, and it reflects your powers.” He gestured at Number 1.
Aisha could keep track of ‘em, but she couldn’t make more than four. So, Number 1 to 4. She’d come up with a different name later. Maybe.
Right now, the other three were in the buildin...
2023-10-29 10:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostPeople are really liking Aisha, but the snarky ball of snark isn't going to be with Taylor all the time, and it'd be odd to keep having her run into Orb Weaver no matter where she goes. So instead of the Terminator story, would people prefer: Sidestory of Aisha? It won't replace Orb Weaver, but will be Orb Weaver compatible. (and Help me work with the Orb Weaver Story to keep it organized...
2023-10-23 19:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen George got into his apartment, he knew something was wrong.
Kaiser was sitting in it. Along with Victor.
“Hello, George,” Kaiser said, voice echoing from his helmet. “I’m here to thank you.”
“Sir? I’m not—“
“Oh, there’s no need to hide your glory!” Kaiser said, his voice amused. “You listened to the PRT guy at the bar, found out about the l...
2023-10-21 23:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe last interlude in this book: Cleaning up Loose Ends will be published.
After that, the next bit will probably be this coming Tuesday. The intervening story will be Terminator/uber.
2023-10-20 04:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostBulwark was a big guy. Much bigger than Mush had been. Or maybe…
Yeah, maybe it’s that he doesn’t look like a pile of garbage that doesn’t know how to fight. His skin was a collection of pellets, metal and ceramic, and some plates. They’d ignored the shotguns and pistols of the E88 guys, and then he’d used some kind of CO2 sprayer on them.
Smart.
It seems that people are fans of both ExvWOD and not unhappy with UBer/Terminator. I'm going to do Uber-Terminator for two reasons.
1. The lore is less deep dive than WOD, so less fear of running into something very wonky where I miss something from "tribe-book, Opossum" :)
2. Uber doesn't get enough love.
Now this isn't going to be a long story like the current on...
2023-10-14 05:51:40 +0000 UTC View Postoaky, I'm starting to get to the point where a lot of story threads are gonna be hitting each other, and that may mean that I need to take time out for a week to sit down and think now and then.
So I was thinking of another, secondary story, maybe related, maybe not, that I could throw up "in between" or when I was needing to take time to think, so there's not dead air.&n...
2023-10-11 02:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostJust a little snippet I created on the fly...
This might happen, it might, submitted for your approval. Aisha's patrol.
Aegis was... okay, Aisha was great with kids. Which was really weird because she mad Kyle, their image guys, hair fall out, especially fo her song, which now would forever obscure Clockblocker, where she san the "no more fucks to give...
Danny was working at his desk when the police officer walked in. “Mr. Hebert?”
Danny felt his heart clench. Cops didn’t normally talk to him for—“Is it Taylor?” his voice trembled.
“She’s fine, Mr. Hebert, but she was involved in an issue—it’s cape-related, so I’ve been asked to take you to the PRT building.”
“Right.” Could this be about Sophia?...
2023-10-07 05:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostInterludes are gonna be coming fairly quickly, and they'll be happening in some cases at the same time. But there's a lot of issues that just blew up, and people are gonna be talking about 'em.
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Right now, Brian could count the things he liked about the Wards on one hand. And not use all of his fingers. The base was locked down, even phones were cut off, and nobod...
2023-09-30 04:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post