Greetings. I'm sure you've noticed, I'm late yet again. This time I have a good reason - outside of potential untreated mental problem that I'm currently in the process of getting diagnosed.
This week my family receives the visit of a cousin I've only met once in my life, when I was younger. Following some issues long before either of us were born her side of the family got distant, and ...
2024-07-09 16:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostSarah ducked beneath the demented AI's fist before answering in kind with a kick to his chest, her foot brightly shining with light as it pushed him back. Meanwhile, Glicer formed a wall of pink fire to catch the bullets flying her way from the turrets on the android's shoulders. Scareowl instead dived down, his speed letting him escape the volley aimed at him. G433 cackled as another contrapti...
2024-07-02 20:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-06-26 12:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-06-25 16:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure about this, Mister Marley? The team and I weren't done designing the-"
"Silence, Yassim. With Silhouette threatening to take over this branch of the industry, we need something to show the public we are still the best without revealing our investors' pet projects. We need the Zero Gun to work, and we need it ready for yesterday."
"I understand, sir, but-"
<... 2024-06-24 16:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostSarah, in her white Hero trainee bodysuit, felt a bit queasy. She wasn't the only one; this was her group's first time on an actual crime scene, and that was plain to see.
They'd been going on patrols in the streets for a week now, each time accompanied and overseen by a senior Hero, both to keep an eye on their work and ensure they didn't bite off more than they could chew. This wasn't e...
2024-06-16 18:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostHardCored - Chatroom
MagicIsTragic: Yo, did everyone catch the opening of Silhouette's thing?
TechnoGogo: The Penumbral Palace? Not live, but I did watch the videos afterward. I didn't expect to see Decanov, nor for him to be happy for once.
KillLaKrill: You call that happy?
TechnoGogo 2024-06-07 19:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprisingly for James, everything had gone well.
It was now the morning after the grand opening of the Penumbral Palace, and everything was perfectly fine. He was enjoying spending time with the ratlings, helping them get ready for school since they finally would get to go starting the next week, and no new emergency had dropped on his lap. The team at the Shadow Den had successfully dea...
2024-05-31 19:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostG433 was unhappy.
No, scratch that. G433 WAS ABSOLUTELY LIVID.
The artificial gestalt struggled in his bounds, the screen of the cubic computer that served as his body flashed horrible things as the sound of clicking chains echoed.
In the back of the armored truck where he seethed in silence after being muted, the guards surrounding him watched the show curiously. It wasn't ev...
2024-05-27 18:01:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-05-19 13:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostStanding on a dilapidated building not too far from Mother Greenheld's orphanage, a robed figure watched the ongoing carnage. Cloaked in tan and dirtied silk, a wooden mask covered the figure's face, hiding their identity. Though with a close look, their loyalty was easy to decipher, a blue bee the size of a mouse nestled between the figure's raised hood and their neck, any hint of skin hidden ...
2024-05-18 18:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostKnowing some kind of emergency was happening back at the Shadow Den tempted James to just rush off and head down to the depths. However, he knew better. This could be a trap, a diversion to lure him away from the Penumbral Palace. Thankfully, he knew exactly how he could check on what was happening back in the Sunken City.
"That will be all for today from me. I'll let Mister Black...
2024-05-10 19:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-05-08 12:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Again, I will not elaborate on my place of birth."
"But-"
"If you insist any further I will have you removed from the conference."
The reporter who had been trying to get James to tell everything about his origins closed her mouth. It had been a little over fifteen minutes now since he officially began the second part of the conference for hi...
2024-05-04 19:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostAmong those gathered for the Penumbral Palace's opening day was a shifty figure, covered from head to toe in baggy clothes, with a hood, a bandana, and a cap further hiding away their identity. They had been idly playing with something in their hoodie's front pouch during Silhouette's entire speech, and now that it was over and the people were ready to enter the shop and make their purchases or...
2024-04-23 17:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostQuite the crowd had amassed for the event of the day. A shop's opening day wouldn't usually be this popular. Even if a good ad campaign could bring in the same numbers, people wouldn't be this invested in it as they were now. No, the reason why quite a substantial part of those gathered were journalists wielding mics and cameras was the identity of the man in charge: Silhouette. These past few ...
2024-04-17 20:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
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Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-04-15 11:26:36 +0000 UTC View PostWith no further incidents, the opening day date grew ever closer. The doctor continued working on his machinery, improving the efficiency of the complete designs and refining the still flawed ones. It took three tries before the artificial infusion process was fully successful. The bonds it formed in James' soul space weren't quite at the level of those he created himself, but they were better ...
2024-04-08 20:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostDoctor Ivan Decanov stepped towards the inert pile of black sludge that had once been two monsters attempting to kidnap him emotionlessly. He bent his back to study the mass a little closer, trying to discern traits leftover from the entities they used to be.
"You did quite the number on them."
Still acting as Silhouette, James approached the doctor after ending the dramatic horror ...
2024-04-01 18:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the two monstrous flesh creatures emerged from the sewer grate onto the street, they were in luck. Not only was the surface clear of pedestrians despite the sun still shining its light onto the city, but they also weren't far from their original target. While they had genuinely been ordered to investigate the sewers in search of clues, they knew of one spot it resided in.
"Look, brot...
2024-03-27 18:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe black rat's snoot twitched as it sought foreign scents. Its mischief had tasked it to scout this part of the sewer tunnels near the center of their territory in the clean city, and it took this duty seriously. Doubly so since their patriarch har reprimanded them following their poor performance on the clean side of the surface. Their benefactor had been unhappy with their failings, and they...
2024-03-18 20:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-03-17 21:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostSarah ducked beneath the metal fist flying towards her face.
The Hero trainee responded to Elaimant's attack with a light-coated knee to the torso, the elementally charged attack pushing back the towering avatar of magnetically gathered scraps in the form of a humanoid body the crystalline alien used. From the crunching and screeching that echoed in the training room during the impact, th...
2024-03-11 18:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostJames ducked below the fireball that flew right at his face.
"You know, this isn't exactly how I pictured these magic lessons."
Mesker Duskenfer the Third, great pyromancer and demonologist, merely shrugged as another volley of burning projectiles launched, forcing James to melt and spread and shift his form to avoid them.
"First lesson when it comes to magic,...
2024-03-07 21:47:42 +0000 UTC View PostArms crossed, James tapped his fingers nervously. It had been a handful of hours now since he'd brought his little family to the city hall for the kids' test to obtain citizenship. He and the ratlings had been separated almost immediately to be interviewed individually. While his meeting had been rather short, he had yet to see a hair of the children in the waiting room he had been brought to s...
2024-02-28 22:03:51 +0000 UTC View PostDecanov and James stood in silence for a moment after their distinguished guests left. Ultimately, it was the scientist who spoke first and ended the quietude.
"Do you think-"
"They'll try and listen in? I am unsure. They have the means and a reason to, but they have also proven trustworthy. So far."
"You trust them?"
"Not fully, but enough to al...
2024-02-23 16:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated by Thomas Miller.
2024-02-20 01:55:28 +0000 UTC View PostDoctor Decanov didn't have any apparent reaction when he saw James accompanied by the infamous bank manager and his celestial guardian. Not even as the pale being gracefully contorted its body in various ways whenever it passed by a place far too narrow for its large form, easily twice as tall as a human. James had to congratulate the mechanical man, he genuinely didn't know if the robot was th...
2024-02-18 22:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took a couple of knocks for James to open the door and discover the man his neighbor had hired to handle their pest problem. He looked fairly average for someone in their thirties, though he had to admit he looked more like a farmer than an exterminator even past the first glance. Honestly, if it hadn't been for the yellow cap with the crossed-out cockroach, James would have thought thi...
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