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I was not bothered for the rest of my walk.
Not directly, at least. People watched me the entire time, of course, but it seemed that nobody was as stupid as the mugger.
That was good. It made the re...
2025-10-01 13:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post1.8
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That lasted all of ten minutes, and it had still been so uncomfortably slimy that I felt like I needed a shower.
I swept through the front doors of the building, rising to my full height outside in the su...
2025-09-29 13:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post1.i
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His name was Don Garner.
He was an employee of Night Corp, a public facing Immigration Agent at the Department of City Affairs.
He would sit at his desk, doing whatever work he had been assigned whi...
2025-09-25 13:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post1.7
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In the year 2020, to get personal registration done, one would have to go to the City Center and look for the City Affairs Building.
This was a necessity for anyone who was coming in from the NUSA, but si...
2025-09-23 14:36:42 +0000 UTC View Post1.6
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To my legitimate surprise, I wasn’t able to add all three accounts to the Agent. Both the man upstairs and the woman downstairs were paired just fine, but whatever that third guy had as a part of his...
2025-09-19 14:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post1.5
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Checking out the bodies only took me a few minutes each, and I had to say... I was terribly disappointed.
Three dead Scavs, and none of them had a single Eurodollar note in their pockets. Absurd! Who does...
2025-09-17 14:07:08 +0000 UTC View Post1.4
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Chozo.
A simple word. It wouldn’t mean anything to the people of this world, other than a pair of syllables strung together.
If I went around announcing myself as that, I’d get a few weird looks...
2025-09-15 14:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post1.3
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Two targets. Neither knew I was here. One was busy, downstairs, behind soundproofing, and working with a loud tool. The other was upstairs, probably watching something other than the cameras, and was e...
2025-09-11 15:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1.1 of this particular work is available here:
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/drichs-drabbles.626815/p...
2025-09-09 13:28:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement:
So, if you’ve been following the Discord, you may already know this. Incase you are not already in the Discord or have not kept up with it for whatever reason, this update reiterates the immediate future.
... 2025-08-25 11:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue: Reb Nobis Faveant
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The Vascular Plant plunged into the Coral cloud.
The resonance took only a few moments to start up. Even if most of it was isolated within the Vascular Plant, it was close enough, ...
2025-08-21 16:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post13.10
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Neither of us hesitated to charge directly at the other. Funnily enough, we both even chose the same opening move.
I raised my blade, and I watched Raven do the same. We swung at the same time, across t...
2025-08-21 15:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post13.9
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Iguazu had always been pathetic.
For the past five years, ever since the first time I saw him in action, that was always the impression he gave off. He whined, he complained, he marinated in ang...
2025-08-19 14:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post13.8
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“Tch. And who the hell are you?” Iguazu asked.
“If you don’t know the answer to that question, then ALLMIND hasn’t told you... Or, more likely, you just didn’t care to ask.” 2025-08-15 14:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Calculations flashed through my mind in the brief instant after the Ghost was revealed. Calculations- and an emotion that was somewhere between disbelief and sheer fucking annoyance.
How. 2025-08-13 14:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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From far to the Xylem’s side, a quartet of transports were hurling through the exosphere towards the zone.
They were burning at a speed that was well beyond anything that was possible for an o...
2025-08-11 13:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post13.5
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The three simultaneous detonations of the Coral storages had created a trio of converging streams. All of them had been equidistant, all of them had effectively the exact same explosion parameters, and none of...
2025-08-07 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post13.4
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It didn’t take long for her to get local control. She had physical access to the hardware, and that was about all anybody ever needed. I attempted to slow her, of course, but my own design decisions now work...
2025-08-05 13:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post13.3
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The entire time that the Pilots had been in combat, ALLMIND’s machines had been searching through the three storage areas. Now she’s preparing to actually do something there.
Unfortunately, I quite l...
2025-08-01 13:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post13.2
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Walter’s Coral Rifle was by far the most obvious of the attacks that came. Fully charged, the beam lanced outwards, stretching a dozen kilometers in a moment.
It punctured straight through one...
2025-07-30 13:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post13.1
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It takes only minutes for the pilots to scramble. ‘Only minutes’, however, is incredibly misleading.
On the battlefield, ‘only minutes’ is an eternity. ‘Only minutes’ is enough time for me to...
2025-07-28 13:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post13.0
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“‘Stubborn’ is a term that applies to Humans.” ALLMIND lied through her non-existent teeth. “I am simply patient, and that patience has now born fruit.”
The situation was
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“I have to say, I’m very happy with how well Raven is doing.” Ayre spoke to me. “So much progress has been made! We’re still working on speech therapy, but aside from that, Raven is as good any other...
2025-07-22 12:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post12.8
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By the time I was wrapping things up with the Vascular Plant and starting to move on to the next step, Flatwell had finished wrapping up his side of things, too.
The formalities had bee...
2025-07-18 13:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post12.7
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I had a single major problem left to deal with.
That problem was Coral.
There were, across the entire planet, a lot of Coral deposits.
There were several hundred small deposits of little real...
2025-07-16 14:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post12.6
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March 3, 50 years post Fires of Ibis.
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The next few weeks passed quickly. It was strange, since I had less to do than usual and I thought that would have made it seem s...
2025-07-14 13:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post12.5
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On one side, one of the most advanced warmachines ever built, capable of operating in almost any environment, powered by a substance that laughed at the laws of physics.
On the other, a stationary set of...
2025-07-10 13:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post12.4
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I was, to be perfectly honest, quite impressed.
ALLMIND’s base was located near the western edge of the continent of Belius. She’d gone ahead and constructed a facility on an abyssal plain, putting i...
2025-07-08 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post12.3
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“Well, I’ve got to say, you were right.” Carla whistled. “I do like what you’ve done with the place.”
Carla was currently flying over the city, alo...
2025-07-04 13:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post12.2
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“It’s genuinely impressive that you’re alive, you know that?”
Less than five minutes after I’d started the deeper examinations, I’d moved Raven into a medical tank. Even that...
2025-07-02 13:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post