Chapters tagged science fiction

by JackSimth

Chapter 2

I wake up feeling disoriented. I'm sitting in an office? It's a comfortable chair… old fashioned leather, a nice deep red… why am I naked? At least I'm not tied down… I take a look around. Old mahogany desk, walls lined with books to the point I can't even tell if there's an actu...

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Chapter 3

I take a few gasps, the memory of my torment fresh in my mind… comparatively, looking down and being unable to see my lap for the two huge fleshy orbs in the way is minor. “Does she hate me that much?” “No,” the demonic entity shakes his head, “she hates *me* that much, but...

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Chapter 5

When my senses fade in, I'm looking up at a canopy of purple circular leaves held up by red branches. I sit up, and find I know exactly how to use my new body: It doesn't feel awkward. I examine myself: Hands look human enough… dark brown skin, four fingers and a thumb on each ha...

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Chapter 6

Wait… the sun is going *down*, not up. By the time I notice, I have already flown a couple hours in the exact wrong way. Yay. Well… I took a rank in Survival, and picked it as one of my class skills, with the idea of eventually getting a Creature Companion… but it al...

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Chapter 7

The dawn brings some clarity; I wash up, have a breakfast of edible leaves, and take off… going the *right* direction this time. Still naked as the day I was born… yesterday, in a sense, but I'm also in my late twenties… I encounter the same distraction… and take a break periodic...

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Chapter 8

I focus on Fallen Fey this time. I keep the Destruction blast, but otherwise go all in: Greater Link (to keep the things I pick up for an hour), Long Step (because teleportation gets me out of jams), Feline Omens (for the cat shadow, it's actually pretty nasty), and Pixie Sticks...

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Chapter 9

The vesk (a lizard warrior race, he goes by Bob due to pronunciation issues) who officially recruits me (he seems the least skeezy, but I think that has more to do with him not being a mammal than any inherent personality traits). Bob wears patched golemforged plating armor that...

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Chapter 10

“We're one of around a hundred different ships tasked with shipping one item,” Bob begins, “some alien machine. We were all given numbered crates. Ninety-nine of them will explode when opened, one has the actual thing. The receiver knows which crate number to open, but not which...

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Chapter 11

As we walk down the bare metal hallways, I ask a question, “You're not armed?” The stocky human in armor wordless holds out a hand, and a crystalline void manifests between his fingers. I get it, “Ah,you have a connection to cosmic forces.” A Solarian, probably. It's...

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Chapter 12

The messenger isn't hard to find, the ship isn't that big: Most of the structure is either cargo space or machinery of various kinds…and it helps that there are labels on the doors and it's right across from the barracks: I was definitely tired when I went to bed. I check the com...

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Chapter 16

We have Bob on the comms when we finally settle in to return to real space. I take a last glance at the big screen and the Drift, that infinite void, the nothingness broken up by floating pink and purple clouds of mysterious energy. We shut everything down to engage the Drift eng...

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Chapter 17

We settle on a stealth build. Yes, it's not entirely reliable, but we pick up a Gray Cloak. Just a “Budget” model, but the point isn't the level of sensors it can fool up close… but the matter that no sensors can see through it at all from enough distance. We of course also pair...

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Chapter 21

Frank gets his kit out and goes to work. After a few minutes of testing, he chuckles, “It's not too bad… an aphrodisiac, pheromones, some sugar, some flavoring… and oh yeah, it's about a hundred fifty proof,” the elf shakes his head. “You don't have to worry about passing disease...

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Chapter 25

As I'm wondering, we get an alert, “We have company,” over the coms… Bob's watching, apparently. We run to the bridge and see it on the screens: A tug. It's a Small ship, only seats two: The draw if the thing is the little issue that it has a Heavy weapon mount - the only...

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Chapter 35

I don't spend much time with : I pick up a couple abilities to make my ship faster (both in the drift and not), the Coven hex to help my Vancian casting (with the help of a particular talent from the Time Sphere), some abilities to upgrade my numbers again (I'm probably goin...

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Chapter 36

I tour my new ship. I went with the default frame: The Explorer. It's a Medium starship, two hundred feet long, space for six. I went with the Luxury accommodations, so each crew member will have a private cabin, bathroom, kitchenette, and such: Basically an apartment… not that t...

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Chapter 38

“Oh, you seductive succubus… silver tongued devil…” he's growling at me across the link. “I'm not going to contest that, but it's also not an answer,” Succubus are DEMONS, idiot, not that I am one. “And you're not going to just betray me after?” He growls more....

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Chapter 18

We go through and plan everything out. We all have to end up as Heirophants - which works well for me: I am a Divine Caster, and Inspired Spell rocks - but doesn't work nearly as well for anyone else (Spheres of Power doesn't do the Arcane/Divine/Psychic divide, and doesn't have...