Chapters tagged cyborg

by Zeebop

Chapter 1

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 01 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age. After twenty years in the rangers, girl and woman, I've taken my severance package in the southlands. Lost too many friends in far Harad; and I've no stomach for the core cities and the arcologies in the n...

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Chapter 2

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 01 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd "Azzie, no!" I cried. The three-season tent didn't take more than a few minutes to set up. Just long enough for me to take my eyes off the big-breasted orc woman. When I had it set up, I turned b...

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Chapter 3

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 01 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd Chrome and a bus ticket away from the farm. That's what the recruiter had sold me, twenty-odd years ago. No more chasing pigs, no more shitty connections to download the day's lessons. I was going...

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Chapter 5

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 09 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age The scythe was like a Dwarf rune, cast in aluminum, with vulcanized rubber grips. In place of a blade, the long dull crescent held suspended a single monofilament, the spool locked in place. Most orcs did...

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Chapter 6

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 16 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age I had seen Thorin VI tanks roll across the plains of Rohan. Lines of tracers that glittered in the dark of Far Harad, during the Siege of Dol Menwha. Heard the echo of blade and pick in the tunnel-fights...

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Chapter 7

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 17 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age I'm not an archaeologist, but I can dig a trench. Two feet by six feet of of soil and volcanic ash brought me to the flat top of the structure, and my entrenching tool cleared off well-cut and well-laid s...

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Chapter 8

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 17 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd Far Harad, where rocky foothills dip down into sandy scrubland, the dry seasonal riverbeds, and eventually out to the true desert. The dark of the moon, when only the stars looked down at us from...

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Chapter 9

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 18 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age > In a tunnel, a leaden beast waits > It can only bite when it leaves. > What is it? The door glowed neon silver in the dark space, the seemingly-solid bonds of light were flowing streams of Elf-sc...

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Chapter 10

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 19 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age I awoke on my stomach before dawn. That was odd, since I normally slept on my back or side. Azzie had stepped out, probably to answer nature's call. I scratched at my neural jack and found the dust cover...

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Chapter 11

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 19 / 02 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd The Shire AgriCorp's packing peanuts and plastic bio-film were biodegradable. Technically they were edible, though I wasn't prepared to test that. Right now, the smart house was dormant; we needed...

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Chapter 12

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 5 / 03 / 2120 of the Fourth Age Azzie disappeared last night. The house came with fully illustrated, guided instructions for setting up the electricity, water, and waste lines. Only one of us could access it at a time, and it was my acc...

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Chapter 13

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 5 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age There were chores to do. I disentangled myself from Azzie and checked the rain catch, fishing out some of the bugs and grass from the collector. In the cool of the morning, I ran the monomolecular scythe t...

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Chapter 14

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 8 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age "Do you think it was made here?" Azzie's voice sounded strange and small in the dark of our new root cellar—or whatever we ended up using the underground space for. The Uruk had been anxious to help as I'...

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Chapter 15

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 12 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age We ended up building the storage shed right over the entrance to the root cellar. I dug out the trench around the opening, mixed and poured the quick-set concrete as I set up the four metal poles that woul...

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Chapter 16

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 16 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age When I was a kid, the scarecrow was an old set of Gondorian armor, rusted and full of holes, stuffed with rags and straw on a wooden frame. Even back then, the birds that would eat the seeds ignored it. Fa...

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Chapter 17

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 16 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd I found the kitten licking up the blood by our front door. It was a young, ragged thing, all bones and skin and shadow-black fur, like a piece of the night. Body disposal is an unpleasant chore a...

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Chapter 18

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 17 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age We had strung up a washing line—the better to save on power—and Azzie hung the assassin's clothes out to dry. Búrzi kept close to her, often in her very shadow. One of the shotguns hung from an impromptu s...

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Chapter 19

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 17 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd Azzie could feel it when I licked the cock. The Orc cock had a direct neural interface, and I could see a cable snake up from the base of the dildo. I'd heard about synthpricks that enabled direct...

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Chapter 20

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 18 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age The United Megacorp gave me wired reflexes, neural ports, headware memory, cybereyes with low-light augments...and I wasn't the most heavily modified member of my squad. Miltech is high tech, and I was ta...

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Chapter 21

Journal of Rowana, daughter of Rowetha 18 / 04 / 2120 of the Fourth Age, cont'd It was different this time. Probably because I knew it was going to happen. We sat on the bed, fully clothed, as she slotted the cable into her neural port. Azzie had to pull that long, dark hair o...