Thankfully, the rest of the visit to the medical wing was significantly less… exciting after the Slugma situation. Where they quietly moved between rooms meeting more injured pokemon and humans alike.
A lot of humans.
Mostly humans.
It got bad enough that Caretak...
2025-04-02 20:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe voice forces Jinx to come back to herself somewhat, tuning back into reality and realizing her neuralware is pinging the person's UserID, informing her it’s Solei.
“Seriously you just drop the call and I got lost trying to find my way here so I- Oh.” Solei cuts herself off as she ...
2025-03-27 00:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post“...And you should have seen Claire's face when I showed her the yield projection on our portfolio!”
Tanya nods along as she walks beside Caretaker, at some point Matron figured out Tanya already learned the material they were trying to teach. So today, as everyone was lining up to go t...
2025-03-27 00:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostFeeding more of her mana into the… purple variant of the magic that’s settled in that same space within her. Tanya watches as it burns her natural magic like fuel, growing larger in the process, and trying to slip her control.
Thankfully this mana is significantly more like what s...
2025-03-20 00:47:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe annoyingly high pitched buzzing of her ringtone has Jinx jolt to wakefulness with an irritated grunt. Blinking, the pain in her neck is more than enough information on where she fell asleep, even before her brain even has time to catch up with the colorful noise everything looks like before s...
2025-03-20 00:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post“What?” The girl asks.
Tanya blinks, before letting out a groan and dropping her arm.
Language barrier.
She’d forgotten, with so few interactions with humans she’d overlooked their inability to understand her for a moment.
Apparently it’s one of th...
2025-03-12 22:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostIn the darkened nursery, Tanya sits alone as the only conscious creature remaining in the nearly silent room. The soft snores and dreaming chirrups of her sisters as they nap a perpetual backdrop as she calls on her magic again.
Even now, without even a single spell, the mana has proven to ...
2025-03-12 22:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostTanya wasn't sure exactly what she’d expected when she agreed to this. But as her sister sits down opposite and grabs both her hands, she knows it’s not this.
“Ok.” Happiny says, face scrunching up slightly in thought. “This is how Chansey did it, so just...
2025-03-12 22:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostShe’s drowning.
Switch Solei overlay video to feed F1-C8. Three targets. Task external1 and external3 to breach.
All other externals in use. Retask to central node.
Aria is drowning.
Soeli snaps her gun up a...
2025-03-12 21:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs Solei enters the room Aria’s anger is forcefully shunted away as she needs to direct her full attention to the careful balance of hardware limits, task priority, and resource management. Constantly pushing to eke every atom of potential from her capped processing, in order to prevent fifteen...
2025-03-05 22:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostJust a little clarification on what this poll MEANS before we begin.
Life happens, but though life I will do everything I can to get at least one chapter out a week. Even if I do literally NOTHING else online or I really want to focus on another project, I will ALWAYS...
2025-03-02 05:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post“What the fuck?”
“I know, I’m sorr-”
“No! What the fuck!” Solei shouts as she scrambles with her jacket, simultaneously tugging at the handle to the still moving cab.
Aria’s mind scrambles to find a way to save this mess as her friend finally su...
2025-02-27 20:01:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Where?” Aria asks, listening to Noah’s increasingly incoherent responses with half an ear as plans form and are just as quickly discarded.
Already scanning through her debtor toolkit, she finds to her horror that those skills aren't designed for finding someone at ...
2025-02-19 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostEight days.
She adds half her paycheck to the account again.
Eight more days and she’ll have enough eddies to purchase full access to the Department of Business Relations, including the taxes and fees from her not being a multinational conglomerate.
Aria sigh...
2025-02-14 16:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the liquids Aria’s tried, Miso soup is among her favorites.
Certainly chief among them in the category of hot liquids.
The custom spoon stirs the silty miso paste as she ladles out another steaming sip into her waiting mouth.
She’s not exactly ...
2025-02-14 16:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Jinx stare at another instance of RD-1.4.9 as it moves back into the recently vacated work area makes Aria suspect her friend doesn't like the bots. Whenever one crawls out of the dark, any conversation they’re having just stops, stone dead. Until it leaves their eyel...
2025-02-14 16:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Fucking idiot! What were you thinking!?”
She made a mistake! She should’ve never asked Jinx for help! She’s evil!
“Gah! I said I’m sorry! Cut it out!” Aria whines, her cries ignored as Jinx cuffs her upside...
2025-02-10 01:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe attacker doesn't move, but she can see him preloading programs, preparing his assault.
Aria does the same, moving forward just enough for her heels to be back on solid ground; quietly spinning up core parts of her combat suite.
She ignores the voice in her head (who so...
2025-02-06 01:38:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not going to advertise this until after I have some chapters up, so if you're looking at this congratulations! You found the first post! Now go back to where there's content you are (hopefully) paying to see.
2025-02-01 17:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post