“Agreed. If only we could figure out how to turn the damn thing off,” Mary retorted sardonically. She felt the wince that came with it from Abe and couldn’t blame him for it. [Well… that’s true. If we do figure it out then… that’ll be rule 1. You have an idea for rule 2?] She instantly nodded. “You can …

“Big brother… Where are we?” Luna asked, sniffling after she stopped weeping. Looking around, Kain found a normal, if old alleyway. The ground was paved in cement, the buildings were made of concrete, and the little details like trash cans and sewer lids were present. Kain peered out into the street and saw cars rush by and pedestrians, wearing anything …

Miranda never liked the desert of the Americon west. She never liked it when she was living on a dusty homestead that had failed to catch up to modern times. She never liked it when she moved into the city that had nothing but flat, dusty shrublands surrounding it. And she certainly did not like the west when the apocalypse …

Disclaimer: this is going to be a short one, as I just got back from my trip and need to take a rest (I know how ironic it is to need a break right after a vacation, but I’m working off of a good 2 hours of sleep, so roll with it). This will be a part of the week-long …

Luna was doing the hardest thing she had done in her entire, presumably, centuries spanning life. It was a task that needed to be completed, her new friend told her, if she wanted to explore some of the theoretical possibilities of her new body. Even though half of the words that came out of her mouth were needlessly complicated, Luna …

Apart from the chairs and the table, there was nothing else in the control room.When they tried to interact with the walls, they learned that every functionality was damaged beyond repair. So, with nothing left to find, they moved to the next room. The next room was the ‘Mass Biomachine Storage’, which was a long and wide room that extended …

The head of the ‘Troubleshooting’ Division, Mary Sencan, was having a bad day. She walked through the labyrinth of tunnels that surrounded the nexus, passing by any manner of creatures. From stout Gremlins being puppeted by some low level technician soul to high level company administrators piloting their preferred species of sentient creature, they all stood at attention for her. …

“So maintenance, storage, or control center are our options, huh? I think we should start with the control center,” Kain stated. Neither of the other two had complaints, so they walked up to the furthest right room. The door was not any of the standard doors they had seen, but was a heavily reinforced blast door with thick sounding plating …

During the process of creating Luna’s outfit, Kain and Ythane asked about how she was able to shapeshift into a goblin and how she knew everything she did about her new body. Luna explained how the machine implanted the knowledge directly into her conscious mind and instincts, and how the machine gave all of the knowledge about DNA that the …

“What do you mean by that?” Kain asked in response, “All of this stuff works quite well. The cloak’s shield is great, the firing system of the pistol is the same, so what’s the problem?”  Ythane took a short breath. “Yes, it all works. The only problem is that you made it out of pure Ether runes,” she explained, “Did …