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Dylan is your average nerd. He works downtown for an architecture firm during the day and enjoys all manner of games and media in his spare time. But while Dylan likes all forms of sci-fi and fantasy, he really likes the genre of superheroes.
So when an indie company releases a virtual reality MMO where players choose to play as heroes or villains, Dylan immediately buys into it. He has a specific type of character he really enjoys watching, something that always makes his inner child laugh in delight. The Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Yes, those inept, bungling, yet highly dangerous villains found in so many of Dylan's cartoons as a child. He loves how they always come up with strange ways to conquer the world and how they get thwarted every weekend. He remembered laughing at every silly antic, every cliched shout of "Curses! Foiled again!" He loves it so much he decides to take this idea into the MMO.
But to grab a playerbase, the company has announced a promotion that players with a high enough reputation can get contacted to become permanent raid bosses in the game. Those chosen will be paid as if employees of the company. Serious players all hoping to live the dream of playing videogames all day rush to purchase copies of World of Supers!
What will happen when Dylan, someone playing the game for fun, clashes with these overly serious players?
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1. Prologue - A World of Supers
2. 1 - Dylan Makes a Decision
3. 2 - Character Creation
4. 3 - Powers and Workouts
5. 4 - Clothes Make the Villain
6. 5 - Make Do With What You Have
7. 61 - Drawing a Line
8. 62- Clandestine Meetings
9. 63 - Teamups Aren't Just for Heroes
10. 64 - Sweet Creations
11. 65 - The Candy Queen of Crime
12. 160 - Moving Up In the World
13. 161 - Good To Be Back
14. 162 - Expanding the Workforce
15. 163 - Engine Troubles
16. 164 - Revving Up
17. 165 - One Last Invention
18. 166 - Minions! Assemble!
19. 167 - Hidden Dealings
20. 168 - Sneaking In
21. 169 - Secret Agent Villain
22. 170 - Free For All
23. 171 - Mad Scramble
24. 172 - Get Down Mr. President!
25. 173 - Infiltration Station
26. 174 - Fight For A Cause
27. 175 - The Escape
28. 176 - And I Woulda Got Away With It Too!
They are Smol
What if Humanity wasn't the apex predator among the stars? What if those true apex predators saw mankind and came to the same conclusion: Holy cow they're all adorable. The They are Smol series takes place in the near future after a disasterous first contact and the subesquent accidental invasion of Earth. Humanity is being uplifted for many reasons; they provide new culture and art on the galactic scene, sure. They can also look at scientific and social problems in a new light - absolutely. Mainly though, it's just to get them to do something productive with their lives and stop setting everything on fire- Humans, for their part, are oscillating between abject fear at the otherness of their new neighbors and the frustration that they keep placing things on the top shelf.
8 143Crimson Astral Cascade
Summary: A vampire-astronaut from a futuristic super-reality, is reborn into a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, and now must make a living for himself and his family as a summonable spirit of the void. The ‘chosen’ son of a vast, multiversal, empire is exiled for the sake of political expediency. Honestly, they might have been trying to execute him, rather than just sending him away, but as it turned out, he survived. He fell into the grand nebula, the sewage line, and the plumbing system for the cosmos. Then he was within the base layer of the collective of mostly-destroyed universes known as the core worlds of Tesson. Now for the sake of his new family and new life, he will have to do his best as a “heroic” Astral, traveling between the myriad fractal-worlds of Tesson that still reside outside of the nebula as means of making a living. TLDR: Who hasn’t played a gacha game by now. But have you ever wondered about what kind of life those characters you’re trying to win have lived and are living? Posted only Scribblehub and Royal Road Confirmation Sequence: 2, 4, 16, 32, 64, 128…Tasty Cool.
8 211A Hardness of Minds
(35 Chapters >70,000 words, edited version available on Amazon) A Near-Future Hard Sci-Fi about Data, War, and First Contact in our Solar System. Life exists under Europa’s ice, but there’s doubt in the data. Against of backdrop of escalating tensions, double-sided revelations of first contact ripple through all involved as the probe attempts the first landing on the ice of Europa. The novel intertwines perspectives of Earth and under Europa as all struggle for truth. For fifteen years, the Europa Clipper has hinted at life under the ice-shell of Europa. An eccentric mogul, bent on expanding his legacy—funds and launches the first privately funded probe to Jupiter. The robotic submarine can reach the ocean floor and returning by an expertly trained AI. Tensions flare between the United States and China, while cyberattack threatens the project. Meanwhile, Dalton, a self-sabotaging synthetic data engineer, longs to make a name for himself in the scientific community, even at the cost of being infamous. Unknown to Earth, alien society has penetrated up the kilometers of ice, and has long researched ‘Nullworld,’ the mysterious ‘ether’ beyond the ice from which no sonar returns. Tensions in their global society have escalated as their city-state fights with a neighbor whose hydrothermal vent has run cold. Now the military caste is in control, halted all research, and pressed capable scientists and engineers into militia service. The alien scientist must escape and bring back research he hopes will diffuse tensions: the revelation of another water world. This is the second hard sci-fi novel by author Eric Kay (No Lack of Sunshine). It explores issues of data integrity in the age of adversarial information warfare, moving minds away from the brink of war, and experience versus knowledge by proxy.
8 84A Journey of Chaos and Glory
Chunks of stone forming an armor of earth, blazing orbs of compact fire, riding the wind, tendrils of pure darkness. These are just a few common sights in Jeru's world. Everyone can harness the power of an element to enhance themselves. Jeru however is different. At the age of 12 he is still unable to manipulate nature, this marks him as a simpleton. Jeru's life is further mired in chaos as his Father disappears during a fight with a powerful creature , an Outworlder, a being from another world. Now Jeru must overcome his handicap and become strong if he wishes to find answers to who he is or where his Father has gone.
8 103Does Hell Have an Adventurers' Guild?
I have decided to try out a different style. I cannot say much at this point, the story is mostly fantasy/romance and will evolve as I go, but it will involve an "adventurers' guild" in a demonic setting. MC will be a reincarnator becoming a denizen of hell, I will add vital description as I go. Gore will be used with reason, some bad words here and there and severe explicit or traumatizing content will be announced in advance, but it will not be the focus of the work.
8 165The Nerd that turned out to be Vampire-ish [Wattys2015]
For 17 years, Victoria thought she was human, until she met this nerd who flashed her a double-middle finger. Yes, her whole life drastically changed after that epic encounter. She ventured through different heights with one goal in mind, to seek answers. Slowly she discovered pieces that together would complete the puzzle she tried so hard to figure out - her life. In the end Victoria found out the secrets of her past, about her true identity, of who she really is and who she will become. © Copyright 2015 Vida Fernandez. All Rights Reserved.[UNEDITED VERSION]Aug. 30, 2015: #89 Highest Rank in VampireNov. 17, 2015: #3 in Vampire's "Hot" Completed SectionDec. 29, 2019: #9 in Wit Section
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