《Big Red Button.》Push number 523-ish.
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You push the button.
Ding.
The dirt has been replaced with white tile.
You're in another bathroom! This one is not duck themed. It's blue seashell themed. Huzzah!
You... You go do whatever you need to, I'm going to go get another latte. Byeeee!
I'm back! And you're not soaking wet this time! Yay!
Ok, ready to push that button again?
DO YOU PRESS THE BUTTON? Yes Probably
Ding.
All the plumbing is gone. Instead, the walls are now covered in bookshelves. And on those bookshelves?
This may come as a shock, but on the bookshelves are books. Shocking.

There's also a very comfortable-looking chair, and a tray with a pot of tea and cookies on it. And a cup. Or maybe that's coffee in the pot. Or perhaps hot chocolate! I'm sure it's whichever one you like best.
You pour yourself a cup, put the shark tooth and damp poppies on the table where the cup used to be, and go to the wall.
Let's look at those books, shall we?
A fantastical world called the Ecumene. A sinister invasion by forces of the Underworld. A war that threatens to rend the Three Realms asunder.
18-year-old Kendrick is from another universe entirely, summoned to be the hero the Ecumene needs... but he's kind of a clumsy goof.
Two companions—a fiery, battle-ready witch named Bellara and a soft-spoken, friendly healer named Sahni—welcome him to the Ecumene for one purpose: he may be the only one that can save it. Why? Precisely because he's an outsider to their world. And how?
With an ancient weapon that seems tailor-made for him alone: the Psysword.
Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the "Great Gulf", events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against an hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself.
"The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so." - Terran belief.
Dear Diary: I was reincarnated as a catgirl in a dungeon. There are time-loops. There are marble races. There are other catgirls. What else is there? (Pizza) Turn the page and see!!!
What would you do after waking up in a world of magic and monsters with no memory?
Earth seems to be the latest victim of an amoral interstellar empire looking for entertainment. No one's going to have an easy time surviving, but does a mom of three even have a chance?
During one usual evening, a boy was born.
As if feeling it, ancient griffon opened his eyes from slumber.
The skies trembled under the visions of the fire and blood.
A beat appeared inside an egg.
It was the prince who will restore the Empire.
The fate drums have rung. The war and change were coming!
There is a button. It is red. It will be pushed.
Wait, this sounds familiar...
She had welcomed Death with open arms, and was more than happy to spend her afterlife floating in the void. Until a Goddess decides she has better plans for her and offers her a choice any fantasy loving geek would die for. However after accepting the offer she learned the hard way that one should always read the fine print, especially when dealing with a God.
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Now she's been dropped into the world that inspired her favorite game. Except the body she now inhabits is that of the final boss of the game, only 8 years before she comes into her cataclysmic powers. She now has to avoid the machinations of a family that at best wants nothing to do with her and at worst wants her dead. Avoid any and all Heroes with a proclivity for decapitation, complete a Goddess's vague Quest to save the fate of the world, tame every cute magical beast she can get her hands on. Oh and probably find a way to smack said Goddess who thought putting her in the body of the character with the worst Tragic Backstory™ was a good idea.
Liliana Rosengarde might be Fated to Fall but this little bird just found her wings and won't be hitting the ground anytime soon.
Once in a faraway land in sector 206 on a world of magic, there was a king and a queen. The king was passing through the town when a merchant gave him a strange mythical book, written on it was "The Age Of Diamonds". The king went to the Royal library and stayed there to read.
It was an ancient book consisting of the history of Diamonds. Diamonds were supreme beings that were given to create life and destroy life, also known as world destroyers. They could pass through time and dimensions. In the book there were twelve elite diamond, they were:
The Golden Diamond of all elements
The Purple Diamond of Creation
Black Diamond of calamity, Choas and destruction
The White Diamond of Peace
The Green Diamond of salvation
The Red Diamond of rage and fire
The Pink Diamond of purity and protection
The Yellow Diamond of lightning
The Blue Diamond of the sea
The Grey Diamond of revolution
The orange diamond of passion
The Brown Diamond of beauty
The Violet Diamond of Glory
Diamonds could earn titles depending on their accomplishments.
This is a story about a girl who becomes a god traveling dimensions. She suffers through pain for many years to be called back to heaven to get her Diamond title and was betrayed. Turning her mad and had war against gods all on her own.
Read more to see her trial and errors she had to go through to become the Diamond God of chaos as she travels universes with her sisters.
In a far-away land of snow and mystery, the fates of two bastards entangle.
He is a warrior and a ruler. She is a physician with a tormented past.
Now both of them will have to learn not only to live together but also to fight against any and all that threatens to ruin their happiness. Amongst chaos, schemes, and war, will they manage to fulfill the most difficult task - finding the way to each other's heart and soul?
The path won’t be easy. A dark cult and even darker magic are resurfacing after years of slumber. And while they wreak havoc in the lands of Norden, the Star-gazer’s voice echoes in the night, heralding a dangerous future:
When the Beast falls, the Swallow shall triumph.
For the Sun to shine over Norden, the Swallow must be devoured.
Andy has little to live for and even less fucks to give. When at the end of his rope, a stranger offers him a deal to enter a competition with life and deaths stakes in a series of games against other gamers, he doesn't hesitate to accept. After all the prize for winning is enough to turn everything around for him.
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Sixteen year old Marvin Perlie finds himself exposed to a world of wizards, monsters and more as he struggles to make peace with his own past, insecurities, and the friends and enemies in this new world.
We’ve all heard the tales. Stories of heroes being summoned to slay powerful demons. Of ordinary people suddenly finding themselves the champions of their own legends.
But not all individuals are summoned to a great destiny, some are just the next item on the menu.
Warning this story will be very dark, it would make my previous works seem like a children’s bedtime story. As I am also working on other stories, this one won’t be updated quite as regularly
A Doctor deals with the paradox of his lifestyle and his job, hiding them from both within and out of his family.
Rohl had always wanted to be an adventurer but having one of the most powerful monsters wipe out his entire village was not how he wanted to get the role.
With a little bit of godly help, all he can do now is try and become a stronger adventurer in his search for vengeance against the beast that has caused him so much pain. A beast even the stronger adventurers dare not face.
Arty and Eli live normal lives. They excel in their academics and are respected as leaders. They also hide their powers in order to live quiet lives, free from the politics that stick so closely to their family.
This freedom is shattered when they return to a home set ablaze. Their names are slandered in the street when they're accused of crimes they didn't commit.
Cold. Afraid. Alone.
Where are they to run, when men in black are hunting them down?
This is the story of a pair of twins, Arthur and Eliana Lane, as they make their Descent.
Tristan Ulrich is a peerless prodigy. All those that stand before him can do nothing but bask in his brilliance but he is of no interest to the Gods. But this isn't his story, for he is just another peerless prodigy. Who, among the Gods, was not one?
But their eyes are peeled for one: Adrian, the Dreamer of Eternity. None dared to even dream of Perpetuity, let alone aspire for it. But he, alone, does.
Look a little closer. See the cracks growing deeper. See here, in Entithea, old dead things growing restless. Witness their release.
Six Families rule the underground city of Entithea, each with unique magic granted through pacts with their ancestors. To break one's Family pact means loss of magic and all Family bonds. Only the Orphanage, run by the Church of Royals, will take in the disowned.
In that Orphanage lives the spirited young woman Nadira, delivered to them as an infant. When Nadira makes the hasty decision to run away, the consequences echo through the tunnels.
For her freedom, Nadira must find a way to keep the powerful Church of Royals at bay. Many figures want to keep Orphans where they are, while others want to break the existing structures to serve themselves. Her interests will collide with four others, for good or ill. Entithea’s future lies in their hands.
Frustrated with the blight of coming from a family of criminals, a nerdy Latino, Ezequias 'Zeke' Rosario strives to be the exception and rise above the stereotypes, working every day to become a world-renowned doctor.
After stepping up to defend one of their own, Zeke, his lecherous stepbrother Ugo and sturdy childhood friend AJ, stumble upon something otherworldly that leads to them being forced into a continuous battle between angels and a nefarious group known as 'Healers'. Zeke discovers he is the newest successor in this long-line of occult practitioners, and that he must give up what he and his friends found or else he'll be damned by the angels, and they are willing to do anything to get him to give it up.
Armed with medical and fantastical knowledge, Zeke combines both skill sets to navigate through a strange new world. Magic and medicine come together in this ethereal tale!
Death and Taxes.
The two insurpassable laws of the universe.
So long as humans exist in this world, these things will remain.
However, there is a 3rd law which has always, and will always implement itself on people.
Suffering.
Reincarnated in a new world, five people are forced to learn this the hard way.
Placed on 'Nightmare mode' and being reincarnated as monsters, they are forced to survive under incomprehensible conditions.
However it is only through suffering, that we grow as people.
And it is only through suffering, that we truly become monsters.
"Nightmare mode.... eh? Tell me, what exactly was this mode supposed to mean again? Were our lives supposed to become nightmares?"
Without suffering, there is no change in anything.
"Or were we supposed to become the nightmares?"
This is the story of the antiheroes.
Hilda is a small paladin with a small dream. A home of her own where no one will wake her up at sunrise to do the dishes. Her path to glory will include a lot of dead rats and copper pieces. At least that's that plan. Who knows though? Maybe at some point something cool will happen to her. Unlikely. Nothing cool ever happens to poor Hilda... but who knows?
The Cataclysm.
The end of the world.
When one wakes up in a world destroyed with rot and overtaken by the undead, survival should be one's number 1 priority.
However survival is no longer an option.
As he awakens one day, Marcus finds that he is no longer alone in this world.
Ever.
[It is only through experiencing death and destruction... that you will truly know the meaning of suffering.]
[And the demented nature of humanity.]
[And what better place to experience such things... than in a world which has been ruined?]
This is the story of a man and a monster.
[Man and monster... are they not one and the same?]
This is the story of Number 7.
When Darcy becomes a thief for a crooked pawnshop owner who has the power to save her sister, she's thrown into a world of magic, mystery and romance. Once it's discovered that she herself can wield magic, Darcy and her sister are uprooted from their home and brought to the Palace to train.
There, they must learn to control their new powers if they wish to stay safe in this unfamiliar realm. However, nothing is quite as they expected and Darcy must follow her instincts to keep herself, and her sister, safe.
Armed with his cleverness and uncommon sense, Finnian is a Signer, the only one that stands between the evil plans of the Lord of Calamity to control the magical world of Elthea. Forced to assume a destiny that could be fatal, Finnian will join forces with the elthean, creatures with different powers that inhabit this world, to defeat this threat.
The constant fight to save their lives throughout creepy forests, being persecuted, almost devoured, learning what's correct is far from easy. Because this is not only a story where the hero is born, but a villain will also emerge!
Labeled as both traitors and heroes, Aries and her Space Corps trainee crew try to reestablish their lives after being imprisoned by the Council after disregarding their orders and trying to rescue the inhabitants of a doomed planet.
When the Light came for them, Joseph Snowfield thought it was the End of it all.
The Fate has proved him wrong right there and then. He woke up in the middle of nowhere, got a gun butt to his face, and found himself on a bed aboard the pirate ship, the "Morning Star".
From there on out, he got volunteered into the crew. With a Tree for a Captain, a Scaly Cat for a Quartermaster, and a Human, equal in height and width, as a Cook, he sets sail across the mysterious and hostile Threshold, to find out about The Ways of the World, and why his Marksman skill is so high.
The galaxy is at war. Always has been, always will be. The methods may change, but the results are always the same. Harmony is not, and never will be, an option.
Until his parents are killed and he's kidnapped, Xaleyp Vah'Aris had been living a normal enough life. Making matters worse, he is forced into an army he wants nothing to do with. Mixed in with all this are visions of syringes and knives, and a prophetic sword forged by the gods. Maybe Xaleyp is not so normal after all. Now, he battles shifting alliances -- and himself -- to keep those he cares about safe.
The odds are stacked against Xaleyp when the largest empire in the galaxy wants him dead. How is he supposed to protect his friends when he's in constant danger himself?
Follow Xaleyp Vah'Aris as he hunts for power around the galaxy, makes startling new friends, and faces enemies he never imagined.
In the opinion of the common storyteller, Sylph did not exist.
The young dragoness sets out to uncover what her mothers want to keep hidden at all costs; her biological parents. After discovering the ability to walk one of the six paths and eavesdropping on her mentor, Sylph learns that her entire family conspired to keep the truth about her past hidden. She has heard enough of her mothers’ consolations and lies. Sylph was not the scared hatchling they picked up fifteen years ago. Accompanied by her friend Brandon,a young human alchemist, she journeys out to find the answers and they realize they are in over their heads as the trail leads them into the hands of a slave-trading city. Narrowly escaping a new collar, they make their escape towards a safe haven ruled by the eloquent and ruthless Nahana; A dragoness resembling Sylph down to the very ridges on her scales.
Rejoicing at the discovery at first, Sylph realizes what had concerned her mothers and that going back might not be an option any longer.
Graverra Graeme always knew she was destined for more than the average adventurer, even as a low level Necromancer in a realm where such practices are typically frowned upon. When she catches the eye of a lonely dungeon core she isn’t surprised… At first. Offered the chance to raise the dead and rise to her full potential but at the cost of her personal freedoms, Graverra navigates her new life Cryptmother; Bride of the dungeon core.
I was a normal high student before I died. At least I think I was, truthfully, I don't remember how I died. It was warm and then just coldness followed by a skeleton claiming to be Death. This grumpy old man decided to give me a chance at life and 3 wishes. However, I get a fourth wish but with a price. The thing is, I don't know what the price I'm paying is. After being reborn as a little girl I begin a new life.
What's up?
Who are you?
I'm legally obligated to say the your angel or some other stupid magical critter who watches over you or some &%$#. Anyways, I let you finish your diary.
It's not a diary! It's a Journal!
Whatever. Same Difference.
No it's not!
Little does she know that her actions will cause a chain reaction that will start a rivalary spanning generations.
Wait! What?!
Oh nothing, just a little foreshadowing.
Do you know the future or something? Tell me! What's going to happen.
What was that? I can't hear you! Fading away...
That! ERRH! It's writing this conversation down! Sigh... Well it's too late to change it now. Where was I? Hmm... Oh yes! In this world, it's not like my own... That was stupid. Now I'm stuck in this world with that... What the heck is he even!?
Alisa Veyara did not want to spend her school year responsible for raising a baby dragon, conscripted into an elite foreign war force by a tyrant conqueror. But the years of peace are about to come to an abrupt end.
Alisa studied and worked her entire life to earn a place at the elite, prestigious Renand Grand Academy of Higher Magic, mastering the intricacies of delicate powerscript and eager to learn the deepest secrets of what could be done with magic.
Alas, no longer will Renand Academy be a peaceful haven of study. War is coming, and even foreign scholarship students must be prepared to fight. One way or another Alisa will be caught in the middle of it, her ambitions crushed and her plans thrown into chaos.
Not every calling is asked for; not every destiny is expected. But sometimes even the most reluctant of heroes has the potential to change the world.
The Civil War was over, and Azeris stood in shambles with millions of dead, shut out by the world for the crimes committed in its past.
Jasmine is a metahuman simply looking to survive in a world that shuns and despises her kind. Newly freed by the new government, she expected to live a life on the run, stealing and working multiple odd jobs to survive. Little did she know, forces bigger than she could imaged would thrust her into a world of guns, assassination and subterfuge. Together with her three metahuman companions, she'll have to find herself and what it is she truly wants to do. After all, the future of her kind may rest on their shoulders.
What would happen if animals made a nature documentary all about humans? Fiddler is a mouse with a big idea and an even bigger attitude. He works in TV and wants to reveal to his woodland friends the mysteries of the human world. But humans are dangerous, and Fiddler's rivals want him stopped. Can he achieve his dream and make the best wildlife documentary ever? You'll have to find out.
Oh my! You've found the cow level! This is supposed to be a quite secret. If you came here looking for something, you are close. Keep looking.
Have some beef stew and don't tell anyone where you found it.
This story follows Jason, or is it Apple? Pel? It follows Pel as he is reborn as a Celestial Fairy after an unfortunate traffic accident claims his life. He finds himself in a fantasy world where most things want to eat him, and advancement can be done by asking for some Self Help. After a rather rude kidnapping leaves him stranded far from his new family he has to make friends, level up, and get stronger in order to survive long enough to make it home. If only his first Human friend, a self-proclaimed ‘Hero’, could stop looking for ‘justice opportunities’ under every rock he might make it back sooner. Who knew being a party Healer was like wrangling cats? Stop standing in the acid!
Can a man stay sane in world where civilization crumbles, brothers turn against each other and stranded in a country far from home?
The line of good and evil is almost always just a shade of gray.
Richard Morrison is 31 years old jobless pilot down on his luck coming from booze cruise when the world changed.
Follow the journey of Richard and his low class jokes as he experiences the ups and downs in apocalyptic world made possible by the Team Godly gang.
Wave had always considered herself a good driver. Well, until she crashes into a desk. Now her hover car is junk, her eardrums are ruptured, and instead of admitting her for a thirty-second surgery to fix it, her insurance company just gives her a damn hearing aid.
When someone hacks into the hearing aid's operating system and speaks to her in the voice of the mysterious radio host Aki, Wave just wants to lock herself in her apartment and shut the whole world out. But then the news report that Aki has thrown himself to his death the day before, and Wave begins to investigate.
Go ahead and read a few! Or all of them, if you feel like it! I'm gonna go get another latte and maybe a muffin, so take your time! Hell, take all night if you want!
Have fun, and let me know when you want the button to be reconnected!
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The Core: The First Guest (Book 1 of 3)
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I think the title explains it all :)
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