Fortune’s Fate

The End

Written by G. M. Steward

Starring…

Amaris as the Cursed

Pitch as Best Mascot

Coleus as Cool-eus! See? A pun! Get it!? :D

Sarah as the Sarcastic One

Petra as the Tech Monkey

Kiri as Hey Look, Stockholm Syndrome

Suuk as the Alley Cat

Buddy as Adorable Death Machine

Jenny as the Immortal Child

Urvest as the Convenient Cat

Reginald as a Dapper Businesskeleton

Kkithi as Way Too Tall

Sy as Dragons can be Artists Too!

Boro as Your Friendly Neighborhood Attack Spider

Keeper Ashton as the Actually Really Nice Guy

Orville as the Memory Jumper

Irene as the Complete Nervous Wreck

Freddloi as Walking Curse Dispenser

The Doppelganger as Just as Cursed as Amaris

Mrs. Ibis as Sometimes a Witch is Just a Witch

The Predateor as the Deadliest Pun Ever

Toad as Dragon Alternative

The Chairman as Evil Can Always be Worse

Henry Carmen as the Terrible and Ineffectual Government Employee

Amaris’ Parents as Huge Math Nerds

Officer Dawson as the Nice Guy

Bellatrix as the Child Soldier

Ru as the Headless but not Faceless

Ripashi as the Questionably Effective Paladin

Keeper Wurph as How Can Someone be so Smart and yet so Stupid?

Randy as the Manly Man

The Strider as the Ancient War Machine

Major Editors:

Shilic

Pink Man

Guldringr

VoidTemplar2000

Cover Artist:

Stippling

Patrons:

SgtSarge

Shilic

Millwright

Peter Coulthard

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Everything within this work is original, no copyright infringement intended.

For the various profiles of people mentioned in these credits, return to this story’s Index.

Special thanks to the people who read this story! Which is… admittedly, not that many. But for those of you that did make it, thanks for being here at the end!

Anyway, technically Fortune’s Fate is complete. I do have ideas for what to do if I continue it, but it’s not required—I did only intend to continue if it did decently well, and so far it hasn’t. If you want to see more Fortune’s Fate, let me know! Tell other people about it and spread the word! I could write a “season 2” if I think it’s worth it.

Don’t worry, though, the big questions of the setting will be answered in other stories. As some of my readers have already noticed, there are a few unusual threads connecting Fortune’s Fate and Wizard Space Program together…

Speaking of Wizard Space Program, you should read it! (https://gmsteward.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/wizard-space-program/) That story is ongoing and, unlike Fortune’s Fate, is set to continue for a long time. Come with me and learn about how to use magic to solve hard sci-fi space travel, and maybe learn a bit more about some deeper questions.

I am also currently looking for pre-readers willing to take a look at a Final Fantasy-based story that attempts to synthesize the settings of the main games together. I’ve written over forty chapters at this point, but I need more feedback. If you’re interested, drop by the Discord Server. (https://discord.com/invite/eTuseTh)

Until next time!

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“So this is your room?” Coleus asked as she walked into the small enclosure.

“Yep!” Amaris said, flopping on her bed. “Home sweet home.”

“I was expecting something a little more…”

“Interesting?” Amaris giggled. “I wasn’t interesting when I was in this room! I’ve got to bring the interesting to it, now!” She pointed at the pile of notebooks in the corner. “I’ve been going over my notes and writing more detailed entries on all the things I encountered. If I want to do some good, it’ll help to inform other people about, well, how to deal with all these things.”

Coleus picked up a notebook that had been recently written in. “Entry 001; Freddloi…” She put it down. “You’re making one for everything?”

“I’m going to try, anyway. And for anything new I encounter! Then I’ll see if I can classify any of them together, find any common threads…”

“You’ll need a lot more than yourself to do this.” Coleus grinned. “Good thing you’ve got some friends that want to help!”

“All of you get entries too, by the way.”

Coleus paused. “You’re going to per-fern an examination of me?”

“Coleus, that was terrible.”

“I think you mean punishing.”

“Coleus!”