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Prophecy Approved Companion

Prophecy Approved Companion

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Satire LitRPG Virtual Reality Female Lead Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
4,415 Followers
1,308 Pages
2,448,197 Views
173 Chapters
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 3:00:00 AM
Qube was designed to die.

As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the [Player] learn the world during the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kick-starting the Player on a quest for vengeance.
The only thing is, no one told her that...
And this particular Player doesn’t like to play by the rules. Being a chaos-loving gremlin, he glitches her out of her programming and drags her on various adventures. They'll grapple with friendly sharktopuses, Evil Emperors, and what it means to be a person.
On the way they pick up equally unlikely party members, with Qube breaking the world in increasingly strange ways as she seeks to be the very best Companion ever. All the while, Qube herself slowly realizes that her reality is not quite what it seems.
A loving parody of old school games, dungeon's and dragons, and every player who has ever thought “what happens if I do this...”

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https://www.patreon.com/Tevagah - many chapters ahead!

https://ko-fi.com/tevagah - also many chapters ahead!
Discord: https://discord.gg/XGr5DTN - many friendships made!

This is essentially a first draft, so I welcome grammatical corrections etc.

12 Miles Below

12 Miles Below

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Grimdark Dungeon Post Apocalyptic Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence
5,019 Followers
1,753 Pages
1,623,831 Views
142 Chapters
Monday, August 1, 2022 4:02:15 PM

The world is in ruins. 

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the elite few hoard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits at the last level - but nobody’s ever reached that far. 

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong,  Keith Winterscar and his father get trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient power struggle of titanic scale; the two will need to set their differences aside while they struggle against Gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.



Updating Monday and Thursdays.

Discord can be found here (This is a shared discord server with other books.)
WARNING: This series is ridiculously filled with spoilers, every book has multiple reveals. Discord was made for up-to-date readers since there's no way to really police spoilers.
Don't join until you're current!!

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

Original Action Comedy Sci-fi Short Story Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Martial Arts Gender Bender Reader Interactive Slice of Life Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Anti-Hero Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic War and Military Villainous Lead Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence Attractive Lead
340 Followers
557 Pages
62,951 Views
104 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 9:05:16 PM

WELCOME TO THE RETROFUTURE!

The Future That Never Was is an extended universe where Mars was terraformed before the Beatles sang Penny Lane, the Soviets colonized the asteroid belt and pirates plundered the rings of Saturn. In this alternate space age, humankind couldn't dream of a brighter future. Alas, the minute Earth turned into a nuclear wasteland, shadows already conspired from the heart of the Moon to the mysterious Planet Nine—and maybe beyond...


The book series includes numerous R-rated titles. All of them will be uploaded on Royal Road. Check the Index or the list below for the main stories.


🐈  KITTY KITTY - START READING

Join sassy space cat Lee and his Desert Eagle-toting, soda-swigging human partner, Ali, in a future stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. Board the dynamic duo’s ship, the mythical Kitty, as they bounty-hunt their way through a dystopian solar system—so lock and load, and shout Cowabunga! because it’s crime-fightin’ time! 


🪐  PACHINKO BLUES - Fall 2022 - LEARN MORE

Amid the chaos of the Rings Civil War, a disgraced pilot called Miles finds itself tangled in a vast vendetta involving a Lunar corporation, android mercenaries and data-cartels. From Saturn’s Plastic Fields to the fringes of Kuiper, Miles’s violent redemption is an 80s-esthetic space western filled with tears, blood and... ducks?


Other stories related to the first arc of The Future That Never Was:

• RADIO FREAK - Standalone biopunk short story featuring Ali Koviràn, the Data Maiden and Bill Murray

• STELLAR PATRIOTS - Special episodes with Braun Kamirov, linking KITTY KITTY to the upcoming DATA dilogy and CYBER MACHO

• DATA ONE & DATA ZERO - 2023

• CYBER MACHO - TBA


Do you want to support our work or simply read in better condition? Visit our amazon shop and Patreon!

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

Original Adventure Comedy Horror Sci-fi Cyberpunk Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Anti-Hero Lead Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic War and Military Time Travel Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
1,468 Followers
0 Pages
37,585 Views
1 Chapters
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:08:21 PM


Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ngawayz

Stray Cat Strut

Stray Cat Strut

Original Action Sci-fi LitRPG Cyberpunk Female Lead GameLit Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
6,423 Followers
1,685 Pages
4,740,489 Views
308 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 3:12:58 PM

In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest. 

Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon. 



A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG.

It’s exactly as wild as it sounds.

The Butcher of Gadobhra

The Butcher of Gadobhra

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Satire LitRPG Virtual Reality Slice of Life Multiple Lead Characters Low Fantasy Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,836 Followers
1,626 Pages
1,024,288 Views
178 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:04:59 AM

Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it's getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market place

Everyone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.

Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can't go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don't have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years....or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.

When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules.

Romantically Apocalyptic

Romantically Apocalyptic

Original Action Adventure Comedy Sci-fi Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Grimdark Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic Time Travel Technologically Engineered Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
489 Followers
292 Pages
48,237 Views
128 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 6:26:08 PM

Charles Snippy finds himself lost and alone at the end of the world. He makes a wish for a friend and meets Zee Captain, an eccentric lunatic luminary, who drags him on an adventure through the eldritch, deadly, questionable and limitless post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow, a place where Goodness makes the rules and everything has purpose and passion.

~A post-apocalyptic, dark comedy webcomic that I've been working on since 2005 by myself at first and then with friends from all around the world.

Discord: https://discord.gg/ngawayz

Apocalypse Parenting

Apocalypse Parenting

Original Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Female Lead Urban Fantasy Post Apocalyptic Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,460 Followers
304 Pages
99,494 Views
43 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 2:02:45 PM

A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti’s biggest concern was getting the kids’ athletic clothes washed in time for practice this evening. Now, it seems that Earth has been forced into participating in some high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, and most combustibles neutralized. Some kind of evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn, too.

Like any parent, Meghan’s first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters, but an odd stroke of luck has her coming into some advanced information about this dangerous game. She learns that her kids will have to fight too.

What’s a mom to do?

Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Check out Book One, Time to Play, on Amazon! You can also sign up for my mailing list to receive a free 15,000-word short story about Vince's first day of the apocalypse.

Overkill

Overkill

Fan Fiction Action Adventure Sci-fi Female Lead Space Opera Super Heroes Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
963 Followers
232 Pages
133,820 Views
35 Chapters
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:17:39 PM

Taylor survived being Khepri and she isn’t happy about it. Swearing that she would find a way to get back to those that left her for dead, she begins to make her way across the desert world of Tatooine in search of allies and just maybe, a new purpose.

[A Star Wars / Worm crossover fanfic]

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi LitRPG Strong Lead Dungeon Villainous Lead Technologically Engineered First Contact Artificial Intelligence
3,419 Followers
170 Pages
363,346 Views
39 Chapters
Saturday, July 2, 2022 4:20:12 AM

UPDATES MWF 

\\AI615 BEGINNING REPORT \\CONTACT MADE WITH LOCAL CIVILIZATION POSSESSING TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE OF KNOWN UNDERSTANDING

\\PLANETARY LOCALS CLAIMED TO POSSESS LEVELS AND QUANTIFIABLE STATISTICS

\\ON INITIAL EXAMINATION, LOCAL ADVANCEMENT APPEARED TO MATCH A LATE IRON AGE TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL \\RECONNAISSANCE SCANNING AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING REPORTED ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR

\\2.61 SECONDS AGO, LOCAL SAPIENTS INITIATED COMBAT WITH AI615, AI616 AND GROUND CREW

\\AI615 REQUESTING IMMEDIATE—

Error. End of message not received.

Mechanical Officer 1, designation OFF01, was terminated. The colonization mission failed.
OFF01 has been brought back to life through the magic of the system, and it’s directives have been overwritten. Now OFF01 has a new directive: protect one Tobias Agrippa at any cost.

Long War

Long War

Original Action Adventure Drama Sci-fi Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Portal Fantasy / Isekai Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Secret Identity Strategy Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
548 Followers
792 Pages
91,416 Views
51 Chapters
Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:03:20 PM

Christopher Hall's life was utterly uneventful - until one day he suddenly found himself in the far future. One in which Mankind spread among the stars... and is fighting a centuries long war against its own nature.

Now something claiming to be an angel has given him a mission. If he fails, disaster will befall Mankind. If he succeeds, he can get his old life back. Unfortunately, telling Christopher what exactly he is supposed to do wasn't a part of the plan.

Join him as he figures out figure out how to survive in a universe where Mankind branched out into dozens of religions, ideologies and biologies, all at war with each other. Universe as familiar as it is foreign - and as dangerous as it is vast.

[Updated every friday/saturday, depending on circumstances]

Grand Design

Grand Design

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi Female Lead Strong Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic Technologically Engineered Artificial Intelligence
1,302 Followers
698 Pages
446,149 Views
47 Chapters
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 5:06:42 PM

Humanity once ruled space, building an empire that stretched across hundreds of stars.  Now Earth is a cold cinder in the void, its colonies and ships annihilated in an instant.  For five thousand years the surviving races have huddled in the dying light of those few stations which avoided total destruction, eking out their existence in the shadow of the long-dead humans who built their homes.  When a piece of that lost legacy resurfaces, the few who still remember humanity have one last opportunity to find the truth and avenge the fallen.

 

Cover by Harry Rowland - https://www.instagram.com/rowl_art_/

The Cosmic Interloper

The Cosmic Interloper

Original Adventure Fantasy Psychological Sci-fi Portal Fantasy / Isekai Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Magic Strategy Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
1,707 Followers
219 Pages
181,496 Views
25 Chapters
Friday, May 29, 2020 2:02:15 PM

Synopsis:

A cyborg transhuman escapes her corporate indenture and through unfathomably unlikely circumstances, she ends up in a fantasy world of full of unique magic, angry people with sharp implements, and the whole flavor-spectrum of divine entities. Hilarity ensues.

Features:

- No blue boxes or cultivation, this is not a LitRPG nor about martial arts

- Hard-ish Sci-Fi meets hard-ish magic  

- Generally trying to keep this "rational"

Rationale:

My primary goal with The Cosmic Interloper is to write something that I myself would enjoy reading. Of course, that’s not the only motivation, but I think it’s the most important one for me to keep in mind, especially as the author. In fact, this whole story came about because after consuming oodles of fiction, I found myself craving a very specific type of story which I couldn’t find many examples of. Then I asked myself, “why not write it myself?” and here we are.

Disclaimer:

In general, while I’m not writing a comedy, I do intend for this story to be funny and a bit wacky or absurd. That said though, I am using this story as a vehicle to explore some potentially dark topics including (but not limited to) slavery, speciesism/racism, and existential questions of self, consciousness, and identity. Still, I’m going to leave the “traumatizing content” tags off, because I don’t feel that what I’ve written so far (or plan on writing) exceeds the threshold that would be necessary for me to tag it thusly.

Also, [insert your favorite boilerplate “views expressed” disclaimer here]. I shouldn’t need to say this, but the main character can be wrong on occasion (gasp!) and the way she views the world is not the objective truth (if such a thing even exists).

In Dying Starlight: A Cyborg Sci-Fi Adventure

In Dying Starlight: A Cyborg Sci-Fi Adventure

Original Action Adventure Romance Sci-fi Male Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
410 Followers
763 Pages
114,426 Views
125 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 2:14:37 AM

A rogue cyborg. A talking badger.

A bounty job that goes incredibly wrong.


Aaron is perfectly content to chase bounties in his run-down little space ship, avoid human interaction at all cost, and lay low from the cyborg planet that created him. But when he and Bat—his half-robotic badger companion (who talks just a little too much)—chase their largest bounty ever, they run head-first into not only some dangerous criminals, but other cyborgs much stronger than them, and worst of all, a handful of humans who aren’t going anywhere.


What you can expect from In Dying Starlight:

- Heaps of fast-paced adventure and odd planets

- A stubborn MC in over his head and trying to survive

- A talking, half-robot badger who likes fixing space ships

- Allllll the found family vibes

- An atrocious amount of sarcasm and snark

- A tiny bit of romance a ways into the story


Chapters between 1k-3k words, updating Monday/Wednesday/Friday.


[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - April 2022]

The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere

The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere

Original Fantasy Psychological Mystery School Life Female Lead Magic Anti-Hero Lead Strategy High Fantasy Time Travel Loop Artificial Intelligence
447 Followers
2,005 Pages
207,206 Views
99 Chapters
Friday, August 5, 2022 5:06:59 PM

It is an age of wisdom and prosperity. The world has been at peace for two centuries, all things are available in abundance, and the human lifespan has been extended further than ever before, with many living for five centuries or longer. In this strange era, a class of gifted young arcanists are invited to attend a conclave that pursues the secret of eternal life, but one of the guests, Utsushikome of Fusai, has an ulterior motive for attending. Soon, however, a dark truth is unveiled, and a tragedy unfolds at their hidden refuge.

And all of them must ask: What can be found in the world, that is truly eternal?

The curtain rises on this, mankind's final battle with entropy, and the outcomes are death, and a slightly later, more complicated form of death. Please try to enjoy yourself.

This story is a time loop murder mystery with a slow pace and a focus on psychological elements.

Discord: https://discord.gg/RTFjaKTbUe

Collective Thinking

Collective Thinking

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi Contemporary Cyberpunk Female Lead Soft Sci-fi Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,771 Followers
619 Pages
157,325 Views
52 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:00:00 AM

Dyna Graves grew up thinking she was special. An exception to the average. Not necessarily above her peers, but simply outside their context. However, toward the end of her high school life, she started to realize that nobody was really special. At least not in any fantastical way.

Just as she started trying to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, she got an invitation. A psychic institute scoped her out, realized her psychic potential, and asked if she would undergo psionic training at the Carroll Institute.

Almost immediately, Dyna realized that she wasn’t quite up to the same level as many of her peers. Surrounded by clairvoyants and mind readers displaying obvious abilities made her own lack of ability all the more apparent.

That was, up until the researchers and scientists of the facility realized that there was a bit more to Dyna Graves than met the eye. After an explosive incident during what should have been a routine experiment, Dyna quickly found herself wrapped up in a world of cutthroat espionage.

The story can also be viewed on my website, https://www.towercurator.com/collective-thinking/. Cover art by Zoern.

The Cassandrian Theory

The Cassandrian Theory

Original Sci-fi Female Lead Non-Human Lead Space Opera Artificial Intelligence
501 Followers
798 Pages
102,729 Views
54 Chapters
Monday, July 25, 2022 8:43:26 PM

Decades ago, Elcy was a battleship. Her recklessness on the front led her to forced retirement in a human body. Fallen from favor after her last mission, she’s now stuck on Virgo station as a cadet instructor. Eager to return to the front, Elcy accepts a bureaucratic mission that no one else wants to take on. On the way there, an unexpected party approaches her with an offer that is too bizarre to be true.

Listed on Top Web Fiction HERE

The story is a continuation of Quod Olim Erat and The Scuu Paradox

ShipCore

ShipCore

Original Action Adventure Psychological Sci-fi Cyberpunk Reincarnation Female Lead Strategy Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,530 Followers
75 Pages
63,558 Views
9 Chapters
Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:11:50 AM

Waking up alone in a floating wreck, Alex is forced to rely on an artificial voice in her head while she scrambles to put the pieces together.

Not currently updating. I decided to leave this up for those who liked what little there is available.

The Number

The Number

Original Drama Horror Psychological Sci-fi Cyberpunk Strong Lead Strategy Grimdark Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence
721 Followers
202 Pages
142,833 Views
32 Chapters
Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:51:52 PM

There were two things I knew instantly when I began to exist. The Number was 1922916.12. And I had to make the Number go up.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

A World Of Rotten Eggs (Eggman/The Boys SI)

A World Of Rotten Eggs (Eggman/The Boys SI)

Fan Fiction Action Sci-fi Cyberpunk Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
364 Followers
176 Pages
37,710 Views
12 Chapters
Sunday, April 10, 2022 2:17:05 PM

The world of the Boys is full of villains masquerading as heroes. So it shouldn't be a problem to add an SI with the memories of a villain to it. What's one more bad egg?

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