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    There are no bones, at least not here, as he makes his slow way down what must have once been an avenue of some grandeur. He's not sure why he thought there would be. Five hundred years have elapsed since the cataclysm here. Maybe animals had carried them off. Maybe they were swallowed up by the drifting sands. Maybe Gluttony had eaten them. Maybe someone had buried them. 

    Maybe Hohenheim had buried them.

    Al explores his father's ghost town.

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    22 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    It's been a year since his fateful simulator run, and Gordon Freeman has long since returned to the truth of his real life: PhD dropout, living alone, holding onto his research tech job at Black Mesa by a thread. But when his AI companions arrive at his employee dorm, inexplicably in the flesh, they bring a dire warning that will once again upend Gordon's entire reality. As they set off in search of a mysterious technology from Black Mesa's defunct rival company, everything would be a hell of a lot easier if they weren't also on the run from the authorities.

    Oh, and if the science team hadn't decided to bring Benrey along. Fuck.

    [ACT 1 COMPLETE! Future acts in progress.]

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    22 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    In a desperate bid for freedom, Gregor made a run for the Outskirts. His travel companion, another escaped inmate, another test subject, was stranger than any man he’d met prior. His lack of disgust was a godsend. His lack of compassion was bewildering. His mechanical reliability and flagrant lack of morality, astounding.

    Gradually, Gregor began to suspect that this man might not have been like most other people. He might not have been human at all.

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    18 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    'Arthur Morgan had realised all too late that he may have overreacted. This profound realisation came at the back end of a fist slugging him square in the nose, sending him waywards as the back of his head bounced off whatever was behind him. How many bar fights had he been in now? And just how many of those had he caused? It was Micah who kickstarted his recollection.
    “Starting a brawl is a pretty stupid way of covering up a damn crush, Arthur.” And he spits his name out like its poison.'

    Or, someone flirts with John Marston in town as a joke. Arthur Morgan reacts badly enough that half the camp notices.

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    11 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    Please imagine a caged bird. When it is released, it is no longer a caged bird, but simply a bird. In the act of being released, its identity has changed. With only a single noun to define what it has become, would it yearn for the cage that molded it? Or might it be desperate enough to settle for any cage at all?

    (A very self indulgent, dragon-centric rewrite of Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation)

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    29 Apr 2026