Mr_Crocodile Wrote:Instability breeds instability, war creates warlords, madmen forge madness... And a delusional farmer founds an empire in his kinsmen's blood.

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Notes:
Another Monarchs chapter! Once more once exploring a very unique area of the world and a very particular piece of its timeline. Heavily recommend checking the annex out after reading this chapter!

Seamus Devenish Wrote:“Poor old Kolor Kino lies a shakin' on a rock
He's safe from all our phasers, he's safe from his mad boss
For he's charged our lines three blinkin times, each time they've turned to dust,
But he still keeps marching on!"
- The Ballad of Kolor Kino, (unknown, early 2260s)

BHS Wrote:hehehehehehe

Bad End Peace is unleashed.

BHS Loves Kagami: No no no no no, this can't be happening… This has to be some kind of terrible hallucination brought on by last-minute panic, or those burritos I pulled out of the back of the fridge…

OG Kanna: want me to pull out your burrito for you?

BHS Loves Kagami: Goddammit, it really is you. How the hell did you even get out of my subconscious? For that matter, who the fuck was stupid enough to give you a Discord account?!

OG Kanna: wumpus and i hooked up at a cosmic meta-orgy. it had never even heard of the "stagnant tricycle" before, so i showed it the ropes. lots of different ropes.

BHS Loves Kagami: Oh GOD.

Yrsillar Wrote:There was quite a bit of fanfare in White Cloud Town for Cai Renxiang’s visit, something that had happened regularly for the better part of the last two years. She knew that Cai Renxiang had been in and out more than once without a peep from the town’s government. The most reaction they had received had been when they had needed to use the governor's emergency transport formation to chase after some bandits.

This time, however, the streets had been swept, the gates thrown wide, and the traffic cleared as Cai Renxiang arrived at the head of a small column of soldiers. The heiress managed to look fairly regal atop a white horse, bridle held loosely in one hand as she sternly recited the proper pleasantries to the town's arrayed officials.

This was the difference between being a disciple, even one proclaimed as the tacit, default ducal heir, and being a power in her own right with her own deeds and base of power, however small.

(...)

"Jeez. Why's it gotta be such a big deal? We talk to boss lady and visit her all the time," Hanyi complained.

"Because Lady Cai is paying the Ling clan the respect of an official visit in recognition of my accomplishments. Think of it like one of your shows, but with more talking and bowing and serving of tea."

"Oh, that makes sense. I guess," Hanyi said dubiously.

Ling Qi smiled. "Don't worry, Junior Sister. All the parts are accounted for. You just have to stand behind me and look like a proper lady."

"Easy. No one’s a more proper lady than me," Hanyi bragged.

(10-15-2024, 09:51 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-2087#post-105747338

tealruby Wrote:Hermione’s thought the only activity for the day is meeting a newly (and angrily so) superpowered scientist. That changes when flying back home she’s interrupted by a portal over the North Pole. Now she’s in a land of swords and sorcery, where floating cities hover over ravenous… dinosaurs? Time for fantastical adventures at the centre of the Earth! Or maybe a different dimension? Even the locals aren’t certain.
”Don’t know who you are, but you don’t look much like the Green Lantern I remember.”

Yrsillar Wrote:Ling Qi considered her liege, reaching out to pour a warm stream of tea into her own empty cup. "Do you want to reach an accord with Liming?"

"I do not know that such a thing is even possible. Liming is a thing of hatred and spite, even if much of it is aimed toward my mother."

Liming snarled. Ling Qi's eyes widened, and so did Renxiang's. Qi pulsed off the garment, cloth straining away from Cai Renxiang's body. The heiress' sword was in her hands in a flash of light, fingers gripping the wrapped hilt tightly. A pulse of metallic qi followed, and Liming went limp and silent.

Ling Qi stared at the garment. It was the first time since she had awoken that she had not understood a communication. The hound spirit Qiu's barking had been legible to her. Even the infant chick in Xuan Shi's care had conveyed to her the basic concepts an infant could comprehend in her chirping.

Yet Liming's snarl was nothing but a noise, a wall of wrath and hate to her senses no different than it had been before the development of her new domain ability.

"I don't think she cared for that," Ling Qi said.

TheInkredibleKaptainKaiju Wrote:After seeing Project Aftermath firsthand, Daniel begins to doubt Director Mills' leadership.

(10-20-2024, 01:52 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-2095#post-105855131