Fic Update Thread: 56th edition

[Mamorien]

I find Worm fics that are designed to ameliorate the grimness much more to my taste -- and when you consider that I consider A Darker Path, in which Taylor becomes a super-powered serial killer (to cast it in the worst possible terms) a distinct improvement in the setting, that should say something.

You and a whole bunch of other people. MD wasn't kidding about so much Parahumans fic being fix-fic. And I didn't put those snippets behind spoiler-cuts just to save space.

I know nothing about Trinity Continuum, so I can't speak to that.

Briefly, it started as a series of Storytelling games from White Wolf (their first foray outside the World of Darkness) inspired by the New Space Opera (ÆON Trinity), gritty superhero comics (Aberrant), and classic pulps (Adventure!). More recently, Onyx Path Publishing, the dev studio started by former WW art director Rich Thomas, salvaged the rights to what was then being called the Trinity Universe, and to WW's myth-made-modern STG Scion, from WW's Scandahoovian overlords and have issued second editions using a Storyteller fork they've coined the Storypath System; I think most if not all of them rated mentions in "Kick ALL the Starters!" threads. I suspect the name change to Trinity Continuum was inspired by Nippon Ichi or somebody having used Trinity Universe for a CRPG. Avrjoe is working off the OPP versions, but they can get as grim as anything Pale Puppy ever perpetrated. Further information is not available here discussion should probably go to another forum.

And, while I have your attention (you can have it back when I'm done, I promise, except what I need to make up for having so little of my own): in a world borne On the Shoulders of Titans (all kaiju are true), it's time to meet another of the Monarchs!

Roused by the thundering of an all too human war, two ancient beasts rouse, and decide to use the provided opportunity to start rearing the heir of their almost-extinct dynasty.

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Notes:
New Monarchs installment, once more taking a look at another corner of the setting that wouldn't ever be featured in an official piece of media!

See the end of the chapter for more notes.

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Yeah, I know that the idea of putting Kaiju as obscure as Gappa in the middle of an alternate version of the Iran-Iraq War of all places is a wild decision. But hey, putting Kaiju in strange and interesting geopolitical contexts is half the point of OtSoT, you sou aren't allowed to complain.

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