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SGM - Chapter 1
Pre-AN:CYOA Buildhere.____________________________________________________It was the sound of a bell, shrill and obnoxiously loud, that forced my eyes wide open. My hand instinctively went for the battered kunai that I kept beneath the pillow on my futon, wrenching it out from beneath the threadbare cushion and, in tha...
Chapter 61
After exploring the rest of the Botanical Garden, henceforth dubbed the ‘Garden of Eden’, and making a shopping list of things to purchase for it, the girls and I discovered several more rooms hidden behind their own murals - five more, to be specific.Directly to the left of the Garden was ‘The Bathhouse’, and ...
Chapter 60 - Garden of Eden
After all that I’d seen over the past month and some change, I didn’t consider myself someone easily impressed. For a mage who’d learned to wield various systems of magic as easily a man drew breath, the grim mundanity of Earth Bet - outside of the murderous supervillains and semi-competent superheroes - was quic...
Chapter 59
Miss MilitiaThe first thing that Hannah realized, as Avalon made his way over to their truck, was that the man had changed.In multiple ways.“Are those… elf ears?” Velocity, agitated and anxious after witnessing the latter half of a mountainerupting from the earth, hissed at her out the corner of his mouth.She did...
Chapter 58
February 11th, 2011Three Days Later…Across the sandy beach, amongst the towering, ripped apart husks of foes long fallen, I faced my mortal foe. She stood confidently, the sorceress girded in black and pink, with one hand on hip and the other pointed directly at me. Around us, toiling away at their eternal work, were...
Chapter 57
Amy Dallon woke up to the low, comforting humming of central air conditioning, and the familiar, intermingling scents of sandalwood and blueberry. She could feel her tongue thick and dry in her mouth, saliva having left her alone hours ago at some point in her unconsciousness. Memories fluttered through her mind; memor...
Chapter 56
I ran my hands through the tangled, silvery-white mess of my dreadlocks, tightening my grip on the ends and lightly tugging in an idle, almost subconscious gesture. I wasn’t a nervous man by nature; that much was made abundantly clear by how quickly and unabashedly I flipped Brockton Bay right on its head, but even m...
Chapter 55
Aisha Laborn, or ‘Imp’, as she preferred to go
Chapter 54
It only lasted a few minutes, but those were some of the longestfew minutes of my entire life.The cleansing hadn’t hurt as much as it simply burned- a cold, scourging sort of heat that seared me from the inside out, like swallowing a fucking bucket of Icy Hot. Everything, and I mean everything, felt like it had been ...
Chapter 53
“You’re not just takingher.”“Mom-”“No, Victoria! I know I’m not a perfect mother but damn it there are laws and boundariesto be respected. Amy isn’t conscious to consent to being taken, and this is her home. You have no right.”I stared down into the furious, almost animalisticeyes of Carol Dallon, myA...
Chapter 52
“So… let me get this straight!” Cassie squeaked, her hands flapping frantically by her sides as she floated through the sky, miles above the ground. “Your ‘perks’, or- or powers… are actually magical abilities. No ‘Trigger’ theory, no cape crap… Just, like, all magic?”Lazily floating after my flai...
Chapter 51
February 7th, 201110:16 AMProtectorate-ENE HQRebecca Costa-Brown was many, many things.A warrior. An intellectual. A political figure. A daughter.A hero, and, in some ways that rankled her in a place otherwise completely invulnerable, a villain.But, beyond allof that, what she trulyconsidered herself to be at her core...
Interlude 4 - An Enlightening Massage (NSFW)
Pre-A/N:(This chapter is NSFW, and I know some of you don't like reading NSFW chapters, so skip to the end for the post-coitus conversation if you don't want to read spiciness! <3)_______________________________________________“Sooo…”Cassie sniffed, awkwardly glancing up from her phone - her shield agains...
Chapter 48 Addition:
Wattup you beautiful sacks of flesh.Chapter 48 has been edited slightly for public release, going into slight more detail on Kaiser's death. Letting you all know just in case you have a hate boner and wanna see it happen in real time: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/a-mages-guide-to-the-multiverse-ce...
Chapter 50
“Let. Me. Go. Now! Get me out of these fuckingchains! I need- I need to go before they take her away! I need to leave, please, I-”“‘Prolly shoulda thought about that before becoming a neo-nazi terrorist, you dumb bitch. Now shut your fuckin’ mouth and stay still. Train, get the fuckin’ tape-”“I will end...
Chapter 49
“Honey, I’m home! Bearin’ gifts, too! Pull up.”My voice filled the Sanctum, magnified ever so perfectly by Force of Spirit, and I could hear bare feet slapping against polished wood as the very reallight of my life immediatelymade her presence, and jubilation, known.“JAAAY!”Was it complete foolishness or ju...
Chapter 48
Vanessa was scared, hurt, confused, and quite honestly, in this very moment…All she wanted was William.She should have expected things to go the way they went after what felt like her entireworld came crashing down all in the span of a couple days. The ambush mission going to absolute shit in a handbasket, William an...
Chapter 47
12:11 AMCoil’s BaseDeath’s creepy ass whistle quieting into heavy, oppressive silence, I stared down at Coil’s bloodied and crushed corpse.It was odd, the way that killing had quickly become something I was completely at ease with - at least when it came to shitty people. Even back then, before I was dropped onto...
Chapter 46
Amy truly had no idea how such an amazing night managed to turn so much fucking shit over the span of a couple hours.It had started off beautifully. Jason and Cassie were… well, they were both practically angelsdrizzled in honey compared to almost everyone else she’d ever met or even thoughtshe had ever gotten a cr...
Chapter 45
The Docks40 Minutes Before MidnightI came to a soft landing on top of a rundown apartment building, the silence of the dilapidated neighborhood around me being all the assurance I needed to know that I wouldn’t be bothered for a few minutes. Lung’s golden corpse, his head reattached and soldered onto the neck with ...
Chapter 44 Update:
Yo, it came to my attention that the transition between the PHO-lude and Chapter 44 could be a bit confusing, so I added a precursory A/N to the top and added a bit more context sprinkled through the chapter to make things more clear. Things such as Cassie having met Imp ten minutes prior and them having already introd...
44
Pre-A/N:This wasn't explicitly mentioned in the chapter, but Amy was taken home by New Wave after the Lung fiasco. They tried to interrogate Cassie, but Sherrel and Trainwreck picked her up at the Docks and basically did the whole 'overprotective guardians' thing as they took her back home. She changed, got...
PHO-lude 3
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Update!
So, crazy news: ex-fiancée’s in labor. Shittier news: it happened during a bad break-up. I won’t put my private business out there, but I had a good reason. Trust me.I’m working to get the next chapter out as soon as I can, but I just wanted to let you guys know why nothing has been released either here or on QQ...
Interlude 3.5
Late EveningFebruary 5, 2011Coil’s steel-like grip on his cheap black burner phone threatened to turn the device into plastic scrap, but the self-titled mastermind couldn’t find it in himself to care all that much.How could he, when the subject of his current circadian rhythm dereliction was being displayed proudly...
Kiddie Gloves Off...
Next chapter, coming tomorrow evening, will be the start of a big change in the dynamics of Brockon Bay. Avalon will be making large decisions that will carry humongous weight, and before I post the chapter, I want to hear from the omniversal spectators watching from up above:
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🎵 No one manshould have all that power… 🎵Obnoxious hip-hop music, loud and overpowering, blasted across the sands of the beach. Each bass-boosted beat struck his sensitive ears, now mere holes in the side of his scale-covered skull, and lances of dull, throbbing pain pounded at his brain. Existence was a mixtur...
42
Taylor Hebert’s world was overrun by screams and fire, but all she could think about was how she was going to get her and her father out of there.Tonight was supposed to be a normal, albeit awkward and rather uncomfortable dinner with her father. She’d been out of the hospital for a few weeks now after the… incid...
Quick Update! (Moving)
Yo, so some of you already know this but: I am moving into a new place this week! Exciting and exhausting, but I’m hoping that the new location gives me some much needed relief and motivation. Fuck shitty landlords, man.What this means is that Chapter 42 will be posted later than normal. Normally I’d have it posted...
41
Pulling up to a function with my arms wrapped around two cuties was a new experience, even for a former fuckboy like me. I couldn’t lie - the current teenage boy inside my soul was smacking his knees and laughing uproariously with contentment, but the former Jason, the jaded and mildly depressed adult, was only sligh...
