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Threadmarks: Chapter 30: Plucking Narcissus, Part 2
Ruby Haze
Chapter 30: Plucking Narcissus, Part 2
When one guy declared to the other that they're not going to stop fighting until at least one of them was dead, that tended to be when the conversation ended. Mighty and I were past the point of talking this out, staged to duel in an active...
Update!
I had to go back and make some revisions to Chapter 29 because the part with Metal Sonic and the SI was difficult to parse. Not just for readers, but for me on a reread. So I went back, and it should be easier to tell what's going on there.
Now I can work on the next one!
ENTRY #3: GOLDEN HIVE COLONY
A beautiful flower on Northamer’s western coast, the Golden Hive Colony is a city state whose contemporary existence is rooted in the most recent Day of Fury, in the early 3100s. The Queen Bee Dynasty is rumored to go as far back as the Forgotten Wars, though with...
Threadmarks: Chapter 29: Plucking Narcissus, Part 1
Ruby Haze
Chapter 29: Plucking Narcissus, Part 1
It'd been quite a while since I'd had to deal with performance anxiety. Usually, it kicked up something fierce before I was about to run a session of one of my regular campaigns, if I knew the stakes that night were going to be particularly...
I take my April Fools very seriously! Same with the bonus chapters.
I'll consider it, but I may not revisit Ruby Underground for a while. Main story first, bonus chapters later. It'd be one of those "we'll see when the mood strikes again" things, though knowing people would like to see more is...
Ruby Haze
Chapter 29: Plucking Narcissus
The surface of Angel Island, covered end-to-end in autumnal forests and hostile wildlife, was only one layer of the mysterious landmass that has eluded the denizens of Mobius for generations. Finding the place was a challenge, considering how often it...
ENTRY #2: MOBIAN RELIGIONS
AUTHOR NOTE: Any resemblances these fictional religions may have to any real-world religions, while obviously not coincidental, are not worth the headache of bringing up in the thread. Let’s not, shall we? I’d appreciate it.
The world of Mobius has several religions...
Extras: Datafile #1: Post-Xorda Fauna (Mobians and Mobini)
RUBY HAZE DATAFILES
ENTRY #1: POST-XORDA FAUNA
The Quaternary-Mobian Extinction Event in PXE 0000 led to the extermination of 99.9% of all lifeforms preceding it. All life on the surface of the Earth was disintegrated into a slurry of biomatter, which congealed and evolved into new species at...
Ruby Haze
Chapter 28: Knuckles Dust Off
My first interaction with Knuckles the Echidna was one I’d been dreading as an inevitability for quite some time. Almost as badly as I’d been worrying when I’d meet another ‘person of interest’ like Sonic, Tails, or Sally. What would I say when it...
Ruby Haze
Chapter 27: Ring and a Prayer
It was an agonizingly long time until the sun rose over Angel Island.
After Fiona and Heavy caught us up on what they saw out there, we planned to sleep in shifts. However, with Vector as hurt as he was, the robots not needing to sleep, and Fiona too...
Ruby Haze
Chapter 26: The Mislaid Plans
Fiona Fox thought of herself as a schemer at heart. Someone to whom deception and trickery came to her as naturally as breathing. It was not an instinct that Fiona thought she had in her when she was just a dumb kid. Before she realized that the only...
Threadmarks: Chapter 25: Chaos Coming Out (of a Pumpkin’s Head)
Ruby Haze
Chapter 25: Chaos Coming Out (of a Pumpkin's Head)
I am a dragon now.
It was one of the more coherent thoughts I'd been able to string together since I started chasing that Metal Sonic to whatever topological fixture was spewing green lights and smoke on the far side of Angel...
Threadmarks: All Along the Space Colony [Non-Canon Bonus]
All Along the Space Colony
Non-Canon Bonus
“What island is that, Maria?”
My younger brother and I were planetgazing, through the long windows of the austere observation deck of the ARK. I liked coming out here to relax, though I was less enthused about the fact that Shadow had to drag me out...
"It was self defense!"
Florida is a state of madness. That much is true.
Thanks! It frequently takes a lot of practice and working with a character for me to get their "voice" down. Other times, it just clicks. Then I need to double-check my work before I post the next chapter, just to make...