《Automata Annex》Life, The Universe, and Everything
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In the Real World, life has evolved. One might find a little backwater planet somewhere that isn't as advanced but no one cares about them. You, in your world, might find an ant colony on the other side of the planet in a forgotten forest of passing interest but it would never have any sort of meaningful impact on your life. Unless you were one of those sorts that really enjoyed that sort of thing, but even then it would be a form of academic study and not a choice to go live with them.
Here in the Real World, we no longer have the need for such archaic things as Mortal Bodies. As mentioned, Life has evolved. Everyone you know, and essencially everyone everwhere, exist as a form of energy. We are without constraint and without end. We are a collection of our experiences and we ARE the Universe. That said, being an immortal conciousness of energy in a immeasurable ocean of similar beings tends to get boring after a while.
To pass time and entertain ourselves, we have created The Timeline. All forms of matter are just energy when you get down to it, so the creation of such is no big deal. Some enterprising individual came up with the idea of creating a world where we could enter and live out a life time as a resident of that world. Over the eons that idea has been refined and reinvented so many times that now we have vast server farms running billions of worlds for your entertainment.
You couldn't truly immerse yourself in The Timeline if you brought along all of your outside knowledge, of course, so when you log into a new world your past experience gets locked away. It would be impossible to experience true joy, love, pain, fear or deep inter-personal connections otherwise. Once you start a Timeline, you will experience an entire lifetime as a resident of that world. Once a life time has ended, you're free to jump back into that world and try out a new one. Sometimes it's fun to try out a so-called "higher being" with different privilage levels or to try out the life of a bug or purhaps as a blade of grass. Higher privilaged experiences are usually reserved for new users, or newbs. While more experienced users will prefer to experience a lifetime on a higher difficulty setting. It's all about the Experience after all.
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Once in a while, when you're in a Timeline, you might catch glimpses of a previous play-through but we try hard to limit those sort of bugs as we find they can disrupt your enjoyment of your Timeline Experience. If you come across any of these sort of bugs or world bleed-over (it happens sometimes when worlds are on the same server) then be sure to report them to your System Administrator before starting a new Timeline Experience.
We are proud to say that you won't find any NPCs or Non-Player Characters in any of our Timeline worlds. Every life you encounter will be another user enjoying their own Timeline Experience. What happens in-world is entirely up to you, the users. We take a strictly hands-off approach so that you can experience all that the world has to offer without feeling restricted.
All of your experiences will be saved to your user account during your Timeline and will be conveiniently bundled for later reflection upon the termination of your Timeline Experience. Please be sure to visit our gift shop, customized to your personal experience, for momentoes of your Timeline Experience.
Thank you for choosing Timeline, the most immersive way to experience a taste of mortality.
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The Bettor's Oath [A Dark-Modern LITRPG]
We live in a world where the rabbit’s foot helped win the game. Following that logic, tell me, what happens when the odds are flipped against the strong and a god rises to give the weak their right for revenge?~Last segment of the First Monarch's speech before the Lablanca battle. Lothar Ardolf, an alcoholic 27 years old high school teacher, was one of the many men who failed to catch up to life.When everyone around him worked to leave a mark behind, he idled away between states of short sobriety and static numbness, hoping that one day everything would resolve itself. It took little to wake him up. Only a life, soul, and body changing experience.Thrust into a world of cheap power and tyrannical governments, where a man could rival what is true and alter what is false, he was tasked by an elusive being with befalling titans.He wakes up in a prison with a path laid in front of him; one that would challenge all the resolve he has and more. Intertwined in a convoluted scheme of politics and old grudges, he will need to learn how to wield his new powers in order to escape before the secrets of the prison threaten to unravel him.However, he shortly realizes that his new faded fantasy was not a fairy tale. All that awaits him in the end, for standing against the world, is death. That is, if the three sided coin lands on heads. If it lands on tails... The shadowbane army rises. ...... This story is a neo-noir dark LITRPG in a world similar to earth. Take the tags seriously. I've been working on this project for 6 months and my MC is a bit unconventional, so I'm excited to introduce you all to him. Beware, it will be a slow-burn, so please be patient. The main plot will start to kick up at around chapter 15. I will be writing about racists, rapists, cultists and horrible humans. I do not condone or excuse their behavior or choice of words but the first arc will be in a prison and (some) prisoners don't mince their words. My MC doesn't adapt to the new world immediately because that is not realistic at all. It takes time and because of his personality, it will take more than a system to convince him to do someone else's bidding ;) Each chapter will have around 3000+ (give or take) words. I will be updating 2-3 times a week (depending on how busy I am with work and/or college) when I'm done publishing my backlog (Which is very big, 40,000+ words). **Each comment gets rep! Cover art by @tahraart on Instagram. Link to discord: https://youtu.be/91wX0NRjJqg Have a good one, Pistol. **** THE STORY IS ON TEMPORARY HIATUS. WE WILL BE BACK IN 2 MONTHS. SORRY EVERYONE.
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“Per aspera ad astra." Death. Mercilessly, it comes for all. But when a young man is given a second chance – a second life – to experience what he never has, what will he do? Leave the burdens of his past behind, improving upon his faults? Or will he collapse back into old sins, wasting the opportunity given to him? Perhaps even he himself does not know. * Join Andre on his journey as he explores a new world – one ripped straight from the pages of a D&D campaign he's never played. He will face monsters. He will face men. And above all, he will face himself. The story’s genre is your standard progression fantasy, isekai: magic, a system, and a level of technology suspiciously underdeveloped. I’ve borrowed tropes from various books I’ve read like “The Second Coming of Gluttony”. The similarities are there (particularly in the beginning), but I assure you the story is my own. It’s in the first-person perspective and has its own quirks, characters, and world for you to become immersed in. The upload schedule for this will be different from the usual fictions on this site: I’ll release chapters in batches rather than so many a week. I’m a college student, so I don’t want another deadline to worry about. Depending on the popularity/demand of the series, I might increase or decrease the rate of releases. Other than that, I hope you enjoy the story! P.S. This is my first fiction so make sure to point out mistakes wherever you see them. I’m doing this, partly, to increase my skill as a writer. However, be kind! I’m fragile, you know? Warning: ***This is far from your happy-go-lucky, feel-good adventure story. There will be content that some of you might not be comfortable with. And if you're already feeling skeptical reading this, click away and don't come back. If you're still here, what are you waiting for?***
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You as a billionaire successor never wanted to experience the end of the world. However as you are thrust into it. You calmly deal with no matter what comes. Your power to improve whatever you want comes in handy too. Additional Tags: Wish fulfilment; Power fantasy
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My name is Xelean, since I can remember I always saw strange shapes floating in my field of vision. When I asked my parents about it, they looked at me concerned, perhaps thinking that I had a vision problem. Seeing his reaction I quickly said that it was all a joke. However, when I learned to read, I understood a little better what those images with letters were thanks to the following message:'Congratulations soul of the multiversal soul flow!!! You are the soul number 1 Billion that will be born in the world to which you were destined, in consideration and because the current situation of the world, certain benefits will be granted:[User interface][Inspection][Accelerated balanced growth] Sincerely, The Hive.' ---------------------------------------------------- Author Note/Warning:English is not my first language. One of the reasons why I started writing this is to improve my writing skills, so if you see any errors, please leave a comment. In this work there may be similar things/references to different novels (from webnovel and outside of it), role-playing campaigns, movies, anime and manga; since they shaped the idea that I have of the stories and I think that, in part, many of the ideas that I have in mind are consciously or unconsciously inspired by them. Character concepts: https://www.insta gram.com/finlergost/
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All she has known for all her life was to run, run from her problems. Until she ran into something that would be considered a wish granted. Midnight might have found someone who could love her for being the monster she is, a monster who was forced to kill. Sideswipe was one of the first to show her kindness and love her. Hopefully, his twin follows to or she'll be left heartbroken.
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