Vault
**Vault** "Both dead, sir." Macron stared at his long-time servant with tired expectancy. Gilbert was around since he founded the now retired _Ancestors, _prim and diligent, but even his usual routine of bringing a cup of blood tea (one sugar,...
Loonacy
**Loonacy** "Oh, bastards and bellweathers, I'm late!" A skeletal hand flicked closed a black, ornate pocketwatch, shuffling the arcane object within a long suit of flowing violet robes, the handler clicking whispers of dismay as he rushed about his...
It's In My Nature
**It's In My Nature**** ** You, admittedly, forgot how to do this. In previous weeks, you mind was a workshop of ideas, engineering the next big heist, planning, plotting, preparing. Valued marks were limitless in the depths of Pentagram City, and...
Forgetting
Salted hash and over-peppered eggs did not make for a good post-hangover breakfast. That is, of course, if your bloodstream wasn't at least fifteen percent alcohol most of the time. Leonard drearily slammed through his cheap meal with a half...
Specialties
**Specialties** _By The Brain of Lazarus_ Failure is spelled with your first name. Tired, red eyes ran across the lines, over and over. Processing. Denying. Arguing. _"Mr. Karkov,_ _It is with a heavy heart that Tech Jet Solutions LLC will no...
Crisis
**Crisis** _By The Brain of Lazarus_ Rory tumbled through _Pale Rock Road_, chasing down the evening with thirty bucks to his name and a pocket full of cigs. His pickup sped across the local street leading to _Merl's Local Gas,_ the sun slowly...
New Antares
Upon the rocks of creation, here The Last City stood. Monolithic, towering skyscrapers reached into the clouds coated with rings of neon lights. Layers of life were wedged into each level. Every foot, every story, miles wide and miles tall, worlds...
Field Test
It was Field Test day. All of Facility Nineteen's best were out. An assortment of shut ins, division leads pushing long shifts, grunts, Caretakers, engineers, and no doubt the top directors. For some, it was a day of breathtaking pride and immense...
Thorough Testing
**Thorough Testing** _By The Brain of Lazarus_ The review room was a place of static dread. Pale light washed over a colorless floor amidst a sharp, cold air. The seats were uncomfortable and hard. There were no windows, only four walls with only a...
The Stump
**The Stump** _by The Brain of Lazarus_ Summer was in its last waning throes. August had come, and with it a final season's battle-cry, where days burned their hottest. Flora trembled under the gaze of the day's mighty eye, a cool breeze became a...
Tin-Can Animals
**Tin-Can Animals** _by The Brain of Lazarus_ A man can get lonely out in space. The _Dahga Bloom_ had been traversing cosmic waters for the better part of three weeks now, having left one of the Moon's many skeevy orbit-posts with a belly full of...
Glood Together
**Glood Together** _by The Brain of Lazarus_ _ Inspiration drawn from_ [here](https://e621.net/post/show/498844/animated-anthro-big_breasts-blue_nipples-breasts-d) Well, this was different. It had been an interesting two weeks ever since Girei's...