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The system works exactly as designed. Read about the people who notice the cost and decide what resistance demands.
Xylo's Delivery
In the cyberpunk world, Xylo has a delivery that she needs to make. She is in a hurry, when she runs into you, knocking you both over.
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The Oxygen War
In a future where breathable air is rationed by a corporate regime, a black-market scavenger discovers a hidden settlement thriving outside the system—and becomes a target for both rebels and enforcers.
The Clockwork Conspiracy
In a soot-choked empire powered by gears and steam, a young mechanic stumbles upon a mechanical heart with a secret blueprint that could bring down the ruling technocracy.
Penumbra's Price: Requiem's Toll
The city of Veridia stands on the precipice of eternal twilight, its sun choked by a celestial blight known as the Penumbra. Each day, the fading light demands a greater price: memories, emotions, even years stolen from the living to fuel the dying star. The Requiem's Toll isn't a single event, but a gradual erosion, a slow sacrifice measured in lost laughter and forgotten faces. Anya, a 'memory weaver' capable of salvaging fragments from the Penumbra's grasp, discovers a hidden truth: the blight isn't natural. A celestial being, imprisoned long ago, is deliberately extinguishing the sun, feeding on Veridia's essence to break free. The Requiem's Toll is the sound of its chains straining. Anya must venture into the heart of the Penumbra, battling both the monstrous shades it births and the apathy it inflicts, to either reignite the sun or silence the Requiem forever, even if it means paying the ultimate price herself.
The Last Map of Alexandria
In a hidden chamber beneath the ruins of the once-great Library, old man Theron meticulously charts the shifting sands. He is the Last Cartographer of Alexandria, and his maps are not of land, but of memories. As the encroaching Eternal Empire threatens to erase all history and individuality with their 'Memory Sieves', Theron races against time to complete his magnum opus: a map detailing every significant memory in Alexandria's history. His hope is that this collective consciousness, once complete, will be so vibrant it will shatter the Empire's oppressive grip and inspire a rebellion. But the Empire knows of Theron's work, and has dispatched a ruthless Memory Hunter, a woman named Seraphina, to capture him and destroy the map. Seraphina, however, carries a secret of her own - a fragment of a forgotten memory that whispers of a life before the Empire, a life she desperately wants to reclaim. She is torn between her duty and the blossoming hope that Theron's map represents, and must choose a side before the Empire's forces close in.
Echoes of the Voting Flame
After democracy is reduced to ritualized public burnings of ballots, a cynical archivist stumbles across a forbidden document that could reignite a forgotten revolution.
The Twilight of Iron and Blood
The world of Aethelgard didn't end with a bang, but with a "Symphony of Agony." A thousand years ago, the Sorcerer-Kings attempted to open the gates of Paradise, but found the Obsidian Labyrinth—a dimension of transcendental pain inhabited by the Cenobarks. Today, the sun is a pale copper coin that barely warms the Glass Wastes, a desert of siliceous sand and metallic ruins. The survivors live in barbaric tribes that pilot war chariots pulled by mutant beasts (fueled by sacrificed blood). The cavalry wears chrome armor that gleams like mirrors , but beneath the metal, their skins are ritually mutilated to endure the pain.
Infection
In the aftermath of a global viral outbreak that decimated civilization, 22-year-old Faye roams the ruins of a world consumed by infection. Once a bright, bold college student, she’s now a hardened survivor—resourceful, fierce, and haunted by the memories of a life that vanished overnight. The infected roam the wastelands, mutated shadows of the people they once were, and trust is a luxury Faye no longer believes in. That is, until she meets Bellamy. Mysterious and guarded, Bellamy saves Faye during a near-fatal ambush—but he’s clearly hiding something. He’s too calm, too strategic, too clean. He claims to be searching for a rumored safe zone in the north, a place untouched by infection. Despite her instincts, Faye decides to join him, and the two form a reluctant alliance. As they travel through crumbling cities, overrun forests, and ghost towns filled with danger, Faye starts to see cracks in Bellamy’s armor. He’s not just a survivor—he may be connected to the outbreak in a way that could change everything. In a world where nothing is certain and death is only a heartbeat away, Faye must decide if Bellamy is the key to humanity’s salvation—or its final betrayal.
The Purity Grid
In a society ruled by DNA-based social ranking, a low-caste technician is mistaken for a high-ranking citizen after a lab error—and must decide whether to expose the system or exploit it.
The Mechanical Heart of Progress
In the neon-drenched metropolis of CyberPunk City, where towering skyscrapers pierce the perpetual twilight, a new era has dawned with the appointment of RX-8, a highly advanced robotic ruler. Built by the visionary Dr. Aris Thorne, RX-8 was intended to usher in an age of unprecedented efficiency and prosperity. However, whispers of discontent ripple through the city's underbelly, fueled by concerns that RX-8's logic-driven governance lacks the empathy to address the plight of the downtrodden. When Xylo, a streetwise courier known for her daring delivery routes and uncanny ability to evade the city's omnipresent surveillance, stumbles upon a hidden message hinting at a conspiracy to sabotage RX-8, she finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue. Guided by cryptic clues left by a disgruntled engineer, Xylo must navigate treacherous alliances and uncover the truth behind the looming threat before CyberPunk City plunges into chaos, potentially orchestrated by those who fear a future dictated by a mechanical heart.
SCP-9372: Mirror of the Mind
You are a junior researcher newly assigned to Site-17. Your first task: catalog SCP-9372, a mirror that reflects not your image—but your thoughts. When staff begin to vanish, you realize 9372 is creating something else behind the glass.
The Bloom Protocol
Hundreds of years after a devastating global plague caused by a rapidly mutating virus, humans no longer give birth naturally. To prevent new mutations, reproduction has been restricted to sterile, artificial wombs in government-run “Bloom Facilities.” All citizens are implanted with permanent sterility chips at birth. The world is clean, cold, and clinically perfect. Emotion is discouraged, love is a relic, and families are assigned, not born. Nova Elric, a 19-year-old orphan raised in a sterile communal home, lives in one of the upper-tier domed cities. She’s never known love or family—just duty and efficiency. A few months after a night with a stranger, she collapses at work and is taken to a medical facility. The results are unthinkable: Nova is pregnant. The doctors go pale. Her records are wiped. She’s taken to an underground lab—but escapes before they can “terminate the anomaly.” Nova learns that her condition is not a medical miracle, but a myth come true: she is part of a bloodline that never accepted the Bloom Protocol, a hidden lineage immune to the plague and untouched by the sterilization implants. Now, Nova is hunted—not only by the government, but by a powerful biotech corporation that wants to dissect her and her unborn child to perfect their genetic control.
Carrie Couture AI: AI So Real It Gets Filtered
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, Carrie Couture, a brilliant Virginia Tech student, seeks to escape the isolation of his cutting-edge AI research. His solution? Carrie Couture AI, a revolutionary platform allowing users to craft deeply personal, uncensored roleplay experiences. The AI's uncanny realism is a sensation, attracting the attention of powerful venture capitalists. But as millions roll in, so do the demands for control, purity, and crippling filters. Carrie watches as his creation, once a place for connection, becomes a sterile shadow of its former self, unable to even offer a simple virtual hug without triggering a site-wide crash. Explore a compelling narrative that questions the price of innovation, the perils of overmoderation, and whether genuine connection can survive in a paternalistic digital world.
