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Happy whatever-the-fuck and jolly what-the-hell!

To start, a small note that today's chapter will be moved to next week, I should've mentioned this last week but forgot we were past the half-way point in December, sorry.

Things have been rather hectic with the end of the year fast approach...

Gamma Protocol (111)

[111]

The room had been an office once. Now it was cracked concrete and stripped wiring, the windows boarded from the inside with scavenged sheet metal. Someone had dragged in a few plastic chairs and a broken couch. The r...

Gamma Protocol (110)

[110]

Things hadn’t gone dark. To my eyes, the world had just lost all color.

The air tasted of pulverized concrete, dirt, and iron.

Silver chains surrounded us in every direction, a warped cocoon centered ar...

Gamma Protocol (109)

[109]

I hated the roof.

The metal plate beneath me vibrated with enough violence to rattle teeth. Every pothole sent a jolt straight up my spine, and my fingers cramped around the welded roll-bar, digging into the st...

Gamma Protocol (108)

[108]

Fully removing the mask after a whole day’s worth of wearing it around was borderline orgasmic. I practically chucked it at the corner but gingerly dropped it on the table instead. "This thing’s three-parts cemen...

Gamma Protocol (107)

[107]

“Caveman!”

When I’d approached the Saint’s base of operations (which was to say, the garage entrance to the bunker they’d requisitioned some indefinite amount of time ago), I’d fully expected to fin...

Gamma Protocol (106)

[106]

The greenhouse air clung to Fulton's skin as she stepped through the entrance. Too warm, too humid, too alive. Summer's territory always felt like walking into something's lungs.

"You look terrible," Elder Summ...

Gamma Protocol (105)

[105]

The ground crunched under my claws, a mix of pulverized concrete and sand that'd been baking under the sun all day. I'd covered maybe two kilometers in the last ten minutes, carving through scattered G and F-class mo...

Gamma Protocol (104)

[104]

I clung to the exterior of the AV as it banked hard, the hot night air screaming past my claws. The heat hadn't died with the sun, just traded its searing intensity for a suffocating humid blanket that pressed agains...

Gamma Protocol (103)

[103]

Vesper had been awake for thirty-six hours straight when the notification arrived, running on stims and spite while cross-referencing supply inventories that never added up to enough. One week since the last protein ...

Gamma Protocol (102)

[102]

The locks engaged behind us with the same heavy finality, each thud driving through the floor and into my chest. My shoulders pulled tight with every one.

The “training” metal box felt larger than the last ...

Gamma Protocol (101)

[101]

“I need air.”

Three simple words, but they barely made it past the constriction in my throat. The weight of everything pressed against the base of my skull, a pressure that threatened to split me open from ...

Gamma Protocol (100)

[100]

I lost.

That was the first thing that came to my mind the moment I regained consciousness, it was a cold rock in my gut.

Shadow had been right all this time and I hadn’t even considered the possibility ...

Gamma Protocol (099)

[099]

I hauled myself up from the floor with my claws open and my throat a raw grate. The floor drank the shock and fed it back as a dull ache through my frame. Fulton stood where she had planted herself, at the mathematic...

Gamma Protocol (098)

[098]

“Axel.”

I opened my eyes to the distant high-pitched buzz of drones, every alarm in my body firing at once. I scrambled and yanked the sheet of corrugated metal I kept by the cave’s entrance, dragging it ...

Gamma Protocol (097)

[097]

“The ISPs have started throttling us.” Quinn’s message chirped in the common chat, clipped and angry. “Remote workers are getting shafted. Contracts will get pulled within the week, if not sooner.”

Is...

Gamma Protocol (096)

[096]

With a groan and an annoyed huff, I set the last protein vat down carefully, then peeled off the “metal gloves” I’d cobbled together for the job. They kept my claws from tearing the lining and dumping me into a...

Scrap Core Chronicles (006)

[006]

Sir Corin Vale disliked being pulled from his chair for anything short of blood. The bell had rung twice in quick succession, not the soft chime for a misfile but the hard iron note for a breach. He took the south co...

Scrap Core Chronicles (005)

[005]

After about an hour of mostly wandering around in search of anything useful, Tessa marched us to a circulation desk where a clerk tallied receipts and coins. The elvish woman wore a silver pin shaped like an o...

Gamma Protocol (095)

[095]

In New Francisco, as in much of the world, the phrase “consequences for criminal activity” meant wildly different things depending on where you stood on the social pyramid. If you found yourself near the bottom, ...

Scrap Core Chronicles (04)

[004]

“Welcome to the palace of Tessa,” the green-haired elf proclaimed as she set me down on the floorboards.

The room was hardly larger than a cupboard, certainly too cramped for even a simple bench. Bare walls...

Gamma Protocol (094)

[094]

SKREAAaaaaagghhh

SPLAT

The mouther took one look at me and bolted the other way, scrambling frantically just before I crushed it with a chunk of debris I had flung across the street. I couldn’t blame th...

Scrap Core Chronicles (003)

[003]

Level Up!
You have reached Level 5!
CONGRATULATIONS! 

You can unlock a Class!

You have met the criteria for unlocking the following...

2025-08-14 21:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Scrap Core Chronicles (002)

[002]

The automaton bore the name “Fire‑Tusker” across its forehead, followed by the custom stamp of the lunatic artificer who had decided a forge furnace deserved four legs. Warped iron plates quilted its chassis, e...

Scrap Core Chronicles (00 + 01)

[000]

Ignore the squeak of lesser minds as they rub two half-baked ideas together; greatness begins here.

Archartificer Magnifiria the Mindglow read the inscriptions upon her obsidian cup, its rim traced wit...

Scrap Core Chronicles

Gamma Protocol (093)

[093]

I was trapped somewhere between a dream and a nightmare.

At one level, I clearly grasped the grim reality of my task. I faced a monster powerful enough to obliterate a city without effort, fully aware that the ...

Good News Everyone (update)

GAMMA PROTOCOL

After some fenagling and wrangling on my end, I've managed to get the following implemented:

• Since the chapter frequency will remain to 1x a week, Gamma Protocol updates will (starting on ch92 onward) double in...

  2025-08-06 19:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Gamma Protocol (092)

[092]

AN: Extra thick chapter!

ESTIMATED STRIKE-ZONE: 2km from [coordinates]
ETA: 4min 52secs 

You are currently “20.2 meters” from [coordinates]
The City of New Francisco thanks you ...

2025-08-03 20:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Gamma Protocol (091)

[091]

C̴͕̋ ̴̻͌O̸͖͒ ̷͉̎N̴̯̞͛ ̷̝͓̌S̸͚̾͠ ̶̱̓̍U̶̹̐ ̸̞̗̄M̶͇͌͌ ̷̺̈́̅E̷̺̍̌

It had been the only way I could see out of the bind, I’d ...