Ellen's going to go back to her world very shortly, but in the meantime she's got to replace a weapon she gave to Finn dan Shahar. You don't just up and take back a flaming sword, after all. Fortunately she knows just where to find the parts. She's earned a good few bottlecaps working on cars in the garage below Milliways, and she's seen some very ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways:

"Star Paladin Cross, what does the Brotherhood of Steel believeThe door opens on concrete dust and swirling wind. It's nasty out there in the ruins of Washington DC just now. This is probably why Ellen is in such a hurry to get into the Bar ( Read more... )

[[OOM: Opportunity knocks.The young man who comes barging in through the front door is in high spirits. He's about nineteen years old and dressed like your average summer camp counselor, albeit one who's working during the winter - dark jacket, scruffy jeans, and an orange shirt that reads CAMP HALFBLOOD. There's a necklace around his neck with ( Read more... )

It still hasn't been decided what, exactly, is going to happen to the Spark In Darkness's alien passenger. The war might be over, but you don't exactly turn around and say "Oh, hey, we've got a defector from your empire here, want it back?" to the enemy you're no longer fighting. Not most of the time, anyway. Especially not when its species is ( Read more... )

[Out of Milliways: " They can't operate Dad's purifier without a GECK?The door opens on a dusty, dry and windy day in the blazing wide-open of a wasteland somewhere. A young woman in body armor that wouldn't be amiss in a SWAT unit or certain military specializations slips through. "Star Pa- oh, this isn't the... never mind ( Read more... )

[OOM: Nothing says "Happy Independence Day" like a run-in with the Mad Mod]

Cy has a very big chocolate milkshake with a small American flag decorating it. You would think this would make him very glad. But while he loves both his country and milkshakes, his mind is elsewhere. As anyone can tell by how long it's taking him to drink his shake.

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Trudy is a fairly easy person to please; her Samson running fine, a nice glass of whiskey, and sketchpads and pencils sold at prices that won't put her into debt, and she's a happy woman.

So, one off-duty pilot in the bar, at a table, drawing.

She may or may not be drawing from life.

(she also may or may not being humming as she works.)

There's a lot of work to be done, back at White Forest. The Abrams Island data needs to be decoded, the frozen root stock needs to be tested, decoy HEV suits need to be made, and so on and so forth. And throughout it all, there's the certain knowledge that the Gene Worm is still alive, and that there are five more that need to be found and killed ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways:

[Some time ago, the Lone Wanderer met the Master Chief. And somewhere out in the great big multiverse, a shiver of premonition ran down the collective spine of the mercenaries of Talon Company…

She spoke to two of her other friends, made a few arrangements, and headed back to her world. Annabelle and Moon Shadow had already been ( Read more... )

There is a moment when those nearest the door can hear a muttered "This'd better goddamn work," followed by what might be counting down to one. The door opens a moment later.

"Hell's fuckin' bells, it did work," Adrian Shephard says as he peers through the door. "First time I used that damn door on purpose. Well, all right, then ( Read more... )