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Three dark mage-kings known as the Sea Lords, the Orphaner and his two sons, hold the world in an iron grip. The reincarnation of an ancient hero known as the Sufferer leads a rebellion against their power. For all the blood and magic spilled, it seems the world will be at war forever.
Rebel spymaster Sollux Captor is kidnapped by one of the Sea Lords to break a puzzling code. He's sure his fate is interrogation and death, or worse. But the lines between friend and foe are less clear than they seemed, and his captivity may have placed him in the perfect position to turn the tide.
[inspired by the world of the 'Black Company' series by Glen Cook; you don't need to be familiar with it to understand this story.]
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Kaz and Inej discuss a pair of new threats stalking the Dregs. Written for the prompt “Going somewhere?” on Tumblr.
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- Part 7 of That's what we do. We never stop fighting.
- Part 4 of Prompted Works
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Robin the Sly has spent years building her reputation as a hero of the people, known now to be an accomplished thief with a mischievous streak a mile wide. Recently she has grown careless, placing herself in the cross-hairs of almost every existing faction in the Commonwealth. One of the most notable is the Minutemen, led by a powerful General; Nora will stop at nothing to capture her.
When Robin, struggling to remain under the radar, agrees to work with Bobbi No-Nose on a quest to uncover the hidden fortune belonging to a Pre-War billionaire, she doesn't realize a long journey of betrayal, love and loss stretches ahead of her. She certainly doesn't expect to find a new partner in her declared enemy.
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- Part 4 of Tales From the Wasteland
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As long as any of the bat kids can remeber Dick had always had a safe in his room. No-one knows whats in it, not even Alfred. So when the Batkids manage to crack it they spend time going through the contents, it takes several days to do it all, and maybe they'll learn some new things about their older brother.
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All That Is the Case by wax_wings
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2023
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In the heady early days of post-war London, a naive and romantically inexperienced codebreaker falls in love with a dashing veteran, but he soon discovers that they may both be unwitting pawns in a new kind of war.
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The Cipher files: Raven's revenge by AeonFox
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
11 May 2024
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In the early 1960s, in the middle of the cold war, CIA agent Theron Shan is sent to Europe - a continent he's never even visited, to team up with a stone cold Russian assassin and an enigmatic British handler in a rare East-West rescue operation. The operation is a success but the mysterious antagonists are a bigger threat than anticipated and still embedded in all their agencies. Their small group has to stay together and find a way to expose the Raven conspiracy before they reach their end goal.
Chapter 2 - Theron and Cipher hunt hidden things.
This is being rewritten, rather slowly.
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- Part 3 of The Cipher files
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When Sirius Black is unmasked as a spy, it seems that nearly everyone in Bletchley Park knew all along that something wasn't right about him. But Lily Evans thinks otherwise. She knows that if Black really was a spy, he'd have done it properly, and would have never been caught. Remus Lupin doesn't believe Sirius is a spy either. According to the landlady, she found the stolen ciphers in his room between the pages of a magazine filled with photos of half-naked women. And Remus knows that such a magazine would hold no interest for Sirius. It's not much to go on, but both Remus and Lily are determined to get to the truth. A man's life depends upon it.
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Garak has just started helping Starfleet decode Dominion transmissions, but he isn't being given enough information to do his job. He and Sisko negotiate a way forward.