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While the story ends, life carries on.
Episodic chapters relating to Charmer's trauma as a result of the Institute and Shaun's upbringing in the Commonwealth. Nothing's ever easy.
Takes place post l'Appel du Vide.
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- Part 4 of A Kind of Blindness
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noun: the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence
In his moments of melancholy a part of him tasted bitterness to understand how many parts of him were scattered to the wind. An unraveling shawl, endless loose threads that just would not stop, and soon enough his melancholy turned to anger and its cause was forgotten.
So it was for centuries, until dragons returned to Tamriel - and with them, the Dragonborn.
For the first time Sheogorath could remember all the endless noise and costumes came to a standstill. Standing on Tamriel once more, under the shadow of dragon wings, one of the loose threads of his mind was pulled tight and plucked.
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4/24/25 - New epilogue in honor of the remaster.
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A two year tour wiping out the rest of the Legion wrecks hell on the mind. Due to declining performance and deteriorating mental state, Boone finds himself on the steps of a Followers of the Apocalypse clinic with two options: he can try to put his mind back together, or he can find himself a new vocation.
With the Courier gone for good, it's harder than he'd ever thought possible.
(Part of a series, but can be read standalone)
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- Part 3 of A Kind of Blindness
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Varúð - icelandic, 'caution'.
Perhaps their fate was written in the Elder Scrolls themselves, immutable, unchangeable. Perhaps they knew all along it all could only end in tears, but in the final days after the Great Gate's opening there is a force yet greater that draws them together in spite of all they know speaking doom.
(A telling of the Great Gate to Light the Dragonfires.)
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Thief and hero. Dunmer and Nord. Aching scar and bleeding heart. Despite their differences, Tandreth and Idunn keep meeting. The son of the Nerevarine has seen what becomes of heroes, and battles his own fears to save a woman kissed by Kyne from her fate.
There is no escaping Akatosh's firstborn, nor the end of time.
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Despite miracle upon miracle, loving a Nosferatu seems a bridge too far. Part of the Brujah curse is rebellion, however - and even the leader of the Anarchs is not free of it.
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- Part 3 of Goodbye to Sleep
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In this town where I was born
I now see through a dead man's eyes
Nines Rodriguez is a broken man with the weight of a city on his shoulders and too many dead friends to name. One of them returns - the only human, now turned fledgling, now turned Nosferatu.Mary's spent her whole life running. In unlife she is shackled to a Prince's whims - yet she's about to realize that in the gutter, there is power.
The Final Nights have come, and Los Angeles rages against them.
Part of a series, can be read standalone. Mild canon divergence, but follows the main beats of Bloodlines.
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- Part 2 of Goodbye to Sleep
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With Charon freed from his contract, he and the Lone Wanderer are quickly running out of excuses. With the Brotherhood's expansion out of DC, they're also running out of time. It's not a matter of if, but when.
(technically a sequel to Contract Lost, but can be read standalone)
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To the Lone Wanderer's horror, someone else finds out how Charon's contract works before they do. They underestimate how much he means to her - and just what a kid from the vault is truly capable of.
Originally a Whumptober oneshot, expanding into a multichapter series.
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- Part 3 of Fallout 3 Whumptober 2020
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Since the era of the Psychic 6 it's been known that most Psychonauts operate best with a partner. Sasha Nein thought he was one of the few exceptions - until one year Truman tells him he thinks he's found the one in a new arrival to the Motherlobe: Milla Vodello.
Together they learn that flaws can be as complementary as strengths.
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The Warrior of Light should be happy, but she isn't. It makes no sense, especially not to Alisaie - but one cannot travel betwixt stars unchanged.
Hearts, however, can.
G'raha knows it more keenly than any.
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Butch decides to take matters into his own hands regarding the way his best friend seems to feel about her bodyguard. In Rivet City, he gets his chance.
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There is one last thing to do before the door to Mankar Camoran's Paradise can be opened. Martin realizes that even if they succeed against the impossible, his world is ending. The Hero of Kvatch realizes the same. The hours before battle bring out truth.
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Charon once played guitar - a scrap of information more precious than gold. The Lone Wanderer recalls it in the depths of her grief after her father's death. Both realize that even in the wasteland, neither of them are alone.
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An Emperor needs heirs. A former prisoner would make a poor wife. Martin thinks of the future.
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For the second time, Charon wakes after the world ends.
Whumptober 2020 Day 1 Prompt: Let’s Hang Out Sometime (Waking Up Restrained)
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- Part 2 of Fallout 3 Whumptober 2020
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It all goes wrong at Project Purity.
Whumptober 2020 Day 7 Prompt: I’ve Got You.
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- Part 1 of Fallout 3 Whumptober 2020
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The Sun is Now Fading by hartstrings
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game)
07 Sep 2020
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December, 1999. An uneasy truce has been settled with the Kuei-Jin, and the Anarchs mourn their dead. On a rare night of peace, a woman in need comes knocking at the door of Nines Rodriguez - and against his better judgement, he seeks out proof that he is still capable of some good. He finds more than he expected - but to lead requires sacrifice, and once more he must surrender for the cause.
When she feels more alone than ever, Mary unknowingly finds aid in the very creatures that hunt her kind and claws her sense of self back. For the first time in her life she can see a future - but her rise draws an outside observer.
Little do either know that in five years, the future of Los Angeles will be in her hands.
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- Part 1 of Goodbye to Sleep
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There was always a line between them. With the second battle of the Dam looming, it grows blurry.
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l'Appel du Vide by hartstrings
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (Video Games)
23 Feb 2020
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In madness, there is truth.
A 200 year old woman walks the earth. Another crosses from Vegas to Boston. And perhaps most unbelievably, something blooms in an old spy's heart.
(Expansion of More Ghosts than People.)
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- Part 2 of A Kind of Blindness