Legion Candidate Legion Candidate, Chapter 4 Darwin, CD-15-22, was a shitty little planet the same system as Pascia, CD-15-04, or at least that’s how Ilina figured it worked since two parts of the identifier were the same. Even after all this time traveling and dropping down to different planets and going on missions, she just
Legion Candidate Legion Candidate, Chapter 3 The walk to the shower room was a disgusting, sticky affair that only served to rouse Tilt for a round two of public embarrassment. Her shirt and pants stained visibly and her tenting made it a little mystery what the source was, and somehow nobody seemed to pay her a
Legion Candidate Legion Candidate, Chapter 2 Nerves in lower legs pinched and damaged by debris in the cockpit — fixed. Multiple fractures in arms — fixed. Hairline skull fracture — fixed. Concussion — Monitored for 72 hours, no complications. No action necessary. Black eye, confirmed by patient to be due to wrist accessory during crash — No action necessary. Various small
Legion Candidate Legion Candidate, Chapter 1 Nothing makes Tilt feel good the way being saddled up in the cockpit of a mech does. That was why she was saddled up long before the enemy approach alarms started blaring around outside while she scrambled to unhook her cuffs from the little anchor she’d installed behind the
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 49, Finale Morian Kyrnn had never really adjusted to space. She’d lost count of the years. They changed the years, you see. But things were so big and grand now. The Eidolons seemed so massive and impractical the first time she saw them, but it didn’t take long for everything
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 48 Errant HQ reminded her of those old Las Vegas conferences. Morian always hated getting dragged to them for work. She was always promptly abandoned to be lost in the labyrinthine casinos, getting turned around by dizzying lights and sounds, the moment the people she was with finished their talks. Well,
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 47 Ilina rocked on one of the medbay beds holding her ear. Krystyn and Vigil administered first aid as best they could but the girl needed proper attention and a rinse down. Stuff that ought to be overseen by the ship’s doctor. And where was Morian Kyrnn? Suspiciously absent. Elisabet
Mechsploitation and Hekate's Call I'm pretty disconnected from Mechsploitation as a broad genre. I read WARHOUND, Grasping the Weapon, HUNTING HOUND, and then I started writing. On the timeline of mechsploitation entries I believe I was the first to write fanfiction for WARHOUND, coming in very shortly after the release of HUNTING
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 46 Valuation. Legally necessary for insurance and profit speculation. It was always overseen by insurance suits and company stakeholders. Physical fitness tests. Combat tests. Intelligence tests. Reviews of reports and battle logs followed by interrogation of faults found. A deeply dehumanizing process where people wearing suits with clean hands called you
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 45 Errant HQ was a windowless warren of offices and checkpoints and little rest areas. In the green area there was even food courts and little restaurants and a small shopping arcade. Holosky projections in the high-ceiling areas and the faux-architecture reaching towards it to help sell the illusion gave Krystyn
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 44 The smell of the whiskey in her glass overpowered the lingering scent of Velia’s perfume and Morian’s cigarettes in the dreary little office. Krystyn had just finished signing over her share of Hekate’s Call to Elisabet out of an abundance of caution. Elisabet made a strong case
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 43 They were four days into a two-week shore leave on some planet that Krystyn couldn’t bother to learn the name of. Why bother? It’s Central Domon. Every planet was terraformed to hell and back. Perfect picturesque worlds with perfectly tailored, aesthetically pleasing flora and tightly controlled fauna, and
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 42 Another medical check-up, and another one of Morian’s shots. What was this one for? Allergies that Ilina may or may not have had, or maybe it was something she was just doing for the fun of it. It didn’t matter. Ilina was only here to put up for
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 41 The cockpit of the Work From Home was much nicer than The Problem With Inertia, between the nicer seat, more space, and the fact that it was better temperature controlled. Though Manya insisted that last part changed rapidly once the rail was discharged once or twice. Manya nuzzled the back
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 40 Ilina’s fingers wrapped around Krystyn’s belt with undue urgency and were repelled with undue force. Standing in their poorly decorated room, with some of the empty, bare spaces filled in with various stuffed mechs made by Vigil as presents, the two of them both scowled at each other
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 39 The simulators had been graciously tuned and upgraded by Aegis to be able to handle Hunter’s fighting style. They still couldn’t handle the Inertia and it was an impossible ask for any system to be able to accurately keep track of that many individual pieces. It was a
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 38 It had been about four hours and thirty minutes into their new room arrangement and Ilina Falke had done absolutely nothing but sit on the bed and stare into the distance with that dangerous empty-eyed stare, swinging the remote on its chain like a little pendulum. She hadn’t responded
Short Story: Strays In some run down little block apartment, thick with an undergrowth of assorted trash that made her gag as soon as she’d entered, Mercy was silently begging for it from her back on the couch. She’d folded so easy it was almost embarrassing. The woman shook her awake
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 37 It had taken so much preparation to get this silly party set up. She had to make sure Krystyn could leave the pilot quarters. She had to get Aegis and Morian to push Trine towards letting them have the rec room for a day. And she had to convince Crater
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 36 Ilina had memorized the shifts of everyone in mechanics. After she'd snuck into the foreman's office where Taitle had been taking a nap, she was minorly scolded for not having asked instead of resorting to her usual tactics. Asking for things had never really worked out
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 35 There was a date. A cute date happened between Krystyn and Ilina, who seemed particularly enamoured by the experience practically running from shop to shop. Krystyn's hair appointment was the first order of business, done by a broad and unhappy woman who did not ask how she wanted
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 34 There was something comforting about the changes Velia had been making. It felt like progress. After years of stagnation followed by a massive upheaval, things settling into a new normal felt more like progress than anything Krystyn could think of. Even if not everything was progressing in ways she was
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 33 Morian had left sometime in the early morning to do some tests and pilot check-ups. Ilina stayed in the bed for a while longer, shifting into the indent Morian had left in the mattress and soaking up the lingering scent of cigarettes and disinfectant. She grabbed some gel packs from
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 32 Krystyn sat on the floor among the wreckage, worrying herself sick about that face Ilina made before she ran. And because the universe sought to rightfully punish her, the door slid open and Manya peaked in excitedly. "Oh," Manya giggled and closed the door behind her. She raised
Hekate's Call Hekate's Call, Chapter 31 It took begging Velia to create a bunch of work to keep Krystyn busy, and asking Morian to drag out Krystyn's weekly exams, for Ilina to get a whole twenty minutes alone with Manya. It was her only hope, and she felt so stupid the moment she got
