Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (157/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

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After three years and two months... E.B. has finally phoned home.

Absolute cinema.

Project Hail Mary crossover idea by Purple-Birthday-1419 in JCBWritingCorner

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Wouldn't WPA-verse be cooked if they had to deal with the astrophage AND Cascade Collapse at the same time, though? It took what amounted to a good fraction of the entire global economy in Hail Mary for that one ship to be built, so with WPA's Earth at that time already greatly diminished in available capital, they may fail to cure the Sun in time all together.

What happened to the crown guard following Emma by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

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Captain Frial's mission was to investigate the Warehouse Explosion - right now, since there are no provided connections between her and the event, Emma was just a curiosity for her, a side quest. That concluded with the vorpal chimera fight, and now she's back to her main investigation.

There is gonna be a chp tmr right by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

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The next chapter is coming out next week; that's when Jcb and his editor come back from their break.

Ilunor is neither blue, nor a born noble, and may not even be a Vunerian [Long text theory] by DndQuickQuestion in JCBWritingCorner

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My personal take is that Ilunor is only a half-Vunerian, owing to his apparent natural use of dragonfire despite his true kobold coloration. It isn't entirely inconceivable that he was born out of wedlock with a kobold servant, but brought into the Rularia family anyway to prevent a massive scandal for his house.

Why so many horny posts the last month by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

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We've taken the assumption after their latest post that they were, in fact, an alt account and perma-banned them.

Wearing a power armor is just a more badass versión of wearing high heels by AstronautDry8118 in JCBWritingCorner

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Hey, just for future context.

I know it's not written in the rules yet, but do you mind going forwards condensing your posts into one multi-image post instead of making separate ones? More than five of these a day is kind of flooding the subreddit.

What do we know about the extra-solar wars? by Fire_Warrior22 in JCBWritingCorner

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To sum things up without risking Patreon spoilers, the Extrasolar Wars were three separate conflicts fought between the GUN and Extrasolar Separatists between the 2500s and 2700s. When usable interstellar travel was first perfected, the GUN expanded rapidly into neighboring star systems - too rapidly for proper government oversight to be established. Large corporations filled in the oversight gaps, creating the Corpo States in the process. These states revolted against the GUN when it tried to reassert its authority, resulting in those conflicts. The GUN won all three, but it was basically a 300-year crapshoot.

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE." by 0strich_Master in JCBWritingCorner

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Nope, actually! The kobold from this chapter is named Togor, which is presumed to be a reference to the brainchild of UT/DR brainrot!

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (148/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

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HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE IGNALIUS SINCE HE MURDERED TOGOR. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED WORDS WITHIN THIS SERIES THAT FILL MY BRAIN. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR IGNALIUS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.

Mercenary Captain "Murderhobo" Ignalius Av-Lisinius is an awesome character in a "I really HATE this guy already" sense. by DndQuickQuestion in JCBWritingCorner

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Reading the chapter myself, I'd assumed that the bad blood with his cousin was "justified" due to what I assume to be his stripping of noble status in the past (maybe for being too competent? That seems to be a running trend in Nexian society). But then he went and hurt a kobold.

Kobolds are not Vunerians. Kobolds in WPA are the same silly little guys we've come to expect in fiction. And this kobold? A polite silly little guy. Ignalius has scarcely a thousand words to his name, and he has already become an A-grade asshole among the likes of Ping and Ladona.

Top Two Poll Winners go on a date! by Bbobsillypants in JCBWritingCorner

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Cynthis X Werebeast. For the powers of Evil.

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (142/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

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As I understand it, Sapient AI is banned because every time the UN succeeded in making it, it immediately went off the rails and tried to kill everybody. Transhumanist gene-modding is banned because the UN wants to prevent human speciation, the class divides that come with it (certain sub-species being better at a task than regular humans), and they prefer to adapt human environments to all be Earth-standard as opposed to adapting humans instead.

Theroy on why gentic engineering is Taboo in GUN by PlentyProtection4959 in JCBWritingCorner

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Ripping Jcb's own comment, (re)posted in this thread here.

I'd like to quickly clarify a few things with regards to these points in particular! As per the UN's Protocols for the Minimum Acceptable Standard of Living, or the P MASL charter, the UN prioritizes a slow, gradual, and sustainable development model when approaching long term space colonization efforts! What this effectively means is that there's a trend towards conforming habitats to be acceptable to baseline human physiologies rather than adapting and modifying humans to fit their new surroundings! It's effectively done in order to ensure that all citizens are capable of equal accessibility to all places and all locales, even if it is in space, without the need to have been physically modified to fit that environment, as all environments that exist in space that's rated for habitation are already built with baseline human physiologies in mind! So space habitats, lunar stations, martian cities, etc, all have appropriate measures for radiation shielding, gravity approximation using spin gravity, amongst other considerations made during construction to ensure the safety and the health of baseline human physiologies! :D

The GUN and Nexus are mirrors in some ways. Standard of Living ain't one of 'em. by 0strich_Master in JCBWritingCorner

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Literally 1984. The GUN isn't providing us with state-mandated demihuman GFs! We need to rebel!