Maids of Glory is a takeoff of Fatebreaker; both projects are set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is the property of Games Workshop and all their legal creatures. MOG also includes characters generated using the Maid RPG rules and world design.

For the record, I'm not sure if this will ever be going into the finished piece. Every once in a while, we get a persistent scene that doesn't really serve any purpose except to illustrate character relationships. But this one was kind of cute (though it could still use a bit of polishing), so here it is.

Some points:
- If you, like some members of Thorn Company, are not averse to public or near-public sex, DD will probably sniff you out and stare at you while you do it. She can't break the habit of doing professional research even after changing jobs.
- Sgt. Emmanuel is a very charming gentlemanly type. It's good cover for the fact that he possesses nothing recognizable as a human soul, unless he's dealing with his company-brothers.

( Send me down into naked-eye range, sir, and you'll be scraping me off that dropship with a spatula. )
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Authors' Notes:
- Oddly enough, we learned recently that after the Thorns' supply shortage got taken care of, they started sleeping with each other less. Maybe sex is a metaphor for fighting with them, the way it can sometimes be the reverse for less Marinelike people. ^^;

Maids of Glory is a spin-off from Fatebreaker; both stories are set in a horribly mutilated version of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is the property of Games Workshop and its associated legal legions. MOG also includes characters generated using the Maid RPG rules and world design.

We have been picking at this opener for a while, but apart from tweaking word choice here and there, the Dragon seems to feel that it's basically done.

( Visually, it's the fuck-ugly bane of all human life, but soundwise it's so damn cute that I want to hug the guts right out of it. )
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(The following parts are two slices out of a later sequence in which DD the robo-maid is attempting diplomacy with the Chaos Marines using Booze of Eldritch Power as a social lubricant.)

( At least the universe has invented men who know what it's like to give birth. )
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Authors' Notes:
- Probably we should admit that the Marines are influenced by the Army folk that we know (hell, the guys that we know), and they're thus more inclined to swear, talk frankly about gross stuff, and generally be rather dude-like at times. Historically, the Word Bearers were trained in a high ecclesiastic culture; their "native dialect" is a form of High Gothic and the older Marines in particular are very concerned with etiquette. But the motivation to keep neat and clean has fallen off quite a bit after the Downfall, causing the introduction of more casual speaking styles under certain circumstances. The actual dialogue that I envision for them is something like bilingual code-switching, where one speaker can change between High and Low Gothic even in the middle of a sentence based on his sense of which form expresses his meaning the best. Since it's not really possible to illustrate this in English, I try to hint at it by using formal and informal sentence structures, contractions, slang...

Transcribed (edited) from longhand. Date indeterminate; possibly as far back as 2000.

( It is a circular motion. )
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- Happened across this while filing ancient writing notes in the Box of Win. I miss the days when I felt more free to write poetry like this. A good poem has that delicious, hot taste of fresh-drawn divinity behind it; even the best prose feels more watered-down. Perhaps because poetry seems closer to something visual--all raw, stark imagery--and can better take advantage of the "picture worth a thousand words" bonus? Makes me want to start slinging verse again, like in the old days.
- Still missing some old, longhand material from the Auld Tymes. This may leave me a little twitchy until those MIA docs show up in some dusty folder currently lost to mankind.
- If anyone wants to know, I'm behind on NI90 by over 11K words. Yes, I keep track. No, I don't expect to be able to touch my working doc until, oh, two weeks from now. Currently I'm resisting urges to punch holes in walls. Finals.

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is based in an alternate version of the Warhammer 40,000 world, which is owned by Games Workshop.

( There's not enough death in the soup. )

Authors'/'s Notes:
- WITH OUR POWERS COMBINED...!!
- Yet another silly scene that, surprisingly enough, continues to work well in gradually defining how these three interact and what their overall worldviews are. Three blind men assessing the elephant, as it were.
- I am still not too sure whether BT is a good cook or a bad cook. All of his hopeless slave-creatures would naturally think that anything he made was ecstasy-inducing, but the only non-slaves he can find to test recipes on are people who don't really understand the concept of good/bad food.
(- So, primary foci: BT = sensation, Ka = implication, Stockholm = pragmatism?)

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is set in an altered version of the Warhammer 40,000 world, which is the property of Games Workshop. Content rating: wacky, some brief stupidity.

( Open up right now, or so help me, this is going all over your face. )
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Authors'/'s Notes:
- What can be said...everything involving BT must be at least a little bit Bad And Wrong, or else the man is OOC. ^_^
- On the up side, these past couple of days I've been able to do some good work with BT being properly IC; previously, he was hard to get ahold of.
- Although this scene seems almost too silly to end up in the final, I think that it might have to. Having the Slaaneshi general inflict his cooking on men who have no concept of good and bad tastes is definitely in the cards anyway.
(- PS: This is what happens when somebody Inside starts thinking, "You know what would make this story a lot more interesting? A fudge-packing scene." XD)

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is set in a modified version of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is the property of Games Workshop.

( And now the moment we've all been waiting for: Fatebreaker's first mention of butt pregnancy. )
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( After centuries, experience still fails to serve him. )
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( Authors'/'s Notes: Cut for length, sections to be copied to Daifuku40K PBWiki. Warning: Includes discussion of Space Marine intimacy. )

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is set in a variation of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is copyrighted to Games Workshop.

( If you are ever the Evil Overlord, don't turn into a snake. )
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( Why is it telling me that 'estroy' isn't a word? )
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Author's/s' Notes:
- Mostly just playful character development, although the docking scene will likely make it into the final in some form.
- Still getting into the groove here and there with writing comedy again...
- Shameless writing prompt courtesy of the infamous Evil Overlord List.

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is set in a modified version of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is the property of Games Workshop.

( Jacobim visits the Heaven with no sky. )
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Author/s' Notes:
- The section involving the travel to Terra and everything before the entry into the Throne were written when I was struggling badly with the voice...I knew what was supposed to happen, but I lost my grip on the narrator. That part's going to have to be cleaned up quite a bit.
- Jacobim narrates strangely. Sometimes it's possible to hear his more casual conversational voice, but the more elaborate style was what kept coming out. Maybe he waxes eloquent while talking to inanimate objects for long periods of time (by which I mean the door, not Gabriel :P).
- All praise and thanks to "Scene #65" from the Casshern movie OST. Without it, I would never have gotten the groove back in time.

Some brief background: "Fate Game" was an elaborate, in-jokey parody based loosely on Final Fantasy 7. It fell into ruin, so far as we know, some years ago. Due to Gevura being alive, all the unwritten stories remained in the back of our mind and some parts of them have been coming out during the NI90 writing.

Gevura was intentionally designed to be a Gary Stu supervillain who would replace Sephiroth as the main antagonist in the story, both by being more dangerous/cool/immediately threatening than his predecessor and by literally replacing him as the leader of SOLDIER. However, we have attempted to balance his abrasive personality and high levels of power by making him the bitch of destiny--he remains doomed to be defeated at the end of the story, like any end boss, and bad things usually keep happening to him.

These NI90 parts belong in the larger story "And Justice for All (Except Me)" (linked with the rest of his material from this fossilized web page). For the sake of preserving a small amount of the Captain's dignity, we must point out that he is being possessed by Jenova's will during the entire first section.

First draft only, according to marathoning rules. Indigo Ccoa is an original creation of Sasha Harlowe. Anything particular to FF7 belongs to Square Enix.

( Today's Phrase of the Day is 'iron digit of cruelty.' Warning: Probably SFW, but includes deliberately saucy behavior. )
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( What is the sound of one clone snapping? )
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( Interpersonal Problem Solution One: Break into a high-strung woman's room while she's asleep. )
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( Interpersonal Problem Solution Two: When the shit hits the fan, hide in someone else's underwear. )
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Notes:
- By this time, actually, I think that Dark Nation would have been dead, so she will be edited out in the final.
- Part of what often happens in first drafts is that I use way too many descriptive words; in subsequent edits, all but the most necessary ones get removed. I do realize that this can make certain parts awkward to read.

First draft only, as per marathoning rules. Story is set in a modified version of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which belongs to Games Workshop.

( Stockholm's eyes: fragment 1. )
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( Stockholm's eyes: fragment 2. )
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- Parts need cleaned up, obviously, but these two sections turned out pretty well for stream-of-consciousness.