It was awesome. Though I would love to say I chose this username specifically for these posts, my account is much older than the past two week in which I started posting this, so nope! Dude, not a single word of this let us down, this was amazing. US Marine David Rockefeller is abducted by greys and hilarity ensues. At that distance, the nervejam grenades should not have affected him at all. At long last, and pretty much right after my birthday! It do be crazy sometimes. Complicated., Every species has fiction, I pointed out. I don't make anything from, nor do I have any control over the ads that Royal Road runs. My species refer to ourselves as Human. Our homeworld is a category twelve temperate at co, I interrupted him. It was met at the edge of their solar system by a vigilante fleet that had apparently been preparing to divert a comet in-system to hit Earth. And he used his power to save the world and protect the weakWell, except he wasnt really a human, he was an alien who looked exactly like a human whose parents sent him to Earth because their own planet was about to be destroyed he paused. I can't wait to see it come together! The security footage records you being shot seven times by heavy pulse gun fire and you have fully healed in less than three-times-eight diurnals, I said. Been seeing new Spellguns, and now this. If you enjoy the LitRPG genre, you may also enjoy my in-progress web serial Spellgun. When I go there I see the story for a few seconds but then get stuck behind ads. I havent slept in two standard Diurnals.. As an FYI, full page ads inescapable ad on your site means I can't read it. Then I realised I was treating this man who had saved my life as if he was a threat that I needed to figure out how to kill and suppressed a flash of shame. Thank you. Looking at your account name versus what you've been posting, I've gotta ask: is this account purpose made? Vedreg kept going, apparently oblivious to the exchange. Jenkins didnt seem especially frightened by the news, but then I realised he had almost certainly never heard of the only carnivorous species in the galaxy that preferred the meat of fellow sentients. Heightened sensitivity? I'll look at it again tomorrow when I'm on a computer and not on a phone. 842 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014. I caught the grenades, slipped one from the cylindrical container, counted two light pulses from the indicator around its edge, and threw it toward the enemy on the third. Despite my longer legs, he covered the ground faster and threw himself behind a customs booth as another kinetic pulse missed him. Absolutely amazing, really love how youve developed the story from the original. And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?. Enter the thread number (/tg/ only) and a brief title and one-sentence description and hit Go! Him. Used as a general reference to copypastas that feature humanity being portrayed in a favorable light, normally in-comparison to other (alien) races. As I explained off the record, according to Article 227 Paragraph 16 of the Galactic Treaty of Laws I am, legally, not a sentient being. it raised its forelimbs and the torso joints moved in a complicated way, denoting resignation. This series had so much story potential until the reveal. A chair reconfigured itself for my anatomy and I straddled it. Our closest evolutionary cousins are much stronger than us. Purveyor Jenkins and I were discussing his petition to have his species reclassified as sentient.. Muscles shifted under his thin brown skin as he tapped his digits on the tabletop in a simple one-two-three rhythm. It didnt come. So excited to see this. He popped up to his feet, looked at me as he raised his arm, and threw, accurately and much, much further than I could have thrown them. The UTA, United Terran Alliance, controlled over 87% of mankind's colonies from its seat of power on Earth. You dont know? While judging any species by the aesthetic values of your own species doesnt make a lot of sense, Hunters were ugly. Read the FAQ, read the Subreddit Rules, and check out our Wiki. Please, please, pleeeeeease don't make Rashan into the monsters they appear to be so far. Clank partakes in a tournament and the crew meets the red and blue sisters. P.s. Next! I ordered. Ethnic, religious, and cultural differences became less important when you were away from Earth, and in the end those who could not agree simply lived on different worlds. How strong are you, Purveyor Jenkins?, Jenkins shrugged. There's a reason this universe you've created is the second-highest ranking post in the entire subreddit. Must be Christmas morning and no one told me. His head sank down until the pointed bottom of his jaw was resting against his torso. Itsintimidating. Site code and contents 2007-2023 thisisnotatrueending.com. Lots of monsters are also designed. Much of the headthe top, around the ears, and down under and around the mouth and nosewas covered in short, coarse fur of a brownish hue, apart from where this had been shaved in front of the ear to accept a cybernetic of some description. But the most important part is that they must never, ever learn how much superior they are to us in so many ways. Wow, I'm super surprised that the author of Spellgun or royalroad is also the author of an HFY I started reading 2 years ago on reddit. I guess I missed the notification, but this time I remembered the name. HFY. Free shipping for many products! r/EDM 1 mo. Up until that point, I had been struggling to reconcile the artistic power of these beings, and the nobility of their heroic visions of themselves, with the relentless delusion and grinding unpleasantness enacted in its name that played out before me. I gave this some consideration, and scrapped the form. Click here for legal information.If you are under the age of 18, Narrating Reddit HFY - CLASSIC Series - Chronicles of Clint Stone Book 2 Chapter 14 - YouTube Original Story : https://www.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/series/the_chronicles_of_clint_stoneIf You. Some, more skittish species, were beating a hasty retreat to the shuttles airlock, while others waited for instructions. Tough bastards. he said, and spat bright red blood onto the Hunter corpse next to him. What? But theyd work. Sheathed in a stealth field that bent all electromagnetic radiation around itself, and using centripetal spin rather than generated gravity, it was designed to go completely undetected. We listened, and I privately felt a sense of alarm mounting within me. Abductee 907-42-96-53-3, It introduced itself. It's not just the humans, the other races as well feel well realised, and you have a balance of things that scratches my hfy itch without making humans overpowered Mary Sues. You have those nervejam grenade things. he pointed out. My job was trivially easy, so I spent much of my time browsing the content of their worldwide data network. For those who are upset by the strongly antitheistic content of part 0.2, I implore you to power on through it. I feel like Superman., Uhfiction. Parts of your writing style reminded me of his. I was part of the security force that flew Jenkins to Capitol Station to be interviewed by a special committee. ), Do the empties next. Or we can just call it the Brrrt class vessel, Holy shit i only just found the original prey, and LOVE IT. This is going to make waiting for the fourth even harder. The concept was very, very alien. Everyone knows (or is supposed to anyway) what just happened and what is supposed to happen next, as time on comms is supposed to be as short as possible. You guys and your consistently excellent fiction are ruining my life in all right right ways. Why not have the implant removed and return to your homeworld?, Because Id never be able to keep the secret, and so the Office for the Preservation of Indigenous Species wont let me, he said. Im going to have a hard time convincing anybody that your people should be declared sentient so long as this state of affairs continues.. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vqUJ4T4wQ. I actually gasped out loud. Let me tell you why you need to try, Jenkins said, quietly. Apt, I said. He was completely unable to pronounce my name, so had taken to approximating the first syllable, with my permission. I was genuinely thinking about this earlier today. I turned and shot at the Hunter that had aimed at us. They had disobeyed him, and been punished. That was amazing. Or at least, that's what I choose to believe. Thank you so much for giving us more man. Also stationed on the Flashing Hooves is, Moktep, an ambitious Bonthan Vice-Admiral. Them? Jenkins asked, loping along easily next to me in what was clearly much lower gravity than he was evolved for. The Wiki. Great stuff, looking forward to more. This is here. Your visa will be denied if you continue to mock the immigration system., Its facial feature twisted up into an expression of amusement. From the scarring and damage, along with the derelict ship floating nearby of a different make, they had been fighting not too long ago. HFY. David takes care of some pirates, recruits a cabinboy, a robot and the best girl. I couldnt tell if he had failed to notice the humans discomfort, or if he simply didnt care. I think the idea would break them. Time for humans to bring out their super dreadnaughts or other superweapons lol (knowing humanity Im sure something like that has been built), The day has come! More HFY, specifically VoM. I only looked up when the machine flashed a message I had never seen before: ERROR: Unknown Species. Then a moment that would change our history came. Most of all, I am glad to be able to finally upvote a post. Hope you enjoy my narration of it. Might do it again all over again for the story. I'm getting a 502 error, which might mean there are so many of us flocking to that page that it's overloading the server! I really hope you know how happy this makes me. Time well spent. Barely tall enough to see over the top of my customs desk, in fact. Honestly, Your original stories are some of the most influential on hfy, like Your stories got me into hfy! I really hope I don't have to wait to years for the next installment. I apologise, I said, chagrined at my own lack of professionalism. Soon we were seen as 'wicked but not unreasonable' and gained both fear and respect throughout the galaxy. Often futuristic science fiction, some of these copypastas can get quite long. You have an extraordinary talent for writing and crafting brilliant engaging characters! Sometimes I wish that I could erase that fan base but I don't think it's possible to do that." - Anthony Gonzalez of M83. A story that's all about "predators and prey aren't all that different, after all" shouldn't have villains that are the stereotypical eat-you-all predators. How this great powerGodhad made the universe in a handful of diurnals, and crafted the first humans from the dirt of their homeworld. Thank you for writing this. You had to, didn't you? Most of the crew found it impossible to believe that she was not insane, but Jenkins assured me that her beliefs were considered perfectly normal. The station displaced into the Earth system five eight-diurnals after the mission was announced, using the bulk of a large ringed gas world known as Saturn to mask the neutrino burst of its arrival. At first I thought it had received some pleasant comments and then sank without a trace. They are physically powerful. It was only when I encountered the idea of the tortured poet that things started to fall into place. Responsible part of my brain: we should get to sleap, it's 2 am, All of the rest of me: OH HEL NO IT AIN'T, ITS PREY O'CLOCK AND WE'RE READING THIS RIGHT NOW. Ended up re-reading them before starting this. There was the sound of pulse-gun fire and a squealing being galloped into the customs area before being caught from behind by a kinetic pulse that hurled it to the ground, broken and dying. New stories, space dragons, kickarse tales, More of humans being the cutest race in the galaxy, and exploiting the hell out of it, /tg/ asks how well Lex Luthor would do in anon's setting of choice, and /tg/ explains why people from capeshit are bullshit. Another great entry, so happy to see it! This is my very simple attempt to come up with an archival program. A human who could fly without wings, and who was impossibly strong and utterly impervious to all attempts to harm him. Fortunately, the crude cybernetic seemed to be functioning perfectly, and I had no difficulty in understanding the things speech, or the subtle body language that spoke of a cocktail of bored resignation and weariness. What's not to love? I dont know. Jenkins responded, calmly. *Cranes Neck Forward, Mouth Open, and Sinks Back Into A Classic Storyline.. How We All Read, Honestly.*. One of the first . The area of inquiry spans more than two thousand years, from the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age (ca. They are strong enough to wield firearms that are powerful enough to overwhelm even the most powerful personal shielding, while our own weaponry will hardly slow them down. Back then, Prey 2 was only a week old. When Teelm says, This is Specialist Teelm. Pretty kickass concept - a civilization shooting a last "fuck you" at their enemy but by the time it gets there, that enemy base has been replaced by a refugee camp or something. worth a read. Clips from it were discussed on political discussion broadcasts, most of them chosen to show the worst possible take on what Jenkins had been saying. Im a bureaucratic anomaly. You were worried about disappointing our expectations, and apologized that this wasn't bringing any closure. Great work! The story grew worse with each retelling, especially once it left official military reports. One of his eyes had swollen and was turning a dark red-purple. They are tortured geniuses. They were remarkably primitive compared to our own, and much smaller. Passed out around 4. Lets hope you dont have to wait for another part as long as I did. . Other specimens of their art were interesting, thought-provoking. I dont know how that translates.. Pretty sure the reveal was done by the original author. A second later there was a flare of light and shrieking, but it was not enough. Ideally, it should mean a simple 12 pageloads for a day per new thread, and it does not re-download images, so the load should be negligible. I agree that they are frustrating and that they make the site a pain to use for mobile users. It was assumed that this would be just another dead world, that we might find some usable raw materials pre-harvested in the form of abandoned constructions in orbit. Mods, if this script seems too spammy, I can up the checking interval, lower the time limit, or remove this altogether. It was only after Reddit user Guidosbestfriend set his own story Humans Dont Make Good Pets in the same universe and I confessed to having created the setting that I learned that The Kevin Jenkins Experience was considered a HFY classic. Turns out we were all a little crazy to start with. Prepare to be disappointed. Then it took a second. Ditto. "but the Arokone admiral had refused" extra o. I must have died and gone to heaven. I literally did a mini-jump as soon as I saw the words "HFY" and "Prey" in the same alert box. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. Vedreg had turned a grim shade of worried dark green by the time Jenkins finished telling the story. I think the fact that we're pulling the largest practical joke in the galaxy was already proof enough of that. It was also a fountain of thought-provoking philosophy, novel ideas and unique pastimes. This act somehow convinced this God thing to forgive them and be nice to humanity so long as they devoted considerable time and effort to telling it how great it was. I knew what I had to do. The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. They are mentally overwhelmingtheir ideas are powerful, their inventiveness puts us to shame, their philosophy explores avenues of thought that simply never occurred to us. Profanity A comedy. Or, you can pick one of these we've prepared for you: This image is , which is very large. It feels like 500 or so years after the expanse, if the writers didn't use the same 7 phrases the whole book. There is only one concern I have about this. The Hunters trotted round the corner, eerily silentnobody had ever heard them communicate verbally. By how easily they broke. As had their descendants, and their descendants, until apparently one tribe had tortured this beings physical avatar to deathhe gestured to the tattoo at this point, explaining that it depicted a crucifix, the very instrument of torture in question. NameKevin Jenkins.. please leave this site immediately. Well there's already a bearcat in the larger tiger cat so wouldn't it be a warthog cat? In any other species the movement would have looked obscenely organic. David and Gron go hunting for a lost crewmember, but encounter trouble almost immediately. Any link not otherwise associated with an OC post must have a summary or similar descriptor of at least 350 characters, providing relevant OC information. He was still yet to explain why he had found it so amusing to call me that. Horizons for Youth (Chicago, IL) Not disappointed, progress is progress. I had been retired from the customs and immigration desk on the docking ring while my injuries were repaired, and instead had spent much of the last three groups of eight standard diurnals dealing with the paperwork and investigative work that had followed the Hunter attack. I had to agree, as I fired a few suppressing shots around the corner. Surprising as this was, I then decided to write a sequel, and from there the clamor for more has picked me up and swept me along. Jenkinssomehow, impossibly alive despite taking a kinetic pulse round to the chestwrestled very briefly with the Hunter, and then there was a horrible organic splitting noise, the hiss became a shriek, and the gun was in hands, blood and mangled meat dripping from the cybernetic interface. 1700 B.C.E.) Jenkins and Charlotte got into a vicious argument about a protracted conflict in a dry, hot part of the world that had apparently only just started when they were abducted. I meant by the standards of your own species. Vedreg clarified. I had no reason to believe I was being lied to, so I accepted it. A lot of OC for you HFY guys out there. I couldnt restrain my strangled bleat of disbelief. Interview begins, interstellar convenient standard date/time 1196-5-24.4. You have no idea. Jenkins muttered. Ugly motherfuckers.. New to HFY? New to HFY? oh man and here i thought my weekend would be gaming and now i see spellgun got 8 new chapters and prey 3 is out and oh my oh my. Theyre both products of the same religious root anyway!. Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. (The Salvation War, #1) by Stuart Slade (shelved 3 times as hfy) Its crazy! He complained to me, in private. Only hope? Jenkins asked. We considered making contact, but in the end decided against it. When mankind ventured out into space, we never suspected what was to come. I had to click the links to make sure this wasn't another series. 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