Code Of Armor Snippet
I am back on a roll after the Thanksgiving holiday. I hope you folks that celebrated had a good one.
Here's a world-building snippet.
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Here's a world-building snippet.
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“When
that big set of vibroclaws came through the side of the control
cabin, I didn't know it was going to be my last time at the control
yokes. I'd been hurt in the arena before, sure, but I always bounced
back, thanks to my sponsors. This time, though, the autodoc hadn't
downloaded an update in a while. Too expensive to subscribe to the
interdimensional medical encyclopedia, I guess. My species wasn't in
its database, so it did the best it could. The anti-rejection drugs
it pushed into me were all wrong. They actually caused everything to
fester.”
“So,
now I'm a full conversion borg. A brain in a bottle, piloting a
human-sized mini-mech through the ground level of Junctionworld. No
combat upgrades, no major performance enhancements, just plain old
'me, two-point-oh.' I guess my model is sold as a labor utility
chassis, in some of the older catalogs, as well as a total medical
prosthesis.”
“My
sponsors cashed me out, paid for the new body, and even threw in a
lifelong maintenance package, as long as I keep their logo displayed.
So, this conversation is brought to you be the good folks at
Trans-Antarean Explosives. Heh.”
“What's
that? No, I don't watch the arenas anymore. Too painful, if that
term even still applies to me. I just sling drinks, now. Just
another bot-tender, but with meat at the controls, not a processor.”
“So,
that's my sad story. What'll you have?”
-Overheard
at Captain York's, a Mech Pilot Bar
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2100 words today, too. Jessica and Kierra punch through a certain forbidden barrier, and are confronted by a new threat: bureaucrats!
Best,
JBR
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Code Of Armor: Vengeance, Part Two
Pilot Jessica Kramer is a mech gladiator fighting long odds, personal demons, and a rigged system in order to solve the murder of her brother in an alien arena.
First three chapters on PDF, on the house...
www.johnbearross.com/CodeOfArmorVengeance-PartTwo-FirstThreeChapters.pdf
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