On six legs, they were extremely stable, and their forelimbs were cybernetically fused into their heavy pulse guns, making disarming them impossible. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vqUJ4T4wQ. One of the longer videos I've ever made :)#HumansAreSpaceOrks #Reddit #Narration Though I find it interesting that your greatest hero was not even of your own species.. This is the only thing Ive seen over the course of this series, and only pulled the suspension of disbelief for me as it would for a firefighter watching/reading a fiction about firefighting and seeing something off. 2. Enter the thread number (/tg/ only) and a brief title and one-sentence description and hit Go! At long last, and pretty much right after my birthday! He rolled up the sleeves of fabric that covered his forelimbs until they were bunched around the mid-joint. In which David pushes his ship and his equipment to their limits. This was then followed by the angry growl of a hull breach alarm, but oddly not the decompression alarm. In fact the entire race seemed insane. Join me in the love of old Hollywood movies from the Silents to the 60's. I reread those two (in between a thousand petty annoying things that slowed me down), and then promptly read this - and it was well worth the wait! Only explanation. He fired upon the Supremacy, which in a placating gesture had lowered its shields. Meaning. 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. Then a moment that would change our history came. Classics; Must Read; Previously Featured; Old School Text Posts; Library of Published Works GLad to see the VoM getting some more pagetime. HOLY SHIT!!! Nach, Faen and Delv, security and hardware experts that excel in getting the team in and out of heavily protected places and computer systems to conduct espionage. It has been done. Vedreg and I exchanged a glance that bypassed the social implants.There are going to be a lot of nervous species out there when your kind develop quantum communication, Vedreg opined. 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. He did that shrug thing again, this time wobbling his head apologetically. So excited to see this. Despite my longer legs, he covered the ground faster and threw himself behind a customs booth as another kinetic pulse missed him. I turned and shot at the Hunter that had aimed at us. 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. Harpers Ferry (Amtrak station code; Harpers Ferry, WV) HFY. 67,622 talking about this. The Department of Classics is committed to the study of ancient Greece and Rome and their political, social, artistic, and intellectual legacy. My shot evaporated harmlessly against a protection field identical to mine. If you're referring to the "torn" story in this universe it was not. Heh, it was a fun challenge. I nodded. Humans, it seemed, had for most of their sentient era preferred to invent explanations for the world around them rather than admit a lack of knowledge. Just finished reading it all! Civilian trade station 591 Outlook on Forever, Customs and Immigration Officer Krrkktnkk aktnnzziktk interviewing immigrant pre-Contact abductee. Now, on the edge of League space, a new foe threatens the centuries-long status quo, and it's up to two outsider species - the Dreeden and their allies, the Terrans- to try and save the League before this new threat consumes it. Was hard to post knowing that people had such high expectations for it. nonsense. The water cannons they use to suppress riots would pulverize our bones. It feels like 500 or so years after the expanse, if the writers didn't use the same 7 phrases the whole book. What? Hostile, vicious and forever primordial. While carrying more than I suspected I could physically lift!after me. I was linked to hfy by writingprompts though. Oh heck ya!!! Eating sentient population doesn't even make a lot of sense logistically. We studied the creatures on many worlds, although none bore intelligent life. 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. The Corti abducted you, didnt they?. I literally yelped out loud. 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. 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. Strong enough to rip the leg off a Hunter and beat another Hunter to death with it, he said. Your story telling is very good. You dont know? Please, please, pleeeeeease don't make Rashan into the monsters they appear to be so far. One second, let me go pinch myself. Two royalty free songs from Kevin Macleod have been used, albeit slightly edited to loop them.Man Down by Kevin MacLeod. Good setup chapter. Was wondering when you'd bring that up. I had trouble understanding how somebody could hear the music written by Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Rutter and consider them dull, but other members of the crew reported that they preferred Jenkins taste in music. He never told me why he asked to have his social implant removed, and why he went back to Earth. I stared at their twin heavy pulse guns, too afraid even to close my eyes before the end. They need something to fight. The sounds of immigration control evaporated as a sudden fuzzy silence engulfed us. 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. None of them are except this one, the other stories in this universe were all written by other people, none of whom had permission from the person who wrote this. And we have other weakness. "And suddenly, when all of the fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls were ready to pitch in to buy HFY's tombstone, OP delivered. The first chapter of what would eventually become The Deathworlders, was posted on 4chan some years ago now, as a self-contained story. We would have begun sooner, if the station had not been fitted with a specialist living module for Jenkins and two other human abductees who had requested a place on the mission. That's one of my favorites, It was an old green text I saw a long time ago. I understand youre doing this for free and ads make you a buck, but seriously fuck the inescapable full screen ads on your site. It is considered impossible for sentient beings to evolve on category twelve planets, I said. IIRC, it's one of the scenes on the Helena, but it could be one of the Bonthans too. Same. But you were fearless when those Hunters were shooting you! I exclaimed. It's better than my writing projects by far. I couldnt tell if he had failed to notice the humans discomfort, or if he simply didnt care. Heightened sensitivity? Thank you so much for giving us more man. In any other race this bizarre affliction can and did drive them to extinction. Horses can carry more, Dogs can bite harder and scent better, most prey species worth hunting could crush an incautious hunter if they turned to fight, and any of the apex predators will happily eat human. You have to understandI come from one of the more civilized parts of my planet., Vedreg and I sat in silence for several minutes, absorbing this news. 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. Then a pulse round took him in the torso and flung him against the wall. This will probably gonna get buried in the comments and I dont know how much you are using modern military stuff for inspiration for the combat scenes but there is one part I would recommend a change. Thanks and im looking forward to the next two. I swallowed my pain and staggered to my feet. You killed it, any kinda timeline for the next update or is it gonna be another surprise? Humanity Fuck Yeah! The issue? Was 9 days late to the party. I cant believe it lives! Rather than fight a losing battle, we played to the role given to us. That isdeeply troubling information, Purveyor Jenkins. Vedreg said, eventually. I was taught this thing from a very young age as if it was true. 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. Another HFY classic that really stuck with me. This story is so poignant to me so I really wanted to narrate it.Originally by /u/AssHatVik, i got the post fr. My implant cant find an equivalent concept., Vedreg told him. All of a sudden, I have these bro EDM DJs playing my music, and I just can't even care less. https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ The Descent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descentLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This one will take the place of my usual weekly upload of Those Days With The Monsters because I've been unable to record audio this week due to illness :( I had the audio files for this already made so I edited them down, no pick ups were possible and I had to get creative at points! I'm so happy you have a Patreon now too. I know the drill, He said. Here you go: https://imgur.com/gallery/2Q59t. We would later piece together what happened, and it went something like this. Short jaunts were safe enough, but more than that and permanent damage to the mind would result. I found the human Kevin Jenkins in conversation with one of the stations senior lawyers on the public promenade deck. Apt, I said. He seemed embarrassed by the fact. I actually gasped out loud. HFY. I'm so glad I found this post before it was archived. Why would they do that? I asked, to make conversation as I prepared the official forms. The remaining passengers from the shuttle that we had been processing were responding with varying degrees of calmness. The largest was perhaps the length of a football field, if that. This series is amazing. Long-term observation showed that after hatching the individual would slowly but surely go insane, to the point where none reached old age. Back then, Prey 2 was only a week old. The Theatre at Ace Hotel. Interview begins, interstellar convenient standard date/time 1196-5-24.4. 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. I fired, but fear took my aim and the best I managed was a single round that impacted harmlessly against a shield before their return fire broke my own shielding and ruined my arm. David and the crew begin work on cleaning up after the battle and discover a little more of the truth behind AI technology. He and Bug are commanded by. I try to stay in shape, but between the low gravity and not getting enough food Ive probably lost some muscleabout or slightly below average for a male of my size? he suggested. You're not a Crichton fan, by any chance? Once, and just once, we found a sentient race still alive. Have a gland that generates combat drugs.. 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. In time we studied the technology of the more advanced dead races, gleaming a scientific secret or two we had missed. Or, you can pick one of these we've prepared for you: This image is , which is very large. 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. 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. I knew I was stronger and tougher than most sentient life, but I had no idea the difference was that big. I gave this some consideration, and scrapped the form. Read the FAQ, read the Subreddit Rules, and check out our Wiki. I think this is fantastic because it makes a lot of the classics much more easily searchable. (The Salvation War, #1) by Stuart Slade (shelved 3 times as hfy) Frankly, you deserve all the gold and virgins for continuing this story 2 years down the line! It was a simple designone long line, crossed by a shorter one. Back on Earth I owned a recreational establishment, the human said, sipping his glass of water. David and Cylia deal with a worm while Clank flexes on some aliens. They were remarkably primitive compared to our own, and much smaller. YASS. Three diurnals later, the council convened a special meeting. Asshole. Found Prey I around 1am. A lot of OC for you HFY guys out there. When I go there I see the story for a few seconds but then get stuck behind ads. The League's Fleet has policed known space for millennia, backed by mighty dreadnoughts that crushed any force that opposed them. For example, it would be All units, this is Specialist Teelm. We appear to have crashed the web page! The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. One of the first hfy I ever read. We had apparently been sitting in the galactic equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle, and had finally breached its edge. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. 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. Under Nesh's purview is a Dreeden State Department tactical team, led by, Lieutenant Reald, the no-nonsense team leader, who prefers to carry an over-sized Terran revolver into combat. I had to go to civilian law enforcement before most of my property was returned. Six of them he said. Every attempt to convince people that we wanted fair negations was seen as a deception. Experimentally I tried to enter this fact onto the paperwork, which of course threw up an error code. While judging any species by the aesthetic values of your own species doesnt make a lot of sense, Hunters were ugly. Within hours, our conversation was the big talking point on a major interstellar newsfeed complete with an alarmist headline. It staggered, collided with its comrade and fell. Take it or leave it, as it is an extremely minor thing that has absolutely no affect on the story whatsoever. Dozens of ships were in orbit around a rocky empty world, along with a space dock to repair and refuel them. Fascinating biology, Vedred agreed with me, and I indicated embarrassmentclearly I had been displaying my fascination openly enough for my social implant to broadcast it. Three short howls of noisethe attack alarm. At first I thought it had received some pleasant comments and then sank without a trace. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. Our first contact did not go so well, however. Fuck me there's my life in a sentence. There was no visible change, but the sense tendrils along my back felt a tingling as the shield came online. Now, twenty diurnals after the attack, there was just some greenish discolouration to show that he had ever been injured. Hope you all enjoy! Us. NameKevin Jenkins. If you enjoy the LitRPG genre, you may also enjoy my in-progress web serial Spellgun. They are physically powerful. Undergraduate. Im a bureaucratic anomaly. Also he punches a ghost to death. David meets back up with Clank, takes down some mercs, makes a deal with a gun runner and meets with the owner of a whorehouse. For anyone who missed it hidden at the bottom of the story page-. r/EDM 1 mo. Maybe theres even a POW camp where all the races are together? A human ambassador reaches out to the all powerful Alliance! 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. The Demonsa loan-word that had filled a conceptual gap we had never been aware ofthat tormented humanity were what inspired it. Events moved quickly after that. worth a read. Turns out we were all a little crazy to start with. Then he apparently lost the strength to stand and his forelimbs folded up underneath him. *Cranes Neck Forward, Mouth Open, and Sinks Back Into A Classic Storyline.. How We All Read, Honestly.*. I'm now going to be anxiously waiting for the next part! It was, as far as I could track back, originally posted as two parts, the second of which I will post tomorrow. Time went on, and we soon discovered that this was not an isolated occurrence. Paradigm, I fucking love this shit. The captain of Supremacy ordered the shields raised and a warning shot fired. Aliens can be surprisingly strange at the best of times, but I was beginning to suspect that humans may be weirder than most. Another HFY classic that really stuck with me. It also didn't help that our subspace communications were just advanced enough that the garbled words the poor Kondar picked up on their outdated systems sounded horribly sinister and alien even by the wide standards of the galaxy as it now was. Do you know when the next part may be coming? My social implant tentatively suggested that Jenkins body language communicated tired endurance. Them? 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. Having originally opened as the United Artists Theatre in 1927, the lovingly restored 1,600-seater retains much of the charm and charisma instilled by its iconic founders, namely Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. Purveyor Jenkins and I were discussing his petition to have his species reclassified as sentient.. The Daal, Beer, and the wonderful world of marketing, Faces would make everything so much harder, Lecture on Human History by professor Hatamhob, Entry in the Galactic Encyclopaedia: Sweat. Not just because of a confirmed Rashan POV chapter but because it sounds like we still have plenty of chapters to go :D. You have a wonderful ability to write and I am glad you are doing so. What good is sanity when faced with crushing loneliness anyways? 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. A second alarm began to soundthe long wail of a station damage alarm. What was it about? There was a grim tearing noise, and the Hunters leg came away. An original story written, and granted. It has arrived!!! Literally can't read it on my phone. On the news, his eye had still been swollen and ugly, much of his flesh had darkened and bruised from minor haemorrhaging, and he had been wincing with pain every time he drew breath. Once every eight-diurnals, five of the crew could be found gathered around a table in the mess hall, rolling number polyhedra and apparently immersed in fantastical battles against impossible creatures that could breath fire, or turn a warrior to stone by meeting its gaze. taps two fingers repeatedly in the crook of his arm. When Teelm says, This is Specialist Teelm. We just happen to be the ones who figured out brain power, tool use and teamwork to overcome those challenges. He scratched his tattoo. I only looked up when the machine flashed a message I had never seen before: ERROR: Unknown Species. By the time they get there, the dudes are all dead but the power armor systems take over and the wreck shit anyway. Hunters dont wear inter-species communication implants, but I didnt need one to recognise the fear and panic it briefly had time to show before it was beaten to death with another Hunters severed leg. It was completely involuntary. And so we travelled the stars, colonising the lost homeworlds we found, along with others. Unethical, but the species as a whole could not be prosecuted for the actions of a few and so the sale of the implants went ahead anyway. Can you check the site for Pretty III? David goes hunting, gets hunted himself, gets into trouble, builds some armor and goes scavenging. To survive, they had to evolve not just intelligence, but the ability to apply it like a weapon. 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. 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. Itsintimidating. I just stumbled upon your Prey series and devoured all three parts. I apologise, I said, chagrined at my own lack of professionalism. Ho-leee shit!! The UTA, United Terran Alliance, controlled over 87% of mankind's colonies from its seat of power on Earth. Better a duplicate than missing something this good! One of his eyes had swollen and was turning a dark red-purple. But if that's what it takes then I guess that's whats it takes. He refused to be drawn on the subject of religion, instead preferring to compensate for the gaps in Jenkins and Charlottes knowledge regarding that region of their planet. 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. Awesome to see this one again, has always been one of my all-time favorite HFYs! His endoskeleton issued a loud clicking sound and he issued a sigh that my implant interpreted as pleasure. They are something far more than that. There were three more behind it and I ducked into cover next to the human as their return fire threatened to overwhelm my defenses. It was small. He picked up a second bag, and strolledstrolled! Nuryaw, Bonthan High Admiral and leader of the Assemblage grand fleet. I had not finished gathering my thoughts when there was a sudden violent lurch that knocked me from my feet. So excited! It was absolutely fantastic and exceeded my expectations in every way! 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! Literally just found this sub today and spent and read all of the first two and was so sad that I couldn't find out what happens next, and then boom it's there on my front page. I had to agree, as I fired a few suppressing shots around the corner. Please contact KaiserMagnus or j1xwnbsr if you have any queries. Her wingman is, Steve "Jester" Hendricks, a more experienced pilot in the ARTN. You see, Earth is a death world. It was suicide. We were silent for some time. You can find their music here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliumcKpyD4wSPGsfSCd0Jwhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC19SB4ExQCZLAlKa65vmoVgThis video comes instead of my 1000 sub video, which I want to take a bit more time on the edit. I wish I could upvote this more than once. 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