Tales from the Multiverse - Starfield

Downloads:

https://mega.nz/folder/h89kDZwR#rg5T3AhH19D2-kVSFaoUXw

Credits to:

Bethesda Softworks/Zenimax Media Inc.

Starfield

https://bethesda.net/en/game/starfield

Genre: Science Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, LitRPG, Found Footage

Content warnings: Language, Blood, Violence, Partial Nudity, Drug and Alcohol Usage, Suggestive Themes.

Premise:

This is the story of a farm girl growing up on a once-peaceful world in the heart of the Settled Systems whose life is turned upside down shortly after she begins experiencing strange phenomena and vivid dreams. Accompanied by her faithful flying drone companion, Xenon, who also acts as the cameraman, the story is presented as found footage provided through a mysterious source who seems to have a special interest in her. As her adventure begins, she loosely follows along the events of the main Starfield storyline, though her motivations are her own and not directly connected to that plot - at least at first. Soon she discovers that many powerful figures in the dark corners of the universe are keen to get their hands on her, but their reasons are enigmatic and shrouded in secrecy, all the while discovering that there is something powerful inside her that she can barely control. Separated from her parents and forced to survive on her own, she must embrace these strange powers as she is swept along by circumstance on a journey that will take her across the Settled Systems and beyond, discovering the truth about herself and her unique connection to the greater multiverse.

Author's Thoughts:

My latest experiment in emergent storytelling, combining a narrative-focused playthrough of Starfield with my usual webcomic style.

For most of my life I've loved how games can create an engine to generate stories writers would never think of. This goes beyond the hand-written plots many games come with. It's the ones they didn't write that I find most fascinating; Those stories that come from the unique convergence of randomly-generated scenarios and unlikely characters finding themselves in the middle of these scenarios. As a writer, I enjoy thinking about how characters of different types might approach a situation I couldn't have imagined and how they might get through it. That sort of fascination has defined my evolution as a writer and forced me to adopt a focus on characters above all else. I am always trying to put myself in the head of each character - trying to see things from their unique point of view. It's a challenge with characters who are very unique, easier to do for more relatable ones, but always worthwhile, and when you put them together in situations you don't predict, it prompts new ways of thinking about stories and writing.

Games offer nearly limitless possibilities for this style of writing, and some games are actually built around that kind of story generation. Games like Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and The Sims series are renowned for their ability to take a set of random variables and create a compelling and unpredictable story. I enjoy those games, but I've always loved science fiction and space exploration, and Starfield is pretty much the biggest space exploration focused RPG I've ever seen, so it was a foregone conclusion that I'd be into it. I got the idea to try this experiment fairly recently, and when I started building my modlist for this playthrough I realized how many interesting simulation mods there are - especially survival focused ones. When I finalized the modlist I realized I had the ingredients for an interesting story generator.

This experiment takes the universe and plot of Starfield and combines it with my own hand-crafted narrative, executed through mods and my own webcomic narrative style to deliver a machinima brought to you by the game's photo mode and screenshots. It works as a hybrid playthrough of the game, but puts a heavier focus on the emergent story and my own narrative, so as to deliver something different from your own playthrough or any other. Consider this an alternate reality in the vast multiverse. One possible story among many.

The Misadventures of Xandra

Those of you following my SFW work over on my Patreon page will have seen the announcement of my new series focused on Iridium's sister and her disappearance, 6 years before the events of Iridium Illustrated. The Adventures of Xandra is a sci-fi series about a team of professional laser tag players who get caught in the middle of an alien civil war and discover that what they thought was a game was actually a training exercise. The series is not going to have any adult content in it, but I'm considering running a side series called the Misadventures of Xandra which will feature my usual style of raunchy sexiness and stuff that couldn't really go into a SFW series, which will run alongside the main series. MoX will be an optional series. The main story will be in AoX, but if you want to get to know the characters more intimately, MoX should provide that. It'll sort of be a deep dive, with full exposure (in more ways than one), and some extra lore here and there, with at least some amount of porn, maybe a lot, maybe quite graphic. Pretty much what you've come to expect from my writing over the years.

It's a new format I'm experimenting with. Mansion of Chaos was probably my biggest production yet, and while I had a lot of fun with it, some might consider it too story heavy with too little porn, while others might say that the porn ruined the story. I've always liked the idea of porn with plot, but realistically, I'm not sure it works as well as I'd like. I'm hoping that, by running a kind of split series that show different sides of the same story, I can get the best of both worlds and satisfy both audiences. I suppose we'll see. Not sure when the first episode of MoX will come out, since right now there's nothing sexy going on in that ship, but I'm planning on releasing MoX content as add-ons to AoX episodes. MoX is definitely going to have a more unconventional format, but what forms it will take I currently cannot say.

Moloch Output Terminal - A Shoutout

I'd like to introduce you all to a friend of mine who is a fellow erotica writer who specializes in the more bizarre and extreme stuff. Sort of where I'd be if I had chosen to keep going on that path a decade ago. I know some of you will be into it (you know who you are), so here's the link ya filthy animals:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/MolochOutputTerminal/pseuds/MolochOutputTerminal

Massive Files

In order to save space, and make things a bit easier on you all, I'm going to start releasing a lot of content in jpg form instead of png. While png is lossless, jpg isn't much worse and for the purpose it's fine. This will greatly reduce the size of files so it should be much easier for you to download stuff.

New Character: Nicole Wilson

An ordinary teenage girl whose life was rocked when a strange meteor landed in her backyard. Noticing the strange glowing purple and blue ore in the meteor, she was mesmerized. She found the stones pretty and collected some of the loose stones from around the crater, fashioning them into a homemade necklace. When she put the necklace on, it filled her with strange energy and gave her magical powers! Excited by the idea of using these powers for adventure and excitement, she is surely going to get herself into trouble sooner or later...

Her card is now available in the freebies in the usual place (HS2/chara/female). She can occasionally be found getting into trouble on the Everlasting server.

Updated Character: Megan Omega

A brilliant young physicist who solved the Omega Paradox, and in so doing, discovered the Omega Particle. Now, she has managed to create and stabilize this powerful entity, harnessing its power with a pair of incredible gauntlets of her own invention. Realizing the power at her fingertips (literally), she has set out on a quest to bring order to Paragon City, testing the capabilities of the gauntlets and learning more about how the Omega Particle interacts with the living world.

She can occasionally be found fighting crime on the Excelsior server. Her character card is available in the Freebies, in the usual place (HS2/chara/female).