Jenkins, if anything, seemed grateful for the silence. Though I find it interesting that your greatest hero was not even of your own species.. It implies that your entire species is insane., And youre strong, fast, impervious to pulse fire. I visited it only once - aside from being a third heavier than usual, I swiftly felt the heat and humidity making me unwell and returned to the core of the station, which was tuned to the interstellar norm I was used to. You are AMAZING!!!! Vedreg had turned a grim shade of worried dark green by the time Jenkins finished telling the story. One of the first . And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?. Please contact KaiserMagnus or j1xwnbsr if you have any queries. Aw I loved that one too. I can't wait to see it come together! In hindsight, I really should have expected that Jenkins would have attracted a journalists attention. After years of contact, most alien races know almost nothing about humans other than exaggerated horror stories; they rarely bother us, and the ones that do never return home. I had to agree, as I fired a few suppressing shots around the corner. "Never underestimate the power of making an Ensign cry." ? he demanded. 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. Another HFY classic that really stuck with me. I really hope you know how happy this makes me. When I told my family that I had stopped believing that the God myth was true, they accused me of being evil and severed all contact with me. We just happen to be the ones who figured out brain power, tool use and teamwork to overcome those challenges. He scratched his tattoo. Absolutely amazing, really love how youve developed the story from the original. Also, just because I love sharing this info, you know how you use the 'fox in the henhouse' saying for some tactical code (and it never occurred to me how something that just about every human on Earth would get, even if they didn't have foxes on their continent and had to work it out from first principles, would be a nigh-unbreakable code to aliens)? But the most important part is that they must never, ever learn how much superior they are to us in so many ways. The entire planet was like that, a perfectly stable world with no issues that we could determine, and yet it seems the suicide rates were the greatest cause of death among the people. Itsintimidating. 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. I was interrupted by an alarm. 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! 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. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Charlotte was from the same landmass and political entity as he was, but was older than him and had apparently joined the mission so as to preach the truth of the very religion we were there to study. Some, I couldnt standmonotonous, pulsing music that seemed to delight in going nowhere, broadcasts which appeared to take a morbid fascination in the opinions of beings that, among my own species, would have been locked up for their own safety and medicated. Your visa will be denied if you continue to mock the immigration system., Its facial feature twisted up into an expression of amusement. UhI dont know. I feel like Superman., Uhfiction. 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. What is that? Vedreg asked. The incident prompted the council to do two things: first they passed an amendment to the Treaty that allowed for a species to be declared sentient if it had developed calculus, rather than interplanetary FTL, though the Contact Prohibition would remain in effect until the species went interplanetary. For those who are upset by the strongly antitheistic content of part 0.2, I implore you to power on through it. . The whole system is far too rigid to accommodate me and mine., I caught myself nodding my agreement and shut the gesture down. You killed it, any kinda timeline for the next update or is it gonna be another surprise? Your Superman sounds like Tvnndrkktktk, who defended his tribe from a pack of predators for a year without sleeping., Or Gudruvgnagnut, who grew so large that his tribe could shelter beneath him from the year-storm, said Vedreg. 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. I need more.I gotta have more.. Edit: found admin@royalroadl.com and affiliate@royalroadl.com lets all send them messages about how they are ruining the internet by participating in this ad program. My own hunch tells me that it was about encountering another predator species. Years of study later showed that the reptile-like race had taken nearly ten times as long as we did to reach the industrial age, and had not gotten very far beyond that. Instead something black, blue and brown hurtled into the flank of one of the alien warriors with a crunch and a hiss of pain. A few inspired quite intense emotions in me. I think the fact that we're pulling the largest practical joke in the galaxy was already proof enough of that. Holy fuck. The full discussion they had is still posted somewhere, I think the Arkmuse VoM page has a link to it. Oh heck ya!!! I found the human Kevin Jenkins in conversation with one of the stations senior lawyers on the public promenade deck. Just finished reading it all! Fuck yeah". The Theatre at Ace Hotel. Please can I have more Welp time to read the first two entries again then read this. I want to keep reading it (hell I would pay for a book, and I mean like the 'whole LotR trilogy together' size book). 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. Asshole. 2. I saw Jenkins sway with the motion and remain upright, despite the fact that he was balanced precariously on only two legs. Propably broke this rule, since he only posted the link alone. Kirk Krrkktnkk Aktnnzziktk, Memoirs. The music in the background is a slowed track by goodfriends of mine, Celeste by Darcho \u0026 186. I gestured that this was true for me also. Us. 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. A human who could fly without wings, and who was impossibly strong and utterly impervious to all attempts to harm him. I closed the booth, stood up and gestured for the alien to follow me with my second right forelimb. Then a moment that would change our history came. worth a read. Baden Woods, is the brash Terran Ambassador to the Assemblage, and friends with, Nesh, the Dreeden Ambassador to the Assemblage. The story grew worse with each retelling, especially once it left official military reports. Thank you for writing this. He didnt spare the fallen alien a second glance as he charged at the lone survivor. This was one of my favorite stories that led me to find /r/HFY I didn't know it spawned a bunch of extra stories in the same world here. At first I thought it had received some pleasant comments and then sank without a trace. It was rather amusing to see the scientific community collectively slap their heads when they see the simple ideas and concepts they had missed. to the breakdown of the Roman empire in Late . When I go there I see the story for a few seconds but then get stuck behind ads. A lot of screencaps, but among them are new content, and two (so far) good long OCs. They were remarkably primitive compared to our own, and much smaller. Or at least, that's what I choose to believe. They were known for abducting specimens of a pre-Contact species, experimenting on them to acquire biological data, then using that information to be able to sell cybernetic technology to the newcomers that was appropriate to their biology the second they were welcomed into the galactic fold. We did not find another living race during that time, or find out how we were immune. ;), This was fantastic like always. Not impervious, just highly resilient, I corrected. With surprising speed, news spread among their people, and among others, of what had happened. Most other species suspected that their sense of empathy had atrophied as a side-effect of the campaign to make themselves smarter. I apologise, I said, chagrined at my own lack of professionalism. He did it because there are more challenges down there among his own kind than he would ever find up here, among us. One second, let me go pinch myself. AboutPressCopyrightContact. Thank you. This story is so poignant to me so I really wanted to narrate it.Originally by /u/AssHatVik, i got the post fr. Why would they do that? I asked, to make conversation as I prepared the official forms. Time well spent. This series had so much story potential until the reveal. Hostile, vicious and forever primordial. I'm looking forward to reading them! That was amazing. More HFY, specifically VoM. Just finished up reading. Well there's already a bearcat in the larger tiger cat so wouldn't it be a warthog cat? I collapsed, shaking from the pain. It was only after Reddit user "Guidosbestfriend" set his own story "Humans Don't 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. Used as a general reference to copypastas that feature humanity being portrayed in a favorable light, normally in-comparison to other (alien) races. Hope you enjoy my narration of it. Prey is what introduced me to HFY and I have reread 1 and 2 this morning because God damn it is feels like my first girlfriend just texted me. Progress is all we need if the progress is this fantastic. One ignored me and kept firing at Jenkins, but he was so fast, so small, and the rounds smacked into the deck plating around him. When mankind ventured out into space, we never suspected what was to come. We spent a lot of time monitoring the political situation at first. 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. All of a sudden, I have these bro EDM DJs playing my music, and I just can't even care less. "EDM is probably one of the styles of music that I hate the most. 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. But the other blinked at me and his mouth curled upwards at the corners. The navy arrived to break up the resulting fight, but only after horrible casualties to both sides. The image can safely be downscaled to reduce file size, without any noticeable changes on most screens. Heightened sensitivity? I nodded, fighting back the urge to excrete in my terror. Amending the Treaty tends to lose votes.. I was genuinely thinking about this earlier today. AND like 10 more Spellgun chapters since I last checked?! Any race within this sector of space would slowly but surely go insane. A second later there was a flare of light and shrieking, but it was not enough. science, hfy: 2013-01-24: 7 : September . Take it or leave it, as it is an extremely minor thing that has absolutely no affect on the story whatsoever. Been seeing new Spellguns, and now this. 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. If you encounter any issues, please contact Lord Licorice on IRC/Discord or email 4chan [at] thisisnotatrueending.com. The fox is in the henhouse. The sounds of immigration control evaporated as a sudden fuzzy silence engulfed us. I don't make anything from, nor do I have any control over the ads that Royal Road runs. Unlucky for the Kondar, the concept of warning shots was alien to them, and they did not stop to ask why the single shot had missed. 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. Keep it up! 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. David hears worrying news about an outbreak on other stations, takes some time to deal with the captured AI and develops an android body for SHODAN. HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, pmore [close] HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, physiology, psychology etc is shown to be of superior quality. How strong are you, Purveyor Jenkins?, Jenkins shrugged. The most successful troll in /tg/ history skews the OP's topic into a debate on whether Humans are the worst fantasy race. I know the drill, He said. The Demonsa loan-word that had filled a conceptual gap we had never been aware ofthat tormented humanity were what inspired it. Our first contact did not go so well, however. Also he punches a ghost to death. Barely tall enough to see over the top of my customs desk, in fact. Ho-leee shit!! Was 9 days late to the party. 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. Still absolutely loving the banter between Baden and Nesh, and in general just how all the characters feel like real people! I ripped the data from the storage and attached it to the recording. 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! One of the Kondar gunmen on the closest ship had a panic attack after hearing our garbled transmission. We listened, and I privately felt a sense of alarm mounting within me. Indeed it is! You see, Earth is a death world. If you're referring to the "torn" story in this universe it was not. Mounted on a trio of boom arms well out from the main body of the station, it provided the higher gravity their species was used to, as well as a warmer, denser, more humid atmosphere. Two royalty free songs from Kevin Macleod have been used, albeit slightly edited to loop them.Man Down by Kevin MacLeod. Communications on both sides failed, we ourselves had long ago stopped carrying any equipment or training our crew for first-encounters, and apparently the Kondar had not had any first contacts of their own in hundreds of years. 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. A story this awesome deserves the reputation of crashing the internet, even if it's just a small part of it ;). Parts of your writing style reminded me of his. From my homeworld. I looked at Jenkins, surprised. The all-clear alarm sounded just before I reached him, and he moved in response to it. While carrying more than I suspected I could physically lift!after me. It didnt come. Civilian trade station 591 Outlook on Forever, Customs and Immigration Officer Krrkktnkk aktnnzziktk interviewing immigrant pre-Contact abductee. This was then followed by the angry growl of a hull breach alarm, but oddly not the decompression alarm. 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. Doc's Garage provides some of the finest custom and restoration services in Southern California. 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. You have no idea. Jenkins muttered. His head sank down until the pointed bottom of his jaw was resting against his torso. Our musical tastes were differenthe introduced me to his favourite genres, which I found shallow and noisy, he disliked the ones that most inspired me. 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. Few humans appeared in view of aliens outside of deliberately frightening power armour, and human ambassadors used voice synthesizers to sound like that first garbled communication had. I cant believe it lives! Humanity had become the bogeymen of the universe. Abductee 907-42-96-53-3, It introduced itself. I had to click the links to make sure this wasn't another series. 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. More great storytelling, thanks again for writing it! 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. Mods, if this script seems too spammy, I can up the checking interval, lower the time limit, or remove this altogether. That isdeeply troubling information, Purveyor Jenkins. Vedreg said, eventually. As part of my job, I was required to pass information of potential military significance back to the Council. The story of Lablonnamedadon is one of the classic HFY storie. Next! I ordered. Wenthan, the ship's communications officer. Her wingman is, Steve "Jester" Hendricks, a more experienced pilot in the ARTN. Lots of monsters are also designed. David captures a pirate, raids a gang HQ, meets an old Grey and goes hunting. I filed this away as a rebuttal for the next officer to approach me on the subject. Good ol' veil of madness. He threw his feet out ahead of him and slid the last few strides to the locker. Today is a great day for /r/HFY and therefore the world. Small, but powerful and dense-seeming. I'm a month late to this party but I never thought I'd see a post titled "Prey III." Haven't been able to contact the author yet, so If anybody has a way please let me know. 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. 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. Them? 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. He chuckled. Hope you all enjoy! Whatever this thing was, it was from a high-gravity planet. Click here for legal information.If you are under the age of 18, Not quite as good as the last one, but it's OC, that makes it good enough. They are tortured geniuses. I think the idea would break them. 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. 842 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014. Events moved quickly after that. I wasnt permitted to witness the interview, but every being that entered that chamber exited displaying the signs of worry and stress. Humanity Fuck Yeah! The concept of the taser was among the very first. The commander tried to keep a disaster from occurring and ordered his ships not to open fire. You've delivered and then some, imo, and I'm frickin stoked!! 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. I just found this sub literally today (off a wonderful relevant post in /r/tumblr), and Prey/II got me hooked instantly. Honestly, Your original stories are some of the most influential on hfy, like Your stories got me into hfy! He never told me why he asked to have his social implant removed, and why he went back to Earth. Fuck yeah! We do not deny an author's need to promote their work, however we do require this only be done in a relevant context. 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. 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. I only read through I and II like 2 weeks back as well. Id love a chapter following the Rashans point of view and revealing what there true motives are and what they really think of all the prey species and their new competition. Standalone posts which serve only to advertise wares, commercial or non-commercial, will be removed. It met my surprised stare with the level binocular gaze of a species evolved for predation and the hunt. The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages. Short jaunts were safe enough, but more than that and permanent damage to the mind would result. This is here. The concept was very, very alien. The classic tale of first contact. Harpers Ferry (Amtrak station code; Harpers Ferry, WV) HFY. This only hurt our reputation further, with what happened later. I understand youre doing this for free and ads make you a buck, but seriously fuck the inescapable full screen ads on your site. Ho-leee shit!! I couldnt tell if he had failed to notice the humans discomfort, or if he simply didnt care. They gave me a splitting headache from across the room.. That's one of my favorites, It was an old green text I saw a long time ago. Sorry for the extremely drawn out and extremely nit picky critique. To refresh an existing archived thread, simply attempt to add it again, and it will be immediately refreshed. They arenot crazy. My job was trivially easy, so I spent much of my time browsing the content of their worldwide data network. The team is rounded out by. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown. Im a bureaucratic anomaly. Technically, as a member of a pre-interplanetary species, I am a non-sentient specimen of indigenous fauna and therefore cannot be legally employed or own property., I indicated my understanding by noddinganother gesture our body language shared in commonand raising the fur at the nape of my neck. I only looked up when the machine flashed a message I had never seen before: ERROR: Unknown Species. All around us, fleeing and panicking immigrants were being smashed to the ground by Hunter firepower. I am adapting to it. We are the premier choice for classic car customs, restorations, electrical rewiring, electrical repair, LS Swaps, motor rebuilds and performance upgrades, suspension and brake upgrades and repairs, audio . Many came up with theories, but none fit better than any others. And now you tell me that your species is gripped by the fervent belief that a tale of breathtaking violence and cruelty is all true, and that many of you are willing to die in service to the principal villain of this story? He didnt seem to noticeinstead he pounced and a second shot barely missed him before his forepaw lashed out, balled up into a hard knot of gravity-densened bone and flesh which he drove into the Hunters eye cluster. Normally, I only read one offs on here, but this one makes it so I cant wait for another. r/EDM 1 mo. Once, and just once, we found a sentient race still alive. Hfy Books Showing 1-50 of 299 Transcripts (Kindle Edition) by Michelle kathleen Hodgson (shelved 4 times as hfy) avg rating 4.50 48 ratings published Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Armageddon? Jenkins received no such luxury from the chairs, but seemed comfortable enough anyway. They are physically powerful. worth a read. Thanks and im looking forward to the next two. When Ploel and Teelm are entering the Bonthan security room, you have Ploel's race as 'kethkhan', but the previous mention was 'kethkan'. I was taught this thing from a very young age as if it was true. This, along with all the other HFY classics is what got me into this sub. You are not, Officer Aktnn, Vedreg replied. It do be crazy sometimes. On a planet with 3/4th the gravity of earth, a planet primarily dominated by jungles bore a race of insect-like scavengers. My species homeworld really is a category twelve temperate. Haven't come across it yet, but when I find it I'll certainly post it. This is a fantastic return. *Cranes Neck Forward, Mouth Open, and Sinks Back Into A Classic Storyline.. How We All Read, Honestly.*. I had no time to mourn. David goes hunting, gets hunted himself, gets into trouble, builds some armor and goes scavenging. 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. Youre wearing the symbol of thisthis masochism on your arm and you dont know why your people believe it?, I know why I believed it, Jenkins said. Despite its lack of height, it had strapped a pack to its torso that looked larger and heavier than I could have comfortably carried. Horses were. Meaning. If Jenkins was to be believed, then the line between fantasy and reality was, for many humans, invisible. But you were fearless when those Hunters were shooting you! I exclaimed. A second alarm began to soundthe long wail of a station damage alarm. You had to, didn't you? I'll look at it again tomorrow when I'm on a computer and not on a phone. Was wondering when you'd bring that up. Then he apparently lost the strength to stand and his forelimbs folded up underneath him. With reposting of classics, statement of what HFY is, and plenty of new OC. My social implant tentatively suggested that Jenkins body language communicated tired endurance. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. After much discussion the author of that piece finally agreed that maybe the Torn story arc was a bad idea. NameKevin Jenkins.. I just stumbled upon your Prey series and devoured all three parts. The largest was perhaps the length of a football field, if that. Muscles shifted under his thin brown skin as he tapped his digits on the tabletop in a simple one-two-three rhythm. Must be Christmas morning and no one told me. taps two fingers repeatedly in the crook of his arm. Interestingly, these two first stories spawned a series of stories written on this very subreddit, to which I'll link at the end of the last part. The human gave a worried smile. 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. Then a pulse round took him in the torso and flung him against the wall. He rolled up the sleeves of fabric that covered his forelimbs until they were bunched around the mid-joint. The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages. Those things exist in all species, but the alien concepts these things expressed, and the way in which they expressed them, broke through that barrier for me. It was when I started to explore without his guiding hand that I started to find the positives. The Hunters were turning to fire at him as I popped up from cover. I stared at their twin heavy pulse guns, too afraid even to close my eyes before the end. I really hope I don't have to wait to years for the next installment. 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! Then it took a second. 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. And I just happen to arrive on the very day that the sub is spoiled with the long-awaited third installment? 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