Icewall
𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄: Any world (no matter how improbable) in a spatiotemporally infinite rule-based random universe is virtually certain to exist (merely occupying a smaller portion of phase space).
𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐘: Any world that someone thinks is “cool,” given sufficiently advanced means of production, is virtually certain to be produced.
Icewall is a meta-setting for RPGs and stories; any book/game/TV mash-up might occur on this surreal infinite plane of ice -- superheroes, superscience, psionics and magic, space opera (there is at least one galactic disc); very unpleasant things, people, organizations, conspiracies, and strange occurrences -- contradictions are legitimate; an alien invasion doesn't need to cross light years of space, just a few thousand miles of Antarctic conditions (imagine Trantor attacked by a horde of cold and hungry cavemen). It all stemmed from asking myself "What if...?" one day.
The map can be viewed in much better detail at
▐► https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWgi_k1artGUfK8JaA2gpw3CLGNI1DU8/view?usp=sharingIcewall itself isn't an actual story, so not posted here; you can find the "Icewall" .pdf at
▐► https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BG7P_sVezz8Dn5b8js_34yeAjSBhfN0v
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Mystery Work
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Discovering the wheel or fire probably led to a few accidents. Inventing the pointy stick certainly led to some death over the millennia. We have nuclear energy, and we're only at the upper end of K0 (close to K1). A K2 civilization, in control of their star's entire energy throughput (assuming a similar advancement in their scientific understanding and technological applications), might make us look like cavemen. A K3, at a galactic scale, is probably unimaginable realistically. Each of these steps (and any higher degrees) stands the potential of falling, and each possible fall would presumably be increasingly unimaginable in its effects.
This is a glimpse behind the curtain, “before” the Icewall timeline became jumbled by a K5 civilization's struggle over the psychomorphic effects of ZFC, time exploding and rearranging such that the very nature and physics of the universe became remade and replaced with something far stranger.
(The Qhalqhal entities being approximately equivalent to a Time Lord, or a Vorlon, or [more remotely] a Thoan.)
I read and appreciate (and try to reply to) all of your comments (they are always welcome)!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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Living in a powder keg and giving off sparks by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
23 Mar 2025
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If one can flash light, then surely one can “flash” darkness, and Tails has found several innovative ways of performing the impossible.
Chapter 2 will be uploaded next week, Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 10:30 CDT / 15:30 UTC.
NB: This is the first of the two fic.s that I had skipped in order to knock out Ruru's house has many doors — or: What dreams may come.
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- Part 11 of Love against the darkness
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The Space Orcs are coming, hooray, hooray! by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: humans are space orcs - Fandom
18 Oct 2020
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Billie Badass is from one of the galaxy's most dangerous and hardy species (though also, punnily enough, rather hearty ) — a Genomorph (a hermaphroditic species halfway between the Gelatinous Blobs of Futurama and the Pleasure GELFs of Red Dwarf; not precisely a Star Trek DS9 Changeling, but similar enough) — though not suicidally stupid enough to go near Humans... until one fateful trip. Now cast away, ze learns from a local — Avery, a Deathworlder — adapts, overcomes, and survives.
When you get to UWP X8779745, you might wish to consult the Traveller UWP charts.
NB 27 Sep 2021: 4th [short] story in series, added yesterday! (Happy almost-anniversary [17 Oct] to the first 2 Space Orcs stories in the series!)
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
NB: ALL OF MY FICS ARE ON archiveofourown . org — GO THERE TO READ THEM (IF YOU'RE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, THEN THAT SITE IS PHISHING YOU).
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- Part 1 of Tell me more about this Earth-thing
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The Space Orcs are coming, hooray, hooray! by Charles_Rockafellor
Part 1 of Tell me more about this Earth-thingSeries Information:
ID: 1975186
Words: 47,434 | Works: 7 | Complete: Yes | Bookmarks: 9
Description:A shapeshifting Genomorph and a Deathworlder (i.e.: Human, a.k.a. Space Orc) meet under less than ideal circumstances. The Genomorph finds zerself in dire straits, zer ship marooned on Earth, and ze's surrounded by lethal wildlife of every description. Over time, they find each other not quite so alien as one might expect, and discover together that deathworlds and hellworlds can hold a certain charm.
In a later episode, the party grows as they're joined by a Space Cat-girl and her girlfriend, and all of the complications and hijinks that such things can entail.
Every time that I think that I've finished this series, a new idea crops up. For now (as usual) it's “Complete”... for a given value of complete. 😆
NB: If you're wondering, please see my tutorial “How to make and fix a series on AO3” (in a series with another tutorial on CSS work skins for fonts, which made that link become underscored blue ink [assuming that your browser settings, site skin, and third party apps didn't prohibit it]).
Completed: 2020-10-18
Work ID: 27063373Relationship Tags:
• Billie Badass / Avery d'Arc
• Billie Badass - RelationshipWork Summary:
Billie Badass is from one of the galaxy's most dangerous and hardy species (though also, punnily enough, rather hearty ) — a Genomorph (a hermaphroditic species halfway between the Gelatinous Blobs of Futurama and the Pleasure GELFs of Red Dwarf; not precisely a Star Trek DS9 Changeling, but similar enough) — though not suicidally stupid enough to go near Humans... until one fateful trip. Now cast away, ze learns from a local — Avery, a Deathworlder — adapts, overcomes, and survives.
When you get to UWP X8779745, you might wish to consult the Traveller UWP charts.
NB 27 Sep 2021: 4th [short] story in series, added yesterday! (Happy almost-anniversary [17 Oct] to the first 2 Space Orcs stories in the series!)
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
NB: ALL OF MY FICS ARE ON archiveofourown . org — GO THERE TO READ THEM (IF YOU'RE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, THEN THAT SITE IS PHISHING YOU).
(Approximate) Last Read: 2026/04/03
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