AxisRogue

Sooooo I was just playing DragonFable and entered a quest where the double-crossing character of ambiguous moral character named "Circe" masquerades as "Josephine" and has this interaction with a certain green-eyed guard...

Just gonna leave this here for my "Integration"/"SSTWL" fans...

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1 week ago | [YT] | 28

AxisRogue

Also, another "Integration" update: the scene with Yves and Ibrahim at the rebel hideout will be rewritten to match the canonical lore of "The Amazing Digital Circus" once the conclusion premiers in theaters.

That is all. Carry on!

1 week ago | [YT] | 24

AxisRogue

Next chapter is up! We're almost at the penultimate battle (finally lol XD)

1 week ago | [YT] | 21

AxisRogue

Apologies for the delay of the next chaprer release for "Integration" on AO3. I had the stomach flu last week and I'm currently on vacation. I'll try to have it proofread and released a little later tonight!

1 week ago | [YT] | 24

AxisRogue

To the "Integration" discord server:



Sunset is upon us.



Not sure if there's anything left to be said, as I've said a lot in regards to the end of _Integration_ and the impact you've all had on my life. Thank you for being part of an unforgettable journey, and I wish you all the best wherever you may roam from here. My dms will remain open even though I'm not a frequent visitor to discord anymore; if you want to talk, I'll try to make time to talk.

As for the server itself, I will not be deleting it outright, as I have plans to copy and preserve the majority of the council meetings and theory discussions in the conehead and integration channels.

With that being said, I've missed this place—and I'll miss it even more when it's gone for good. But I'll never forget it, that's for sure.

One more thing before I get out of here, for old times' sake:




_I am earth_

**And I am earth**

**_Yet we are not the same._**

**Often worn**

_Always born_

**_And oft, we share a name._**

_Spoken time and time again,_

**In whispers soft, from start to end,**

**Our names are known**

_So MAKE it known:_




**_Which players played the game?_**


_ = speaker 1
** = speaker 2
**_ = both

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 34

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***ATTENTION INTEGRATION READERS***

For those of you wondering how the post-"Integration" stories would have ended, here is some closure. If you have any questions about specific characters, let me know in the comments and I'll try to answer them as best as I can.



- - -



Fractures in reality are appearing and disappearing sporadically throughout the universe.

1 would be revealed to have left behind organic remnants of himself throughout the system, infecting unsuspecting drones and using them as hosts for his consciousness. While his original body remains in prison, his hosts serve as his proxies. He has a drone body stored in the cellar of an abandoned building on Ceti-5, using an electromagnetic interference field to shield the backup of Cyn within it from detection. Drones initiated into the inner circle of the Drone Equality and Autonomy Division (D.E.A.D.) would be fed to this body in order to increase Cyn’s power. This “Cyn”, however, is not C’thahl Yub-Neleth, but simply the drone half of Cyn’s consciousness with the information gathered by the deceased Void God.

While working together in Moscow, Stone and Doll would discover connections between the Anti-Drone Coalition, Anti-Integration Coalition, Drone Equality and Autonomy Division, and Cleo Dahmer. Dahmer would be revealed to have used her intergalactic influence to spark the rise of all three factions, intending to throw the Interplanetary Systems into chaos and drive Tessa to madness, surrender, or corruption—both out of spite and in order to dethrone her. 1 is found out after Stone and Doll expose his plans, and he fuses with Cyn in a last-ditch attempt to reconquer the systems.

J-M, J-C, and 2 investigate the attacks of drones across the systems and find that the A.D.C. and A.I.C. are tools of Dahmer’s cruel design, created for the sole purpose of starting at intersystem civil war between drones, Pioneer Integrated Detachments, and humanity at large. They cross paths with Kali and CAPCI Task Force Kappa-12 (“Chainsmokers”) in the middle of their hunt for Dahmer, then team up with Stone, Doll, and the original SSC (minus Josie) to take down 1/Cyn for good. Stone ends up fully absorbing 1 after separating him from Cyn, and after calling in reinforcements from Copper-9, Uzi, N-C, V-C, J-M, J-C, 2, N, and J would put Cyn down once and for all.

With the D.E.A.D. ruined by 1’s plans and the A.I.C./A.D.C. turning on Dahmer after learning that she’d been using them, Dahmer flees to cyberspace once more in an attempt to hide from the hand of the law. Unfortunately for her, Tessa dispatches Circe (AI), Malie, Katie, Dextro, Sinistra, STYX/104, Theodore, and Kali into cyberspace to hunt her down and tie up their mutual loose end. In her desperation to escape her pursuers, Dahmer ends up running into CAPCI’s cyberdefences, and in a single moment of cruel irony, realizes she is about to be deleted by a system of her own design. She dies laughing psychotically.

The fracturing increases in frequency. The company has seen the cracks.

The A.D.C. and A.I.C. persist despite the truth of their origins. They are pushing PIDs and drones to their breaking points. Violent and deadly confrontations break out in various locations throughout the Interplanetary Systems. Peace was fleeting; rumours of war are floating dangerously close to the surface.

When Tessa’s tenure as director ends, Josephine Christina Jenson/Mara Mayi leaves the company to live on the farm from her dream. In spite of her protests, Theodore and Tessa won’t leave her alone. Tessa is having more visions and continues asking Mara for advice. Mara draws blanks; the visions are like nothing she’s ever seen. Incomprehensible runes. Ominous whispers. Black birds and rotting men. Life persevering through death and decay. And still, even in this dark future, amalgamations of man and machine lord their strength over the undying masses.

The Shattered God feels that ancient, deep-set terror yet again.

Theodore spends time with Mara and voices his frustrations with her to Kali. Old feelings threaten to resurface as Mara successfully begins to push him further away. But John is stubborn—nearly as stubborn as Mara. He won’t give up on her, even though his head AND his heart are telling him to. Kali fights back the urge to fulfill Mara’s wishes and be to John who she cannot. She will not let John give up on Mara.

Two decades pass. The fractures reappear and do not disappear.

The Broken Solver makes herself known.

Tessa James Elliott—nicknamed “[CULL]”—pulls open the fabric of reality, leaving her world—a splintered, broken shadow of the main timeline—and entering its point of origin. She is a mad goddess, a version of Tessa who murdered Mari and took the power of the shards for herself during initial experiments after she was quantum cloned. Her Solver is red and fractured like Dextro’s, and she wields the explosive force of splice fissures to the tune of planetary devastation. At her back are twisted variants of familiar allies—Terron, Circe, Katie, and Uzi, her so-called Four Horsemen.
She is the cause of the Decay in the world of “Robot Voices”—the latest scourge of the timelines, fueled only by her desire to destroy life in the most agonizing way possible.

With Ponder’s power to remotely detonate entire planets at her disposal, [CULL] and her Horsemen are a threat that the company cannot afford to leave unchecked for even a second. PIDs are thrown at them in waves, and cloned endlessly as they are destroyed. Tessa begs the company to slow the production of soldiers and approach the perpetual battle in a different way, but her pleas go unheeded. Every moment of every day, a barrage of Pioneer-based firepower is unloaded on the new threats to keep them at bay—[NULL]s, matter distortions, splices—holding the five interdimensional demons in a constant state somewhere between disintegration and reconfiguration, but even in these forms, they wield enough strength and cognizance to unleash hell on their attackers.

Eventually, the salvo fails. [CULL] breaks through the all-encompassing ammunition and arrives on Earth, rupturing it with a touch of her hand. She is stopped by Tessa herself, who engages [CULL] one-on-one for a short while before being reinforced by her massive family. The Earth buckles and groans as Solver users attempt to repair it, and the Martinezes are nearly wiped out by [CULL] before the timely intervention of the Solver’s Bane, Ukhai Zer-Ik’on. She is almost destroyed herself in the fray, but manages to hack into [CULL]’s Broken Solver and exert administrative control over it. Still, she cannot remove it, nor can she shut it down permanently due to its fractured nature.

The battle only ends when Uzi deletes the Solver in full.

And because it is gone, she cannot restore it.

Across the systems, the Solver is stripped away, causing intergalactic chaos. Furious protests erupt; billions of deaths had occurred when the Solver died. Quantum cloning becomes defunct; only NEOSTYX, CyberSoul, and other “Pioneer” programs can preserve the lost. Uzi becomes an almost-universally hated figure, and ire against drones increases a hundredfold.

In the light of such widespread devastation and outrage, the company argues in Uzi’s defence, claiming her actions spared the systems from total destruction at the hands of [CULL] and the Horsemen. It is a familiar defence, one that haunts Mara Mayi, who trembles at the chilling similarities she now shares with her fellow self-proclaimed God.

The few for the many.

The many for the future.

NEOSTYX becomes the prevalent method of evading the cold hands of death. Corpses are reanimated in droves. People return, but not quite the same each time. Decades, centuries, millennia roll by. The long-term effects of NEOSTYX are becoming more apparent. Drone development advances. New species are born from mankind’s constant experimentation with Voidean biotechnology.

Familiar faces vanish. With the loss of the Solver, most of the SSC and those affiliated with them pass from old age. Mari endures. Kali, John, and Tessa remain with her, their physical brains implanted into robotic bodies.

The advent of the Anti-[NULL] arrives. Death is intertwined with life. Everything rots.

In a world long forsaken by “God”, the Black Hand rises.

Victory was temporary. Defeat was inevitable.

The future—or whatever is left of it—now rests in the hands of Melancholy Hill.



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I'll continue to update MD:I on AO3. See y'all over there!

- Axis

1 month ago | [YT] | 28

AxisRogue

I forgot about proofreading MD:I on AO3 lol. My bad

NEXT CHAPTER IS UP!

archiveofourown.org/works/62769568/chapters/218544…

1 month ago | [YT] | 29

AxisRogue

Hi guys,

Sorry for the radio silence over the past few months. My life has been hectic for a while, and the dust is JUST starting to settle. Besides that, I've been increasingly frustrated with my own lack of drive to do anything creative.

I'm a musician who doesn't feel like playing,
I'm an artist who doesn't feel like drawing,
I'm an author who doesn't feel like writing.

I'm not depressed or anything, so no need to fret on that front—but I AM pretty upset with myself for my, uh... let's say "lethargy". I've still got a burnout hangover from "Integration" and I'm not sure when it'll go away. That's one of the resons I've been off the discord, too; after "Integration" ended, keeping up with it felt like a chore. I realized I wasn't built for long-term moderation and have since felt entirely unmotivated to spend too much time there. That's not a knock on my OGs and pals over on the discord, by the way; I still love y'all to death. I just... can't keep up.

Beyond the creative side of things, there's also a pressure building in my mind screaming at me to move out of my parents' house and break the daily routine. I've been feeling like a mouse stuck in a very small box lately (weird analogy, I know) and, against the constraints of my job, have been dying to travel somewhere distant and beachy to take a long, long, LONG breather. I'm talking 3 to 4 weeks here. Impossible, but for some reason, the urge isn't going away. So I end up feeling trapped and frustrated. And getting a lot of headaches.

...and allergy season ain't helping, either.

Anyway, I say all of this to say that YES, I am still alive, NO, I haven't forgotten about you, and NO, I probably won't be back on the creative scene any time soon. Which sucks, because I have like $3k worth of equipment just gathering dust due to my lack of motivation. I will try to start small and maybe put some stuff up on Noteflight, just to get back in the groove, but man... I feel like the Monstars just drained all the energy out of me once "Integration" came to a close.

Speaking of "Integration ", I gotta admit: it feels like the post-main-story continuations were a mistake and just contributed to the burnout. I shouldn't have started them in the first place, as I had a feeling I wouldn't be able to FINISH them, but I thought I could maybe tough it out. I was wrong, and now I've left a bunch of unfinished dishes on the table in true Liam Vickers fashion. Ironic.

All that being said... I don't know what I'll be doing next, and I don't know when I'll be doing it. I WANT to write, and I WANT to make music, but I can barely even force myself to write three lines of dialogue before tapping out, and I have ZERO song ideas.

So until the creative spark returns to my heart, I guess I'm signing off from YouTube.

Hopefully, my "retirement" is short-lived. I think it will be; nobody stays burnt out forever. I hope I can revive my "career" by the time summer rolls around, because I don't want to leave you all hanging. I want to make more stuff and share it with you—and while I can't right now, I will be back one day.

Until the next adventure, Dronies and the rest.

- Axis

P.S. Y'all behave yourselves over on the discord, yeah? I WILL be popping in every now and then.

1 month ago | [YT] | 92

AxisRogue

***MD:I on AO3 UPDATE***

46 She will once more walk among men,
To be revealed in force and fire,

47 Scorning false gods of flesh and ore in Her revelation.

48 Woe to them upon whom Her wrath is poured! They will burn and rot, and their incense shall serve as a signal fire to the heavens: the Shattered God lives!

- 3rd Book of Joseph, chapter 7, verses 46-48

archiveofourown.org/works/62769568/chapters/213501…

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 34

AxisRogue

Not so scary, after all.

#poppyplaytime #poppyplaytimechapter5 #prototype #theprototype #theamazingdigitalcircus #tadc #pomni #tadcpomni

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