'Ghostified City' is a post-dystopian sci-fi tale, set in a fading world that might be a future version of ours, running out on autopilot into oblivion. Adaman Yimmand is a simple robofactory operator in The City who's working with robots and machines every day. He doesn't even realise that he might not have met another actual human being in years. Everything begins when he breaks his routine for once and enters a bar where he meets Evelith. This pesky other person does not let him go after he has had his -rather terrible- beer, because according to her actual humans are much rarer than he's aware of. And from then on 'the genie is out of the bottle and won't get back in', to use her words: Adaman meets more people, and gradually he has no choice but to accept that the reality of The City is not what he always thought it was, and to face the darkness of a fading humanity on the brink of self-inflicted extinction.Is there any hope left for him, and for his species?
I have selected 'sexual content' and 'traumatising content' to be on the safe side, because there is a stripclub-like venue in the background of the story, and an almost-extinct humanity that has institutionalised suicide which might be disturbing to some. Apart from that it's not really a heavy 'adult' story.('Ghostified City' is my first long story in English as opposed to my native language Dutch, and an earlier version was published on my fiction blog 'Oranderra' until I stopped updating. This is a slightly altered version of the first series.)
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Ghostified City | 46 | 4.3 You live like Kings and we are hunted like Mammoths! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 46 | 4.3 You live like Kings and we are hunted like Mammoths! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 45 | 4.2 Eye to Eye with The Fundless Tribe | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 45 | 4.2 Eye to Eye with The Fundless Tribe | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 44 | 4.1 Looking for Fundless Outlaws while having a Hangover | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 44 | 4.1 Looking for Fundless Outlaws while having a Hangover | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 43-2 | 3.14 Dream Sequence #3 part 2: Sister Nature | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 43-2 | 3.14 Dream Sequence #3 part 2: Sister Nature | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 42-1 | 3.13 Dream Sequence #3 part 1: the Council of Endlings | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 42-1 | 3.13 Dream Sequence #3 part 1: the Council of Endlings | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 41 | 3.12 Blues for the Last Generation | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 41 | 3.12 Blues for the Last Generation | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 40 | 3.11 Vezlena and Mr. asexual roboman | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 40 | 3.11 Vezlena and Mr. asexual roboman | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 39 | 3.10 More Real Beer at the One Night Stand Bar | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 39 | 3.10 More Real Beer at the One Night Stand Bar | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 38 | 3.9 Ancient Emoji Pasta | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 38 | 3.9 Ancient Emoji Pasta | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 37 | 3.8 Everyday Killerbots on the Way Home | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 37 | 3.8 Everyday Killerbots on the Way Home | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 36 | 3.7 A Supermarket well past Expiry Date | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 36 | 3.7 A Supermarket well past Expiry Date | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 35 | 3.6 Lonesome George's lonely hearts club band | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 35 | 3.6 Lonesome George's lonely hearts club band | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 34 | 3.5 Vitlon means Life | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 34 | 3.5 Vitlon means Life | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 33 | 3.4 The story of the child | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 33 | 3.4 The story of the child | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 32 | 3.3 The almost empty Squat | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 32 | 3.3 The almost empty Squat | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 31 | 3.2 Another Day in the Life in the Endtimes of your Species | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 31 | 3.2 Another Day in the Life in the Endtimes of your Species | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 30 | 3.1 Moving to Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 30 | 3.1 Moving to Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 29 | Extra #3: some notes on philosophy and religion in The City | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 29 | Extra #3: some notes on philosophy and religion in The City | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 28 | 2.16 dream Sequence #2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 28 | 2.16 dream Sequence #2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 27 | 2.15 Dreams And Other Worlds | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 27 | 2.15 Dreams And Other Worlds | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 26 | 2.14 Anticonception and human extinction | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 26 | 2.14 Anticonception and human extinction | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 25 | 2.13 Next-SystenZ | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 25 | 2.13 Next-SystenZ | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 24 | 2.12 The Last Sacraments for a Temple of Death | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 24 | 2.12 The Last Sacraments for a Temple of Death | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 23 | 2.11 The Artificial Monk | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 23 | 2.11 The Artificial Monk | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 22 | 2.10 The Temple of Acosmia | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 22 | 2.10 The Temple of Acosmia | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 21 | 2.9 How do Humans say No again (to a mad mission)? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 21 | 2.9 How do Humans say No again (to a mad mission)? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 20 | 2.8 What are the Plans exactly? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 20 | 2.8 What are the Plans exactly? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 19 | 2.7 'My Glasses!' | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 19 | 2.7 'My Glasses!' | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 18 | 2.6 One more Boring Day of Useless Work | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 18 | 2.6 One more Boring Day of Useless Work | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 17 | 2.5 Beer and Bread is what made Enkidu a Human | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 17 | 2.5 Beer and Bread is what made Enkidu a Human | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 16 | 2.4 Make money or Die Trying | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 16 | 2.4 Make money or Die Trying | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 15 | 2.3 Velia's Mint Tea from Actual Plants | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 15 | 2.3 Velia's Mint Tea from Actual Plants | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 14 | 2.2 A Real Man is hard to find! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 14 | 2.2 A Real Man is hard to find! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 13 | 2.1 The Morning After | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 13 | 2.1 The Morning After | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 12 | Extra #2: Character descriptions (version 1.0) | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 12 | Extra #2: Character descriptions (version 1.0) | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 11 | Extra #1: Historical Notes on The City | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 11 | Extra #1: Historical Notes on The City | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 10 | 1.10 Dream sequence #1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 10 | 1.10 Dream sequence #1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 9 | 1.9 You'll stay here tonight! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 9 | 1.9 You'll stay here tonight! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 8 | 1.8 A Disposable Man | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 8 | 1.8 A Disposable Man | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 7 | 1.7 Too much for my poor Robobrain | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 7 | 1.7 Too much for my poor Robobrain | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 6 | 1.6 the Complications of dealing with Real People | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 6 | 1.6 the Complications of dealing with Real People | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 5 | 1.5 Evelith | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 5 | 1.5 Evelith | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 4 | 4.2 Eye to Eye with The Fundless Tribe | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 4 | 4.1 Looking for Fundless Outlaws while having a Hangover | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 4 | 1.4 Meeting an Actual Human at last | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 4 | 1.4 Meeting an Actual Human at last | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 4 | 4.3 You live like Kings and we are hunted like Mammoths! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3.14-2 | 3.14 Dream Sequence #3 part 2: Sister Nature | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3.13-1 | 3.13 Dream Sequence #3 part 1: the Council of Endlings | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.1 Moving to Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.6 Lonesome George's lonely hearts club band | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.11 Vezlena and Mr. asexual roboman | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | Extra #3: some notes on philosophy and religion in The City | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.5 Vitlon means Life | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.10 More Real Beer at the One Night Stand Bar | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.8 Everyday Killerbots on the Way Home | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.3 The almost empty Squat | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 1.3 Fake Beer and Ancient Music | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 1.3 Fake Beer and Ancient Music | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.2 Another Day in the Life in the Endtimes of your Species | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.7 A Supermarket well past Expiry Date | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.12 Blues for the Last Generation | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.4 The story of the child | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 3 | 3.9 Ancient Emoji Pasta | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.8 What are the Plans exactly? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.13 Next-SystenZ | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.12 The Last Sacraments for a Temple of Death | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.3 Velia's Mint Tea from Actual Plants | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 1.2 Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 1.2 Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.2 A Real Man is hard to find! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.7 'My Glasses!' | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | Extra #2: Character descriptions (version 1.0) | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.5 Beer and Bread is what made Enkidu a Human | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.10 The Temple of Acosmia | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.15 Dreams And Other Worlds | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.4 Make money or Die Trying | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.9 How do Humans say No again (to a mad mission)? | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.14 Anticonception and human extinction | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.1 The Morning After | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.6 One more Boring Day of Useless Work | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.11 The Artificial Monk | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 2 | 2.16 dream Sequence #2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.2 Nirvana Ecstasy | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.5 Evelith | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.10 Dream sequence #1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.4 Meeting an Actual Human at last | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.9 You'll stay here tonight! | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.3 Fake Beer and Ancient Music | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.8 A Disposable Man | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.1 Grey City Streets | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.6 the Complications of dealing with Real People | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | 1.7 Too much for my poor Robobrain | RoyalRoadL | |
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Ghostified City | 1 | Extra #1: Historical Notes on The City | RoyalRoadL |