quarta-feira, 24 de março de 2010

KHoKards update 2010-03-23 – Legal stuff

On this update we will not add new contempt to the page in terms of fictions or games but we added something that nowadays is crucial in any web site with contempt like ours. So we proudly present our Terms of Service and Privacy Politics, and yes we know that it’s a little bit late as we should had added them a long time ago, but due to the lack of time it was completely impossible. We also added both of today addictions to our Facebook games pages (Ophidian 2355 RPG, and to the upcoming Spaghetty Wars & Mage Knight Alliances), to our Facebook Kronnax’s House of Kards page & to the FPFBW Facebook group.

terça-feira, 9 de março de 2010

KHoKards update 2010-03-09 – Let’s get back to business

We’re up with our fictions once again, and this time, well we bring a lot of them. But that’s not all, as most of our Lines also have some game add-ons, as that we’re also updated those links, so if you’re an old Ophidian 2350 CCG fan you must check out our files in the Ophidian 2355 page.

And that’s not all as even though some of the lines do not offer a fiction or file they introduce the reader on what’s to come, so we hope you all enjoy our current products and our future ones too.

But let’s return to our fictions, as above you’ll see what you can find when you browse our products page:

- Duels Frontstorm Line:
Duels Frontstorm Alliances #1 (This fiction was previously called Duels Frontstorm: Origins & Omens) [REPRINT]
Duels Frontstorm: X-Peditioners #1 (This fiction was previously called The Journal of Siro LeBeau, Time-Watcher) [REPRINT]
Duels Frontstorm: Forging Legends #1

- Ophidian 2355 Line:
Ophidian 2355 Anthologies #1
Ophidian 2355: Fallen From Grace #1
Ophidian 2355: Grakkan's Union #1

- Ultimo Refugio Line:

Sacavém by Night #1
Sombras do Dia #1

- Planetstorm: PROJEKT Line:

PROJEKT: Johnz Hunt's Chronicles #1

PROJEKT: K.I.A. (Kollective Intelligence Agency) #0

- 2099 Multiverse Line:

2099 Multiverse: Future Signs #1

DC 2099: Doomsday Crisis! #1 (of 3)

Image 2099: Tomb Rider 2099 #0

- Kronnax's Productions Line:

City of Heroes: Breakneck's Chronicles #1

Mage Knight Alliance #1

And that’s all for our weekly update, we’ll come back here next week to bring you more news from KHoKards Universe. We hope you all enjoy what we’re brought today, and be aware that more is on the way!!!

sábado, 6 de março de 2010

Johnz Hunt's Chronicles: Episode 1 - You're in the Army Now

I remember the world as it once was. A paradise of golden cities filled with unimaginable splendors. A time when Man's science shaped the planet to his will from the top of the highest citadel to the smallest living creature. Possessing a mastery of science beyond magic, Man was the absolute ruler of flesh and bone, stone and steel.

... That time, has passed. Now every day is a struggle for survival against the machines, as are now in a constant Planetstorm…

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Episode 1 - You're in the Army Now



I’m dying…

I feel the blood bursting from my belly badly, and without any Medical unit around I really do not think that I can make it…

At this point I feel myself fading… My thoughts wander thought different times and spaces… I glimpse friendly faces, angry foes, rivals, and old loves… I can’t feel my legs… and I feel blood in my mouth…

I remember Leonor, my baby kid… the reason that I enlist myself in the Kollective… After all, I wanted her to have a future… but now I failed her…

I still remember my first day in the Army…

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"More maggoty meat for the grinder." Those were the first words from a withered man wearing sergeant's stripes scratches notes into a filthy ledger.

"Welcome to the 1099th Volunteers," he says, his shout nearly drowned out by the sound of nearby gunfire.

"Get your squad some gear and get your asses over the wall. If you survive, you will find me waiting here. My name is Petrovo."

My new born 6 man squad went silent as we pick through a pile of cast-off weapons. There is little to say when facing imminent death.

I was nervous, as I looked around my squad, I had nothing to identify myself to those persons, and even our most graduated member and team leader managed to square me to death with her presence, but I think that the others think the same.

Our mission was a simple patrol thought a Machine zone, and to destroy any machine units that we encounter on our way, so most of us didn’t had any hope in returning, but hey, not everyone had been like myself and enlisted themselves voluntary… Some of us were obligated to be here, and then others… well others had their own agendas.

My squad for this mission consisted in our team leader General Danova, two Red Brigade members, that were always talking to each other’s and when turning to the others they were constantly saying with a smile that we could trust them, as they were there to cover our backs.

But we also had a Nightkrawler, full geared and ready to the night fall. The rest of the team, I wasn’t so sure about them, as we had a Medical Pharmacer, but he was shaking badly, maybe he was high with some pharmaceutical drug, I really do not know. And to pay for his crimes against the Kollective, we had a Penal Trooper, and he was the only one that had not spoken all the time, and then, well there was me… just a private in this endless war… But that didn’t stop us as we’re dropped in the Machine zone by a Spirit Gunship, which disappeared in the skies as soon as dropped us all…

Chekov, one of the Red Brigade was the first one to patrol, as we were all searching for safe places in the perimeter area. Some minutes before he was telling us that he was a man with no luck… That was showed as he was spotted by a 6649 "Probe", one of the most annoying Machine units a small squad could find. But the machine starts making his presence felt, as Chekov was wounded, making Lian, our Medical Pharmacer, enter play escorted by Piotr, the other Red Brigade member.

But as the three were trying to destroy the probe… another one arrives to the spot, but this time she’s not alone; with her comes a 99C8 "Stalker", one of the first machines unit to be made and, in the mayhem Chekov is trespassed by the machines fire.

At this point there’s me, Lian and Piotr, trying to stop the three machines advance in the battlefield… but with no success, as they were continuing charging against us…

Then, suddenly, we’re blessed with a Improvised Transport and his driver, which I hadn't time to know, was shot by the Stalker seconds latter, making me jump into that old piece of junk and grab the wheels to gain control of it…

In the confusion Lian destroy the first Probe, only to die at the “hands” of the Stalker…

We stop for a second and in a blink of an eye, two more machines units appear… and for our rejoice, they were another 6649 "Probe" and a 99C8 "Stalker", as if the ones that we had beyond us weren’t enough.

Piotr dies seconds before I, in our Improvised Transport, manage to destroy the first Stalker and with his death our morale start dropping down fast… if not for the arrival of General Danova, Kovak the Nightkrawler and Jonas the Penal Trooper, we would be doomed for sure…

Danova with one strike destroy one of the two remaining Probes, but our morale is far behind the machines morale, and theirs stand a little more as they manage to find a way to lock Kovak, making his stealth vain…

He may have died, but he gave us the opening that we need, as our morale still stands, the machines morale starts to fall. In a change of luck we manage to clear the table, destroying the remaining machines…

As the surviving members of my squad enter my Improvised Transport to ride back to the Kollective lines, since our mission was over, we know that we might have won this battle, but something's really wrong. This mission was just to cover up something… and one day I will find out about it…

Maybe not right now, but someday the loss of Chekov, Lian, Piotr and Kovak, will not be in vain. And even knowing that they believed in the cause, I know that this can’t be always like this…

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… GOD… I was so naive then… If I only knew… maybe I wouldn't be like this right now… I’m losing too much blood… I really don't think that I can make it…

MISSION LINK: http://www.planetstorm.com/battle/view/ed8b03d0-99f2-4c89-bfd6-2927e15f016d

TO BE CONTINUED... in Episode 2 of Johnz Hunt's Chronicles