Fortune’s Fate

  The End

  Written by G. M. Steward

  Starring…

  Amaris as the Cursed

  Pitch as Best Mascot

  Coleus as Cool-eus! See? A pun! Get it!? :D

  Sarah as the Sarcastic One

  Petra as the Tech Monkey

  Kiri as Hey Look, Stockholm Syndrome

  Suuk as the Alley Cat

  Buddy as Adorable Death Machine

  Jenny as the Immortal Child

  Urvest as the Convenient Cat

  Reginald as a Dapper Businesskeleton

  Kkithi as Way Too Tall

  Sy as Dragons can be Artists Too!

  Boro as Your Friendly Neighborhood Attack Spider

  Keeper Ashton as the Actually Really Nice Guy

  Orville as the Memory Jumper

  Irene as the Complete Nervous Wreck

  Freddloi as Walking Curse Dispenser

  The Doppelganger as Just as Cursed as Amaris

  Mrs. Ibis as Sometimes a Witch is Just a Witch

  The Predateor as the Deadliest Pun Ever

  Toad as Dragon Alternative

  The Chairman as Evil Can Always be Worse

  Henry Carmen as the Terrible and Ineffectual Government Employee

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  Amaris’ Parents as Huge Math Nerds

  Officer Dawson as the Nice Guy

  Bellatrix as the Child Soldier

  Ru as the Headless but not Faceless

  Ripashi as the Questionably Effective Paladin

  Keeper Wurph as How Can Someone be so Smart and yet so Stupid?

  Randy as the Manly Man

  The Strider as the Ancient War Machine

  Major Editors:

  Shilic

  Pink Man

  Guldringr

  VoidTemplar2000

  Cover Artist:

  Stippling

  Patrons:

  SgtSarge

  Shilic

  Millwright

  Peter Coulthard

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

  Everything within this work is original, no copyright infringement intended.

  For the various profiles of people mentioned in these credits, return to this story’s Index.

  Special thanks to the people who read this story! Which is… admittedly, not that many. But for those of you that did make it, thanks for being here at the end!

  Anyway, technically Fortune’s Fate is complete. I do have ideas for what to do if I continue it, but it’s not required—I did only intend to continue if it did decently well, and so far it hasn’t. If you want to see more Fortune’s Fate, let me know! Tell other people about it and spread the word! I could write a “season 2” if I think it’s worth it.

  Don’t worry, though, the big questions of the setting will be answered in other stories. As some of my readers have already noticed, there are a few unusual threads connecting Fortune’s Fate and Wizard Space Program together…

  Speaking of Wizard Space Program, you should read it! () That story is ongoing and, unlike Fortune’s Fate, is set to continue for a long time. Come with me and learn about how to use magic to solve hard sci-fi space travel, and maybe learn a bit more about some deeper questions.

  I am also currently looking for pre-readers willing to take a look at a Final Fantasy-based story that attempts to synthesize the settings of the main games together. I’ve written over forty chapters at this point, but I need more feedback. If you’re interested, drop by the Discord Server. ()

  Until next time!

  ~~~

  “So this is your room?” Coleus asked as she walked into the small enclosure.

  “Yep!” Amaris said, flopping on her bed. “Home sweet home.”

  “I was expecting something a little more…”

  “Interesting?” Amaris giggled. “I wasn’t interesting when I was in this room! I’ve got to bring the interesting to it, now!” She pointed at the pile of notebooks in the corner. “I’ve been going over my notes and writing more detailed entries on all the things I encountered. If I want to do some good, it’ll help to inform other people about, well, how to deal with all these things.”

  Coleus picked up a notebook that had been recently written in. “Entry 001; Freddloi…” She put it down. “You’re making one for everything?”

  “I’m going to try, anyway. And for anything new I encounter! Then I’ll see if I can classify any of them together, find any common threads…”

  “You’ll need a lot more than yourself to do this.” Coleus grinned. “Good thing you’ve got some friends that want to help!”

  “All of you get entries too, by the way.”

  Coleus paused. “You’re going to per-fern an examination of me?”

  “Coleus, that was terrible.”

  “I think you mean punishing.”

  “Coleus!”