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This is a recovered list of ideas I had very early on in Dimestore Novel history, from before Natasha Winter was a Dimestore Novel character. At this point I was rolling around two different ideas: Tekk Spheres, a serious sci-fi universe, and Dimestore Novel, an increasingly silly magical universe. Eventually, I abandoned Tekk Spheres and rolled the good parts of it (including Natasha) into Dimestore Novel.

Tekk Spheres and other Serious Stories

The Fall of Mother

On a colony world in the distant future religion is the last bastion of knowledge. The ancient colony ship still in orbit is the focus of their worship, and when it suddenly reawakens they find themselves quieting superstitious fears while at the same time worrying about this unexpected development. A team of three adventurers make the perilous voyage up to the colony ship only to find that Layton, the ancient evil spoken of in the Texts, is a battered and broken man frozen in stasis and left to rot by his shipmates. Can Layton really be trusted? Just how much of the ancient Texts is true? What of this greater evil that Layton speaks of, these Tekk?

Winter Thaw

On an icy world ruled by the psychic Raimonites and their leader Raimon a young swordsman is sent by his master to the city. There he meets a young lady named Natasha Winter with an unusual past and an even stranger secret refuge deep under the streets. Stranger still is the man who acts as her guardian angel but at the same time states his purpose is to kill her. Why has meeting the Swordsman plunged the girl's life into constant danger? Are there secrets the swordsman's master hides from him? Why has Raimon taken a personal interest in these two, and what connection does the guardian angel have to the Tekk?

City Beneath Time

Jesse Winthrop ran away from the the rich life he inherited to take a place with the wandering nomads in the deep deserts of their world. He learned their ways and grew to be a guide for entrepreneurs interested in the wealth they are sure is in the desert waiting to be found. When Jesse overhears too much from one such man he guides named Nathaniel Darkstone he is thrown into a deep well to be swept away by an underground river. His life would have ended if not for the girl who finds his barely alive body floating as she bathed in the river. The girl is Trin: daughter of the High Priestess of Midaria, an ancient mystic civilization deep under the surface of the planet, and their fateful meeting is the first step on a great adventure. A misunderstanding leaves them both exiled from Midaria, forced to travel ancient tunnels until they meet a group of bandits lead by a man calling himself Pale Fox. with Fox's help the two return to Midaria just in time to stop Darkstone's arrival of Midaria with an army set to plunder Midaria's treasures.

Ruju of the Cursed Lands

Ruju is a Cursebreaker, who travels the lands helping those people infected by the evil plaguing the world. Ruju himself is cursed, by the Storm Armor he wears. In clear weather it is covered in rust and corrosion which makes moving in it nearly impossible. When storm clouds brew the armor's curse weakens, allowing Ruju to battle to his full potential. Only when all the pieces of the Armor are assembled will the curse finally be broken. When Ruju finds a street urchin in a small village that claims he is cursed, a new friendship is born. The boy, Kanji, can seemingly control the storms, causing it to rain and storm at will. Ruju and Kanji travel together, continuing to protect the people of the Cursed Lands from evil while at the same time seeking the remaining pieces of the Storm Armor.

Ruju is a strong and powerful warrior, but the Storm Armor's curse grows more powerful with ever piece he gains. Finally the curse claims his life when he is slain by the demon possessing the final armor piece. The demon escapes, leaving Kanji again an orphan. Kanji removes the armor, now freed from Ruju's body in death, and places it in a hidden place. Years later when Kanji returns, old enough to claim the Armor as Ruju knew he would, he finds the curse removed from it. The armor enhances the powers Kanji had honed under Ruju, turning him into an even more powerful warrior than Ruju had ever dreamed. Kanji's final test comes when he faces not the demon that killed Ruju, but Ruju's cursed soul, which was sacrificed to protect Kanji from the powerful curse that had claimed Ruju. It is now up to Kanji to destroy the curse, complete the armor, and allow his master's soul to rest.

Dimestore Novel and other Funny Stories

Killian Peepel

Killian Peepel is the homicidal detective responsible for wiping out nearly all the crime in Tubbo City. When he goes on a rampage in his own station and runs off his place on the force is called into question. Now with only the new Ex-Paladin police commissioner and an officer he put in the hospital on his side Killian has to expose a new Mafia threat facing Tubbo and contend with the vicious and powerful Lenelli family and possibly his only equal with firearms: Andrew Lenelli. Can Killian unravel the mystery while defending himself against Lenelli? Will Michelle Gorbez put the fact she's in the hospital thanks to him aside and help Killian on his case? And oddest of all, why would the Mafia be interested in warehouses full of garage sale junk?

Mr. Encyclopedia and the Balance of Magic

When Mr. Encyclopedia is approached by a Paladin who claims that all of Anime may be at stake he is a bit skeptical. His skepticism is proven unfounded, however, when he realizes this new development fits in to a puzzle he'd been working on for some time: Mafia warehouses full of garage sale junk, The disappearance of his rival Mr. Aidepolcycne, and the sudden attack on one of the magical Seals designed to limit the power of Spell casters. It is now up to Mr. E to assemble a team to save the Seals from this new and unexpected threat before the balance of Magic can be upset permanently.

Mr. Encyclopedia and the Neuroid Invasion

When a sudden alien invasion leaves the world helpless and the newly formed AT/MOS at a loss it is up to Mr. E to step up to the plate and turn back the attack with the talents of some of the most bizarre people on earth.

Mary Wallbank and the Call of the Wild

Mary Wallbank is perhaps the most ordinary girl in all of England. Her parents are rather odd, but that isn't her problem. She expects to have an entirely ordinary adolescence filled with gossip and cell phones and probably more than a little snogging. Fate, however, doesn't seem to be on her side. Take for instance when PETA kidnaps her and takes her to a spa in far-off China Land, where she uncovers a plot to replenish endangered species by cursing people into transforming into the creatures. Can Mary escape the spa before it's too late? Will her parents notice her missing? Does this even have anything to do with Mr. E?

The Kidtrix

When Arthur Anderson is thrown from his quiet preschool life by a strange group of child prodigies everything stops being the way it should be. They say they need him. They call him Ti, the one who can change the Kidtrix forever. He doesn't want any of this. He doesn't want to be in for the ride of his life, he just wants to go back to building sandcastles. Unfortunately for him once you take the red Flintstones Vitamin there's no going back.

The Kidtrix Redoubted

Despite the bad publicity the Kidtrix has been receiving nobody can doubt it's the most cost-effective way of dealing with children, so when the Kidtrix is expanded to Kindergarten, complete with computerized perfect teachers, it is Arthur Anderson and the strange group of kids obsessed with him that find themselves plunged back into the digital world. Why can't things go back to normal for Arthur? What does his mysterious Minority Report Card contain? Why does everyone care what he thinks of Ben Vereen?

The Kidtrix Convolutions

The Kidtrix stands on the verge of national adoption as the new method of educating children. It seems like the perfect environment: Teachers designed to be patient and caring towards all students in a classroom environment devoid of bullies and violence and all the other dangers faced by today's youth. It is only one ragtag group of child prodigies and poor Arthur Anderson standing in their way. Can what The Principle said help Arthur on this final quest? Can they trust the Merrol Lynchian to give them the help they seek, or will the Kidtrix do away with School as we know it?

Gaiapuzzle

When a young monk in an ancient monastery accidentally destroys all creation while playing with the remains of an ancient civilization he is sent on a mission by God to put it all back the way he found it. On his travels he meets a bold adventurer, his rebellious daughter who craves a normal life, An ancient computer left by the civilization, the angelic head of the Department of Evil Affairs, and many other bizarre characters as they travel across the ages remaking the world and human history with a shoestring budget, resourcefulness, and a lot of luck.