Armistice
Antihero
Dystopian
Heists
Leading Ladies
Modern
Organized Crime
Teenagers (13-18)
Adults (18+)
3-33 action antihero armistice drones espionage female-protagonist ghost-note-comics hospital icu ink-ritual neon-noir night-shift no-coll one-shot operative quiet-hours rules-of-engagement security-cameras stealth surveillance suspense tech-noir thriller
English
Adults (18+)
3-33 action antihero armistice drones espionage female-protagonist ghost-note-comics hospital icu ink-ritual neon-noir night-shift no-coll one-shot operative quiet-hours rules-of-engagement security-cameras stealth surveillance suspense tech-noir thriller
Antihero
Dystopian
Heists
Leading Ladies
Modern
Organized Crime
Teenagers (13-18)
Adults (18+)
Abstract Grunge 3-33 action antihero armistice drones espionage female-protagonist ghost-note-comics hospital icu ink-ritual neon-noir night-shift no-coll one-shot operative quiet-hours rules-of-engagement security-cameras stealth surveillance suspense tech-noir thriller
Adults (18+)
Abstract Grunge 3-33 action antihero armistice drones espionage female-protagonist ghost-note-comics hospital icu ink-ritual neon-noir night-shift no-coll one-shot operative quiet-hours rules-of-engagement security-cameras stealth surveillance suspense tech-noir thriller
38 pages
(FREE)
Issue 1
100
50 views • Aug 30, 2025
ARMISTICE #1 — “Quiet Hours (3:33)”
Chapter Synopsis
At 3:31 A.M., our operative slips into St. Miriam Hospital under blackout drizzle and buzzing exit signs. The rules follow her like ghosts: 1 SHOT EACH. WITNESS REQUIRED. NO COLLATERAL.
She scouts the empty halls, syncing to heart-monitors and CCTV rhythms. A gurney rattles. The “cost clock” starts ticking toward a forced blackout. To keep the system from auto-muting the mission, she flags a janitor as her required witness and deploys two custodial drones—reprogrammed to pass as housekeeping. Chalk marks appear on the tiles: move on my word, not before.
ICU corridor. The target isn’t a person to kill—it’s a failing signal. One shot must land clean. She and a second operator split tasks: stabilize a patient’s line with a single precise med dose (one shot), then ghost the floor toward “Compiler”—the network core rumored to live in the sub-basement. Drones hum, doors whisper NETWORK AUTHORIZED ONLY, and red target halos keep finding her.
Down on B-Level the op wobbles. Cameras tag her: TARGET LOCKED. Another figure confronts her—accusing her of stealing “Caliban,” a tool or program the system won’t forgive. Deployment fails. Alarms evolve. Security units boot up with stun-red optics.
Cornered in the sub-basement at 3:40 A.M., she flips the last switch she’s not supposed to have: ARMISTICE PROTOCOL—ENGAGED. The issue closes on the trigger pull of a rule—because in this world you don’t break the rules, you weaponize them.
Tone & Themes: neon-noir pressure cooker; precision over brutality; accountability through witnesses; the cost of keeping bystanders safe when the system would rather you didn’t.
12 pages
Issue 2
Collateral Ghost
15 views • Sep 18, 2025
The rules are supposed to keep you safe. Tonight, they’re a deathtrap.
Deep beneath the city, our operative faces a hostage crisis engineered by the same system she serves. Drones lock in. The “No Collateral” rule clashes with the cost of leaving witnesses behind. As the countdown to blackout ticks, every choice triggers new dangers—rules glitch, alliances fracture, and the only way out may be to hack the rules themselves.
One shot each. Witness required. Collateral ghosts.
Welcome to the part where survival means breaking your own code.
