Dave's ASH Archive - Miscellaneous

    Historicals - These stories are set in the "past" (pre-2022), but just one-shots (series go in the History page). They are arranged in roughly chronological order. Unless otherwise noted, written by Dave Van Domelen.

• A Singular Fire: Memories of a Titan, from before the Causality War.
• Undone: The secret origin of the Santari people. Takes place outside of time, but helps explain things in Spear-Carriers.
• From Dust To Stars: Set some unestablished time in the past century or so, an elderly Pranir loremaster enlightens a cohort of young nestlings about their people's past.
• ASH Holiday Special #1: "How Brightsword Saved Christmas" (1971) by Dave Van Domelen, "A Pretty Good Start" (1994) by Andrew Burton, "Eight Tiny...Reindeer?" (1997) by Rapfic, "Snow Place Like Home For The Holidays" (2023) by Brian Freesh and "Twas The Night Before GIMF" (2025) by Saxon Brenton.
• Click!: In 1993, the Worldwide Web was just getting going, and it was starting to become clear that it was going to change a lot of the rules of the game, including the rules of superheroic secret IDs. And NYC's Sproinger has just found himself caught in the middle of it.
• Northern Vendetta: A vignette looking in on Doc Droid on Christmas Eve, 1997.
• Unbeatable: Set in 1998 with a flashback to 1994, it just goes to show that even when he was calling himself a villain, Doctor Developer could inadvertantly have a positive impact on people. Even ones who thought they were unbeatable. Written by Andy Burton.
• Wall Street Angels: On July 6, 1998, an investment group in New York City discusses the upcoming market crash...but which market are they talking about?
• The Pyramid Trap: Meanwhile, in the Alliance of Super-Heroes alternate reality, how did they manage to hold off the gods without making the ultimate sacrifice made in the mainline ASH?
• Solar Max 2000: Set in the year 2000, this is a story of the original Solar Max during his exile in space....
• Ash Wednesday: It's March 5, 2003. Al O'Ryan walks through the empty streets of Manhattan KS in search of...something.
• Spark: Scenes from the first few months Aaron "Contact" Zander spent in the Academy, back in 2015.
• Lifetrap: In 2016, Chuck "Weapons Master" Morse found his way to an ancient crypt in Outer Mongolia, but would he ever emerge? Written for High Concept Challenge #11, "Death Traps".
• Derek Radner's Private Journal: A potential series (in which case it'll spin off eventually) using the conceit of Radner's private philosophical musings to establish ideas about the ASH setting (or superhero settings in general) that would be too clunky to work into an actual story. Unless otherwise noted, written by Dave Van Domelen.
  1. "Villainy": What makes one a villain? October 2017 entry.
  2. "Evil": What's evil? Can one consider themselves evil? October 2017 entry.
  3. "Asset": In December 2023, shortly after being broken out of prison, Derek reflects on one of his life goals.
  4. "Scrollwork": A vellum scroll written during the First Century C.E. deals with a timelost Derek's views on the nature of time travel and paradox.
  5. "What's In A Name?": Back to the Autumn of 2017, as Derek muses on the idea of superhero/supervillain codenames and tries to pick one for himself.
  6. "Deathtraps": Later in November 2017, Derek muses on the nature of that most essentially melodramatic of supervillain accoutrements, the deathtrap.

   Side Stories - Set in the main timeline of the ASH Universe (2022 onward), these simply don't belong to any particular ongoing series.

• Lightfoot and Thunderbolt: A short Lightfoot solo story, guest-starring Netwalker of the LNH2023. Takes place between ASH #9 and ASH #10.
• Justice: From RACC Presents #5, the parallel stories of two young people finding purpose and heroism. It has Historicals content intercut with 2020s stuff.
• "Read It Before It Gets Censored!": An example of Thom S. O'Ryan's online column, concerning the Statement of Fundamental Rights in the North American Combine's Constitution.