Early Access: STORMWEAVER 3 - Chapter 28v2 [ROUGH]
Added 2024-12-21 20:45:02 +0000 UTCAs promised, the added content is more than the original chapter 🤣 There's probably going to be some cutting up and moving stuff around to make Chapter 29 work the way I want it to, but it'll all be smoother in the end as usually!
Just a heads up that with this coming week being Christmas and my parents in town, there may not be a new chapter the next week! Gonna try to have something for you Friday, but it is doubtful given I'm trying to spend some good time with family!
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NEW REMINDER: BOOK 3 CONTENT/SPOILERS ARE NOT TO BE MENTIONED OUTSIDE OF CHAPTER LEAK ANNOUNCEMENT POSTS. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
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A FEW RULES & REMINDERS:
Chapters will be dropping as Bryce completes them. That means anywhere from every 1 to 2 weeks on average, though sometimes waits may be longer.
Recall that these are rough chapters, with no editing other than a single pass-through as Bryce writes.
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Comments
ok so I'm new to the whole pre-release chapters thing and I'm seeing multiple versions of a chapter. do they actually replace the previous version or are they meant to continue on?
Caitlin Jessica
2025-01-03 20:43:29 +0000 UTCHappy Friday
Karl Shlagel
2025-01-03 14:30:06 +0000 UTCI suppose it depends on how bleak Bryce wants to make the ending where our heroes might win in the up coming battle but ultimately lose the war as Humanity are slowly corrupted into becoming their own enemies and the pointlessness of war
Yosef Berg
2025-01-01 20:30:09 +0000 UTCDayumn where can this lead?! And what if.... Vysetrium is sentient?
Christian Klein
2025-01-01 19:11:18 +0000 UTCAre CADs turning Humans into Archons? With bits of the CADs being in the brainstem of the user (the shard being different as its part of someone else's CAD) and that the offspring of CAD users have a higher chance of getting a CAD than non CAD users. Take Fire Song of the six of them only 2 don't have a parent/grandparent who is a User those being Viv and Cashe. You have to wonder if the children of two CAD users, which can perfect Genes and lay down technorganic neuro pathways would they be closer to Archons than Humans? and if so is that a good or bad thing in the long run?
Yosef Berg
2024-12-31 11:46:11 +0000 UTCGlobals isn't cancelled they are just not going to add the first years to it as there aren't enough world with strong enough first years to make worth while. but yeah they haven't announced that first years are joining Systems and Intersystems yet
Yosef Berg
2024-12-31 11:28:48 +0000 UTCI may need yo go through 3 again but was thinking today and realized they haven't officially announced Globals being canceled plus first years in Systems and Intersystems, right? I feel like that'd probably get one of those big gatherings in the Arena for the announcement or at least one for the current first year teams.
Voror
2024-12-29 19:32:35 +0000 UTCI know I keep saying this. But this book would be an amazing GraphicAudio release. I know they are not everyone’s cup of tea. But they’re the best dramatic audio people that I know of. :-)
Tim Kilgore
2024-12-27 05:59:03 +0000 UTCIsn't Jasper out of the system dealing with that domestic abuse victim?
Sam
2024-12-26 21:38:21 +0000 UTCLove it! Thank you Sir!
QuixoticPirateCptn
2024-12-26 17:33:07 +0000 UTCthat WAS the intention of that insertion (pretty spoiler free so okay saying this). i didn't want Rei to be the only Ward that ever appears in-world given how "common" it's supposed to be, and I wanted the Edgewarden to loop her status as a ward of the state into her Arena name to make sure it was clear wards can be anything too. -Bryce
Wraithmarked Creative
2024-12-26 17:04:16 +0000 UTCwelcome to the party, and glad you're enjoying the reads! -Bryce
Wraithmarked Creative
2024-12-26 17:02:46 +0000 UTCHey Everybody!! New Fanboy here. Big fan of the series obviously. Just spent every waking moment of my Christmas Eve smashing through chapters 1 -28. Bryce your awesome bro! Im a gamer and love how these stories give me a RPG feel, with the CADs ranking up with "experience". Now the waiting game commences *sigh*. Cant wait to read more!! I swear if somebody in hollywood doesnt hit Mr Bryce up about turning these books into a movie or like a MMORPG. That would be crazy. anyway Merry XMAS!!!
Sylvester StCyr
2024-12-26 10:28:56 +0000 UTCDoing a Christmas read of "The Story So Far" and I noticed in chapter 7 Rei mentions a former Galens student and Astra System champion "the Lancer Clementine ‘Edgewarden’ Ward". Any chance she was a ward of the state as well? I checked books 1 and 2 and could not find any mention of her. Thoughts? Info I missed?
QuixoticPirateCptn
2024-12-25 22:17:55 +0000 UTCI’ve been re-reading the 1 to 27 document, and there’s been some very worthwhile changes in there! Tweaks to conversation flow and stuff, making it way better than it already was. And Wainwright’s arena name has officially been changed to Jetstream. Definitely a much better name, and I can see why she was brought in - speed kills and if she’s a Lancer with extraordinary speed for her type then that’ll prove useful for sure!
Iron Akela
2024-12-24 19:29:32 +0000 UTCIt so is a bit now. We have an unreliable narrator here. Makes it even harder to tell what's going on 😉
Justus Wingert
2024-12-24 18:26:12 +0000 UTCHello fellow cliff watchers!
Justus Wingert
2024-12-24 18:18:17 +0000 UTCI've written some on the reddit.
Justus Wingert
2024-12-24 18:10:20 +0000 UTCAnd then the feeds pick up on all the oddities that are Team Firesong and begin to theorize.... Damn
Christian Klein
2024-12-24 12:15:06 +0000 UTCAnd what a rabbit hole THAT will be
Christian Klein
2024-12-24 12:14:16 +0000 UTCI guess "more artificial", given that all CAD evolution is artificial in the general sense. So essentially this is a kind of evolution that the CAD is purposefully hiding from the reporting functionality but not from the user. If so that's an interesting if slightly convoluted plot tool, that indicates vastly growing intelligence, if Shido is hiding it's external activity.
Rasmus Salling
2024-12-24 10:22:44 +0000 UTCThink that her actual stat is d5 but it is artificially enhanced to s0
Sam
2024-12-24 07:14:39 +0000 UTCThe question marks and xs are for when he doesn't remember a detail that he will look up later
Sam
2024-12-24 07:13:32 +0000 UTCAs I understood it the glow on the stat meant it was artificially enhanced and thus hidden
Sam
2024-12-24 07:12:01 +0000 UTCI don’t think the S0 should add to the calculation since it’s “artificial.” Viv’s regular growth is like D6
Polaris
2024-12-24 05:30:58 +0000 UTCLove this comment. I'm listening to Carl again now and that is fresh in my head. Perfect!
Megan Barton
2024-12-23 22:09:36 +0000 UTCWhat does it do???!! 😂
Megan Barton
2024-12-23 22:07:37 +0000 UTCThe C6 rank is a bit funky. Seems like the S0 growth jump gets the average to ~C9. Is Bryce planning some instant 3 rank increase on next Cad activation or did I miss calculate?
Rasmus Salling
2024-12-23 18:44:20 +0000 UTCI hope Jasper is out of system picking up Sarah to bring her back to Galens!
QuixoticPirateCptn
2024-12-23 12:52:19 +0000 UTCGood adds for sure, thanks for the lovely present. We just expect the cliff at this point ;)…Merry Christmas 🎄, enjoy the holiday break.
Christine Stewart
2024-12-23 09:54:19 +0000 UTCSo glad I found this patreon today(ahem 2 am, so really yesterday 😂), but someone should find Bryce to give him the Cultivation Chat Group treatment so Christmas can pop off 👉👈 This is a joke, love ya Bryce only problem was the random redactions, Like (in latest story so far 1-27) von Bor listing off Team Firesongs ranks as C? or Rama Guest saying XXXX XXXXXXX in place of a name.. for some reason thought he was talking about Major Reese as he ended the sentence saying he'd like to see the major try it, but that doesn't make sense in the context. BUT! I can understand why they are there. Either ya can't remember the ranks (or haven't decided if they should have ranked up at some point especially with the new full reveal what shido is doing) in one case and (maybe?) bringing up some random new name out of nowhere or just want to leave a little surprise for the release? Idk, but you write awesome stories and the world's they contain. P.S. when I first found this series within the week of Iron Prince coming out I didn't realize I knew some of your previous works until the comment from Razielle “Monster” Arroh as a chapter heading
J J
2024-12-23 09:01:50 +0000 UTCTftc
Kemlion
2024-12-22 20:22:24 +0000 UTCHey can someone help me out. In the epilogue of Fire and Song Viv’s growth spec jumps from D4 to D5. Is it now S0 or some combination between the two?
Tim
2024-12-22 19:56:13 +0000 UTCHey can someone help me out? At the end of Fire and Song Viv’s growth spec jumps from D4 to D5, is it now S0 or some factoring
Tim
2024-12-22 19:53:36 +0000 UTCAnyone know where I can find some fanfic? I would love to see what other people are doing with this universe. Call it a fix until the real chapter comes out again. :-) Lol. No one can’t touch you Bryce, you are awesome! :-) Best stuff since I read the David Eddings books. Lol.
Tim Kilgore
2024-12-22 17:37:52 +0000 UTCI am excited about the prospect of Viv‘s family learning about who raise grandfather is, as well as the reaction of celista. to that interesting tidbit of information. Lol that’s going to be hilarious!
Tim Kilgore
2024-12-22 17:32:48 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays
Dalton Coady M Eaton
2024-12-22 13:14:37 +0000 UTCNo worries I'm def aware of Viv needing to be more shocked by the sponsorship, and also Rei not telling anyone but Aria about the family connection. Saving it as a learning moment for Viv 😁 -Bryce
Wraithmarked Creative
2024-12-22 12:48:15 +0000 UTCI think initially it was a typo and became a bit
Iron Akela
2024-12-22 09:48:43 +0000 UTCyou know i have been wanting to ask... is Bryce screwing with us or is that just a part of the Gatecrasher's bit/thing?
Silva Shadows
2024-12-22 05:42:51 +0000 UTCHalfway through reading I predicted exactly where it would end. So I guess they did tell her everything. A bit surprised there wasn't more of a reaction given Viv's thoughts on the sponsorship though perhaps they explained or she just wasn't super concerned. I don't think Rei has told anyone else besides Aria yet but I could see him telling Viv next about the confirmations he got.
Voror
2024-12-22 05:24:40 +0000 UTCEvil evil cliff love it but that's an evil cliff
Tiffany Miller
2024-12-22 04:18:43 +0000 UTCAnd leave us without his spot on assessments? Why do you hate us? (Lmao)
Aubrey Listi
2024-12-22 02:55:59 +0000 UTCWhat a new cliff lmao
CipherFTW
2024-12-22 01:28:50 +0000 UTCGreat addition to the chapter! I got a chuckle about Catcher’s tongue waggle and what has to be the ISCM’s shortest track (five yards!) LOL
Kory Leach
2024-12-22 00:35:52 +0000 UTCTHIS IS UNACCEPTABLE 🤣
Wraithmarked Creative
2024-12-22 00:28:45 +0000 UTCOnly someone as ... special... as Catcher would call any senior officer a 'monstrous old bat' in any voice other than the one inside his skull, but it IS Catcher. Captain von Bor probably is, but propriety is still a thing Catcher should brush up on and use thought bubbles and not speech bubbles ;p
Chris
2024-12-21 23:57:40 +0000 UTCSuch a great chapter made insanely better!! Hope you have an amazing Christmas!
Bill Hilliard
2024-12-21 23:37:19 +0000 UTCI knew before reading that I was not going to find out about Viv’s ability, but that didn’t stop my brain from falling a part when I got to the end of the chapter. The addition was amazing. Now the wait begins again.
Victor Summerhill
2024-12-21 23:36:14 +0000 UTCThanks for the updated and elongated chappie. Lulz at Catcher. Hope Bryce and all the WM team are able to get some form of holiday break/recharge.
gratch42
2024-12-21 23:33:11 +0000 UTCWas wondering if jetway was going to become the next gatebreaker and keep changing her name
Sam
2024-12-21 23:24:02 +0000 UTCLove the addition. Thanks! As usual, I am looking forward to what comes next.
Lyn Shirley
2024-12-21 23:08:09 +0000 UTCWell damn! I wonder when Rei will figure out how to get that interface to work… and I’m glad the team has realised that S is above S9 and has no designation :o) I’m not sure who knows about the shard - I think it was just Dent and Ashton. But do they know about Viv’s growth spec now? And I like Imbue! Wonder if Dent will have the other members of Firesong get a brain scan? I doubt anyone else is needed, because Shido hasn’t learned a relationship designator between ‘random oik’ and ‘blood bonded teammate’ :o) Thanks for the early Christmas present Bryce. Enjoy the holiday, and we’ll find out how much Gemela grew and what Endwalker does next time :o) One thing though - Wainwright’s arena name is Jetway, though Jetstream is better in my opinion :oD
Iron Akela
2024-12-21 23:00:12 +0000 UTCI feel like its half the present and the other half is when we find out the ability. 😂 Such a great chapter, but that ending was a tease!
Kirivina
2024-12-21 22:55:47 +0000 UTCIn the immortal words of Carl: “Goddammit Donut”. We have to wait til the next chapter??? lol lol lol. Ty for the addition to chapter 28. V1 seemed a bit too short.
Greg Cumberworth
2024-12-21 22:29:56 +0000 UTCEnjoy your holidays! There are more weekends for chapters, but only one for Christmas!
Graeme Anderson
2024-12-21 22:17:01 +0000 UTCCan already tell the New Year will start off with a bang! Have a great Christmas and holiday Bryce (and the rest of the Wraithmarked admins while I’m at it)
Aaron Tufts
2024-12-21 22:01:29 +0000 UTCI see we’re getting an early Christmas present. Happy holidays :)
Linn G
2024-12-21 21:31:07 +0000 UTCsoooo good
YangThePolarBear
2024-12-21 21:25:26 +0000 UTCDamn, if that ain't a juicy appetizer for the holidays
Christian Klein
2024-12-21 21:11:21 +0000 UTCTake the time with your family and enjoy yourself. We aren't going anywhere. Merry Christmas.
STANSTAN42
2024-12-21 20:57:42 +0000 UTCMany thanks, enjoy your time with family and Happy Holidays
George Van Buren
2024-12-21 20:51:44 +0000 UTC
