Perry hung up the phone and let out a long breath.
It was probably Gramma’s fault, but it was past the statute of limitation for being angry about it. She’d cast spells cursing Solaris’s fate back when they were in direct conflict, like…40 years ago. They’d been waiting around in the background for the right moment to cause as much damage as physically possible.
Add that to the list of things I need to hedge against, Perry thought, scowling as he began drawing o...
2024-03-12 17:33:03 +0000 UTC
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The dragon’s palace was shielded against teleportation, along with most of his research facility. I.E, Berkeley.
But, there was a gap right around the miniature park in the middle of the university, specifically kept there for teleporters to land and be scanned by the security systems.
The instant his portal closed behind him, Perry was immediately besieged by heavy munitions and lasers from every conceivable angle.
The lasers hit his eyes first.
HP...
2024-03-07 17:06:11 +0000 UTC
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Brendon took his earplugs out, shutting off the buffer machine he liked to ride around the blue halls.
“-for your cooperation and have a fantastic day!”
“Eh?” Brendon asked, glancing around for a moment before he shrugged and put his earplugs back in and kicked the ride-on buffing machine back into gear.
If it was important, there would be flashing lights and the message would probably repeat a bunch, right?
Yeah, probably.
Man I love...
2024-03-05 17:11:23 +0000 UTC
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Lightshow (Mandy, to her friends) sprinted up the stairs and out the emergency exit.
What the hell was that? She thought as she ran, her heart pounding in her ears.
Agh, cramp. I really should work out more, Stacy keeps telling me I’m never gonna catch a man with love handles.
While Stacy was full of shit, if she did exercise, maybe at least she’d be able to run without the stitch in her side.
Mandy caught her breath and kept run...
2024-03-01 16:52:11 +0000 UTC
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I got rid of the bottle and made it obvious Perry was holding the sword, added the gold harness, and the goggles, and the evil magic above Perry's head. I think he also added the highlights above Billy to make it easier to see him.
Whaddya think? If i give the go ahead, the artist'll start on the detail work.
2024-02-27 18:51:44 +0000 UTC
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So, chances are Lightshow is a mimic, Perry thought as he continued to work side by side with her.
His Reasoning: Whoever stole the lens most likely did it because they were aware of them and their potential to be used as weapons against Solaris. That limited the suspect pool to those who knew about the project: Namely Lightshow and the Anchors assigned to work on this project: Freddy, Chemestro, and Guile
Now, whoever had done it had looked like Perry, which would cast s...
2024-02-27 16:23:41 +0000 UTC
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“The costs are astronomical,” Lightshow said.
“That’s what I like to hear,” Perry said. He wasn’t even kidding. Spendthrift ate astronomical costs for breakfast.
Lightshow must’ve thought he was being sarcastic, because she huffed and continued to explain.
“Look, when I stabilize light, it’s primarily 2 dimensional panels fit together into a 3-d shape.”
Ah. Light origami. Sort of. The total volume of stabilized light is tiny, and the insides are...
2024-02-23 17:32:21 +0000 UTC
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I'm thinking about calling it Rival.exe
I'm also going to change a couple things, namely having his off hand grabbing the sword behind his back implying he's ready to throw down whenever...and that's about it.
What do you guys think? Look silly and fun? Anything you'd c...
2024-02-22 20:23:01 +0000 UTC
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***Marigold Zauberer***
“What’s taking so long?” Marigold demanded as Andre poured over the spellwork keeping her trapped inside her clinic.
They were seperated by a thin wall of causality at the front door, and nothing else. People came and went, casting the two of them curious glances as the queen of Manita paced back and forth in the doorway.
Andre himself could enter and exit, but Marigold was trapped.
“It’s just going to…take time.” Andre said, her g...
2024-02-20 17:48:58 +0000 UTC
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“Oh god, that sucked,” Perry groaned, taking a deep breath and resting his hands on his knees, doubled over. Threatening your grandmother with blackmail was not the best feeling in the world, especially with nice, healthy Stability.
Gareth gave him a hesitant pat on the arm.
“Can we do that again tomorrow?” Sera asked around her lollipop.
“Probably not,” Perry muttered. That kind of hardball negotiating would only work on his grandmother once. Now that she was aw...
2024-02-17 18:08:35 +0000 UTC
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Perry stared at the tiny little clinic where his grandmother controlled Funkytown, tossing down terse commands from inside her legitimate business under the nose of the law like The Godfather. The place where so much of his shame and self-loathing had been fomented by a literal evil witch in a misguided effort to ‘temper’ him.
It could be argued that it worked.
It could also be argued that argument was stupid.
Perry took a deep, steadying breath.
“If I die, tell ...
2024-02-14 18:50:06 +0000 UTC
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***Somewhere in Wyoming***
A mourning dove flitted down to a branch and paused for a moment to scan the forest floor and nearby trees for tasty seeds.
Something was wrong. The bird didn’t really have the words to describe it, but something about the forest had felt…off over the last few months. The dove had unknowingly been herded further and further west as its instincts, honed over millions of years, warned the bird that it was being hunted.
It didn’t see a predator...
2024-02-12 18:13:17 +0000 UTC
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“Hey Bill,” Perry said, shrugging the phone up to his ear as he held the twins’ hands.
“You don’t call me Bill. What did you do?”
“I might’ve…sort’ve…spilled a legendary monster into your little sand-castle. Completely unintentionally, of course.”
“Explain.” Tyrannus said.
“Well, I’m standing here in a replicator bunker, collecting residue from an android copy of Abun’zaul.”
Perry lifted Gareth up and had him ...
2024-02-08 18:49:36 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, that didn’t go quite as planned.” Tom admitted.
“You THINK!?” Felix demanded as they ran down the venue’s built-in secret tunnel, aiming to get as far away from…whatever the hell that was, as they could.
“But the P-energy…”
“Apparently that’s not all there is to it,” Felix said, grunting as he crouched down to exit the tiny one-man tunnel that exited out into Chicago proper. “Who knew?”
They’d gotten a lot of info about Paradox ov...
2024-02-05 19:11:34 +0000 UTC
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“Sophie!” Nat cried, sprinting across the glass floor and doing her best impression of a tackle. The Elysian attendant took the hit with barely a stagger, patting the raven-haired girl on the head.
“Natalie, I’ve missed you! How are you all doing?”
Natalie unleashed a flood of information while Sophie’s eyebrows gradually climbed.
“I was just stopping by Earth to thank you personally for saving my sister, Suzy.” Sophie said, motioning to a familiar woman trai...
2024-02-02 17:42:59 +0000 UTC
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Book one is up on Kindle!
Also, my deepest apologies for the double message in your inbox. Patreon is laughing at me by not making the fact that the first had gone through obvious enough.
(Inwardly Seethes)
Ah well. If there was ever something to spam about, it would be Industrial Strength magic. If you've got the dough or an Unlimited subscription, I would appreciate your help launching the...
2024-01-31 16:05:08 +0000 UTC
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Christopher Sunflower hated to admit it when his dad was right.
But his dad was right.
He was currently on the family’s Tri-Star Leashed Tractor 9000, clearing land for potatoes and beans…and sunflowers.
They were now known as ‘The Sunflower’ family by the other farmers. His dad had even commissioned a family crest and submitted it to the government for recordkeeping. And changed their legal names. That part stung a little bit.
Everything was a gimmick with tha...
2024-01-29 17:36:41 +0000 UTC
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***5 Years ago***
“Perry, help!” Natalie shouted, her feet dragging across the floor as the glowing maw of the kaleidoscopic lump of metal turned to face her.
Perry set Gor’s disintegration to basketball-sized and shot the machine…accomplishing nothing. The metal pedestal the thing had been resting on seemed to throb with absorbed power.
Nat’s feet dragged across the steel floor.
Without thinking, Perry jumped in between his girlfriend and th...
2024-01-25 18:24:38 +0000 UTC
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By the time Gareth had bounced back, Sera was finished being thrown in the air, and Perry guided both of them around the party, generally steering them towards people he knew would behave themselves.
All the while, Perry was digesting what he’d just seen:
Solaris acting weird as hell. The look he’d gotten from the powerful super for witnessing the slip had been so ominous that he’d bailed from that particular possibility.
Perry narrowed it down to a handful of causes.<...
2024-01-22 18:58:36 +0000 UTC
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Having superhuman nerves, having killed godlike entities, survived dimensional shenanigans and bearing an intellect that made everyone else look like dumb, braying animals…did not prevent one from getting sweaty palms, apparently, Perry noted with mild irritation.
Then the bride’s music started playing, and everything afterwards was sort of a blur.
Nat marched forth to the sound of her favorite song, her face white as a sheet, the smile on her lips at war with her terrified ex...
2024-01-19 17:19:54 +0000 UTC
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So the artist is really good at copying the image examples you give him, but if you just say 'sassy' results are mixed. I was about to do just that without sending a photo reference, but I've since learned my lesson...
2024-01-17 15:58:02 +0000 UTC
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So, Here's the rough draft. We're probably gonna do one more revision, then call it good. The artist sadly couldn't fit Mass Driver in the picture and still have space for Heather and Perry's expression to be visible in thumbnail.
Give me feedback! Then scroll through the feedback you like, and heart the stuff you think sounds like a good idea. I Personally like the background and posing but want Heather to be more aggressive/animated.
Perry looks a bit too much like prof. X, lo...
2024-01-17 00:00:18 +0000 UTC
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***Author's Note****
Sorry about the delay, I pumped the breaks to give myself some time to get my bearings going into book 4. I've been brainstorming where we can go with the next book, and especially HOW, because you have to use a light-speed antagonist VERY sparingly.
So far I've got 2 ass-pulls planned. We'll see how many we get by the end, lol. Mostly we want to gradually increase tension, Tarantino style, so that the number of immersion-breaking deus ex machina we insert are f...
2024-01-16 17:49:11 +0000 UTC
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“I’m sorry, but Solaris is away on business.” The nexus receptionist said, “Negotiating with Stacy Watt-powers over immigration.”
She shuddered.
“That little girl gives me the creeps.”
“Yeah, she’s got baggage.” Perry said, glancing at Solaris’s office door. “Do you know when he’ll be back?”
“I was not informed, sorry.”
“No worries,” Perry said, worried. It was out of character for Solaris to leave Franklin city at all, let alo...
2024-01-11 19:01:15 +0000 UTC
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Congratulations!
You have reached Level 18!
Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)
Class: Potent Thaumaturge
Level 18
HP: 13
Body: 92
Stability: 93
Nerve: 93
Attunement: 93
Fre...
2024-01-09 18:51:34 +0000 UTC
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“Here we have an android,” Perry said, motioning to the man entering through the door, wearing a brown leather jacket straight out of the seventies and a terrible haircut.
“Hey, I heard you guys were giving away free cell phones? My moms’ been telling me- OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT!?”
The test subject jumped in place, staring up at the dragon staring down at him from a conservative fifteen feet above him, a thin squeal dying in his throat.
Perry shot him.
The gu...
2024-01-05 19:32:23 +0000 UTC
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Perry’s hand hovered over the phone.
“What are you doing?” Natalie asked, staring at him from the war-map where the city captains were coordinating defense from High Tide.
“Waiting.” Perry said.
“Waiting for what?”
“I proved that a Demon lord had a room-temperature I.Q. and alienated him from Tyrannus in the process.” Perry said. “Unfortunately, this particular demon has a lot of raw power, so dealing with him alone is suicidal. Especially given his...
2024-01-02 18:06:03 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year!
The idea to do a state of the author address has been rattling around in my head now. Here's where I'm going to self report on myself, my work, and my plans for 2024.
Myself: I bought a gym membership in 2023 so I could play racquetball, and that's been working well. At the beginning of the year, the people there were worried I might have a heart attack. I've since lost 11 lbs and they're slightly less worried...or they've given up caring.
2024-01-01 17:23:58 +0000 UTC
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Just because Perry had a brutal adventure to a plane full of demons that he couldn’t remember, and happened to piss off a bigwig in the process, didn’t mean real life slowed down for anyone.
After a long day of destroying all the secret labs that Perry knew of and working on defensive measures against further soul-sucking, Perry headed home.
“Daddy!” Sera shrieked, diving into Perry’s stomach as he entered the living room.
Perry picked up his daughter and threw her...
2023-12-29 18:43:47 +0000 UTC
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I realize I didn't give enough information. We've got 2 solid 'stuck in the 70's' choices, and I wasn't really very specific about the prompt.
Option 1: Perry and Heather argue over a map on a street corner while Nat repairs Boomer and Mass Driver hails a cab in spandex. 70's onlookers confused.
Option 2: The crew marvels over a 1970's diner with meat while people gawk at their outlandish attire. Mass Driver is unimpressed, Chemestro sets aside the bread. Empty calories.
...
2023-12-26 18:59:55 +0000 UTC
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