The ball wound down without further incident, and Heather joined them for dinner, seemingly having to tear herself away from her fans.
How she’d made fans among the Manitians in a matter of minutes was up for speculation.
Mr. Demetre laid out the terms of their wager:
Since it was a draw, the spirit forge would remain in his house, and Natalie would be allowed to visit it with a chaperone and up to two guests on the weekends.
That way, the Demetre family got to make ...
2022-12-07 16:48:39 +0000 UTC
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“HOW DARE YOU!” Neverre shouted at the top of her lung as she used a magical silk handkerchief to wipe off her front.
Perry could tell it was magical by the faint opalescent shimmer and the way the lotion faded from the cloth in a matter of seconds.
The girl was basically cleaning herself off with the handkerchief version of a Lamborghini.
Well, I’m in deep shit. Perry hadn’t quite realized how angry he’d been at being dragged onto the dance-floor and acte...
2022-12-03 16:06:16 +0000 UTC
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***Victor Remington***
“If you dumbasses ever get confused about who you’re supposed to be shooting, there’s a helpful graphic on the top of your guns.”
Victor tapped the picture of a young woman with fairy wings on top of his gun.
“Your glasses will allow you to see a glow around anyone with a symbiotic spirit. Those things are worth millions apiece, and mages don’t fare well against high powered rifles, so it’s a match made in heaven, so if you see one, cap ...
2022-11-30 14:39:17 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so I'm not particularly good at drama or climaxes, (or at least i don't feel like it)
So The entire ballroom is a powder keg, just waiting to explode.
Can you guys think of what might be the climax of the ball might be? Perferably something that isn't Perry's fault, and doesn't ruin Natalie's experience.
I was thinking some kind of climactic battle that follows Perry back to the motel, where Nat's mom is waiting to be a bitch to them.
the climactic battle fal...
2022-11-28 17:59:58 +0000 UTC
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***George Frepon***
“Five minutes?” Ellanore asked as they walked away. “Did a sliver of pity pierce your heart, or did Paradox notice the little spell you’d woven on him?”
“Neither. The bastard, in a magical sense, is like a bag of lead sand, it was about the same amount of effort to keep his mind suppressed as it would be to keep the entire ball under for the same length of time.”
Ellanore’s brows rose, and their siblings gave each other meaningful glances....
2022-11-25 16:06:23 +0000 UTC
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Heather was eating a pre-ball snack to tide her over, while Perry explained some of his security system.
“So I went and install a dart launcher in the ceiling of the venue. If you or I make finger guns at someone, the machine will see that and dart them.”
“Dart them with what, tranquilizers?” Heather asked, stuffing another cracker in her mouth.
“A demonic blood-contract.”
“Mmm,” she grunted, nodding.
“Taadaa!” Nat’s voice came from the chan...
2022-11-23 16:10:11 +0000 UTC
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I was sitting here about to get started on writing, waiting for my sister to come dig a hole in her backyard for a crabapple that won't pollinate her apple tree, when I realized that the end of the year is going to be bumpy, and I should probably tell you my plans and give you a heads up about what it'll look like.
The rest of November will see my family visiting me here, and me struggling with Amazon bots.
December and January will be a trip to Disneyland and a cross-coun...
2022-11-21 14:14:39 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, the spell is locked in the vault and all mention of it is wiped from the record…now.” Perry said, pressing the ‘confirm’ button.
Paradox’s Elysian Enchantment was far too dangerous for the likes of mere mortal…teens.
“Ugh, my eyes are all bloodshot now,” Heather said, dabbing the last of the tears out of her eyes and whipping out a compact to fix her makeup.
“So obviously Sophie’s hair is not a good ballgown enhancer.”
“Ya think
2022-11-18 15:23:29 +0000 UTC
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***Chemestro***
“You wanted to see me?” Chemestro asked.
“Take a seat,” Solaris said, motioning to the seat across from his desk. Chemestro gave an inward shrug and sat across from the ruler of Franklin City.
“I’ve been waiting for the right time to do this. Every six or eight years, after High tide, I like to do some…clean up. Cut out certain cancerous growths that might’ve destabilized the city if excised during High Tide.”
Chemestro’s heart shot ...
2022-11-14 15:11:50 +0000 UTC
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Perry examined the ingredients, unloading the van one box at a time and checking each one to make sure every part of Dave’s delivery had been correct
Trust, but verify.
As usual, Dave’s customer service went above and beyond, despite being a creep.
Dave had packed everything by what spells they went in, guessing at their function with startling accuracy. It wasn’t surprising, though. The unicorn was ancient, and had been in the business for centuries, dating...
2022-11-12 16:57:35 +0000 UTC
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Talked to Steve Campbell yesterday, he's the voice actor doing narration on Wake of the Ravager
He mentioned that he does it live in a discord hangout, so people can get a glimpse of the unedited footage.
I think he starts chapter one in about...ten minutes.
If you're interested, check it out. I probably ain't gonna be there long because hearing my own stuff read back to me is incredibly embarrassing.
2022-11-10 15:47:25 +0000 UTC
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***8 hours earlier***
“Alright, everyone’s here, good,” Perry said, scanning his crew.
Hardcase, Wraith, Breaker, Plagius, Titan, and…dad.
“Yo, I heard you got your legs all busted up. You look fine,” Plagius said, scanning Perry up and down.
“Nothing a balanced breakfast can’t fix,” Perry said. “Alright, so Underwriter Paid Mass Driver an exorbitant amount to pay me a beating, Mass Driver in turn hired some support to make the attack a bit easier o...
2022-11-09 16:22:34 +0000 UTC
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Perry asked his Grandmother for magical information about who/what/why so that he could respond to the attack with incredible speed and accuracy.
He now owes her a favor, and she is going to collect.
Here's what we're not gonna do: We're not going to add a love interest based on Gramma's recommendations, and it's Probably not going to be something silly like a Broken Condom Curse.
Even though that would be hilarious.
Overt favors designed to make him a ...
2022-11-08 15:52:46 +0000 UTC
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***Mass Driver***
“Looks like a used-car lot,” Lord Of Annihilation sneered.
The kid’s name was terrible, but respect for another’s Super name was part of the culture, so Mass Driver refrained from taunting him. The kid would figure it out as soon as his nuts finished dropping.
“Mhmm,” Mass Driver said absentmindedly. The two of them were standing on top of a nearby building overlooking Oberon’s Scrapyard.
“You needed help with this?” Lord of...
2022-11-07 16:48:39 +0000 UTC
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***Natalie AKA Hardcase***
Nat was having a weird dream.
She, Perry, Heather, and her mom were all fighting each other on top of a moving spaceship, however logically inconsistent that was. Mom was wearing all black leather, weird spikeys and wielding a shiny techno-sword.
It looked really weird on her dumpy frame.
Perry and Heather were wounded, unable to fight any longer. It was just her and mom, now. Nat screwed up her determination and grabbed her girlfrie...
2022-11-04 17:24:40 +0000 UTC
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***Tafford B. Beans***
“Greg,” Taff said, his voice muffled through the mask. “Greg.”
Greg, his cubicle buddy across the way didn’t respond, his imposing featureless minion mask seemed to be blocking his ability to hear.
“Goddamnit – GREG!” Taff said, slipping his mask above his mouth so his voice actually carried.
Greg jolted in place. The faintly overweight middle-aged man turned in his swivel chair. “Tafford? You’re not supposed to take off the m...
2022-11-02 17:41:28 +0000 UTC
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“Rise and shine!” dad crowed, marching through Perry’s room, clattering together a pot and wooden spoon.
“Again!?” Perry groaned, sitting up in bed. “Seriously?”
“Yeah, again.” Dad said. “Grampa’s heading out early, and so we are seeing him off early.”
“Fine, just lemme get dressed,” Perry said, rubbing the sleep out of his face.
“Now to wake up Heather and Nat for breakfast!” Dad said, marching back out of the room.
Kn...
2022-10-31 15:16:29 +0000 UTC
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Got offered this a while ago and thought I'd flip the switch turn of the month sometime.
Basically it charges you on the day you signed up for it, rather than the turn of the month, so you don't have any of those issues where you sign up on the last day of the month and get charged twice.
Thoughts?
2022-10-31 01:19:54 +0000 UTC
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****Claudette Zauberer***
“So,” Darryl said, sitting on the edge of the bed, a contemplative frown on his face. Claudette knew that look. That was the look he got when he was scheming the best way to ruin an adversary.
“So?” Claudette asked.
“The kids are watching Ghostbusters in the living room…on the couch…in the dark.”
They’d been teenagers before. They both knew the score.
“Yes?” Claudette asked, wondering what awful thing he was plannin...
2022-10-28 04:32:59 +0000 UTC
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After Natalie rolled a strike by throwing a wildly off-course ball with a squeak, dad seemed to catch on to Perry modifying the lane.
He yawned and turned his head to the side, throwing his arm around mom’s shoulders before glancing back at Perry after Heather’s turn.
“Challenge round,” he said, nodding at the scorecards.
Perry glanced up and noticed that the lane occupants had been switched, giving mom and dad the left lane and Perry and friends the other.
“...
2022-10-26 17:22:27 +0000 UTC
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just what I wrote. Patreon seems to have changed the way they do something and applied blanket age restriction to all of my stuff. Let me know if this affects you or not.
2022-10-24 21:58:07 +0000 UTC
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“Rise and shine!” dad crowed, marching through Perry’s room, clattering together a pot and wooden spoon.
“Remind me why I still live here, again?” Perry asked, sitting up in bed and rubbing his throbbing temples. “I’m literally a millionaire.”
“Because you love us! Also because you did a cost-benefit analysis and realized that you could save millions on defense against other supers by continuing to live under the wing of Hexen and The Mechanaut!”
“Ah. N...
2022-10-24 21:07:20 +0000 UTC
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It was a few days of manic designing deep in his Tinker Twitch, but while his team were taking clean up operations and safety lessons, Perry was inventing a chemical mixture that could dissolve and reset cement, targeting the water that was bonded to it.
Perry called it concrete flux. Or just flux, for short. It had the property of dissolving cement and only cement, while undoing the hydration of the material.
Don’t stick your hand in there. The body’s got a lot o...
2022-10-21 21:14:51 +0000 UTC
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Okay, end of the month is approaching. Bills are coming due. We’ve gotten sixteen cars, twelve refrigerators, a hundred broken TVs, various plastic children’s toys, a metric ton of expired batteries, and a bunch of other random garbage.
So the real-world example is this: One car can be scrapped down and re-sold as about six hundred kilos of high performing, cheap parts, netting me about eight hundred dollars per kilo.
$480,000 per car.
In t...
2022-10-19 15:45:52 +0000 UTC
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Certain sectors were hit harder than others because of Gerome’s ‘game’.
The service industry was fine, because most people without a superpower didn’t have any recollection of the month and a half long blip in their memory. They all still had their jobs, there hadn’t been any rent or consumption during the event. The internal supplies and infrastructure of Franklin City had returned just the way they’d been before.
Farmers on the other hand, were delayed from returning...
2022-10-17 17:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Where would you guys like to see this go next?
My vague ideas are:
a) a Newbie villain creates problems for everyone (new supers are coming out of the woodwork)
b) soul magic progress
c) Perry's businesses begin turning a profit.
Suggestions welcome.
2022-10-15 21:59:40 +0000 UTC
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the time has come to suggest new spells, and I'll see if any of them sound like fun.
Format:
Name: (Difficulty)
Ingredients,
ritual.
Effect.
2022-10-15 21:57:10 +0000 UTC
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***Reginald, A.K.A. Barrel of Monkeys***
“Boss, ummm…” Brett sidled up beside Reggie, looking supremely confused. “What in the nine hells is going on? This has been the most confusing three days of my life.
Reggie cocked a brow at Brett. He didn’t recognize the kid, unlike Jetset, Bikini Gunslinger, and Sancho. Maybe he was just a civilian? Unusual given that nobody else here was one.
“Hey Breaker, how much time!?”
“He’s pretty much ignoring all the d...
2022-10-14 16:32:47 +0000 UTC
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The wind was whipping by Perry as he cruised above the forest. He spotted a glint of light out of the corner of his eye, and when he focused on it, he saw a skeleton holding a sword.
There! Perry angled himself and his trajectory towards the creature, cutting through the air at deadly speeds.
The skeleton didn’t even know what hit him.
HP: 0
Coughing, Perry dragged himself out of the trench his body had cut into the forest and glanc...
2022-10-12 17:41:44 +0000 UTC
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The lich’s gem-studded gaze landed on Perry.
He froze.
The whispering darkness in his fist flickered and changed shade to something a bit more tame.
Perry noticed.
“You damned kids have destroyed my castle! A man’s castle is like…his castle! You can’t just walk into a man’s lair and blow everything up! WHY would you!?”
“I was minding my own damn business, scrying on the heroes, getting everything ready for their murder next week, when BOO...
2022-10-10 14:45:45 +0000 UTC
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