Macronomicon

Chapter 27: Gym Day

“Dad!” Tom and Felix called as they stormed into the mansion.

“In the reading room!” Dad’s voice emanated from down a side hall.

They stormed over to the reading room, angry enough to ignore their aching feet. They hadn’t been planning on walking home barefoot.

“Dad, this-“

“Hold it right there,” Dad said, peering out from behind his book. The Tinker looked his sons up and down, taking in their ragged states, wearing only swim trunks, bruises and mu...

Chapter 26: Perry’s a ticking Time-bomb A.K.A. Maths make numbers go much biggening

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

-Albert Einstein

After Perry dropped off a man-sized chunk of prawn he’d snagged off the beach to the man-hunters, he went back to his house and got verbally reamed for a good half hour for nearly getting people killed at the beach.

His mom for going too far, his dad for not going far enough.

Perry just wondered how they knew.

By the time Perry finally went to bed, he was exhausted ...

Chapter 25: Replicator

“Alright, here’s the rules,” Left said as Right hung up the net which had been suspiciously hidden behind the disabled Replicator flagship this entire time.

Now that Perry’s anger had cooled a bit from the name-calling, he was starting to get the suspicion that these guys just wanted to play volleyball, had absolutely no idea how to go about asking people, and were willing to give up on a six million dollar piece of hardware in order to pressure people into accepting. There was ...

Next chapter

A: A rousing game of beach volleyball where we see Hardcase out of her mech for the first time ever, they beat them then a monster attacks and they're proven to be total posers.  

B: Perry agrees to the game then melts their extremely expensive armor as soon as they step out of them for calling him names.

Chapter 24: The Law of the Beach

That was a lot of permits, Perry thought, his head spinning from the sheer amount of paperwork required for doing a little innocent lairscaping in the middle of the city. And that was with John doing all the heavy lifting.

I haven’t really considered what kind of building I want above my lair, either. Perry didn’t really have enough materials to make something ostentatious like Locust’s, he didn’t have any appetite for a business like the bowling alley above Da...

Next Mini Arc

These are probably both going to happen at some point, but,

Do you prefer

A) Perry delves an abandoned lair.
B) Beach cleanup between tides.


Also, suggestions for both totally welcome.

Chapter 23: Paradox 1 Day Builds

***Mason Pierce***

Mason’s grip tightened on his prawn gun as the boiling seas crept closer to the wall.

It was almost a relief when the first Prawn began climbing the side of the wall, it’s stubby limbs clinging to the smooth surface of the wall, dragging a bulbous head out of the water that looked something a cross between the now-extinct beluga whale and a praying mantis.

Mason’s breath grew ragged against his will, just waiting here with his gun raised felt like he...

Spells without Materials/Rituals

In the last chapter, I introduced three new spells.

Dregor’s Binding: Binds two objects together so that what happens to one, happens to the other.

Gretchen's Idyllic Manifestation: Creates a permanent construction based on the user's imagination.

Miniature Vistas: Creates a miniature of a landscape.


I created the spells with their product in mind, and didn't bother to think of specific material or rituals for casting any of them. Would you guys care to brainst...

Chapter 22: A Night on the Town

“Well, that’s not good.” Perry muttered, looking up at the sign.

Dave’s Magical Emporium closed for High Tide. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Perry only had a few more fights worth of supplies, he was flush with cash and wanted to buy some of the more interesting spell components.

And then this.

Perry glanced around the streets of Funkytown and spotted a Belark wobbling along the sidewalk with its deceptively awkward gait, but none of Dave’s t...

Who was in the wrong?

Who do you think was in the wrong in chapter 21.

A) Perry's mom for attempting a life-threatening ritual on him involving feeding him an extremely dangerous magical parasite, and giving superpowers to an eight-year old.

B) Perry's dad for injecting his son with an untested serum and giving him a complex he can't even remember the reason for.

C) Both.

D) Neither.


Just gauging public sentiment.

Chapter 21: Tide’s In

***Perry, 8 years old***

Perry gasped as motes of light swirled around Mom’s garden, seemingly rising out of the ground where the moonlight struck the sweet-smelling blue flowers she spent so much time on.

“This is magic,” Mom said, looking down at Perry’s complete awe with a happy smile as the lights swirled around them, illuminating her rock T-shirt and jeans as they swept past her body.

“Magic happens when two or more compatible essences interact, and a ritual i...

Chapter 20: Quest Complete!

Perry flew back to his lair, Heart hammering in his ears.

He needed to turn on the spellframe designed to cast the scrying spell and locate Heather, PRONTO.

This could be significantly more difficult if Karnos managed to destroy my lair. It could take as long as half an hour to commandeer a robot arm and program it to interface with the spell-disc properly.

Perry didn’t think he had that kind of time.

He landed directly in front of his lair and hauled the fl...

Chapter 19: The Minor Leagues

In 1984, Jonathan Harker was coerced, by the direct control of his body to commit several crimes by the Minder, Mindstrike.

Before this point, the law had been unclear on complicity under duress, but after the facts had been laid out, the court found that Mr. Harker was entirely blameless of the crimes he’d been accused of, and the responsibility lay solely at the feet of the super forcing him to commit them.

Further, it posited that any non-powered human f...