I knew early in the day I wasn't going to be able to bring myself to finish the chapter, but that doesn't mean I didn't get any work done today.
I finished about five hundred words of the chapter, and brainstormed for about 2 hours. I'll have it done tomorrow.
As always, if you want to join the discord and lurk or contribute to the brainstorming, you're most welcome. There's a link somewhere in the community posts.
One right here, too.
Carem walked down the street with complete confidence. Anything less would get him stopped by the guard for a screening. They picked up on subtle cues, targeting people who were hesitant or nervous about the armed security at every corner.
Carem was both, but he didnt let it show in his mannerisms. That would be self-defeating. The wounds on his temple had long since healed, likely thanks to the roots, and the guards searching for the hard cancerous lumps in his forearms were a...
2020-06-11 00:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so this is how an electric motor works:
Elliot then went into a long and convoluted explanation that for the most part, went over Calvins head, including when he got to Lorentz Law, talking about magnetic fields that hed never seen nor heard of, forcing the copper rotate to align with it, along with anograms Elliot obviously expected him to understand and didnt bother explaining, such as back EMF.
You know what, just give me...
2020-06-09 23:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Calvin got clean and began feeling like a human again, he started noticing things.
In the week hed been gone, there had been some subtle and some not-so-subtle changes in the city of Allast.
One of the not-so-subtle changes were the guards stationed at every street corner, giving peope the stink-eye, while random passerby where stopped and their temples and hands checked.
Whats all this? Calvin asked Kala as they walked to the meeting. This one wasnt s...
2020-06-08 20:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostLearners notes, Day 319: On pets.
Humans have a strange practice of caring for useless animals. At first I didnt understand why a person would own an animal without any specific purpose, such as labor or meat, but my new brain was able to divine the meaning behind this: Humans have a strong bonding instinct, and these animals can fill a need for companionship when normal human relationships may be unrewarding or impossible.
Human use these mindless...
2020-06-06 01:12:28 +0000 UTC View PostI had a spot on the discord but it's increasingly difficult to find and all spread out. let's have a place to put it all where i can find it again easily.
suggest any kind of drug you want and it's effects. I'm looking for Juntai drugs RN but they can be any kind you want.
So far off the top of my head, these are Canon:
Grave dust: Flakey substance made from a corpse mold. Makes user paranoid/stressed. helps level Skills through artificially producing the stress response. 2020-06-05 21:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Recent chapter reminded me i haven't gotten suggestions for Stealth before. Let's fix that.
2020-06-05 20:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostLearners Notes, day 318: Human bonding rituals.
Humans have many ways of social bonding, and my new and improved human brain is picking up on them splendidly. I must thank that evil body swapper If I see him again before the Manifold Predator kills him.
Through careful growing and rearranging with a facsimile of the mans mutation, Ive been able to grow a human brain with denser tissue that outperforms a normal one by an estimated sixty-seven perc...
2020-06-05 01:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostShhhit. Calvin said, peeling back the corpses dirt-covered lips, revealing a hollow where Carems canine used to be.
Any chance you knocked this out when you were roughing him up? Calvin asked, glancing over at Learner.
I dont think so, She said with a shrug. I probably would have noticed.
Oh man, tell me we dont have a body hopper. Body hoppers are the worst. Elliot grumbled.
I think we have a body hopper. Na...
2020-06-03 21:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostUnhand her this instant! The patrolling guard demanded, his rail gun leveled at Calvins torso.
Something in the way he acted made Calvin think the wrong twitch might result in a big hole in Calvins torso, and that just wasnt how he wanted this night to turn out.
Im putting her down, Calvin said, slowly lowering Nadia to the ground and taking his hands off her neck.
Maybe I can render his metals non-conductuive. That should work, but then theyll h...
2020-06-02 21:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostCalvin leapt off the bed, landing in his pants and tugging them up in a matter of seconds.
What the abyss. What the abyss did you do!? Calvin thought, opening the channel to Nadia as he snagged his shirt off the floor and threw it over his head.
What are you talking about? Wait, whered the cute rich guy go? Nadias voice echoed in the back of his mind. Did it happen again?
Whats going on? Kala asked, sitting up and ...
2020-06-01 20:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostLearner's response to being the subject of attempted murder seems to be an object of contention. feel free to drop your two cents in the comments, since the poll is sort of limiting.
2020-05-29 19:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostFirst two weeks of June, I'll be releasing 15 ish (maybe more) chapters from patreon to the public. At least a chapter a day. At the beginning of the month, I'll unlock $1 and $5 tiers fifteen chapters higher, so I don't have to juggle that as well while I'm doing the public dump.
Of course, if you're a $10 minion, this won't affect you much.
2020-05-29 19:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostLearners notes, day 316: Liver tests, and human Aberrations.
Human stomachs are terribly sensitive, reacting poorly to the tiniest change in its environment.
While I admire this specialized organs ability to provide nutrients to the rest of the human body and provide the first line of defense against poisons, the act of vomiting, while good for the body as a whole, is rather undignified, and extremely unpleasant.
Why so many humans...
2020-05-29 19:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is this stuff? Calvin thought as he rubbed his finger along the white bench. It had no texture, per se, except for a slight sense of granularity. Calvin rapped his fingers against it, and marveled at the sound it made. It sounded light, like there wasnt much there, and yet, it was holding up his entire body.
Calvin wanted to stop and study the material, use dupdomancy on it and test its weight to strength ratio and durability, but that would probably attr...
2020-05-27 22:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostCarem sat beside the playground doing his best not to look sketchy as he observed the children while he whittled on a toy.
The toy was for cover, in case someone asked him why he was sitting at a playground. Hed already given away several of them in the last couple days since hed begun practicing ilethan mind-magic. In just a few days, they had come to know him as the toy guy.
Children adapted quickly.
Empathy had been easy, simply copying other peoples beha...
2020-05-26 22:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostSo I feel like an idiot asking you this, Goob said, looking at Baroke up and down. The musclebrained idiot flexing with every movement he made as they walked down the hard-packed streets of the Juntai market.
They both spoke passable ILethan, so they got along okay.
-but what do normal girls want in a guy?
Barokes eyes darted from the chewy shikva treats hed been eating to Goob, then down to himself, then back to Goob.
Aside from seven feet of he...
2020-05-25 22:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, our job as exploiters is to identify any instability in the System, figure out how to repeat it, then see if you can find a way to exploit it for profit. Itd be cool if you could figure out some kind of duping glitch when it dumps the data.
I understood maybe half of that, Calvin thought.
Oh, right. I Keep forgetting you savages dont have access to the internet. Dont worry, your grandkids are gonna love it....
2020-05-22 23:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post+1 Mind!
Carem Sageva sighed, rolling his shoulders as the pleasant tingling worked its way up from his fingers, all the way to the nape of his neck, into his brain. There, new ideas, new insights, and raw power swirled, expanding his self.
At the end of his fingers, was the skull of Amela Kriss, drops of blood welling right at the tips of his fingers where his roots dug into her brain.
Interesting fact about absorbing someones Mind: You ca...
2020-05-20 21:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostCarl Daley was once again sitting at his Admin desk, designing a sexy lady with his spork and a dollop of mashed potatoes.
Ten year doctorate in System Engineering, a host of Skills taken to advance my career, and I turn out to be as useless as a screen-door on a space-ship.
Even the benefit of being functionally immortal was largely pointless, as an Administrator was disconnected from the coming and going of the real world, stuck in their tiny satelites orbiting p...
2020-05-19 22:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post***Llortan***
Llortans job as a scrubber was simple, check a planet for signs of Ravager activity, then move on. He could check dozens of systems a decade and come up with nothing, but now
Thats the second one in as many days, The Llortan said, tossing aside the body of the young human as he studied the glowing orb in his hands. They shouldnt even be on this planet, let alone in the same city. This reeks of treachery.
Only an Administrator or a Harbing...
2020-05-18 18:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got a message that they'll be doing sales tax starting July 1st.
They claim less than half of everyone is gonna be taxed, and a lot of people don't count depending on what kind of benefits they're getting. I'm not really sure what category advance chapters fall under. Anyway, it's highly variable, and if you wanna know for sure, the only way is to figure out the tax code of your state, which is a cluster.
In the unlikely event you get sales take, it'll be betw...
Learners notes, Day 284: On Fear
Fear is one of the most primal, basic emotions a human can experience, and something wholly alien to me.
Ive never before had the opportunity to study someone closely that was terrified, but I have to say, the effects are staggering. Fear seems to drastically lower a creatures decision making ability while at the same time forcing them to make one: Run or fight.
Altogether, it seems to be a useless,...
2020-05-15 23:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostLearners notes Day 283:
Kala finally found my weakness: Thrillers where an aged crime fighter must battle some kind of monster with a very specific set of strengths and weaknesses.
I love the process by which the human detective identifies the previously fearful creatures weaknesses and uses them against it to finally turn the tables on the monster, using only their wits and the environment.
Creature features, Calvin called them, als...
2020-05-14 23:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostPlastics were crucial to life in the twenty-first century, but it was unsustainable, between diminishing oil and burgeoning landfills full of unusable crap that would sit there for an eon. We were at an impasse.
That was until Don Eager invented EagerPlastic, a smart compound able to be adjusted to have any necessary traits through hypersonic instructions. It took on the role of plastic admirably. It could be hard, it could be soft, it make perfect drink holders, car...
2020-05-12 23:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostDrafting has reached level 18! 90% Correction.
Muahaha! Nadia cackled evilly as she swooped over their heads, finally able to control the warping of space accurately enough to fly with it. She swung an invisible blade from the tip of her finger and cut through a tree branch above them, dropping it on their heads.
Baroke knocked the arm-thick branch away from them with an annoyed brush of his fingertips.
Are you sure you should be giving...
2020-05-12 03:28:31 +0000 UTC View PostLearners Notes, day 271 On Romance Novels:
I was introduced to something called Romance Novels by Kala today. My reading skills have come very far over the time that Ive been here, but I did have to clarify a few words with the princess, to her mild discomfort.
Let me see if I can condense Romance Novels into a short sentence.
Wacky hijinks that result in misunderstandings, that result in hurt feelings, that result in reconciliation,...
2020-05-11 00:50:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis chafes.
Why, is something wrong? Calvin asked, looking over the map. He didnt see anything that immediately jumped out at him as a horrible mistake, but then again, he didnt have enough experience to start looking for them, either.
No, Gulad said, adjusting his collar and itching his groin. I think Im getting a rash. Its this damn humidity.
You should raise your Endurance.
Calvin had wanted to start experimenting immediately, but...
2020-05-08 21:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostHad to turn my internet back on and unfubar it as well. apparently I wasnt on autopay even though I explicitly told them to activate autopay. Whatevs, its all sorted out now, but it cost me a day. Ill crack the missing chapter into two half days on my weekend and it shouldnt be too hard to make it up To you.
in the meantime, I hope you Enjoy the kingdom-building...ish arc. Im trying to make My characters less chaotic by giving them something theyre invested in. and Ive not...
2020-05-07 23:21:54 +0000 UTC View PostHuh, Calvin grunted as the train of barges passed by the dozen or so ooze weavers standing on top of bubbles of snot in the middle of the lake, using their long strands of goop to excavate something man-made.
Calvin couldnt see exactly what it was through the water, but he could tell the edges were made of metal and perfectly smooth.
That and the blinking blue light, reminiscent of the blue lights inside the Genosian freezer, and Ritchie cools bitching recharging ...
2020-05-06 23:37:39 +0000 UTC View Post