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Chapter 220: Tier 3: Lucid Death

“This is really uncomfortable,” Garth said in the Hyspex stance, his arms spread to the sides,

“Gumpei is a deep art with a rich history,” Hank the Legosen said, stretching out her huge arms along with him, Her legless torso on the other hand was forming a striking curve.

She wasn’t a snake woman, more like a sea cucumber woman whose underside did most of the grazing for her, rather than her mouth.

Legosen were limited to an isolated planet on a distant world man...

Prepping for a public dump!

Just a heads up for everyone under Minion, I'm gonna crank the permissions on the Outer Spheres chapters up by 20 chapters, since that's how many are going to be going up over the next week and a half. They have to wait, but you should get it all at once.

Keep in mind patreon is a jerk and has a tendancy not to work well right away, and especially poorly on mobile.

I don't have quite enough WotR chapters to do a dump, so we'll have to hold off on that one for a while, which b...

WotR Chapter 57: Number Seven will Surprise You!

“Damnit, turn around!” Calvin heard the leader shout from the back of his guar as Calvin’s swarm of fist sized wasps split around him, angling for the back of the man’s army.

Gotta stay spread out and let bad Penny do the work for me, Calvin thought, avoiding the commander and heading for the troops themselves, slamming into their helmets and jabbing inch-long stingers into their faces.

Calvin worked the cold math as he went.

About fifteen percent of his ...

Chapter 219: Bel gets a Date

If there was one thing Alicia could pride herself on, it was her growing command of lightning. She let out a guttural scream of rage as she roasted another Meltok getting too close to her supine master. He’d already been bitten several times and simply refused to rise from his stupor.

I need something more permanent than this. Alicia decided to go out on a limb and try combining two aspects of spellcraft on the fly.

Hope I don’t explode.

She weaved...

WotR Chapter 56: Surviving First contact

Brendan Moore rode his guar in the rear of the line as the palisade came into view. On top of the grazing lizard, he was able to spot a peculiar dark cloud in front of the temporary fortification. The cloud seemed to hold its own against the wind from the ocean to the west.

“Hold up.”

“HOLD UP!” his lieutenant bawled.

Brendan rubbed his ringing ear while the cry was taken up by the sergeants and the five thousand men ground to a halt.

He pull...

WotR Chapter 55: Keep it Simple, Stupid

“Baroke, you’re on patrol. Keep your eyes open for Gub, he probably snuck off to drink. If you see him, give him a good thrashing.”

“Not gonna do that, sir, but I’ll bring him back.”

Sergeant Urth grunted, his fat cheeks jiggling as he studied Baroke with his recessed eyes. “You’d think a boy of your size wouldn’t be a pussy.”

“Whatever you say, sir,” Baroke said, rolling his eyes before tuning the sergeant’s yelling ou...

Chapter 218: Mantra

“Well now I know I’m high,” Garth said as a scene from the Langoliers dominated the sky above his head. It was as if someone had taken a tv playing either Langoliers or Critters and wrapped it around the entire sky.

Nothing but rotund bodies with wide mouths and sharp teeth as far as the eye could see.

“I already figured the eels out, sucker.” Garth said, glancing back down at his spirit guide. “You think this is gonna bother me – ow!”

Sand...

Long-term Halloween party and suggestion box

Tomorrow I'm going to a 3-day Halloween party, then probably D&D after. Sorry for such a tiny week of updates, but life is what it is, and as much as I like you guys, I'm not passing up on the iota of a chance of freaky costume sex for you. I'll be back in the saddle next week, but I suspect the holidays are gonna cause a bit of a slowdown in general.

Since I'll be gone for a long time, feel free to post your gripes about what I'm doing wrong with the two stories in the comments. I ...

WotR Chapter 54: Ambitions

“This tech, It’s a black box, sir.” Elliot said, standing stiffly at attention beside the rest of the Engineers as Admiral George Greyson paced back and forth, eyeing them with irritation. “We don’t know what’s going to come out the other side. Doug made a function that calls for souls and it worked.”

“So, souls are real, tell me something I don’t know.”

Elliot and Doug shared glances.

“We can ask for these changes, but we’re not ch...

Chapter 217: Have a nice Trip

It was a bit of a shame to crush the pretty white flowers in the process of making the tea, but one did what one must.

“So what should I expect?” Garth asked, blowing on the hot steam coming out of his cup.

“Expectations are rarely helpful. Just focus on staying relaxed and enjoying yourself.” Hurk said, still flipping through Garth’s grimoire.

“A’ight.”

“I still can’t believe you’re a tier two.” Maren said, watching him with ...

WotR Chapter 53: Cruel and Unusual

Karen swept down with her massive claymore with bloodshot eyes, intent on splitting Calvin in half.

Calvin waved his hand in front of the blade, trailing a bit of nearly invisible Bent through the air. The sword caught in the trail and was tugged off course, following his circulating Bent as it tried to return to his hand.

Karen grunted, and a minor tremor went through the ground as the sword sped up drastically.

Oh, cra-

Karen’s sword she...

WotR Beli Ma Abilities Poll (Geeze, so many polls)

 I may add more later, but a lot of the suggestions overlapped, or didn't make a lot of sense (to me), or felt just a tad too wuxia. I'm also gonna try to slow down on the polls for a while, these cost me 2 hours. That's about...2/3 of a chapter.

The Iroh Special: Learn from the best. Spend 1 Bent to redirect an Ability you are the target of and can respond to. You choose new targets for the Ability. If used on a electrical/ lightning based Ability redirect it for free a...

Caitlyn's Patron Poll

These are the two I could stand making the Patron. Focus more on the powers and what they'll do to the story than the deity and their portfolio.
Tom:
Unblockable scrying: Pretty self explanatory, boosts scrying magic and sense enhancing magic like her earring. possibly not unblockable. When pitted against Pala's protection, odds are the stronger caster will win.

Aura of normalization: This one is the hidden gem.  anything Caitlyn does while u...

Chapter 216: Tasty Book Trade

“So,” Garth said.

“So.” The wide little green man with the rhino horn said, scowling at him. Garth was starting to think that it was fixed there, like grumpy cats looked grumpy without meaning to. A racial case of Resting Furious Face.

“Don’t you think you should do something about your apprentice?” he asked, pointing at Garth. “You almost died.”

“Naah,” Garth said, glancing around the little wooden cottage with knots for windows. The...

Beli Ma Ability Suggestions.

I realized this skill doesn't have any abilities yet.

It's a martial art whose theme is force redirection/deflection.

Chapter 52: On the Job

***Surrak***

2 weeks after retreat from Mujenan.

Brendan Moore scratched the scabbed over scalp wound on the side of his head, looking over his damage reports with a scowl.

I need to find someone else to take responsibility for this.

Unfortunately he was the highest officer left after the disappearance of the general and the princess, and dead people were tricky to assign blame to.

Seems like Grant’s the only shot I’ve got. The...