Ironically set on the 30th of September!
Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen
I got home, took off my shoes, then crashed back into bed and took a nap with Mister Couchtop hopping onto my with his stupid needle-point feet to join in.
That led to me waking up at half-past three-thirty in the morning.
I rolled out of bed, padded over to my laptop, and then checked the news for the next couple of hours. There were whispers about what Synthcorp had...
2025-09-30 21:49:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Nine
I stared at Mister Menu for so long that I was worried that I might actually be annoying the poor thing.
Desiree and I were probably overdue to return to the Beaver but I really wanted to push some of my skills forward. “Hey,” I said.
“Yes?” Desiree replied. She was picking away at a pastry. It was a Pyrowalkian speciality, a sort of square of sweeter bread with jam atop it, covered in a layer of t...
2025-09-30 15:19:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Eighty -
***
I stared blankly at the third first to start. It wasn’t even eleven yet. The people here were the early ones. And yet, despite that, this was the third group to start shit.
“Oh my god, they’re all morons,” I muttered.
I’d been kind of hoping that Kevin and Kneeboy in the basement were the most egregious case of stupid I’d have to deal with today, but it was becoming increasingly obvious that I was...
2025-09-29 16:05:51 +0000 UTC
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Small small easy chappy! Now, back to a more stable pace, because the last 30 chapters all took place on the same weekened, lol!
Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen
“That went well,” I said.
“Went well? For a moment I was more stressed than I was at my first sit-down meeting,” Fran said.
I laughed, even if I wasn’t entirely sure what that meant. The amount of stress I’d just shrugged off was making me kind of giddy.
<...
2025-09-29 09:46:02 +0000 UTC
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This one took so long. Had to like, deep-dive some fashion rabbitholes and such.
Interlude - Not-So-Plain-Jane - Part B
She showed up in the food court an hour later and immediately assumed that Beanstalk had been fucking with her.
The food court was semi-busy. Half the tables were taken up, and there were lines at all of the fast food places along the sides. The space smelled like fries and sweat and that weird rubbery stink that came from subwa...
2025-09-28 14:12:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Eight
***
“Oh, thank fuck, you’re here,” Lucy said. She turned to me, shifted some hair back out of her face, then smiled.
She looked good, because it was Lucy and it was impossible for her not to, but she also looked like she was on the bad end of frazzled. “What’s up?” I asked.
I’d found her not too far from the elevators. A short walk--accompanied by two strutting cats--to the front of the casino where she was i...
2025-09-27 19:59:37 +0000 UTC
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Interlude - Not-So-Plain-Jane - Part A
Sundays were weird. They were either an absolute drag that just went on forever, or they were too damned exciting for her tastes.
That was mostly up to her clientele, of course. She couldn’t settle for a little boutique two blocks off of the main fashion district of Fortress ENE, selling her clothes at the kind of price that would make a normal person wince and which would barely cover rent.
That kind of dream...
2025-09-27 11:18:00 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We're doing a live-stream of Hope//Punk in a few minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-E3Y7eY8g
Come on over to listen if you wanna! <3
2025-09-26 13:57:20 +0000 UTC
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Hmm... gonna do a few more character things, but for now, back to the main story?
Chapter Five
An entire week passed, somehow, and Fenfang wasn’t sure if it had been real or not.
She’d wake up in the morning with a start, often finding Alex by her bed with a kind smile and some toasted bread and warm tea. She’d scarf it all down, get dressed in a hurry, then rush out of her rooms and get back to work.
Every day, without pause, had been...
2025-09-25 12:41:39 +0000 UTC
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Look! Ojou!
Art by Mingrix! No one will recognize her as Francisca Ojou now! (okay, maybe the hair's a givaway?)
Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen
The damned jungle sucked.
If I went the rest of my life without seeing a tree, I’d be happy.
The damned raptors kept coming. Or, rather, there were just so many of them around that even after put...
2025-09-25 07:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
Some random art! I... don't know what that says! hopefully it's nice?
Anyway! Minor update! Finished... 1 of 15 of the Backer characters! Yay! Slowly pecking away at them, so I can't be upset.
Also, been working on the Prestige Catalogues. Since they'll be in the main rulebook, and I need to know what they look like before working on the Mecha Module, I might as well get cra...
2025-09-24 14:33:37 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Eight
***
“Okay... if I were a bomb made by a fucking moron, where would I be?” I muttered to myself as I squinted through the poorly lit maintenance corridors.
Kevin and... Kneebreaker? Kneeduster? The other fuckwit. They’d come around here, gone a decent ways in, then returned.
The maintenance crew--now volunteers because I’d legit just asked politely and they said that there was a clause in their contract that m...
2025-09-24 11:57:06 +0000 UTC
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This dungeon has gone on for waaay too long. I think one more chapter, then we can do the usual POV change chapter?
I was gonna do it from Fran's POV, but after thinking about it, I think it might be cooler to have it from a bystander's? Like, one of the teens in the food court? What goes on in the dungeon doesn't matter so much in the final loop, imo?
Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen
We rushed through the opening areas of the portal. No...
2025-09-24 05:51:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Eight
Since it was nearly noon, it only made sense for Desiree and I to head out and grab a little bite to eat. That was helped a lot by how many cafes and open-air restaurants dotted across the northern parts of the city.
Before leaving the Adventurer’s Guild, we’d gotten to speak with a older man who was about my dad’s age. He’d been very nice, but a little confused about what we were doing. In any case, his job as an Adv...
2025-09-23 11:30:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen
I arrived at Jane’s shop to find a pile of familiar clothes on her front counter. She was dealing with a client though, so I moved around and looked things over.
Yeah, this was everything. The two ponchos, the shorts, the shirt, the hats. There was a nice all-black backpack as well. Nothing too special-looking, but that was probably for the best. The quality looked good, at least, and it wasn’t too big of a bag. I wouldn’t ...
2025-09-21 14:11:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Seven
***
“Ah, great. I love this kind of place. Really where I was looking forward to being today,” I grumbled as the elevator lurched to a stop.
I was talking to one of the Velvet Wheel’s security guys, sorta. It was ‘sorta’ because this was a one-sided conversation. I didn’t give a crap what he taught, and he was keeping silent for the most part, like one of those people raised on a screen who didn’t know how to small-talk....
2025-09-20 09:06:49 +0000 UTC
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Art of Ojou in her outfit coming soon!
Chapter One Hundred and Twelve
I took a day.
Just... kind of sat around, then when I started to feel this anxious ball in my gut, constricting and churning, I went out for a walk. I took Mister Couchtop with me, hugging him close. It was... not something I’d ever done before. He was a housecat, and I didn’t want to get him used to being outdoors. Fortress ENE wasn’t a good place for pets.
Still, I...
2025-09-19 09:57:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter One Hundred and Eleven
I set the last shell down, then leaned back onto my heels. “Damn,” I said.
We had the three guns we’d brought with us laid down on the ground with every shell and bullet ejected next to them.
Starting from the left, we had that little shotgun with four entire shells of buckshot. Next to that, my revolver. I had seven rounds for it. And finally Fran’s little nine-mil. Three rounds. She’d switched magazines before hit...
2025-09-18 20:05:54 +0000 UTC
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I've got art, but I can't share it because it's spoilers :(
But it's sooo cuuute!
But you can't see it.
Chapter One Hundred and Ten
“Okay, I think that’s good,” I said.
Fran nodded, then tugged her shirt down.
When I thought about moments where I’d be on my knees next to a woman with her shirt tugged up, my mind usually went on to fantasize moments that were a lot more interesting and hot than this.
<...
2025-09-17 12:43:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Seven
“Hi,” I said as I walked up to a nice wooden counter. It wasn’t so much nice because it was nice wood (though it wasn’t ugly wood, certainly, the counter had little filigree decorations along the outside) what made it nice, at least to me, was how worn it was.
The counter had been treated with oils and such to keep it nice and shiny, but that didn’t prevent a large area of it from being worn through. It looked like ...
2025-09-17 07:17:28 +0000 UTC
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Hi hi!
Here's Hope//Punk version 0.72!
From version 0.71 we have... fewer typos! Some slightly rewritten explanatory text, some more images, and then some... more more images. Really, this version was about adding in the last of the character art that I had on me!
Version 0.73 will probably be coming in towards the end of the week. I intend to do a live playtest on Discord on...
2025-09-16 06:33:55 +0000 UTC
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Chapter One Hundred and Nine
“Okay... ready?” I asked.
“I am,” Fran whispered back.
I glanced at her one final time, just to be doubly sure, but she was standing there, both hands on her handgun as if she was in line at a shooting range, and while I couldn’t see her eyes well from the shade of her cap, her face seemed set and determined. Good enough, I figured.
I took a deep lungful of air, reached up, and lowered my mask.
“He...
2025-09-16 03:25:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Six
***
There was a weird feeling in the air, and I wasn’t sure I could really describe it well.
It was a sort of... anticipation?
I stuck to Lucy’s side as she stepped out of the Bastion and walked like someone with a mission. Ten steps out and she was already being accosted. The people out here were Kittens. Lucy’s Kittens. They were mostly dressed in business casuals, lots of sweaters and pleated pants and longer skirts. Offi...
2025-09-15 19:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
It's here! After a solid 3 months of work and a ton of effort, Hope//Punk is live! It's There! It's readddy!
Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ravensdagger/hope-punk-a-stray-cat-strut-tabletop-roleplaying-game
(I wa...
2025-09-15 17:06:53 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
So, Hope//Punk is going up on Kickstarter on... Monday!
That means that we should be nearly done with just about everything, and I think we... kinda are? I'm posting the PDF to version 0.71 here. If you see any typos, lemme know! Right now, the main thing that's missing is the page numbers in the index, but with some stretch goals potentially adding a few items, I'm kinda tempted to... not do that just yet? I don't wanna have to redo it.
I had some great idea...
2025-09-13 21:17:40 +0000 UTC
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Special shout to Ivence who shared some medic expertise!
Chapter One Hundred and Eight
I froze for a moment. Three targets, all rushing in fast.
Fran fired, then fired again and again, and at that moment, the only thing I could think was ‘wow, she doesn’t know how to handle a gun.’
Then I mentally kicked myself in the ass, shouldered my gun, and fired.
Three more shots, all going into the face of the monster to my le...
2025-09-13 03:30:57 +0000 UTC
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Ah, I should link his socials...
Here: https://www.artstation.com/edwardthygee
But yeah, that was the last thing I was waiting for to finally launch Hope//Punk! I'm going to have the Kickstarter for live on Monday! I'm kinda stoked about it! This is... a lot of blood and sweat and a lot of time! Mostly, it's been a lot of fun too!
Huuuuge shout to all of the beta-testers and friends who h...
2025-09-12 07:43:24 +0000 UTC
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Okay! Gonna do a lot of paperwork and stuff over the next couple of days! That mostly means Hope//Punk things! Some other stuff too :(
Since Save is being published at 5/week, I can't really afford to not write at least one chapter a day, so... yeah, more Save!
Chapter One Hundred and Seven
“Usually, when running through a portal, I like to start slow,” I said. “We’ll map out each room as we come to it, check the edges for secre...
2025-09-12 01:15:29 +0000 UTC
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Hmm... how many chapters to clear this portal? Imo, the portal itself isn't as important as getting Fran involved and geared up? But I do wanns show her fighting. Hmm...
Chapter One Hundred and Six
It was going to be tight, but I decided to bring Fran along with me to the site of the portal.
In my mind, I was gonna invite her to ride on the back of my bike. You know, arms around my waist, her body pressed into mine, maybe some boobs on my back and...
2025-09-11 03:19:19 +0000 UTC
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