1592! Somehow, this chapter and 91, both have the same wordcount. Weird!
Chapter Ninety-Two
I firered, pumped, fired, pumped, then did it all again, five shots, switching between targets every time I racked a new round.
Then I slowly lowered the shotgun. It wasn’t all that big, and its tube-magazine could only hold five shells to begin with, so at the moment it was a metal stick.
I stared at the five orcs who’d stepped out of the p...
2025-08-23 14:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Ninety-One
“Okay, start from the beginning,” I said as I helped my new pal down. “Like... what’s your name?”
“Who even are you?” he asked.
“Deadline,” I said. “I’m Deadline. I find problems, I fix them. And I’m usually pretty quick about it. Come on, sit down, that’s right. Your name?”
“Martin,” he said. He winced, and I tugged on the sleeve of his arm a little, hoping to see why. He hi...
2025-08-23 10:19:34 +0000 UTC
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Segment added to chapter 87:
It took a solid three hours before they returned, a tense three hours that I spent edging away and mostly keeping to myself. The locals were quick to start handing out food and supplies, and more gawkers showed up to stare.
Then stories started coming in, and people were sent out across town. People were getting attacked in their homes. The orcs that had snuck out, which was probably a good number of them, were going around in bands, terrorizing and ki...
2025-08-23 08:24:06 +0000 UTC
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Hmm... I always like mentioning the... unmentionable stuff. My characters poop sometimes. I mean, obviously, this doesn't happen in more younger-audience-aimed stuff. Broccoli Bunch doesn't even fart. But in a cyberpunk story?
Idk, maybe it's just me, but there's something that makes the world feel more real when the characters have real problems. As much as I might lampshade some, and skip over others because... well, no one needs to know too much detail about ...
2025-08-22 05:51:02 +0000 UTC
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Yeah! Next week! It's my first ever convention, and I'm both suuuper nervous and real excited for it!
Obviously, I'll try to write while I'm there, but it might be a bit too busy :( so... yeah, I guess from one Wednesday to the next, it might be a bit touch-and-go with chapter released. Heck, it might be rough the day before and after too. Sorry!
Anyway, I've got these cute pins:
2025-08-22 03:11:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Eighty-Eight
It quickly became obvious that we wouldn’t hold.
The locals were fast. Police came in and reinforced the barricade, and then the local fire fighters joined in, rushing to the homes nearest the Synthcorp compound to help them evacuate, but already it was clear that this would be an evacuation, not something where we could fight back.
I aimed down the length of my revolver and took a shot that rammed into an orc, hitting hi...
2025-08-22 01:26:14 +0000 UTC
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Psilocybin Five
“I’ll take two of each,” I said to the pharmacist. Or, I assumed that’s what he was. He certainly had the white coat of one on, though his coat was a little less white than some might have preferred.
“Two of each?” he asked. I’d only met the man a minute ago and I could tell that he wasn’t impressed with me yet.
“That’s right,” I said with a serious nod. “Boss said, two of each. He sent us cause we’re good at...
2025-08-21 09:50:48 +0000 UTC
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Oh, look! The enemy for this arc! Well, sorta? I do plan on having the MC do a week-long loop, so... she'll start portal prep in a week, but it'll be a quick week for us! If you have any funny ideas for things to sprinkle through the week, lemme know!
Also, Save is... somehow still on Rising Stars? I think it'll start dropping soon, though! We're pretty close to 5K, so maybe I'll get that sword after all, lol!
Chapter Eighty-Seven
I sever...
2025-08-21 07:27:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Three
***
Eric blinked at me, then scanned across the surface of his desk, as if the relevant forms were just going to pop into existence in front of him if he looked hard enough. “Uh,” he said after a moment. “No? Sorry. I mean, we have two internal reporting systems that can kind of do what you’re asking for.”
“Two?” I asked.
“There’s one for reports submitted by managers, workers, and agents,” he said. I didn’...
2025-08-21 00:57:22 +0000 UTC
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Hi! Been reading all of the feedback! And... I'm genuinely surprised that people want more portal runs. I guess I was afraid that they'd be boring, but y'all seem to like 'em, and they are kinda fun to write. So... let's start this volume off with a big one, eh? Well... sorta?
Oh, and thanks for all the feedback! Got some good stuff there, things to focus on more, things to avoid, a few things that were pointed out that might be traps. I'll see what I can do to make Save S...
2025-08-20 08:07:13 +0000 UTC
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So... I saw another author do something like this, read through the feedback, and saw a lot of it (amongst some that wasn't) that was super useful. The kind of thing that I sometimes only catch on long walks with Molly.
Since Save has a decent following on here who are pretty vocal, I thought I'd try it too! This seems like a good time for it, at the very end of the first volume. I'm planning on starting Vol 2... uh... like, as soon as I post this? So gimme a couple of hours and we sho...
2025-08-20 04:42:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Three
The pirate ship was taking a ton of damage, but that didn’t mean that it was going down so easily.
Our shots from above left plenty of holes and rips through the canvas fabric enveloping its frame. Some of those were large enough to expose the large gasbags within. They were all made of a dark fabric, maybe some sort of leather? I couldn’t tell from afar. What I could tell was that we were poking plenty of holes int...
2025-08-20 03:52:16 +0000 UTC
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Ik ik, very short chapter! But hey, it's the second Antagonist!
I'm... considering having a third? But I'm not too sure. I think these two, for now, work well as a pair. One from above, the other from below. One wanting to help, the other... is a dickbag. Good contrast. I do feel like there's more going on though, that the Breach isn't just caused by these two. But oh well!
Interlude - An Extraordinary Man
He stretched with a yawn then s...
2025-08-19 07:16:35 +0000 UTC
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Ehhhhh... kind of ambivalent about this one? I might do 1-2 more of these super short interludes. The idea is to introduce all of these future antagonists from their own perspective. I've never done this... I don't think (how could I know what I've done. you expect me to remember all that?) but I've seen it done. Both well and poorly. I think it fits in a story like this in particular, but... I'm not sure.
Basically, lemme know what you think?
Interlude - A Normal ...
2025-08-19 02:41:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-Two
***
The media was handled... for a certain very poor definition of handled, I decided to focus on the next thing on the list. Only the next thing was taking care of Lucy’s little army of volunteers, and I didn’t have the energy to do that. So I skipped right past to the last thing on the list.
Letting the Family know about the event.
They probably knew already. They had to.
If not, I could always text... shit, I ke...
2025-08-18 23:11:43 +0000 UTC
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Interlewd - The Princess and the Rebel
This was a bad idea.
Such a bad idea. She was laying in her bed, buried in a nest of pillows, and was keenly aware that Deadline was just one room over.
It was stupid. The woman was a professional. She was just staying over for the night because it was more convenient. That was all.
Sure, there might have been some light flirtations there, at the end, but she didn’t know for sure....
2025-08-18 00:18:27 +0000 UTC
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Who's perspective?
(Also, like, these are hard to write, so it might take a while before it's done. I might do the next normal chapters in between, or maybe just knuckle down and focus on this for a bit)
2025-08-17 17:52:26 +0000 UTC
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Hmm... interlewd next? Then the last few chapters before the end of this first volume?
Lemme know what you think of Ojou in this one! Tried to keep her character intact while also having her grow increasingly frazzled~
Interlude - Francisca Ojou - Part Three
She was growing increasingly worried that Deadline wasn’t going to show up. Every minute or so she’d turn her head and glance at the clock above her rarely-used stove. It was six ten already....
2025-08-17 05:07:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy-One
***
Next on the list was the media.
I... had no idea how to tackle that. A big part of me wanted to ask Lucy her opinion, or Gomorrah, but like, I didn’t need them that much, did I? I could handle this on my own.
Besides, I wanted to get it over with, and if I went back home, I’d be too distracted by how pretty Lucy was to concentrate fully on this job. So, for now, I just needed to figure out how to contact the media an...
2025-08-16 20:42:36 +0000 UTC
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Hi! chappy! Might do another Ojou-terlude after this.
And... I'm tempted to do something different right after? Maybe introduce the perspective of 2-3 villains? Small chapters from each of their POVs.
Chapter Eighty-Five
My Deadline gear was waaaay too dirty. Like, it wasn’t that bad, but there were definitely stains on the pants, and dust, and grime. The leotard had some blood splatter on it, and it smelled like... me, but l...
2025-08-16 06:30:59 +0000 UTC
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It's not actually a date... right? Or is it? Hmm...
Chapter Eighty-Four
“What’s the layout of this place?” I asked, keeping my voice low as I swept my rifle from left to right. I had the longer-ranged sight flipped to the side. Annoyingly, it obscured some of my vision if I was aiming down the reflex sight. Poor design, that.
Then again, Luna Corp... yeah, I had some fondness for the company, but it had never been much of an innovator, or ev...
2025-08-15 05:11:23 +0000 UTC
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Need to post this fast! gonna play Peak with friends! <3
Chapter Eighty-Three
I frowned as I channelled magic through the carvings poking out of my core, then tried to feel as thoughtful and think-y as I could. Pensiveness wasn’t the easiest emotion to capture, but it didn’t feel too far from what I normally did... I was the sort of woman used to spending entire days alone with no one but myself and my thoughts.
If anything, the loops helpe...
2025-08-14 22:14:57 +0000 UTC
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Number one on Rising Stars! Eeeeee!
If you're enjoying Save still, and haven't followed it on RR, then please consider it! Next chapter coming up later... I have a bunch of editing to do today, and I'd really rather not.
Chapter Eighty-Two
I woke up the next morning unstabbed, with no clairvoyant-backed gangster hitsquad busting in my door, so I figured that things were alright.
Still, I didn’t set a new Save just yet. Instead, I...
2025-08-14 17:34:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventy
***
I sat.
Delilah moved over to the very fancy coffee machine sitting on their kitchen counter and started to fiddle with it. “Want one?” she asked over her shoulder.
“Yeah, sure,” I said. I wasn’t gonna be one of those basic bitches that was all crazy for good coffee, but I could still appreciate it. Soda was still better, of course.
Delilah fiddled with the machine while Frannie installed herself as far down t...
2025-08-14 01:29:17 +0000 UTC
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Huh, 81 again? But yeah. A few people on here and on the Discord pointed out some problems with the chapter, so I went back and added a full page of extra content to hopefully alleviate some of that. Lemme know what you think!
Chapter Eighty-One
I think I had it figured out, and I wasn’t sure if I was happy about it or not.
It took twenty-three loops.
Twenty-three!
And they weren’t all short loops either. Some of them took ho...
2025-08-13 18:58:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Two
The pirate ship turned about an hour later, pointing its front in the same direction as us and gaining a bit of altitude.
It was still about two, maybe three kilometres away, far enough that we couldn’t make out too many details with the naked eye. What I could see was that it had a large crew, and while they didn’t have uniforms or anything, they did seem like they were moving with some good amount of coordination.
2025-08-12 23:46:58 +0000 UTC
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Back to the MC next chapter! But in the meantime...
Lemme know what you think about this one at the end? Also, the next chapter, because this one here is technically in medias res... sorta? Ish? Is it skipping back in the story's timeline if that's like... the entire gimmick of the story? Hmm.
Interlude - The Seer - Part One
She was nervous.
She had no reason to be. Not right now, sitting in a nice apartment in the Outer C...
2025-08-12 18:09:28 +0000 UTC
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Could use some input on that last bit. Obviously, MC is wrong, but like... only mostly wrong? Lol! I dunno if it's too soon for the next chapter to be the 'enemy' interlude or not.
Chapter Eighty
I gasped, then almost fell off my bike at the sudden motion, but a quick leg on the ground stopped me from tripping over the side.
What the hell was that? He’d straight up shot me in the back. Who did that?
It... didn’t make se...
2025-08-11 22:55:22 +0000 UTC
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Next chapters may or may not be delayed due to loss of fingers in an accident that is very much not related to this purchase.
Edit: someone asked for a pic of the blade:
2025-08-11 21:01:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Thirty-Three
“I see it, I think,” Trinity said as she stood next to Emily. She was squinting, as if looking at something that Emily couldn’t see.
“What does it look like?” Emily asked.
“Ball,” her little sister said. She waggled her hands around in a roughly spherical way, miming a ball of some sort that was somewhere between a cantaloupe and a basketball in size. “Shiny!”
“Right,” Emily replied.
She leaned up agai...
2025-08-11 19:17:18 +0000 UTC
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