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II-83 Into the Base

The Base of the Claimed Hells. Some call it a miserable shithole. Some described to be the Battle of the Somme squared but also times infinity spread across the entire world with a chance that a dick-shaped demon might rain down from the sky and pound your wounds as you dying screaming and shitting yourself.

All kinds of demons, monsters, and nightmarish phenomena exist down there. There are even super demons Mepheleon releases every now and again to give everyone somet...

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34-26 As Above, As Below

{To anyone who receives this… the project is unfinished. Salvation is unfinished. But it is at hand. In sight. In sight for any who possess the capability to decipher this message. To the mind this may concern, be you Architect or Neo-Creationist, what Idheim offers is a second chance… [MISSING DATA] at Eden…

A second chance to restore all that we have broken, to mend the stars, the galaxy, and reality, and to start anew – this time as the composers of the canva...

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BOOK TWO OF TTF OFFICIALLY RELEASING TOMORROW + NEW SCHEDULE

The freeze will end soon. I'm going to try an alternating schedule now. In the meantime, book two for TTF will be coming out tomorrow, so I'll appreciate any and all support. Stay tuned for more details, and potentially, a hint at a new project in the not too distant future

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II-82 Jailbreaker

The Realmbreaker isn’t someone I would describe as a “people person,” which is a hell of a fucking statement from me because I consider myself a pretty sizable asshole.

It also cuts both ways. If he gets his mind set on something—like killing someone—and if the opportunity presents itself, then he’s going to do it. He will steal the moment and seize the opportunity, and he won’t stop unless the deed is done, or he is dead.

Well. Wei’s still not dea...

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34-25 Triumph of the Unworthy (IV)

No… Please… Please don’t go.

I’m… I don’t want to face the dark alone. I don’t want to go into the nothing alone. I don’t care that you’re… I don’t care… Please… Please… Just stay with me for now. Stay. I don’t want to stop being… I don’t…

Please… Don’t leave. C-can you hold me. I just want to… I want someone to know I was here…

I just want someone to know I was here…

-Last Words of an Ori Glaive, Spoken to...

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II-81 Means and Ends

In the underbelly of ambition, claiming someone as a member of your family became a common tactic among those desperate enough to ascend the social ladder. These sinners, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, would seize upon any opportunity to mold alliances to their advantage.

More often than not, the scheme was hatched by a significantly powerful party whose motives were twofold: to reap the benefits of association and to stifle the upward trajectory of a...

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Rashclads (AKA THE AUTHOR’S SUPER LOW-EFFORT APRIL FOOL’S CHAPTER) CHAMBERS DATING SIM PROTOTYPE

The hells with this, I’m done with the grimdark and fighting and shit. It’s time to write a half-assed romance novel set in a high school. That’s where the money is.

-What Happens When the Author Gets Fried and Decides to Write an April Full’s Chapter

Rashclads (AKA THE AUTHOR’S SUPER LOW-EFFORT APRIL FOOL’S CHAPTER)

CHAMBERS DATING SIM PROTOTYPE

“Ahhhh, I’m going to be late,” screamed Chambers, as he struggled to shove his twelve-met...

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34-24 Triumph of the Unworthy (III)

I hold a special kind of scorn for the people who list a history of achievements, accomplishments, victories, trials, defeats, wounds, and moments from those who come before and then package that into a deceitful little title called “nation-state.”

Nation. Even if our minds were always connected, always bound, your deeds are not mind. Perhaps we might benefit each other, but be truthful: Short of heavy conditioning, do you care for those beyond your family to such a...

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Update

I will start posting new chapters here starting tomorrow.

RR/General public chapters will resume on Wednesday but might still be slower for a while as I get back into the swing of things.

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Projected Hiatus Period

As of present, the projected hiatus period to start.

Intermittent chapters might still get uploaded to patreon during this period, and you will see them when they arrive (should they arrive). The pace and deliver might be unsteady.

I will review conditions next week on Monday for another update.

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Potential Month Long Patreon Freeze Incoming

Greetings

I have been running into a great many issues recently, and as you might have noticed, my pace has stalled again.

If I can fix these issues and get rolling again, then that will be optimal, and I will try to get edits done on top of that.

But there is a decent chance I might need to do a patreon freeze for a month to sort through things.

Just a heads up.

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II-80 The Unseen Variables

It’s important to keep your plans flexible, but to prepare for everything. If your plans are stone solid and have no room for adjustment, well then, things are going to get really, really bad for you, in very short order. No one is obliged to play to your plans.

In the Claimed Hells, everyone has plans of their own. And with the amount of people living here, well, they clash together, they intersect. And after they do, they collapse. Like a cascade of bullshit...

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34-23 Triumph of the Unworthy (II)

The Storm roared. “I will lash you sparrow! I will lash you clean and through! Fool are you to rise and fly against my bolts! Fool are to face my rageful skies! Down little sparrow, down to the ground when the animals belong, for that is what I will, and that is what will be.”

But the lonesome sparrow flew and flew. Between the bolts and against the wind. Its wings strained. Its body struggled. But still the lonesome sparrow flew and flew. “You may lash me, storm....

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34-22 Triumph of the Unworthy (I)

And though the skies fall, though the storms whip, the winds howl, the seas burn, and people die and suffer and wail, we’re still here. The faithful. The small. The ones who survive. We don’t believe in some monstrous god that just wants to consume and defile and twist. We don’t want to rule and torment and stomp and butcher because we don’t understand something or someone.

We have our laws. Old laws, from old times, forgotten even before we came to be. We had a...

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34-21 The Guard-Captain (II)

…and though the priests may bleat like the idiot goats they are, screaming for the rest of the folk to follow them, know that the divine at the head of the herd is no brighter, no wiser, no truer, and no more likely to survive a plunge into destruction than we.

I have seen gods vanish. I have ventured across land and watched them wither and vanish, deprived of worship. More, I have seen the limits of their wisdom—or lack thereof.

So many of the rulers and exal...

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Recovery ongoing; slight schedule adjustment

Greetings.

I managed to record most of a chapter for TTF a week ago so I posted that last week. Right now, I'm currently vertical again, trying to shake off the last of this sickness.

As such, we're getting a Godclads chapter on friday too (when I'm hopefully recovered).

I will teach this sick-cucked body of my not to fail me again in the meantime.

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II-79 Shadowrun (III)

Problems happen one after another. They often coincide at the most inopportune moments, despite your best plans. And so, that is why I say it’s better to be prepared than to have a proper plan. For plans clash into other plans and break, while preparations can be used in accordance with the shifting tides.

When I entered the Collectress’s realm to save Vendrian’s wife and child, I did so thinking that it would be a dangerous, but ultimately straightforward endeavor. T...

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II-78Shadowrun (II)

My friend the Realmbreaker isn’t evil, not truly—he’s done monstrous things. He’s even killed people who might not deserve it.

But if you understand what he suffered, the life he lived, you would understand that losing so much in so short a time, at such an age, and then falling to the Claimed Hells of all places, twists a man. For victory—to claim his own fate—required power.

Well, he was many things. Brave, stubborn, arrogant, but caring for his...

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II-77 Shadowrun (I)

The best way for you to breach a place undetected is to let your adversary believe they’ve already solved the problem. Imagine infiltrating a base with a perfect mission—slipping in and out without leaving a single trace. That’s perfect in theory, perfect in idea. But it’s also very unrealistic. You simply can’t plan for everything; things get weird all the time, and plans go off the rails. You can’t predict what you don’t know.

So, instead, you create conditi...

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34-20 The Guard-Captain (I)

Alright. Gather round, juvs. Those of you still alive, that is. Mallines? Are you bleeding to death? You are? Well, crawl over here and see if you can make it through the lecture before your phylactery triggers. Saves me from giving the speech later—someone cauterize her lower body with a fusion burner, c’mon, help your consang out.

[Sound of a gunshot]

Draus… What was that?

Yes, I told you to help—oh, you were helping ...

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34-19 A Deception in Ash

+Hey—Juv. Things aren’t looking good here.+

+Synced. Need me over? Don’t got many left, but I managed to ambush an Ori Knot. Stole a few golems. With all the Thoughtwaves goin’ off, they probably won’t be able to figure out who’s hittin’ who until it’s too late.+

+Heh. You’re always like that. You were always the best of us. Never a moment of doubt or despair in you, girl. So willing to fight. So willing to adapt. So indifferent to death—+...

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34-18 Let Slip the Hounds

+You don’t seem very happy, Frederick. Did I not give you everything you wanted? Are you not satisfied?+

+Why’d he kill himself?+

+Your grandfather?+

+Yeah, I was expecting this to be, I don’t know, a fight. Some kind of… something, at least. But he saw me and… he just turned the gun on himself. I saw something break behind his eyes.+

+Would you like to know what he was thinking at the time? Why he did what he did.+ View Post

34-17  Master of Hounds (VII)

Last time on The Lust Guard.

“Now, you should know, Dowager Kui, that though you can empty a man, though you can drive his spirit to near madness over and over again, our refractory periods and our spirits always rise to the occasion once more, from flaccid to hard.”

“It makes no difference, Throb Hardington. It’s too late now. The Orgasmatron has been installed into the Fallen Heaven of Love. The entire city will know bliss eternal and the cu...

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II-76 Those Who Move Forces

Consul Winters, it is Lein. I have found a reason to approach the boy now, so we may proceed. I will take his System if the opportunity presents itself. My husband and I are working the angles as best we can, but nothing is guaranteed. He is almost certain to have Trespasser support from the Lodge—I suspect John Bishop remains in league with him, and perhaps his father is in play too, though rumors say that his relationship with William Yu is anything but cordial.

I will ...

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II-75 Rigged Game

“I’ve sent Herzog to you. You know what to do.”

“Ah, yes. Herzog—a wayward son. Our greatest mistake. Why didn’t we kill him when he was just a babe? Your sentimentality. My sentimentality.”

“I remember differently. I remember you saying that we could make something of this. He has the cruelty. All we need to do is give him the discipline.”

“Oh, please. Spare me your...

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II-74 Pawns

Oh? What did you say his name was? Wei? Sounds like one of those… oriental Fictionals. Oh, wonderful. A Cultivator. I hate those. Always blood feud this and honor that. Never any real sense in those minds.

But I suppose I can’t blame them. They’re not real, after all. They can’t truly control the way they act. They simple… are. A pity. A shame. An ugly fate. Best they find themselves governed by a more gentle master in the end.

Anyhow, this has me t...

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34-16 Master of Hounds (VI)

Alright. New Heaven. New, special Heaven made specially for Draus. Oh, I wanted to do something like this for quite a while, but there was never truly the time… But, ah, now! Now I can go over so many ideas! So many fun and useful and—

No, Kae, focus! Focus! The time is short, and our enemies are many. Draus needs something useful. Something that will affect not only her, but everyone else in practical combat. Avo! I need some memories for—

[TRA...

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II-73 Into the Nest

Duke Gold Mask. Now there’s a rat motherfucker who’s so good at ratfucking that half the present rats in the Claimed Hells were probably shit out from his ass. The goddamn piece of shit is responsible for more bastards, betrayals, and bullshit incidents than I can count.

The first thing you’ll feel around him is good. Like, real fucking good. It’s like pure warmth lubing up your joints, like fire rousing in your heart, and lik...

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34-15  Master of Hounds (V)

+I have a proposition for you.+

+Oh, good. Another one of these conversations. What do you want with me, priest? You got professional problems or complaints? Talk to Zein—+

+I want to talk about you. And the Stillborn. I wish to make you an offer.+

+Listen, I don’t—+ [TRANSFERRING AUTO-SEANCE SEQUENCE] +What the fuck is this?+

+A connection. To your grandfather’s mind. He is waiting for you.+ View Post

34-14 Master of Hounds (IV)

+Yeah. I heard of Three-Eye. Hells, most people in this line of work have. But you hear about him in the same way you hear about the supposed hidden Guilder uniparty puppeted by Old Noloth within the Deep Nether. This consang’s a fucking myth in the sense of we tell stories about him, but no one really knows anything concrete.+

+So, you claim to have no real information. None at all. I find that… depressing considering a woman of your connections and stature—+ View Post