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Pausing Tomorrow

This is a quick update to let you all know the pause is going into effect at midnight tomorrow CST just in case anyone was waiting to read chapters or do anything else. (So technically Saturday, but still).

The pause will last for a month per Patreon’s features and I’ll probably leave it open for a week or so while catching RR up then (hopefully temporarily) delist the page.

So far this break has been wonderful though. Been playing a lot of bg3 with my girlfriend and that’s ...

BIII: Chapter Nine

Eli found the sight of the Henge far different from what he felt with his spatial field. All the surrounding buildings had been razed and stripped away for material. It was clear where it went as he stared at the monolithic wall of the Henge. He found the sight of it far different from what he sensed with his spatial field.

The wall had been cobbled together with rough hewed stone, plates of pitted iron and steel, and cars blocked off the street. Moats and trenches crisscrossed up the s...

Yet Another Announcement

I've been thinking for a while and I'll need to go on a bit of an extended hiatus from both Royal Road and Patreon. I was hoping to finish this PI chapter before posting this, but it hasn't turned out like that yet. RR will get this announcement when the next PI chapter releases. 

Plan is to post it this Sunday if I've managed to finish writing it by then, but it'll more likely be out around next Tuesday. It's been impossible to focus throughout the moving process (and Ivy, my dog,...

BIII: Chapter Eight

Eli floated with his hands in pockets above the massive crater of asphalt and concrete. Rivulets of molten metal flowed from the slagged Automabots into the exposed sewers. Clouds of foul smelling steam rose from the destruction.

Drones buzzed toward the skyscrapers and warehouses. Tendrils of space and gravity swatted at them, but his powers refused to grip onto them.

He teleported across New Faram to where Roman waited in the middle of the pack of his robotic foes. Three of them...

BIII: Chapter Seven

Two portals stretched in a bridge from this dimension to the empty field on the outskirts of Farbrook. He used a pocket dimension to ground the two dimensions as a hub. 

Eli shifted from foot to foot at the tickling sensation of keeping his portals open. It felt like the lingering moments before sneezing.

Everyone huddled together as they split back into their respective groups. They had talked for nearly the entire hour it took Eli to set up and synchronize his portals. It w...

BIII: Chapter Six

Other-Rick’s chair squished against his legs. A bump rocked the whole car waking Eli from his deep slumber in an instant. He bolted upright as he relied on his Stellar Body’s spatial field to reassure himself.

Profound Erudition caught him up.

They had been in the car for almost three hours and were thirty minutes away from the Newton estate. Impressions and memories about every conversation he’d heard in his sleep unfurled in his mind.

“Good morning, sleepyhead!” ...

BIII: Chapter Five

Mischievous gusts of wind threaded through the cloudy carpet in dancing patterns. Alcius reclined in one of the two chairs tucked away in the corner, while Eli stood by the paintings showing the others’ challenges. He rolled the Epic power gem around in his hands. Profound Erudition rattled observations around in his head.

Thankfully, their talk and crushing ping pong game had gone on long enough that Profound Erudition’s cooldown had expired so he’d been able to equip it again. 2023-07-03 19:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post

BIII: Chapter Four

Darkness ascended as he devoured everything in his path. Only four trunks of tantalizing power remained. He gnawed on them as he rose. Very little of the wondrous lightning found its way into his black hole. Only little static thrills that jolted into his stomach.

Void couldn’t remember a time where he felt so hungry. It was never enough, no matter how much he ate and ate. Irritation mingled with harsh discontentment. He missed the thrill of squishing his prey into a pulp. It...

BIII: Chapter Three

Ripples spread through Space and Dream across the workshop in the garage. Piles of junk and disassembled parts littered the tables and floors. Eli and Roman sat side by side on the floor beneath a massive portal set in the ceiling.

It led to his sanctum, where they stored their successful prototypes. His ability to weave non-spatial enchantments might have been cut off, but he could still store items and make copies of them and their enchantments.

Half the day had passed for only ...

BIII: Chapter Two

Eli floated weightlessly in the air while he watched Maeve test Lyra, Cyrus, and Lana with her trademark over-the-top spar. He smiled at the reminder of his own trial under lightning on a rooftop a few days ago. So much had changed since then.

Gravity twisted out of his micromanaged grasp. He drifted as he spun like a top. Space felt like a natural part of him no matter what power let him wield it, but he still had issues not being clumsy with gravity. A united tug with Stellar Body and...

Power Initialization is back! (Stylish Descent news too)

As the title says, we're back to at least weekly posts. I have some of a backlog started up again so I'm hopeful that in a week or two I should have more than enough to return to two chapters a week. 

In terms of Stylish Descent, a lot of the votes were people wanting to wait until it was fully ready for Royal Road. I'll still post the first chapter as an attachment here, and then when the other chapters are ready, I'll post them in Discord or will send it to people who DM me for t...

BIII: Chapter One

Space folded beneath his will as Eli collapsed both the pocket and his home dimensions behind him. He sighed with relief as his spatial field spread letting him map out the entirety of the other Newton family’s estate.

People were already clustered together in their reunions and first-time meetings.

Other-Rick held Herbert and Romulus in a crushing embrace. Right when Herbert was released, Other-Adelaide scooped him into her own hug. Maeve joined in with a laugh.

Old and n...

Patron Announcement, Ramble, and Poll

Hey everyone!

We finally reached the end of book two! This is a bit of an update and ramble all merged together with a poll tacked on at the end.

TL;DR: Book 3 chapter one hopefully coming out next weekend, but could be on the 25th. Thoughts about book one and book two and what needs to be fixed. Poll about interest for posting three chapters for a side story I wrote a while ago (Stylish Descent, armament LitRPG, what the third dimension will be for PI).

So,...

BII: Epilogue 3 (Savior)

Wisps of his power threaded together in a grand, all consuming tapestry stitched across the entire world. Woven through territories where they called for him and used his title as idol, oath, and swear. Threads of his influence winnowed in and out of dungeons, looped through hostile territories.

All so he could spread his Dream of peace.

A honeycomb of civilized zones and territories shimmered across his magnificent tapestry. Relative stability and prosperity shone within...

Quick Update

Sorry about the late chapter release (and update) for the last epilogue chapter. It's been an incredibly challenging viewpoint on top of some irl stuff going on. Been trying to transfer colleges and change my major, so I've been wrangling my transcripts and trying to convince them that I am in fact a resident for tuition and shouldn't need to spend thousands more for it. 

Lost all of today driving to another state to spend some time with my girlfriend and her family. ...

BII: Epilogue 2 (Cyrus)

Rays of static crackled along Cyrus’s peripheral. He gritted his avatar’s teeth as he threw himself into a roll animation. A guillotine of steel cleaved through asphalt in a geyser of shrapnel and sewer water. Better the street than his avatar’s head.

Any time his character died, he had to wait an hour for it to respawn. Not to mention that his pending character experience reset.

Systematic Gamer threatened to short-circuit as he pushed a slew of commands through it. Prompts...

BII: Epilogue 1 (Rick/Lana)

“Where is everyone?” Addy asked him while she rubbed her forehead. If her migraine was as bad as his, Rick knew she was really hurting. They had never pushed their powers so hard in such a short period of time. No wonder Eli was so capable with his powers since he seemed to be using them like this constantly. 

Air currents eddied through vents into each room while the air conditioning drove away the May heat. Rick smiled at the impressions he felt through Storm Cloud. All his f...

BII: Chapter Thirty-seven

Wood creaked as rows of branches whipped toward her head. Starbreaker planeshifted into the Stillness with a flex of Planar Ascension. Everything stopped except for her. Light faded into a varying shades of black and gray as color leeched out of the world.

She ducked under the whistling swipe of the towering greant’s branches. Bulbous planks of sap covered bark armored its trunk. Scars from her weapons forged by Storm Regalia scrawled across every section of it.

Starbreaker drew...

BII: Chapter Thirty-six

Addy brushed the slimy red amber off her husband’s body. Residue flaked in her nails with a sting, but she didn’t care. Grief warred with her anger. Only the happiness of seeing her son again kept it in check.

Eli was back. She had known he was alive and would return, but she couldn’t believe he was here.

Rick wheezed as he coughed. She felt her enchantments of healing and restoration whisper inside of his veins. A scorching fever threatened to overtake him...

BII: Chapter Thirty-five

Maeve weaved and bobbed around as she hurled lightning spears through a planeshift to rend anything that drew near. She fought with the intensity of a thunderstorm. Once the press thickened, she dumped Eli to the slick muddy ground.

Roman stood a few feet away from Eli. His armor was splattered with pulped leaves, sap, and bark. Not to mention the molten ichor that gushed from his fists after he exploded the iron hornet that had attacked him. Dents smoothed over his chassis where it had...

Patreon Announcement and Ch 34 Changes

Hey everyone! 

I'll go over the edits to Ch 34 first. I really dislike doing retcons, but in this case it was necessary. After a lot of discussions with patrons and some of my friends, I realized that the twist at the end of the chapter was structurally incorrect for where it was. 

D3 will happen, but I'm thinking it'll be better served somewhere in book 3. I didn't think what it would be like to read that now after so long of book two and it was just fundamenta...

BII: Chapter Thirty-four

Plush bedding cradled him while he stared up into the vaulted ceiling. Eli rested in the comfort of his sanctum, but he couldn’t sleep. Thoughts flurried through his mind, one after the other. His delve into the dungeon had been thrilling, but beyond horrifying.

Eli had thrown himself into his sanctm immediately after messaging Rick and Roman so they knew he was alive and fine after his delve. He definitely felt shaken up though.

Vigilant Revelation had piloted his body.

E...

BII: Chapter Thirty-three

Boiling blood steamed out of the forcibly amputated scaled demon. It threw itself at Eli in a fit of rage as it shaped its blood into a whip that raked across his chest. He skid backward from the blow gouging furrows in the hard rock beneath his feet.

Acidic blood bubbled over his Aurora Stardust constructed shirt. Stray drops sizzled over the exposed skin of his arms and hands. He shot out another ray of starlight that he dialed the density and gravity up as high as he could.

Bon...

BII: Chapter Thirty-two (Adv.)

Roads blurred past beneath them as Eli flew closer to Rockford. Rick led the way while Roman and Eli followed as close as they could. Tension built in the back of Eli’s skull from maintaining a constant flight speed and altitude.

Eli wasn’t used to using any of his powers at the high output necessary for the thirty minutes of flight they’d been in the air for. Astral Starspace compressed around him in a skintight film as gravity tugged and yanked him forward. Stellar Body almost f...

April Peerless Collab

Hey, Peerless Patron folk!

So I've been bouncing on a few different ideas on what to have be the vote for this month's collaboration and poll. As always, feel free to submit any ideas for you and I and your fellow Peerless to workshop them to fit the story and world. Spawn ideas and builds will be easiest to write in for either D1 or D2, or a new dimension entirely. 

Otherwise, we have a few different things coming up that can be voted on with comments. The main poll vote wil...

BII: Chapter Thirty-one

Spiced garlic butter dripped off Eli’s fingers as he tore into his third slice of pizza. Melted cheese pulled, nearly upending his toppings all over his plate. Crust cracked with a crunch under his teeth as he finished.

“Have another.” Maeve pushed one of five boxes closer to him. At her touch, steam wafted from the remaining slices.

“I’m too full. That was great though, thank you.” Eli grinned sheepishly while he teleported all traces of pizza and its residue off his ...

BII: Chapter Thirty

“I’m so nervous.” Eli stopped himself from flinching as his spatial field caught someone else wandering into the lobby of Pandemonium. He rubbed his palms against his jeans despite the fact that they didn’t really sweat with his improved Body stat.

“You’re nervous? I’m nervous.” Roman muttered while he stirred his tea before he took a sip. “I can’t believe you slept in so long.”

“Give me a break. I hadn’t slept in over a week. Maybe two or three?...

BII: Chapter Twenty-nine

<You have achieved unprecedented growth and understanding of your Body of Light (Photon Shot). You must upgrade it from one of the following options:

Radiance (Nova Lance) (Rare)

Incandescence (Photonomancer’s Flare) (Epic)

Stellar (Celestial Embodiment) (Legendary)>

Eli read over his options again while he paced in the bedroom of his sanctum. As always, visions buzzed directly into his mind. H...

BII: Chapter Twenty-eight

“So, what do you want to talk about? I thought what happened was pretty clear.” Maeve asked, as Eli blipped into space beside her. She dropped into a chair of solidified lightning reinforced with sonomantic crystal.

“I mean, I’m pretty nervous about what’s going to happen.” Eli paced while he rolled the power gem between his hands. It pulsed with its own heartbeat, but instead of feeling disturbing, it felt soothing. Peaceful. “I really don’t want the police or the DRC t...

BII: Chapter Twenty-seven

Ripped notebook pages had been strewn all over the hotel room like the evidence of a gristly murder. Furniture leaned against the wall in a haphazard barricade. A television stripped itself of parts and enchantments in the center of the room in compliance with Roman’s will.

Eli swept Artificer’s Nullstar across the already broken parts of the fridge, coffeemaker, and alarm clock. He forced them to change as he refined them into something far more capable than scrap. Lattices of Drea...