Hey all,
Pulling all the pieces I want together is slow going. And I definitely want this last stretch of the story to be the best it can be. I did have a break through about our final climax, but that meant I needed to go back through and rethink the path there.
Just so I don't keep missing chapters, I will be slowing down to four chapters a week. Honestly, I probably should have done this a while ago. I'll add a few hundred extra words, but think this will help me avoid any more...
2023-08-21 06:41:57 +0000 UTC
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All had proceeded without a hitch. And that was why he worried.
Don Beigon watched the shifting portal to the Path to the Pinnacle. Higher and higher they climbed. More and more energy flowed through to the grand working he had created. His foundations had become incomparably solid. He felt some others attempting the Pinn...
2023-08-17 18:13:55 +0000 UTC
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Idk why my posting schedule became so weird! I guess I'll just roll with it.
Devick accepted the fourth offering from Enmya, an unadorned copper blade that had been hammered into shape using solely Nether. The workmanship of the weapon was rough, but it felt both heavy and warm in her hands. More annoying than an...
2023-08-17 18:11:49 +0000 UTC
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A rare morning chapter! Just went through this last night and didn't really think it conveyed what I wanted. Feel better about the revision. I'll be back with more later.
Randidly leaned forward, concentrating all his weight into the toes of his right foot. Devick’s face morphed its way through varying degrees ...
2023-08-15 15:52:56 +0000 UTC
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Despite the strange circumstances in which they met, these two strange men bonded below while the Nexus ended above them.
“Huh,” The Monarch of Karma leaned back and scratched his chin. He felt quite sorry for his new friend after listening to his story. “So you don’t even remember which was real? Which life actua...
2023-08-14 06:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Last two of the week will be out tomorrow.
“...is it possible to leverage your assistance further?” Don Beigon asked, sitting in the middle of a grand formation built on the edge of the cliff. Waves of copper-colored water crashed below, sending glittering spray up into the slow golden rotation of energy arou...
2023-08-14 06:05:53 +0000 UTC
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Neveah’s chest felt tight. She stood over the pulsing core formation of Yystrix's final gift, following the patterns with her eyes. Too many elements vied for her attention at once. She needed to handle ten thousand problems, which made even nine hundred arms feel overwhelmed. This, she reflected, was probably how Randidly fe...
2023-08-09 04:44:50 +0000 UTC
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Alright, back and raring to go! For those asking about the laptop, it was some cheap lenovo my grandma bought me when I graduated law school in... 2016? So its time had come.
Imagine, a backlit keyboard for typing at night! What luxury.
Randidly Ghosthound stared for several long seconds at Lady Ie...
2023-08-09 04:41:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Originally I had planned to take this upcoming week off, but last week my laptop died! Had a great weekend at gencon without a laptop, but today my new one just arrived (went smaller, so I could more easily type on planes).
Really was inspired by the experience and hammered out some plot details I needed. Anyway the break weeks were swapped. I'll be back tomorrow.
2023-08-07 20:26:11 +0000 UTC
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Devick plucked up daisies from the ground and ripped off their petals with the single-minded intensity of a toddler. If anything, her mood was only worsened by the warm midafternoon sun and playful breeze in the scenic valley she had been left to recuperate. Her eyes were blank, but her fingers worked tirelessly.
It was h...
2023-08-02 06:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Gotta finish off last week a bit. Man, making sure these elements come together feels like a lot.
Randidly breathed in through his mouth and through the roots of Yggdrasil. All the energy he desired felt available to him. He sat in the middle of a network of connections that spanned an entire universe. And his bo...
2023-08-02 06:51:20 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to throw some notes out here. I'll be traveling in August to go to several conventions in the States. Gencon in Indianapolis, Authors and Dragons con in Portland, and then Dragoncon in Atlanta. If you are going to be at any of those, feel free to reach out!
Slightly related, I'll be taking off the second week of August...
2023-07-29 06:26:18 +0000 UTC
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When Lyra Silver felt the sudden attack of regret, her moon almost crumpled like a discarded newspaper in a spring rainstorm. Even though she managed to steady herself, small pieces at the edge of the celestial body broke off and fluttered down to settle on the lake below. She lost ground that would be impossible to make up.
2023-07-29 06:22:11 +0000 UTC
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Just one tonight.
“BOUNDLESS!”
Actus Suprem Devick felt a shiver run through her body as the fight began in earnest. The two images spread out and ground against one another. Very happily, she glanced up from the tiresome job of dragging unwilling Grand Fates into line and looked at the...
2023-07-27 07:01:44 +0000 UTC
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Okay, back tomorrow to continue this fight
Randidly took advantage of the short conversation with Devick, doing his best not to let his fury seep into the work he did within his Soulspace. His chances for downtime had practically vanished.
Only through his new ten thousand Privilege of the Half-Shallah coul...
2023-07-26 07:12:01 +0000 UTC
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“Friends, companions,” Don Beigon smiled warmly around at the individuals. The fat and greedy assembled fish stank with self-satisfaction, all bottom feeders with mediocre images and entitlement dripping off their swollen bodies. “I’m so glad you’ve agreed to meet with me today. Considering the circumstances… I’ll skip right...
2023-07-26 07:09:21 +0000 UTC
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Needed to take a few days, both to plot and do some QoL things. Our ToC has been completely filled up, no more missing chapters, and Royalroad is up to date (seriously let that one go way too long).
I'll probably still have last week be a half week, but a chunk is coming tomorrow. I've just been toying with how this next section proceeds.
I hope you'll give me a bit of leeway. Now that we are so close to the end, I am careful about everything.
2023-07-25 06:50:07 +0000 UTC
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Just like all other aspects of his life, Randidly could only advance. Turning back would probably only waste more time. He proceeded through the dark hole, almost daring an enemy to leap out and attack him.
Disappointingly, he stepped through without incident. Their destination was a surprisingly large room with a low ceili...
2023-07-22 05:39:00 +0000 UTC
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The Monarch of Karma started playing a game.
He sat on a rock, drifting through and toward oblivion, afraid of his own subconscious. He wanted a more normal life, but as normal as he could become would be to develop a hobby. A safe, harmless hobby to pass the time, to give him a bit of structure.
So, he picked up some of the p...
2023-07-22 05:37:05 +0000 UTC
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Just one tonight. Didn't really like the second chapter I wrote today. Let me take another look tomorrow.
Don Beigon looked up sharply and peered out of the window. The candles nearest the windows had been snuffed out, long trails of smoke curling up toward the ceiling.
The location of the dramatic performa...
2023-07-20 06:32:28 +0000 UTC
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Warning! A strange change has been detected within your person. Please see your closest-
Pantheon Intervention. Recalculating…
Congratulations! You are the first individual in the histories of both the Nexus and the Alpha Cosmos to push a Stat to 10,000! Warning, it appear...
2023-07-18 06:14:15 +0000 UTC
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Randidly felt positively brutalized after repeated impacts.
Even with the reinforcement of his numerous physical passives and his defensive Cloak of a Thousand Lightless Horizons, even as his upgraded Vitaly, Homunculi’s Engineered Perfection, activated to the point it teetered between being a Pinnacle Rarity Stat and a...
2023-07-18 06:12:17 +0000 UTC
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Lyra squeezed her eyes tightly shut and kneeled, trying to imagine the clear picture of the blood-red moon that had protected her to this point. She saw all the shadowy contours of its form, all the secret curves and broad expanses. The celestial body hovered over a clear lake, its reflection almost closer and more present than...
2023-07-18 06:11:00 +0000 UTC
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Let's finish last week! Meant to post Sunday, but the last pair of chapters involved a lot of math...
The Monarch of Karma tried to dream of a better life. A simpler existence of farming and laughing with his son.
But he woke up gasping every time he felt himself truly relax, worried that his subconscious w...
2023-07-18 06:08:04 +0000 UTC
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The second impact went much worse than the first, image-wise. During the wind up the punch Randidly could almost feel Elhume’s attention shifting from other concerns, likely Devick’s toil, and settling on the possessed body of Techetadore. Aether wisped off of the walls and seemed to reinforce the attack. The additional foc...
2023-07-13 06:18:41 +0000 UTC
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Raymund Ballast knew he should be looking at the battlefield as a whole, measuring the strength of the opponents waiting for them, but his heart hijacked control of the rest of his body— his eyes locked upon Techetadore and refused to budge.
His brother had seen better days. Even since their last encounter, he had earne...
2023-07-13 06:12:09 +0000 UTC
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Actus Suprem Devick couldn’t help but feel a thrill of pleasure; yes, even driving your hand into a version of your own body provided a visceral thrill.
Then she narrowed her eyes and got to work.
Upon contact with the other’s soul, the Actus Suprem immediately realized one bewildering truth; this version of herself genuin...
2023-07-10 05:56:31 +0000 UTC
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Devick raised her chin and endured his sharp gaze. Now, more than ever, she refused to take a step back.
“You don’t know what you are suggesting,” Nether King Hungry Eye, or Randidly Ghosthound as he was known in his main universe, practically blazed with power as he glowered at her. If he could reach into her mouth...
2023-07-10 05:53:16 +0000 UTC
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Randidly waited until his energies stabilized, then moved on to the next step. If this would truly be a method to empower the Alpha Cosmos, he didn’t think many others would be able to manage this for a long, long time.
Even his honed Willpower trembled as he inserted the next bits of energy.
This fit was even tig...
2023-07-10 05:49:37 +0000 UTC
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Gang, a slight delay as my laptop sometimes crashes, but I'm happy to announce we are getting a full FOUR chapters tonight, to finish the week. I'm back home and finally back on schedule!
Randidly hummed to himself and considered. Energies continued to gather around their base of operations as the Upper Sonara So...
2023-07-10 05:46:09 +0000 UTC
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