Sorry for the delay, it's been a long two weeks for me. Between sickness and a depression flare up due to weather, I've been struggling.
It's too bad. The timing of April 1 fell pretty perfectly in the plot. I have about half a chapter of Rand making his third impossible attempt condensing a 'Super Class'. And, much to his surprise, he succeeds.
Still no chapters this week. Just needed a bit of time away.
To get over this malaise, I've gone back to my roots: binging we...
2023-04-03 08:29:18 +0000 UTC
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Her eyes, deep set in the obsidian mask, began to smolder.
Devick stepped, eliminating the distance between the first charging individual and herself. The heat and the wild elation of battle lifted her out of her own doubts into another place entirely. She reached into the Turtleline’s chest and plucked out his heart, s...
2023-03-30 08:20:27 +0000 UTC
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The connecting and setup chapters are definitely a strain. Essentially, I'm going to make up last week's four, but also cut this week's down to a half week (otherwise, I'll just be behind for a month and that stresses me out). But okay, let's start setting the stage for our final challenge!
Mae Myrna f...
2023-03-30 08:17:32 +0000 UTC
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Let's start with one.
“Shit,” Neveah drummed her fingers against her thighs, trying not to acknowledge the rising tide of panic as he felt Randidly’s consciousness flicker out.
Normally, he would probably have bounced back to life almost immediately, hopping back to his feet before his body had even f...
2023-03-28 07:51:30 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to give a heads up, I owe four chapters from last week. Finally feel like I'm not dying of exhaustion though! And man, I sorta love the plot I sketched out for the rest of the arc.
Let's see if I can call on some of my old speed-writing chops this week =D.
2023-03-27 07:15:16 +0000 UTC
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A dark mist wafted around the massive spider's feat. And the first emotional note that spread out from its bleak and fractured form was very clearly learned from all the scattered sparks of significance imported from the memory's dead. The spider hunched under the weight of the grudge it carried.
Randidly felt a chill run...
2023-03-25 08:13:14 +0000 UTC
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Finally, some chapters actually toward this week! Apologies for the delay. Last week really wiped me out. Now let's get to it.
Randidly stared for a full second at the spider, unable to understand why the core significance of the memory formed into this creature. Its small body possessed eight long legs, but he c...
2023-03-25 08:08:28 +0000 UTC
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I like this setup much better. Just took me a while to get the shape right. And hopefully this provides a bit more clarity about what is happening.
The impossibility of the task before Randidly made him grit his teeth. He pressed himself up out of his small crater, blood leaking from sundry cuts spread across his...
2023-03-22 08:29:01 +0000 UTC
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Well, you ended up getting this cliff anyway. Just one again. Want to rework what happens next.
Randidly looked up at the three blazing fist attacks burning holes through the sky, each with enough power to still brutalize his images on the way to slamming into his gut. His heart fluttered as he scrambled for coun...
2023-03-21 08:27:39 +0000 UTC
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Just one. Better the cliff today than the next one.
Randidly’s images trembled, a sliver of time after he smashed into the ground and began scouring the surrounding hills with his storm. His bones ached in his flesh as though they had been knocked askew by the punch.
Sulfur writhed in an approximation of ...
2023-03-20 08:28:24 +0000 UTC
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I don't think I'll have the opportunity, but I think it would be funny to get both Devicks in a room for one of those cliche 'I'm the real one!' scenes.
Actus Suprem Devick stood in the middle of the wide space in her glittering robes. The orb in the middle of the chamber was horribly depressing; looki...
2023-03-19 07:13:49 +0000 UTC
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What a weird week! Finally home, gonna squeeze out this week's chapters over the next three days~
Let's go.
The sky exploded as he activated his Nether Core to its fullest potential. A nova of howling winds and bolts of crimson lightning blasted out from Randidly’s position. His Nether Core howle...
2023-03-19 07:11:28 +0000 UTC
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Okay, one to finish off last week. And this also put us at the edge, right before everything explodes for the second time.
Randidly curled up in the pocket of gravity, warm and comfortable. He became a metaphysical seed planting itself in the essence of the memory world, pushing itself toward germination. Yggdras...
2023-03-15 05:39:15 +0000 UTC
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Once again, Randidly suppressed his urge to gulp, wondering if he would need to call on Neveah’s assistance to endure through this, wondering how much help she would truly be against this dense Nether. His mind shifted through the possibilities available to him, and none of them were ones he liked.
Apparently, Deganawid...
2023-03-14 05:02:36 +0000 UTC
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Ugh, I should be releasing three to finish off last week, but I'm traveling and editing the third will need to wait until tomorrow.
The ending was inevitable, they were just two people surging toward its transformative entanglement.
Why resist the inevitable?
Why not... embrace it?
De...
2023-03-14 04:59:47 +0000 UTC
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One again, but I do feel much better about these labels. Alright, let's get through one more image evolution.
The fluttering trick of light melting along the edges of an event horizon, the vision of the monster project to the surface of the water, the muddy-edged hungry eye pulsed in anticipation. Two disparate p...
2023-03-11 04:46:33 +0000 UTC
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Well, one again. Take this cliff for now. I don't love any of the names.
Randidly looked Deganawidah in the eyes and felt the whole world shift around him. As the old Nether monster activated his third ability, he seemed to pull away the mask of crusted Nether that covered his whole existence. The egg-shaped body shuffled off its skin...
2023-03-10 07:41:17 +0000 UTC
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Mmmm idk what it is, but I had fun writing this fight. But only one chapter today: I want to save the second chapter for tomorrow, so I can think about the Stillborn Phoenix transformation over night.
Each of Elhume’s breaths came labored. His eyes were bloodshot as he considered the stump of his arm. Drops of ...
2023-03-09 09:02:52 +0000 UTC
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Just one, to finish off last week. Tomorrow let's dash forward through this next fun part.
Randidly didn’t want to admit how much effort it took to create a small eye in the raging Nether storm of Deganawidah. But seeing the pure joy in Devick’s flash of recognition, it felt worth it.
He shifted the flo...
2023-03-08 07:15:33 +0000 UTC
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Only five minutes over the allotted work time, the Patron of the Deep finished creating an ornate pattern on a stretch of stone next to the Cult of the Savior’s base. He complained constantly but worked at a rapid clip. Neveah felt annoyed, but couldn’t really fault him for it.
She had witnessed Randidly drainin...
2023-03-06 08:17:31 +0000 UTC
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Faelmac Westrisser squatted over the grand array he had created, watching time twist and layer itself into a tight spiral. The dagger that sat in the middle of the array rattled back and forth, almost like it knew its fate and attempted to avoid being any more afflicted with the poisonous embrace of time.
“Soon,” West...
2023-03-06 08:13:42 +0000 UTC
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Three at once! Alright, now I see how this next part goes. One more tomorrow to finish off this week, too, before starting next weeks chapters.
Randidly narrowed his eyes as he worked inside the clay-edged structure of humanity. Already, this small amount of effort had doubled the agony of his headache. Apparentl...
2023-03-06 08:10:42 +0000 UTC
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Guess it's just one chapter at a time this week. But at least back on track.
After a brief period of total exhausted oblivion, the pieces of Randidly drifted back together to form a coherent self.
He floated up through the whole of his being, touching onto every brick that had raised him up from that immatu...
2023-03-02 08:52:37 +0000 UTC
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Just one again. I give up trying to make this scene be what I want. Let's just move on to regularly scheduled Randidly programming tomorrow.
Devick couldn’t breathe for several seconds. Her ears rang from the clash of battle all around her, making it clear she couldn’t linger in this state for too long. A few...
2023-03-01 08:54:33 +0000 UTC
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Just one tonight. Man, idk why, but the next interlude bit has been kinda difficult to trim down. Well, it will be out tomorrow.
Neveah manifested directly beside Randidly just as he squared his shoulders against the ineffable flow of time. Partially because she wanted to support him, partially because she wanted...
2023-02-28 09:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapters a bit delayed, I wanted to have most of an interlude arc plotted out before I do the first one. Two will come out to finish off this week~
2023-02-27 09:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Randidly’s chest felt like it was on fire. His brain had heated to the point it felt almost cold, numbing all his awareness. A slight tremor had taken up residence in his hand.
Yet he refused to stop.
With twenty-five shapes remaining until Randidly believed he would complete his Class Philosopher’s Stone, the a...
2023-02-24 08:18:49 +0000 UTC
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Fatia Cerulean looked at the sky, unable to comprehend the scope of what he witnessed rushing toward him.
Over the past week, he had polished his Grand Fates, despite the annoyances of others taking those same resources. He had reached the height of his power, possessing a potency he had craved for so long. He had even fo...
2023-02-24 08:16:09 +0000 UTC
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After the first thrill of triumph realizing that the process would work came the slog of seeing it through to completion. This, as it turned out, Randidly had vastly underestimated. After only a minute, his attention frayed and blood began to drip out of his nose.
Warning! Your body-
2023-02-22 07:36:35 +0000 UTC
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Man, these chapters take so much time to edit now that we are in the complex stuff.
Even Randidly felt a thrill of shock as his bare feet skidded across the ground behind Elhume, his toes curling to carve up little trenches of dirt and disperse his momentum. He had enough speed after the impact to have careened f...
2023-02-22 07:33:11 +0000 UTC
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