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Randidly’s skin crawled as the enemy appeared behind him, but he didn’t panic. Bits of shattered stone still tumbled through the air from his dramatic arrival and already he needed to clear this hurdle. While that strange watcher of the Cult of the Savior appeared behind him, he pulled deeply from his emotional sea and unle...
2023-02-20 08:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
The Prophet felt a flash of triumph, seeing Scythe manifest in the shadow of Nether King Hungry Eye. The positioning was perfect; It didn’t have any proof of the feeling, but with the consequences riding on the creation of humanity, both for Elhume and for the plans laid out in the Cult’s Prophecy, there was a general conse...
2023-02-20 08:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Devick felt a few beads of sweat dripping down her lower back and wished she had a spare moment to wipe them away. Or at least swat at the back of her leather armor, smushing them and soaking them into her equipment. Those drops somehow managed to keep hiding there, even as she twisted back and forth, stubbornly clinging to the...
2023-02-17 08:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Bleak Sky manifested in an explosion of caustic Nether, sweeping down to try and freeze Randidly for just a split second. And from the brief stalling of his Nether Core in response to the attack, it almost succeeded.
But Sulfur responded instinctively, a vicious moment of frenzied twisting to bring the arm around above Randidly’s ...
2023-02-17 07:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Another one chapter day~
Elhume glanced around at the figures gathered around the dais. He felt torn between desperation to begin assisting his son and worry, that even this attempt would just create more problems.
Perhaps due to that conflict, his voice came out much rougher than he expected. “Is everyone prepared? We will no...
2023-02-15 07:36:07 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Just one today.
“Your resistance just demonstrates foolishness,” Nether King Bleak Sky snorted, literally looking down on Randidly. His horrid cloud heads released huge gouts of water vapor and tainted significance from their mouths, gradually adjusting the environment. Randidly stood and looked up without fe...
2023-02-14 07:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Sorry for the unexpected break this week. Just... I needed some time. I think it was my note on my last post; I can see the shape of the rest of the story now, basically for the first time. Not that I won't discover new things, or change my mind about how things will develop, but this awareness feels horribly final.
Even now, its ...
2023-02-13 07:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Just one, to finish off last week. And I remembered one more little plot thread I wanted to tug into place. Tomorrow, the fighting begins~
Over the past few weeks, the way that the Nether Heralds and potent Tier 6 and 7 Nether Warriors looked at Enmya had changed. Their eyes flicked lower, their postures no longe...
2023-02-07 07:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly Ghosthound studied the roaring tide of Nether above Homewell and tried to guess the amount of time he had remaining. The computational allowances given to him by the Dread Homunculus rapidly approached their limits. He narrowed his eyes and chewed on his lip. From what he could tell, all of his preparations would come to a head i...
2023-02-06 07:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Two, I'll make up one from this week again tomorrow. Just a busy week of plotting and planning and getting details in line =(. But all this fracas will begin tomorrow
Honestly, I was thinking today that this is sorta the beginning of the end. It will be a lot of chapters to finish, but I think things won't calm down much when Rand...
2023-02-06 07:46:08 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
“We need to rearrange the order for the attempts on the possible,” Randidly said to Neveah, dreading her reaction but still barging into her cabin anyway. Especially with so little time to prepare-
Randidly paused. He had just swung open the door to her small cabin to find her, as usual, sitting and sipping tea at her hand-carve...
2023-02-02 07:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Unrelated to chapters, just received word the publisher will probably have a table at Dragoncon this year. So I'll be there, if any of y'all want any books signed~
I'm much less unreliable about signing in person, haha
“Tomorrow,” Elhume confirmed, looking around at the three individuals he had...
2023-02-02 07:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Moish nudged Raddeus with his knee as the two departed the guardhouse. “So is your wife-?”
“You cannot come over for dinner,” Raddeus scowled over his shoulder and loped ahead of his superior officer. He used his feet to rub his eyes. “ This is getting out of hand. Look, I obviously appreciate everything you’v...
2023-01-31 08:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
First is to finish last week, second is to start the next~
Randidly sat in a meditative position with his eyes closed. With the window for his confrontation approaching, he tried to squeeze every ounce of productivity he could out of the day. Aside from a few half-hour naps he took to replenish his mental energy,...
2023-01-31 08:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Just one tonight, but I'll make this chapter up next week.
Spent most of this weekend getting LoRG Book 5 ready to send out. Really drains me of editing juices.
Devick felt curiously light as she moved through the familiar impacts and momentum of a long-distance jog. With the benef...
2023-01-30 08:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Well, I meant for two chapters to come out yesterday. But it will end up being one today and the other two Sunday. Just trying to get the last few details in order.
Randidly and Lowana sat opposite one another, both with their hands in front of their body. Her due to the black wicker shackles that remained on her...
2023-01-28 06:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
One tonight. Two tomorrow. Session by session, I start to see all the pieces of the mess hahaha.
Charlotte Wick tried to buy some time by raising a furred hand to wipe across her mouth. At the last second, she paused before contact could begin; her hands was crusted with dirt from her morning appointment. Her lip...
2023-01-26 08:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
In the end, Randidly and Neveah parted in tense silence. His little rhetorical plea aside, he couldn’t yet reassure her effectively enough that this attempt would work out. Nor, apparently, could he convey that he understood the consequences to the point she could accept his word.
He reached up and rubbed the bridge of ...
2023-01-24 07:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Wow, definitely needed today's chapters just to get all of my own thoughts in order. I think I can see the shape I want now.
For those of you who have followed me for a while, the feeling I've had about this climax reminded me of how I felt about Day 50 of TGT. So many details, so many forces I had to keep track of and incorporate...
2023-01-24 07:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Just one to finish out the week. Please have a bit of patience for me, the mental arrangements are a bit more than usual for this chunk.
Devick’s shoulders heaved with exertion. Her lips twisted into a crooked smile, but even she knew how brittle the expression must look. The Nether Warrior in front ...
2023-01-23 08:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
One today
Don Beigon had been born knowing he would be someone someday. His eyes opened with that certainty inside of his body and he had been long searching for some corroboration regarding this dream from the world.
He came from a small village on the outskirts of Lord Cerulean’s domain, too far away to...
2023-01-20 07:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly sat in darkness, his knuckles pressed together in front of his navel. He breathed, he relaxed, he allowed his consciousness to steadily drift apart.
He had a problem to solve. A whole slew of messy overlapping events to make neat.
He had sought out isolation, wanting a location where not even the slightest ...
2023-01-18 07:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Please believe me when I say worries about the longevity of this problem are overblown. The last chapter was called unnecessary, but these two that followed couldn't have happened otherwise. And I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I liked writing them.
Side note, both these chapters were heavily edited as I tried to refine ev...
2023-01-18 07:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, my sickness was not better on Friday. Essentially, the back half of this week was lost to a horrible head cold that left me unable to sleep and gave me headaches when looking at a screen for too long.
Today, I do genuinely feel better. Next week should be without any problems (and I DID spend this time thinking about the next bit of plot, so I won't need an early break day to think.)
Let's get all our ducks in order as we set up for the climax of the memory.
2023-01-16 08:03:04 +0000 UTC View Post