Chapter 11
Constantly running event timers, or CRETs. A fairly new invention based on the time run from when you first start playing a game, until the first major events start to occur.
CRETs were one way game developers found ways to constantly force a story forward, even in an Otome game. Effectively the premise is that these events were going to always happen, but when they happen should be random.
Originally, if you con...
2024-04-05 01:24:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215
SLWC
Poof!
Turn left at the odd city that clearly denotes the southern border of a war-torn country.
Poof!
Do a complete 180, I’m not lost, there are just no places that I can stop and ask for directions in a safe manner.
Poof!
There we go, finally found signs denoting that I am in Plativia. Hal...
2024-04-04 00:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214
Addressing Crossdressing
Every once in a while I am reminded of the great Bob Ross, and how his words are still impactful if you take a step back and watch.
By all accounts what happened earlier today, with the nearly getting outed as the new master of the Thieves Guild, even before a true building has been erected for this task was almost a dire mistake. One that would mean that I would likely have to leave, or roam around as an instruc...
2024-04-03 13:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
A quick four-hour nap, and I was back outside the gates to the grand University that was the size of a large city. A city powered by mana, constructs, and of course powered glyphs.
Even in the morning, the city was still built with a sense of aesthetics in mind. Granted I know that this was all a stylized game, and that aesthetics were the primary function for each building and living area, but the developers did a great job with everything. 2024-04-02 19:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 9
In the end I was granted a scholarship’s dorm room. Particularly after I demonstrated twice more the effectiveness of my Arcane Repair Bolt. This time I did it while demonstrating not just the Beginner’s Perfect, but also the Intermediate Perfect form of the spell.
During this introduction and showcasing of my talents, I was introduced to the h...
2024-04-02 02:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213
COIs – How to Mix Business With Pleasure
To say that the world has strict rules against one person, let alone a regressor being inserted to lead not one but two different guilds was a problem that was immediately noted and patched within the first few months of the world going live.
Basically, at first it made sense to give power to the one or two individuals who proved themselves truly capable in one or more fields.
Chapter 212
Finding Myself, And Other Simulacrum Initiated Problems
Apparently having more than one copy of myself seems like it would be a complete blessing. And honestly having more of me around to do the various things that I need to do is a blessing, mostly.
That said, there are the times when I can safely say I know exactly what Mallory goes through when trying to deal with me.
Okay, wait, I can’t really say that. Mallory i...
2024-04-01 17:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Of course, I am where I am supposed to be hours before I am in fact supposed to be here. Being fifteen minutes early is one thing, being fifteen hours early is another thing entirely.
Sadly, I think I am closer to the former versus the latter in this case, as it is clearly night out and I only now realize that I am dressed in all black, with a complementary black mask and I just randomly for all intents and purposes appeared outside a medieval s...
2024-04-01 06:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30
Frank had mentally prepared himself for a myriad of options that he would perform, depending on the actions taken by those that now held him captive.
The longer he took to get acclimated to his current state of being, the more he found himself drawing in energy from the disrupting source of energy that lay directly behind him. As he drew in the foreign source of energy, Frank felt a darker connection forming in him. Now that he knew what to loo...
2024-03-31 18:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
(Three Months Later)
My training time was simultaneously too slow and went by far too quickly. To spend hours upon hours a day training on everything from Skills, to Attributes, to Magic was taxing.
This was the ultimate training session and one that I would have gladly sped through, particularly at the end.
Even after searching through the library, I only found one unique Skill, one that I learned greedily.
...
2024-03-31 04:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude III
(Behind the One-Way Walls)
Dr. Evans
Dr. Evans watched on in horror as everything seemed to be going so poorly. She knew it had been a stretch to put the boy here almost immediately. Though many doctors use this as a humbling moment, one where they realize what the end goal is, that regardless of how powerful they are now there is always something that is insurmountable waiting to crush you if you let your guard down.
<... 2024-03-30 13:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Interlude I
Arrivals
Princess Claudia Von’Roseblade
Claudia awoke to look at her hands and was momentarily shocked at how skinny they were. They were the picture of elegance, long dainty fingers that appeared to be a symbol of perfection. Seeing the fingers, Claudia couldn’t help but begin to think that something had happened. Something major at that.
Pausing for a moment she took those long slend...
2024-03-30 12:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
Twinkle.
The lights of all the millions of tiny machines flicker and flare to life, showing that the world around me is still there.
“This is okay, maybe it is just a rather long game. In fact, it kind of makes sense that the game would not let me out here as I have not even gotten to the love academy, at least not yet. Yes, this is it, my one true reason for not being able to reach a true save point and actually lo...
2024-03-30 02:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211
The Boss’s Office
Coming home is always an odd experience for me. And yes, I can finally say that this place, this little oasis out here in the middle of the desert is my home. My family is here, well half of it, for now. My friends are here, and most importantly all of my myriad of other side projects that I use to keep me busy are here.
“Hey Cass, welcome back,” Johnny says right after I arrive, taking the place of m...
2024-03-29 10:52:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
The Excursion
(Darcy Renolds)
Something was off about Misha.
Not that Darcy was staring at her constantly, wondering why she was the only one that didn’t seem to be super excited about meeting pop sensation Hasty. No, that wasn’t it at all, instead it was just her being curious about a friend who seemed to be having a bit of an off day.
It all started with a nosebleed of all things.
“You o...
2024-03-28 10:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
A brief rundown on the five spells that are available from the Ancient’s locations.
The first spells are in order of where and how you can learn them:
<UNKNOWN> Bolt
<UNKNOWN> Account Creation
<UNKNOWN> Break In
<UNKNOWN> Factory Reset
<UNKNOWN> Disruption Field
<...
2024-03-26 09:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210
A Cat With Its Own Laser Pointer
Work is therapeutic in a way. Something terrible going on in your life? Well, find a job, devote those parts of yourself that are in pain to the all mighty job, and then work until you are nothing left but skin and bones.
The only problem is, once you realize what you are doing, the act of blindly throwing yourself at your job becomes less effective. Then you get a passion project in addition...
2024-03-25 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post<<<UPDATED: Now has Audible link to Alexa Thyme book 1.>>>>
Good morning everyone,
The Choose your own Writathon Entry is over and you have spoken.
You all have voted and by on overwhelming majority we will see 55,555 words of Augmented Aspects grace our screens this month for the April Writathon.
Thank you all so much for your support during this time and know that with Aug...
2024-03-25 08:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post<<<<Author's Note: There was a slight change to the number of days remaining before the wedding. The number of days away is now 15 (versus previously published 25). Also all references to the consummation of the actual marriage will be recorded/provided via a silhouette. Everything else is roughly the same other than the wedding being moved up to a more immediate time frame. >>>>
Prologue VI
“All right every...
2024-03-24 12:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4
As a seasoned professional I immediately ran through a hundred or so scenarios, and seemed to come to one that made the most immediate sense right off the bat. Namely, I ran. Turned tail and ran away completely. From everything this seemed to be the best course of action as the combat sentinel didn’t seem to have any of the long-distance weaponry that I have come to associate with the ancients.
While I might have misjudged my efficacy of provi...
2024-03-24 11:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29
“What happened?” Frank asked, though based on the way everyone broke eye contact with him, he assumed something had happened.
That and the fact that he was clearly strapped down to a metal gurney, the same type that had been previously used to hold an elder vampire still, while people tried to cut through her layers of crystallized dark matter and it became clear that something had clearly gone wrong. Or maybe this was just the...
2024-03-23 18:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28
Frank awoke to once again find himself in a room filled with dark energy. Just as before it was a matter of pulling in the dark energy deep inside himself and holding onto it tightly.
The only real difference between this time and last time was the sheer volume of energy that he was expected to remove and condense.
Before he could start, he felt a surge of violent energy being forced into his body.
At first...
2024-03-23 15:51:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3
Thrum.
A beat, a deep electrical beat in my very soul. If this is a game then I don’t want to wake up, as this is so real, so vibrant. Even the unmistakable cling of moisture in the air all gives layers upon layers to the one fact that this is real. Or at least my brain is interpreting it as being real.
Moving forward, my feet move with deft yet solid steps. I am big enough to break branches if I should step on them...
2024-03-23 04:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
Laura, or what remained of Laura followed her heart. Rather than following the path of the ill-fated Von’Roseblade retainer Karen and following the script as she had done a million times before. This time Laura was able to choose the direction she would go in, this time she chose to take the new, yet oddly familiar path of creating Karen’s own destiny.
Fueled by her innately over powered and obsessive study of the spells, lore, ...
2024-03-23 02:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1
Laura awoke, clutching her face as she was still panting violently clutching at her eyes that had just had shards of broken microwave door slammed into her eyes. This was of course after apparently having been so distracted by reading the latest chapter of her favorite web novel that she inadvertently left her keys and an aluminum wrapped leftover sandwich in the microwave for almost two minutes.
Idly she had set the timer and walked away, which...
2024-03-23 02:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostUFF: How I Got Friend Zoned In An Otome Game (BLURB)
The dream world, a utopia of magic, quests, kings and princesses, all set in a fantasy world where Academy dating was the one and only chance to find true love and adventure. This was the dream world for Laura who grew up reading about many worlds, but ultimately fell in love with the world of To Love An Empire, the story about how one woman set to inherit a dying kingdom must go to a magic academy where ...
2024-03-23 02:50:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I managed to work ahead, meet my personal quota of seven chapters for the week.
Then I realized if I gave up more sleep, I could try to start a new project.
So as a fun idea I thought "wouldn't it be fun to do a stuck in Otome story, but as one of the side characters."
Not like the typical Otome stories where the MC is either the main character, or the villain/villainess.
Rather this is one of those stories where the MC is the Ugly Fat Friend...
Chapter 55
Mission Complete
(Hasty)
Exhale.
Finally, after years of being stuck. After years of being told she had messed up, that she would never be able to achieve the next phase of existence she did it, Hasty managed to finally make it through her bottleneck and become a Tier II Reaper, whatever that meant.
Actually, just being able to know that she wasn’t alone was a relief in and of itself. For the first few years, being ...
2024-03-22 04:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54
Paranormal Meetings
(Darcy Renolds)
Anytime you have so many excited teenagers in one area you are bound to get nervous tension and drama. Add to that the idea that by being the one who gets seen by the pop icon would get the dream job of being given backstage passes, admittance to the tour and more.
Tension.
Having arrived so early, people found themselves shifting uncomfortably from foot to foot. Women ...
2024-03-20 03:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue V
“Hello everyone, welcome to Larry Presents BiPrism Podcast, where I present to you all things BiPrism. Today I have the best BiPrism remix of the week, featuring the work of everyone’s favorite spell caster Cassiopeia Spiritlight to the track of War Pigs, by Black Sabbath, hope you enjoy.” Larry the Intern begins.
As he is done talking his head shrinks to the bottom right as the main screen fills up with the images of Casseopeia Spiritlight on floor 210. ...
2024-03-17 23:31:43 +0000 UTC View Post