Chapter 164
Worst Birthday Gift Ever Part 2
(Jhonny)
Balls of falling black death, in a gray and dying land, where only crazy Cassiopeia, the Doctor, is capable of standing around without flinching.
Honestly, Jhonny had joined the Midnight Hunters because of how powerful and commanding Mallory was. The fact that she could stand defiantly against any obstacle that came her way, that spoke volumes about not only her character, but also about the people that were willing ...
2023-11-23 12:57:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 163
Worst Birthday Gift Ever Part 1
I have to say, sometimes having friends is the same thing as having enemies that you just can’t get angry at.
Tingle.
My hand burns. In fact, my whole body is now vibrating angrily at a molecular level.
Poof.
Teleport.
I have to be playing the most annoying, single-person, games of hot-potato that I have ever seen.
Poof.
Poof.
Poof....
2023-11-22 01:43:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 22
Synchronizing
(Misha)
Patterns, routines, and above all trusting the known universal truths. These are the things that Misha had long ago accepted as the only way to progress and succeed in life.
In her past lives, she had been a cog in the wheel of consistent gradual improvements. As a Psycher there were known truths, and the most important was the standard and mostly predictable deviations of change.
Recently Misha has had this fundamental understand...
2023-11-20 02:22:59 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 162
Smoke And Death Mirrors
(Mallory)
What do you give someone who can make and do anything they put their mind to? That was what Mallory had found herself asking.
What do you get your best friend, who means the world to you as a birthday gift something that is both meaningful and practical, while not coming across as opulent or wasteful. That was the problem Mallory had found herself in for months, as she wondered what she could get as a gift for Cass that wou...
2023-11-18 19:26:49 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 161
The Art of Deception
There are moments in time, parts of your life where you realize you are too confident, too cocky. Sadly, I found myself in just such a situation at this very moment.
Here I was, hundreds of feet in the air, floating above what was likely hostile territory, going to see a person vaguely referred to as Mr. Bones. A person who has apparently been touted as a hoodoo necromancer, not that I have ever heard of such a deviation of necromancy, but th...
2023-11-18 02:17:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 160
An Impossible Task
It was impossible. Utterly and physically impossible.
The task, the mission I had been given by Mallory, especially about the random subject that popped up. Just thinking back on everything, how we got here, what it all meant, the only thought that could come to my mind right now was how utterly impossible this mission was.
I’ve stolen ten million in currency and experience potions, allegedly that is. I have been linked to but never pro...
2023-11-16 23:38:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 21
Repair Costs
(Frank Grimes)
Frank grew pale as he looked over and saw all the parts that were broken. There was no magic, no deception, just this Phil guy, going through and showing each component that his assistant had pointed out.
The head gasket had a crack right down the center, which of course caused it to leak coolant. After seeing that and realizing that he had apparently been leaking coolant for a while, Frank attributed the smell of burning coolant ...
2023-11-15 20:54:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 159
The Cassie-Do List
“Blah, blah, blah.” The Lich continues to speak, but I don’t really have the patience to pay attention to him.
Since class is over, I had been hoping to try once again to visit Zero, though this meeting went just like the last. I did a Positional Switch, with my First Simulacrum, at which point Zero did manage to say his first words to me. Unfortunately, they were none too flattering and words that I very likely ...
2023-11-13 14:43:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 20
Pruning the Evolutionary Tree
(Misha)
Blinking.
Everything had been so cerebral for Misha.
Even now she was still trying to understand exactly what had happened, or what was still happening.
Physical Characteristics:
Strength: 14.9 / 20 -> 14.9 / 14.9 (Max)
Dexterity: 15.0 / 20
Agility: 15.0 / 20
Stamina: 14.9 /20 -> 14.9 / 14.9 (Max)
First off all it seemed...
2023-11-12 01:42:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 158
Joy and Sadness
Everyone from my morning classes devoted to Qi Manifestation were all working together, doing burpee after burpee with Jhonny. The Lieutenant had long since collapsed into an exhausted pile of bones and barely breathing muscles.
The Lich by now had long since bowed out and just sat at the corner of the classroom, taking in all of my Enchantments that I had woven throughout the open aired space.
The Knight Captain was still technically in the...
2023-11-10 14:05:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 19
Head Games
(Amoni Jacobs)
The game had started just as Amoni and her pack had expected. Well, her pack plus Michelle who was close to becoming part of the pack, but for whatever reason the virus hadn’t spread to her, yet. Michelle, well let’s just say she was a work in progress.
Still, the game began as most anyone would expect.
Amoni and the A-Team dominated the court. They were faster, stronger, and tougher than the team that came before them.
2023-11-09 11:54:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 157
Last Minute Realizations
Speed. Form. Grace.
These were the points I held in my mind as I made wall jump after wall jump, obstacle after obstacle. My point was not to go my fastest, but to go where I could hit every spot fluidly and gracefully.
After passing the Lich, I began letting my body and mind flow in one continuous movement. I didn’t even worry about what the other three people, Jhonny, the Knight Captain, and the Lieutenant were doing. Instead, I...
2023-11-08 10:50:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 18
Meeting the Pack
(Amani Jacobs)
“Ohh, hey girl.”
The voices and annoying cheers of boys and girls alike echoed in the hallways. Hearing them was easy for Amani with her enhanced hearing. If she had tried, she almost felt that she could taste the different pheromones that males and females were giving off.
“Uh, who is that?”
The girls talking sounded both jealous and annoyed by the person they were seeing. Hearing the com...
2023-11-07 12:27:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 156
A Simple Morning Workout
The day started off well enough. The sun rose, at least I assume it did due to the rapid temperature and barometric pressure changes. Animals seemed to be stirring in their pens.
I even got a random visit for Kujo who was trying to provide for his pregnant mate.
A quick curing of the Blighted animal, and duplicate life creation later and I thought life as we knew it would be fine.
Unfortunately, I could not have been ...
2023-11-06 11:58:20 +0000 UTC
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Good Morning everyone,
I first off just wanted to say thank you all for staying with me for another month. As promised earlier this month too will be free, making the next payment due date 1 January 2024 (for the month of December).
A few quick announcements, thank you all for helping and providing feedback for the Writathon book (The Psycher Chronicles) I can't say how much your feedback in all my works means to me.
Also, just an update, the...
2023-11-05 17:02:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 17
Putting the Ass into Assimilation
(Julie)
VROOOMMMMM!
The fully restored 1995 Ford Mustang GT roared to life, every ounce of its V8 engine on full acoustic display for everyone to hear. With the wide-open fields leading from the barn that had long since been modified into a mechanical repair shop that Phil and Julie could work on vehicles together.
Over the course of the summer, Julie had become very accustomed to hearing the purring growl of ...
2023-11-05 14:27:28 +0000 UTC
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Interlude I
(Ten Years Later)
(Lauren)
Lauren stood in the rain in front of a stone. The reason she chose to do this was personal. At first, she made multiple trips a year, but those times slowly stretched out, until now when it had been over a year since she last visited this somber place.
Looking down she saw a giant gauche stone with Cyrillic writing on it. Roughly translated the stone read as the following:
Here Lies Dr. Pamela Grier
Mother...
2023-11-05 05:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 16
Organo-Tech
(Misha)
It was gone, well muted was a better way to put it. Misha’s mind, once her sharpest tool, was heavily worn down. Well worn down by her standards at least, as she could still feel herself slowly gaining control over the alien operating system that was in control over her body. Well not in control of, altering her body was a better way to put it, again this all seemed odd.
If she had to put the exact process into words, it would be that h...
2023-11-04 21:51:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 15
Homecoming
(Andrea)
This time going home couldn’t help but feel failure. While no one would say otherwise, Andrea knew the truth of the situation, that she had failed. At least that is what she told herself.
Honestly, other than Misha, Andrea’s first attempt at adulting was terrible. She had failed at marriage, failed at keeping her daughter safe, and despite knowing that she needed to protect her daughter, she couldn’t help but feel she let her down b...
2023-11-04 05:16:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 14
Not Again
(Andrea)
“Hi mom.” Andrea spoke into the phone.
Just hearing her daughter’s unbridled fear and apprehension in her words caused Julie, Andrea’s mother, to instantly go on alert.
“What is it?” Julie asked, now fully awake despite the late hour.
Silence.
There was a brief pause, just long enough for a mother’s instinct to activate, “everything okay?”
“No,” Andrea replied in a dried soft sob that ...
2023-11-03 12:11:50 +0000 UTC
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Interlude IX
(Cassidy)
The world as she knew it was breaking. Her mother, the center of her world was dying of cancer and there was nothing that she or anyone could do for her.
Father was there, and he was great. Deep down Cassidy knew that her father would give her all the love and affection she could need. But she was greedy, was it greedy to desperately beg and plead for a miracle a cure to come down from the heavens, but nothing ever came.
Just when she was about t...
2023-11-03 01:10:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 13
Automated Naturalization and Terraforming Subsystems (ANTS)
(Misha)
“Don’t give the Aboriginals fire, for they will inevitably burn down their own homes.” -Ancient Psycher proverb.
To say that Misha was shocked to see what the equivalent of a partially detonated and detached warhead of a planetary destroyer was, while on third grade class field trip was an understatement. What was worse was the state that the warhead was in, upon her arrival.<...
2023-11-02 18:52:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 12
ANTS
(Dr. Grier)
The stone reacted every time someone touched it, after so many years of being around the stone and enhancing her own sensitivity to the world of magic, Dr. Grier could tell at least that much, that something was happening.
Originally, the theory was that the stone generated an electromagnetic response within the body, one that resonated on some molecular level that was yet unknown to medical sciences. In fact, many cures and treatments for v...
2023-11-02 12:51:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 155
The Auditors
“So Master, how was your day off?” Jhonny asks, a bit of excitement in his voice as he asks.
We are in our lessons. Now that the troubles with the missing patrols have been settled, and the absence of the King and Princess has been established, I finally have time to go back and do what I want. Which is apparently one-on-one teaching, today, the last day of my three-day break before I go back to teaching full time tomorrow.
With that, I alm...
2023-11-01 12:52:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 11
The World Destroyer
(Dr. Grier)
There was a replica of the ancient lodestar stone, multiple of them in fact. Their purpose, and why the school would have so many was easy to understand. Namely, the school and most importantly its protective faculty didn’t want the lodestar stone to be stolen by anyone who might find the ability to break into their otherwise loosely guarded facility.
In fact, it was only today that the real remains of the planetary destroye...
2023-10-29 13:28:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 154
The Answer
(Mallory)
There are times when you realize that your best friend might just be the death of you. Today was no different, as Cass had somehow managed to trick her into first being furious at the idea that she might have to be violated by some old ghost spirit. To relieved that it was Cass who had somehow managed to trick the system into generating an automatic peace treaty between her guild and the local and overpowered denizens of the reincarnated Deol...
2023-10-28 13:06:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 10
The Giving Tree
(Misha)
“Oh, hello little ones. My name is Doctor Grier, and today I will be escorting you around campus, showing you what is possible if you apply yourself in science and math.” An overly cheerful Dr. Grier greeted. Her words were incongruous to her face, but she had a way about her that set others at ease, despite how she physically presented herself.
Seeing the Doctor, Misha noted that there was likely a heavy use of magic being used. ...
2023-10-27 12:56:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 153
The Challenge
Silence.
The imperial chamber that we were all waiting in felt like the wind had been forcefully sucked out of it, as we all sat and stared, waiting for Mallory’s next words.
With a simple yes, we would have an easy road to peace, a no would mean the war path, and while I was in a prime position to throw the war, that was a lot more work and burden on my conscience than I wanted at this moment.
For now, I just needed Mallory t...
2023-10-27 03:25:25 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everyone,
I wanted to apologize for my slower posting this week. My entire family has been suffering from the Flu, it even took me down for a bit.
That said, I have a LOT of news to go over.
First, just restating that there will not be any payments for October (which would have been paid on 1 November).
Second, I intend to continue this through November (meaning no payments until 1 January 2024).
Third, the cover for Alexa Thyme (Formerly ALEXiThymiA...
2023-10-26 11:27:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 9
The Call
Clink, clatter, clop.
The repetitive shot and make of a basketball flowing through a metal hoop and metal chain linked netting could be heard echoing through the backyard. The sound was so repetitive and persistent that Andrea had mostly gotten used to the sound, figuring it to be therapeutic in a way.
If anything seemed to bother Misha, it never showed in her practice and dedication to getting stronger.
“What is that?” Julie, Andr...
2023-10-25 10:22:06 +0000 UTC
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