Kris Schnee

Video: Solar Power

For those who haven't seen it, this is my summary of my beginner experience with solar power stuff.

Been talking further about this with my more skilled (and heavily invested) friend. He's saying that with the bigger capacity systems, such as an all-in-one Bluetti box that outputs up to 5 KW, there are serious efficiency problems running the inverter. That is, you lose stored energy by running the DC->AC converter all the time, so for someone like me just running a laptop off the inv...

"Rising World 2", 1

Here's the beginning of a direct sequel to "Rising World"! I'm about 8K into this; here's 3K. (Still need to revise "Wings" some more.) This part contains a confusing bit about exactly who is entering/leaving when; will revise.

The audiobook of RW, by Podium Audio, comes out on the 29th. The book's still doing surprisingly well.

Have a good weekend!

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Vonn stood at the entrance to an unholy cavern with his tail bristling, his hands on an air rifle of his own desig...

"The Stars Beneath Me", 1

This is a rough first chapter of a SF novel. You may've seen the early version that was a solo RPG session. This is a rewrite done almost without looking at the old text.

From here, the plan is to completely drop that "terrorists on a space station" storyline and go straight to the school, where the hero trains while laying low and shows that data chip to the leaders, who decipher it and ask if he wants to go on a space adventure. Yes please! The final scene here helps explain why he's ...

Year End

Hello, and thank you again for your support!

Things I've posted this year include the "Wavebound" fantasy series, the very successful fantasy isekai "Rising World", and short stories including several parts of an upcoming "Thousand Tales" story collection. Right now I'm finishing up a 5K+ word story that I promised someone for Christmas; whoo procrastination!

Things that I've got planned for 2022 include:

-A "Thousand Tales" short story collection called "TT: Minus World". T...

RPG Solo Play: "Stars Without Number", 2

I don't expect to post more of this but if anyone's interested, here's the second part of my attempt to play the tabletop RPG "Stars Without Number" and make a story out of it. Would need refinement to be a proper, well written story. So here's part 2 of the adventure of Mephis, teleporting space merchant!

RPG Solo Play: "Stars Without Number"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KNXK3UaJAz_gpqJ5gbfogCKIy42ZyxQPUiuowJ_Jx0o/edit?usp=sharing

This was an experiment in playing the tabletop RPG "Stars Without Number" (by Kevin Crawford; free edition) and writing up the results. It's not up to the quality of a proper story but might be interesting!

"2039: A Moment Of Peace"

I was looking for material for a little game of swapping unfinished stories with other writers, and found this unfinished piece set in the "Thousand Tales" world. Looks like I posted it in one other place a while back.

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(The context of this piece is scenes from two other books:)

Lumina trotted up onto the stage to look out at the ocean. It was like a blank canvas waiting not for the gamemaster to come along and put some quests in it, but for her to create so...

Wavebound 6, Or What?

I got a little carried away and started writing a 6th volume of "Wavebound". Is this something that people would like to see here?

Still need to finish the draft of "Rising World". I've paid a new artist who's done work for me before, so I'm fairly confident that'll work. I also have another, previously unseen fantasy short story I could post. Is there something else you'd particularly want to see?