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TWO Crisis Core (Interlude unbetaed)

Okay, the chapter has been sent to the betas, they have acknowledged their reception of it...so I suppose the final escalation can begin, no?

Here comes the full Interlude of Crisis Core, the last one in a while, for all the chapters after that should be giving plenty of attention to Taylor/Weaver and everything she is doing in her Sector.

Plus I don't think I am in the mood to write a 54,000 words-long chapter every time, I profundly apologise for my weakness, but as you perfectl...

This isn't a Grudge-Teaser

As the writing is proceeding to its deadly but inevitable conclusion, here is another not-teaser.

It should be the last one before the final draft, which will be sent to the betas and the Commissars (if not necessarily in that order, mind you).

Enjoy these...34,000 words? Yes, in hindsight, I went overboard with the word count.

Again.

Oh, well, what can you do?

Praise the Man-Emperor!

New Map of the Dem-Mârk Exploitation Zone

I think the title explains most of the reason behind this post.

It should be really useful for some reason when it comes to reading the Interlude Crisis Core...

This is not a Comedic Teaser

All right, writing of the chapter Crisis Core continues, with an ungodly word count. The not-teaser is at 25,000 words, the temporary writing has reached 35,000 today, and I hope to finish it by the latest day of the month, meaning it has a good chance of getting way bigger and out of control than even Chaos intended...

Damn you, Tzeentch. You will suffer a thousand times for that.

Anyway.

The battles will continue, and I think this time the last scenes are mostly under cont...

This is not a Core Teaser

All right, I'm back. The writing of the TWO chapter is proggressing...though more slowly than I want. At the time I'm writing those lines, I have only reached the 20,000 words threshold.

This is why I got so long before updating another not-teaser...though you get a 13,000 words-long one today. Hopefully things will get more love from the Gods of Writing, and Tzeentch will eventually stop ruining my inspiration somewhere in the next days. One can dream, after all.

Anyway, remember...

This is not a Sparky Teaser

It was promised, and thus here it comes for the week-end...

The first words of the next TWO update, Crisis Core, are available for your enjoyment (not the one of the main protagonists, who in their great majority don't like the sheer chaos just unleashed...)

Enjoy!

TWO Grudges and Greed

All right. It took more time for the betas than the plan allowed for ( a computer crash got in the way) but the final beta-beta-ing is on the way now. There are still re-readings to do, but you should get TWO 14-2 within 24 hours.

Praise the Man-Emperor!

Since we must continue the good news, I have also been able to begin the map of the Den-Mârk Exploitation Zone where plenty of action did happen in 14-2 and more will happen in the next chapter.

Speaking of said chapter (te...

Cupbearer (An Impractical Guide 36 unbetaed)

All right.

As always, one must deliver a few warnings: youare forbidden to enlist among the ranks of the Grea Penguin's Army, to fight Titans, or to sell your souls to doomed and futile causes where malevolent entities will screw you for eternity.

You will thank the Suicide Squad later for all of that, believe us.

(read the paper handed between two acts)

Oh, dear. Oh dear.

It seems the august Tyrant, in all his benevolence, has decided to push for a re-branding e...

Chapter 35 Titan's Game (An Impractical Guide betaed)

As the writing of Chapter 36 is reaching its inevitable end, it is this time, once again, to update here the betaed Chapter 35, Titan's Game, which will be soon published on all the websites that are not Patreon.

Be careful around penguins, don't forget to pay your Hydra, and praise the madness!

Here we go...

Teaser An Impractical Guide to Gaming

No, Perseus, a teaser can't be about gaming just because the butchery is called a Titan's Game...

Oh, Gods, forget it.

Anyway.

Here are 25,000 words of An Impractical Guide to Godhood as a teaser.

In all likelihood, this is the last one, you will get the full chapter for the next update.

After that, we will finally be able to return to TWO...

Enjoy!

Teaser An Impractical Guide to Godhood 26 August 2025

The madness will continue until the morale will improve!

That, at least, is the guideline one Tyrant has effectively ordered, we will see how long it lasts...

Today's not-teaser gives you the first 18,000 words of chapter 36. Corrected a few things (I curse the autocorrect function for all the cloaks when I want to type 'clock', honestly).

More to come...what else? One of my betas has sent me his version of the TWO chapter, waiting for the other one and working on it at irre...

Teaser Cupbearer 21 August 2025 (An Impractical Guide to Godhood Ch36)

Hello, readers!

Writing is progressing well thanks to the generous blessings of Dionysus (Apollo pretends it is thanks to him, but we all know it is a lie, the Muses otherwise wouldn't smell of alcohol) and as a result, today is granted the pleasure of having a teaser update.

Remember, readers, don't infiltrate a Triumvirate fortress under the advice of the penguins.

Unless you're Perseus 'Kairos the Tyrant' Jackson.

In that case, you can safely forgotten that rule...n...

Announcement Writing Schedule 15/08/2025

Hi, readers!

I am back again, despite the hellish summer warmth best efforts to slay me body and soul (not joking, the weather should be declared a grand heretic, it shouldn't be allowed to get so hot in August).

Anyway, after several days of research, I have realised the inevitable: Tyranny must return sooner than expected.

This is not due to Kairos-Perseus blackmailing me, you understand. Just that the preparations for Arc 4 of The odds were never in my favour are taking a...

Unforgivable - the Dance is not Over chapter 61

Here is the new chapter of the Dance is not Over, titled Unforgivable.

In which the Blacks are really, really not happy at what the Braavosi tried to do with Gulltown...and are not shy telling it to the Sealord and the ruling elites of the Republic.

As for the Greens, they have once more the same old Dornish problem, but under a new form...

To say it is not going to end well...is a powerful understatement.

(due to a free weekend, this chapter will be most likely update...

Writing Announcement 31/07/2025

Readers! What is dead may never die, but rise again, stronger than ever!

As such I have decided that the first story to be updated in August will be the Dance is not Over.

It is time for us to go back to the War of the Beard, which is in the process of escalating into a full-fledged naval conflict in every part of the Narrow Sea...

I haven't yet decided what will come after that. There's a lot of research to do on The odds were never in my favour, because I want the first ch...

Ch34 Betaed - An Impractical Guide to Godhood - Dark Times

All right, here is the properly betaed chapter 34 of An Impractical Guide to Godhood, Dark Times.

I am going to re-read it for the next couple of hours; afterwards it will be updated everywhere.

It is great time everyone witnesses the clash at Manhattan and other 'incidents' where the Suicide Squad was involved...

An Impractical Guide to Godhood ch 35 unbetaed - Titan's Game

The time has come. The mighty Penguin Army is on the march to inflict decisive retribution on the Emus. March, sons of the Ice!

This may be the beginning of the end for many immortals.

Welcome, Fools, to the Titan's Game. Volunteering for this grand carnage is optional. Failing to entertain the Titans is not.

As it is a glorious but typical day, the betaed chapter 34 will follow in another post.

A Last Teaser before the Fall

This, dear readers, should be the last teaser for chapter 35...next update will likely be the complete chapter, Olympus willing.

Remember: if you see the penguins, it's probably already too late.

Remember also that it's not treason against the divine if they wanted to betray you first, it's just a pre-emptive strike. At least, that's what you will be able to argue in court, provided Zeus doesn't incinerate you first under the chief of accusation 'being a filthy troublemaker'.

The Teaser is Madness and filled with Penguins

As should be all things, naturally.

In perfect balance.

With plenty of crazy penguins pulling off insane stunts.

Notice the contradiction between the two statements.

All right, brace yourself for a new teaser...and prepare yourself to praise the awesome majesty of Queen Zenobia the Second. Or else.

As usual, if you're not Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon, don't try to pull most of the stunts you're seeing in this chapter. You're going to die in epically ridiculou...

It was a Teaser Game all along

A new day, a new teaser for an Impractical Guide to Godhood!

This one is 9,500 words-long (includes the words of the previous not-teaser, of course).

Writing is going well, I should have finished the chapter next week (after that, the likely pick-up story will be The Dance is not Over).

All right...let's continue the madness!

Enjoy!

An Impractical Teaser - 13 July 2025

All right, here comes the first teaser for chapter 35 of An Impractical Guide to Godhood.

As mentioned before, the title for this one is Titan's Game.

While I know you want more than anything have news of your beloved Tyrant, for this teaser, you get several Olympus point of views. It will begin to give hints how much Apollo and Artemis have screwed up...

Enjoy!

TWO 14-2 Grudges and Greed

Okay, the chapter is done (at last). Close to three weeks of effort...man, this one was complicated to write.

And as I feared/anticipated, yes, I had to cut what I wanted to write here in two; as it is, the final result is 37,000 words (I leave it to your imagination how big it could have gotten if I didn't stop myself).

Anyway.

Sparks 14-2 Grudges and Greed is here.

The chapter has been sent to the betas, and as I told them, I hope to come back to TWO in September (wh...

The Teaser Before the End - 07 July 2025

This should be the last teaser before the complete chapter (which should be in the vicinity of 36,000 words this time).

Enjoy!

This isn't a teaser - 1 July 2025

All right!

Despite Tzeentch's demonic attempt to increase the heat to an unbearable degree outside (yes, I know it's you, Tzeentch, stop lying about it) the writing of TWO 14-2 is soon reaching its end.

I confirm what I said in a previous post: I am dividing the plan for this update in two. By this point, the word count is of...approximately 34,000 words. There's no way I want to double that (and yes, I know it would come to that, I have acquired a Muse-gifted sixth sense how badl...

This isn't a teaser - 26 June 2025

Right, let us continue this story of not-teaser.

While the writing is progressing better than I expected (it's getting bloody hot most of the day where I live, meaning that sadly I am unable to write during the afternoon, escalation time is in the morning) the word count is as usual extremely long, and I may have to cut the expected chapter in two parts...

You know, better to take that decision before we reach 50K words. Right? Right?

As for other stories, I can probably swe...

This might be a teaser - 21 June 2025

Readers!

Despite the so-called Architect of Fate's attempts to boil me alive and multiple curses targetting the nearby electrical grid, rest assured that the war continues, in a galaxy far, far away.

And what might be a teaser will always arrive at the moment it is supposed to.

Enjoy!

The odds 129 - Battle of the Fates - betaed and completed

All right!

It took me way, way longer than I predicted/expected to write it, but at long last, Battle of the Fates is complete. It seems like these 19,000 words and some were not the easiest to write...but it's done.

You can all enjoy it now.

Now I can temporarily abandon Alex and turn my efforts in the direction of TWO.

Some Grudges await, in a galaxy of eternal war...

The Odds Teaser 8 June 2025

One more teaser (but larger) for The Odds were never in my favour.

With hope, I should have finished the chapter next week, after which I will be free to work on TWO.

All the coughing and other problems have delayed me, but I am beginning to get better, and the Muses are once again demanding more creativity from me...

Teaser The odds 31 May 2025

As promised, here is the first teaser of Chapter 129 of The odds were never in my favour.

It comes to you with 4,000 words, despite the best efforts of Nurgle and his diseases to bring me down.

Anyway.

I am somewhat disappointed in my readers that no one recognised the Small Theatre of Pompei in the last posts. The Tyrant orders everyone involved to be outrageously Booed! (before more proposals of temporary eternal friendships comes in this direction).

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I'm Back

Friends! Readers!

I am back, and I bring urgent news.

You wouldn't believe it, but while I was just doing some innocent tourism, I was able to hear Perseus Jackson, Supreme Tyrant, adress a large audience of penguins into an antique theatre.

This antique theatre, to be clear (the main culprits were alas fleeing already when I took the photo). The details of the plot are unclear; the mad son of Poseidon was swearing eternal friendship and promising them a lot of fishes while ...