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AN: Double upload! YAY! I am ded.
“How would you test me, then,” Irwyn grinned ever so slightly. He was, of course, confident. Maybe it was ego but he was quite sure basically no one could pass any magical criteria he didn’t. At least not at his age.
“I come from a simple people, Irwyn,” the ambassador nodded. “We face the raging storm and the worthy return to speak of it.”
“Very well,” Irwy...
2023-08-31 03:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe last chapter was an intermission, you can read it here if you missed it.
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AN: A bit later than I had wanted but it is a long one. I think I will be able to get the second chapter out o...
Last chapter was an intermission - Click here if you missed it.
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AN: So, our garage was flooded Monday which has been an absolute nig...
Last chapter was an intermission - Click here if you missed it.
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AN: Really bad week for my insomnia - I write at 6am. Anyway, enjoy.
Just a few more details and it would be done. The Duchess Avys von Blackburg walked around the maid wearing a lavish avant-garde green dress, checking each ...
2023-08-14 03:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis is being posted together with the chapter. It's mostly about schedulling so if you don't care just go to the other post.
So, for anyone who might have missed it, I wrote at the end of the last chapter that I would take a break for 1-2 uploads as it was the end of volume 2 and start doing 1 monthly break to reach a better spot with burnout. Well, I decided to do one now and anticipate to take one more on the 19th as something in-between the monthly break and the second half of the v...
2023-08-10 02:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis is being posted together with a scheduling update. For that go to the other post
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AN: ^ So, I found out my pinned 'read me' is apparently not pinned for at least some people on mobile and this is a good time for me explain what this 'difference' thing at the start of every chapter means. It's basically here because Patreon is a bad platform with basically no text editing options, to the point you cannot ...
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AN: Here is the promised megachapter. No good halfway point to cut it off but it's well over the size of 2 regular chapters, very close to 3. I will have to figure out what to do with it on RR when it gets there. But that's an about-a-month-in-the-future-me's problem. Right now me has been editing for several hours and is tired. I hope that Patreon didn't decide to randomly delete too many spaces after pasted italic text as it loves to do since it is much harder t...
Sorry about the silence and delays. I have, as of right now, finished writing a 8k word chapter. That is, 8k before first edits which usually make them noticeably longer. It might very well reach 9k before I am happy with it to equal the 3 uploads that should have happened in the meantime. I see no good cut-off point without a lackluster cliffhanger so I will upload it as one chapter.
With that said it is coming tomorrow. Thank you for your patience with my subpar personality.
2023-08-02 03:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post2/2
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AN: Took me a bit longer to finish up but it's out and nearing 4k words. Enjoy.
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Five minutes later Irwyn stood in front of the debris of the fallen roof, staring at it intently. A mage whose name he had already forgotten - or perhaps just never heard - stood next to him mumbling a long incantation Irwyn was not paying much attention to.
A few people were standing around. Almost all of them were associated with the Guild thou...
2023-07-23 04:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post1/2
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AN: Alright, this has been - obviously - a bad week for me. However, I have 2 chapters ready at least. Writing out of order again and some spots of writer's block. I am still finishing up the second but both will be on the longer side.
Now, book 2 is coming to a natural ending point soon. I am not sure how many more chapters, and wouldn't say if I did, however, it will be soon. After that is done I want to take a week off. For one to reset since I have...
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AN: *tired noises*
Irwyn sat up, confused. His head felt blurry as memories returned. It took him a moment to realize that he had been in the middle of fighting the undead. Then another for his head to snap towards his arm.
It was still there. Or perhaps there again as his sleeve was missing, exposing his - frankly subpar - arm muscles. He stared roughly where his wound would have been but saw no obvious issue. Felt nothing wrong.
“I...
2023-07-14 03:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: I ended up rewriting a big chunk of this chapter. I usually avoid rewrites since I generally spot bad ideas no more than a hundred or two words in, this time it was well over a thousand of a different POV that just didn't feel right. I think it's better for not having it but yeah, sorry about the delay.
It had been just a hum at first. Elizabeth as well as the quickly gathering officers stared at Irwy...
2023-07-10 03:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: This week not going the best so far. I console myself that I am at least keeping up with 2 chapters a week even if there had been some delays. Anyway, enjoy the chapter. Next is a regular upload on Saturday.
The march was mayhem. It began fine enough right after leaving the original compound, however, that did not last long. Undead ambushes started appearing behind literally every corner and it was a clown car of horrors: Venomous moles diggin...
2023-07-07 02:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: So, I am a moron and forgot to click the big 'publish now' button on Saturday, then didn't notice until today... Sleep deprivation is truly an experience. At that point, I figured I might as well do both at once. I was gonna do a double chapter but ended up not making it on time.
So, Saturday's missed chapter now, Tuesday's chapter tomorrow with extra length for the delay.
I feel like an idiot that this keeps happening for the Tuesday releases but ye...
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An: Interview went well enough, though I got some pretty bad personal news afterwards. Later my good friend got me to play Teamfight tactics with them since we were both free which turned into a 6 hour duo queue session. Which was fun but now I am finishing this up at 7am and dead tired. It probably needs a second editing pass tomorrow if you are patient. Anyway, enjoy.
“The smell is becoming constant,” Irwyn frowned, he had k...
2023-06-29 04:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, I have an important interview at 8am tomorrow morning which means I cannot really stay until 3-5am to finish the chapter as I often do when behind schedule. My current draft is only at half length so I will move it to tomorrow and most likely make it longer as an apology.
2023-06-27 21:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Small
AN: I was planning to portray the events of this chapter differently... but inspiration struct and I am quite happy with how it turned out. Anyway, enjoy.
Dervish stared through the floors and walls into the dissipating presence of the Temporal beacon. That was not good. Not good at all. For their foes to disable it they must have full control of the mayor. Full control of the living mayor, that is. There were precautions in place ...
2023-06-25 03:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: As I posted yesterday, half a day delayed for a longer chapter. Saturday will be business as usual. Enjoy.
They were not far away, less than five minutes of walking. Much less when they ran. A few minutes was still a long way to travel through after something happened. They had to go a good distance down the main street before leaving for one of the side ones. Desir’s spot was not in an abandoned crevice like the warehouse they had ...
2023-06-21 14:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: minimal
AN: The plural of Passerby is... Passerby. I am fucking baffled. How is it not passerbys or passerbies? Idk. On a different note, I will be running a short dnd campaign for my friends. Since I am making pretty detailed notes already, I was thinking of maybe turning it into a bit of a bootleg module. Would anyone be interested if I made it into a free Patreon extra content? Anyway, here is the chapter.
It turned out to be surprisingly difficult to ...
2023-06-18 05:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: minimal
AN: A bit shorter today since it's 3am and I am way too tired. If things go right Saturday will be longer to compensate. Things in the story are going to be coming to a big twist relatively soon. I wonder, have you spotted the hints?
In other news, I started a small side project for the RR magazine contest. You can check it out 2023-06-14 02:02:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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The warehouse was, indeed, remote. So remote that the duo got lost on their way. Twice. It hid right under the floor of the third level of the inner city, however, could not be accessed from that floor. Instead, after minutes of futile searching, they had to go downstairs and find a stairway up. Unfortunately, not all the way up as the stairs ended on the floor below where they actually wanted to go so they spent another while wandering arou...
2023-06-11 02:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: A few hours later than I wanted to. I did a lot of fact checking for this one. In fact, I had to buy RR author premium so I could search FactCheck a name. Honestly, I have been meaning to get that for like a year now so that's probably a good thing. Also, it's over 4k words though so do enjoy.
In other news I wrote the first chapter to a short side project on RR. It's still awaiting approval but there should be more by Saturday. I deci...
2023-06-07 02:41:58 +0000 UTC View Post3/3
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Irwyn realized he had missed this place. The wondrous training hall with magic that he could still not quite understand despite all the progress he had made was the exact same as the last time he had been there. Perhaps not even dust was allowed to fall. At least nowadays he felt the intangible strings of magic grasping onto him, connecting and affecting him. But these were unlike the magic he used. They were… di...
2023-06-04 03:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post2/3
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“I had no idea you were back,” Irwyn shook his head, somewhat regaining his composure and fully standing back up rather than continuing to lean on the wall.
“Well, I did just return,” she shrugged. That suggested she did not have any actual dutiesthat needed to be attended to first. Though, in all honesty, Irwyn would have already guessed that much if he had to. “So, am I reading this wrong or did you actually manage to fi...
2023-06-04 00:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post1/3
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AN: So, this has been a bit of a fuckup. I will add a full explanation at the end of the third chapter along with a TLDR since I don't want this AN to be ultra long. I am still editing 32 and 33 but both should be out within 2 hours-ish. Also, I literally wrote the edit notice below 2 weeks ago before stuff happened so take it with that in mind.
Edit notice! Sometimes I slip up and need a slight retcon. This is more of a fo...
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AN: As I said in the last post, this is a long one. It also might not be chronologically here. On RR it will be almost certainly uploaded a few regular chapters later to better match the timeline but I don't want to keep holding on to it here.
As I have mentioned, this is probably the last POV change for book 2 unless there I spot a really good opportunity. Either way, enjoy.
Alice snuck out of her room in the early morning with practiced...
2023-05-08 20:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post1/2
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AN: It took longer than I had hoped, however, here is the double upload. The next chapter is an interlude and I will have something more to say there, however, these two chapters are pretty chunky, being 4000 and 5000 words long. Enjoy.
Irwyn slowed down and made sure he was not staring directly at the man, though they seemed to not be paying particular attention to their surroundings. Irwyn was thinking about whether and how to approach, h...
2023-05-08 20:01:20 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: minimal
AN: Sorry about the delays. I ended up writing an intermission I cannot post yet first again. However, I have that and half the next chapter finished so I will aim to upload them both tomorrow. As I mentioned, possibly last POV change for volume/part/book 2 unless I spot some particularly good opportunity for another. Enjoy the chapter.
Irwyn found a certain amount of fascination in the environment of the mall’s top floor. It was really more of ...
2023-05-06 20:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostDifference: Minimal
AN: Wow, I guess that I am just physically incapable of being productive before 3am nowadays. On a different note, I am writing another intermission, probably the last for a long while; maybe all the way until the end of volume 2. Not sure if that will be the next chapter or even in the next several since I have to figure out the timing rather precisely to avoid any plot holes. Anyway, enjoy the chapter, it's a fair bit...
The previous chapter had been an intermission. In case you missed it, you can find it here.
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AN: Ugh, I should have been able to finish this one on Friday. Sorry about the delays. I kept putting off fact-checking previous my points for literal days even though it literally took me 5ish minutes. Anyway, I am probabl...