Thresholder, ch 80, Standstill
Apologies for the late chapter, my son has croup, which I guess I always thought was one of those old timey diseases, but is not. He was h...
2023-11-14 06:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thresholder, ch 79, Wanderer on the Ice Planet
Apologies for the late chapter, still catching up from having been sick earlier in the week.
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The dish was imprecise, and the Natrix d...
2023-11-10 03:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 78, Time Marches
Apologies for the schedule slip, hoping to not have the Thursday chapter slip as well. I'm sick, and yesterday had what was either an 'icepick headach...
2023-11-07 20:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostNaNo 2023: Failed First Chapters
Hello there!
I have long been a fan of National Novel Writing Month, and credit it with having increased my output, especially in the early years. In 2010, I wrote 50,000 words of absolute garbage and have done it most years since then in one form or another, sometimes just adding 50,000 words onto an existing work. 2014/2015/2016 were all spent on adding to (and then finishing) The ...
2023-11-03 23:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 77, Interlude: Marjut
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Marjut had done what she did in every world: she went to ground.
The world was an ecumenopolis, a city that had spread to...
2023-11-03 00:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 76, The Clash, pt 2
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“Fire!” shouted Perry. “Hit the sensors!”
Marchand responded by immediately shooting the mech’s single long gun directly at...
2023-10-31 01:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, World 4 Voting, Results!
The voting is concluded!
Some fun stats pulled from the spreadsheet:
- 273 voters!
- 711 votes cast!
- Most people cast only a single vote for their preferred option
- The most number of votes cast was eight (out of ten), which with approval voting means that people were essentially voting for "anything but those"
- Weighting the vote by patron tier... 2023-10-27 21:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Thresholder, ch 75, The Clash, pt 1
Apologies for the cliffhanger, this was one of those chapters that wanted to be REALLY long, and I have made a commitment not to let that ...
2023-10-27 01:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 74, Around the World in Sixty Seconds
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The respite on the Natrix was brief, since Perry had a satellite to launch.
The satellite, Horizon 1, was incredibly crud...
2023-10-23 23:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder Volume 4 Voting Update
The poll is still ongoing, and will end in about a week, probably on Friday. Since the votes are weighted by tier, you can't see the "true" results, but here they are:
I find this useful for a few reasons, but the biggest one is that I was able to immediately stop worrying about a few of these and start...
2023-10-19 23:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 73, Peace in Our Time
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They walked back through the snow, worried about a volley of missiles to their back. Perry had Marchand drive backward, so the gun and most...
2023-10-19 22:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 72, Inner Turmoil, pt 2
Hey, late chapter!
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Perry walked down the hallway, sword drawn, adrenaline pumping. He had March in his ear, but he’d have felt a lo...
2023-10-17 03:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 71, Inner Turmoil, pt 1
Yes, I know about Project Orion.
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As seen from Perry’s mech, the city was virtually invisible, and would have been impos...
2023-10-13 00:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder Volume 4 Voting
Most of this is copy+pasted from the last post, but still relevant here. Last paragraph is new.
This is a poll for volume 4 of Thresholder. Each volume of Thresholder has a different setting, and volume 4 is going to be no different. This is a list of options to vote on. Volume 1 was 28 chapters, Volume 2 was 37 chapters, and I'm hoping that Volume 3 is somewhere between those. With eight chapters done so far, that means that Volume 3 won't conclude for at least another...
2023-10-12 19:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 70, The Great White Wastes
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Perry had never really experienced ‘true’ snow. He’d experience snowfalls, but Tacoma had wet and mild winters, and the snow never st...
2023-10-09 19:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, vol 4 options (non-voting)
This is a list of options for volume 4 of Thresholder. Each volume of Thresholder has a different setting, and volume 4 is going to be no different. This is a non-voting list of options, with the vote coming in a week or so. Volume 1 was 28 chapters, Volume 2 was 37 chapters, and I'm hoping that Volume 3 is somewhere between those. With eight chapters done so far, that means that Volume 3 won't conclude for at least another two months, maybe more, but I would like as much lea...
2023-10-07 19:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 69, Complementary Positions
Nice.
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Perry ended up staying in the penthouse, though he spent little time there. With the sword revealed, he was free to...
2023-10-05 18:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 68, Advantages
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“Alright,” said Perry. “Let’s say we want to help these people, but we don’t want to give them the atom bomb. They ha...
2023-10-02 18:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 67, Crawl
Chapter!
Belated author's note: Volume 3 was the last that I had planned when I was starting this, but there's a good chance that I'll go for fo...
2023-09-28 20:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 66, What's Past is Prologue
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The evacuation from the space station was supposedly orderly. There had been plans in place, along with training and drills, and there were...
2023-09-26 00:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 65, Testament
Late chapter, sorry, but I technically consider anything before midnight my time to be sliding it in before my self-imposed deadline.
<... 2023-09-22 03:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 64, Moving Up
I am back from London! Fighting off jet lag! Enjoy the chapter!
P.S. I will be doing an AMA on /r/ProgressionFantasy tomorrow at 9am...
2023-09-18 22:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 63, Beneath the Metal Skin
Hey, I'm still in London! I'll be back home next week, so the chapter release time should return to "normal". Time zones confuse and enrag...
2023-09-14 14:55:36 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 62, Stations Please, vol 3 start + volume art
Hey! Back from break, though I'm still in London rather than at home, which is why this is being posted at such a weird hour. Volume art s...
2023-09-11 08:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 61, Interlude: Maya
Alright, a reminder that there will be no chapters next week, but that regular posting will start again the week after that, beginning Vol...
2023-08-31 18:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 60, World 4 Epilogue
Thursday's chapter will be an interlude, then there won't be another chapter until the 11th.
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Luo Yanhua wrote a treatise on the werew...
2023-08-28 17:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 59, Sunrise, pt 2 (bonus chapter)
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Perry ran at the grandmaster and whipped his sword sideways, the power armor groaning in protest. When the grandmaster deflected the sword ...
2023-08-26 19:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 58, Sunrise, pt 1
Alright, this chapter ends on a cliffhanger, mostly because it would be ~10K words without being split into two. It's up to you whether yo...
2023-08-25 20:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 57, The Celestial Kingdom
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The former king and his people moved slowly, which was aggravating.
Perry might have described Wu Xianlong as playing too...
2023-08-21 21:56:22 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 56, Allies
Moving forward, chapters will be Monday/Thursday, with any extra chapters being Saturday. I've had other commitments that have left me temporarily ove...
2023-08-17 21:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post