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The Good Life: Intermission (ch. 30)

“You're a monster,” Asami Sato greeted me, her glare sharp enough to cut. I simply smiled, kicking my feet up on the coffee table with my arms open wide on the couch that I was lounging on. It was surprisingly comfy. It had taken a little finagling to get Asami in the same room with me -- as one would expect, she was a busy bee now that her company was policing America. And it had quite the first challenge to overcome.

“I noticed Rumi isn't here,” I replied, letting the insult r...

The Good Life: Setting the Final Stage (ch. 29)

“Your bluff worked exceptionally well,” Robin remarked, seated at a table before she took a small sip from a steaming tea cup. We had ended up relocating to Queens since the island of Manhattan had essentially become a lawless state. After the fight, the military was arranging for a full on evacuation of the island, but it wasn't that easy to move a couple million people. Especially when quite a few of them were currently deaf.  It also didn't help that just as many people were enter...

The Good Life: First Amongst Equals (ch. 28)

Pain wasn't something that Homelander had much experience with. He had memories of it, from back when he was a small child, where they tested the limits of his durability. By the time he was thirteen, he had taken an ICBM to the chest and only had some bruises to show for it. He wondered what Dr. Vogelbaum would have to say about it -- that he had grown even more durable over the past twenty years.

Homelander reached up, tracing a finger over the singed flesh -- it was more of ...

The Good Life: A Lone Sea (ch. 27)

Life had been less than kind to Robin, she knew. There were a great many points that she could use as a point of reference -- her mother leaving her behind for years on end, to the point that neither of them had been able to recognize one another when they finally met. The ostracization she had faced due to her Devil Fruit abilities… that isolation which compelled her to spend most of her time in the libraries of Ohara. A distraction so she wouldn't feel the intense loneliness that had plag...

Legends Never Die: The Masks We Wear (ch. 64)

Hadi Husain really wasn't sure how he ended up being important enough to be invited to a meeting of commanders under the watch of Admiral Mustapha Jabour. He came from a middling family of little acclaim, he was in his late teens and the only reason he was a commander at all was because of a favor owed to his father. Unless his father had far greater connections than Hadi ever suspected, he should be well below notice of just about everyone in this room.

And that's how he liked it.

Legends Never Die: The Art of Misdirection (ch. 63)

By the end of the first week, most of the pirates had spilled their guts about everything they knew. The crew might not have a complete picture of everything, but there were few places more difficult to keep a secret than on a ship at sea. Eventually, someone would see or hear something. When the first few broke, it urged the others to because, if they didn't, the information that they had would be worthless.

In the end, the pirates were a greedy lot. They had no real loyalty toward one...

Legends Never Die: Necessary Measures (ch. 62)

The situation was less than ideal, with Strategos Tatzates leaving Crete almost as soon as he’d arrived, taking his loot with him. He clearly anticipated a quick response over the contested island and wanted nothing to do with the battle to come, with my scout ships reporting that he was already sailing home. His motives were a simple thing to puzzle out in hindsight -- he wanted the credit for cleaning up the pirates, and for Strategos Michael Lachanodrakon to suffer from the ensuing raids...

Legends Never Die: Endevaors (ch. 61)

Greek Fire, I learned it was called. A secret weapon that had been used by the Romans for nearly a century, and it was a secret that they guarded jealously. For good reason too. A few ships outfitted with the substance could completely change the course of a naval battle -- there were few things more deadly to a ship than fire itself. More than that, it was something that was rarely used to ensure that the Romans enemies never got the chance to steal it or adapt to its use in battle.

Th...

Christmas break

Hello everyone, a small update to let everyone know that I will be taking some time off for Christmas break. Things around this time of year are generally pretty busy for me between family, work, and in this case, a project that I've been working on that I'm looking to unveil at the start of next year. 

So, there will be no updates between December 17th to the 31st. I don't usually take two weeks off, but I could use the additional week to polish off the project and to recharge my ...

Never Fade Away: I Want To Stay At Your House (ch. 51)

“Woohoo-wheee, now I know Nora ain't the only feelin’ festive, so I'll try to keep this quick.

Operation Duck Hunt went well, and I hope we all bagged a couple birds before the end, but no one can deny who got the biggest one. L may as well stand for Looney Tunes cuz he rode a fuckin’ rocket right into the bird's nest and blew it to smithereens, before pulling out a pistol the size of a building and shootin’ down the ship they sent down after!

Jammers...