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Save State Hero -CH20-

“I just didn’t expect it,” Romina murmured. “I mean… I know she always told us to make a video will just in case. I know she even recorded one.

“Several times, in fact. I was even there for one of them.

“I just never expected it to actually happen. For it to actually be needed. That we’d actually have losses. It just feels surreal.”

“I mean, you’d expect to have casualties going into something like we did,” Edmund muttered. He really didn’t like the...

Save State Hero -Ch 19-

“Oz! What the fuck is going on!?” shouted Edmund over the sound of reality tearing itself asunder.

“This reality has become damaged,” Oz reported. “I’m attempting to correct. I’ve requested assistance.”

“Who the fuck could help with this?!” demanded Edmund watching as the sky was ripped in half and he could see a black inky nothingness beyond it.

Like a hole being poked through a piece of paper.

“Assistance received. Attempting to reintegrate real...

Save State Hero -Ch18-

Edmund found himself staring up at the ceiling.

“Oz?” Edmund said.

“Yes, Edmund?”

“I just did a load on a Save-state. You told me about information loss, reality, blah blah blah, try not to fuck up the world.

“I’ll do my best to make sure I don’t fuck it up, but I… I’m still going to have to reload when I need to reload. I need to know though… was there any information loss?” Edmund asked.

“Checking.”

Edmund rolled out of bed pad...

End of the Year.

Hey Folks!

It's the end of the year.

First... thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Thank you for the support you give me. Whether your a Patroen supporter, an amazon Kindle Unlimited Reader, an audible listener, someone who just buys the books outright, or you just give me written support and 5 stars on reviews.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Without you there'd be no point in writing books at all. If people weren't reading the stories I wanted to write, there...

Save State Hero -Ch17-

“Edmund?” asked Andrea.

“Building directly across. I feel like they’ll ignore it. Assume it’s cleared and fine since it was the last time someone checked it,” he said, glad that he was finally back to the starting point. “That’d be what I’d do but… I’m not a military commander or a soldier.”

Going through the entire walk here he was doing his best to not become impatient. He had to act as if he hadn’t gone through all of this already, otherwise it would l...

News/Update

Not dead, I promise.

Save state is progressing well.

Just... so much holiday junk. That's all. I'll try to get back to a regular posting schedule as quickly as I can and I apologize for the delays.

Save State Hero -ch16-

Edmund was ignoring the radio chatter.

Ignoring Andrea fondling other women.

Ignoring the fact that he could see Felix and Lucille falling through the sky below him.

All of Edmund’s focus was on the Green Dragon who he was strapped to and that they were about to jump out of an airplane. That they were next.

Then they weren’t.

Because they were already falling.

The interior of Edmund’s helmet was a display of what it could see through it’s cameras an...

Save State Hero -Ch15-

Edmund knocked on the door to Felix’s office firmly.

He’d briefly considered going straight in without even bothering to wait but that’d likely cause Felix to shut down. The last thing Edmund needed was Felix not talking to him about what happened.

“Uh… yeah, enter. What… whatever,” mumbled Felix from inside.

Grasping the handle Edmund pushed the door open and stepped inside.

Felix was sitting behind his desk.

Staring at something only he could see ...

Save State Hero -Ch14-

“No,” Edmund said, shaking his head with a fake and forced smile on his face. “No, no, no. Just… leave. No.”

“Yes!” declared Andrea as she looked around his office. “Nnnn… ah! There.”

Moving off to one side she set down a stack of papers on an existing pile. One that was around at the height of Andrea’s hips.

“Andie… what… what are you doing? Why? I can’t get through all this,” whined Edmund with a long sigh.

Looking to the numerous stac...

Save State Hero -CH13-

“I’m going to go talk to Alina before she starts getting all feisty,” Dorothy said and waved the fingers of one hand at him. “Though she’s been listening a lot more than I expected.

“Mind pulling the car through all this as you can? Maybe use the flash-y lights. We still have to get where we were going, don’t we? Jobs not done yet as far as I know.”

Dorothy casually summoned up Spark Friend with a hand gesture. She began picking her way through between the cars tow...

Save State Hero -Ch12-

Edmund opened his eyes and found he was somewhere he didn’t recognize.

Nor did he have a guess as to where he was, either.

It wasn’t a hospital room, or someone’s bedroom.

Nor was it his own home or anywhere else he knew of from friends or work, either. Nothing looked familiar in any regard.

In fact, now that Edmund was actually trying to work his thoughts into some semblance of workable logic, he realized he wasn’t even laying down.

He wasn’t sitting, ...

Save State Hero -Ch11-

“Turn left,” came the automated voice over the car speakers.

“You know… driving off to a battle seems rather mundane,” Dorothy said suddenly, turning to look at Edmund. “But I guess we’re not in a rush since we won’t even be the first people there.”

“More or less. That and… uh… I don’t really wanna repeat what I did last time. That was a really stupid thing to do,” Edmund confessed.

“I didn’t think it was stupid. It was just,” Alina argued. ...

Save State Hero -Ch10-

“She’s meeting us at HQ?” asked Dorothy.

“Yeah. Romina prefers getting things done at Legion locations. When she goes out in public she’s had to be careful about stream crashers,” Edmund said as he eased the car into the false barn. “That and she gets to showcase rather odd things.”

He’d gone ahead and finally moved the timeline up again. After spending cumulatively about five days in resets and reloads he came to the conclusion that whatever happened with his si...

Save State Hero -Ch9-

“Wake up. Do the thing. This is the nice alarm. Remember?” his phone spat out at him.

With a grunt, he rolled over and tapped the button to silence it.

Moving back to the center of his bed in the hotel he let out a long sigh.

The day had been spent with Alina and Dorothy in the end. They hadn’t let him escape and had forced him to lead them around HQ. Then around the city, surrounding areas, and even the small library that he’d met Felix in.

To the point that h...

Save State Hero -Ch8-

Rushing to the back of the car Edmund caught Dorothy’s eyes as he went.

“Dot, stay out here,” Edmund commanded when their eyes met. Then he shoved the helmet down on his head. “Stay out here and wait further instructions. I need to go save Alina and I don’t have time to save you if you come in.”

“I… what?” asked Dorothy, sounding shocked to her core.

“Stay here!” Edmund pleaded and hurried ahead.

Not wasting anymore time, Edmund rushed off back to...

Save State Hero -Ch 7-

Slowly, the police let their weapons fall. Clearly realizing that the recently arrived, and destroyed vehicle, was supposed to be here.

It didn’t hurt that Edmund had his hands up in the “I surrender” type of pose.

“I don’t even know how it’s possible but you drive worse than Daria,” groaned Alina in the back of the car. “She manages to avoid and bounce around everything. You just took the path of least resistance it felt like. You ran over so many bushes and signs...

Save State Hero -Ch6-

Clicking his tongue, Edmund picked up the receiver on the phone and put it to his ear.

“Hey,” he said, feeling very strange with both Alina and Dorothy staring at him.

“Hey hey. Just wanted to… uh… just wanted to chat! Things didn’t really go the way I expected the other day and-well-you know-that… er… yeah. Just wanted to chat.

“You didn’t read the text message so I figured you were at work. Saw you were signed into the system so gave you a call,” expl...

Save State -Ch5-

Edmund waited until five minutes after the stocks had fully closed for the regular market. He didn’t like dealing with after-hours market and preferred to use it as a backstop.

Looking at the screen he memorized the single stock that’d performed over the last thirty days. One that’d started grown considerably and would help Edmund grow his own money.

“Okay… that’s… it I guess. This’ll give me a really great return for what I can liquidate and move,” murmured Edmu...

Save State -CH4-

Sniffing, Edmund lifted his free hand up and rubbed his wrist at his nose. It felt like he was getting a cold.

That and the scent of blood, piss, and shit was a bit overwhelming at the moment.

“Unnngh… uuunnngh… unnngghhh,” groaned someone off to the side.

Edmund looked to his pistol and then thumbed the magazine release. Pulling one of the two extra magazines he carried with him out of his waistband carrier he stuck it into his weapon.

Pushing the release he l...

Save State -CH3-

“What? What the fuck? Are you joking? It just… it just ends with her dying? What the actual fuck? What piece of shit douche bag wrote this?” shrieked Romina. “This is terrible! It’s awful! They should just fucking die!”

“I mean… it’s a story… if they’re trying to provoke a response from you in the telling, I’d say they managed that. They’re not out to hurt you, just get an emotional reaction. You’d forget it if it was boring otherwise,” admonished Edmund. H...

Amazon Review System

Just as a reminder.

5 star is "passing".
4 star is "it's meh"
3 star and below is "please set this author on fire".

This isn't a good system, it isn't fair, but it's how Amazon does it. You can't fight against it, all you can do is review/not review based on that information.

I only mention this because its about time I remind people about the absurdity of the review system. I tend to do it at least once a year.

It's like those customer service reviews where ...

System Overclocked: Live and Releasing tomorrow

System Overclocked is up on Amazon. It releases tonight/tomorrow.

The story of Wrench and his human aquarium in a very hostile and alien universe.

Yes, it's Randi Darren which means it has a few "extra" scenes, though not nearly as many as say Wild Wastes or Fostering Faust.

It's much more similar to an Arand novel if we're being really honest. Much lighter in tone and humor, too.

Audiobook will be 2022-11-10 19:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Save State -Ch2-

Edmund thumbed the ignition button and sat there as the car powered down. The engine shut off, then so did all the panels and accessories that came with modern cars.

Staring at the steering wheel he took several breaths.

Romina was a co-worker.

Someone who’d started working at Legion in what more or less was a Public Relations function. Interacting with the general public and spreading the good word of Legion and everything that it was.

Or more accurately, she was a ...

Save State Hero -CH1-

Sniffling, Edmund coughed, then grabbed a tissue out of the box. Lifting it to his face he dabbed at his nose, then blew hard into it.

Folding it up halfway he wiped at his nose with it again, then flicked it off to the side. It dangled on the edge of the trash-can then fell in.

“Les-go,” Edmund muttered to himself and looked back to the computer.

Blinking several times he tried to remember where he was. Even taking his eyes off the task for as short a period as he did h...

Updates

Alright!

We'll be finishing up System Overclocked on Patreon this week.

We'll also be starting to load chapters from "Save State Hero" this week on patreon. That's Edmund and the convergent point for most of the Super Sales, Wild Wastes, and all the other stuff that's been happening throughout Sovereign-Verse.

As always... here we go. :)

System Overclocked -Ch31-

Over the last three days, Wrench had spent every evening sitting in the field with Stripe.

Talking about the day for both of them, thoughts, beliefs, or what others had been up to.

More often than not, it’d devolved into stories told from one or the other, with Wrench having to tap-dance wildly and quickly a few times. He’d found himself inadvertently telling Stripe a story of a place or time that hadn’t yet occurred.

Forcing him to change the names, circumstances, or ...

Happy Halloween!

I'll try to post a chapter for Wrench tonight, but it being Halloween means the night gets a bit weird. :D

Overclocked -Ch 30-

Yawning, Wrench exited the ducts, moved across the small central area, and entered the pens.

There had indeed been something wrong with the Aerial-Hab.

A number of the connections that were supposed to automatically hook themselves into the rest of the Hab, had failed. Everything on his side was right, and receiving data appropriately. Sending out the required amount of water, oxygen, nitrogen, and food, respectively.

Just not what was actually needed.

Way too much of ...

Overclocked -ch29-

Waving a hand over his head, Wrench exited the cafeteria and then left the pens.

Crossing the small open space to the ducts, he opened the door.

“Wrench, do you uh… have a minute?”

Glancing over his shoulder, he saw Seventh was following him.

“Course. Gotta do some early morning checks though. I wasn’t here for any of the work yesterday. Need to catch up and make sure things are square. I’m sure Gadget and Swifty managed it well but… still gotta check,”...

Overclocked -CH 28-

“There we are,” Goodie murmured, her tentacle having split into six now. She was carefully adjusting the odd device she’d had him put on.

It fit around his torso and abdomen, and felt a lot more like a tight-fitting undershirt rather than a tech device. He could tell just from looking at it though that it wasn’t exactly clothes, but rather that it had been manufactured on top of the fabric.

Circuits, traces, and what looked a lot like pumps or chambers were spread througho...