Here's the May update schedule, helps me gather my thoughts so I'll keep doing it.
Tier 1/2:
1.5 Harry Evans
3.5 announcement POV
5.5 Video Game Cultivator
8.5 Rattata
11.5 Harry Evans
15.5 Video Game Cultivator
21.5 Harry Evans
23.5 Rattata
25.5 Video Game Cultivator
29.5 Update Schedule June
Tier 3:
2.5 Rattata 57: Rotten Luck
3.5 announcement POV
5.5 Harry Evans 119: Ascension
7.5 Video Game Cul...
2025-04-29 09:41:27 +0000 UTC View PostBy most standards, Jin was not a particularly good cultivator. Up until this point, he had worked too much on scenarios, rather than cultivation. When he did have time off from the former, he generally sat in a nature clearing staring at a single blade of grass with his improved vision.
Or he was stuffing his face on the delicious food in the mess hall and then burning it off with the rigorous physical training he was forced to undergo due to Flower’s insistence that he be a half-dece...
2025-04-28 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI found the clues I was looking for. A light in the dark. I see now that Hogwarts teaches a limited view of magic. What are spells but rituals simplified into words and gestures and expressed through a wood and magical core combination attuned to the caster? What are potions other than symbolic recombinations of ingredients to achieve different effects?
Just because there’s no ritual circle present doesn’t make the magic non-ritualistic; dark magic is also cast with a w...
2025-04-26 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe fact that a unicorn had been killed in the forest wasn’t something that managed to reach the student population in the next few days. Ha
The fact that a unicorn had been killed in the forest wasn’t something that managed to reach the student population in the next few days. Harry guessed that Dumbledore and the staff, who doubtlessly knew, considered that information to be on a more need-to-know basis, and the student body didn’t need to know.
Harry snorted at the fact t...
2025-04-22 02:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJin proudly looked down on the three softly glowing Illusion Rooms in front of him.
Dragonslayer Ornstein, Outlast, The Last of Us.
Thus, the trio was complete, even if one of the three was not like the others…
Over the last several days, he had been going over the rooms with Hashimi and Fracis, applying whatever last fixes and minor touch-ups he could.
Now, it was finally time to submit the scenarios to the library so that they could start generating sect c...
2025-04-19 02:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter awkwardly apologising to everyone in the private viewing box for the incident, Joey finally sat down just as the crowd started cheerin
After awkwardly apologising to everyone in the private viewing box for the incident, Joey finally sat down just as the crowd started cheering for the two members of the Elite Four who emerged from opposite sides of the arena.
It was a standard gravelly battlefield, but the crowd was hyped nonetheless. Large sections were either holding up fla...
2025-04-17 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeans against a barcounter to talk to you, "Heeyyy-" slips and falls, gets up, looks around with a red face. Sees you looking at him unimpressed, leaves.
What's up guys? I'm doing fine, doing fine. Gonna finish writing my thesis 1st of June, handing that in, boss. I lined myself up for a part-time job at a small UX design company. Gotta pay those bills and have a backup option in case Patreon ever goes bust (please don't, I just signed a mortgage).
After I'm done with university...
2025-04-15 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up today feeling happy. I don’t know why. My stomach is heavier than ever before, and I feel like I’m bloated with all the world’s il
I woke up today feeling happy. I don’t know why. My stomach is heavier than ever before, and I feel like I’m bloated with all the world’s ills.
Pandora’s box is in my womb, and I am just waiting for it to release something beautiful rather than something horrible. Or will it be something horrible rather than b...
2025-04-13 02:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJin stared at Francis as the man emerged from the Outlast Illusion Room with a pallid and constipated look on his face.
“That should be the last of the minor fixes,” the older inner disciple muttered and warily backed away from the artefact he’d just been working on as if he were afraid it would bite him.
“So the sound synchronisation is fixed?” Jin asked curiously. There had been a variety of very minor issues present in his Outlast scenario that he hadn’t known to lo...
2025-04-10 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostKanto → Elite Four → Challenges
Topic: Bruno vs. Blaine
Original Poster: Curious bystander (League Illuminati member)
So, it's official. We've been eating good for the first time after several years. Lance challenging the Elite Four for a spot finally rattled things awake in this dusty Pryce era. He beat Bruno, and maybe because he's seeking a rematch, Bruno now wants to take Blaine's spot. It's unclear how that would actually work, as it could also just bump Lance to t...
2025-04-08 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey, just as an update, thanks to everyone for participating as forum members in the Pokemon world! The chapter in which the forum interlude you've helped co-create appears in will appear tomorrow for Tier 3. Chapter 55. Then after that we get to the actual battle between Bruno and Blaine.
As for the poll, the POV with the most votes was from the gambling association of Kanto, which is a weird take I never would have come up with, so thank you Desidia and nasapeepolover16 for coming up...
2025-04-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHarry broke off the conversation with the fascinating Ravarena to gather himself, which he needed to do because his whole world was spinning
Harry broke off the conversation with the fascinating Ravarena to gather himself, which he needed to do because his whole world was spinning.
Why were there so many Grindelwald supporters here? This was like going to rural Austria and getting a Hitler salute back if you did one at a bar with primarily old people.
He paused. “Wait, you...
2025-04-04 02:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: So, I recently go this idea and thought I'd float it past everyone. If anyone responds I'll do it again in the future, if not, not. I occasionally make little forum interludes for my Rattata fanfic (never a full chapter), and then it struck me that it would be a great idea to give people the opportunity to say what they think about the story by inserting themselves into the story as participants.
In lieu of not having a template to riff off of, I'll just post the origin...
Whatever bustling activity and panic emerged from the murder of the only man immune to the virus in the sect and army leadership did not reach Jin’s relatively isolated position in the inner ring. His contribution to whatever would happen with his Illusion Room, and more importantly, the war, was now officially over. And, well, he had other priorities than staying updated on the latest gossip.
“Are you sure you’re alright?” Francis asked confusedly as he looked at the severely b...
2025-03-31 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a sort of masochism to reading the words of your own teenage mother who had died under horrendous circumstances. But just like whe
There was a sort of masochism to reading the words of your own teenage mother who had died under horrendous circumstances.
But just like when one was watching a train crash, it was impossible to look away.
It drained Harry to read it, so he couldn’t do so much, so he made sure to read at least a few entries every day.
If one too...
2025-03-29 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate schedule last month was mostly accurate, with some deviations of one or two days. I find the schedule useful since it helps keep me in track, so here's the one for April
Tier 1/2:
1.4 Harry Evans
3.4 Rattata reader participation event! Forum Interlude
5.4 Video Game Cultivator
8.4 Rattata
11.4 Harry Evans
15.4 Video Game Cultivator
21.4 Harry Evans
23.4 Rattata
25.4 Video Game Cultivator
29.4 Next Schedule update
T...
2025-03-28 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Wanted to bring this one for april’s fools so I tried my hand at comedy, didn’t work out schedule wise so it comes 6 days earlier.
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Joey sighed as he recalled the passed-out Misdreavus.
On the other side of the impromptu battlefield, David recalled his own knocked-out Pokemon, his Wartortle.
The boy angrily closed down the Pokenav that had just finished recording the results of the battle and almost looked like he would shout something before he simply shook...
2025-03-26 03:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing the suggestions post which has now gathered a lot of options, here's the poll :)
2025-03-24 10:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostJin idly flipped the jade slip in his hand up and watched it fly high up into the air before falling back down into his hand. He had to squint to look at it as it reflected the sunlight like a motherfucker. The thing stored sect points, and the more it had, the brighter it was.
Suffice it to say, after sharing the victory with Lung Junior, the thing was full to bursting.
“Will you stop doing that already?” Hashimi asked from next to him, where she was sketching a dragon’s sk...
2025-03-22 03:00:08 +0000 UTC View Postedited by Q Trigger warnings: depressing topics, mentions of SA A day after Christmas, Harry was sitting on the couch in the living room, fi
edited by Q
Trigger warnings: depressing topics, mentions of SA
A day after Christmas, Harry was sitting on the couch in the living room, fiddling with a letter.
It was the letter that Snape had given him back at the Christmas party, but it wasn’t only that. It was also a portkey which he’d analysed thoroughly before actively ...
2025-03-20 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostGive me your ideas for the Rattata interlude, poll in a few days by paid members then!
2025-03-18 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEdited by Q As had been the case in his previous life, albeit now it was happening at a much younger physical age, Harry’s Christmas vacatio
Edited by Q
As had been the case in his previous life, albeit now it was happening at a much younger physical age, Harry’s Christmas vacation was slowly being butchered and partitioned between various shareholders and squeezed for whatever it was worth.
Firstly, it was being sabotaged by his interest in self-improvement. Christmas w...
2025-03-16 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I vote to extend the decision for two weeks, giving the disciples enough time to retouch on their enemy typings,” Elder Lung said stubbornly once the core jury team had absconded to a pagoda on top of the mountain.
“Respectfully speaking,” General Shroud said. “If we do not start training soldiers now, we will miss the time window when such training would have value. I refuse.”
“It is true that with the new information, all of the scenarios become defunct in functio...
2025-03-12 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe rough waves stirred up from an eastward wind slammed against the barren cliffs south of Pallet.
Joey stood on the rocky outcropping, holding up a pair of binoculars that had been a part of Oak's camping package.
Far away in the distance, not perceivable to the naked eye, lay Cinnabar and its famous volcano. Right now, it was just a tiny dot in the distance, but in a few months, it was the place where he'd get his sixth badge.
"It's cold, isn't it?" Joey asked aloud, shiv...
2025-03-10 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Crazy to think that in my pre-written chapters, this story is now approaching 300k words. Thank you all for your support during this time. To think that two years ago I wrote the attached image plot for the story. All green now, all things that have happened. Someone once asked me to share how I organise my stories (pro tip: I don't) , so here's the pic. Ignore the sidebar.
Anyway, as a way to add benefits, I think that before the Blaine Bruno fight I will make a forum interlude ...
2025-03-08 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was after Dumbledore had disappeared that Harry was stuck sitting behind the desk, wondering what to do. It was perfectly possible that D
It was after Dumbledore had disappeared that Harry was stuck sitting behind the desk, wondering what to do. It was perfectly possible that Dumbledore had left behind some sort of magical listening bug that he wasn't good enough to detect.
Nothing was pinging on his magical sensing, but unlike his occlumency, which he would say was approaching...
2025-03-06 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAll the gathered inner disciples and the sect's elders, plus General Shroud, awkwardly watched on as, after the end of The Last of Us, Elder Lung went on a lengthy diatribe on the faults that he had identified in the work.
Amongst his accusations that it represented a disgrace to all of the principal beliefs of the Illusion Room sect, a waste of time and an uninspired sham, he also added that whoever created it had nothing in their brain other than dust and that the person teaching said...
2025-03-03 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Shroud won by quite a large margin, so I'll start working on that. Rattata next
2025-03-02 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I’ve been trying really hard to set everything up so this doesn’t require much suspense of disbelief, but I had to write this chapter ev
AN: I’ve been trying really hard to set everything up so this doesn’t require much suspense of disbelief, but I had to write this chapter even if someone judges it a misfire. It’’s too badass.
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In the office of the late Lord Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy looked at Dumbledore, Dumbledore looked at Charon, and Ch...
2025-03-01 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAll tiers are thankfully getting the notifications now, but I don't think a monthly update schedule is such a bad idea. Here's the one for march.
Tier 1/2:
1.3 Harry Evans
5.3 Video Game Cultivator
8.3 Rattata
11.3 Harry Evans
15.3 Video Game Cultivator
18.3 Rattata Interlude Query
21.3 Harry Evans
23.3 Rattata
25.3 Video Game Cultivator
27.3 Rattata Interlude Poll
29.3 Next Schedule update
Tier 3:
1.3 Harry E...
2025-02-25 08:20:53 +0000 UTC View Post