AbnormalvAverage a.k.a. J.D. Mullenary Sr.

Chapter 54: Meeting Everyone

Walker stepped out of the Cabin with Virgil following close behind. The first thing he noticed was that the smell had changed. It wasn't apparent in his cabin, because he was surrounded by wood of course, but the outside was different. Where the smell of grass had always pervaded Sonata, now a plenitude of new and different flavors struck his senses. He wasn't sure if he liked it.

As he looked around, he found that his moon had aggressively expanded. Not only in size, but in a large amo...

Chapter 53: Wake Up and Smell the Space

From the time Walker passed out until the moment he woke up, events within the Temporal bubble moved on accordingly. There were many highlights, from One losing her arm in the first five days to Hephaeustus declaring a disciple. In the martial tournament of Numbers, Seven won it easily, as close to all knew she would, while Eighteen won the Territorology quiz and Ten scored the highest on the Milestone test. Only a few took Hades' survival gauntlet, with no true winner declared by the end, as...

Chapter 52: My Sapient Academia Part 2

Seven did not, in fact, master Ping Pong. Her heightened athletic skills notwithstanding, Elder Athena slapped her around on the green table, showing an incredible focus while beating her every round. Seven showed a little improvement as she scored a few points, but it was still a sham as far as presenting herself in the best possible light to the golden-dressed woman she admired.

On her fourth loss, the Elder called it, saying she needed to practice more in order to bring her A game. S...

Chapter 51 redux: My Sapient Academia Part 1

Author note: Here's the repost. 200 more words, just explaining things a little. Removed all-powerful as they wouldn't understand that. 

Day 1 (Echidna):

It was a full day before Echidna managed to get the newly produced humans to stop having near-heart attacks whenever one of the elders, or non-newborns, spoke to them directly. They were fine in group conversations, but anytime she directed her speech at them directly, they seemed to freeze up and...

Change to last chapter

Baron pointed out issues with the last chapter I hadn't considered. I'll make them tomorrow, so if you read it already, I'm just going to fully post the updated chapter after and delete the previous version.

Thanks!

Chapter 50: The Time of the Sapients

The two humans were sitting on the floor, blinking as they continued to look around without saying anything. So far, neither had said a word. Walker assumed that they were just trying to get their bearings, but after looking into their eyes...there was something else going on.

He looked at Virgil who towered over them all, "I can't get over how big you are now. You're like a mini-kaiju." He said with a shake of his head. "Hey..." He continued in a small whisper, "They're umm....how do I...

Images for Chapter 49

I'm posting them separately as there are quite a few. 

Chapter 49: Strands, Sapients, and Upgrades

Walker landed on Symphony a little off the ground for once, but his awakened legs took the drop just fine. Springing up faster than he was used to, he did a small hop into the air. Just to lean into it, he threw a fist with the leap, deciding to pretend like it was his intention all along.

"Yeah baby! I told you it would work."

"What did you dooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Virgili screamed out as he stared at his screen. "So much is happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What?" Walker a...

Chapter 48: Currencies and Space

Walker checked over what they'd worked on for the hours he was gone. John had decided to finish codifying the different ways entities could gain a territory based on the collected memories from his Creator.

They'd also started to work on the territories UI, or the user interface. What the Steward or Holder would see...and just as importantly, what they wouldn't be able to...

The Next Two Weeks

Howdy awesome people!

So, I had a bit of a healthscare. Got extremely extremely dehydrated while being sick, really knocked me for a loop. I've made some progress with my current chapter, and hope to have it out today, but it may be delayed...again. 

Starting to dislike the delays enough that I'm going to be writing a ton of chapters over the next two weeks, and scheduling them. 

Because you guys are awesomesauce, I'll be releasing at least three chapter...

Chapers 46+47: The Territory System Parts 2 and 3

Walker's smile graced everyone who came running over. Today was a special day. In the history of his time in the protocol, events on Sonata had always been rather slow, but right now, big things were happening all at once. He could hardly contain himself.

"What have you done now?" Virgil said.

"I started the first territory of course!" Walker said in excitement as he ignored the notification blinking in his overlay, "This way we can look at what the updates are doing in real-time....

Quick Poll

Howdy folks, 

  Lots of updates lately, sorry? Not sure if it's a bad thing or not. 

  I've come to a moment in Creation that I'm having a hard time being able to write at work due to the copious amount of notes I've had to take. But...I still have an extra amount of downtime (testing coming, lots of downtime). So, I figure I'll start working on more Milestones so they're prepped, as well as begin editing my original The Boy and the Stick (...

Quick Heads Up

Aloha friends, 

  So, I'm a little worried about only being able to post one chapter this weekend. I worked late last night, slept, and woke up too early. I'll be working all day Thursday, and most of Saturday. Saturday is my bread and butter day, where I normally get about 8k of my standard 12k each weekend of writing done. 

  If I can release an early chapter prior to Saturday I will. But, this may be a one chapter weekend. The...

Chapter 45: The Territory System Part 1

Authors note: I tried so hard to make this a one-off chapter, no dice. Still, it's exciting stuff...at least to me. Enjoy!

Walker spent some time gathering his thoughts. What was he planning on doing with this, and what were some things he was worried could happen if he didn't place any restrictions at all? Would people build giant torture cities? Prisons? Citadels?

Symphony was meant to be an eternal field of battle. But for harmony, it had to be more as well. There would need to...

The December Newsletter!

Chapter 44: Systems, Systems, and Territories Part 5

Author's Note: I thought it was the last part....it wasn't! I'm sorry! Still, a fun chapter that explains some more of the mystery. Enjoy the early release. I may still have 2 chapters this weekend....it'll be a close thing.

Worked till 9pm last night after starting at 6am. Started at 6am this morning, and I'll be working till 8pm tonight. Blahhhhhhhhh. 

"No, thank you." Walker said in response to her unique question.

"Are you sure?" The dirty blon...

Chapter 43: Systems, Systems, and Territories Part 4

Author's note:Yeah it's long, so what. We're getting into the meat of things.

He knew what he needed to do now. In order for his idea to work, he'd have to make some quick changes to his mostly empty moonlet.

Without talking to anyone, Walker pulled up the Entity subsystem and planted four two-year-old mana trees on Sonata. He placed them in a grid encircling the Tree of the Gods at exacting ratios so they were all equidistant from each other, while also havi...

Chapter 42: Systems, Systems, and Territories Part 3

Authors note: This strangely enough turned into a four-parter. Too much to do, not enough pages to do it in. Either way, this should explain some things, and give a bit of levity. 

Also, I've uploaded the two graphics for the milestones added in this chapter. I tend to try to add at least one per chapter now. Because my next chapter will have a lot of system updates, I'm skipping milestones this time, thus you get two at once now. 

"What do you like to do for ...

Chapter 41: Systems, Systems, and Territories Part 2

Rather than call over Virgil, Walker decided he would do this on his own. He'd already bothered the larger squirrel multiple times in the last hour, and he didn't want to get on his bad side. Who knew what would happen then? Angry chittering? Wait, did Virgil chitter?

Walker considered the question his overlay was presenting him with again. Did he want to merge this system with another, before even starting it? Well, that was an interesting perspective. His goal was to create a Territor...

Chapter 41: Images in case you can't read them

Quick Thanksgiving Update

Hello everyone,

For my non-American patrons, we're in the midst of thanksgiving. I thought I should spend a lot of time with my family this week, and I had a friend who needed some help, so I've lost a lot of the free time I thought I would have. Bad news for my chapters.

Good news is, I'll have a chapter out tomorrow, and I'm aiming for two if possible. First chapter should be around 4k words, or close to 15 pages, second will likely be around the same length. The chapter after t...

Chapter 40 tables: In case you can't read it

Chapter 40: Systems, Systems, and Territories Part 1

It took almost an hour to get Rimi to calm down. Walker truly felt bad for the little guy, and comforted him the way he used to comfort his students going through something traumatic. A pat on the back, words of conciliation, and just waiting for them to speak. No hugs of course, not for a male teacher that is. Cagna took care of that for him luckily enough, wrapping Rimi in a tight hug.

Eventually, the small blue squirrel stopped crying and just talked, working through his grief a litt...

In case you couldn't read the Ranks

Here you go. How the hell am I going to do classes if it's like this? 

Chapter 39: Ranks and Ideas

Walker was still plugging away at the Follower system. He'd made some excellent progress within a short amount of time and looked at the series that had been updating as he went.

Create a Scripture (Complete)

Create a leader for your religion (Complete)

Create a hierarchy of members (Complete)

Assign tasks to your followers (Complete)

Assign rewards for your followers (Complete...