Chapter crawls through darkened shell-holes and burrows into the baked mud of abandoned trenches, seeking shelter from the burning sun of an empty battlefield.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/03/23/bedlam-boundary-24-8/
This week's password is: vulpes
Epub version of the chapter is also attached!
With Raine by her side once more, Heather can do anything. Or at least considerably...
2024-03-23 15:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostZombies stir in their slumber, down in the armoured warmth, while predators watch from the black beyond, stalking the mobile fortress.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/03/21/umbra-10-4/
Password is: eugeroic
An epub of the chapter is also attached!
I thiiiiink this might be the halfway point of the arc. Maybe. Perhaps. It depends what certain zombie girls are about to do next, and I ...
2024-03-21 15:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter mounts the hidden stair, climbing through the cavities of time and space, ascending toward the empty tower of the stars.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/03/16/bedlam-boundary-24-7/
This week's password is: expulsion
An epub of the chapter is also attached, as always!
Terror! In the prison! In the underworld! In the darkness!
Ahem.
Yes! Well. Not much else to ...
2024-03-16 15:13:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's it like to be alone in the ashes? Isn't it sad, Serin? Or do you have secret friends, out there in the dark?
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/03/14/umbra-10-3/
Password is: solitaire
Epub version of the chapter is also attached!
Arc 10 continues, as the night shivers and simmers just beyond Pheiri's hull. Elpida's got her work cut out for her, forging these girls into a cohere...
2024-03-14 15:14:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter creeps through the demon-haunted woods, playing a flashlight over dripping vines and soaring trunks, calling softly to the faces in the mist.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/03/09/bedlam-boundary-24-6/
This week's password is: oubliette
Epub of the chapter is also attached!
And onward we go! More arc 24! Heather's got her Raine, got her bearings, and got at least some ki...
2024-03-09 16:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhat manner of scuttling sprite goes bump in the night, deep in Pheiri's mechanical guts?
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/03/07/umbra-10-2/
Password is: symbiont
An epub version of the chapter is also attached!
We return once again to the gloom-shrouded corpse of a wasted earth, wrapped safe in a shell of living steel, for now. Arc 10 is now properly underway! Not much else to...
2024-03-07 16:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter peers through crystal panes, a lurking shadow behind stained glass, stalking the huddled congregation with hungry eyes.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/03/02/bedlam-boundary-24-5/
This week's password is: incorrigible
An epub of the chapter is also attached, if you prefer to read that way!
Another chapter for you all, dear readers! We push deeper and deeper into arc 24. ...
2024-03-02 16:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostEven zombie girls gotta sleep sometime. Wounds to tend, weary heads to rest. And much to explain, in the dead of night.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/02/29/umbra-10-1/
Password is: crepuscular
Epub version of the chapter is also attached!
And we are back! Thank you all so much for your support and patience, dear readers. On with the show!
Arc 10! Sort of the second ... move...
2024-02-29 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter strides the snowy peaks, befriending trolls and icy giants and wind-blown harpies, carrying naught but fistfuls of moss and mud.
http://katalepsis.net/2024/02/24/bedlam-boundary-24-4/
This week's password is: iso-cube
Epub version of the chapter is also attached, as always!
Onward we go! More arc 24! Heather delves deeper into the dreaming darkness, on a quest f...
2024-02-24 16:05:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
This week’s Necroepilogos chapter will be delayed by one week — both the patron advance chapter and the public chapter. Necroepilogos will resume as normal on the 29th of February.
My apologies for this! I really hoped I wasn’t going to have to take this break, which is why I didn’t plan for it last week. Don’t worry; everything behind the scenes is absolutely fine, I’m healthy and well, both myself and the story are in good shape. I ha...
2024-02-19 23:31:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter claws a nest-hole in the chrome flank of the howling tower, to sleep and dream among the sparkling tracery of a distant age.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/02/17/bedlam-boundary-24-3/
This week's password is: carceral
An epub version of the chapter is also attached, as always!
Another chapter for you, dear readers! Heather plunges deeper into this dreamlike prison of th...
2024-02-17 16:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhat dark thoughts stir beneath grave-dirt where all should be still and silent? Let us peer into this empire of worms.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/02/15/interlude-shilu/
Password is: revivication
Epub version is also attached!
Surprise, it's an interlude! An unexpected one, perhaps, from a strange POV. I can't say anything more without spoilers, so, I hope you enjoy, dear ...
2024-02-15 16:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter wanders the banana groves and deep-rot jungles, befriending chrome-encrusted hermits and mechanical spiders, trading secrets for oil and blood.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/02/10/bedlam-boundary-24-2/
This week's password is: visitation
Epub version is also attached, if you want it!
The dream darkens, the walls close in, and reality buckles under the weight of metapho...
2024-02-10 15:54:15 +0000 UTC View PostEven thinking tanks and walking flesh-blossoms need R&R eventually. But the zone is still red-hot and radioactive. Time to retreat.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/02/08/impietas-9-12/
Password is: gametophyte
An epub version of the chapter is also attached, as always!
And with this, arc 9 is done! Well, it should be. That's the plan, as of the time of writing this p...
2024-02-08 16:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter bursts the bonds and shucks the chains, breaks the walls and tears down the fences. Free and loose upon the world, to feast and fight and howl forever.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/02/03/bedlam-boundary-24-1/
This week's password is: immanentize
Epub of the chapter is also attached, as always!
Hahahahahaaaaa! Surprise! It's arc 24! Just to make absolutely certain, for...
2024-02-03 16:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostWe are unmoored.
Unsundered.
Unseen.
Heather? Where did you go?
https://katalepsis.net/2024/02/03/nothing-and-nowhere-and-nowhen/
password is: redshift
An epub is also attached.
(Hello! I am doing something sneaky and special this week! Special formatting tricks. So, just to break the effect very slightly, down here: this is technically chapter 23...
2024-02-03 16:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhat if zombie, but also plant?
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/02/01/impietas-9-11/
Password is: nanosynthesis
Epub is also attached, as always!
Elpida and Pheiri have worked together (with the addition of Howl, of course) to finally give me a handle on the rest of this arc. The next chapter is very likely the last chapter of arc 9, I think! I won't be 100% sure until the words ...
2024-02-01 16:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter sips from the bloodied cup, drinking scarlet life, quaffing great mouthfuls of claret and crimson, until ringed in sticky red.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/01/27/slanting-surfaces-unplumbed-voids-23-7/
This week's password is: loiasis
An epub of the chapter is also attached!
Something Lozzie this way wanders, across the darkened ash and hard-baked ea...
2024-01-27 16:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostLittle Brother to the rescue! Time to lay down some fire support. Let's hope Elpida's a good shot with that main gun.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/01/25/impietas-9-10/
Password is: GFCS
An epub of the chapter is also attached, as always!
I am declaring arc length bankruptcy! Between the last chapter and some of the intended direction, arc 9 has spiraled almost beyond my ...
2024-01-25 15:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter swarms up the temple steps, chasing out the raiders and robbers, howling jungle hymns from the apex of stone.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/01/20/slanting-surfaces-unplumbed-voids-23-6/
This week's password is: breach
Epub version is also attached!
Not much to say this week, except, well, here we go! We are getting into the thick of arc 23 now. ...
2024-01-20 16:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhere did you go, little Howling beast? Are you hiding in the shadows between radio waves, or the gaps between neurons? Elpida misses you already. Come back soon.
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/01/18/impietas-9-9/
Password is: triage
Epub version of the chapter is also attached!
Arc 9 continues, racing through the rot and rubble, just like Pheiri escaping from the backwash ...
2024-01-18 16:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter breaches ancient vaults, voiding graves best left unturned, seeking forbidden secrets in forgotten bones.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/01/13/slanting-surfaces-unplumbed-voids-23-5/
This week's password is: bridgehead
An epub version of the chapter is also attached, as always!
Onward with arc 23! Heather has all her pieces, all her anchors...
2024-01-13 16:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostFlesh flowers free and bone blossoms burst! Life slips the bonds of pain and death, even in this nanomachine waste. But what manner of liveliness crawls free? Let's see!
https://necroepilogos.net/2024/01/11/impietas-9-8/
Password is: rally
An epub version of the chapter is also attached, as usual!
I can't say much this week without spoilers, dear readers! Only that there's severa...
2024-01-11 16:04:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter hurries down dark hallways, blades both slick and red in quivering fists, desperate to keep an appointment with the lonely shadows.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/01/06/slanting-surfaces-unplumbed-voids-23-4/
This week's password is: trio
Epub version also attached!
We're back from Outside! Hooray! Katalepsis continues! Thank you so much for your graci...
2024-01-06 16:08:35 +0000 UTC View PostChange is upon the world; even deep in ash and choking rot, new things may sprout and grow strong.
http://necroepilogos.net/2024/01/04/impietas-9-7/
Password is: doppelganger
Epub version of the chapter is also attached!
And we are back, arisen, resurrected from the tomb once again! Thank you so much for your patience, dear readers, and hey, happy new year!
Arc 9 thick...
2024-01-04 16:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year, dear readers!
I’ve made a post like this on January 1st the last two years running, so I guess this is just a thing that I do now!
Don’t worry — this post won’t contain any important information or schedule changes or anything like that; it’s also quite long, so feel free to skip it! Katalepsis will return from Outside on the 6th of January; Necroepilogos will resurrect on the 4th. I just want to say thank you ...
2024-01-01 00:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter wanders through the marshy mists, legs thick with mud and clinging algae, sharpening its claws on slimy rocks.
https://katalepsis.net/2023/12/23/slanting-surfaces-unplumbed-voids-23-3/
This week's password is: den
Epub version is also attached, as always!
(Chapter link and password will be at the opening of the posts from now on, like above! Patreon...
2023-12-23 16:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostElpida never abandons a lost soul, no matter how deep the mud; but this one is gonna need some digging.
https://necroepilogos.net/2023/12/21/impietas-9-6/
Password is: psychosomatic
An epub version of the chapter is also attached, as always!
(Chapter link and password will be going at the opening of the patreon post from now on, as above! Patreon has apparently changed the ...
2023-12-21 16:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter glides across the jungle canopy, diving between shadow and sunlight, eating bugs and chasing storms, drinking raindrops at the mountain's feet.
Onward we go with arc 23! Heather and the others are putting the pieces in place, prepping their tools, checking their lists, but sooner or later Heather is going to have to make that first dive herself. And everyone else only seems to want to complicate things. Hope you enjoy! And here's that link, as always!
What do you call a pilot in a tank full of orange goop? I don't know, and apparently neither does she.
Can't say anything about this one without dropping spoilers! But before we get on with the show, I want to share this incredible piece of fanart from the discord, inspired by the previous chapter: An Artistic Representation of What Might Be Happening in Orbit, by Melsa Hvarei! And...
2023-12-14 16:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post