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Ryn of Avonside Chapter 117

Cream

I became aware of my body first, because it felt weird. Then I realised my brain felt weird, because wow, it was like I was thinking faster and larger than I ever had before. I wiggled in place, feeling for my brothers and sisters, but they weren’t there. Why was I so warm, then?

A tiny little while later, and I realised why, and more importantly, where I was. I was inside a fruit! A really big treat! I laughed at my own silly tr...

Ryn of Avonside Chapter 116

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS WAS FUN TO WRITE. GOD I LOVE BUNS.

On a more serious note, the time is fast approaching when Chiri will be taking the biggest binky over the pacific to join me down here in NZ. If anyone would like to and can do so without putting their own financial situation at risk, she's asking for extra funding and stuff. Here's a copy paste of her message, and thank you so much everyone for supporting me and my stories and ev...

2022-11-24 16:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Ryn of Avonside Chapter 115

Ryn's POV

Grace was in the girl's common area when I got back from the last day of our second week building since Fennimore's attack. She was in the middle of talking to Kelsey, but I didn't pay much attention to what they were saying. I just shot the shorter girl an apologetic look, grabbed my girlfriend's hand, and dragged her towards our bedroom.

"You okay there, Ryn?" She asked, once the door was shut.

"Battery low," I mumbled, and pushed her backwards o...

Story to focus on while my life is turned upside down like the world's messiest pancake flip:

To help inform your decisions, here's a brief and hopefully spoiler-lite overview of where I plan to take each option.

Ryn: A handful more chapters of building the Order and Avonside, along with someone getting Ryn's first magefruit. Then it's time for the first excursion by a group of knights back out into the wider ringworld.

Cottontail: Alien-annihilating mad-max style truckers, slow transition of MC, and punching cyberpunk corporate assholes in the face when they try to pull...

Coven's Rebellion Chapter 3

God, this story is really fucking hard to write for some reason. Huge strugglebus rn, on top of the anxiety I'm dealing with regarding my house. An update on that is that the landlord is at least allowing us to stay here until the end of our lease, but after that we'll need to find a new place. Plan is for Chiri to move over from the states shortly, and then Ashlyn and Lumina (Chiri's GF) after that. So much is up in the air right now and so much could go wrong. Anyway, thanks again ...

2022-11-20 13:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Coven's Rebellion Chapter 2

Sorry for the massive infodump chapter. I hope it's not too boring Dx.

May

“So what did you find?” I asked Desponia, once the social part of the meetup was over. Technically we were all still at the table, but Siya was motionless while she dealt with a delivery of materials to the farm, and Rosa appeared to have clocked out for a few moments too. People born into flesh would probably find that kind of thing pretty weird,...

Cottontail Chapter 5

Gosh. Writing has been a challenge recently. I keep adhd hopping between stories writing like 5 lines and then moving to the next.

As for how my RL situation is going... it's stressful. Girlfriends are rushing to get to NZ as soon as possible, I'm negotiating with my landlord for more time, and I'm trying to find a place for us to live once they are here. Thanks so much to those who sent money to my paypal too! I really appreciate it. My paypal is Amelialesbun...

2022-11-08 15:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Life and Writing update.

This won't be a happy one. My roommate flooded the downstairs apartment by leaving the sink running for the third time and we're getting kicked out of the flat. It's slammed me with stress and my mental health is probably not going to be great. I'm not sure how much writing I'll get done but I still plan to write some Lieforged and Coven. Maybe some Ryn too. Hopefully that plan doesn't crash and burn like everything else. Thanks everyone for being a patron.

Coven's Rebellion Chapter 1

Haaaaaaaaaaaaiii!! I did it! I wrote the first chapter of the new patreon exclusive story, and it's from May's perspective! Her narration voice is so fun! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the chapter! I'm going to go and get some sleep!

May

Leaning back in my chair, I rubbed at my eyes and sighed. I was so tired. When I agreed to the idea of turning Rosa’s farm into a hidden digital enclave, I didn’t realise how much extra work it woul...

Lieforged Gale Chapter 44

Phew. Sorry for the delay on getting a chapter out after finishing Witch. I wasn't expecting to have my nice shiny backlog bribed out from under me xD. Anyway, thanks again for bearing with me while I take a rest. Hope you enjoy the return to Lieforged while I get started on planning out Coven's Rebellion.

Noah threw the last of the recently deceased demonic animals into the maw of our tree—that was now forty metres tall—and leapt up into the air on flut...

Witch of Chains Chapter 38

** AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I DID IT I FINISHED ANOTHER STORY. How Cool is that?? Well... not finished ;). As with all the Troubleverse stories that deal with real-world shizz from the setting, the sequel to Witch of Chains, Coven's Rebellion, will be exclusive to my patreon. I hope you all enjoyed the story! See you in the next one! o/

EDIT: If you're wondering why there's suddenly many more chapters, it's because someone bribed me to make the cliff go away Dx**

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Witch of Chains Chapter 37

Amelia

I was so cold. Why was it so cold? The darkness was worse than the cold, though. The gentle interior lights of my pod were off, and I couldn’t see a damn thing. How long had I been stuck in here, alone? I had no idea. It felt like fucking ages. The fact that my hands, feet, and nose felt warm probably told me that it’d been more than enough time for the cold to seep in. Was this how I died?

I didn’t want to die in this awful, hairy, smelly, chunky bod...

Witch of Chains Chapter 36

Rosa

The Canadian tundra flashed past below me as I skimmed at about a hundred metres over the ground. Endless snow covered pine forest was interspersed with lakes and rivers that didn’t seem to have a clear end point. North of me, a titanic storm thrashed the landscape, swirling over the region like an angry god. It reminded me of the south of Joret, where the war was being fought inside CORA.

It was strange to think that before the corporations realised that c...

Witch of Chains Chapter 35

Rosa

May followed me over to the kitchen, where I started to rummage around in the cupboards for the items I’d need to make tea.

“So I was thinking about this space you’ve made here,” I said, gesturing around us to the log cabin. “What if we made a whole city like this, but only for digitised humans, SAI, and whatever the fuck I am. Plus, we built it on servers that we ourselves controlled, along with space for SAI and DH people to store their minds. Aft...

Witch of Chains Chapter 34

** Big thanks to my lovely girlfriend Ashlyn for letting me use her character Aisling! Check out the story where she is the main character here. **

Amelia

Leaving the game but not virtual reality entirely was a rare thing for me. I spent so much time in various games over the last two years that I’d forgotten that there were entire simulated ...

Witch of Chains Chapter 33

Amelia

The Pags were in full retreat. No, they were running scared, or terrified even. The ones that were still alive, at least. Not surprising, considering Rosa had gone full witch and raised her own army of weird spirits. Oh and then there was the part where Tami infected us with dumb bitch juice and we almost broke the game. So much so that the game sent out an area wide notification about a balance pass they did on Rosa’s character.

My girlfriend was extreme...

Witch of Chains Chapter 32

Rosa

CW: More gore than usual

My form melted partially into smoke, bringing with it relief from my wounds. I stitched the hole up and stood, turning to look at the Mageblade Butcher. All around us, his allies looked on, not yet realising the danger they were in.

Thirty metres back, our friends were pushing for us—A vain and pointless attempt to help us despite the undead blocking their path.

It’s not like we actually needed help an...

Witch of Chains Chapter 31

** Sorry everyone! I forgot to schedule this chapter! It was meant to come out yesterday :O **

Amelia

An undead monster launched itself right over the front lines and onto the ground in front of me with a scream.

“Oh, fuck!” I swore, and flicked a button to extend a blade from below the barrel of my gun.

Jazz might not be the most elegant weapon when I used her as an axe, but at least she got the job done. Nothing like the raw weight of ...

Witch of Chains Chapter 30

Rosa

The Pagutum army was on the move and the thundering of their well-trained marching could be heard even two kilometres away. Joret had the high ground currently, with all the war-dens of the artifisuki sitting atop a low rolling ridgeline. Their many spider-like mechanical legs were motionless while they disgorged hundreds of thousands of troops.

On the Joret side, the core troops of the republic thundered into position with as much orderly precision as their ...

Witch of Chains Chapter 29

Amelia

Rosa took for ever to get back into the game. It was honestly the absolute worst. Was I being too clingy? My heart was just aching from her absence. We’d been living in each other’s pockets for a few weeks now and I wasn’t used to the separation, however brief.

“Stop pacing and sit down,” Bia groaned, throwing a sparkling pink butterfly at me. The tiny spell bounced off the side of my head with a puff of smoke, and for a brief second I co...

Witch of Chains Chapter 28

Rosa

When I got back to the guild hall, everyone was waiting nervously in the foyer. Bia spotted me first, and she nudged Ame, who turned to me with a profound expression of relief on her face.

“Rosa!” she blurted, and rushed forward to sweep me up into a full body-to-body hug. “Are you okay? How did they even get you? I felt you die through party sense when I was trying to get to you and there was a lot of fire everywhere. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to pro...

Witch of Chains Chapter 27

Rosa

A week after Ame and I kissed for the first time, we were back on the battlefield. The fighting was intense as, slowly but surely, the Joret side took back their lost land. Various enemy players had tried three or four dozen times to kill me, and each time I brushed them off.

Their attempts were honestly funny, especially considering my damage resistances. I’d teach them to feed me their fear again, eventually.

Right now, though, I was face to face wi...

Witch of Chains Chapter 26

** Hey friends! Hope things are going well with all my lovely readerbuns! I've been playing through Pokemon Shining Pearl recently. It's the first time I've made a concerted effort to fill out the pokedex and it's pretty fun. I really want to try Arceus too. Hopefully I'll have enough disposable income soon! **

Amelia

“Rosa, watch out!” Bia called, jumping in front of a spell obviously designed to assassinate my new girlfriend. The shield that she s...

Witch of Chains Chapter 25

Rosa

Ame insisted that we finish the battle even after everything that'd happened. The girl was a mystery, completely wild in some situations and entirely rational in others. I decided to let her do her thing.

Once she was alone in our room though, I dragged her right over to my bed and sat her down opposite me. There would be no more avoiding the myriad of subjects we had to discuss.

Wrapping a blanket around myself, I watched her like a hawk. “Are you fe...

Witch of Chains Chapter 24

Amelia

[CW: Log out into M body during second half, unfortunately still relevant to plot. Logs back in at end of chapter. Dysphoria stuff.]

Rosa reappeared with a long swooshing sound. When she saw me smiling up at her, all confused and a little dizzy, she dropped down to my level and wrapped her arms tight around my neck.

“Ame,” she whispered softly. Her voice sounded all… weird and emotional. “Ame, Ame, Ame.”

“What’s up, beautiful?” I...

Witch of Chains Chapter 23

** I have zero patience so I'm posting the next chapter right away. Have fun reader buns <3 **

Rosa

I found May in the middle of conducting multiple death dreams simultaneously. Her lair within the game’s backend was huge, with player connections branching off in all directions, each one sitting inside a little bubble of simulated reality. The actual blob of code that represented her consciousness was outside all of that though, sitting like a spid...

Witch of Chains Chapter 22

Rosa

“That’s five,” Ame said, hefting her cannon onto her shoulder so we could move to a new hill. “How many has Tami taken down?”

“Five also,” I said, shaking my head in amusement. Ame had decided that the two of them were now competing for how many airships they could down this battle.

The battle itself was not going well for the Pags. They really weren’t expecting us to start popping their airships like they were nothing more than hot a...

Witch of Chains Chapter 21

** I'm really happy that I'm finally getting the motivation and spoons to finish all these stories. It's one of the things that always gives me anxiety, no matter how hard I try to ignore it. I'm just one of those people who gets big grand ideas and then fails to finish them. **

Amelia

All throughout our morning preparations, Rosa was subdued. Not sad, exactly, but definitely lost in her thoughts. Honestly, it was kinda cute the way her brow furrowed li...

Cottontail Chapter 4

I was so scared leaving the safety of the truck stop. Like, what the hell was I doing? I wasn’t a fighter. I wasn’t a warrior. I was just a dang technician. An insignificant cog in the machine of capitalism.

My new gun trembled slightly in my hands as I swung it around, trying to find the nearest alien. Weren’t the antithesis supposed to be like mindless murder machines hellbent on consuming the nearest chunk of manflesh? Surely they knew we were all inside the shelter.

Did ...

Cottontail Chapter 3

“So who are you talking to?” asked Valu, while he kept an eye out the window.

“Um, my AI,” I told him quietly, then frowned and turned my attention inwards. “What even are you, Gyre? Like, what is your… you know?”

In the most rudimentary of terms, I am a very small microchip, implanted directly into your brain via teleportation.

I gulped. Wow, that was kinda scary. “He’s a… a tiny computer that was teleported directly into my brain. Like an impla...