“Only one being I see as the one true god above gods - His Eternal Majesty.”
The entire room suddenly echoed with the sounds of a hundred chairs being forcibly pushed across a variety of surfaces, Auris Ping now leading the charge as a bright ear-to-ear grin manifested itself across his snout. “Forever may he reign!”
“Forever may he reign!” The whole room repeated, before promptly sitting back down in a flurry of cacophonous noises.
A knowing look ...
2024-03-24 17:05:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 74 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
“Only one being I see as the one true god above gods - His Eternal Majesty.”
The entire room suddenly echoed with the sounds of a hundred chairs being forcibly pushed across a variety of surfaces, Auris Ping now leading the charge as a bright ear-to-ear grin manifested itself across his snout. “Forever may he reign!”
“Forever may he reign!” The whol...
2024-03-23 20:14:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Just a few edits this time around! :D Most of the edits were done just to fix up a few grammatical issues here and there, as well as a bit of rephrasing of certain bits of character’s expressions so they better match the scene! There's also been a bit of trimming on the part where Emma asked the EVI about the big bang haha. That’s about it this time around! As always I’d suggest you guys give this another read through! :D And as always all of the revised sections a...
2024-03-23 20:09:38 +0000 UTC
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“I think the question we should be asking here is: should we tell him at all?” I responded reflexively, before just as quickly second guessing myself before the contours of the alien’s features could begin to scrunch up to show his open disdain at my answer. “Wait, no, sorry. That’s just wrong. I’m just being… very dumb.” I managed out with a frustrated breath. “Sorry. It’s just that… I don’t know what to think right now Lysara.” I instinctively rea...
2024-03-19 19:27:31 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Well here’s a bit of a surprise! As all of you might already know, the first piece of art I ever commissioned for Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School was of the titular power armor itself! This was way before Emma, Thacea, or even Ilunor was illustrated, let alone all of the book covers and backgrounds I’ve commissioned since then! Over the year or so after starting this story however, amidst the other art projects I’ve commissioned, I’ve slowly come to feel a desire...
2024-03-18 10:23:39 +0000 UTC
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“In the beginning, there was nothing.” The fox began with a certainty and absoluteness of unassailable academic authority. “And I don’t mean this in a metaphysical manner, nor in a literal sense, but from a historian’s earnest and pragmatic perspective. For in the beginning, as any good historian can tell you, there was nothing - by virtue of there being nothing present from the time to infer from, nor anyone present at the time whose records we could likewise draw...
2024-03-17 17:05:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 73 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
“In the beginning, there was nothing.” The fox began with a certainty and absoluteness of unassailable academic authority. “And I don’t mean this in a metaphysical manner, nor in a literal sense, but from a historian’s earnest and pragmatic perspective. For in the beginning, as any good historian can tell you, there was nothing - by virtue of there being nothing presen...
2024-03-16 18:11:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Just a few edits this time around! The most notable of which being a bit of rephrasing I did for the transition sequence between the ending of the night scene and the start of Emma's walk over to the Grand Dining Hall! I just thought that section needed to be a bit more concise so I decided to reword that section a little bit! Aside from that, the only other major edit is me expanding a bit more on Emma’s anxieties when it comes to her worrying about Mal’tory’s cla...
2024-03-16 18:04:47 +0000 UTC
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“I’m basing this off of what they did to my own people, and the people of entire galaxies.”
Those words continued to bounce back and forth around my brain like one of those old pre-war idle animations for TVs, consisting of corporate logos hitting one side of the screen and bouncing off to the next.
Meaning, my mind began running at a million miles per hour, leaving my eyes riddled with thought upon thoughts, but my mouth completely empty of words.
Ideas, thou...
2024-03-12 21:23:18 +0000 UTC
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KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
Those three, distinct, hammer-like noises sent chills down my spine.
I didn’t know what it was.
But over the course of the week, I’ve come to increasingly dread these unexpected, unannounced, completely unscheduled interruptions to the only safe haven we’ve been able to carve out of this hostile world.
Maybe it was because there was never any way of telling what you could expect on the other side.
Or may...
2024-03-10 17:05:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 72 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
Those three, distinct, hammer-like noises sent chills down my spine.
I didn’t know what it was.
But over the course of the week, I’ve come to increasingly dread these unexpected, unannounced, completely unscheduled interruptions to the only safe haven we’ve been able to carve out of this hostile world.
Ma...
2024-03-09 18:09:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! There’s been a few revisions in this one! Most of it was simply me feeling the need to rephrase certain sentences or paragraphs in order to help with the flow of the conversation and the flow of the action! :D The only real major change here was me adding a small description detailing Ilunor’s deployment of a silence and invisibility field around them during the operation! I’d forgotten to add that small tidbit at first haha. In addition to that, there were a few g...
2024-03-09 18:04:45 +0000 UTC
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Preparing for inheritance wasn’t just a quasi-religious set of ceremonies. It wasn’t like how it was in the pre-war world in certain cultures, where the inheritor remained cooped up with a bunch of local religious leaders for a set number of weeks; where most of the ‘preparation’ was based on metaphorical feelings or words of wisdom passed down through the generations. No, what inheritance was following the war… was similar to how it was in the pre-war era in those communities that ...
2024-03-05 16:14:48 +0000 UTC
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[MOTHERSHIP STANDING BY… REQUESTING PILOT INPUT]
I stood there, in silence, my glazed-over eyes locking with that of the Vunerian who stood defiantly at my shins.
[MOTHERSHIP STANDING BY… REQUESTING PILOT INPUT]
The incessant reminders from the flight-warning systems blared at me to refocus my attention back to the task at hand.
And yet… I found myself incapable of doing so, as the Vunerian had transitioned from simply gestur...
2024-03-03 17:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 71 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
[MOTHERSHIP STANDING BY… REQUESTING PILOT INPUT]
I stood there, in silence, my glazed-over eyes locking with that of the Vunerian who stood defiantly at my shins.
[MOTHERSHIP STANDING BY… REQUESTING PILOT INPUT]
The incessant reminders from the flight-warning systems blared at me to refocus my attention back to the task at hand.
...
2024-03-02 21:03:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! There’s been a bit of revisions done in this chapter this time around! :D Most of it is focused on the second half of the chapter after the classes. One of the big ones was a bit more explanation being added to the points system, since I thought this would be a good time to reveal some important lore about it. I had initially planned it to be revealed later, but I thought it would be better to get that bit of exposition done here to improve the flow of the overarching ...
2024-03-02 20:18:20 +0000 UTC
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75 Hours After the First Round of Interloper Interrogations. UNAFS Perseverance. Medbay.
Evina
I stood there, my eyes trained on the alien’s face, and my fists about ready to do the same if he didn’t provide a satisfying answer.
My whole world teetered on the edge of obliteration.
Not literally of course, that was obvious by just looking out the window.
No, the only world that I still had left, the small alc...
2024-02-27 15:10:23 +0000 UTC
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The tables had been turned.
Whereas the start of class was marked by a sudden and abrupt question that’d placed me on the spot, the tail end of the class had seen me completely reversing the course of that dynamic.
And for similar reasons at that.
As in the same vein Vanavan had probed me of all people for a benchmark of the class’ baseline understanding of magic and mana, so too was my intent to probe him for answers to a question that would be helpful in estab...
2024-02-25 17:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 70 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
The tables had been turned.
Whereas the start of class was marked by a sudden and abrupt question that’d placed me on the spot, the tail end of the class had seen me completely reversing the course of that dynamic.
And for similar reasons at that.
As in the same vein Vanavan had probed me of all people for a benchmark of the class’ baseline understanding of...
2024-02-25 01:19:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! There’s not really much revised at all this time around! Just the usual tweaks to grammar as well as to word choice! As well as a small addition of some minor social lore in the bit where Thacea explains Emma’s slight against Qiv for choosing the middle seat! That’s it for revisions this time around! :D As always I’d suggest you guys give this chapter another read if you’d like! :D And as always, all of the revised sections are highlighted with an underline to ...
2024-02-25 01:10:47 +0000 UTC
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Hello Commissioned Pioneers!
I hope everyone’s month is going awesome so far! :D Well, it’s that time yet again! And I’d like to take this opportunity once more to sit down for another talk with all of you guys! Last month was certainly interesting as we finally got to see the start of classes, and a taste of what’s to come as the school now properly starts! I can’t wait to show you guys what I have planned as we progress through what the academy and its classes have to offer!...
2024-02-22 21:10:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello Commissioned Pioneers! :D As promised as always, in accordance with the results of last month's poll, I present to you the Bonus Story of the Month! There were a total of four choices once again, with a majority voting for Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School Side Story 13.
We head back to Earth this time around, as a direct continuation to an earlier side story at that!
So I’d suggest everyone have a look at the Monthly Short Story for October, A Trip to the IAS, just as...
2024-02-22 20:52:28 +0000 UTC
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We returned to the medical bay with little in the way of fanfare.
Which was… quite shocking, given how every little thing I laid my eyes on felt like it could’ve been a celebration unto itself.
Moreover, the sheer fact that I was even here was a novel and overwhelmingly positive feeling I could never shake off.
But that wasn’t really too surprising, and it wasn’t something I could really blame myself for.
Because just a week ago, I’d been ho...
2024-02-20 18:17:33 +0000 UTC
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That question, like many other challenges to my standing in the Nexian public eye, hit me with the courtesy of a purposeful door slam to the hand.
Being put on the spot, having all eyes suddenly turning on me after what seemed to be a smooth transition into the motions of class, was completely and utterly debilitating.
Or at least, it would have been, if it wasn’t for the armor acting as a very real barrier that I could now use as a crutch to escape the throes of social...
2024-02-18 17:05:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 69 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
That question, like many other challenges to my standing in the Nexian public eye, hit me with the courtesy of a purposeful door slam to the hand.
Being put on the spot, having all eyes suddenly turning on me after what seemed to be a smooth transition into the motions of class, was completely and utterly debilitating.
Or at least, it would have been, if it wasn’t ...
2024-02-18 00:17:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Just a few minor edits and a few minor additions this time around! :D Most of the edits were simply made on grammar and phrasing as per usual! And the additions were likewise a few minor things including adding a few of the questlines I thought were important enough for the EVI to mention, as well as adding a few more details with people’s reactions to Emma’s choice of the middle row seating! And also a bit of the EVI reporting on the unique student names that popped...
2024-02-18 00:08:26 +0000 UTC
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The world seemed to slow to yet another complete and abrupt halt at Evina’s proclamation. The felinor once more seemed to find it in her heart to condense a warning that would’ve taken even the most fearsome of warlords or trash heap tyrants by gut-twisting shock into yet another one of her signature attempts at wordplay.
Though this time, even I recognized it as strained and reasonably shoestrung for impact.
“They’re a nice enough person, so don’t let their alien fe...
2024-02-13 17:22:08 +0000 UTC
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???
Emma
I was floating.
I didn’t know how, I didn’t know why, I didn’t even know for how long.
All I knew was that I was here.
Calm.
Relaxed.
And tentatively at peace.
Though even that came with a caveat.
Hence the operative word tentative.
Because despite the initial wave of calm, and the subsequent flows of relaxation, a distant, looming, gnawing sense of dread beg...
2024-02-11 17:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here is the Work in Progress for Chapter 68 I hope you guys enjoy! :D
???
Emma
I was floating.
I didn’t know how, I didn’t know why, I didn’t even know for how long.
All I knew was that I was here.
Calm.
Relaxed.
And tentatively at peace.
Though even that came with a caveat.
Hence the operative word tentative.
Because despite the initial wave of calm, and t...
2024-02-11 00:50:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Just a few minor edits and additions this time around! I mainly just focused on rephrasing a few things here and there just to make things a little bit clearer! Including things like describing the wind magic Thacea used to help create a seat for Emma during the stargazing scene, and some other stuff like the actual description of EarthRing itself as I thought that needed to be touched up a bit! I also added a bit more description in Vanavan's scene to clear up exactly w...
2024-02-10 22:56:03 +0000 UTC
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