“I’ve got just the thing, just the thing!”
The indra woman – Larsa, apparently – hops up and down exuberantly, somehow managing to both halfheartedly wrestle with the larger man and pointing at the door they just came through.
What strange people. Strange, and interesting!
Without another word she disentangles herself with a glare and gestures behind her. “Come on, this way! I have just the thing, you need to see it!”
Mom and I follow behind her to fi...
Sidestepping the incoming ‘monster’, I pivot my shield on its bracer to push the charging wireframe humanoid past me, putting three rounds from my pistol into it – one in the arm, one in the torso, and one lucky shot to the side of its head. It drops in a heap as though a puppet with its strings cut while I stabilize myself on the oversized plasticky plate with its spikes stabbed into the sand of the training arena, looking around for more enemies until a buzzer sounds and I relax.
<... 2025-03-06 13:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Sweetie… you can’t bring that to school. You know that, right? Suspension would be the least of our concerns.”
“But mom-”
“No buts,” she says, brooking no argument. “Give it here. I’ll put it in the safe with the other weapons.”
I sigh. “Ugh, fine. I don’t even know why I don’t want to set it down. Here.”
She takes the runepistol from my hand as I turn around, grabbing the paper bag no doubt housing the ever impressive bologna sandwich, p...
2025-03-06 13:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post“So it seems it didn’t work… or at least partially didn’t work?”
I stretch performatively in my bed, having long since escaped the need to do anything of the sort.
…
Oh right. I… never really did have muscles or anything like that…
Except that I did.
And don’t.
Sighing, I glance over at my fae wife. She’s still wearing her headset, still within the dream that is our new little life together… in a sense.
I wonder if it’ll be a p...
2025-03-06 13:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the school day flew by, because of course it did. I’ve had plenty on my mind, after all.
Olive, who is apparently my System Assistant now, just sat on my lap and generated heat.
But now that class is over, I’ll have to move her. She complains audibly but doesn’t resist. Without gathering my mostly still packed materials I walk to the front of the room to where the instructor is still shuffling papers.
“Instructor Harris?” I ask.
“Yes, Sidra?” ...
2025-03-06 13:27:05 +0000 UTC View Postbehold, latest chapter drop is up! currently writing 209.
2025-02-08 19:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post…That was every bit as easy as I’d expected.
“Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” I exclaim while jumping around my throne room… both watching myself and watching myself.
Or rather, my brand new Ravona-flavored Extra Life avatar.
My wives look on, both fascinated, but Arty a bit more than Izzy… considering our history I’m not particularly surprised, and I can’t dismiss how quickly she took to our children either.
Altho...
2025-02-08 19:09:11 +0000 UTC View PostMy latest project is finally done…
…Much faster than I’d expected of course. Every crafting task is faster and simple when I don’t have to ask myself to make system changes or actuate another duplicator.
…
Which of course removes most of the satisfaction from the task. It really is understandable why the gods all seem so bored.
Including me.
“How do you do it?”
My mentor quirks an eyebrow expectantly w...
Indifference.
I’m at war with indifference. Inside myself, no less.
For years, decades, centuries, I’d dedicated myself to my craft.
And then I made a stupid mistake.
Who would ever think actually becoming a god would obliterate your existence?
Of course, I don’t remember that happening, not that specifically; at least, not from my own memories. Or are they…?
I don’t know. I can’t tell anymore. What I...
2025-02-08 19:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, that should do the trick.
I think to myself as I exit a rift next to the old fountain in the middle of New Moonside. After both a brief introduction and thoroughly cowing my students, I left them to the wise ministrations of Nula to absorb the basics of etiquette… though I’m sure they didn’t expect that was to be their coursework for the day.
Especially considering I didn’t give them any warning or schedule ahead of time, but that’s fine. They’ll adap...
2025-01-14 13:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe bell rings and I sigh as I watch my classmates scramble for their seats, although I’m not sure why they bother. The instructor isn’t even here yet – whoever or whatever they are.
As I stand in my place at the back of the room, at the top of the stepped seating layout, I survey all that lay before me… my classmates, soon to be my retainers and subjects, all who will bow before me and my might and intellect. And not a humanlike among them! Fitting, it’s so fitting.
“...
2025-01-14 13:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I should have known this was too easy.”
Dolos meanwhile simply meets my glare with a shrug and an easy smile. “Can’t be that surprised, yeah?”
I sigh. “Not really, no. You always show up at the eleventh hour to mangle my plans, or lead in some interloper you arranged, or start another war. I don’t really get what your obsession with irritating me is. What, are you lonely or something?”
“‘Ardly! Ya rilly think yer th’ only one ah bothe...
2025-01-14 13:20:43 +0000 UTC View Postsorry that chapter dump took a bit, but here's the next lot! hope you like them!
also, the spinoff continues to progress... the only reason I don't have any chapters up here yet is that I haven't decided on a name yet :3
-ember
2024-12-16 04:15:48 +0000 UTC View Post“It… wasn’t that exciting, to tell the truth,” Eris stumbles.
I lean my head on my hand and sigh, then gesture for her to continue. I’d already pressured her to tell me what the hells I should even expect, considering my would-be ‘friend’ or at least associate is now affiliated with someone who is clearly hostile to me and mine, and she’d promptly caved.
Which makes sense. I can smell her fear. She thinks I’m going to destroy her, apparently. But I’d much rathe...
2024-12-16 04:14:50 +0000 UTC View PostBuild this, he said.
Build what?
Well, I don’t really know. It’s some kind of grandiose building with a lot of rooms and a few really big meeting rooms? With tall ceilings.
I guess it’s not all that complicated really, but he did give me a bunch of plans and schematics and whatnot for it… originally I was going to just speak it into existence but my old master insisted I had to have my people do it.
My mortals, not my retainers.
I sigh. This is going to t...
2024-12-16 04:13:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter ignoring yet another Nyx facepalm, I continue my work… and not even a few minutes later I’m done. Having the intellect of a literal god is really handy sometimes!
“Thinking faster doesn’t actually make you smart though.”
And she’s right.
“I know I am.”
She is.
…
Now I just need her to do her part in this venture. And the most convenient part of having her be my personal angel of envy?
Thought transfer. I didn’t know it was ca...
2024-12-16 04:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostSo that was a bad idea.
Mostly.
After a whole lot of anger and failing to yell at me coherently, Livvie has at least… I don’t even know.
Accepted it, I guess? That I got her pregnant like she wanted…
Apparently she wanted the other part of the process too, but. Well.
No.
I’m good. Sorry.
It’s one thing if I’m under a compulsion that makes me literally feel the… whatever. All of it, all the strange emotions required to want to do that...
2024-12-16 04:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh. Oh gods.”
I quietly sip my tea – or rather, Eris’ tea. She has good taste, but I’ll admit that whoever is brewing it for her isn’t as good as Livvie… not remotely. But it’s still good.
Mortal brewed probably.
Anyway, I didn’t know who to talk to, or. Well.
I guess I could talk to Sekhmet, she actually has a son so I’d assume she’s raised a mortal child before… but I think she was something sort of humanlike before? What was it called again?...
2024-12-16 04:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostI finished writing chapter 202 yesterday, and I'm going to upload through then tomorrow. stay tuned!
- ember
Hello everybody!
I've been putting this off for some time since I didn't want to accept the reality of it, but now that I'm at work ten hours a day five days a week, I'm finding myself lacking the energy to keep up my writing schedule. I'm unfortunately not 25 anymore and it's showing.
I am not going to stop writing, nor am I going to put the series on hiatus. I love FTR and don't want to end it any time soon.
What I'm going to do instead is, for me, a bit more re...
I've started a second webnovel, in the same setting as FTR! once I'm at least a number of chapters in and have figured out a title and so forth, I'll start posting it here as well, advance chapters available to Ascendant-tier patrons just like FTR itself.
so now you know, I'm not dead lol I'm just dividing my efforts. I do have a few more chapters of FTR to post at some point so look forward to those coming soon too!
-ember
The old hallway door in Livvie’s treehouse still works just fine! Or, well. It does now that I recreated it… she had it closed when everything was going wrong.
One of the times, I guess. One of the many times.
(Yep.)
Mmmhmm.
“And to what do we owe the… pleasure of your presence?”
I ignore the large servant’s unfriendly tone.
“It sounded like a good idea to make sure everything made it here intact. Sure, the subdomain was in a hea...
2024-10-19 21:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostWell.
What now then?
…
It’s clear that our most recent actions have at minimum upset both major pantheons…
And some lesser ones too, considering the emissaries we’ve received as of late… all of which I redirected to Tathra for my own personal enjoyment, and then watched through my bond with the hapless businessman.
He genuinely has no idea what to do, or how to even interpret that my wives and I (okay, and a swarm of lesser fae, and some not-so-lesser f...
2024-10-19 21:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostWell… huh.
…
So what happens now?
Most of the fae mob is still ravaging the stone countryside, obliterating if not outright devouring the local populace…
But my wife has clearly lost at least part of her interest in it. I can still feel the madness pulsing in the back of her mind, but she’s maintaining her grip on sanity…
For now.
Wrapping her up in myself seems like something that would help in the moment, so it’s exactly what I do. I pull my s...
2024-10-19 21:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostWell.
This is an experience then, isn’t it?
I wasn’t even aware this many creatures of any kind could fit in my courtyard and the surrounding areas, but somehow my wife has managed to fit what must be at least a million of them.
At least a million of what?
FAE.
Teeming hordes of the terrors, some big, some small, but all dripping malice with a supernatural hunger in their eyes.
And yet somehow, waiting patiently, silently, as though waiting for...
2024-10-19 21:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, so that didn’t go anywhere.
Names?
So many names. Many, many, many names.
And none of them stuck. Most of the ones Izzy suggested were her ancestors’ names…
It’d probably just be easier to name them after her late parents, to be honest, but I wonder if that’d just remind her that they’re dead.
Probably.
In the meantime though, I’m converting one of the spare guest rooms, the other one closest to my own – sin...
2024-10-19 21:13:07 +0000 UTC View Postcurrently working on chapter 197, there'll be a chapter dump coming pretty soon. next few days probably.
2024-10-07 12:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostI realize that my posting here tends to be in around monthly chapter dumps, but I just wanted to warn you all that due to the necessities of capitalism, I'm going to be working more hours, and by that I mean a lot more hours, at my day job.
I don't know for sure yet whether this is going to have any impact at all, but I just wanted you aware that there's a possibility it could.
bygones.
next chapter bombardment, fire for effect!
-Ember
2024-09-17 12:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Isn’t Hope great?”
“Uh. S-sure.”
That’s right, Izzy decided to name our horror ‘child’ Hope. Probably because she’s hoping to see her old friend again someday, but we’ll see. I’m just happy enough that she’s optimistic about it all.
Eris, on the other hand, has no idea whatsoever how to process the slobbering, snarling, giggling horror half-crawling, half-rolling around the tea table in her personal quarters.
I mean, where else would I be meeti...
2024-09-17 12:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post