Skill acquired!
Valescent Light (Tier 2) - Generate purifying light. Draws heavily on Stamina to maintain.
Jenny's eyes opened to sunlight. Through the shattered cafeteria windows, she could see the courtyard: upended trees and concrete with parts of the school building collapsed, blocking off the street. She blinked over and over, not believing the sunlight streaming across the tiled floors.
The darkness was gone. The thick misty air of the...
2023-10-24 06:44:35 +0000 UTC
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posting two chapters today, and they're both super dense. you could read them one after the other, but maybe take a break between them and don't forget to hydrate. there'll an update on plans and stuff at the end of 62!
love you
Tentacles intertwined and shot forward, slamming into Miriam's thigh and splintering her white exoskeleton. Her leg buckled. She cried out, but before she hit the...
2023-10-24 06:28:13 +0000 UTC
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Another whomper of a chapter, though not as whompering as my usual whompers. The next one is like extra whomp though. Two more chpaters to go! And they're written and edited, just waiting to be revised >:) The plan is to post them this weekend!!!!!!!!!!
I may have messed up some maths, but I combed through drafts/notes as best I could, and I think I did it right.
Love you. More soon.
o...
2023-10-19 05:11:43 +0000 UTC
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Static buzzed. A ceaseless ringing echoed from one ear to the other. Slowly, as awareness of her body returned, Clara realized the crackling static was her friends.
“Clara! Clara, can you hear me? Where are you?” Izzy’s frantic voice snapped in and out of clarity. It was followed by Nico shouting Clara’s name over and over.
Clara tried to make a sound, but all she managed was a groan lodged deep in her throat. She was curled up, hanging from the grill with the camera held ...
2023-10-09 19:32:47 +0000 UTC
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Clara wormed closer to the grate, lying on her belly. Her hoodie was pulled up to cover her nose and mouth like Izzy had done, so her bare belly was pressed to the cold dusty floor of the air duct, but she was too excited to care. Her heart thudded against the metal; she stared into the viewfinder of her camera.
She hoped Nico and Izzy had found a decent viewing angle. More angles of this glowing stone thing would only help validate their findings. She zoomed in on the orange hazmat sui...
2023-10-09 19:27:37 +0000 UTC
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hi! this is for a new project 0: chapter one. i'll be posting up to chapter three. though i've written up to chapter eight!! and that's about 30k total words!
but there are still things i'm fine tuning like terminology and some character stuff.
i've always wanted to write a superhero thingy, but this is my dark take on it. combined with my love for dystopian stories and horrory violence >:)
2023-10-09 19:24:57 +0000 UTC
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hi hi! i have defeated covid again!
what unfortunate timing though with my other health issues... but thankfully it wasn't too bad, and i didn't have to go to the hospital again or anything. which is a yay.
BUT. i did be writing. Angels is drafted through to the end of book one!!!
I wrote a huge chunk of something new that I hope you'll like and will be posting that here on patreon first. and i've written a lot m...
2023-10-09 19:08:21 +0000 UTC
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the second of two chapters posted today! that's it for now, but i wrote a lot more, so trying to edit things and share them with youuuuuuuuuu, moore soon!
xoxo
Jenny shook violently as she stared into Susan's eyes, glancing once, only once, at her lips. Too many emotions fought for control. Desire. Love. Sadness. Anxiety. Hunger. But the worst of all was Eve's presence. It didn...
2023-09-14 07:13:34 +0000 UTC
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i've been dealing with some delightful medical stuff and doctor's appointments and ugh.... i got some not-so-great news about my health (and why im struggling so much to gain weight) and it's been eating away at my brain.
and like also, it's left me with posting paralysis - i've just been feeling so weak and afraid :( which is dumb and annoying. but i've at least managed to write lots! for angels and for flesh, and im trying to edi...
2023-09-14 06:59:49 +0000 UTC
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[the third of three chapters posted today. more soon!]
Using her tentacles to lift herself, Jenny got to her feet and summoned her hatchet. It slipped out of the angel's belly with a satisfying gush, and the creature buckled to its knees, screaming and howling. Her left hand squeezed the handle, and she grimaced as the angel screamed again, in a pitch so high that it felt like being stabbed in the ears.
She'd been so close. If she'd hit the angel...
2023-08-24 06:03:03 +0000 UTC
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In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Monique dove forward and speared Miriam's waving hand. The tip connected with the girl's palm, punctured through, and struck the wall beside the door with a loud clang. "That's enough!" shouted the librarian.
Miriam stared at her skewered hand. It was pinned to the wall. Blood dribbled from the wound, and her green eyes blinked. The corners of her lips twitched, and her face distorted like she was about to cry. She let out a loud, haunting wail, turning slow...
2023-08-24 05:18:22 +0000 UTC
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Moaning and whining swirled around Jenny as she struggled with the webbing. The strands weren't thick, but with several layers stacked, they might as well have been steel nets. She didn't have enough space to use her full strength. They pinned her firmly down, the side of her face stuck against soggy bread and a foam tray. It crinkled uncomfortably with her every attempt to escape.
The Desecrated Angel lumbered forward, hunched over, its lips curled back in a snarl. It beat its wings fu...
2023-08-24 04:48:35 +0000 UTC
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i went quiet again, ugh :/ i swear i'll blink and months just fly by! depression/stress is like a time machine to the future fr.
okay
but i wanted to let you know what's going on! and i'll keep this brief.
i've written the next couple of chapters but they need another round of editing, and i think i just want to finish Angels Book 1 before I release them. Cause I want to make sure I can get all the plot threads woven through just right and drive up enough build up for ...
2023-08-15 22:30:41 +0000 UTC
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With the angel's large dark claws wrapped around his blood-stained lab coat and squeezing him tight, Dr. Lee looked so small. He was crying and sobbing. "Please! Please just let me go. I mean you no harm. I can help you. Don't... not again. Please! Don't!"
Jenny licked her lips. Dr. Lee wasn't worth saving, but she couldn't let the angel eat any more humans. She couldn’t risk it getting any stronger or larger. The melted cocoons lay on the floor, and more Tarnished Angels crawled out ...
2023-07-28 19:22:59 +0000 UTC
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The thick mist of the veil was suffocating, seemingly threatening Jenny from every angle, obscuring her view. All her senses were on high alert, but the static image in her head was useless. Her tentacles homed in on the Desecrated Angel's presence, and the gut-twisting feeling emanating from darkness in the center of the cafeteria only confused her more. The enormous angel held the purple cocoon with two arms, retching for the angel inside to drink through a revolting kiss.
Des...
2023-07-28 19:13:24 +0000 UTC
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Susan bounced in Mrs. Monique's arms, feeling like a useless ragdoll as the librarian carried her, rushing down the third-floor hallway. Behind them, the walls erupted with dark green energy. Another bubble of light and sizzling heat blew up the lockers, battering them with debris.
Mrs. Monique ran, her face strained with Susan held to her chest. She'd dropped her spear somewhere in the chaos, and Susan felt awful weighing the librarian down. She should just leave Susan and escape; Susa...
2023-07-28 08:48:31 +0000 UTC
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Panic-stricken, Jenny rushed away from the angel she'd just drained to completion. It lay there, an orange, mummified husk. The gym spun around her. The debris. The loose writing. The books and furniture scattered across the hardwood floors. She tasted blood.
Her tentacles swished wildly. They'd grown even thicker and longer than before. A tingling persisted in the back of her head and ran down her spine in a continuous waterfall of sensation; shudders that never quite became shudders. ...
2023-07-11 00:53:12 +0000 UTC
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hi
sorry, i've been kind of quiet for a bit, and i feel terrible about that.
tldr: i needed a mental health break. more angels VERY SOON! also i wrote a big chunk of a different story to keep my sanity, it's about turning into animals and eating the rich and you can read about it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/69776/the-curse-of-flesh-everchangin...
2023-07-05 20:20:37 +0000 UTC
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Fall.
Fall.
Fall...
It wasn't a phrase or word in her head. No thoughts, no notifications, nothing like that. It wasn't at all like how Eve communicated. It was more like instinct. Like watching the streets from the top floor of a skyscraper: the tingling in your feet, the sinking feeling in your chest. An obsessive pressure, a tug, that kept repeating over and over, growing more and more forceful. A little voice in the back of your head that asks: what would it be like?
...
2023-06-27 02:22:48 +0000 UTC
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Posted a chapter earlier this morning if you missed the notification!
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Her tentacles whisked around her, smashing desks into pieces, slamming against the metal filing cabinets that lined the walls, and slapping rubble into dust. She was searching. Seeking. Sounds and scents and vibrations climbed through their lengths and into her spine, giving her a rough mental vision of her surroundings even before her eyes could adjust. Shadows scattered everywhe...
2023-06-19 01:01:46 +0000 UTC
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Flames flickered all around Jenny. Smoke and the sulfuric stench of burnt hair and flesh stung her eyes. She'd stopped screaming, stopped trying to burn down the entire world, and all that was left was ashes and scorched rubble and quiet.
She choked on the air, and her exoskeleton shifted. The red covering slithered up her neck to cover her mouth and nose, forming a mask that filtered out the smoke and ash. All the while, she remained on her hands and knees, trying to catch her breath. ...
2023-06-18 07:49:23 +0000 UTC
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"What does the Desecrated Angel want? Why's it doing this? Why's it so obsessed with me?"
I believe it wants to end the Survival Challenge.
Jenny shuddered like when she was a kid, crawling out of bed in the middle of the night, anxiety making her want to throw up, and the floor would creak. And she'd be terrified she'd wake her mom who was exhausted from work.
Students crowded around her like a tidal wave of sobbing bodies. They scraped her chest, fingernai...
2023-06-12 07:27:35 +0000 UTC
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hi. this is my second project! it's currently titled 'The Curse of Flesh Everchanging' though i'm still not 100% sure about that title. it's my entry into the RR community contest with the prompt 'mirrors can't eat people'. was hoping to write up a lot more before i shared it with you, but this week i got thrown way off track by the canadian wildfire smoke engulfing NYC and my weak lungs :( I kept flashing back to the pandemic and getting sick and ughhhhh and being stuck insi...
2023-06-10 05:24:09 +0000 UTC
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Leslie was pacing. She hated pacing. But nervous energy turned her thoughts inside out, and she hated the discomfort throbbing in her chest. Everything felt tight; she didn’t have her Xanax with her. She'd hoped Dr. Lee would've taken more of a liking to her. Would've protected her. And at first, he did seem pleased by her attention, but as soon as he'd dragged that horrible angel into the library, he'd become obsessed with it.
She'd hated watching him cut into the angel. Hated how th...
2023-06-06 01:31:02 +0000 UTC
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Susan knew healing Jenny had cost her severely. She’d know it as she was pouring her soul into the light, the rainbows twisting and spiraling and encasing Jenny before seeping into her skin. She’d been squeezing Jenny’s heart, and she swore she could still feel her fingers wrapped around it, desperately trying to keep her best friend alive.
And she dreaded to think what might've happened if she hadn't increased her stamina before finding Jenny. Susan kept replaying that moment in ...
2023-06-02 07:37:49 +0000 UTC
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Jenny smashed into the Imperfect Angel with her elbow and knee half a second before it reached Susan. The impact felt like an explosion, and she felt a jarring vibration run through her body. The angel's green covering cracked: its face where her elbow broke its cheek, and its side, struck by her knee. Then it rocketed away, blood gushing from its mouth, and crashed into the hallway wall with a satisfying boom that dislodged even more debris and dust from above.
Susan had fallen from th...
2023-05-27 19:46:21 +0000 UTC
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With each shuddering spasm, more gooey red substance shot out of her navel with enough force to make her step back. She swore her belly button had ruptured. Ropes and ropes gushed like geysers that curved in every direction before collapsing against her skin and splashing. Jenny screamed.
Golden light swept across her like a shiver, bright enough to make the undead creatures pause and moan. It seemed to hypnotize them.
The red substance encircled Jenny's waist and dribbled up her ...
2023-05-24 06:34:54 +0000 UTC
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"Something's moving down there," came Mrs. Monique's voice through the clouds of swirling dust. She'd ventured toward the crater to give Jenny and Susan space and shone her flashlight into the depths of the basement.
But Jenny only barely registered what the librarian said. She kept replaying the first notification over and over. Blooded. Blooded. Blooded.
Blooded: You have tasted blood from another world.
20 Stat points have been awarded.
2023-05-20 23:49:15 +0000 UTC
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You're going to what? thought Jenny, almost wanting to laugh. If Susan didn't look so damn serious saying that... I'm going to stick my hand inside you... C'mon. That's straight out of some kind of porno or something.
But her best friend's arm was glowing. It was made of light, hovering over Jenny's chest, translucent and colorful and beautiful. And Jenny... Jenny was terrified of it.
When Susan tried to heal Jenny’s side injury, pain ignited inside he...
2023-05-12 04:09:33 +0000 UTC
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Susan carefully stepped over the bodies in the hall in front of the library. Behind her came Mrs. Monique, the only other person willing to inspect the large crash. Everyone had plenty of thoughts, but the other students were petrified, and Dr. Lee was obsessed with his specimen. The angel seemed to panic, stressed out and hissing about something. It curled up into a little orange ball, hugging its knees.
Two boys stayed behind to guard the door, lights and weapons at the ready. Leslie ...
2023-05-07 07:16:16 +0000 UTC
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