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Summon Perfect Warlady 2.20

Tanya had dressed up even more than usual, commissioning a second Dress with Pockets, although this one had a different name: The Hammertime dress. In addition to providing Inventory, it also could generate a basic melee weapon even with nothing stored, which was a neat feature. 

The point, of course, was to just have a more regal appearance when meeting the government representatives. Jack had figured out enough about how the signamancy shifts when her crown transforms her clothes...

Psychoprotective Epilogue (The End)

Tanya had a lot of experience by now when it came to how to interface with her new lives. Over the last who knows how many iterations, she’s gotten it exactly how she liked it, a mixture of letting herself shine while adding just enough chaos in order to get new experiences. 

For example, under normal circumstances she’d subdivide her soul, incarnating in two to five people in completely different circumstances and seeing which one was most successful. She’d hold back her oth...

Swordsman's adventure 23

“Well, that was fun.” Tanya said, nodding to herself as she reviewed her prize: A high quality pirate flag with an atrociously ugly design. “If you want this back, wait at least a year and leave a message at Gloom Island. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”

Bellamy, now seated with a cast on his leg, had a complicated look on his face but he knew the score: 2-1, in her favor. So he nodded, “Where is that?”

“Go to Dressarosa and you should be able to get dire...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.19

Typically, a city popped approximately 50-75 shmuckers worth of unit upkeep per turn. Eight pikers was 64, six stabbers was 60, 4 or 5 turns for a 300 upkeep dwagon, one 50 upkeep knight, etcetera. Her 80 upkeep recon knights popping at 1 per turn was considered quite good, production-wise. The biggest exceptions were commanders, which popped in four turns despite having 100 upkeep, although it wasn’t unusual for them to be higher if they had certain specials, and heirs, which popped in 40-...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 17 (Lives 13-??)

I've pretty much run out of ideas, so I'm gonna start wrapping this up.

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“Oh, thank you thank you thank you.” The hysterical woman said, her accent somewhere halfway between American and British. There were a dozen ways to get that kind of blended accent, so he’ll need to narrow it down. 

Still, there were more important matters. “What in the blazes are you wearing?” Were John’s first words to a human being in ...

Swordsman's adventure 22

    “What’s a Davy Back Fight?” Kuina asked. 

    “It’s some kind of pirate game.” Ace replied, “But I don’t know a lot about it.”

    Tanya grunted grumpily. “You don’t know? But-” She took a deep breath. “Well, at its most fundamental, a Davy Back Fight is an alternative to all-out combat between two pirate crews. It means less costly injuries and battle damage on the ship of both sides, a...

January Poll

It's taking longer for SPW and Psychoprotective's epilogues to finish than I initially had predicted, but they're still coming up. At that time, Devil's consultancy will become the weekly update and will be removed from this list.

Devil's consultancy 15

“What do we see?” Batman seemed to think of this as on-the-job training, because instead of going straight to business he decided to poll the peanut gallery. 

“The boards have been replaced.” Robin immediately observes. 

“Is there an Alice in Wonderland themed crazy that I’ve just never heard of?” Batgirl asked, “Because no one would make a purple striped cat anything, much less an animatronic with a camera eye, without doing that on purpose.”

Hm....

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.18

The government had decided against sending JSDF goons along with their representative, which was a good sign. The one dispatched was a diplomat, which was also a good sign. It was a low-ranking diplomat, though, which was not so good of a sign. Meant he was disposable. 

Hiraga was the picture of politeness as Mother served tea, alone but the limousine he came in had a pair of analysts supporting him, as well as a single police officer that looked very nervous. Naturally, Tanya had ...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 16

Despite the villain that crippled Tensei still being in the city, it was not deemed necessary for Ingenium to be moved from the Hosu hospital, as the serial killer had a sizable enough psychological profile that they did not anticipate the man coming to finish the job. 

As someone who lived with psychonauts and thus knew a thing or two about serial killers, this made perfect sense to Tenya. In fact, he had discreetly downloaded Iidaten’s file on Stain using backdoors that he had ...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.17

All jokes aside, the house did have a spare room. It wasn’t furnished as a guest room, but it did have a closet and that was pretty much all it needed to be used as one after Tanya used one of her wands to resolve that deficiency. As she had packed up everything she left in Mizuki’s place due to the possibility she would not be returning, it was simple enough to unload everything and change out of the Dress With Pockets into clothing more suitable for wearing around the house.

“I ...

Fae Chronicles 10

Tanya’s new armies were, by and large, more burdens than assets. About of fifth of them were disciplined enough to be usable as security assets for the areas in the mortal world, but the rest were really more of the ‘rape and pillage’ sort of ravening hordes. 

So the additional two hundred trees  in the Giant’s Forest that supported them required some… adjusting to accommodate them. Four circuses were created: a racetrack, two gladiatorial arenas, one for bloodsport,...

Epilogue 15 (Life 12: Tenya Iida)

Okay, I swore I had scheduled this, only now noticed that it didn't post. My bad, this was done, like, last Tuesday. Been working on the next Fae Chronicles chapter since then.

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Being a father and a Hero was difficult. Iida Tenkai was a proud hero, The Engine Hero: Turbo! His wife was also a hero, the Speed Heroine, Accel! Their agency, founded by Tenkai’s own father, Iida Tenga, Iidaten, was one of the best in the business! 

But he was also the...

December Poll

Forgot to post it on time again...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.16

Sorry this is late, I was in something of a creative malaise last week. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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One of her biggest worries about coming back home was to be seen as a madman, for no one to believe that she was who she used to be. The Arkenshoes’ presence on her feet helped a lot to calm her nerves, as it was a constant reminder that she did have the power to return to Erf… if she wanted to. 

After having experienced the ...

Devil's consultancy 14

“I’ll admit, I didn’t expect that.” Shayera, alias Hawkgirl, was an incredibly human-like alien known as a Thanagarian, from the planet Thanagar. It was interesting to know that Earth was actually known to most Galactic dialects as “Huma” or “Sa’lin-3”, as the typical convention was to name the planet after the sapient species that sprung from it, instead of the more “primitive practice” of the planet name being synonymous with the word for dirt, water, or sky, and the p...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 14

Despite her best efforts, Missy just couldn’t figure out who she could give one of Folder’s buds to. It was a big decision, and she just didn’t have enough non-cape friends that she thought would make a good cape. She had already let Folder pick some random person the first time, but it just led to the Empire getting another cape, one that was classified as a Shaker 9 before Lung killed him. She was only rated an eight, being able to affect anything non-living, even solid objects, was a...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.15

Come the morning, Tanya noticed when dawn broke immediately. One of the side-effects of living in a turn-based world for so long, she supposed. She then promptly fell back asleep. She wasn’t a Ruler anymore. 

Then she woke up startled, as her mental Rand counter ticked down by one. “...The turn’s begun.” She said, thinking for a moment. “...I’m still the ruler of Yojo Mojo. Maggie didn’t take over.” While she could no longer sense any of her units, by pay...

Scientific chronicles 6

This is my most productive month in a while, I might even manage another commission chapter this month... after I do the devil's consusltancy for the end of the month and the monday updates for the 25th and 2nd. I'll have some extra days off during Thanksgiving, should be pretty productive. 

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    Tanya’s schedule was, compared to her old college life, absolutely stuffed with classes. While the sixty hour per wee...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 13 (Life 11: Missy Biron)

Their name is Missy Biron, and their life sucks. 

The good news was that they managed to integrate their soul’s vast memories unobtrusively, manifesting as exceptionally vivid dreams that were the subjects of many artistic endeavors. Fingerpaints showing a clumsy Shenron, crayons on the walls detailing a medical sealing array, a Mass relay made of clay, an attachment to a vividly purple geode that closely resembled psitanium. Naming the stuffed dog ‘Visha’ as she d...

A young swordsman's adventure 21

Just as a heads up, this was the last paid-for chapter. 

If anyone was waiting for the backlog to complete before ordering more chapters (some people were talking about it), now's the time. $100 per chapter at my current rates. On a related note, Fae Chronicles also has no more backlog, so same thing there. Only things that still have chapters are scientific chronicles (paid for up to chapter 9) and Path to Living (which has regrettably fallen by the wayside, but at least th...

November Poll

I completely forgot to make a poll.

In the future, if I don't get it by, like, the 3rd, someone please message me to remind me that I forgot.

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.14

Time for the Japan arc! It's not going to be very long, honestly. There's not exactly anything that can seriously challenge Tanya, so this is pretty much some slice of life and a little bit of emotional drama before setting up the final conflict.

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Tanya wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from traveling dimensions. She’s done it before, of course, but something told her that the Titanic magic of the Arkenshoes would be different than the technically-mortal...

Devil's consultancy 13

Not exactly my best work, what was intended to just be the first half of the chapter took up pretty much all of it. Not a big deal, though.

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Batman determined that they would let Batgirl stew for a week before bringing them in for their initial training. Among other things, this gave them time to fully integrate the new ‘Belfry’ operating base into their network, moving in the big technology and connecting the utility uplinks. It would be Batgirl’s h...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 12

In hindsight, this seems a little boring, ah well, I can at least move on to the next crossover. Should probably start calling this a book 4, honestly. I'll think about it.

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Commander Shepard chose an exciting time to become a military hero. Well, for certain definitions of exciting. The ones that leave it a synonym for ‘interesting’, ‘accursed’, and ‘terrifying’. 

The Prothans have returned! Well, a Prothean. Wi...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.13

The jokes in the second half aren't really up to my usual standards, but this chapter was a bear to get out. I really hope I can get the Devil's Consultancy chapter out in time... Psychoprotective should be easy enough at least.

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The ruins hex was just as hellish of a frozen peak as last time, with what appeared to be some kind of house golem as a defender. It was somewhat similar to tales of the Baba Yaga’s chicken hut… except that instead of chicken l...

Post delayed

Sorry guys, I know normally I can usually get it in the evening if I fail in the morning, but it just isn't happening today.

Hopefully I'll get the Summon Perfect Warlady chapter done tomorrow, but I wanted to give you guys a heads up that I'm still working on it. It's got 2.5k words right now, so I'm over halfway through.

Also, if I fail to get it tomorrow, I can't work on it on Wednesday, so it'll have to get pushed to Thursday. I'm posting it that day even if I have to ...

Fae Chronicles 9

As usual, what I intended to write and what I actually wrote has diverged a bit, but it's in a reasonable state. Hopefully I'll be able to write the Summon Perfect Warlady chapter in time for Monday. 

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    Being X appeared, on the surface, to be as he was in their original conversation: an old man in a robe, unpigmented white hair voluminous enough to guarantee the lack of having seen a pair of scissors for over a...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 11 (Life 9: Subject Zero)

Note: I made a mistake in Tanya’s name in this world. I changed it to the appropriate one in the last chapter. I thought I was being subtle and clever, but alas, I should have read deeper into the wiki page. 

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This was the first time they’ve tried to re-enter a world, so they weren’t sure what to expect to have changed from this. The first change was that she gained consciousness faster than she did before; it w...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.12

I've realized that extending this much more than I have already is just gonna be padding, and making all these puns isn't as fun as it used to be, so we're moving to the final arc after this chapter.

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Jack’s explanation about Fate was more complete than what Tanya had heard before. The short version was that Fate didn’t have one overarching plan, but instead a series of small plans that frequently get tangled together. It wasn’t impossible to untan...