Kevin Curry

Psychoprotective Epilogue 3

Okay, the fourth life epilogue's been bugging me for months, so as it turns out there's not enough space in one chapter to fit it all. So next chapter's going to be more of this.

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Sakura was a bright girl. She picked up walking and talking faster than any of her peers, which gave cause for her proud shinobi parents to declare her a prodigy. Most tellingly, the great bloodlust of the nine-tailed fox, the hateful malevolence inimical to all humans, barely ...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.04

Day and a half late's not so bad. I'll just start the psychoprotective epilogue immediately instead of doing something between the two updates.

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Tanya’s next target was one of the Empire’s capital sites. It was the weakest one, only level four. “No. (◣_◢) I’m not going to keep it long-term. Just for a few turns at most.” Tanya sent the angry note through hat magic and moved on to her other conversation. “If all goes well, I’ll be able t...

Psychoprotective Epilogue 2

Okay, to be clear: I don't actually like how this chapter goes. But it does set up the series of future lives snippets I was planning on doing as the rest of the epilogues, even if I couldn't manage to muster up a satisfactory amount of stuff between the end of Book 3 and the end of that life.

But it wouldn't be the first time I've regretted doing something that sounded like a good idea at the time. Enjoy.

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[2015, Age 51]

“And�...

June Poll

Nothing special here, just the new poll.

A young devil's consultancy 8

Recently, there had been a subtle shift in the dynamics between her and Bruce. It probably had something to do with the fact that her mother had fallen completely off the deep end and had embraced the supervillain lifestyle, but it wasn't really surprising to Tanya: unlike the rest of the cult, the interactions between them were far more typical of a mother and her infant child; lots of cuddling and whispered words of affection. 

It was nice, but it was clear that she th...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.03

They had guns. 

Tanya had more, and her units were more suited to exploiting firearm bonuses, and they only had pistols instead of rifles… but they had guns. Her own Barrier got broken by one. 

Tanya put the six new pistols in her Inventory, shoved down her dress right next to her own pistol. One of them was lost when a warlord who was near the cliff had a rash of bad luck and fell down it when he got dismounted, but it was still troubling. <...

A young swordsman's adventure 18

Sure enough, Tanya’s preparation for the forge to be set up in transit came in handy as Kuina got into forging herself a metal pegleg immediately.

Tanya would ordinarily veto such a decision, but she could see how the girl’s haki surged, granting her the strength to push past all limits to turn her goal into a concrete object representing her oath. Father would never forgive her if she was to snuff that ambition with something as inconsequential as ‘fire safety’.

Psychoprotective Epilogue 1

There's not going to be nearly as many epilogues as I thought there would be. As I had expected, taking that month off really damaged my ability to get inspired to write this. Ah well, no big deal. This story's had a good run.

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[1990, Age 26]

Tanya laughed as power surged through her body, her killing intent sharpened into foot-long blades at the ends of her fingers. 

Razputin’s psychic fists swung and ...

Summon Perfect Warlady 2.02

After consulting his superiors via hat, Sir Pottingham was willing to sign a simple non-aggression pact, with penalty of immediate disbandment of any unit to break it, one of the few binding punishments that barbarians can agree to. Tanya never found the time to learn signamancy, but one of her wands was a large novelty pencil that could write binding agreements that had simple, direct terms and short durations. In this case, four turns, one more turn than they needed to pop the replacement k...

Chapter delay

Summon Perfect Warlady's not gonna be out today. I'm setting up a bunch of stuff and making lots of new references. I'm pretty proud of some of the jokes I've put in so far, but the chapter's only at 2k words right now so I'll do my best to get it out ASAP, then I'll probably go straight to the first Psychoprotective Epilogue just to make sure it isn't late too.

Sorry.

A young devil's consultancy 7

This chapter was commissioned and is thus immediately public. This is winning the poll by a landslide, so looks like y'all are getting another one on the 1st!

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Well, this was bad. While their devil form didn’t have certain vulnerabilities, like literally any orifice, nor a face, instead having a smooth faceplate that simply didn’t have anything distinct beneath it, their throat was still necessary for speech. 

This ‘Etrigan’ dem...

Psychoprotective 3.12 (Book 3 end)

The blunt drill of the Astralathe emerged from the cloudy skies, as Ford put his hand to his temple and waved his arm to direct the large mental copy. “Look alive!” He shouted, the drill slowly winding up as it built up the psychic energy, dense enough to appear more as a stellar event than anything capable of being wrought by mortal hands. 

“Oh dear.” Lucy said, hands trembling as she saw the event. “I remember this part,” She whispered, “-it hurt.”

May Poll

Back to business as usual! The next four weeks will include patron-only updates (at the $5 tier) to build their advance viewing back up. The first public release of the next Psychoprotective chapter will be the 3rd of June, while you patrons will get to read it on the 6th of May.

Meanwhile, all paid patrons get to, as usual, vote for the bonus snippet that will be released on the 1st of June, 8th public release.

Note: The poll options were being weird, if I missed something feel...

Path to Living 2

The man sat at the bar next to her, and he was large, hunched over. While it was possible that this was an ordinary man with a posture condition… it was unlikely. One of the deviations, then. Worrisome, because the Path… had no information on this entity.

"You know, amiga." The man said, sprinkling his language with Spanish for some reason that Fortuna couldn't understand, as she could understand him anyway, "I don't usually do this, but… could I have your autograph?" His snout c...

A young swordsman's adventure 17

As a reminder, the payment pause has ended. The first chapter after the break will be on the 6th of May, and it will probably be the last chapter of Psychoprotective Book 3, with a slight chance of being the second to last chapter instead, depending on how inspired I get.

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Between the fact that Tanya was royalty and the overwhelming superiority of strength, extracting Zoro from that sticky situation with his winnings was simple. Except… “I can't believe you'...

That should be everything...

Except, of course, Heroic Chronicles itself. But that would be 46 updates, and seeing as how only 7 of them have been edited... No. Not doing that.

Leave a comment if you find something of mine I missed.

Of course Santa isn't real! (One Shot)

The orphanage was rather ill funded, with heat for the furnace barely adequate and each piece of clothing being worn by half a dozen people before you got, mended each time. But every year, a particularly generous soul pretended to be Santa Claus and gifted the orphanage with toys for all of the good children, and a supply of coal to help keep them warm.

Personally, Tanya thought it was rather clever of the nuns to use the gift of coal to scold the naughtiest of children, using their '...

Courtly Chronicles 1

Ah, this one didn't have the 1st chapter posted here. Fixed.

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[Tenya Deguchiya aka Argent Silver, age 58 38]

"What? You can't!" Lockdown protested. Really?

"Oh?" Tenya asked. "What's stopping me?"

"I'm valuable!" He insisted, truthfully. "You can't just throw me away for such a little thing, it's irrational." Tenya resisted the impulse to scowl, before changing his mind and glaring at the spoiled brat with the most baleful one he could muster. 2024-04-21 21:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Praise the Sun (One Shot) (YS/Okami)

Tanya hated this place.

It was bad enough that Being X had stuck them in one of his indoctrination camps for the first who knows how long of their second life, but there was no way he wasn't breaking some kind of law of biology in allowing them thought this clear from their tiny little baby brain.

Even now, they had to just sit in a basket as one of the nuns hums a hymn to herself and hangs up the laundry. Could they leave the basket? It wasn't even a matter of permission, they ...

A Deal with Death (YS/Exalted) 1

The war was lost.

Well, it's been lost for well over a year now, since that fateful day where the Francois's military apparatus evacuated to conduct an organized resistance, but today things were a bit more... final.

Berun was occupied by the allied forces, the Unified State's and Kanata's reinforcements to the Francois resistance being enough to push all the way, and they were conducting a series of farces thinly disguised as military tribunals.

Colonel Tanya von Degurec...

Spirit Walk Prologue

This has been on the poll since the start, and it's never been posted here. So I'm doing it.

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Tasha Tycretius. It was a good nom de guerre, it was similar enough to their second name that they were used to responding to it, and the name was more Latin rather than Russian/Germanic. They were hardly the only "young woman" to immigrate to the Unified States to escape the absolutely atrocious conditions The Empire's former lands were after the war, and it was a simple...

Fae Chronicles 8

As Tanya had predicted, the capture of the last remnants of the Legadonian government removed their ability to set up a government-in-exile, and the captured member of the Council of Ten signed a formal surrender in short order. 

However, the condemnation of the Albish that came with that announcement for their attempted interference forced the Kingdom to, to borrow a phrase, ‘put up or shut up’... and they decided to join the war, fully supporting the Francois to hu...

Fae Chronicles 7

Visha’s status as a prisoner of war was… inconvenient. She was treated as one of the nurses by most of the soldiery, another bit of casual sexism that caused the young girl so much grief. 

More distressingly, the territory occupied by the Francois included the family estates owned by both of her most valuable servants. They had made preparations, so the amount that could be pillaged was somewhat limited, but industrial manufacturing plants were not something that cou...

Fae Chronicles 6

The war was intensifying, with the Empire fighting off the Francois, Legadonians, and now the Dacians. From what little they knew about Dacia’s military capabilities, the Dacians were not a substantial threat, but they would tie up men and material that were sorely needed on other fronts of the war. If the Russy decide to join the dogpile, the Empire would be fighting on literally all fronts. 

But at the same time, Tanya’s business interests were taking off. Upon tak...

Fae Chronicles 5

As Tanya had expected, the war had severely truncated the education of doctors to battlefield injuries and complications exclusively, and Visha was out the door and sent to the front just a bit past her sixteenth birthday. If Tanya was mortal, they'd be halfway through nine years old. 

Well, they call it the front, but the battlefield hospitals were about two miles behind the current front, near as Tanya could tell from the chatter. Not out of range of artillery, but bei...

Fae Chronicles 4

[Elya]

Elya thought that selling her soul to a fairy was one of her better decisions. It was certainly a better decision than the one that led her here. 

“Why are you still so pretty!” Shouted the disguise artist. “I’ve given you warts, a hook nose, pale splotches, but now you just look like a cute witch! It’s impossible!”

“My beauty is a self-evident fact of the universe.” Elya replied, running her hand through her perfe...

Fae Chronicles 3

As it turned out, Elya lived a surprisingly short distance away. Visha lived in Tremonia, the largest city in the Rhine industrial region, while Elya lived in Essendia, the second largest one about forty kilometers away. There was always construction being done on the roads, so it took about an hour and a half to cross the distance. 

“Visha!” Elya shouted as she left her car, rushing forward and enveloping her in a hug. They had become good friends after Elya’s suc...

Fae Chronicles 2

Tanya had eventually "invoked her contractual privileges" and been more-or-less introduced to society at large as Tanya von Degurechaff, Visha's sickly five-years-younger sister with a salt and meat allergy (the explanation of how this led to Tanya's specific faked malnutrition symptoms went over Visha's head), which handily explained why she rarely left the mansion, and when she did it was always in Visha's presence, or to the fae realm, which Tanya had offhandedly mentioned was called ‘Ar...

Fae Chronicles 1

Tanya stared at the sky, the alien stars providing only questions, no answers. 

Damn Being X. 

They would be the first to admit that they lost their temper when the so-called god started reading their mind and called them out on their rushed rationalizations, which was far from a smart move, but this? What purpose could they have for inflicting this on them? 

Being reborn? They could sort of understand that. There was sort of a...

Fae chronicles Prologue

Visha swallowed thickly as she finished feeding her sick mother some broth. She wasn’t getting any better… Despite the medicines of that quack doctor, doing everything they were supposed to do… Mama wasn’t getting any better. 

It had started simply, with just a sore throat, chills, and fever. Nothing serious. But it didn’t get better. It advanced, becoming worse with every passing day. Visha had already lost her father in the big epidemic about six years ago, i...