Kevin Curry

Psychoprotective Chapter 3.01

Book 3 begins! At its conclusion, the main story slot will be moved to Summon Perfect Warlady, which will also lock the early access chapters behind the $5 paywall at that time, and it will be removed from the monthly poll. Just a warning. 

Book 3 is planned to be relatively short, but it will definitely extend into next year. 

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Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp… She hadn’t had the chance to see it ever since she was banned. It has changed a l...

Summon Perfect Warlady Chapter 14

Yeah, another one of these. 

I got sick this weekend (which is my most productive writing time), but after 20 hours of straight bed rest I'm only a little miserable. It meant I got maybe a thousand words written in that time, though. Haven't even started on Psychoprotective 3.01. 

But I still have more of this banked up, so you get this instead of nothing. I'm quickly running out of backlog, though, I got chapter 15 ready for November 1st and that's it, so I may end up a...

Psychoprotective chapter 2.21

Extra long Book 2 finale! Just a bunch of fluffy scenes and one more that sets up Book 3.

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“I love you, Tanya.”

“I love you too, Visha.” Tanya said, giving her a kiss on the forehead. She giggled as Visha returned the love enthusiastically. She reached out for the one thing that could save her from Visha’s affection. “Get the ball!” She said as she threw the tennis ball.

“BALL!” Visha shouted with a bark, running afte...

Summon Perfect Warlady Chapter 13

Just because the world was a wargame didn't mean that war occupied all of everyone's thoughts. There was plenty of room for merriment, such as the victory party.

King Slately ordered some "fine vintage" casks of wine to be brought out, although it was only about six years old.

It has never been recorded that a unit could croak of old age. Units that looked old and feeble were instead ill suited or neglected, or just had Signamancy that made them look that way to convey wisdom or s...

Psychoprotective 2.20

Okay, I could not get Bob's mind to be anything but a dry snoozefest, so I wrote a Halloween party instead. Next chapter will be the last of Book 2. 

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Tanya stood up, stretching out her joints and muscles from the inactivity. She checked the clock; the whole ordeal took about four hours. She telekinetically opened the meditation lounge’s minifridge and fetched a bottle of water for each of them.

After taking a deep drink, Mom smiled. “...

Summon Perfect Warlady 12

It's the 1st of the month, y'all know what that means! An update that's supposed to be this story!

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Rations were surprisingly fungible. Whenever food was distributed, natural Changemancy/Moneymancy ensured that each unit drew from the supplies exactly enough to cover their upkeep… even if it looked like all of the units ate the same amount.

A level 2 city cost about thirty thousand shmuckers to set up, and yielded 70% of that when razed. Th...

October Poll

Lots of new patrons over the last month. 

So to be clear: This vote is for what gets posted on the 1st of November. You can vote for multiple options. Closes on the 14th. Mystery box is me writing something new. 

Summon Perfect Warlady 11

Yeah, I just could not manage to write the Pyschoprotective chapter. Y'all get yet another one of these. 

My biggest stumbling block is that when I try to plot out the rest of the chapter, I get a little voice that says 'you can probably stop Book 2 here. You don't need to actually write out Bob's mind, this is a good stopping point'. 

Between canon Bob's mind and the writing out of how addiction is cleared with Agent Nein's mind... do I really need to retread that groun...

Summon Perfect Warlady 10

I did not get a miracle of productivity, so once more y'all get another chapter of this instead of Psychoprotective. I'd apologize, but actually a solid chunk of my newer readers are here for this so I'm sure some of you are actually quite happy at this news.

Oh yeah, as a heads up, my laptop's keyboard is starting to crap out on me, so I'll need to figure out something on that end. All the letters still seem to work, though, so it's not too bad yet. Hopefully it won't lead to some kind...

Psychoprotective 2.19

I was just a couple hundred words short this morning, so I delayed it until the afternoon, and I'm not really satisfied with how this chapter went, but I already missed an update trying to get this one right, so it's... acceptable. 

Odds are low I'll make next update without dipping into Summon Perfect Warlady, but I will be trying. 

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Fortunately, the amount of reading required to get started amounted to about a thirty page instruction booklet designed to ...

Summon Perfect Warlady 9

Yeah, my muse has been pulling me every which way, and I wasn't able to get the Psychoprotective chapter done. It's labor day, so I could have maybe done it if I posted tomorrow... but odds are low.

I did, however, get more Summon Perfect Warlady done instead, so here's an extra chapter of that. 

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It was nice, being part of a side with no enemies. At least, no active ones. While Faq was an existential threat… diplomatically they were probably one ...

Summon Perfect Warlady 8

The siege assault was more successful than Tanya's wildest dreams. Unlike every other stratagem attempted, this was the only one that completed their objective: buying Gobwin Knob a single extra turn.

Sure, croaking thousands of the Coalition's troops looked like it helped, but the bottleneck of their strength was the siege. Low move, but the most efficient way to deal with such a heavily fortified city. They can still take Gobwin Knob, but they are now forced to use the tunnel systems ...

September Poll

Y'all know the drill: Multiple options can be picked, end date is the end of the 14th this time, chapter posted on the 1st of October. Public release on the 8th. Mystery box is 'something new'. If it's a tie, I just pick. Spoiler alert: I have more summon perfect warlady chapters already written, so if it's part of a tie, it will win. 

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 18

Okay, so I moved last week, as you may know, and it's only now that I have internet that I can actually post it. 

Hopefully, this will be the end of the schedule disruptions. 

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With the doors being back on the regular maintenance schedule, Tanya was moved on to the next item on the backlog: the levitation tubes. There weren’t nearly as many, but they were also much more powerful. Even Tanya’s mental energy reserves were tax...

Summon Perfect Warlady 7

When Tanya came back to Gobwin Knob in the evening, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Marie's prediction was correct: there were no engagements during the enemy turn. It was mostly unexpected because Jillian didn’t do anything either. Wanda’s suggestion spell was supposed to ensure that. It’ll probably just happen next turn.

In the morning, Tanya got an even more pleasant surprise: the juice reserve of their wand refilled automagically, presumably fueled by Tanya's incre...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 17

I'm moving soon, so I'm pretty much going to say that it would take a miracle of inspiration for me to be able to write the next chapter in time. But I have another Summon Perfect Warlady chapter waiting in the wings, so you get that instead. 

Just FYI. 

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As much as she’d like to claim the nap was just a fakeout to confer with the others trapped in here with her… dealing with the energy overflow from them channeling mental energy into her...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 16

At some point during Tanya’s out-of-body sojourn, Kevan Galochio had activated the telekinetic restraints that he placed Tanya into. Testing them, Tanya determined… that she’d need to use the Argent if she wanted to brute force them. Sure, she could generally out-muscle, psychically, any two or three psychics, but psychic technology could out-muscle anything. It was only a question of how much psitanium you had to exert that force. While the methodology is significantly more ...

August Poll

Whoop, forgot the poll. You guys know the drill. 

Rarely get any votes after the first week, so I'm bringing the deadline back further so I have more time to write. I'm moving this month so I may end up stumbling with my scheduling. 

Summon Perfect Warlady 6

I just realized that because I put the voted chapters on early release for the $3 patrons, that you can't see SPW 5. I have enabled y'alls ability to see 5, so scroll down to see that if you're at that level.

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The Magic Kingdom was an interesting place. On the way, Sizemore had warned them that the influence of the royal sides had already been used to prevent them from expanding the number of casters they contract for the conflict.

"Royal sides do war with...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 15

I seem to have overcome a bit of the writer's block, so I may be able to keep up the updates for the next few chapters. I've also got another chapter of something in my back pocket that's a lot easier to write than this, just in case. 

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Tanya was spared the tedium of having to find Bob by dint of getting “ambushed” by a group of men wearing concealing cloaks as she walked out of the spa, too relaxed to muster any serious killing intent. “I surre...

Summon Perfect Warlady 5

So, that cold I've been mentioning? Kicked my ass this weekend too. Chapter's only half done. It doesn't even have the decency to have me miss work, just writing time. 

So, while scheduling this is going to be a pain, you guys get a Summon Perfect Warlady chapter instead,

Now, this is how this is gonna work (mostly writing this for my benefit)

Patrons get SPW this week and chapter 6 on the 1st. Buffer will temporarily be reduced.
Public gets Psychoprotective 11 th...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 14

The crappy half-cold that's been keeping me napping most evenings for the last two weeks have destroyed the final vestiges of the buffer. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with posting, in the event of not having a chapter ready, I'll either post something from some other story or I'll downgrade the advance chapter count by 1, as I warned I'd eventually have to do four months ago when I expanded the advance chapter. 

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“Maybe we should have waited un...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 13

I've got some bad news: This update marks the first time since I've starting writing Psychoprotective that I don't have at least one whole chapter of buffer ready. This book's a lot harder to write than the first one, so I've finally burned through the buffer. 

So while I'll be doing my best to keep up with things, there's a solid chance that I'll end up missing an update sometime in the next month or two. I have at least one spare chapter of other stuff ready, so I'll have materia...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 12

Bob was… pretty much as Tanya expected. Old, fat, with very poor personal hygiene. His beard went down to his belt, he was perpetually hunched over, and his glasses were broken, barely functional and probably with an out of date prescription. One time, in her first life, she went three years without updating her glasses: after she did replace them, she swore to never let it get that bad again, the difference was so massive.

His greenhouse, on the other hand, was surprisingly well-main...

Summon Perfect Warlady 4

In hindsight, attacking that third hex was probably not worth it. Sure, they won, taking three more siege towers off the board along with their battle bear escort, but Tanya got a little too eager: Six of the dwagons croaked, along with five knights and Lady Phat-Singh. They had to use uncroaked to destroy two of the battle bears, as the dwagons completely ran out of breath uses, even the yellows, with very low hits remaining. Well, they ended up abandoning the hundred or so uncroaked that su...

July Poll

Poll time again! It's pretty cool that you guys like some of my other silly little stories enough to vote for them, once I finish with Psychoprotective's epilogue (which will probably be... sometime in the first half of next year, maybe even first quarter) I'll probably end up taking up whatever's furthest along as the next ongoing weekly update. 

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 11

[Bob Zanotto]

It’s been seventeen years since the love of his life died, lost in a battle that should never have happened.

It’s been five years since he lost his job, fired by his own nephew.

In those five years, the days have bled into each other, a blur of brewing, farming, and drinking.

As much as he hates to admit it, he’s not actually living a life of a complete hermit. He gets plenty of stuff delivered from mail order catalogs, mostly supplies to keep him i...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 10

“Lost, alone…” Sang Helmut when Tanya made it back to her own head. “Neither skin nor bone…” His projected voice reverberated with power and emotion, which drew the attention of the entire VIP afterparty. “Just a thought, is what I’ve got…”

Eddie dropped to his knees, staring at the brain in wonder. “No way…”

“But my cover’s… blown!” Helmut shouted, and Tanya felt his mind link up not just with her, but everyone around. Her proprioception exploded...

To be a Hero 3

Bonus chapter! Mostly a canon retread, but it sets up quite a few butterflies vis a vis Izuku's interactions with his classmates. 

In the event this gets voted on again, it'll get its own thread on Spacebattles! It will also be crossposted to other platforms. 

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Izuku was pretty confident in his written scores. For one, he wouldn’t have been allowed to take the practical exam for the hero course if he didn’t pass the first ...

Psychoprotective Book 2 Chapter 9

“Good effort, guys!” PSI King said, complimenting his current senses on their performance. “That was a good rehearsal.” He gave the band a thumbs up with the hand that was now hanging down from the floating eyeball with ears that was his astral self.

“It’s just not the same.” Audie O complained.

Dr. Touch nodded in agreement, bringing his fingers together as was his habit. “Without Tasty’s bass licks and Sniffles picking out notes on the guitar, the Feast just is...