It's going to be sad to see this quest go, but I'm going to have to close it out. It's simply too much of a time sink. That said, I hope the epilogue series at least closes out all of the remaining threads.
I'll have something from the poll up in the next few days, I've already started the next chapter and will go back to working on it tonight.
Thanks for all the support.
2024-06-27 09:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostI watched the battle.
The turians might be the pinnacle of military discipline and strategy among the wider races, but while they desperately tried to maintain strict intelligence measures, they just didn't have the institutional knowledge to rival a species like the salarians. While the frog-like aliens weren't playing at my level either, a plague of paranoia running rampant through all of their echelons of society for the last hundred generations or so actually made some of th...
2024-06-23 11:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, got this one in the can, next up for Ezekiel is the response to the sudden contact of turians and the human-led Systems Alliance. It'll be fun, for sure.
Until then, tough, I'm going to focus on getting the first part of the Code Geass Quest epilogue out, then I'm thinking the OG Industrious timeline.
I should have one more chapter of Winning Peace out next week either shortly before or after the shift to July.
Rock on, Stay awesome, and Thank You for all your sup...
“Oh my god!” Tara moaned, throwing her head back. “He's totally better than your masseuse, Bonnie!”
“Told you,” the darker-skinned girl huffed a laugh, reclining on Tara's couch as I worked the muscles of our mutual friend's feet and calves.
“Full disclosure, I'm still not sure how comfortable I am hanging with Bonnie on the regular,” Kim stated, a folder open in front of her as she made small notes on whatever was inside.
This one was a little frustrating to write, not going to lie, but I'm glad I got it done. Next chapter will have more action and run smoother, I think. I kept trying to get to the action, but there just needed to be a bigger bridge for things to properly make sense. Also, I wanted to have some conversation stuff laid out for future events.
In any regard, now I'm going to start on the next chapter of Winning Peace, which should be a wild ride.
Also, look for the po...
2024-06-20 14:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostI was reading a novel when I felt Thonis-Heracleion message me.
Hesitating for a long moment, my eyes flicked towards my left before I sighed and nodded. Picking up a bookmark from my side, I slipped it between the pages where I'd stopped and set the latest volume at my side with a relaxing stretch. Leaning back, I mentally checked on Sasha before nodding to myself. She was enjoying the break I'd given her and relaxing with a group of friends using the Lazuli sleeve I'd made f...
Here's the new Winning Peace chapter, as promised!
Next up for this story is going to be Citadel/Prothean First Contact coming up next week.
Until then, I'm working on The New Ron, haven't got one of those out this month yet, so look for that coming up soon.
Once again, then you for all the support. Rock On, and Stay Awesome!
2024-06-16 08:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post“So, I heard you got a visit from a Senator before we left,” Steve stated as he sat down next to me. A campfire crackled nearby, carefully screened from view by a series of lean-to structures while the blaze itself bore no smoke thanks to a few woodland tricks by our resident Canadian barbarians. Thankfully, we weren't anywhere close to our target and could afford the luxury of a campfire for the next few nights, because it was brutally cold this time of year in Germany.
...
2024-06-13 10:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the next chapter of Engineering Marvels. This one is mostly lead-in for the next mission with a week's time skip or so simply due to the fact that there's only so much being on a boat and/or walking through a forest I can make interesting.
Regardless, I think it turned out well! Next chapter? Ray gets to fight a Nazi Vampire and he is not happy that his life is becoming a comic book.
Other than that? I've started working on the next chapter of Winnin...
2024-06-13 10:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post“It's nice here,” Sasha spoke quietly as she curled closer to me.
“It is,” I replied absently, doing my best to stay focused on the here and now instead of the myriad other bodies I was piloting on automatic. To ground myself, I stared down the slow-moving curtain of rain rolling over the fields below.
Shaxi had, over the course of the last year, quickly become 'home' insomuch as anywhere was these days. I still held so many jobs, knew so many people, wa...
2024-06-09 09:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, had a sick day, sorry about that. Nothing too debilitating, just some gastrointestinal unpleasantness and general funk that knocked me out for a while. But I've since bounced back, thankfully.
On a more relevant note, here's the next chapter of Winning Peace, which...
Well, we're closing in on First Contact with the Citadel, which will either be the coming chapter or the next. 34/35, so look forward to that.
Besides that? I'm going to be working on a chapter of Indus...
2024-06-09 09:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday:
Petunia, Vernon, and Dudley had been left alone.
That fact was more important than it might first seem. Even if the three of them weren't truly important to the 'story' in any significant way, they were still a valid target for an assassin. Even with Cassandra in the background retrieving all of Voldemort's horcruxes, whoever had been sent after me should understand how distracting it would be to have the petulant child of a dar...
2024-06-06 12:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so getting the poll out of the way first. Winning Peace came in pretty firmly with the lead, Industrious followed up, and The New Ron was a comfortable third. Nexus Event and Where Your God is finished in a virtual tie for 4th/5th place. So this month will be more Winning Peace!
That's the weekend's chapter coming up.
As far as this chapter goes, though, we finally get to see Hermione and the trap planned last chapter is explained. Next chapter will be a conversation wit...
2024-06-06 12:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the new monthly poll, as promised.
Same game as usual, folks. Pick your favorite, 5$ Tier gets an extra vote, I focus on the one that gets the most in the final total. Second-most votes gets second-most attention, etc...
I'm still thinking about possible rewards to justify a $10 tier, and I'm leaning towards creating 'Master Docs' that would have the entire body of a given story on them, as well as a bonus vote. Just not sure if people would think that's worth the charge.<...
2024-06-01 13:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Believe what you want, I didn't actually plan it,” I sighed as Sasha and I walked along the streets of Taiyuan, the capital of the human-occupied portion of the planet of Shanxi.
The body Sasha was using eyed me for a long moment, the barest hint of disbelief coating her expression before it faded and she nodded. “I suppose I have no choice but to take your word for it, Z.”
A soft smile graced my lips. It had been a long time since I'd heard that nickna...
2024-06-01 13:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
...and, yep, just a few hours too late for May. Ah well, it's here now!
This one's a shout out to some of the more normal stuff happening on the ground that Zeke seldom involves himself him these days. However, his new SO is a great excuse to have him rub elbows with the average citizen.
Next chapter will be... something. Not sure. But I'll have it out in a few days. Right now, I'm thinking either Where Your God Is or Nexus Event.
Stay tuned for June's Poll coming up in...
2024-06-01 13:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post“-and this one, what I don't understand is where the dividends from the earnings are going to be deposited,” I asked, tapping a piece of paper before handing it over to the suited man.
Dean Richards, the attorney and financial expert Howard had recommended for me, adjusted his glasses briefly as he looked over the document I hadn't yet signed. “Ah yes, we'll be putting those earnings into a holding account briefly before reinvesting them into other areas. Specific...
2024-05-30 12:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
And done!
This chapter isn't really action-packed, sadly, but it sets up some things happening in the bigger-picture that need to be kept in mind.
Next up is one last chapter of Winning Peace, which may or may not squeak in before the month's out.
In any event, I'll have both that and the poll for June up in a few days, so look forward to that!
2024-05-30 12:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post“But how do the rubber chickens block the sword?!” Asuna asked, her tone that of a person desperately trying to make sense of a world gone mad... and failing to do so.
Sinon rolled her eyes as she reclined on the couch. “Please stop asking, the answer won't change.”
Asuna made a frustrated sound as Mito quietly shook with laughter beside her. “A-As-suna, stop! Please!”
“But it doesn't make any sense!” Asuna...
2024-05-27 01:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post
...and I really wanted this out yesterday, too. Le sigh.
Anyway! This is kind of a filler chapter to catch up with things after the boss fight. Lot of talking, but there were a number of subjects that needed to be covered. Next chapter of this will feature more going and doing as Kirito et. all take a mini-vacation after beating the first floor boss.
Next up on the docket is Industrious, this time the Marvel timeline, so get ready for that in a few days. I'll be trying...
2024-05-27 01:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence in the office was suffocating.
That said, the Hokage certainly didn't seem bothered by it. The old man was sitting back, slightly reclined in his chair as he stared off thoughtfully into the middle distance as he puffed on his pipe. Lazy clouds of smoke wafted from the ninja's mouth as I occupied myself with pondering the health implications of a man of his age consuming so much tobacco.
Normally, I'd automatically regard it as a bad idea, but I'd ne...
2024-05-23 11:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the next chapter of the OG Industrious. I think I'll be able to get out another chapter of Industrious, this time the Marvel variant, next week.
For now, though, content yourselves with the fallout of Kotaro's fight in Konoha and the continuing combat in Wave. Next chapter of this story will feature the conclusion of the Wave arc which... three chapters is pretty good for that, I think.
Otherwise, look forward to a chapter of Where Your God Is over the weekend.
<... 2024-05-23 11:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post“-and, without further ado, I give you Pleistocene Park!”
I clapped along with the entire crowd, the press badge hanging around my neck having allowed me to snag a spot close to the announcement podium. Beyond that, four great beasts such as the Earth hadn't seen in thousands of years trundled past, a smaller calf chasing them from behind. Even if there was snow on the ground and it was bitterly cold here in the north-east of Siberia, I couldn't be bothered to care all that ...
2024-05-19 08:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post
...and there we go! First Contact!
I don't have much to add this time, other than I'll have a chapter of Industrious out next. Probably the OG. I think I'm also going to get to working on a new chapter of Where Your God is for later in the week. I'll have at least one more Winning Peace chapter to do this month as well, but I need to do a bit of thinking on that to get it right. I'm planning for it to involve a much more... energetic exchange.
Unti...
2024-05-19 08:49:01 +0000 UTC View PostI set down the platter on the small stone and eased myself into the sand beside the lapping waves. Sara was curled up next to me, silently accepting the offered mug of hot chocolate as she held her knees to her chest with her free arm. A quarter-moon hung high in the sky, reporting on the late hour. Out across the small bay, the water sat as still as glass and reflecting the perfect night sky above. It was, in a word, beautiful.
Timeless.
The roiling of Sara's e...
2024-05-16 08:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
How this became almost 6k words is beyond me, but I think you're in for a treat.
Plans within plans are moving forward. Next chapter of Nexus Event will feature a good bit of combat and a meeting with the President of the United States. So look forward to that as well. This is also the last chapter of NE that I needed to give it its own thread, so there's that as well.
I'm working on the next chapter of Winning Peace right now, which will feature First Contact for humani...
2024-05-16 08:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostCouncilor Araeus Aethyta resisted the equally appealing urges to sigh and throw a singularity at the Batarian Councilor. The brown, four-eyed male alien was, once again, pontificating on a long and drawn-out plan to 'expand the security of the Citadel territories.' What this meant in practice, once one moved past all of the flowery rhetoric, was more. More planets for the Hegemony, more money to build more spaceships and raise more armies and build more weapons to hold the people wit...
2024-05-12 01:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Little bit late, but them's the brakes.
Anyway, for this chapter have a surprise interlude from the Citadel and some implications about how much things are different in this AU!
Next chapter will be a return to form with Ezekiel Lopez.
In the meantime, I'll be finishing off that chapter of Nexus Event.
2024-05-12 01:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt always struck me as a little odd exactly how capable a pair of teens were.
In terms of pure skill, you could somewhat gloss over that. I mean, prodigies did exist and there was sufficient evidence to suggest that not only Kim, but Ron as well, was one. And that's putting aside Wade, who definitely fit the bill. Granted, many of the things we did on an average day pushed the limits of even that allowance. Still, though, we were only remarka...
2024-05-09 10:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post