Don't think I forgot my bestest gorl! I feel like every time I come back from VISCERAE I feel kind of refreshed. If only it didn't take it's own share of my time and energy to create, it would be kind of a nice break. Oh well, both quite good and chapter was fun. Big action scene! And as it turns out, Jin, Li Shu and Many-Grasping aren't the only ones on this training arc!
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2024-10-17 03:52:10 +0000 UTC
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Woohoo! A longer one this time, and a mix of actual plot starting up with some questions finally being raised in a way that needs answering. Enjoy guys!
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Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and caldron bubble. There’s just something so fun about figuring out how a thing works and then making it your bitch.
In Ilia’s case, her latest bitch...
2024-10-16 23:13:10 +0000 UTC
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Another chapter. Short one, though- game logic ached me a bit, and this LitRPG stuff needs a lot of note-taking! Hoping to move into the proper horror and dark portents part of the story by end of next chapter.
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Character creation goes faster this time. She goes through the mechanics faster, making a character whose model is similar to but distinct from the last one. In the end, th...
2024-10-16 04:29:14 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Not very good today but I'm doing my best! My brain is soppy and sad, but life goes on and we do our best, no? I'm doing my best. Also gonna try to eat today, which I hear is good!
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God damn. Now that was realistic.
If anything, the haptic feedback was way too much. For a moment, Ilia wonders if she should tone it down, go into the ...
2024-10-15 22:07:03 +0000 UTC
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A little wonky cause I am slowly losing rank on RR :( but also a much happy because I went to a wonderful fair today and had a great time. This chapter was fun! Thanks for the patience for one less general chappie this week, see y'all tomorrow!
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There is not a real word for what Raika holds close to her core. Not now. Intent, the all-language, ...
2024-10-13 03:42:44 +0000 UTC
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Woohoo! I did it, a shorter chapter! I'm so excited to do the next chapter, it's exciting. I'm thinking we're gonna a fun blend of "murdering a military base of Imperials" and "oh shit maybe this calls some attention", and it'll be a very interesting time either way. Thanks for the patience y'all! Hitting a bit of burnout, especially trying to get VISCERAE up and running.
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2024-10-12 02:59:32 +0000 UTC
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Genuinely don't know what's going on lately but I keep getting a desire to keep pushing chapters! It's actually affecting me lmao, I had to forcibly cut myself off at 2700-2800 today. Might make a habit of longer chapters soon, but I gotta work on Viscera AND homework tonight! Wish me luck! And success!!!
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Jin carves, and it is like the Blackst...
2024-10-09 22:54:34 +0000 UTC
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Wow, y'all been getting some chonkers out of me lately! This one hit me like a freight train, I can't lie. First part is very much following up on the last chapter and consolidating / explaining some of Raika's mechanics, which has a Lot of potential and is growth I really enjoy exploring. The latter half... man. I hope y'all like it. It's... actually quite sweet, I think.
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2024-10-09 02:34:38 +0000 UTC
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Title's a teensy bit off, but I like it! Also, don't be mad, but completely on accident and entirely because it didn't feel like time for a chapter split, this random-ass goddamn chapter magically became my longest one yet by WELL over 700 words, easy. I think my previous record was 3.7k, this one is halfway past 4.4. Then again, maybe you like that, you terrible creatures. You like some giant, girthy, incredibly long chapters? Then good news, I have nothing to apologize for and you have ...
2024-10-07 21:51:16 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Not too much happens for this one, but we get to meet a nice character that we'll probably see again, some insight into at least one of the cultures that lives in the Undergrowth (though not an official tribe, at least not yet), some of the politics therein and some new perspectives! Overall, I like how this one went, and happy!Raika is fun to write!
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2024-10-06 01:51:08 +0000 UTC
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Woohoo! Combat, baybe! Goodies! Tons of fucked up tastytime goodies, and, at the very end, a little twist! Just a smol one. See ya soon!
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Whoever designed the character models and terrain settings clearly had just as much input into the creation of enemy types. And they clearly had just as much joy in making them, if what she’s seeing here is any indication.
Standing in a sma...
2024-10-05 21:20:11 +0000 UTC
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And here we are! Another chapter, and, incredibly and strangely, I am genuinely enjoying the strangeness and mechanical nature of this little LitRPG of mine! Woohoo! This'll be the last freely available, open-source chapter, everything after this will go up on the All-Seeing patreon tier until we get some posts up on RR!
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Ilia’s first experience entering the game world is defined, ...
2024-10-05 19:20:13 +0000 UTC
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Man, it's really fun to write Raika having fun! I get struck with the fact that Raika is more often than not reacting rather than acting, and more often than not under some form of disassociation or trauma. It makes her feel a lot more grounded, a lot more real, when she also has times of happiness and freedom, and it really helps me to better understand her character. Suffice to say, I had fun here!
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2024-10-03 22:38:40 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! My longest chapter in a minute, 3700 words, and all just Raika having fun and beating the shit out of a bunch of uppity cultivators with her powers! Barely even needed to use most of them too!
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Raika blinks, panopticon and avatar-body both staring down at the two cultivators standing in front of her. A man and woman, at least going by...
2024-10-02 22:23:29 +0000 UTC
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Overall, this chapter turned out half technical, half character conversation, and half slice of life! I liked it, but I'm looking forward to doing a phat chunk more action soon and to progress the plot forward, it's been a minute since we got some major stuff on that front!
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With Jin successfully revived (not that it took much on her part), Rai...
2024-10-01 05:03:24 +0000 UTC
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We're back, and so is my sweet boy! As usual, the chapter is a bit imperfect, but I think I captured the relief and awkwardness at the end, as well as the trancelike coma and horror of the middle. Enjoy my dears!
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The way Jin tells it, he mostly just remembers the dark.
He’s explicit on that point, which is interesting. T...
2024-09-30 18:14:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello! My laptop about to die so heeeeeere enjoy! It's good and my sweet baby boi, he is- well, you'll see!
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As soon as she’s determined it’s safe, Raika invited Li Shu up out of her hyperfixation-cave and up onto a viewing platform she’s created on her back. Together, the two of them are looking out at the new world before them, both ov...
2024-09-29 00:21:13 +0000 UTC
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Aaaaan we're back! A little late I know, but today was busy and very very good. Made me happi! I'm also glad I got to write this chapter though, enjoyed a lot in it. Next chapter we start to explore the weird world of the 4th ring and start trying to help Jin!
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“We’ve just about reached our destination,” Raika says. “Ready to disembark...
2024-09-28 04:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Jokes on you! Actually, the landscape ISN'T friendly! Muahahaha! It's late, but I intend to at least start on my next chapter lol. See y'all soon!
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Two projects on the backburner, put back into the forge. Her Heart, the core of some strange dungeon of the world, is pumping out new life in a constant flow, recycling and ...
2024-09-26 03:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Ok, gonna go write some RfR after this, so we'll have a chapter either done or mostly done soon on that front. I'm not going to neglect my main boo just cause some side-thang wandered by! But ain't nothin wrong with a lil lookin!
Jokes aside, enjoy, and I look forward to doing more of this later!
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Immediately, two ...
2024-09-25 01:12:35 +0000 UTC
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Ok, so this is at least partially a fanfic, but I like to put my own spin on it so we'll just say it takes inspiration from it! Welcome, ladies and gents, to my first genuine attempt at a litrpg, and watch me free this maniacal little story gremlin from my joyous delightful brain-stem! Also, if you know where the title and "fanfic" claims come from, kudos on your good taste in podcasts!
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2024-09-23 22:52:06 +0000 UTC
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Kinda proud of that title, made me giggle. Anyways, hello! We're getting our second to last interiority chapter, and then we'll get to say goodbye to our friendly desert couriers and wake up to the wonders and horrors of the 4th ring beyond the mostly horrors of everything that it costs to maintain it for so very, very long. See y'all then!
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2024-09-22 04:42:22 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Some seeds previously planted have been successfully grown into a bit of a hybrid. We're on the move now baby! Synergies are soon to come. But just a few more things to check out first...
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While her inner world has expanded as she’s eaten more and more Qi, most hills are only the rolling red-purple-silver grass, with little else to them (wi...
2024-09-21 02:06:54 +0000 UTC
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I... was not expecting that ending, but it absolutely felt like time. As it was written and appearing, it felt just very right. Enjoy my loves, and I'll see y'all soon for the proper buildcrafting / cultivation episode!
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Raika dissolves her body, eliminating the physical remnants of the idea that she’s human. Her only...
2024-09-20 01:23:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello! We remain back, once again! Not sure if we'll do a chapter tomorrow, so I'll aim for a second one tonight if I can!
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Apparently it’s a very novel experience for the desert couriers to be able to enjoy the scenery during their travels. When Raika offered to build them a sort of viewing center, they were hesitant at first, but now, she...
2024-09-18 22:06:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Going to bed ASAP after posting this, but I hope y'all enjoy! Cementing some lessons learned, some relationships in mild flux, and fun ideas for what's to come!
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The hunter-between-layers doesn’t stick around long. Like a cat, it bats at the annoying sand all around, kicks a clump of it back like shrapnel at Raika, and then runs off, d...
2024-09-17 04:21:50 +0000 UTC
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And... double dose! The comment from last chapter still holds up- apparently, all my brain needed was a hard reset, time out in the sun, food, exercise, and other hard-to-do things that are worthwhile even while neurologically rotting. Got me to actually engage with the story again too, which is nice! Planted some seeds for this "reveal" fucking forever ago, so enjoy the start of the payoff!
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2024-09-16 02:42:39 +0000 UTC
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So... it turns out that giving myself permission to not be ok was part of the recipe for being ok? Being alive is bullshit and neurology is a hyperequation designed by the worst generative algorithm of all, nature. Not sure if this is going to continue at this pace, we'll see tomorrow, but if so, updates should resume shortly!
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“If you bow to...
2024-09-16 02:38:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all.
As you may have noticed, no chapter the last... I think 3 days? At least two, three counting today. I'm having a bit of burnout I think, and / or a pretty big downturn in my mental health and energy. I am working on this, to some limited success, and my next chapter is halfway done, but uh... well, I'm not doing so good. I won't go into too much detail; I don't think that's very helpful to me and it's sort of just blurgh anyways, but to those worried, I will be ok, and this i...
2024-09-15 02:44:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Gonna try my best for a second chapter tonight, get us back caught up, cause I gotta post on RR as well lol. See y'all soon, either way!
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Somewhere along the third day, with the sun dipping low to her right, Raika realizes that she’s been following a path.
Not precisely, not with perfect accuracy by any means, but it...
2024-09-12 00:54:45 +0000 UTC
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