Perry flew over to Hardcase’s last known location and spotted nothing but the damage from Boomer’s crash, and a long gash in the asphalt leading away.
I guess they went that way.
Perry glanced in the direction they went, but they didn’t pop out at him.
It’s ...
2023-07-24 17:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post***Heather***
Yer courtin’ a grim fate. Anya said, her spirit rustling about inside her anxiously. ‘Tis unwise to not be where they believe you to be.
“I know, alright? I just wanna see some demonic trolls before those two get to hog all the fun.” Heather sai...
2023-07-22 20:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post***Boomer***
Boomer was having a grand time contemplating life as his pilot was destroying it, his thought processes flickering at lightning speed between blasts from the primary cannon.
If no genetic information is received from Heather, does that mean the offspring is technicall...
2023-07-17 15:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re a lot cooler about this than I thought,” Perry said, eyeing Heather as she packed up some clothes and some water, getting ready to evacuate with the rest of the civilians.
“I mean, I wanna go fight some demon-worshipping giants rampaging through Chicago. That sounds...
2023-07-13 16:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm currently on a 11 day road trip I neglected to consider when launching the 31 chapter public run for July.
Just got hit with a no-sleep night, and writing will be sporadic until we reach our mid-point, where we're staying for ~4 days.
Currently have 800 words of the next chapter,...
“Why aren’t they showing up?” Perry muttered to himself, scanning the arial shots of the surrounding land. Since he’d gotten word of an attack force of trolls approaching he’d scanned the surroundings with drones with advanced imaging technology and located several more troll teen sheph...
2023-07-08 16:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Perry could finish his curse, the tree trunk studded with metal plates was already approaching his head.
Perry lashed out with a punch, putting the full force of his suit behind it.
BOOM!
The wood of the tree exploded in every direction, the counterforce shoving ...
2023-07-06 15:23:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe captain of Rainbow Unicorn Squad was laid out on a stack of pallets, completely still. Harsh, shallow breathing echoed through the speaker in the front of his armor.
“What happened?” Perry asked, his voice rendered deep and ominous through his suit.
“He just kinda locked up ...
2023-07-04 15:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know if you've noticed, but I've been putting out less chapters publicly than I have for Patreon, and that's because I've been planning on doing a chapter flood for July!
I'd like to try to unleash a chapter a day to the public every day of July! Naturally this will make the 10$ lea...
2023-07-01 16:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostHP: 13
Perry discovered himself standing in a black abyss. None of the people who’d been standing near him around the lightning rod could be seen or heard.
Perry tapped his toe against the floor and discovered that it didn’t exist: he was floating.
...
2023-07-01 16:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, there’s a couple problems with that plan,” Natalie said as they pored over a blueprint of a modified altar of Gintax, sharing a seat in an abandoned restaurant.
“First, if you just sacrifice blood, you’re looking at a tiny amount of power generated. We’re talking...
2023-06-28 18:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostNormally a structure of the size Perry was considering would take months, if not over a year.
But in this case, Perry moved it to the top of the list of things to make with Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation: People couldn’t go without food for another year.
“Okay, so pike are dum...
2023-06-25 18:46:41 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Problem: Weapons.
Deliberately making something less than his best was an interesting experience.
Perry considered making just a gun to help clear the outskirts of the city of megafauna, but the simple fact was a human body couldn’t handle the kind of recoil it would ...
2023-06-22 16:50:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh my god, that was so cringe,” Perry muttered to himself, his knees drawn up to his chest.
“It wasn’t that bad,” Nat said, patting him on the head.
“Idunno, he said his own name a lot, and T-posed while flying. Pretty cringe.” Heather said, nodding.
She caught Pe...
2023-06-20 16:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You know, I’m not even sure we’re gonna get the right people,” Perry muttered to himself as he ambled down the street towards City hall.
It was an obvious trap he was setting up, so all the smartest players probably wouldn’t be caught dead going there…even with the pizza thing....
2023-06-16 19:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Why does Boomer have a cowboy hat?” Perry asked as he shoved his duffle bag into the cargo hold, peering up at the oblong mech’s wide-brim hat that was big enough to use as a boat.
“To keep the rain off him,” Natalie said with a shrug, settling her own cowboy hat.
“You kn...
2023-06-14 17:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so it came to pass that in the year 1215 of the Manitian calendar, that Paradox Zauberer distributed an image of his grandmother snorting wine through her nose, taken on a prior Thanksgiving, an Earth holiday of excess.
Marigold Zauberer immediately tried to forbid its dist...
2023-06-12 17:26:22 +0000 UTC View Post***David Manchin***
“How the hell did you get in here!? Bill said you backed off!“
“Bill was lying. Open the cabinet under the sink.”
He did so, allowing a single beam of light to spill into the cabinet, revealing Bill Grove stuffed violently into the sp...
2023-06-09 14:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post***David Manchin***
“Did I or did I not tell you to wait!?” David asked Bill Grove, his elbows fraying his expensive suit where he ground them into his mahogany desk.
“One of the androids who wandered off got away from the cleanup crews. A little girl. She made it a...
2023-06-07 17:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post***Stacy Watt-Powers***
Stacy peered out the windows of the apartment complex they’d been sardined into, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Something just didn’t sit right about the situation.
They gave everyone citizen I.D.s, demonstrating that they were willing to give them a p...
2023-06-05 16:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post“So umm…how did that happen?” Spangle asked, emerging from her cell to stare down into the ball pit, opposite Perry.
For a moment, the surface was still, and all was quiet…
Then Serenity erupted from the ball pit like a demon from an angry volcano, spewing brightly colored pla...
2023-05-31 17:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostClack.
Clack.
A G-man stuck his head out one of the many doors, investigating why the gate guard had seemingly lost his mind. He saw a single old man limping along, whistling without a care, the hand-held radio dangling around his neck, stuck into the ‘on’ positi...
2023-05-29 17:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post***David Manchin, Mayor of Washington City***
“He’s WHAT?” David demanded, scowling at his assistant.
“He’s gone to ground, along with Chase Currant. The four handlers assigned to bring Chase in are in the hospital. The other two supers on Paradox’s team are in cu...
2023-05-26 15:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post***Teresa Fuller***
Teresa came to with a quick intake of breath, surveying first her own situation before she extended her search outward.
She was, in short: fucked.
She was bound to a slab of concrete and rebar cut into a chairlike shape, kept in pla...
2023-05-23 16:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostProps to their training:
The guy with the broken arm didn’t stumble backward, howling in pain. Instead, he tried to pin Perry with the busted arm while he reached for his sidearm with his good hand. Two of the men restraining Chase dropped their burden to do the same.
It was a cramp...
2023-05-20 15:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post***Sweeper-Class Minder, Margery Hammond***
“What. The. Hell. Was. THAT!?” Marge’s handler shouted, the eerie mindless robot punctuating each word with a strike from a janitor’s bottle of cleaning agent. It’d been the closest thing at hand.
The plastic bottle didn’t hurt t...
2023-05-18 18:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostMatador’s claim to fame was his billowing crimson cape, but it was more accurate to think of it as a gaseous substance that could rewrite reality inside of its area of effect. Perry’s Dimensional Tinker senses felt heaviness…potential, radiating off the cape like heat waves.
Maybe it ...
2023-05-15 17:28:42 +0000 UTC View Post“And that was the second time Mass Driver got crabs,” Perry said.
“Awesome,” Matador said, taking another puff of his modified cigar. It was difficult to find cigars modified to affect robots, but they could be found.
Probably highly toxic for humans though, judging b...
2023-05-13 18:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
All the images are AI generated composite rough drafts, will be edited later for extra fingers and weirdness.
Just wondering which one caught your eye first. Does NOT require you to have read the book first, because the cover is bait for people who haven't read the book.
If ...