I knew early in the day I wasn't going to be able to bring myself to finish the chapter, but that doesn't mean I didn't get any work done today.
I finished about five hundred words of the chapter, and brainstormed for about 2 hours. I'll have it done tomorrow.
As always, if you want ...
2020-06-11 23:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostCarem walked down the street with complete confidence. Anything less would get him stopped by the guard for a screening. They picked up on subtle cues, targeting people who were hesitant or nervous about the armed security at every corner.
Carem was both, but he didnÂ’t let it show i...
2020-06-11 00:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so this is how an electric motor works:
Elliot then went into a long and convoluted explanation that for the most part, went over CalvinÂ’s head, including when he got to Lorentz Law, talking about magnetic fields that heÂ’d never seen nor heard of, fo...
2020-06-09 23:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Calvin got clean and began feeling like a human again, he started noticing things.
In the week heÂ’d been gone, there had been some subtle and some not-so-subtle changes in the city of Allast.
One of the not-so-subtle changes were the guards stationed at every street corn...
2020-06-08 20:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostLearnerÂ’s notes, Day 319: On pets.
Humans have a strange practice of caring for useless animals. At first I didnÂ’t understand why a person would own an animal without any specific purpose, such as labor or meat, but my new brain was able to divine the meaning behind th...
2020-06-06 01:12:28 +0000 UTC View PostI had a spot on the discord but it's increasingly difficult to find and all spread out. let's have a place to put it all where i can find it again easily.
suggest any kind of drug you want and it's effects. I'm looking for Juntai drugs RN but they can be any kind you want.
So far off...
Recent chapter reminded me i haven't gotten suggestions for Stealth before. Let's fix that.
2020-06-05 20:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostLearnerÂ’s Notes, day 318: Human bonding rituals.
Humans have many ways of social bonding, and my new and improved human brain is picking up on them splendidly. I must thank that evil body swapper If I see him again before the Manifold Predator kills him.
...
2020-06-05 01:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Shhhit.” Calvin said, peeling back the corpse’s dirt-covered lips, revealing a hollow where Carem’s canine used to be.
“Any chance you knocked this out when you were roughing him up?” Calvin asked, glancing over at Learner.
“I donÂ’t think so,” She said with a shrug. Â...
2020-06-03 21:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Unhand her this instant!” The patrolling guard demanded, his rail gun leveled at Calvin’s torso.
Something in the way he acted made Calvin think the wrong twitch might result in a big hole in CalvinÂ’s torso, and that just wasnÂ’t how he wanted this night to turn out.
“I’...
2020-06-02 21:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostCalvin leapt off the bed, landing in his pants and tugging them up in a matter of seconds.
What the abyss. What the abyss did you do!? Calvin thought, opening the channel to Nadia as he snagged his shirt off the floor and threw it over his head.
What are yo...
2020-06-01 20:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostLearner's response to being the subject of attempted murder seems to be an object of contention. feel free to drop your two cents in the comments, since the poll is sort of limiting.
2020-05-29 19:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostFirst two weeks of June, I'll be releasing 15 ish (maybe more) chapters from patreon to the public. At least a chapter a day. At the beginning of the month, I'll unlock $1 and $5 tiers fifteen chapters higher, so I don't have to juggle that as well while I'm doing the public dump.
Of course...
2020-05-29 19:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostLearnerÂ’s notes, day 316: Liver tests, and human Aberrations.
Human stomachs are terribly sensitive, reacting poorly to the tiniest change in itÂ’s environment.
While I admire this specialized organÂ’s ability to provide nutrients to the rest of the human...
2020-05-29 19:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is this stuff? Calvin thought as he rubbed his finger along the white bench. It had no texture, per se, except for a slight sense of granularity. Calvin rapped his fingers against it, and marveled at the sound it made. It sounded light, like there wasnÂ’t much there,...
2020-05-27 22:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostCarem sat beside the playground doing his best not to look sketchy as he observed the children while he whittled on a toy.
The toy was for cover, in case someone asked him why he was sitting at a playground. HeÂ’d already given away several of them in the last couple days since heÂ’d...
2020-05-26 22:53:08 +0000 UTC View Post“So I feel like an idiot asking you this,” Goob said, looking at Baroke up and down. The musclebrained idiot flexing with every movement he made as they walked down the hard-packed streets of the Juntai market.
They both spoke passable ILethan, so they got along okay.
“-but ...
2020-05-25 22:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, our job as exploiters is to identify any instability in the System, figure out how to repeat it, then see if you can find a way to exploit it for profit. ItÂ’d be cool if you could figure out some kind of duping glitch when it dumps the data.
I und...
2020-05-22 23:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post+1 Mind!
Carem Sageva sighed, rolling his shoulders as the pleasant tingling worked its way up from his fingers, all the way to the nape of his neck, into his brain. There, new ideas, new insights, and raw power swirled, expanding his self.
At the end ...
2020-05-20 21:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostCarl Daley was once again sitting at his Admin desk, designing a sexy lady with his spork and a dollop of mashed potatoes.
Ten year doctorate in System Engineering, a host of Skills taken to advance my career, and I turn out to be as useless as a screen-door on a space-ship....
2020-05-19 22:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post***Llortan***
LlortanÂ’s job as a scrubber was simple, check a planet for signs of Ravager activity, then move on. He could check dozens of systems a decade and come up with nothing, but nowÂ…
“That’s the second one in as many days,” The Llortan said, tossing aside the body ...
2020-05-18 18:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got a message that they'll be doing sales tax starting July 1st.
They claim less than half of everyone is gonna be taxed, and a lot of people don't count depending on what kind of benefits they're getting. I'm not really sure what category advance chapters fall under. ...
LearnerÂ’s notes, Day 284: On Fear
Fear is one of the most primal, basic emotions a human can experience, and something wholly alien to me.
IÂ’ve never before had the opportunity to study someone closely that was terrified, but I have to say, the effects a...
2020-05-15 23:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostLearnerÂ’s notes Day 283:
Kala finally found my weakness: Thrillers where an aged crime fighter must battle some kind of monster with a very specific set of strengths and weaknesses.
I love the process by which the human detective identifies the previously...
2020-05-14 23:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostPlastics were crucial to life in the twenty-first century, but it was unsustainable, between diminishing oil and burgeoning landfills full of unusable crap that would sit there for an eon. We were at an impasse.
That was until Don Eager invented EagerPlastic, a smart com...
2020-05-12 23:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostDrafting has reached level 18! 90% Correction.
“Muahaha!” Nadia cackled evilly as she swooped over their heads, finally able to control the warping of space accurately enough to fly with it. She swung an invisible blade from the tip of her finger and cut t...
2020-05-12 03:28:31 +0000 UTC View PostLearnerÂ’s Notes, day 271 On Romance Novels:
I was introduced to something called Romance Novels by Kala today. My reading skills have come very far over the time that IÂ’ve been here, but I did have to clarify a few words with the princess, to her mild discomfort.<...
2020-05-11 00:50:23 +0000 UTC View Post“This chafes.”
“Why, is something wrong?” Calvin asked, looking over the map. He didn’t see anything that immediately jumped out at him as a horrible mistake, but then again, he didn’t have enough experience to start looking for them, either.
“No,” Gulad said, adjusting...
2020-05-08 21:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostHad to turn my internet back on and unfubar it as well. apparently I wasnÂ’t on autopay even though I explicitly told them to activate autopay. Whatevs, itÂ’s all sorted out now, but it cost me a day. IÂ’ll crack the missing chapter into two half days on my weekend and it shouldnÂ’t be too hard t...
2020-05-07 23:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh,” Calvin grunted as the train of barges passed by the dozen or so ooze weavers standing on top of bubbles of snot in the middle of the lake, using their long strands of goop to excavate…something man-made.
Calvin couldnÂ’t see exactly what it was through the water, but he cou...
2020-05-06 23:37:39 +0000 UTC View Post