Uranium Phoenix's Projects

12/1 Weekly Roundup Post

Here's the chapters that came out this week! These chapters have taken longer than usual to write, but I should be able to manage another bonus chapter next week. I'm hoping as we get to the close of book 2, I'll hit my stride and my writing speed will increase (since I've been excited to write t...

Chapter 156 - An Order of Airships

Mirian started off the cycle with her usual tasks, then broke the spellward barrier around town in several places. After that, she sent out more disruptive letters through the Royal Post to various people she knew, or knew of.

Then, she brought Nicolus down with her to Cairnmouth. Sire Nure...

Chapter 155 - The Siege of Alkazaria

Professor Endresen had taught Mirian all matter of lensing spells, mostly to look at the intricacies of glyph formation. However, the same principles worked to bend light to view distant objects.

From the newspapers she’d seen, she knew Ibrahim usually started the siege with an attack ear...

11/24 Weekly Roundup Post

Another week, another roundup. Here's the chapters that got released this week:

Astounding Augurs
Chapter 152
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Chapter 154 - Confrontation

Mirian readied herself for a fight. She only had a single repository with her, but she always had combat spells prepared in her spellbook and the levitation wand up her sleeve. Behind her was a glass window, so if she needed to, she could escape. Or, she could summon Eclipse. She started to reach...

Chapter 153 - Old Mentors

Mirian needed to talk to both Jei and Viridian extensively, so she made sure to create new initial conditions to throw Troytin off. First, though, she continued her surveillance of Specter. Even after discovering her real name, she couldn’t think of the horrible woman as human. Her code name wa...

Chapter 152 - Fort Aegrimere

With her hidden remote spy spell, Mirian quickly determined that, once past the walls, Fort Aegrimere didn’t have too much divination to watch for. There were, however, state-of-the-art glyphkey locks on almost every door, even the barracks. The supply depots had two doors and a s...

11/17 Weekly Roundup Post

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Powerful Prophets

Chapter 149
2024-11-17 18:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 151 - Apophagorga Redux

As soon as the beast emerged, Mirian sent up the flare. To her dismay, Apophagorga didn’t react like it had the first time.

After a roar of annoyance, it charged the first team. No amount of rifle fire or spells could get it to turn around, even after she launched flares ordering an advan...

Chapter 150 - Apophagorga

At first, the myrvite hunters seemed frozen. Even with the orange flare flickering bright above the myrvite titan, no one was taking action.

“Aim for the head. Fire!” Mirian snapped, and at last, the riflemen seemed to break from their daze. Their rifles cracked out, first in a volley, ...

Chapter 149 - Preparing for the Beast

The next cycle, Mirian planted several incendiary devices in the rooms where Troytin sometimes stayed, then talked to Torres about sabotaging the spell engines he’d be bringing so they’d blow up in his face specifically. She sketched out what a divination-proximity trigger would look like for...

Glossary of Enteria (updated for book 3)

Edit 7/3/25: Updated! I'm pretty sure there's no spoilers here if you're caught up on the normal time traveler tier, and certainly there's no spoilers if you're on the extra-cool tier. If somehow you found yourself here and aren't done with, say, chapter 195, though, there's some spoiler...

11/10 Roundup Post

Whoops, forgot to do this last week, so last week's chapters are also linked. I also expect the Glossary of Way Too Many Characters And Places to go up sometime today when I finish it, but I'm not going to have it use notifications because I don't think anyone is dying to read it. I'll tag it wit...

Chapter 148 - Breaking the Banks

The second airship may not have been sure what just happened to the first one, but the pilot on board had been watching. The skiff accelerated, then started doing evasive maneuvers as it approached, randomly weaving through the sky as it passed the manor again, sending out another bombardment of ...

Chapter 147 - Trial and Error

Mirian woke up, already feeling annoyed. “I hate having to deal with stinky bog lion hair.”

“What?” said Lily groggily.

Then, she was annoyed at Lily, even though it wasn’t her fault.

As she left her dorm, she muttered, “Alright, Troytin, you asked for this cycle to ...

Chapter 146 - Escape from Cairnmouth

Mirian was sure of one thing: she couldn’t outrun an airship. For one, she hadn’t modified the conduits on her wand this cycle, so she could only levitate so fast. And, from what she knew from her research, a skiff could stay in the air for around four or five hours, depending on what they’...

Chapter 145 - Going for Gold

The next loop, Mirian stopped by Cairnmouth, saved Arenthia, then introduced herself to Lecne again.

After a brief introduction, Lecne said, “So… you need us to teach you some more secrets of the priesthood?”

“No,” Mirian said. “I need your help in stealing a great deal of...

Chapter 144 - The Ennecus Problem

Calisto talked nearly nonstop on the train to Cairnmouth, then somehow had more to say on the train to Second Cairn.

“…the real gold-printing machine would let you control Labyrinth econode releases, but barring that, what’s preventing us from constructing our own econod...

10/27 Weekly Roundup Post

Sorry about no bonus chapter on Friday. Been sick for about two weeks now, which has absolutely cratered my productivity and chewed through my backlog. If you're reading this and were planning to go out and get sick, my advice is: just don't. (I think I'm finally on the mend, but it's been a frus...

Chapter 143 - The Ennecus Guild

With her amulet now bound to her, Mirian spent the last two days of the cycle learning about the other artifacts they’d recovered. As the eruptions intensified, none of the delvers could bring themselves to hold to their original exclusivity agreement. There just was no point.

It turned o...

Chapter 142 - Relicarium

They all hesitated at the threshold of the final door.

“Does it… is it going to reactivate?” Beatrice asked, peering out into the forest.

“I don’t know. Levitation wands at the ready, though,” Mirian said. The weight of the relicarium in her pack reassured her. Tentatively...

10/20 Weekly Roundup Post

Here are easy links to the chapters published this week:

[Clever wordplay about the $10 tier]

Chapter 139

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Chapter 141 - The Depths of the Vault

For a moment, there was silence. Then, Mirian heard Beatrice behind her asking, “Did she just…?”

Briefly, there was some shouting, but she didn’t care what they said. They’d follow. The only way out was through.

For a moment, the forest was silent too. Then it came to life, ...

Chapter 140 - And Deeper

It was clear, when they came back down the next day, that Scrappy had been hard at work. Five of the rooms near the front had been reset. Thankfully, the strange golem was nowhere to be found, and it hadn’t made it to the back rooms. The two greater labyrinthine horror corpses were missing, whi...

Chapter 139 - Deeper

The two greater labyrinthine horrors waited in the antimagic room. The three heavies leaned their war hammers near the door’s threshold, and the soldiers stood ready with their spears. Grimald led the charge, quickly establishing the front of the shield wall, followed by the two other heavies. ...

10/13 Weekly Roundup Post

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Complex Committed Time Travelers

Chapter 135

2024-10-13 19:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 138 - Double the Horror

Aelius’s first reaction to Mirian’s proposal was disbelief. However, when she started outlining what she knew of the Vault—which was how to open almost all of the early room doors—he had to lean back in his chair and clench his jaw for a bit.

“How are we dividing it up?” he fina...

Chapter 137 - Recuperation

Calisto, when she wasn’t arguing with or attempting to manipulate Nicolus, was a surprisingly pleasant person to be around. She also found Bainrose an intolerable place to study.

“That musty old castle is fifty percent dust and twenty percent spiders by weight. No thank you! This is muc...

Chapter 136 - Discovery

The colossal myrvite let out another roar as it thundered forward. Mirian covered her ears again.

It moved like a turtle, slowly but inexorably, but it was large enough that each stride covered a surprising distance. Mirian shifted to the Lone Pine form as it let out another roar. She still...

Chapter 135 - The Anomaly

The next cycle, Mirian saluted Rostal and they began their bout.

Rostal liked to tell her to go all-out, but Mirian knew he didn’t really mean it. Otherwise, she would just fly up and hit him with lightning until he gave up. Instead, she started with The Spear That Cuts Water, turning bac...