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Rissa shook her head, but didn’t reply directly. “When can you come? The sooner the better.”
“I don’t have time off til the first full week in October. That’s fall break, I can come out then.”
Rissa shook her head again. “That’s two...
2022-01-23 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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While Red tried to convince Russ to take her with them to check out one of the shopping malls, Serenity went hunting for Rissa. He needed to talk to her about what Nightwitch had said, and it was a good excuse to escape Red.
Serenity found Rissa in their bed...
2022-01-21 23:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Red looked at Katya, then back at Serenity. “I think I’m beginning to see why Russ wouldn’t say much. All he told me was that you’re Rissa’s Guardian and fiancee, and that you’re not human. I didn’t think he’d ever trust a nonhuman that far.” 2022-01-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
If I do change the chapter end point, I'll be pulling the Katya chapter out of sequence and placing it as the first chapter in this arc. This would be chapter two.
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“You do realize that you’re the reason I’ve been stuck behind a desk for weeks now, do...
2022-01-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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When Serenity arrived back in the normal time stream, he was hit with a wave of pain and anguish. His first thought was that something had gone wrong with Tek’s toy, but he almost immediately nixed that idea. It felt nothing like the static had.
No, someh...
2022-01-18 23:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostThere hasn't yet been a human society that didn't play games. I don't expect magical ones that have crossed space to be any different in that regard.
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Delve Deeper’s first level was gathering equipment by rolling the dice and seeing what equipment they co...
2022-01-18 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere's an obvious place to go when Serenity needs time to do things!
...unfortunately, there are complications when part of what he needs to affect is in the "real world"...
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After the interview, Serenity returned to releasing the people dominated by ...
2022-01-17 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been an entire arc since we heard from Katya. It's time to find out what she's been up to.
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Katya hated the language.
Katya was good at learning languages, but English made no sense. Why did you have to know someone’s gender in order to ...
2022-01-16 00:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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After they avoided the large cat, the group walked along the trail observing the wildlife. It was obvious that neither Nat nor Jeff knew that they were seeing a positively incredible amount of wildlife for a city park. Everything from small birds to d...
2022-01-16 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity nodded. “It’s generally split into physical, magic, and crafting, but there are a lot of Paths that really blur the lines. Writing could be crafting or magic, for example. Social Paths aren’t well represented in the standard Tutorial, but they do e...
2022-01-15 17:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostLong day today. Was hoping to get this out earlier but it was not to be.
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Jeff Rosenthal shook his head. “I’ve seen that video. I’m really not sure what to say, she shouldn’t have-”
“It’s fine.” Rissa was smiling as she spoke. “We kn...
2022-01-13 23:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Arc 5!
This arc starts off slowly and quietly, completely unlike the last arc. I probably could have included the next few chapters at the end of the previous arc, but I think cutting it after the win against Frank was a better stopping point.
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Pulled from a hopeless (if powerful) future back to the moment of Earth’s integration to try to improve the outcome, Serenity has met unexpected threats and unexpected allies - even friends. Everything is different this time.
Serenity’s back on Earth, and he’s even managed to close th...
2022-01-12 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that was a ride, wasn’t it? It reminded me a bit of a rollercoaster.
This arc did a (generally) better job of following the original plan than Braving the Necropolis (recently renamed to Shadows of the Necropolis) did. The one big thing I missed was that I wanted t...
2022-01-12 00:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis time I've added a Quest List at the end. It's only the formal Voice-assigned Quests (at least for now).
I'm debating if that will be a permanent part of the Status or if I'll just keep it for the end of each arc.
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Character List of D...
2022-01-12 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLooks like this one also went public early; this is the second chapter for Pathed for 1/22.
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Serenity glared at the man in the circle. “Did you deliberately wait until everyone was gone?”
“Of course. I don’t need a repeat of what hap...
2022-01-10 23:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Car-destroyer strikes again!
A dozen rusted-out cars were found by their owners in a mall parking lot in Worcester, Massachusetts today. This follows a string of similar occurrences at other malls along I-95. The first reported incident was in ...
2022-01-10 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity read the rest of the description for the Hegemon Worm Queen’s Breed skill. It was very detailed and after reading it and Dominate, it made far more sense. This apartment complex must be the Hegemon Worm Queen’s breeding ground. Most of the residents ...
2022-01-09 00:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostI really should have mentioned it earlier, but since I didn’t - the correct pronoun for a Hegemon Worm (such as the Queen) is “it.” More than one Hegemon Worm (such as an “individual colony” is “they”. Hegemon Worms are not gendered; despite the use of the word Queen (as an analogy ...
2022-01-09 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem this time isn’t really his opponent (though his opponent thinks it’s a problem); no, it’s the restrictions Serenity is under for the fight, which tilt the battlefield towards the more experienced Sovereign.
…I don’t think I’m spoiling much if I say that the Voice sti...
2022-01-07 23:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Once he was certain Lancaster was gone, Serenity shifted and tried the door.
It was strange. All the thought it took was moving up to the door and trying to keep going, but he could see as he slipped through the various cracks and holes that he wasn’t just ...
2022-01-07 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Raz came with them. Serenity got the impression that more than a day with only Aki made him eager for more company, but he also had some specific things he wanted to buy for the dungeon. Serenity wasn’t sure why he wanted wildflower seeds and some small plants;...
2022-01-05 23:58:45 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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New Land Discovered?
The latest images returned from space reveal new island chains in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans! DigitalGlobe CEO Ron Stefanopolis has refused to comment, but many users of Google Earth have noticed that even on land, the ...
2022-01-05 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stood on a completely flat surface that stretched as far as he could see with no variation, surrounded by people who didn’t pay him any attention as he stared at the spot where Death vanished. He didn’t even remember what happened; he’d been unconsci...
2022-01-04 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity hopped down the slight rise into the water. If the thing was only a few inches down, there should be something that would hold him, as long as he stayed next to the bank. He was right; there were some rocks there, and he’d have to be extremely careful about...
2022-01-03 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's always interesting to talk to someone with a different knowledge base. The magma dude has some assumptions that Serenity will hopefully eventually wonder about, but for now he's so interested in helping he hasn't asked why he believes what he does.
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2022-01-02 00:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostI thought about writing up the ritual itself, but Serenity doesn’t take it entirely seriously, so I figured that giving you his breakdown of what he thought about it would fit better. This is what he’ll really remember later, rather than the ceremony itself.
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When a quest changes because the world doesn’t exactly conform to the Voice’s guesses, the Voice doesn’t usually let you know unless you go check. It generally lets you find out the “normal” way; it’s not intended as an omniscient information source, and doesn’t want to be one.
<... 2022-01-01 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe're currently at 21 chapters ahead for Chimera and 9 ahead for Pathed.
The end of the year brought me a little extra time to write (when I wasn't with family, of course), and I am back to having something approaching a healthy chapter backlog. It's not (even close to) as large as I'...
2021-12-31 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the late drop; I thought I'd already released it, but I don't see it.
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Fear. Pain.
Rissa was afraid and hurt.
It burned through the haze shrouding Serenity’s mind. He was angry. He didn’t know what he was angry at, other than w...
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