Ehhhh, no, too long.
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Iris reached into the pockets of her grey coat and grabbed a small totem. It was one of the only ones she had left, but this moment called for its use, didn’t it?
Before her was her enemy and she wasn’t going to hold ...
2026-01-24 23:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostHmm, one or two more chapters, then the end of this volume! I have suuuch a cool idea for the next arc! Big powerup, too!
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“What do you mean, the portal was done?” he asked.
His secretary, a young--mundane--man that he’d only just hired recently flinched. He had been an intern at one of the larger corporatio...
2026-01-24 07:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostHmm, how that title?
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He wished that he had some more equipment with him. There were more expensive but more accurate sensing devices that would let him pinpoint the nature of the magical residues they were dealing with. As it was, he had one device, his own healing sense of magic, and Carrot.
Not exactly the ideal toolkit, but ...
2026-01-24 02:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostEmily was anxious until the moment Aurora and Trinity returned. “How did it go?” she asked.
Aurora nodded seriously. “It went well. We got three devices into the warehouse. I don’t think any of them were noticed?” She said the last while glancing at Maple.
The little beaver-girl blinked, then jumped with an ‘oh!’ and scr...
2026-01-23 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostHmm, what do you think of the new title? The last one had... an off-vibe?
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“Did you sleep well, sweetie?” her mom asked as she slumped into their kitchen.
“Mm,” Carrot replied, then she pressed her hand over her mouth to hide the biggest yawn ever. “Yeah, I guess. Feels like I didn’t sleep enough.”
Her mom sm...
2026-01-23 04:25:11 +0000 UTC View PostShe executed a textbook-perfect lunge, the tip of her glowing sword skewering into and through the ice elemental, then in a move that was very much not in the book, she twisted around, starting at the hip before using her entire upper body to move her sword in a sharp arc.
The blade made a beautiful sound, l...
2026-01-21 22:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostI licked my lips. They’d gone a little dry as I spoke to the knight. “Um... okay,” I said. “Okay.”
The knight stared, and I only just caught the reflection of light off of his eyes within his helmet. “Is that all? Will you leave us, then?”
“No,” I said. “At least, not yet? We don’t want to fight, a...
2026-01-21 08:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostVersion 0.84!
Fix list! And a big shout to the guys on the Ravens Nest discord for compiling all of these mistakes for me!
Civilian Catalogues:
Minor fixes to some of the traits in the Civilian Catalogue.
Added vehicle speeds to civilian vehicles...
2026-01-20 17:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
So, I'm still on my Forced Vacation Time (There's only three Sleepy Birds right now, but they conspired together, and now I have three days off in a row. Today is the last of those, so expect a buncha chapters tomorrow at the stroke of midnight... well, I'll start writing them then, but like, soon after?) and... yeah, been a little bored?
Mostly I've been playing Old S...
2026-01-20 05:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post***
Lemme know what you think of Libre here?
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It wasn’t long before Gomorrah arrived and with her the entire army.
There were some large gates around the city, but most of them were for smaller overland transports, so a larger set of doors further in had to be open to let the army column enter. It all happened rat...
2026-01-18 02:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostNew name for our favourite blonde Ojou-sama! Thanks to QueenScarlett and Khorne on the discord for ideas~
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Francisca had to rely on years of social training in order not to make it clear how incredibly uncomfortable she was. It was also, plainly, thrilling.
They were heavily outnumbered and very muc...
2026-01-17 19:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostLook, art!
By https://zarwilsonart.format.com/
Also, still no internet at home. Got this feeling in my gut that the technician won't show up, either :(
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Those w...
2026-01-16 19:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostHmm, trying to write fights in a new way? More like the... manga-style battle shounen fights? idk what that's called. Anyway, lemme know what you think!
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The doe slammed a hoof into the ground, and the paint bottles on her back rose up, then exploded.
Carrot pulled the brim of her hat down to protect her face as paint and glass flew eve...
2026-01-15 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe next couple of weeks went well. Silent, sure, but well. The weather was growing warmer, and with that the mood across the city seemed to be on the rise. It was a... not a good time, necessarily, but not the worst time in the life of a City Nineteen citizen.
The early harvests were in, and the price of many staple goods were down.<...
2026-01-15 04:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In-progress shots of civilian Carrot by Zara!
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Silas didn’t think he’d ever entered a nail salon before. It just wasn’t his kind of place. He was pretty sure there were at least two of them within the magic community, because he had...
2026-01-14 19:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post***
I stepped out of the Bastion to Fortunate Son shouting about how the lead singer wasn’t a senator’s son. There was probably some level of irony there, but I was a bit too preoccupied with piloting a multi-ton mecha to really deep dive that at the moment.
The MEOW was the mech of choice for the moment. It was t...
2026-01-14 16:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostGonna need some suggestions/ideas for names for Fran and Becky at the end there. Anything cool? Thematic? Just... fitting? idk!
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Ernest hated few things, but high among those was his name. It either made people think he was truly honest, living up to the name, or they joked that he had a name better suited to an octogenarian. 2026-01-14 05:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post
My friends started to look, but while they did that, I... kind of just wandered off to a corner and stood there, staring at a wall.
The wall was interesting, granted. It had been painted over with a sort of mural, images of knights with swords and shields on the walls of a castle and before it. Each level of the mural was...
2026-01-13 21:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... should we change the title?
Also, art! Just some early sketches by the very super talented Zara! Probably gonna go with the version with the bow, and the Mister Roger's blouse! Oh, she has a portfolio: https://zarwilsonart.format.com/
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GD8WL7G5
In the choking smog and steel of City Nineteen's slums, nature didn't seek a warrior—it sought a crusader.
For a young mycologist r...
2026-01-12 21:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Quiet,” Deadline murmured. She carefully pulled a sharp bit of glass out of the bottom of the window-frame, then reached into the little backpack she was carrying to pull out a bundle of cloth that she draped over the will.
She was the first in, moving as if she broke into homes every morning.
Becky glanced over to Fran...
2026-01-12 19:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostLibre seemed to think that everything was going well, and Cecilia was very much of the opinion that they were a hair’s breadth away from being chewed on.
“We need more ammo at station six!” she shouted our the constant din of gunfire even as she scampered along the inside of one of their exterior trenches. She turned, then sighed ...
2026-01-12 14:45:30 +0000 UTC View PostBecky was so ready for some action, which was a little weird, because it was like, five AM, and usually she’d either be very much asleep or about to go to bed. Waking up at four in the morning was not something she did.
Still, she was hyped as hell, so it didn’t matter.
Actually, it wasn’t just tha...
2026-01-11 21:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostShort chappy! Also, we hit 20K words!~
Carrot made it home around noon-ish. She might have hoped to spend more time with Mister Silas learning magic, but he had been almost nodding off on his chair after two hours, and so she had bundled him up in even more blankets and tucked him in bed.
She didn’t need her new friend and magic t...
2026-01-10 15:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostAurora sat on a couch and tried not to appear too bored, or too worried. Not that she was all that worried. The thing was... how could she put this?
She wasn’t doing anything, and that bothered her.
Big Sister Emily had gotten them into an apartment across the street, and now they were spying on the building where that sus...
2026-01-09 22:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Just wanted to know what people think of Carrot and Stick so far?
I'm having fun with it (Obviously) but I'm genuinely curious to see what everyone else thinks! I've gotten some fantastic feedback, and lots of good ideas on the discord, but I could always use more <3
There's art on the way as well, but it's not done yet!
2026-01-09 16:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostSilas woke up the next day feeling, if anything, worse.
Part of that was physical. Sure, the Ordo’s training had included plenty of running and some amount of physical exercise. The Ordo Venator was one of the only ones that actually insisted that its members learn the basics of some martial arts. Partly to help its members keep fit and partly...
2026-01-09 15:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostShorter chappy! Oh, and Gdoc link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c3c70JUF-OpjGjuqq-sRaM-6aqv33-ulYN_UlJUpE1M/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.i5g8i5aned0z
In case you wanna make co...
2026-01-08 17:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe place was seedy as all hell.
He’d been in his share of suspicious bars, of course. It was part of the job. In fact, it was so much part of the job that those who knew very little about actual detective work tended to romanticize this part at their own leisure.
The pub was called the Wellspring under previous ownership. It was just a ...
2026-01-08 11:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostMinor edit to previous chapters: Carrot is wearing a fingerless glove on her right hand... for reasons~
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Carrot didn’t know what was going on, but she did know that she didn’t like it very much. She was on the floor, face pressed into the floor, and head spinning.
“Carrot!” Mister Silas said. She felt hands touching her b...
2026-01-07 22:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post