Saturday! Blessed day where all the office drones went home and tackled all of the shit they didn’t have time to do during the week and where half of all factories were closed. The party day. The day off!
I decided that I needed a vacation, so the plan was simple; for the next week and a day or so, I’d stay home and do ...
2025-10-27 10:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post***
“How was that?” I asked as I stepped back behind the stage.
Gomorrah was standing just a few feet away from the curtains, arms crossed and face set in a frown. Not that bad of a frown, though. I’d rate it a solid four out of ten on the frown scale, so she wasn’t pissed off at me or anything. “It sounded like you went on sta...
2025-10-26 12:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhaaa, that first chapter came out so easy, but the second was tougher. Always like that for some reason. Anyway, here's a second chappy for the day!
The next loop was spent doing research in PJs at home. Mister Couchtop came over and installed himself across my lap, a warm, fat pillow that I idly scratched while awkwardly ...
2025-10-25 15:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostVacation is done! Thank goodness!
I shut my new laptop with a click and jumped to my feet. Right, I was here to spy on the gala, not just do some shopping.
That could wait for... well, probably earlier than now, I guess? Whatever.
I shook myself awake and focused on the gala.
The Seraph bu...
2025-10-25 08:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostLook, I TRIED okay. I really, genuinely tried. But I almost had a weird stress-induced freak out this morning. Two days without being productive is too much.
The Orchid Lux rep gave me a link to a website.
The site was only reachable through some heavily-encrypted browser, and he warned me that it was best, and s...
2025-10-22 12:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostTwo! <3
When I got home, I decided to be productive. I was still feeling a little crampy and gross, but it wasn’t as bad as the day before, and I had more energy. Maybe being a D-ranker had more upsides than I’d initially realized?
Anyway! The evening was a good time to train.
I first ...
2025-10-19 03:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a while since I had a two-chapter day... hmm, let's see if I can do that today! Wanna skip to the next fun part already!
It was a long deliberation, but I decided not to give up on the loop.
That was something I came to after saying goodbye to Becky at the same bus stop that I’d seen her arrive at. I probab...
2025-10-18 14:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostEmily had barely slept.
Part of that was her mind just refusing to shut off. She had nightmares for the first time in...
Actually, it had been a while since she’d had a nightmare. They used to be regular occurrences for her. She’d go to bed two, sometimes three days before an important event--maybe a not-so-important eve...
2025-10-17 23:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostG-girlfriend...
This was a mistake.
Not so much hanging out with Becky. She was... fun. Carefree and loud, and opinionated, but fun. I actually thought that she’d get along well with Jane, because she had ideas about fashion that would clash with Jane’s own ideas.
No, the issue arose when ...
2025-10-17 05:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe made it!
That was a lot! But we made it to the end, and with a much bigger turnout than I could have expected!
So, what's next?
First, if you want a copy of Hope//Punk right away, you can grab one on DriveThruRPG or Itch.io. Keep in mind that these are Zeroth edition, they're missing all of the content from...
2025-10-16 20:37:15 +0000 UTC View PostI was in a rather good mood, until the dire news arrived. Or perhaps it wasn’t so much dire as it was merely... offbeat.
“Oh-hohoh!”
“Did you come upon yet another fantastic bit of wordplay, my lord?” Sir Cophagus asked politely. The Death Knight was standing guard a few paces behind and to my right, the position usually reserved for ...
2025-10-16 08:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostI was squinting through the rather poor lighting in my little farm when the door opened. I glanced up and over, checking Sir Nibble’s reaction, but the panbadger didn’t fly into a rage so it was probably someone friendly.
I got confirmation as I heard someone coughing by the entrance, followed by two sets of feet walking over.
“H...
2025-10-15 21:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... I think... one more chapter? And then the Epilogue? If you guys have any ideas for what should happen next in SCS, then I'd legit love to know them. I really don't want to stop the story, but SCS is the weird kind of narrative that doesn't have a specific end goal. It's all long arcs and episodic things. And I don't know where to go from here, exactly. I've got some ideas, s...
2025-10-15 08:43:09 +0000 UTC View PostMore Becky <3
I ended up Reloading, mostly because Becky had eaten about two hundred dollars worth of food. Or... she’d ordered that much. Really, it was insane how much she’d ordered, and she seemed willing to take at least one bite out of everything before setting it aside.
I don’t know if this was the...
2025-10-14 21:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Amayrllis!” I cheered as I saw the harpy standing by the ship’s railing not too far from where the stairs leading up to the Beaver were. “We’re back!” I waved my one free arm up and over my head. The other was preoccupied with holding onto the food and stuff we’d bought.
“I can see that,” Amaryllis sai...
2025-10-14 08:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostDid I feel cool grabbing the door, ripping it open, and stomping into the restaurant?
Yes. Yes, I did. The poncho-cape thing swirled dramatically behind me and settled around my shoulders in a very satisfying way, and there was just something about that, and being in my full costume, that just made me feel powerful and aw...
2025-10-11 22:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostShe watched them go, then cursed. “D-dammit!” she growled. They’d taken the orb, they--
Emily gasped, her focus shifting to her sisters. Teddy was getting up, her big bear head shaking off any lingering pain.
Trinity was... fine? The girl was bouncing on her feet, one of her rushing over to help Emily back up to her feet...
2025-10-11 09:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostHere, have some of your favourite character and the best girl in this whole book...
I got up, felt a bit better, if still a little annoyed and crampy, then went to work.
Work was boring and long. The best thing that happened was a quick conversation with Dharti where she praised me for the speed I was learnin...
2025-10-10 21:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting with Bao and Mao was going to take place in one of the nicer tea rooms of the building that people were starting to refer to as the palace instead of just another sect compound.
It was a nice room, with twin sliding doors opened up onto a large garden and with a low table with comfortable cushions around it for seating.
Fenfang ...
2025-10-10 06:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt was going to take a while to get the combined mushrooms I’d picked up along the way to grow into something I could properly examine.
For that matter, it was going to take a while to see if any of the combined mushrooms were even viable. I no longer had the Fungal Grafter {Uncommon} skill. I’d lost that when I replaced Ageric Cleric some...
2025-10-09 05:08:13 +0000 UTC View PostHaha... it's the 8th?!
I... am bad at this. Gosh, I should not be put in charge of anything even vaguely administrative.
(Art by Jegsuu!)
Anyway, here's the link: 2025-10-09 02:03:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Things could be worse.
That was usually the case, so it really wasn’t much as far as reassurances went, but it was still something to cling onto, and she was nothing if not talented at clinging onto small, vain hopes.
She had five people clamoring for her attention at the moment, but she raised a hand in a ...
2025-10-09 01:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostAh, bit on the shorter end? Anyway! Got a buncha writing to do today! SCS day! Woo!
Can't wait to get to 'next week' in Save, because I have ideas!
I could have been productive.
Instead, I rode my bike home, regretting the purchase the entire time. Maybe I could get a car? Some old beater that ...
2025-10-08 17:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you going to level up those other two skills?” Desiree asked.
We were done with lunch, so now it was time for drinks Mostly it was more hot cocoa. Real hot chocolate, made by warming up dark chocolate and mixing it with some milk and then sprinkling a bit of nutmeg on top. All it was missing was some whipped cream and ...
2025-10-07 22:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostHmm hmm, bit of a fast-paced one. But after the Interminable Weekend, I think that's granted.
I hadn’t been in this particular portal in... about two months? Three? It was a recurring portal, sure, but it wasn’t one of those that came up all that often. Maybe once every two months or so? That was on the lower end ...
2025-10-06 20:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post***
“Hey,” I said.
It was... I checked my augs to be sure. Six thirty. In the afternoon. We’d arrived sometime in the morning.
My feet were killing me, and I was seriously contemplating just packing up and leaving, or maybe hiding in a closet somewhere until things calmed down. But no, I had, instead, endured and worked h...
2025-10-06 02:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostCommunist Marching. The painters are in. Riding the cotton pony. Lunar cycle special. Ragtime.
I resisted the urge to use any of those.
I woke up the next morning to a mild pain in the small of my back, and for once it wasn’t Mister Couchtop who had decided to settle there overnight. I groaned, shoving my...
2025-10-04 21:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Terrible news!
I have to... edit. So, uh, tomorrow will be an editing day. No chapters tomorrow. I'm sorry.
2025-10-02 17:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post***
This was not working out.
But it also wasn’t so bad that I was pulling out my very fresh and cool hair yet. I left Princess to act like mini-royalty for a bit while I got myself something to drink. Somehow, having me appear in the back areas of the casino and just ask around to find some coffee or something set a fire under the asses...
2025-10-02 16:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up, and decided that no, I wasn’t going to get out of bed today. I rolled over, pspsps’d at Mister Couchtop, then when he was close to the edge of the bed, I yoinked him up and under the blankets. He struggled, but it was for nothing, it was snuggle time and he was my unwitting pillow.
I woke up to my phone ring...
2025-10-01 16:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post