Annnnnd We're back! Hurrah! Well that was a good break week. Got some rest, got some time with family, and settled some issues. Now its back to the grind! Hurrah!
Enjoy the chapter!
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Woooooot! We're nearing the conclusion of this arc, and the final arc of the first Volume! HURRAH! This chapter was a doozy, I'm telling you.
For this Chapter in p...
2023-07-19 22:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostTell me what you think and enjoy!
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The sneering priest shook his head and pointed toward the blank-faced Juatan as he spoke.
"What's with that look? I would think a 'Guardian' would have had better control over his flock. Then again, I guess that was asking too much of a barbarian. Yes, I remember you, Juatan. Given the ruckus you caused all those years ago, how...
2023-07-18 19:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostRemember, the Q&A Is still going on until tomorrow! So If you still have questions you want answered, now's the time!
EDIT: The pictures have been re-uploaded! They didn't work the first time.
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Progress!
Both literally and metaphorically!
Alpha had arrived at the small checkpoint building nearly 12 hours ago, and not much had ...
2023-07-14 18:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostSneak Peak for tomorrow's Chapter, as well as a small something I'm working on! Have fun!
2023-07-14 01:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the chapter for today!
Tell me what you think of the way Info was presented in this chapter!
I'm trying to say away from more "Info-Dumpy" narratives like I did with the Translight, and this was something someone recommended; make the information actual dialogue and have it serve a purpose other than just to inform the reader.
Tell me what you think and If t...
2023-07-12 17:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the fully edited version of 44!
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Alpha stared at the stranger, several laser turrets locked onto his biosignature. The man definitely hadn't been there only a few moments before, nor had the large boulder he sat on. More magic bullcrap, no doubt. Alpha was getting tired of being constantly caught off guard like this. What happened to being a super advanced AI with capab...
2023-07-11 17:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Edited chapter will be out in a bit, after I've finished editing.
EDIT: The edited version of 44 is out! Go take a look!
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Until then...
Its time for our First Q&A!
If you ever had a question about the Novel, now's the time to ask!
If there's enough demand of this, might even do them more often as well, though I definitely want to do at least...
2023-07-11 15:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis one was a Paaaain in the butt to write.
I'm sure the more sharp-eyed readers have already caught on to what I'm doing with this side story (and yes, it WILL have important impact on the main story, later), but dear lord, my notes were a mess.
I forgot I'd rewritten them on a different application, so wrote 50% of it using the old notes before I remembered. Then when ...
2023-07-08 17:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post(╯°□°）╯ ︵┻━┻
I've had to rewrite the next chapter twice already, because apparently I didn't properly update my Notes for the GRIM Adventures.
Let this been a Lesson to anyone thinking of writing.
Always make sure you organize your notes properly...
orz.
Anyway, I'm working on it now, but it won't be finished until la...
2023-07-07 23:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post"Crapcrapcrapcrapcrap!"
Alpha dodged around a thick, black vine as it poked out from the swampy, muddy ground, attempting to ensnare the TAWP's leg. The vine missed but exploded the next instant, covering the leg in a thick, sticky, tar-like substance.
Not again!
Alpha tried to pry the sticky good off with the TAWP's nanite skin, but it was too late. The substance bubbled, the...
2023-07-06 00:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostWoooot! I'm almost caught up!
I mean, I'm still editing on release day, but Hey! At least its the right day now! hahahahh!
If I can keep up this momentum, I might even be able to restart the stockpile! Hurrah!
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“Lemme... lemme tell you shomethin’. The Cappin’? The Cappin’sh the worsht of the... hiccup... lot! ‘John! Run thish...
2023-07-03 23:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh? What’s still I see? When my people told me a group of Slatewalkers had arrived, I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting so many… familiar faces.”
Just the sound of the voice emanating from the crowd nearly drove Zolzaya into a bloodlust-fueled rampage. When the crowd finally parted, revealing the arrogant sneer of “East Scion” Mönkhkhan, only the tight grip of her father’s ...
2023-07-02 23:57:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Careful! I said careful! Try not to jostle him too much!”
Zolzaya stood in front of Alpha as Ganbaatar, the guard Juatan, who Alpha learned was the young woman’s father, lowered the injured Yutu to the ground. They’d arrived at their waypoint after a few hours of travel with nothing of note happening in between. Well, not anything that hindered them, at least.
The only thin...
2023-07-01 04:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha chuckled to himself as he watched the hundred or so tracking dots scatter around the village. A few of them were already gathering to discuss how best to use the "presents" he'd given them.
It wasn't anything complicated or even malicious, but to the children who'd never known more than simple village life, it must have seemed like magic. Even if it was just a civilian standard nani...
2023-06-28 22:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostI'm trying to stay away from some of the longer Mongolian names, her, since her real father was killed, as mentioned in chapter 22, but someone said that the entire plot I had planned for that was a way too convoluted, and might cause confusion later one.
SO Juatan has been retconned into her biological father, having been severally injured instead of killed. This sticks to the intended n...
2023-06-26 23:07:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe small gathering comprised most of the people Alpha would have expected,
Ulagan, Kallik, the “Captain” (whom he’d yet to hear anyone actually refer to by name), the senior guard Juatan, and two older gentlemen who only introduced themselves as Elder Ganzorig and Elder Batu.
Then, of course, Alpha himself.
The two he hadn’t expected to see were Ganbaatar and Zolzaya....
2023-06-24 21:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostLast Chapter of the week will be on Saturday! I'm trying to reset the "One on, one off" schedule that got thrown off with vacation.
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Booooom!
Boooom! Boooom!
Several of the fleeing targets erupted into large fireballs, spraying their remains over grassy prairies.
The fourth and final target was a different beast altogether, however. It ha...
2023-06-22 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostYa, I don't think the new editing program is gonna work better. I re-edited it with the older ones, and it turned out a lot better.
At least I think so.
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Alpha poked the drone with a manipulator probe as it rested in the TAWP's maintenance bay. Bays like this were intended to service larger, more expensive drones, but he didn't have many other options. The [Wasps] were...
2023-06-20 19:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back from my Trip! Hurrah!
<.<;; next time I'm going to just call the week, instead of trying to write during a vacation though, I barely got anything done.
That being said, I'm going to take the rest of the week to recover. I've been trying to write all day and I can barely sit in my chair from more than 20mins at a time.
The Trip was really fun th...
2023-06-14 17:15:38 +0000 UTC View PostSo, bad news. My brother's Laptop hate my car's wifi, apparently...
Unfortunately that means I can't access any of my tools... orz...
I'm going to be trying to write on my phone, but it's unlikely to be done today, or even tomorrow, since I'll mostly be writing when we're driving.
Likely it'll end up doing a 4 chapter week next week.
Again, sorry ...
2023-06-09 10:44:38 +0000 UTC View Postorz... I had a better title, and now I forget it... great...
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John was a simple man with a simple job.
Run through the village, deliver the mail, and collect his pay.
Well, “simple” was a bit deceptive when your town covered nearly 300 square kilometers and constantly rearranged itself. Still, it was honest work and, more importantly, to John, safe.
...
2023-06-07 18:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha, or rather the [Wasp], sat across the table from a wrinkly old man, a cup of tea in front of each. The old man sipped his tea and sighed, then yelled louder than necessary in such a small building.
“How much longer, woman?! I’m hungry!”
A more feminine, if no less wizened, yelled back from around the corner, the voice not losing in volume.
... 2023-06-06 19:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostI had a small emergency eat my morning, so instead of trying to juggle 3 things and play catch-up, I'm just going to push the chapter back to tomorrow.
The rest of the weeks chapters should stay the same, so this week's going to be Tuesday-Wens-Fri.
2023-06-05 17:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe children let loose terror-filled screeches as the beast broke into the small clearing. This wasn’t the first time it had found their hiding spot; it had already claimed many of them. Yet, it would not be sated until every tiny human fell.
It locked on to the smallest and slowest of the bunch and moved. With a blur of motion, the child disappeared. Those that remain scattered into th...
2023-06-03 20:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostNext week marks the end of Arc 2 for Free Readers and the (rough) midpoint of book one! Hurrah!
Honestly, I'm surprised we're here already! What a ride its been! only two months in as we're going strong! We even hit 55 Patreon Subscribers!!
Not explosive growth, but impressive none the less. Thanks for all your support everyone! I Literally couldn't have done it without you &n...
2023-06-03 03:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostSo I struggled to think of a way to show Alpha’s budding understanding of the language while looking at least somewhat reasonable and came up with a simple system.
Words Alpha has no context or understanding of will be censored like {&$&@%^@}. As readers, you might guess what they could be, but Alpha doesn’t know.
Words that Alpha doesn’t know but can INFER based on th...
2023-06-02 19:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostUlagan returned to the group just as Kallik was finished treating the last of them. He looked down at the young herbalist girl lying down in front of Kallik and frowned. Other than Zolzaya and Ganbaatar, the other four survivors, Yutu included, were all still unconscious. Ulagan frowned and asked the Grassreader,
“How are they?”
Kallik shook her head.
“Not great, but the...
2023-06-01 16:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostNo bonus chapter today!
QAQ GASP! OSA! WHY?!
Well, one of my Beta readers pointed out a Major flaw, show now I need to rewrite THREE chapters! That'll teach me to be a responsible author and write ahead! orz...
In all seriousness though, instead of making the schedule all weird, the last three chapters for this week are just going to be released one a day.&nb...
2023-05-31 20:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Uriel "Vurod" Haldorðr, General of the Third Federation Expeditionary Force and commander-in-charge of the Galactic Unification project sat at the end of the long table, his back straight and hands folded neatly in front of him. Even for a Vidaasi, the warrior-like race jokingly referred to by much of the Federation as the "Dragonkin," General Haldorðr was a large man, both physically...
2023-05-31 19:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was a “gun”?
Depending on who you asked, you would get different answers. Some would tell you they’re tools of death and destruction whose only use was to take a life.
Others would say they’re tools of protection to defend yourself, and those you care about, from harm.
Alpha had a different point of view.
A “gun” was nothing more than a means ...
2023-05-30 04:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post