sick day today <3
hey guys - sorry about lack of chapter - dumb stomach is acting up again and need to take it easy. will be back with your regularly scheduled goodies tomorrow.
2023-08-17 18:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ch. 188 – Zephyra Ren
The incredibly powerful contract killer took it better than expected.
Which was to say, still not great. But at least Momo’s horns were still attached to her head.
The dokkaebi crawled out of the jar like a wet fruit fly, then rapidly grew in size until she had returned to her full, lanky form. Her typically pristine gothic attire was wrinkled and torn; her bangs, too, lo...
2023-08-16 17:48:26 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 187 – So, We're Stranded?
After they extracted all the information they could out of Vivienne, Momo and her crew made good on their promise. But before they handed the artifacts over, Momo add one last minute qualification to the exchange.
"Vivienne," she said, rubbing her hands nervously. "Will you become my Loyal Follower?"
"Your what?"
Momo explained the concept to her. She had read the des...
2023-08-15 19:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostMomo Book 3 - Open Patron Feedback
Hey there guys! This is a little random, but I just wanted to take a moment to take some feedback on the current Momo book. I'm having a blast writing it, but I want to make sure you're feeling the same while reading it.
For that reason, I'm including an anonymous poll here, but feel free to add any other feedback in the comments if you'd like to elaborate on your answers.
I'm...
2023-08-14 17:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 186 – An Interrogation At Sea
This revelation put Momo in an unfortunate situation. Luckily, Momo was no stranger to unfortunate situations. Some would say the opposite – when put in a fortunate situation, it was Momo’s instinct to, as quickly and with as little self-awareness as possible, turn it into a very agonizing one. Her parents had shamelessly referred to her as the unlucky child for a...
2023-08-14 14:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post[Yar Har Har] Art Friday!
Happy Friday! This week's theme is [Yar Har Har] -- aka the call of Captain Coco, esteemed commander of Mandrake's Revenge. Definitely not to be confused with Queen Momo, frequently absent tyrant of the Queendom of Morgana, who is a very different and separate individual. (....But have you ever seen them in the same room?....)
1. Coco (Momo) ver. 1 2023-08-11 08:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Ch. 185 – The Final Artifact
In retrospect, it probably would have been smarter to release all the souls after she had explored the basement.
“Ouch,” Momo moaned for the tenth time, pain rocketing through her skull as she inadvertently slammed herself into another hard corner of the cavern. As it turned out, the staircase led to a small, very unlit, chamber, with several intersecting st...
2023-08-10 21:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 184 – Freeing the Flame
“No, Vra’ta! Stop! Baaad dog!” Grimli shouted wildly as the recently unpackaged mechanical canine aggressively sniffed each body, his metal nostrils flaring at the stench. “We don’t go shoving our noses down corpses’ throats! That’s very impolite behavior. Not to mention you’re among royalty.” The dwarf jutted his thumb towards Momo, who was holding back a la...
2023-08-09 18:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 183 – The Cult of… Sera?
Vivienne led them through the settlement like a morbid tour guide. She knew the name of every single corpse sprawled around the soil as if they were all her distant relatives, recalling their professions, their children and their children’s children, their illicit affairs and late-night necromancy. If it weren’t for the ever-present stench of death, Momo would have considered it a cozy tour...
2023-08-08 16:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 182 – The Meaning of Life
The remainder of the trip to the Vagrant Dunes was as simple as seafaring could be. A couple of pirates – oh, sorry, sea scavengers — attempted to board and pillage them, but Momo was able to scare them off with enough spirited arm-waving and the [Yar Har Har] spell from her tricorn. Unfortunately, minor misstep, she forgot to warn the crew the first time she used the skill. Severa...
2023-08-07 11:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 181 – Gaslight, Gatekeep, Daydream
So, to recap –
Both Sera, a crazy, power-hungry lesser goddess, and Jarva, Kyros’s personal meat puppet, had an eye on Momo’s throne room. Both also had the means to take it.
And where was Momo, you might ask?
Floating on a glorified piece of plywood towards a desert.
Momo gritted her teeth. This was not good.
Still, she had little choice. The ticking time bo...
2023-08-04 14:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 180 – (Holy) Knights At Sea
Momo could have never imagined her morning routine to look like it did now – as in, waking up before the sun and meditating below deck on a pirate ship with a hairless feline – but then again, she could have never imagined any of this.
Here’s how it went down: she woke up at 6am sharp, brushed her teeth with a toothpick, some straw, and a sliver of Barium sea-salt soap Sumi...
2023-08-03 13:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostVP | Ch. 13: Alpha Bat
As it turned out, gardening was a lot like being the mother of sixty needy, leafy children.
And Nara's children were about to end up in foster care.
It had been a week since the quest began, and her progress counter had reset three times now. She didn’t even know plants could die that fast. As Nara had feared, Diabla’s crops were nothing like their earthly counterparts....
2023-07-21 19:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostVP | Ch. 12: Quests & Gardening
After Nara received Lilith’s gift, Diabla all but threw Hekat out of the door, slamming it shut hard behind him. After that, she wordlessly walked back to the couch, sat down, and groaned into her hands.
“Son of a demon,” she cursed, stomping her foot into the ground and rupturing the floorboards. "Thinks he can just waltz into my house and give things to my 2023-07-20 10:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
vampires + week off
hello beautiful people,
something a little special this week - 3 vampires for the price of one! 3 vampire potionmakers (wed, thu, fri) instead of just one on friday. i've been cooking something fun with nara's arc 1 storyline, and i'm excited to share it with you all.
after that, im going to take a small week long-ish vacation to rest & recuperate & spend time with my family...
2023-07-20 10:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostVP | Ch. 11: The Ancestors Await You
As Diabla stalked towards the door, Nara trailed miserably behind her. She didn’t want to kill anyone; that’s why she chose Potion Maker as her class, not Vampire Lord. Judging by the latter’s class description, she could have been an absolute beast; an abomination of the night that could level the meek to dust. But that wasn’t her thing – and certainly not her aspiration. 2023-07-19 19:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Ch. 179 – Soul Cannibal
Momo started with the book on the left. It was the lighter of the two, and, in the same stylistic vein as the other skill books, the cover was painted from bottom to top with smooth oil pants. It had a vaguely Impressionist feel, a Monet type playfulness in how the light streamed into the picturesque scene – a human and a skeleton holding hands and meditating in a field of wilted roses.
Ch. 178 – Quest Rewards & The Power of Literacy
While the sun remained fixed and unmoving in the sky, Momo filled Valerica in on the myriad surprises and twists that had occurred since she ascended the throne. From finding Nam’Dal in chicken-inspired ruin, to watching the downfall of a promising young dancer, uncovering the secret identity of the Holy Resistance, to finally being gifted the Wraith Box, which brought her here, to this very ...
2023-07-17 18:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Valerica in America (Ch. 3)
“Is that – is that a dead body!?”
Valerica grinned. It had only been five weeks since she had started at Dunham Hollow College, and she was already making quite the impact.
“No, he’s alive, just bruised. He must have gotten drunk and ...
2023-07-14 20:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 177 – Check Your Sources
The funny and annoying thing about sadness is how it sneaks up on you.
In moments of weakness, you feel a pull just below your jaw, in the weak nape of your neck, but then you’d push it down, force that desperate feeling to wade water for as long as possible, drown it below the noise of everyday life. But sometimes something, someone, comes along, so suddenly, so a...
2023-07-13 16:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 176 – Vra’ta and the Visitor
At sea, the sun woke much like a toddler; bristly and thrashing and all at once. The reflection of its rays on the water were stark and blinding, the type of overwhelming light that made Momo wish she died with sunglasses on – the cheap plastic ones you found discarded and half-broken by the beach. That would have been nice, and certainly more useful than her real funeral attire: a stained Fi...
2023-07-12 19:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 175 – A Reunion on a Boat, Feat. Child Labor
The linen slithered along at first, hitching every so often on the wood of the mast, but with a last grunting tug by the unseeable crew, the enormous mainsail rushed up the pole, flourishing wide and majestic over the sea. The sail the wind immediately, tearing and rippling through the air. The boat whined madly in response, drifting further and further from the dock – and further from Momo ...
2023-07-11 19:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 174 – Mandrake’s Revenge
Having been unsuccessful in convincing Kelly to keep the more intimate details of her love life off the presses, Momo gave up and made for the Mekna shipyard. She followed the scent of rum and the troublesome noise of sailors until she was once again at the beach’s end, the reflection of the full moon glittering across the waves.
“Never thought I’d be in the market for a ship 2023-07-10 18:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Rise of the Disguised Overlord | Ch. 2: Return of the Second Son
Dimitri knew it was inevitable. He had to return to the castle, to Reláire. Still, he delayed it for as long as possible, taking the backroads into the peasant area of the village as he paged through as much of his new System as he could manage.
This is so much information… he thought miserably. It’d take him weeks, if not months, to memorize all of the treaties and contract...
2023-07-07 15:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 173 – She Took You By The Horns and Kissed You?
Vivienne stared at her for several moments, her lip trembling. Momo wasn’t sure if she was about to pummel her or storm out.
Ultimately – she did neither.
She laughed. Laughed hard. Head thrown back and everything.
“How naive are you, seriously?” she said between fits of laughter, nearly choking on her own words. “Do you just trust people mean what ...
2023-07-06 18:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 172 – A Traitor in the Midst
All at once, several highly diverging paths opened up to Momo the Handkerchief.
If Vivienne was here giving an interview, that meant that she could be spinning the outcome of the Deadly Dance Recital in any which way, potentially accusing Momo of cheating or any manner of uncouth behavior, ransacking the Approval winnings she was due from that event. On top of that, if Kelly was easily ma...
2023-07-05 19:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 171 – The Mekna Gazette
As it turned out, Momo’s Way did not sit well with Grimli.
“We’re canceling the campaign trail,” Momo repeated, watching as the bard’s face drained of life once more. It was paler than pale – like a ghost with a face mask on. “The last stop is going to be Mekna. Queen’s orders.”
“But, but – my shirt!” he said, pointing two thumbs towards his...
2023-07-03 08:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostRise of the Disguised Overlord | Ch. 1
A/N: In case you missed it, here's a link to the Prologue.
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Chapter One: The Great Divine Master Overlord of the Valley of Idra
The Overlord’s mansion lay in Reláire, the capital of the valley. The reason for its positioning was defensive–the forest...
2023-07-02 18:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostNew Story! Rise of the Disguised Overlord | Prologue (Ch.0)
A/N: Hello! Me again. Your favorite misspelled villa1n. I have another new story for you guys today - but something a bit different from my usual stuff. I've written about three chapters, so I'm going to post the first two today (the Prologue and the Ch.1) and if you guys like it -- I'll keep posting.
For a quick blurb: This story is about a shy butler named Dimitri, who serves the eons-o...
2023-07-02 18:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostVP | Ch. 10: Talking Bats
Tragically, Diabla had been correct. There were bats. Dozens of them, actually. An entire infestation. They kept Nara up all night, fluttering furiously next to her eardrum, pattering on the floorboards, chirping back and forth like children who had just discovered how to whistle.
Coming from a family of campers, Nara’s first instinct was, of course, rabies. So much so...
2023-06-30 10:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post