Nathan understood the look that the pretty woman was giving him. He was slightly tired of it, but she was more circumspect than most. But what adults always seemed to forget was that as they grew more understanding of what was happening, they were slowly numbed to it. When they could spot things further out in the future, they could afford to be lax.
For children, there was so much ...
2018-07-09 05:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a big outlining day, which means only one chapter. My schedule is going to be a bit wonky this weekend, so uploads will be weird.
But also after this week, things should be settled and I can start getting back to the days of cranking out the chapters.
In slightly related news, I'm currently looking for a new job. Mostly I need my day job for health insurance...
2018-07-06 04:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostI meant to post this last night, but I was dragged to paint. I wanted to get another, but I doubt it will come out today.
Happy 4th of July everyone!
It was like a rose bloom of Aether slowly unfolding in the sky. After it spread to its full height, the petals would wilt and fall away, spreading to the distant reaches of Zone 1. Randidly did ...
2018-07-04 15:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Ghost’s sensors were temporarily distracted by an explosion of energy. But after identifying it as an anomaly, Ghost dismissed it; the ambient energy was largely positive. It could wait until the tests had concluded.
“Begin.”
The Hunter-Seeker drone made by Baloo Erickson powered on with a cool buzzing. Then it began to move. Its legs were small, but its arms were large ...
2018-07-03 03:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostA chapter now, because I think I will miss Wednesday due to festivities. I will also begin typing up the contest after posting these! When I finish, the contest will be put as a thread in the discord server, with all the details!
Discord can be found here: https://discordapp.com/invite/ykJ5K6Z 2018-07-03 03:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
With a sharpened focus, Randidly rapidly realized that the cylinder was lined with extremely dense runic engravings. So dense they were that even when Randidly walked up to the thing, he could barely distinguish the different strokes. It was so overwhelming that Randidly felt his head start to spin as he looked.
Someone who could weave Mana Engravings like this… so truly, this was the work of ...
2018-07-02 05:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hank watched as Alana considered the land before them.
“It’s a trap,” Dozer rumbled calmly. Alana chuckled but said nothing.
Before them lay the borderlands. And not just the borderlands, but it was the borderlands that lay directly between the two Zones. The path previously uncovered was a path out of the Northwest of one Zone to the Northeast of the other. But as the s...
2018-07-02 05:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
It hurt. It hurt more than anything had ever hurt. To compare the pain from being eaten alive in the dungeon by acid on that first day was to compare a seed to a tree. But Randidly was a very different individual than he had been in the beginning.
His eyes were cold mint, taking on a strangely blue tint, as Aether flooded through him, washing away the Skill that dictated what he cou...
2018-07-02 05:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tatiana stumbled when they finally stopped. Her heart was pounding. How the hell were they moving so fucking fast? At one point, Tatiana had felt the air solidify around them, as though… as though they were about to break the sound barrier. They had slowed immediately afterward, but Tatiana had a strange impression that it wasn’t because Viking couldn’t go that fast, but ra...
2018-07-02 05:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
To his credit, Dr. Henrik only blinked once before he answered. “Oh, Sir Hatch. I hadn’t noticed you’d arrived. I didn’t mean to say you are not valuable, only-”
“I believe what you are trying to say has been made abundantly clear,” Thaddeus said calmly. He began to walk slowly forward. “I’m curious, however. How many Raid Bosses have these new drones been able to ...
2018-06-29 04:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The first thought Randidly had when he walked in was that the lights were too low. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem at all for him; his Perception meant his gaze focused at a speed that changes in lighting barely affected him. It would need to be pitch black for him to be blind. But the rest of the guests didn’t share his stats, and therefore there was a cluster of people right ou...
2018-06-29 04:17:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
Apologies, but there will be no chapters tonight. Both because I waffled on how to handle this charity dinner, and also my mind was on other things.
To that point, I wanted to post a bit about stats and the System and its presence in the story. To clarify, I'm still doing what I've always been doing. But because I'm juggling more Skills and PP and Stats, I simply make more mistak...
2018-06-28 03:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly was awkwardly pulling at the collar of his fitted suit when he received the message from Dinesh.
Found another base. It’s a big one. About 5 times as large as the previous ones.
Randidly froze. He was sitting in the back of a car with Tatiana and Henrik. Unfortunately, Davey had to cancel to inspect Randidly’s new drones when they were given over to the a...
2018-06-27 04:46:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Levels were strange, Randidly decided during one of his breaks in the labor of preparing these drones for launch. As he worked, he would get slowly better at something. That was simply the accumulation of experience. Accumulating experience also meant that the would receive Skill Levels.
Individually, these Skill Levels were small things, but when Randidly received two or three in b...
2018-06-27 04:43:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“Who is he?” Hank asked Dozer, who stood next to him with folded arms. Although the rest of the almost 100 man group were keeping together in tight formations, Dozer strode alone. So when they stopped at gates of the Refuge to face the single man standing there, Hank went to the big man for answers.
“He is strong,” Dozer said simply.
Annie stood at the front, opposite ...
2018-06-25 06:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly burned the body without any remorse and continued the operation. There were no more strange incidents, and they were able to cover about 70% of the shallow areas of the lake. There was likely more hidden in its depths, but this was a preventative measure only. This wasn’t meant to rid them of the problem, just buy them some time.
Hopefully, the military would get off its ...
2018-06-25 06:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostOnly three tonight. I was just exhausted after the trip and didn't get nearly as much as I wanted done. But I will say that I have refocused a bit towards the text game, because I've lost it a bit while on vacation.
Plus, now I'm gonna focus more on the writing. Try and show how thankful I am for all of your support.
As the group headed South, Rand...
2018-06-25 06:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs a slight aside, I have also been considering the departure of the System as a chapter by chapter presence. For plot reasons, this makes a lot of sense, but I'm also somewhat annoyed with the lack of it. I have some thougts on it.
Just wanted to let you know I'm thinking about it.
Well, it’s not that I don’t know of what Great Paths...
2018-06-21 23:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostI will admit that I am a more passive person, and I like to watch before I act. But Randidly isn't me. He is the force of natural that has survived under the thumb of the System. I'll try and keep him more on character in the future.
Randidly considered taking personal action but ultimately decided against it. He was furious that the government had allowed so man...
2018-06-21 22:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Henrik wasn’t in his quarters, so Randidly left his new creation with one of Henrik’s assistants with a note. Randidly was filled with confidence in regards to this new Porpoise model that he had designed. He suspected that Henrik would miss some of the more deft usages of Randidly’s new runes, but even the more obvious side effects of his new model would undoubtedly win Randidly en...
2018-06-21 22:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As Randidly departed from the Danger Zone, he realized two things. First, that being Randidly Ghosthound was truly a hassle. He could see it now, in the small ways that people had treated him, and that they had treated him when he was playacting as Neveah’s version of him. People expected things of him, and while he wore that identity he was constantly watched. More than anything ...
2018-06-21 21:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of quick notes. I don't know how I missed it, but this chapter was part of the batch I meant to release here with the others on monday. It also makes a lot of your reactions make more sense to me.
Second, apologies for the lack of posting for two days. Part of it is that I don't get warm weather often. The second part is that my body isn't prepared for the sun. I am a lobst...
2018-06-21 21:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly frowned. “What?”
“Through your actions, you have become more than yourself, you have become a symbol,” Neveah said patiently. “You are not just a person, but you are proof of a concept; you are proof that humanity can stand up against the System. But your legend is more than that as well. Because it is every story from the lives you have touched. It is every way t...
2018-06-18 15:52:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“You were right,” Senator Firefly announced. “To think I doubted you. If not for you… I would never have started this city for refugees they now call the Orchard in my honor. I apologize for that. You have my gratitude.”
Randidly shrugged. He hadn’t realized that Neveah had been the one to push for this refugee camp, but it made sense. As he looked through her memories e...
2018-06-18 15:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostSee, when I outline I think very little about character. But oftentimes, in scene, I'm struck by what this situation can do for a character.
Randidly caught the strange girl who leaped at him by the shoulders, steadying her. She was a slender, lovely thing, but she was only as tall as his shoulders. It was easier than even Randidly had expected to stop her dead. ...
2018-06-18 15:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know, everytime I write in an airport I get a little weird...
Tia Alexandra, before the System, was the girl who at 16 was creating plans to sleep with the 40-year-old musicians at the concerts her father took her to. By the end of the concert, her father was far too intoxicated to pay attention to her, so she would worm her way to the front of the crowd ...
2018-06-18 15:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostYou have no idea how often I panic right after I post that I misnumbered something. Ugh. 500 is too many chapters.
The problem with the truth, Randidly knew, was that once it was out, it was impossible to take back. If he were to tell her the truth, there would likely be repercussions that were difficult to predict. So at the time she asked, Randidly had simply said tha...
2018-06-15 04:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“I’m really sorry I haven’t had time to talk,” Tatiana said to Randidly as she moved a pot off the fire to a stone slab to cool. “I’ve been rather preoccupied with nursing the injured we received back to health.”
Randidly scratched his chin. “... no worries. That’s actually why I’m here. Recently… we discovered a group of similarly abused individuals. We brough...
2018-06-15 04:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The first thing his roots told him was that there were several people crying in tiny cells along the back of the facility. There was a large front area that he couldn’t really get into, but beyond that, there were several smaller rooms. Two of them appeared to be laboratories. One was a gym, of all things.
In one of the laboratories, a woman was standing over a senseless young wom...
2018-06-13 04:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostI have a concert tomorrow, so no chapters in the evening. But this is another weekend at airports, so hopefully I can crank some out. Everything is outlined for this arc, in more detail than I've ever done. Let me know if you notice anything different about the style because of it~
Annie actually thought that this ambassador from Zone 1 was rather cute, if misgui...
2018-06-13 04:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post