Night held everyone’s captivated attention. His grisly display, along with the casual ease in which he’d managed to slip by everyone and kill so many powerful Classers without anyone noticing, then managing to set everything up, sent a powerful message.
The way so many people flinched when they saw him was another message, namely one for the younger Immortals here. <...
2025-01-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe coalition was trying to capture the city vaguely intact, and the echoes of the Cataclysm had us all agreeing that we weren’t going to simply drop a few huge skills on Ithil and wipe it off the face of Pallos. The charitable part of me thought it spoke to elvenoid’s better nature. The cynic in me said the leaders wanted to make sure we caught and killed the Ne...
2025-01-20 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t need to look at the absolute beauty of a map I’d made, I had it entirely memorized. It still brought me great joy to unroll it and look it over while hovering high in the sky though.
I’d made this. Myself. With painstaking effort, hours of scribbling and erasing, bottles of ink, multiple sheets of paper, and way too much squinting at the s...
2025-01-10 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBathor held his hands up in triumph as they paraded through Ithil.
Victory was theirs! The demons, the only real challenge to their rule, had been defeated. The [Demon King’s] head was attached to the front of his chariot, the various arms and armaments paraded behind him, each one raised up on a cloth for everyone to see. He wore golden laurels, and had dis...
2025-01-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIona drummed her fingers against the throne, watching people slowly trickle into the throne room. They were trying to figure out what their new world would be like after she’d just shaken up the existing order. The Valkyrie had already sent off a letter to Skye, asking for advice, and she suspected [Social Lubricant] was about to get a workout. She’d already issued her...
2025-01-06 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was weird being on my own. Ever since I’d hatched, there was always someone there. Even the Phoenix Peaks, having my own mountain, my friends would come over and say hello. After having a spot of fun with Fenrir though - pretending to breathe fire was hilarious, the shocked look on monster’s faces before I went FWOOOM and they turned to ashes would never stop ...
2025-01-03 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
As I've been writing over the years, I've found my cadence has changed as my situation has changed in various ways. Over the past few months, I've fallen into a different cadence, and I'm finding myself needing to change the schedule to better match my writing pattern.
Short version: BTDEM is going to move to 2 chapters/week, with NO admin week during the month. It's what I...
2025-01-02 17:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in a cold bed, in a small room.
Ugh.
Another day I had to go to work. It was less than halfway through the week. Two days down, four to go before the weekend, where I’d get two blessed days off.
I thought I was mentally tough. I thought I was ready for all challenges. I’d worked my ass off for years on a farm, just to survive! But farming for surviv...
2025-01-01 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry this one ended up much shorter than a typical chapter, without it being a particularly heavy hitting one. I just got through the entire plot and outline much faster than I thought I would.
Enjoy!
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It was a dark and stormy night.
Lightning flashed by the window, illuminating Detective Fenrir, Private Weyevern, in his cramped office. ...
2024-12-30 15:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The Iona-tier incentives for December!
First: Iona x Elaine Christmas!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-0x_XfkTByGOViznCnXOjD9ARqGXzbG8&usp=drive_fs
Second: Nina! (Remember, she's around a century old at this point)
2024-12-26 13:49:20 +0000 UTC
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Nina was doing paperwork again, trying to determine if she could knock off a few fauns to improve lives. The calculations were extra tricky. If she messed up, and the turmoil caused by her actions made Bywater miss their tax payments, one eighth of their lives would be forfeit. Nobody would be able to point to Nina and blame her, but she’d blame herself. She knew she’d be resp...
2024-12-20 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIona had forgotten how convenient it was to fly around on Fenrir's back. The distance of hundreds of miles was just a short flight away. Now that she was on ground, on foot, it was a far harder journey. Inhuman stats or not, there were trees, mountains, rivers, and a distinct lack of a path.
The Valkyrie had tried to go back to her roots and simply walk from one place to the next. It was ...
2024-12-18 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to say Arachne had planned it all out, but she hadn’t. She’d given me the knowledge and the tools needed, then let me plan out my infiltration.
I had a number of traps in my thinking. My training as a Ranger and a Sentinel, overseeing SERE training, and the general grooves of thinking imparted to me were misleading. My critical analysis of Edhallond had me...
2024-12-16 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe nice thing about working with Arachne again was access to information and knowledge. The world wasn’t quite such an unknown anymore. Vast swathes of the map I’d flown over were no longer labeled ‘here be dragons’ - except for the parts where there were dragons.
It was good to know who’d survived. It was sobering how many hadn’t. From nearly 100 S...
2024-12-13 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m realizing I’m missing a critical skill.” I pushed down my embarrassment. There just had never been a need to learn this skill, it just wasn’t important. Culturally, it was barely a thing. Remus had expected me to be a house wife, my parents figuring things out for me. At the School, everyone knew the path their life would take. Either they had wealthy sponsor...
2024-12-11 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Let us not impose too much on Anurak’s hospitality.” Arachne stood up and stretched. I grabbed a cookie for the road, the vast privacy shields we’d put up dropping down. “One of the first concepts I’m going to reiterate here is operational security. It was one thing as a Sentinel to keep information from the target, but with the way we worked it wasn’t of the utmost importance. T...
2024-12-09 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I've been wanting to change the posting time for a while now. I've been holding off because so many people have a routine with BTDEM, and I didn't want to interfere with it.
However, I really miss being part of the discussion. The current post time is 4AM my time. I completely miss the discussion. Europe completely misses when it goes live. Etc.
I want to be able...
Hi all!
I'm really sorry this announcement is delayed this much. I wanted to do it last week, but life's been LIFE.
This week is admin week! Much needed, I've been struggling to get all the words I need to get done. We're approaching the end of BTDEM, and ending stuff is SUPER hard. Yeah, there's a whole book and a half to go, but I'm working on a smooth landing even now. (Remembe...
2024-12-02 17:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostI gracefully sat down with Arachne. She was here as Arachne, not as Susan, and keeping the right name for the right situation was one of the ways I was getting back into the right mindset. Her spider, Clotho the black widow, was dancing on her subtly multi-colored hair, and waved at me with one leg.
I’d been in a peacetime mentality for ages. Over a decade without needing to ...
2024-11-29 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBirthday time! Woohoo!
I’d had a big bash for my 100th birthday, and it was pure insanity to me that we were having our big 128th birthday bash in an entirely different era. Like. The world we knew had ended, and we’d clawed our way out of it in less than twenty years. I was used to the mundane use of skills and how Classers could change and shape the local en...
2024-11-27 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck the tyrants.” I declared to my friends and family, lifting a cup of tea in toast.
“Fuck the taxes.” Iona heartily agreed. A sentiment I never thought I’d hear from her. I was a terrible, corrupting influence.
“To striking at the root of the problem.” Nina added in her toast. Artemis and Auri voiced their agreement, Raccoon unfortunately on d...
2024-11-25 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostQuartus Nix’s five-year old sister was sick, and it was his job as her big seven-year old brother to look after her. A solemn duty he took on with pride!
“Can you drink?” He whispered to his sister, trying to wipe back her sweaty bangs. “Can you say ‘healer?’”
That would fix everything, if she could just break out...
2024-11-22 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: First chapter of book 15! The penultimate book!
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[Princess] - no matter how much the Eventide Eclipse joked about making her a [Queen] - Skye had a raging headache.
Three heavily annotated proposals lay in front of her, and no matter how much she’d delayed, waited, a...
2024-11-20 03:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostSchoon Verfrist lived a cursed existence.
The demon hadn’t asked to be born. Hadn’t been asked to be born a demon, specifically. Hadn’t asked to be one of the Immortal races, hadn’t asked for White Dove to curse him with a compulsion that could never be satisfied.
Hadn’t asked for a Sin that was unusual, outside the norm. An outsider even among demons...
2024-11-20 03:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo thirsty. There was a lovely cup of water waiting for me, along with some cut-open mangos. Was Auri experimenting with ‘smelling salts’ again…? I rolled over to grab the water, and did the awkward ‘try to drink while lying down’ move. I blinked as the first refreshing gulp went down my throat.
Wait, I was an idiot.
I
Hey all!
TWO incentives this month! Iris and a Elaine/Iona!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pzu00JEf8b7QXzXPuG8nV6XElSlaskOg&usp=drive_fs
2024-11-17 15:14:04 +0000 UTC
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The library flickered and rippled, the books on the ground floor being replaced by an entirely different set. If I wanted to, I could grab any one of the nearly-infinite choices, from [The Mother of Modern Medicine], all the way to a pink or white class.
It wasn’t surprising that Librarian stayed exactly the same. She was a reflection of my soul, who I was in...
2024-11-15 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was classing up time! I’d capped out both [Sage of Tomes] and [Seraph of the Dawn], and with the recent battle against the dragon - plus surviving the Cataclysm and everything that happened since I last classed up - made me confident I had more than enough accomplishments for some good classes.
Some class ups I knew exac...
2024-11-13 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Syl! It's a book I'm publishing through Mango Media, and it's one of my favorites!
I'm mentioning it here because I unwisely said I'd eat my hat on stream if it got 1000 reviews on Amazon in the first week.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Syl-Nucleus-Lunadea-ebook/dp/B0DJY8MXZW
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2024-11-11 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all!
It's admin week.
The last month has been super good for me and my backlog. I went from 2 chapters in my backlog, AKA I was writing stuff the same week I was posting it, to 10! (Okay, two of the chapters are getting posted together, so effectively 9). Really needed the pressure being off to properly perform.
With that said, the edits on the upcoming chapters are supe...