Chapter 995: Symposium
Added 2025-03-12 22:00:05 +0000 UTCComments
I’m super lonely and sad. My mistake
Tina Aquilla
2026-02-23 07:21:50 +0000 UTCI think the relationships of Arash's son and Vidal's nephew got things mixed up as they both joined Jason in his travels
Alex Cox
2026-02-19 09:27:21 +0000 UTCTyftc
Chloe
2026-02-15 03:42:08 +0000 UTCGreat chapter, but some odd inconsistencies, mainly with Miguel's dad not being Vidal, pretty sure that was his uncle. Plus Travis mentioning the undead spawning pits? he wasn't down in the hole during book 10, unless he saw that recording that Arabelle made after Gary went demigod-mode? idk, odd
CPU Pyro Heart
2026-02-09 21:47:12 +0000 UTCThis would have been a great place to let us catch up on Jory. I'm sure he's been working with earth alchemists, who have always had to opperate with low magic and low quality ingredients. Why did he come along if we are never going to hear about his contributions?
Kristy Riedel
2025-08-12 22:05:40 +0000 UTCThat was going to be my comment as well, Farrah came because her skills were needed but she left Travis in Rimaros to work on their communications project. Another thing is that Vidal Ladiv is not Miguel Ladiv's father but his uncle. Jason doesn't know Miguel's father.
Kristy Riedel
2025-08-11 04:40:03 +0000 UTC“No, it is not,” Travis Noble said from the cinema-style seat next to her. “I’ve seen a battle with undead spawning pits. This is rough, but it isn’t that.” Travis wasn't in the transformation zone; when did he see undead spawning pits and miracles?
Bryan Jackson
2025-07-05 14:27:56 +0000 UTCThis was such a perfect time skip and such a juicy chapter! I'm meant to be getting ready for work but just can't stop reading
Opossums Coat
2025-04-23 13:25:30 +0000 UTCI’m getting an “rpg play through” vibe. I’m just wonder if this is the first or LAST play through for Jason. Apparently he found a way to save the game, or will find a way to save the game, or knows he will find a way to save the game and is trying to stop himself from playing the game. Or….now I have never played dungeons and dragons….but this might be a dungeon master wiping his memory and starting at lvl 1. Idk. So many possibilities.
Aaron Van Wormer
2025-03-17 21:42:14 +0000 UTCArent you thinking of the runic juice vendor there? (His name elude me atm) And its also a nephew in that case and he is in charge of the bar and food services in Jasons cloud building. At the start of book 12 we get miguels backstory that he wanted to be a bigshot in the adventure society but got stuck in the tunnel to work his way up. Think shirt just confused it tbh. Like the stormking is sometimes Zaras brother then her cousin
Thomas Hellsten
2025-03-17 19:12:39 +0000 UTCThx for the chapter
Kconraw
2025-03-16 20:40:33 +0000 UTCDo you think the bad thing we don't know yet about has something to do with the system and the prayers?
KollegvomMirgan
2025-03-15 15:59:19 +0000 UTCDude I've been saying this for years. He has a goldmine in his hands. He needs to do something with it
Fuzzy Wuzzy
2025-03-15 09:32:12 +0000 UTCWhere does it say that? Belinda "Lindy" Callahan was alwas her name, right? Oh! It says Mrs.
Aubrey Listi
2025-03-15 02:41:28 +0000 UTCHonestly, hard agree. I hated books 4-6 at first. I like them a LOT more now that I can see how much set up went into those books. I still dont like his ex/Sister-in-law. I doubt I ever will. But that just hits too close to home for me.
Aubrey Listi
2025-03-15 02:39:11 +0000 UTCI am a bit surprised about the time skip, I thought there would be more content/interaction with the space pirates before jumping ahead. But lets see where Shirt is taking us, so far he never steered the plot line in a direction I did not like in the end :)
Nina Speicher
2025-03-14 17:48:50 +0000 UTCThanks, need to re read that part then, I either missed it or forgot about it ^^'
Nicolas Hebert
2025-03-14 10:55:23 +0000 UTCMiguel's dad gave Jason more info on why Miguel would not be a successful adventurer then asked Jason to agree with Vidal's request to include Miguel as the Adventure Society's liason and cloud castle crew
Oddrey
2025-03-14 09:08:46 +0000 UTCNot sure I understand where the comment on Miguel's dad is coming from ? Is that meant to be about Vidal ? I think I remember that he was his nefew, not his son ?
Nicolas Hebert
2025-03-14 06:22:57 +0000 UTCLindy and Stella have been together since she broke it off with Jory. I don't think we've been given a marriage date for them, but it's certainly not surprising.
Ligeia
2025-03-14 05:34:29 +0000 UTCI'll have to check it out, thank you!
Gregory Sinnett
2025-03-14 02:35:16 +0000 UTCRonGAR I can see that. Whoever put them up to it is next….
Aaron Van Wormer
2025-03-14 00:24:26 +0000 UTCIf you do it right, and think of fire, ice, or electricity as another affliction, Avowed is a fun game to play as Jason. Sword and dagger, high speed, high affliction build lol.
Aaron Van Wormer
2025-03-14 00:05:52 +0000 UTCIf anyone sees this comment, go listen/read books 4-6 again. If you are like me, 4-6 were good, but not 1-3 or 7-9 good. The context we have been getting has made those books so much better. This is a series that is designed to be re-read it seems. Which I am not complaining about. I haven’t listened to every book at least 4-5 times minus the most recent couple. A lot of Easter eggs in books 4-6 that deal with what is happening now. It’s raising my respect for 4-6.
Aaron Van Wormer
2025-03-14 00:03:38 +0000 UTCWe hear about him being from an old network family in book 6, when they steal the nuke. But I think this is the first sibling mentioned.
David Yow
2025-03-13 22:28:01 +0000 UTCTYFTC!!! I really LOVED that slap down Carlos gave that Deputy Minister. The dialog from "Yes, Deputy-Minister Grantley..." was the chef's kiss!!! 😈😈
Oddrey
2025-03-13 19:35:34 +0000 UTCNaw, Rayeth made it seem like she's gonna either git Fridge'd or be a pivital fuck-up in the Crisis to come.
Youkai-sama
2025-03-13 18:18:34 +0000 UTCTYFTC!
Rachel Clements
2025-03-13 15:41:59 +0000 UTCWhen did Lindy get married?? During the 2-year skip?
ByLAWphoto
2025-03-13 15:37:53 +0000 UTCAre you reading the same Wikipedia articles as me? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss_gun: "Gauss guns are distinct from and predate coil guns, although many works of science fiction (and occasionally educators[1]) have confused the two." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun, "Coilguns are also distinct from Gauss guns, although many works of science fiction have erroneously confused the two. A coil gun uses electromagnetic acceleration whereas Gauss guns predate the idea of coil guns and instead consists of ferromagnets using a configuration similar to a Newton's Cradle to impart acceleration."
Ph34r_n0_3V1L
2025-03-13 13:11:33 +0000 UTCThat same wikipedia articles literally lists a gauss rifle as a coil gun and has two sources about gauss rifles cited. Also check any other source. Just because the person who edited that page has that modifier doesn't make them correct. Gauss rifles existed first and coil guns are a derivative off that source.
MrCynical
2025-03-13 12:38:08 +0000 UTC@MrCynical Gauss guns use a series of permanent magnets, coil guns use a series of electromagnets, and rail guns use a pair of magnetized rails. The mix up happens so often that Coilgun's Wikipedia page has "Not to be confused with Gauss gun or railgun" at the top of the page, while Gauss gun has "Not to be confused with Coilgun or railgun".
Ph34r_n0_3V1L
2025-03-13 12:13:06 +0000 UTCI want a video game based on this series so bad! Anyone know how to get ahold of shirt to ask permission to make one myself? 🤣🤣
Gregory Sinnett
2025-03-13 11:53:40 +0000 UTCAll very viable statements, but I think the explanation is quite simple: Magic. There was more likely than not some sort of secret magic society there too, either Cabal or Network. And if Bahrain walked the road of dictatorship, it is even more likely that a lot of assets landed in their direct control.
SmokeJam
2025-03-13 11:22:44 +0000 UTCI like Natalie, especially that she is quite the sharp tool in the shed, she just doesn't realize that in her question lies the answer. "Why are you preparing us for a war?" is a very redundant question if you think about it^^
SmokeJam
2025-03-13 11:18:25 +0000 UTCSame. Haven't heard about most of the auxulliry characters in a long while. Would be nice to confirm whether or not Jason became a 'deadbeat-dad' after all. LOL
RonGAR
2025-03-13 11:00:06 +0000 UTC@Ph33r coil guns are Gauss rifles. But not all Gauss rifles are coil guns. Kinda like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
MrCynical
2025-03-13 10:55:22 +0000 UTCSince the car company has nothing to do with the scientist I think it can be left original, shouldn't let Musk spoil more history.
Justin Edwards
2025-03-13 10:42:58 +0000 UTCDidn't Jason say something like, "If you try to test me/mess with me through inbetweens, I will know and I will punish you." If they did mess with him using Bahrain, we would also have heard about how some higher-ups from the CIA or US Network vanished. Also, of course I would know about Bahrain, I'm from there, lol. Monsters appearing all over the region, the shia rebel forces funded by Iran pressuring the government, the push Israel would have made into the rest of the region distracting the other Arab nations, and the collapse of both Europe and the Network (which would have cut international aid), Bahrain would be left with little aid and resources. I see no way for the country to deal with all these issues without significant outside aid, which I don't think any other nation or organisation could have afforded to pay at the time.
Montizuma59
2025-03-13 09:43:39 +0000 UTCNeil's sandwich travelogue must be an amazing show. I hope Nik makes guest appearance's. And where are Stash's pastry shops popping up as franchises all over the world?
Frank Morgana
2025-03-13 08:40:40 +0000 UTCThey're all around 50 now. I'm sure the cast learned to grow past that
Jeff
2025-03-13 08:14:37 +0000 UTCOh. Travis has a brother?
Stephanie Washburn
2025-03-13 08:13:40 +0000 UTCSeems to be the brigde will be build just in time for the next 'monster surge'. Maybe that is the big issue on its way. A permanent, neverending monster surge.
RonGAR
2025-03-13 07:48:53 +0000 UTCSeems like the rest of the world knows something bout Bahrain that we in the US don't. LOL ----- That aside, seems like they were put up to it, or setup by one of the larger world gov't, to see what Jason would do. A CIA arranged protest that would get the exact reaction from the ruling family and gov't officials that their intelligence agency said it would. A test to see if Asano was all Bark and no Bite.
RonGAR
2025-03-13 07:45:10 +0000 UTC@MrCynical Coil guns aren't Gauss guns, nor are they rail guns. All three do use electromagnetism (in different ways) to fire, however, so they're often confused as being one and the same. Mea culpa, though, on not realizing that the average reader's mind is going to jump to Musk's overvalued car company, and not the Red Alert franchise's iconic Tesla weapons. Thoughts on volt-guns, then, as a substitute evocative name?
Ph34r_n0_3V1L
2025-03-13 07:31:41 +0000 UTC@MrCynical I think you could have left off "in Australia " and still been correct.
Soli116
2025-03-13 06:48:39 +0000 UTCIt's not surprising that the Kingdom of Bahrain went down. What is surprising, though, is that it managed to survive this long after the magical apocalypse.
Montizuma59
2025-03-13 06:40:58 +0000 UTCI’m so happy to see Jason actually freeing people from shitty governments
Robling49
2025-03-13 06:09:48 +0000 UTCI guess I missed the part where it said they did that. That's what I get for reading before my coffee in the morning. It's an interesting country choice for a few reasons, and I wonder if it was intentional.
Ben Maes
2025-03-13 05:22:35 +0000 UTCThe government suppressed protest using magical weaponry, likely developed from knowledge the Asano clan gave out. That's explicitly against the rules as discussed in the last chapter or the one before that. Jason said that if people stepped over the line he would deal with it in his way when he chose to. It sounds like disappearing the government and their family was his way.
Brian Block
2025-03-13 05:20:58 +0000 UTCTo quote from the chapter: "...anti-government protests being suppressed with advanced magical weaponry." In other words, they broke one of Jason's Big Rules.
Ligeia
2025-03-13 05:11:30 +0000 UTC@Sappy Travis comes from an old network family. They disowned himself when he joined Jason. Part of the reason he stayed on palimustus instead of going back with Rufus was that he didn't have anyone to go back to.
SqrlyGrly
2025-03-13 04:51:55 +0000 UTCIt was done this chapter, so I wouldn't say you missed it. It does feel a bit abrupt, but they're always a bit awkward
Joanna
2025-03-13 04:23:44 +0000 UTCLol, what'd Bahrain manage to do?
Ben Maes
2025-03-13 04:21:13 +0000 UTCNah, I think this'll put him about 46?
Joanna
2025-03-13 04:18:15 +0000 UTCHe was disowned by his network family for taking Jason's side when him and fera stole the Nuke
Michael Romo
2025-03-13 04:11:37 +0000 UTCTesla coils are the actual name of the existing device so shortening it to Tesla or coil works well enough. And right now Tesla has a rather negative connotation in Australia, the abode of Mr Shirtaloon. Not to mention with it's infamy not everyone might know what he's describing by saying Tesla gun, imagining car guns. Plus coil guns is a more evocative description. Just guns with massive loops of electric coil. And coil guns are more generally known as Gauss guns to the best of my knowledge.
MrCynical
2025-03-13 04:06:40 +0000 UTC"Coil guns fired electricity that arced from ghoul to ghoul." -> Tesla guns would be better since coil guns already exist, and they fire solid projectiles.
Ph34r_n0_3V1L
2025-03-13 03:34:08 +0000 UTCI am a bit lost. I don't know anything about Travis having a family or that there was any drama.
Sappy
2025-03-13 03:11:05 +0000 UTCBiscuits!
Arieh Sochaczevski
2025-03-13 02:33:03 +0000 UTC@MrCynical Bro, he has the capability of doing everything I described and more. If he could sanction an entire city from the system, then he could do what Shirt is clearly stopping him from doing. Don't stunt you critical thinking and just accept what is written, you go to 'question' it too. Use the logic of what came before and apply it to what you are being given now. IF you do that, you would come to the same conclusion as me. The Author is holding the MC back for exploring this option. For what reason? Who knows... -------- Yeah I remember him saying that about the vampires. And honestly, the vampire really are that whetstone. Too bad they are not all at fault, but at the end of the day, a line has been drawn and they are the 'big bad' enemy of humanity and that is that. It is also true that humanity needs this war. To have a solid enemy to test their strength against. To sharpen themselves, like you said. If worse is coming, then they will need to get as strong as possible. Everyone is thinking Pallimustus, because the threat is said to be tied with the bridge opening up. But there are soo many places 'worse' can come from right now it would be hard to choose. Other pirates, other cosmic entities, Other Astral Kings, Old foes long ignored powerful enough to strike back. Another Betrayal by the network or leaders of Earth, tired of the MC lording his power over them. Gates that opened deep below the sea, and those Kaiju type monsters all making it to the surface to threaten all life. On and on the list goes.
RonGAR
2025-03-13 02:16:22 +0000 UTCTYFTC! Here’s me enjoying another chapter. On the side I’m wondering if the graphic novel will still happen and when. Maybe there’s also my secret hope of an anime in the works.
N8rtotPlayz
2025-03-13 02:09:12 +0000 UTCEntirely possibly NK already got taken out with the reveal of magic years ago. I can easily imagine South Korea, China, or Russia erasing the North Korean dictatorship after the reveal of magic and what essence users became capable before anyone in power their even understood what was happening. Even then, Bahrein didn't do anything to nearby nations, it was the government using materials learned from Jason and allies against its own citizens.
MrCynical
2025-03-13 01:53:30 +0000 UTCUnknown if he has that capability as system administrator yet or ever. He can send messages and when near enough to touch someone can unlock capabilities of their system access, but so far that's it. Nothing about locating people through system access or even pulling up their system information. Plus, as he said just a chapter or two ago, the vampires are a convenient enemy right now as a whetstone to train Earth's natives to defend themselves. As callous as it is, they are the lesser evil humanity needs to overcome to hopefully strengthen themselves to not get absolutely rolled by what comes next. Kinda like the gods did to Jason's soul preparing him for what came next with the assault of the star seed implantation.
MrCynical
2025-03-13 01:48:55 +0000 UTCNoriko will need to up her spite game considerably to come back into relevance after being unceremoniously escorted off the Asano property in Australia. Maybe she could throw in with some Undeath cultists or something. Otherwise shes a bit of a yawn at this point.
Adrian
2025-03-13 01:34:10 +0000 UTCYou're not alone... But this isnt the right group to Get Help 😅
Adrian
2025-03-13 01:27:14 +0000 UTCStash's bakery would be interdimensional!
Mike Zebill
2025-03-13 01:15:21 +0000 UTCSince Mr. North we know there is some looming threat after the whole bridge thing. Dawn said as much as well. I like that shirt is moving to that threat in bigger leaps. I just got that we'll get something like the transformation zones again: isolated and intimate.
Mitha
2025-03-13 01:07:23 +0000 UTCPrevious chapter it was mentioned that everyone who makes use of the knowledge provided will be subject to the accords, whether or not they signed it or use other underhanded methods to get access to the information.
Joshua Osbiston
2025-03-13 00:44:28 +0000 UTCI like both sides of Jason. It makes him feel like a real person. As well as a great opportunity for personal growth.
Soli116
2025-03-13 00:39:39 +0000 UTCUnexpected Timeskip. Not entirely sure how to feel about that. It just seems to me, like we have yet to get a big payoff following the last timeskip. So far everything seems to just be setup. Which I assume we are now continuing. I just feel like it could have been cool to maybe get a showdown with that guy that betrayed Elizabeth and her Girlfriend or something other before heading to the next timeskip. The timeskip being 2 years also seems to imply we are still far off from whatever event we are not allowed to know. Unless off course these next few chapters will just keep jumping ahead. In which case it still feels weird to get such a big jump so soon. Especially as it would finally be a time in which Jason was allowed to be part of his friends lifes.
Larsi
2025-03-13 00:34:57 +0000 UTCLiked the end bit with the Travis family reveal.
mockery jones
2025-03-13 00:05:49 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly NK got iced during the transformation zone debacle and it lead up when magic was becoming more rampant
Cordell Patrick
2025-03-12 23:51:00 +0000 UTCPersonally, I like Serious Jason more than Clown shoes, red nose, random knight rider referencing, only knows late 80's early 90'spop culture, Jason. I can get behind Serious Jason as the MC. He gets shit done. But like poor Danielle Geller and Rimoris and every gov't official on two planets, I have to 'tolerate' Clown Jason. LOL
RonGAR
2025-03-12 23:45:01 +0000 UTC+2 for rick
Will
2025-03-12 23:44:53 +0000 UTCIt would be hard for Travis to have remained so wishy-washy, being married to Gabrielle. She is a very *forceful* woman!
Ligeia
2025-03-12 23:44:12 +0000 UTCOops, I remembered somehad said it, but just glanced quickly so I could finish the post. Thanks.
Ligeia
2025-03-12 23:42:55 +0000 UTCI'm really digging these more "slice of life" style chapters! Thank you!
Tri Blankly
2025-03-12 23:42:07 +0000 UTCHey ya never know what kinda uncle daddy shenanigans people get up to lol
Ty
2025-03-12 23:39:13 +0000 UTCOne of the stipulations in the last chapter about advancing magitech was not to use it in a way that Jason felt poorly about. And apparently they use it to suppress protesters. They're either completely dead or locked on his planet.
ONEsie
2025-03-12 23:38:00 +0000 UTCYeah, its an interesting direction. Makes ya think. Sometimes we as readers want the the protagonist to have more protag energy but from Jason's perspective he's been in way too much spotlight way too often and the involuntary guinea pig of forces beyond his reckoning for many of his formative years. Another thing occurs to me, one little thing amongst many others, is that as he moves away from the traditional youth to appearance associations into a season of life where his agelessness is in more contrast to what stage of life people used to be at his age... that he grew up with ...hitting his 50s then 60s and 70s and so forth ... he is increasingly leaving normalcy behind. He has been for quite a while of course, but as he stares in the mirror and contemplates responsibility and the role he is to play its another thing entirely to stare it in the face. He struggled with being thrown into a new world where all of his understandings of how it worked were turned on their head. As he learned to love it and thrive in his own way, these cosmic forces started to distinguish him and seperate him as this increasingly alien figure even on pallimustus. its like he lost his home twice. i could speculate for hours but i'll cut to the chase. I am not at all surprised that jason is going thru what he is. I would probably go thru that too. that longing to be closer to people and my own humanity even as I feel myself growing more distant and antisocial. I can see some of the parallels to what people are going thru IRL the past few years.
Ty
2025-03-12 23:36:57 +0000 UTC"Oh. Shame." That was a sick come back, we love that for Travis!
ONEsie
2025-03-12 23:36:44 +0000 UTCThe end of this chapter snuck up on me and i do not appreciate it.
Anthony
2025-03-12 23:32:55 +0000 UTC> The disappearance of the entire Bahraini government, ... It came off the heels of anti-government protests being suppressed with advanced magical weaponry.
Racavis
2025-03-12 23:29:56 +0000 UTCI think it says in there that they used advanced military weapon area to attack protesters.
DeviantSalivations
2025-03-12 23:25:05 +0000 UTCWho's Cheryl?
Youkai-sama
2025-03-12 23:22:57 +0000 UTCOh great, "family". 🙄 Also, what's the little Knowledge twerp gonna do, this time? Ya know, for someone who's gung-ho for the God Knowledge, she sure can be dumb.
Youkai-sama
2025-03-12 23:22:21 +0000 UTC"It came off the heels of anti-government protests being suppressed with advanced magical weaponry." - that
Bryan Jackson
2025-03-12 23:22:11 +0000 UTCThis is my thought exactly. It's been hinted at a few times in the last couple of chapters that he is using this to prepare earth in a way that he wouldn't have without Raythe. Then it also comes to the fact of what is true Jason holding from his avatars... wel prime avatar so that he us so willing to go to the lengths of letting millions die
Jacob Goodrich
2025-03-12 23:22:02 +0000 UTCUsing magical weaponry on protesters against the ruling family is what i read in the chaptet
Jacob Goodrich
2025-03-12 23:19:57 +0000 UTCI cant wait to see Travis put his whole family in place and show them just how much he does for the world and how damn stupid they have been.
Jacob Goodrich
2025-03-12 23:19:25 +0000 UTCGo Travis!
Jennifer Leigh
2025-03-12 23:16:16 +0000 UTCSuppress protests with magical weapons.
Hayden Leech
2025-03-12 23:13:35 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
Maria Klein
2025-03-12 23:13:00 +0000 UTCWell when your a respected academic with a drop dead gorgeous wife... he's not using the compensator anymore, now it's like "duck he's turning left" 😆
Michael Romo
2025-03-12 23:12:05 +0000 UTCAfter they stole the nuke. Travis chose Jason. His family turned their back on him and disowned him. Besides being an old network family. We don't know much v
Michael Romo
2025-03-12 23:10:04 +0000 UTCHe abandoned and excommunicated his son as soon as he realized Travis joined with Jason and Farrah back in the 5th or 6th book.
Jacob Kraus
2025-03-12 23:08:47 +0000 UTCDamn in two dais the time advanced by 2 years. Glad we get to see Travis family. He deserves to put them in their place. Shirt as always is nothing but a tease. And, book 12 has been pre-ordered!!!!
Michael Romo
2025-03-12 23:08:43 +0000 UTCAnd here I thought I might be the only person to have crazily reread the series in entirety almost 8 times minimum in the last year 😂
Betsy R
2025-03-12 23:08:10 +0000 UTCSame. Feels like a long way from the first earth arc, which is kinda the point, now that I think about it.
Cameron Baldwin
2025-03-12 23:05:14 +0000 UTCThat was brilliant. Thank you
Charles W. Grainger
2025-03-12 23:02:32 +0000 UTCI really wonder what they did in Bahrein to get up Jason's skirt.
David Cooper
2025-03-12 23:01:05 +0000 UTCGood Chappie... Nice to see Jason implementing those threats and doing it like a true shadow boss! You and I know they are all still alive but on his prison world, but the rest of earth doesn't. and that 'mystery' is what is keeping them in line. --------- Can't believe Jason didn't take the time to 'locate' Simon yet, given how these millions of turned zombies and blood roots are due to Simon being free. And especially since he has all the means to do so being system creator/admin. My only reason on why he hasn't is because Simon is the devil he needs right now. And letting millions die now, and letting earth magi-technology grow and have a War mentality develop and settle in, are all something that is needed for what he believes is coming next.
RonGAR
2025-03-12 23:00:37 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter.
Joshua Little
2025-03-12 22:58:29 +0000 UTC“A satellite image had trended widely, showing Venice wholly obscured by glowing butterflies. From space, the swarm looked like a blue and orange eye, the size of a city. In the aftermath, Humphrey’s documentary crew moved through, finding the city utterly devoid of occupants.” F-star-star-k me. Damien’s got a shock coming.
Andrew Milne
2025-03-12 22:57:15 +0000 UTCThank you!
Jake Rix
2025-03-12 22:56:51 +0000 UTCYeah, but I'm disown and thats a new level of anger.
Kendra
2025-03-12 22:55:35 +0000 UTCStash will be the provider of the baked goods that Belinda will compromise.
ThoMiCroN
2025-03-12 22:55:21 +0000 UTCHis family disowned him for helping Jason
Andre Morales
2025-03-12 22:54:06 +0000 UTCSay, is it possible that Bahrein violated the Saint-Étienne Accords but not North Korea or did NK refuse to sign the accords at all?
ThoMiCroN
2025-03-12 22:53:38 +0000 UTCCouple of years ? Is Jason 50 yet ?
Mist Sparrow
2025-03-12 22:49:40 +0000 UTCThat is something we don’t need. Why would we possibly need more with her? Some folks cut toxic people out. Which is what he did. That IS the resolution.
Justin Crisler
2025-03-12 22:48:49 +0000 UTCGotcha! :-D
ShowBizGAL 1996
2025-03-12 22:48:21 +0000 UTCThis had the feel of an 80s montage. I love it! Jason would, too, I think.
Soli116
2025-03-12 22:48:11 +0000 UTCEhh but it was just Travis's side of the story. It's not fact until you see it. Jason proves that all the time. Jason's opinion and actions and then suddenly you see the other perspective.
Justin Butler
2025-03-12 22:48:03 +0000 UTCI can’t tell if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I’m more excited to learn about Travis‘s family drama than whatever it is Jason‘s gonna do next. On one hand, you’d think I wanna spend time with the protagonist. But on the other, it’s very clear throughout the series that when Jason isn’t in the middle of doing a protagonisty thing, he just wants to sort of fade into the background and only talk with his friends. Which he is doing. He also seems much more mentally stable than he’s been throughout most of the series.
Aaron Schwartz
2025-03-12 22:45:50 +0000 UTCActually, Travis told Jason and Co. that when they met up after the mass sacrifice to bring the Messengers over. So those of us who've read the series massive multiples of times (raises hand in guilt) remember that little factoid. ;-P
ShowBizGAL 1996
2025-03-12 22:44:35 +0000 UTCGladys. She did use it in a joint presentation with Neil, though.
Soli116
2025-03-12 22:44:19 +0000 UTCWe never got any specifics. Travis says he’s from an old American network family, that they are all assholes, that he wasn’t close to them, and that they basically disowned him after he defected to Jason when we first met him. After Jason left, he joined the asano clan until he got dragged to pally with Taika.
Aaron Schwartz
2025-03-12 22:42:31 +0000 UTC""Oh. Sham."" Dude what did his dad do!!!
Kendra
2025-03-12 22:42:22 +0000 UTCAlso, Miguel is the nephew of Vidal Ladiv, not his son.
Kristy Riedel
2025-03-12 22:42:18 +0000 UTC4th!
Justin Atols
2025-03-12 22:41:40 +0000 UTCNoriko Asano as well. Worked with the pirates out of Asano village, no news after that. Jason blew up cars last time they talked, but no mention on working with the pirates.
Dalth
2025-03-12 22:41:10 +0000 UTCI’ve been following for like 5 books now, but thanks! The link is just derped and it caught me off guard.
Jacob Webb
2025-03-12 22:40:24 +0000 UTCI would have thought that title to be at least a little contested. Humphrey is definitely a forerunner.
Stuart T
2025-03-12 22:39:53 +0000 UTCWell I mean originally it was politics in a rapidly changing world. Now it's 20 years later. Holding a position when you're unsure of the future is one thing. Continuing to hold it after clear evidence proving it's incorrect is another.
Justin Butler
2025-03-12 22:38:48 +0000 UTCI’m more annoyed that we don’t see the other Asano clan. The storyline with Jason’s mom Cheryl is, for all purposes, well wrapped up. She got cores and they’re still distant. But Noriko Asano has been mentioned working with Jakar’s Pirates, and nothing happened to her, after Jason had to literally detonate car bombs the last time they talked.
Dalth
2025-03-12 22:38:39 +0000 UTCThat refers to the previous chapter. I will assume you're new? If so, welcome! :-D
ShowBizGAL 1996
2025-03-12 22:38:28 +0000 UTCPrevious is supposed to be a link to the previous chapter, but it seems a certain someone dropped the ball on that. Or patreon is derping with links. That's also entirely possible.
Nematrec
2025-03-12 22:38:16 +0000 UTCSl Carlos tries to eliminate the use of the phrase "thaumic DNA" while in the next room Neil is using it. 😅
Ligeia
2025-03-12 22:38:10 +0000 UTCDoes the chapter continue or just have the word previous at the end?
Jacob Webb
2025-03-12 22:37:03 +0000 UTCThe sultan’s family of Bahrein… - Allegedly.
ThoMiCroN
2025-03-12 22:36:56 +0000 UTCI think we actually learned that when the Earthlings arrived in Palli. Travis was old Network and got disowned by his family when he joined up with Clan Asano.
Steve Shelden
2025-03-12 22:36:46 +0000 UTCI would like to know about Stash’s intercontinental bakery monopoly. Also, what’s going on with the captive space pirates? Are they just chilling in the Jasonverse or are they actually doing something useful? Same question for the Chinese agent he brought back to Earth and the ex director of the adventurers guild (can’t remember either of their names this sec).
Mr IHHI
2025-03-12 22:35:19 +0000 UTCAbout 2 years, it seems.
Ligeia
2025-03-12 22:34:15 +0000 UTCThat's what I was wondering as well. It threw me for a loop when shirt started talking about years and seasons of the show.
Izraifel
2025-03-12 22:34:10 +0000 UTCWhos cherly?!
Lonez Zhavec
2025-03-12 22:33:34 +0000 UTCWas there a time skip from the last chapter to this one?
runnin_amok
2025-03-12 22:33:16 +0000 UTCOoo, we’ve got Travis drama unfolding!
Daniel
2025-03-12 22:32:11 +0000 UTCHe's come a long way from that awkward young man being held at gunpoint by his crush.
Jack Sprat
2025-03-12 22:32:05 +0000 UTCWho?
Razeel Nightfall
2025-03-12 22:31:53 +0000 UTCWhere's the love for Valdis?
shawn B
2025-03-12 22:28:47 +0000 UTCTravis is from an old network family that disowned him when he joined up with Jason (the Asano clan). Then he got sucked over to Pallimustus with Taika.
Daniel Wills
2025-03-12 22:28:15 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed that, thank you.
Andrew Whewell
2025-03-12 22:27:52 +0000 UTCMay want to add a less subtle timeskip there. Nearly missed it.
Spencer
2025-03-12 22:25:45 +0000 UTCTftc shirt!
Hemlock
2025-03-12 22:25:34 +0000 UTCThat felt like a tour through Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. Too much too fast with not enough detail. At least we get to know Travis's Family are pricks. Also thank you for the chapter haha. Just wish it was longer.
Justin Butler
2025-03-12 22:23:00 +0000 UTCDid I miss the massive time skip or was it just done on the sly?
Nick
2025-03-12 22:22:31 +0000 UTCTYFTC also did we hear about what happened with Travis and his family I think we did but I can't remember what exactly happened
Mr_Top_Hat
2025-03-12 22:22:02 +0000 UTCNot certain, but I am assuming it is the woman Travis was crushing on when he was stationed in Germany before he handed over the sun nuke to Jason and Farrah. I think she tried or at least considered killing him, rather than sit back and watch him assist Jason.
Eric M
2025-03-12 22:20:59 +0000 UTCTyftc
Connor Keenan
2025-03-12 22:20:58 +0000 UTCJason's mom
Andre Morales
2025-03-12 22:20:27 +0000 UTCFinally some Travis goodness. It seems like Travis has a similar situation with his dad to Jason with his mom.
Andre Morales
2025-03-12 22:19:31 +0000 UTCLove that last line! Travis really has grown quite the backbone
Maria Klein
2025-03-12 22:19:11 +0000 UTCOH, this is fantastic exposition. Love that Team Biscuit And Friends are lecturing and sharing their knowledge and all that. The last line is a sign of juiciness to come I take it
Jarrett Glass
2025-03-12 22:18:49 +0000 UTCGreat chapter! Im really loving this political arc, if you can name it as such. So thank you very much.
bauspar
2025-03-12 22:18:42 +0000 UTCWho’s Cheryl?
Dylan Alexander
2025-03-12 22:18:39 +0000 UTCDang, I really hope Travis smacks his brother upside the head for being an idiot.
Eric M
2025-03-12 22:18:24 +0000 UTCRoflmao! Last line is golden!
Kristy Riedel
2025-03-12 22:18:19 +0000 UTCTravis coming in with the shade!
liam funk
2025-03-12 22:15:25 +0000 UTCTFTC!! This is getting so good…
Bingus McCready
2025-03-12 22:13:31 +0000 UTCSexist man alive 😂
Weaver
2025-03-12 22:10:47 +0000 UTCThe fact that Travis got to see his brother before we even get to see Cheryl is starting to annoy me. Did Shirt forget she exists? Is she even alive?
mhaj58
2025-03-12 22:07:31 +0000 UTCTYFTC!!
Quintin Landhan
2025-03-12 22:07:06 +0000 UTC3rd!
Azmoranth
2025-03-12 22:05:34 +0000 UTCTYFTC!
Oathkeep Oblivion
2025-03-12 22:02:32 +0000 UTCBiscuits tyftc
Darkdragon
2025-03-12 22:00:13 +0000 UTC
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