Carrot and Stick: How to Assist Law Enforcement While Breaking Several Magical Laws - Chapter XVI
Ehhhh, no, too long.
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Iris reached into the pockets of her grey coat and grabbed a small totem. It was one of the only ones she had left, but this mo...
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Interlude - A Normal Man - Part Two
Hmm, one or two more chapters, then the end of this volume! I have suuuch a cool idea for the next arc! Big powerup, too!
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“What do you mean, the portal was done?” he asked.
His secretary, a young--mundane--man ...
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Chapter XV
Hmm, how that title?
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He wished that he had some more equipment with him. There were more expensive but more accurate sensing devices that would let him pinpoint the nature of the magical residues they were dealing with. As it was, he h...
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Chapter Forty-Six
Emily was anxious until the moment Aurora and Trinity returned. “How did it go?” she asked.
Aurora nodded seriously. “It went well. We got three devices into the warehouse. I don’t think any of them were noticed?” She said the last while ...
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Chapter XIV
Hmm, what do you think of the new title? The last one had... an off-vibe?
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“Did you sleep well, sweetie?” her mom asked as she slumped into their kitchen.
“Mm,” Carrot replied, then she pressed her hand over her mouth to h...
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Interlude - Francisca Ojou the Nightshade Part Two
She executed a textbook-perfect lunge, the tip of her glowing sword skewering into and through the ice elemental, then in a move that was very much not in the book, she twisted around, starting at the hip before using her...
2026-01-21 22:39:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Seventy-Three
I licked my lips. They’d gone a little dry as I spoke to the knight. “Um... okay,” I said. “Okay.”
The knight stared, and I only just caught the reflection of light off of his eyes within his helmet. “Is that all? W...
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Version 0.84!
Fix list! And a big shout to the guys on the Ravens Nest discord for compiling all of these mistakes for me!
Civilian Catalogues:
Minor fi...
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Hi!
So, I'm still on my Forced Vacation Time (There's only three Sleepy Birds right now, but they conspired together, and now I have three days off in a row. Today is the last of those, so expect a buncha chapters tomorrow at the stroke of midnight... well, I'll start writing them ...
2026-01-20 05:31:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Thirteen
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Lemme know what you think of Libre here?
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It wasn’t long before Gomorrah arrived and with her the entire army.
There were some large gates around the city, but most of them were for smaller overland transports, ...
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Interlude - Francisca Ojou the Nightshade
New name for our favourite blonde Ojou-sama! Thanks to QueenScarlett and Khorne on the discord for ideas~
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Francisca had to rely on years of social training in order not to make it clear how incredibly unco...
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Chapter XIII
Look, art!
By https://zarwilsonart.format.com/
Also, still no internet at h...
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Chapter XII
Hmm, trying to write fights in a new way? More like the... manga-style battle shounen fights? idk what that's called. Anyway, lemme know what you think!
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The doe slammed a hoof into the ground, and the paint bottles on her back rose up, then ex...
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Psilocybin Twelve
The next couple of weeks went well. Silent, sure, but well. The weather was growing warmer, and with that the mood across the city seemed to be on the rise. It was a... not a good time, necessarily, but not the worst time in the life of a City Nine...
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Chapter XI
In-progress shots of civilian Carrot by Zara!
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Silas didn’t think he’d ever entered a nail salon before. It just wasn’t his kind of ...
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Chapter Twelve -
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I stepped out of the Bastion to Fortunate Son shouting about how the lead singer wasn’t a senator’s son. There was probably some level of irony there, but I was a bit too preoccupied with piloting a multi-ton mecha to...
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Interlude - Ernest
Gonna need some suggestions/ideas for names for Fran and Becky at the end there. Anything cool? Thematic? Just... fitting? idk!
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Ernest hated few things, but high among those was his name. It either made people think he was truly...
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Chapter Five Hundred and Seventy-Two
My friends started to look, but while they did that, I... kind of just wandered off to a corner and stood there, staring at a wall.
The wall was interesting, granted. It had been painted over with a sort of mural, images of...
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Chapter X
Hmm... should we change the title?
Also, art! Just some early sketches by the very super talented Zara! Probably gonna go with the version with the bow, and the Mister Roger's blouse! Oh, she has a portfolio: 2026-01-12 23:16:09 +0000 UTC
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Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GD8WL7G5
In the choking smog and steel of City Nineteen's ...
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Interlude - Electric Rat Part Two
“Quiet,” Deadline murmured. She carefully pulled a sharp bit of glass out of the bottom of the window-frame, then reached into the little backpack she was carrying to pull out a bundle of cloth that she draped over the will.
She...
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Interlude - Crisis Mode Two
Libre seemed to think that everything was going well, and Cecilia was very much of the opinion that they were a hair’s breadth away from being chewed on.
“We need more ammo at station six!” she shouted our the constant din of gunfir...
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Interlude - Electric Rat
Becky was so ready for some action, which was a little weird, because it was like, five AM, and usually she’d either be very much asleep or about to go to bed. Waking up at four in the morning was not something she did.
2026-01-11 21:55:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter IX
Short chappy! Also, we hit 20K words!~
Carrot made it home around noon-ish. She might have hoped to spend more time with Mister Silas learning magic, but he had been almost nodding off on his chair after two hours, and so she had bundled him up i...
2026-01-10 15:50:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Forty-Five
Aurora sat on a couch and tried not to appear too bored, or too worried. Not that she was all that worried. The thing was... how could she put this?
She wasn’t doing anything, and that bothered her.
Big Sister Emily had gott...
2026-01-09 22:49:54 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
Just wanted to know what people think of Carrot and Stick so far?
I'm having fun with it (Obviously) but I'm genuinely curious to see what everyone else thinks! I've gotten some fantastic feedback, and lots of good ideas on the discord, but I could always use more <3
Th...
2026-01-09 16:16:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter VIII
Silas woke up the next day feeling, if anything, worse.
Part of that was physical. Sure, the Ordo’s training had included plenty of running and some amount of physical exercise. The Ordo Venator was one of the only ones that actually insisted th...
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Chapter VII
Shorter chappy! Oh, and Gdoc link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c3c70JUF-OpjGjuqq-sRaM-6...
2026-01-08 17:28:51 +0000 UTC
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The Detective Five
The place was seedy as all hell.
He’d been in his share of suspicious bars, of course. It was part of the job. In fact, it was so much part of the job that those who knew very little about actual detective work tended to romanticize this part at...
2026-01-08 11:51:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter VI
Minor edit to previous chapters: Carrot is wearing a fingerless glove on her right hand... for reasons~
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Carrot didn’t know what was going on, but she did know that she didn’t like it very much. She was on the floor, face pressed int...
2026-01-07 22:49:14 +0000 UTC
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