It's real. It's terribly real. I cannot possibly exaggerate how complicated the cosmology of the early Christian sects were. While that first diagram is labled "Schools of Gnosticism" please note that modern academics no longer believe that 'Gnosticism' was a thing. Rather, it was a catch-all ter...
2024-06-03 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostSusan came down the stairs in a bathrobe and a smile. “Who’s there?”
“Boo.”
“Boo who?”
“Don’t cry, it’s only a joke.” Truth’s voice was very soothing. He was smiling at the several large men glowering at him from the...
2024-06-03 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“It comes down to a change in the relations between people. No chance in Hell I’m going to be able to shape the government after the collapse. But I can set up cadres of young, fit people, people trained to operate in a no-magic environment. People that really believe in teamwork, and the not...
2024-05-31 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t that lucky. I got to enjoy my orange jumpsuit a while longer.
The bag was sealed and I do mean sealed. Rolled up like a dry bag, with the opening held shut with magnets or some damn thing, I don’t know what. I opened the bag. This managed, despite the strong co...
2024-05-31 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe rooftop was high up, though I don’t know just how many storeys. The wind cut through my prison jumpsuit like a shiv. Must be up pretty high. I walked towards the sun. I assume that’s the East, but at this point, who knows? It was a dense city, full of tall buildings. Big city too. I don...
2024-05-31 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostI saw the door the second time I was in solitary. It was a heavy steel door, but not like the doors in Folsom, more like a door on a boat. The ones with a wheel in the middle, instead of a handle. Like it was sealing something off.
It was day seven of twenty in the box, so ...
2024-05-31 14:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostNot sure if it's still a vacation if I am sill writing new Slumrat chapters every day, but close enough! Anyhoo, the extra mental space is good for a lot of things. One of them is new ideas.
Now, I want to be clear on something- I'm not launching this as a new series any time soon, if at a...
2024-05-31 13:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostTruth let his thoughts drift for a minute. Should he ‘fix’ Niles? He probably could with Cup and Knife. He was actually a little scared to try. Not because he thought he would hurt Niles… or whatever his real name was… but because he had a horrible suspicion that it wouldn’t work. In a ...
2024-05-30 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“My Lord? There is no need-” Niles started to speak, but Truth cut him off.
“Accept it or don’t. Either way, I stand by what I said. Now, since I know you don’t think I have anything to apologize for, we will talk about your work. Looks like you have achieved great thin...
2024-05-29 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTruth worked quickly and methodically, letting Incisive guide him from those most urgently in need of help to the least. Not that there were any light wounds. Other than a few children and a handful of Level Zeros, most of the bus was filled with Level One citizens. Their apertures collapsed. The...
2024-05-28 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip to Harban was dull. To his intense horror, he had run out of books. He had been right there in a small city, and didn’t even think of stopping by a local bookstore and picking up some schlocky romances. Second hand books must be cheap as Hell right now. And yet, somehow, he whiffed. Sh...
2024-05-27 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostTruth laughed and walked forward, arm slung over the Prophet’s shoulder. He didn’t respond to the question. Someone walked straight through Etenesh without noticing her. Had anyone asked, she definitely would have denied yelping. She started looking around furiously.
It...
2024-05-24 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Why would I want to run, person that I have never met before?” The Prophet laughed awkwardly. Meeting someone’s reincarnation wasn’t weird. The world was only so big, after all. It was just… usually the changes were bigger. More dramatic. This was, even for them, an uncanny degree of c...
2024-05-23 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTruth slowly blinked at Cho, then checked the crystal again. He eventually found the summary page that said essentially what Cho had- that Starbrite was ritually sacrificing himself to himself to achieve the lifespan of “the very stars.” There was some speculation about whether he would force...
2024-05-22 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHis name, like his face, was hidden in a dark hood of endless blackness. A forbidden name, too terrifying to be uttered, recorded only on slabs of abyssal lead and stored in the most forbidden depths of the Night Dragon Crypts of Eternal Midnight. Not that he was going through one of those 2024-05-22 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Truth met Cho’s eyes. There was only truth in them. The silence stretched again. The secret policeman was still. Returned to the absolute calm he had cultivated over a lifetime of being everyone else’s worst nightmare. Truth could watch the man sort through his options. All the things he had ...
2024-05-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t name my feelings. Happiness, pride, grief, horror… none of them fit. All of them fit. What do you call it when you are feeling all the emotions at the same time? I… had done it. I had led my people through this calamity. We would have a powerful mage supporting our tower. A...
2024-05-21 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI could feel that pit in my stomach, the sinking weight that pulls down your guts when you realize that you have severely messed up, and things aren’t magically going to get better. I had forgotten to deliver Daphne's letter to Madame. I hadn’t asked her about the Reverend, and his connection...
2024-05-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTruth tried to think very rapidly. This was a cop. A high end cop, but a cop. And cops didn’t ask questions that would benefit you. This was a fishing expedition-
Colonel Cho snorted. “The contents of Great White Mountain were not known to us. After it blew up, we were able t...
2024-05-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65- The Coward’s Test
Nothing good could be said about the sons of Crusher Jim, except this- they were strong. Terrifyingly strong. They jumped up to the top of the wall in a single step, then down to the ground and into melee with the monsters in two more. The front li...
2024-05-17 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTruth wasn’t quite sure how to handle this matter. On the one hand, he had the overwhelming urge to slap this banal monster to death. On the other hand, she wasn’t a monster. She was just banal. He’d have to slap the whole city to death. Which was tempting, but probably unwise.
2024-05-17 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I quickly checked how many bones I earned and almost went blind. Should have slowed down. Eased into it. That is a lot of zeroes.
“Ossain, any new units I can recruit? Any new anything?”
“Yes! You can get Scrapyard Lansiwr Gwaywffon, and yo...
2024-05-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a while going around a whole damn mountain to avoid a single roadblock, but it was still less annoying than slipping through the roadblock by playing dead. He kept picking at the question of why the birds were messing up his ability to cast Earth Folding Step. It wasn’t ev...
2024-05-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant beasts roared back, outraged by Versai’s proud defiance. Not so proud that they wouldn’t gang up on her, though. One from each side, and the middle one charged straight ahead. Ready to tear her into at least three pieces.
Fair enough. She was madder than them, and a...
2024-05-15 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe dawn was rising, and with it, a rock. Specifically, the earth demon he had sent out.
“Fuck you, pay me.”
“Everyone’s so cynical these days.” Truth sighed, and activated the punishment runes built into the summoning. Then added on a few more of his o...
2024-05-15 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth blinked in confusion. He looked down at the dog. The dog wheezed heavily through his nose, but made no further explanation. He then opted to look inquisitively at his rough patron, who rolled his eyes and explained.
“One angel, but he has been recorded and classified unde...
2024-05-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the words etched in blood and fire across the sky.
“Was I making too much progress? How does knowing this justify ramping the difficulty up?”
I was numb. I haven’t even passed wave ten. Hell, I only just passed wave five. First it wa...
2024-05-14 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs one of you guessed in the comments, the current arc of Weeaboo ends in ~2 weeks. So this seems like a good time to share some news.
That first paragraph looks wierdly ominous. Actually, it's mostly good news. Lets get into it.
First- Slumrat. Vol. 3 drops in, I believe, August. I ...
2024-05-13 16:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Like a hippo, a sheep, a bat and a wolf all made beautiful love together, and then their inbred grandkids robbed a “I need four guns to get a Frosty” tough-guy’s house for armor.”
“I’m quite sure I didn’t understand most of that.” Madame murmured.
2024-05-13 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The night sky was a brilliant explosion. No, he was wrong, it was no longer the night sky, it was the other side of the sky, the truth behind the light. It was every mystery and love and horror and truth, or as close to the reality of those words as a little clay doll could hope to see. He was fr...
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