Truth ran. Fast as he could, he ran. They knew he was in the sewers. This whole place would be flooded with golems and seeker talismans and demons in a hot minute. So he had to run. Get his head down and push. Ignore his aching channels, sore from being pushed so hard. Ignore how his bod...
2023-12-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“You really don’t know the city until you have eaten your way through it,” I said, as [[Marti]] and I walked briskly toward her pine tree. I had gallantly offered my arm, which she had ignored. Shame, but that’s how it goes sometimes.
“Oh, a gourmand?”
“No, just a food-e...
2023-12-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s been years since I saw [[Marti]],” I thought as the police snipers lined up their shots. “Her cooking is great, and she’s even better company. Fantastic gardener too. Yeah, this loop, I’m going to play with Marti.” I turned my head slightly and drew a little circle ...
2023-12-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou can’t let them keep their distance. Truth remembered war gaming it. What he would do if… when the PMC rolled in. He counter-charged as fast as he could, launching himself at them with explosive steps. Get in fast, start the violence, plan from there. Level two’s and threes- mov...
2023-12-25 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a mis-click while I was scheduling chapters for the week. I apologize for the confusion.
2023-12-24 19:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostNews: Happy Holidays to all those who celebrate this time of year! And if you don’t, best wishes to you too. In the US, it is traditional for those who don’t observe Christmas to snag lunch or dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Make of this what you will. Maybe make it a tasty, ...
2023-12-22 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostDinner was exquisite, as was expected. Butler and Niles waited patiently by the side of the table as he ate. Niles looked excited to report. Must have gone well. Truth finished with a sip of tea and nodded.
“Report.”
“Sire, we were expected. It seemed that Ms. Anakdaughter could...
2023-12-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth walked through Harban in a bit of a daze. Did I overachieve again? Not this time, right? Starbrite was doing this stuff back when I was in the well. I encouraged things a bit, sure. Pushed them harder in a direction they were already going. But I don’t think you could say I was <...
2023-12-21 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThat’s a parrot claw. Or maybe an owl. Definitely something with talons. Wide, splayed… toes? Do you call them toes? With big hooks on the end. When you get right down to it-
The claws ripped through the very expensive building front. It wasn’t the headquarters of the Four Se...
2023-12-20 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth didn’t know if the disorientation was from jumping off an eight story tall building or realizing the cruel lie of the “real world.” Of the two, gravity was the most pressing problem. He smiled as the ground rushed towards him. Could he survive the fall? Yes, certainly. But it would hu...
2023-12-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTruth enjoyed the shiver running up his spine. It was beyond “transgressive.” It struck at the core of Jeon propriety. The hierarchy was all. You might be trash, but you were trash that knew its place.
“Eat the rich! Eat the rich!” Truth yelled madly, running down the street. He cou...
2023-12-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostProbably should have put that in the newsletter. Anyhoo.
No holliday disruption. I won't be as responsive as I will be traveling, but everything gets queued up in advance, so... the schedule stays the same. In case you were worried or wondering.
2023-12-17 18:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe days just creep up on you. I managed to completely miss that today was Friday, somehow, despite having a calendar open directly in front of me. Alert. Focused. Primed to catch the tiniest detail. I would crush life in the post-apocalypse. I would be a god of the wasteland....
2023-12-15 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI haven’t thought of people around me as being real people for a long while now. That seems profoundly unhealthy.
Truth watched the sun wink through the leaves of the brilliantly colored tree above him.
It encourages a certain way of thinking. Of approaching problems. A...
2023-12-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe tiers are now confirmed as Thirty and Twenty chapters respectively, ahead of RR. Just making the tiers conform with reality, no other changes came in. I'm just making sure everyone knows. Thanks,
Warby
2023-12-14 17:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostTruth looked at the duck. The duck didn’t look particularly happy to be in the middle of a library, but it wasn’t freaking out either. Now that he looked closer, the horns were blatantly plastic.
That was definitely Manda, right?
<<Right. No ascetic mysticism ne...
2023-12-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth allowed Niles to be escorted away by Butler. The young man would spend the night in dreams, receiving an intensive education on the Nephilim and what was needed to pretend to be a CEO. Not that Butler had the faintest idea about the necessities of running a major corporation. The succubus d...
2023-12-13 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post<<You flirted with the giant girl. Disgusting.>>
I was very explicitly not flirting.
<<You were one hundred percent flirting. If I had skin, it would be crawling.>>
I kind of imagine you peeling off your skin and flensing aw...
2023-12-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth just looked at her for a long moment. Susan was, bluntly speaking, not his type. His paranoia would never in a million years settle down around her. Also, being honest with himself, he really didn’t like the idea of cheating on Etenesh. The thought gave him hives. He wondered if that was ...
2023-12-11 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTruth wasn’t afraid to admit he had a type when it came to women- “Women who are interested in me.”
His number one, no question, highest rated feature he looked for in a woman was her interest in him. Everything else fell into the vague reaches of the “nice to have” categ...
2023-12-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThen I hit back before it was saved. This is the less pretty version. I am very sad.
News: Same as where I was last week, mostly. I have put out a bid for a cover commission for Project Innsmouth, and am sorting through replies. I am on track to finish Vol. 3 about on sched...
2023-12-08 16:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostTruth left the office in a thundercloud of emotions. He took a moment to refresh the coma spells on the grunts out of some vague sense of spite. They were going to have a deeply unpleasant time when they woke up, and he just felt like spreading the misery.
He had just wanted vengeance. He h...
2023-12-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth was trying to connect some very random dots at speed. The picture he was making didn’t make a whole lot of sense to him. Anak and Sons were some kind of human-ish. Cousins of humanity as he generally understood the term. He was a little hazy on what exactly that meant.
Merkovah had ...
2023-12-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTruth sat Tony down behind the desk and shoved a recording crystal into his hand. “Go through everything you do in a day, everyone you call, all your relationships with your co-workers, all of it.”
“Do you have the faintest idea what that actually means? I don’t have “ordinary” ...
2023-12-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know what I did to you-”
“But I bet you can guess.” Truth grinned, and smashed the heel of the shoe down on the CEO’s toes. He was pretty sure he broke three of them. Daragah curled into a ball, grabbing his foot and making a high pitched keening noise.
“This pr...
2023-12-04 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNews: Charging through Vol. 3 of Slumrat. Had a look at getting To The Far Shore (my first novel, available on Royal Road) into a trad. publisher, but after looking at the numbers and time cost, that dog won’t hunt. I split it into a Vol. 1 and 2, Vol. 1 is already edited and t...
2023-12-01 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe dead drop was a lot bulkier than usual. Generally, there was only a crystal which shattered once Truth had learned the contents. This time, there were arrays, talismans, a few disposable charms, and not one but several informational crystals. Truth assumed there must be some kind of ...
2023-12-01 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe River Fan had driven Truth into a quiet fury. Its tutelary spirit would be quite hurt by that, if it still lived. It’s not like it wanted to be polluted. It would have pointed out that it had been centuries of human management and intervention that left the watershed like this. The river wa...
2023-11-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth slowly pulled himself together. Improved understanding of self notwithstanding, he still needed to get into Harban. He also still had the minor question of what to do with Barton.
<<Find him a new name, for one thing. He’s been heavily conditioned by a motivated succubus f...
2023-11-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth was torn by conflicting emotions. There was anger, and shame, and pain. Envy. Hatred. Even some faint traces of affection. Not everything in Harban was terrible, and there were some happy memories there. Above them all was ambition. For the Prince, this was the only place worthy of...
2023-11-28 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post