The undersea journey was uneventful. Truth watched Butler train the former desk clerk. He realized that, if he had ever heard their name, he had forgotten it. He had enough self awareness to realize that he was deliberately dehumanizing him. Turning him into an “it,” another one of his bound ...
2023-11-27 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the first weekly newsletter! The exact format and contents will evolve over time, just to make sure that it stays relevant and doesn't become a burden.
News- Book one has been out for a few weeks now. Sales seem ok, but we are crucially short on reviews and ratin...
2023-11-24 17:06:54 +0000 UTC View PostTruth left the ritual room a little stifled. He still had questions for Merkovah. Many, many questions. About cultivation, about Cup and Knife, about the nature of reality, about ethics, philosophy, theology, politics… about everything. Just having someone he could talk to about these things wa...
2023-11-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“About that…”
“Yes?” Merkovah asked.
“I found Vig.”
There was a long pause on the line.
“Tell me everything.”
Truth did so, including how frustrating he found not making contact. Merkovah sounded relieved at the end of it.
“You handled that ...
2023-11-23 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTruth was in a mood the rest of the evening. It was the scope of everything. The sheer enormity of what the System would mean to Jeon. There was one major difference, on paper at least, between what Jeon was planning and what Starbrite did. When you joined Starbrite, at least in theory, you had t...
2023-11-22 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTruth ran through a number of options, before concluding that the fastest way to find out how the credit change-over would work was to just go and ask a banker. No need for any elaborate ruses, and really, nothing of benefit would come from just summoning some senior banker to his room through Ma...
2023-11-21 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth slammed into motion. No use trying to play invisible with a couple dozen cops in the hall running every detection spell they could. He was The Big Bro. The last villain they would ever see. Unstoppable.
The ones coming through the front were a little closer. He went for them first. A ...
2023-11-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTruth watched Vig working from a distance. The lady was just barely the wrong side of pretty, and just barely the wrong side of too old, at least next to Vigor. Vig had dressed down, drab clothes cut not too flatteringly. There was no hiding those eyes, though. The smokey darkness of them, like d...
2023-11-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBasically trying to guage interest in something akin to blog posts where I talk about how I approach writing, sources I am drawing on, what philosophers and historical figures I am looking at, that kind of thing. I'm thinking it would be once a week, and would include updates on things like the b...
2023-11-17 15:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostTruth woke to fiendish luxury, stretched indulgently, and sighed contentedly. He took a moment to contemplate what to do with the day. He examined his hand. Long, strong fingers. Well shaped. No scars, which should be impossible but he chalked it up to the Meditations and the odd skincare benefit...
2023-11-16 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTruth quickly considered Mary’s request. He was The Prince, and the core of the Prince was power- the power to rule over others. This meant securing the willing cooperation of his lessers. His personal dignity, his glory, therefore mattered a great deal. Without it, they would not be obedient. ...
2023-11-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTruth woke up. Or not. There was a long moment, impossible to say how long, where he lay in bed paralyzed by the sensation of unreality. The keening scream of the System faded into a high-pitched whine as every object he could perceive, every sensation he experienced, became illusory. As real as ...
2023-11-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe boat sailed down the wide, twilight street, cheered on by the entire polis. The sail was nothing less than the peplos that would adorn the giant statue of the goddess, lovingly embroidered over the course of the year to show her triumph over the giants. The boat was pulled along by h...
2023-11-13 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Prince appeared without warning. The supposedly locked door to Mary’s Garden opened, the recording talismans unable to capture his radiance. Tall, hair the color of a moonless night, eyes like black wells with drifting golden stars in the depths.
Dressed in exquisite yet casual clothi...
2023-11-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth picked the first recliner and got comfortable. Then convulsively shivered and got even more comfortable. This might well be the single most comfortable chair he had ever sat in. Supportive, yet soft. Ergonomically designed to make you feel almost weightless, as the body weight is distribute...
2023-11-09 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostConjin felt off. Not in the sense of it being a trap, in the sense that Truth couldn’t feel the logic of the place. The geography threw him. It was another instance of Truth's education not giving him the language to describe something he intuitively experienced. All he could articulate was tha...
2023-11-08 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTruth had never expected life to be fair. The concept had never occurred to him. It did, however, seem noticeably unfair that he kept finding himself running through the countryside in search of pants. Not that he was hung up on nudity, exactly. He had come to understand that his weirdne...
2023-11-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTruth kept quiet. There wasn’t any benefit to lying to the seniors, but he didn’t know what to say, either. The mists had enclosed the hot spring now, the green trees on the mountain had blurred into nothing. The jutting stones now looked like looming demons coming out of the mist. Ironic, re...
2023-11-06 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTruth kept his breathing steady. Incisive hadn’t warned him, so these two were not a threat. Probably. At least for the next few fractions of a second. They looked melted in the hot water of the springs.
The outdoor bath was enormous, larger than the hotel it was attached to. Cristal clea...
2023-11-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth hung in a void of fuzzy gray. Bursts of color and noise break in and fade away without cause or sense. It was a void so total, his mind was inventing stimuli. He didn’t know how long he was there. “Forever” and “For the smallest unit of time possible” seemed equally likely. Truth ...
2023-11-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTruth didn’t look back a second longer. He knew what was behind him. All that mattered was forward. Or more to the point, away. There was enough magical force coming his way to level a small country. Give them a few minutes for the equipment to catch up, and it would be a large country...
2023-11-02 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe few survivors were shattered, exhausted. Confused. Hurting. Their energy had been spent to the last drop, keeping themselves alive any way they could. They were very smart, possessed of abundant magical power, and surrounded by the best talismans and personal protections money could buy on th...
2023-11-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe floating sky-lily was tilting over. Systems were exploding now or activating without reason. Mindlessly running. The defenses raked the village, shattering homes, shattering the streets. Shattering lives. Truth looked carefully, but it seemed the heavy needles weren’t coming anywhere near h...
2023-11-01 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe dim twilight was no hindrance to Truth- he watched the needle fly towards the wards through the magnifier. It hit the ward… and went straight through. He lost track of it there, but he didn’t see anything bouncing off the flesh of the flower. He bounced out of his spot as soon as the need...
2023-11-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTruth sat in Borges’ living room. The deadly coin was safely trapped under one of the doctor’s slippers, waiting to be scooped up and returned to the shelf. He needed a moment. It was all kind of a lot. He was gently steaming just sitting there. Sooner or later, the alarm spells would start g...
2023-10-31 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTruth felt the security systems brush past him, like walking through cobwebs. Knowing that somewhere in them, spiders still hunted. His work cracking the system, his own spells, and the seeming “invitation in” by the lady of the house was enough to get them to look the other way. For now.
... 2023-10-31 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo, in case you haven't heard, somehow- Slumrat Rising Vol. 1 is getting released Nov. 7 on Amazon Kindle, KU and Audible. I know, I have been very secretive about this fact, and I apologize. Paperbacks are already avaiable and have been reaching people. I test purchased my own copy, just to make...
2023-10-30 16:15:43 +0000 UTC View PostTruth got up a little before dawn and made his way back towards the village. The information he got from Merkovah had listed Doctor Borges’ address and included pictures of the house. Truth thought he would start his hunt there. Not because he expected to catch Borges at home. He was never goin...
2023-10-30 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTruth knew that it was dangerous to make assumptions without enough information. Paranoid speculation, however, was different. He would explain how, but some bastard would take advantage. Right now, he had the horrible suspicion that the “good doctor” and his team at Happori Village were tryi...
2023-10-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's jump right into it- I'm increasing the chapters-ahead benefit for every tier by five. Prices are the same, release schedule will be the same. You are just getting more. Thats it. No games, gimmicks...
2023-10-30 15:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post