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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVIII: Murderer on the Misty Morn

Do I even need to explain what's going to be happening this chapter?

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVII: A Measure of Trust

Lots and lots of dialogue and the team planning out where they're going to go next. I thought I was going to have to rename the chapter and cover the next big story beat that I have lined up, but this wound up covering everything necessary and still being a respectable size, so I can leave that f...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVII: A Measure of Trust

Not married to this title, but I couldn't think of a better one right now, so we'll work with it for the moment.

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[Hereafter] Interlude TN: Ensou

Might be a little unpolished, so this might get an update sometime over the next day or so. I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, but somehow managed to convince myself to finish this. Only just, though.

So! I'm still working out the kinks in Nagato's personality. Can...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Interlude TN: Ensou

It's about time for another interlude, don't you think?

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVI: A Tale for Someone

I had the idea pretty early on that I wanted to introduce an unaffiliated Master into London, since the Mage's Association being right there made it so easy to do. I wasn't sure if it was going to be an OC or not until it was time to bring him in, but considering the guy has no screentime in any ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVI: A Tale for Someone

When we get to that part a little later on...

Who actually guessed the mystery man's identity?

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXV: Itsy Bitsy Spider

I didn't get to work in the chapter title as much as I originally intended, but I think this came out pretty good either way. There was one part I wasn't entirely sure on, but the editor really liked it, so I kept it in as it was. I'm sure you'll figure out what I'm talking about as you go.

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXV: Itsy Bitsy Spider

It was too good a title to pass up.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIV: Queen's Gambit

Not completely happy with how this one turned out. When I went through it line by line, word by word, paragraph by paragraph, it read fine and made sense, but something about the overall direction bothered me.

I'm still not sure what it is. I just can't put my finger on it.

Nonetheles...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIV: Queen's Gambit

What a loaded title for this chapter.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIII: Fairy Tale Ending

So once again, a scene of this chapter ballooned a little bit and kept me from going quite as far as I wanted to, but I'm going to leave the title as-is this time. It fits well enough with what happens. 

It really is ridiculous, when you think about it, that Mash's Saint Graph advances...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIII: Fairy Tale Ending

This time, for sure, we'll get to that part.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXII: Knight of Treachery

First chapter of the new year. And it's on time, too! Whoo! Taking a two week break did not magically make me forget how to keep a schedule!

This chapter underwent a name change as I got closer to the end, once it became clear that we weren't going to make it as far as I originally thought ...

Belated Holiday gift

My original plan to give you guys a gift for the holidays never made it out of the planning phase for no other reason than I decided it would serve the story better if it was in the main narrative instead of a quasi-canon sidestory.

In lieu of that, have this. It's a look at our mysterious ...

Holiday celebrations, ahoy!

It's that time of year again, and I keep reminding myself that I have not technically taken an actual vacation from working on Hereafter since I started writing it. If you've been paying attention to my schedule, I usually post a chapter, then take a breather for a few days (a "weekend," if you'l...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXII: Knight of Treachery

Taking this one a little leisurely. 

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXI: The Modern Prometheus

In the end, I never found a better title for this one. It's also a little late, but it's a little longer to make up for that.

The real trouble this chapter gave me was the ending. No one wanted to just shut up and wrap things up, and while I could have just pushed that final bit of conversa...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXI: The Modern Prometheus

As is becoming something of a theme now, I'm not sure this is a title we'll be sticking to.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXX: Artificial Human

I wanted to get a certain length into things and cover a certain something before the end of the chapter, but things went on for long enough that I could only stretch it so far. I at least managed to get more than one reference to the chapter title into the chapter, so even if I didn't get quite ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXX: Artificial Human

Had a bit of trouble coming up with a title for this one, and I'm still not sure I'll stick to it.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXIX: Sword and Sorcery

Check that Fate/Zero reference near the end of the chapter. I wish we had more examples of alchemy in canon, if only so I had better references for our new Caster pulling off some crazy awesome stuff in his later scenes. Alas...

Are Jekyll's speech patterns too much? I tried to make him sou...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXIX: Sword and Sorcery

Whoops. Almost forgot.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVIII: The Misty City

London begins!

The opening act is here, and the team is introduced to the circumstances of the Singularity, including the treacherous fog. I actually kind of wanted to push the ending of the chapter out a little bit further, but things wound up paced pretty good as they were, so I cut it of...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVIII: The Misty City

Was originally gonna take this week off for (American) Thanksgiving, but...

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[Hereafter] Prison Tower Sidestories

The thread over on Sufficient Velocity wasn't satisfied with just having the Ritsuka interlude and wanted more content related to the Prison Tower, so I guess I'm going to do what I said and write some sidestories to fill out what happened.

I'll update this post with every new sidestory. Th...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Prison Tower Sidestories

The thread wants them badly enough, so I suppose I can do a few of these to show what happened while everyone else was running around and trying to figure out how to help Ritsuka.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVII: London Bound

I thought I was actually going to get to push this out a little bit further...but this thing is already past 7K, so let's leave it off where I did.

For reference, the chemical Taylor mentions in this chapter is a part of the cocktail that is the venom of both the brown recluse and the six-e...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVII: London Bound

Off to Jolly Old England we go.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVI: Great Expectations

This...might not be the most appropriate chapter title, in retrospect. Oh well.

We're not quite at London yet, and we won't quite get there next week either, but soon. For now, we need to do some setup and manage some expectations about what it's going to look like when we get to it.

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