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The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Eight

“Alyphize is a Demonic Heir.” I told Haidya, before turning to Kelly and asking him a question.

“How much do you know about Demonic Thrones?” 

“There are eleven and the realm of demons is known as the Fallen Void.” 

“Eleven main ones,” Hadiya interjecte...

The Third Gate: Chapter Thirty-One

When we arrived at where Dusk had been digging, I noticed something a bit strange. 

“Why is Dusk’s… Primes, there’s no way to say this and it not sound weird. But why – how – has she dug so deep?” 

Though visually, she didn’t seem to have dug much deeper than...

On the boat, what does Malachi train?

He's got a few days on the boat before he gets home, so what is he going to focus on training?

The Third Gate: Chapter Thirty

As it turned out, setting up a permanent teleportation platform in a random park was strictly against city law, which was… Frankly, completely reasonable. It sucked a bit to have to take it down, after I’d just spent so much mana on creating the platform, but since I was already going to have...

The Third Gate: Chapter Twenty-Nine

I flicked my fingers and reached into Dusk’s realm, summoning a pen into my hand. A few days before, I’d knocked a pen behind a desk, and I hadn’t put it back because now I remembered knocking it back there, and if I put it away, I’d forget where I’d put it, but now I’d have to try an...

The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Seven

As Hadiya and I floated through the skylanes and moved towards where we’d left the automobile, I worked on my wounds. 

I wasn’t a doctor or even a field nurse, but I’d had to learn a few tricks in the arena, and I was using one of them now as I unwove thin threads of metal and st...

The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Six

The Arenamaster rounded the corner of the far end of the hall, about twenty paces behind Fake-Mist. She had a glowing red orb over one shoulder, and flows of red and blue light were streaming into, or maybe out of, the orb, connecting to each of the dead bodies in the hall. 

She hadn�...

Quick, and Large, Update!

Hey, hopefully this should be nothing, but there's a ton of severe weather where I live, and it's caused me to have to evacuate. I've got a hotel, and I should be okay, as well as my family, but running around like crazy and packing to leave means I've struggled to write a lot.

The next two...

The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Five

As the explosion rocked the hall and Hadiya and I were thrown to the ground, I immediately started shaping my aura around me, but while I was fast, I wasn’t fast enough to outpace an explosion. Still, as I rolled to my feet, I was already shifting the weave of my shirt into the most protective ...

The Third Gate: Chapter Twenty-Eight

The next several days passed peacefully enough. I fed mana into Dawn each day, and she was slowly growing stronger. Dusk took a shine to her sister, and often fed the little dragon some of her own power. They weren’t quite bonded in the same way I was to each of them, but a strange sort of occu...

Vote Number Two

Does Dawn accept the feeling of trust and companionship with Dusk and Malachi? Or does she take Octavian up on his offer to sever their bond?

Vote Numer One And A Voting Update!

While there are a few major votes that are still yet to come, like the focus(es) that Malachi is going to take his death gate, which of the three sepulchers they're going to dive first, and that sort of thing, I want to give all of my voting tier patrons a warning that we're reaching the part of ...

The Third Gate: Chapter Twenty-Seven

It took us the better part of an hour to completely regroup, and to my surprise, the last one that we were able to find was Meadow. She was standing over the bog, leaning on her staff, gazing into several shards of what seemed to be crystal, and felt like incredibly intense mana that was even mor...

The Third Gate: Chapter Twenty-Six

I focused and extended a tendril of spatial mana into the spirit dragon, then reached within me to where I could still feel the last empty space that needed to be filled. I channeled it through the bond, and the tiny spirit dragon looked at me, fear in its eyes.

I could feel its heartbeat a...

The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Four

“I’m booooooorrrrrrreeeeeeeddddddd,” Kelly whined, flopping his head against the pillow of the chair. 

He had really expected that staying in a magical laboratory full of experimental magical stuff was going to be fun and cool, but instead it was incredibly boring. He’d walked ...

The Effaced: Chapter Twenty-Three

The White Rooms territory looked like any other part of the undercity, at least at first. The moment the White Rooms themselves appeared, it became obvious. 

I wasn’t sure how White Lily had managed it, but the White Rooms were one of the more impressive spots in the underground. Muc...

The Third Gate: Chapter Twenty-Five

So, I wouldn’t normally do this, but this is an instance where the vote was tied, and in those cases, I like to try and roll for the distinct result, but include something of the other path as well.

Given that this was also a vote where the options were somew...