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All in all, the choice was easier to make than I’d thought at first. The Thundercloud Faerie Steps was probably the most niche case. While boostin...
2023-05-03 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I just wanted to let you all know that my laptop has stopped charging. I've brought it in to a few places, but it looks like they may need to order in a new charging jack, which is... Oh, so fun!
I've backed up all my Mana Mirror stuff, but due to the way voting work...
The following day was Knoday, which was the weekend, and thus one of my days off – even though I usually spent the time doing missions. As soon as I was up, I reached into my mana to sketch the Analyze Death spell, but caught myself, surprised I’d already formed the habit.
Alvaro had m...
Content Warning for discussion of and mild consumption alcohol. Nobody goes on a bender or anything, don't worry!
He clicked his fingers, and a pair of glasses appeared on the table. They were short, only a few inches tall, with an oddly bulbous shape. Each one had two larg...
2023-04-19 10:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a short story set seven months before the events of Mana Mirror begin
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Kene spat toothpaste into the sink, rinsed out their mouth with the slightly alchemical tasting motel water, and then lifted their head back up. As they ...
2023-04-15 00:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set two years and four months before the events of Mana Mirror begin
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Alvaro stared at the black door in anticipation. He was sixteen years old today. Most people couldn’t get their mana tested until they were eighte...
2023-04-15 00:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Created by https://dandelians.carrd.co/#
He's currently in need of some commissions, so if you need some art done, send it their way!
I should commission art of other people... Like Kene. Or Alvaro. Or Meadow.
Authors Note: This chapter is coming out a day early because work tomorrow is going to be... Hectic. I COULD schedule it now, but I decided... Why not just go ahead and release it?
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The two-faced ring was the easiest to eliminate. Life and death mana each al...
2023-04-11 19:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is in reference to the short story you can read here.
Feel free to discuss or ask questions in here or my discord!
As for why Ed didn't touch desolation... He doesn't like to hurt p...
Preface: This story is an April Fool’s Day joke, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Everything that appears here is of questionable canonicity at best. If it WAS to be canon, it would be set roughly five hundred years before Mana Mirror’s events.
System Initializ...
2023-04-01 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI've made this one multiple choice, since it's so important, and so varried!
2023-03-24 16:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is a bit of a shorter chapter, because it comes with a major decision at the end, and I can't just push past that.
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Five nodes separated from the elemental and swirled out into portals, each one containing a different ite...
The following morning, I rose early and prepared to use the elixir.
In my life, I’d only used a handful of elixirs, potions, or pills. The ones that I’d gotten for free in my classes growing up had all been intended to stimulate the growth and development of ungated mana.
I’d ...
I bit my lip and then let out a low sigh, then started the walk back home.
As much as the two thousand silver did call to me, Orykson had been willing to drop five times that amount on my suits. There were decent odds that whatever he gave me would be valuable. Maybe even more valuable tha...
Done by u/RevolutionUnlikely45 on Reddit!
2023-03-24 14:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've just finished up the next three weeks worth of chapters, and I'm feeling a bit delightfully devilish - You can blame John Bierce and Kat Butch for encouraging me. So I've decided...
Would you all rather have all three chapters now, and not receive any new chapters until April 12th...
Orykson was sitting in his personal library, sipping from a glass of whiskey on the rocks and tinkering with a spell design when a skeleton burst in.
This wasn’t particularly unusual, in and of itself. Almost all of his staff were either spirits of a sort, or skeletons – zombies were ho...
2023-03-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is NOT going to decide which set of magic Malachi is going to pick, I'm just curious.
At this point in the story, which of the magic gates calls to you most? If you want to comment why, please do!
I've left off Knowledge/Abnegation, since t...
2023-03-17 17:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostEd lifted the stone training spear over one head and threw it at the dummy. As he did, his fingers traced a quick pattern in the air, and the stone of the spear shifted shape, transforming into set of three rings that bound the arms and torso of the dummy.
“Not fast enough,” he muttered...
2023-03-16 22:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! This month has been a bit more productive. I'm currently at 25k words on The Abjurer - Not where I wanted to be, but better than the last month or two for sure. The plot's starting to really take shape firmly now, and I think, barring any major life events, I should be able to keep ...
2023-03-15 11:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you know about Paperbeetles?” Alvaro asked as we arrived on the first gate floor of the library.
“They’re beetles that eat paper?” I guessed.
“Right,” he said. “Like a Choruk, it uses death mana to break things down in its stomach and convert the death energ...
The next several days flew by, with me working at the butcher’s shop, practicing sketching the Analyze Life spell whenever I could, converting all my death mana into life. When Temsday finally rolled around, it was time for me to pick up my new broom. I met the broom mechanic at her store, and ...
2023-03-08 18:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostCW: Mentions of previous self harm.
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I scratched at my chin for a few moments before I decided that it had to be the blood carnations.
While the green star sapling would be useful indefinitely, banking on the idea that I’d be reaching all the...
2023-03-01 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, everything ached when I woke up. For a moment, I wondered if I’d been early, but when I realized it was a spiritual ache, not a physical one, it clicked.
The enhancer that I’d bought from Kene. I’d gotten used to the strange ache that the Lithetic Tea left in my Mana...
2023-02-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Sorry for the random poll. I know it's a bit away, but I wanted to know who you all would be interested in following for the next interlude chapter (Like the talk between Meadow and Orykson, or Ikki and Orykson). If you're interested in the "someone else" bit, feel free to put who i...
2023-02-21 15:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope you all had a good Valentines Day, if you celebrate! Here's a fun fact for Mana Mirror: If you transitioned our Gregorian Calendar to the Ddeaer Calendar, February 16th (Aka the 16th of Final-Ice) is a big celebration of the arts called 'Poet's Day'. It isn't just about poetr...
2023-02-16 15:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostI was a bit nervous to let Kene take the Acidbubble-Toad into their lab without me, but at this point, I figured it was a sunk cost – if they really wanted to steal the toad, they wouldn’t have needed to heal me.
Which was still strange to me. I glanced down at my hand. The regeneration...
2023-02-15 12:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhich of the options that Kene has recommended would he pick from the Wyldwatch?
This poll closes in 5 days, on February 13th.