For three hours, Momo was silent.
Speechless was the better word. Grimli doted after her like a worried mother, constantly asking her if she needed anything – tea, coffee, an inspirational theme song – but she just nodded mutely. In truth, she was paralyzed. Fighting off upstar...
2023-06-29 10:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostGrimli, who would never turn down an opportunity to educate, led Momo to a small pit stop – a statue of Guinevere herself, shining in marble; it was hidden away in a gated garden just behind the city’s temple.
“Just through here,” Grimli said, following the icicle-shaped imprints in...
2023-06-27 14:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs their carriage ambled along the untrodden road towards Snowdrop Village, a courier whizzed in through the side of the vehicle, landing in Momo’s land with a plop. She looked at it quizzically; she was just about to inspect Lione’s letter before its intrusion, but given it could be...
2023-06-26 10:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Glad Midsommar (Happy Midsommar)!
It's Midsommar today - aka the longest day of the year. For those unfamiliar, Midsommar is a holiday in Sweden where you prance around a pole, we...
Momo gagged, clawing her fingers around her throat. A tinny, metallic flavor melted across her tongue. Blood. Nausea overcame her as she hit the platform. In the small window of vision that remained, she could see Slythorn angrily leap from the stage and disappear past the crowds, shovin...
2023-06-22 18:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostDesmond had a knife in his kneecap before he could even shimmy his hips.
Slythorn rolled her eyes as the boy collapsed, the bell dinged, and Devola certified the match over. The whole ordeal gave Momo very little time to regain her strength. She was already being ushered towards the stage b...
2023-06-21 18:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostMomo awoke hazily and slowly, her head pounding. As things came into focus, she saw the faces of four attentive medics watching over her; her fingers wrapped around the soft cotton mat beneath her. She was in the same medical tent as before, only now it appeared that she was the patient.
...
2023-06-20 14:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostA storm from the south began to rustle in as the match began. It was as if Mother Nature herself had come to accompany the dour mood, like a conductor to an angsty orchestra.
Rain poured down and neither boy made any sudden movements, opting instead to simply shift their weight back and for...
2023-06-19 07:12:22 +0000 UTC View PostAt the center of the scalding hot cauldron was a liquid, shimmery and red. Nara gaped at it. That’s what became of all those ingredients? It smelled like sulfur and nearly made her gag. She pressed one of her gloves to her nose, pinching the bridge of it to hold back the building nause...
2023-06-16 11:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe subsequent rounds did nothing to improve Momo’s impression of Trent. His matches had gone from depressing to complete and utter bloodbaths. In his second round, paired against a former dance teacher, he broke both of the guy’s legs, laughed, and yelled “just try practicing more! 2023-06-15 18:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ruler System
Admin Override: Sumire, [Chief Military Advisor]
Modeling Feature: Activated
Just as Momo was returning to her seat on the roof, she heard a faint ping in her eardrum.
Sumire…? Modeling feature?...
2023-06-14 18:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sun dawned over Bruda, light streaked across the grand stage. Hundreds upon hundreds of avid fans had slept beneath it the night before, snoring on pebbles and tree brambles until the sunlight woke them with a jolt. It was time – the Novice competition had begun.
Momo had bought po...
2023-06-13 15:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Aw, the wee queen is blushing,” Grimli grinned. “I wonder who it could possibly be from –”
“Shut it, Grimli,” Momo said dryly, but it didn’t wipe the smile from her face.
The letter had arrived soon after Devola’s little speech. Momo had taken to the roofto...
2023-06-12 14:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostCareful to avoid Diabla’s many snapping piranha plants, Nara followed the demoness into her laboratory. It was a vast space – bigger than both the living room and foyer – with about as many cupboards, shelves and crates as could possibly fit, all without a speck of dust. It made Nara’s he...
2023-06-09 18:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post“This is hell,” Momo said quietly, reflectively. “This is genuinely hell.”
“You have no idea,” Trent said.
When Momo strolled into town three hours earlier, she had expected a normal campaign event. People huddled around town square. A couple decorations. Locals either app...
2023-06-08 19:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostHer eyes affixed to the tip of Slythorn’s bazooka, Momo yelled “[Possess]!”
She felt a pull at her navel as her soul was sucked out of her body and into the gun. She had forgotten just how weird it felt to inhabit something inanimate. It was like shoving yourself into a suitcase. Her ...
2023-06-07 11:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostBaryte fit snugly in the vehicle’s open crater, pecking at his wings and making a polite yawning sound. It was a very cute display, something Momo would have normally sat and awww’d at, but unfortunately it represented a lack of something else – a lack of anything happening at all....
2023-06-06 14:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that the old proverb held true – everything in life starts with the chicken.
Or was it the egg?
Not the time.
Momo cleared her throat. Five thousand faces – a healthy mix of eager grins and skeptical scowls – stared at her from benches, roof...
2023-06-05 19:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostAfter an exhilarating session of sponging away grime, emptying two week’s worth of trash, buffing the countertops, and cleaning mold spores out of cabinets – which Alessia insisted weren’t mold, but just furry decoration – Nara sat, pleased and exhausted, in the yard outside of A...
2023-06-02 10:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostViktor’s table looked like the sight of a mad scientist’s experiment. Feathers were strewn around the defunct bird in a circle, as if they had exploded off of him in a sudden rush. All that remained was a plucky skeleton which looked up at Viktor with bewilderment.
“Oh, my precious li...
2023-06-01 20:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostWith Dragon Duties to attend to, Radu was forced to return to Drachenheim for the day, leaving only Momo and her straight-jacket of a bard to anxiously chart the course towards Nam’Dal. Luckily, leaving Refuge’s End was far more straightforward than arriving, so it wasn’t long unti...
2023-05-31 19:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostCongratulations! For garnering the love and affection of the public by making overly bold claims, pandering to a very specific population, and misrepresenting government funding, you have gained a level in the class [Demagogue].
[Demagogue] now occupies you...
2023-05-30 11:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostPart one in Momo’s master plan to win the hearts and minds of the public:
Public humiliation. Otherwise known as Q&A.
Cedric and Junior had attempted to enforce a queue of questions, but the mirage of civility had only lasted a few minutes before people started shouting out at r...
2023-05-29 17:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostWith a violent crack, Nara split the muzzle’s metal cage in two, the disjointed pieces collapsing onto the floor. She could feel a faint flicker of pain rocket through her fingers, but the Starving effect blocked out every nerve ending or physical sense – everything was dull except f...
2023-05-26 08:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Is that the mechanic, Junior? She’s a bit smaller than I imagined,” Cedric said, huffing as he leaned down to grab the bricks sloshing around in the water. “Can’t imagine those arms doing much lifting.”
“Ah, no, Da, I think this is the new queen of the kingdom. The one that h...
2023-05-25 16:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends,
Due to Popular Demand™ for Vampire Potionmaker, I'm going to be changing Extra Momo Chapter Fridays into Vampire Potionmaker Fridays. This means regular weekly updating for that fiction instead of me haphazardly uploading whe...
2023-05-24 20:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe lights were dim and the air was smoky as they settled into the packed inn. Momo wore a mask that covered both her face and horns – a reflective metal thing that drew more attention than she’d like, but less attention than if she were to go bare-faced.
It turned out that the price of...
2023-05-24 17:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that was a bit hard to watch,” Momo mumbled.
What remained of the knights’ dignity lay in a moaning heap of limbs. All it had taken was one round of [Maladaptive Daydreams] to have them pulling their own hair out, screaming and flailing into the prickly fence. After the effects...
2023-05-23 18:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostMEKNA GAZETTE
DAY 3 OF SPRING, YEAR 2023
ALL HAIL OUR NEW QUEEN… MOMO?
Written by Kelly Kraken
Very unusual reports have spread throughout the kingdom’s newsrooms today. Riding on the heels of what Net...
2023-05-22 16:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone <3
As you know, we just hit the end of Momo Book 2. Thanks for all the sweet, funny and wonderful comments per usual.
I want Book 3 to be the best in the series yet. In order to make sure I get it right and allow for a little bit of planning and rest ahead of time, I'm ...
2023-05-17 07:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post