Lost Rambler

Update

This chapter is a little tricky. I am now rewriting it for the fourth time. I will get it to you ASAP. The rewards chapter will also come on Friday. Thank you for your patience.

Book Five, Chapter 97

~Riley~

For a moment, I panicked as I watched the big silver screen.

We had not planned on Antoine recovering.

Sure, we had hoped for it when we used his nightmare trope to try and ease some of his trauma so he might stand a fighting chance against the wolf, but that was a pip...

Book Five, Chapter 96

~Antoine~

"You're here?" I asked the mechanical man, but it was more of an accusation. My heart was beating, my muscles tensed.
I was standing. I wasn’t lying on the ground bleeding out anymore. I wasn’t gored by the claws of a wolf.

I was wearing my cardigan again. Jeans. I ...

Schedule and Comments

I'm going to change the schedule back to T-Fri to line up with RR. They say inconsistency is the spice of life... or something like that.

Also, there is one more storyline in this book. I know that is ridiculous from the word count alone, but so be it. I think it will be pretty cool, but no...

Book Five, Chapter 95

~Antoine~

The wind carried away my shame, my weakness.

It whispered through the trees, filling me with the strength and joy of the pack. The wolf reveled in it, delighted to belong, to run, to protect. I felt the pull of Serena—no, the pack leader—like a thread in my ches...

Book Five, Chapter 94

~Kimberly~

I had pulled every thread. I knocked on every door.

It had all led me here to a field glowing beautiful and blue under the full moon with monsters approaching from the darkness.

We had guns. We had bullets, all left here for our final stand, for our last moments, ou...

Book Five, Chapter 93

~Riley~

Ever since we had unearthed Clara Withers, there had been this lingering question: what were we going to do with her?

The answer couldn’t be to leave her underground and ignore her. There were just too many possibilities.

We could have tried to set things up so that,...

Book Five, Chapters 91 and 92

~Kimberly~

I felt like my heart was connected by live wires.

The finale was moving forward so fast. As the day went by and the sun started to set, it was our last day. We had to survive, and I didn't even know if surviving through the night was enough or if we had to defeat all of t...

Book Five, Chapter 90

~Antoine~

I woke to the faint hum of a refrigerator and the soft rustle of curtains moving in the breeze.

My body ached to stretch, muscles tense but unfamiliar, like a coat that no longer fit quite right. When I opened my eyes, the light in the room was bright with the mid-day ligh...

Book Five, Chapter 89

~Riley~

"I'm certain that we could accomplish this much more feasibly with a bit of string," Andrew said as we finished setting up one of our many traps incorporating our silver nitrate and copper purification method.

"Look, Antoine's rescue trope is supposed to be a test of Hustle,...

Update

I will be posting in the coming hours to catch you all up on chapters. This will count as Monday's post.

Book Five, Chapter 88

~Michael~

"You sure you're up for this?" Riley asked.

Was he talking down to me? Why not? Everyone is doing that nowadays. Maybe they were patronizing. Maybe they were empathizing. All the same to me.

"I know what to do," I said firmly.

I should never have told them that...

Book Five, Chapters 86 and 87

~Antoine~

The forest shifted again, the shapes of the trees melting into something both unfamiliar and known.

The air was full of energy, heavy with memories that weren’t mine—or weren’t fully mine. I stopped running, my massive chest heaving, and the wolf growle...

Book Three is Out

Book Three is out on Amazon if you are interested in that. The audiobook is out, too.

Book Five, Chapter 85: *69

~Antoine~

The forest was endless, but I ran anyway.

The trees bent and swayed unnaturally, their shadows clawing at me like they were alive. My paws tore at the ground, but no matter how far I went, the air clung to me, thick and heavy.

The wolf snarled in the back of my mind,...

Book Five, Chapter 84: A touch of chemistry...

~Riley~

"Do you think it'll help him?" Kimberly asked, chewing on her bottom lip. She still stared after him long after he ran into the forest.

We were Off-Screen, and the tears that had started On-Screen were still coming down her cheeks uninterrupted. Maybe that was why she was a ...

Book Five, Chapter 83: Always in the Forest

~Antoine~

Riley was up the stairs so quickly. He was getting away. I had to book it if I wanted to catch up. By the time I reached the top of the stairs, he was already all the way down the hall.

He didn’t look back, but he called out, "It’ll just be a second. I have to grab som...

Book Five, Chapter 82: Rolling Silver

~Riley~

On-Screen

“And you’re telling me for certain that I cannot touch the body?” Andrew asked.

“Don’t touch the body. Don’t touch the necklace. Don’t touch anything,” I said, trying to sound panicked. “Not with your hands at least.”

He rolled his e...

Book Five, Chapters 80 and 81

~Riley~

“Strangled,” Hawk said, as if he were talking to himself and not to the rest of us. He had his hat off and was pacing back and forth, working through the information.

"Don't see that a lot with werewolves," Antoine said. “I’ve never seen that with werew...

Book Five, Chapters 78 and 79

~Riley~

Somehow, we managed to squeeze all of us into that small hidden room behind the bookcase. We only had two chairs, so most everyone was left to cram amongst the stacks and hope there wasn’t an avalanche of books anytime soon.

“So, in the story we’re actually in, the wom...

Book Five, Chapter 77

~Riley~

Even with my life on the line, I couldn't stay in that little room filled with books forever.

I had to get out and stretch my legs. If there were some narrative thread that required me to be around, it almost certainly wouldn't reach me if I was locked away behind a hidden b...

Update

Chapters tomorrow. I will do a big push starting tomorrow to get this storyline done. If you have any feasible requests for the storyline, any topics you want me to be sure to cover, speak now lol

Book Five, Chapter 76

~Kimberly~

It amazed me how early exploration quietly became my favorite part of a storyline.

It amazed me that I even had a favorite part of a storyline. It wasn’t too long ago that I couldn’t bear to think about them at all.

Exploration was fun… Talking to NPCs, findin...

Book Five, Chapter 75

Just because Carousel decided to redress me didn’t mean I lost access to my luggage tag or to any of the items I’d brought in my hoodie pocket.

It just meant I now had to try to find a way to squeeze my headphones out of the narrow breast pocket of my suit jacket.

I literally had ...

Book Five, Chapter 74

~Andrew~

By far, the most accurate measure of success during research was the On-Screen/Off-Screen indicator.

The difficulty with playing a character who is supposed to be an expert on the supernatural is that, in the pursuit of research, you often find yourself learning things that...

Book Five, Chapter 73

~Antoine~

As I looked over the group of mercenaries, all eyes trained on me, I was hit with memories from my basketball days. That era was so long ago. Damn. I guess it really just hit me again—I was a retired basketball player. I’d been itching to quit for years, but when the time fi...

Book Five, Chapter 72

More soonish.

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~Kimberly~

"I'm getting all kinds of footage," Riley said as we walked back up through the basement path that would lead us back into Witherhold Manor. "There are so many hikers, campers, and people staying at cabins along the river. Car...

Rewrite

• I don't know what will happen with the last chapter. It doesn't sound like it accomplished my goal, so I'll have to think on it. Thank you for your suggestions, but I don't plan on having it come earlier in the storyline. I might just cut it. We'll see. It is still canon, regardless.

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Book Five, Chapter 71

Before I opened my eyes, all I felt was a pang in my heart.

Something deeply, deeply painful was on the horizon. I didn’t know if it was the horizon in front of me or behind me, but as I sat there still breathing the air of a dream, I knew that this character I was playing was real.

Book Five, Chapters 69 and 70

The next Post is on Tuesday instead of Monday.

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When I awoke, I found myself tied to a chair inside the main hallway of the manor.

At first, I was groggy and didn’t understand what was going on, but as I came to my senses, the horror ...