Third chapter today, make sure you didn't skip the previous two.
Elara leaned back into the bath, letting warm water fully envelop her skin. Her eyes closed, ushering in blessed darkness, and the kinks in her muscles slowly unwound. She could have done that herself earlier,...
2022-12-10 22:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostSecond chapter posted today, make sure you didn't skip the previous.
I let out a hiss, flexing my coils. The Coreless had been making noises at each other for a while now, sounds flowing back and forth in a seemingly never ending torrent, a flurry of emotions running throug...
2022-12-10 22:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostFirst chapter today, at least two more being posted in the following minute or so. I also did some minor editing on the previous chapter. Feel free to skim/read it if you want to see what changed. If you don't want to, the gist of the edits was just that Valera could sense bits of the lif...
2022-12-10 22:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take nearly as long to reach the tower-nest where most of the disciples waited than it had to go the other direction; this time, I knew where I was going.
Also, my newest Coreless walked much faster than I could slither.
That may have been the biggest difference...
2022-11-29 02:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostI stood triumphantly on wobbling legs, basking in my greatness - and, at the same time, I laid atop the Coreless giant’s flesh, my fangs pushing deep inside him. The Coreless shuddered, one hand raising up to slap at my snake-self with scale-shattering force, but the rest of...
2022-11-22 04:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostRun. Just do it. It’s better than dying; it’s better than becoming undying, the thrall of some Skies-damned monster, Eli told himself. Someone has to get away. Someone has to warn everyone about what’s happening ...
2022-11-16 07:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a moment of confusion, I tried to stand again.
In some ways, I had been prepared for this. With [Little Guardian’s Totem], I had already been able to ride along the perspectives of my Coreless, able to see through their eyes and hear through thei...
2022-11-10 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEli staggered, the shakiness in his legs less from fatigue - his mana-enhancement meant that he wouldn’t feel that, not without the situation turning significantly worse than it already was - and more from, well, fear.
There was a lot of that right now.
A whole l...
2022-11-09 02:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostHorik had always been a giant, or at least as close to it as anyone ever got. His mother’d always said that, by the time he was a toddler, she’d worried that he’d accidentally tear her hand off every time he'd grabbed it - and even if that was a joke, it was still true that he’...
2022-10-31 02:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostEli’s fingers tightened around his spear, each one flexing in quick succession. A nervous tic, but it was hard not to be nervous. Eli hadn’t dealt with anything like this before. His time guarding the mines before today had been easy; threaten a lazy prisoner here, beat back an enc...
2022-10-25 06:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe newest stream of life force warmed my scales, pushing back the bitter cold of death just a little further. I did my best to ignore that, focusing on what I knew would come next.
The thought-light flickered.
Mana-Infused .̸̠̑/̷̧͖̮͚͐̕.̵͙̣͍̩̜̏...
2022-10-20 02:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostA near-forgotten fire roared to life in Elara’s heart. Anger. Hatred. Disgust. All sparked by a single word.
Virtun.
It wasn’t the word that did it, though. She thought the word plenty. Had heard Orken’s Council say it plenty, too, back when the Seek...
2022-10-18 04:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostElara sighed, the heavy breath warping into something decidedly more ominous as it met her helmet’s closed face. It was hot, and more than a little sweaty, but she had already learned that people took her more seriously when the helmet was closed. Which wasn’t really surprising; a ...
2022-10-16 04:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostValera chewed on her lower lip, worrying away at its frayed edges. The Little Guardian had been gone for a while now, and she was more than a little concerned. Sure, he could take care of himself - between his ability as a seer and his increasing strength in general, Valera doubted tha...
2022-10-06 06:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe first Coreless that I raised ended up being more than enough to turn the tide of battle, though I couldn’t do much more than give vague commands. Occasionally, when his mind managed to momentarily use my distraction to pull itself ever-so-slightly out of the dark that I had shove...
2022-10-05 05:56:21 +0000 UTC View PostLaying in my little carved-out nook a few slithers below the Coreless, tail caught securely within my mouth, I had some time to figure things out.
I needed that time. Needed that bit of safety that it gave while I figured things out.
Another mind was poking and pro...
2022-10-04 05:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostFor all current patrons, you will not be charged when the month rolls over. Work has been extremely busy and it has left me with no real time or energy to write recently, so you'll be able to access ...
2022-09-28 01:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post2nd chapter today, make sure you didn't skip the previous
Gained Major Title: [Reanimated].
Description: Reanimated after death and placed under the control of the one responsible, your body and mind have mut...
2022-09-13 17:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostFirst chapter today, more coming after
I was a little confused by these Coreless. Not that Coreless weren’t always at least a little confusing, but I could generally make a guess at the reasons for the things they did. The ore-flesh that kept them attached to the...
2022-09-13 17:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostI stopped, tongue flicking out to taste the air, catching blood and salt and sickness. Like a wound left to fester. Exactly like that, actually. I followed the scent-taste, allowing myself to turn away from my pursuit of sound, pursuing taste instead.
Pursuing opportunity. It pro...
2022-08-24 05:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe large-tunnel pushed deep into the stone, a long and winding stretch that felt as if it moved for endless slithers. Wall-cracks and small-tunnels leaked black-water at its edges, keeping me carefully moving down the center, where it was safer for me to slither about. For th...
2022-08-19 05:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostI hissed, the sound thrumming with rage - enough that I almost dared hope that my enemy would move from my path, leaving me free to slither where I wished.
The black-water didn’t flee, even when I hissed a little harder. Even when I tried to warn it off with a gout of ...
2022-08-17 06:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostI curled around a long beam of darkwood, my scale-flesh rubbing against the roughened plant-flesh that stretched across the upper section of the nest. It poked and prodded back at me, bits of its surface sloughing off from my passage, weakened by rot and neglect. The splinters floated ...
2022-08-16 05:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostCaught COVID at the start of last week and it hasn't been very fun, but it's on its way out and I'm not dead. Only a few symptoms left, and they're not too bad anymore. Hurray. Here's a chapter, short as it is. Sorry about the wait.
I twisted my length, peering about. Wide ...
2022-08-09 06:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn recent days, ever since we had left the many-nest in search of another - because, even if I couldn’t understand the Coreless’ not-hisses, I could feel the connection to a cluster of distant [Little Guardian’s Totem]s growing closer - we had been trave...
2022-07-28 05:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostValera slumped down, feeling more exhausted than the day should have warranted. She hadn’t really done anything - especially compared to some of her more recent days - but her subconscious mind seemed to disagree. Maybe it was the stress. She knew that Councilman Port was ju...
2022-07-22 05:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostI hissed lightly as the-female-who-was-not-Needle walked, most of my attention wrapped up in continuing the plant-flesh forest’s growth. It wasn’t terribly hard. After all, I didn’t need to be inside it to keep [Verdure Parasite]’s effects goi...
2022-07-21 05:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe tiny Coreless’ hiss was surprisingly good. At least, when compared to the constant failures of the-female-who-was-not-Needle to communicate. I could almost hear the warning in it; like an infant warning a bad-thing from its nest - not particularly effective, but understa...
2022-07-20 04:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostI hissed, letting [Verdure Parasite] strip away the flow of time from the most-recently grown bits of plant-flesh, sending them rushing towards the next waiting seeds. The ground burst forcefully, pushed aside by the suddenly-there limbs of wood and plant-fles...
2022-07-15 02:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly: Chapter 235 was posted just before this, in case you missed it.
Secondly: Book 1 of The Great Core's Paradox is now live on amazon and audible!
For those of you who like The Great Core's Paradox (hopefully all of you, since you're here), I would <...
2022-07-13 00:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post