The chorus was singing again, the drums were beating, and everyone who could reliably kill a furrel was booking it down the main road to Riddlebank. We had no idea how the bird would respond, but that piercing call couldn’t have been anything other than an acceptance of the challenge.
Gal...
2024-07-02 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell was that, Alia?” Cerri asked, her tone practically pulsing with anxiety.
My response was the same when everyone else, including her just fifteen seconds ago, asked that question. “I don't know!”
“I don’t mean to interrupt, but you ...
2024-06-30 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, if you've seen my scribblehub profile or the discord, you might know that I've been doing something unthinkable for me- I've been editing one of my stories. With the power of the new meds, I've made it all the way to chapter 45 (so far) of Lieforged Gale, fixing the mistakes of unmedicated pa...
2024-06-29 12:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment we stepped out into the wind and snow, we lost the ability to communicate except for vague hand gestures. I’d opted to make this trip as Silver, after first finding Charles as Kaia to inform him that I was going to go snuggle up somewhere warm to think about the steam engine.
S...
2024-06-29 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was still thinking about the enchantment walking staff as we left the workshop. It hadn’t done anything when I played around with the finished metal engraving. Not even when I sang at it, which was kinda disappointing. Maybe Chloe could help me, or possibly it would just be a useful tool for ...
2024-06-26 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Alia,” Rusti said urgently. “Plug the phone in. We'll spoof your location and draw the cops off your trail.”
“Right,” I said quietly, still slightly stunned by the sudden ejecting of the cop from our van.
There were several data cables on little spools f...
2024-06-25 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Here,” Chloe said, laying the piece of paper down on the desk in the classroom she'd claimed. All her plants were in here now too, lined up on the thick windowsill. A windowsill that was now covered in badly cured animal pelts to keep out the freezing cold. It even muted the screaming wind a...
2024-06-23 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe cop car I’d just eviscerated with two hundred and eleven bullets was only the first. Dozens more were hurtling up from behind as the civilian traffic desperately pulled aside in an attempt not to become casualties in the senseless crusade the police were conducting against us.
Careeni...
2024-06-20 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning after returning from our trip, I headed to the workshop. Snow covered everything, and only thin paths had been shovelled out. April's forge, at least, appeared to be free of snow… until I realised it was covered in ice.
April saw me as I approached and waved a tired greeting i...
2024-06-20 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us around the same amount of time to get back from the quarry to Edgewood, but that was because we had to stop singing for a day due to the cold air of the eternal winter—it was like razor blades in our windpipes.
Getting back under the cloud cover might’ve saved our eyes from t...
2024-06-17 02:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe van lurched as Gloria wove through increasingly panicked civilian traffic. Traffic that the cops didn't care at all about hitting with their excessive attempts to stop us.
“Damn it, how many missiles do those birds have— Motherfucker!” The whole van bounced ...
2024-06-15 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Why aren't you angry?” I asked tentatively as we picked our way back through the woods towards the camp.
The coyote corpses were left behind, neither of us had the will or energy to lug the useful parts all the way back to Edgewood. It was also very much at the bottom of my priority l...
Chloe was a lot quieter on her feet than me, so I couldn't actually find her in the darkness. The sounds of combat continued ahead, though, so they were my beacon.
I heard when she arrived on the scene, because there was a series of shrill, terrified animal cries. A dull thump echoed throu...
Edit: Fixed Double discovery of Dolostone with chapter 70 (This chapter was edited so that it's just reiterating the discovery).
Keep those continuity error corrections coming when you see them people! Thanks Gabby for pointing this one out!
My biggest ...
2024-06-11 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostJust like us digital sapients, our van was significantly more terrifying than it appeared.
Frame-jacked to the nines and back, the SWAT team threatening the van appeared to be standing motionless around it. Their plan hadn't been a bad one. If their opening attack didn't kill us, then we'd ...
2024-06-10 03:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostI got barely any sleep, thanks to my own dumbass brain. So little sleep, in fact, that I dozed my way through the watch period while Chloe actually kept an eye out for problems. She appeared not to mind, other than giving me several looks that ranged from bemused to concerned.
One by one, t...
2024-06-08 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI said nothing about Chloe's flirtatious pet name for me as we cleaned up after the fight. I said nothing when we put foot to path, either. I couldn't. My whole fucking brain was scrambled, to the point that I had to not so subtly nudge Ollie until we were far enough away from everyone else to ha...
2024-06-05 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s fist hit the door gently, but the sound was still jarring in the eerie quiet of the back streets. Nobody moved as the knock echoed between the tightly packed temporary housing units, although I noticed everyone save for me had their guns at the ready.
There was silence for a long ...
2024-06-05 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe got permission to go on the trip, but then we spent four days waiting for ‘Silver’ to show up so she could be asked to help. Silver, of course, did not show up. The Captain was hesitant to let us go when I didn’t show up as Silver, especially over “some stone bricks for a forge”. Whe...
2024-06-02 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHalfway through making the focus for Brielle, the three of us realised something. If we changed where the inside loop of the handle-shaped focus was, we could let her cast with pretty exceptional accuracy from the palm of her hands. It took only one test with a jury rigged prototype for us to rea...
2024-05-31 01:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWith one day left before the Cherish arrived, we were on the clock in a very anxiety-inducing way. Despite having an address for where Jason's stepdad was hanging out, we had no way of knowing where that actually was in this inscrutable labyrinthine warren of humanity. See, addresses in this plac...
2024-05-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of days after the sawmill frame was finished, I finally found a crossbow cocking design that worked for me. Inside the stock, below the flight groove, I installed what the medieval weapons book called a crannequin. The one in the book was very different to mine, but the broad idea was th...
2024-05-28 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I have 3 chapters of this scheduled now with a release cadence of 1 every 5 days. I think I can keep this up tbh. It's feeling very doable- having patreon story posting every 5 days and public main story every 3 days. I hope this works for everyone! :D
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2024-05-26 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days saw my friends and I going out to fell tree after tree in the area directly surrounding the tower. There was a small part of me that was worried about chopping down too many trees, but the woodland area extended out into what used to be the outskirts of the suburbs and even beyo...
2024-05-25 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bandoners didn't stick around long after we gave them the samples and a map of the dangers around Edgewood. I did give Brielle an orb from our stockpile, though, and explained how I found one of their people dead and frozen with an orb. I'd used the one he had, but I figured it'd be a nice ge...
2024-05-22 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi! So my plan is to try and have a 5 day release cadence for this story from here on out. I don't have too much of a backlog, though, so we'll see if that pans out. Either way, I hope you enjoy, and as always, let me know if you see any continuity issues or whatever. Troubleverse is ...
2024-05-20 14:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We picked out and began to fell some trees while we swapped stories and information with our new friends. They were very interested in our weapons and armour, which were significantly better than theirs. Then, in passing, I mentioned Edgewood’s food issues, and that had the Bandoners sharing a ...
2024-05-19 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I can't believe he took away my hex bags,” Chloe pouted, folding her arms as we left the admin block. Then she glared at me. “Oh, and I'm not forgetting that you gave that kid my knife!”
“I agree with the Captain, you can't be trusted with weapons right now,” I said, trying not...
2024-05-16 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHarmonic Chanting, it turned out, was a way for large numbers of people to sing huge ritualistic spells into being. The book was mostly about how to apply the concept to building roads and digging drainage ditches by having everyone sing a song that greatly increased their work speed. It was fasc...
2024-05-13 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re not going to kill it,” Cynath told us the moment I suggested killing the Storm Bird.
Frowning, I shared a momentary look with the Captain and asked, “Why?”
“Your current martial abilities are simply not up to the task. Eve...
2024-05-10 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post