It's going to be sad to see this quest go, but I'm going to have to close it out. It's simply too much of a time sink. That said, I hope the epilogue series at least closes out all of the remaining threads.
I'll have something from the poll up in the next few days, I've already started th...
2024-06-27 09:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostI watched the battle.
The turians might be the pinnacle of military discipline and strategy among the wider races, but while they desperately tried to maintain strict intelligence measures, they just didn't have the institutional knowledge to rival a species like the salarians. Whil...
2024-06-23 11:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, got this one in the can, next up for Ezekiel is the response to the sudden contact of turians and the human-led Systems Alliance. It'll be fun, for sure.
Until then, tough, I'm going to focus on getting the first part of the Code Geass Quest epilogue out, then I'm thinking the OG ...
2024-06-23 11:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh my god!” Tara moaned, throwing her head back. “He's totally better than your masseuse, Bonnie!”
“Told you,” the darker-skinned girl huffed a laugh, reclining on Tara's couch as I worked the muscles of our mutual friend's feet and calves.
This one was a little frustrating to write, not going to lie, but I'm glad I got it done. Next chapter will have more action and run smoother, I think. I kept trying to get to the action, but there just needed to be a bigger bridge for things to properly make sense. Also, I wanted to have some...
2024-06-20 14:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostI was reading a novel when I felt Thonis-Heracleion message me.
Hesitating for a long moment, my eyes flicked towards my left before I sighed and nodded. Picking up a bookmark from my side, I slipped it between the pages where I'd stopped and set the latest volume at my side with ...
Here's the new Winning Peace chapter, as promised!
Next up for this story is going to be Citadel/Prothean First Contact coming up next week.
Until then, I'm working on The New Ron, haven't got one of those out this month yet, so look for that coming up soon.
Once again, then you...
2024-06-16 08:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post“So, I heard you got a visit from a Senator before we left,” Steve stated as he sat down next to me. A campfire crackled nearby, carefully screened from view by a series of lean-to structures while the blaze itself bore no smoke thanks to a few woodland tricks by our resident Canadian barbari...
2024-06-13 10:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the next chapter of Engineering Marvels. This one is mostly lead-in for the next mission with a week's time skip or so simply due to the fact that there's only so much being on a boat and/or walking through a forest I can make interesting.
Regardless, I think it turned ...
2024-06-13 10:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post“It's nice here,” Sasha spoke quietly as she curled closer to me.
“It is,” I replied absently, doing my best to stay focused on the here and now instead of the myriad other bodies I was piloting on automatic. To ground myself, I stared down the slow-moving curtain of rain ro...
2024-06-09 09:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, had a sick day, sorry about that. Nothing too debilitating, just some gastrointestinal unpleasantness and general funk that knocked me out for a while. But I've since bounced back, thankfully.
On a more relevant note, here's the next chapter of Winning Peace, which...
Well, we'r...
2024-06-09 09:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday:
Petunia, Vernon, and Dudley had been left alone.
That fact was more important than it might first seem. Even if the three of them weren't truly important to the 'story' in any significant way, they were still a valid target for an a...
2024-06-06 12:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so getting the poll out of the way first. Winning Peace came in pretty firmly with the lead, Industrious followed up, and The New Ron was a comfortable third. Nexus Event and Where Your God is finished in a virtual tie for 4th/5th place. So this month will be more Winning Peace!
Th...
2024-06-06 12:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the new monthly poll, as promised.
Same game as usual, folks. Pick your favorite, 5$ Tier gets an extra vote, I focus on the one that gets the most in the final total. Second-most votes gets second-most attention, etc...
I'm still thinking about possible rewards to justify a $1...
2024-06-01 13:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Believe what you want, I didn't actually plan it,” I sighed as Sasha and I walked along the streets of Taiyuan, the capital of the human-occupied portion of the planet of Shanxi.
The body Sasha was using eyed me for a long moment, the barest hint of disbelief coating her expres...
2024-06-01 13:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
...and, yep, just a few hours too late for May. Ah well, it's here now!
This one's a shout out to some of the more normal stuff happening on the ground that Zeke seldom involves himself him these days. However, his new SO is a great excuse to have him rub elbows with the average citizen.<...
2024-06-01 13:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post“-and this one, what I don't understand is where the dividends from the earnings are going to be deposited,” I asked, tapping a piece of paper before handing it over to the suited man.
Dean Richards, the attorney and financial expert Howard had recommended for me, adjus...
2024-05-30 12:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
And done!
This chapter isn't really action-packed, sadly, but it sets up some things happening in the bigger-picture that need to be kept in mind.
Next up is one last chapter of Winning Peace, which may or may not squeak in before the month's out.
In any event, I'll have both th...
2024-05-30 12:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post“But how do the rubber chickens block the sword?!” Asuna asked, her tone that of a person desperately trying to make sense of a world gone mad... and failing to do so.
Sinon rolled her eyes as she reclined on the couch. “Please stop asking, the answer won't ch...
2024-05-27 01:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post
...and I really wanted this out yesterday, too. Le sigh.
Anyway! This is kind of a filler chapter to catch up with things after the boss fight. Lot of talking, but there were a number of subjects that needed to be covered. Next chapter of this will feature more going and doing as Kirito...
2024-05-27 01:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence in the office was suffocating.
That said, the Hokage certainly didn't seem bothered by it. The old man was sitting back, slightly reclined in his chair as he stared off thoughtfully into the middle distance as he puffed on his pipe. Lazy clouds of smoke wafted from the n...
2024-05-23 11:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the next chapter of the OG Industrious. I think I'll be able to get out another chapter of Industrious, this time the Marvel variant, next week.
For now, though, content yourselves with the fallout of Kotaro's fight in Konoha and the continuing combat in Wave. Next chapter of...
2024-05-23 11:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post“-and, without further ado, I give you Pleistocene Park!”
I clapped along with the entire crowd, the press badge hanging around my neck having allowed me to snag a spot close to the announcement podium. Beyond that, four great beasts such as the Earth hadn't seen in thousands of...
2024-05-19 08:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post
...and there we go! First Contact!
I don't have much to add this time, other than I'll have a chapter of Industrious out next. Probably the OG. I think I'm also going to get to working on a new chapter of Where Your God is for later in the week. I'll have at least one more Winnin...
2024-05-19 08:49:01 +0000 UTC View PostI set down the platter on the small stone and eased myself into the sand beside the lapping waves. Sara was curled up next to me, silently accepting the offered mug of hot chocolate as she held her knees to her chest with her free arm. A quarter-moon hung high in the sky, reporting on the late ho...
2024-05-16 08:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
How this became almost 6k words is beyond me, but I think you're in for a treat.
Plans within plans are moving forward. Next chapter of Nexus Event will feature a good bit of combat and a meeting with the President of the United States. So look forward to that as well. This is also the l...
2024-05-16 08:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostCouncilor Araeus Aethyta resisted the equally appealing urges to sigh and throw a singularity at the Batarian Councilor. The brown, four-eyed male alien was, once again, pontificating on a long and drawn-out plan to 'expand the security of the Citadel territories.' What this meant in practice, on...
2024-05-12 01:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Little bit late, but them's the brakes.
Anyway, for this chapter have a surprise interlude from the Citadel and some implications about how much things are different in this AU!
Next chapter will be a return to form with Ezekiel Lopez.
In the meantime, I'll be finishing off that...
2024-05-12 01:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt always struck me as a little odd exactly how capable a pair of teens were.
In terms of pure skill, you could somewhat gloss over that. I mean, prodigies did exist and there was sufficient evidence to suggest that not only Kim, but Ron as well,...
2024-05-09 10:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post