What attacks the train?
The replicators are 100% attacking the train to get those sweet sweet resources.
They are also very smart. They have deliberately seeded the length of the tracks with highly aggressive, terr...
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Chapter 64: Safety Meeting
The three of them walked down the center of the oversized train, which had enough space in the center for two of Hardcase’s mech-suits to walk side-by side. Which was probably by design.
Th...
2022-08-11 15:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostCan someone fact check me?
1: I knew a guy who had Tourretes (or claimed to) and the way i remember him describing it was that he could excercise a bit of control over what he did and when, but had to have some kind of outbu...
2022-08-10 22:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63: Gor’s Disintegration
Perry dusted his hands off, watching the voodoo doll flail as it sailed into the distance, propelled by suit-assisted strength.
Now that that stuff is taken care of, or at least put on pa...
2022-08-10 14:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostSo I gather...
A: Keep the parents around as long possible. Stay light and don't get too dark with it.
B: Fighting scenes are fun but I want serious worldbuilding in Washington city to make the trip worthw...
I've got a bit of an idea for the end of book 1
So my thought was Perry goes to Washington city, does an inordinate amount of battling, (like, non-stop) and maybe the city collapses, and he escorts as many people back to Franklin city as h...
2022-08-09 19:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62: Removed from the Equation
***Lu’ann Peterson***
“I guess I just feel like I don’t matter,” Eric Kole said. “All around me there’s supers doing the most amazing, earth-shaking things, and I…work in I.T., ...
2022-08-08 16:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's Chemestro up to?
What's our maladjusted antagonist up to and how can we make him pursue his goal of supplanting Solaris while running up against Perry?
Perry in the immediate future is going to deal with a l...
Chapter 61: Wayward’s Defensive Disguise
“Go, go go!” Perry said, hauling open the door and shoving Breaker through before diving into the bulletproof can himself.
“It’s extra for daring escapes.” The cabbie said, angling ...
2022-08-05 15:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60: It Takes Two To Tango
***Breaker***
“Ugh,” Breaker groaned as the heavenly cold from the ice pack cooled off his throbbing head.
“Here you go, Rook.” Barrel of Monkeys asked, frowning as he slapped t...
2022-08-03 16:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59: Paradox’s First Loss
Pelochard’s Symbiotic Spirit (Master Difficulty)
Create an essence-free environment with Ostoth’s draining, disposing of the clay beads in a safe area. Bottle a creature’s ...
2022-08-01 16:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostLVL 5 perks!
In a dozen chapters or so, Perry's probably gonna hit level 5.
I've been wanting to add the opportunity to purchase perks every five levels, allowing Perry to further customize his build. (a...
Spell slots!
So I’ve been tinkering with the idea of giving Perry limited spell slots, a la D&D. How do you think they should come about and how do you feel about them?
2022-07-30 17:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58: Date Night
The arms race of the soul:
Pecholard the Studious and Gadrevan the Brilliant were considered the modern masters of the Pre-Mage era. They competed to advance the field of modern ...
2022-07-29 17:11:12 +0000 UTC View PostHow's the font?
We were gonna do some fancy metal design for 'Industrial Strength', but while it looked really good up close, it was impossible to read in thumbnail, so we went with something simpler.
Whadd...
sword color?
I got rid of the screaming face BC it didn't match with the redrawn, narrower damage line.
I...
Chapter 57: Opportunity knocks
****Elliot and George****
Ellliot slowly came to, his muscles protesting as he crawled out of the dingy bed, nearly stumbling over his brother. Despite it being his turn on the bed, he’d go...
2022-07-26 16:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56: Wheelin’ an’ Dealin’
***Chemestro***
“What’s this?” Chemestro asked, placing the vial in front of Dave the unicorn.
The leather-clad man with bushy mutton chops picked the vial up and studied it caref...
2022-07-25 17:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: (IN)FAMOUS
Nexus orders reparations of $16,000,000 to pay for the damage to infrastructure sustained during The Event, as well as two weeks Drafted to the defense of the wall.
If your debt ...
2022-07-23 18:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54: You Can’t Accidentally Summon A Demon, Paradox
“Muahahahah!” Perry laughed maniacally as the diode on the top of areonite circuit board lit up.
“You made a light. Grats.” Heather said, standing over his shoulder.
“I made a...
2022-07-20 19:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostCover draft 1&2
draft one included for completeness
Whaddya think? Anything need to change to make it more awesome?
I personally think his face should be tilted down a bit. He's not screaming at the ...
Chapter 53: From Bad to Worse
Twelve forty-two stood in front of a glass pane. On the other side was a man, stranger than any other man he’d seen. He didn’t have the clean look of one of the people from his books. His face ...
2022-07-19 16:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52: Gaze Into The Abyss
The sensation of the void outside my senses reached a peak when I opened the door, once again revealing the glowing cosmic dust of infinity beyond the doorway, where there should have been a si...
2022-07-18 21:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostHardcase's new mental illness/flaw?
So I was thinking about giving Hardcase a slightly expanded powerset as a result of incedental contact with eldritch information.
I was thinking she could absorb a little bit of Magneton's a...
Chapter 51: Cognitohazard
The easiest way to pacify this lair would be to slag the entire thing. Which would inevitably lose us valuable tech and materials.
If we call in an AI Tinker to disarm the lair, ...
2022-07-17 17:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostPlot point: Magneton's lair
I wanted to peel back a little bit of the way the world actually works in Magneton's lair.
Maybe imply he got got by Solaris after kidnapping and experimenting on supers: IE. dead supers in ...
Chapter 50: Soggy Battle
****Hardcase****
Oh my god, I was sitting on his lap, Natalie thought, burying her face in her hands as the water trickled past her ears, carrying the sweat away with it.
“So...
2022-07-15 15:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49: Shower Reveal
“Yes, YES!” Perry checked the output of his infinite power cell.
It was basically a homemade solar panel with a homemade LED sandwiched together and surrounded by highly reflective materi...
2022-07-14 15:38:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48: Bureaucracy
Solaris was sitting at his desk, enjoying a moment to catch his breath between public speaking and flesh-eating monsters.
You’d think I’d get over my fear of public speaking before th...
2022-07-12 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhich mini-arcs sound fun?
Sorry I've been slow with the chapters. Got a checkup appointment this morning and a bunch of amazon related stuff the last couple weeks.
New chapter tomorrow. Probably.
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