NokiMo
WarbyPicus

WarbyPicus

patreon


WarbyPicus posts

Vol. 3 Chap. 3 Looking Over The Playing Field

“I don’t give a fuck! She knows I can provide. You can't!” There was a hard slap sound from outside the shack. Truth came out of the shack where he was resting. The Chief was lowering his han...

View Post

Vol. 3 Chap. 2 Choices, Choices

The boats were working in a zigzag pattern, their lights sweeping the water for the drugs floating in the polluted waters. Truth was wedged uncomfortably in the prow of one of the reeking fishing s...

View Post

Vol. 3 Chap. 1 It Could Be Worse

Starbrite’s waste filled the oceans like a latrine running into a well. One bit of Starbrite branded industrial waste was currently in agony. This did not make him unique. Lots of Starbrite’s l...

View Post

And we are back! A couple quick formatting notes

The start of Volume 3 seemed like a good time to bring in a couple of format changes. Nothing too dramatic, but I wanted to flag them in a post to avoid confusion. First, and most immediately obvio...

View Post

And I am Redeemed! To a two week ban.

All joking aside, this is a huge win. As I suspected, the mods were forced to act more quickly than they wanted to, and have been walking back some of the decisions. I'm off RR until the 20th. I am...

View Post

RE- The Royal Road Storm

Well, this isn't how I planned to start the week. TL:DR- I won't be on RR for the foreseeable future, but I will be posting as usual here. Nothing should change on the Patreon side of things, other...

View Post

Reminder- I am on vacation for the next week

If you haven't read today's chapter, read it first. If you have, scroll down and read the rest of this post.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

So ends Volume 2! ...

View Post

Chapter 142 No Prodigal Son

Truth smirked vindictively as he walked to Merkovah’s office. He had a fair idea of what would happen when that picture was published, and he really looked forward to the headache it wou...

View Post

Chapter 141 And God Laughs

Truth looked at the shard of glass. Then Merkovah. Then back at the glass. Then at Merkovah.

“I think I finally snapped. This is the what now?”

“Only just now? Sorry. I hate that ...

View Post

Chapter 140 Man Makes Plans...

Truth was sitting in the little chapel in Nag Hamadi, the same one he had found Etenesh praying in before the duel. He wasn’t sure why he was sitting there. He hoped some sliver of explanation wo...

View Post

Chapter 139 A Robe and Crown

Truth teetered on the edge of what should have been an obvious decision and started to laugh. Deep, honest laughter, coming from the gut and bubbling through the pain and anger and joy and lust unt...

View Post

Chapter 138 The View From The Mountaintop

His name was Truth Medici, and he was not alone. He didn’t have to work alone, think alone, fight alone. Truth Medici shared his life with another- Etenesh. And Etenesh loved him. Truly, wholly, ...

View Post

Chapter 137 Divine Consort

Truth had never taken someone for a ride with him on his iron horse. Another first for Etenesh. She snuggled behind him, pressing against his back as her arms wrapped around his waist. She was so w...

View Post

Chapter 136 The Arrival of the Black Ships

They clustered around the scry together- Etenesh, Jember, Truth, and Merkovah, joined by what seemed like the entire staff of the Temple Nag Hamadi.  The newscaster was stuttering, trying to e...

View Post

Chapter 135 The Rusty Iron Pole of "Deep Love"

Truth stared at the old man. The rancid geriatric was indifferent to the hard look and lit another cigarette off the burning cherry of the first.

“My soul is having visions without me.” View Post

Chapter 134 The Sea of Brass

Truth accepted that he wasn’t going to feel good, emotionally, for a while. It wasn’t fun. Well, definitionally, right? It wasn’t a nice feeling to sit with. But he did sit with it. He gave h...

View Post

Scheduling Notice -no new chapters the week of August 7-11

In the spirit of not springing any crap on people- I am taking a short break in two weeks. Both here and on Royal Road. How short? One week. I plan to use the time to rest, but more importantly, to...

View Post

Chapter 133 What It Means to be Ruthless

The front entry way had a spot for people to take off their shoes and admire the professional pictures on the wall. Truth ignored both. He made his way to the living room, a vast space connecting t...

View Post

Chapter 132 Nurturing an Ember

“I have another contract job for you. Purely infiltration. I would usually frame this as a training mission and a test of your development, but I know you won’t move an uncompensated centimeter...

View Post

Chapter 131 Seeing Anyone?

Truth was feeling a bit sorry for himself when he finally jogged into Nag Hamadi. By the time they had reached the city center, a comfortable run had turned into a three-dimensional, high-stakes ob...

View Post

Chapter 130 Bang Bang

Truth fell on his ass on the forest floor. The noose loosened. He took great hacking gasps of air, snapping the ropes around his wrist with a casual flex.

“Here, have some water. You are pr...

View Post

Chapter 129 Hanging Around

“I am intensely uncomfortable with this.”

“Oh, stop being a baby and put your hands behind your back.”

“Standing naked in a forest, tied up, about to be hung from a tree by a ...

View Post

Chapter 128 A Tree in the Forest

Truth was in a thoughtful mood as he once again guarded a conference. This was a much smaller gathering, he was told, focused primarily on researching agricultural techniques without magical suppor...

View Post

Chapter 127 A Question of Identities

Truth was feeling conflicted about the furious makeout session Etenesh demanded right then and there. On the one hand, it was really damn fun! On the other, it was awkward as hell. Merkovah was tor...

View Post

Chapter 126 A Hole In The Heart Part 2

They had assembled once again in the basement of Nag Hamadi. The rough sandstone walls remained as sturdy as ever, the floors smoothed by centuries upon centuries of feet glistened in the talisman ...

View Post

Chapter 125 Rough Scales

Truth was back in the reflection chamber. Naked again, but this time for a more practical than spiritual reason. Mastering the scales portion of Incicisve was now an urgent necessity. He t...

View Post

Chapter 124 The World I Want To Live In

“So… this nightclub,” Truth asked Etenesh, “Can you… narrow down the description for me?” The carpet soared over the city traffic, a snarl of wagons, chariots, and clubs of people old e...

View Post

Chapter 123 Thick Skin

“Out of the chair?”

“That was Etenesh. I’m starting to think she has some kind of mothering, nurturing thing going.” Truth had managed to gingerly walk into Merkovah’s office/cell...

View Post

Chapter 122 Getting To Know You

Etenesh was pushing Truth’s wheelchair around a little park near Nag Hamadi. Truth had tried to decline, saying that he was getting around ok on crutches, but she was having none of it. As promis...

View Post

Chapter 121 Desecration Of False Idols

The Anti-Theists had converted a basement for their work. The roof was low, just a bit over two meters. Truth nearly scraped his head along it. All smooth, layered concrete laid by some ancient dem...

View Post