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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIV: The Passing Days

A little bit longer to write for a chapter that is a little bit longer than usual. 

So, we finally address the elephant in the room. Kind of. Sort of. It just didn't make sense to me for...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIV: The Passing Days

Back on schedule, now. This should be the first of the last two chapters before we begin Septem. Next chapter should be the prelude to Septem, because, in fact, that's what it's going to be called....

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all of my fellow Americans enjoyed their turkey day celebrations. For those of you who live elsewhere in the world, wherever that may be, don't worry, I don't really get the point of this ho...

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIII: Performance Review

Had a little bit of trouble figuring out how to end this chapter, but once I did, I was really happy with how that turned out. 

Da Vinci can really be a delight to write for, and Rika's ...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIII: Performance Review

The aftermath from last chapter, Rika's interlude. The title is going to be a bit of a double entendre, but why won't be that clear until the latter half of the chapter.

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Interlude R(F) I: Shelob's Lair

This turned out to be one of if not the longest chapter so far in Hereafter. 

Have a look inside Rika's head for a little while. I had a lot of fun with this chapter, but I'll admit, the...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Interlude R(F) I: Shelob's Lair

Oh yes, loads of fun to be had in this interlude. Loads of fun. Rika is just an absolute treasure.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXII: Monotony

This one...captured my feeling of this breather section. It's strange, because slice of life stuff was so easy in Essence, but in Hereafter, the slice of life stuff in these between sections has be...

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(CiP)[FRW] Chapter 10: The Last Disciple

FRW has mostly fallen by the wayside as I work on Hereafter and its Fleeting Lunar Phantasia sidestory, but that doesn't mean I've stopped working on it entirely. It's just on the back burner.

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Fleeting Lunar Phantasia - Part Three

Some more insight into what's going on, but the mystery abounds.

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXII: Monotony

...Yeah, no clever quips for this one. 

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXI: Make a Master Out of You

♪Swift as a raging river, with all the force of a great typhoon♪

Sorry, but the title keeps putting that song back in my head.

This one is a bit of a breather chapter. It's not fill...

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[Hereafter] Fleeting Lunar Phantasia - Part Two

Wanted to get this out first so I could get back and finish Chapter XXXI for later today. This chapter suffers a little for being a bridge to the beginning of the Halloween event proper, but it doe...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Fleeting Lunar Phantasia P2

I honestly thought I gave this to you guys earlier. I'm so sorry about that.

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXI: Make a Master Out of You

"Let's get down to business."

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXX: As the Bard Would Tell It

Taylor has access to Shakespeare. As one of the editors said, "Everyone out of the universe!"

On other notes, mental health is a serious issue. I'm not going to try and show the therapy happe...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXX: As the Bard Would Tell It

“Say, Shakespeare,” I began slowly, “if I told you what I’ve done with a knife before, what could you do to a knife using your Enchant skill?”

Taylor just got hand...

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[Hereafter] Fleeting Lunar Phantasia - Part One

Fate/Grand Order x Under the Moonlight Exclusive Crossover Event!

A strange new ...

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXIX: The Fourth Wall

You'll get the joke at the very end of the chapter.

So, you know how Arash has been kinda quiet throughout Orleans? Yeah, well, he's not so quiet here, although Taylor might prefer if he was....

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXVIII: Return to Normalcy

Not the confrontation most of Orleans was teasing at, is it? This begins the downtime between Orléans and Septem. There's also some progress made on Olga Marie's situation, but I'm not going to gi...

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Update

So, tiers have been a little bit unbalanced for a while, now. I think I've said that before. Pretty sure I have. Right now, the rewards are tilted towards the lowest, $1 tier, because those of you ...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XIX: The Fourth Wall

Some more wind down. Plus, if everything goes according to plan, the introduction of Ritsuka's compatibility summon.

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXVIII: Return to Normalcy

And now we start to wind down from the action of Orléans. Let's get some aftermath going, wrap up a few things, lay a few breadcrumbs, and start the rest chapters before Septem.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXVII: Kyrie, Eleison

The final chapter of Orléans.

I really liked this chapter. A lot of it. The ending especially. A certain special someone had me grinning from ear to ear as I wrote their lines, and I honestl...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXVII: Kyrie, Eleison

This should be the closing chapter of Orléans. Unless it balloons past my expectations, the Orléans section of the story will end with this chapter, and next chapter will be the intermission befo...

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[FRW] Chapter 9: Beyond the Strains of Credulity

Some of Yukio's plans start to become clearer.

I really loved that moment where Yukio is walking Medea, the way he thinks about Saber and Shirou and how different the entire situation is. Hig...

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXVI: A Desperate Wish

The eponymous desperate wish doesn't get covered here...but we get closer to the end of the Singularity. It should only be one more chapter before everything is resolved and Orléans is over. ...

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Update 10/03/21

I got a lot of work done last night, so expect one chapter each for Hereafter (5.7k) and Fate/Recursive Wisdom (5k) later today. They need to undergo some editing with the team, who are all unavail...

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Fleeting Lunar Phantasia P1

It was voted for, so it seems like it's officially going to be a thing.

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(CiP) [Hereafter] Chapter XXVI: A Desperate Wish

That beginning feels a little weird, but I want to push it out a little further later on and see if I can make it work while lampshading some of the ideas that have been bandied about re: Fafnir. View Post