CiP: Interlude 8.a: Heavy is the Head
By popular demand (all two votes, haha), here is the first interlude of arc 8: Heavy is the Head. Eidolon gets to wax and brood.
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Chapter 2: Gentle Everyday
Surprise? Again?
Okay, this was about 99% finished, so I just decided to add the last, like, line or two and post it. I figured there as no reason to really hold onto it, which means more Rec...
2019-12-19 03:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostAn Alternate ???: Hail to the ???
I've said there was going to be a special short for Christmas. I never said it would be a Christmas short.
Although maybe I should...?
Anyway. Welcome to the first real look at...
2019-12-18 22:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: We Have Come to Terms
Surprise!
Okay, so this is an idea I had a few hours ago.
Elevator pitch: Something happened about ten years ago that wiped out everyone's memories. In this world of amnesia, Taylor Heb...
2019-12-18 10:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostBetter and Worse
So, those of you who are on the Patron Discord server or follow Essence on SV or FFnet will have already heard: my grandmother passed away last Wednesday, and the memorial service was this Monday.<...
2019-12-18 10:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostDepravation 8.5
Taylor Hebert vs Glenn Chambers!
Round one!
FIGHT!
...Right. Starts with some fluff between the girls, but after that, there's that headbutting with Glenn that was promised last c...
2019-12-09 11:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Depravation 8.5
Since things moved a little unexpected last chapter, in that I didn't get as much into it as I wanted, an extra chapter was kind of needed.
Depravation 8.4
So, this wound up going...not quite how I expected it to. Not in a bad way, actually, but still not the way I expected it to.
I expected it to have a second scene, for one.
In any case,...
2019-12-02 09:51:59 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: An Alternate ???: Hail to the ???
So, I did get some work done, last week, and though some of it went into 8.4, a not insignificant amount went here instead.
I raised the idea with my editor of making this a special ...
2019-12-01 09:43:26 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Google Doc links
The problem with the Google Doc links on the recent CiP posts has been fixed. There was a strange error happening that added an extra "http://" to the front of the link that made it break, so I rem...
2019-11-25 23:14:05 +0000 UTC View PostKnights of the Round: Clan Fiction
Not sure how much you guys care about this stuff, but I figured I'd post it here so that you have it anyway.
This is my "Clan Fiction" for Bungie's Destiny. What's clan fiction? Fanf...
2019-11-25 09:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Depravation 8.6
I'm telling you guys ahead of time, this chapter might get pushed back to 8.6 or 8.7. We'll see. It depends on what all gets squeezed into 8.4.
For now, though, you can find it here:
2019-11-25 08:57:07 +0000 UTC
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CiP: Depravation 8.4
I have to get better about tagging the Lucky Numbers posts.
Anyway. There's not much to it, yet, but you can find the link to it 2019-11-25 08:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post
CiP: Bleach: Cast Down the Sun - Prologue
So, Essence wasn't the only thing I worked on this week.
Um, no, maybe I should lead with...I can't get my mind off of Ryuugi's Arana? Hm, that's not really that much better, huh?
Well,...
2019-11-23 11:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostDepravation 8.3
A little longer than I would have liked to get this done and a little shorter for all the time it wound up taking, but here it is.
The continuation of the murder mystery!
Yeah, I won't ...
2019-11-23 10:52:52 +0000 UTC View PostDepravation 8.2
So, this gave me a bit of trouble and I took a while to get started on it. Then, I went and wrote almost 4700 words for it in about 5 hours and brought this thing up to 6k.
Things start to pi...
2019-11-13 06:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostDepravation 8.1
Setup, ahoy!
So, there's some catching up done in this chapter, some setting up of the situation the city is in, and loads of foreshadowing. Some of that foreshadowing is a bit heavy handed a...
2019-11-02 06:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Depravation 8.3
Fair warning, there's spoilers for what will be at the end of 8.2 in the very beginning of this chapter, so be prepared for that.
Update (10/31/19)
Things got a bit...rough, this month. For several reasons. One of them was just the natural consequence of the fact that Essence was never planned to go beyond Leviathan, so piecing together where ...
2019-10-31 17:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Interlude 9.b: Faustian Antithesis
I'm confident about how late this interlude will be. I'm not confident it'll be in arc 8. In either case, I'm being careful about when and how much I work on this, because there's a massiv...
2019-09-28 13:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Depravation 8.2
Things start to pick up a little in the second chapter of arc 8. Link is 2019-09-28 13:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post
CiP: Depravation 8.1
The first chapter of arc 8. You can find the document here.<...
2019-09-28 13:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostPendulum 0.4
The...well, probably the last Pendulum chapter. One more might be done to cover the more immediate aftermath of her Trigger, but that's a maybe, not a definite thing. If you guys want it.....
2019-09-22 06:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude 7.b: Blood of the Crusade
And here, we transition towards the beginning of arc 8.
This interlude gave me a lot of trouble. It frustrated me so much, I thought I was going to have to take another week to work on it. An...
2019-09-22 05:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: An Alternate Essence: Advaita (Okita-chan's Portal Misadventure)
The premiere of the inimitable Okita-chan!
Well, okay, I've teased her before, with that concept art I showed to you guys. But this would be the first time she gets any screentime, and ...
2019-09-14 03:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Interlude 7.b
Don't...actually have a title for this, yet. I'll have to come up with something witty and clever, because I don't want to default to the "Sabrina the Teenage Nazi" joke.
This one will get tw...
2019-09-14 03:28:44 +0000 UTC View PostPromise 7.11
Where'd the week go? On Monday, I was discussing a pivotal detail about the chapter with my editors, and then when I next looked, it was Thursday night and I still only had a skeleton of a chapter....
2019-09-14 03:24:50 +0000 UTC View PostPromise 7.10
This is much, much later than I wanted. That, in part, has to do with my FGO woes trying to get Bryn, which everyone on the Discord Server is very much familiar with, but it had more so to do with ...
2019-09-05 09:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostCiP: Promise 7.11
And here is where the aftermath will be.
Link to the post is 2019-08-23 15:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Cip: Promise 7.10
The conclusion of the climactic battle.
Find it here.<...
2019-08-23 15:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post