James_D_Fawkes

Promise 7.9

This kinda ballooned out of control. It came fairly close to reaching 7k and getting split into two separate chapters, but in the end, it fell short by about 800 words.

So...There's really no...

Lucky Numbers

I've been thinking recently about the problem of Lucky Numbers, that is $3 and $7 Patrons, because for a while, I was just taking the "???" and randomly giving you guys access to higher tier stuff,...

Promise 7.8

Took a little longer than I wanted, but once I got past a stumbling block or two, it actually flowed together quite nicely.

Since it seems like, by and large, you guys prefer the PDF files to...

How do you want story posts, from now on?

I've been thinking about it a little, and I could do it either way, so I thought I'd ask you guys what you'd prefer.

CiP: Promise 7.9

The moment I've been waiting for is here.

Well, not qu...

CiP: Promise 7.8

The fight begins in earnest here.

Wow, Herk is a badas...

Promise 7.7

This one, well, I, um... Ahahaha...got a bit distracted? I had an idea for if and when we get to the inevitable SH9 conflict, and I wound up writing about 2500 words for a Bonesaw interlude...that ...

CiP: Promise 7.7

Link. 

The fight begins.

Not sure, yet, whe...

Promise 7.6

I expected this one to get done quickly, but there were  few parts I stumbled a little over, so it took longer than I wanted.

In any case, the lead up to Leviathan, this chapter. Some bo...

CiP: Promise 7.6 & (sidestory) Path of Feats

The next chapter, Promise 7.6, and the sidestory of Taylor t...

Promise 7.5

Later than I wanted by several days, but both Battery's voice and the date with Dennis gave me a bit of trouble. Thankfully, not as much trouble as arc 6 did, but they both delayed this chapter fro...

Interlude 7.a: Falling Star

Guess who!

Well, okay, I don't think it's that hard to figure out who this interlude features, even just going on the title.

There's still fallout from the Empire collapsing in on itsel...

Promise 7.4

A little later than I wanted, but I stumbled a little over Amy's section.

Then, I wrote 2300 words over the last three hours. Because that's how it happens, sometimes.

Anyway. We deal a...

CiP: Promise 7.5

The beginning of this one won't make much sense until either the rest of the chapter or the rest of 7.4 is written.

This one is really kind of slice of life, but I wanted to give Taylor a lit...

Promise 7.3

This one broke 6k, everyone, if only barely.

So this is more setup stuff, this time for the upcoming Leviathan battle. Because if Taylor was an independent, I could just show her preparing. S...

Promise 7.2

Was originally going to be a chapter with two parts, then it got too big and the parts felt too disparate, so I split it in half. This is the first half that, the section with the Wards discussion ...

CiP: Promise 7.3

So... Yeah. I'm quickly butting up against that 3k threshold I mentioned for the first half of 7.2, so I decided to split it. Those 400 words between here and there are going to disappear with ligh...

Update

Things got a little...hectic, around the wedding. The ceremony was nice and everything, and I'm happy I went. I almost teared up a couple of times, too.

(I also got a kick out of the violinis...

CiP: Interlude 7.a & Promise 7.4

A double-header, to make up for my absence.

You guys who have stuck around for a while might recognize 2019-06-16 11:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post

CiP: An Alternate Essence: Cornerstone

Or "What might have happened if Essence Taylor had never had her hangups about Khepri."

I sort of had an idea for where this would go, but never got around to taking it anywhere. I might come...

Promise 7.1

So, I sat down to get to finishing ITQM I, and instead, I wound up writing about 2300 words (and finishing) Promise 7.1. 

I have no idea how that happened.

Anyway. Since it's done,...

Heroic Spirit Khepri - Max Ascend

Now with background!

So, I took about an hour yesterday after finishing Pendulum and added a background to this pic. It's not quite how I imagined it coming out, and there's a couple...

Pendulum 0.0

Trigger warnings for this chapter. Like, all of them.

No, really, there's even brief moments of what you could call suicidal ideation. It's that dark.

It's Taylor's Tr...

Update 5/19/19

I think Pendulum 0.0 is about done. It needs to go through the editing team, first, and there's a segment I want to run by them to try and fit into it, but it's "complete," even if it's no...

Wedding Bells

No, not mine.

The weekend of June 9th, and the week leading up to it, are going to be a bit busy for me, so nothing is scheduled for that week. The reason why, as the post title suggests, is ...

Current AEoSaS CiP Links

A refresher for those who don't want to go digging through the posts, since some of these have been sitting around, waiting, for quite a while as I slogged through arc 6.

2019-05-17 12:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Interlude 6.c: Fire For Effect

This...was a pain in the ass. Like the rest of arc 6, it tried very hard not to get written and I had a difficult time getting the characters to work with me. Fortunately, it didn't take half a yea...

Update

Fitting, that the final chapter of the toughest, longest-running arc (and just generally the longest, too, I think) would also take much longer than I'd like to finish.

And then I got another...

In Memoriam

Grandpa's memorial service - his "wake," I think is the term; dunno, never been to one before yesterday - was yesterday, and it was long and exhausting. Today, I'll probably just relax and decompre...

In Passing

So. No beating around the bush about this.

My grandfather just passed away. 

It's... I talked about it on the Discord server, but the long and short of it is, this was expected. &n...