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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVIII: Murderer on the Misty Morn

Do I even need to explain what's going to be happening this chapter?

2024-02-22 10:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVII: A Measure of Trust

Lots and lots of dialogue and the team planning out where they're going to go next. I thought I was going to have to rename the chapter and cover the next big story beat that I have lined up, but t...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVII: A Measure of Trust

Not married to this title, but I couldn't think of a better one right now, so we'll work with it for the moment.

Link 2024-02-14 21:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Interlude TN: Ensou

Might be a little unpolished, so this might get an update sometime over the next day or so. I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, but somehow managed to convince myself to fi...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Interlude TN: Ensou

It's about time for another interlude, don't you think?

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVI: A Tale for Someone

I had the idea pretty early on that I wanted to introduce an unaffiliated Master into London, since the Mage's Association being right there made it so easy to do. I wasn't sure if it was going to ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXVI: A Tale for Someone

When we get to that part a little later on...

Who actually guessed the mystery man's identity?

2024-01-31 13:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXV: Itsy Bitsy Spider

I didn't get to work in the chapter title as much as I originally intended, but I think this came out pretty good either way. There was one part I wasn't entirely sure on, but the editor really lik...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXV: Itsy Bitsy Spider

It was too good a title to pass up.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIV: Queen's Gambit

Not completely happy with how this one turned out. When I went through it line by line, word by word, paragraph by paragraph, it read fine and made sense, but something about the overall direction ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIV: Queen's Gambit

What a loaded title for this chapter.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIII: Fairy Tale Ending

So once again, a scene of this chapter ballooned a little bit and kept me from going quite as far as I wanted to, but I'm going to leave the title as-is this time. It fits well enough with what hap...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXIII: Fairy Tale Ending

This time, for sure, we'll get to that part.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXII: Knight of Treachery

First chapter of the new year. And it's on time, too! Whoo! Taking a two week break did not magically make me forget how to keep a schedule!

This chapter underwent a name change as I got clos...

Belated Holiday gift

My original plan to give you guys a gift for the holidays never made it out of the planning phase for no other reason than I decided it would serve the story better if it was in the main narrative ...

Holiday celebrations, ahoy!

It's that time of year again, and I keep reminding myself that I have not technically taken an actual vacation from working on Hereafter since I started writing it. If you've been paying attention ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXII: Knight of Treachery

Taking this one a little leisurely. 

Link here. 2023-12-22 13:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXI: The Modern Prometheus

In the end, I never found a better title for this one. It's also a little late, but it's a little longer to make up for that.

The real trouble this chapter gave me was the ending. No one want...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXXI: The Modern Prometheus

As is becoming something of a theme now, I'm not sure this is a title we'll be sticking to.

2023-12-14 08:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXX: Artificial Human

I wanted to get a certain length into things and cover a certain something before the end of the chapter, but things went on for long enough that I could only stretch it so far. I at least managed ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXX: Artificial Human

Had a bit of trouble coming up with a title for this one, and I'm still not sure I'll stick to it.

2023-12-07 08:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXIX: Sword and Sorcery

Check that Fate/Zero reference near the end of the chapter. I wish we had more examples of alchemy in canon, if only so I had better references for our new Caster pulling off some crazy awesome stu...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXIX: Sword and Sorcery

Whoops. Almost forgot.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVIII: The Misty City

London begins!

The opening act is here, and the team is introduced to the circumstances of the Singularity, including the treacherous fog. I actually kind of wanted to push the ending of the ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVIII: The Misty City

Was originally gonna take this week off for (American) Thanksgiving, but...

2023-11-23 14:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post

[Hereafter] Prison Tower Sidestories

The thread over on Sufficient Velocity wasn't satisfied with just having the Ritsuka interlude and wanted more content related to the Prison Tower, so I guess I'm going to do what I said and write ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Prison Tower Sidestories

The thread wants them badly enough, so I suppose I can do a few of these to show what happened while everyone else was running around and trying to figure out how to help Ritsuka.

EDIT: Would...

[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVII: London Bound

I thought I was actually going to get to push this out a little bit further...but this thing is already past 7K, so let's leave it off where I did.

For reference, the chemical Taylor mentions...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVII: London Bound

Off to Jolly Old England we go.

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[Hereafter] Chapter CXXVI: Great Expectations

This...might not be the most appropriate chapter title, in retrospect. Oh well.

We're not quite at London yet, and we won't quite get there next week either, but soon. For now, we need to do ...