Before I can do anything else, a warning blares into my skull, making me wince from the sheer force of it. I have to blink away the spots in my eyes to even begin to parse what just h...
2024-09-10 16:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note (New / 15 Oct 2024): Posting this one early since I'm going to be on a flight when the chapter would normally go up. Enjoy the chapter!
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One thing I had...
2024-09-07 18:38:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: We might be doing Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday for a bit while I catch up. Enjoy the chapter!
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You were a painter once.
You saw the world in colors ...
2024-09-05 16:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Sorry this posted a little late! The chapter was ready, but I had to rush for a flight to Oregon (which is where I'm going to be hanging out for the next month or so...
2024-09-03 23:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostRhoran's mind was fragmented, but he was slowly gathering himself.
It was nothing unexpected. The Integrator—former Integrator—was held in place only by the meager mental st...
2024-08-29 19:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a variety of art I've gotten as commissions and gifts as extra content for the day. Most are by cosmiccroissant on Twitter except for the Gheraa concept art (last in list), who is done by an...
2024-08-26 13:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostI take a moment to review my skills before we actually head into the Empty City. I've lost a number of them, and it's... surprising to me, how much that fact aches. They shouldn't even be alive, le...
2024-08-26 13:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostJust a heads up--posting this while I have the energy to sit at the computer. I picked a very bad time to fall sick considering I have to travel next week, haha. I'm going to put all ...
2024-08-23 07:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post"You could have at least warned me you were going to try it," Ahkelios complains.
He's been justifiably upset for a while now. We're taking our time and walking back toward Isth...
2024-08-21 16:05:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I experience is pain.
Kauku wasn't lying about the strain this Inspiration causes. It's not just the way it peels away at my Firmament and tears me apart from within—it's th...
2024-08-19 15:36:08 +0000 UTC View PostI hesitate for a moment before I agree. There's no specific reason for that hesitation; Kauku hasn't asked me to do anything I wouldn't be willing to do anyway. More than that, he see...
2024-08-16 16:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostI stare ahead into the empty space in front of me, my entire body on alert. I can feel the hairs on my body standing on end like a static charge is passing over me—every instinct I have screams a...
2024-08-14 16:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a whole mess of notifications that come right after that notice, but my attention is briefly taken up by the Interface's phrasing. It says I retrieved a Talent—not that I un...
2024-08-12 16:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostSo much has happened since the last time I allowed myself to properly look over the Interface. So much has happened since I've gained the Interface, for that matter. It doesn't feel l...
2024-08-09 15:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
My internet is a bit borked. Trying to get it fixed! It's still (somewhat) working, but only if I sit and wait a really long time for each individual page to load...
Epilogue 3 - Loneliness
"I not stay with you."
I've dreaded hearing these words from Tarin, although I think on some level, I knew it was coming.
"You find way fo...
2024-08-05 15:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue 1 - Guard & Whisper
Some time after the raid is cleared, everyone gathers. Almost everyone, anyway. Bimar and Miktik are missing—according to Guard, Miktik nee...
2024-08-02 16:18:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe asteroid looms above the city of Isthanok. I look up at it, and I feel less fear than I should. Shifting to the third layer has... changed things.
Not as much as I'd like, perhaps. That a...
2024-07-31 15:48:26 +0000 UTC View PostRhoran snarled, slamming his fist into his desk. "Someone tell me how a human...
2024-07-29 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Next chapter will be the final one for this book. After that I'll post a series of (very short) epilogue chapters to wrap up Book 2. Just a heads up!
Edit: I m...
2024-07-26 15:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Long chapter!
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Vahrkos had never been tired before. Not to this extent. It was rare these days for anything to tire him out—ever since ...
2024-07-24 15:19:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Posting schedule will be one chapter Monday/Wednesday/Friday, in line with RR. Just trying to get everything to line up! Been real sick all weekend, but Book 2 is do...
2024-07-22 15:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post"Two rings."
The words make Whisper freeze, just as she'd told me. I admit, I was half expecting this to be a trap. "Check your messages," I tell her. "You sent one to yourself agreeing to wo...
2024-07-17 15:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back in the lab.
The first thing I do is brush off the strange, distinct sensation of Once More into the Fray falling apart inside my... Firmament core, I suppose. It's a distinctly uncom...
2024-07-15 15:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostMiktik's workshop is empty, which is more or less what I was expecting, though I was hoping it wouldn't be. I look around, trying to glimpse any signs of activity. It doesn't look lik...
2024-07-15 15:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that Wander is unhappy about the Integrators' raid is... a bit of an understatement.
"You're telling me I could have died permanently," he says, shuddering. "Being eaten!"
... 2024-07-15 15:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back in the laboratory. I let out a breath of relief—I wasn't sure how far back the skill would be able to take me. For the first time, I've been able to feel the process of tim...
2024-07-08 15:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you his accomplice?"
Whisper's first question is blunt. It stuns me, too—not because of how direct it is, but because of how utterly wrong that assumption is. She stares ...
2024-07-08 15:51:28 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: We're back with three chapters and everything up to the end of Book 2 drafted! Finally managed to get everything together and planned out, and I'm trying out a ...
2024-07-08 15:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys--I think I'm going to have to admit to myself that I need a small break from writing rather than trying to write and rewrite the same bit. It's by no means going to take a long time, but I...
2024-06-17 15:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post