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Re-editing update 2: Electric Boogaloo

Hello Dear Readers! 

Sorry for the radio silence, but things have been... busy as of late. Even as I write this, I'm stuck in a hospital on an errand, already in my second hour of overti...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 3 Extra 3: Self-defense class

The Dracis manor on Critias was huge. It was likely the largest and most luxurious abode in the entirety of Timaeus, and the fact that it was built in the middle of the picket-fenced suburbs of the...

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Further editing update

Hello, Dear Readers. 

Long story short, re-editing the first volume ended up as a ginormous time-sink, far beyond even my most pessimistic predictions. The fact that my job's been killin...

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Re-editing update

Hello, dear readers! 

I won't mince words here: re-editing the first two volumes in preparation for the audio book adaptation turned out to be way more time consuming than I originally i...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 72 - Part 4

To deceive your opponents first you have to deceive your allies. I don't know who originally said that. Probably Sun Tzu, Churchill, or Einstein, considering ninety percent of famous quotes are att...

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Grumbling update

Hello, Dear Readers.

Long story short, I completed the last part yesterday, but then we had a freak power outage while I was editing, and the file I used got corrupted. Thankfully there was a...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 72 - Part 3

I have a confession to make: I always thought that plate armor was heavy and cumbersome. I mean, that was what all the movies were telling me, and I have read at least one essay online talking abou...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 72 - Part 2

The school's library was unusually empty today. Or at the very least it felt like so, though I admit I wasn't a frequent enough visitor to properly judge it. Anyhow, the place being a little desert...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 72 - Part 1

What's up with underground chambers? Or rather, why did my life have so many of them? Why did we even have this many underground facilities on a volcanic island? Was that even safe? Were we just a ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 71 - Part 3

"… and that's why our class is going to have an idol-group performance for the school festival," I explained with a fair bit of trepidation, and even though what I said didn't actually have a log...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 71 - Part 2

Sometimes I wondered what the point of high school education was, or rather, how inefficient it felt at times. Sure, a lot of it was on things that should, by all intents and purposes, be common kn...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 71 - Part 1

"And don't forget children: the school festival is only a month away, so we'll discuss your ideas for how the class should participate in this year's event during the next homeroom. Make sure you c...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 3 Extra 2: Time-travel, gods, pineapple pizza, and other assorted impossibilities

"You really made this place your own," I mused aloud as I entered Labcoat Guy's room. It originally used to be the kitchen of the mess hall which got turned into his workshop. Right now it was comp...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 70 - Part 3

"… and so now that elder is the acting clan head, she is now my personal ninja, and I'm technically not the head of the Kage clan, just the boss of the head of the clan. It's like having a cake, ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 70 - Part 2

Looking out the second-floor window, I had to admit, the cityscape of Timaeus was quite majestic. I could see the high-rise buildings of the central district, the tidy rows of houses in the residen...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 70 - Part 1

"I tell you Dormouse; I'm not sick, just tired."

Despite my protests, my dear assistant continued hold her palm against my forehead in search of any sign of fever. The placeholders in the cla...

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Minor update

Hello, Dear Readers (and Steve)! 

Long story short, I had some technical difficulties since last weekend, with my PC's stock CPU cooler deciding to die on me overnight. Running a Ryzen c...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 3 Extra 1 – Call of Dungeonhammer: Finder of Paths

"All right everyone! Let's play!" Angie exclaimed with an excited grin partially hidden behind the meticulously painted cardboard folding screen in front of her.

For once, we were all gathere...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 69 - Part 4

"You know," I mused a little absent-mindedly, "I originally thought that your whole obsession with the fish tank was silly, but I have to admit, watching them swim around like this is unexpectedly ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 69 - Part 3

"… and then the Chief made Pascal take her away, and that's the end of it," Judy concluded her recounting of our encounter with 'Sahi' for my other girlfriend, and the princess seemed to be unexp...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 69 - Part 2

"I'm thinking about a collar," I told Judy just as we sat down at one of the tables in the dining hall of the school. It was only the two of us for the time being, since Josh and the rest of the ga...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 69 - Part 1

"Please be careful! It's really fragile!" Labcoat Guy called out in borderline panic, though for the life of me I couldn't understand why. The Fauns carrying the large industrial machine already tr...

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Post-shot update

Hello dear readers!

Just a little heads-up: on Friday, I got my second CoVid shot, and to say that I had an intense immune reaction to it would be an understatement. Headache, forty degrees ...

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The Simulacrum - Early April Fools' chapter

This Thursday had one of the most pleasant mornings I have ever experienced. I got out of my bed after a good night's rest and I... Wait, that sounded strange.

"Oh well, I must still be half ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 68 - Part 3

How come elevator music is always so boring? I know, I know; not exactly an astoundingly meaningful question shining a ray of intellectual light through the impermeable fog enshrouding the true nat...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 68 - Part 2

It was roughly around ten minutes before the end of the lunch break that I made my way over to the nurse's office. I wasn't exactly in a hurry, as I planned to discuss a number of things with the p...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 68 - Part 1

"The C-menu? Really?" Josh proceeded to grumble aloud by my side as we walked across the unnecessarily spacious cafeteria of the school with our shiny metal trays in hand. The place was as high-cla...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 67 - Part 3

"Moooorning guys!"

Our little group composed of my girlfriends and Snowy came to a stop when a familiar voice called out to us. When I glanced towards the source of it, for a moment I was afr...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 67 - Part 2

"That's why I told Leo that he should use his reality-warping ability to come up with a new thing everyone would want to buy," the princess remarked on my left, slightly leaning forward while sitti...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 67 - Part 1

"Oh. Welcome back," my sister greeted us without any of the reaction a guy, his girlfriend, and a fluffy fox popping into existence in the middle of the living room should have elicited. Oh well, i...

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