Logan was making some good points. Too many good points.
Why had she been so careless? Why had she underestimated him?
They stood in the kitchen as the group discussed whether the weddi...
2025-07-09 12:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostDaphne had to run to make it to the elevator in time. No sooner did she push the button to go down than the indicator blinked, and the elevator, containing Antoine, opened up.
He casually gla...
2025-07-07 03:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostHomibride, sometimes known as Daphne Sinclair, had to make everything perfect for her wedding. She stared into the mirror as she brushed her hair and meditated on who she was this time.
She h...
2025-07-05 20:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've decided to add more Interludes from Daphne's POV so that the readers won't have to juggle so many unanswered questions. I will also be editing down some of Riley's speculation, as it isn't nee...
2025-07-05 20:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostI had been Off-Screen too long; every second counted now.
Riley was gone, and I had no doubt where he'd headed. He would climb to the rooftop, where the image of a red fire...
2025-07-03 18:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostBeing Off-Screen should have meant that we had time to talk, but I was still working to create distance between Daphne and Kimberly. Besides that, we would periodically go On-Screen to show how we ...
2025-07-03 04:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post“If you have the antidote, you have to use it now,” I said, but I knew how futile my attempt was. Now that my brain had caught up with the situation, it was back in control. That was such a sil...
2025-07-02 04:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe remaining chapters for this storyline will be posted throughout the day. I need to do some slight revisions.
2025-07-01 12:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe weren't even in the storyline that we were supposed to be in.
Homibridal Part II? What was that all about?
But as I read through her tropes, I knew exactly what was going on...
2025-07-01 05:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe went Off-Screen, and Daphne jumped right into action, looting the corpse of the drowned giant. Her fingers were nimble as she moved through Ed's pockets. She was efficient and quick. In only a f...
2025-07-01 03:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post“I would have told you,” she said, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I promise, I would have. I wanted to so much. But the note said that if I told anyone, they would be killed. And I didn't know...
2025-06-26 16:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostThroughout the relative darkness of the casino, a staticky voice could be heard.
I couldn't tell where it was coming from. All I heard was, "Reporting live…Carousel…dam…overloaded…" T...
2025-06-26 03:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman known as Homibride, and occasionally referred to as Daphne Sinclair, stood on a wooden walkway in a seldom-visited section of the seventh floor. It was under construction. She had read ab...
2025-06-22 05:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as we went Off-Screen, the silence in the room suffocated me.
"What is Daphne doing?" Kimberly asked. "Social Awareness is all over the place," she said, referring to...
2025-06-20 04:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I just can't believe they're dead," Daphne said, staring over her parents' bodies. I had guided her to a nearby chair, and she was crumpled down with her face in her hands, weeping openly.
Whatever we did, we needed to go up a level.
It didn't take us long to realize that the first floor was flooding at an increasingly rapid rate. But, of course, it was. The glass doors at the ...
2025-06-17 03:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post“She had just died when we found her,” Andrew said as he examined the body, using his flashlight combined with the light of the burners on the stove.
As strange of a situation as this was...
2025-06-14 22:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe stairwell down from the penthouse technically did have emergency lighting, but for some reason, it was an obnoxious dark red color, and it blinked very slowly, so there were entire seconds of d...
2025-06-12 04:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostI assumed everyone would prefer getting chapters one at a time throughout the week. Would you prefer me to do chapter dumps a couple of times a week?
Either way, you will get the same amount ...
2025-06-11 20:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostWarning: Chapters after this are out of order. You will have to carefully find chapters 39, 40, etc.
“You have 15 minutes, Little Missy,” Jules said. “If you ...
2025-06-10 03:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post“What could Antoine have been doing here?” Kimberly asked. “Why would he come down here at all?”
We were in the basement.
The walls were weeping with floodwater. There were no c...
2025-06-10 02:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t remember what happened exactly,” Ramona said. “I hit my head, and when I woke up, my car was caught in the floodwater. I thought I was going to die.”
We were On-Screen, bac...
2025-06-10 02:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I am so sorry, sir, but I have to say, you look so familiar. Is there somewhere I might have seen you?” The receptionist at the front of the casino was gushing to Antoine.
"I don't come ...
2025-06-10 01:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe chapel was perhaps one of three rooms on the bottom floor of the casino that had a window.
In fact, its window was stained glass, featuring a giant ruby red heart encircled in clear glass...
2025-06-07 23:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to say that the Mobile Omen idea must have been yours,” Lucien said, looking at me. “Is that what you were plotting when I sent my little greeting?”
He didn't wait for me to a...
2025-06-02 15:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Homibride is Daphne Sinclair AKA Rachel Hutchins
The Homibride has a Plot Armor score of 40, Mettle of 4, Moxie of 15, Hustle of 7, Savvy of 7, and Grit of 7.
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2025-06-02 05:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post
“Are we going to die?” Cassie asked, panicked, and not for the first time.
“Cassie, look at the red wallpaper,” Andrew said. “There’s no plot cycle. We are not participating in an...
2025-05-30 15:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Atlas contained an aerial photograph of the Carousel Casino, taken from a helicopter's perspective.
It was likely a news helicopter because there was some sort of hostage situati...
2025-05-28 14:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post“You're telling me that you've never heard of a deviled egg?" Isaac asked incredulously. “The little party food?”
"Do you mean a devil's egg?" Ramona replied. "Because ...
2025-05-27 07:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Say what you will about Dr. Andrew Hughes, but the man does keep his head, even in the most perilous of situations,” Logan said with a smirk, raising his glass. “To Andrew.”
Logan ra...
2025-05-24 05:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post