Just when I thought I'd caught up, I get the flu. This is the sickest I've been since COVID was new, and I'm only just getting better again. Hope to have chapters out again this weekend.
2024-12-20 08:14:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 225: The Emperor's New Clothes
Emma woke up to a package being dropped on her head. Her hand flew up, swatting the offending object away and against the wall with a d...
2024-12-18 05:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Finally caught up on Fantasy Arms Dealer. Apologies for the delay, it’s been a horrible week, first the kitchen sink flooding and needing lots of repairs/cleaning, and then g...
2024-12-16 03:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 105: Petty Crime
My sandwich cost another two Gilt, well worth it in my opinion, as it put the hardtack biscuit I had for breakfast to shame. The price was extortiona...
2024-12-16 01:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 104: Beefeater
I had a few goals in mind, beyond just getting up to date with the daily news. Investigating what passed for financial services was a must, if only to ...
2024-12-15 18:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 224: Breaking Bad
“Come on!”
Saint growled, her claws carving furrows into the dirt as she strained her magic to the utmost as she bathed the small pa...
2024-12-15 01:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 103: City Builder
It was weird, seeing an entire district demarcated for a specific purpose. I hadn’t bothered paying attention to the specifics before now, having ...
2024-12-14 20:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 102: Hard Enough
I didn’t get much rest that night, despite being bone tired from all the running and fighting, instead finding myself rolling back and forth into t...
2024-12-12 22:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 223: Midnight Sun
Nobody approached Emma in the end, leaving her to eat in peace and quiet. She’d learned from the Lutefisk incident, and stuck to familiar foods fr...
2024-12-11 07:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 101: Staircase to Heaven
To my great relief, the front door didn’t open to reveal a small, dingy house fit only for the poorest of itinerant workers coming from afa...
2024-12-11 06:51:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100: Metre Dash
I wasn’t particularly keen to go running through the streets, dodging fireballs for a second time in one night, but the alternatives were even less ...
2024-12-10 23:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 222: Bad Reputation
Is Felix right about that? Emma asked, turning her attention to the buffet in lieu of having to approach anyone and potentially start up ...
2024-12-09 22:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 99: Inflation
Up until this point, I had been selective in what I stored, taking only what I needed in the immediate term, or what I was asked to store, and otherwise...
2024-12-09 16:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 98: Mind Map
“I set out tonight to meet Marek, my primary contact here in Heaven’s Reach,” Harvey began by way of explanation. “He was a local, born and raise...
2024-12-09 15:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostJust a heads up, had a few big storms in UK lately, and finally got unlucky today as it knocked out the power, so I'm running a bit behind while sat in the dark waiting for repairs.
Will catc...
2024-12-06 22:43:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221: Meet The Crew
“This is a bit of a departure from the Roman aesthetic,” Emma noted, giving the mead a try as she watched individuals and small groups begin to...
2024-12-06 00:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 97: Sleeping Beauty
After a gruelling run, I was finally reunited with the rest of the party, even picking up an extra along the way, which was good. Less so was seei...
2024-12-05 22:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 96: The World Shall Know Pain
What is pain, exactly? Well, it’s one of those fiddly concepts that are easy to understand but hard to quantify; everyone knows it, ye...
2024-12-05 20:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 95: We Didn’t Start The Fire
Granted, the damage wasn’t nearly as bad as in the slums, though the jury was out on whether that was due to there being fewer sabote...
2024-12-04 04:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 94: Spooky Scary Skeletons
Monsters needed darkness to spawn. That was one of the few undisputed truths understood by humanity, on a subject that remained little unde...
2024-12-04 02:04:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 220: Back Online
When her sight returned, Emma found herself back in the prison cell where the event began. She had been seamlessly returned to her true form, and eve...
2024-12-04 00:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 93: War Never Changes
War. It was a possibility that was always just on the horizon, something even the old Will had been cognisant of despite his limited knowledge o...
2024-12-03 03:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 92: Fallout
I didn’t regret declining the communications upgrade a while back, but at the same time, I’d be lying if I claimed that resulting inefficiencies never...
2024-12-03 01:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219: Kawarimi
The short reprieve was nice, insofar as it gave Emma a chance to rest, but it did nothing to alter the dynamic once fighting resumed. A cloak that turne...
2024-12-02 23:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218: You’re Fired
“I’ve had enough of this! Burn!”
A wave of heat slammed into Emma, followed immediately after by a deafening crackle as the air ignite...
2024-12-02 02:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 91: Wave Collapse
Pumpkin had expected something impressive from Schrodiner’s appearance; it was hard not to, given how much Ralph had hyped him up, never mind his ...
2024-12-02 00:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 90: Baba Yetu
Quite frankly, if the choice was between fighting the entire roomful of cultists to save Harvey or running, Pumpkin would already have been a blur in th...
2024-12-01 23:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 89: Tetragrammaton
[Level up!
Pumpkin
Class: Level 4 Cat
Title: [Empty]
Chapter 88: Ratting Them Out
“This is really weird,” Pumpkin muttered to himself, creeping close to the ground with his nose to the floor, following the distinctive and u...
2024-12-01 20:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 217: Worthy Opponents
Emma made sure to remain perfectly still, even as the floor began to move beneath her. Instead of the teleportation she’d been expecting, the ...
2024-11-30 22:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post