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2.34 In Which the Dark Lord Has Questions

I had to supply a venue for the procedure, on the grounds that Sneppit’s crew were taking enough of a risk by helping me and she wasn’t about to compromise one of her own secure locations on th...

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2.33 In Which the Dark Lord Realizes He Should Dial it Back and then Doesn't

Among the potential targets Maugro found for me, I selected a “pawn shop” which was known to fence stolen goods for its perfect intersection of several criteria: it had survived the purge relat...

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2.32 In Which the Dark Lord Gets Cut Down to Size

A/N: And this is the chapter that's going up on RR this evening.  It took all morning to finish and I don't think I've got another chapter in me today, so I'll try to have the proper P...

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2.31 In Which the Dark Lord Battens Down the Hatches

A/N: This is the complete chapter 2.31; the first half has been properly edited and the second is now included.  That ended up longer and more involved than I anticipated and I've run ...

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Half of 2.31 and a notice

Here's the notification I put on the current RR chapter, which I will also ping as an  announcement on Discord:

"Holiday Hiatus Notice:

I ...

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2.30 In Which the Dark Lord Gets His Hands Dirty

I didn’t know why the experience left me so out of sorts, which only made it worse.

The Spirit’s “revelation” about the goddesses was…  Well, upon due consideration, not much o...

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2.29 In Which the Dark Lord Rages Against the Machine

I hadn’t realized how big this island was.

Highlord Adver hosted us in a drawing room rather than his study where he preferred to conduct discreet business of this kind because of the déco...

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2.28 In Which the Dark Lord Enrolls Some Nobles in the School of Hard Knocks

“Ohh, no,” the talkative bandit groaned.  “He said the thing.”

Two of his compatriots smacked him quiet this time.

“All right, ladies,” I said.  “Everyone crowd ...

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2.27 In Which the Dark Lord Goes Visiting

Instead of sleeping in a warm, cozy guest room in the luxurious Caer Yviredh, we got to camp amid the damp khora and really enjoy that crisp autumn chill up close.  I didn’t regret the decis...

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2.26 In Which the Dark Lord Spills the Tea

Flaerdwyd lowered his hands, dropped the spell, and sank back into his chair, looking sickly and terrified.  I followed him for a moment with the tip of the rapier before finally removing it, ...

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2.25 In Which the Dark Lord Comes to Dinner

A/N: This is the full chapter.  The first section has been edited but isn't substantially different from what you previously saw, if you'd rather skip right to the first break. View Post

2.25 pt 1

Author's Note: This is an unedited half-chapter.  I'm behind again due to multiple circumstances as discussed in the Patron channel on Discord.  I'll post the second half as soon ...

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2.24 In Which the Dark Lord Gets to Know the Neighbors

“What?  Lord Seiji, that’s not a beastman,” said Mimi.

“Wh—he isn’t?”  I pointed at the fallen man, who was still partially curled up and wincing in pain after the tum...

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2.23 In Which the Dark Lord Brings Home the Bacon

Things were changing around North Watch.

It wasn’t practical to entertain business guests in the kitchen, now that the kitchen was actually serving its intended purpose; preparing food for ...

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2.22 In Which the Dark Lord Lays Down the Law

“I don’t mind sleeping in a barracks with other women,” Sicellit stated in a particularly tightly-wound voice.  “I understand those are the available accommodations out here a...

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2.21 In Which the Dark Lord Has His Work Cut Out for Him

Hearing Junko rapidly approach, I decided to take a risk.

“Oh, she scared the hell outta Benit and Radon the first time,” I said aloud, deliberately casual.  “I’ll go ahead, calm...

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On the Bonus Chapters

Hey everybody, just wanted to drop a line and keep everyone updated on the status of these.  They are running behind schedule, and I want to reassure folks that I haven't forgotten and am not ...

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2.20 In Which the Dark Lord Confronts the Face of Evil

It was not one of the best trips back to North Watch, but definitely wasn’t the longest or most difficult; that honor still went to the previous one, when I’d been escorting most of the populat...

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2.19 In Which the Dark Lord Spreads it Around

“Jassner,” I said aloud into the echoing, expectant silence, “wanted to be a messenger and travel to different cities.  He would hang around the trade roads, watching the couriers pass b...

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2.18 In Which the Dark Lord Seizes the Means of Abduction

Some of my spell combinations seemed like they were pushing the limits of what could be a plausible joining of their base spells, but Summon Bound Slime just did exactly the same thing as casting S...

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2.17 In Which the Dark Lord Closes In

We moved out right after the ceremony, which put us on the street just as full dark fell.  Gwyllthean was quiet, even here on the middle ring; what had happened in the Gutters that morning cas...

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2.16 In Which the Dark Lord Suffers the Little Children

I finally learned about Fflyr funerary customs that day.

They did cremate their dead.  Not in crematoriums, though, they used open-air pyres.  That would not work ordinarily—it ta...

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2.15 In Which the Dark Lord Realizes His Mistake

We had to pass through a cell block to get where we were going, which meant sticking to the center of the path out of reach of the arms extended through the bars at us.  Those cells were overc...

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2.14 In Which the Dark Lord is the Lesser Evil

In keeping with the established pattern of everything good on Ephemera being horribly tainted somehow, my first hug from Aster was delivered at high velocity while she was wearing chain mail.

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2.13 In Which the Dark Lord Learns About Unintended Consequences

“Oh, shit,” I commented upon seeing the line of stalled merchant caravans blocking the major highway into Gwyllthean.  It was still early in the morning, but from this distance it already ...

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concerning the schedule

Hi, everybody, sorry again for being late with the most recent chapter.  It's up now!

I am actually posting this to let everyone know I need some more time on the current bonus chapter--...

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2.12 In Which the Dark Lord Uses Someone's Tragic Backstory as a Sleep Aid

Of course, it wasn’t as simple as jumping right to carving me up like a chunk of roasted beef, which was both good and bad, because while I enjoyed not being carved up, stretching out th...

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2.11 In Which the Dark Lord is Adopted by a Pack of Feral Noblewomen

The only good thing about being shot by a bunch of crossbows is that it happens too fast for you to dwell on how much it’s going to hurt.  Which, it turns out, is a lot.  Fortunately fo...

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2.10 In Which the Dark Lord Tries Something He Saw in a Movie Once

“Is that an attack?”  I shifted my feet in preparation, but despite Biribo’s exhortation to move, I didn’t yet take a step.  This seemed like a bad situation in which to run aroun...

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2.9 In Which the Dark Lord Almost Gets Away With It

Shepherding two unwilling recruits who were only along because they were terrified of me obviously required a great deal of my attention, which spared me the opportunity to get too lost in...

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