New Lore poll!
So, with the first three done, who do you want to know about next? Let me know.
2020-12-05 20:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Surveillance Records Transcript - Daniel Sullivan
Subject: Daniel Sullivan
Registration ID: Herald
Defunct RID entries: Kestrel, Kinetik
Birthdate: 11th July 199...
2020-12-05 19:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostNew build and link for the Alpha!
I've fleshed out chapter 21, now there is only chapter 22 and epilogues left. Fixed a lot of bugs. Added some earlier stuff too.
We're up to 1 290 418 words including code ( 1 181 827 w...
2020-12-02 18:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostNovember QnA
Will we learn about the rest of the world? While there are few passing mentions, I'd be curious to see what the hero/political situation is in, say, Europe or Asia?
I will pr...
2020-12-02 16:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Spoiler QnA
These are spoilers if you haven't played the full alpha, thus they go in their own section. Enjoy.
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Did Regina know Sidestep's powers had the ...
2020-12-02 16:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostInfo about future updates
So, December is getting closer, and that's a scary sentence if I ever saw one. How can 2020 both have lasted forever, and be over so quickly? By far the weirdest year I've lived through, for so man...
2020-11-27 07:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostEverything's Fine.
So, here's the first little 200 patron ficlet, Anathema ended up in the lead. Bit of a November mood going on here, be warned.
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Hoots should have closed an hour ago, but it'...
2020-11-21 10:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostInterest check
We are closing in on 200 patrons, which one, is not something I expected, but two, needs some celebration when we get there. So I was thinking I'd write a fic or two about some of the minor charact...
2020-11-16 10:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostCanyons
Was a bit tired, so I cleaned up another, older snippet for consumption. If anyone spotted it on AO3 you will notice that I switched it into third person. I plan to leave second person strictly...
2020-11-14 19:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostNew Retribution build up! With a new link!
Well, almost two weeks later than I planned, but sometimes you can't fight the brain worms. It looks like I am slowly crawling back to becoming a functioning human being, at least to the point that...
2020-11-13 18:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostVoyeur
Been in a very bad headspace lately, trying to get back to writing, so here have a cleaned up old snippet.
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Los Diablos felt smaller than he expected.
D...
2020-11-11 11:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostFree-Range
Cleaned up one of my old snippets since the last one made me remember it, Sidestep trying to deal with life after the escape from the Farm.
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You can't be yourself. You can't...
2020-11-06 18:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Farm.
Well, 150 patrons and a bad brain day means you get a new venting fic. Enjoy! Farm days Sidestep, from before the first escape.
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There's a taste to despair. Slow. Suffocatin...
2020-11-06 16:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostTranscript of preliminary interview - prospect Wěi Chen
Subject: Wěi Chen (western naming order)
Registration ID: Marshal Steel
Defunct RID entries: Arc 4 (classified), Sergeant Steel
October QnA - VIP spoilers
Some questions dealt with spoilery materials from the closed alpha, so they have their own little section here. Be warned if you haven't played it.
Are the other regenes aw...
2020-11-02 22:32:29 +0000 UTC View PostOctober QnA
Exactly how many people has Ortega punched over Sidestep?
Oh boy. More than they'd like to admit. Ortega is quick to punch people. If I should hazard a guess... seven, not co...
2020-11-02 22:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post...May Break my Bones.
A hospital waiting room. Calm. Professional. Comfortable chairs and magazines for people with more money than sense. Private, like everything here.
But private doesn't always mean privacy. 2020-10-22 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
FAQ reminder and update info
Do you have any questions you want answered once November happens? if so, just add them here in the comments. I've already got a bunch from the discord, but the more, the merrier.
This month'...
2020-10-22 10:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostSticks and Stones...
Running forward tap tap tap three steps, over the wall, land in a roll, leaving gravel stuck to your back, your braid a black streak behind you.
"You should cut your hair, Julia." A creak, a ...
2020-10-21 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEulogies
The good ones always die young.
That's a line of bullshit Chen is intimately familiar with, something said again and again, though he knows it has nothing to do with being good. Or bad. Peopl...
2020-10-21 12:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostTruths (100 patrons story)
The first hint of dawn, sunlight not quite breaking the horizon yet, the wind smelling of salt and seaweed. The party has died down like all parties do once the steam runs out. Some have stayed, ha...
2020-10-11 16:17:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt's #WorldMentalHealthDay
Reposted from my twitter.
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So it's #WorldMentalHealthDay and I'm smack in the m...
2020-10-10 20:49:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've reached 100 patreons apparently!
First of all, thank you.
Second of all, I am blown away and not entirely sure how to handle it. Life and health is a wee bit chaotic at the moment, decisions are hard.
So, I thought I'd...
2020-10-08 19:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostFour Funerals and a Wake
Eight years ago.
The tie is too tight. The shirt too buttoned. The suit too black and too new, and your eyes are too old.
No tears. Boys don't cry, and right now,...
2020-10-02 16:32:15 +0000 UTC View PostA conversation with ortega
Subject: Ricardo Felipe José García Ortega
Registration ID: Charge
Defunct RID entries: Marshal Charge
Birthdate: 26th of May, 1982
Blood type: B+
H...
2020-10-02 15:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember QnA
Quick questions, quick answers. Some are from here, some are from the Patreon discord, and some are from older sources:
How do you take care of the Rat-King? Are they c...
2020-10-02 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostUpdated closed alpha and new link!
Chapter 18 is now updated with new RO interactions, poly content, secret crushes and other complications. I also extended the Blaze fight, and fixed some bugs.
IMPORTANT: 2020-10-01 22:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post
September spoiler QnA
Well, here we go with the questions that have too many spoilers for the closed Beta to answer more openly. Please understand the lack of detail in some answers, I can't spoil too big storybeats...
2020-10-01 22:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostBoosts and Mods
I got some questions about mods and boosts, and I decided to break them out and talk about them in more detail:
There's been talk about alpha level boosts, what does that mea...
2020-10-01 22:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate info
According to the polls, you overwhelmingly wanted the Questions and Answers info to be provided as a document, and not a live chat. I have already received some questions on the discord and here, f...
2020-09-26 18:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post