As we hurried west, towards the city, I pulled up the map to check out the situation. The antithesis were now quickly advancing, and it looked like they’d overrun the various artillery camps, and forward HQ but to my surprise, none of them were marked as issues.
“Why haven’t a...
2025-01-13 21:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis took much longer than expected... I like the general idea, but it didn't flow that well. Teddy would 100% not want to wait for planning, but I couldn't see her pulling a Cat on the entire government either. I need to think on it more... don't know if tomorrow will be a replacement, or continuation. Can't afford to spend more time on this today.
When I stumbled out o...
2025-01-13 17:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week of writing down, another index released! You'll find everything I worked on this week, including a new story I worked on in the evenings (Yes, for some insane reason 8hour wasnt enough) in the Story Snippets section.
It's called imaginary, and I'm kind of excited about it.
Enjoy
“What do you mean ‘What are we going to do about the council’?” Nora asked. “What can we do?”
“I could throw them out of a window,” I joked morosely.
“There are a lot of people working in the big five corporations,” Sharron m...
2025-01-10 22:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Bob’s finished with his assignment, we can move in now,” I reported as I headed towards the nearest Kodiak.
“He destroyed that thing by himself?” Hel asked in disbelief.
“That tank’s nothing. He once punched a Forty-Four in the face,” I exclaimed as I entered the vehicle.
“Are we just going to rush in? What if they detonate early?” Nora asked as she...
2025-01-10 18:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt was incredible how quickly the antithesis flowed into the area. Even though we managed to avoid the forerunners, the rest of the wave stampeded into the area before I managed to clear the town. Part of that was due to the fact that Woofer’s truck was slow, and struggled to just stay airborne with the dogs in the back, but part of it was definitely due to how quickly the anti...
2025-01-10 16:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Clara and I quickly descended down the hill heading back towards the crossroads. It seemed like Clara didn’t want to say anything, so it fell upon me to bring up the subject.
“So, what is she sick with? Tuberculosis?” I asked quietly.
My green cloaked companion flinched. “Probably, that’s our best guess,” Clara said softly. “She tries to hide how bad it is...
2025-01-09 22:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostMy mind reeled at the revelation, and I struggled to figure out a way to save Pen-Gwen and Woofer before we overrun. Finally, I made a decision.
{Rei: Skyler, go get the car.}
{Sky: You can’t honestly be thinking about abandoning those two, are you?}
{Rei: Of course not. I’m going to stay here and try to dig them out until the very last second. If we wait until th...
2025-01-09 19:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you alright? Where’s Hel?” Sharron asked as she burst out of the back of the second Kodiak. I had the other IFVs land, and make their way towards us at street level to avoid the line-of-fire of those monstrous guns.
“She’s trying to convince Zettabyte to help her ruin the council, both soc...
2025-01-09 16:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostGood news everyone! Edits. Are. Done. So this'll be the last update on this topic.
I spent about five full days cleaning it up, punching up the early bits and un third personing the last bits (Still don't know how I managed to do that.)
I guess the next step is to investigate publishers, see the requirements and such. If I actually find one that'll accept TBoB I'll probably have t...
Annabelle stepped back, allowing Clara and I to enter, before closing the door behind us.
I marveled at her small home. The front area was fairly normal, a sitting area, kitchen and dining area, but the back was something else entirely.
In the rear of the cabin was an alchemy laboratory that rivaled any which I had seen back east. The walls were absolutely cover...
2025-01-07 22:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostAfter pushing through the years of weeds and new growth we found ourselves standing next to an old, abandoned warehouse or commercial building. Despite being just a couple feet off the main road, I hadn’t seen the building.
That was partially due to the fact that the weeds had grown so tall, and thick, they’d obscured the area, but it was also partially due to the fact ...
2025-01-07 19:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell are they doing? It looks like they’re setting up firing lines, but there’s nothing there!” I hissed as the Kodiak shook slightly, taking off towards the Council tank column.
We had to split into two groups, since Bob and Sharron’s tentacles would have taken up a Kodiak between the two of them. So Hel, my bears a...
2025-01-07 16:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostClara must have sensed that I didn’t want to talk on the way back, because she didn’t try to strike up on a conversation as we made our way back. As soon as we arrived I stepped inside and practically slammed the door in her face.
She didn’t really deserve that, but I wasn’t really in the right mental, or emotional, space to deal with her. Or anyone else for that ma...
2025-01-06 23:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Why won't these assholes give up?” I moaned as I nudged a ganger with my toe. I'm sure he would have complained, if he wasn’t busy cradling his busted nose and messed up fingers. I didn’t recognize the gang colors, which probably meant the small group came from a couple sectors away to attack the refugees.
“I still don’t get what they’re after. Attacking a refugee ...
2025-01-06 20:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post“So, who exactly are we looking for?” I asked as soon as Skyler and I slipped into her car.
{Arty: Two fairly new samurai, Pen-gwen and Woofer. They were eliminating a group of antithesis which had broken away from the main horde.}
“Pen-gwen and Woofer? Seriously?” Skyler scoffed as she smoothly maneuvered her car out of the garage. As soon as we were clear of the d...
2025-01-06 17:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Friday, so new index! (I almost forgot)
I've left in the TBoB chapters that I'm removing, just in a new section, so you can still read them if you want.
2025-01-04 03:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few seconds for my eyes to adapt to the darkness within the hall, and when they finally did, I still didn’t see much. The hall was draped in gloom, dark, almost unnatural. There were no lamps or torches, just the faint outline of the trees that acted as interior pillars.
The enti...
2025-01-04 00:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostI woke the next morning to a tiny set of paws poking me in the face. Cracking my eyes slightly I found Lala pawing my face. Behind her I could see Skyler standing there, trying her best not to laugh.
“Not my fault,” Skyler chuckled. “She was sleeping with me, and once I got up she immediately went to you.”
“Do you need to do that?” I whispered at the kitte...
2025-01-04 00:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you really think that bringing people down here is safe?” Jane asked as we watched the bears put up some temporary fencing the other samurai had provided. The Stacks were still a mess of collapsed buildings, and debris, so I had a squad of bears wandering around with disassemblers, cleanin...
2025-01-03 20:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe took our time, and cleared the rest of the farm slowly and carefully, but we didn’t find any additional antithesis. After trudging back to the command center, we reported the situation to Edward.
“Andre’s dead? And there were antithesis in the farms?” he repeated, face pale.
“You should probably purge floor seven, replant it and start again, and destroy anythin...
2025-01-02 21:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out there weren’t that many places to actually put evacuees, even in a mega city as large as Calgary. Nearly every possible square foot was covered with either mega towers, which were already packed full of their own residents and didn’t want to take in more, or titanic industrial complexes which weren’t fit for human habitation.
The best we could find were a seri...
2025-01-02 19:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days crawled by. I spent most of my time pacing around the tiny cabin, talking to my cat, just waiting for Clara to stop by for her daily visit. She’d pop in, drop off some supplies, ask me a few probing questions about my past, then disappear again.
On the third day I asked her for something to read, anything to keep the boredom from setting in, and she’d ...
2025-01-02 17:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostI'm planning on putting all ME updates in the weekly indexes, but hit a milestone today.
I finished editing chapter 36 of TBoB today, that's up to 'The Calm' and the end of the first arc.
I haven't made massive changes, it's mostly grammar, wording, and dialog changes. There ARE a couple major changes to the early chapters, mainly to make it clearer that Jane and Teddy live togethe...
2025-01-01 22:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the mewing complaints of my partner I managed to stand after several minutes of struggling. Although it probably wasn’t good for my wound, I preferred to be mobile in case something happened. Or I needed to use the bathroom.
Wandering around the room I found it as simple as it first appeared. A tiny log cabin in the middle of nowhere.
It had probably been us...
2024-12-31 19:38:17 +0000 UTC View PostSkyler grabbed my arm before I stepped through the door.
“What did we just learn?” she asked me in a disappointed voice. “If it’s an enclosed area we flood the area before entering.”
“We also learned that the enzyme gas causes cancerous mutations in non-antithesis lifeforms,” I pouted. “Not exactly something we want to pump through a farm complex.” 2024-12-31 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When I regained consciousness I was somewhere I didn’t recognize. I was laying on a hide bed, in a small log cabin. There wasn’t much around, just a rough wood table, some chairs, and a small chest at the end of the bed.
As I was glancing around a small paw slammed into my forehead. “Mow!”
“I didn’t mean to get shot!” I told my cat, “I was surprised by the f...
2024-12-30 23:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs I sat on the bridge of the Marsupial, monitoring the various cleanup operations, humming to myself, I received a call.
[Howdy Jane, what’s up?] I asked cheerfully.
[Evelyn… What the hell are you doing? I thought you were going to keep out of the conflict. Why are you all over the TV, stomping on corporate forces?] came Jane’s annoyed reply.
I froze. I’d bee...
2024-12-30 19:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe late afternoon sun beat down on the small outcropping which I’d hidden myself. I could have set up closer to the treeline, but the rocks were a lot closer to the tracks, and provided a much better sightline, so here I stayed.
“Mow?” Kaylee called from her position on Nightmare’s saddle, as the horse wandered around, grazing on the scrub grass.
The secondary hols...
2024-12-30 16:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post