“Nyx… how many active hives are there around the city?” I mumbled. I’m not sure if my AI heard my question clearly, since I was laying face down on one of the benches in the back of my Kodiak, but I had faith they’d get the just of it.
“There were seventeen active hives in the area, last time I checked. There may be additional hives attempting to fly under the radar, ei...
2025-06-06 21:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostNot going to lie, wrote myself into a corner with TBoB yesterday. Don't get me wrong, it's exactly where the plot needs to go, but I didn't think about HOW they'd look for the hive, or what they might run into while searching. Opps.
Might take me a little extra time today to come up with some ideas.
Also! I forgot to mention this when I initia...
2025-06-06 16:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on! Don’t you want to see how your Citadel looks?” Camille laughed as she skipped ahead of our little group, heading towards the break in the woods ahead of us.
I’d actually forgotten to check on the Citadel’s process over the last week and a half. After taking everyone that wanted to pledge vassalage out there, I’d been too busy to go back. With the maids assisting both...
2025-06-05 22:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Why… won’t… you… fucking… die?!?!?!?!” I shouted, as I kicked the massive worm.
“Relax Evelyn,” Nora sighed. “I know it’s taking a while to take care of this thing, but the fight’s already over. Even if the Thirty-Two wanted to fight back, I’m not sure it could at this point.”
“I know that!” I snapped. “We’ve burned off most of its limbs, ...
2025-06-05 17:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post“So how many people is that?” Camille asked as we escorted the latest group of people out of the sphere chamber and back to the entrance of the Citadel.
“Thirty one, with two more groups to go,” I replied, tapping the ‘Lock Sanctum’ command on my system window. Behind us the heavy stone wall silently slid closed, once again securing and hiding the Sovereign stone from th...
2025-06-04 01:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo... yesterday while my brain was trying to escape my skull I had a thought. A singular exchange which inspired this entire chapter. Don't know if I'll release this at the same point, or maybe earlier in the cycle. Perhaps when Teddy goes to sleep, before the Thrity-Four arc.
Hope you enjoy.
“Direct hit on the Fourteen,” Sergeant Sanchez shouted from ...
2025-06-03 16:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
Since my migraine is bad enough to make me nausious, but still not enough to make me writing because... Well, lets be honest, this is my only source of income and my brain tells me if I stop I'll never be able to get back on schedule.
Anxiety brain go Brrrrrrrr.....
Anyways, I've had numerous people, both here and elsewhere, criticize me only giving Teddy 20k poi...
I've had a rough couple days. Was kinda sick on the weekend, then woke up with a monstrous migraine. The advil helped me power through and get this chapter done, but as you can probably tell by the timestamp, I'm WAY behind. (And still feel like crap)
Dunno how I feel about the last two chapters, feel like there's been a lot of tonal whiplash, go...
2025-06-02 18:21:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I remembered to do it this week!
2025-05-30 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Get us down there!” I shouted at the driver. “All vehicles split up and surround the swarm. Don’t give the worm a way out!”
The Kodiak lurched, going into a steep dive that sent me stumbling towards the front. Bob stuck out one of his huge paws and caught me before I smashed into the monitor setup.
“Thanks,” I mumbled as I straightened up. “When we hit the gr...
2025-05-30 23:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of scraping chairs and shuffling feet filled the small village hall. It had been a couple months since we’d held a serious meeting in our tiny berg. Once we finally put down the foundations for the first couple buildings, and everyone started getting used to our new home, we didn’t feel the need to hold regular meetings. The village was small enough that I could visit everyone ind...
2025-05-30 17:23:12 +0000 UTC View PostSo... no SS chapter today because I was planning on having a planning meeting for the next chapter, which would have involved all the important people in the village. And that involves KNOWING all the important people in the village. Sorry. :(
I spent close to four hours going through the story, taking out all the important characters, writing a blurb about each so I'll have a refere...
“You really need to take better care of yourself,” Deadbeat mumbled as she poked at Heavy’s severed arm. “You may be built like a tank, but that doesn’t mean you’re invincible.”
“Can you fix him?” I asked.
“Of course I can, he uses the same parts as the moose,” the little medical bear explained. “The problem is we don’t bring the parts to perform a major re...
2025-05-29 16:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostI'm pretty sure I'm going to need to do a timeskip, just not sure how much more buildup I should do. Probably two or three more chapters, check in with some side characters, we'll see. Sorry I didn't get a chappy done yesterday, will probably do 1 chappy of Imaginary a week, 3 of SS going forward since there's still interest in the other story. We'll see how I feel next week. 2025-05-27 20:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
“Motherfucker!” I screamed as a pack of Model Twenty-Threes tore through my lines.
As we emerged from the cave Bob and the badgers rushed forward to engage the wave of Antithesis that were trying to buy time for the Thirty-Two to escape, bashing and burning their way through the remaining forces.
It seemed like a safe move, but the instant they engaged the fodder a half do...
2025-05-27 16:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure that we’re following the leader?” I growled at Bandit, while emptying my rifle into the oncoming wave of Model Threes. As soon as we’d entered the western tunnels my forces had encountered constant, low level resistance. It wasn’t enough to stop us from progressing, but it was enough to slow us down.
And as far as I was concerned it was getting old.
...
2025-05-26 19:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I had someone ask for more Imaginary, and I had planned on write a chapter yesterday, but despite spending the whole day seriously trying, I didn't manage more than a few words. Frustrating! I did 10x the words this morning than I did all day yesterday.
I dunno if I'll get to SS today, I know a lot of people are enjoying it, but I did want to get this out for the people...
It's been a week or two since the last one went out, so I wanted to send out an update before I collapsed. Sorry for being so hit and miss on it.
2025-05-23 18:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostNo TBoB today, but not for the reason you might suspect. As much as I'd love to dive back into Monster Train, I'm feeling quite ill. I tried to power through, but I really need to go lay down. I may try and get a chapter done over the weekend, depending on how I feel. Sorry.
“Well, that was unexpected,” Camille chirped from behind me. “Not that I’m c...
It seems the motivation of wanting to play my new game has focused my ADHD brain, and helped me complete writing early today! Huzzah! This is something I've been planning for awhile now, since stones bond to the bloodline. Now we've seen all the tabs, got the prep work out of the way, and can focus almost entirely on the kingdom building. I'm not sure how I'll make that interesting,...
2025-05-22 19:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostSoooo... There may, or may not be a SS chapter today.
I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not sick, and I don't have other obligations like any other time I've missed a chapter, I'm actually completely addicted to a new game (Monster Train 2) and I want to play it sooooo bad right now. I'm going to do my best to stay focused, but just wanted to give you a warning. :P
Hav...
“I thought you said you wanted to wait a couple days before heading back to the citadel,” Camille said as we made our way through the forest, down the now well trodden path.
“That’s true, but that was before I realized I didn’t take a good look at the surrounding terrain the last time we were there. I was too busy focusing on the enemy to get the lay of the land. If we’re goin...
2025-05-20 23:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post“You okay boss? You’re looking a little run down,” Bandit declared as he popped out of one of the newly arrived Kodiaks. His small armored column had come rolling down the river from the east shortly after the badgers had put the Thirty-Four-C to the torch.
“I made more of him,” I replied blankly.
“More of who?”
“Bob,” I mumbled weakly, pointing t...
2025-05-20 16:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post“The citadel is about four kilometers away, which isn’t that bad but isn’t that good either,” I muttered, staring at the map on my system window. “We should probably build any new facilities closer to it, so it doesn’t take everyone an hour to retreat there if we’re ever attacked.”
“Assuming the citadel is big enough to shelter everyone,” Camille grumbled. “W...
When Bob killed the Twenty-Three it was like we’d kicked a hornet’s nest.
Hundreds of Antithesis flooded up from the riverside, including several more Twenty-Threes. Ironically the big ones didn’t cause much of an issue for us, they were dispatched quickly thanks to Bob and the Kodiaks. It was the endless relentless wave of smaller models that bogged us down. We might have even been...
2025-05-19 16:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe that tiny little thing survived in the middle of my brawl,” Bob declared. “I was all like, pachow! Bop! And they were all like ‘I’m dying!’”
“It clamped down upon the back of the Twenty-Eight before it released its charge,” I explained, doing my best to ignore the big bear’s rambling. “Which is good, because I have a feeling if it drop...
2025-05-16 22:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostShould have mentioned, going to drop the last few sentences of 15, and go with Camille's suggestion to move story along... in case anyone is confused. Sorry!
It took a while for everyone to disperse, leaving Camille and I alone with the little maid squad.
“So, how do you want to test them? Skirmish? Hunting? Live fire drills?” Camille asked as she bounc...
2025-05-16 16:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostI dunno if I love the end of this chapter, kinda feels like I'm pushing it a little two hard. Oh well, it's a couple sentence rewrite, the rest is good.
“You know what you’re going to say?” Camille asked, as she straightned my jacket.
“I was just going to wing it. Tell everyone what we discovered, and my very basic plans for the future,” I r...
2025-05-15 23:22:51 +0000 UTC View PostHuzzah! I like this version much better. We have action and dirrection!
Just as I was starting to get the fires under control the Antithesis flooded into the surrounding area as if summoned, or directed. If it had been a regular blind charge I might have been able to handle the surprise, but the Antithesis descended upon us from every angle, catching several of m...
2025-05-15 16:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I had an idea about the next chapter of TBoB, tried it, and... it didn't really work out. It ruins the pacing of the current arc, and the banter feels like it should actually be part of a home episode than a Teddy/Nyx one. After getting this far I've realized what I really need to do is get on with the action.
Oh well, maybe I can salvage part of it later.
2025-05-13 23:32:22 +0000 UTC
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