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Q & A August!

Better late than ever, excuse spelling errors please, I did not have time to run everything through the spellchecker so this is original.

How good are the RO with snow? And how good would they be in a snow fight?

Ortega loves snow. Not a bad off-pist skier and they would be lethal in a snowfight. Danny likes snow, but has never really skied much....

Real life news!

As I am sure you have noticed, I am about a week late with my usual updates. The reason is, as always, real life. While I wish I could spend my life writing, I do work 40h a week at my day job, and there had been an emergency there and as I am the health and safety officer (I think that is the English term for Skyddsombud) it's been a hectic few weeks. But, all ended well, and no deaths or inju...

Time to ask your questions for this month's FAQ!

Just post them here, have fun!

Bones of the Land (prologue)

Prologue.

1982, Northern California, in the hills not far from Susanville, a year and a half after the Big One.

The dry landscape surrounding the cracked road stretched into an endless row of hills shaded gray and brown. Ash from the wildfires was at this point indistinguishable from ash formed by the eruption until you got it in...

Patreon rewamp and new content coming!

Alrighty!

After having slept on it, I think that I have managed to work out a new Patreon structure that will give people content and give me some much-needed brain boost.

You see, I am in editing hell. It's exhausting, slow, and meticulous. It's necessary, but it is also not what drew me to writing in the first place. Since I am recovering from my burnout, my brain is already more ...

Important news about tiers!

Well, I've got some bad news.

I am going to have to change this tier up due to licensing issues. I thought that I was following all the rules for Choicescriot, but it turns out I had misunderstood part of it, and I can no longer provide access to the alpha I am working on.

This means that the reorganization of the tiers that I had planned for later needs to be implemented...

The World of Fallen Hero

In order to understand the Fallen Hero world, I must first mention some of the changes that underpin it.

1) On average, Europe's colonial adventures collapsed faster. While in our world, many remained colonies into the sixties and seventies, that dynamic broke down in the twenties and thirties in the FH world.

2) WWI happened, with much the same results as today. However, d...

August spoiler Q&A

how did HG experience the aquarium memory? Did their consciousness remain in the "real world" or did they also end up too deep into the memory, like Sidestep seemed to? Did they manage to catch glimpses of Sidestep's own memories or were they too hazy for HG to understand? How did that whole event look like to Nocturne and Jake, considering how much it seemed to affect HG?

August Q&A

What were sunstream and ashfall like? how did they come off to the rest of the rangers/sidestep? I really like those two even though we don't really know much about them!

I would like to add Sentinel to this, please!

Sunstream: She always gave the impression of being slightly uptight. Very controlled. Aware of her role and how she came across. She a...

Time to gather questions again!

if you have any questions for next month's QnA, please add them here.

Lore poll time!

Well, since the Nanosurge and Telepathy was neck and neck in the last poll, let's see what you want to learn about next. If you have any suggestions for future polls, please add it in a comment, it might show up next time if it's not too spoilery.

New link to Retribution is up!

We are slowly working our way through editing/suggestion hell. Apart from various bug fixes, there have been many minor additions and variations you might stumble across, and proof and language polish is up to lvl 15. Been battling heatwave and Lyme disease, not the most productive of vacations so far, but we are progressing. Playable length is up to between 94 000 and 98 000 on the random test...

Lore: Telepathy and related fields.

This month's lore dump is about telepathy, I will have a new vote up for subjects in a week or so! The nanosurge and telepathy had been at the top of the poll, so it's soon time to make your voices heard again.

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Excerpt from a letter from Dr. F. Ljungstrand to Dr. A Jansen. 

12 March 1978

Re: Psionic Classifi...

QnA for June (spoiler version)

When and how did Ortega and Hollow Ground meet each other? Did Charge suspect (or was aware of) HG's real identity at the time? Does HG knows why they couldn't thread Ortega? Did they felt something off (like the static for Step) while threading Charge, or they realized that their powers didn't work because of Ortega's behavior?

Ortega met HG a year or so before Hood's de...

QnA for June!

There was a lot of questions this time, and some fun ones! 

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Are you more of an Architect or Gardener?

Hmmm I think I'm very much a Garden Architect. And by that, I mean that I have a central structure (which I need to have in order to be able to seed clues and misdirection) for where the series is going. However, the majority of the ...

Angles

(Cooldown writing, Locus and Porphyry, the prompt was 'angles'.)

Maybe she was coming at this from the wrong angle.

People might not be telepaths, but they are aware without being aware that they are aware. Walking. Groups. The seaside path is wide enough for people to wander. Wonder. See but not look, calculating the angles, unconsciously avoiding walking into each other. ...

Ask your question here!

So, getting close to the end of the month again, so here is a post to collect those burning questions you have about the game, background or my creative process.

Have fun!

New Retribution build is up!

Okay. There is a new build/link to Retribution. 

Here is a link to the discord.  Hopefully it won't expire in a few days this time.

Now, let's talk the real talk. I did not have everything I wa...

Pursuit

Well, I needed to do some cooldown writing, and the discord suggested Sentinel. Enjoy a snippet!

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17 March - 2002

Mountain Mesa, South of Lake Isabella

"You should take her up there." Hood shaded his eyes, trying to pick out where Julia had disappeared up the trail. Light on her feet. Faster than the two of them, t...

The Nanosurge

[Excerpt from e-mail between FEMA representative Gustavo Avila and Marshal Charge. Subject: The Nanosurge, date Aug 15, 2011]

I included what I could find. Sorry, I can't do more, but they're clamping down on this hard, and since the threat is over, I have limited pull. You owe me a drink next time I'm out there, glad you lived through it. Do you figure the casualty estim...

QnA June (spoiler version)

Could Step technically cover up the tattoos with latex and/or body paint/makeup?

Not for long, it flakes off, a lot more so than on the surrounding skin. But for very short occasions, it can be done.

Considering they're unaware of Chen's sexuality, how much does Ortega know about Chen's background / reasons for leaving home? What did Chen tell the...