The old reliable mobile home made its way next to the township with restrained caution.
Eight stories tall, the hermit geist that moved the traveler’s home brought them into peaceful contact with the people of the Realm of Constructed Branches.
The geist then settled in, for the first time in weeks, to take a na...
2022-06-29 20:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe old reliable mobile home made its way across the landscape with shaky grace.
Eight stories tall, the hermit geist that had taken the apartment building trudged forward through the Joyous Green Field.
It did not like it.
The residents of the apartments liked it far less. Unlike the hermit geist, man...
2022-06-29 20:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostLast one of these. This one is different, I hope you like it, voting starts this weekend.
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The old reliable mobile home made its way across the landscape with admirable poise.
Eight stories tall, the hermit geist that had taken the apartment building trudged forward through the Sands of Salt.
<... 2022-06-29 20:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostLast one for today. The next thing will be up in a couple days, and then the vote starting on the weekend
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I wake up in a strange place, and immediately start to panic.
It takes me longer than I’d like, thrashing the blankets off and rolling to the floor on all fours in my underwear, ...
2022-06-27 18:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostI want to be the kind of person who explores. I want to be someone who pokes their head into open doors, and takes time to go down unused hallways. Who finds new routes to old destinations, and who has fun being places I haven’t experienced before. When you meet someone like that, it’s pretty clear that ...
2022-06-27 18:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t remember teleporting. Only the sensation of time passing, and of something I could not see. My eyes worked, but they wouldn’t focus; there wasn’t black, there was something deeper and darker and much, much, much more scary.
In the background behind the curtain of reality, past the laws of our u...
2022-06-27 18:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a feeling that came about from being on family vacations, once I hit an age that could charitably be described as ‘adulthood’. As a kid, vacations were extra days off school, going to weird places and seeing weird things. But as an adult…
Vacations became something more like a chore. An...
2022-06-27 18:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostI am going to wizard college.
I mean, I might be. I might also have just had some kind of LSD flashback and am actually dying in a puddle of my own drool on the floor of a Plaid Pantry sometime just after midnight. This would be remarkable only in that I’ve never actually gotten to try LSD, only less seven...
2022-06-27 18:38:14 +0000 UTC View PostThing number two. I have opinions on my own work, and I'm going to withhold them! Take from that what you will.
As a reminder, these chapters now have attached PDFs, because I'm trying to make reading on Patreon easier for everyone.
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Eleven thirty PM is a weird time to be working in a conven...
2022-06-27 18:37:31 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that's all for this one, for now. Next one in a couple days!
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Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change
Available Power : 1
Authority : 2
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Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change
Available Power : 2
Authority : 2
Bind Insect (1, Command)
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Nobility : 1
Congeal Glimmer (1, Command)
Empathy : 1
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Available Power : 1
Authority : 2
Bind Insect (1, Command)
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2022-06-26 03:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
Available Power : 1
Authority : 1
Bind Insect (1, Command)
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2022-06-26 03:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostI wake up, both more and less confused than yesterday.
Yesterday being a convenient illusion that my mind allows me to make use of. The more I am ‘here’, wherever here is, as ‘this’, whatever this is, the more I am starting to think that a lot of reality is convenient illusions. The scholar memories ...
2022-06-26 03:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostToday is gonna be the first of three samples of stories posted over the course of this week. There'll be six chapters of this, I am now going to be including PDFs of all chapters of everything in the posts, and the vote will be up at the end of the week for Patrons to decide what I dive into more of nex...
2022-06-26 03:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostPresented separately for dramatic effect
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Children of Sol
Broken and scattered
The dark is at the door
And our Oath calls us forth
Wake up, one last time
There will be no second chance 2022-06-24 22:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jom-specific soundtrack for this chapter is the song Showdown, by Jose Pavli
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I don’t have a bridge. I have a command center.
I don’t know what the difference is. I do not care. I like how command center sounds. I think bridges are for ships?
Legally speaking, the stati...
2022-06-18 17:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are you down here?” Dyn’s voice radiates through the small gap in the bulkhead that I’ve been wedged into for the better part of an hour.
I do not know how she knows I am down here, because I am inside a wall, with only a small layer of secondary alloy keeping me from the void of space, and she would ...
2022-06-15 07:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostNormally, there would be a chapter of The Daily Grind today. As you may have noticed, possibly unsurprisingly if you read the last couple author's notes, there is not.
Writing the Daily Grind has been an exercise in creative endurance for me. I like to think that the good bits have turned out okay, and the b...
2022-06-12 01:33:59 +0000 UTC View PostOnward.
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I am dreaming. I’ve been dreaming a lot lately. All my sisters and I have.
It’s a strange thing, to make the decision to dream. To sit down as a group, and decide that maybe, we should be more deliberate. After all, we don’t sit on the station and just let the know...
2022-06-09 05:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostBecause today's public post is that one weird station log chapter, I've decided to post two chapters because I am terrified of people getting bored of my work.
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“I don’t fully understand how I could have been here this whole time, and not noticed… any of this.” Lily says.
Now we are eight....
2022-06-09 05:24:11 +0000 UTC View PostMonths pass.
I keep waiting, patiently, for the next crash to come. I know it will. Eventually. It always does.
I try to keep myself separate, somehow, from the way my home is growing. But it doesn’t work. Because even if I know how it all ends, I cannot help but desperately 2022-06-06 04:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Something a little different today. And with this, the Daily Grind is on break for a while, until book four starts up. There will again be a Q&A when the public chapters finish book 3, and any questions from patrons will at least be addressed if not answered directly, so if you've got any, the comments section...
2022-06-04 04:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone has tampered with my garden.
I mean, they didn’t steal anything. Or break anything. Or… anything bad actually.
What I should say here is that someone has improved my garden. Why they would do this, I do not know. Possibly because they have some ulterior motive to steal ...
2022-06-04 03:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostA narrative climax for everyone else is a Tuesday for Lily.
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Now we are six.
My sisters sit watching while Ennos and I weave a symphony of hardware in the form of a blueprint. A simple engineering file, which actually isn’t simple at all, and which will be acceptable input to the drone fabricato...
2022-05-31 23:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostI am very tired
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Three hundred kilometers away, the city seed works.
Comparative log analysis lets us know that it probably went active roughly eight days ago. Which is good. Any longer and things would be problematic. Things are already problematic, I guess. So, more problematic...
2022-05-29 03:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some feedback, I've decided that last chapter is a great place to end off book three. So, this week, we have an epilogue, next week will be an appendix with some supplemental information just for fun, and then I'm gonna take a break from The Daily Grind for a little while.
Not too long. A month, maybe ...
2022-05-27 19:32:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe hull of the Last Ship slips by the station, the mercantile dreadnaught on a close approach to Earth and giving approximately zero cares about any stealthed or disabled objects in its path.
It turned out, when you had a hull profile forty miles long, and self healing ablative armor plates, you didn’t really notice ...
2022-05-24 18:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostI’m dreaming again. Or something dream-esque. It’s not a dream, really. I’ve had some experience with dreams; all of mine are nightmares. When I dream, I dream of gunshots, and lost chances.
This isn’t like that. But I’ve been here before.
“It’s gonna be close.” ...
2022-05-23 15:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostI'd like to ask everyone to read this with an e
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