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Save State Hero -CH20-

“I just didn’t expect it,” Romina murmured. “I mean… I know she always told us to make a video will just in case. I know she even recorded one.

“Several times, in fact. I was even there for one of them.

“I just never expected it to actually happen. For it to actually be needed. That we’d actually h...

Save State Hero -Ch 19-

“Oz! What the fuck is going on!?” shouted Edmund over the sound of reality tearing itself asunder.

“This reality has become damaged,” Oz reported. “I’m attempting to correct. I’ve requested assistance.”

“Who the fuck could help with this?!” demanded Edmund watching as the sky was ripped in half...

Save State Hero -Ch18-

Edmund found himself staring up at the ceiling.

“Oz?” Edmund said.

“Yes, Edmund?”

“I just did a load on a Save-state. You told me about information loss, reality, blah blah blah, try not to fuck up the world.

“I’ll do my best to make sure I don’t fuck it up, but I… I’m still going t...

End of the Year.

Hey Folks!

It's the end of the year.

First... thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Thank you for the support you give me. Whether your a Patroen supporter, an amazon Kindle Unlimited Reader, an audible listener, someone who just buys the books outright, or you just give me written support and 5 stars on revie...

Save State Hero -Ch17-

“Edmund?” asked Andrea.

“Building directly across. I feel like they’ll ignore it. Assume it’s cleared and fine since it was the last time someone checked it,” he said, glad that he was finally back to the starting point. “That’d be what I’d do but… I’m not a military commander or a soldier.”

News/Update

Not dead, I promise.

Save state is progressing well.

Just... so much holiday junk. That's all. I'll try to get back to a regular posting schedule as quickly as I can and I apologize for the delays.

Save State Hero -ch16-

Edmund was ignoring the radio chatter.

Ignoring Andrea fondling other women.

Ignoring the fact that he could see Felix and Lucille falling through the sky below him.

All of Edmund’s focus was on the Green Dragon who he was strapped to and that they were about to jump out of an airplane. That they were next...

Save State Hero -Ch15-

Edmund knocked on the door to Felix’s office firmly.

He’d briefly considered going straight in without even bothering to wait but that’d likely cause Felix to shut down. The last thing Edmund needed was Felix not talking to him about what happened.

“Uh… yeah, enter. What… whatever,” mumbled Felix fro...

Save State Hero -Ch14-

“No,” Edmund said, shaking his head with a fake and forced smile on his face. “No, no, no. Just… leave. No.”

“Yes!” declared Andrea as she looked around his office. “Nnnn… ah! There.”

Moving off to one side she set down a stack of papers on an existing pile. One that was around at the height of...

Save State Hero -CH13-

“I’m going to go talk to Alina before she starts getting all feisty,” Dorothy said and waved the fingers of one hand at him. “Though she’s been listening a lot more than I expected.

“Mind pulling the car through all this as you can? Maybe use the flash-y lights. We still have to get where we were going, don�...

Save State Hero -Ch12-

Edmund opened his eyes and found he was somewhere he didn’t recognize.

Nor did he have a guess as to where he was, either.

It wasn’t a hospital room, or someone’s bedroom.

Nor was it his own home or anywhere else he knew of from friends or work, either. Nothing looked familiar in any regard.

In f...

Save State Hero -Ch11-

“Turn left,” came the automated voice over the car speakers.

“You know… driving off to a battle seems rather mundane,” Dorothy said suddenly, turning to look at Edmund. “But I guess we’re not in a rush since we won’t even be the first people there.”

“More or less. That and… uh… I don’t re...

Save State Hero -Ch10-

“She’s meeting us at HQ?” asked Dorothy.

“Yeah. Romina prefers getting things done at Legion locations. When she goes out in public she’s had to be careful about stream crashers,” Edmund said as he eased the car into the false barn. “That and she gets to showcase rather odd things.”

He’d gone ahe...

Save State Hero -Ch9-

“Wake up. Do the thing. This is the nice alarm. Remember?” his phone spat out at him.

With a grunt, he rolled over and tapped the button to silence it.

Moving back to the center of his bed in the hotel he let out a long sigh.

The day had been spent with Alina and Dorothy in the end. They hadn’t let him...

Save State Hero -Ch8-

Rushing to the back of the car Edmund caught Dorothy’s eyes as he went.

“Dot, stay out here,” Edmund commanded when their eyes met. Then he shoved the helmet down on his head. “Stay out here and wait further instructions. I need to go save Alina and I don’t have time to save you if you come in.”

“I�...

Save State Hero -Ch 7-

Slowly, the police let their weapons fall. Clearly realizing that the recently arrived, and destroyed vehicle, was supposed to be here.

It didn’t hurt that Edmund had his hands up in the “I surrender” type of pose.

“I don’t even know how it’s possible but you drive worse than Daria,” groaned Alina in...

Save State Hero -Ch6-

Clicking his tongue, Edmund picked up the receiver on the phone and put it to his ear.

“Hey,” he said, feeling very strange with both Alina and Dorothy staring at him.

“Hey hey. Just wanted to… uh… just wanted to chat! Things didn’t really go the way I expected the other day and-well-you know-that… e...

Save State -Ch5-

Edmund waited until five minutes after the stocks had fully closed for the regular market. He didn’t like dealing with after-hours market and preferred to use it as a backstop.

Looking at the screen he memorized the single stock that’d performed over the last thirty days. One that’d started grown considerably and ...

Save State -CH4-

Sniffing, Edmund lifted his free hand up and rubbed his wrist at his nose. It felt like he was getting a cold.

That and the scent of blood, piss, and shit was a bit overwhelming at the moment.

“Unnngh… uuunnngh… unnngghhh,” groaned someone off to the side.

Edmund looked to his pistol and then thumbed...

Save State -CH3-

“What? What the fuck? Are you joking? It just… it just ends with her dying? What the actual fuck? What piece of shit douche bag wrote this?” shrieked Romina. “This is terrible! It’s awful! They should just fucking die!”

“I mean… it’s a story… if they’re trying to provoke a response from you in the ...

Amazon Review System

Just as a reminder.

5 star is "passing".
4 star is "it's meh"
3 star and below is "please set this author on fire".

This isn't a good system, it isn't fair, but it's how Amazon does it. You can't fight against it, all you can do is review/not review based on that information.

I only mention this bec...

System Overclocked: Live and Releasing tomorrow

System Overclocked is up on Amazon. It releases tonight/tomorrow.

The story of Wrench and his human aquarium in a very hostile and alien universe.

Yes, it's Randi Darren which means it has a few "extra" scenes, though not nearly as many as say Wild Wastes or Fostering Faust.

It's much more similar to an Aran...

Save State -Ch2-

Edmund thumbed the ignition button and sat there as the car powered down. The engine shut off, then so did all the panels and accessories that came with modern cars.

Staring at the steering wheel he took several breaths.

Romina was a co-worker.

Someone who’d started working at Legion in what more or less w...

Save State Hero -CH1-

Sniffling, Edmund coughed, then grabbed a tissue out of the box. Lifting it to his face he dabbed at his nose, then blew hard into it.

Folding it up halfway he wiped at his nose with it again, then flicked it off to the side. It dangled on the edge of the trash-can then fell in.

“Les-go,” Edmund muttered to hi...

Updates

Alright!

We'll be finishing up System Overclocked on Patreon this week.

We'll also be starting to load chapters from "Save State Hero" this week on patreon. That's Edmund and the convergent point for most of the Super Sales, Wild Wastes, and all the other stuff that's been happening throughout Sovereign-Verse. 2022-11-07 17:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post

System Overclocked -Ch31-

Over the last three days, Wrench had spent every evening sitting in the field with Stripe.

Talking about the day for both of them, thoughts, beliefs, or what others had been up to.

More often than not, it’d devolved into stories told from one or the other, with Wrench having to tap-dance wildly and quickly a few...

Happy Halloween!

I'll try to post a chapter for Wrench tonight, but it being Halloween means the night gets a bit weird. :D

Overclocked -Ch 30-

Yawning, Wrench exited the ducts, moved across the small central area, and entered the pens.

There had indeed been something wrong with the Aerial-Hab.

A number of the connections that were supposed to automatically hook themselves into the rest of the Hab, had failed. Everything on his side was right, and receivi...

Overclocked -ch29-

Waving a hand over his head, Wrench exited the cafeteria and then left the pens.

Crossing the small open space to the ducts, he opened the door.

“Wrench, do you uh… have a minute?”

Glancing over his shoulder, he saw Seventh was following him.

“Course. Gotta do some early morning checks though. ...

Overclocked -CH 28-

“There we are,” Goodie murmured, her tentacle having split into six now. She was carefully adjusting the odd device she’d had him put on.

It fit around his torso and abdomen, and felt a lot more like a tight-fitting undershirt rather than a tech device. He could tell just from looking at it though that it wasn’t...