Hours later, the ship pulled up to what Itto swore was not a planet at all. Itto said that to be a planet, something not only had to be big, but also needed to orbit a star. This was not a planet. It might have been the remains of one, but for all...
2024-03-16 04:17:08 +0000 UTC
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“Are you insane? And break up the set?” Itto said. “No. Not a chance. Now get on that squat bar. I want to see how much you can lift.”
“Too bad. I had a weapon that wanted one of those.”
Sean lined up under the squat rack, ...
2024-03-12 12:54:18 +0000 UTC
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I never actually figured out how to land in Sean’s time-line out of order. It’s like he’s blasting through time in a straight line, and I’m corkscrewing around him. If he isn’t around, I might jump ahead ten years. If he’s the dest...
2024-03-11 02:23:19 +0000 UTC
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There were five ninjas and three barrels on the weapon, which would have to do. Dodging sideways, Sean did his best to line up two of them in what he imagined the blast zone would be at this range, pulled a pin, and doused them both with time-juic...
2024-03-10 01:37:45 +0000 UTC
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Trash Compactor MK II Prototype
Forgive the label, but I think we both know this isn’t where you are stopping with this.
2024-03-09 00:24:34 +0000 UTC
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“So it’s vermin, then? In the basement?” Sean asked. “And you want me to kill them?”
“Yes, they are vermin. No, I don’t want you to kill them. These things are a delicacy. I need them alive.”
The restaurant manager whos...
2024-03-06 22:05:17 +0000 UTC
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The thing with Sean was, even when we worked together, you didn’t want to give him too much free time. You had to keep him busy, keep eyes on him. Or he’d do stuff you wouldn’t expect. I remember going into a badly flooded janitor’s cl...
2024-03-05 10:30:52 +0000 UTC
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Sean tumbled down the stairs, wrapped up in the unloving arm of a guy who had made it clear he wanted him dead. Worse, that arm wasn’t idle. The man didn’t have the best leverage in the world, sure, but he was actively and angrily working on k...
2024-03-04 01:38:53 +0000 UTC
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“And what? I should just believe that?”
Itto let a slight smile slip through to his face before letting it die on the vine, like he felt he was too busy for smiles right now. On such a little guy, it should have funny or cute. Somehow, S...
2024-03-02 21:47:29 +0000 UTC
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The main thing to know about the universe is that it’s not that different from home. Some things are great. Some things are beautiful. Most things, though? Bullshit. Once you get used to all the magic and flashing lights, most things are bor...
2024-03-01 19:48:27 +0000 UTC
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Somewhere far away from almost everywhere, Jeff latched a makeshift cup welded to the front of his rocket-cycle around yet another floating piece of space rock, and once he knew the rock was securely lasso’ed to the craft, he slowly wheeled the ...
2024-02-29 14:10:24 +0000 UTC
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Hi, Everyone!
Most of you know this already, but I do one of these author’s notes every time I finish a novel. The idea behind them is to give you a chance to see what my writing process for the novel was, which is important to some people...
2024-02-25 23:07:41 +0000 UTC
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Tyr: Oooh, boy. Another book finished. But do not worry! We're posting an Author's Note tomorrow and starting Book 3 on Wednesday~
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“It’s a bad idea to sleep on the bus, kid.” A familiar voice boomed nea...
2024-02-23 22:48:43 +0000 UTC
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If Sean was crammed directly into a reservoir of all of Earth’s energy, there had to be a way to use it. Sean was hemorrhaging mass and whatever essence-of-him holding him together fast, but he was able to think clearly enough to know that if
2024-02-21 16:45:01 +0000 UTC
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There is, and has never been, such a thing as a fair fight. In some very specific situations, the system has been known to try to equalize things as much as is possible, but there are limits to both what it can and is willing to do in pursuit ...
2024-02-19 22:40:39 +0000 UTC
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Sean drew the Mystereamer and the Jellyfish Shield out of his pack, bolting towards Eike while he still had some adhesive-based slowness on him. Even now, Sean could see some skill of Eike’s boiling it off of him, baking it into his armor at the...
2024-02-18 22:59:50 +0000 UTC
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Sean held his breath as he dropped into an icy cold river. If that didn’t keep the webs off of him, nothing would.
If there was one thing Sean now knew about the Apocalypse System, it was that it loved forests. Any time it wanted animals i...
2024-02-17 23:38:21 +0000 UTC
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Sean was awake when the alarm went off, and hit the ground running. Today’s theme seemed to be a sort of unending desert and abrupt transitions. As soon as he stepped through the former barrier that held him to his forced rest, he found himself ...
2024-02-16 22:11:35 +0000 UTC
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Whatever burst of incredible speed the knight gained while Sean was on the wall was gone, replaced by a fast-enough-but-easier-to-handle tempo. Which meant the knight either had a super-fast boost it could use when it wanted, or it got buffs when ...
2024-02-14 22:04:29 +0000 UTC
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With every step, Sean was pushing off the ground so hard he felt the cobblestones sinking into the ground beneath them. Eike, on the other hand, was pulverizing them, his whole body glowing with some kind of enhancement that seemed to turn him int...
2024-02-12 16:17:01 +0000 UTC
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Sean had thought this before and would probably think it again, but he was a little sad to have been born in the pre-Plug Mud era. Besides a few specialty adhesives he had made himself since getting magic glue powers, he had never dealt w...
2024-02-11 16:24:55 +0000 UTC
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I’m finishing this book for him. I just read it, and I can tell he wanted it to be a longer thing. A chronicle of our adventures. He wanted it to be a better story. And now it can never be that.
Brett made me a shield, some ar...
2024-02-10 22:25:14 +0000 UTC
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It was too good of a day, honestly. We gained too much. And even though the system didn’t retaliate for that, I still had a feeling that things were going to go south.
People knock on wood for a reason. They throw salt over th...
2024-02-09 22:35:42 +0000 UTC
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Tyr: FYI there have been some continuity changes made to chapter 92! If something doesn't make sense, its probably due to that.
And my chapter naming sense is awesome! I absolutely do not have a problem. Nope.
Enjoy!
2024-02-07 18:13:10 +0000 UTC
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Tyr: We're back! Happy February, and sorry for the wait. We're back in business.
Schedule is once again 5 per week Mon - Wed - Fri - Sat - Sun.
Enjoy!~
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Sean had only hunted in a group once before, and t...
2024-02-05 17:52:29 +0000 UTC
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Tyr: Hello people, just posting this 'ere so you aren't in the dark about why chapters suddenly stopped getting posted. We’ve had an emergency and will be taking a 1 week hiatus. Sorry for the delay in chapters...
2024-01-31 19:42:09 +0000 UTC
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All the pieces were falling in place for the night of fire. I didn’t see it, and Sean didn’t see it. None of the offworlders saw it. I’m not sure that, for all of its wisdom, the system even saw it. But it was coming like a freight train...
2024-01-27 21:09:23 +0000 UTC
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“Ah, the pouch.” As Sean’s bag materialized, Jason patted an identical item on his hip. “If I’m being honest, this is the exact kind of magic shit I was hoping for from the Apocalypse. I can’t help but think it’s all downhill from he...
2024-01-26 20:02:50 +0000 UTC
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The fight hadn’t come without its costs. Sean’s armor had never been more damaged, and unlike in some of the books he had read, that came with real damage to his real, human body. He had picked up cuts and scrapes while fighting in the crowd, ...
2024-01-24 20:24:56 +0000 UTC
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Somewhere deep in the giant snake’s instincts, it had a slow-and-cautious mode that kicked in once its poison found its mark. As Sean backed away, it let him, maintaining a medium distance from its poisoned prey.
Over the next few moments,...
2024-01-22 21:24:12 +0000 UTC
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