Chapter 504: The Part That Knows How to Quit
Added 2021-07-29 23:01:03 +0000 UTCPrincesses Vesper and Liara were in a room with Trenchant Moore and Liara’s teammates, Jana and Ledev.
“Let’s start with you, Ledev,” Liara said. “What is your assessment of Asano?”
“He’s capable enough. Guild-level, and strong alone. His aura is… formidable. He excels in solitary action but would be harder to incorporate into a team. His methods are unconventional, for an affliction user.”
Trenchant Moore tossed the folder containing Jason’s file onto the table.
“This assessment is wrong,” he said. “It lists Asano as an affliction-using generalist. He’s a specialist.”
“You consider him focused enough to be considered an affliction specialist?” Vesper asked.
“He’s not an affliction specialist,” Trenchant said. “Not as that term is commonly used. What is now called an affliction specialist used to be known as an affliction mage or affliction spellcaster. This is the commonly known approach of standing behind a wall of allies or summons and blanketing the enemy with afflictions from a safe distance.”
“That isn't anything like what Asano does,” Jana said. “We saw him go through several encounters and while he does use familiars, it’s never to put them between himself and the enemy.”
“He’s an affliction skirmisher,” Trenchant said. “Hit and run tactics, high mobility, high efficiency. It’s a specialisation that rarely appears and those that have it tend to die early, so it's one you don’t often see. Affliction skirmishers have a low margin of error and their survival is all about how well they expand that margin.”
“How do they compare to traditional affliction specialists?” Vesper asked. “Are they better? Worse?”
“Like every specialisation, it's a matter of circumstance. The right tool for the job. Since the job is usually standing there and killing a bunch of monsters, I’d judge Skirmisher to be the less useful specialisation. Affliction spellcasters employ much safer strategies and, unless someone takes them out, are obnoxiously effective. They need a team built around them, but they’re worth building around. You keep a good affliction spellcaster safe and it doesn’t matter what or how much you’re up against. They’ll take it down eventually. The lead-in time hurts but their efficiency and overall damage output is unparalleled.”
“The skirmisher can’t match that?”
“Partially, yes, but they need a broader array of powers, which leaves them with shortfalls. This is why Asano was pegged as a generalist. The biggest weaknesses of a skirmisher are being less effective against large numbers and the need to get in close. That is a high-risk proposition when you aren’t quickly dropping targets like an assassination specialist. That’s the low margin of error I mentioned.”
“There have to be advantages,” Jana said.
“Of course,” Trenchant said. “When what you need are skirmish tactics, a skirmisher is obviously better. A caster is better in standing fights, but not every enemy is so accommodating. Also, solitary hard targets. In the higher ranks, any monster that spawns alone is a significant threat. An affliction caster’s team needs to stand their ground, but dragon or garuda will take them apart before the afflictions do their job.”
There were nods around the table. Rimaros adventurer culture was centred on specialist teams and they all knew the results of sending the wrong team against the wrong threat.
“An affliction skirmisher is fine – and perhaps even best – operating alone,” Trenchant continued. “They can work in teams but are a bad fit for conventional ones and are a bad choice to build a team around. They do best in misfit groups that focus on versatility; the exact opposite of the team-building ethos in Rimaros.”
“Then, their main advantage is survivability?” Vesper asked.
“Yes, although it’s not just about the kind of powers they have. Mentality is key. Affliction skirmishers are used to balancing on a sharp edge, so when things go wrong, they know how to handle it. Everyone at this table knows what to do if you find yourself up against a traditional affliction specialist.”
“You get past the team and hit them,” Ledev said. “Then they’re done.”
“Exactly,” Trenchant agreed. “You know what I'd do if I was up against an affliction skirmisher? I'd run like the goddess of Pain was chasing me. I wouldn't stand and fight unless I had a full team with me and, even then, I'd want a damn good reason. It's common knowledge that you have to kill an affliction specialist before they dose you or you'll die even after you kill them. Skirmishers don't die easy.”
“So, in short,” Vesper said, “they're evil bastards.”
“Yes,” Trenchant chuckled. “If you ask me which affliction specialty is more useful, I'll pick caster every time. It's low-skill, which means reliable. Just churn through your abilities in the right order and don't go further forward than the guy with the shield. Affliction skirmishers are like evasion-type defenders. It's all about judgement, skill and margins of error, and if they get it wrong, they die. The ones that make it into the higher rank are very, very hard to kill.”
“I believe that,” Ledev said. “I do not like Asano. I don’t like his arrogance and I don’t like his disrespect. But when they made that man, they forgot the part that knows how to quit. We watched him in a fight he couldn’t win. A fight we set him up for, so they knew his powers and they were ready, but he never stopped struggling. Not for a single moment. It wasn't just blind stubbornness, either. He looked for every edge, seized every advantage that would keep him alive for even a moment longer. I have to respect that kind of determination and resolve. If he fixed his attitude, he could be a fine adventurer.”
“A lot of things have tried to kill Jason Asano,” Liara said. “You can see it in the way he fights. In his aura and his scars.”
“You’ve seen his fully unleashed aura?” Trenchant asked.
“We saw him disable someone just with his aura,” Jana said. “It wasn’t just shock from aura suppression, either. It was like some kind of soul attack. I’ve never felt anything like it.”
“I know the phenomenon you’re describing,” Trenchant said. “Have any of you worked with Amos Pensinata?”
They all shook their heads, although they had all heard of the prominent gold-ranker.
“He’s also suffered soul damage, and he can do things with his aura that other people can’t.”
“Like what?” vesper asked.
“If there’s nothing in Asano’s file about it, I’m not going to say,” Trenchant said. “It’s not my place to tell you other people’s secrets. All this holds true to what I know about affliction skirmishers, though. Traditional training methods hurt them more than help. I’ve only seen a couple of great affliction skirmishers, and that was a long time ago. Both of them fought their way up from humble beginnings, with not much more training than a few months mentored under another adventurer.”
He tapped the file in front of him on the desk.
“That’s what Asano had. Some bronze-rank adventurers showing him the ropes before he got plunged into deep water.”
“In your assessment, then,” Vesper said, “Asano can handle some high-profile contracts?”
“With respect, your highness, you’ve held a politician’s meeting to assess an adventurer. If you want to know if he can handle a contract, give him one. And I’d recommend that you take one or two yourself. There’s a monster surge on and I think you could use the perspective.”
***
On his way to the Adventure Society campus to see Liara, Jason accidentally opened a portal to the market district teleportation square, instead of the one on campus.
“Oops. Still, I need a few minutes before my portal is available again. I guess I’ll have to go check out the local cheeses.”
“I am uncertain of who that statement is directed at, Mr Asano,” Shade’s voice came from Jason’s shadow. “You know that you are lying, I certainly don’t believe you and even if anyone else were paying attention, I very much doubt they would care.”
“Someone’s cranky today.”
“Gordon made me watch Gymkata again.”
“Did you lose another bet?”
“I still think he’s using those eye orbs to look at my cards, somehow.”
“Then you should stop wagering. I thought you learned your lesson after he made you read the novelisation of Kazaam.”
“Mr Asano, your world has dark and terrible things.”
A short while later, Jason was feeding little chunks of fresh meat to the little leech on his shoulder as he moved through the market stalls.
“I want to do a baked brie,” Jason said. “I don’t know if they have an equivalent here, so I guess I’ll just have to buy all the local cheeses I can find and see what I can do with them.”
“Shouldn’t you restrict yourself to the cheeses that seem the most like brie?” Shade asked.
"Absolutely not. It's a magical world, full of surprises and wonder. What might look like dried figs could actually be some kind of magical brie. I'd best buy anything that looks like dried figs too, I guess. Or fresh figs. You can never be too careful."
“Mr Asano, what happened to going and seeing Princess Liara?”
“We’ll get there.”
“At the risk of screaming futilely into the void, Mr Asano, you are not being very sensible.”
Jason stopped.
“Shade, you’re totally right.”
“I am?”
“Shade, I’ve been a fool. I’m completely ignoring cheesemongers. I need to go to that boutique shop district where Alejandro’s tailor shop is.”
***
“This sucks,” Travis said. “They have flying ships but their long-distance communication is this bad? Don’t they have crystal balls or something?”
“Bro, maybe you could invent a magic phone. Could probably make some money out of it.”
Travis Noble and Taika Williams were on the porch of a guest cottage on a sprawling country estate. The rest of the group were in dormitories that normally held young Gellers in training, but their connection to Jason had earned Taika and Travis preferential treatment.
“I’m not going to be developing anything any time soon,” Travis said. “Most magitech is heavy on the tech and light on the magic because there was always so little magic to work with. Magic was always rough on tech-based comms, which is why people with communication powers were always so useful in proto-spaces. I didn’t expect it to affect purely magical communication as well.”
“Long-distance communication has been the dream of artificers for a long time,” a female voice said. They looked up to see a young woman with a swarthy complexion and short-cropped hair approaching them.
“If you do ever manage to pry open that nut,” she said, “your friend isn’t wrong. You’d earn yourself a fortune. In the meantime, we’re trying to arrange a time where you can talk to Jason using the water-link system. We have our own chambers here on the estate, but we aren’t allowed to use them without permission from the Adventure Society. Too many people use the system all at once and the whole thing fails.”
“Thanks, Henri,” Taika said. “Did you know Jason well?”
“Not very well,” Henrietta said. “He’s on my brother’s team and I did a short training tour with them once. It was long enough to see him do something insane, but that's never a lengthy wait.”
“What did he do?” Travis asked.
“You ever see that big scar running from his hip and across his abdomen?”
“No," Travis said.
"Yep,” Taika added.
“He decided to fight a silver-rank monster when he was still iron-rank, the idiot.”
“I've heard about this,” Taika said. “He talked about it in his recording crystals. The monster was attacking some village, yeah?”
“That’s right. That was when I learned that guy’s hero fixation was going to get him killed. Didn’t expect him to come back from it, but he always was a bit odd. After him, I thought all you outworlders would be strange, but you’re a pretty normal bunch.”
***
Jason was stepping out of a cheesemonger’s when he paused, tilting his head as if trying to hear a faint sound.
“Mr Asano?” Shade asked.
“I felt something,” Jason said. “A gold-ranker, maybe. They tried to take a rummage through my aura but backed off when they sensed me sense them.”
“Should I investigate?”
“If you didn’t sense them, you probably won’t find anything without an aura to track, but go ahead. If you find anyone shady, let me know, but don’t make trouble. That’s my role in this relationship.”
Several dark shapes slipped out of Jason’s shadow and disappeared into the shadows around him.
“Really, Mr Asano?” Shade asked, as several of his bodies discretely moved off. “Anyone shady?”
“I wasn’t trying to make a pun. If I was, I’d have done better.”
“There is no better with puns, Mr Asano. There is only worse.”
Comments
“There is no better with puns, Mr Asano. There is only worse.” Funniest response in a land of funniest responses! I love it. The chapter is a little ok too.
2022-02-12 22:23:19 +0000 UTCGreat chapter. I'm wondering if the Earthers will be used as a backdoor hack by the World Phoenix to keep Jason around.
chump1999
2021-08-23 19:46:54 +0000 UTCI am very much looking forward to Vesper being forced to revise her opinion of Jason. In any direction, really.
mistermerf
2021-08-20 01:53:57 +0000 UTCWell he's going transcendent. But not sure what that looks like yet. When gods go to war in order to set up shop on Earth, we'll get a better look at them.
mistermerf
2021-08-20 01:12:09 +0000 UTCSo I'm starting to suspect the World Phoenix is kind of like a soft style martial artist/hacker. Twice the Builder has tried to have flunkies do a summon and someone who opposes them shows up (suspicious). The first time was Jason and the second time it was Team Taika. Classic use of their force against them or a man in the middle attack. I can't wait to see Clive and Belinda get into gadget design with Travis. The man who made a Sun Nuke with those geeks would probably generate some good ideas. Also we don't know who they have else in that mob but they probably some have outworlder special abilities and the Earth tactical concepts for mass combat. A couple of good runs thru the mirage chamber could demonstrate certain advantages for use versus the builder forces.
Bee
2021-08-20 00:53:12 +0000 UTCI like the fact that Liara's team respects Jason's ability although they consider him to be arrogant. I'd really like to see Jason and Vesper get assigned a joint contract, as it was suggested that she could benefit from some field-time. It'd be interesting for her to see Jason go to work and her (terrified) reaction as well as see her (non-political) skills put to the test. After he has to save her bacon with an aura attack when the contract goes south because of a Purity incursion, she'd be all "damn this is the boy l wanted to have killed"?
Bert Babb
2021-08-14 21:05:18 +0000 UTCI think we'll find, if and when things are said and done, that the gods have a gentledivinity's agreement not to do anything that could actually cause another god to cease to exist or even seriously threaten them with nonexistence. Because if there's one thing I know about powerful beings, the more powerful they are, the more afraid they are of losing their power. Purity, meanwhile, has gone absolutely barking mad, and while he doesn't seem to be actively *gunning* for any other particular gods, doesn't care what happens to them or if his actions wipe out huge swaths of their worshippers as long as he gets what he wants. But the gods, being cowards, will still act as though they're all angry and bringing the fire and brimstone but when it comes right down to it, won't act to wipe out his worshippers or actually destroy him, assuming it can be done in the first place. Note how they are still distinguishing between the "good" Purity worshippers and the "bad" Purity worshippers. No. Purity is endangering the very FABRIC OF THE WORLD. There are no good Purity worshippers at this point. Every single one of them submits to an oath from a priest of Knowledge or Oaths or whatever the appropriate deity is disavowing Purity and all his works, or they get put to the sword.
Marc Whipple
2021-08-02 21:16:30 +0000 UTCI'm wondering where the other gods and their followers are in all of this. I seem to remember something about a "censure". Why do the Purity followers all get a pass? Shouldn't there be followers of Dominion searching the jungles, knowing there was a prominent church of Purity in the area? Dominion must pissed, what with Purity trying to take over....that's Dominion's job
Vindico
2021-07-31 12:00:11 +0000 UTCColin would appreciate the non-binary character in Wild Zero. Shade might not fully appreciate the sonic stylings of Guitar Wolf
Seppo Marx
2021-07-30 20:45:25 +0000 UTCI wonder what other movies Jason has shown his familiars. I bet Colin would love "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death".
Gnothi Seauton
2021-07-30 20:35:58 +0000 UTCWell...yeah he probably saw her show up in a market square or something. They are not very subtle in this world.
Hayden Leech
2021-07-30 19:03:56 +0000 UTCAnyone else think that shirt could be setting jason up to be the "Dark Guardian" of mortal beings, as an astral entity? His mandate being to preserve and protect the independence of people, which would put him in indirect confrontation with all entities who use "builder" capture and subdue tactics on the person via star seeds, etc.
2021-07-30 18:12:30 +0000 UTCSo Trenchant also believes in the Goddess of Pain. Noted.
xydra22
2021-07-30 18:10:22 +0000 UTCHere we see the other reason for Shade's name
Voltaire
2021-07-30 17:43:23 +0000 UTCThe short answer is: it depends. The lengthy explanation below covers what it depends on. Speed is an excellent weapon against Jason and the ability to hit him hard and fast is a huge counter to him. Against someone like that, Jason would have to rely on his stealth and hit-and-run tactics to avoid taking major hits in succession. Like any silver-ranker, Jason can take big hits and survive. Even proper assassination specialists have trouble one-shotting silvers and above. That gives Jason a strong chance of making a comeback because massive recovery is a central part of his fighting style. The results of a fight at high-rank between people of roughly equal skill usually comes down to who can define the fight. Jason was better than the three Purity priests, but not by a lot. They cut him off from the key element of his hit-and-run tactics and made the fight about his afflictions versus their cleansing, and they had the numbers. This forced Jason to take bigger risks and narrow his margin of error, which cost him. He waited too long before trying to drain the afflictions out of his oponents because he needed to maximise every advantage when going three-on-one. He waited too long and paid for it, when they boxed him out and recovered, resetting the fight for them and leaving him spent. Looking at someone like Rufus or Danielle Geller, given equal rank, it comes down to who can define the fight. Both of those opponents would definitely take down Jason in a stand-up fight, but Jason generally excels at pulling a fight into his own pace, which the Purity loyalists took extreme steps to prevent. The location of the fight has a huge impact, because Jason thrives in complex environments. So, now we're back to where we started: it depends. This is not by accident, because if you could plug in stats and know the results of every fight, that would make every fight scene fairly pointless.
Shirtaloon
2021-07-30 09:14:52 +0000 UTCWe always here that cleansing abilitys are jasons counter, but wouldn't his natural weakness be speed powers? Like Rufus, he could just activate that time power and cut jason to pieces or am i understanding that wrong? Or take daniel geller from book one when she was silver rank, she almost killed that peak silver rank builder cultist in one activation of her time power, and that was an absurdly durable opponent. Jason has no powers that make him more resilient on their own, just seems like he would instantly die to an attack like that. Any skirmishers bane would be someone faster than them. I would realy like to see some training battle between jason and rufus in a mirrage chamber. But with things as they are that will probably not happen. Shirt, can u tell us who would likley win in that duel?
DrNutella
2021-07-30 08:49:47 +0000 UTCIsn’t it essentially that spirit coins don’t boost racial abilities that are typically static/unchanging abilities unless you go through a racial evolution. What it does affect are the attributes and essence abilities which all go through rank-progression. To me that ties well together and racial abilities should not be affected by spirit coins since they’re not progressed with rank.
2021-07-30 07:53:26 +0000 UTCI love Shade.
Adam Daw
2021-07-30 06:35:58 +0000 UTCI really like tretch saying vesper needa perspective. Shes sixty smth, royalty, and complaining about asano being inadequate...
s476
2021-07-30 05:37:13 +0000 UTCI agree partially the thing to consider though is that these are people who have seen countless die trying the same thing most likely. While being an good adventurer requires you to have guts and push yourself Jason was fighting against a silver rank, as a pretty inexperienced iron. For most that is a death sentence. So not only does he die but also so does the whole village. And lets be honest if Jason had fought even just one competent but cruel individual who was stronger than him, he'd likely be dead already. Every enemy he has fought has either not been competent or isn't decisive enough to immediately kill Jason, except Shako, which Jason got saved due to his ability.
Tristan A
2021-07-30 03:51:47 +0000 UTCHe was head of Asano security which is why we assumed some of the family was with him.
Robert Nugent
2021-07-30 03:04:45 +0000 UTCAnnoyed with doing good being generalised as a hero fixation, again. It undermines such a virtue. A virtue that seems to be dying out as people look to it with ridicule and suspicion.
Leonard Marchant
2021-07-30 02:35:55 +0000 UTCoh and I thought Taika was guarding the home base...?
Silver Beard
2021-07-30 01:50:46 +0000 UTCI don’t think they are dismissive... The ”Siege sword” said he would run like hell from a gold rank Jason because Affliction skirmishers are bloody dangerous. Vesper is a politician and is looking at it from that perspective. Which doesn’t include combat ability. Liara is looking at it from the perspective of his usefulness against builder assets/plans which implies a certain respect for his ability and is looking to find a viable way to leverage his unique capabilities against the enemy she was tasked with defeating If they were dismissive of him they wouldn’t be talking about him at all.
Hayden Leech
2021-07-30 01:50:13 +0000 UTCkinda curious why diamond/gold coins boost physical powers... but can't boost outworlder powers? So what if it's half a planet away...surely Jason can make contact with party chat with a bit of augmentation? The story is progressing to that point that things need to start moving. Team needs to come or Jason needs to go; Zara appearance or better- just pull Clive for his secret project. Something already!
Silver Beard
2021-07-30 01:48:05 +0000 UTCI’m really digging this shared perspective chapter thing you’ve got going on, a lot of people get upset when a chapter comes out from anyone but Jason’s perspective. And of course what’s going on elsewhere is important, like the outworlder summoning. But this way people get a bit of Jason and also that important wider world information.
Hayden Leech
2021-07-30 01:41:05 +0000 UTCI was beginning to think that Jason would not reunite with Biscuiteers at all. I was getting a serious “alone forever” vibe. The conversation here implies that the Biscuiteers are the only team where he fits. Curious to see how he integrates the off worlders. Do they expand the team? Do they find their own niche? Or does Shirt go all GOT on the cast?
Robert Nugent
2021-07-30 01:36:07 +0000 UTCDo we know that they are outworlders or did they port over in some kind of a bubble? It’s pretty mysterious, you know.
Robert Nugent
2021-07-30 01:23:33 +0000 UTCI wish but it won’t happen. Jason is going to be abused and used for a while. That’s why they mentioned his future sacrifices.
David Fletcher
2021-07-30 01:21:45 +0000 UTCMore of them*
David Fletcher
2021-07-30 01:19:24 +0000 UTCDawn is above Diamond
The Agent Colson
2021-07-30 01:12:18 +0000 UTCHow much more powerful is dawn to other gold rankers? I know she is the Phoenix representative, but does that mean any power bump on the straightforward way?
Enzo Elacqua
2021-07-30 01:06:38 +0000 UTCHey now, puns are the best! Thanks for another chapter!
Doodlyboy15
2021-07-30 00:53:06 +0000 UTCTake time and resources to set up the network though... Might be tricky creating a network through monster-infested wilderness and crazy magical storms
Max Thomas
2021-07-30 00:46:41 +0000 UTCMy guess, the new rummager is the she Warnock.
Henscratch
2021-07-30 00:44:16 +0000 UTCThat was gouda
Forestfire
2021-07-30 00:32:55 +0000 UTCUgh, long distance communication is already in place and Travis doesn't need to re-invent it he just needs to understand it and modify. It's the Green Stone Water Marble, Way back in book one Shirt established that it was one of the best conductors for communications. It's the most used stuff for water communications already. Just adapt it to act as a resonator like a 5mhz crystal oscillator. You tune sets to react with each other that gives you a core network to act as a backbone, your PBX (private branch exchange) node. Then setup smaller nets to link up at the PBX. That's your network. Now audio and visual.....audio easy.....visual without Water Link.....would have to think on it.
2021-07-30 00:26:09 +0000 UTCI tried to crush the bug with a paper tissue, but it wasn't real.
Stefan Mensink
2021-07-30 00:19:26 +0000 UTCThat would be awful, I need more Jason. (:
2021-07-30 00:14:44 +0000 UTCCrush the society >:
Al
2021-07-30 00:12:51 +0000 UTCI'm expecting the "royals" and other high rank rimaros elites to be put in their place and shell shocked by the eventual appearance of Dawn. Like, that one diamond ranker (forgot name) who recently told the director that forthright honesty is the best approach, tries to convince Vesper that Jason's "backing" is not to be under estimated, then Dawn, whose presence was not detected, says "quite astute, id hate to bury all these islands" ...
Bryce
2021-07-30 00:12:24 +0000 UTCMourning the missed opportunity for a Monty Python shoutout.... “Do you have any Brie?”
Chad L.
2021-07-29 23:42:01 +0000 UTCTravis + Clive = serious long term competition for the magic society.
mockery jones
2021-07-29 23:40:21 +0000 UTCI love how Shade loses to Gordon all the time lol
Jonathan Walker
2021-07-29 23:39:11 +0000 UTCI bet a lot of Earth born outworlders will have system interfaces as their outworlder spirit guides, between gamers and everyone who has heard about Jason's powers, their souls are more likely to latch on to the proven idea of a system then Jimminy Cricket or other fairytale
BluEarth
2021-07-29 23:35:42 +0000 UTCTravis! That’s a good character to bring back. I’m just hoping Shirt didn’t include baggage people.
Hayden Leech
2021-07-29 23:31:36 +0000 UTCI think so! He used cores I think?
2021-07-29 23:31:09 +0000 UTCI'm sooooo glad Travis made it and Taika too they would make excellent additions to Jason's retinue which he needs to start building before gold.. Now we just need to get him some book and skill books to get started making magitech. Taika will make an excellent security chief... now if the director and her wife made it he may have a chief of staff and art/collection curator.... I'm disliking the royals more and more...Trenchant is quite the sensible guy... also based on what he said, I'm less disappointed with Jason's battle with the purity shitters. They are in this part of the world specifically for Jason, and probably have raised multiple teams with Jason's exact build in mind. This would not happen naturally so, if Jason could find a way to shore up his weaknesses with magitech and or specific counters for his counters he'll be the roach we always knew he is... oh my that just reminds me of that manga/anime on Mars with those super roaches, I developed an unreasonable phobia after seeing/reading that shit...🪳😱😱🥲😭
TerrestrialOverlord
2021-07-29 23:25:25 +0000 UTC2
Jacob
2021-07-29 23:24:33 +0000 UTCShirt - I really like how you are finding the right perspective with the gold rankers that are dismissive of him and his abilities. I enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to Jason and his 'worthless' skill to saving one of them :P - Hopefully Vesper --- oh and I'm horrible with remembering all the names (Had to lookup Travis) Great choice of character to bring back. He is going to rock their world.
Greg Lambert
2021-07-29 23:23:55 +0000 UTCWhat level is Taika, Bronze?
Davis
2021-07-29 23:23:23 +0000 UTCEYYYYY, NUKE BOY IS HERE
James Faulkner
2021-07-29 23:20:29 +0000 UTCI watched the trailer on youtube and felt sorry for the 80's as a whole.
2021-07-29 23:20:07 +0000 UTCawwww yea perhaps travis has magical nukes.....
2021-07-29 23:19:28 +0000 UTCIt implied in this chapter that they were the only two who knew Jason personally.
wherebear
2021-07-29 23:18:56 +0000 UTCThe groan inducing ones are the best
Ford-Thomas Frank Loveland
2021-07-29 23:16:59 +0000 UTCAnd now Knowledge knows how to build one.....so do I. It's not hard, but getting enriched material is the pain in the ass.
2021-07-29 23:16:09 +0000 UTCI watched Gymkata when I was eight or nine years old and thought it was awesome. Then I watched it again seven or eight years later and felt a piece of my soul die. I'm sorry you had to go through that, Shade.
Jon
2021-07-29 23:15:08 +0000 UTCThis was a good chapter. A nice mix of characters and cheese. Spot on.
2021-07-29 23:15:03 +0000 UTCTaika and Travis, looking forward to finding out who else got turned into an outworlder
Crysus
2021-07-29 23:14:21 +0000 UTCOh! It’s Travis “I can make a nuclear bomb” Noble. How fun!
wherebear
2021-07-29 23:13:50 +0000 UTCI love Shade
Albert Garcia
2021-07-29 23:13:14 +0000 UTCShade, sometimes the worse a pun is, the better it hits the target. I approve.
inkaral
2021-07-29 23:13:14 +0000 UTCGood as always. Keep on churning them out, just watch the health :) Don't want you to dissapear of the face of the earth due to overwork.
Torbjørn Nilsen
2021-07-29 23:12:27 +0000 UTCPuns are better the worse they are.
Alexander Dupree
2021-07-29 23:09:55 +0000 UTCI want more detective Jason!
Thomas
2021-07-29 23:09:02 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter :)
Alsia
2021-07-29 23:08:29 +0000 UTC1
Leander
2021-07-29 23:01:13 +0000 UTC
