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Missed Update Notice

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of some mental health struggles; relatedly, it's midterm season and I'm super overwhelmed with my schoolwork.  Apparently it's very difficult to write in this s...

3.4 - Dolphins are Assholes

So no shit, there I was, standing in the middle of the ocean with my commanding officer's severed head, and a dolphin had just speargunned a demigod in the back.

And now it was laughing at me...

3.3 - I Don't Wanna Fight a Mermaid

The dockworkers told us the Fool's Errand had left with the morning tide. They'd been scheduled to stay a few more days, but Erid had skipped out on her docking contract, leaving her deposit behind...

3.2 - Moonlit Parley

Of all the times someone tried to kill me, this one easily took second place.  The only thing better than fending off an enraged sea captain was what I did to piss off Sarah Melbrook at her se...

3.1 - Interlude: Veles

The spear was old.

The haft might have disintegrated by now, if it had been allowed to age true.  It was self-translated nightly to maintain its condition.

Silver oak.  Extinc...

Director's Commentary: Kives, Predestination and Divine Psychology

Hey everyone, this is the first of the promised behind-the-scenes posts for the interim period between Lancer and Tempest.  Unfortunately, finals week ran late—right into m...

Book 3 scheduling information

Hey, everyone!  At time of posting, the last chapter of Lancer just went up on Patreon, and will be posting to RR next week.  That means it's time to talk about next steps!

Lancer — Epilogue

I dreamed about the gods again as my comm ferried my soul back to the Ragnar.

The dream was always the same.  They were ragged, bleeding, hungry.  I saw a rabid fox with ro...

Coda: Wake

The world cracked.

Cades had seen a broken pane of glass once.  The craftworkers of Vitareas were ingenious and thorough; the glass had been coated in translucent lacquer to pre...

Lancer 2.50

The problem with the pentathlon events was that it was really annoying to cheat.

An Eifni deicide team is a precision instrument designed for slow insinuation into a culture.  We are the...

Lancer 2.49

Twas the night before Sportsmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except for—

“You motherfucking Silence cultists, I swear to Darwin,” I said, waving Lilith at the...

Lancer 2.48

By midmorning the next day, the boys caught sight of the city walls.  The commander had suited up in formal military dress, which was her custom when preparing for a deicide strike.  I’...

Lancer 2.47

Abby raced through the midnight streets of Bulcephine like a ghost.  Her ethertech boots made no sound as she swept over the cobblestones, translating the noise into conceptual energy and stor...

Lancer 2.46

The benefit of taking it slow over the last week was that the commander had thoroughly probed the city’s defenses—etheric and otherwise—with the ship’s sensors.  We had a good idea of ...

Lancer 2.45

We were definitely gonna need Val to program a moirascope filter for “giant sea monster ambush” when he got here.  If this happened a third time, the commander might turn the car around an...

Lancer 2.44

They’d only posted one Oathkeeper tonight.  She was hanging out on the south wall, right next to Roel’s bedroom.  I could handle one Oathkeeper.  If I saved the cloak until I got...

Lancer 2.43

Lirian’s appearance made everyone jump—one of the Jeneretes negotiators actually screamed.  From the smirk on her face, she’d absolutely intended it that way.

Her time in the Oathk...

Lancer 2.42

Morning dawned on judgment day.  The Vitares estate was boiling over with activity, the staff—bondsmen, I corrected myself—scurrying every which way, carrying supplies and decorations. &nb...

Lancer 2.41

“Merisites?  You’re sure?”

Roel’s face was intent.  My comm easily picked up the skepticism she couldn’t keep off her face—classic conduit theory, embodied ether reacts ...

Interlude: Severance

Kuril was in a bad mood, and Roel almost regretted that she was about to make it worse.  Almost.  But the blade was descending and they had precious little time to get out of the way.

Lancer 2.40

The Renathion had come and gone.  Markus won his third set of laurels, our improvised alliance with the Voranetti finally pushing him past his sudden unpopularity.  We were all politely i...

Lancer 2.39

Content notice: there's some sex-shaming in this chapter.  As always, the perspectives expressed by Godslayers characters are theirs alone.

*****

I was going to pulse Roel in a m...

Lancer 2.38

The Estheni didn’t just have business meetings and leave.  That would be rude!  It would imply they cared about business but not about neighborliness, and what self-respecting graced wo...

Lancer 2.37

You know how some rich people just, like, don’t live in fancy houses?  Which, you know, kinda makes sense.  Houses are freaking expensive.  I always thought if I got rich ...

Lancer 2.36

I gotta admit, I got goosebumps when Abby dropped that line about cutting heaven and earth.  I released a slow breath.

“The skill you will learn tonight is called ‘Growing the Mounta...

Lancer 2.35

I followed Bofa and Roel as they left the meeting.  At a distance, of course.  I walked casually, greeting the staff as I passed them but staying out of sight of my quarry.  Eifni ha...

The story so far

It's been awhile since the last chapter, so this post is intended as a catch-up.  If you're a future binge-reader, you probably don't need to read this.  I hope the internet is nicer in y...

Update: Billing Notice and Refunds

Hey everyone,

Patreon doesn't allow continuous pausing of billing.  It pauses for thirty days and then you have to manually re-pause it again.  And it looks like between the Novembe...

State of the Serial: December 2022

Welcome to the end of hiatus!  There's a bunch of stuff to cover, so I'll try to be concise.

1.  Godslayers is resuming this month.  

Fo...

State of the Serial: November

Hey everyone,

Just an update to keep y'all in the loop.  My break has been good, my life's in much better shape, and I'm working on Godslayers again.  I was supposed to be prepping ...