Author's Note: Seems I'm on something of a nine-day cycle. I tried to hold this one for a bit to finish the next chapter, but it's not at a place where I'm satisfied with it ...
2024-06-02 15:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs powerful as the wave of Firmament heading toward us is, it's not focused. It breaks against my barriers like a tide of water breaking against a dam. The damage it does is still immense ...
2024-05-24 16:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostVahrkos is in the most danger. Whatever that general does to him in the fight I foresaw, it's enough to damage his Firmament, and it's the kind of damage that sticks across loops. I don't know if s...
2024-05-24 16:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: One longer chapter today.
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Fear, Gheraa had to admit, was an entirely new sensation for him.
He wasn't sure he liked it. It made his Firmament fl...
2024-05-15 15:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostHe-Who-Wanders was not suited for diplomacy.
In all fairness, very few of those he considered to be the core rebels were actually suited for diplomacy. Bimar was more likely to start a fight ...
2024-05-08 13:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Notes: Two this week; 56 and 57. Thanks for waiting! I'm trying out something a little tricky. Excited about pulling these together in 58.
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Tarin strugg...
2024-05-08 13:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue 1 - Home
"Commune time!" Max cheered. Xothok stared at her, and the Guildmaster just grinned; she stared with pride at the network of homes they'd built. It was bet...
A/N: Short chapter. Epilogues coming soon--5 epilogues in total, and maybe more short stories placed in there when I feel like writing them. Thanks to everyone who's stayed for the...
2024-05-04 16:20:46 +0000 UTC View Post"It's just something the Interface does," Gheraa says, grimacing. "I don't have a good answer for you there. We think it has something to do with how the Interface draws from past Trialgoers as a t...
2024-04-30 16:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post"You've noticed by now that Firmament is layered," Gheraa says. "Imbuement stones are even labeled that way by the Interface—by its 'depth'. The deeper you sink into Firmament, the closer you get...
2024-04-30 16:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted you guys to know I've edited chapters 52 and 53 a bunch (they're both 3k+ chapters now). I'll summarize the changes further down in this post if you don't want to reread the chapters. ...
2024-04-29 15:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostClick.
Derivan watched curiously as they were brought to a new place within the Void. There was nothing here, technically—nothing except a small pedestal built into the ground. Not...
2024-04-29 15:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostSev's mind caught on a thought he'd had a moment ago. He struggled to pull it back.
There was no one left to assume the responsibility of connecting to the Grand Anchor. No one but him....
2024-04-28 14:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan, Vex, and Misa sat just outside the warehouse Sev was in.
The ground crumbled away in front of them. Their legs dangled off a sheer cliff that dropped down into nothingness, dangerous...
2024-04-28 14:35:41 +0000 UTC View PostThere was one hour left, and Sev didn't feel like he was any closer.
Derivan, Vex, and Misa had all left the building to try to help calm people's nerves, and to see if there was anything the...
2024-04-27 15:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-one hours had passed.
Sev and the rest of his party members were housed in a small building in Anderstahl—formerly a small industrial workshop, now converted into a temporary residen...
2024-04-27 15:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostSev raced back toward the train, pocketing the stone. He'd think about it later. "We need to hurry," he said, pulling a startled Ixoryn and Tinsel with him. "Not much time left."
"Were you no...
2024-04-25 16:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Void felt cold around Sev.
It wasn't really cold, of course. The Void wasn't really anything. It was an emptiness that ate away at everything of substance within it—the re...
2024-04-23 15:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post"First," Gheraa says. "You have to understand what the Interface is."
There's a pause. Gheraa stares at me expectantly, and after a moment passes, I open one eye to look at him. "What is it?"...
2024-04-22 16:10:17 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't looped. I think.
The I think is kind of a weird qualifier, I know. I'm pretty sure I'm not dead, but I'm also not entirely convinced I'm still alive. Best guess is that I'm...
2024-04-22 16:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe core of a dungeon wasn't a place that was normally accessible to delvers. They existed as a kind of grounding point for reality anchors—a storm of unstable reality and crumbling debris, often...
2024-04-21 16:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that Xelil was worried after hearing Exvhar's story was an understatement. Vex wondered if she simply hadn't processed everything they'd told her properly until she heard it from her brother...
2024-04-20 14:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostEven without being specifically tuned to divine energies the way Sev was, Vex could feel how much influence the gods had here. It was in the air, in the ground, in everything around t...
2024-04-19 15:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe hum of the train's engine was the only sound in the room. Sev was lost in thought. Ixoryn seemed too busy absorbing everything he'd been told—he'd barely said a word after Sev explained the s...
2024-04-18 14:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt took longer than Vex would've liked for him to recover, but he wasn't about to complain. Just the fact that he'd essentially been handed a miracle cure for his condition was pushing the limits o...
2024-04-18 14:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan wasn't sure how much time had passed. He was trying not to think too hard about it. He found that he was all too aware of every second and minute, and distracting himself from the passage o...
2024-04-17 15:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostIxoryn was dead.
Or as close to dead as he was going to get, anyway. He was dimly aware that he was bleeding and that there was nothing he could do about it—who would've thought mortals wou...
2024-04-16 15:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Notes: Been badly sick. Back to uploads!
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"This station is everything I expected it would be and I hate it," Sev groaned.
"Why?" Tinsel asked. "I think...
2024-04-15 16:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: One chapter this week; got pretty badly sick along the lines of "was probably internally bleeding for a bit". So uh... yeah. Hope you enjoy the chapter though!<...
2024-04-15 16:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post