Under a night sky, Jason and Emi stood on a wooden platform, high in a tree house. They were in the city of Arbour, in what was more a tree mansion than a tree house, spanning across several toweri...
2024-10-28 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the vampire laboratory, Clive and Lorelei were cataloguing the overtly magical tools and materials. Travis was doing the same with the technological tools, while also checking in on an IT specia...
2024-10-25 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIlyin found his passage up the elevator shaft discomforting, lifted as if by a disembodied hand. It didn’t help that, to grab him, Asano had suppressed Ilyin’s aura first. Reaching the surface,...
2024-10-23 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIlyin, Gusev and Orlova moved through the dark concrete tunnels of the abandoned bunker complex. Designed to shelter tens of thousands for as much as a week, it was a sprawling warren, crawling und...
2024-10-21 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason couldn’t stop grinning. Walking along the promenade deck, his fingers were intertwined with Zara’s as she walked beside him.
“We should probably make our way to the gathering,” ...
2024-10-18 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe diplomatic contingent from the Storm Kingdom had set up their area of Jason’s cloud ship like an embassy. Jason provided the space, tailored it to their requests, and left them to it. Like an...
2024-10-16 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMembers of the Cabal had been hiding themselves for longer than humans — at least the ones from Earth — had been recording history. Some were reclusive, their glamours not holding up to close s...
2024-10-14 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Australian security team returned through the portal to report on what they had found. Jason sent Lu Yan through a separate portal, to join with the government officials eating frozen desserts....
2024-10-11 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe new and extremely popular new member of the Asano family was looking rather shell-shocked. Jason extracted Nik from the clutches of Hana and Jace, taking him to a quiet corner of the balcony. 2024-10-09 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason placed a comforting hand on Nik’s shoulder as they walked down a corridor in the cloud ship.
“I won’t say don’t be nervous, because of course you are,” Jason told him. “What...
2024-10-07 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJason hugged his sister. They were alone on the rooftop garden of her family home.
“This is good,” she said. “Hugging those avatars of yours is like hugging cold rubber.”
“Tec...
2024-10-04 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
Book 12 has concluded; no hiatus.
I will be at Pax Aus Oct 11-13
I will be taking Decem...
2024-10-02 23:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason and his team hunted the pirates through the dimension ship, with few putting up much of a fight. Their prey was scattered, on the run and ravaged by afflictions. The near-indestructible gold-...
2024-10-02 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostKilling a gold ranker was hard. Killing a couple of dozen was extremely hard. The standard solution to killing things that excelled at not being killed was afflictions, placing Jason at the centre ...
2024-09-30 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFloating in the air alongside Natala and Jason, Jota watched Kreegle and most of the crew stream out of the dimension ship. Some used the ship’s personal flight disks, but many showed off an ecle...
2024-09-27 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMagic masked Jota’s dimension ship from any means the people of Earth had of detecting it. It was quite obviously there, however, as his crew were drawn up by the gravity channel and vanishing in...
2024-09-25 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“What you’re telling me,” Lenora said, “is that my little city is going to turn into a gold-rank battle zone.”
“Yes,” Anna told her. “Jason will try and take it out into the d...
2024-09-23 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Travelling like this is strange,” Anna said. “I’m used to strange, with anything related to Jason, but this is up there.”
Their vehicle looked like a flying saucer, flat and round,...
2024-09-20 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThey were in the office of Jason’s captain’s suite on the cloud ship. In deference to his intentions to handle his time of Earth responsibly, it was more like an expensive hotel suite than a ma...
2024-09-18 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Jason,” Boris said. “What did you do?”
“You know we’ve been discussing how to demonstrate the power I’ll be bringing to bear, to deter the powers of Earth from doing something ...
2024-09-16 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDarius and Michael were nervous. They were political officials, their silver-rank coming from cores. Their limited combat training consisted of a basic course and annual two-week refreshers. It was...
2024-09-13 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you realise what you’ve done?” Rick asked Jason as they walked along a hallway in the cloud ship. “The collection of people on this boat is ridiculous. The number of gold rankers alone ...
2024-09-11 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the captain’s chair on the bridge of his dimension ship, Jota Withers let out a sigh. This was not the trajectory his life had been meant to take. The universe-city of Interstice was, ...
2024-09-09 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was Clive who portalled Jason to his destination. Jason had been to the target location before, but only once, and it had changed greatly since. When he and Farrah had arrived, years previously,...
2024-08-23 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter collecting the people from Earth and turning his sky vessel back into a passenger ship, Jason and his companions set off for the next pick up. Most of the earthlings had been assigned to comf...
2024-08-21 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA line of red and gold electricity flashed through the air. It burst into the form of a Māori, right above the stone and lightning body of a stormspire drake. Koa dropped lightly onto the drake’...
2024-08-19 23:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDuke Percival Headingway was the patriarch of House Headingway, holder of the family’s highest title. While the same title was claimed by rural aristocrats in their remote city states, his title ...
2024-08-16 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
No chapters last week of August and first week of September
Dragon Con appearance schedule below
I'll be taking some time...
2024-08-14 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostNine people marched across the bridge towards Jason’s cloud palace. They were clearly unlike the people Jason had been negotiating with, although they were from the noble houses currently missing...
2024-08-14 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostVandrick arrived at the entrance to Jason Asano’s cloud palace. There was a mob out front, and had been since the System went dark. They were pretending to be a spontaneously formed group, protes...
2024-08-12 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post