116. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Four fully-sized Templar souls dissolve within me, pulsing my body full of fresh power. Oh, yes. Yes. That's the good shit.
It's about fucking time.
I step through the now-open...
2021-10-20 22:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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28. Digging Yourself Deeper
As my diplomat body fills itself with pleasure and tunes out from the stress of actual diplomacy, I'm still very busy on the surface optimizing my living space. I think I'm preferential towards rel...
2021-10-18 21:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post27. Multitudinous
Tears start to fall from my face, splattering on the plastic box I'm clutching tightly to my chest as I flee from the Arby's and the overwhelming embarrassment within. I try to keep the presenc...
2021-10-16 19:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post115. Filia Mortis
"…So then she claimed she killed Inquisitor Paris because he discovered a working method to extract the souls from her body, and heavily implied she did so via spellcasting, despite the collar."<...
2021-10-15 18:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post114. Lost and Found
"Yo, Jelisa! Wake up!"
My mind sputters and screams as I'm jolted awake by yelling voices and pounding on my door, the cacophony mixing with a brutal assault of sights, smells, feelings and s...
2021-10-13 18:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post26. Immortal Terror
So Sthrenslians don't have chairs, but it turns out they do have tables. Rather than being independent pieces of furniture, however, they are just kind of carved directly into the room. Sthrenslian...
2021-10-11 18:38:43 +0000 UTC View Post25. Peace Talks
"Um... hey, mom," Hsthressis mutters awkwardly, shifting her weight back and forth under the pressure of her mother's silence.
"Hsthressis," the chieftain intones, a complicated mix of doubt ...
2021-10-09 22:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post113. Crime Against Nature
I grin smugly at the slack-jawed vrothizo sitting on my operating table, rapidly flexing my internal spellcasting muscles to sterilize her severed finger before it finishes dropping into my stomach...
2021-10-08 18:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post112. Parallels
"Welcome to your first day of combat class, trainees. Each and every one of you knows how to fight, but here you will learn how to fight like a Templar."
As planned I ended my torpor this mor...
2021-10-06 15:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post111. Meet and Greet
A/N: I'm going on a two-week break. After completing volume 2 I need some time to recharge. The next chapter will be released October 6th.
My new roommate and I sta...
110. Invasive Examinations
Full plate armor is really, really uncomfortable. I do have to admit that it's a much better disguise than a robe and a mask, though.
Apparently, there's a uniform for Templar trainees, which...
2021-09-20 17:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post24. Culture Barrier
"So… this is the surface, huh?" Hsthressis asks, scuttling around. "I have to admit, I imagined the home turf of the demons to be a little less… blurry."
"Yeah, your echolocation didn't r...
2021-09-20 02:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post109. Epsilon-One
Even the outside of the Epsilon-Class prisoner's cell is different enough from every other to set me even further on edge. All the way at the bottom floor of the facility, where I know I will proba...
2021-09-17 18:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post108. Site 4
Pounding footsteps. Voices. Ragged breaths. Heartbeats. The instant I return to consciousness I am assaulted by the all-too-familiar cacophony of nonsense garbage forcing its way into my ears and t...
2021-09-15 19:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post107. Goes Unpunished
Today is the one-year anniversary of the day that I ate my father. It’s an inauspicious day to finally find myself at the island’s edge.
The forest doesn't grow near the edge, for reasons...
2021-09-13 17:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post23. Social Skills
"I hear if the teacher doesn't show up in fifteen minutes, we can just leave," Samantha eventually says.
I've been back to school for a few weeks now, having classes during the d...
2021-09-11 22:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostLate Chapter Announcement (VM)
I regret to report that today's chapter will be pushed back to Monday.
The chapter in question is both the final chapter in volume 2 and it is also currently the longest, despite the fact tha...
2021-09-11 05:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post106. Laws and Customs of War
So. A perception event has occurred, Skyhope has been reduced to rubble, my mother, father, grandfather, and all my other relatives have been killed, my fiancé has been killed, the girl I love has...
2021-09-09 00:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post105. No Good Deed
This is probably a bad idea.
There are… I would have to guess over two thousand people in the range of my soul sense. A quarter of them are dead. No doubt that percentage will increase sign...
2021-09-06 06:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post22. Demon Mom
Wrapping up my wet hair, I speed around the room, trying to scrounge up some clean clothing. I've spent the last few days chatting with Tara, showing her some more of my favorite stories, answe...
2021-09-04 20:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post104. Deum Timete
I gaze out on my lake of shit and corpses, basking in the calm familiarity of it all. Heads bob at the surface of the lake, wearing the faces of friends and family, twisted in grotesque express...
2021-09-03 16:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post103. Boss Battle
Lyn appears in midair, and I feel my heart halt in terror. Capita may be crazy, but damn her she's sane enough to be smart enough for this. Lyn twists as best she can, but there is a hard limit to ...
2021-09-01 18:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post102. Stealth Mission
It's time to attack.
After learning that Sky is most likely going to attempt to cause a perception event, we pulled out all the stops. The last tenday has been nothing but plans, intelligence...
2021-08-30 22:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post21. Powerlessly Humane
I want to be the one and only me, Hsthressis concludes. If that means you keeping my soul, at least in part, so be it. You don’t seem all that bad.
I figured that might be...
2021-08-28 19:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post101. Plotting Dates
It’s weird to sort of have a girlfriend.
After cuddling for a while underneath a tree, some monsters eventually got brave enough to approach, so we had to stop while I killed and ate them. ...
2021-08-27 22:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post100. Life and Death
“Would you consider a relationship with me?”
The very words fill me with fear. No. No, I don't want that. I just want to be friends. Best friends, maybe, something special I have...
2021-08-25 21:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post20. Cultural Exchange
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you saying that you don't have any fiction? At all?"
I'm doing the dishes after feeding Tara. Again. She really eats like crazy! After I fried her so...
2021-08-25 19:26:01 +0000 UTC View Post99. Humanity Overrated
"Look at them twitch!" Penelope crows, barely managing to speak coherently between her gasping breaths as she tries not to roll off the giant undead beetle we're both sitting on. "This is the first...
2021-08-23 21:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post19. Soul of Theseus
I don't understand, I think to myself.
No. No, that's what Hsthressis thinks to me. At me? At herself. She's just thinking, and I know what she's thinking. It's not really at me at a...
2021-08-21 20:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post98. Time to Think
I take a deep breath and hold it, pulling in mana from my ocean. The warm waters of my true self wash through me, calming and reassuring. I am more than what I seem to be, and this truth is unassai...
2021-08-20 17:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post