As promised, a new chapter of The New Ron. I think this turned out really well and is a good lead-in for Tara's first team mission coming up soon.
In other news, I'm still working on Nexus Event, but it'll probably go up next week.
Right now, I'm focusing on the next Winning Peace, which I believe will be late Friday or early Saturday. I hope, anyway.
Not much else to say, b...
2024-05-09 10:06:53 +0000 UTC View PostBallentine Ulysses Banasiewicz cracked his neck as he hung in the empty space around the closest anti-spinward spar jutting off Ceres and sighed. Really, he should be at home right now, logging into the new Gundam update. After literal years of waiting, the creators had finally issued a content update for Gundam 00 and he was missing a day of launch week to play void ball...
2024-05-05 05:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Good News/Bad News
Very obviously, this should have been a Nexus Event chapter. I ran into a little bit of a block on an important conversation for that chapter, so I set it aside and worked on the next WP chapter.
Which is what you see before you now. (Duh.)
Anyway, still working on the NE chapter, but it won't be out till I'm satisfied with the dialogu...
2024-05-05 05:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the new monthly poll, as promised.
Same game as usual, folks. Pick your favorite, 5$ Tier gets an extra vote, I focus on the one that gets the most in the final total. Second-most votes gets second-most attention, etc...
I am going to go ahead and promise a New Ron post either this week or next. It got shafted with the focus on getting Where Your God Is its own thread and ne...
2024-05-01 10:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'll admit that the Hellfire Club had never been my particular favorite part of the overall Marvel franchise of properties, for a number of reasons. The first was that conspiracies tended to be dramatically overplayed when they popped up in narratives. The classic example was the villain James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes. Prior to his emergence as the central antagonist of the series, Sherloc...
2024-05-01 09:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
...wow that got away from me. Over 4k words, huh.
Well, you guys get extra content for the last April chapter and an interesting back and forth with Sebastian Shaw. That, surprisingly, ends without a fight. Though it comes close once or twice.
Next up is... Nexus Event, I think. Need to work on that one a bit.
In the meantime, I'll be getting the monthly poll up for May in...
2024-05-01 09:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostI raised an eyebrow at the reporter.
He squirmed, as did many of the others gathered in the room. To my side, Nedzu was visibly straining in an effort to hold back laughter. On the other side, All Might, in his full spandex uniform, hunched over a bit and rubbed at his eyes.
“Repeat your question, please?” I asked politely.
“D-do you plan ...
2024-04-28 07:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Not going to lie, I could have posted this yesterday and washed my hands of it, but...
It just wasn't up to snuff.
I had to do some rewrites because I just wasn't happy with how the latter part of the chapter turned out. I'll admit to being very very glad I did so. The rewrite turned out much better than what I'd slammed out in an attempt to make the self-imposed dea...
2024-04-28 07:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the mission: Get a quarter of the way across the galaxy, steal a massive derelict bio-ship, and get back across the same distance without being noticed by the various powers at play.
Honestly, it's easier than it sounds.
Even with galaxy-spanning civilizations having spread through the relay network, the majority of systems had neither a relay connection...
2024-04-25 11:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This chapter is in honor of literally anyone and anything except for Comcast, who has the special honor of having made it incredibly difficult to write and post. This is in addition to the birthday stuff going on this week that's made writing difficult in general.
Anyway! Here's the next chapter of Winning Peace and, likely, the last one for it this month.
I plan to ...
2024-04-25 11:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe societal norm for working-class individuals in Japan was to, immediately after college, find a profession with an employer and, barring extenuating circumstances, work within that same field under that same employer until you either retired or died. It was a direct violation of a social taboo to quit a job without an extremely good reason. It was why the majority of people working for Black...
2024-04-21 11:05:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, who wants a double-length chapter to cover the Floor 1 Boss Fight? Not only that, but as-promised there's an extended interlude as well!
Woo!
Also, and very big for this story, it's getting its own thread over on QQ!
Double Woo!
Uhh... in other news, I'll probably be getting two chapters of something out this week, but nothing over the next weekend. Birthd...
2024-04-21 11:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostHarrison Kreuger sighed as he seated himself and looked around the room. Carrol Dunnings, a woman with a dark complexion and piercing blue eyes was to his left. Hercules Roberts, a man with skin a few shades lighter and eyes that were near coal-black was to his right. Zahir Chopra was beyond Carol, the red bindi on his forehead clarifying a personal allegiance to his Indian heritage even if the...
2024-04-18 12:42:50 +0000 UTC View Post
...and done! Okay, that's almost all of the teching-up chapters. We've got two-three more and I plan to do at least one more Winning Peace chapter this month. So aliens will be happening very soon.
Uhh... next up is Where Your God Is. I resisted the urge to do it first, but I'd really like to get back to it for the weekend chapter.
After that... I'm not too sure. ...
2024-04-18 12:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostIvan sighed as he looked up towards the slowly-expanding ring around Luna. The basic structure was finished, a full reinforced scaffold of some composite material he couldn't hope to say on his best day. No, his job was directing a crew of robots to move stuff about in preparation for the next stage already being built. The plan was for a full orbital construction ring to be put into place arou...
2024-04-16 05:36:21 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's the next chapter Winning Peace. And it's still Monday on the Pacific coast, so it's still on time! So there!
More seriously, I'll have the next chapter up in a day or two. It will either be Winning Peace or Where Your God Is. I really want to get the next chapter of that out soon. But WP did win the poll, so it still has priority and will get ...
2024-04-16 05:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostI sighed and rubbed at my eyes. “That's, the... um, fuck... what was it?”
Sam took a long drag of coffee and flexed her back and neck, popping various joints before she answered. “That was the deputy head of the Hong Kong Triads. I can't remember the exact name of the group, why?”
I shook my head as I looked around the teleporter room, the individual who w...
2024-04-13 13:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Uhh... so, this one got away from me a bit.
And the scary thing is I actually wanted to keep going and do the full conversation with Sara at the end, but... it's already at 4.5k and should have been posted yesterday.
Thankfully, I'm already working on the next chapter of Winning Peace and should have that out Sunday or Monday, at the latest. Looking to have two chapter of WP out th...
2024-04-13 13:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostI moved like lightning.
Every centimeter of the way, the flash of red followed at my heels.
“C'mon, boyo! I know you've got some fighting in you!”
Under other circumstances, I would have groaned or cursed at the jeer. In the current situation I found myself, that was just counterproductive. The breath in my lungs was better-used to run as fast as I ...
2024-04-10 04:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a new chapter of the OG Industrious! As promised, it's ALL COMBAT! A significant portion of the next chapter will likely be fighting as well, covering Naruko's fight with two of the hunter ninja, Yakumo's face off against a familiar young face, and Obito throwing down with the Demon of the Mist.
Look forward to that!
In the meantime, I've got another Winning Peace and Nexus...
2024-04-10 04:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a lot of questions newly-interstellar societies need to face.
Some of them are profound and regard the meaning of life and the complexity of your species' development once you leave the embrace of your homeworld. Some are scientific, revolving around the actual issues a group faces in covering the distance between one star and the next regarding your own biological limit...
2024-04-07 03:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Had to trash some of this. It just wasn't working for me and I needed to rewrite a good page or so of stuff. I think this is better and flows more smoothly. Next chapter of Winning Peace will be a third-party view of the discovery of the Charon relay and the Mars Archive.
I'll have the next chapter out next week, though I'm probably going to dip and do either a chapter of Industrious f...
2024-04-07 03:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostI made it a personal goal to not advertise my personal life as much as possible.
If I were to explain that I was dating three girls simultaneously, I'd imagine most people who heard about it would imagine constant orgies every night for hours without end. The truth was... rather far from that idealized image. Relationships are seldom about simply physical intercourse, ...
2024-04-04 09:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for more adventures from everyone's favorite VRMMO junkie!
Also, it's an extra-long chapter!
Also-also, it's got NSFW content!
And fluff!
Little bit of everything!
...and, on a more serious note, it looks as though Industrious' time at the top of the pile has come to an end. Will this be the start of a new trend or just a flash in the pan? Who knows!
Here's the new monthly poll, as promised.
Same game as usual, folks. Pick your favorite, 5$ Tier gets an extra vote, I focus on the one that gets the most in the final total. Second-most votes gets second-most attention, etc...
Other than that, not much in the way of earth-shattering revelations. I am thinking of adding a 10$ Tier, but I'm still considering appropriate rewards fo...
2024-04-01 06:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
...and sneaking in just under the bar is the update for Semper.
I'll have the Poll Votes up in a few hours after I take a short break.
Rock on and stay awesome everybody!
2024-04-01 04:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I don't have time for this!” I bemoaned overdramatically, dropping my head back to smack against the hard metal of the bank of lockers behind me.
“Tell me again how the school paper's tapping you for content if you're... not on the school paper?” Kim asked, frowning as she shuffled through the cramped space of her own school locker. “Ugh, stupid printe...
2024-03-30 08:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! This is the last story chapter of the month. Nice bonus-length New Ron chapter doing some normal stuff at normal school, which isn't something we've had for a while. This will probably be a relatively short three-episode arc for one episode that usually gets forgotten. I'm looking forward to Sink or Swim next, though.
In other news, expect a Semper ad Meliora quest update (Co...
2024-03-30 08:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post