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Voting points this round: 582
Announcements
As of 1/1/26, I've dropped nine of my on-hold stories back into the mix, making it 19 stories all told. I will be (if possible) writing up two chapters per month, starting February.
Novel is PUBLISHED. [Welcome to...
Alea Iacta Est
Part Twenty-Six: Extended Fallout
[A/N: This chapter beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]
Sunday Night, March 20, 2011
PRT ENE Building
Director Emily Piggot
Emily pulled to a halt and showed her ID to one of the two guards at the barrier. The building was on lockdown as...
All Alone
Part Eighteen: Nature Abhors
[A/N: This chapter commissioned by @GW_Yoda and beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]
[A/N 2: Update on my weight loss progress. It's slowed, but I'm still down another 6 kg (13 lb) since the last time I posted to this fic, whee.]
Tuesday Night...
The Slippery Slope
Part Twenty-Eight: Ongoing Fallout
[A/N 1: This chapter beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]
[A/N 2: Reminder for the reader that Taylor is a member of the Empire Eighty-Eight in this fic, and may express racist views that the author does not share.]
Monday, February...
"And lo, the Demon Scion did trespass upon the Holy Ground of the Bay of Brockton. And the Great Atropos stood forth with the Blessed Five, and spake the Immortal Challenge. And the words of the Immortal Challenge were thus: Do not make me come over there. But the Demon Scion heeded not Her...
Certainly a more interesting mythos than the usual.
EDIT: Also, yeah. An entire generation of people have grown up knowing about Atropos. "Do not fuck with her" has gone genetic.
Legacy
[A/N: This little bit has been circulating in my brain for a while. It fits in after Riley visits her parents' gravesite but before the Ending epilogue.]
[A/N 2: This epilogue beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]
April 10, 2043
Karamoja Region, Northeastern Uganda
Odoch Baguma, Aid...
Getting their measure. Poking the bear. And demonstrating in the most effective way possible that they are not the kings of their own little hill anymore.
Victor and Alabaster are dead. Kaiser is either dead or severely injured (haven't decided yet). Cricket and Hookwolf had just had the shit...
Piggot will be donating her share (Winter and Mannequin) to the troopers' fund. The troopers already get Hatchet Face. Given how long each of those have been around, that's probably tens of millions. Assume three million per fallen trooper. 2%/year on 3 million dollars is $60,000 per year, in...
Reality Intrudes
Part Twenty-Two: Paying the Piper
[A/N: This chapter beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]
Morrigan
By the time Taylor gets to the bottom of the stairs, I'm seated in the chair with the jack snuggled into place. Loki hits the Enter key, and I go down the rabbit hole. A...
If the bounty money is invested wisely and the families are paid regular dividends, it would absolutely give them ongoing passive income that would take care of most of their needs without them having to lift a finger.
They will absolutely get a memorial. It will be front and centre in the (rebuilt) lobby. Piggot will make sure of it.
Their families will be getting enough from the bounties to never need for anything again. She'll make sure of that, too.
Threadmarks: Vote Count 248: Alea Iacta Est and Slippery Slope
Thanks, as always, for voting.
Voting points this round: 537
Announcements
As of 1/1/26, I've dropped nine of my on-hold stories back into the mix, making it 19 stories all told. I will be (if possible) writing up two chapters per month, starting February.
Novel is PUBLISHED. [Welcome to...