Sitting out on the front porch, I have nothing to do but smoke my favorite poker pipe and wait for Naomi to get home. I won’t smoke around her, but I know she loves how this blend of tobacco smells. It smells like sweet vanilla. The more I smell like it, the better for her. It’ll also give her a fun clue that I’m here.
Even if I’ve only been gone for a month, I know she’s going to light up as soon as she smells the lingering scent in the air.
Her bus rolls up and stops directly...
2018-09-18 01:45:00 +0000 UTC
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“Seriously?” I ask.
“Seriously,” Zane answers.
“Why me? There’re already teachers over there to teach all those brats.”
“Because you’re one of the best we have and, ever since you lost your eye, you’ve been taking more hits. We can’t risk losing you. As detrimental to the coming battles it may be to not have you participating, we’re hoping that you’ll be able to train the next generation of pilots to be just as good as you.”
“We’re hop...
2018-09-18 00:32:25 +0000 UTC
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“Morning,” Rao says followed by a loud, exaggerated yawn that lasts just long enough to trigger everybody else on the deck into yawning.
“I,” Fenrir pauses to yawn, “hate you,” he tells Rao.
“Bro, what’d I do? I just immerse and say morning and you’re already hating on me.”
“You made me yawn. I hate when people make me yawn.”
Serra is the last one to try holding back a yawn, but she gives in which then makes Fenrir yawn again from hearing her.
Fe...
2018-09-17 21:40:36 +0000 UTC
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Half of the base is evacuated by the time the sun rises.
That submarine left hours ago and the barrage from our naval support has continued all night.
Now, I’m sitting in my VSU’s cockpit tapping my feet and idly playing with the controls.
I could really go for a smoke right now, but I’d rather not write up another essay on how “sorry” I am for breaking protocol and smoking inside of the machine.
Fucking… they try telling me that the smoke might interfere with the...
2018-09-15 12:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Heading Home; Reassignment
I remember when I used to lie in bed at night, shaking from adrenaline and fear, covered in sweat and filling a trash can next to my bed with vomit, and praying that I was delusional and that none of this world is real.
Now I just lie in bed, staring up at the ceiling, sweating because it’s fucking hot.
I might have my own room, but those in the barracks may as well have their own rooms with how empty they are now.
There’s no wa...
2018-09-15 12:18:50 +0000 UTC
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The Fires over Clear Lake
“We’re fucked! Can’t see shit, can barely breathe, and—”
“Get ahold of yourself! Do you want to give our damn position away? Fuck, shut up and stay alert.”
The men’s voices are muffled from their respirators, and with how dense and warm the smog is, their thermal goggles are barely effective. “Can’t fucking see shit, fuck!” one of the men shouts, pushing his goggles up.
“The hell do you think you’re doing? Y...
2018-09-15 12:12:45 +0000 UTC
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Patch 6.0: Hard Labor
After being teased by Saya and judged by Cassiel, Fenrir is stuck transporting logs of wood from the riverbank to the makeshift lift that Tabitha has built on top of The Shoebill. He carries the logs over, places them on the lift, and then she pulls it up while he swims back for more logs. Meanwhile, Shogun flies to and from the boat with a log in his mouth each time, and even Oleander is helping out now that he’s returned with a much messier h...
2018-09-15 01:54:35 +0000 UTC
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Alright, just a quick update. I was up all night last night really sick and had to drug myself pretty heavily to finally get some sleep, and I only just woke up. I'm going to go ahead and post the free chapters for people and make the new $5 chapters available, but the new $10 chapters are going to be late tonight. I'll be working on them as soon as everything else is posted to get them done asap.
Sorry for the delay!
2018-09-14 19:40:53 +0000 UTC
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Finally, finally, the group makes it back to The Shoebill with their first haul of logs.
But that’s just the very first haul. There is still plenty left for them to bring over that was left back in the forest, and there is more work to be done over the coming days.
But for now, they may relax, and relax they do.
“I’m so tired,” Fenrir groans.
“Stop your complainin’. Ya think your girlfriends want a whiny boyfriend?” Tabitha asks him.
“A...
2018-09-13 22:04:26 +0000 UTC
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And so, after being judged by the shortest of them all, the group resumes their journey back to The Shoebill. The logs from the now-ruined third wagon have been loaded on top of the logs already filling the two remaining wagons. Due to the heavy load, they’ve redistributed the groups so that each wagon has equal strength behind pushing it, and they have to move slowly to make sure that the wagons don’t break down now from the added weight.
Fenrir, Tabitha, and Shogun are all shari...
2018-09-12 21:28:38 +0000 UTC
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“Bet you didn’t think we’d catch up!” Fenrir shouts over to Tabitha and Cassiel.
While Cassiel does love her boyfriend, she doesn’t want to lose this race to him and summons whatever strength she has left to push the wagon with all of her force!
“That’s the spirit!” Tabitha tells her, taking one hand off of the handlebar to give Cassiel an encouraging smack on her back.
The wagon doesn’t slow down even when Tabitha is only using a single hand. She can’t even use...
2018-09-11 21:48:15 +0000 UTC
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkRvwiCA_h8&feature=youtu.be
Weekly Worksheet: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t8NBSDCwJ6xqNf48g90-NcE5UbypJAIL
A couple hours short last week, but I think it was okay to take a lazy week after doing 78 hours the p...
2018-09-11 00:30:35 +0000 UTC
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“Ready?” Tabitha asks everybody.
She’s the only one who looks ready.
“Get set… go!” she shouts.
Tabitha, far more enthusiastically than the rest of the group, pushes on her handlebar with all of her might to push the wagon forward. Cassiel, not wanting to be left behind and get crushed under the wagon, pushes as well. Their combined strength is enough to push the wagon with a decent speed that only gets easier once the wheels get rolling.
Really, Tabitha could do ...
2018-09-10 21:47:56 +0000 UTC
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Once the group has brought everything that Tabitha needs to the felled tree, the small engineer gets to work constructing new and improved tools for them to use.
The first axe is finished before long and gets put to immediate use.
While most axes would have a wooden shaft and a metal head, this one is different. It has a metal shaft and a wooden head, but the head itself is made out of a tree harder than most metals when used properly.
Fenrir swings the new axe into the trunk of on...
2018-09-07 21:50:47 +0000 UTC
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Patch 5.0: Building a Town and a Harem
Ever since Cassiel told Fenrir about Azalabulia’s apparent feelings for him and that all of his girlfriends are supposedly alright with Azalabulia joining their relationship, he has felt awkward around Azalabulia.
Why?
Because now he’s acutely aware of her actions and words.
How is he supposed to react to her now that he knows that she flirts with him? He had no problem flirting with Cassiel, Serra, and Nell back the...
2018-09-06 21:46:04 +0000 UTC
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Rather than try to drag the felled tree back to The Shoebill somehow, the group has decided to head back to the boat to get the items that Tabitha will need and take them back to the forest. It will be far easier for them to work on-site than bringing the tree back.
They are met with an unexpected sight once they make it back to The Shoebill.
Azalabulia is sitting on the riverbank with her tentacle companion wiggling around next to her as she rubs her eyes and cries.
2018-09-05 21:46:11 +0000 UTC
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“So, Red told me that your dog here can find the right trees?” Tabitha asks.
“Kind of. She doesn’t get it right every time, but she does a pretty good job,” Fenrir explains.
Tabitha looks down at Rock and taps her foot as she thinks. “Why?”
“What do you mean why?”
“Why – how, whatever, how can she tell?”
“Maybe she’s just naturally attracted to really hard things?”
Oleander snerks which causes Corwin to join in him corrupting Fenrir...
2018-09-04 21:50:02 +0000 UTC
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I don't have a meme this week because of that damn Johnny Johnny meme blowing up everywhere and me hating it and refusing to partake in it (ignore all the memes of it I post to Discord), so have a song that I've listened to for over 30 hours straight now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4cAeVzZwI
Yes, I'm trash. I've got it up on listenonrepeat and it's repeated over 400 times so far. And yes, I've been here ...
2018-09-04 00:12:38 +0000 UTC
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