Apologies for the late chapter, my son has croup, which I guess I always thought was one of those old timey diseases, but is not. He was home all day and I love him, but he was driving me ...
2023-11-14 06:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the late chapter, still catching up from having been sick earlier in the week.
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The dish was imprecise, and the Natrix didn’t have the tools necessary to make it mo...
2023-11-10 03:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the schedule slip, hoping to not have the Thursday chapter slip as well. I'm sick, and yesterday had what was either an 'icepick headache' or a 'hammer headache', sudden onset, high inte...
2023-11-07 20:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello there!
I have long been a fan of National Novel Writing Month, and credit it with having increased my output, especially in the early years. In 2010, I wrote 50,000 words of absolute garbage and have done it most years since then in one form or another, sometimes just adding 50,000 words onto an existing work. 2014/2015/2016 were all spent on adding to (and then finishing) The Dark Wizard of Donkerk, which can be read...
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Marjut had done what she did in every world: she went to ground.
The world was an ecumenopolis, a city that had spread to cover the entire planet, and she hated it with a ...
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“Fire!” shouted Perry. “Hit the sensors!”
Marchand responded by immediately shooting the mech’s single long gun directly at the distant elder, which scored a direct hit, thr...
2023-10-31 01:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe voting is concluded!
Some fun stats pulled from the spreadsheet:
Apologies for the cliffhanger, this was one of those chapters that wanted to be REALLY long, and I have made a commitment not to let that keep happening.
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Perry stood on to...
2023-10-27 01:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The respite on the Natrix was brief, since Perry had a satellite to launch.
The satellite, Horizon 1, was incredibly crude, bashed together from spare parts and with no on...
2023-10-23 23:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe poll is still ongoing, and will end in about a week, probably on Friday. Since the votes are weighted by tier, you can't see the "true" results, but here they are:
I find this useful for a few reasons, but the biggest one is that I was able to immediately stop worrying about a few of these and start putting more work into the frontrunners on the pl...
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They walked back through the snow, worried about a volley of missiles to their back. Perry had Marchand drive backward, so the gun and most of the sensors were in the direction of Heimalis ...
2023-10-19 22:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey, late chapter!
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Perry walked down the hallway, sword drawn, adrenaline pumping. He had March in his ear, but he’d have felt a lot better if his armor was on. The armor, unfortuna...
2023-10-17 03:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I know about Project Orion.
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As seen from Perry’s mech, the city was virtually invisible, and would have been impossible to spot from a plane or drone if not for the...
2023-10-13 00:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostMost of this is copy+pasted from the last post, but still relevant here. Last paragraph is new.
This is a poll for volume 4 of Thresholder. Each volume of Thresholder has a different setting, and volume 4 is going to be no different. This is a list of options to vote on. Volume 1 was 28 chapters, Volume 2 was 37 chapters, and I'm hoping that Volume 3 is somewhere between those. With eight chapters done so far, that means that Volume 3 won't conclude for at least another two months, maybe more, but I would like as much ...
2023-10-12 19:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry had never really experienced ‘true’ snow. He’d experience snowfalls, but Tacoma had wet and mild winters, and the snow never stuck around for long before being washed down the s...
2023-10-09 19:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a list of options for volume 4 of Thresholder. Each volume of Thresholder has a different setting, and volume 4 is going to be no different. This is a non-voting list of options, with the vote coming in a week or so. Volume 1 was 28 chapters, Volume 2 was 37 chapters, and I'm hoping that Volume 3 is somewhere between those. With eight chapters done so far, that means that Volume 3 won't conclude for at least another two months, maybe more, but I would like as much lead time as possible for Volume 4 so that 1) I can d...
2023-10-07 19:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostNice.
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Perry ended up staying in the penthouse, though he spent little time there. With the sword revealed, he was free to fly out of the balcony, and needed a good spot fo...
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“Alright,” said Perry. “Let’s say we want to help these people, but we don’t want to give them the atom bomb. They have piss-poor microchips except for the legacy syst...
2023-10-02 18:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter!
Belated author's note: Volume 3 was the last that I had planned when I was starting this, but there's a good chance that I'll go for four, since I'm having fun and enjoying the changes ...
2023-09-28 20:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The evacuation from the space station was supposedly orderly. There had been plans in place, along with training and drills, and there were enough escape ships and mechs to bring everyone w...
2023-09-26 00:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostLate chapter, sorry, but I technically consider anything before midnight my time to be sliding it in before my self-imposed deadline.
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“Alright,” said Perry with a sigh...
2023-09-22 03:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostI am back from London! Fighting off jet lag! Enjoy the chapter!
P.S. I will be doing an AMA on /r/ProgressionFantasy tomorrow at 9am EST!
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Perry liked her.
It h...
2023-09-18 22:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I'm still in London! I'll be back home next week, so the chapter release time should return to "normal". Time zones confuse and enrage me.
Did you know 2023-09-14 14:55:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Back from break, though I'm still in London rather than at home, which is why this is being posted at such a weird hour. Volume art should be at the end of this post, since it's a ver...
2023-09-11 08:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, a reminder that there will be no chapters next week, but that regular posting will start again the week after that, beginning Volume 3, World 5.
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Maya felt like de...
2023-08-31 18:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostThursday's chapter will be an interlude, then there won't be another chapter until the 11th.
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Luo Yanhua wrote a treatise on the werewolves, then another on Marchand, and a third on th...
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Perry ran at the grandmaster and whipped his sword sideways, the power armor groaning in protest. When the grandmaster deflected the sword to the side with his gnarled staff, Perry recalled...
2023-08-26 19:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, this chapter ends on a cliffhanger, mostly because it would be ~10K words without being split into two. It's up to you whether you read it in one part or two, but I've always thou...
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The former king and his people moved slowly, which was aggravating.
Perry might have described Wu Xianlong as playing too much to the crowd, but none of the men and women ...
2023-08-21 21:56:22 +0000 UTC View PostMoving forward, chapters will be Monday/Thursday, with any extra chapters being Saturday. I've had other commitments that have left me temporarily overworked, and am trying to stave off some stress an...
2023-08-17 21:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post
