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Worth the Candle: The Exclusionary Principle, 9th Edition

Worth the Candle: The Exclusionary Principle, 9th Edition has started posting! One exclusion will be posted every day for the next 67 days, starting today with the Publican Exclusion Zone. This was a long-delayed Patreon goal, partly because the final word count has ended up at ~70K words, which I hope you'll agree is very long for a worldbuilding document.

These "chapters" (each ~1K words) will be posted to AO3, and linked fr...

Thresholder, ch 38, Celestial Changes (Corrected)

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This should be the correct links/text, my tabs got messed up and I pushed the wrong one. Definitely reminiscent of nuking a test database on accident. Sorry!

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At the end of...

Thresholder, ch 37, Academics

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Perry did, in fact, have questions for Maya, lots of them. He’d tried to be quiet while she told her story, saying ‘uh huh’ or ‘wow’ or whatever, which was what he alw...

Thresholder, ch 36, The Seven Worlds of Maya Singh, pt 3 (Bonus)

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I believe this will be the last "bonus" chapter for a bit, in part because I really do need to get the Worth the Candle exclusions doc out, and in part because the backlog has bee...

Thresholder, ch 35, The Seven Worlds of Maya Singh, pt 2

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I'm still planning on another bonus Friday chapter, the last of this set, which will bring this set of three to a close.

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It was the long, slow, end of the world. Humanity ...

Thresholder, ch 34, The Seven Worlds of Maya Singh, pt 1

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My first world, my home world, I’m not going to tell you about. It’s painfully boring, and kind of personal, so we’re skipping that one, thanks. I had a career there, the ...

Thresholder, ch 33, Good News, Bad News (Bonus chapter)

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This is another bonus chapter, putting Early Birds four chapters ahead of RoyalRoad readers. Enjoy!

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Three days came and went. There were no more altercations to s...

Thresholder, ch 32, Handshake Protocol

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Maya came to his room with him, which Perry wasn’t entirely thrilled with. He was, after all, still naked and trying not to feel the burning shame from that, nor the intense v...

Thresholder, ch 31, Hitting the Beats

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Perry wasn’t entirely sure of the nomenclature. The first sphere members of the temple were students, disciples, or possibly something else. He was going to have to nail down ...

Thresholder, ch 30, No Master, No Credo (Bonus Chapter)

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Please note: This is a bonus chapter which puts Early Birds three chapters ahead. The intent is that this will be permanently moving it forward.

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Dinner was rice p...

Thresholder, ch 29, Tea Time

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Schedule Note: Due to a large backlog, there will be a bonus chapter on Friday, which will permanently put Early Birds three chapters ahead of the normal schedule.

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“Last...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 177 + Temporary Hiatus

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As alluded to in the title of this post, TUTBAD is going on a temporary hiatus, probably just a week or two, with Thresholder having chapters on those days instead. Writing TUTBAD is going...

Thresholder, ch 28, Counterpart

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I am still in Washington D.C., so will be a little slow on typo corrections and such. Thanks for reading!

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“Who is this?” asked Perry. His hand had gone to the sword at...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 176, Life of the Party, pt. 1

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I'm on vacation this week, there shouldn't be schedule disruptions at all, but if the times are even more wonky than normal, that's why. (I'm in Washington, D.C., my nation's capital, seei...

Thresholder, ch 27, Digging Graves

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Luo Yanhua was treating him like a child. Worse, she was treating him like a child she was uninterested in, some brat kid her mother had told her to look after. He asked questions and she d...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 175, Bursar

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Another late-in-the-day chapter. Technically, chapters are "Monday", but ideally I would want them to consistently come out at the same time each and every day. I will try not to stress to...

Thresholder, ch 26, Reflections

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Author's Note: I totally meant to put this at the end of last chapter, but yes, this world is something approaching xianxia, which I'm writing with the benefit of not having read much...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 174, Honeymoon Minutes

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Sorry for the later chapter today, I got way ahead on Thresholder and had done less work on Dungeons than initially thought.

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“I should skip school toda...

Thresholder, ch 25, Curved Horizon (Start of World 4)

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The first thing that Perry noticed about the new world was just how green it was. Teaguewater had been a dingy place, with even the trees seeming weighed down and disco...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 173, Answer to the Nebulous + Ad Read 3

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Ad Read 3 will be posted tomorrow, and can be found after the chapter, if for some reason you want to read an ad accompanying the release of WtC Book 3.

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Pinion ha...

Thresholder, ch 24, World 3 - Epilogue

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Flora had stayed up through the night, mostly watching Perry, but also poking around at Marchand.

The technology was so advanced that having it wouldn’t have done anythi...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 172, Negotiables

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Mizuki sat on her bed with her hands folded in her lap. She’d said ‘five minutes’ but it felt like she should have said more, because she’d hardly had time to look in th...

Thresholder, ch 23, We're All Going to the World's Fair, pt. 2

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Sorry for the delayed chapter, I was sick again this week, but am now back up to about 90% with just a cough and a runny nose to work through. It's always surprising to me how har...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 171, Of Calm Skies and Salt Shakers

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Alfric had checked the chest over carefully, and satisfied himself that it was probably going to be fine. Entads had a ten percent rule, which was that an entad could l...

Thresholder, ch 22, We're All Going to the World's Fair, pt 1

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The return of Thresholder! I'm feeling much better, should be on a normal schedule going forward, thanks for the patience.

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It was the night of the full moon. The next day, they would ...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 170, Halls of Power

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Turns out I got sick with norovirus, which I also had three or four years ago. It was much less bad this time around, but I lost about a day on being sick, then another two days on recover...

No Thresholder this Week + Of Witches and Wizards Preview

Hey, sorry, but there won't be a chapter of Thresholder this week. I got what I'm pretty sure was norovirus, and spent an unpleasant ~36 hours that I'm still recovering from.

In its place, here are two chapters from something that I might be writing once other projects have run their course, (WIP title) Of Witches and Wizards.

Chapter 1 

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 169, Now Museum

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Vertex went in first, as they’d discussed the last time, and the Settlers followed after. As before, they had Bib and Pinion waiting outside, though technically speaking there...

Thresholder, ch 21, King's Castle

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Hey, sorry for the late chapter, my son had a stomach bug that took up a bunch of my time. I think hands down the worst part of being a parent is dealing with sickness, especially with all the crud th...

This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 168, Sugarweed Lake

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Sorry for the relative lateness of the chapter today, I took a trip out of town for my dad's birthday and was much less productive than normal.

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The boat marched down into ...