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The Descendants #104 – VIRAL Chp.4

Denial was a powerful thing.

For Alexis’s part, she’d tried to bury and ignore what a kitsune had taunted her with what seemed like ages ago: That the entity that once possessed her, the magical construct of angry lost souls known as the Fall Angel was still somewhere lurking in her head.

The thing that terrified her was that she’d sort of known since the day it first entered her life, her mind and her nightmares. She’d always had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but couldn’t quite g...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Having finally bought a car (but having to eat like a munk–chipmunk– for a week afterward, I have a lot to be thankful for and will be taking the week off.

Enjoy the holiday everyone!

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The Descendants #104 – VIRAL Chp.3

Despite the animal panic filling him at being assailed by a screaming pile of goo that was trying to get into his costume, Ian managed to keep himself mindful enough to do what he needed to defend himself. Crooking his wrist in just the right way and flexing two fingers, he popped open the canister in his right gauntlet, giving him access to all the water contained within.

In fact, the adrenaline rush and acting on pure instinct let him use his powers in a way he usually struggled with but hi...

The Descendants #104 – VIRAL Chp.2

A few hours and a flight on a Brant Industries private jet, Ian and Alexis were united with the rest of the team, consisting of Laurel, Callie and Kareem at a private terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport. Meeting all of them at the airport were a pair of TOME scientists; a man and woman named Bernhardt and and Klass respectively.

The scientists had come with several containers that they opened to reveal around a dozen long-handled devices with attachments on their ends that looked lik...

Or…

So I just got blindsided by mandatory overtime on what’s meant to be my day off this week, so I need to do some life business during my scant 4 hours of peace the next two nights. No update this week.

Apparently, this is the the last overtime of the year, so maybe just maybe I can get on schedule after this.

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New Schedule Incoming

As you’ve all no doubt noticed, my schedule has been very shaky these past few months. This week’s update for example will probably be up sometime Tuesday. If I’m able to get a chapter out on Monday morning, it’s a miracle. I’m going to change the update day in the coming weeks.

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The Descendants #104 – VIRAL Chp.1

It didn’t know how many times it have been born or destroyed, only that there had been many iterations where no memory survived.

Sometimes it didn’t have a body, finding itself floating alone with only the dim idea of other data surrounding it. Other times, it found itself fighting a lesser mind for control, tugging and prodding its host to more efficient and intelligent action.

Often, it was set loose in curated data stores and allowed to add information to itself. In this way, it gained the...

Update Postponed

I had a really hectic weekend getting things done, and so didn’t get the latest chapter done. My plan is to have it up by Tuesday night.

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Smoke, Shadow and Shade

“–brings to five the number of Chicago police officers injured while off duty just this month. CPD spokesperson Micheal Howie denies any connection between these incidents and the ongoing crackdown against the terroristic Corbin Street Gang, which has been described as open war since the near fatal torture of CPD Sergeant James Lawson late last year. Howe also denied that last night’s assault on a presumed Corbin weapons cache was the work of the vigilante known as The Shade. If you will reca...

The Descendants #103 – Power and Responsibility Chp.6

Of course, Kura wouldn’t recognize the little monsters that boiled up out of the grass as velociraptors. Even after more than eighty years removed from the source material that introduced them to the mainstream, Hollywood insisted on using the name for a strange mash-up of utahraptors and deinonychus. Adding a few feathers and changing their arm position didn’t make up for the fact that they were twice the size of the real thing.

No, the creatures attacking her didn’t come from her mind but m...