Roger
Month 9, Day 28, Tuesday 6:00 a.m.
Roger Clements woke to the sound of someone pounding insistently on his door before the sun had even fully risen. He would have ignored the clamor, except for the same reason that he didn’t we...
2023-07-24 22:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday
From her knees, Siobhan fell back into a seated position, crossing her legs and ignoring the pain from her ankle. ‘At least I realized in time how stupid I was being. I didn’t actually do it. But ...
2023-07-20 19:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Monday 1:55 a.m.
Disturbed, Percy set the talisman atop his bundle of filthy clothing. “Did that hag put some sort of glamour over the talisman to make me think it was actually worth it?” A compulsion magic w...
2023-07-17 21:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday
Siobhan may have blacked out for a moment—maybe more than once—as the world spun with strange incoherent imagery and flashes of light and darkness, a song from the void reaching out to her with velvet...
2023-07-17 16:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
You may remember I mentioned that I was going to be away from home and my writing computer for a few days. (But that I would schedule the chapter).
Well I had planned to schedule the chapter on Wednesday, but I crashed and bu...
2023-07-14 14:28:28 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Monday 1:35 a.m.
Percy scratched at the edge of the tattoo, but no artificial edge peeled up. He licked one of his fingers, then regretted it because of the bitter, dirty taste, but still used the wet digit to ru...
2023-07-10 23:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday
Siobhan squinted against the light, ignoring the screams of the guards outside the room while she took stock of her situation as quickly as possible. She had no idea how much time had passed, but she wasn...
2023-07-06 23:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
[Set in a non-canonical alternate dimension as the first human tests of the sleep-proxy spell approach in Chapter 154 – “Experimenting in Humans.” This “blooper” scene did not actually happen, unlike most of the other bonus content.]
... 2023-07-04 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Monday 1:00 a.m.
The pain of a horrible headache dragged Percy to wakefulness. He blinked at the darkness, the a brick wall resolving into legibility as the blurriness receded from his eyes, visible only due to t...
2023-07-03 22:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
[Accompanying Book 4's "Harry Harold Had no Hands"/ Chapter 147]
This rhyme details the life and untimely demise of Harry Harold, who had no hands but cast through his jeweled shoes. In cadence, it is often accompanied by clapping and footwo...
2023-07-02 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 4, Day 9, Friday 9:00 a.m.
Everyone in the room except for Thaddeus was nervous, though some hid it better than others. He had taken one of the best seats in the back corner of Harrow Hill’s third floor meeting room, p...
2023-06-30 01:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Sunday 4:30 p.m.
Hours later, Percy finally left the copper station, having given his statement and apologized to Copper Shelleck, who merely grunted, giving him a suspicious and wounded look—until Copper Alma ...
2023-06-26 19:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday
In an ironic boon, with Siobhan’s panic at the thought of death had come something else—a very faint burn, a muted rush. Adrenaline. Relief tumbled through her so violently she probably would have fel...
2023-06-22 23:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostCalder
Month 9, Day 27, Sunday 4:30 p.m.
Standing beside Copper Alma at the window, Calder took a sip of plain black tea as he watched young Mr. Irving walk through the station’s gates, wearing his now-dry clothing but still hunching...
2023-06-19 23:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastien
Set in a non-canonical alternate dimension as the first human tests of the sleep-proxy spell approach in Chapter 154 - "Experi...
2023-06-16 22:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday 9:45 a.m.
Judging by the lack of nearby screams, curses, or sounds of movement, Millennium and the others were completely unconscious. In the stable behind them, horses were whinnying and the workers were...
2023-06-15 23:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Sunday 1:15 p.m.
The shame of accidentally incapacitating the copper in such an embarrassing way brought Percy back to his senses, and with some flailing—on Percy’s part from incompetence, and on the copper...
2023-06-12 22:39:49 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday 9:40 a.m.
Siobhan suppressed her fear and all the instincts to flee or fight that it encouraged. If there was ever a time to use all the lessons she had ever learned from Ennis and act as if her ...
2023-06-08 23:47:20 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 9, Friday 9:00 a.m.
It was the morning of the sentencing, and not all was well with Operation Palimpsest.
Siobhan waited in the private room at the back of the Kaiseki Ryori with a raven in a covered cage, in...
2023-06-07 18:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Sunday 1:05 p.m.
“She probably didn’t have a license to set up a street stall here,” Percy muttered, gazing after her and the pursuing coppers.
Contrasting her appearance, which suggested an old woman...
2023-06-05 22:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 4, Day 7, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
When Sebastien grew frustrated at her continued failure with both the journal and light-refinement, she turned her attention to one of the other esoteric spells she’d memorized. Turning t...
2023-06-02 00:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 9, Day 27, Sunday 1:00 p.m.
Three weeks earlier, Percy’s life was still normal. Or, as normal as it could get for someone with luck as bad as his.
It was the end of his shift at the bakery, he had been sent on an im...
2023-05-29 23:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 4, Day 1, Thursday 10:55 a.m.
‘Perhaps splitting your Will isn’t actually so hard, just like casting through a Conduit held somewhere beside your hands or your forehead isn’t so hard. Maybe, the only real barr...
2023-05-26 00:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostPercy
Month 10, Day 19, Monday 11:00 a.m.
“Taking the law into your own hands is never the answer, Mr. Irving,” Lieutenant Robards repeated, sitting down across from Percy at the interrogation table.
Percy nodded rapidly, the...
2023-05-22 20:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 4, Day 1, Thursday 9:05 a.m.
Sebastien’s introspection and memory search had taken only a few seconds, which she hoped didn’t seem too strange. She forced an awkward smile. “Well, that’s a little embarrassing. I...
2023-05-18 21:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
(See 5/25 update at the bottom.)
You guys may find it interesting that some of the ideas featured in 100 Clever Ways Thaumaturges have Committ...
2023-05-17 23:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Fekten uses his glare to great effect.
2023-05-15 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 4, Day 1, Thursday 5:30 a.m.
Sebastien woke early on Thursday morning, for once due to nothing more than her own irrepressible excitement. It had been three days since Professor Lacer took the esoteric spell for transla...
2023-05-11 23:16:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We have a surprise portrait of Percy as the intro to officially announcing that I have made progress on the PGTS-Universe book, The Catastrophe Collecto...
2023-05-09 22:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Ennis is accustomed to using his good looks and charm to scheme his way into and out of trouble, constantly self-destructing and then being forced to flee.
Siobhan takes after her mother.
2023-05-08 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post