A/N: Hello! Thundamoo here. Sorry this chapter is a day late, but in my defense this chapter ended up over ten thousand words long, which is a new record for Bioshifter and the second-longest chapter I've ever written, so... woo. Anyway, enjoy!
"Wow," Ida says, staring at...
"Begrudging admittance: you are surprisingly capable of following extremely basic instructions."
"Instructions clear," Kagiso grunts, shrugging slightly. "Easy to understand."
"Nonetheless, do not attempt repairs you cannot obey exactly," Sela presses. "Repeat: do not attempt repairs you cannot obey exactly. Additional repairs requir...
2022-11-02 08:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostOh geez, I'm getting a lot of messages asking me to change to Subscription Billing, and looking into it I have to say that it makes a lot more sense.
What does this mean, you ask? It's pretty simple, actually! Basically, you don't get charged on the first of the month anymore, you'll get charged on the date that you joined. So if you joi...
I went to the dentist to have a tooth pulled yesterday and for obvious reasons that really sucked, but to make things even more exciting I'm feeling sick as hell today, so I guess I caught something. Weeee.
Anyway I feel like garbage and so yet again there's going to be a chapter delay for Vigor Mortis, and possibly for B...
2022-10-28 01:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostSo it turns out that while rapidly accelerating to terminal velocity is absolutely terrifying, simply traveling at terminal velocity is not. The instinctive terror of falling only activates in response to acceleration, not speed. I knew this already, of course; that's part and parcel to the basic experience of motor vehicles. S...
2022-10-26 01:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the excessive delay, everyone. This chapter fought the hell out of me and I'm still quite disappointed in it, but perfect is the enemy of good and all that. We're back now. Enjoy.
"Well, the game doesn't sound too difficult," Penelope muses, rubbing her chin. "Rather straightforward rules,...
A/N: Hello! I'm back! Sorry this chapter is so late, I was up until 4am finishing it last night and passed out before I could edit it. I've been thinking, lately: I really hate using bold text for written words in Bioshifter, because I think it's way better if bold is kept exclusive to spell names. Unfortunately, I have very, very few op...
2022-10-18 23:52:52 +0000 UTC View PostSorry guys, I bit off more than I can chew. Due to the unexpected workload of releasing Bioshifter on Royal Road (it takes a lot of time and attention to release a book, who knew) plus a recent horrifying personal revelation that mentally knocked me on my ass, I need to take a rest and skip the VM chapter this week. Possibly also Monday's Bioshi...
2022-10-08 20:22:11 +0000 UTC View PostOkay! Status report, brain: we're inside Autumn's house, she's mutating into a monster like I am, she is in her underwear and I am touching her, she is very soft, and oh gosh oh no oh beans she's unconscious she fell unconscious aaaaah that's really really bad!!!
Status confirmed: this problem is way too big for ...
2022-10-06 10:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post[NougatKin]: This is such a crazy fucking vtuber rig
[Lucarivor29]: It's obviously not a vtuber rig tho???
[LavAbsol]: DD that's such awesome costume work! Did you make it yourself?
[Zoroa!Queen]: Just joined stream and omg that gastly's name is an oof
"Explain what you mean," Queen Galrotta hisses furiously, "by 'related.'"
"She's my sister," I answer, shrugging, "in the same way that The One Below All is my brother. I didn't just fuse with any old soul, I fused with a sapient portal to the universe mana comes from."
I release some of that mana from my hand as a demonstration, sho...
2022-10-02 08:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostKagiso hugs me tightly, almost cracking my chitin as the tears stream slowly down my carapace. The paladin and the Chaos mage talk in the background, exchanging little niceties, assurances that they don't intend to fight, hesitant and barely believed. It doesn't really go anywhere until the subject abruptly changes.
"How much was lie?" Kag...
2022-09-27 12:01:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: It's me! Hi! Gosh, my chapters keep getting later and later. But I'll have you know I didn't take a break for this one, I actually worked through my scheduled day off to get it out and it STILL ended up late because fuck this arc, it's so hard to write god damnit. I think it's worth it, tho...
2022-09-26 00:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt doesn't take us long to be ready to depart. As Sindri promised, the four of us are out of our room and waiting by the bridge at dawn. Kagiso yawns, stretching like a cat as morning's first rays of light wash over the multi-layered city. We're far from the only people up and about this early, the main road already full of noisy merchants and r...
2022-09-23 00:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello everyone! Content warnings for this chapter ahead! Don't read the rest of this bolded message if you don't want any spoilers. I mean it. Just skip to the chapter. Okay is everybody gone except the people who want content warnings? Awesome. This chapter has panic attacks, and it talks about rape. Nothing in this chapter is sexu...
2022-09-20 09:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Haha! Hey! You thought I missed this week, didn't you? Thankfully not this time. I actually "finished" this chapter last night, but my beta readers encouraged me to add more so I ended up delaying and writing more on my day off. I think it's worth it, though! Gosh, can you remember back when Vigor Mortis started and the average chap...
2022-09-18 00:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes a minute for me to register that the smashing noise and clatter of ceramic is because I just punched a hole in the bathroom wall.
I barely even felt it. My chitinous knuckles and feet can feel things, certainly, but the sharp shards of hard-fired clay would hurt a human hand, and the lack of pain—even the dull kind of p...
2022-09-13 09:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone! Thundamoo here. This was supposed to be yesterday's chapter but of course it took another day, so I probably won't have a chapter tomorrow. Hopefully this one huge one is worth the wait. Enjoy!
I turn out of the hallway and into the medical room, taki...
2022-09-09 02:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone! Thundamoo here. I recently started lamenting that I named soul magic "Anima" in this story instead of "Pneuma," since Pneuma means 'soul' and also 'breath,' and there are obviously a lot of parallels between the two in Bioshifter. Then I remembered that I'm the author and I ha...
2022-09-06 07:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostHnng. No VM chapter this week. Sorry. I have progress on it, I have things planned out, but mental health took a dip these past couple days and it isn't coming out. Sorry.
Since this seems to keep happening, I'll make it up to you in the only way I really have: I'll post some more Bioshifter chapters for the Orphan Soul tier. I know ...
2022-09-02 23:29:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe day's travels are actually pretty fun, all things considered. Sindri's new tamed animal is a tiger-lizard-weasel thing that Kagiso decided to name Bulupunu, which I'm pretty sure means something like 'bald moron.' She named him this after I declared I wanted to try riding him, and in her defense Bulupunu did kind of turn out to be pretty unc...
2022-09-01 07:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post"What?" I yelp, startled. "I thought you and I… who's Alma!?"
Autumn lets out a frustrated growl, clutching her face with both hands.
"Oh, of course!" she snaps. "Of course! That's why she's not fucking writing anything about you! She's going behind my back and getting us into commitments like I don't even exist! Fuck, fuck, fu...
2022-08-30 05:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone! Sorry about this one being reaaaaaaaally late, but... well I already did the big explanation in a prior post, but yeah! Here's this week's Vigor Mortis. Took way too long to make. No change in schedule, expect Bioshifter on Monday. Thanks for reading!
"Are you sure you weirdos don't w...
2022-08-28 08:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe goddess smiles a faceless grin as she takes my breath. It is a joyful smile, though not at all a kind one.
I recognize the goddess' presence as a simple fact of reality, the same as I know my heart beats in my chest even when I'm not feeling for a pulse. She's here, right in front of my face, drawing in the air from my lungs and leavin...
2022-08-23 02:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post"...So that's the plan, then," Lady Vesuvius concludes. "We replace the compulsion to love Ars with a compulsion to dislike him, set that to cascade, then return later to wipe the slate clean. We'll have to carefully select propagation points and keep a careful eye on the epidemic, but as of right now… we just kick that off and go home, I supp...
2022-08-20 04:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostWriting Vigor Mortis is really difficult. I've been working on this one chapter since Thursday, both before and after the Bioshifter chapter that came out the other day, and it's still a slog to get through.
I'm still probably going to need more time.
I could blame a lot of things for this. The surgery, my constantly flux...
2022-08-18 02:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostBone marrow is one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.
The smooth, buttery texture, creamy and savory and sweet, will live in my memories forever. Not because I've never had it before; I've crunched on quite a few bones since being human first became a past-tense situation, but these are special. These are a lot sweeter than any...
2022-08-16 06:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post"It's about time you finally came over again," Brendan grumbles, glowering half-heartedly down at me as I walk through his front door, Fartbuns happily bouncing behind him.
It's Friday afternoon already. Time seems to have flown by. After learning the soul sight spell and royally infuriating Sindri, the rest of the day was thankfully not a...
2022-08-11 04:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Quick update. On Saturday I started experiencing some of the worst pain I've ever felt in my life concentrated around my abdomen, so like a sensible person I went to the emergency room and they pretty much just went 'yep, you need an appendectomy.'
Long story short, I spent most of the day in the hospital, went home later th...