Emergency Sick Day
Sorry everyone. Chapter ain't happening today. I tried, I really did, but I'm just not doing well. I'll make it up to you later, and I expect to see you Monday. Sorry for the inconvenience!
2021-12-12 02:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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130. Skeletons in the Closet
A titanic crash shakes the forest, a burst of pressure shaking leaves from the trees even hundreds of yards away. I feel the fight in front of me: two beasts of unfathomable proportions duel to the death, one for territory and the other to quench an unspeakable hunger. It's the kind of power that makes hunters quake, the sort of creatures for wh...
2021-12-11 04:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post129. Unwanted Responsibility
The relative quiet of the early morning leaves me even more capable than usual of listening to the terrified pounding of my heart, contrasted by the freakish calmness of Vesuvius the Inhuman's twelve.
"I have had a very awful couple of days," I whisper. "So please, please tell me I didn't just hear you declare an intent t...
2021-12-09 01:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post40. Girl's Night (Plus One Alex)
"Goodness gracious, I can actually breathe!" Tara announces emphatically, inhaling deeply to prove it. Loaded down with a dozen shopping bags, she nonetheless seems more likely than ever before.
"Of course, honey!" Sasha coos, sliding her long, painted nails down the sleeve of Tara's shirt. "Have you never worn something that ...
2021-12-07 01:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post39. Evelyn Medical Technician (EMT)
It's a testament to the sheer inhumanity of my current existence that drinking deeply infected bacteria-rich pus tastes great.
Normally it wouldn't, I think, but I'm making a point to focus on the microbiome, and from that perspective I'm ingesting quite the smorgasbord. Most of it I don't care about, though; I need to break apart...
2021-12-05 04:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post128. Trustworthy
When I first took a ride to Site 4, my fellow Templars never bound my hands or gagged my mouth, only blindfolded me for purely security-related reasons. It's funny how, now that I'm tied up like an actual prisoner, I somehow seem to be treated with less suspicion.
"Apologies for the rough handling, Inquisitor," one of the army off...
2021-12-03 17:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post38. Expand, Adapt, Overcome
When you don't have to worry about running out of air, swimming is basically the same as flying.
In some ways, it's even cooler. When high up in the air, it's kind of a huge deal if you want to stop flying. If my tiny bug bodies stop beating their wings, or if my ESTOLs put their wings away and stop jetting out air, I sign myself ...
2021-11-28 06:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostLate Thanksgiving Break
Hey everyone! I'm taking a short break soon. There will be no Hive Minds Give Good Hugs chapter on Monday, and no Vigor Mortis chapter on Wednesday. My fourth roommate and love of my life is finally moving in to our new place with me tomorrow, so I'm going to be far too busy cuddling her to write any chapters.&n...
2021-11-27 21:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post127. Fire Flight
Wow. Galdra sure moves fast when she's angry.
After kicking the shit out of the army, I did my best to dramatically and casually stroll back to the forest, but before long the Templars finally deigned to deploy and sent Galdra flying through the air in my general direction. I had to actually start hoofing it pretty fast in order to get und...
2021-11-26 20:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post126. Sleeping Dragon
I hold three Templar souls in my tendrils as their former bodies fall around me, taking in the feeling of Jelisa's wide-eyed horror. It's a bit frustrating to look at. What did she expect? Part of me is fucking furious, but mostly I'm just… tired. The whiplash of it, of finally seeing Penelope and my family again, of finally having a fucking <...
2021-11-24 23:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post37. Fish are Food, Not Friends
I've heard people talk about body dysphoria, and while as a human I certainly understood the feeling of considering myself to be hideous and disgusting, by my understanding it's an experience distinctly different from my own bouts of dangerously-low self-esteem. I remember being told it's more like a revulsion of the body itself not only in spec...
2021-11-23 01:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post36. Discord Ping
It's a little difficult focusing on classes nowadays.
The part of me raised as a nerdy teacher's pet still screams in agony whenever I skip class, and lately that has been happening far too often. College is important, education is important. These are universal truths that have been drilled into me since the dawn of time, and...
2021-11-21 04:07:48 +0000 UTC View Post125. Cross-Purposes
I really, really hate the smell of the forest. It reminds me of the fight where my limbs bitten off and I nearly got my whole team killed.
That and there's just so many things to sense. I've trained myself extensively to be able to pick out and identify dangerous scents and sounds, so it's not overwhelming, but it's certainly a lo...
2021-11-20 09:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post124. Reunited
"Well basically," Margarette explains, "while Penelope was really into that cognimancy stuff and Theodora enjoys helping her research biomancy, I figured I'd do what you do and learn a bunch of necromancy! The first question I asked related back to our research about 'what constitutes a corpse.' I wanted to find the lower limit of what ...
2021-11-18 04:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post123. Homemade Horrors
A/N: Hey! This is an extra chapter this week because I missed one while moving. Expect one tomorrow as well! Enjoy!
For a beautiful moment, it's just the two of us, squeezing each other with all our might because, despite all our fears, we actually can. We're here, together again. I'm curled all around her, t...
35. Efficiency
The ESTOLs are in the air. It's time for Squad Evelyn's next mission, and I dare any stupid bird monsters to try and stop them. I experiment with the acid cannons on a particularly unfortunate tree, and damn do these things melt shit. They also really hurt to use, and if I fire them too often it will disable them until I heal, ...
2021-11-16 00:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post34. Triple Trouble
The massive monster with designs on my meat pile looks unfortunately familiar. It walks on two thick, powerful legs, ending in wicked claws. It has no head, only a mouth that stretches most of its upper body length, big enough to swallow any of my bodies whole. Four limbs ending in barbed spikes surround the circumference of the mouth, ready to ...
2021-11-13 18:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post122. The Road Home
I am both confused and frustrated by the sheer number of people that decided to follow me out of the prison. I feel like I was pretty unambiguous with both the fact that I intended to be a complete dictator to anyone that stuck around, and that everyone is welcome to just leave. At the very least I was expecting the former prison staff to take m...
2021-11-12 19:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post121. Letting it Out
My roommate and I each stare at each other in horror, for vastly different reasons. Neither of us has the courage to break the silence until eventually the burning agony of my question becomes too much to hold onto.
"...You know Fulvia?" I ask breathlessly.
Gina takes a while to register my words, for her eyes to stop staring at me a...
2021-11-10 17:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post33. Reflections
Hsthressis' words jolt me instantly from blearily soaking in the melancholy of the dream to wide-awake panic. All of my bodies leap to my feet, my mind racing with questions and terror. Did she just see all of that? Why? What should I do? I didn't mean for her to—
"Aaah, stop it! Evelyn, stop it stop it what are you doing!?"
... 2021-11-09 06:47:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Delays, Fri/Sat/Mon
...I tried. I really did.
I'm moving into a new apartment tomorrow, and I've spent all week setting up everything I need for the lease and the move-in. I really hoped I could do it all congruently with normal uploads but... I can't. I won't have the chapters finished in time, and I'm absolutely exhausted from attempting it.
So! Emerg...
2021-11-05 22:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post120. Pass or Fail
"Hey, Lark!" a voice calls behind me. "Whatcha reading?"
I flinch only slightly before turning around to see the happily-grinning Xavier, who is thankfully not accompanied by Bently today. The two of them seem to be together a lot, which I suppose might just be normal for roommates. Not that I'd know, my situation is anything but. I like X...
2021-11-03 18:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post32. Parallel Paths
I sit stock-still, not trusting myself to respond, to move, or to even breathe. Tara, similarly, stops plodding along in her bear body, the pair of us waiting alone in the wilderness as the sun starts to set.
Is this it? Is this where I die?
"I'm sorry," Tara blurts out.
In my panic, my initial in...
2021-11-01 16:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post31. Creature, Demon, Monster
Bonus chapter today, to make up for last week! There will still be a chapter tomorrow!
"Ta-da!" I cheer as eight of my ETEs all carry ghost trap corpses into the Resident Gem cave. "You guys can eat these, right?"
My chat with the chieftain of the Resonant Gems has, so far, been horrifyingly awkward but not anywhere...
2021-10-31 23:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post30. Once More, With Feeling
"Right here! Right down here!"
The Sthrenslians scuttle after me as I shoot down the hallway to where I left their dying kin. Or at least, he looks like he's dying, but I really have no idea. I'm certainly no Sthrenslian doctor; even if I have basically all of the biological knowledge about them it doesn't give me any experience healing th...
2021-10-31 05:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post119. Last Meal
After dealing with all of the defenses, it turns out a prison break gets pretty boring. The bottom thirteen or so floors held all of the truly dangerous prisoners—animancers, splices, and instant-death talents, mainly. I am, modesty aside, a superlative example of all three and so my dominance is established quite easily.
Well, I guess I...
2021-10-29 18:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post118. Stairway to Heaven
Wow, Ars is kind of a dick.
Still, the whole emergency-soul-ejection thing is pretty cool. I wonder where it's going. Wait, is this why all the Templars have been ardently against killing me despite how much they hate me? Do they think I can do that?
…Can I do that?
Questions for later, I s...
2021-10-27 20:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post29. Avoiding Disaster
"Explain," Chlrehistra hisses, and not just in the usual Sthrenslian way.
Shit, I'm so incredibly bad at talking to people. I did not think about how Hsthressis technically sort of being a living horcrux might come off as, uh, freaky black magic, I guess. Okay, now that I am thinking about it it seems really obvious, but I can beat myself ...
2021-10-25 21:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post117. Difference in Scale
Glorious fire burns inside me, warming my soul as I pull metal through to my ocean, lining the passageway that links my being together. Holy shit, metal is so good! This is so amazing! Two years of massaging that tunnel open, overshadowed in an instant from a simple (if rather expensive) snack. This is incredible! It's like eating my first soul ...
2021-10-22 14:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostNo HMGGH Chapter Saturday
Hey gang! As the title says, there won't be a HMGGH Patreon chapter this Saturday; I'll be busy this weekend (I'm getting a new place to live) and, try as I might, I couldn't finish the VM and the HMGGH chapter today. I'll try to make it up with an extra chapter next week! Sorry for the inconvenience!
2021-10-22 03:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post