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Chapter Splitting Poll, + Worlds - Acolyte

So, the newest chapter of Mandate is a bit beefier than usual. Now, normally I'd split it, depending on how it flowed, but the problem I'm facing right now is that the chapter is just one continuous PoV, and while I could split the thing, it'd maybe feel a bit weird?

This Poll is not just for this chapter, but for whenever ...

The Mandate of Khaos: The Mountains Come to Mohamed (ch. 21)

A/N: Posting earlier because of my appointment to remove my upper wisdom teeth. Wish me luck. It shouldn't affect the posting schedule unless something goes horribly wrong though.

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…shit.

My shoulders heaved, ribs burning with each ragged gasp. Sweat and a fe...

Setting and System Interest Poll - Aspirant (Free Tier)

Yo, yo, yo.

As always, happy to have all of you here. I may still be greatly inexperienced, but I am attempting to improve as I go on every day, which I suppose is all that a guy can do.

I've got some ideas in mind, some of them with some chapters pre-written from when I was simply putting words to paper but not posting anything befo...

Setting and System Interest Poll - Acolyte

Yo, yo, yo.

As always, happy to have all of you here, thank you all for the support. I may still be greatly inexperienced, but I am attempting to improve as I go on every day, which I suppose is all that a guy can do.

I've got some ideas in mind, some of them with some chapters pre-written from when I was simply putting words to pape...

The Mandate of Khaos: Curse (ch. 20)

Whatever Siegfried was about to say in response to my threat, he didn't get the chance. A blast of pure magical energy, easily the size of a large tree trunk, abruptly engulfed him, obliterating the storefront of the cafe and everything in the immediate vicinity.

I looked back at Sakura, and—

Well… I guess it was conservative? At...

The Mandate of Khaos: Hatred (ch. 19)

Stepping into the kitchen, my gaze was immediately drawn to Sakura's silhouette against the morning light—her figure curved gracefully as she stirred a pot, the apron strings accentuating her waist before flaring over the generous swell of her hips. The second thing my increasingly baleful eyes locked onto was the floating Magical Girl Rod, wa...

The Mandate of Khaos: I can make him worse Vs. I can fix her (ch. 18)

"…How many liters did you say this thing could hold?"

I glanced up from my monitor to see Serafall, currently sprawled carelessly across my bed, staring quizzically at the Super Absorbent Sponge.

"One billion liters," I replied, my eyes immediately returning to the screen, trying to ignore the fact that her skirt had ridden up to a...

Draconic Funhouse: Full Circle (ch. 8)

"This was not 'the plan', Mr. Auburn." Ozpin did not sound displeased though, much the contrary. He had been close by during the entire fight, so we now both had first class seats to Ruby Rose bawling her eyes out on her mother's lap.

"What are you doing there? You're not too old to hug your mother yet, come here."

Correction, to Rub...

Draconic Funhouse: Ruby Rose (ch. 7)

The plan had been simplicity given form. Really, painfully simple. Raven Branwen, for all her bluster and stoicism, is a rather predictable woman at heart. With Ozpin and Qrow Branwen on my side, and Yang Xiao Long by my side, fighting me, making Raven believe she had to open a portal to intervene and save her...

Draconic Funhouse: The Wizard of Oz is Wise, More News at Eleven (ch. 6)

This chapter, unlike the others, is in past tense like Mandate. I think the experiment has run its course, and I just don't feel like present tense is for me to be honest. The next two or three chapters will still be in it, but from then on they'll all be in past tense, though I may play around with doing something else besides 1st Person for MC...

Update & Tiering Poll

Now that we've grown to four tiers, I'll run this poll again as I said before. It will serve to inform me about how I should proceed going forward.

When I post a new chapter, I update the previous ones so that they are unlocked for the relevant Tiers.

Would you prefer I continue to do that? Or just post the four chapters each time in...

The Mandate of Khaos: Club President (ch. 17)

"A little bit more to the left—perfect, thank you." Rias directed, and I leaned back to check her claim. John Martin's Pandemonium now hung dramatically behind an opulent chair and an even more opulent desk, positioned for maximum impact directly opposite the door.

It was unlikely this room would ever be used for anything remote...

The Mandate of Khaos: The Best Kind of Lawyering (ch. 16)

Maki was not a battle maniac. Really, she wasn't. She enjoyed a good scuffle once in a while, but it wasn't like she went out looking for them.

However, if a perfect excuse for a fight just dropped into her lap like this… well, she'd stopped giving a shit about the big G upstairs a long time ago, but if his supposed Pla...

The Mandate of Khaos: Shinji... Uchiha? (ch. 15)

I didn’t have much clue how it happened, but somehow, we all ended up spending the day together in the clubroom, simply killing time by watching some shows Rias had on hand. The impromptu marathon segued seamlessly into a sleepover. Sona had called Tsubaki, who had excitedly yelled out a single "Yes!" before coughing embarrassedly and...

The Mandate of Khaos: Broken (ch. 14)

Author's Note (talking about the aforementioned new Tiers):

I've opened the other two Tiers, as had been planned. I intend to, in the future, maybe have each Tier provide another chapter (so, Acolyte would be 2 advanced, Adept would be 4, etc.) but for now each Tier is one chapter advanced compared to the last, as most people do.

Per...

Draconic Funhouse: Interlude - A Robot's Ingenuity (ch. 5)

New Mandate chapter will be out this weekend. For those that didn't see it, I'm planning on updating around 3 times per week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday or Sunday) with at least the Tuesday slot and Weekend slot being for Mandate. Will maybe update the Tiers too by then, as I talked about before.

We'll see how it goes. As always, hope ...

The Mandate of Khaos: Codependency (ch. 13)

Shinji Matou's Room

7:30 AM, Friday

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Feat: Through your direct action, Fate has changed. Issei Hyoudou, the holder of the mid-tier Longinus Boosted Gear has been killed by Sakura Asutaroto. With his death, the course of the entire world has irrevocably shifted.

Rewards: One Advantage Diamond Random Ticket

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Draconic Funhouse: Cinderella and the Dragon Charming (ch. 4)

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, Cinder Fall had sworn an oath to herself—one carved into her bones with the same ruthless precision as the Grimm parasite fused to her soul.

Never again.

Never again would she be caught without a plan. Never again would she let the currents of fate drag her under like a helpless...

The Mandate of Chaos: Interlude - Literally Satan (ch. 12)

“Ajuuuukkkaaaaaaaaaaa!” Serafall Leviathan slammed her foot into her friend's laboratory door, blasting it clean off its hinges, and found herself being surprised by his deeply focused state, eyes glued to whatever trinket he was working on now. Not because it was rare for Ajuka Beelzebub to be doing so, much the contrary in fact, but becaus...

Draconic Funhouse: Dragons Love Surrealism (ch. 3)

Mandate chapter comes out tomorrow. Technically less than 24 hours away since I intend to post it earlier than usual.

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Arthur Watts prided himself on being a learned man. To the uneducated masses, the world was a tapestry of mysteries, a chaotic jumble of unknowns waiting to be unraveled. But not to him. To Arthur, th...

Notification Info and Fic Interest Poll(s)

This is mainly for Acolytes, but will serve to inform me about how I should proceed going forward, if I grow this to four advanced chapters as I previously talked about (which would be the maximum amount most probably).

When I post a new chapter, I update the last one so that it is unlocked for Acolytes. When I do that, do you recei...

The Mandate of Khaos: Panties (ch. 11)

These are the rolls (mainly that last one) that made me post the receipts on the QQ thread. Jesus fucking Christ Shinji. What God did you piss off?

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Tsubaki spread her obsidian wings wide, catching the dying sunlight as she executed a slow, triumphant circle around my armchair. I took a measured sip of lukewarm tea. "That happy?...

The Mandate of Khaos: Peers (ch. 10)

Chonkier chapter to compensate the wait (I posted the receipts of the rolls that appear on this chapter and some of the next. At least now I have proof I'm not fudging anything, Shinji's luck really just sucks dick).

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Classes were… soul-crushingly dull. No surprise there, but for some reason, I hadn’t expected it ...

Draconic Funhouse: Fun is Better Shared (ch. 2)

Delivering the second chapter too.

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The store is half-destroyed, shelves overturned and walls crumbling, but it’s still standing — more than I can say for most of the city. The silence is almost peaceful, the chaos of battle now a distant echo. I lean against what remains of a cracked stone pillar, arms crossed a...

Draconic Funhouse: Motherfucking Dragon vs. Grimm Queen [RWBY, SI WC] (ch. 1)

Had to delay the Khaos chapter a bit due to having to get my dog to the vet (nothing too bad, but he will have to have surgery in early sept

Had to delay the Khaos chapter a bit due to having to get my dog to the vet (nothing too bad, but he will have to have surgery in early september to remove some weird thingie that was growing on his c...

The Mandate of Khaos: Probabilities (ch. 9)

Can’t we jump into more important stuff? Sakura grumbled mentally, flipping an egg with more force than necessary. The sizzle seemed to echo her impatience.

{This is important,} Amethyst retorted, her voice dry as dust within Sakura's mind. {You asked about the significance of Rias Gremory's arra...

The Mandate of Khaos: True Feelings (ch. 8)

Updated the last bit of previous chapter with a Roll that fit better in there rather than at the beginning of this one.

Thanks as always for your support, and I hope you enjoy the chapter. (For those interested, the case usb 3.0 and the Sys Fan 1 still doesn't work, but the rest seemingly does so I'll just buy a fan hub and be done with it...

The Mandate of Khaos: Party Hard (ch. 7)

Pc is mostly working now fortunately. Still had to spend most of today setting it up though, which was quite exhausting, but we carry on.

Hope you enjoy the chapter.

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Rias Gremory hated it. As a member of the Gremory Clan, she was predisposed to be ‘kinder’ than her fellow devils. Yet even her father had told her, in a...

The Mandate of Khaos: Cashmoney (ch. 6)

Apologies for the delay and slightly smaller length of the chapter. Long story short, was rebuilding the computer, it was not turning on, and then turning on and off so I wasted the rest of the day on it to figure out my PSU is giga fucked so I will have to buy a new one. Fun times. Anyways, I said the first 7 days would all have a chapter (1k w...

The Mandate of Khaos: Occult Slaying Club (ch. 5)

"Ahh!" I jolted upright, hand flying to my chest as if trying to cage my racing heart. My breath hitched unevenly as I scrambled off the bench where—judging by the sun’s lower angle—I’d clearly fallen asleep. The dream’s lingering vertigo still clung to me like cobwebs.

The sounds of footsteps and sloshing buckets could be easily...