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PracGuide: Man, everything from Indict onward was amazing, but prior to that I particularly enjoyed the byplay with the Dead King and Archer. Biased indeed.SITB posted:Hanno missteped here I think. Absolutely. This was a result of Hanno completely misreading Hierarch and thinking this was all part of a grand scheme. It even seems like Kairos might have explicitly excluded Hierarch from any plans or anything from this, so it can actually be "his" rather than Tyrant's. It's just Tyrant knows what he'll do already, because he understands Hierarch--and everyone else there--on a fundamental level due to Wish.
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The League heroes turned out so much fun. A fitting send-off!
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Pracguide: RIP Kairos Theodosian you died doing what you loved: ruining everything and being a hilarious rear end in a top hat
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PracGuide Given the last few lines about Kairos being offered all those things (Below always pays their dues) and him hearing applause as he dies, I assume that Below approved him as one of their foremost champions. Also, are the Seraphim dead or merely insensate because of Anaxares blocking them? The text suggests the latter but Kairos talks about them being killed when he talked about wielding Judgement.
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I think Heirarch is effectively tying them all up for the rest of time. The only force that can strike at him among Judgement is presumably Judgement itself, and they can't kill him just as he can't kill them. Alternatively, and much more hilariously, he has basically joined the Choir himself somehow and the Choir must now follow the Laws and Traditions of Bellerophon, First and Greatest of the Free Cities. Otherwise he'll just be an obstructionist rear end in a top hat.
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The latter was my reading: Heirarch joins the Choir of Judgement but holds them to his standards. edit: What was Tyrant's dying question? Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:The latter was my reading: Heirarch joins the Choir of Judgement but holds them to his standards. I heavily doubt it since he just sentenced them to death and has no reason to compromise and join them. As for the second question, Kairos basically asked if Below was entertained by/has approved his act and the applause at the end was his answer.
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SITB posted:PracGuide Given the last few lines about Kairos being offered all those things (Below always pays their dues) and him hearing applause as he dies, I assume that Below approved him as one of their foremost champions. It's all wordplay just like the Kairos prophecy. Can Judgement that cannot judge even be called Judgement anymore? They're not dead in a human sense but they are in all the ways that matter, unable to interact with the world as they are in eternal check. I imagine Hanno's collapse just due to his close relationship with them, sort of like getting a mantle ripped off. Probably not gentle. Tom Clancy is Dead posted:edit: What was Tyrant's dying question? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-l6tHeseDY Homeless Friend fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oh I got that. I thought there was maybe more to it.
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I said when I read that chapter, that putting that curse on Kairos was like loading Chekhovs gun, I just didn't think it'd happen so soon, or so loving effectively.
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Oh god, i'm going to miss both Heirarch and Kairos. Just so wonderfully utterly mad. edit: As to other stories. Azarincth Healer - bit too much of a powa level fest. I think the author got a better idea of what they wanted to do eventually but having the "school arc" start when the mc is some kind of walking WMD seems a bit.. odd.. as choices go. He Who Fights with Monsters - It's not terrible but the author is very much writing by the seat of their pants. The MC is this social manipulator apparently. That's news to me? Moving on. Queen in the Mud - Fun little tale actually. I enjoyed it. Vainqueur the Dragon - Also a good little tale! Blinks77 fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Bizarre but weirdly compelling pitch in the comments: I don't see it as Mercy breaking the rules. Kairos lied and is punished. That he later wins doesn't change that his statement at the time was a lie.
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TWI: (((RENT CONTROL)))
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A big flaming stink posted:TWI: (((RENT CONTROL))) I love when it is pointed out that the new council is filled with working class people and not rich assholes, something the previous council didn't notice. Oh, and Erin deserves to be paying those taxes.
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Peachfart posted:I love when it is pointed out that the new council is filled with working class people and not rich assholes, something the previous council didn't notice. Oh, and Erin deserves to be paying those taxes. “And that’s the poorest district! With widowers, old Drakes who can’t tie down a full job anymore and people who need a home! Where do they go if they can’t afford the rent?” The [Shopkeeper]’s voice was too loud. Yalla winced. “How should I know?” It was the wrong answer, and the wrong indignant tone to take. Lism exploded as his fist came down and sent the bowl of nuts flying. “They go to live with their families or friends or they sleep on the street! Six silver coins and five copper for a room on Welcaissel Street!? I’d be ashamed to rent that room to Humans!” “How dare you! What I do with my apartments is my business!”   pirateaba has 100% dealt with landlords before. also im pretty sure this is the first fantasy work i've read that has correctly ID'd landlords as bloodsucking parasites that only exist to oppress the powerless
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I've been slowly working my way back through TWI again and picking up a lot of things I missed on my first read-through. Pirateaba loving owns.
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Peachfart posted:I love when it is pointed out that the new council is filled with working class people and not rich assholes, something the previous council didn't notice. Oh, and Erin deserves to be paying those taxes. When they characterize the council as being a bunch of lazy rich assholes who don't do much of anything. That explains why Erin's Inn was considered an autonomous holding near Liscor when the Pallas-Magic door dispute came up. Just too lazy to deal with the weird human. Thread tie ins every where!
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TWI: Overall my favorite line was: 'The Council’s modus operandi had been ‘don’t fix what isn’t broken’, or perhaps, ‘if it still sort of works, let’s just not bother fixing it.’ And it had worked. So the people inside the room were a bit peeved that no one seemed to appreciate the hard work they hadn’t done.'
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Are any of the popular serials in this thread available in ebook format? I already have The Wandering Inn volumes 1 and 2. I vastly prefer to read these on my kindle than to read them as a blog post or whatever.
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ConfusedUs posted:Are any of the popular serials in this thread available in ebook format? I already have The Wandering Inn volumes 1 and 2. It's not popular, especially here, but I'm working on turning the first two volumes of the Lightning Brigade into a book come January or so. It'll have proper editing, some new scenes and some rearranged content. Basically the proper final draft.
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ConfusedUs posted:Are any of the popular serials in this thread available in ebook format? I already have The Wandering Inn volumes 1 and 2. TWI is literally the only one
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There are tools to make your own ebooks, I did it for the first couple PracGuide books for my wife. Just don't put what you make in a publicly accessible spot to download, authors hate that. http://www.omnibuser.com/ (Hard mode) https://github.com/kemayo/leech
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Into the Mire is going to have an ebook of Book 1 up shortly as well as an audio edition (complete with goon cello on the theme song! thanks, sebmojo!).
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I use Scrivener for everything, so turning arcs or chapters into ebooks would be quite simple in theory. The questions are how to format them for easiest reading, which I have zero experience doing, and where exactly to make them available.
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Cicero posted:There are tools to make your own ebooks, I did it for the first couple PracGuide books for my wife. Just don't put what you make in a publicly accessible spot to download, authors hate that. There's also a Firefox plugin that covers a few sites that omnibuser won't do. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/webtoepub-for-baka-tsuki/
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Hungry posted:I use Scrivener for everything, so turning arcs or chapters into ebooks would be quite simple in theory. The questions are how to format them for easiest reading, which I have zero experience doing, and where exactly to make them available. I have zero experience in making and marketing serials, but if you're going to assemble your stuff into ebooks anyway you might consider following TWI's example and offering them on Amazon for like $2.99/book- it's possible you'll hit some people who aren't aware of the website and it gives anyone who wants to support you but doesn't want to bother with patreon an easy venue.
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Omi no Kami posted:I have zero experience in making and marketing serials, but if you're going to assemble your stuff into ebooks anyway you might consider following TWI's example and offering them on Amazon for like $2.99/book- it's possible you'll hit some people who aren't aware of the website and it gives anyone who wants to support you but doesn't want to bother with patreon an easy venue. True thought in this case it's hard to KEEP being unaware of the web novel when on the Amazon book page Pirateaba literally says: '(This novel is the e-book version of the free web serial. You may read the entire ongoing story at wanderinginn.com free of charge.)' I bought 'em cause I like to have nicely compiled kindle versions of web serials. PS Volume 1 is 1100+ pages and Volume 2 is 1600+ pages. Good grief. Kalas fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Pirateaba is going to have vol 2 made into an audiobook and it's going to clock in at 42 hours
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lmao volume 1 is already 43 hours and the volumes only increase in length per installment. Edit: my bad, vol 2 is shorter than 1 Argue fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Argue posted:lmao volume 1 is already 43 hours and the volumes only increase in length per installment. Vol 3 is about the same as Vol 2, then Vol 4 is a lot bigger again, and Vol 5 is nearly 3x as long as Vol 1. Just over a million words lmao
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Cicero posted:Nope, vol 2 is substantially longer in word count. Fewer chapters, but a lot more words. 90s Cringe Rock posted:aba stands for "another book, another"
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Ksmvr couldn’t get enough of gluten after discovering the Amulet of Food Poison Resistance or whatever it was. It turned out lots of Antinium liked gluten—they were just hugely intolerant to it.
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Klbch eats a bunch of pasta out of being polite to Erin but explains waaaaay back in book 1 that it tasted good too, so it wasnt entirely an excuse to give her money.
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It's just neat to see Ksmvr being happy and devouring bread.
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Ksmvr is definitely one of my favorite characters. Most of the individual antinium are, really. I love how aba writes them.
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TWI: i'm experiencing extremely uncomfortable feelings of  towards az'kerash right now.what an incredible loving chapter.
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Wow, the TWI Patreon is really good too. Its a Chandrar chapter that isnt boring, and might be the best battle chapter Pirateaba has written due to the pacing and format
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Worth the Candle updated with five new chapters.
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