In SerialA Standard Model of Magic Fantasy Xianxia Adventure Drama Slice of Life
The world ended, and magic came back. The part our parents didn't expect, was for Science to break on reentry.
Twenty years after the apocalypse, with our nations dismantled and hidden continents unearthed, a new generation has grown up in the wreckage of 21st century civilization. For us, the fantastic is at our doorstep and we have had no choice but to fight back. Meanwhile, the laws of nature bend and break at the whims of immortal gods, all of which are now dead and none of which are content to stay that way.
But we cannot afford to give up. We are the stewards of a rewritten century, in which a little luck and a whole lot of magic might make anything possible – maybe even a world better than the one we lost.
A Standard Model of Magic is a complete overhaul of my old story A Storm in the Fall. I'm afraid I was unhappy with the LitRPG elements, which I don't mind reading, but I apparently loath writing. Sorry.
Once I'd made the choice to decouple the story from the OF that inspired it and reconfigure the magic system to my satisfaction, little of the original plotline survived. I will be salvaging most of my original characters, and I will keep some elements which are endemic to the genre, but that is all.
I don't have an update schedule which I can commit to yet, but I will try to maintain a weekly pace.(This is currently RoyalRoad exclusive, since I'm lazy. If you find it posted elsewhere, it wasn't me and it wasn't with permission)
If you're interested, I've set up a discord.
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1. 001 A Man With Arms
2. 002 Returning to Ghost Perch Ranch
3. 003 A Portrait of the Domesticated Ape
4. 004.1 Idle Hands
5. 004.2 Idle Hands
6. 004.3 Idle Hands
7. 005.1 Flexor pollicis brevis
8. 005.2 Flexor pollicis brevis
9. 006.1 The Account of Osberh Zugravescu Considering the Apocalypse
10. 006.2 The Account of Osberh Zugravescu Considering the Apocalypse
11. 006.3 The Account of Osberh Zugravescu Considering the Apocalypse
12. 007 Auntie Osbie’s Bedtime Armageddon Fables: Abridged
13. 007.2 Auntie Osbie’s Bedtime Armageddon Fables: Abridged
14. 007.3 Auntie Osbie’s Bedtime Armageddon Fables: Abridged
15. 007.4 Auntie Osbie’s Bedtime Armageddon Fables: Abridged
16. 007.5 Auntie Osbie’s Bedtime Armageddon Fables: Abridged
17. 008 Auntie Osbie’s (Mabel’s) Tall Tales
18. 008.2 Auntie Osbie’s (Mabel’s) Tall Tales
19. 009 Osbie’s World Ends
20. 00A.1 Bird's-eye Geography
21. 00A.2 Bird's-eye Geography
22. 00B.1 I remembered her, that dame Columbia
23. 00B.2 I remembered her, that dame Columbia
24. 00B.3 I remembered her, that dame Columbia
25. 00B.4 I remembered her, that dame Columbia
26. 00B.5 I remembered her, that dame Columbia
27. 00C.1 The Siege at South Crick
28. 00C.2 The Siege at South Crick
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