《Skyrates?!》81. In Which Assafrass Witnesses Something That He Would’ve Preferred Not To
Advertisement
Assafrass floated through the damp dark hole and suddenly found himself back in the storage bunker he had been imprisoned in way back when, the emptied keg festering with flies and a familiar taxidermied toucan sitting alone on a shelf.
Samwise?
Well clucking look who floated in here through a Plott Hole.
You know about Plott Holes?
There’s a lot I know about, Assafrass. I’ve crossed the life death event whoreizon. But that’s not the point. The point is that, no offense, but you ditched me you clucking asshole. I thought we were going to have so much emotional growth together!
Me too, Samwise. But maybe it’s for the best I’ve not been hauling a dead toucan around pretending I’m talking to them.
You bass turd you don’t mean that.
Yea you’re right I don’t. Wanna tag along?
Sure. Why the hen not. Just set me on your shoulder or something. You know, Assafrass, I’ve seen my fair share of Plott Holes and I think you’ve got another stop ahead of you.
Oh really, Samwise? I thought the popped open top of the festering keg was just sucking me towards it because it was so disgrossting it had collapsed into a black hole of vileness.
That is possible Assafrass that is possible but I doubt it I mean vileness level black holes barely ever occur. The probability of a black hole of vileness ever appearing is almost absolutely nil. And I’m only saying almost because I have to. As a scientist.
I forgot how smart you were, Samwise.
Well don’t forget again you clucking scoundrel.
Assafrass hee hawed and lifted Samwise up onto his shoulder. Then, they both floated into the rancid stank of the keg and were surrounded in shadows.
Quickly, the stank shifted from sticky drizzles of beer to unwashed laundry. And something else. Something spine tingling. Something horrible.
SSHHHHQQKKSHHHQQKKSHHQKK
Oh cock what is that horrible noise, Assafrass mind-sighed.
Advertisement
SHQQKKKHHSHQKSHQKSHQKSHQKKSHQKKSSHQKKK
Samwise please for the love of cock tell me that sound isn’t what I think it is.
SHQKH SHQKHH SHQKH SHQKH SHHHHHQKH
Assafrass I’m not omnipotent I’m just a dead toucan stuffed full of cotton there’s only so much I can tell you.
SSHHQQKH SHQKH SHQQQKKKKKHHHHSHQKHSHQKHH
Samwise I feel like you just don’t want to say what we’re both thinking.
SSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK
Assafrass we both know I can’t truly think. I have no soul. I am but a taxidermied toucan, my friend. All thoughts are yours alone.
SQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQK
Assafrass let loose a soft, shamefull hee haw. They’re clucking, aren’t they?
SHSHSHSHSHQQQKSHQQKKKKKKKSHHHQQQKKKK
I prefer to call it ‘making love.’
Samwise that’s disgrossting. You clucking creep.
SSHQK SHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQKSHQKSHQK
Okay Samwise I really want to know who’s behind these creaking closet doors.
Then float on forward you disgrossting ass voteur.
SQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQK
I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t use the word ‘ass’ as an adjective, Samwise. I find it quite offensive.
SSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK SHQKSHQK
Cock hamn! Stop the vitching and go look. I want to see what’s going on too, Assafrass.
SHSHSHSHSHQQQKSHQQKKKKKKKSHHHQQQKKKK
Ugh. Fine. Let me just, let me just push my hoof against this door like so…cock I can’t believe this shit is happening…
CREEEEE
SQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQKSQHKSHQKSHQ
EEEEEEE
Holy clucking hen would you look at that shit.
A young wizard and various giggling women were gyrating under a thick, fuzzy blanket. Every once and a while, seemingly after some sort of odd display of physical affection from one or more of the women, the wizard would change from man to woman and woman to man, sometimes back and forth in a strobelike fashion. The room glowed with a dark blue hue, shiningly sensual arttwerk glittering over the walls. There was a lot more audible moaning with the door open.
I am clucking disgrossted, hee hawed Assafrass.
Really? Samwise imaginarily thought in surprise. This looks clucking awesome. Honestly, sign me the cluck up.
Advertisement
You’re a nasty bird, Samwise.
Who gives a shit what you think, you ass.
Don’t use what I am as a slur.
Then don’t be one.
You’re the worst.
You’re worse than the worst.
Look, Samwise, you seem to know a surprising lot about Plott holes for some reason. Can you please help me figure out what in the clucking hen I have to do to get out of this henhole? Or fill the hole up or whatever it is?
Assafrass you’ve got to at least be a little embarassed to be asking for me to help you fill this hole up.
I am okay cluck’s sake just help me cock hamn I know I ditched you but I’m just a clucking ass I mean cock hamn what else do you want from me?!
Well, you’re shit out of luck, chuppy. I have no clucking clue what to do and I have no intention of being any cockhamned help to you.
Assafrass vibrated with rage, kicking his donkey legs around wildly like some kind of floating four legged animal, eventually knocking a singular wooden clog out of the closet and into the air. This clog soared through the buffeting, musky winds and—
THWUMP
—thwumped itself into the temple of the wizard, who was currently a man. The wizard tumbled out of the bed, knocking a couple women onto the floor with him in a stupor.
“Krumbunckie, are you okay?” whined a woman with perky titties.
“I don’t know…I magic like…I’ve…forgotten something important…”
“I hope it’s not how to cluck!” vitched a woman with jiggly titties.
Assafrass barely had time to hee haw before the winds of the Plott Hole wrapped around him like a pulsing vice and pulled him and Samwise back through the closet, out of the keg, into the shadows and back into the foggy mist of nothingness where his animals waited impatiently for him.
Holy shit, Assafrass gasped, spinning around in the air in nauseating shock.
Whay dao youa havae a baird oan yoau naow?
It’s a long story, Assafrass guarded himself, glaring at Michael, Angela and the Janelle with his stupid donkey eyeballs. But for some reason I have a distinct magicing my entire experience, as visceral and jarring as it was, that my whole entire experience of the Plott Hole could, can and will remain untold as I don’t think there’s any valuable information that could be gleamed from it. Seriously. It was pointless. I promise none of you want to know what I just went through. I promise.
You clucking asshole, Angela vitched, Err, pardon me, didn’t mean to be figoted…still, you ought to know saying all that shit only makes us want to know even more.
Well, if I tell you, you’ll be disappointed. Whereas if I don’t you’ll always wonder.
The Janelle backhanded Assafrass in his slobbering face. Then, he told his companions what happened. They were disappointed. As soon as he finished, they all felt spacetime tighten around them like a pulsing film of cellophane. A gushing wind pushed them out through the Plott Hole as it sealed tight and all of their farts, even the Janelle’s fart, which was not a fart at all but instead the idea of a fart, soared down through their chests, into their stomaches, through their instestines, out their asses, up and around their bodies, back into their mouths, down their esophagi, through their stomaches and back into the comfortable little chest pockets where farts belonged, with a slight tinge of discomfort from the fact that they had been wrapped around each animal like an overchewed piece of gum.
Advertisement
- In Serial20 Chapters
Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. But the bustling city has few opportunities for the traditionalist. For the old sword clans are fading. With the rise of alchemy, gold can purchase strength that ordinarily took years of training to cultivate. Sword artists, once rare and accomplished, are quickly growing in number, especially among the wealthy noble class. Even with such alchemy, though, no one has advanced to the rank of Grandmaster in countless years. Talen's true dream is to walk the path of a sword artist to the very end while fulfilling his clan duties. And then the Swordgeists return, fabled founders of all sword arts, gods who had touched the world long ago and vanished. These myths turned into reality warn of a coming threat. Alongside this warning, they issue an invitation to the Sword System Academy, a path to power beyond the mortal realm. But first, they will hold an entrance exam... Story notes:Sword System Academia blends elements of western and asian fantasy such as xianxia and litrpg. I took parts from different genres I enjoyed and twisted them into my own creation. There will be an explicit system, both of the litrpg kind and the hard(ish) magic kind, but it is embedded within an academic structure that will develop over the course of the story. This is my attempt to design a unique type of system, the System Academia.
8 153 - In Serial46 Chapters
Dragon Child of Thunder
In the World of Zenheim on the Continent of Astarte, where Magic and Sorcery run rampant, Home to The Humans, The Dwarves, The Elves, The Beastmen and The Draconions and the many other subspecies. Mankind has been pushed to the brink of extinction many times by the enemy of the world, Raz Seph the conqueror, his twelve Dark Knights and his legions of mindless, violent dark beings called """"Invaders""""
8 178 - In Serial20 Chapters
Executioner
How far can you go for a wish? A wish that can grant anything, including godhood. Can you give your life? Your neighbors? How about most of the sentient life on another planet? /// As someone who often skips prologues on rr I suggest you at least skim the last paragraph of mine to avoid any confusion/// ***** Writer here! I'm writing for myself so I won't really accommodate requests but comments critiques and suggestions are welcome. My mc will NOT be an anti-hero. It may not be apparent early but the mc will be ruthless. I will not give my mc a random girl for him to keep as a pet. SHE. WILL. DIE. I just wanted to make clear that the mc IS will gradually become a villain. ENJOY!
8 191 - In Serial8 Chapters
Adventure of Adventures
A teenage girl wakes up in a cathedral with no memories and no common sense. Follow Robin as she gains both while on her quest to figure out what is going on.
8 98 - In Serial43 Chapters
Jaeger Saga
The Veldt Empire has fallen to pieces after the Age of Judgement, and its people have been trying to reclaim their land from the monstrous beasts and hostile environments with steel, lead and fire ever since. However, the armies of the empire is spread thin and beasts would often slip into the liberated territories, terrorizing its settlers. Luckily for them, so long as they have silver or gold to pay, Pyrik will kill their menace for the right price. She is a Jaeger, a mercenary who travels across the empire hunting monsters. She is proficient with an axe and blunderbuss, frighteningly so, and a power resides within her, wrestling for control. It wants to totally consume her whole, and she seeks to find the answers to the nature of her power before it does. The cover is illustrated by Alex Chow. NOTE: the chapters after "Update" are a prequel story! START AT "GOOD AS WEEDS" FOR VOLUME 2! A NEW CHAPTER WILL BE RELEASED EVERY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY BETWEEN 5PM TO 6PM.
8 293 - In Serial16 Chapters
Pantalone x GN! Reader
Y/N was a reserved god from Sumeru that kept away from mortals and other gods alike, this seemed to be the case until she crossed paths with The Regrator, Pantalone; Who seemed to be there for business related affairs.
8 185

