《Dreams of the Aasimar Cleric》White of Bone and Red of Flame
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A dream:
As your vision begins to fade back in from the flashes of black and white that have once again consumed your perception, all around you all you can feel is a stifling heat. All around there is darkness only lit by flickers of flame the shadows on the wall dance in concert with the flame. You look around and begin to take in the surroundings, you are barefoot and the floor that seems to be made of something of a stone hardness and roughness burns your bare feet with every step. As you scan around you see your hands in front of you, they are bound together with a rope going from them being pulled by something in front of you. You glance left and right and you pillars of natural stone from the floor to ceiling, the rock here seems a deep red you can not be sure if it is the color of the stone itself or whatever substance appears to be coated or splashed on it.
You turn to the other side and there is a kind of amorphous blob moving along the ground, it consists of a greyed out flesh tone that is appears to just be sliding along the ground, as you watch it you see what appears to be a human face on the side of it and as it rolls along the side of the thing the eyes open and it appears to be looking at you, the mouth opens and words come out of the disfigured form, you do not understand what it is saying you are not sure if it is even talking to you or not. The face then proceeds along the edge of the blob as if were stuck to the side of a rolling ball.
You look in front of you at what has been dragging you, you see white bone, illuminated in the red flicker of the native flame that you have noticed burning on some portions of the walls here as you have walked through here. This thing that seems to have you bound and following it is made entirely of bone, articulated together and walking on its own, the bone seems to link together into solid limbs that still bend at joints that don't seem to appear in the bone. The creature has a heavy forward lean and the rope leading from your hands leads to its own long almost talloned fingers, the tips of which are stained a dark crimson or black color, you are not sure in this red flame light if it is simply a trick of the light or not. It has what appears to be a long whip like tail made of segments of bone that appear split into pieces like that of a spine. The tail goes from a thick attachment at the base of the creatures back to a thin whip only a few inches wide before widening out to a long wide almost club like end with what appears to you to be like a long blade made of bone on the end of it along with several bone spines like the points of a macehead.
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The frame of the creature looks almost emaciated the bone white membrane covering it shrunken tightly around the pelvis stuck tightly to the spine before widening to the ribs. They too shown very definitely through to where you were almost sure that perhaps they didn't even have anything covering them and perhaps you were seeing the ribs themselves, the creature at its head height stood several feet taller that you and it's tail whipped back and forth menacingly as it dragged you behind it. An elongated skull of the same white bone sits at the top of the frame, solid red unmoving eyes set in the sockets without and flesh to cover them.
The creature also has what appears to be wings, but transparent and webbed like that of a beetle or dragonfly, two maybe three sets in total, it is hard to tell as they spring out of the creatures twisted back in an almost random manner. They flutter slightly as the creature moves but it doesn't appear it is currently making any effort to currently fly.
You look around and see many other forms peering at you from the near darkness of the corners of the natural stone room, it seems to expand into forever only separated by the stalagmite and stalactite columns. You also gain so sense for where or even if there is a ceiling but instead only darkness greets you when you look up. The creature before you seems to take no notice of your steps or your curiosity about this place. It only continues plodding along, its pace because of its long legs is greater than yours and you find yourself stepping quickly to avoid being pulled over by the large amount of tension whatever it is has been applying to the rope. The air hear is hard to breath and seems to be filled with an awful constant smell of smoke and rot and all other forms of filth, this in combination with the heat makes it feel as if every breath itself burns as you both breath in and out. The creature comes to a stop and you in turn come to a stop behind it.
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You wake.
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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.
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