《RELEASE ME》THE SATANISTS AND THE DEMON
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Bear in mind these things that im about to write are from the time March 2020 until present and still ongoing.
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I was at the front peir entrance in my home town having a chat with friends at the almond tree. I heard a ear ringing sound in the day, funny enough it seemed as if I was the only one who has heard this irregular noise at the time. I started to hear and ill-advised voice saying "artiste," so I started to think that it was me who this voice was addressing but anyways, I was seated at the time as well, I heard "stand up," so I stood, wanting to know what was this going on, and looking around im sure I wasn't the only one who stood up, then everything went silent and I heard nothing until I was seated again. I was seated for a while and then I saw someone standing from the rear section of his car, which obviously is the trunk, whatever his real name was because I knew he was also against me at that time to present, but he was a selector otherwise known as a Dj/ Disc Jockey/selector. I was completely confused until I saw another man running from a Blue bus to the direction I was looking which was away from the area. Being confused, I was wondering what the hell was going on, like why was I targeted, and I, well as far as I can remember now, I was clearly the only artiste in the area that I was. A fair coloured lady was there as well, and i also heard a feminine voice, calling me to the car, mark my words, it was an open area, civillians were walking to and fro, past and to the spot. I didnt go, I was, well rather coward to go because I knew that the selector was not a friend of mine, as all the others there.
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One day when it all cooled down, the voices, I went strolling in the town with some boys I knew once. We were at the almond tree, and suddenly they all wanted to take a walk so I said alright lets go, so, we walked down past a gas station, "Rubis Gas Station" nearing a place called "Town Talk" it had a plaza going straight into the market area. I was walking past a little chinese shop on that area where I came upon a lady, who i have found out her nickname is "Daye" description is brown, short, seeming as if she was a middle aged lady, who walked out and spat something smelling weird, like really bad for something that was in the mouth, right in my face, it landed on the right cheek almost entering my mouth. I stopped, then looked up, and there she was walked back in the shop like nothing happened, Lee gave me something to quickly wipe my face then we walked off, talking about what happened. Walking up this street called Williams Street, we were talking and talking until when we reached up to the country bus stop where you would find Demar's mother's clothes store, cross from there you would see some busses and cars that go straight to Windsor, Moore Town, Ginger House, Comfort castle and some other places. I heard a sound, as if, I dont know, a latch was moved and some pool balls rolled off the waiting lot for another game, voices of school girls and a vision of the table foot as they stepped from around their desks. I then felt strange like im hearing to many voices and sounds, I just wanted to go home so I told them that I was going home like I just rushed home.
Days have passed and continuously hearing these voices, I went back puzzled which was right at the tree, the front entrance of the peir. I sat there looking around and lo and behold, the selector and his crew were there all the same, maybe they thought I didn't know they had a part in what have been happening to me, maybe they did, who knows, but I am sure who knows, but anyways they were there seemingly enjoying themselves. I also heard these voices saying that what I was going through was being enrolled for was "Godship", like what in the world, in the mind? Well at least that was what they called it. In the same time, I wasn't hearing these voices for a while, at the front entrance of the peir I sat and talked with some other individuals who I thought were my friends as well, when it came down to the breaking of night I others pulling up at the almond tree. Suddenly I heard the voices raving up, I was starting to get paranoid, this cant be happening again. Days have passed and one night I was in my kitchen at home texting and i was still hearing the various individual voices, even a girl who I thought I was with as well. That night I went to my bed writing a song laying down on my left side. Suddenly, I had this feeling as if eyes were over me watching me, and when I looked up I saw this thing black with white eyeballs black pupils, a broad mouth with white knife like teeth looking down at me, causing fear to grip my bones. I was afraid yes but, I didn't want to show that I feared it, and then again I was also surprised, shocked and wondering to myself "what is this?" I then tilted my head to the right and smirked because honestly at the time I couldn't possibly believe what I was seeing and surprisingly it tilted its head to its left and smiled and jumped down at me causing me to fall in deep sleep. A dream started to play out, merely an individual throwing some deodorant balls, none hit me, I threw two and they got caught on two nail ends on a wall, which seemingly have been driven in through the other side, the individual's head was between the two nails, the head of the person was Demar Wilmot a past past friend. I then woke back up, with over my heart cold and sweating.
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I was in the peir the day after with others whom I thought were my friends, I was using my phone while still hearing these voices, I placed my phone down on the wall that I was seated on and the truth is I cant even focus because of the situation. I turned my head around to look at the side entrance gate of the peir right across from a Guava tree which was in line with a iron railing which has been closed for a long time now, due to distraction of the voices of the individuals and when I turned back around I saw not the phone I left there, it was a black hwaweii within a black case. Searching around repeating to each individual, "Did you see my phone," one by one, the answer was always a dead no. Well, this must be a black magic because they all claimed that they didn't have the phone which seemed pretty weird, some sat and some stood talking and laughing and honestly looking back at how someone was laughing, it seemed jesterlike as if he was trying to trick me that I was getting crazy.
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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.
8 153Highschool Necromancer
Lucius is not your average highschool student. He can see the dead. Which is great for helping him cheat in exams. But things take a nose dive after the death of his uncle. What was suppose to be a simple desposing of the body quickly becomes more complicated. The issue is not helped when he finds out that one of his classmates seems to have died from mysterious causes. What is a teenage necromancer suppose to do in this situation?
8 81Solitary Will
“One leaf, one world… One grass, one heaven…” A woman with an incomplete soul. A borrowed life. A force to break. A deadly gamble. A strong will to defy fate and forge bravely towards immortality.
8 119Forbidden Passions
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8 188Irondad and Spiderson 3
Three books strong! This is amazing you guys! I couldn't be happier to be doing this with you guys! And who knows... maybe even a fourth...? We'll just have to wait and see...Requests are open, and Irondad and Spider son waiting for you! Enjoy!Art originally made by nururuateka!
8 309Broken- A Larry Stylinson AU
"He's a delicate thing. Like a rose. He's gorgeous but he has his thorns. Fresh as dew. I just want to bundle him up in warmth and keep him happy, always."Cover credits to @harryonmen on Twitter© larryslittlest 2015. All rights reserved
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