JayDee

I haven’t played the more recent Street Fighters so I don’t know if it made it into ‘em, but I bet anybody who played the old Street Fighter II and variants’d remember it and make the connection! I had a good nostalgic blast on SNES Mini when it came out – Those early voice samples were something else. Half the time I thought it was announcing “CHIP PAN!” instead of Japan.

You awake to find yourself in a forest clearing. Distantly, you can hear singing. It is pretty fucking tuneless. Oh fuck, it might be Bieber. To the east here’s a sign which reads “Quit looking East”, and to the West is a very suspicious tree stump. If you choose to examine the previously unmentioned mudhole Go to 35. If you choose to win self-determination for the Republic of Molossia go to 63. If you want to know about the unsightly rash spreading across your buttocks go to 28 (Charges may apply).

Just here promoting Part 9 being up!

I’d definitely rather meet the Endless Death than some of ‘em. The Discworld Death seems like a decent sort though. Cats like him, that’s good enough for me!

“Death Dream” is also a pairing that can get you some angry looks from fans of The Sandman.

Underlit Undead Mindrape?

Yeah, mentioned being absolutely crushed by work two or three weeks back, probably still busy for the January stuff!

Not with that attitude!

Heh, look, you can’t blame me for sticking the wrong name in there, I mean original canon had a Jotun in the role :p Spring shall spring! I mean… that might well be a sensible reaction to zombie apocalypse for most folks. The psychologic pressure can’t be fun.

My writing does have that effect on people! :p No, I kid, I kid, I expect you’ve been tired as heck with the work ing lately. Invidia might be a bit slower replying – recent status updated suggested away for a bit! Thank you for the review! I just saw it after dropping the review on the latest Mortuus Orbis part! Hugely appreciated getting it, gotta love reviews Thanks! Some of the flavors may also have been salty. Lupa didn’t comment. All the other demons looking for “666 Goat Road” or something, but Shannon’s got other interests. I figure it’s a bit of a call back to Kizzy reassuring Lupa that being a vampire doesn’t automatically make her evil – her living mortal life ended when the vampires came, but then her new unlife started… and that ends with a true death. And, yeah, she does get both superpowers and superweaknesses out of it, like sunlight or the need to drink blood. I freaking love it. Probably it’s only Shannon bringing back other mortals that they need to keep the place properly heated anyway, with Kate imprisoned! Although wouldn’t want it to get all damp, I guess. Mike’s used to it by now anyway, probably sees it as Lupa’s messed up way of showing affection. Shannon would definitely enjoy George’s stories! Shannon’s jewelry is quality stuff! None of your QVC crap. That bracelet she made for Kizzy way back when all this story universe started allowed her to bind an angel with her own power, and that wasn’t even the intended use! Yeah, Lupa probably sees herself as “Shannon’s dumpy friend”, but there’s nothing wrong with her! Especially worrying maybe how much better at the social life her housemates can be – even Kizzy is a really good active listener. There’s definitely something a little supernatural about her temperature, and how it changes so quickly when she gets blood, but doesn’t freeze solid when out in subzero temperatures. I figure most of the time she’s probably noticably cooler than the room she’s in, but probably only by a degree or so, like she hasn’t quite warmed up fully, but then her temperature just doesn’t change at extremes of heat or cold ‘cos of the supernatural side not obeying yer laws of thermodynamics properly. Or something. Man, we're damn lucky I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, because I would have spat it out laughing. The fact that Lupa can now get stronger from blowjobs is extremely Shannon and both funny and sweet. You spit, Lupa swallows… :p It’s probably not just blowjobs, although I didn’t get around to writing a petrative sex scene :p It’s kinda a retread of the oral scene in the gamer girl story, except with them now having a much deeper relationship, and Mike being better at it. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again! Yeah, another little callback to the line from Lupa in You! that Shannon figured out the way to get her in to get Kate out, but for anyone who hasn’t read that it really just continues the mentions of Kate being imprisoned earlier on – me trying to keep it self contained as much as possible, so I’m glad that it really worked there with the standalone element!

They got Part 8 up. Just doing the promo with InBrightestDay being busy an’ all :p Plus because it’s a great story that oughta be promoted.

I have none whatsoever. Except maybe for writing the Spyro story. This is a great way of putting it! If you’re writing a fight scene and somebody ends up elbow-deep in the other guy’s fudge factory, it’s what you’d call a really dirty fight.

Part 7 looks to be up Will re-read and review tomorrow

Oh, cool! That’s super positive. “That one’s definitely a superhero!” “That’s… that’s just a background police horse.” “Oh.”

Could be! I’m always happier to finish stuff than leave unfinished stuff sitting in me hard drive. She came for the friendship, she stayed for the magic protections woven into the fabric of the building… When she moves into her own place later, with her husband, Shannon’d put the effort in to add the same wards. (“It’s ok. I’m not running out of anime fan clubs anytime soon!) They’re taking place in two different universes and time moved faster in one for a while, but it’s only really confirmed in single lines here and there across different stories – way back in the second part of my slumber party story that introduced Kizzy and them it confirmed Eparlegna had done some really nasty shit on another Earth (referencing the whore story). I think we agreed that time moved relatively faster on the Statue universe for the period that Eparlegna was sealed up there, and so there was a line in the last part of Jude’s Tale that Luzurial had been bound for close to 75 years “relative time”. Then time starts running at the same relative speed after Eparlegna got out. The idea was pretty much entirely so if there was ever a crossover written featuring the mortal characters it would be less of a pain in the ass to mesh together, and also so that there could be some resolution between Kizzy and Shannon and Luzurial without having to wait 75 years in storytime. Incidentally, I wrote a first draft entirely of that resolution storyline that is complete but needs an absolute fuckton of work doing to not be the absolute unreadable boring unsexy garbage it currently is, and also to fit better with InBrightestDay’s better rounded version of Luzurial. “It’s really short!” is definitely the most positive reason I got! Even at under 5000 words I was running on empty with jokes by the end. That’s what I hoped! Bah. Maybe I’ll retool it to be not at Christmas.