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From InBrightestDay on November 16, 2025 Interregnum "Surreal" might be the best word to describe this one. There were definitely a few times I thought I knew what the rough outline of the story was, and then it turned out to be sort of a red herring. Alot of moving pieces I’ll admit but I think I did well. At first, this feels like a relatively mundane story about an officer getting called to an abandoned building, albeit with hints that this takes place in a dystopian future (the walls around the city, the fact that certain spaces are measured in tank widths, etc.). Given that my only experience with the abbreviation comes from the Gundam franchise, I thought FCS meant Fire Control System, like on a warship. Then I learned what it meant here and thought this might be a reverse WitS (that was rather flattering, I have to add). However, then things went a different direction again. I do have to admit I'm not sure what the significance of the FCS being broken was. Open at the close! Strange Days Indeed when a Demon decides to rise. Humanity proved infectious to a hellborn thing. The final test could a demon at their Nadir give it all up? The Answer was Yes. He is the one who speaks in BOLD. An echo. An impression left behind. The walls around the city and whatnot do ultimately make sense when the exact nature of the setting is revealed, but I'm not sure about the statue. The inverse and parallel of Luzurial. Couldn’t help but pay a tribute. That a demon had to willingly accept his own sacrifice. His story ends there. New Haven is just out of range of where the dead of a lost world crash against a hellish bulwark of trenches and fortifications. Enough to make both world wars blush. And they can sense their living brethren and like Einherjar. They return endlessly. The final reveal is pretty cool. It's unclear if anything happened to the Earth, but I got the impression that this city is no longer on Earth, and periodically in order to maintain its status, someone needs to be...assigned, I guess, to be the ruler of the Hellspore, presumably until someone else kills them and takes their position. I could also have misinterpreted that, so apologies if I did. Close. She was the 127th sacrifice. One hundred and twenty six victims. Jenna takes betrayal personally. As her commanding officer found out just before she put a tent peg through his temple. She made sure he knew who she was. Think of the Hellspore as a budding thing its mycelium network spreading to worlds and many other places in-between. Losing its master even as the agreement held. Now it has a new Mistress. I am admittedly somewhat confused about the presence of Hachishakusama in the story. She's something of a modern yokai, a being out of Japanese urban legend, so I'm not sure what she's doing in what feels like part of Hell. Then again, the Hellspore may not be region-specific, so it's possible any and all supernatural beings could show up here. She might be modern but ever have Yokai been tricksters and not all faces are true. Especially when shapeshifters are concerned. Some monsters of Asia seem to be able to cut off their hunting grounds from the rest of the world so their victims can’t be helped or get to safety. Either pulling the area into a spiritual/liminal zone or pulling the victim into one. Thus Shrouding. She might have been able to overpower Jenna initially but her fatal mistake was that she played with her food as it were. It turned into horror movie for her. Prey that turned out to not be prey after all. There are worse things than to become a Handmaiden or be destroyed. Jangsan Beom comes from the same region as Jenna’s Mother. Its good that Private Daniel learned early he was at the bottom of the totem pole. He’s not going to be able to outsmart a Black Dog. Canines understand hierarchy better than people do. And Rex knows Jenna’s Will better than anyone else. I would not wish to be the council members cause they’re dead by dawn. Of course, I do have to mention my appreciation for a gorgeous tall lady as your protagonist. Jenna must have a specially made seat in her cruiser given her height! She’s actually around the same height as power armor. So ironically she benefits from her size. She’s definitely taller than Cal-141 and Linda-058

Well, as you all know, I was able to make progress on The Lake House, but not to finish it by a week after Halloween. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, because I was struggling with how to integrate the theme of the piece into the ending, and it wasn’t until after the deadline had passed that I realized how I might be able to use it. So the extra time will (hopefully) lead to a better end product when it’s finally completed. I’ll keep working on The Lake House, and will either post it when it’s finished or throw it into the ring next Halloween season (fingers crossed that things are still stable for me next Halloween). In the meantime, I’m working on Meaningful Gifts again and have left reviews for both Invidia’s and George’s chapters of the Halloween story. I’ll read BW’s chapter on break at work tomorrow!

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We are aware of the issues with TinyMCE. Manta is working on patches now, in preparation for a big upgrade in December. -- Manta has patched all the editors. They’re basic, but should work for what is needed.

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Okay, I figured it might be a bigger issue but also plausible that I somehow clicked the wrong thing.

Manta is aware of it, and hopefully this will get sorted quickly.

I saw this and I haven’t really before. So I wanted to ask what’s up? Happy to figure out how to resolve it.

I’m curious what the difference is between the two. I’ve been playing with a story idea and the idea of proxy play has come up. However, I wonder at one point does it end up becoming cuckolding? Here’s the general idea, Mary and Sarah have unresolved sexual tension between each other and while not being willing to talk about it or get it on with each other, they will sometimes sleep with each other’s male exes. Sometimes Mary is there when Sarah is getting it on with a guy and other times Sarah is there when Mary is getting it on with a guy. Or one of them mentions it to the other later. As the subtext between Mary and Sarah becomes text, is there a point at which it becomes cuckolding? Do Mary and Sarah have to have actually slept together before the proxy play becomes cuckolding?