Villains 194, Henchmen 177
Chapter 177 2025-01-03 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Broker posts
Small delay on 218
Hey guys, just a small delay on releasing 218 today. Nothing serious, I'm just a little behind schedule with having to balance things here and at home. Picking up additional work to make ends meet n' whatnot. I'm almost done with it. I'll get it up asap. Apologies
2025-01-03 08:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 217
“Tensions continue to mount in the wake of the failed peace summit between the Pandora Committee and Liberty. Questions have been raised about the reasons as to why the Supervillain Ishtar was allowed to participate. While the Pandora Committee has remained silent on the issue, an agent of Ishtar by the name of Mephisto delivered a statement to World News Daily stating ‘While I find the idea of unintentionally assisting the Pando...
2025-01-02 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216
A single astral eye stared down upon the room like a silent judge, watching the pair as they moved. To the uninformed, it seemed almost entirely choreographed. To Ishtar, it was a demonstration of just how far they had come.
She couldn’t help but smile.
Marta was brutal and direct as always, stepping in quick with a solid stance. Her usually sluggish movements augmented by bursts of speed that were trailed by glimmering...
2025-01-01 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215
“I know she doesn’t respond to reason, but you could have taken a different tactic,” Chunhua said as they moved through the parking garage. It was late and Ishtar was beginning to get a little tired of the nagging. “You kept your word, but you had a funny way of going about it this time,” the hero continued as they reached the waiting vehicle. Ishtar huffed out a breath and shook her head, not dignifying it with a response....
2024-12-31 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214
Outside, Liberty kept her chin up as usual. Her eyes down across her nose at everyone she looked at. That was just one part of the image she maintained. Power was everything, after all. Power sets you apart. Power allowed you to accomplish things that even money could not. She didn’t need money to rule. She didn’t need charisma like her groveling clerics. No. She only needed strength. Strength enough that no one would oppose her....
2024-12-30 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213
The city had been chosen by Liberty. The place by the Pandora Committee. The small amount of heads-up had allowed Ishtar a minor amount of preparation time. It wasn’t much, but with all eyes now on the University Convention Center, it was better than nothing. She smiled a little to herself as the limousine pulled up. She was aware that the area was modest, but luxury and grandeur in that regard were not to Liberty’s tastes. She l...
2024-12-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostVillains: 188 + 189, Henchmen: 171 + 172
Chapter 189 2024-12-25 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 212
Two days until the summit.
Ishtar sat in the garden, slipping deep into her own thoughts. Her head turned towards the warm sun above as fall winds blew over the penthouse. She ran her fingers along the arm of her wheelchair. She was strong enough to walk now, more or less, but it was exhausting. She’d avoided attempting to create ambrosia on the off chance that the healing restored too much shape to her face and figu...
2024-12-25 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostShoooort Break, but also, A present.
So I've spent the past week or so doing a full revision of the Raid Arc in book 2. Needless to say it's been a bit of a slog. I'll be taking the next two days off releases and hopping back in on Monday so I can catch up on things.
That said...
How about a bonus chapter today? :3
They'll be out at the usual time. Enjoy gang!
2024-12-25 06:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211
Ollie packed his bag, slipping the notebooks and his new tablet inside. He rubbed the bridge of his nose before turning back to look at his office. My office. The thought gave him no small amount of pride. It was one of the smallest offices in the building and at the end of the hallway away from the elevator, but Scowl, the head of the New York Guild’s investigative team had taken an immediate liking to him during the...
2024-12-24 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210
“This is a bit unexpected,” Ishtar murmured.
“Don’t worry, this isn’t my first time doing this,” Black Lotus said quietly as she moved into position.
“Then you’ll have to take the lead,” Ishtar said, “I’m quite inexperienced.”
“Just regulate your breathing to start, take your time. We’re doing this for Sonya after all, let the feeling wash over you,” The hero whispered from behind her.<...
2024-12-23 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209
Was it a memory? Perhaps a vision? A remnant? A fragment of something that was once truth but now seems so ludicrous as to only be a lie? A place within a dream, a wondrous realm that beggared imagination. A perpetual revelry, dance and song, fire and breath, lust and love. A place of madness, where those who had finally let free their arrogant grip on that thing called ‘sanity’ could dwell. Here, in the depths of mayhem, the lit...
2024-12-20 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 208
The bed was luxurious. Comfortable to the point of being unsettling. Ishtar wasn’t used to sleeping in a bed. She didn’t actively experience it the way Sonya did. Drifting off into slumber was still a challenge, no matter how much her rational mind urged her to go to sleep and recover from what she’d gone through. So she sat there, alone, in her own sightless void and listened to the deafening silence of the penthouse. Marta an...
2024-12-19 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Poll: Lillian's Codename
After some feedback I am giving some thought to Lillians codename. I'd like to hear from you guys though. Personally I'd rather not change it but I value y'all and your opinions. So lets just do a quick poll. If you think it should be changed, gimme some suggestions!
2024-12-19 15:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 207
“YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?!”
Ishtar leaned back with the sudden rush of wind that blew over her in the wake of Marta’s outburst. Ishtar made a face, reaching up to scratch at her nose. Hm. Perhaps I should have brought that up more tactfully. She thought as Amos burst into laughter on the couch to her right. She turned towards him and felt the thud of his body as he fell onto his side, howling with mirt...
2024-12-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2 Revisions
Hey guys. I'm going to be working on revisions for Book 2 going forward, specifically the chapters featuring the raid. It's become pretty clear that the raid was a very weak point of the series and turned a lot of people off with all the wild POV swaps and totally avoiding Sonya's story. I'm going back and tackling that. Y'all might have noticed that Book 3 is significantly stronger and more consistent in POVs (especially with the re...
2024-12-17 19:47:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 206
A gentle breeze worked its way over the garden, touseling Ishtar's hair as it hung loosely around her shoulders. A few petals drifted past, carried by the wind. She rest her hands in her lap, Levi sitting next to her attentively as she waited. She could feel the sun beating against her neck, the light tingling within the tiny glittering particles in her skin. She kept her head up, her eyelids shut. The bandages were gone. She wondere...
2024-12-17 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 205
Pandora didn’t linger. Nor did she speak with Marta in the room. She stayed only long enough to show her usual one-sided affections and leave like the ghost that she was. It didn't trouble Ishtar, the behavior from the fallen goddess was odd, but not unappreciated. It was strange. She had no feeling either way for her, but otherwise found the regularity comforting. Not that she would ever give voice to it. The woman was still annoy...
2024-12-16 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
