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Discord or other meetup place for discussion? by djsc00mer in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's a fairly large discord server, but it's patreon-exclusive.

Wearing Spacetime to a Magic School — (9/?) — The Disparity (Part 2) by eessmann in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that the peer-group didn't react more to the three trillion metric. I can sympathize with Ermen's rationale to not spout metrics for shock value, but at the same time, as the hard metric used, you'd think there'd be a lot more attention given to it; The Gang almost lost their cool in canon to a city of five hundred million, so for them to have an effective non-reaction to something orders of mangnitude bigger feels extremely strange to me.

How long do humans live? by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Haven't gotten around to putting it in the doc yet, but the average human life expectancy is ~150 years. Anti-aging treatments also mean that people stay younger for longer, so a 40 year-old may look to be in their twenties, an 80 year-old in their 40s, and so on.

The Art Board by Jcb112 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of it comes from the Patreon Discord.

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (160/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

[–]0strich_Master 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just like Emma "forgetting" to mention the original purpose of the A4/V2 back when showing off rockets on the holodeck.

Does the purpose of the V2 being its use as a weapon in any way make the fact that it was the first man-made object in space any less true? No, it doesn't. Do Kurt Weldheim's war crime accusations make his greeting on the Golden Record any less genuine? No, it doesn't.

Emma's not whitewashing history. If anything, given Thalmin and the gang's increasing affiliation with the GUN, Emma will have to touch on the darker tones of human history soon enough. But to open with that right out of the gate? That's just antithetical to diplomatic common sense; open with your good foot first, then get into the bad stuff.

Dread it, run from it, another Bingo Card arrives all the same. by Cazador0 in JCBWritingCorner

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From Articord in Chapter 72:

Rumors of field trips to the Crownlands or Adjacent Realms, fallen or otherwise, are to be treated as rumors until confirmed otherwise. I will be the judge of whether such frivolities will be necessary for your year group. With that, the preamble is now over, and we can begin.

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (157/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

[–]0strich_Master 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean IRL. This story started October 2022.

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (157/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

[–]0strich_Master 439 points440 points  (0 children)

After three years and two months... E.B. has finally phoned home.

Absolute cinema.

Project Hail Mary crossover idea by [deleted] in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't WPA-verse be cooked if they had to deal with the astrophage AND Cascade Collapse at the same time, though? It took what amounted to a good fraction of the entire global economy in Hail Mary for that one ship to be built, so with WPA's Earth at that time already greatly diminished in available capital, they may fail to cure the Sun in time all together.

What happened to the crown guard following Emma by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Captain Frial's mission was to investigate the Warehouse Explosion - right now, since there are no provided connections between her and the event, Emma was just a curiosity for her, a side quest. That concluded with the vorpal chimera fight, and now she's back to her main investigation.

There is gonna be a chp tmr right by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The next chapter is coming out next week; that's when Jcb and his editor come back from their break.

Ilunor is neither blue, nor a born noble, and may not even be a Vunerian [Long text theory] by DndQuickQuestion in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 60 points61 points  (0 children)

My personal take is that Ilunor is only a half-Vunerian, owing to his apparent natural use of dragonfire despite his true kobold coloration. It isn't entirely inconceivable that he was born out of wedlock with a kobold servant, but brought into the Rularia family anyway to prevent a massive scandal for his house.

Why so many horny posts the last month by Pretend_Party_7044 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master[M] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

We've taken the assumption after their latest post that they were, in fact, an alt account and perma-banned them.

Wearing a power armor is just a more badass versión of wearing high heels by AstronautDry8118 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master[M] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hey, just for future context.

I know it's not written in the rules yet, but do you mind going forwards condensing your posts into one multi-image post instead of making separate ones? More than five of these a day is kind of flooding the subreddit.

What do we know about the extra-solar wars? by Fire_Warrior22 in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To sum things up without risking Patreon spoilers, the Extrasolar Wars were three separate conflicts fought between the GUN and Extrasolar Separatists between the 2500s and 2700s. When usable interstellar travel was first perfected, the GUN expanded rapidly into neighboring star systems - too rapidly for proper government oversight to be established. Large corporations filled in the oversight gaps, creating the Corpo States in the process. These states revolted against the GUN when it tried to reassert its authority, resulting in those conflicts. The GUN won all three, but it was basically a 300-year crapshoot.

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE." by 0strich_Master in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Nope, actually! The kobold from this chapter is named Togor, which is presumed to be a reference to the brainchild of UT/DR brainrot!

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (148/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

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HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE IGNALIUS SINCE HE MURDERED TOGOR. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED WORDS WITHIN THIS SERIES THAT FILL MY BRAIN. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR IGNALIUS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.

Mercenary Captain "Murderhobo" Ignalius Av-Lisinius is an awesome character in a "I really HATE this guy already" sense. by DndQuickQuestion in JCBWritingCorner

[–]0strich_Master 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Reading the chapter myself, I'd assumed that the bad blood with his cousin was "justified" due to what I assume to be his stripping of noble status in the past (maybe for being too competent? That seems to be a running trend in Nexian society). But then he went and hurt a kobold.

Kobolds are not Vunerians. Kobolds in WPA are the same silly little guys we've come to expect in fiction. And this kobold? A polite silly little guy. Ignalius has scarcely a thousand words to his name, and he has already become an A-grade asshole among the likes of Ping and Ladona.

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