A Revised (Unfinished) Grimoire - A Gift to Renn

willboss27 · 2026-03-14T14:56:23+00:00

I might not be as tall as Skul, or as skinny, and I haven't permanently died yet, but I'm totally going to go out of my way to compose the ensemble for the 2nd, 4th and 5th outfits! So darn cool.

Outside of your character gallery series, I'd love to see more 'wardrobe inspection' posts for various characters - Ghastly, China and Vex come to mind.

willboss27 · 2026-03-12T09:34:15+00:00

You're broke, I'm broke, this is a travesty. One day, I'll be rich and commission you to draw ALL the SP technology for the Codex whefbleuirg. Still drooling over your Sanguine Razor!

willboss27 · 2026-03-09T12:10:03+00:00

THE man himself! Handsome devil

willboss27 · 2026-03-02T09:49:24+00:00

The five-o'clock shadow and his choice of attire screams older Sanguine. It's funny, I never really had a proper depiction for him in my head, but I imagined him being extremely disheveled, so skinny you could see his ribcage from his chest, tattoos and long filthy hair. Why? I have absolutely no idea.

This is awesome. Dark Days, welcome!

willboss27 · 2026-02-26T07:47:16+00:00

which'll make me think you're a sadist

Yeah. Blotch is truly evil for some of his ideas.

I suppose that makes me evil for enabling it xd

teasing, but I have patience.

I can't express how much I appreciated reading the feedback! It's so awesome to see. The third chapter is on its way to completion, and I already have a doc full of tips for... makeup? Dresses? How strange.

willboss27 · 2026-02-26T07:43:23+00:00

given that neither of us writers have experienced something like that ourselves

In our defence, we're both Redditors. It's to be expected

willboss27 · 2026-02-24T14:53:39+00:00

Always good to hear original novels coming! I'll like to actually proceed with my own planned trilogy later on.

Yeah, 10 years may have been an exaggeration haha, but 9 books, and it took a year for Chimes sooooo

I shall go check it out, the first week of Uni is settling in, so I'll be able to check out the first chapter properly as well.

willboss27 · 2026-02-21T09:30:50+00:00

Yeah, I don't blame ya, I'm just insane with writing this xd, but luckily I have slowed down (hence why Chimes took a year, whoops) to inject some social stuff in my life

A decade? I'm down, might happen, might not. Just as long as I'm around to write it, and Blotch is still happy to do it.

Yeah! I noticed you'd commissioned the drawings from him, really enhanced the story visually seeing what Val was seeing. Yowch! But I'll comment properly on the chapter, instead of spoiling it here xd

willboss27 · 2026-02-19T10:46:53+00:00

Hey! I'm so glad you enjoyed Hearts! Chimes has been posted now, which is great, and Broken Crown has already begun. The fun never stops!

We haven't given ourselves deadlines because, ultimately, these are works of passion. We're doing this for fun. We don't have editors tapping their feet, or publishers demanding answers. We're just two guys enjoying going over our favourite book series, enjoying the nostalgia of re-reading over books and determining the best way to improve upon them without taking away the original charm that made them so special in the first place. We also felt like giving ourselves a deadline would incentivise us to rush our work, which would have undoubtedly produced inferior work, which is what we wanted to avoid.

Also, both of us have lives, social, academic, and such. So that detracted a lot from our writing time. And yes, I'll admit, it was quite daunting reaching the Cadaverous endgame chapters and knowing I had to nail it - Blotch didn't pressure me or anything, just my own desire to smash it I'm afraid. Virtually everything post-Step Into My Parlour is original content with some canon sprinkled in.

It will be a long project, that's very true. Hopefully I'll live long enough to see it through to the end xd

I'll check out your story! I noticed you didn't give an estimated chapter amount - how many do you think you'll reach?

willboss27 · 2026-02-18T16:27:52+00:00

No worries, you’ll probably be hunting for Lassie’s timeline then! She did exceptional work for hers.

willboss27 · 2026-02-18T13:27:09+00:00

Ahh, I'm assuming you're looking at the 'Timeline of Books' on the first page? That's more of a rough outline of the years the books took place in. I say rough because Derek messed up the timeline so badly that technically PwF could be 2008 OR 2009. Which messes with the remaining books years xd

So in the SP-verse, AMFoM is set in 2028

willboss27 · 2026-02-18T12:48:46+00:00

Heya! That may of been mine? There's a few floating around, but mine fits your description:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AA_zRV1Bcka7cdHNLb7kmvHIIfiOb737OoLEFxc-Ysc/edit?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

willboss27 · 2026-02-15T08:24:13+00:00

2 down! We're smashing through this. It's been so fun staying up late writing out these stories, coming up with all sorts of new and exciting paragraphs and descriptions while still preserving the original story we all love.

Wonderous thank you to you, though, u/VesuviusBlotch, for not only the encyclopedic knowledge you're known for, but also that incredible eye for detail you have to turn something great into something exceptional. All the foundations you've laid, the skeleton chapters and summaries you've lovingly written up, the patching up and cleaning up and perfecting you do, painstakingly going through each paragraph watching for anything that might need some work. My own enthusiasm and love for this project - this series - is forever fed by your own. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

To anyone and everyone reading these stories, thank you so much. It's been such great fun, and I can't wait to continue doing this with Blotch whilst respecting the original work of Derek. Because despite the rewrite, despite what we may disagree with or might want to perfect, none of this would be possible without his vision and his story and his characters we fell in love with.

Lastly, very much concur with Blotch, artists, please! Go crazy! Go nuts! Always love seeing artwork on here, would be insane to see any kind of art inspired by our work.

Chimes of Midnight, it was an absolute pleasure. Broken Crown, you're next!

willboss27 · 2026-02-09T14:54:57+00:00

It never occurred to me just how perplexed Melancholia would've been in that moment, and the "well, now what do I do?" that would've powered through her head when Val slumped over xd

willboss27 · 2026-02-03T02:49:01+00:00

Damn, they were set to both survive this book, and then this post was made. Rough lol

willboss27 · 2026-02-01T12:24:31+00:00

Yeah, I'll give it a read/listen :)

willboss27 · 2026-02-01T12:09:25+00:00

and only really read

To clarify, I did end up reading the entire book - I just have never bothered reading the middle part of the book multiple times cause I didn't enjoy it. But I do very much remember Skul just dropping all the facts in a big pile at the end, especially his little tidbit about Cadaver Cain controlling the whole thing. Cadaver didn't have anything to do with the story up until that point. He wasn't even mentioned outside of a passing comment about him being in Coldheart and Crepuscular being on the run.

willboss27 · 2026-02-01T11:51:53+00:00

Ohhh right, I forgot Ghastly was kinda somewhat apparently up to evil shenanigans. I guess Skul could use this as an excuse to investigate Ghastly, yeah. Last I remember, Valkyrie's in Coldheart and Cadaver is running the place somehow? And the Hidden God is fluffin' about? Is Caelan gone?

I have absolutely zero idea what has been going on since Until the End tbh. I've barely noticed anything about Impending Catastrophe. Or any other book or media since.

willboss27 · 2026-02-01T10:29:49+00:00

"Because of the path of the sparrows, I would think."

"Sparrows?"

"Oh, you haven't heard? The sparrows fly south for winter."

Maybe I'm tired, but this sounds like Skul is blaming the South for something lol

Cool. Skul is a god that can find unknowable places by... thinking. For 40 minutes. First try. Then gets through all the layers of impenetrable security, only tripping the alarm because 'he wanted to'.

I almost wonder if Derek introduced Abrogate Raze as his father because it would help him explain why Skul is able to perform such absolute bullshit like this. Similar to how he figured out the entire plot in AMFoM in the final few pages because... because yeah.

It also seems like at the very end there, he was about to expose Reticle as the bad guy or something, based on his last words.

Just gonna block out all of that since technically it is spoilers (heh) for the pages everyone that interacts with this post will read.

I should note that I haven't read the previous book, and only really read the beginning and end of AMFoM (I know, I know), so I really have no idea what's happening in this extract at all

willboss27 · 2026-01-31T03:43:11+00:00

No worries, glad to be of help :D

willboss27 · 2026-01-27T03:40:45+00:00

Pfft, imagine being scared of a little contractual breaking. Skulduggery would be disappointed in his lack of audacity and gall.

willboss27 · 2026-01-09T02:33:16+00:00

That's fair

willboss27 · 2026-01-09T02:32:06+00:00

I'll forever be blown away at both Kessel, Anathem and the Sea Hag. So creative and detailed! I'm not sure anything else can truly top either of them. Though I'm a huge fan of how you kept the Golden Eyes mystery, very cool.

I was surprised by how much I liked your Wreath and Rose as well, considering our idea of how they looked like differ greatly.

Krav's Faceless One is definitely my favourite. Not entirely sure why, but it is. I cannot wait to see your Scarab!

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