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Another Update
🕑 Added 2025-07-25 03:36:24 +0000 UTCJust giving you guys an update, for those of you not in the Discord itself. But the progress on the next chapter is down to two scenes. We're currently resting around 9000 words.
I do apologize in the time it is taking us. I have been suffering from COVID since my return from my trip, and while it's largely gone now, I'm left with a nasty cough that doesn't seem to want to go away.
Furthermore, for those of you unaware, I have been unemployed since January. Well, the money has run out, and I'm currently in the process of searching for a job, while working side gigs in order to ensure that my bills are paid. As a result, I have overall less hours to work on the story itself.
That is not to say that the story is dead, far from it, it just means I can't currently meet my a chapter every two weeks like I had intended a few months ago anymore. I hope that will change once I have a stable, and less timeconsuming job, but for now, this is sadly the new status quo.
I do apologize if this is not what you want to hear, but it's kinda all I have. I feel bad for making this statement, but I promised myself to keep you guys informed.
With that being said, I will give you guys a small snippet from the next chapter. It's just a small piece of a link between scenes in the story, but I think it starts setting the stage for what we are slowly working towards. It's not edited, and will probably have some small changes in the finished product. But, I thought that at least I could share with you guys something.
No my beautiful listeners, the Merchants did not spike the water supply with hallucinogens. The big honking robotic bird flying over Brockton Bay was certainly real.
Why was there a robotic bird flying over the bay? Well, for those of you who may have happened to be living under a rock for the last month, that bird is the latest toy of our residential wunderkind and robotics aficionado, Taylor Hebert, is testing out.
Now, I don’t know about you, and give Miss Hebert her due, but I find myself nervous at the idea of a fifteen year old having so much power. I know, for a guy like me to say that is rather surprising. And it’d be one thing if the good ol US of A was enlisting the skills of what is obviously a brilliant and driven young lady. But for all intents and purposes, Miss Hebert seems to be playing to her own little tune.
What does that mean for you and I right now? Well, nothing so far. I’m not going to sit here and claim to be an expert on robotics or fifteen year old teenage girls. Nor am I going to declare we should welcome our new robotic overlords or any of that sci fi phooey.
But what I can voice is asking the question of how far is this all going to go? I mean, when you start thinking of the next step in all of this. The press release from Zero Dawn is saying that Sunwing is designed to provide additional support to their flagship Light Rescue Lance, but I can read between the lines. You have a machine that can loiter over an area and provide information to its ground crew. But what’s to stop it from being used for something else?
I’d like to think I’m a reasonable kinda guy, but the way Miss Hebert seems to pull something new out of her hat when no one is looking is enough to make me wonder just what else she’s not showing? And what’s to stop that from being used for something else.
You know me, I’m the kinda guy that likes the government keeping its mitts out of the private interest. But even I wonder if maybe I’m wrong over here, and maybe someone should put some brakes on this girl. Or at least, prevent her from waking up one day and choosing violence.
I’m opening the lines so you can let me know what you think—
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