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Chapter clings to the sea-greased hull, tipping and tapping with hidden claws, peering in the portholes when nobody's looking.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/04/11/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-4/

This week's password is: windlass

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

And ... here we go! More Book Two! More Eusebeia Epoche. More Maisie (which is the really important part, right?) The opening arc continues onward, deeper into this tangled mess of Outside. Behind the scenes, things are both surprisingly stable and wildly out of control, even though that might sound like a paradox. On the structural level, the arc is still planned to be a long one, and Maisie is holding onto the POV position with a grip I could not pry off even if I cared to try; on the narrative front, though ... well, Maisie is rapidly destroying my plans and rewriting them out from under me. So!

We're all on Maisie's wild ride now. Keep your arms and legs inside. And I do hope you enjoy the one, dear readers!

Also! I have fanart from the discord, to share with you all!

First up we have this wonderful pixel art rendition of Heather and Maisie, complete with Maisie in her very questionable outfit, by skaiandestiny. This is pretty damn close to official art of Maisie, I have to say! Then we have a simple series of two images (by tirrene) in which Maisie questions her sexuality and, uh, 'answers' the question. Then we have something which I'm actually having trouble figuring out how to link, since it's an entire series of images with accompanying text (by emmavoid); here's the first image. For those who understand, yes, yes this is exactly what it looks like. If you want to see the whole thing, click through to the fanart page and scroll down to "Everything beneath this link is a single extended fanart joke!"

And ... yeah, wow! I'm amazed and flattered and delighted that the opening has already inspired fanart! Thank you all so much!

Comments

Kennyevilmonkey

I'm just waiting for Heather and co. to pop in, weapons raised, and ready to fight. Only they pop in to find a scene of chaos. Kimberly is freaking out, Tenny is doing her thing and buzzing, tentacles flailing about. Casma is cracking jokes for some reason. And then off to the side, a knight in full armor is saving a girl from a cage as Maisie is dragging the slut fairy kicking and screaming off to a bedroom for some privacy and to make her Maisie's monster, and hers alone. No sharing!

Kennyevilmonkey

And yes, holding a knife does indeed make you run faster. Plus, love all the Kimberly cute lines. Kim breathes. Maisie, "Cute."

jthrr

I'm on mobile & didn't manage to find the fanart image series... but that first image looks suspiciously Homestuck-flavored

HY

If Heather does arrive to mount a belated second rescue for Maisie, she is probably going to appear at the worst moment possible, when Maisie is covered head to toe in somebody else's blood, with a huge grin on her face. So, yeah! Though dragging the Mimic off to a bedroom sounds like something Maisie might have in mind, too ... Maisie is very wise about knives, this is the truth! And Kimberly, well. Ahem. Maisie seems to have something going on there, and she's not afraid to let us know. (And thank you!! I'm really glad you're enjoying this.)

HY

Sure does!!! The series of images is very ... specific. Does the fanart page not work right on mobile? Please do let me know if I can help in any way, I'd be very happy to.

jthrr

Ohh, it's mostly that the fanart page is huge; I scrolled a bit at the top, then from the bottom, and didn't find it (...but if I dig through menus to get the "Find in page" search, it's findable; did that now)

HY

Oh! I see, oh dear, hm. Perhaps I need to reorganise the fanart page sometime. There is an awful lot of it, it's quite overwhelming now.

Trip Space-Parasite

I was able to find it pretty easily by scrolling to the bottom of the links section and then back up until I saw "extended joke", but maybe splitting it up by book at least would help?

jthrr

(Obv not anything urgent, anyway! I imagine it's rare to open the fanart page looking for a specific thing)

HY

One might even call her - aMais-ing, eyyyy. Ahem. And thank you! She can also be rather terrifying when she wants to be, yes. And perhaps even when she doesn't want to be.

Trip Space-Parasite

Yeah, I think the terrifyingness is intrinsic. Or maybe she just always wants it, how would we tell? Hopefully she wouldn't stab somebody just for a pun, though.

Griffin Bryant

Maisie would've done numbers in the 2010's edgy OC scene

HY

LMAO. Oh my gosh. That's such a perfect way of putting it. Oddly enough, I think Maisie would take that as a compliment.

HY

I think she would approve of the pun! She seems to enjoy the wordplay quite a bit. The stabbing is reserved for true enemies (who she also likes???)

Trip Space-Parasite

I think the best we can say is "people she feels strongly about".

HY

She does have very strong feelings! The exact nature of those feelings is up for debate, yes.