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Three Square Meals Ch. 170 (Part 1) (Patreon)

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2024-08-01 03:35:57
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2026-06

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Hi everyone,

I've been working on the next chapter, which starts wrapping up some loose ends from the previous battle.

As Chapter 169 ends rather abruptly, I thought you might enjoy reading the first part of the next chapter. I've written just over 6k so far, and I'll add the rest as I finish off more scenes.

Please let me know if you spot any typos or continuity errors!

Cheers,

Tefler

Comments

sunxia

Yay first #2!

sunxia

Thanks @tefler!

Evan

Thank you, Tefler!

Korzic

Well - we got a third of 169 and a third? of 170 for July and no precharges to this point so I suppose I should be happy? Is it really too much to ask for regular updates about progress? Edit: Welp - spoke too soon there

DemonHunterCole

Thanks for the nice 15 minute read. I look forward to your next chapter.

Taco1085

thank you Mr. Tefler.... what a great start and I am so happy Rachel started healing and saving Ilyana...

DemonHunterCole

At Tefler’s best, he was regularly writing 3-4 chapters a month. But this was before his second child was born. Hopefully after his gall stone issues are resolved, both children will be old enough and in day care that Tefler will be able to catch up in no time.

Jim Owens

Awesome job of getting the next chapter underway. Keep it up!

Evan

This actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of the thralls dying to feed the Devourer before the psychic network is fully dissolved, but those that survive (and there must be a fair number of them), need to disassociate from the enemy thralls so that they can retreat back to their own domains so that they’re available for the next Progenitor. Thralls dying after being disconnected from their Progenitor would not provide a harvest for Xar’aziuth, so would need to be avoided after the withering of the psychic network. Sustainable farming of thralls is something that Xar’aziuth must have perfected to a significant degree over the eons, and the deaths of Progenitors would be a fairly common occurrence, by his design, so retention of assets to participate in the next cycle of conflicts would be a critical requirement to provide for maximum harvests for him.

Jim Owens

Is there any way you could make a cast of characters? There are so many it's getting harder to keep track of who is who.

Tammy Hoffman

Thank you for finally finishing the battle it seemed like it took forever was about to give up hope that it would ever end. Lol...glad to see you are so with us Telfer we love this story our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family always

Michael56Smith

-- Whew! the battle with the Galkirans is finally concluded, and the start of chapter #170 shows some of the clean-up efforts John's girls needed to do, ... And thank you for not totally sacrificing brave Ilyana, ... Rachel was in time, yay! ... looking forward to many more chapters, thanks loads, ... ;-) ttfn

Puttanegra Ficondo

Getting better and better. I hope not to have to wait until the end of the month to see the end of 170

Unresolved Plots

Thanks Tefler. Hope you stay healthy and get the op soon!

2ndAndrocentric

Chpt 169 was great but I enjoyed the start of 170 even more. Everything as I would have expected in terms of the suicide compulsion to feed Xar, the retreat of those that did not off themselves etc. My favorite is how Alyssa is harrasing John, again. Reminds me of the 1991 movie "Robin Hoodd prince of thieves" when the old witch is urging on the Sheriff of Nottingham. Performance anxiety anyone? Alyssa has nymphomania by proxy.

Michael

Being prior military no stranger to seeing the light fade from people's eyes to in a position working for a oil field company that's pretty much be the Wolf in a flock of sheep. Today has been a heck of a day with emotions staring at my phone reading your story had to lock my office door to not be disturbed. I just finished reading your latest update and all I can say is wow well done Teflar. Describing the fight scene ultimately leading to the unfortunate scenario where thralls wanted to end themselves( pulling them out of the darkness and showing them to love) to Jade flying in the enemy's dreadnought like a bad B 😂. Yet again you have done outstanding work hope all is going well for you and looking forward to the next installment. Again well done 👏

AzureReader

Disappointed the plot involved grabbing the first girl he saw and making her a matriarch. Feels like an afterthought. Auralei received extensive character development over many chapters. I’m sure John will proclaim his love for her in a few pages, then we’ll never hear from her again. Won’t miss her.

William Hill

Will any of these updates be posted on Literotica?

DigitalDreamer

So, I could use a little help to understand this. How is it that by claiming just one of the Galkirans, he ends up claiming them all? I don't exactly understand the mechanism at play here. Also, why is Edraele unconscious? Maybe what I don't get is with Larn's group, he husked all of the thralls, leaving only the unclaimed behind. I guess we have never really seen the actual takeover of an existing psychic network, even one that is decaying. Was it essential that Kaija was willing? How is it that her conversion miraculously swept over all the other Galkirans on the planet? Why did the psychic network at Gentalis remain unaffected? These are just some of my questions from reading the beginning of 170. Oh, and good call and reviving Ilyana ("she had a nasty case of death"). Nice save, Rachel.

Tealguy

I have an extreme love/hate relationship with these partial chapters. I love seeing more of the story, but dammit, I get impatient. 😅 Also, (as others have said) I can’t help, but wonder if the postings on Lit will ever catch up to Patreon; the last chapter viewable there is 145, released on May 2 of 2023.

Jeff Combes

I truly hope that this doesn’t go down the path of a 6 part chapter that will get passed along over the next 2 or 3 months.

William Wallace

It would be nice if the chapter was included in this posting, I see no download file?

William Wallace

Sorry my fault looking in the wrong folder

Mike Biagio

So if Alyssa can shield thralls from their corrupt psychic network, why can't she do that for thralls before their progenitor die? They can reduce the amount of power the progenitor can get.

Michael56Smith

-- a possible Tef Twist might be a direct result of Alyssa needing to remove a Psi Blocking / Protecting Shield in order to aid Kaija, .... I can only think of one person that such a shield could be pulled from, .... I am thinking that it would be Jessica Blake, John's Mother, who Alyssa was forced to leave vulnerable, .... and I would expect Rahn'hagon, John's Father, might well take advantage and put his lovely Jessica back under his mental control, ... Now that could lead to an interesting family get together with John, ... Yeah, Tef still has a few story twists and turns ahead for us to enjoy, ... ;-) ttfn

SilverBanshee

A good start to the chapter! I'm wondering now if we will be seeing a nymphs' kiss situation with all of the now stranded Marines. Particularly since they now have a matriarch. I feel like John and company are going to need some "brand ambassadors" for all those thralls trapped on the stranded ships. Given the current fight / fight response after the battle, I'm betting they are positively hysterical trapped as they are

John the 5th

A very pleasant surprise. Totally unexpected. And a few twists and turns. Thank you.

James Sinohui

So, I'm guessing the existing shield that Alyssa was maintaining was on Jehanna's psyche and we're about to find Ailita dead and John unable to revive her

Michael56Smith

-- How will Tef go about all the clean-up needed now, ... so much to fix, to follow through with, to take charge of, ... all the Maliri bodies on Genthalas, and on the surface of Kythshara, .... with the recovery of Genthalas, and all those needing medical aid (both Maliri and Galkiran), ... restoring of Edraele and the thanking of Luna, ... the Angel of Terra healing hundreds or even thousands of Maliri and Galkirans, ... the reanimating of Faye, ... the claiming of all those stranded and left behind Galkirans, ... the fate of the Galkiran's former Matriarch, Valeria, I'm hoping that she gets made into Kaija's version of Luna, ... and the helping out of John's 'mind controlled' mother, Jessica, ... and the. perhaps, not killing of Rahn'hagon, depending on what he has done with / to Jessica, ... just to name a few things to start with, ... ;-) ttfn

Jim Owens

See if you can catch all the way up in August....

DigitalDreamer

Anyone speculating on what will happen to the Gladiatora? She did come to realize how full of shit her lord has been, so there is that. Is there an arc of redemption to be had here? Will it be similar to Edraele's? It would be very cool if she became part of the solution to getting the fleeing and crazy thralls to stop their flight, calm down, and surrender to John willingly rather than returning to Xar for wholesale slaughter and harvesting. She could be the salvation of her sister thralls instead of the calculating killer she has been in the past. Last we saw her, she was unconscious and being carted off by her fellow thralls. When she regains consciousness, will she still have control of the degrading psychic network as the matriarch even though Gallyboy lost his head? The fleeing thralls need her because she has the combination to the warp gate, but what if she refuses to allow them to flee?

SilverBanshee

Also, while we are cleaning up this latest battle and looking forward to fighting the rest of the progenitors, does it bother anybody else that these guys love to go around blowing up habitable planets like they're a dime a dozen? This just feels like a ridiculous waste of resources if your goal as an evil astral tyrant is to perpetuate endless war. I mean, there's got to be a point of diminishing returns, right?

Michael56Smith

-- Okay, how many of the Galkiran Fleets were able to escape from their loss / defeat at Kythshara, I think it was about 3 mostly intact fleets and a number of strays? ... and didn't Gahl'kalgor split his forces and send another 7-9 fleets off in another direction to search for Baen'thelas's Throne World, ... And I recall that ole Gally originally brought 29 of his Fleets to bare on the Maliri, in his search for Baen'thelas, .... but maybe Gally arrived in Shrouded space with a total of 30 Fleets? and maybe one fleet was left to guard the Hyper Warp Gate, ... those retreating (with their tails tucked between their legs) fleets can regroup with the separated Fleets and this single, bored on guard duty, Fleet before jumping home, .... here's a thought, how many of these 9 1/2 to 12 Fleets lost a high percentage of its crews, when Gahl'kalgor died and so many Galkirans / Thralls committed suicide, with the various fleets retaining perhaps about half crews, or skeleton crews?... and perhaps the combined Fleets escape course might take them close to a number of stranded Fleets where they might be able to pick up some surviving ship's crew to fill out their ship's rosters. And are all of these remaining crews without any Eldritch connection now that the network has collapsed? No longer Thralls, .... -- and will Valeria awaken to order / command the embarrassed Fleets to not head back home just yet, ... maybe Kaija and Baen'thelas reach out to her, .... expect some Tef Twists, ... but I want Valeria to be redeemed and to serve as a bodyguard for Empress Kaija, .... time and Tef will tell, ... -- Hyper-Warp Gates: 1) the new one that was Galkiran built, ... 2) the one (Mael's) near to Kythshara, ... 3) the one way out past Vulkat space that brought Rahn'hagon to Shrouded space, .... Baenthelas has 3 Gates to guard / control access to, .... -- And John should deal with the approximately a dozen left over, and pretty much intact, Galkiran Fleets of non-Thralls, .... he needs to make wards of all of them, ... ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

-- And I want the scene where FA Lynette tells the Admiralty that the Galkiran threat is now all over, thanks largely due to the Lion, ... She wants another Awards ceremony, ... ;-) ttfn

AzureReader

Please try to complete ch 170 in 3 months with no more than 4 more pre charges.

Nathos

I love the ending to this epic battle, great writing as per usual Tef, but I must admit I think you could have gone in a different direction with 170..... Great depiction of how horrible the standard progenitor network works and it's insidious nature, but John only being able to fix by loading up a new empress asap? No matter how you look at it, it's a bigger departure from the merit-based, character choice route of selecting a new lioness.... I think there might have been potential for expanding on John's uniqueness compared to other progenitor, by having him manipulate the decaying network that he could see, after Gally's death...... Maybe he could have found a way of hijacking the network via that route, but still needed to find a Galkiran empress to fully claim them and manage their network . This rings true especially as Helene comes in with her "going further beyond" moment, maybe Helene could have interacted with the fraying network via Gally's corpse.... Just worried about heavy progenitor conflicts where everything is at stake, being undermined by a post-war, anti-mass-suicide bj.

2ndAndrocentric

One mistake that John continues to make: he does not draw power from the girls early enough. He seems o leave it for when his own abilities are exhausted.

Michael56Smith

-- Besides all the new Matriarchs from John's killing of those Empire's Progenitors, .... John needs to save the Abandoned, and make one of the elder Mermaids a Matriarch, .... Also he must get Rachel, possibly along with the Maliri and Ashanth scientists, to develop a Synthetic Eldritch Semen Elixir that would allow Baen'thelaas to recruit Wards by the millions in all his Empires, and they'd set up lots of plants to make the stuff, .... think how powerful he would get to be in a very short time, ... Look out Xar'azuith, ... ;-) ttfn

Frostfyre

The biggest mistake is headshots...or lack thereof. Sakura, a professional assassin, had a chance to end the fight but ignored the simple fact that Progenitors regenerate. If she had severed his spine at the base of the skull or stabbed up into his brain and frozen it, instant death. Instead she went for a body shot and accomplished nothing but getting hurt, exactly the same as the last time she engaged a Progenitor. Alyssa did the same thing. A nova lance to the back of the head would have been fatal, but instead, for no good reason, blew off his HAND(???). Again, nothing useful accomplished except getting hurt. Dana had her big gun set and ready to go...and shot him in the stomach. For a third time, nothing was accomplished except getting hurt. Its time for John to review the battle and remind everyone that headshots kill Progenitors and hurting them anywhere else accomplishes nothing except getting the girls hurt.

2ndAndrocentric

So I've been thinking about eventual conversation with Jehanna's parents. They're Hindus who have a thing with blue skin gods. There's plenty of interesting dialogue to go along with 1- the Maliri skin tone and perhaps ancient memories of them being like gods...that Jehanna now is intimate with 2- the multiple women Krishna was husband to (if you are a VERY traditional Hindu, harems should not be a problem) and 3- it has been brought up before, immortality being a problem

Tom Ray

when are you going to update this??? Don't wait and use the update at the end of the month!!!! you need to finish this chapter now, then post at least 1 full chapter at the end of month. no more excuses....

Greg Hill

What difference does the Valeria make now, she's no longer in charge of the psychic network! John had claimed the Galkirans at the end there, and selected a new matriarch from among them...so she's just the hired help now!

AzureReader

I’m confused about Helene’s teal wave and John’s blue wave being a few seconds apart. It was nice that Helene would try to save the thralls but why would Tef write it happening right before their being claimed? Perhaps a few thralls were saved in those seconds but I’m guessing there was more of a point. Maybe Helene did something we don’t yet understand?

SilverBanshee

So I was re-reading ch 169 while I wait with the faint hope of an update to 170, and I was struck by the fact that Gahl'kalgor husked more than 10,000 of his thralls himself when Valeria refused to send him any energy. I'm wondering where they came from. Will we find floating tombs among the stranded Galkiran fleets or will they come from back at the empire or a combination. It will be tough on John and the girls to find ghost ships after all their efforts to save the invaders. Clearly some portion of the Galkirans are alive (and running away) but some are also clearly dead from combat. suicide. etc. How many more are Gahl'kalgor's direct doing among the invasion forces?

John Degennaro

Just a thought, can Dana park a black hole inside of a progenitors hexagon defenses?

Unctadsk

can you tell me when faye comes alive. I think it should be in this chapter but.....

EroticPoetic

Anyone willing to wager whether we’ll get part 2 or not? Anyone think Tefler is off his meds enough to try posting more placeholders? Sincerely hoping we get the rest of 170 and part or all of 171… fingers crossed 🤞🏼

Michael56Smith

-- Hey, we WILL get something, ... either a partial chapter #170, a completion to chapter #170, or hopefully a chapter #170 plus more, like a completed #171 too, .... fingers crossed, and I'm saying my anti-gallstone prayers, ... hopefully yours, ... ;-) ttfn

MVFast

Even though I know better…

MVFast

F5, F5, F5…

MVFast

Tomorrow!!!

MVFast

Oops! I mean the day after tomorrow.

MVFast

F5, F5, F5, sigh.

MVFast

My thoughts are, the rest of 170, and a 50/50 chance of 171. If we get 171, we almost certainly get Faye as well.

Jim lynch

Teller I think I’ve been one of the biggest critics of your placeholders I truly hate them lol but I just don’t see an end to them so I say just scrap them forget the backlog forget owing us all 8 chapters or however many it is and start afresh just forget about the ones you owe. I’m past it now I’m sick of fighting with people for £40 plus tax’s lol so end it all now by doing a vote on here just like the votes you’ve done before about which character you want artwork done next but do it for forgetting about what you owe us all and end this shit once and for all but if you do this you can’t ever start doing them again

Tom Ray

To limit the number of times you can be charged per month before the end of the year to take care of that pesky second placeholder. Go to Membership -> Edit -> Payment Amount -> Set Monthly Limit and enter "1".