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Three Square Meals Ch. 170 (Completed) (Patreon)

Published:
2024-08-31 08:24:32
Edited:
2024-09-30 18:19:48
Imported:
2026-06

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Hey everyone,

I've made some adjustments to the final scene in this chapter, as the crew realised they'd forgotten something important. I hope you enjoy the alterations.

I'm still working on the next chapter at the moment, and to save your F5 button, I'll post an update in about 8 hours from now.

Best wishes,

Tefler

Comments

Robster

Must be kidding me...

Korzic

Hahaha. Not even a full chapter this month

Akshay Anand

The absolute state of this lad omg

Fpv 315

Half a chapter and a placeholder! This is pretty poor by anyone’s standards.

Jeremy Smith

This is the same incomplete chapter as the earlier post... Pretty lame

Michael56Smith

Wow and Nice, .... a wonderful after-the-battle chapter, ... this was a lesser cliffhanger, but still a very fun read, ... -- they (John and his girls) are all quite tired and in need of a rest, as well as having lots to do after the Battle of Kythshara, .... but they need to get on to reviving / restoring Faye soon, ... -- and Rahn and Jessica, .... the Mother and Father of John sub-plot is very fascinating, ... what's up with Jessica? Did Alyssa leave a few helpful thoughts behind? .... ;-) ttfn

ThunderBird Two

"her old master looked more akin to a freshly minted turd" Lol! Almost worth the placeholder by itself.

TechGuyStuff

So sad. He's even shortened his excuses.

Nathos

After reading the first part again, I was eager to see what hints you would leave for addressing the mass-suicide problem. Helene is a great choice of a solution, but I still hope there will be development of a much more efficient solution. Simply doing domain expansion: happy feelings, will still require John's immediate installment of a Matriach, which I still think is dicey. But I'm happy to wait and see how this develops. Hope you get better soon Tef! I'm happy you've stuck to a monthly release of content. It might not be as much content as we would all hope for, but I'm sure you would also like to not be suffering a litany of health problems right now. Don't let the bitching and moaning get you down, just focus on getting better and doing what you need for yourself and your family.

Splatz

Wouldn't the easiest way to deal with the remaining Galkiran fleets be to simply to have the fleet they've already talked down hail the rest and put John on? Edit: Or from the captured Flag ship/Dead.

Don's Projects

I don’t care long or short or if it’s inside out. It’s Tefler. I am overjoyed to have this crazy story in my hands.

John Degennaro

I don't mind saying, that I was a little let down with this chapter. I know all the chapters can't be like the previous two, but this felt like a lot of filler. I know that I have no writing talent at all, but I still think it could have something more

Gky

😐

raymond sisko

Very nice! As usual a very good read. I enjoy your work tremendously Tef. Your very gifted. A bit late on some work, but I understand illness getting in the way of things. Hope you are better and can find time to catch up. I've written a little myself, and can understand how finding the right words and phrase can enhance a story. Along with keeping it focused and not go off on a tangent. I eagerly look forward to the next chapter.

Michael56Smith

I am left wondering, .... 1) Tef dropped this completed chapter on us a little bit earlier than usual, .... 2) and he says he will be gone a few days, .... So possibly? -- he might be finally getting his gallstone surgery, .... if so, best of luck Tef, ... ;-) ttfn

MVFast

Hmmm… Question. About Jade. Tef, this is the first time (that I remember) of Jade being able to speak telepathically to anyone besides John, Alyssa (like the rest of the Invictus crew) and the nymphs. Here, she’s talking to Helene directly with telepathy.

Randy

I just really really wish he would change the subscription model to just be a monthly charge. Quit doing a per chapter requirement. Eliminate the need for a placeholder and everyone wins.

Antoine Scrivener

Many thanks. A much appreciated midday reading feast. Loved The Girls taking charge in the Big Cleanup.

Sushant Bhartiya

Appreciate a lot for this highly engaging chapter!

Mark Strom

I think John will use Athena to get the spark of consciousness. She did it last time when he saved Jade. As for the retreating forces, he can have the other 10 fleets tow the disabled ships to kythshara by locking tractor beams in long trains. I think Valeria will stop them from fleeing.

bjcreek

Thanks for a great finish to 170. Happy Labor Day to U.S. readers, and well wishes to you and yours, Tefler. Looking forward to the next one!

JTR soars

Well, I am glad for this chapter. And I even advocate that shorter chapters could be the best solution since each change of scene can for itself be seen as a chapter by other writers standards. So go forward!

John the 5th

I enjoyed this chapter , as every other one in this great story. It looks like a couple more possibilities are appearing as well as the continuation of previous tangents. Looking forward to it.

Antoine Scrivener

Great chapter. All the girls involved in one way or another. John is gonna be a busy Progenitor working his way through the post-battle stressed harem.

Akram123456

John really needs to start storing a few vats of his magic potion for pre battle top ups of all his girls. He then wouldn't have to worry so much about trying to save injured girls across the battlefield.

2ndAndrocentric

Errata: ...hurried into the armoury to removeD their Paragon... D should be removed

rich ed

I cannot see the doc for the chapter?

AzureReader

Is it just me or does the final fight seem a lot less dramatic or exciting than we might have expected after a 168 chapter buildup to this climax. Yes, John got punched (a few times). Sakura got punched. Dana got punched. Alyssa gets knocked into a building. Then the bad guy dies… after finally John remembers to go for the head. The super sword doesn’t seem to do anything new… or really anything… that a normal sword wouldn’t do. Other than have glowing runes maybe. But we already knew about that. Alyssa was very afraid of John losing himself to the sword and what was promised to be unimaginable ancient powers. Instead we got nothing. Sakura’s Kyth sword runes didn’t even glow, so literally nothing for her. Thought Alyssa would get into real peril where all would be lost if she didn’t absorb Athena, become a full fledged progenitor or Kythfaren princess and turn the tide of the battle. She does blow off Gahl’s arm… and then basically nothing. I think she lanced the back of his knee… I must have missed the part where they discussed the importance of progenitor knees. Definitely didn’t live up to ‘most dangerous woman in the galaxy’ title. Thought Irillith would take command of a few enemy battleships and attack the dreadnought, or perhaps hyperwarp ram the dreadnought. Instead she basically did nothing the entire battle except shut down maybe one or two battleships? So basically nothing. Thought John’s dad would make a dramatic appearance at the last minute right before everyone would die and turn the tide. Instead… nothing. Thought the situation would be grim and Gahl’ would declare victory… just as the Maliri fly through the Warp Gate with 17 captured fleets and grab victory from the jaws of defeat. Instead, nothing at all from that whole effort. Thought Jehanna’s super lumen powers would be used to create chaos thorughout the battlefield that would have been dramatically told from the thrall perspective. Instead she made a few fake Maliri and a couple tigers. So basically nothing. Even the ending was shockingly boring: cutting off his head. After all that character development. After rooting for the guy to be mind shielded back into a simple fisherman with no psychic abilities, and living out his days with his psudo-mommy. Or a hundred other creative ways this character that we started to care about could have been saved in some sense. Instead he dies a meaningless death in a mundane way. Thought there would be some character development of the new matriarch so we care about her. Instead all we know is she was nervous and wanted to break her gun down in the dropship a few minutes before landing. Not feeling the connection, not rooting for this character, don’t care. Auralei’s character was developed at least 20 times that amount before John met her. At this point I’d be fine with one sentence that mentions she was sent home and that John will visit sometime (but never does). Thought the cloak breaker would do something. It did nothing. Well, they did find one of the cloaked battle stations back in chapter 156 I think. Why not use it to find the cloaked enemy dreadnought? Wasn’t that the entire point of the system? Thought something would happen on Genthalas more interesting than Edraele sleeping through the whole thing only to wake up, spear a few dozen thralls, then go back to sleep. It’s an ancient battlestation… are there literally no secrets to the place that might have made a dramatic appearance? Dana generating a singularity in the middle of the dreadnought? Nope. Helene breaking Gahl’s ground forces of their hatred (before he died). Nope. Dramatic reveal of two or three new nymph dragons that scare the living daylights out of… everyone. Nope. The point is a million things can happen in any story. Usually one thing does. We got a few sweet moments but this entire epic came down to a few punches and a beheading. The Tom Walker side story is starting to seem interesting by comparison.

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

Jim lynch

Oh and great chapter too can’t wait for John to go round up all the ships he disabled whilst they were in marli space there must be 25 fleets out there to pick up with either dead crew or bored shitless crew.

Unresolved Plots

Jim, this is I think a correct summary of the Galkiran fleets. Gahl'kalgor attacked Shroud space with 29 fleets. During the invasion Gahl split his fleets. 10 were sent towards Genwynn, so they should be fine, apart from some possible degradation of the shield crystals, due to recent continual overuse. Of the other fleets only approximately 2 now remain intact near Kythshara, along with a heavily damaged Progenitor Dreadnought and one at Genthalas. So around 13 intact Galkiran fleets remain (possibly all requiring replacement shield crystals), while 16 fleets worth are damaged/disabled and stranded at various points along the invasion corridor. Tefler also confirmed on Discord that fleets were left in Galkiran territory to guard against attack. This is what he wrote: GK didn't complete strip his whole empire of fleets. There are some left behind to guard the borders. He changed his mind later on about never returning to his old empire, but in the preliminary stages of the invasion, he was following the standard Progenitor rulebook. I've got no idea what number 'some' equates to in Tefler's mind, but my guess is more than a few fleets are guarding Gahl's former empire.

HillCountryCowboy

I can understand feeling like this battle was a little slower feeling than some past chapters. But the characters all had larger supporting roles. If you want the whole effect, go back to chapter 166 and read through 170 to get the whole picture. When you put it all together it’s much more dynamic.

John Lisbeth

It's occurred to me that there's nothing to keep the Krixx from sending fleets out, away from the areas that John and his crew know about, searching for new species that they can victimize. I can imagine Alyssa making contact with the Krixx big-brains, finding out what they've done and tracing the psychic lines to the fleets. Once our heroes finally have it pounded into their heads that the Krixx are happy to keep slaughtering sentient species and simply will not stop, much death will follow, ending the Krixx menace for all time.

Michael56Smith

-- the Krixx? ... perhaps you actually meant the Bugs, the Kirrix, ... you were very close, but, .... --- oh, and John wiped all of them out, ... a psychic extinction-event, .... ;-) ttfn

MVFast

On the way to Arcadia, before Faye’s server was hit, she wanted to speak to John about something she’d seen on the internal cameras. What could that be?

Tipp McClure

Didn't you already upload this in August?

Mighty Mackinac

Great Chapter, Tef! Loving the changes in perspective and how detailed you are making the clean up from this hell of a fight! Keep up the awesome work! Looking forward to the next one!

Akshay Anand

Am I losing my mind? What's going on here?!

Jim Owens

You know how it goes. We get a chapter on the last day of the month and a bunch of placeholders and some bs about this being the last placeholder and this month making up for lost time

Jim Owens

As far as I can tell 170-1 is exactly like 170

Jim Owens

If he doesn't post another chapter by tomorrow then he might be on deaths door. In any case I will be gone from this author till the new year if that is the case, and hopefully he will have recovered.

Puttanegra Ficondo

WTRF is wrong with all those that are saying "great chapter"?! This is the same f*cking chapter posted one month ago with a few sentences changed in the very last scene (see after the # character). If you are saying "great chapter" now, it means you were asleep last month or have not read it before. I agree 170 was a good chapter, like most of the battle chapters, and it is even more evident coming after some of the worst of the series, but it is all but new. Now let's get this months' worth of reading, though, along with the usual two or three placeholders in a sauce of sorry excuses.

AzureReader

No idea why John and Calara would be upset about Arcadia or Gahl’s hyperwarp gate. Is it effectively an open door for the next progentior invasion which could start as soon as Gahl’ tells Xar’ what the hyperwarp gate key is? Which at this point he already has.

Chimney Squeeze

I'm not seeing any additions or adjustments to what was released at the end of Aug. Why'd this pop in my inbox?

Unresolved Plots

The updated last scene is better imho. Thanks Tefler.

EroticPoetic

I was finally able to see the minor changes… and the implications. Apparently there’s no rest for the weary, but the good news seems to be that with the cloak breaker, they’ll be able to detect and attack the Progenitor as soon as it drops through the wormhole near Kythshara. It won’t have much backup beyond what ships it can carry within its hull, and they might even be able to use Gahl’Kagor’s dreadnought to ambush it and force an immediate duel that John could potentially end quickly without actually killing the Progenitor, buying weeks, if not months of time to recruit & regenerate their psychic networks. All that considered, will chapter 171 be released this month? It’s basically October and we’ve been waiting FIVE months to get substantive updates, but have only gotten chapters 169 & 170 piecemeal along with 9 placeholders lol. Post regularly. Tef’s patron base will grow and he can charge more. More money = better diet, better life, better health. It’s not rocket surgery!

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".