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Three Square Meals - Chapter 158 (Patreon)

Published:
2022-12-01 03:37:13
Edited:
2022-12-03 17:43:24
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*** Updated - 02/12/2022 ***

Hey,

I've added additional scenes to complete the chapter.

I hope you enjoy it.

Regards,

Tefler

****

Hey everyone,

Unfortunately November turned out to be a real disaster. 

1) I caught Covid... again... which knocked me out for over a week.

2) My cat Shadow suddenly lost a dramatic amount of weight over a three week period, and we found out he had terminal cancer. He was only 13, and a much beloved part of the family. 

3) My youngest son is in hospital with a serious eye infection. Thank goodness the IV antibiotics are making a big difference, so he should be back home again by the end of the week.

As you can imagine, writing in all this chaos has proven problematic. I've nearly completed Chapter 158 bar the final combat scene, so I'll publish that here and add the final part as soon as I've finished. 

Anyway, apologies for not being able to churn out multiple chapters as I was hoping for. Hopefully you will still enjoy chapter 158.

Best wishes,

Tefler

Comments

JeanMartin Freites

You found yourself caught in a series of unfortunate events. Here's the hoping that December is a much better month.

Youkai-sama

Hey, take care of yourself. Our story-jones will keep.

Chefy

Hope December will be better for you Tef and hopefully the new year will be better for everyone. Cheers to 2023.

Sacrimony

Hope all goes well for you, props to you for still getting the writing out! Can't wait to read more, all the best!

Jeff

Hopefully things get better for you & your family!

Jeff

And the Tefler Saga continues as expected

Unresolved Plots

Hope your son gets better soon Tefler. Take care

Rayce Royal

Be safe, Mr. Tefler. No matter how much we all love 3SM, nothing is as important as family. We've got your back

darkuncle

Family comes first - take care of them; the story will continue :)

Old Salt

Family first, no question.

Thomas Phillips

Why am now paying for chapters 2 months ahead of time? There is literally no chance that this doesn't slip to 3 and 4 months ahead within the next year.

GDay (FMS)

I hope that all settles down for you and yours. My condolences for the loss of your fur baby. I hope that you and your family have a healthy and enjoyable December.

Big Orca

Looking forward to the duel between Valeria and Sakura.

Evilebob

It's not even finished... the one chapter of this month and it is incomplete.... unbelievable

Mojarra

At the end of last month, we were told this chapter was almost done, we’d get the rest right away. A month later, we get a partial chapter and a promise of “soon”. All of us know there isn’t a chance in Hell we see the rest of 158 before Dec 31. Tefler knows this, we know this. Chapter 159 . . . maybe a tease, maybe not, also at the very end of the year. No way 159 is finished by then, much less 160. Does ANYONE believe he’ll post a new chapter to legitimately charge for? Like others, I’ve set an end-of-year deadline, he’s not up to date, I’m gone. Great story, no way it’s worth getting jerked around.

Yeomin

Sorry to hear about Shadow, losing a pet is hard. I hope your son makes a full recovery soon. IV antibiotics are no joke. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.

Cignal

Sorry to hear that Tefler, I hope every one gets healthy and back to normal so things settle down for you. Take care.

Muledrvr

Hope everyone recovers well.

Shelton

To those who cannot understand what happened (three separate emotionally charged situations) is a lot to put up with in a month span needs to just quit following TSM. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Khaezarn

Tefler, you never do fail to deliver, so I hope you make it through all of this and I hope you are able to finish what you can, when you can. My wife has been through a Roller-coaster of health issues this entire year, sometimes life kicks you hard, don't let any negativity here get you down. I am here for the long haul and love every chapter heartily! Best wishes and happy holidays to you and your family, see you in the next update!

Jedi Khan

So, one more combat scene for 158, then it's on to 159, correct? Not going to leave 158 as is and put that fight in 159? And when you say "final combat scene," does that mean that GK forces the final confrontation ahead of the team's plans? At the rate the story has been going, if the team managed to keep to their plans to delay GK's forces as much as possible before duking it out over Kythshara, we'd be reading about GK's invasion for the next five chapters.

Jedi Khan

Well, you can tell Tefler is suffering from burnout. That bit about whispering in Alyssa's ear words so sweet an eavesdropper would get diabetes instead of actually writing the words? The scene from Tom's trial that was truncated instead of elaborating on the cross examination? Yeah, those are evidence that Tefler is struggling. Is it conclusive evidence? Not really, but it does add to the pile. Tefler is likely past the point where he needs a break from TSM, but he can't afford it. If he were to take a month off (any less wouldn't be enough), he wouldn't be able to pay the bills. If he wrote something else instead and charged for it, the majority of the community would be up in arms over that because they're here paying for TSM, not some random piece Tefler wrote to unwind.

Barry D

Tefler. We appreciate the work you are doing. We look forward to future chapters, when ever they come out. Good work!

CJ Mora

Sorry for your loss, Tefler! Losing a pet is like losing a member of the family. Hope you're doing ok.

Cignal

Tefler, check edits in Discord. There are a few. One I posted is chapter 158 lists the Singularity Driver barrels as 300 metres long while they are 400, and the Mech as 20 metres high while it is 30 metres high.

vontzki

I appreciate the honesty and wish you a better and healthier time in the coming months.

AzureReader

Enjoyed the chapter! Hoping the improvements to the wormhole generator have the unintended effect of dramatically reducing recharge time. Usually optimally built equipment works better than flawed equipment in several ways such as charging faster or being more efficient. It would be awesome if they could do more than one wormhole jump back to back before having to recharge. That would be a huge tactical advantage and and would give you more flexibility to write the story without the generator requiring ‘waiting around’ events to be written. Sorry to hear about your challenges. Thanks for getting most of a chapter out despite that. Maybe put a mask on in crowded areas… the covid virus seems to be especially attracted to you as a host.

david .

Do you all actually believe all that crap? It's always something.

2ndAndrocentric

Commenting on the Tribe Wars: Life Happens. Similarly, the first gift a mother gives a newborn vaginally delivered is some of her shit to swallow and breathe in because she's getting the baby ready for life. Yes, there is a medical procedure known as fecal transplants, it does work, and we all have some every day unless you're EXTREMELYT fastidious. So, I am on the side of patience, but not on the side of criticising the impatient. To each his own opinion, even if wrong.

2ndAndrocentric

They rose up to Deck Four, then walked down the ramp into the Combat Bridge. Calara and the Nymphs were waitnig there, along with Rachel and the twins.

Arrowglass

Really enjoyed what you have penned AGAIN!!!!!!!! Love the way you al;ways throw something new in from "left field" like the deliberate "sick" phasing of the wormhole generator! Well done!!!

Allan clarke

I have just been a member for a couple months and I am discontinuing my membership. I enjoy the story, but the precharging is getting out of hand. The number of excuses is unacceptable. As a business owner you have to hold yourself accountable to your deadlines. I get life gets in the way, but this seems to have become a habit rather than a one off.

Nonconformist

I have been charged A G A I N for a chapter sometime i the future. That is 3 chapters I've been charged for and still not a complete chapter to read. I don't read the incomplete chapters. Yes, I feel I'm being cheated or if you prefer scammed.

Tefler

I've just updated this chapter with an additional scene. Search for the # symbol to find the point where it starts. I'll add the final combat scene tomorrow.

Jedi Khan

Hm. Wasn't expecting the new scene. Odd that John made two new swords for Sakura, rather than anything else, like a new sword for himself, a new set of armor, or even ship components. Instead, he made swords. For Sakura. Remind me, what has John been prepping Sakura to do since the fight with Larn? That's right: kill Progenitors. Since Tefler had John make those new swords instead of anything else, that tells me that we're about to have the final showdown with GK real soon. Why else would the swords have been made now of all times? I do hope someone on the crew asks why John made those swords now instead of something else; I'm curious to see what his rationale turns out to be.

Michael56Smith

.69: I too think that now that Dana and Alyssa have solved the wormhole generator's nausea flaw, the 12-hour recharge time may also be affected, ... Xar'azuith might have doubled the recharging time, .... so now Dana's generator can recharge in 6-hours(?) or less? ... ;-) TTFN

Vell Stillings

Sounds like a hell of a rough time. Glad you made it! Can't wait for more chapters.

TF007

Extra scene at the end was amazing!!!!! Thanks Tefler for Update

Who Me

158 has been updated!

HornsOfTheseus

I enjoyed the part of chapter. I just think that maybe you should change to having monthly payments instead of per work as it seems like you are somewhat trying to have your cake and eat it too by making everyone pay for monthly chapters even if you didn’t produce even a full chapter. You don’t get the advantage of getting payed multiple times if you produce multiple chapters in a month but how many times do you honestly think that going to happen versus how many people are you going to anger by making them pay for chapters that don’t exist and won’t for several months?

Arrowglass

More of the same same superb supremely entertaining story! I always know I will be surprised with something new!!! Thank you!!!

Tefler

I've added a few thousand extra words to complete the chapter. You can find the start of the new section by searching for a # symbol.

Matthew Marrinan

Tefler, is chapter 159 coming this month? Why is the placeholder for 160?

Dominic Janning

Yea right. I remember him saying that last year to.

Fred Hunter

Alyssa Durant should be Marant.

Fred Hunter

I think it’s highly like that it was deliberate though.” s/b highly likely...

HornsOfTheseus

I guess the final combat scene was moved to 159. Still enjoyed the additional scenes. Hopefully this month will be better for you.

AzureReader

I like the final scenes. I hope John explores his Kyth’ powers more. It seems like special Kyth’Faren knowledge was encoded into John. Not unlike a complete set of schematics are encoded into progenitors. I’ve got to believe there is more there than just swords. Actually we already know about a few uniquely Kyth’ abilities progenitors don’t have. Dana’s control of gravity and the fundamental properties of materials, Calara’s ability to see the future. The progenitors also got schematics for weapons, devices like the wormhole generator and forge, and entire ships. I’d be surprised if the Kyth’Faren didn’t encode into John a few super advanced schematics that Xar’ never had the access to steal. I can’t imagine the Kyth’ expected their chosen one to continue using a soul forge to forge countless women’s souls into ships. The tiny white forge they are using now seems like a temporary hack. Mael’s star forge design seem like an experiment to find an alternative to a soul forge but without the benefit of Kyth’Faren wisdom John has. The Kyth’Faren must have found a way to build a forge the Kyth’Faren reborn could use and a means to give him the schematics for it. The mention of Mael’s experimental starforge and Dana’s disappointment in her new Nova Lance design suggests they will work on these two things in the near future. Perhaps Dana will invent something on her own (enhanced) intelligence. But I find it more likely that John will pump a few special Kyth’Faren schematics into Dana worthy of their last breath of vengance.

bjcreek

Don't need the "an" in front of "anathema". "was anathema to him" is correct.

2ndAndrocentric

I am re posting a previous complaint about the story that applies to the next chapters. I think if John "loads up" Calara just before the next ambush we can have some serious extension of her ability. I have mentioned before that quite some time ago, before even cpt 143, that the "load up before battle" ended with no explanation. It made no sense to me, and wound up a big problem, not to have loaded up the girls before heading into the mists. As a result, John had no direct connection to Jade and that was a mess. Remember how supercharged Dana was that she fixed the entire ship in one go? Many examples of that, but no reason given of why it stopped. Tefler ought to explain why this convention of prebattle load up ended.

AzureReader

A bit surprised we haven’t heard a word about Nathan Zelig since last saw him in an escape pod back in ch. 152. If he was rescued by Terrans a brief mention would be warranted. If one of the few likable admirals was captured and currently was aboard a thrall ship the story of Nathan’s experiences and observations seems like ‘solid gold’ subplot material (as a certain TFNN news chief might have said).

13Lokiz

Man, dates are weird around the world. I definitely thought at first that the "02/12/2022" was a typo referring to February 12th, 2022. Personally, I think this is the worst of all the formats, and wish we would all convert to the superior YYYY/MM/DD format.

Jacques Van Zyl

Brilliant work as always! Much appreciated

Newnotsure

I hate to say this but with the stuff on going with Tefler and some of the other crap I am starting to lose interest in the fill in chapters and I hate to say this as well it feels like the story is on hold if nothing happens by the end of the month I too may leave I don’t give much to him but every dollar helps Tefler. I know Tefler,s fan club will step up and tell me to leave but come on Tefler get it done you are starting to give us a reason to leave

2ndAndrocentric

I liked 158 a lot. my favorite scene ends this way "The reinvigorated Fleet Admiral was too distracted to notice, but there was a faint undercurrent of sadness to Alyssa’s voice." It is excellent writing to leave WHY she is sad to the reader. Is she sad because she is culpable and in fact went against what she knew John wanted to throw a lit match at the Outer Rim powder keg? Is she sad because she knows John is an action guy and because she cannot do the Soul Forge grunt work because Athena splits her mind, he is not doing what he likes? Is she sad because she's added so many girls that she is not getting banged often enough and sex with other women is not "really" sex? Tefler is TECHNICALLY an average or less than average writer as professionals go. He is though a masterful story teller. It is much easier to fix the details if there's something worth fixing. This is especially true in these "cancel culture" days. A very appropriate appellation, "cancel culture" because that is EXACTLY what Clown World is doing. As my posts ought to end in self aggrandizement, I find that despite his many faults, Oscar Wilde was brilliant.

Evan

I also very much enjoyed the chapter and the additional scenes to finish it.

Steven

Which of the girls have Psychic Shields & their colors. The Fandom wiki is out of date. Thanks

Ramen4life

Late I know. I hope things get better for you soon Tefler.

Newnotsure

Is 158 final now so I can read it I am not reading part chapters.

Who Me

Yes it is - and has been since Dec. 2nd

Divway

If Telfar wants to produce a site for his works, Might I suggest he looks at

Divway

It would enable him to manage it a lot more efficiently on feels. And you can include all your other works also, in a easy page navigation screen. but again as it is so long in the story that could delay evenm more posts lol