Stripper With a System (36-38) (Patreon)

Ta da! The first Stripper With a System release for the month is here! It's a solid 11,000 words, too!

Fair warning on this one, I pulled something I've done mainly with Displaced Hero before and made these three chapters all show different perspectives on the same time period. Note, this isn't a small time period. I used this methodology the same way I use it from time to time in Displaced Hero, as a way to cover a time-skip section without just flat skipping it all. This particular story badly needed to push forward a decent chunk of time, so that the many things they have been/are working on have time to realistically progress. Not to mention, of course, that we're still over a decade from ME:1, so the occasional boot forward is going to be required to actually get there in a reasonable time frame.

This time, that 'boot forward,' is a period of roughly six months. During which we see Susan's first expedition, Rylia and Kara working on the Magnificent Maiden, and Momo/Bruce/Lucy perspectives that help highlight other major developments during the period. So it isn't a case of those annoying 'repeat the same scene from different perspectives over and over' chapters you see in some fics, but rather three entirely different (but related) sets of events that just so happen to occur over the same time frame. I've found this to be the least confusing way to present this sort of thing, as it doesn't require you to build your own little timeline on a post-it-note to understand what's happening :-p.

Anyway, I'm fairly pleased with the results, my sole regret being that I didn't find a good place to squeeze in some dating-type experiences between Kara and Rylia. That might make things a bit awkward when its clear they've progressed, without having shown it, but it didn't quite match the tone of the rest of their chapter well enough for me to try shoehorning it in.

As usual, the new chapters can be found attached to this post in various formats! Just as a reminded, it can only be found here, for now, as I don't update the Master Files until the full content for the month is out for any given story. There will, also as usual, be Authors Note's in the comment section, once I have a bit of time to actually write them ;-). Enjoy (hopefully!) more of Stripper With a System!

Edit: Forgot to mention that you should be seeing a new poll within a day or two, for Rylia's next summons :-).