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I'm back, and on my country's national day, no less.

Praise the Man-Emperor of Mankind!

To begin with a topic only loosely related with the story: yes, I'm aware that for 2-3 days, ff.net once more got unavailable for pretty much everyone (which included your humble author, incidentally).

This was...unconvenient, shall we say? To keep it polite.

Fortunately, it seems as of this morning the website was back, and though I haven't had the time to check everything, first glance told me nothing was lost.

All for the better, I suppose.

That said, obviously, I am not going to treat it as a minor alarm; what with all the alerts gone since last year (at least) and more and more anomalies coming up, I would be really wildly optimistic if I didn't plan for contingencies.

As such, somewhen before the end of July, I will do my best to take a few days off to post TWO on Archive of Our Own. I think it is one of the few stories that aren't there (and I can't check right now, because guess, what, AO3 is unavailable to me...this is beginning to feel like a pattern).

Anyway.

Writing on 11-3 is progressing well, the guess is that it should end with a 39K-41K chapter.

Maybe.

Otherwise, will you take a small not-teaser for the Sunday after-meal?

Comments

s22132

Thank you for the not a teaser.

Gohu lacd

After "may", "might" and "could", I deeply hope that the next one will be "you know what ? maybe the real teaser was inside us all along"

Forgottenone

I would pick the crazy collector any day of the week over the Queen of Blades. Good thing I am not an apprentice of the QoB. I feel the rats are very wrong about what the Emperor plans and are dead on accurate where the War Master is concerned. I wonder what races will be used to create the other gods of chaos. Humanity is out as you would have to challenge the Emperor and he could simply offload the excesses of faith from his palace till it crushes the chaos god into one of order. I think that a space hull is going to be crashing down on a planet soon.

primus

It’s good to see that the Hourglass of Sand Screams was destroyed after all. One more minor objective from Commoragh achieved, even if a bit late!

Antony444

I may graciously accept this very tempting proposal, you know...

Antony444

And by Nagash, no less...ironies of all ironies. Though obviously, the King in Yellow has some very good reasons (from his point of view at least) to see it destroyed. Plus with him choosing the hourglass as his symbol, this artefact in Malicia's hands was a terrible insult.

Antony444

Well, Trazyn can make you part of the collection if you're not his friend (or not good enough to escape his clutches) so there's that.

Antony444

About the Emperor...well, everyone has to speculate, because it's not like the Emperor is going to inform Chaos of his plans. As far as the nascent Ruinous Powers are concerned, there's evidently a lot of 'competition'. Everyone wants a Throne, and to eject the other potential Kings...

primus

I wonder what it would take to convince Cegorach to destroy a certain book…

Boris Michenski

If I understand correctly, Cegorath wouldn't be against destorying it, the problem is that damn thing can't be destroyed: QoB tried a lot to do it, without succes. As for hourglasses it seems that it was one of the reason why Malicia managed to find his base and escape in the first place, so yes, he has a very valid reason to crush it.

El

Thanks for the teaser ! And that Eye of Sheerian seems to be bad news.

Albino87

Chaos is going to have temper tantrum when the Aetheric Engine is going to activate. There fury will be even bigger if/when they try to destroy and if they destroy it by sacrificing something like a black crusade in number of ship only for the backup come online seconds later. Still it will be interesting to see how QoB will react to the jellyfishes Guardian on Catachan.

Gabriel Meadow

Let us enjoy Liandra having to converse with her old teacher once more. For a certain value of converse.

Forgottenone

The turning on a second Orderly Aetheric Engine is a key stepping stone in the Emperor's current plans, from my own understanding of course, who truly knows with this author? Mankind has been mining enough 'destiny stones' for the Emperor to work on the first Aetheric Engine. Which will be very needed cause I can bet my money the four will do everything they can to destroy the second Aetheric Engine the moment they become aware of it. If they can find a certain Jellyfish species in time, they might have more revisions added to said plan. This is the Emperor and the amount of goals is going to be a mile long at least. After all, said ancient Jellyfish is one of the few ceatures alive that could challenge chaos and become a being of order... if chaos happened to be very busy with a new lighthouse it would be a funny coincidence.

ZeroNu

Clearly its the work of Chaos for why you cant access the sites Antony they are trying to stop you from posting.

Antony444

It is. Minor spoiler: looks at the list of artefacts available to Archaon in warhammer fantasy.

Antony444

Chaos won't like it, that's for sure. And their array of 'retaliation options' has considerably diminished since Commorragh. As for the Queen of Blades, remember that she has seen things that would literally destroy your mind...for her, it's pretty much a 'oh, that's all, nice week-end, no?'

Antony444

There's going to be a discussion. A very blade-like conversation, one might say.

Antony444

Yes. My bet is on Vashtorr or someone of his capabilities, since clearly breaking websites is really per their chaotic portfolio.

Antony444

Oh, I can confirm the 'Hope Beacon' is an important part of the Emperor's plans to save Mankind from Chaos. Of course, it is just a few careful phases for an early plan, but the foundations are important, no? And yes, Chaos will feel its destruction is a priority. Of course, one needs to remember that for all their hatred of the Astronomican, they haven't yet managed to take it out either, and the last time they did try, it required pretty much the Horus Heresy and landing billions of traitors on Terra...and in the end, the result wasn't exactly the total victory they wanted.