Chapter five of the 4C's book (Champions, Craftmen, Campaigns and Catastrophes) is going up in a little bit (or is already up by the time you read this).
And while I'm unfortunately not rich enough to hire artists who could do it properly, I decided to do my best to generate a file showing the key moment you'll see at the end of Chapter 5:
https://imgur.com/a/0li3Sa5
We'll be finding out what happens when ThunderRoad realizes he can't beat the machine, so he has to beat the pilot behind the machine. And why the words "Ultra-Class WarMAC" should send shivers down every pilot's spine.
Chapter 6 will be introducing us to the other protagonist of the 4C's Book, Elias Voss. TheNumbersGuy: And why being right about other people being wrong is a dangerous, dangerous thing.
Other story news:
Planning work on Chapter 11 of Rogue's Rules has completed, and it's just a matter of converting bits and pieces of a conversation into an actual story. Arin Wolf has spent the last few chapters running for his life. Now he's going to realize he's not going to be allowed to run any longer, because the stakes are getting higher than any one Rogue ever wants to believe.
Free Trader Mary's Dream Chapter 21 is going through a last check to make sure it all makes sense story-wise. (I Know that somehow, someway no matter how hard I try, I'll screw up something, either in the copy and paste of sections as I work shop them, or just stuff like then/than.. etcetera.)
To answer the question I get more than anything (other than What took you so long?).. yes, One-on-One is still on my mind. I know where I want to take the story. I think I know how to get it there. But With three active stories to be posted, Book 2 of World of WarMachines in the plotting stage, I am spread awfully thin. I can say it it's no longer a matter of IF One-on-One continues, but When. I just need to find a space on my schedule to try to fit it into my activities so I can tell it. Matthew and Antonia deserve that much.
Oh. And speaking of upcoming stories? There's another story that I get asked about. The Wastrel's Dream still lives. I actually wrote out a precis of where THAT story's going. It does have to wait until Mary's Dream is finished, because it is in the same Universe and we will be meeting three characters from Mary's Dream ten years after the conclusion of that story. It's NOT Mary, Alex and Melissa however. More on that later.
Enjoy the summer weekend (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) and as always, if you like an Author's work, please message them, comment on their stories, and VOTE. That's the best gift you can give an author like me... other than a winning lottery ticket. I could use that, too.
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