Aphelli

After a little nap, the Yureyu rescue operation moves on! 

The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

Someone you probably don't like very much gets a little comeuppance. One has to take one’s wins wherever one can.

At this point, I think I'm just stupid. So I have this file somehow full of corrupt data that used to contain my chapter, right? 

So, I overwrite the garbage incomprehensible data and start re-writing the chapter in this very file. Saving it several times, every couple of sentences. Perfect, right? Nothing can go wrong?  

Well, turns out that the file was so broken that even saving the file with new data in it ended up corrupting that data.  

What a shocking twist absolutely anybody could have predicted. 

(sigh)

At least, little was lost this time. I made sure to delete that file and make a new one, and I ascertained that the save worked. 

And tomorrow, I'll start again. 

Hopefully I won’t merely fail better. 
 

On a happier note, there are 40/65 legendaries done and Rejuv is 97 percent on dev blog. I know these figures are more like guidelines, but still – progress is helpful to see when one is lagging! 

My computer is getting old, I’m afraid. It has crashed a few times recently.
But today, it apparently corrupted the entire text of a quite long chapter. 

Fortunately, I remember what was there, but I won’t post chapter 51 (seemingly intact) until I’ve rewritten chapter 52 (which should be in a few days), and maybe 53 too, since I’m not sure exactly how the next plot events should happen. I can only ask for your patience. 
 

Here’s hoping this isn’t going to happen again – but I’m afraid that’s wishful thinking. I will make backups, though. 
 

I hope you’re doing well. 

My story, The Odd One Out, has a new chapter! 

Cain and Gabriel team up to retrieve the children abducted by Team Meteor, but... there's a little twist. Can you guess it? 

This little story arc took me ages to manage, so I hope you'll like it! 

As promised in a previous announcement, The Odd One Out has a new chapter, and that's the Aya battle! 

Will Gabriel manage to get the Badge and hence the right to Strength? Or is Aya's self-deprecation a show? Did the author manage to lose to Fern? 

You'll find all the answers there: 

So, you may have been wondering why the latest chapter from my story dates back to over two weeks now, and why I have so shamelessly failed to keep my schedule. 

I have two reasons (and yes, the fact that I'm speaking of it now means that there should be a chapter this week-end or early next week). 

The first one is the Aya battle. Basically, I don't have too good an answer for it and I'm a little bit dreading it. I guess I want to keep my death count as is.  

The second one is the Yureyu rescue. That thing was difficult to write and grew so massive that I'm unsure how that won't dwarf the next action sequences. But the first draft is over (although it will not be a cakewalk to think and write my way through the fallout). At least, I hope that you'll appreciate the spin I've chosen to put on it. What I'm going for should already be apparent in the upcoming chapter, but of course it'll get clearer afterwards.  

Not sure how useful it is to point it out here a day after the update, but my Reborn story has a new chapter! 

It's about garbage, metaphors, an imminent Gym battle, garbage, another round of metaphors and just a little more garbage!

Chapter 48: Wastelands

"Victory wasn't mine to decide. It never had been."

There's a new chapter to my Reborn Story! 

Gabriel's living nightmare goes on... why would I ever want to stop it?

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so we shaved off 28.5k lines of code from the ai so far.

we don't know if it works yet!

but we hope it does.

I think that I had to do some major debugging after each time I thought something like this (for far, far less elaborate programs than the Reborn AI). 
 

So either I’m underestimating the devs’ coding skills by a lot – or they’re trying to punish themselves...

You do know that you’re great persons and that nothing you ever did could make you deserve this Sisyphus-scaled punishment, right? 

My Reborn story, The Odd One Out, is back from a three-month hiatus! 

Perhaps I should have waited a bit more, to get a better idea of what I'd be putting in Part 3. But I didn't want to. 

Here's the link to the new chapter, the first one of Part Three (Mind Games): 

Little Odd One Out update: the hiatus is extended. I probably won't publish any new chapter before mid-March.

Study stuff is a bit tense now -- who would have guessed that procrastinating was only a temporary solution?

Still, given the view counter of the thread, it seems that you (or some of you) are still reading the story, and that's great! 

Anyway, I guess I also wanted to share that I've finished the first draft of the first chapter of Part Three. I'm not quite satisfied of it for now, but I'll let it rest for a while -- Gabriel's subconscious really, really disturbs me. 

Small Odd One Out update: the hiatus is definitely going to be a long one. I don’t expect to update anything before a month at least, perhaps even two. There’s work I have to go on procrastinating actually do, that sort of thing.
 

Also, I’m kind of stuck figuring out character motivations because at least a few points make very little sense. I’m not going to go into detail because spoilers. 
 

Here I just want to share my frustration with a certain underground event which I can’t imagine consistently.

The first point is that there’s a big plot hole I don’t know how to avoid.
 

The second point is that if I ignore it (after all, there are plenty of characters who do weird stuff for unfathomable motives, right?), I only managed to make up a few scenarios, none of them satisfactory. 
 

Scenario 1 is boring and also undoubtedly artificial.
Scenario 2 is... rather gross and doesn’t really solve the conflict. 
Scenario 3 is clever but somewhat naive, compared to what the parties involved are.
Scenario 4 is more realistic than scenario 3 but much edgier, quite disturbing, and I’m not sure how the good guys get out.
Scenario 5 is my only idea of resolution but feels completely like a deus ex machina and nullifies the conflict. 
 

I’m trying to find scenario 6 which will solve this little riddle, because 6 is a perfect number, right? 

The second part of The Odd One Out is now fully online. 

There are many drawbacks to trying to be Sherlock Holmes. Some are obvious -- but one which isn't often thought of is that you need a very particular kind of enemy to pull it off. 

They're outnumbered, outprepared, thoroughly outmatched. And yet they must not lose. 

How can you fight so strong an enemy?

The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

https://www.rebornevo.com/forums/topic/49209-the-odd-one-out-a-reborn-adventure/?do=findComment&comment=923370

Apophyll Academy is a martial arts academy. Among others. It is not Sparta, even though there may be some similarities. 

So, what's the best word describing: "searching another confrontation with a murderous enemy which has already demonstrated its willingness to murder you"? 

Madness, doubtlessly. 

But some would call it duty.

The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

https://www.rebornevo.com/forums/topic/49209-the-odd-one-out-a-reborn-adventure/?do=findComment&comment=923048  

An (aprocryphal) proverb says that "it's hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it isn't there." How easy do you think it should be to find a Cain on a desert island where no one has been? 

The Odd One Out has a new chapter (also featuring: drama, fairy tales, a lot of rain and quite a few bizarre ideas such as unintended consequences of indoor battles). 

The beauty of wild nature... Mountain hikes... The high-stakes battles to (eventually) save children... 

Alas, what can one expect, when they're assigned something by the Novel Nihilist? 

The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

There are some who will give riddles to people they want to assess. And there are others, who ask them to instead climb mountains. Guess which category is Kiki? Guess which category Gabriel would have preferred? 

The Odd One Out has a new chapter online! 

(PS: If you didn't answer: "the category of people who will take care of Reborn City and help him go home", you might have been wrong ^^)

Do you know which color the lake is supposed to be on Azurine Island in Reborn 18.4.1? I'm on my first visit, and it's blue. But in TTar's playthrough (for instance), and in my memory as well, it was always brown at that point... Am I mistaken or is there something wrong?

I have just finished the first draft of the last part of Part 2's finale of The Odd One Out.

I'll probably need to retune it a bit, write the latest chapters' character rates...

And then there will be all the pictures for the chapters 41-45. 

I said it earlier, the idea is one of the earliest ones I had and one of those I was most eager to write. So I really hope it works and you enjoy it...

Sometimes I should just sleep instead of writing late as if I was trying to get nightmares...

I just finished the first draft of the second-to-last chapter of the second part of The Odd One Out. Here are the last sentences:

... I think this finale is going to be online for Christmas. How ironic. 

Do you sometimes worry that your own stories will make you lose sleep? 

I just wrote my protagonist into a pretty bad situation. It was planned a while ago, but funnily enough it’s more emotionally demanding than I thought. How am I going to sleep tonight? 
 

But there’s actually a more fearsome question. He’s going to end up pretty quickly (after an emotional roller-coaster, doubtlessly) in even worse trouble – how will I manage to sleep then?

"Bow before death, Gabriel..."

This isn't his deadly enemy's line, but it could as well be.

Gabriel is in the lion's den, surrounded by dangerous Meteors who have attempted to kill him. How will he get out of this? 

The Odd One Out's new chapter is online! 

What's inside Blacksteam Factory? Or, more precisely, who is there? What nefarious schemes could they be enacting? 

The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

I'm not sure what's more annoying (at least it's not tragic, just annoying) of my discoveries of tonight.

1) I found out I hadn't actually proof-read my assignment a couple of hours before the deadline.

2) I found on my computer updated versions that somehow weren't the ones I had submitted online.

3) I realized I had about two hours of lectures to watch for tomorrow but I'd really rather sleep.

4) I have an exam (for something different) in less than 48h and I still have barely studied for it.

5) And there's also this math stuff (actually several different, rather unrelated "math stuffs)" to study and that it's (more accurately, each one is) impressively slow.

...

(deep sigh)

Well, back to studying it is. After all, there might be (real or imaginary) situations that are undeniably much worse.