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  1. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    It's also worth pointing out that Guide literally is a YA novel, and says so on the front page - - and that while you may not be a fan of the magic school trope, you can't escape the irony inherent in saying so on a Harry Potter fanfiction forum.
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 20, 2019 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I’d say read it. A nontrivial portion of the frustration was due to having to wait for resolutions, and there was decent flavor scattered throughout.
    Post by: Lamora, Jan 25, 2019 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I'm reserving judgement until after Catherine's seasonal start-of-book curbstomp. Well. Reserving further judgement.
    Post by: Lamora, Jan 14, 2019 in forum: Original Fiction
  4. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I personally liked this chapter a lot, especially with the reference to 'the oldest game' in Cat and Sve's fight. It's very old school mythology style, which is appropriate for the situation. For those unfamiliar, I'd recommend either looking up Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics (specifically, Choronzon vs Dream), or simply the Binding of Loki from classic Norse mythology. The rules of the oldest game are pretty well summed up in Sandman: :> Anyway, I'm interested in finding out the...
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 30, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I’m down for just about any pivot as long as Cat doesn’t end up taking the mantle back. Honestly, if I had to point to one place where the story started down spiraling, it was when Cat picked up her indiscriminate, poorly boundary defined Winter powers. Will be happy as hell if we can just go back to plain jane Name and 3 Aspects. EDIT: Uhhhhhhhh. I'll take that money, Imraefi. On the note of the last verse (if we're theorycrafting), 'trust is the wager that takes your life', it...
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 26, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I'm definitely not crazy about the 'dropping drow in Arcadia' plan either, Ryuugi, but to play advocate again for a brief moment - it's not just the fae who are dangerous in Arcadia, but Arcadia itself. It's been repeatedly upheld that stories are the laws of gravity in Arcadia way more so than in creation - capturing the Princess was done there, Wandering Bard did the mysterious cloaked stranger bit, and so on and so forth. I agree that a lot has been thrown out the window, but not that...
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 13, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Warlock was right. The Winter arc ate the best parts of Catherine Foundling and eventually spit out this character in the shape of her.
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 7, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I thought it was more verbalized as sort of the ROE for Callow vs. the Crusade, considering they were talking about sacking cities in the plural, and prisoner exchanges. I mean, in the end, neither side broke the rules they put down if we're only encompassing Callow vs the Crusade as opposed to Callow/Praes vs the Crusade. Cat, admittedly, went off to try and recruit the Dead King (who is definitely above the scope of demons, devils or angels in terms of collateral damage to innocents,...
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Frankly after Cat gets back I'm hoping for a 'well, fuck the rules then' moment for her. It would fit the Dead King's bit of 'they will turn you into the devil they feared all along'. I mean, the Crusaders never intended to fulfill their bargain to begin with - after all, they're the Good Guys.
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    (QQ)7 RIP the realest. [spoiler]
    Post by: Lamora, Nov 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  11. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    In a story rich with interesting side characters with interesting perspectives, ones in particular which we WANT to hear more about (Pilgrim, Dead King, Tyrant, Hanno, Klaus Papenheim, any Goblin matron), why in fuck are we hearing about some jackoff naval battle which we we've only been told and not shown is important? Even worse, instead of even getting the naval battle and the interesting Ashuran sea magic (which for all of Wekesa's sneering actually sounded interesting as fuck to...
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 31, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Same as what Ryuugi said for the most part. Absolutely read this series. It, Worm and Pact are pretty much the big 3 of web novels for me as far as anything I've found.
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 26, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Refuge: 2 for 2 for churning out Named thots.
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 23, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Ryuugi has slowly been converting me to the side of 'what the fuck is this' and I don't like it. This is power creep, no bones about it, and particularly bad power creep at that. We still don’t know what the fuck makes Ranger relevant with a pair of swords - all her abilities seem to do is ramp her up into an unhittable swordsman, and somehow the Dead King basically throws his hands up and whines about not being able to kill her despite having creatures like the Spellblade and Skein on...
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 22, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    You can tell it was a great chapter because Black could either die (very appropriate setup, strongest heroes on the continent) or survive (6-8 days of his army dying, all that time in the hands of the deadliest man alive) and I’d be happy with either outcome at this point. I have to admit, I have held on to hope that Cat will eventually get her hands on the title of Black Knight, if only to see what she will do with it. She already kicked pretty much the entire continent in the pants, and...
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 12, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    That's...actually a pretty good fucking point. Cat certainly doesn't want to break the Overlord list herself and 'consume the energy field bigger than her head', but giving Ivah a title, binding her up in oaths as a faerie that she can't break and then pumping her full of Night would make for a hell of a fucking Named cudgel, as well as a figurehead to lead the remaining drow after she and the dwarves break them over their collective knee. It doesn't excuse not doling out titles earlier,...
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 26, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I want to get off Cat's Wild Ride Idiotic Escapade.
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 19, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Yeah, I don't see what's so great about the drow either. Especially considering that a lot of war problems Catherine have actually resolved or started ameliorating themselves while she was failing to pick up the Dead King. I mean, because of the arch-heretic stuff, apparently the Callowan recruiting drive has been revitalized by the power of 'fuck those guys'. The Tenth Crusade is being torn apart from the inside thanks to Black taking an axe to their political divide, to the point of...
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I liked what they did with Black's strategy of basically destabilizing Cordelia's political base - it's an extremely Black move to do, and is basically effective whether the First Prince or the country knows what he is doing or not. @Ryuugi: Cashing in a 'called it' here for Black's aspect letting him beef the Legions up, apparently into giving them all fucking turbo, because 3 days march in one night is fucking ridiculous. I suspect that's his aspects feeding into each other, however -...
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 1, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    The biggest thing I'm concerned about is how Catherine talks about the poem, and what she points out. Not only is it not well known, it apparently cannot even be heard by certain people. And also comes out of people's mouths unbeknownst to them. My personal fan theory is that the poem/song is some sort of memetic prophecy on the side of Evil for the rise of an Empress, that only they can hear said. Would make sense for Cat, Akua and Black (having heard it around Malicia) to know it. It...
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 16, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    A lot of that is because Cat is fundamentally not Doing Winter Right. It's even referred to in Akua's Kaleidoscope chapter - Cat has nearly all the power of a Winter royal and the only things she's using is the conceptual regeneration, super strength, a little cryomancy and once in a while things like the Lake Portal thing. Compare that to what she could have: she could have an entire court of Named-level soldier-sorcerors with essentially a snap of her fingers. She could be hurling...
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 10, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  22. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Son of a bitch. Someone commented on the website and I literally facepalmed. Guys. Cat's going after a rat in a maze.
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 7, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  23. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    @Ryuugi: I think the Augur is combination of a couple things. Whether or not Above and Below have an explicit 'move-countermove' arrangement going is up for debate, but whether or not Names have a pretty strict power-balance is not. Name powers can brutally powerful in the right hands, but every single Name and Aspect has limiters and weaknesses built in. Precogs not being able to predict plans that haven't been formulated is one clear limitation across the board, Good and Evil....
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 1, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  24. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I hate to leap in and be the angel's advocate again...but this chapter wasn't really filler. There are a couple of important things buried in the filler: This is anything but filler. I know for a fact I'm not the only one who remembers the whole crowns of seven mortal rulers and one deal Cat has going with Larat (to unknown end). Well, ding ding ding - we just found at least 4, assuming that none of Cat's other victories count for some of the other crowns (Amadis being her captive,...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 22, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    There being a 'balance' between the actions of the Gods Above and Below is just a theory of Black and the Calamities, not a certainty. Furthermore, the conversations in this chapter seem to suggest that the relationship between Above and Below is more collaborative than antagonistic - they're trying to settle a wager, not destroy each other. As long as whatever is happening (Good winning, Evil winning) is furthering the ends of that, this entire series has shown that the Gods strenuously...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 14, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Loads of interesting stuff in this chapter regarding Bard. Notable bits and implications: Bard more or less confirmed to be even older than Dead King, to the point where she's history to him too. Throws her timeline back. Bard's skills in manipulating narrative are experience based - she clearly can and has failed before. The first comment also implies that she has been servant to Gods Below before, if Dead King considered her coming in the name of Those Above merely an option and not...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 13, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Ryuugi, I feel like you've basically caught a scent of a thing you dislike - real or imagined - and nothing any of us is going to say is going to dislodge it. Which is fine, because it's not impossible what you're describing is just bad writing. None of the stuff I posted is stuff I think is irrevocably true, just stuff I think would be interesting if it was true. I love Guide, but I think it suffers heavily from 2 things when it comes to deciphering it's quality. 1) The episodial...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 7, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  28. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Frankly, the more I look at the behavior and tendencies of the Gods Above and Below, the more I become convinced that they aren't the deities of Good and Evil, and are actually the gods of Law and Chaos masquerading or mistaken as such. I mean, look at their behavior and tendencies. 'Good' has a set, unchanging number of angels. 'Good' is the team that grows stronger playing into conventions. 'Good' demands obedience, is the one that inflicts inviolate rules on Creation, not really...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 6, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I don't have a problem with the way Cat's character has been developing, or how the story has, for the following reason: (this is gonna be a long post, fair warning) Cat is being a hypocrite, big time. But that's not a problem, because Cat has never been anything but a unreliable narrator. The entire point of the story is her trying not to be - it says so right on the front page of the website. The best way I know of to describe the story thus-far is, not unsurprisingly, in tabletop...
    Post by: Lamora, Jul 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  30. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    It's not Assassin. Black mentions Nefarious in the fight with the White Knight, which is a callback to Book 3 Chapter 2, where Malicia mentions that Emperor Nefarious invented 'flesh simulacrums with a sliver of personality', which is what she used to attend the Callow council meeting. The White Knight got played by thinking Black would literally ever consent to an actual one-on-one fight with him. Black couldn't refuse the Knight-on-Knight challenge, so he just showed up inside a flesh...
    Post by: Lamora, Jun 22, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  31. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I think Cat is actually going to manage to forge this truce. Then Saint is going up and say 'well that's nice, but I'm Heaven's favorite holy roller', cut through the truce and try to take Cat down, over the protestations and reluctant support of the Pilgrim and co., and Cat's going to put her first old legend in the grave. Here's why: There was a shit ton of foreshadowing in this chapter near the end. Most notably, while Cat was setting herself up as a 'villain was actually an...
    Post by: Lamora, Jun 15, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    One thing Cat might angle to do with is make a deal to kill all of Cordelia's major rivals (like Amadis) under the cover of this war, and after the biggest ones are out of the way, strike a ceasefire, maybe with the agreement that whoever restarts the war first (Principate or Empire) gets dogpiled by Callow + the non-aggressor. I don't think the Elves are so much a dangling thread - my understanding was that they sensed Triumphant coming way, WAY in advance and fucked off out of reality....
    Post by: Lamora, Apr 12, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    A couple things I noticed, that some people brought up in the comments and thread: [spoiler]
    Post by: Lamora, Apr 9, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    An awesome observation I saw in the comments was that this - since Catherine is no longer the Squire, Black no longer has an expiration date. Another interesting effect is in Catherine forming her own faction of Callow, she may have suborned the apprenticeship effect of all the Woe as well. We see that immediately in Archer being released by Ranger, but Hierophant no longer narratively needs to replace his father, assuming he stays loyal to Catherine. Also, Akua’s Folly being her literal...
    Post by: Lamora, Mar 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  35. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    BOY SHE ABOUT TO DO IT 'me, drumming fists on table' queen of blades, queen of blades, QUEEN OF BLADES, QUEEN OF BLADES-
    Post by: Lamora, Mar 5, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Boy howdy was this chapter a doozy. Let me start by reposting here what I already commented there: [spoiler] I think we hit the big confrontation once and for all next week, boys. Also, my absolute entire ass that Robber doesn't already have a Name - it might even be Robber, just expressed very subtly like Black foreshadowed so many chapters ago.
    Post by: Lamora, Feb 16, 2018 in forum: Original Fiction
  37. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Same on what Touzb said. The last two books were really, really good. They were tight, had an arc, and a satisfying conclusion (imo, obviously). This book 3 is positively dragging ass. Don't get me wrong, there were parts that were awesome - the knights of Callow, seeing the Calamities be big and bad and watching them fall - but this book honestly should have been two separate ones. The whole Fae thing stretched this thing way too far - not that it was bad, mind you. But trying to...
    Post by: Lamora, Dec 23, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Fuck, I've just realized how Warlock is going to die. His husband is a devil. They're fighting the Diabolist. Right in front of our very eyes the whole time. Christ.
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 11, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
  39. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    This chapter and extra chapter make it two 'called-its' I get to cash in. One, [spoiler], and two, [spoiler] And holy fuck the death flags the Calamities are all throwing right now. [spoiler] Given the events, I'm going to have to switch my vote back to Captain, given the monster slaying pep talk Bard was giving Champion. I'm still curious about Tyrant's line, 'already made the kill', because I feel like he's referring to something different.
    Post by: Lamora, Oct 2, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
  40. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I found a breakdown in the comments on the site that makes a pretty good case for Ranger being the first one to go. She's been too invinceable, and there's been a lot of foreshadowing about only being invinceable until you're not. In addition, there's also been noise about hurting Black. What would hurt him more deeply and unexpectedly than killing Hye, the one person he didn't think he had to worry about?
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 27, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    As another note, now we have a [spoiler] Sounds like we have two ingredients for Cat to use to fulfill her promise to the Winter King about learning to kill gods. And where there's two, one more is waiting in the wings to make three somewhere. I'm guessing it's maybe the vengeance story the King hands her when he forces her to kill Black. Or maybe an aspect she gets in doing so and becoming Black Knight, something like End, which would be appropriate for Cat, considering she's the...
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 13, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
  42. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    [spoiler] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh god, I love this story so much.
    Post by: Lamora, Sep 13, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
  43. Lamora
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    With the latest installment, and Black all oddly upbeat about his eventual fate, I've been going through previous chapters, and, uh: This is the story Cat used to become a duchess. She already killed her 'birth father', the Duke, on the field. She still has to kill her adopted father. Guys, I'm pretty sure the Winter King uses her to kill Black. And it's definitely possible, even probable, if they meet in Arcadia somehow, given how hard the story would be powering her. Hell, it's...
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 9, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Anyone else feel like Akua's dad is way too strong for not having a name? He was smoking fey left and right. I know he was a candidate for Warlock, but I thought the point of Names was them being capable of things beyond the norm. Apprentice said his soul surgery thing is the most brilliant piece of sorcery he's ever seen, and Warlock is his father. Either something's fucky that we haven't seen yet or Akua's dad is kind of a Deus Ex Magista.
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 7, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    One important note in the two interludes: Apprentice apparently almost transitioned into a new Name just looking at Diabolist's working. Any guesses on that? Also curious what Adjutant could turn into, because it seems like a pretty transition-y name. In the whole vein of the orcs being made something old yet new by the Legions, it could be something like Centurion or Praetor in the vein of legionnary style.
    Post by: Lamora, Aug 2, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Eh, more like Will was Catherine league with a coterie of essentially Named mooks. I doubt Black would have ever willingly faced off with Will, also. All of his aspects are geared towards one-on-one. He's more of an Assassin or Scribe job. Currently placing a bet that Assassin has some sort of retroactive memory erasure power. I base this on his absence being flat out strange in some scenes, like the Calamity dinner party where Warlock stole Black's wine. Also betting: Killian...
    Post by: Lamora, Apr 27, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    I'm guessing it's some sort of universal Thief aspect where they get a pseudo bag of holding. Hell, the aspect is even probably called Hold.
    Post by: Lamora, Jan 11, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Inb4 Killian is Assassin and Catherine has been railing one of the Calamities this entire time.
    Post by: Lamora, Jan 8, 2017 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    Oh shit. /tenchar
    Post by: Lamora, Dec 7, 2016 in forum: Original Fiction
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    WIP A Practical Guide to Evil by Erraticerrata - T - Original Fantasy

    This reads like a good novelization of the Evil Overlord List. This is fucking incredible and everyone should read it. 5/5.
    Post by: Lamora, Apr 18, 2016 in forum: Original Fiction
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