The fight has some jokes, though. Orikan is not used to being a necron, and Trazyn is. Trazyn takes terrible advantage.

😔 I had to write a fake fight at the end of this chapter because it was really boring otherwise. Also, horrifying. I'm not sure the fight isn't, like, accidentally terrible body horror, but it's in there now.

I continue to have a way-too-obvious favorite character.

The Skeletons era of horror novel is often Not Good. I have been burned before by misleading titles, but to be fair, this one sounds awesome.

It might be Annihilation. I really should read that!

Hmm. What am I reading next. Unreasonably excited about this, since the book I was reading last week was terrible and I am free.

This teaser is doing some heavy lifting for Oltyx, whose ability to "trick" is mostly being used on himself for, like, 900 pages. He is, in fact, not tricking anyone else.

I know this is not what you meant, and I apologize deeply for this, but my garbage brain was immediately delighted by thoughts of more realistic Unnas, Djoseras, and Oltyx respectively.

Spoilers: he was masturbating. 😔 They have a fight about this.

Unfortunately, decided to keep the peeled necrodermis. Will need to make this worse.

This is, like, the first 2k, mostly omitted or significantly rewritten. The sex is borderline incoherent, but should be solvable for hand-goes-here.

He was properly horrified here. This may stay, but he'll have to say it aloud instead of creeping on Trazyn from the canoptek systems.

FINE, I'll finish the super-cursed porn I was working on. I wrote the first third from Orikan's POV, and had to switch and cut a bunch of this out because he was not nearly shocked enough.

Szarekh isn't quite as bony as I was thinking, but he does look vaguely like necrodermis plates over a skeleton in parts.

I hurt something laughing at that FNAF exoskeleton. I can't unsee it.

I got taken over by the Trazyn copies. 😓 Had to make important decisions, like train vs DP. Much to consider. More research is required.

Awful unedited draft section. Also important: Would Orikan tell Trazyn to go fuck himself? Feels too crass, but also, probably yes if more than one was talking.

lmao, it was this part, but it was too serious to go harder. It was on my mind because I wrote a more unhinged version in a different story this weekend, hopefully I can post that one soon. This one will be up in an hour or so.