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It somehow got to me and I'm reading some screwed up stuff. I think because it cleverly tricked me into cheering for Okasha at first. The good doctor really did work herself to death and she really did make Okasha work herself into an exhausted madness. So I was all "yes just make her sleep" not really thinking what that means .The result was in right away. The next day "negotiating" for sleep after 14 hours and 4 Okasha hours already made it very clear how that had not been a negotiation at all. And it went downhill from there incredibly quickly. I got how Okasha got driven to the point but I also absolutely don't see a way to come back from it. And somehow it doesn't seem to get better.
Wasn't nearly as disturbing as I thought it would be. Warning is for those faint of heart. If you've read any Anne Rice or Stephen King, then this won't bother you at all.
It's also for those that have personal expiriance so that they are prepared and can chose to not read it if they want.
Getting a bit ...tired of the months? Without A or even B plot progression. It feels like its been nothing but side narratives for quite a while, even the chapter with the inn didn’t feel like it went anywhere.
On a lighter note, what does Niers’ message mean with “Code as follows for chess board. Knight to E6, Pawn to A1…“? Some kind of double authentication using Erin’s telechess set?
Perhaps those are moves he is going to make in the next match against Erin? So the Gentlemen have to go upstairs and check if she is in fact the one playing against the Titan (since he knows several players of lesser skill have had a go at the board in the past)
Geneva watching on in horror as her Level 32 [Blademaster] body is ripping people apart... I am not looking forward to this getting worse before it gets better. Thank you for the thought-provoking chapter.
I wonder if the Sephilids and her are going to set up a rotation to prevent corruption or if the Minds are going to just use Sephilids until the point they show cracks and replace them.
Hopefully they will be smart enough to ask Geneva about her preferences. The main thing she needs right now is choice
That said I can’t get enough of this series. I wish you could hire someone to type for you so you could dictate and push this out faster.
Great chapter but man alive she is insufferable about the Gun powder issue. And great characters are complex and she is! But lord she needs to GET A GRIP.
As Joshua Flowers mentions upthread, Geneva being a control freak would mean that, from her POV, the whole gunpowder issue is something that she has no control over. Of course, instead of engaging in dialogue to influence the direction in which further gunpowder development goes by getting Paige and Daly to agree on compromises, limitations, contingencies, etc; she instead slams her fists on the table and storms off, thus cementing her complete lack of influence in the matter
one more thing. Its a question of skill permanence. Did the changes okasha made to geneva become permanent changes like the enhanced flexibility restructuring her body or were they temp changes like buffs. I just want to clarify as that would be a huge factor if those permanent skills granted by multiple syl started to build up.
I think those were Okasha's skills, so without her Geneva doesn't have them anymore.
Why was okasha getting a [host] skill? Shouldn’t that be Geneva’s skill? Maybe it’s just how okasha sees herself?
It’s a skill that affects the host, similar to the Empire and Inn type skills
it really seems like Geneva should get a class or (rare skill )to resist body jacking by the fact that she is on her second body squid and getting a class seems to have several factors including heightened emotions and effort. I mean she was almost raped and she was fighting it the whole time. She did not submit to the control nor did her will weaken. Heck Erin gets a skill whenever she stubs her toe, lol.
Erin is fun, exciting, and growing as a person. She deserves cool skills. Geneva is a cranky workaholic with a nasty RBF. She deserves skills like, resistance to listening to others and Aura of the automata.
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Feel a body snatchers movie vibe from this chapter. Also feel like this disease came about because of Geneva's doctor class.
Maybe add a [Horror] tag to this one. Didn't enjoy this one. So much for Okasha's [Oath] being as strong as Geneva. Geneva would die for her [Oath]. Okasha would break her [Oath] for some [Fun].
What Oath did Okasha make?
Good chapter, good writing, but maybe bad timing? I don't think I am going to be able to read any doctor plots this year.
also and I know I'm writing alot here, there should be a warrior class for syls that changes the body shape more dramatically, like that old manga Kiseijuu. That would be kinda awesome
I really hope she gets a host class or symbiot class soon. THis is getting rather creepy, plus I don't really enjoy consent issue plots that run very long. The ethical issues tend to wear down into repeats of the same themes over and over, plus consent issues in female characters is such a cliche. I mean it seems to happen to every strong female protag at one point on another. Either their raped, impregnated or mind controlled in some way. Then after their power has been stolen from them, we either get like 5 arcs of ptsd or they just ignore it completely as if it never happened.
I really don't like Geneva as person she's so narcissistic. It feels like she only sees people as what they can do to help her.
I wouldn't call her a narcissistic. Its more like a hero complex, the desire to help others by using whatever she has. A narcissist would not be literally working herself to death trying to keep her patients alive. Everyone calls her the Last Light, a hero, so she feels like she has to be working 24/7 in order to justify the look of awe that people give her.
Its a bacterial vector spread from open sours and puss. Why are they using leather armor. Is salt not an effective antibacterial that they have in abundance at sea. How did it spread if the incubation is 2 weeks on a sailing ship it would take a great deal of time just to reach another continent even with speed skills. By that point it would either be cured or would have obvious symptoms, even in the middle ages it is highly doughtful they would be allowed to land will still infectious covered in oozing puss. It would be more likely for the nobles to just burn the ship with crew using long distance fire mages. I loved the chapter but these are just somethings I wanted to point out as for your consideration
Seems like people can't be bothered to look out for the symptoms or observe proper health practices because they don't consider it a pandemic. The public and people in charge just don't care enough to do anything as there's only been a handful of deaths and unless read into the reports the current consensus is that it's just another STD. It'll take either decisive action or drastic consequence to see people recognize the threat. I mean, sure, if an entire ship of Yellow River disease showed up they'd dowse it in fire, but it seems plausible that cramped quarters with carriers not showing obvious symptoms are likely to infect a few others.
This was a great chapter. That ending bit is my worst nightmare brilliantly executed. Gave me goosebumps.
Right? The worst part for me is that I had been cheering for Okasha for a while in a "make her take care of herself" sense and then immediately saw the horrible results of her getting used to just apply force.
I wonder if she can try bacteria phages to deal with disease? Also that was morbid ending
Just a little existential horror to spice up the epidemic.
Paige 's pulling a Nobel, I see.
Indeed, very high chance of a merchant of death happening.
Wait what does that last line mean
I think the doctor was not in Control anymore I wonder how her friends will find out will the fourth company come to help. Shit just hit the fun. Will they discover the black Powder.
Good old Pirateaba. Giving everyone the D.
I am feeling everything that this chapter was made to make me feel☹️
You know a story is getting spicy when warnings need to be given!
Thanks