Progress is good after my renewed focus and canceling the rewrite. The game is now about 80% complete. It will be complete within two months.
I’m releasing bonus content for you guys while you wait. This snippet, I gave to my super fans a while back. Now, I’m releasing it publicly. My super fans will be getting something else in the future.
Vault Archives: Chapter ?
“What was your first impression of me?” Asks Tomy Glacier, Category 1, alchemist. He has a pale complexion, and wooly, curly black hair.
They’re sitting at a long table, set low so that it almost touches their knees. The wood is solid teak and has that smoothness like a bar of soap. It is not exactly even, though, because each individual slat is placed a little off to each other.
“My first impression? We just met today.” Replies Galaxus, chief of the forest tribe called Akija. Galaxus wears the green robes that indicate he is only a Category 1 student at the alchemical university which they are in. Category 1; the lowest rank possible. Galaxus has a dark complexion and intricate dreadlocks.
“Yeah. First impressions. Go.”
There is, and this doesn’t really surprise the other students walking around the cafeteria, but there is a naked woman sitting across both Galaxus and Tomy. She has on only the school’s uniform, her green robe. “My frist impression? Someone respectful of people.” Replies Fiorra, daughter of Trrizath. Her skin complexion is difficult to describe but is less dark than Galaxus’s.
Tomy blushes and jumps up and down in his seat. “Did you hear that Galaxus! I’m respectful! The others are wrong!” He slumps into his seat and sighs. “We should sleep together, Fiorra. We have chemistry.”
“No.” Fiorra is expressionless.
Tomy is silent for a second, then turns to Galaxus with a burst of energy. “What about you, what’s your first impression?”
Galaxus holds his chin like some very wise and ancient philosopher. “Hm . . . My friend. You are, after all, the only one who came to greet and introduce yourself.”
“Okay. Great. My turn. My impression of you, Fiorra.” Tomy holds his wooden wand tightly and waves it in the air. It’s a practice wand for students. “I thought you were pretty.”
“. . . And?”
“That’s it. that’s my first impression. It’s a first impression, Fiorra! It’s not meant to be complex.”
“Very well.”
“And I thought you were a very funny person, Galaxus.”
Galaxus puts on a face of utter nonchalance and indifference, enough to break stone in half. “It’s not even been an hour of my first day at this school and already I have the pressure of not disappointing someone.”
This makes Tomy crack up like a kid. His hands are curled at weird angles while he guffaws.
Fiorra speaks up. “My first impression of you, Galaxus, is that you’re a sinner. It was also, I admit, my impression of the son of Glacier.” She means Tomy.
“Why is that?” Asks Galaxus.
“Because you are not showing your skin. The gods craeted you for what reason then if you choose to hide it?”
“Fair point.” Galaxus replies.
“I would if I could.” Offers Tomy.
Fiorra shakes her head. “Honestly quite disgusting.”
“The idea of me being naked?”
“No!” She snaps. “The idea of an animal being clothed. You’d be stoned if you were in my city.”
Tomy gulps. “That’s . . . that’s awful . . .”
“It’s quite harsh, indeed.” Galaxus nods his head.
“So scary . . .”
“It can be. I’ve seen other tribes do stonings.” Galaxus’s eyes glaze slightly as he reminisces.
“I can’t imagine . . .” Tomy mutters.
“It’s not quite that bizarre.”
“Women . . . completely nude. All the time. No underwear, no sense of teasing . . . Horrible . . .” Tomy looks as if he is about to cry.
“Ah. Yes . . . It does leave nothing to the imagination does it, Fiorra?” Galaxus tilts his head at her.
Fiorra has already packed her bag full of textbooks and is about to stand up and leave. “Sinful.” She shakes her head.
Tomy’s eyes go wide open. He cups his hands to his eyes to form binoculars. “Holy shit!” He gasps. Fiorra, now standing straight before the two men, nods her farewell to them, and walks away.
Galaxus looks up at the cafeteria’s domed ceiling. He stares at the marble statues of various mythical creatures that perch at the top of supporting pillars. At the circular hole that allows the sun to shine through and provide light for the enclosure. That light spreads on Galaxux’s face like golden honey.
He grins. “This will be an interesting few years of my life.” He ruminates to himself. What he said should not be taken lightly as the chief of his tribe who’s seen countless wars, fathered and grandfathered countless children. Despite that, his statement could be seen as an overexaggeration to some.
If only.
END.