Outrun the Scythe: A Tale of Daemons and Immortals
"I would outrun the scythe, glaring with failure.
It is a mere destiny I thought,
A threshold I had crossed before."
- Opeth,
"April Ethereal"
BlogChaptersAbout, because I anticipate a lot of questions and concerns.
(A lot of this is still under construction, I'm so out of practice
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Chapter 0.0. No story can start without someone's end (lies!) Vega Ironstar's an old daemon who needs to go back home and reminisce on an old friend...
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Chapter 0.1. Come receive the gift of life and/or death, and hear the story of the woman who got both...
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Chapter 0.2. Sheila Drudge's newfound life ends up in the place she wanted it to be all along, and Barry wasn't lying about there being grandkids!
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Chapter 0.3. Heathcliff talks a little about the issues plaguing his adolescence. Mostly stuff going on at the town gym.
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Chapter 0.4. Heathcliff, a brand spankin' new young adult now, gets a visit he's been told to fear. Another one-off character leaves us forever too.
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Chapter 0.5. Heathcliff goes on a special journey to meet creatures he never thought he was related to...and some of his own family too.
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Chapter 0.6. Sheila and Heathcliff go on forward with their west coast vacation anyways, but not without some discomfort, bar shenanigans being the least of them!
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Chapter 0.7. We catch up with Sheila a year later. Knowing that she's old, this teaser image of plainclothes Cara--servant of Death--doesn't really comfort me!
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Chapter 0.8. A year later we get back to Heathcliff's crushed dreams and new city folk friends, both the boring and the unusual.
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Chapter 0.9. Sheila and Heathcliff start their new lives without each other but in tandem. Barry meddles with death itself again, which may be a worrying trend now.
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Chapter 1.1. Heathcliff enjoys his wild and crazy nights in Bridgeport that, unlike him, might not have to last forever.
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Chapter 1.2. Heathcliff and Matty have a bad Christmas and someone else washes their hands because they've been filthy. (I'm running out of good outtakes and cut images)
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Chapter 1.3. Heathcliff doesn't let a new boyfriend get in the way of a spa day with his fellow daemons, however well that will go.
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Chapter 1.4. The not-so-honorable Romeo Rake tells his side of an increasingly sordid tale about the Ironstars.
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Chapter 1.5. Back at Sheila's, we deal with the squatter situation, cooking duties, and the biggest problem of all: new crushes.
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Chapter 1.6. Sheila pieces together the trash heap of Violet's past life and may even be somewhat correct. Tensions rise between the ladies of House Drudge while the men try and keep out of it.
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Chapter 1.7. Sheila throws a Halloween party that almost goes perfectly, and Malcolm may as well have slipped out for an hour to tickle his daughter (CUTE)
Chapter 1.8. We say goodbye to Pappy/Spot (you know I’m real sorry for that name system but EA was testing me) and hello to a whole new world of daemons and homosexuality.
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Chapter 1.9.
Heathcliff completes an important job despite setbacks. At least he still has that boyfriend to rely on…right??
Chapter 1.10.
Heathcliff lives out his days as a party animal while waiting for Romeo to get his act together. Pilona, meanwhile, knows a little more than his nephew and pulls this face a lot (I thought it was really funny)
Chapter 1.11.
In a bizarre new world, Romeo wins the award for having the worst in-law story ever.
Chapter 1.12
Heathcliff and Romeo learn a few lessons about how jobs and in-laws maybe can't get in the way of pure, homosexual love.
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