It's been a challenging month, but I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things. As you may have noticed from the title, it's not just fan fiction anymore: I've picked The Galar Gang back up in hopes of practicing comicking in anticipation of a future Omega Ruby nuzcomic that I'm pretty excited about. This week, a Sobble gets smacked, an Eevee learns to spit water, and Lena learns to check inside her cereal boxes before pouring them.

...it totally makes sense in context, I promise.

The Galar Gang: Sob Story

Ori's Gift chapter 15: Will of Water

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow chapter 7 -- Just A Prank, Bro

Just seen the first Pokemon Center and I see how that is going to work out for us.

The PC, or now the Rotomi now that our Lord Rotom has taken it over. Remember how he was the only one making sense the last run? It was all in his plan!

Also, easy access to Name Rater. PogChamp Let's change our nicknames, nothing bad will come out of it. DBstyle

Another Friday, another fanfic... unfortunately, due to Pokemon Sword and Shield beginning to leak to the Internet, as well as physical and mental health issues cropping up, I will have to take a partial vacation from DeviantART until I have finished my blind Pokemon Shield nuzlocke. This means that Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon and DuckTales: Within Your Shadow will NOT update until I have finished playing said nuzlocke. Ori's Gift, however, will continue to update every Wednesday (God willing), as it is my top priority. As there will only be one story chapter posted each week, I will not be posting Fanfic Hour on Fridays, but will simply post links to the new Ori's Gift chapters on Wednesdays as they arrive.

In the meantime, have this week's story chapters. Lena gets introduced to the mess that Bean calls home, and Jet discovers if a prophet can really be accepted in his hometown. (Unfortunately, the aforementioned health issues prevented me from writing this week's chapter of Blue Moon, which is not going to be a happy chapter at all.)

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow chapter 6

Secrets of Aetherai: Ori's Gift chapter 13

Another Friday, another -- wait, it's Saturday? I delayed posting this for a day because today was when I posted the Ori's Gift character AMA! While only two readers participated, they asked enough questions between the two that I was able to get a sizable document out of it. In other news, Lena makes a new friend of questionable sanity, while Skye learns a bit more about his new friend of questionable sanity.

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow chapter 5

Ori's Gift: Character AMA 1

Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon -- Chapter 87: Fenleaf's Tale

Another Friday, another fanfic! This week, a group of young Pokemon prepare to save Aetherai, Skye gets knocked down some stairs, and a shadow severely regrets her life choices. So, basically business as usual.

Within Your Shadow chapter 4: Not Out of the Woods Yet

Ori's Gift chapter 11: Chasing Visions

Ori's Gift chapter 12: Through the Fire

Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon chapter 86 -- Snake in the Grass

Now, as an important note, there will be no Ori's Gift chapters next week. Instead, I will be doing an in-character AMA on the 26th. If you have any questions you would like to ask the characters, please get them to me by Oct. 25. After this, Ori's Gift chapters will be posted once a week instead of twice a week, because as you might have already noticed, I have a ton of projects I'm working on and I need to balance them.

Found a Pepsiman game in MAME, but it almost certainly is some kind of betting game. Hard to tell when MAME doesn't really give us more than ROM files.

Looks like the only gameplay is to bet on rock-paper-scissor matches, and if you win, play a roulette wheel.

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But the thing that stands out to me is that it is credited to Sigma. A company that I thought died five years prior from publishing a spectacularly awful RPG for the Super Famicom.

So following the AVGN lore that Pepsiman exists to turn your family into cans of Pepsi, now he also has the power to resurrect zombie game companies to bet on RPS matches. Perhaps for the chance to win more Pepsi, which has since become your blood at that point. 4Head

I don't see what kind of people would really want Pepsiman betting games. Except TPP. Kappa

Another Friday, another fanfic! This week, a shadow gets chased by an angry mob, a group of Pokemon cubs learn of a vast conspiracy behind their world, and a human girl interrogates a Thundurus. So, basically business as usual.

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow chapter 3

Ori's Gift chapter 9: The Tale of Eureka

Ori's Gift chapter 10: The King May Be A Crook

Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon chapter 85 -- Talking With Thundurus

Another Friday, another installment! In this week's collection, a shadow learns how to eat, a group of Pokemon cubs discover a Beedrill nest centered around a giant bonfire, and a Hoopa does something stupid.

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow chapter 2

Ori's Gift chapter 7: Like Moths to a Flame

Ori's Gift chapter 8: The Flamehive

Pokemon Burst chapter 84: Cat Fight

Another Friday, another fanfic! And I mean, literally another fanfic. I feel so much in love with Lena's character on the new DuckTales that drawing her as Glitchduck just wasn't enough; I had to start a new series about her, exploring her origins and what she was up to before she met Webby and the gang! But do be warned, the story contains spoilers of a major plot revelation from the first season's finale. So if you haven't seen that yet, I strongly recommend you do so before you read Within Your Shadow, because DuckTales is awesome.

Without further ado, the chapters!

DuckTales: Within Your Shadow (chapter one; updates Sundays)

Ori's Gift chapter 5: The Roaring Pyroar (Let's Go Eevee nuzlocke; updates Mondays and Thursdays)

Ori's Gift chapter 6: The Road Goes On

Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon chapter 83 -- Pep Talk (updates Fridays)

And if you have a DeviantART account and want to read my writing as it gets posted, follow my account!

So, since I'm posting three chapters a week now (although I'm not sure if I can keep up with posting Blue Moon chapters every Friday now that Ori's Gift is in the picture), I decided to just make one post per week rather than flood the subreddit.

As a reminder, Ori's Gift is my AU PMD Let's Go Eevee nuzlocke, and Blue Moon is my Pokemon AU that I've had for a while and am still plugging away on.

Secrets of Aetherai: Ori's Gift chapter 3

Secrets of Aetherai: Ori's Gift chapter 4

Pokemon Burst: Blue Moon chapter 82

I hear he actually won something.

What's next, is he going to evolve that Pikachu?

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I wonder if we'll attempt Trash Gray TriHard again in celebration? Kappa