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 I have just uploaded the first playthrough of Interitus 3: The Ocean Has Her Reasons.  Playthrough: The Ocean Has Her Reasons (part 1) Retro-style visual novel (youtube.com) I3A1P1 -- Interitus 3, Archipelago 1, Playthrough 1. Information about Interitus 3 is available  here .

          The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Fourteen – Extraneous Solutions   Without waiting or wasting a weary moment, the underworld queen activated her power and unleashed a high-speed storm of energy blades. Desperate to defend my disease-stricken lover, I activated the first power I had ever stolen. I summoned a substitute to serve as a shield, and I tilted it to bloodily block the blades which barreled through her kitchen. Though her attack dismembered my defensive dummy, the multifarious impact spun me around to face the two henchmen who blocked our escape. I then unleashed my second stolen power in the form of a fiery sphere which shot across the spacious kitchen. One henchman stood his ground and extended his glowing hands as if they could somehow interrupt my attack. But in the moment that this henchman touched my high-speed fireball, he immediately reflected it in the opposite direction. The blazing sphere...

          The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Thirteen – Usurper of the Underworld   With each passing second, I begged spacetime itself to just let her rest. As the doctor quietly looked over her body, I held my hand against my chest. I could feel her struggle just to take in every breath, like her sickness was days away from dragging her to death. The doctor peered closely at the scarred skin on her leg; he searched her shin for signs that she had caught the plague. Aeliana cried as she kept her mouth hidden by her hand, she cried as if to confess that she could no longer stand. She had promised to fight with me for the future we would forge, but it seemed instead that she would fall victim to this world. I pondered if this plight was pareidolia or pattern, but I swore if I lost her then the stars themselves would shatter. They had proven to pry us apart by every twist of fate; they had dared to defy the destiny that we...

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         The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Twelve – A Past which Plunders the Present   “It was in the forest that I first learned I would find you, and I did not rest until the day that it became true. You saved me from the shadows like a lifelong lifeline; you saved me as you kept me across countless lifetimes. I have loved you a hundred times in a hundred past lives. I have killed for you countless times with countless swords and knives. It makes no difference that we are cursed and crossed by the stars, because it is in this life that the stars themselves are ours. We were once cursed to a piecewise love that lived only if you found me, but it is in this cycle that we shall set sail into eternity.” Aeliana pressed her lips on mine in the moment I stopped speaking, but she struggled to respond, so she sat back onto the wet floor of our stolen boat. I stood upright on the back with my hands fastened firmly to the oa...

        The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Eleven – Castle Made of Dirt   It was late in the night when we awoke to the sound of a pound on the door. Aeliana bolted from my side and dashed across the floor. She clenched her daggers in her hands and steadied her arms for battle, but she tapped her foot three times as a quiet message. Somehow I was aware of the reality but locked in a dream. I could hear her admonition, but I deceived myself to stay for just an extra moment in the dying light of a once-comfortable world which would now have to burn. I could picture it in my head as a broken bowl beneath a winter night. Though water once poured from its hole and merely flooded the earth around it, the frigid winter sealed its cracks with ice. It could in this way temporarily disguise itself as ordinary and complete, even if it could only fill with water which would freeze. But time passes and seasons change, so now winter wither...