A New Poll

Sorry this update is late. Between travel and the upcoming holidays, my schedule's been kind of a mess. I am, however, back with a new poll. As promised, it has three options: Merce's chapter of Fallen Brides; the World Guide II short from the last poll; and The Imperator Doesn't Sleep, a novella from the same author as Baphomet Complex. (Which I really need to put together a second draft of at some point.)

As before, I will post more of my translation of whichever story gets the most votes every Wednesday from now until it's finished. After that I'll make another poll. The next poll will include both stories that fail to win this one, as well as a new story. I'll be counting the votes next Monday morning.

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A Hill Where Love Grows

Case 5: Merce

The Imperator Doesn't Sleep

I honestly wanted to include a larger section of Imperator and add somewhat to Hill. If I have time, I'll do another bit of each and update this post and the Pastebins Thursday night.

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Fallen Brides: Ebook

This week's update isn't much. It's also early, because I'll be traveling for the rest of this week. Expect me back next Wednesday with the next poll and samples for all the stories on it.

In the meantime, ebook links are now in the sidebar to right. The version of Fallen Brides you see there is a new file with corrections, standardized terminology, illustrations and a linked table of contents. It includes all four chapters I have translated so far, and also "Until She Falls" as an appendix. I will update it with additional chapters as they are finished and add additional books to the sidebar as I get to them.

Fallen Brides: Koyoi — Complete

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Koyoi's chapter, totaling just over 17,000 words, is now complete. The text below includes the full story, with formatting, corrections, and the illustration.

Next week will be a fully formatted ebook (with a linked table of contents) of all the Fallen Brides stories so far. I may also post the new poll at that time, but it also might take another week for me to get all the samples ready.

The next poll will include the World Guide II story from the last poll, another Fallen Brides chapter, and a story from another book. If anyone has specific requests for what they want the latter two to be, feel free to post them in the comments and I'll consider them.

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Fallen Brides: Koyoi — Consistent Characterization?

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Fallen Brides: Koyoi — 75%

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Due to personal issues, this week's update is a bit late and a bit short (about 2,300 words). Next week's should be back to normal, and two more should finish the story.

I've tried adding spaces between paragraphs because Blogger's formatting options are kind of awful and adding HTML to make them register as paragraphs is worse, but the base text doesn't have them because it's formatted for making into an ebook, so I may have missed a break somewhere. Hopefully it's easier to read now.

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Fallen Brides: Koyoi — More Than Halfway There

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Here's your weekly Fallen Brides update. It's a couple hundred words longer than last week's, but this is a long section, so it doesn't end on as good a breaking point.

This section finishes up Koyoi's flashbacks, and starts on what I'm sure all of you knew was coming.

It occurs to me that I should probably have mentioned this before, but Shinonome, Koyoi, and Tasogare mean "daybreak," "evening," and "twilight," respectively.

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Fallen Brides: Koyoi — Cliffhanger

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Here's another weekly update. It's a bit late in the day, but it's 3,000+ words to make up for it.

Other than that, there's not much to say, except that I now have an official English copy of the encyclopedia, and have elected to follow its translations of key terms for the sake of clarity. (In practice, this really just means that "Dark Lord" becomes "Overlord.")

Thank you to Dan for continuing to point out typos and other errors.

See you all again with another update next Wednesday.

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