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Chapter 918: A Time to Slumber
🕑 Added 2024-07-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTCIn the end, only one place had the space, resources and accessibility to immediately shelter and house a city worth of people on short notice. The brighthearts had once formed a massive queue to file into Jason’s soul realm for shelter, and now the people of Boko did the same. Little explanation was given and little was needed; escape from the sun to a place of shelter and abundance was all most people needed to see.
Jason built a city in a desert for them to occupy. Another oasis city, reminiscent of the home they had lost. He’d been unsure about using that design, worried about causing fresh trauma, but ultimately decided that something familiar would be best. Putting them in a completely alien place would only unsettle them further.
Days after the citizens of Boko had been evacuated to the astral kingdom, the area around the crater was occupied by outsiders. Civic authorities from Boko, the Adventure Society and a dozen other organisations had people in the area. Some were investigators, others were cleaning up the temporary camps. Many seemed to have no purpose at all, but refused to be excluded from the goings on.
There was a new panic as portals once more appeared in the sky, high above the crater. These were even larger and more numerous than those used by the messenger army days earlier, and for good reason. Messengers poured out of them, far more than the invasion force, but they never came close to the people scrambling below.
On the ground, Jason was with his team and his team leader’s mother. They were running a catering operation, pretending like they weren’t waiting for the event that would kick a fresh hornet’s nest. The people under the canvas sun shelter couldn’t see what was happening, only the panic of those outside. Soon they were dropping everything and running.
Jason sighed, looking at the food that had been tossed aside on the ground. He figured something like this would happen, which is why he’d been running a sausage sizzle with cheap bread and bruschard sausages. The giant worm meat was plentiful in the area, and the first alien meat Jason had learned to cook.
Among the yelling and screaming, he calmly took off his apron and walked out to look up at the sky. His team moved to stand around him protectively, although no one was paying attention. The only threat was being bumped into by people who couldn’t seem to agree on which way to run.
Jason extended his power and a humongous ring of white stone appeared in the air. Larger even than the portals spewing out a deluge of messengers, it was positioned between them and the ground. It flared to life with portal energy, a massive sheet of silver, gold and blue light. Jason had gritted teeth as he exerted his power. To maintain such a large portal, he was tapping into his astral gate, pushing the limits of what his avatar body could manage.
The people on the ground were unsure of what to do. The handful of adventurers on site would have no chance if they confronted the messengers and they knew it. Everyone else was just fleeing, running for skimmers or escaping through portals of their own.
“We should have warned people this would happen,” Humphrey said for the hundredth time in the last few days.
“We discussed this,” Danielle said. “For one, there was no certainty it would happen. More importantly, the Continental Council would want to insert themselves. Complicate matters that need to be kept simple. There is a time to act with caution and care, but also a time to be bold. As much as Jason needs to learn circumspection, the approach that comes more naturally to him has its place.”
The messengers didn’t come near the ground. It was soon evident that they were disappearing into Jason’s portal as suddenly as they appeared from their own. That didn’t stop the panic below, but it gave the adventurers thinking they were about to die hope that the chaos above would leave them be.
“Jason,” Humphrey said. “Once it’s over and people calm down, people will come looking. They watched the entire population of Boko troop through one of your soul realm portals, and it won’t take them long to realise that’s a giant-size version up there.”
Jason only nodded, still concentrating. Humphrey didn’t bother him further, having discussed all this before. The plan was to leave Humphrey, Danielle and Farrah to deal with the immediate fallout.
“The interest in you will be bad enough right away,” Danielle said. “But once they realise where all those messengers decamped from, the real storm begins. Everyone is going to want answers. Everyone.”
Finally, the last of the messenger deluge vanished. The portals all disappeared, leaving an empty sky above and a confused crowd below. One of Jason’s regular shadow portals opened beside him, and he led most of his team through. The last three stayed, as planned, and stepped back into the shade of the catering tent.
“Is Jason alright?” Humphrey asked. “He’s still barely talking.”
“He’s not as fragile as he used to be,” Farrah said. “He hates what happened, that he couldn’t save everyone. Same as the rest of us.”
“The rest of us didn’t die,” Humphrey argued. “I know he cheated death — again — but he feels it, doesn’t he? When he’s dying?”
“He does, but it’s not the dying that bothers him. He’s used to it. Used to the pain. And he doesn’t blame himself for the casualties of the messenger attack, even though it was his power. He knows he wasn’t responsible. His problem is the killing he did on purpose. I have trouble looking at the messengers as anything but enemies, but he sees them as indoctrinated slaves. To his mind, he killed ten thousand victims.”
“I’m not sure how anyone is meant to move on from something like that,” Danielle said. “I’ve had extreme experiences as an adventurer, but what happened that day wasn’t adventuring. That was the wrath of an angry god.”
“And that’s how he deals with it,” Farrah said. “Part of him is beyond mortality, and he has to accept that part of himself to unleash the power that comes with it. The mindset of a god. His mind while he was in his phoenix form was much like when he fought Undeath’s avatar in the transformation zone. He’s better at holding himself together, but there’s a detachment that helps him.”
“You seem confident in your insights,” Danielle said.
Farrah tapped her forehead.
“It’s the bond we share,” she said. “I can feel what he’s feeling. I could feel it when he was the phoenix, and I can feel it now. He can hide his emotions from me if he wants, but he’s not doing that. He wants me to know he’s not spiralling. He hates what happened, but he knows that it had to be done. That if he hadn’t killed the messengers, it would have been a fight that the adventurers of Boko weren’t ready for. It would have been ugly, and we probably would have lost.”
“That’s certainly true,” Danielle said. “But even if he’s come to terms with what happened, others haven’t. The power he showed that day already has people on edge, and this will only make it worse. Messenger strongholds across the entire planet just depopulated. Everyone will want to know to why, whether they’re coming back and what Jason intends to do with them. Very understandable questions that I’d quite like to see answered myself.”
“He said that they won’t be anyone else’s concern now,” Humphrey said. “That they won’t be coming back. For now, we trust his word, and the details will come later.”
“I know. But he needs to be stable right now. How he handles the Adventure Society and other authorities over the next few days will define those relationships into the foreseeable future.”
“How widely do people know he was the big magic bird?” Farrah asked. “Is his name being thrown around by people in general?”
“Not from what Stella and Lindy could tell,” Humphrey said. “I’ve had them keeping ears and eyes out for trouble. The Boko population, and even most of the people here now aren’t talking about Jason by name. They’re talking about the Hegemon as some mysterious figure, and erroneous rumours are already circulating.”
“The Adventure Society officials and anyone relatively well informed know, of course,” Danielle said. “That the Hegemon was Jason isn’t a secret, exactly, but Jason’s name wasn’t in those system messages, and the Adventure Society isn’t making any announcements. They seem happy to not point out how much power belongs to one gold ranker. If he was diamond, that’s one thing, but this breaks the understood power hierarchy, even if it’s a contingent event. For now, the society seems happier to let the Hegemon be a strange and powerful mystery.”
“Speaking of which,” Farrah said, nodding her head at an approaching group. “I think we’re about to be asked some pointed questions.”
***
Jamis Fran Muskar’s dimensional ship looked out of place on Pallimustus. The sleek, sweeping lines were more akin to a spaceship than anything else in a world of wizards and dragons. It floated over an expanse of lawn that had belonged to a local lord before the messengers conquered the region.
Jamis was preparing to take the ship and leave Pallimustus when a Voice of the Will approached. The messenger landed and immediately dropped to one knee. The image of her astral king appeared above her.
“Many question your actions, Jamis Fran Muskar. It is unlike you to be so overt. Your influence has been damaged by this.”
“Is that so, Astrid Ela Dain? Then why have you been supporting me? You saved me several complications in pushing the lesser kings to surrender their forces.”
“I see where this road ends. When you have your grand kingdom, just remember who helped you claim it.”
“I always remember those of good foresight and sound judgement.”
“So long as you maintain yours. The lesser kings fear you, but they have always feared you. Now they question you behind your back. Your enemies on the council are already looking to make use of them.”
Jamis smiled.
“Let things rest for the moment. Remain neutral, and don’t push back on my behalf.”
“Why not? Disrespect leads to ambition and betrayal. This is a tumour that needs to be cut out before it spreads.”
“There is a time to slumber in the depths of the lake. To let the weak and the foolish frolic on the shores, telling themselves it belongs to them. And then there is a time to rise from the lake, and remind the world why those waters are best left undisturbed.”
“You want your enemies to gather. To feel emboldened. You’re waiting for the snake to rear before you cut off its head.”
“Exposing an artificial weakness is always a risk. Authenticity is always best, and since I needed to expend some of my influence, this makes a good opportunity. Our losses today are the seeds of tomorrow’s gain. And I thank you, Astrid Ela Dain, for your support in minimising those losses.”
“Is he worth it, this man? Our success here is a break point for your plan.”
“There is little loss in angering those who have become distracted, like Vesta Carmis Zell. It sends a message to the others about maintaining focus. And yes, it is worth not setting this man on a vendetta against us.”
***
“Help me understand, Mr Asano—”
“I’ve already explained the events in question, Mr Billings. Several times. At this stage, your lack of comprehension is your failure, not mine.”
In Greenstone Adventure Society conference room, Jason was allowing himself to be debriefed by an investigator from the Continental Council. On the investigator’s side of the table was a small crowd of assistants and notetakers. On Jason’s side he had only himself and Danielle Geller.
“The issue, Mr Asano, is that I don’t see why the closest thing the messengers have to a supreme leader would see you as a sufficient threat to make the concessions that they have.”
Jason’s gaze fixed on the man across the table like a rifle scope.
“That sounds like you’re accusing me of being a liar, Mr Billings. You can phrase it as a speculative question all you like, but I will remind you that I am here as a courtesy. If what you are looking for is discourtesy, I find myself increasingly enthused to accommodate you.”
Danielle placed a gentle restraining touch on his forearm.
“Mr Asano has made himself very clear as to what transpired,” she said. “His role here is to tell you what happened, Mr Billings. He has done so multiple times, in deference to your requests for clarification. It’s not going to get any clearer, and I think we’ve reached the end of what this meeting can productively achieve.”
“Forgive me, Lady Geller, but the events as described simply do not make sense.”
“That’s because you refuse to look at them through any lens but your own power paradigm,” Jason said. “I’m not a gold ranker when I’m negotiating with the Builder or the gods or the leader of the messengers. I can’t afford to be that small.”
“Nor when you are fighting an army alone, it would seem. We have a record of your essence abilities, Mr Asano, but there is a question of where your other capabilities come from. What is the source of the power you displayed in Boko?”
“Spinach.”
“We are done here,” Danielle announced. She rose from her chair and placed a hand on Jason’s shoulder. He glanced up at her, nodded and likewise stood up.
“Mr Billings,” he said, giving the man a nod, then followed Danielle out of the room.
As soon as they were in the hall, she tapped a brooch to activate a privacy screen.
“I know you don’t want to do this,” she told him. “Putting up with it now, however, will make things easier with the Adventure Society down the line.”
“I don’t think it will help if I start murdering their executives.”
“You did well,” she said.
“I was getting stroppy at the end.”
“But you managed to keep your aura restrained.”
“I’m not going to lose control of it.”
“I’m not worried about what you’ll do with it by accident. I’m worried about what you’ll do on purpose.”
“Billings is a gold ranker, and he might use cores, but his aura training is obviously thorough.”
“That’s my concern. If you thought he could take it, you might be inclined to show him what he was failing to learn by listening.”
“I’m not unstable, Danielle, just frustrated. And what I need isn’t to take out those frustrations on some bureaucrat.”
“Then, what do you need?”
Comments
Chiqui Joy
Agree - I was just gonna post the same thing! “If what you are looking for is discourtesy, I find myself increasingly enthused to accommodate you.”
ABTelford
I want to know what his answer is to Danielle’s question “what do you need?” Because it isn’t answered in the next chapters so I leaves me feeling cheated, like the author accidentally dropped a page or something.
alleyne
My thoughts exactly!! Well with a bit cussing.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chloe
That courteous to discourteous line was awesome. Tyftc
Tyson
In his prime avatar form, Chapter 892 Extra details Jason's inherent gifts. Chapter 890 Extra is Jason's character sheet. When not bound by his prime avatar Jason is an Astral Nexus. In Chapter 890, Shade explained that as an Astral Nexus, Jason combines abilities of Astral Kings, Great Astral Beings, and Gods. The full details of Astral Nexus abilities have not been listed, but Chapter 902 says he has only half-ascended to the status of Astral Nexus, so I assume these abilities are not yet complete.
Mika Jan Holstein
Did I miss another cheat sheet about Jason’s new ability’s ? Or is it still coming ?
Andrew Johnson
Nah he's past that he was making sausage sandwich's. The whole sex inuendo is too obvious. I'm thinking he's looking for a few gold rank monsters to murderize.
Kevin Anderson
I wonder what li li meis decision is
Douglas Davis
I must have been confused on something. When he asked Jason where he got his power, I assumed the society already knew he is an astral king.
ABTelford
Note the Adventure Society guy asked where he got his power from…in other words he wants that kind of power for himself. Same old…
Joanna
Depends whether he offered any evidence. If he also gave them a peek at his full presence they’d be much more likely to believe him
Phillip Masusock
He might be, his friends and family not so much. Plus we don’t know what the “next fight” that Dawn talked about is going to be about/over.
mockery jones
So this has been bugging me for a little while. Now that Jason is immortal what are the stakes in this story? Even when just three chapters ago, Jason was ambushed and "killed" it did not feel consequential.
Maximus
Shirt has a talent for making things easy to read so it seems shorter than it is.
Kalanaere
Thought for everyone: even if Jason just laid it all out on the table, no bs, just outright told them everything how many people do you think would actually believe him? I doubt it would be many at all, they'd still accuse him of lying
Pierce
Kinda equates to the same thing as far as Danielle is concerned…
Kat
Spinach 🤣🤣🤣
Dirty Dibbler
At first I thought Spinach was a safe word to trigger an exit strategy before I realized it was a Popeye reference
ouroboros
Cheap hotdogs on a grill with cheap bread is my childhood. We use to get the red dyed ones. 😆 Now, I like to think I'm more discerning but I still crave some chili dogs here and there.
ABTelford
LOVED it, LOVED it! Happy dance! 💛
Justin Crisler
It’s also not unexpected. You don’t know what you don’t know and that guy doesn’t have the full picture. From his perspective he has a big scary Phoenix to worry about.
Justin Crisler
My dude, you might be taken this a bit too seriously.
JonO
Or she'll cum to understand him
Kalanaere
The Adventure Society is basically a Government Organization. They aren't smart enough to get out if their own way
Kalanaere
How foes Jason history with Amy play into Jaso Ln snd Danielle?
Kalanaere
Nahhh I think he should play all meek and pretend to let them suppress his Aura while he very subtlety threads his Aura into theirs and then shreds it like confetti
Kalanaere
“I’m not worried about what you’ll do with it by accident. I’m worried about what you’ll do on purpose.” Now tell me Danielle hasn't fully come to understand Jason!
BloodStorm
When Jason gets back to earth. The first big meeting he has with all of leaders. I want him to flex his system administrator powers with a message in front of everyone
John goode
Is it just me or did this one seem a bit short ?
StarkRG
If his friend's dad is ok with it, I'm not sure what the issue is.
Liesmith
Mr Billings: "Ok, so explain this to me again..." Jason: "It's a rock that looks like a face." Mr Billings: "So it's a face then?" Danielle: "No, it's a rock that looks like a face." Mr Billings: "So...it's a metaphor?" Jason: "Oh my me..."
StarkRG
The next time they see Dawn, it'll be for the huge fight she told Jason he's already lost.
StarkRG
You forgot the part about altering the fundamental nature of not just one Universe but every Universe.
Baelfyer
Y'all talking about Jason + Danielle, but it won't happen. Not just because Danielle is married, but because of Jason's history with Amy.
MoonlitShade
Thanky chappy
Alex Schellenberg
Or a session with Zara?
Allastin
Guys….please….dont endorse sexual relations with his friend’s mother, that’s weird 😅.
Alex Schellenberg
My guess is that they sent someone who earned their spot politically and they thought would get slapped down by Jason. In the process they could also learned some of his juicy secrets.
René Blaser
You know. I am reading this excellent chapter and tgen this sentence comes up: „To his mind, he killed ten thousand victims.“ And it hits me like a punch to the stomach. And for a few minutes i can do nothing else but sit here. Tears running down my face. Feeling such a deep hurt and compassion for Jason. You know a story is excellent when the characters within become more then just ideas and get into the realm of making you feel with them. Poor Jason. I know he has all this power. But what a price he must pay. Dear Shirtaloon. Please, please go on and keep astonishing us, entertaining us, sharing with us your incredible beautiful and extraordinary mind! Thank you!
Joanna
Aaand we’re back to square one with the Adventure Society because we’ve moved on to a different continent. I imagine it’s generally for the best that AS is so decentralized, each land mass administered by an almost completely independent council, but it does naturally lead to this: several different Continental Councils have already dealt more or less successfully with the cognitive dissonance that is Jason, but this branch isn’t willing or able to take those other branches’ word for it
Telewyn
My bet is they attend the upcoming Jason Asano Barbecue, where rank doesn’t matter, just be cool.
DeviantSalivations
It's time for some good old fashioned adventuring monster killing.
Snugglebadger
He needs Dawn back, and he needs to go home to Earth for a bit.
Zachary Ross
It's a deficit of respect. At this point Jason explains the situation and results to the adventure society and they don't believe him. He negotiated the builder to leave early, he beat an avatar of undeath, he survived a trial of a half transcendent, killed an army of messengers, and acquired millions of other messengers. If the adventure society doesn't get that Jason isn't really a gold rank, at this point the fault is completely theirs.
Nic Crew
I’m kinda waiting for that ….
Amanda Begly
Sandwiches
Jordan Jones
I’d like to say it’s unrealistic for the bureaucrat guy to be disrespectful in this way (repeating questions to see if the answer is different in any way, acting obtuse re: where the power came from, subtle and not so subtle digs, trying to gain leverage by deliberately infuriating the subject of the debrief), but no, that is depressingly true to life.
Daniel Hogan
Once again I wish Jason would just 'politely' ask Dominion or Knowledge to explain to the Adventure Society folk why they should shut up and accept they're so far beneath Jason... They'd probably show up and do just that.
Stephanie Washburn
It's a good reminder, yes
Stephanie Washburn
Oh wow. Welcome to the club. That's an intense few days.
Joanna
Maybe a sparring session with Sophie? That could be good for working off some frustrations
Stephanie Washburn
I think Danielle is secure in her marriage or she probably wouldn't tolerate the flirting as much as she does.
Stephanie Washburn
Yeah, I wasn't expecting these but they are very grounding and feel like good training for when he gets back to Earth. It firmly establishes him back here while also settling old problems so that the story can move on properly.
Stephanie Washburn
See, even his humor is getting less needlessly confrontational! XD.
Stephanie Washburn
Maybe a specific kind of respect and a barbeque?
Matt Heineman
Nah, she's married and he doesn't do that. I ship him with Knowledge though.
Stephanie Washburn
So much progress!!
Lora Greenberg
In the end, I see Jason ..and his team..firing the Adventure Society over their control issues.
DirePants
Mrs. Geller, you’re trying to seduce me.
Joanna
Some kinda spinach sandwich, I’d say
Alex Schellenberg
What does Jason need at this point? My guess would be a coconut filled with some sweet cocktail.
SmokeJam
I really had to laugh at that Popeye reference. Well timed. Young Jason would've turned to Danielle and answered: "You."
Joanna
It almost made me think that was his social safe-word
Henrik Nørgaard
I really really doubt that'll happen, Thalia Mercer isn't a fool and remember she's a close friend of Danielle, so she might have gotten some Intel about Jason from her.
Joanna
I wonder if she ended up in his kingdom along with all the refugees from Boko
Chris Furry
The First Defier was having Patreon issues recently, too. He put up a post about it being buggy, due to pausing payments for his time off. So, that's fun.
Michael Pittman
I'm really hoping it's Danielle
Isaac Scharff
Nah, he's way smoother than that. If he wanted Danielle he would be putting the moves on her already
Thomas Black
What he needs isn't a shag or Danielle as much as some people might want that to happen. What he needs is for these idiots at the Adventure Society to shut up and let him do his job so he can leave and fix the bridge so he can take people and go to Earth before whatever this threat that Dawn and Noreth wouldn't tell him about.
Isaac Scharff
Or Cassandra Mercer, but I don't think he'd do that to Neil. I suppose he could hate f*** the local adventure society director
Brian Block
I am surprisingly enjoying these stories on Pallimustus now that he is a "full" Astral King (barring the limits of mortal power diamond-ranker stuff). I was hoping to see his journey back to Earth sooner rather than later, but these chapters have been interesting and very well written, I look forward to how he leaves Pallimustus, reputation-wise.
Charles A. Pehl
That's the one problem with having as extensive of a cast as shirt does. I want to see nik personally
David Cooper
I mentioned how much I'd like Cassandra to show up, but the real fantasy I have is that Thalia Mercer shows up to beg Jason to give her daughter another chance, and not hold what the family did to break them up against her. Because as much as Cass bugged Neil about Jason, I bet she annoyed her mother even more.
Alexander Dupree
Need? Why Danielle my need is for Bond to die!
Charles A. Pehl
Problem is when have in this story or even in real life has anyone who is in charge of the status quo ever been reasonable like that
Adam
I'm curious to get back to Li Li Mei. She just watched the man who just offered her a job and a way back home go full god mode on an invasion force of messengers then spirit them all away in a portal. She must know that Earth has no idea what's about to arrive and the repercussions of that.
Tommy S
I noticed we haven't heard from Shade or Colin in forever
Kconraw
The spinach comment was hilarious😁 Thx for the chapter
Cyranosaurus
I need a ten chapter released in A day glitch😂. Thank you for telling a great story Shirt!!
Malcolm
Give me MORE!!!!!!!
Sylphie
He needs.......... TOO SMASH!!
Ligeia
I pick the latter option. There have been a lot of middle managers who have failed to understand Jason over the past many thousands of pages who richly deserve to have their auras squashed in a probably forlorn attempt to make them see what their closed little minds refuse to understand. I'm amazed at how good Shirt is at portraying peanut-brained idiots who refuse to understand anything outside their massively limited expedience; it's a real art form to write a character so impossibly closed-minded that I, as the reader, want to reach through the page and slap them up side the head!
Lucas Gulick
So The First Defier went on sabbatical and for some reason I thought Shirt was too. This chapter was an awesome and welcome surprise 😄
ReadingObsessed
Family bonding time?
Chris Furry
Uh oh, that might be a question that ends in Humphrey's worst nightmare...
Ariellus
Now it gets silly the Continental council should have a high enough security clearing to read his file and the diamond comunity should Tell them to stop asking stupid questions. Every time he levels up the same questions come up again over 20 years. I think after 20 years they should accept this anomaly and get over with. Or the gods should make an anouncement that they should leave him alone.
Mark Parker
Shirt...... man I love your work.. I started the whole series over last Monday, I'm about done with bk 6 and I can say the evolution of Jason is phenomenal.. thank you.
Andrew Johnson
I'm going to make a prediction. Its not going to be Jason that looses control first its going to be a high ranking gold bureaucrat that does not believe what Jason did Challenging him and trying to suppress his aura which Jason will either shrug off like its a light mist of rain and ignore him or go full Hegemon and squash his aura back like a bug to make a point..
Timothy
Jason and Danielle sitting in a tree, k.i.s.s.i.n.g. And then going into a more private place in Jason's Astral space.
BloodStorm
Sandwiches that is what I need.
Mist Sparrow
I've always wondered how the relationship paradigms might change with such long living people
Ligeia
Organizations like the Adventure Society frequently do things that don't make sense. That's the nature of the beast. But Jason doesn't need to use diamond rankers to make them stop with the stupid questions; he has Danielle and Farah for that.
Danielle Warvel
The spinach thing slipping out at the end. ☺️ He’s trying really hard to keep things contained, but Jason is still Jason in the end, and I love the little reminders of that.
Shane
Did he just tell Danielle Gellar he needs to work out his frustrations and she asked what he needed? IT'S HAPPENING OHMYGOD IT'S HAPPENING
John Durrett
Also Biscuits!
Zack
The monster slumbering in the lake analogy is an interesting statement because that's often how Jason's developing aura was described after he started developing his soul space, except Jason's usually seemed to be more ocean leviathan than lake monster
John Durrett
I would totally support Jason pinching his fingers in front of him to squeeze the bureaucrat until he whelped. That or tell them if they want to know more, pray to their gods for guidance.
Allen Wilding
As someone who works in corporate business.. I can relate
Henrik Nørgaard
I have a sneaky surspion that Jason might have a talk with a few Diamond rankers soon to relieve the pressure idiots are putting on him. Or at least I hope so, because it doesn't make sense that the Adventure Sociaty keeps sending bureaucrats to debrief someone that's clearly beyond their understanding.
Bingus McCready
I strongly suspect that’s next chapter.
Keegan Moss
What if Jason doubles down on the spinach joke for the first line of next chapter and says something like “spinach dip and chips” before giving the actual answer
TobiDoes
i love seeing these every other day thanks Shirtaloon
David
A pizza? I’d want a pizza.
Adam
Yep
Robert Landers
I feel like we’ve been go-go-go for so many chapters now. Where is the bbq and the banter?
Justin
Great chapter, TYFTC!
Tashreeq Peck
I think we’re missing a sentence at the end there…
james foster
Noice, Jason, very noice.
Joe Holman
Thanks for the chapter, I can't wait to see who ends up on the receiving end of Jason's frustrations
Chuck Haeberle
He's Jason the sailor man He's Jason the sailor man He fights to the finish cause he eats his spinach, He's Jason the sailor man! *toot* *toot*
Alan McLaughlin
Well, I doubt he needs a cliff hanger. :>
JonO
He needs a good $%#&@?! Is what! I vote Danielle... if not there is always clives wife.
Charlie Harwood
tyftc
Aaron Schwartz
It almost seems like Jason’s gonna ask if ‘e could do ‘is best mate’s mum.
Thunder0ni
I think this is the first look at how Farrah and Jason’s bond has changed? She’s now essentially a insight into Jason for even his own team
Cameron Baldwin
Spinach
Nergie
Just for clarity. Jasons soul realm is his astral kingdom now right? And he can do all the same things as previously with it?
Bingus McCready
Any bets on what it is Jason actually needs? A barbecue, perhaps in Refuge? A drink? A contract tour? An absurd hat? TFTC!!!
Dylan Pearce
Let's goooo
CritHappens
Made it
Andrew Johnson
1st
John goode
2ed Biscuits!
