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INTEMPERANCE VIII - Chapter 23, New Arrivals
🕑 Added 2024-11-06 11:33:40 +0000 UTCTwo new characters are introduced in this one. One has been mentioned before, the other has not and will hopefully fulfill a need in the Kingsley household. As always, let me know how you like it and send me comments. As for the illustrations, some of you like them and some did not. I will continue to play with the illustration program (I found one that is much better and allows you to create adult content at the Rated-R level) and I will post a few illustrations with each chapter, but I will do it as a separate, uncharged post that will have one or two illustrations from the latest chapter as well as a few classic scenes (including Laura being chased by the sea lion) for your perusal. If you want to see the illustrations, open the post and check them out. If you do not want to see the illustrations, don't open the post. Hopefully that will keep everyone happy as I play around with this new technology.
Comments
Al Steiner
It was a few pages longer than average actually.
Al Steiner
Leave the audience wanting more.
Carole Lalonde
Great chapter, just not long enough. Love this story/ saga. Thanks
Al Steiner
Seeing the northern lights was a bucket list item of mine that was fulfilled recently, but not as I had planned. I had planned to someday travel to Norway or Iceland to see them. As it turned out, I was able to both see and photograph them from my own northern California suburban backyard.
Surf
See the aurora borealis on a few Iceland trips. Absolutely, one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Now one of the coolest kid names ever thank to Nerdly through Al Steiner.
Al Steiner
Yes, I have some good previous scene illustrations ready to go, but I exceeded my trial period on the new AI and have to wait until it's been 7 days since I signed up apparently.
Al Steiner
I just kind of assumed that any small, relatively poor town would have a Walmart in it.
Al Steiner
Good point. Kira will probably develop a personality of her own if she lives in a household with the Kingsleys and her mother thinks that badass is an obscene word.
Al Steiner
I'm using Artspace.AI currently.
Al Steiner
I cannot imagine that artificial music could ever sound even close to what I imagine in my head.
EdM1950
Great chapter, thank you. Ran out of text just as it got interesting though.
Gregory Stewart
Well Done, Al! Caydee rocks, what a wonderful character. Thank you for the chapter.
Lawrence David Thompson
So there are no new illustrations as of yet, correct? Just the original 12 which are, admittedly, striking!
Tim Blackington
I'm pretty sure that at the time I lived in that part of California, which is contemporary to the story, there was no Walmart in Atascadero. It was, and still is, in Paso Robles, maybe 15 minutes north. The next nearest one is in Arroyo Grande, which is around 20 minutes past SLO in the other direction. Either way, it'd be a huge hassle for a single mom trying to make ends meet while commuting between Atascadero and SLO, which shows what kind of pressure Yami is under.
Eric
I mean, really THREE new characters were introduced here, right? Aurora, Yami, Kira? :D Great chapter!
Rich Collins
I'm interested in what the new program is. I've been using Midjourney f9r over a year but have become frustrated with the ever increasing rejection of prompts. I can't even use full body image female without getting a strike now.
Leo Sorits
LOVED the chapter and Yami! Looking forward to more chapters looking at Kingleys from her perspective
AJN
I just had a fun brainwave / brain fart (call it what you like... While I was going through the illustrations I was comparing the band to the existing bands out there... the purpose of the story obviously is not to have the story based on an existing band out there... in any case What if a community project can help actually creating the music? And the music can be streamed in Deezer (etc) and it can generate an income? I would work on such a project for free, just because I am sometimes bored playing Diablo 3 , and I would love doing new technology. (I am in IT writing code all day). I am already starting a course in photo generation in my spare time
