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A place for the call. Can you answer it?


The Rogue Scholar

16 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

So you finished the digital "rough version" of The Rogue Scholar The Rogue to Victory! Hopefully you donated some crypto to it. If you didn't though, and you liked the work, consider purchasing the physical copy! There is a planned sequel which you c...

The Rogue Scholar

22 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 40 The Final Chapter Shaper Journal 7.046 Hierarch 4 entry 0592 - Shaper Enoch Tero begin file Yes, the condition of mankind is to suffer. Even now I sense forces arrayed against me on this point--as if by lending mankind the compassion it ha...

The Rogue Scholar

21 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 39 Part 4 "A spiritual fault line?" "Yes, a spiritual fault line. There was a time period of extreme monism ushered in by Christianity--another religion that has long since disappeared. Christianity had the tendency to attempt to eradicate th...

The Rogue Scholar

19 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 39 Part 3 One could hear a pin drop in the room as the Rogue let these words hang. "Uzine," the Rogue said after a seeming eternity of silence. "Your tattoo is now red and will remain so. You are, in essence, a dead chimera. Sal, the hacker y...

The Rogue Scholar

18 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 39 Part 2 "So you DID see me!" Sal exclaimed. "Why didn't you try to come and get me???" "Well, you left of your own accord, so I figured the best thing would be for you to return of your own accord. After all, you and Prilock seemed to estab...

The Rogue Scholar

18 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 39 Part 1   Rei tried to hide her derision where Sal's newfound blind belief in the Rogue was involved. She wasn't very good at it though, and Sal saw through her mask. Whatever had happened to Sal had obviously erased his ability to think. R...

The Rogue Scholar

17 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 38 Part 3 "I am afraid I will not, actually. It is crude and unnecessary, and I question your judgment in ordering me to do such a thing." "By now bowing, you realize you are refusing to respect the pieces of me herein, right? The same pieces...

The Rogue Scholar

14 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 38 Part 2 "Creation is not necessary, but it is an opportunity. This creation is unique in that it gets to determine what the painting will be in which it resides. It may be an intense work--one of flames and suffering. It may be one of love...

The Rogue Scholar

13 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 38 Part 1 *** "But why is it necessary to create a holographic reality? Why, additionally, should human beings have need of creation?" "Because human beings will have unique abilities despite their seeming crudeness that you will not have. Th...

The Rogue Scholar

12 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 37 Part 2 After what seemed like a small eternity, Sal felt a dull thud and the beginning of a sharp pain that was interrupted in his head. It turned out that the interruption was his blacking out. When he came to minutes later, he wasn't sur...