Inevitability of Fire has a Release Date!
Welcome back!
For folks who missed our last installment, we’ve begun our playthrough of the Choose Your Own Adventure-style title novella from the upcoming collection Percival Gynt and the Inevitabiliy of Days and Other Cases!
(That’s a mouthful, so next time I’ll say something pithy like “The Inevitability playthrough continues!”)
You can catch up here. You’ll find out what choice YOU (collectively) made for poor Percival down below.
But first, an exciting announcement!
THE INEVITABILITY OF FIRE Release Date
Imagine a drum roll. Now imagine it continuing. And now? It’s stopped! Amazing! Now news:
Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire and Other Cases will be available for purchase May 25, 2025.
More details, like “Okay, but where?” plus pre-order opportunities are coming soon.
“AND NOW THE CONTINUATION…”
It’s important that you say it like Majel said it.
Okay, so last time was mostly just set up, but we did end with a pretty stark choice between “context” and “cheese.”
And today, based on those votes, we go straight to the cheese! Apologies if you got overruled! That’s just Democracy…
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14.
Yes, yes, this is a very serious story, but by all means, let’s prioritize the cheese!
I’m sorry. Did I not explain that there’d be heckling?
If you’ve been properly chastened and recant your hasty decision, go to 243.
Or, if as is more likely, you remain stubbornly incurious about the story you have nonetheless set forward to read, by all means, go to 15.
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In the interest of time, I’m going to assume you’re pigheaded and incapable of change.
No offense!
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15.
Percival arrived at his favorite cheese shop at twelve past nine in the morning. A tiny mechanized bell jingled convincingly as he passed over the threshold.
The shop was near empty. There was one girl, perhaps six years old, at the back by the community notice board, audibly sniffling. Hay fever, perhaps?
And behind the counter, in the place of usual clerk Gary or Jerry or... Edgar? Percival couldn’t remember. In place of Edgarry was a comely dark-skinned woman, smartly dressed, with striking green eyes and a game-if-noncommittal smile.
If you believe that Percival would have immediately gone back to check on a sniffling girl, go to 77.
If you think Percival would have more likely sidestepped the girl to peruse the community notice board, because, who knows, maybe someone was trying to fill the fourth slot in their adventuring party, then go to 183.
Or, if you presume that Percival would have ignored both and gone straight to the counter to flirt with this new clerk, because, yes, why not, that sounds fun, go to 228.
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