#outreverse

I’m afraid City of Whispers may be on hiatus until I can devote a lot of attention to it.

The same goes to Sum of Nothing, which itself was just a side project for fun. 

But I'm pleased to announce that City of Whispers, as was intended from the start, is to be part of a larger collection of stories all set in the same verse, using the same mythos and worldbuilding; the Outréverse.

"Outré" is a synonym for eccentric that means:

unusual and typically rather shocking.

Which fits the ideas the stories go for; there is a concept of Non-Casters, but while most are 'unattuned' to the world the stories take place in, those that do 'attune' are shocked by the stuff they find. 

Now, City of Whispers will, as stated from the outset of this post, not be coming off of hiatus for a long time. For now, though, allow me to detail the other stories I will be working on throughout the course of this verse's lifetime. So far, I have had four ideas I found fit to turn into full projects - all so far, however, are unnamed

1. This first story is a side-project I started alongside City of Whispers, an experimental kind of storytelling, a CYOA-style project where reblogs and likes chose the outcome of the next entry, each around a hundred or two hundred words long, yet it didn't take off. The project follows a Caster with enough power to destroy the world - the person in question is very cynical and has a bleak view of the world; the only reason it hasn't been destroyed yet is because their friends have so far kept them under control. 

2. An organized crime syndicate works in the shadows to orchestrate a series of events that will bring them power in the world, and as they do so they discover some shocking facts that may reveal an already-corrupt government threatening to throw the world into a new totalitarian dark age.

3. A group of Non-Casters suddenly find out that they have powers that they never realized they had; excited by the prospect of what their new powers do, the newfound Casters decide to form a street gang. However, around this same time, it seems they were not the only group to which this had happened, and they soon find themselves in trouble with rival gangs across the city. 

4. A group of delinquent students at a school for Casters are caught out trying to pull a nasty prank on a fellow student and are made to take on community service in a field they have no experience in; spirit hunting.

The last project is the one I will be writing first because it seems like the easiest for me to write. There is no ETA on when the project will start releasing, but for now, please hang in there.