2021-06-03 22:00:20No keywords
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22nd December
I had all the generals of my army group assemble for a strategy meeting.
We talked about my world domination around a cup of coffee.
I could’ve taken all the decisions, but I am not one to believe my own decisions are better than others. Everyone has valid input, especially when they were written to be better than me. Don't misunderstand, they aren't that great, but I wrote my greatest as their lowest, which made their greatest, or even average, way higher than what I could imagine. This is the advantage of the method I found of writing characters through story. You can set u
ClemCaNow only do I remember that my server, Utopia City, was founded after writing this volume. It's been so long and so many things have happened. It rose, and fell, over these 3 years.
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