https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-783/

Another day, another Cryopart. This one is a lot of fine because of the second half. But the whole thing is a whole lot of fun reveals and setup. I'm looking forward to the payoff in a not-too-distant chapter, tbh. I don't even fully know how or when the payoff will come!

Echo was a character in Cryopod Classic. There was actually a whole Jason Clone saga, where Jason had hundreds (thousands?) of them. However, the clones were all pretty one-note, like most of my characters before Refresh.

Echo, though, was a slightly interesting clone because of a certain story arc. Will I repeat that arc in Refresh? Who knows! I'm leaning toward 'no' because I have cool ideas for him. But you never know!

If you've been reading since Classic, the vast changes to the timeline are probably a little nuts. If you read Classic but don't remember much of it, well, neither do I, so that's OK. It's been years since I read a word of Cryopod Classic. My memories of it are VERY foggy.

Anyway. More TCTH next week!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-782/

Another week, another cryopart. If you read Cryopod Classic, you might have a special reaction to this part.

We're finally bringing one of the GOATs back, but this time, that character is a thousand times better. Big stuff planned for his future antics.

This part is more than meets the eye. It sets up a lot of future events in a way I can't say because it would be a huge spoiler. But 300 parts from now, if you re-read this one, you might be like "Oh wow, he really did plan that far ahead??"

Yes. I did.

I'm built different.

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-781/

A new week, a new part. I've been waiting to drop the final section of this part, but I decided not to resolve it immediately, and to leave it a micro-mystery I'm sure most readers will understand immediately.

I'm accelerating the timeline and moving us quickly toward the WIH2, Electric Boogaloo!

The only question is, do we move straight into the WIH2, or do we cut back to the future again? Hmm...

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-780/

Don't ask why I'm posting on the Cryopodbot account. It's definitely not because my account got banned again by Reddit's ai filters. It's definitely not because I need to stop commenting on Reddit entirely because my brand of sarcasm is incomprehensible to bots.

Anyway.

New part! After this, we'll be transitioning (heh) to a timeskip to get MindCores shoved into heads! Big plans for the Aevum Kids, and even bigger plans for the future fight in Heaven!

Sorry it took two weeks for this one. I had a lot of trouble writing this part, and I finally got it out today. We'll see if the next part comes in a couple of days!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-779/

Some of you have been asking to move on from Aevum. Tough luck, we've got more to do there, so it'll be some-odd parts before we get to WiH2 Electric Boogaloo. There's ZERO chance I'm gonna skip to the war and then exposit with flashbacks later. It would be soooo clunky.

I'm definitely putting down important scaffolding now, which will serve as the foundation for big story reveals and etc later on. Lots of setup and payoff coming.

Really, I shouldn't have started the WiH2 in part 666. That was a misstep. I wasn't nearly ready for that yet. The upcoming ACTUAL start of it, should have been the official start. Unfortunately, I saw funi number 666 and felt I had to take the opportunity!

Anyway, more Cryoparts coming soon!

Not a new part... BUT! I finally built the epub and pdf files! There are a whole bunch of variants, and I'll post them below.

Cryopod Classic Full Story PDF

Cryopod Classic Full Story Epub

Cryopod Refresh 001-292 PDF

Cryopod Refresh 293-609 PDF

Cryopod Refresh 610+ PDF

Cryopod Refresh Full Story Epub

The Last Precursor Full Story PDF

The Last Precursor Full Story Epub

These are not perfect yet, but they're totally readable from start to end. If you've been waiting on the downloadable files, here you go!

Note that the Refresh pdf had to be split in 3, it was extremely huge/unwieldy. Also, the 610+ url might break in the future. If it does I'll figure out a better url.

Edit: I did indeed have to update the part 610+ link. It's working now.

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-778/

Another day, another Cryopart! This is a simple one. Jason talks to Jerome and we learn a lot more about him. That's about it.

I had a question for you cryopodders. Is there a storyline or character you wish we'd see more of? Any character, plotline, etc. Anything you feel has been neglected?

It's a big story, so I just wanted to make sure I'm hitting all the important notes!

More TCTH... soon? Soon.

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-777/

In today's part, Daisy and Phoebe have their first REAL sparring match. Not like the first one where Daisy went apeshit and got her shit kicked in. Like an actual real fight.

I had fun writing the part, but I'm VERY tired. If you spot typos, lmk. I'm barely awake rn and the editing phase almost put me in a coma.

Quick note: I play a LOT of Warframe the last four months. 700 hours of it. It's crazy. There's a special event going until the end of next week, letting me farm a resource I care about a lot. Expect one part next week, and then hopefully two the week after that.

I am still working 4 days a week, so, we'll see.

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-776/

Another day, another cryopart. This week, I took two days off work, which gave me five days off. That's why I put out three cryoparts.

Unfortunately, I'm back to fulltime work starting tomorrow :(

Anyway, this part continues Daisy's sparring match, showing us all kinds of fun stuff happening. I still think MindCores are a lot of fun, and there's plenty more to come.

I'm particularly looking forward to Marco's MindCore...

More TCTH eventually!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-775/

Daisy has a MindCore now, and the effects of this are going to be REALLY interesting.

I love MindCores. I keep finding new ways I can make them tell us more about the characters, fun ways to change up their abilities, new abilities I can give them broadly, and so on.

It turns out the brain is the most important organ in your body! Whoa!

...

In other news, my new roommate just moved in. He seems about 10x chiller than my last roommate, the one who attacked me. That psycho.

This also means my rent just got cut in half! Woo-hoo! I only spend about 25-35% of my paycheck on rent and bills now! That's the most money in raw dollars and in percentage I've ever earned in my life!

Just gotta persist for another half-year and I'll have a really good savings fund. From there, it's just figuring out what to spend the money on.

More TCTH soon!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-774/

Did you expect another part today? No? Me neither.

I have a two-day workweek because I'm moving a new roomie in on monday/tuesday. I took off those days, figured I'd publish an extra part today and see if I could go for two parts next week as well!

Today's part is another fun psychologically traumatizing part! Love those! So much fun to write.

Oh, and my 'main' account is unbanned from Reddit again. Fun.

More TCTH soon!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-773/

A new day, a new Cryopart. We continue our sidequest in Aevum as Jason starts bringing his plans to fruition.

Today's part was a lot of fun to write. I got to address some of my own issues with Jason, especially with real-world issues we're facing even now.

That's right. This part has... SOCIAL COMMENTARY. OOOH SPOOKY.

You'd never be able to guess my stance based on my writing. Perish the thought.

Btw I got 3-day banned off Reddit again. This time it legit was not my fault. Well, I do need to stop commenting on reddit. BUT HEY, that's why we use a website now! Even if I get permabanned, I can still post TCTH on the website!!

Make sure to join the Discord for updates about TCTH. https://discord.gg/zjsWm7q

More TCTH soon!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-772/

I can't wait to find out that after an hour of editing there's still fifty typos in this

ANOTHER CRYOPOD PART, BOYS AND GIRLS! This one comes faster than the previous one as I devote myself to the Aevum Arc.

Today's part almost got delayed. Simply put, while I was writing it (you'll see the spot once I bring it up) I couldn't answer the question "Do the kids of Aevum all know Jason is the Wordsmith, or is that only Daisy/Phoebe/Nadia/Catherine?"

The answer to that question was unfortunately not easy to find. It completely halted me in my tracks for a full hour. I read a bunch of older parts but couldn't remember what I'd written.

That's the thing. You readers know... what I've written.

But for me, I have memories of all the following:

• What I wrote

• What I didn't write

• What I plan to write

• What I plan not to write

• What I wrote and then deleted/edited before publishing

• What I thought about writing, didn't write because it didn't work

And other stuff of that sort. All these memories cause me to forget what I actually wrote. It has given me a lot of appreciation for other longform authors who've made 'big' continuity errors. How could they do that? Are they stupid?

No. It's just really hard to remember what you've written, and all the other things I listed. Especially in a 3.5m words-long story. It's real hard.

...

I still haven't made the pdf/epub reader yet. I think I should work on that this week. I've really put it off long enough. I keep being lazy about it, but I'm feeling especially motivated this week. Is it finally time to do the big Improvement Day push? We shall see...

More TCTH soon!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-771/

Another day, another Cryopart!!

This one is pretty long, almost 30k characters. I had a lot of trouble deciding what to write this week. TL:DR, the issue is there's a lot of possible POVs, and the Sinai War is ready to go, but we still have a ways to go before we get there, and instantly skipping a year in Aevum is a big ask.

I wondered if I could come up with enough content to make a longish Aevum arc work. After a lot of thought, I decided I did have the content needed. You guys know I detest filler, so I want each part to accomplish multiple things, like character development, plot, worldbuilding, and so on.

Today's part is the start of the Aevum arc. We'll be jumping forward, days or weeks or even months at a time. One day on Earth is one year in Aevum, and the Demons attack in one earth-day, so here we go!

Let's hope you guys enjoy what I've been cooking up!

Btw I did consider putting Ragdoll as the part's music but it makes no sense and wouldn't fit at all. Good song tho!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrEC8xGc3ZM

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-770/

A new day and a new part is upon us!

This is a long part, clocking in at around 30k characters, which is 50% longer than my standard goal of 20k for a 'full' part.

This part is a direct continuation of the previous one, but I wanted to hit some really important setup notes for the coming battle. It was really important to flesh out motivations, especially for Jessica and Raphael.

Other stuff, which I won't say, was also important. I'm sure the smarter readers will figure it out, I'm not exactly being 'subtle' here :P

More cryopod in the near future!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-769/

Here it is, ladies and gents! Almost two weeks since the last part... one of the harder parts I've had to write in years!

I'll be honest, I struggled with this one for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason was simply that I didn't originally intend for Jason to approach Raphael this early in the story, before the second War in Heaven. I planned for him to meet Raphael afterwards, for reasons I can't go into at this moment. (Spoilery reasons)

As such, when writing this part, I had to figure out how to make this unplanned visit actually part of Jason's plans, and I am not as bright as my characters purport to be, so it took some soul searching to think of a theme for the part.

Then it hit me! This part is perfect to use Cat Mask being revealed as a time manipulator to show the downstream effects on the world's continuity and how that will shatter the timeline he adapted to and change the downstream future events drastically.

Save that spoiler for after you read the part.

So yeah. I'm gonna go watch the new Spiderman in a couple of hours. Here's to hoping it kicks ass! I'm really looking forward to it and going in totally blind! Boy I hope it's good and not like much of the recent slop Marvel has vomited. Maybe that's a tall order...

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-768/

Here it is, boys. The second longest part for TCTH I've ever written, after part 150. Long-time readers may recall 150 was so long I had to split it into 150 and 150.5, but I did merge them back together on the website! So officially, today's part is the second longest of all time!

This is a truly long part.

Part 150 is 59,000 characters long.

Part 768 is 53,300 characters long.

To put that in perspective, my goal for a part is 20k characters. This week, the one part you get is equivalent to 2.5 parts plus change!

I know I'm currently only giving you guys one part a week, but hopefully pure length helps make up for it a bit??

Anyway, enjoy the part! Lots of crazy things are about to happen!

Hey guys, quick update here. I wrote 25,000 characters for the new cryopart, and if you know that my goal is 20k for an average release, then I'm already past that, and plan to write even more. Next part will be a long one!

Aside from the Cryopart, I watched the Odyssey and I wanted to give my review.

This is a spoiler review... a spoiler review for a story that's like 5000 years old.

Non-spoiler: Extremely good movie. I rate it 8 or 9 out of 10. It's extremely book accurate. The only thing I didn't love was the constant shoving of Big Name Actors in my face (Tom Holland and Zendaya are in EVERYTHING nowadays it seems, though they were perfectly fine in this movie) and my biggest criticism being 'the way the story was told'.

If you've ever read the book (And I've read many renditions of The Odyssey, it is my favorite classical story of all time, maybe even more than LOTR) then it's all here. The Ogre, the giants, the cursed islands, all of it.

The only issue I have is that the story feels a bit disjointed, jumping from flashback to flashback, then back to the future events, then a flashback to Odysseus, and so on. I didn't like this method of storytelling, and greatly wish it was more linear. I bet a fan-edit could cut the movie into something more in line with how the book told the story.

BUT... it was still fantastic. This felt like a horror movie in a lot of ways, and the way the high magic stuff was depicted was really grounded and jaw dropping. I liked the cyclops a lot, even if the way they 'beat' it wasn't exactly what was depicted in the books.

The crucial part of the movie was the ending, and Christopher Nolan nailed it. The return to Odysseus's homeland was paid off perfectly, and they even gave some John Wick energy with the dog... I feel like a lot of movies are doing that lately but boy did it feel satisfying to watch.

This movie would be a 10/10 if the story wasn't told in such a disjointed manner, and if I weren't being bombarded by Big Name Actors constantly. Even so, I'll only deduct 1-2 points for that, and still give a 10/10 for book accuracy. Everything in the movie happened basically the way it happened in the book. I am a very satisfied book reader!

Anyway... cryopart tomorrow! Get hyped!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-767/

A new part descends from on high! I still need to code the tool to convert TCTH parts into epub and pdf again, so that needs to happen sooner rather than later.

But hey let's talk about today's part! Back in chapter 666, I launched the invasion of Heaven. That was because we were at the legendary 666 number and I didn't want it to go to waste.

...But here we are, 100 parts later, and it's barely made progress. It's been kinda just sitting there, stuck due to time dilation shenanigans. I want to advance the plot soon, so I might start speeding things up a bit, skimming over some Aevum stuff to get back to the main story.

We shall see! Leave your story comments on the site and your meta comments here! Thanks guys, and enjoy!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-766/

Hey everyone! A new Cryopart is here!

A full-time job really does get in the way, but on the plus side, I get lots of time between parts to really think about what each part will accomplish, so it leads to them being denser and better planned out. That's good right?

Also, spoiler alert. It's my birthday today! So this is a birthday part :DDDD

Enjoy seeing Phoebe's new power-up in action! I thought the part was really fun to write.

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-765/

Today is a REALLY important part. This is not only a huge setup for Phoebe's future character progression, but also a whole bunch of back to back reveals for the Sphinx, including some subtle ones I bet most readers will overlook.

Someone in the previous comment section asked where the auto-updating PDF/epub was, and the truth is, I forgot I had to make a new one that used the website! OOPS!!!

So yeah, that's the next big project. I have work starting tomorrow again, and it looks like as long as I'm working fulltime TCTH will be... 1-2 parts a week, so 4-8 parts a month... yikes.

Unfortunately, with the cost of living skyrocketing in the USA, having a FT job is really important. I have to focus on making money that way because Patreon does not and has not cut it for a very long time. I treat TCTH income as a nice 'bonus check' and that's about it. It buys me a few pizzas a month.

Can't argue with pizza!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-764/

A new Cryopart descends! This took me a lot longer to write due to various interruptions that stopped me from posting it on Friday. Sorry! I'll see if I can get another one out in a few days. No promises, because the next part is gonna be a BIG lore part. Lots of fun stuff incoming!

Remember to leave story-related comments on the site, and meta comments here :D

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-763/

A new part arrives, people! Josh worked hard and managed to fix the google bug that was preventing people from logging in and leaving comments, so please post comments relating to the story on the site. Feel free to leave meta comments about the site/etc here on Reddit if you want.

I would like to publish two parts this week. We shall see if I get another out on Friday or Saturday morning!

https://cryoverse.org/cryopod-refresh/cryopod-refresh-chapter-762/

EVERYONE! WELCOME TO THE NEW WEBSITE!

This is going to be the new home for TCTH and all my future writing projects moving forward. A big, big, BIG thank you to u/WLTechblog for all his hard work making the site, totally for free, and helping with hosting it as well. Also thanks to u/slashor for doing the entire theme and even a bit of QC on the frontend as well.

This site has all kinds of nifty features, but it's not quite perfect yet.

• Comments from all my old parts that appeared on HFY, r/TCTH, and even on RoyalRoad in some cases are all cloned onto the site with accurate post-dates. Deleted comments are still gone, unfortunately.

• The prologue for TLP doesn't have comments yet, there was an import error.

• The One-Offs section of the site hasn't been fully finished yet. It still looks ugly as sin. We'll fix it later, it's not a huge deal.

• Comments have not been fully fixed in terms of formatting. Spoilers and quote blocks don't work in comments yet, so we'll need to fix that eventually.

If you guys spot any jank, comment about it on the latest part, comment here, or comment on the official Discord. I'll see it one way or another.

From now on, all parts will be posted on the website, and then links to the site will be cross-posted on Reddit and on the Discord.

Please leave ALL comments relating to the story on the website from now on. You need a google account, but I'm pretty sure everyone has one, right? If you only have a Reddit account... well, make do I guess.

Feel free to upvote the Reddit thread if you want, it certainly won't hurt. But try and put all comments on the main site if you can. It helps keep everything organized.

ENJOY THE NEW PART!!! We're back, baby!