But no, it wasn't me.
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"What the fu-"
Blue shards danced outwards explosively before dissolving. In the split second time it took for the strikes to break through, I pulled my arms up to block the strike – and had them utterly eviscerated.
Blood spattered everywhere, strips of flesh peeling away. Tendons slithered out of my scrambled arms, pain flaring as the copper smell of blood wilted away from ripped meat.
So much useless, powerless meat.
Our Deities of Dreadful Ineptitude
What's this?
ODODI is a comedy-tragedy-fantasy blah blah blah about Aryon Hastor, a monster hunter that wants nothing but expendable income and to keep her 'days since last shadow demon attack counter' at zero.
Of course, the shadow demon does indeed come along - but Ari finds it a little strange. What does Grim, a universe-travelling soul-eating sadistic all powerful gremlin need with the hourglass necklace that gives Ari her sadly nerfed for balance reality-bending powers?
Only too late does she realize that there are much bigger forces holding her and the demon's strings. Interdimensional space rats are invading the country and want to mine up the fundamental elements of reality itself to murder some god they're unhappy with. With the looming shadow of Grim at her back and the capital's big guns dead and buried, why oh why, does she have to be the one to play pest control?
That doesn't make any sense!
Correct! It's all imagination, unsound logic, and a healthy dose of duct tape. We have weird species and wild planets and sketchy gods and all sorts of stupid shit. Have a browse, maybe you'll understand it better. No guarantees however - in fact, you have my full confidence that you will only be more confused.
Wow, this looks terrible!
Because I drew it! Been doing art for a good four years now and it really just doesn't get better. I'm a lame old primitive barely climbed down from the canopy, so no instagram or whatever the fuck. You can find all my horrid shitpieces right here on this site! Bonus: non-ODODI related art below too.
ODODI Art Gallery ALL the art
Who are these idiots I'm reading about?
The Narrator writes the Story, Ari, Bia, and the rest of the company get the trauma, Faelorn and co. are too much background street crosser to experience happiness let alone trauma, and then we have the fuckheads like Grim who put the suffering in suffering builds character. They're all here and they're all stupid. Just don't call the short one Alibaba.
CharactersInspirations
- He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon (Cosmology, the Governance, Aura Mechanics. Basically the whole magic system.)
- Deicidium by idi0cy.inc (Cosmology and the Narrative Stack (though most of that was me))
- Murder Drones, Black Dogs, C-2 Strain, and PuppetGame by Liam Vickers (Pure fuckin VIBES. Because that’s all Liam does. Depth is for losers!)
- Autodale by Dead Sound (Diorvana totally isn’t just a copy of this.)
- Blindsight by Peter Watts (THE LIVING COSMOS AHAHAHAHHAHAHA)
- The Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
- Tales from the Loop and The Labyrinth by Simon Stalenhag (Visual design! I love this guy’s stuff)
- Songs of War S1-3 by Arbiter617 (WHEN SEASON TWO GIVE ME SEASON TWO I NEED SEASON TWO)
- Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee (Holy shit the thematic and character writing here is GORGEOUS. And the art style too!!!!!!)
- The Debt Collection by Andrew Givler (Guy has to run from bureaucratic death system?? Hell yeah.)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Um, science logic I guess. I don’t know.)
- Kochab by Sarah Webb (Visual design - all the symbols on everything)
- Drehmal by Keeko100 and Rift (Worldbuilding - HAIL TO AVSOHMMMMMMM (precursors totally not inspired))
- Democritus’ Soul Atoms (Yo, but like, you gotta go pray to Athena dude.)
- exurb1a Videos (Cosmology. Also go watch Losing You it’s so fuckin’ good.)
- Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior – Erik Gunnar Taylor (This is what got me writing okay? Deal with it. Also I might have gotten his name wrong :/)
- Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling (Also got me into writing ig)
- Songs of War Rewrites – CK Voltaris (The character writing here would be so shit without this stuff)
- Schnee Videos - (And this guy! Holy fucking shit how is he so good)
- Charter – Arathain (Yes, the Minecraft mod. From Content SMP. I like the holy vibes :P)
- The Gaslight District – PartTimeSeagull (The Vibes, the visual design, it’s glorious.)
Credits
RatseerOfRattesse
ODODI's Narrator Himself
Crazy weirdo with too much free time and too many ideas. They'll all get done eventually, totally, definitely. That todo list is only, what, a kilometre long by now? He also does art and stuff. Basically everything on the site is by him.
idi0cy
Technoblade Reincarnate
He writes about three morons trapped in a Portal 2-SCP-Breaking Bad mashup world. I have no idea how that works but it's goddamn cool. This guy gave me a lot of inspiration and also wrote the short story Krath's Interview.
Changelog
1.0.13 May 10th 2026
chapter 19
- Added chapter 18-19
1.0.13 April 12th 2026
chapter 17
- Added chapter 17
- revamped bia's portrait/added her character ref
1.0.12 March 29th 2026
chapter 16
- Added chapter 16
- revised prologue-ch8
- chapter portraits for 1-3
1.0.11 March 15th 2026
chapter 15
- Added chapter 15
- revised prologue
1.0.10 March 1st 2026
chapter 14
- Added chapter 14
- metaphysical beings intro revised
- combined reality bending and authority articles into the narrative manipulation article
- added motives section to amirlith article
- edited prologue
1.0.9 February 15th 2026
chapter 13
- Added chapter 13
- updated logo
1.0.8 February 1st 2026
chapter 12
- Added chapter 12
1.0.7 January 18th 2026
chapter 11
- added chapter 11
- removed writing snippets
- reorganized story section
- added comic page
- changed color of hovered links to better contrast nav bar
- made character portraits on the character page links
- halos-castell now replaced narrator
- added titles to the characters
- added awesome-nav plugin to correctly order chapters in nav
- updated ari and halos portraits
1.0.6 January 4th 2026
chapter 10
- Added chapter 10
- more banners
1.0.5 December 29th 2025
cool banner!!!
- Added a cool banner
1.0.4 December 21st 2025
chapter 9
- Added chapter 9
1.0.3 December 8th 2025
chapter 8
- Added chapter 8
1.0.2 November 30th 2025
chapter 7
- Added chapter 7
1.0.1 November 9th 2025
chapter 6
- Added chapter 6
1.0 November 2nd 2025
chapter 5 ig
- Added chapter 5
0.9 October 25th 2025
man actually writes the story PART 2 BABY
- Added chapter 4
0.8 October 10th 2025
man actually writes the story
- Rewrote Ch1 Intro
- Revamped illustrations ch1-1 and ch1-2
- Changed governance formatting
- CHAPTER 3 BABY
0.7 October 5th 2025
guess what i am
- Completely overhauled appearance of landing page and made general theme adjustments
- Removed plot section :P
0.6 September 16th 2025
why does everything here start with c
- Moved Interdimensional Society out of the political entities folder and into the cosmos. Added appropriate grid card to The Cosmos index. Existing card in the Political Entities index is still there.
- Added the Chronosphere article
- Added the Cosmic Combat article. Weapons described in Aura Mechanics have also been moved there.
- Added Communications Tech article.
- Updated inspirations list, now describes what I got from each and has way more than before
- Specified what happened to the Elder Immortals in Metaphysical Beings
- Edited the Cosmic Model, clarified some things in Dimensional Transgression and Voidspace
0.5 August 18th 2025
obnoxious amounts of flavour text
- Changed changelog update format
- Reformatted character index and added portraits to all the main characters. These may now be found in art gallery as well under misc.
- Misc art section description fixed
- Updated AOH cover
- Some sass in the main page :P
- Added character portraits to each of their pages
- Filled in Krath's page
- Changed the 'magic system' on idi0cy and Narrator's page to 'Authority'
- AHAHAHAHHA IM ON A ROLL WIHT THE THEMESSSSSSSSSSSS (sober rat here: i added a themes page)
- Added aliases and species to the character sheets
- Moved Duskir and Faelorn to side characters
- Added subtitle to overarching plot
- Changed epigraphs in overarching plot and AOH
- Clarified fae religion and their technology level.
- Changed a few sentences in AOH
- Renamed locations to geography
- Added a custom admonition type and font for governance entries
- Implemented grid cards in most of the index pages. There's now an obnoxious amount of flavour text.
- Changed all the subtitles in sub articles in the reality categories (that had actual content behind it)
0.4 July 4th 2025
funny plugins
- Added a ton of plugins that I probably won't use
- Figured out how to nest lists
- WHY IS IT SO UNINTUITIVE
- Added links to power scaling
- Revised Haelborne
- Added reality mining to Firmament Theory
- Added interdimensional law and personal power dynamics to Interdimensional Society
- Talked about various weaponry in Aura Mechanics
0.3 July 3rd 2025
READ BLINDSIGHT ITS SO GOOD
- Compiled everything I did while off in China
- Changed CSS for lists so that they look prettier
- Changed subtitle of, added links to, and added Metasphere and Physisphere section to the Metasphere
- Revised The Governance
- Edited, changed subtitle of, removed incomplete warning, and added links to The Governance
- Edited, changed subtitle of, removed incomplete warning, and added links to Specializations
- Edited, changed subtitle of, removed incomplete warning, and added links to Levelling
- Changed subtitle of, removed incomplete warning, and added links to Abilities
- Added Looting and Currency
- Edited, changed subtitle of, removed incomplete warning, and added links to Settlements
- Changed subtitle of Skills
- Changed subtitle of and added links to Titles
- Fleshed out and removed incomplete warning from the Absolutionists
- Clarified the use of Authority
- The Soul now has anatomy
- Got inspired by Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Solved sentience in the Living Cosmos
- Explained what transcendence truly is and why mortals nearly always fail to attain it in Metaphysical Beings
- Added an incomplete warning to Plot
- Explained why the Verion are so warlike
- Clarified government types of interdimensional factions in Interdimensional Society
- Added Reality Bending
0.2 June 16-17th 2025
Existential Bullshit :D
- Added links to the Cosmos
- Edited Firmament Theory
- Added ritual mechanics and potentia to Aura Mechanics
- Edited Authority
- Added link to Domains
- Edited Living Cosmos
- Edited Metasphere
- Edited Souls