{"id":1637,"date":"2026-06-30T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:51:19","slug":"chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/30\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave184\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave184"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/29\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave183\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page184 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/01\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave185\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>mind you, they can\u2019t buy anything dangerous, so they are trying to produce their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not alarmed by this at all,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cI want inventive people here, in the Garrison, working with Barmy. I want creative minds working alongside us, not out of reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t what Walker had expected, \u201coh, then this is a good thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CandiCrush nods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll remember I mentioned Max to you before. He\u2019s the one who disabled the <em>Bandersnatch<\/em> with a flaming arrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. Tell me more about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker takes a sheet of paper from her pouch, and reads from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaximillian Armstrong. Better known as MaxChaos. He\u2019s twenty years old with no police record. His mother died when he was young and he was brought up by his father who was a docker. Owing to work, his father wasn\u2019t always around and Max had difficulty studying. He gave up on school when he was thirteen years old. He has no qualifications. It was agreed that it was in everybody\u2019s best interest, including his, to let him be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe works on and off in the docks, and sometimes aboard ship. His father vanished when he was sixteen. Nobody knows what happened to him. Max is a highly accomplished, self-taught archer. He hunts deer and he has an exceedingly good diet. He also snares rabbits and other game. He\u2019s tried inventing booby traps to catch bigger animals like wild boar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe lives in a shared house with other dockers, but he doesn\u2019t drink much, so he has trouble mixing with them. You\u2019ll rarely find him in <em>The George Tavern<\/em>, and he spends most of his spare time in the woods tracking animals. Or he\u2019ll be socialising with a small group of friends. He\u2019s dependable and he\u2019ll go out of his way to protect his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s scruffy, and he looks like a rebel. He\u2019s basically had a tough life since the age of ten, but he\u2019s warm hearted, he\u2019s big and strong, and he\u2019s done well to get some stability in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/29\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave183\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page184 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/01\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave185\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page184 \u2013 Next mind you, they can\u2019t buy anything dangerous, so they are trying to produce their own.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not alarmed by this at all,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cI want inventive people here, in the Garrison, working with Barmy. I want creative minds working alongside us, not out of reach.\u201d That wasn\u2019t what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/30\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave184\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave184&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}