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12 Miles Below - Chapter 69 - In which To'Avalis rips his hair out
2026-02-12 18:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 67 - The fight at the heart of the church
2026-02-05 18:36:42 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 126
Play clapped her hands with excitement, "Look at that, it wants to talk to you too! Aw, it's lonely."
The quest itself was strange. Different. And Wade had a very strong feeling that if THE GAME was supposed to be one played with two entities, then maybe the messed up formatting meant it's non-standard. Maybe made behind the other's back? ...
2026-02-01 01:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 125
Wade considered everything he knew.
First, the invader he'd beat up had been Nathir. Or at least not a human. The weird name the System reported as being eliminate was very much not human.
But that wasn't what tipped Wade off.
Not knowing memes was plausible, THE GAME had yanked people from all walks of lif...
2026-01-30 05:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying Storefront Poll Options
Edit: Realized the temp boon upgrade was listed here for 1 coin when it's written down on the storefront chapter earlier as 3 coins - which is correct. Three coins is the cost for that one, but can't edit the choices here.
Edit 2: Poll closed!
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I'll work out the best combination from the t...
Die Trying - Chapter 124
Author's Note: If you have not read the changelog to the System, please check this post first before reading this chapter!
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Successfully Extracted. Round ended.
Final Round Sco...
2026-01-28 07:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Extremely Important Author's Patch notes to the System 1.01
Before reading the next chapter of Die Trying (which will be posted up sometime after this announcement, once final edits are done) - there's some sweeping changes I'm implementing.
I'm doing a rewrite of the System (Slightly-ish) for the eventual swap between rough draft version to the KU polished up final version of this story.
T...
2026-01-27 23:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 65 (Part A and Part B) - The final war
AN: This chapter is almost three entire chapters long, but there wasn't any good spot to split it, so instead I'll post all of this week's chapters today in one unbroken bundle.
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Knight Geralt held onto the staff of the goddess, carefully cradling it. The airspeeder hummed under his boots, the pilot e...
2026-01-27 00:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 123 (Cleaned up version for email readers)
AN: Prior draft released had an outline bullet point accidentally un-deleted while I was writing, which left it in the middle of the story, and I can't un-send an email notification. But I can delete and re-submit this chapter with a version that's not going to ruin the reading experience.
My bad gang, my ADHD writing st...
12 Miles Below - Chapter 64 - The signal
We watched the pair vanish, growing smaller the further they went.
This time they departed with a lot more finesse and stealth than my own trip out there. Although, to be fair to my own earlier trip here, I was thrown out the airlock with a bag and a sword and told to find the road in a snowstorm.
And my destination also didnâ€...
2026-01-22 22:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 122
Unable to move his legs, Wade lunged forward with his hands, trying to grab anything he could.
He had more stamina again, the water mastery boon increasing the regeneration and his empowered lungs cycling liquid mana in and out faster gave him a good amount of room to work with.
Was there even oxygen in liquid mana? Probably not. W...
2026-01-21 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 121
"Oh, it's the other way around completely." The bomb expert spoke. "A grenade exploding underwater is way more dangerous than in the air. Air is a good conductor of pressure waves. But liquid? Liquid's incompressible. Just about instant pressure wave at full strength."
He turned and then handed Wade the grenade bandolier, filled with the t...
2026-01-20 18:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 63 - Old history repeats
“You make a mistake in letting me live, progenitor.” The shard hissed, beaten to an inch of his life.
He was nearly blind now, feeble, and unable to even so much as lift his head. But he could hear the footsteps ahead as a man walked through the waters to loom above him.
“I have made many mistakes.” A01 spoke, “...
2026-01-19 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 120
"Let's do this. You and me." Wade hissed out in Nathir. "Unless you're a weakling coward that can't fight a half-dead human."
Whoever Not-Leon was, he was doing a pretty convincing cosplay of what Wade would have thought the Nathir would act as. So Wade decided to just lean into it.
Not-Leon laughed, "I will be gracious in victory a...
2026-01-16 18:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 62 - Return
“Please explain in more detail who or what this program is.” The Icon sent to me, almost whispering in a data package while she gave it nervous glances.
“When I first came to your strata, I was trying to get a hold of Wrath and let her know where I was.” I formatted up a quick data package of my own, bundling up everything Iâ...
2026-01-15 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 119
Bael raised his head back up, slowly turning to face the enemy approaching.
A human. Large build for their kind. Well equipped, clearly comfortable with a blade and armor.
No arcanonaught suit, which meant this human was already resigned to dying.
Any other day, Bael would have been surprised to see such a thing. Today was n...
2026-01-14 00:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post