Is on discord, in the a-willing-victim age-restricted channel, as will be all future chapters, because it opens with consentacles and only gets worse from there.
Chapters are short. (As is the full story, probably.) It's just something I wrote on a whim after spending an unhealthy amount of time on scribblehub. (An experience which I r...
2024-01-01 08:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post"Maius Magus Visus."
The words of the spell reverberated around my room, despite the way I'd spoken them face-down on my bed, face smooshed into my pillow and head buried under my blanket. Thankfully, I'd also hung up the fluffy hide over the door as an extra layer between myself and the guard outside. Using my new higher-...
2023-12-29 06:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Stephanie remained silent for a few seconds more than was comfortable, before sighing. "We'll need to admit it at some point," she said. "There were a series of... incidents along our border. Humans crossing into demon lands and taking from their farms. There was no violence, and they never took much, hoping that the shortfall ...
2023-12-26 06:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas y'all. Have a completely non-canonical friendly voidling/unborn hero crossover as a Christmas present.
"Look, I know you're nervous, Dad, but there really are no more demons," patiently repeated Hugh, who was holding the reins of a horse, and was dressed in the garb of a young merchant. "And even if we get...
2023-12-25 06:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The map of the continent of which the Ricousian Kingdom is a part.
2023-12-22 06:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post"Ug," I groaned, trying to remember how to open my eyes.
I successfully managed my difficult quest on the third attempt, and was rewarded for my victory with the sight of the wooden ceiling of my borrowed room, coupled with a pounding headache.
"Wasn't I in the courtyard?" I mumbled.
"You passed out from mana exhaustion," came ...
2023-12-19 05:54:47 +0000 UTC View PostI peered at Wendy suspiciously. What had started as a lesson in background theory had somehow escalated into her wanting me to cast what was apparently high-level fire magic. Magic that some actual qualified mages didn't even have the mana to cast.
... Wait, that phrasing was inaccurate, given how mana apparently worked. Didn't have the co...
2023-12-15 05:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post"Good morning, Tom," called a cheerful voice, waking me up from a dream that thankfully did not involve a single dragon.
"Already?" I answered blearily.
"Oh? Do you need more sleep?"
"Yes, but I probably shouldn't, if it's already morning."
Sleeping in would just extend my jet-lag, so despite not having had a great night'...
2023-12-12 05:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Grysuurm. Hydaxx schuurm."
I opened my eyes, trying to figure out what had woken me, only to find myself standing up. That was an unusual position to be in at the point of waking. Had I been sleepwalking?
... If I had, I'd not only made it out of my room but also out of the castle, and quite possibly the city. It was hard to be cert...
2023-12-08 05:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostI sat at a plain wooden table in uncomfortable silence, peering at my stew. I'd tried to eat it, but I wasn't really hungry. Being summoned at nearly midnight and ending up in an early afternoon caused one hell of a bout of jet-lag, and bits of my body were insisting it was around 5am and far too early for breakfast. It was surprising I hadn't f...
2023-12-05 05:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostI managed to get through the rest of the training session without crippling myself again, even if I did devote far too much of my thought process to very carefully not picturing mana doing anything whatsoever. It helped that Christine refrained from any further superhuman exploits I might have been tempted to copy.
Despite her warning, the...
2023-12-01 06:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's not quite December yet, but I don't really have anything interesting to say about the Erryn's World RPG today, so we'll start the double unruly summon chapters a week early instead.
Stephanie Ricousian, second princess of the Ricousian Kingdom, stalked down the corridors of the royal palace, her hurried footsteps ech...
2023-11-28 05:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post"Good question," nodded Wendy. "I've been wondering what caused this war myself. I spent a few months concentrating on research, then suddenly there are knights banging on my door, and I stick my head out to discover that a quarter of our territory has been overrun!"
"Allow me," chimed in Christine. "The specific events that led up to the ...
2023-11-24 05:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostMagic is something that doesn't feature heavily in character creation, on account of needing to switch class before you can learn any spells. Unless you cheat, of course:
Speed dressing with [Minor Speed]. The short snippet goes to show that bala...
2023-11-21 06:51:33 +0000 UTC View Post"We need your help," Princess Stephanie finally admitted. It really was an admission, too, spoken as reluctantly as if she was admitting a murder. "Our kingdom has been attacked by demons. We've been fighting them for months, but, frankly, as things are, we're going to lose. We need the help of a hero if we're to stand a chance of survival."
... 2023-11-17 05:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostA game involving dungeons and monsters is obviously going to need some form of combat. The first demo lets you get into fights, (how many people murdered poor Roller?) but there's not much behind it. Try to attack a villager, and you'll probably get stuck forever.
The village training dummy is how you can unlock various weapon proficiencie...
2023-11-14 06:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe winner of the poll, with more than double the votes, was An Unruly Summon, so I'll give that the Friday slot for November. From December onwards, it'll be two chapters of Unruly Summon per week, at least until the end of the first volume (40-ish chapters) but probably further.
"Well, there's something you don't see ev...
2023-11-10 05:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the things I'd like to make fairly extensive in Erryn's World is the crafting system. In the books, Peter pulls some ridiculous stunts (weaponised toilet...) that I won't be replicating, but the basic principles are still the same. For each type of crafting, you have a quality rating between 0 and 100 (0 being no skill, and 100 the rank 5...
2023-11-07 06:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe second of today's chapters. See the note at the start of Unprepared Castaway for why there are two.
A group of people sat around an ornate table, each occupying a richly decorated wooden chair. The same level of opulence was on display around the full room, from the colourful tapestries that adorned the walls to the p...
2023-11-03 06:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter: https://cathfach.co.uk/chapters/Chapter1:TheFirstDay/49.php
epub: https://cathfach.co.uk/epub/Chapter1_TheFirstDay_49.epub
2023-11-03 06:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostWith A Broken Pact finished, it's time to finally give that Erryn's world RPG I started so long ago a spot of attention. This thing actually has roots that go back way further than the start of Unbound Soul. I've mentioned the Discworld MUD* before, (go play it! It's great!) and way way back when C#3 had just discovered LINQ, I made a reimplemen...
2023-10-31 06:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere's no side stories/afterwords or anything to this one. Tuesday will be the first of the Erryn's World RPG devblogs/demos, and next Friday the first chapter of Unprepared Castaway.
I haven't decided on a December schedule yet. Depending on response to the RPG and how much more I w... 2023-10-27 04:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The dragon gave a slow blink as the little humans rushed around. While he'd learnt some amount of human politics out of necessity, that didn't mean all their actions were suddenly comprehensible. He doubted whether their actions were even comprehensible to themselves at times.
"Did the fool not get the message that she was innocent?" he gr...
2023-10-24 04:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostI've just spotted that formatting was broken in the pdf/epubs of chapter 4/5, too. It looks like an edge update has changed the way it copies text. Will be fixing them shortly.
Why is this so hard? Why are italic text and copy/paste not long-solved problems? :(
Josse sat huddled on her ledge, arms wrapped tightly around her knees and her back up against the cliff. She was shaking, but after what she'd been through, who could blame her?
"I... I can't..." she mumbled to herself as she climbed unsteadily to her feet. "Sorry Lindy..."
The broken princess didn't even stop to look down, diving st...
2023-10-17 04:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostFather Serrell, the high priest of Sulltheria, always welcomed the opportunity to expand his mind, taking any chance to learn something new. Today, he had found himself with a larger opportunity than most days, but most of what he was learning was that he had acrophobia.
Or perhaps not. It wasn't as if he ended up completely debilitated ev...
2023-10-13 04:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostI know formatting is fixed for some people, but it's still not for others, so I'll continue with pdf/epub attachments for now.
Josse pondered as she drank from the waterfall, splashing her face with the clear water. She had to admit the view from her new home was amazing. Normally, a home with that sort of view would fetc...
2023-10-10 04:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: As part of their latest 'redesign', patreon have apparently decided that formatting isn't a thing text posts need any more. Until they get their act together, I'll be attaching a pdf of each chapter, and I strongly advise reading that rather than the regular text. I'll leave the chapter text up for now, because surely this is a bu... 2023-10-06 05:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Crown Princess Josse was having a bad day. Or rather, the former Crown Princess, according to popular consensus, and in the end, wasn't that all that mattered? She could claim to be the rightful heir all she liked, but if no-one believed her or acted as if she was, what difference did the truth make?
No doubt someone somewhere wou...
2023-10-03 04:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis is, at time of writing, the last chapter of An Unborn Hero that I've written. That means it's time to talk about future plans again. Even if there are no more chapters, Unborn Hero does have an afterword. I'll post that tomorrow, rather than in a Tuesday/Friday chapter slot. As previously announced, October will contain A Broken Pa... 2023-09-29 05:04:56 +0000 UTC View Post