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Book 6 - Chapter 7
The coals had grown dim, just a little bit of orange that shone faintly onto Sion’s face from underneath, making him look like he was going to tell a ghost story. “Steamshield is the city of the future.”
“Really,” said Brin, not quite able to keep the skepticism out of his voice. His experience in this world was like living in th...
2026-01-30 15:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6 - Chapter 6
Rhun and Sion burst through the old and flimsy doors of the shed, banging them open and already moving at a gallop. They carried no bags or any extra weight, except that Rhun had his recently-repaired tower shield and Sion carried Brin’s morphic shield and Lumina’s signet ring. Sion also wore Brin’s face, a small spell that Brin could main...
2026-01-27 00:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6 - Chapter 5
“I have duties, you know,” said Sion. “I can’t simply pack up and leave simply because an old friend asks me to. An old, long-forgotten, friend who disappears for ages without warning, with no word on where he’s been–”
“I know you got my letters,” said Brin. He could only give Sion half his attention, because the rest of ...
2026-01-23 18:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6 - Chapter 4
The matter of Iaghaid was more or less closed when the Lance woke up in the morning. He learned that not everyone in the Lance had access to [Awaken the Sleeping Ones]. Only he, Cid, and Hedrek had it now.
But even though little more was said about Iaghaid, that didn’t mean their education was over. Over the next few days, they were trea...
2026-01-17 22:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6 - Chapter 3
Sorry for the wait. To be honest, it's likely that these delays will continue until after my break. I had a couple false starts to this one, and I think it's for the best that I waited until I had something I was confident in rather than rushing the chapter out.
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It was Marksi who noticed first that something strange was going on. ...
2026-01-15 18:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6 - Chapter 2
Sorry for the delay. It has not been easy to get my brain out of vacation mode. Also, I totally meant to have Brin take the [Recovery] Skill last chapter and forgot about it. I few of you pointed that out. I'll go back and revise sometime. On to the chapter.
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Riding away from the monastery felt positively scandalo...
Book 6 - Chapter 1
The Monastery of Holy Cambul in Olland was astonishingly beautiful. On the top of an enormous stone column rising out of the ocean, the first glimpse would appear to be a small temple built straight into the stone. Only as one drew closer did they start to understand the massive scale of the structure and the stone bridge across the gap between ...
2026-01-06 17:58:27 +0000 UTC View PostBook Announcement! Bog Standard Isekai 4 is live on Amazon!
Just what the title says. I'd like to take a quick moment to thank all of you again for your support. You all are the reason that I can do this, and it's become one of the greatest joys of my lifetime.
Book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ661YN 2026-01-06 17:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 5 - Chapter 53
It was a testament to the state of affairs that no one had tried to get into Arcaena’s citadel in the past week. Perhaps all three nations assumed they could, were they willing to spend the cost of bringing sufficient firepower to bear, and then to weather whatever curses she’d set up to protect it. But none of them were willing to do that i...
2025-12-23 17:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 52
“Bwa ha ha ha! You said that? You actually said that? Incredible!” Hogg was pacing back and forth inside the Lance’s tent, grinning ear to ear. “This isn’t even my final form! You said that?”
Cid, who’d been listening to Brin’s story with an air of long-suffering acceptance, said, “I believe in this case, his exact words ...
2025-12-19 18:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 51
Brin returned to the others and swapped his real body out with the Mirror Image that had been holding his place. Then, it was finally time to rest.
The moment he lay down he immediately passed out. When he woke again, he was in the Order of the Long Sleep’s camp. Not that they’d moved him; they’d simply built up the camp around him.<...
2025-12-17 18:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 50
It wasn’t long before a support group arrived. Three Lances of [Knights] along with three healers, including Luelle, the [Wound Binder] who’d healed Galan after his near-assassination. She only poked at Brin briefly before handing him over to a [Nurse].
The [Nurse] started looking for the clasps on Brin’s armor, but of course there w...
2025-12-12 18:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 49
Cid thought that Hedrek was going to die. Brin probably thought so, too. Both of them were really smart guys, smarter than he was. But he didn’t care. Nobody knew whether they were going to live or die. Hedrek had learned that early in life.
His dad was the strongest and bravest [Knight] to ever live, and then one day, out of nowhere, he...
2025-12-10 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 48
The first few moments of the battle were an explosion of blazing light and firing Skills. Galan’s personal Lance was the best of the Order of the Long Sleep, and even with Ectar down they weren’t a force to be taken lightly, not even by a [Paladin].
Lothar punched a fist of golden light that separated into a hundred beams of energy to ...
2025-12-06 20:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Ever Bog Standard Popularity Contest!
Just for fun and because I'm curious, I'm setting up a popularity contest for the characters in Bog Standard Isekai! Here's the rules: Game the system however you want, I'm not exactly going to be doing any detective work to try to stop you. Come back with multiple accounts, vote for multiple, whatever. There's going to be a simultaneous poll go...
2025-12-06 02:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 47
The [Dread Knights] pushed through the gap in the wreckage and the Lance held them, but not for long. Already more [Dread Knights] were scaling the barrier. They’d attack from behind, and surrounded, the Lance would quickly succumb. More undead were climbing from a buried tunnel inside their clearing; they would destroy the Lance if the [Dread...
2025-12-04 19:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 46
Anwir’s charge was quick as lightning. He flew past the [Knights] defending the [Great Witch] as if they were frozen statues. He wasn’t quicker than her magic, though, and Arnarra flung a curse into him. Cold and cruel and merciless, vast in power, it reminded Brin of the terrible curse that Awnadil had used against Lumina, which had trouble...
2025-12-02 18:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 45
Brin smiled in delight. This was it. She’d actually used it! Arcaena’s final defense, the great working that he’d known was coming. Finally. All the work to get here, to trigger the spell in a way that wouldn’t kill him, and it was finally here. He and Lumina, they’d done it.
Lothar watched in growing horror as the bombs grew fro...
2025-11-28 18:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 44
Maggart led his thirty [Dread Knights] with efficient professionalism. He gave their orders in the form of a few hand signs, and they sprung into action in a well rehearsed formation. Ten stayed near the giant, while the rest spread out and moved to surround Brin and Lothar. It was unfair, wasn’t it? The giant monster was supposed to be stupid...
2025-11-26 19:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 43.5
Information
Name: Brin isu Yambul
Age: 15
Race: Human
Class: Delusionist
Level: 46
Attributes
Strength: 294
Dexterity: 191
Vitality: 222
Magic: 244
Mental Control: 312
Will: 169
Unassigned points: 17
General Skill points: 3
Book 5 - Chapter 43
Aberthol walked at the head of a tremendous army. He walked a little bit to the side and behind Lothar, as if he were his shadow, or maybe his attendant. A cupbearer, or more accurately, an orb-bearer. He’d activated the spell Lumina had pointed out when he got the Lightmind. The Great Conduit. She’d asked him not to use it until it was time...
2025-11-23 00:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter tomorrow
Sorry for the late notice. A lot of things came up at work and at home and I never got a chance to sit down and finish the chapter. It's sort of a big one, and I want to do it right. I'll post it tomorrow and then hopefully we'll be back on track again next week.
2025-11-22 05:20:02 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 42
As soon as Aberthol saw the [Caravan Master], he suddenly didn’t want to do this any more. The man had a few fresh fingernail scars running up from the top of his bald head all the way to his eyebrow. He walked gingerly as if every step were jostling a bruised element between his legs. Clearly, Aberthol had no idea what had actually happened. ...
2025-11-19 22:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5 - Chapter 41
He stood and watched the army of Frenaria wage its war against the sea. Arcaena was a port town. It would be the most important port town in the world if it weren’t controlled by a [Witch], and that wouldn’t be the case much longer. A port meant water, and water meant food, and it hadn’t taken the army long to realize that.
The water...
2025-11-14 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post