Hello everyone, I hope you are well. You may have noticed that I am back, but a lot more quiet than before. I plan to continue my writing, but I am going to try and be a bit less bombastic and tad more withdrawn about things.
That part doesnt matter much, to be honest, what does matter is that I have been posting on my phone since I cam...
“Monsters eat people.”
A simple statement that Monsters are overwhelmingly carnivorous, but that truth is far less simple than it appears. Among the low-mana areas where Animals are dominant, there are relatively few carnivores compared to herbivores. Frankly, the line between those two is not nearly so sharply delineated, ...
Im am frustrated because I had to post this from my phone...
There is a lot we don’t understand about Monster behavior. Between their near-infinite combination of traits, the rarity of Inspect abilities or magic, and Monster’s overt belligerence in the face of study, only the most common and weak Monsters have much known about the...
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*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
The conversation that night was a watershed moment for me that I worried would change everything. In hindsight, however, it isn’t really that surprising that nothing much changed at all. Rei asked me if I wanted to be called Cadence and I told her that, as far as I was con...
Not entirely happy with this chapter, but let me know what you think.
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*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
We made our way back to the city and my nerves were frayed before we were even halfway back. There was a part of me, a large part, that wanted to pretend that I had nothing to say. &nbs...
2024-01-24 19:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
With a strong jump and a beat of my wings, we were in the air and rapidly pulled away from the ground. I was tempted to put the new saddle to the test and see what Rei thought about flying upside down, but her focus on the mission in front of us helped me keep focus as well. &nbs...
2024-01-23 22:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
With a strong jump and a beat of my wings, we were in the air and rapidly pulled away from the ground. I was tempted to put the new saddle to the test and see what Rei thought about flying upside down, but her focus on the mission in front of us helped me keep focus as well. &nbs...
2024-01-18 06:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
The first stage of the plan went off without too many surprises. The area that had been chosen for the ambush had a lot of ground cover so that the [Archers] would be able to hide from the Bronzebirds and spring the trap, but that had also meant that clearing the area was going t...
2024-01-16 21:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis took way longer than expected. It has gone through multiple revisions and I have a weird love/hate relationship with it now. I love the idea that I was going for, but I have to admit that actually writing it is harder than thinking it.
However, I don't want to delay any more - not over what, in the grand scheme of the stor...
2023-12-31 05:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostAlright everyone, after three years of waiting, the AMA is finally out! Most of the questions are from three years ago, but some new ones have been contributed by my wonderful Patrons as well. A special thanks to them, and I hope everyone enjoys this. ^_^
(Also, I kinda threw out the “one quest...
2023-12-20 23:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I hope you are doing well. I had planned to have all of this ready for today, but the editing is dragging on a bit and it might not quite be done until tomorrow. However, tomorrow we are going to have part 2 of Rei's Extra and the next two chapters released as well.
I also wanted to do a "last call" on the AMA. &nb...
2023-12-20 05:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis is part one of two because I suddenly had a fantastic idea that was *way* better than what I had planned. Tossed out 2k words of writing, but after outlining my plan I am sure it will be worth it.
Also, just a reminder about that (multiple years late) AMA I am doing. Only one of you guys asked a question - which is basical...
2023-12-14 07:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostI'll start with the bad news: there is going to be a slight delay on the advanced chapter until tomorrow. But there is some (possibly) very good news as well: while going through all my notes I found parts of the AMA I had been organizing before everything fell apart.
Tomorrow I will be putting that up as well. I would do it to...
2023-12-13 02:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostI had planned to have this chapter and the next out a lot earlier but I underestimated just how fragmented my old notes were. I don't know what possessed me to make the system so complicated that it required me to write equations to calculate how it worked and I also don't know why I didn't write down Rei's age, but I do know that the next...
2023-12-12 06:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post*Kingdom of Gracel, Two Years Ago*
*Rauvin Kassid POV*
The most commonly held trait for people with the [Officer] Class was the desire to be an [Officer].
It is a statement that seems so obvious that it seems like it would go without saying, but I knew better. There is a...
2023-12-08 00:19:19 +0000 UTC View PostCadence Lee (as Hewka) POV:
Rauvin pulled the asshole aside to talk, which was a good precaution to prevent me taking a bite out of him and soon both were hurrying towards the merchants, presumably to explain the issue. I was tempted to insist on an apology, but that would have to wait - I certainly wasn’t...
2023-11-30 15:45:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I am honestly unsure how to say this, so I think I will just say it is simply as possible:
My grandpa's health has gone downhill quite a bit, to the point that - while he is alive right now - my whole family is gathering and we have had a priest perform his last rites.
I am still going to try to get a chapter out soo...
2021-09-17 15:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, let me just say that regardless of why I was gone it was inexcusable of me to not let you - my patrons - know. I realize, that the majority of you have left and will be posting this explanation on Royalroad as well in the hopes that it reaches as many of my readers as possible.
The last... Year? Has been extremely ...
2021-08-09 17:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostI will, of course, be offering a full explanation in my next post of why I was gone. Please expect it in the next twenty to thirty minutes and you all have my sincere apology for my unannounced and long absence.
*Kingdom of Nuave, The Southern Frontier, Six Years Ago*
Karlin’s ...
2021-08-09 17:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe back half of Chaurl's Extra.
I don't plan on do many splits like this - both P1 and P2 are meant to be one whole chapter and will be released as such on RR, but the back half of this Extra was maddening. Even now it just feels wrong, but I don't think I could fix it without making this Extra way longer.
And this isn't "The ...
2020-12-15 07:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostWas put on a new medication last week and started having huge anxiety issues. I'm back off that medication now, and hopefully planning to get everything back on track.
Here is the first half of Chaurl's Extra to tide you over until tonight! Sorry for the trouble - again.
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*Kingdom of Frakus, The Grand...
2020-12-14 07:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostYou know what? I type slower when I am typing something I previously wrote on paper than when I am just typing for the first time. You'd think it would be faster when all I have to do is type up what I already wrote and edit a bit, but nope.
Side note: The reason RR gets indents and Patreon doesn't is because whenever I hit the...
2020-12-06 07:35:46 +0000 UTC View PostOk. The chaos has ended, between Pipi chewing the corner of my old laptop's screen, another of my cousins catching covid, my grandfather refusing to take his medication, my uncles leaving a bunch of work to me that I hadn't expected to have to do - the last two-ish weeks have left me dizzy.
So. Pretty soon I am going to dump a ...
2020-12-06 05:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostMy thoughts before I started typing: "I hope that my handwritten chapters aren't too short. I feel like they kind of are..."
My thoughts after I finished typing up and doing basic edits for this chapter: "Holy hell, this is the longest chapter I have ever written!"
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Talent. The whole of our society is obsesse...
2020-12-02 21:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy puppy chewed through my laptop screen, so I am reduced to writing on paper and typing on my phone until I get my new computer. I ordered one and will hopefully be able to pick it up tonight around 10pm ~ 11pm CST (did you know you can do pick ups from best buy an hour after they close? I didn't until today!)
I have han...
2020-11-30 19:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostNew format for the statblocks that is meant to help mobile readers on RR and elsewhere, let me know what you think?
This chapter will be titled "Medium Grind" on RR, so it isn't exactly the most exciting >_<
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Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV:
So it turns out that just as physics still kicks as...
2020-11-24 00:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostContent warning time! This chapter contains traumatizing content. I wouldn't say it is terribly bad - in fact I am hesitant to qualify it as traumatizing at all - but I like grimdark so my gauge might be off for this. Might as well just give out the warning and let my readers decide.
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I meant to have more chapters out by now but the last three days, but...
One of my cousins was exposed to Covid, and may have exposed many of my other cousins to Covid as well. One of those cousins as a puppy named Buoy that they just got, and the breeder seems super shady in hindsight, especially since the puppy was sick and almost ...
2020-11-22 07:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem with Nuave - the country I was apparently located in - was that it was a very new country. This continent, Varrskya, had only been discover a couple centuries ago and powerful, high Level, but politically restricted Sapients and Demihumans had rushed to the continent to break free of old power structures and start their own kin...
2020-11-19 09:10:37 +0000 UTC View Post