Hidden Scenario — Tomb of the Green-Eyed One
Once, the all-powerful Green-Eyed Necromancer had eyes for the world’s riches. But he was merely a master of souls, not of theft, and thus set his sights on the Treacherous Twenty: the greatest thieves across all lands. He bent their souls to his will, and throug...
2025-08-04 17:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs Alex meditated on his fight with the bloodmist assassin, the Vitality of his body wasn’t what he recalled most vividly. Yes, fighting with an injured body was a challenge; it required he push his body to its limits, but he’d done that before and would again. Likewise, it wasn’t Strength he recalled either. His Strength had constantly be...
2025-07-29 05:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I just wanna give a quick apology for bein
2025-07-22 15:25:12 +0000 UTC View PostNychta felt fire. The flames that made a pyre of the mountain around them; the boil that rose in Alex’s veins. Most of all, she felt the fire slumbering dormant in his soul. Each time he swung her, each time she clashed with opposing steel, a flicker of that fire coursed through her. It reminded her of her world; her people, and what she’d l...
2025-07-14 04:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey ya'll, just want to let you guys know the chapter will be a few days late this week. Sorry about that. With the chapter I posted last week, we've actually gone through my backlog.
Now, this isn't too big a deal. I have the rest of book 1 outlined and most of book 2 plotted out, I'll just have to put in a little bit of work to get some...
2025-07-07 22:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostGregorian Calendar, 1903
Southern Carpathian Mountains
135 Years before System Reset
As far back as the girl could remember, there’d been chains. They wrapped her wrists and ankles, trapping her to this dark cavern. They wormed beneath her mind, looser there, but that darkspawn was keeping them loose on purpose. So...
2025-06-30 11:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostFrom within the mists, the sheer scale of the Misting Valleys was obscured. The summits of mountains and the depths of its passages were both hidden, but this afternoon, it wasn’t just that. Rather than a sea of white, the mists were hazed over a faint, rusty brown. Even trees just meters away from Alex appeared less distinct and the color mad...
2025-06-24 00:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostAlex’s soul returned to his body. He lay slumped on the altar in the middle of the room’s runic formation. Other than the moon, which was visible through an unfathomably deep-dug oculus, his surroundings were dark. The runic light on the formation had winked out. He didn’t exude an electrified glow, and nor did the Lost Souls. They were al...
2025-06-17 16:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostHeya! Chapter 31 which I'm releasing on RR this week is a short one, so I'll be releasing 32 tomorrow to make up for that, and of course that means 42 will be coming up tomorrow on Patreon so look forward to that ^^
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Alex heard somewhere that wheat farmers sometimes burned their fields after a successful harvest. That way, the n...
2025-06-16 12:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey! Quick note: this chapter's got some pretty rough content, enough to warrant a TW for some. Patreon doen't let me spoiler mark text though, so I'll have those down at the bottom of this chapter for folks who'd appreciate it.
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The scene before Alex’s eyes was a nightmare—one that he felt he’d had before. He pried his st...
2025-06-10 12:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post“They’ve promised that dreams can come true, but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Alex jolted awake, gasping and sweating. He hugged himself. Then a second later, another set of arms wrapped around him. Laura held him gently from behind, h...
2025-06-08 13:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Hey guys, the next and final chapter I
2025-06-02 11:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostAlex’s indignant march took a detour when he spotted a line of groggy MCTC personnel. Pretending he was one of them, he lined up too, and the girl at the window cast him a skeptical look before handing him his coffee.
He took a sip; sighed. “Can I get some sugar?”
“Move already!” The guy behind him shouted.
Alex...
2025-05-28 23:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostIntegration 2nd Year
Atlantic Ocean, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset
The days had passed as noisily as Alex expected. It had started when Eric climbed the ladder to his bunk and tried whacking him in the face with a pillow. Half-asleep, Alex had groggily drawn his dagger and nearly gutted Eric—or at le...
2025-05-24 13:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostAlex’s fall down the abyss stretched an eternity. The wind that ruffled his clothes and lashed his wound were gone. With it, so too disappeared all signifiers that he was really there. Gravity upturned in his stomach. Yet his body became light as a feather, guided by gravity without mass. He was not falling, he was drifting. Sinking, ...
2025-05-22 12:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe crow sailed through currents of mist, perching atop twisted trees as she waited for Alex. He hiked up the mountain, wary, but not of wraiths, and not of monsters. Nothing with enough sense to detect him would come anywhere near right now. Omen was something all creatures could feel, whether they recognized what that feeling was or not. ...
2025-05-21 12:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe girl sped through the forest in Stealth, cursing Alex. Like damnation she was sticking around to fight that beast. And what—put her life in his trustworthy hands? He literally just confessed he couldn’t beat it! Curse it to be damned, she should just run while–
“Ahhck!” The girl cried, clutching her ...
2025-05-21 12:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: Hey, I decided to split the chapter I was working on in two cause it was getting long. 33 will be coming tomorrow, along with 34. 35 not far after. Sorry they've been coming at odd times. We're gonna be catching up to 10 ahead soon, so when that happens the schedule will become a lot more consistent.
Enjoy ^^
Heya! This one's gonna be a shorter one. Thought I might release it with the next chapter for a fuller read since that one's a bit on the longer side, but edits to 32 it aren't quite done. Just letting ya'll know so you don't get caught off guard, this one comes in at about 2.5k words. Once 32's looking pretty though, 33 and 34 are already in go...
2025-05-16 02:28:53 +0000 UTC View PostAlex saw the crow perched on the branch of a tree. She had feathers black as night and pure white eyes that saw farther than any living creature. Yes, the crow was alive. The chill down his spine made Alex entirely certain. Their eyes met. Her limbs shifted. Her wings rustled as she took off into the mists. There was little else that had to be s...
2025-05-12 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alex awoke, Gloomy was gone. He feared for a moment that she might’ve left him, that last night could've just been a dream. Maybe it would’ve been better if it was. But it wasn’t, so Gloomy must’ve been off in the mists. She’d let him sleep his ten hours as promised—and even more from the look of things. The sky was blanketed in...
2025-05-12 12:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostDistantly, Alex knew this couldn’t be real. He walked as though in a dream, or perhaps a memory. Through an Earth wasted by war and bloodshed, a planet that no longer looked worth fighting for. Corpses littered his path: The enemy’s. His own. Years of wear in his gait, death in his eyes, and emptiness in his soul, he ambled, muttering to him...
2025-05-11 07:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostQuick Author note:
Heya! I decided this was one of those instances where less is more, so I ended up folding the first part into this chapter as all one chapter, and cutting some stuff for cohesion. It's still a pt 1 tho. I've left a "-+-" to mark where the new content begins for those who read the previous version so hit that with a ctrl-...
2025-05-10 09:45:04 +0000 UTC View PostIntegration 2nd Year
New York, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset
When the System Apocalypse began, gradual terraformation reshaped Earth’s geography in monumental ways. Continents shifted, landmasses once separated by water were drawn together. Flora and fauna alien to Earth’s ecosystem thrived where o...
2025-05-06 12:48:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlex was surrounded; the killing intent from his adversaries made him feel as though he were being pricked by chilled needles. But there was an important distinction to be made between Alex’s un-appraised “Dangersense” and real Dangersense. Where real Dangersense was triggered by the threats themselves, Alex’s trait was activated by the ...
2025-05-04 02:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Do any of you know the easiest way to conquer an enemy? Divide and conquer, people! It’s turning the enemy against themselves. I haven’t been able to get my hands on a copy of The Art of War since the apocalypse, but Sun Tzu was saying the same things millennia ago! And now look at us. People used to help one another in times of diffi...
2025-05-01 05:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post“The difference between an undead and a living soul is that the living have the capacity to learn and change. The undead don’t. Everything they learn is relearned, and every change is one that their soul had potential for in life.
Undead are to be pitied. They are creatures perpetually stuck in the past, reaching for the h...
2025-04-27 23:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey Ya'll! Before getting into the chapter, I just want to give a quick update note on what my schedule will be looking like on here. I'd like to fall into set posting days eventually, but it's been hard for me to tell from the offset which chapters will require the most edits. So for now I will be posting 4xWeek, uploading chapters as they're e...
2025-04-27 01:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostHeya! I have a full announcement on the old System Reset page on RR with more details, but I just wanted to let anyone on here who hasn't seen it know that System Reset has relaunched under a new fic page as of a few hours ago! Currently, I have 14 chapters up on there, and I'll be posting daily till I catch up to 23 (previously 21) on RR, then ...
2025-04-16 09:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, Elessar here! Sorry, I usually like to leave more personalized updates on patreon, but I've been busy today so I'm just copying over what I'm posting on RR. That aside, I’ve got some updates as far as how System Reset’s return is coming along!
I’ll give the TLDR at the top for anyone who doesn’t nee...
2025-04-01 06:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post