Had a kidney stone put me in the hospital early Friday. I'm out now, had it removed, I'm starting to feel more alive, and I may have a chapter up tonight, but I should be back to normal tomorrow either way.
2025-05-04 20:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“So I imagine you want to talk about that thing inside your chest there?” Karlinovo said the moment everyone had left the room. He hadn’t moved from his chair.
“Amongst a lot of other things, yes. Has it really been you...
2025-05-02 06:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post
John disappeared to the kitchen briefly while we waited for Corey’s return, reappearing moments later, somehow balancing a dozen trays of different snacks. I wondered how much of that he could do before his class and levels ha...
Even as I boarded the bus, the small thread of energy persisted to the dungeon. It felt nearly the same as the one connecting me to the cores. Would it actually stay attached when we returned home? If it did, that meant we would need...
2025-04-30 00:23:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Just head straight, they should be at the end of this tunnel, pretty sure there are a lot of other penguins in there too, no idea why,” I said as we headed further down the ice cave toward the central chamber. I moved to take the le...
2025-04-27 22:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“So what’s the new emergency that has you all fired up? I was hoping for a few more days of downtime,” Timon said, as he took his usual driver’s seat at the front of the bus. I waited until everyone was on board and the ...
Following our victory on the tenth floor, we had spent several days letting some of the stress bleed away. While there were always more threats out there, my biggest goals from the moment the orc invasion had started were comple...
“Well then. I believe that makes it official. U-1.9392912^10e37 Earth-107I2T112 officially is under the control of the Empire of Dave. You are now accorded all standard faction rights as a ruler of a universe. And if I can say so, ...
The strength of the shields I put around each of the Pachydresti in view was far more than anything I had ever been capable of before. I was almost taken aback at just how much mana I had infused each of these shields with. My poo...
“No,” I said, having no intention of exiting the fight. I had enough mana to heal myself, as long as I could get the spear out quickly enough. A timer appeared in my vision, surprising me at thirty seconds. I guessed that meant i...
As the timer appeared, I tried to channel some shields to get us ready, but my flows didn’t seem to be responding. Was that just normal until the timer countdown finished? I wasn’t sure. I went to open my mouth and ask, and reali...
“Alright, listen up, ya heard Pryte’s spiel, now ya get my advice fer the floor,” Mel said, floating his way over the top of the table.
“Do we have to?” Connie asked jokingly.
“Yes. We’re gonna go over the w...
2025-04-15 08:04:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I was surprised to wake up on my own the next day, figuring Mel would get everyone up early for some last-minute orders. There was no sign of the man we were calling Santa in my dreams last night, but I had a feeling we’d know ...
“So just how did you meet Mel anyway? I thought the man had retired. I was shocked when he reached out to me,” the dragon said as we sat down in the dining room. He had shrunk his form to the size of Trolke now. He still had...
“Duck!” Elicec yelled as the flames rolled over us. It was a little late, but around me, we all still managed to hit the ground, avoiding the brunt of the blast. The moment the fire passed I released my tools from storage as ...
“So, anyone have any idea what to do about the fact the moose ate a shield mana orb?” I asked, knowing this was mostly my fault. Apparently, after not being able to figure out why the moose had a shield, Maud and John figured ...
Mana Orb
~Shield (3)~
-First Tier-
Magical Shield (37)
Requirements: N/A
Magical Shield allows the host to encircle their body with a mana-based shield that blocks incoming magical damage. Further ranks increase the damage the shield can absorb.
Physi...
2025-04-07 08:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly, I couldn’t seem to cause any sort of backlash. I suspected I might just need more opponents and more shields being damaged at the same time, and I added that to the list of things to try in full squad training the next...
2025-04-07 08:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe big mana orb I needed to play with was the one that had managed to make this all possible. Without the shield orb, so many simulator runs would never have worked correctly. I wasn’t even sure I’d have bonded with Corey had I n...
2025-04-07 03:08:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking at my unspent ranks, it seemed attributes and skill ranks had increased their rate of gain again at level three-hundred. That meant I had a little over fourteen thousand unspent attribute ranks and a little over twenty-five h...
Hey guys, I've been a bit sick the last 2 days, but I should catch everything back up this weekend. It is all written, just need to do some final read through/editing passes.
2025-04-04 05:34:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The moose proved the hardest part of finishing off the healing before breaking for the night. Eventually, though, it seemed to understand what we were trying to do and finally allowed Elody and me to clean it up as much as we co...
Better Lucky than Dead
“Dammit, John I told you the system wasn’t primed yet to take the ghost,” Phil said, sounding annoyed at his friend and coworker. They had been bickering like this all day, and Dan was starting to get real tired of it.
“It’s fine. What’s the worst that could happen, Phil? Besides, I...
2025-04-01 01:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe moose stood there, staring at each of us in turn, seemingly refusing to leave after its scream. Was this some kind of strange rutting behavior? Maybe dominance challenge? What was going on? I just didn’t have a frame of reference for a moose g...
2025-03-31 02:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhile they trained, I worked on my own problems and the disaster that was now my mana channels. I was facing a few problems at the same time that seemed to build on each other, leading to a greater problem. I was reasonably sure that if I could find...
2025-03-29 20:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
By the end of the meeting, we hadn’t agreed on much beyond the few things the president, Pryte, and I had already discussed. Grant would be staying with us, which wasn’t really a downside; he was another set of hands who could...
Will double post on Saturday most likely as well.
2025-03-28 04:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post
“Um, is that an orc?” Laura asked as we entered the kitchen. To her credit, she didn’t freak out; she just sounded a little bit unnerved, and considering the last month, I didn’t blame her in the slightest.
“Ma’am, I am Rabyn,...
2025-03-26 22:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostI was surprised at how quickly Pryte managed to get all the moving parts into place for the meeting. Rabyn, John, Glorp, and the brothers were in the kitchen getting to work on the meals while Maud had taken the kids on a hike to keep them out of tr...
2025-03-25 22:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostSo we are nearing the end of Book 2. Following the conclusion of it updates will drop to 3 times a week for 2 weeks. (They will pause entirely on RR for 2 weeks after it finishes) and after those 2 weeks they will return to the normal levels.
I'd claim it's because I'm taking a vacation, but the reality is I have some other writing projec...