Tess glares down the path, “Yes, we can get fire resistant leather, but at what cost?”
Kellinger, “I feel that even without armor, we should be able to handle the heat.”
Jim shakes his head, “If I was afraid of the fire, we would have turned around before we even entered. Well, I would have sent him”, and he points over h...
2024-11-08 08:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostKelly nods, “I’ve got a spell that should protect against fire magic. I theorize that depending on the enemies personal level and skill level compared against your own personal level, but happening before any resistance skills, the spell should bell curve centered on about 25% reduction at parity.”
Jeremy raises an eyebrow, “That b...
2024-11-08 08:45:22 +0000 UTC View PostAfter their chat, Jenny doesn’t stay long. She is technically still on the clock, after all. Got to get that information! Jason was certain other companies his mom had worked for or applied at are all green with envy, even if her current place would not be getting all that much. Just the fact his method came about because of using Energy and k...
2024-11-06 08:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostAfter his talk with the others, Jason goes back into his house and logs out. While there was stuff to do in NeoRealm, such a major change that had affected his “self” to such a deep extent in there, likely had some effect on him irl as well. Except, when he got out, Jason was in for a shock. Mom was home.
Jenny laughed at his expressio...
2024-11-06 08:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo! I just finished a final personal edit of the Banished Talent and so it is now as complete as I can manage on my own. I’ve even gone and made a rough ebook version. I could, in theory, throw the ebook up on Amazon and start selling the book right this moment. However, there are at a minimum two and up to four steps that need done before I...
2024-11-02 17:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
A flight across an ocean. Fantastic in nature. A couple fleeing from trouble back home. To supposed green pastures ahead. The sky whale they have tak...
2024-11-01 07:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe hexku hit Jeremy and Jay. Neither are shield users, but they manage it. Jay has it easiest because he is using a poleaxe and with a spin, the first few birds are rebuffed. Jeremy, on the other hand, is using a pair of long daggers.
He does a phenomenal job of it, though. The daggers dance through the air, one turns a bird and the other...
2024-11-01 05:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostJason walked out of his house and paused. The sky had veins. It wasn’t terribly obvious and he would have likely overlooked it if he wasn’t specifically on the lookout for any changes in his sight.
Almost like the shimmer of air over hot sand, except unmoving, they extended deeper into the Deep Wilds. Though his view was limited, even ...
2024-10-30 09:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs the tail of the last System strings vanishes, a silence falls over Jason’s inner world. It was like when you’ve been in a room with a fan so long you no longer notice it only for the fan to shut off. Not that there had been a sound, but the System must have had some sort of signal that played on the strings.
That or Jason had some w...
2024-10-30 09:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment...
2024-10-28 08:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostOne day, the System arrived on Earth. Well, not The System. Rather, A sub-system. Still a part of the System and not some person raised to power. However, it did have a personality all of its own so as to wield the power that it did. At the high levels, power is more about forcing your will upon the world directly and that sort of needs a will i...
2024-10-28 08:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostJim turns away from where the group detected a threat and towards the next island. “Well, do we just leave those be and work our way towards the obvious goal?”
Kelly, “It would probably be good to get an idea of what threads might be in the water, so right now while we’re the active party wouldn’t be the worst idea.”
Jim ...
2024-10-25 10:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle can’t really say anything to add on to Ally’s point and so they turn back to Jim’s party. They’re getting so close to delving into new depths. Floor 14 is one of the floors involved with when they got pushed back and so while not a bottleneck anymore, they have more respect for the floor than 13. Though it probably helps that 13 ju...
2024-10-25 10:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostJason sat with his legs crossed and felt the darkness settle over him. It was time to put to use the basement and potentially end up having to respawn for a second time. The System threads would be gone.
As with so many times before, Jason sank into himself and focused on his oft abused pinky. Then with a deft stab of his own Energy, the p...
2024-10-23 09:33:38 +0000 UTC View PostWell, “clear” might have been a bit of an exaggeration. However, the marks that were left did the job and Jason could cut out the shape close enough that it would fit like a glove. Satisfied, he spent an entire week laying out the Energy gathering ritual using chalk.
Yes, he did want to do things without such assistance, but the slab t...
2024-10-23 09:32:51 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle watches as the party argues back and forth about Daisy for a bit, but soon enough they’re continuing their delve.
This brings them to the first boss floor. Which surprisingly, at least to Doyle, wasn’t a complete curb stomp. The kobold’s put up a semi decent fight and it isn’t like they’ve all been there for a long time tra...
2024-10-18 08:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s basement had been a bit of a pain during reconstruction. In the end, he had to fill it in and re-dig the thing after compacting the soil. Now, though, it was time to finish it.
Which does not begin with the ritual. Rather, Jason has to remove his house’s floor. The planks are stacked up under one of the drying areas, revealing ...
2024-10-16 06:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostBefore the ley line could fully sink beneath the ground, the walls catch it. Their physical reinforcement ritual directly pulls on the Energy. It isn’t enough to keep the ley line in the state of erupting, but Jason hadn’t wanted it to, anyway.
The three Energy gathering rituals in harmony had simply been the only method Jason possesse...
2024-10-16 06:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostBesides the actual implements though, mithril was a bit of a one-trick pony. The trick was very useful, mind you, but allowing mystical energies to pass through easily was a double-edged sword. After all, there is nothing there saying it only lets your power through.
Mithril plates in some leather armor? Yes, it helps boost defensive skill...
2024-10-11 08:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostOver a month has passed, but Doyle managed to finish the cliff wall. Every little bit of the wall is carved in a way to make the water flow down it in chaotic patterns. From marks large enough to use as hand holds, down to those small enough as to be invisible to the naked eye.
And as Doyle takes a mental step back and the magic of his con...
2024-10-11 08:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next month, as Rosha put it, “Jason was quite a boring boy”. Though it didn’t help that whenever the pair were around, Jason would spend all his time preparing wood for Courtney to mend while it dries. Not that the rest of the time was all that interesting, either.
He built buildings, a wall, and dug out a lake. The walls be...
2024-10-09 18:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostThough for then to have a use for any Energy materials, Jason needs to read those manuals. Of course, all he has to do is remove the manual from the pitch black room and take it outside. Except for the fact, he decided he would make a ritual plate. After all, he has had the manual for the light ritual for a while now and hasn’t properly used i...
2024-10-09 18:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlly putters around the dungeon for a little, but there isn’t really anything for her to do. Doyle had just recently automated the floors and so she didn’t even need to check in on the camera and such. That turns her attention outward.
The town was thriving, some would even call it a city. It didn’t quite have the permanent populatio...
2024-10-04 10:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostJason pulls up the info again, because just remembering it isn’t enough to really appreciate his new pack.
{Backpack of the Prepared Traveler
Description:
A very common backpack pattern that has been used with basically every type of leather you could imagine and some you can’t. This specific one has used l...
2024-10-02 09:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith the original building rebuilt, Jason rushed to get as many planks and logs drying as possible. He even expanded the amount of space being used for it. Because he knew, the moment Rosha could go out again, she was taking it and Courtney would go with her.
Jason didn’t mind this, but the mend spell was simply too effective. It made pr...
2024-10-02 09:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: I am going to turn on "Allow multiple choice" and see how that works out. That way if you like two of them, you don't have to decide between them. Or, just select all three, because why not?
Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story wi...
2024-10-01 04:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle goes through and buys each skill and then buys them for the kobolds and elder kobolds. Which causes the system of having to buy the skills twice to make more sense. Though it also included an urge to buy as many skills for his basic monsters as possible. Not as some sort of mind control or boost to his instincts. Rather, it was the fact th...
2024-09-27 10:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle takes some time to observe just what skills would likely be needed. The kobolds already had access to mining and smelting. Besides that, they needed woodworking, tanning, leatherworking, blacksmithing, charcoal burning, and of course a skill for carving runes. Though maybe that last one would need two skills. One for carving and the other ...
2024-09-27 10:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as it pained him, Jason needed to add some deeply sunk posts to build around. Which meant at the corners he was going to have to dig up the gravel and drill a hole in the compacted dirt. Also, if he just sticks a log or square post into the ground, it probably won’t survive all that well.
The problem is that he doesn’t really h...
2024-09-25 09:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhatever the case might be with the wood drying too quickly, it could only benefit them. Though Courtney’s repair spell was MVP, correcting any splitting or warping. This did mean Jason ended with a lot more planks than he had been expecting.
With his honestly quite amateur setup, Jason had expected at least a third of the planks would b...
2024-09-25 09:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post