Ace stood on top of a wooden tower that had been built on the wall between the inner and outer circle. There wasn’t too much special about it besides one particular record. It was the tallest building in the entire town and thus gave him a good view.
There often wasn’t enough time to just admire the view, so it had been a while since A...
2024-08-16 10:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostNext day dawns bright and early. Emphasis on bright as it seems Jason’s room was facing where the sun rises. And despite the medieval style of buildings, glass windows were very much there to let the light in. The buildings were just rough because they expect them to get broken frequently by monsters and so anything that isn’t easy to fix li...
2024-08-14 11:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostHelina laughs, “Fifty? You have nine pelts.”
Jason, “Nine fifth-break pelts for first-break and maybe second-break untreated hides.”
Helina, “Not like your pelts are treated either.”
Jason shrugs, “True, let’s just call that factor a wash.”
Helina, “But you want untreated hides.”
Jason nods, ...
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2024-08-12 21:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe world waits with bated breath. Most people made it out of the quest just fine. A few had been stuck inside and so only got out at the end and without any of their stuff, but at least they were alive. Many others waited only to be disappointed.
Then finally, the quest was over. People waited with anticipation to see what would happen. T...
2024-08-09 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJason nods, “Those types of crafters are a dead end. You do need people who can make the same thing over and over. An army works best when everyone is outfitted to the same standards. But they probably only have a higher skill level because their specialized skill has so much less for them to learn.
“Still, I wouldn’t put down them m...
2024-08-07 04:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostJason's first stop is to offload the bones. While the claws would likely be really good for making something like a shovel or a pick, that isn’t the most important thing in the area. Maybe if they were attuned to trees, he would have bothered finding a good place to haggle over them. As it was, he focused on trading for the goods he needed for...
2024-08-07 04:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon can't complete the tutorial! Long ago, magical, dungeon, fairy creature, and everything you can find in a world of magic. But the magic disappears, the world becomes normal, immortal creature falls asleep and dies. Now, in 2024, a system appears: [-System initialization -Pumping mana started -starting tutorial -teleporting all sa...
2024-08-06 06:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle, ‘So, now that I’ve decided on what to focus on, do I need to actually do anything? Because as far as I can tell, there isn’t really a way to follow through.’
Ally, ‘The decision itself is the important part. From now on, when receiving per level gains, they will be weighted towards your path for the very reason that they a...
2024-08-02 12:54:57 +0000 UTC View PostTwo months have passed since the quest portals had opened all across the world and there was once again a worldwide system announcement.
{After one day, no more people will be able to enter the quest
For the next three days, those trapped may request an evacuation which will extract them from the dungeon with only what they brought i...
2024-08-02 12:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostOh, did I mention my shifting opinions of the local megafauna? For the first few times I was looped back to the campsite, I felt the plants were the worst. I’d be walking along and suddenly it was all root spears and pollen clouds. All the while I had to get down and swipe at the ground, hoping to slice up something important.
In what fe...
2024-07-31 23:35:37 +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...
2024-07-31 13:06:32 +0000 UTC View PostIn a barren corner of creation, hidden behind a cluster of multiverses, there was a small universe. Well, small isn’t quite correct. It was actually quite middling in size compared to the average universe. An expanse of superclusters and more beyond the counting of most mortals.
However, while the technical size was alright, the theoreti...
2024-07-31 12:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, it took Jason four more days before his pack was full. Well, his pack had been full on the second day, now it was both full and had nowhere else to strap things on to the outside. It is amazing what north of a hundred points of Strength will do for a person.
His final haul came in at six level 26, two level 27, and a single lev...
2024-07-31 11:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostJason frowned. He was happy about a new skill, but the last effect was going to be trouble. “Seeking Perfection”? Nothing is perfect, only as good as possible, given the conditions. This was one of the steadfast rules of his last life, proven repeatedly over the eons. No matter how “perfect” something looked, all it ever took was someone...
2024-07-31 11:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, my mood is a bit sunk right now. Went to the doctors for the usual check up stuff and they did bloodwork this year. Seems I have high cholesterol and I might have fatty liver. Which, fair enough. I don't exactly eat the most healthy of diets because I can't really afford much. I'm going to have to change a lot of things with my life. Thank...
2024-07-27 09:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle perceived a set of cooling plates. Though technically they could also be used as heating plates. The biggest reason he labeled them as cooling plates was that the adjustable swirl was on the hot side.
Down at the end of the deepest floor, his territory was at its strongest and his perception the most piercing. Not to say that it boos...
2024-07-26 10:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant mole that Jason had just landed on was less than pleased with the situation. Though in the end, it didn’t get much of a say in the matter. For one, they were of similar size, so the mole wasn’t able to run off with Jason on its back and the two together certainly weren’t going to fit back into the tunnel. More insidious though, w...
2024-07-24 13:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostJason had one more task before heading back to the town. While he did have the gold to purchase what supplies he needed, sometimes gold isn’t enough. For a settlement on the edge of a wild area, trade goods of immediate use are always welcome. After all, while in theory gold can buy just about anything they need, it takes time for that thing t...
2024-07-24 13:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlly’s suggested project was dead simple. It really did match the old potato powered light experiment for kids. All Doyle had to do was carve one of a number of light bases runes onto a rock plate and then draw a swirl coming off it.
The swirl technically being the most complicated part as it acted like a receiver coil used pre-system to...
2024-07-19 10:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle, ‘Well, I didn’t expect that. Quite a good haul, even if there is a distinct lack of end products besides that last one. Though technically, even that isn’t an end product I handle.’
Ally shakes her head, ‘We aren’t done yet with the rewards. Though we’ll have to wait for the last bit. After all, it is a quest and you t...
2024-07-19 10:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostJason was fine with this limitation. He hadn’t intended his book to be the equivalent of a movie. It was meant to be a book that you read. The projection and animation were useful for displaying certain principles and processes, but he wasn’t going to go crazy with it. After all, he wants to simplify things, not make it complex. If a graph c...
2024-07-17 09:34:57 +0000 UTC View PostTime had passed and Jason now sat in his VR room, staring at the first draft of his eventual book. During its layout and creation, he had realized something that made the process both easier and harder to the extreme. Problems got shifted around or replaced, but the list didn’t get shorter.
The biggest discovery was Courtney had been wro...
2024-07-17 09:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostNot wanting to waste time, the two began to go through everything the kobolds had brought back. Among it, there was honestly a lot of trash. Cracked glassware netted Doyle seven levels in his vial pattern. While another collection of broken up glass went straight to his glass pattern, boosting it by an astonishing 18 levels.
More interesti...
2024-07-12 09:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst impression? Green. I was now in a tunnel absolutely covered in greenery and not of the fungal sort. Well, except for the light mushrooms. Those seemed to have remained constant.
Also, where the area below broke into the tunnel was right on a bend and so I could see whatever might be coming my way. Which, given how frequent bugs and p...
2024-07-11 10:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostJason sighs, “Fine, I was hoping to buy a less expensive example since I’m not even sure I want to build such a thing. For now, I’ll be wanting an Energy obelisk manual. Though going by how most Energy things work under the System’s suppression, I assume the manual will be super specific?”
Courtney nods, “There are no generic u...
2024-07-10 09:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostCourtney rolled her eyes, “Well first, you need to practice your calligraphy and learn some about laying out a book. Most don’t get this chance since they’ll have done everything in System space and the creation of the first complete pattern will be recognized on whatever scrap paper they used to write it all down. Or worse, they just spok...
2024-07-10 09:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostSystems Galore - in a bizarre turn of events- not one, not two, but nearly a dozen transcendent beings have deposited conflicting systems into the same universe, things go wild as by random chance they all reach the same galaxy at the same moment- Skills! Classes! Evolution! Cultivation!
Time-...
2024-07-05 10:25:10 +0000 UTC View PostHowever, despite managing to pull out a bunch of dirt to keep that tree alive, not everything they hauled out survived. Now, they are used to dungeon items dissipating when you leave a dungeon if they weren’t meant to be loot. It is just this was the biggest example of that they have ever seen.
Not even the carts were safe. While most of...
2024-07-05 10:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, no one had even realized what they had found. They weren’t expecting it and stone age tools don’t stand out like a screwdriver with a bright red handle does. Jim only realized it after the carvings showed up. Though even then, most of the others on his team needed them physically pointed out before they could see them.
A larg...
2024-07-05 10:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post