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[NR] Magic Doesn't Like That - Chapter 613

And enough it was, at least while within Jason’s body. The natural flexing of space around the planet, especially while within a place currently being annexed from the Deep Wilds, was a little much. However, space seemed to be almost entirely relative and so the space inside his body was calm enough for the frayed threads to hold the d20 globe...

[NR] Using A Globe Knot - Chapter 612

As with most things, the way an immovable rod works was simpler than most would assume. Jason had spent hours following the theorized changes that each step of the crafting process caused. This process was, of course, nowhere near optimized. In fact, the default pattern was wasteful.

What it had going for it, was the fact it used technique...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for July 2024

Once 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...

[Short Story] Humanity Meets System

“Hey Joe! Does this look like what I think it does?”

Joe looks over the shoulder of his friend Tim at a blue screen. “Looks like a text prompt? What kind of nonsense did you get into? This whole ‘system’ nonsense has been all voice commands and buttons.”

Tim shrugs, “Well, I was playing around with the bonus language li...

[BT] Oozing Venom - Chapter 17

My first challenge though, was to get through the monster build up. I could have waited for them to all rush down, except I’m in their way. So better to attempt it while they were still building up than to wait for the avalanche of monsters to come at me.

So I climbed upwards. My fingers and toes splaying outward to better grip the uncer...

[D'sP] The System Isn't Being Vague - Chapter 377

Over in the more ravaged area, the kobolds aren’t doing so hot. While the healer has managed to keep most of his team upright, they already had lost two of their numbers. It wasn’t even to monsters, which at this point were well below their level. In fact, the monsters would probably be the easiest part of the entire trip.

No, they wer...

[NR] Breaking It Down - Chapter 611

The free pattern for an immovable rod had the most basic set of materials, but depending on so many different conditions what was needed could change. Either drastically with entire new materials being added and occasionally replacing others or as minor as needing to reduce the amount of one ingredient by less than a percent. Worse, with each te...

[NR] A True Rod - Chapter 610

Now, while pondering the secrets of the past and the System’s purpose was heady stuff, Jason still needs to solve that one last step. How to suspend his own lines so as to replace the old with the new.

Jason studied not just the lines, but a number of papers that had been written about Space within NeoRealm. It was a pretty hefty topic a...

[D'sP] MagiTech Wand - Chapter 376

For all the teams except a couple idiots, the first night passes peacefully. Those idiots, on the other hand decided they didn’t need to stick close to their camp or the whole team decided to start exploring right away. What they found was that while there weren’t monsters nearby, that didn’t mean there was no danger.

Some died to si...

[D'sP] Just A Wink - Chapter 375

Over the next two weeks, the entire world readied itself. Ace sorted out the teams that would go in first. Doyle worked on swapping out fully realized kobolds until most of his team had the scavenge skill. None were quite sure when things would finally go down.

Then it happened. All over the world, just outside of every settlement, a gate ...

[NR] What The System Wants - Chapter 609

Now, knowing the basics of what the System has done with the lines and what it was attached to, Jason simply has to figure out a way for him to apply it to his homespun lines. For the System, being a computer-like entity with the powers of a deity, it likely just has a one-size-fit-all intent it stamps on everything until it proves a need for so...

[NR] Remembering What Energy Is - Chapter 608

Jason had been meditating over the last week on his realization. The fact that the lines placed by the System were attached to the space a person occupied and not their body, mind, or soul. Which when he thought on it deeper, was strange. After all, in theory, when you move space itself isn’t actually moving, your body is moving through space....

[D'sP] Why The Low Attendance? - Chapter 374

Ace gathered his council together, though even this early on he felt the gap caused by not having representatives from the deerkin and raccoonkin. He also realized that this feeling was coming from his connection to the town as the official leader. A connection he has thought was more one-way than this. Though that would be something for later.<...

Author Notes: Blarg (but not sick)

Was a good bit late with the NeoRealm chapters today. There is a reason for that. I'm not sick, but my wallet is. Took my car in yesterday for an oil change and complimentary tire rotation, wherein they found out my brake pads aren't quite there anymore (and a brake light was out). Can't exactly leave that to rot, so of course I got them changed...

[NR] Deep In The Deep Wilds - Chapter 607

Deep In The Deep Wilds

Shshhhshsssshhss Alulmaa slithered through the new lands that appeared near his pit’s pyramid. They shifted, but this shift came at an odd time. That meant someone had been challenging the Forest and winning. Not that it mattered. Iä Slanthosss Fell Dweller, Lord of Venom which melts the spatial d...

[NR] An Unrelated Evil Elsewhere - Chapter 606

An Unrelated Evil Elsewhere

In a small mountain range, bitter winds whip through deep icy canyons. A foul smell being carried by them to the fearful farmers down below. None dare enter this place, not even travellers, for a foul has taken up residence there as of recent. They are yet weak, though considering they naturally...

[D'sP] How They Became Refugees - Chapter 373

Now, while most of the inner circle wasn’t all that interested in the bricks, one person very much was. Jimmy understood what it meant for most buildings to be made of them. A simple thing to figure out by looking at how buildings were made in history.

Sure, the rich and powerful would do stuff like make castles and such. However, most b...

[D'sP] What The Refugees Saw - Chapter 372

An old guy babbled on about how he had been stuck in a brick house. Or as he put it, “Well, it wasn’t quite brick. More of a quartz type of feel. Not red either, but bricks don’t have to be red, I guess. Just doesn’t feel right. Anyway, it was a brickish sort of house. Close enough to a house, anyway. Weird circular beds, let me tell you...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for June 2024

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 will be finished by the end of the month.

• MMORPG AI - is convinced that there's nothing stopping the Endgame NPCs from invading the Early game regions

• 2024-06-06 01:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post

[NR] The Forgotten Fool Of A Dwarf - Chapter 605

The Forgotten Fool Of A Dwarf

Jame’s raged! His whip slick with blood as he “punished” the unfaithful. Things weren’t going well for the cult. Which was annoying for him because he felt ready to take some revenge on that original party of his.

But no, the cult had to go and develop a schism in their beliefs! ...

[NR] A Kingdom’s Past Planning - Chapter 604

A Kingdom’s Past Planning

Orveul Ryl, the current king of the Ryl kingdom, which had been in his family for the past five generations and over a thousand years was frowning at the map in front of him. “Can we trust the information?”

A man in black with a covered face, the kingdom’s greatest information analys...

[BT] Smile - Chapter 16

My eyes opened halfway and with great effort. I must have dozed off at some point. The boulder had protected me and my aqua gel nature seemed to remove any nasty side effects of sleeping on literal rocks, but I clearly still needed to rest despite how much had changed at this point. A slight problem with that being I didn’t seem to get tired, ...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for June 2024

Once 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...

[Short Story] Collector Of Rare Princesses

This was not happily ever after!

Jogrand Fire of the Mountains, shining flames in the dark, ruler of the Alkazoh ash lands, Gem Scale Master, and most importantly, the collector of rare princesses. Well, he considers the last one the most important. Others tend to focus on the Master bit or maybe the fact he owns land if they’re new to H...

[D'sP] Invitation Time - Chapter 371

Ace managed to have the big meeting. The problem was that only Bennett town saw eye to eye with him. So while it was nice to actually meet everyone, the politics ran thick and not much got done before, after a week, everyone dispersed to return to their own settlements before the event.

After that, time passed as all over the planet, peopl...

[NR] Mom Is Offered The World - Chapter 603

Mom Is Offered The World

Jenny smiled like a shark, or maybe a lawyer. Not much real time had passed since her outing with her son, but in the fast pace of NeoRealm there was more than enough time to be fed up with her company. Because, of course, they would just accept what she had said in that first meeting.

Were t...

[NR] Andrew's Backstory - Chapter 602

Andrew’s Backstory

A frown graced Andrew’s face as he tried to scry on his favorite boy and companion. It had been interesting to see them handling mundane things in awkward ways. After all, who would force their way through a dungeon with four people? And then, when they neared the end and met up with an impossible tr...

[D'sP] You're Not A Space Station - Chapter 370

Ace sighs, “Stories about the deep ones and their ilk only showed up a hundred or so years ago.”

Camila, “Well, maybe that means they’re further away from here than my old planet? After all, they’re practically a part of my culture’s creation myths.”

Ace, “The problem is the shared myths in the first place. Nevermind ...

[D'sP] I Had To - Chapter 369

When it came to the system, Ace didn’t believe in coincidences. Though he wasn’t sure what significance having the list of people they could invite showing up the day of the first freeze would have. Some others joked about it being a reminder that winter was coming and to not be too ambitious on who they invited. Others just shrugged as they...

[NR] The Void Of Space - Chapter 601

Later that night, Jason was holed up in his meditation room. Rosha had given him more than enough food for thought, as well as a bunch of random nonsense ever since she had arrived back at the clearing. Though the first bit about him repelling dirt and dust stuck with him the most.

So, he meditated on his current self. As while a passive f...